But then they still shouldn't be complaining about designers "missing" the card, when it's just as likely (and considering the awkward wording involving milling the chances are very good) that the card was not missed, but rather intentionally pushed by a directive outside of the control of the people that receive the lion's share of the blame.
It's like complaining about the shoddy work of the worker at the assembly line or the engineer when the board of directors incorporated planned obsolescence in their product. Be unhappy. Complain. But also improve your aim.
So your argument is that yes, the complaint is correct, but that the blame is possibly aimed in the wrong direction?
Based on the last 1 1/2 to 2 years we've seen a whole lot misses, a literal historic amount of them in terms of bannings. When was the last time a Standard set didn't have a banning(s) again? Zendikar Rising literally had one as the set was coming out calling back to an almost Memory Jar scenario.
And for a long while they seemed to have their stuff together as for years we didn't have a single ban.
The only reason there were no bans was because WotC had a hard rule of "no bans in Standard no matter what". If bans had been allowed, cards like Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and Collected Company would have been banned (and there are arguments to be made for Sphinx's Revelation, Thoughtseize, Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, and the allied fetches, plus maybe a couple of other cards that made Standard miserable at times). It's not that they "had their stuff together", it's that their own rules prevented them from banning cards.
Gideon seems tame in comparison to some of the stuff we've gotten the last year and a half. It was really around the time of Kaladesh where they were forced to start banning things on the regular.
If not Trickery than something else. I can practically feel a ban of something incoming with this set, it's almost guaranteed nowadays that a set has to have a ban just because that new playtest team stopped doing their jobs 1 1/2 years ago.
Likely so they can get some extra sales due to this powerful loophole for now and then change it later once sales are done.
I'm sure that will get changed just like split cards did for the same reason.
So your argument is that yes, the complaint is correct, but that the blame is possibly aimed in the wrong direction?
Based on the last 1 1/2 to 2 years we've seen a whole lot misses, a literal historic amount of them in terms of bannings. When was the last time a Standard set didn't have a banning(s) again? Zendikar Rising literally had one as the set was coming out calling back to an almost Memory Jar scenario.
Gideon seems tame in comparison to some of the stuff we've gotten the last year and a half. It was really around the time of Kaladesh where they were forced to start banning things on the regular.
That's been a major question since Eldraine, the new playtest team they created to specifically stop stuff like this has happened more and more.