According to Mark Rosewater, "commons, uncommons, rares, and mythic rares" on the list can be found "at the proper rate to one another"
The creatures with the most impact tend to be legendary, whether theyre at the head of the team or notbut there are plenty of non-legendary creatures that do quite a bit of heavy lifting
If you laid out your deck and put every card with the same mana cost in a separate pile, lowest cost on the left and highest on the right, it should form a neat curve that peaks somewhere in the middle
Obviously, you can have a little of overlapping mechanics on gold cards (what I call "Venn Diagram cards" in my article on designing gold card) but it's something we have to keep at a low volume (especially because it eats into hybrid design space)
You can Flash this one in and counter a spell
FALKENRATH ARISTOCRAT Played in .039% of Rakdos Decks on EDHRec Of all the underplayed cards in todays article this one was the most shocking to me