Monday 19 January 2015

Stand out Cards

Following a weekend of prerelease tournaments here are a couple of the cards that stand out to me, that I think will get played in standard very soon:


The mana cost may be have double red which could be a slight issue, but this card is simply great. It's like Chandra's Phoenix, but even though it is easily killable, as it comes back much more often and at a cheaper cost. Even if it dies on turn three after it has just been played (earlier with many decks) your opponents will have to stop you from playing a 4-power creature, which should be easy enough at some point in the next couple of turns, and all you need is for it to survive until your combat step and the Phoenix will be reborn.


I seemed to miss this card when I was looking at the gallery before the events. It seems a pretty good three drop for many decks. Yasova is a 4/2 trample for three, which is ok, not amazing but ok. However, stealing any creature with 3 or less power and attacking with is it is really good, and will lead to some very interesting turns (maybe as early as turn three with ramp?). Yasova triggers even the turn you play her, so she does not need to tap to use the ability making her good late game as well as an interesting threat early on. She is legendary, so you probably don't want to just run four, but playing a couple copies sounds like an excellent idea. What about using Boon Satyr, which I have not seen for a while making her a pretty aggressive card!

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