There appears to have been no rebalancing of lights and darks, nor anything more dedicated to allow the cards to look good
It won't win any games by itself, but Starting Town is exactly the sort of subtle card that quietly keeps a deck running
And at the very same East Town mall in Knoxville, Tennessee, I began my Warhammer 40,000 journey by purchasing just enough miniatures of a T'au army to field 2,000 points (if I tricked out all my units)
I expect to see this both in and out of vehicle decks
This is a very efficient card, in all the ways a card can be: It costs a lone red mana, its an instant its basically a [casthaven]Lightning Bolt[/casthaven]
According to comments from Magic's head designer Mark Rosewater in May 2026, the "new normal" from next year onwards will be a "three and three" split between Universes Beyond crossover sets (like Lord of the Rings and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and sets based in Magic's own fiction (like Lorwyn Eclipsed and Secrets of Strixhaven)