arbiterofknollridge asked: I'm not against mythic staples. Was just more of a rhetorical question. But I would prefer, not making the best cards of the set in mythic. It "FEELS" like money grabbing.

Be aware that development doesn’t inherently know what the best card is going to be. If they were able to completely crack the environment with the small number of playtesters they have (comparative to the number of players), you all would solve the environment within an hour.

That means they have a pool of cards of which they expect a decent portion will impact the Standard environment. Some of those cards have to be Mythic Rare because players get upset when all their Mythic Rares suck.

What this all means is that the “best card in the set” will vary. Sometimes it will be a Mythic Rare because there are always some in the pool and sometimes it won’t be because the pool isn’t just Mythic Rares. It isn’t something we control to the degree everyone thinks we can.

In Kaladesh, for instance, the best card is Smuggler’s Copter, a Rare.

Hopefully that gives you a better sense of a lot of the factors at play.