Magic: The Gathering's Dominaria United expansion offers 5 new Phyrexian Defilers

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Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming expansion, Dominaria United recently revealed a new set of five cards, one for each color. These new cards, Phyrexian Defilers, range in mana value from 4-5, and each has a useful power that fits their particular color identity.

Whether these will be played in Standard or perhaps other formats remains to be seen, but they are certainly interesting cards that can make particular colored spells easier to cast. This article will go into further detail about what these cards are capable of.

In Magic: The Gathering, it’s not uncommon to see such a collection of cards. A good example were the Initiates in the Streets of New Capenna expansion. Each color receives a card, based on that color’s identity. They vary in power and utility, but this sort of card design philosophy is pretty common in the game.

In this particular case, there is 1 Phyrexian per color, and they all have one thing in common. All of them allow players to pay 2 life, whenever they cast a permanent of the color they represent. If they pay this life total, the amount of that color mana (EG: green) will be reduced by 1.

However, it must be noted that these cards cannot reduce the colorless mana required to cast spells. All in all, it's a pretty unique way to build these cards. Additionally, when players cast a spell of the color identified with these cards, they have another ability. It’s also worth noting that each of these has a keyword that is commonly identified with that color.

The 5-cost Defiler of Faith is expensive, but will certainly be very potent for token/soldier decks. This 5 power, 5 toughness card with Vigilance reduces the cost of white spells if you pay 2 life for them.

However, as your reward for casting white