(In addition, it allowed me to demonstrate that it was possible to make a vanilla legend that would excite some players.) Meanwhile, the oldest Magic designer of all (in terms of how many years he'd been designing both Bill Rose and Mike Elliott are older than Richard), Richard Garfield, started thinking about cool things you could do with legendary creatures
All absolutely bewildering design decisions
Like Wonder Picks, low-rarity cards will be cheaper, while higher-rarity cards will cost more
Totentanz, Swarm Piper Totentanz, Swarm Piper makes for a good Rakdos sacrifice commander since youll be able to get two bodies out of any nontoken creature you play
Unless you know you are not facing any aggressive creatures or have a specific need of a low creature count (say Oath of Druids from the B cube) this guy will be the first effect that puts land into play that you want for your deck