Quote Originally Posted by Fox View Post
Edit: technically, pre-SCM Goyf could be added to the tier 0 list; what a horribly designed card. Effectively protection from red, and so good you basically had to run it to beat it, and the dumbest part was it couldn't even trade with itself in combat. Really though wtf, why was this card not */* or 1+*/*.
Mark Rosewater in a 2008 interview for The Magic Show #79 - The Morningtide After: "When I made it, it was 3 mana and */*."
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVNfxf8v3F4) Go to 06:41.

Sam Stoddard mentions Tarmogoyf as being a developmental mistake, although Stoddard wasn't on the team when Tarmogoyf was being developed (Stoddard started at WOTC in 2012):
https://magic.wizards.com/en/article...kes-2014-06-13