Please don’t do this

I don’t think so. I think this is probably just non-Forgotten Realms art they had ready to go but didn’t have a place to put it until now

Rescue Cat OTK was one of my early decks back in the day and where I learned what actually makes a deck competitive. Plus Rescue Cat is just adorable, it will always have a place in my heart

Yeah this is fantastic at the “do X, draw 2” instant for 4. Surveil 2 is already good but stapled to a counterspell is some really good gravy on top

Without any way to get around Sheoldred or board wipes I don’t see this doing much outside of G/X shells. We’ve already had Polukranos Reborn for a while and it’s a 4/5 with upside.

Pure stats haven’t meant much for a while unless you have the right effects to back it up

Yeah, gameplay wise they have a use even if you have a copy on the field. And mana wise they’re no better than a basic land so you don’t really care to run multiples. Lore wise I’m just unsure how they differ from other legendary places with nonlegendary lands

1 life seems like a very low rate compared to a lot of things. But I imagine this won’t see much use in competitive as long as Underworld Breach is around

They (mostly) stopped with Legendary lands because of how they played worse. Missing a land drop is much worse than not being able to cast another permanent spell since it’s less likely to be removed and more important for playing nonlegendary cards.

Lore wise it’s explained that you can have multiple leyline connections to a single place, though that didn’t stop the Kamigawa lands from being Legendary

I can imagine that Scooze is better for G/X decks that can’t depend on GG on turn 2/3. Scooze also getting the immediate growth instead of having to wait for 4 card types is better to keep it around

You can still use noncreature tokens like Food, Treasure or Maps to activate it too

I still crave shooters but don’t seem to have the time for online multiplayer anymore. I want to try stuff like Ultrakill and Selaco nowadays

Does anyone really want another generic hero shooter though? It’s not like we’re at a loss for options

Given the size of that wave I thought it would have bounced more

After 20 long years Lumengrid Warden’s dominance finally comes to an end

Also no landfall or basic land synergies

Very David Bowie-esque vibes.

You’d think there’d be more Green Faeries with how they’re associated with forests in folklore, but I guess they’ve just become so associated with Blue and Elves already took that niche

Yeah, Guide of Souls is deceptively innocuous at first. I forgot about paper cards getting nerfs in Historic. I’d much rather they just ban things than create an entirely new copy of a card that doesn’t refund any wildcards.

Would have been way more interested if it was an instant

Seems insane as a Commander. Though I imagine it’s going in the 99 of every Jetmir deck

Kinda wish they had actually used the Amass mechanic but I understand why they’d avoid it when they already have quite a few mechanics in this set already