I mean, we are getting 4 arts per basically for sure
You end up having to pay a life with Cavern Harpy a bunch of times to get it back into your hand so you can keep gating Maggot Carrier
Aaron Forsythe recalls that (R&D) knew what the future held, and we were powerless to do anything about it, and unsurprisingly, Skullclamp was banned after a few months where every deck was either running or hard countering it
Fast forward a few years to Ixalan , a world with four creature types at its center: two of myth (Vampires and Merfolk), and two of history (Pirates and Dinosaurs)
You still have to pray that your opponents havent been saving their Infernal Grasp, but this change dramatically narrows the range of valid responses
How can I get around those