Rise of the Floodborn is already shaking things up - though the current frontrunner appears to be an Amber/Emerald Discard deck, so any deck playing Hiram Flaversham will have some stiff competition
I hope you enjoyed another deep dive into this Core Set's new cards
Sure, the deck has weaknesses: cheap creature removal cards like Go For The Throat, bad opening hands, or simply just not getting enough land
How do we know so much about swallows
The First Sliver and Sisay, Weatherlight Captain are assuredly more powerful cards, but they're fairly interchangable with other five-color legends in their respective archetypes
A sets print run, while not being precisely calculable, naturally ties in with a sets rarity a couple different ways