Daniel Persitz will oversee for Hasbro
Chandra Jace vs
Starting the game with 4 Life and a standard 5000 power stat, her design exploits the synergy of both colors, allowing players to utilize yellow cards that manipulate health pools alongside blue cards that focus on card draw
She, of course, works here at Wizards on Play Design and even sits right next to me so we could be in constant communication
For my tastes, as guidelines I think are worth sticking to, a keyword mechanic needs to be doing offloading in the rules text that makes things more convenient , it needs to have human-understandable reminder text that isnt just the rules text written out, and it needs to be something that other things can usefully reference
If you want a forest that's more than just trees, this illustration is a great choice