Magic: The Gathering's Dominaria United Previews – Day Eight Highlights
Here we are at the end of Magic: The Gathering’s Dominaria United’s spoiler season. Now that we’ve seen all but the draft chaff, it’s clear this set is aiming to revitalise an already excellent Standard format with a hint of power and complexity. Whether it’s managing land types with domain or juggling legendary creatures, Dominaria United is asking a lot, but it has the foundation set up by Midnight Hunt through to New Capenna to back it up.
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On the final day of spoilers, we’ve got a new, format-shaking green creature, a famous name from Magic’s history getting her first card, and a terrifyingly powerful new Cleric. Here are the best cards revealed on day eight of Dominaria United’s previews.
Three generic, two green legendary creature – Elemental – */*:
Protection from planeswalkers and Wizards
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a 3/3 green Badger creature token.
This preview season started with a lot of confusion over what is found in a Commander product, what’s a box topper, and what is actually in Dominaria United booster packs. Fortunately, Wizards also didn’t drop the Set Booster made-for-Commander exclusives at us on the same time, and decided to leave them for the final day.
Greensleeves is deep, deep cut in MTG lore. She was a druid and planeswalker who committed her life to fighting misuse of magic, particularly against the rogue mage Towser. Limited to books and the odd flavour text, this is the first time Greensleeves has received her very own card, and it’s a corker.
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