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According to an article by MTG head designer Mark Rosewater, there are a number of reasons for this change

In order to thrive in todays Standard metagame, the deck might be able to get more aggressive with cards like Liliana, Heretical Healer and Despoiler of Souls fuelling an aggressive curve

August 20, 2021

Magda, Brazen Outlaw contributes by providing additional mana whenever Gimli or other dwarf tokens attack

It was something much more exciting than the typical Core Set, and felt less like a collection of random designs based on high fantasy all thrown together in one set (though there was still plenty of that)

At the time of this writing, 7am Sunday morning, the poll had been up for a few days and the results were clear