one piece card game ace manga OP16-001_p1 Portgas.D.Ace Card Red Card Type Portgas.D.Ace ST15-005 - One Piece

As I explained in a previous column, for a while I was responsible for the vast majority of alternative win card in the game (we finally hired some other designers who also thought alternative wins were cool)

Theres a good example of this thats coming up very soon: Modern Horizons 2

Perhaps the most interesting theme here for long-time players is its unique spin on those token-production spells

Flying, menace, haste Whenever Starscream deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, that player becomes the monarch

This also clocked in at Honorable Mention a month ago in my Top Ten Cards from Ikoria

While there are some effects that can be broken with blitzing, they are still kind of one-and-done, and can even miss, hitting a mana dork or similar in the case of Ojer Kaslem and Evercoat Ursine