As Magic: The Gathering’s Dominaria United preview season rolls into its third day, we enter the usual quiet weekend time. While Thursday and Friday’s previewers were packed, with the debut and Commander deck reveals respectively giving us dozens of new cards, Saturday was a lot different.
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Only a handful of cards were revealed, and, surprisingly, all of them can be found in your average Dominaria United Draft Booster. No Commander cards, no Lost Legends, no awkward set symbol confusions, just good ol’ fashioned preview season goodness. And a surprise fourth Planeswalker for the set.
Land
Tap: Add one colourless.
Tap: Add one mana of any colour. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell.
Tap: Add one mana of any colour among legendary permanents you control.
Pay three generic, tap, exile Plaza of Heroes: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
It’s incredible looking at this year’s Standard’s manabase and comparing it to last year’s. Not only do we have the New Capenna Triomes and the Innistrad Slow Lands, we now also have this absolute beast of a land that is definitely going to see play in multiple formats.
The most obvious application of this is in Commander, where it has a chance of becoming a new staple on the level of Command Tower. It produces both coloured and colourless mana, and it can even protect your Commander in a pinch. Stock up on this, it’s going to be popular.
One generic, one green creature – Elf – 3/2:
Kicker: One red
Trample
When Yavimaya Iconoclast enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, it gets +1/+1 and gains haste until end of turn.
While we’ve had some confusing
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