While players have certainly found ways to make powerful decks - with some popular meta decks becoming mainstays in tournaments - the community generally finds ways to combat these and develop counter-strategies, without the need for any cards to be banned from play yet
While generally speaking, the size of the cards has remained consistent over the years, there has been some deviation from the norm
You could easily just swap in Walking Ballista, Heliod, Sun-Crowned and a tutor or two if that's your style
The savvier the opponents, the worse it gets, and no one really needs cards that beat up on newbies
There is card advantage here, and the potential for more
Even though the equipment copies are temporary, the tokens will stick around, letting us use Firion's ability to make creature tokens