This was supposedly a top-down design, which is kind of impressive to begin with.
Where was this stated to be top-down? I immediately pegged it as the obligatory play-design mythic of the set.
I probably jumped the gun a little as I had only seen part 2 of this tweet, it seems like it's a bit of a mix.
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Play Design Story (1/2)
We like to add safeguards to Standard so that players have options in case a particular strategy is strong. We wanted to give green something for TurboFog and something strong against Planeswalkers (something that green is inherently weak to).
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2/2) Questing Beast is a Top-Down beast that's many animals in one which is why it has a ton of abilities. We decided to put those abilities in the previous tweet on one card. Flavor!