Round Up Intrepid Stablemaster | Illustration by Svetlin Velinov Personal hunch: The Magic devs carefully tested the waters in OTJ and didn't go too much over the top with what each saddled creature can do, to avoid some broken card/combo giving a bad rep to a mechanic they plan to deploy again
This makes complete sense, but contradicts a ruling on the card's Gatherer page
May you enjoy reading the comments from Magic: The Gatherings Principle Narrative Game Designer, Dillion Deveny, as much as he did writing them
There needs to be another incentive to get players to buy Standard-legal cards. WotC is aware of the decline of tabletop Standard, which is all the starker in contrast to how well other formats are doing
LGSs, or Local Gaming Stores, are another distribution channel worth considering when acquiring cards from this set
This one is kind of the weirdest of the lot