Maybe better for Dinosaurs than Dragons
What Ravnica did for its two-color guilds, Shards of Alara has done for its three-color shards
(And the Menace doesn't gain you any life, dorks are untapped, and you can't madness for more later.) At least Conqueror's Pledge gives you the chance to kick it for double tokens, not even Bestial Menace can do that
All maintain standard card size despite their extreme values
You can pull off those counters for three cards, and if you managed to give it another counter, then you can keep it around (although I think it's better when you kill it)
So, the creators of the Pokmon cards have successfully introduced the VMAX and VSTAR generation, experimented with "Amazing" Pokmon rainbow cards, and used many other solutions to keep the game as exciting as it was at the beginning of its journey