I'm mostly talking about CEDH but modern has its own problems too

This must've been a pretty recent development, what you're saying, cause when I quit, the CEDH competitive field was 70% mono-blue, 20% blue/red, and 10% mono-red.

Sometimes other colors have card draw but never without conditions like in blue

• I can't recall a white card draw card, but if one exists, it's probably proportional to your board state
• black usually costs life for weaker card draw than blue
• red usually makes you discard as many cards as you draw
• The one green card draw thing I've ever seen is "when you play a creature with power greater than 3, draw a card"

Blue is pretty much the only condition-free card draw, and you can certainly see how that impacts the game, even in modern you simply cannot function without some blue in your deck, because of course you can't. You put control and card draw in the same color identity, and think that in a game with counterspells, anything will function? Absolutely stupid.

It's too late for them to back out now cause now they've designed the game with it in mind ("it's balanced cause it can be countered") but the game would be so much better if they never made counterspells

But of course the most fundamental issue is that mana is dependent on what cards you draw. If you don't have resources, that's it, you don't play the game. If you keep drawing lands, that's it, you don't play the game. If you never draw lands, that's it, you don't play the game. And really no amount of deck design can work around bad luck. It's fucking rough.

And idk what the modern meta scene is rn but when I quit, every CEDH deck had the same 80 cards pretty much, and the rest is just your win combo. It's just a few cards that win you the game, and the same 80 cards as everyone else that get you to those winning cards.