Magic: The Gathering's Dominaria United Previews – Day Seven Highlights
On the penultimate day of Magic: The Gathering’s Dominaria United preview season, it’s worth sitting back and appreciating what this set is offering. After two radically new sets in bold, modern settings, it’s nice to return to the traditional, fantasy world of Magic. Full of returning faces and deep cuts to old Magic lore, it’s a home run for any Vorthos. It’s also a shockingly powerful set, with this new Standard format getting the juicy, borderline broken cards we’ve been lacking in the past year.
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Day seven of Dominaria United’s preview season gave us a new legendary-matters commander worth playing, an Izzet (red/blue) wizard who’ll make your spellslinger decks a tad more aggro, and a blue enchantment that will easily be a new combo engine to watch. Here are the best cards revealed on the penultimate day of Dominaria United’s previews.
Three generic, one blue enchantment:
Whenever you cast a spell that targets only a single artifact or creature you control, create a token that’s a copy of that artifact or creature, except it’s not legendary.
Sometimes when you read a card, its potential hits you in waves. It starts as a “wow, this is like Orvar the All-Form from Kaldheim”. Then it progresses to “wait, Orvar was easily the best legendary creature in that set, and this only costs four mana”.
Then it hits you that there’s another card in Dominaria United that will love it: Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief. Suddenly, you’re spending a few cheap mana value spells to make a ton of copies of Ivy, with each additional Ivy copying those spells each time, before you drop a big combat on all of them and go smash. It isn’t quite an infinite combo, but with
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