With the MTG Final Fantasy release date just over a month away, Wizards of the Coast has let slip a whole livestream of card reveals
It absolutely demolishes certain archetypes, like Aristocrats and Sacrifice, and you even get a bonus two life and cost reduction for your black spells out of the deal too
Thats where something like Shield of Virtue can come into play, pulling double duty as an inkable one-cost item that can also protect anyone we quest with
In the first battle with Zalma (the Holy Priest), he will frequently cast Cures, not caring that doing so is also healing your party members (he will often heal 2-3 of your party members just to heal one of his), and sometimes his party members will move outside of the healing AoE, and the monks on his side will frequently hit each other with their Earth Fist moves
Still, theres something to be said for cards that make your deck more consistent, so weve seen lots of players opt for 16 lands with 2 cyclers rather than 17 lands (like in Duskmourn )
The franchise centers on a series of role-playing video games which variably combine elements of medieval fantasy, urban fantasy, and science fiction