As celebratory pieces of art rather than serious game pieces, theyre flavored around the holidays with a love of puns and utter disregard for the Magic rulebookthey read like Un-set cards flavored with cinnamon, pine, and holiday cheer
The set had many great cards, but these drops had something special in the form of some excellent Vault Boy-themed reprints and Bonus cards
Im not going to pretend I have some new hot take for this list, and that alone shows why they merited inclusion for the second year in a row
That would be like opening a restaurant where the theme is to eat the food with a knife and fork
It also provides more synergy for decks using bounty counters which can improve the card draw in those decks
The announcement also clarified that banning cards in Alchemy is a last resort , stating In general, we want to avoid banning cards in Alchemy, but Monstrous Rage is a very tight design. Seeing as this is the first time a card has been banned for the Alchemy format specifically, it tracks that Wizards tries their best to avoid making moves like this
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