>>536439796
>They had 10 years of a card game with pretty much the exact same mechanics, it's honestly mind blowing how brutally bad they fucked it this hard while also refusing to balance the t0 meta
The only thing that makes sense to me is that the launch day set was supposed to be MUCH larger. I still think that the entire cycle of Anathemas was supposed to be in the launch set. Internal playtesting was likely done on this launch set to make sure that their first rotation would look good. Then KMR had an intern haphazardly split the launch set into 3-4 mini-releases without much regard to how the power level was distributed amongst the mini-sets. It would explain shit like the fact that dragon still technically has some discard-matters cards but nowhere enough to actually make use of in a real deck.