Tarkir Dragonstom Cards to push / highlight archetypes.
Re-working some of the archetypes, establishing of some better signposts.
UR is cleaned up, "wizard spell-slinger" still has some wizards and some spells, but now has repeatable damage in the form of a ping package. Quicksilver dagger, Prodigal Sorcerer, Freed from the real, Pili-pala, psionic gift, viridian longbow, horseshoe crab. Works well with existing pieces like guttersnipe, firebrand archer, traxos, and more.
BG land-sac is back. The Gitrog Monster, Malevolent Rumble, Golgari Grave-Troll, satyr wayfinder, crucible of worlds. Dakmor Salvage comes in as the only land not part of a cycle other than Ash Barrens and Command Tower, to be a part of the Gitrog deck. This is the deck that runs Titania, deathrite shaman, life from the loam, etc.
Hogaak comes in as an additional potential commander / target for the reanimate deck, which also gets a Bloodghast
GW gets some small changes and buffs to Auras
W+ Equipments gets its final buff. After the last round of changes, where I tried to buff it considerably, my friends and I forgot the archetype even existed in the 6+ hrs of post-draft design discussion that we had. If this is not enough, it is probably time to cut it completely.
Small changes to signpost UB zombies a bit better (including commanders)
Small changes to signpost WRG tokens a bit better (including commanders)
A few cards that have specific things that I like, such as Arcbond, have been swapped for cards that do it better and that people will actually draft, like Screaming Nemesis.
Red gets a big "win the game spell" in Insurrection, as it was the only color that didn't really have one.
OGEDH dragons are out, which means The Ur Dragon and Temple of the Dragon Queen are also out. Replaced with better archetype commanders for those colors.
The Basic landcycling allied-color cycle from Commander 2016 were all cut for better archetype cards.
artifact and nephilim cuts
cuts cuts monocolored cuts
cuts cuts cuts
Dragonform Tattoo. Nobody is ever going to draft this, nobody is going to want to play the sub-game.