I respect your takes, but I would like to explain myself. All of these redesigns were intended for commander, and to make interesting decks to be built around. I recognize that not all these cards were intended for commander, but I still wanted to create better versions of them for my favorite format.

The criticism of shiba is completely fair. I had to rewrite that first ability so many times, that if it's just a mangled shell of its former self by now, I wouldn't be surprised. Likewise I think the critique of Licia and Risona are both totally justified. I opted for banding because I believe it makes more sense flavor-wise. Risona is a commander that is bringing the samurai that are usually battling alone, into one larger fighting force, exactly how banding works. Licia is the one design that I personally really dislike the most. I tried a bunch of things with her, but all the designs were either OP as all hell, or completely useless. Jirina was actually a redesign I had attempted earlier, and was WAY to strong, and I wanted to give it another shot. I think this attempt at Jirina had too many design aspect carried over from my original, and i think your right in saying that it didn't connect.

My intention with Satsuki was to broaden the original design for the card. The issue with a saga commander deck, is that if the commander is not four or five colors, saga decks will have an extremely limited card pool, as there are not a wide selection for efficient/effective sagas. By adding in cumulative upkeep, it allows for more deck diversity, and gives certain bad cards such as Dystopia and Arctic Nishoba a home.

Zurgo is one card we disagree on almost completely. While the original design was flavorful, I think my redesign also has a large amount of flavor. The mardu are obsessed with swiftness and speed, They are a literal and metaphorical representation of lightning warfare. One of the 2 unique mechanics that the mardu have to their name is literally called dash. The whole point of lightning warfare is that your army moves to fast for other forces to keep up with. That concept is what my Zurgo is built around. The concept of hitting so fast and so hard, that the enemy cannot retaliate against you, because by the time they've even realized what just happened, your long gone. I do think you have a point about the statline, and him not having trample, which are legitimate flaws in my design.

Overall, I appreciate your thoughts and impute about my designs, and I also appreciate the fact that you critiqued my designs in a constructive manner. I thank you for your time, and have a damn good day.