The artwork here does that redesign full justice, placing Dialga in a crystalline, otherworldly environment that seems to exist outside the normal flow of temporal reality
Finale of Devastation is a seriously versatile spell, and fits into every Green deck running large creatures (so every Green deck)
I know that for a while the folks in R&D have been looking for a way to make commanders dying still be able to trigger abilities (they normally dont, since putting them into the command zone replaces dying), and they seem to have solved that with this Gerrard
But those are at least permanents that let you manipulate a board
I wasn't just pleased to see I had correctly predicted some of the cards' mechanics out of pure vanity or for bragging rights
The design was obviously top-down, but mechanically it plays well, so it was the perfect marriage of function and flavor