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Recent updates to Magic Essentials: The Eternal Core Set: (Generated at 2024-05-17 07:33:53)
Aha, a Gift of Estates tweak on this is very sensible. That's got quite a bit of precedent (Land Tax, Weathered Wayfarer etc) so yes, with this design I think I withdraw my colour pie objections. It does still accelerate you, which none of those do, and works especially well if you're playing second... hmm...
Aha. "no reminder text and tons of mechanics from years past". That does clear up a lot of things.
Do note that Time Spiral and Modern Masters, despite including a ton of mechanics from years gone by, still put reminder text on them all (except current evergreen mechanics). Blastoderm's Vintage Masters printing has reminder text for shroud as well as for fading. Gustcloak Cavalier has reminder text for flanking, Engineered Explosives has reminder text for sunburst, and Grizzly Fate has reminder text for flashback even though they need to squish up to eight lines of text for it. Check out that reminder text on Molten Disaster, even though it's in a set specifically targeted at expert and long-time players.
In other words, I think you greatly underestimate the number of longtime players who'd still find it necessary or helpful to have a little reminder of what a mechanic means, especially a mechanic from long ago. You're basically designing a set for yourself and a handful of friends, with no resemblance to the considerations that Wizards would actually have to think about if they were going to settle on one final collection of cards to be printed continually from now on.