Haven't played myself for ages. Not /in, just some observations:
Ravnica sounds like it means "likeness" in some Slavic language.
I have mentioned elsewhere that M:tG has withstood power creep, but I didn't appreciate the dimension of this. I just saw that there's a Pegasus in Ravnica at the mana cost as venerable Mesa Pegasus. Only without banding. Yeah I know banding is outlawed for ages.
Actually, a Croat suggested the name and theme, IIRC. In Serbian, and Croatian (which are more-less the same) it means "Plains".
I assume you are talking about 1/3 Pegasus for 2, which is quite bad actually, it is a bit stronger Storm Crow, and it rarely kills anything, it is mostly a blocker or a very slow clock.. ugh.
And powercreep is BS, imho. I am a very new player, but started playing competitively from the start. True, with stuff like Baneslayer Angel and Thundermaw Hellkite creature P/T per CC did go up quite a bit, but from what I see, in "old days" there was a great imbalance with ton of crap cards on one side, and ridiculously overpowered cards on other, while today you have a much more balanced curve.
Bottom line, just look at legacy/vintage staples and compare the number of old and new cards, and you'll see that old ones are dominating those formats.