Why Magic: The Gathering's Wingmantle Chaplain is the most powerful Uncommon in years
Occasionally, a card in Magic: The Gathering that is, without a doubt, overpowered will come around. Usually, these are Rares or Mythic Rares, which makes sense. Those cards are supposed to be pretty powerful. However, not since Zenith Flare has Magic: The Gathering players encountered a card quite like Wingmantle Chaplain.
It may seem like just a Defender with 0 power and three toughness, but it’s so much more. It has one of the highest winrate in the game’s Standard meta right now. Whether in Draft or Constructed, it is not a card to be underestimated.
Several powerful cards have been printed over the years, but few Uncommons have had this terrifying level of power. It seems pretty unassuming, but it can do tremendous things.
It’s up there with Disciplined Duelist, Zenith Flare, and Diver Skaab. Now, it does require a particular kind of deck (Defender Archetype), but what it brings to the table is excellent. It’s even better if it’s in pairs, or players can bounce it in and out of play.
The following is a rundown of what this particular Uncommon card can do.
It would be just another Magic: The Gathering uncommon if it had that first ability. That one-time trigger gives you as many Bird tokens as you have Defender creatures.
It triggers with another creature token whenever you bring another Defender into play. Now, Defender creatures, or Walls, cannot attack normally.
Players flood the board with Defenders, making it incredibly hard to attack them, then play the Wingmantle Chaplain and start to reap the rewards. There’s more to this, though. Sure, that’s already pretty great, but you have to get this card into play.
Shield-Wall Sentinel makes this far more viable. A 4-cost Defender Artifact creature, when it enters play, this
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