Really underrated card. Even without support counters it's great on defense and solid on offense. Gets positively unfair when you start giving flying to your 5/5 Snapping Gnarlid.
I like Steppe Glider a whole lot. Without any +1 counters it's filler at best in my view but in a deck with at least a couple of ways to add +1 counters (which is very difficult not to have in a white deck) this card is good and if there are decent-sized ground creatures in the deck which can get +1 counters then this is very good.
Boring, but you usually want one in a deck with a reasonable ally theme. Tapping down two of your creatures is a great way to eliminate the value of tapping one of your opponent's, though. Low pick in draft, since you're rarely happy to have to play a second one.
Spawnbinder Mage is in my view a somewhat important component of the black-white controlling life-gain-and-drain ally deck (unless the deck has a lot of removal) which is the best type of deck in the set if you can assemble the pieces (mostly common), and is decent in a generally controlling ally deck (unless the deck has a lot of removal), but a bit sub-par in an average deck with a good number of allies, and very sub-par in a deck without more than a few allies.
Can we talk about how weird it is that this isn't a Condiment?
I mean, Mustard tokens are Creature - Condiment Bear, but Mayo is just a cat? And it's not like it's clear from the art which is which... neither Mayo nor Mustard actually have condiments in their artwork. In fact, I think the only creatures in the set that do have condiments in their art are Ketchup (Human Advisor Condiment) and Tobor of the Thousand Islands, who also isn't a Condiment despite having a sandwich in his (non-promo) art.
I get that they have make sure that condiment tribal is balanced in draft, but it all just seems needlessly confusing.
Well, Miracle Whip is an equipment, not a creature, so they don't even belong in the same archetype. I would not draft the whip unless I'm sure I'll be able to run at least 3 bread types.
Mayo is really freaking good against the sandwich archetype and it's great tech for MiraclesWhip.dec, but it's generally terrible otherwise. Sideboard only.
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Clearly terrible in a 4 color control pile, but actually a fairly desirable card for the RG blitz deck. I'm glad it exists, and it should be super obvious whether you want it (unless you're an aggressive rakdos/Jeskai/Marduk deck with a borderline playable count, in which case it's a maybe).
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Splashable nekrataal is splashable. Great card to return to your hand (from the battlefield or the graveyard). One of the numerous strong single color car in pack 1.
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As a reminder, you get a free Mayo Token with every purchase* of 100.00 or more at the MtGS shop.
*excludes purchases including Curse Premium.
I mean, Mustard tokens are Creature - Condiment Bear, but Mayo is just a cat? And it's not like it's clear from the art which is which... neither Mayo nor Mustard actually have condiments in their artwork. In fact, I think the only creatures in the set that do have condiments in their art are Ketchup (Human Advisor Condiment) and Tobor of the Thousand Islands, who also isn't a Condiment despite having a sandwich in his (non-promo) art.
I get that they have make sure that condiment tribal is balanced in draft, but it all just seems needlessly confusing.
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My Cube:Cardinal Custom Cube
A custom version of a third modern masters: MM2019
(filter->rarity to see in set rarity).
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