This week is the exact time where nobody is making new decks for Standard, and probably don't have enough wildcards to catch up with the changes in Historic
One could even argue that this paves the way for pay-to-win content, though, in a way, the game already has that built into its pack-opening methods
Excalibur II needs to pick up at least three charge counters before its worth equipping, and thats just not going to happen often enough to justify running it
Not only does Borborgymos threaten to one shot people he has a reasonable amount of board control allowing you to stabilize a bad spot
This is legal in the eternal formats, Historic, and Alchemy
All of these elements make the set feel unique, but whats most impressive is the care put into so many of the individual cards and how they tell a story