I am a casual player and I hate singleton. There are so many cool cards and interactions in magic that can be built around. It always saddens me that if I want to join the most popular casual format, instead of getting to use my deck based around Burning Vengeance and having 4 copies of it in 60, I have to tuck it away as a single copy in an enormous pile of 99 cards.

Singleton is great at increasing variance from game to game, but greatly decreases the ability to build around a card (unless the format has means to guarantee you get to play that particular card).

I detest Deafening Silence as someone who likes noncreature spells and spells that copy other spells. Considering many of those copy effects are in Red - e.g. Increasing Vengeance, Fork, Reverberate - which has absolutely no recourse in-color to deal with enchantments (like Deafening Silence), it feels like it majorly hoses those types of fun red cards and is very uninteractive where it has that effect. To balance this with something positive, Fervent Champion is delightful.

Magic shines because it makes a wide variety of threats and a wide variety of answers. One of the downsides of playing a monocolor deck is you are more vulnerable to certain threats as not every color has every answer,

"Vengeance has an element of righteousness to it. Revenge is more emotion fueled." How is what Nahiri is doing (destroying thousands of innocents and an entire plane to get back at someone) vengeance and not revenge?

She believes Sorin has done a great injustice to her world and that this is a morally justified righting of the scales.

More "foreign language Magic" fun: Vendetta has the same name in every western language, except for Italian. That's because it had already used the word for Vengeance, and had to settle for calling it "Rivincita" which can actually mean "revenge" but more commonly is used to mean "rematch".

FYI

If Design leans toward Limited (vs Constructed for Development), does that mean that it was the design team that came up with the Burning Vengeance and Spider Spawning draft archetypes in Innistrad? As in, you and the design deliberately crafted cards that synergized greatly with the 2 engine cards?

One of the things Design tries hard to do and then Development follows up on is making sure there are uncommon cards that are fun to draft around.

Is there any chance of Magic having a block such as the Urza's block where a characters name is on the set names? Magic does not have 1 set posterboy nowadays, but Sorin's Vengeance would have made a great set name (:

I know Avacyn’s not a planeswalker but she was a major character and her name was in the set’s name.