MTG Salvation

Draw a card when it connects feels like too much to hope for. A looter seems more realistic. The only lands that draw a card I know of are the best card in Magic and the example of how much balancing this requires. There's also the spoiled one but you have to be hellbent and heavily colorless so its basically Nivix 2. I don't believe we would get "red draw" on attack/hit either since the effect is only good on things like a walker's 0 or an upkeep trigger when you have your lands untapped.

All of the old creature duals are comparable to common and uncommon creatures with the same CMC as the activation (e.g. Serra Angel) or at least, they would make a good C/U as a creature for the activation CMC. Lumbering falls is similarly Primal Huntbeast (better hexproof creatures like Thrun are rare/mythic) and needle spires is Ridgetop Raptor (Iroas's Champion shows that this land could be probably be more pushed but it is multicolor). Shambling vent doesn't have a great comparison on a C/U, Vampire Nighthawk is a pretty unfair comparison when you're comparing Colonnade to Serra instead of Baneslayer =P but I would draft a 2/3 lifelink common for 2B any day so whatever.

Assuming this trend continues, UR only seems to have Jeskai Elder, Academy Raider and Looter il-Kor as C/U looters for precedence, I'm hoping for evasion over prowess but I'd honestly be fine with UR: 1/2 prowess looter. A 2/1 flying looter for 3 cmc seems a little beyond anything we've gotten for C/U looters unfortunately so I think we can rule that off :(. If the BG land is a 3/3 regen for 1B, it could basically be Skull Collector

If all 10 of these lands had come out at once, there's no way people would be saying the ally ones are more interesting or unique, 4 of them are pretty generic, the GW one is practically a vanilla creature, and none of them do things as ballsy as putting hexproof on an attacking land. I think people just have a lot of nostalgia for old Zendikar.

Boros is an aggro guild but its not immune to flooding out or being controlled out of having threats. The utility is still sweet. This would actually be pretty bad as a 1/1 double strike for 2, it wouldn't be a clock on its own, it would only trade with a bear so it can rarely favorably attack, you would only ever activate it when you're out of gas and probably have another 2 mana to spare anyway. Getting in for 4 the turn after a wrath without spending a card is all I need to run a boros guildgate. Making the activation 3 instead of 4 would have helped push it but I don't think the difference is going to matter as often as you'd think.