Old problem with them.
Teen pregnancy rates at 100%
LoL but yeah I thought about that too, only problems are 1) the girls would have to take 9 months off for the pregnancy (no sign of that) and 2) there was like... no indication of anything going on in the city. The crops we see don't have any indication of romance or even cuddling. They're nice, wholesome, totally chaste gatherings where men and women are treated as completely interchangeable.
IIRC each of the five gods have a priesthood who don't participate in the trials, but instead tend to their respective god's temple and teach the initiates. I also vaguely remember some kind of independent city administration being mentioned as well. It's possible that these people are responsible for the lion's share of births in the city, but who knows. You've got to suspend your disbelief and "But where are the pregnant ladies?" kind of takes a backseat to the plot of those sets.
I really did enjoy Eldraine limited though. Decent amount of synergy.
In this case, we can handwave it with "Valgavoth did it to give people hope he could crush."
Nah, they'll remember that very briefly Jace had a conversation with her during Eldritch moon, but only the part where she took the form of Emeria. 3 DEI hires will return the Eldrazi's consciousness to them, transforming them back to their original humanoid form. Why would transform into monsters in the first place? An even bigger threat. That's about to be revived.
Nadu was a misprint fuckup but it doesn’t help that they also introduce tons of shitty power creep cards anyways.
I started playing about the time you quit (my intro was the G/R gatecrash precon deck) and I’d say Power creep is real, and Nadu is the end result. It wasn’t a misprint in the sense of they didn’t word it correctly, but it was in the sense that wizards didn’t playtest the card and deemed it acceptable. I do want to clarify: if you mean is there standard power creep? Marginally, but most of the issues that arise there cause problems in other formats, and that took off majorly in eldrain. Oko was the first mistake, companion as a whole was the second, and every supplemental product designed as commander first or direct to modern has been steadily growing in power. Cards that should theoretically cost more mana to be balanced have been designed by players that want to live in magical Christmas land, so we get things like ‘Sheoldred, the Apocalypse’. I’m not against some power creep, cause magic would be stale if new cards that were strong enough to play didn’t get printed, but I think magic has grown faster than they can reasonably quality control their products.
That return to Tarkir will fuck up the clans, just watch it. And what rare land cycle will they use considering the triome cycle is way too tired to Ikoria? Odds are it'll be more busted than the tricycles.
I asked about misprint because I could see it be busted good but within reason if it said "spell or ability your opponent controls" and the ability was just a triggered ability on Nadu rather than each creature having a separate instance with separate per-turn limits. Allowing you to do the targeting yourself is a stupid card advantage engine strapped onto an already undercosted evasive beatstick. 0-equip-cost equipment exists, cheap/free repeatable targeting exists, this is basically "draw two cards per creature you control during your turn (or everyone's turn if abusing an activated ability that isn't limited to your turn), put any land drawn directly into play NOT EVEN TAPPED HOLY SHIT." You don't even need to playtest to know it's retarded. Is Modern dominated by combo decks that consistently win by turn 4 or something?
I mean there was one for a while, recently.
MaRo's podcast defending it is... unintentionally hilarious. (I'm sure @Honka Honka Burning Love will especially love it) He goes on this whole thing for ages about how different cards are designed for different things and roles and all then proceeds to explain how Nadu was only ever a casual card so when they did a "quick pass" over it they were just thinking about casual, not that it would have any impact on competitive.
Oko, Thief of Crowns was another recent good example of untested power creep as well. I'm sure you could find tons more, but that one springs to mind the easiest.
I mean if you want Power Creep.
Maro is a cock sucking retard who gets Hero worshiped by the (((((COMMMUNITY))))) for no good reason, remember this is the dumb faggot who keeps trying to shove Goyslop Unsets down everyone's throats.
To be fair, the original Nadu design would have been really obnoxious in Commander*. That said, they could have easily solved that problem by just...not making it legendary.
They only ever had one Modern event deck and the last set to have an actual event deck was before the first return to Innistrad. There were some other decks like it but they stopped before War of the Spark.
I still contend it would have been nearly as obnoxious everywhere, probably more so in non Commander if it weren't Legendary.