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This feels like 90s Magic to me in a way I find normally hard to pinpoint

Days before the early release of the set, this card was listed in multiple places at prices nearing the $12,000 mark

What’s more, it comes stapled to an easier win condition than Shorikai could hope for

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, tap target creature an opponent controls

This essentially adds extra copies of those cards into your deck, and it’s the reason that Snapcaster Mage is in nearly every Blue deck that matters

I’m grateful for that feature because I tend to get obsessive about minor details, like whether the flavor text should be italicized or not

INCLUDES 43 NEW CARDS—This 100-card ready-to-play Commander deck introduces 43 never-before-seen cards to Magic: The Gathering CONTENTS—100-card deck with 43 new cards, 1 deck box, 10 double-sided token cards, 1 strategy insert, 1 reference card World Shaper World Shaper wants to break down lands, the foundational card type of Magic

21 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner A bit of a silly card, Doc Ock increases your maximum hand size to eight and lets you draw up to eight at the end of your turn

A card for Cecil from Final Fantasy IV allows him to transform from Dark Knight to Paladin as he does in the game, with borderless full-art versions for diehard collectors to hunt for

Use cards with the suspend mechanic like Search for Tomorrow to earn Food tokens when those cards are cast from exile

Lethal Scheme Removal is needed at instant speed too, though, and so I want to talk about Lethal Scheme next

I know I mentioned at the start of this article that we weren’t interested in effects that cast opponent’s spells, but I’m making an exception to talk about Dire Fleet Daredevil a moment because it does technically exile the spell, and because it’s such a cool card