Wizards Teams with Toho to Bring the World of Godzilla to Magic We have been wanting to do a giant monster set for a long time, said Product Architect Mark Heggen
If you have Cover of Darkness/Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive in play or Wonder in the graveyard, Wingcrafter suddenly becomes redundant, but like everything else on the list, its still a creature and it can enable Ninjutsu all the same
However, these clearly have a following to demand such high price points
In a format where decks have increasingly similar DNA, it's not good that what was supposed to be a force pushing more experimental combinations and deckbuilding is actually contributing to many decks looking the same
Going forward, with the addition of Urborg, I would expect Esper not necessarily straight U/W to become more prominent since Heros Downfall becomes a lot easier to cast when all of your lands are Arcane Sanctums