Rather than aiming to take out opponents as quickly as possible, Control decks aim to 'control' the board, depriving opponents of key resources through removal and counter spells, preventing opponents from assembling their win-conditions while assembling a win-condition of your own
If, for one of the targets, you cant choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal)
Whether hes competing in Standard, Historic or Modern, Mason plays with one goal in mind: to be a better player than he was the day before
Even without those, the raw value potential here makes this one of the must-have cards in the set for Commander, especially at its current $0.67 price tag
Usually the design team will pick what they think will work best and then playtest it
I love that this card doesn't have a pink background like the rest of Lightning's color palette