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So I was just lookin over the reserved list and came across some of the good ol' fashioned hate cards.  I understand why they discontinued printing these kinds of hate cards, but I can't help feel how incredibly cool they were... and could be.  Let's take a few hypothetical for-instances:


The Unlocked Eye

Legendary Artifact
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
, , exile ~: Exile all permanents with a Zendikar, Worldwake and Rise of the Eldrazi expansion symbol except for basic lands.  Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Mythic

Hall of the Praetors

Legendary Artifact
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
, , exile ~: Exile all permanents with a Scars of Mirrodin, Mirrodin Besieged and New Phyrexia expansion symbol except for basic lands.  Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Mythic

Hellvault Unsealed

Legendary Artifact
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
, , exile ~: Exile all permanents with a Innistrad, Dark Ascension and Avacyn Restored expansion symbol except for basic lands.  Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Mythic


These cards could easily be banned in Block Constructed, where they would essentially be colorless Apocalypse s (even in Standard, where they would be half as good).  They're a total of ten mana to cast an activate over the course of at least two turns, stamped on a legendary permanent that taps and exiles as part of its activation (meaning if you can keep it from untapping or can Stifle the trigger, you've as good as dealt with it), so I don't feel that they're undercosted.  The fact that they only hit a single block's worth of permanents severely limits their usefulness in any older formats (where, lets face it, they'd be unplayable) or casual (where you're bound to find a wide mix of cards).   They're immensely splashy, flavorful mythics that certain casual players would absolutely love (I can even see these wrecking certain n00bz' metas... but only as much as Wrath of God ever wrecked anything).

I have no delusions that cards like this aren't coming back, but I was curious about everybody else's thoughts.  Would you like it if they added an extra mythic to every last set that basically followed the above formula?  Would this, as I imagine it would, appeal to (certain) casual players?  Would it, in essence, be worth printing?

Makes From the Vault, Duel Decks etcetera functionally different.

'Zeeky Boogie Doog' -

Sorcery


Destroy all permanents without a silver border except for basic lands. 

Hurloon Minotaur is 'high tier'.

I don't know if this point has been raised yet (I gave a cursory glance and no one seemed to have touched on it), but it really interferes with the secondary market. Staples printed in multiple sets with multiple symbols will see one of their versions increase in prize if the other is threatened by this kind of cards. For example, a hypothetical card that hits Ravnica block would make the Judge promo Dark Confidant be even more valuable.
Furthermore, having to track down and think about each of your card's expansion symbol is adding an extra layer of complexity to deckbuilding. Just imagine if one had to think about the correct number of Ghost Quarter s, for example, and then have to decide how many from Dissension and how many from Innistrad.
To think about it, I see little purpose in these cards. In Legacy, Vintage and Modern they're either too weak to make an impact or powerful enough to make you track down the "correct" version of some cards, which is obnoxious. In Standard and Block, they're insane bombs and probably need to be insta-banned, which is never good. In casual decks, from EDH to others, they can incidentally destroy permanents, but they're very hard to control and seem subpar.
As they are, I don't think they have a place beyond Un-sets, and even there they're just a cute novelty.