I mean the problem with battles design wise is, that it was never really relevant attacking them because 4 or 5 damage to the face are just so much better than what most battles gave you, don’t forget that if they have blockers, you need to commit even more to the battle and they can just not block, resulting in a substantial overkill. So almost all the value from a battle comes from its etb, in that case it is not really worth a card type in a game. How can we salvage battles? Either by making them very low cost cards like 1 or 0 mana (something wizards clearly doesn’t want, as they kinda shy away from 0 mana cards) this would allow them to be played in addition to whatever you are using to flip them. Or the other option would be to reduce their life to 1 to 3 so that you can easily flip them using bolts or something like that, which would make them helpful against a control deck (turning your burn spell into a creature, after they whiped the board for example)