Holy crap, those Morde changes

It's gonna be awesome to control a dragon and command it to attack my enemies. But the other part of the changes is also interesting: Riot is trying ways to shift the bot lane meta away from adcs only which is really cool. Lately I've felt like a lot of the new things in the game have felt like experiments for future changes like Ashe's unique interaction with crit and the Black Market Brawlers game mode (Dead Man's Plate where?) and it looks like Morde is the new experiment. Thoughts on the changes?