Magic The Gathering's Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Previews - Day Three Roundup

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Magic The Gathering content creators around the world breathed a sigh of relief, as Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty's third day of previews only featured five cards. It looks like Wizards of the Coast is giving us a more relaxed weekend than it did for Crimson Vow.

That doesn't mean the cards aren't great, though. We saw a lot of white today, with some new removal, an uncommon-rarity legendary, and easily the best Reconfigure card we've seen so far.

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For once, we can safely say we have every preview from day three, so there's no need to worry about time zones forcing us to push some to tomorrow's roundup!

At first glance, Banishing Slash doesn't seem too terrible. Destroying an artifact, enchantment, or tapped creature for two mana makes it more flexible than a Disenchant or Swift Response, and the added Samurai token production is handy.

But there are too many things working against it. Banishing Slash is a sorcery, it costs two white mana which is a much bigger ask than one white and a generic, and to make a single 2/2 Samurai you have to control an artifact and an enchantment. This has "white card being nerfed way harder than other colours would have been" written all over it.

Banishing Slash might have been underwhelming, but then Wizards gave us Lion Sash. This is easily one of the best cards in the set revealed so far. You can pay one white to exile a card from any graveyard, and if it was a permanent Lion Sash gets a +1/+1 counter. It's white Scavenging Ooze, which on its own would be incredible.

But Lion Sash has Reconfigure. By paying just two mana, it attaches to another creature and gives it +1/+1 for every counter