This is an easy Morphling for me, it was the coolest creature I recall ever seeing when it came out. The art is fantastic on the card and it was the inspiration for so many other creatures.
I have to give a honorable mention to a close runner up in Deranged Hermit though. He is "the" token creator and always will be.
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Keep in mind the Khan's fetches have already outperformed the Zendikar fetchlands price wise in a shorter period of time, some of that is due to play but part of it I think is people are holding onto them tighter.
You also have to factor in the huge casual value on the card, I have had a damn hard time trying to trade for Ugin's, no other planeswalker in standard in the past few years has been harder for me to get copies of. I think the card will be held up quite a bit by the casual demand just like say Avacyn, Angel of Hope. Obviously with how high Ugin is now he will likely see somewhat of a dip but I think it won't be a huge hit.
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I really think Abzan while they have hands that can punish this deck, still need to establish themselves on the board or else cards like Hallowed Moonlight or Infinite Obliteration are just annoying. It's not like this deck can't win if they remove all the Husks or Cutthroats from the deck.
Looking at your list above I think the problem you might be having is the list looks a little too mid-range, if you try the more standard lists you will likely have better results. I really am not a fan of turning this deck into some mid-range/rally deck that tries to play on both axis. Deathmist is also a nightmare to cast for the 4 color version without really warping the manabase since double green can be problematic on turn 3. The deck is still viable despite people "having it on their radar" just recently at the TCGplayer Championship series 3 Rally decks made top 8, pretty damn impressive when the deck is still only 4.65% of the meta by MTGgoldfishes prediction.
I think you just beat them down at that point I have won many games by just attacking my opponent I mean a "somewhat lucky" collected company can give you say 2 Catacomb Sifters and with that much force at the end of turn your swinging in for 6 on the next turn. Obliteration is rough don't get me wrong, but they need to back that up by making sure we can't just pretend we are a mid-range/aggroish deck. The card has 0 affect on the board which is rough on a 3 mana spell, if they cast two of them in the first couple turns they have made 2 plays that don't affect the board at all.
The game does contain some violence but its as much as you would see in countless TV shows/movies.
Yeah I am blown away at the addition of Kalastria Healer I mean the deck only has 7 Allies, I realize if you get all 7 in the graveyard a rally is instant death with or without Nantuko Husk but that seems pretty extreme. Now a more ally heavy version could make Kalastria Healer+Cutthroat a real menace in my opinion.
Anyways on Topic I think there is a solid chance Jace gets the banhammer I mean we just had a Grand Prix where Jace was extremely present in the top 8.
While no core set leaves a gaping void for reprinting planeswalkers I don't think that means they will just start unleashing tons of reprinted ones into the current block structure. Especially if these planeswalkers are in the story and the new card represents their change as the story progresses. I also think people are less likely to get excited by reprinted planeswalkers and planeswalkers help sell a set, so there is that. If the set only has two and they are both reprints talk about taking a lot of fire out of the set before it even hits.