Lena feels like an intro pack rare. Valiant knight has good stats, and two relevant abilities, it might see some play. The sword will be a bomb in limited, but I doubt it will see Standard play.
Valiant Knight is right on curve for a T5 Alpha Strike, assuming there's another creature on the board. T3 Benalish Marshal into it is already 16 power on board T5 with that ability.
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iirc this is all stuff we already knew about. I enjoy knights and it has one of the best lords of any tribe. Unfortunately, these cards aren’t particularly good :/
iirc this is all stuff we already knew about. I enjoy knights and it has one of the best lords of any tribe. Unfortunately, these cards aren’t particularly good :/
We knew about the sword, and maybe Valiant Knight (I don't recall that, but it looks vaguely familiar), but did we already know about Lena?
Clearly the knight tribal they wanted to do in Dominaria. And given that this is also a Bolas set, Sigiled Sword of Valeron and Valiant Knight are from Bant.
Hmm...Giving Valiant Knight Sigiled Sword of Valeron means I get a 3/3 with sometimes double strike every turn.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Lena: if you win, you win more. It's 3/3 + 1/1 for 6 by itself. The other knight is so much better.
I don't really think that she's necessarily win-more. Yeah she's going to give you a buttload of tokens if you're already ahead but if you're behind in your go-wide strategy with maybe only one or two creatures on board she brings 5-6 power with her across multiple bodies and keeps the rest of your board from getting blown up. She kind of feels like a good card to heko you recoup if something went wrong on earlier turns.
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Arcades Sabboth with Noble Hierarch because Bant? (I know it's not going to happen, but with the other reprints of expensive Modern cards I can dream right?)
Lena non-token clause kills her playability. She could be crazy fun on WG tokens. With doubling season on that deck she could easily bring in 10+ power to the table while giving you insurance against the effect. But non-token clause is a too harsh restriction for deck building. Noone wants a non-token go wide deck ...
Valiant Knight is auto include in mono-white or white-black knights. Really strange that 2 sets with knights as minor themes raised the archetype way higher then all four tribes of Ixalan tribal block.
non token bit on lena ruins her. she's in a color that pushes token strategies, and rewards you for it... but then doesn't? dumb. dumb. dumb. dumb. her casting cost could've come down significantly. you're not likely to have an over abundance of nontoken creatures when she hits play, and you're not likely to have anything worth saving at a lower power than hers either.
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We knew about the sword, and maybe Valiant Knight (I don't recall that, but it looks vaguely familiar), but did we already know about Lena?
Hmm...Giving Valiant Knight Sigiled Sword of Valeron means I get a 3/3 with sometimes double strike every turn.
On phasing:
-Chandra Nalaar
“I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them.”
—Volrath
We will get him eventually no question about that since we got 4 out 5
Probably going to be previewed with ugin
Valiant Knight is auto include in mono-white or white-black knights. Really strange that 2 sets with knights as minor themes raised the archetype way higher then all four tribes of Ixalan tribal block.
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