This question is a bit late but I just wanna say what's with the bramble armor reprint. It's an obviously awful card and I understand why awful cards are in set but a reprint of an awful card the set after it came out just seems lazy to me. And the card doesn't even feel very necessary flavor wise. Any explanation?

Both Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow wanted non-spell ways in green to use mana (for Werewolves) and ways to alter power of your creatures (for coven and training). Both Bramble Armor and Snarling Wolf did this very effectively. We could have done slight tweaks in Crimson Vow, but that would would have led to complaints that the cards aren’t different enough, so we chose to just reuse them. (Us being on the same world helped.) R&D has long learned that the game is better when we reuse cards that fit a purpose rather than make a tweaked card to just make a tweaked version.One other thing. Let’s try to not use the word “lazy” on this blog (and I would argue whenever you communicate with creative folk of things you enjoy). It’s fine for you to disagree with choices we’ve made, but please give me and my coworkers the benefit of the doubt that we thought long and hard about those decisions. I guarantee you that we spend way more time and energy on every decisions we make on Magic than most of you would guess we do.