Sorry, I couldnt read the whole topic in the little time I have at the moment. So maybe I say something again, that was already mentioned 10 times.
Wings is only vulnerable to your opponent having specific creatures. I hate that, because it's not about strategy anymore, it's about having particular creatures of certain types in your deck, and that's stupid to me.
I totally agree.
The only ways to get rid of permanents are Steal, Deflag, and Trident yes?
Or did I forget one? That means in each Mono-Deck (not
,
,
) you have no way to destroy this cards. In rainbow decks combined with PA you cant get rid of it at all.
So you cant win without having flying creatures in your deck.
Some elements only have 1 flying creature, mostly the dragons, and those have much hp(almost all of them).
So if you start building up dragon decks you will have again a great problem facing a deck with gravity shield. And even if you add less hp creatures in addition to the dragons, although dragon are expensive enough alone you will not have enough dmg output and in each case dead cards.
In addition, the more strong shields you add the greater will momentum and especially Mono -
become, because it will simply ignores the shield. Other Mono-decks will breake their tooths on several shields...
I think if you add this ability, it will become a bit like Pokemon or so.
Like: Fire-->Leaf-->Water-->Rock-->Air and so on.
I mean you will really get a great disadvantage just by facing the wrong deck. A disadvantage that mostly mean losing right from the start.
And even an upkeep isnt a problem. The times I saw someone playing Flooding the upkeep wasnt a problem either.