The test order that saves you from a 300-card regret Before you print a full deck/cube with any new service, print a stress-test mini batch : 23 cards with tiny rules text 2 cards with very dark art (banding and muddy blacks show up here) 2 cards with full-art/borderless frames (alignment shows) 12 double-faced cards if your decks run them Then check: Cut centering (frames even on all sides?) Corner consistency (do sleeves catch?) Text sharpness (readable under normal room light?) In-sleeve shuffle feel (does anything feel different?) If the mini batch passes, scale up confidently
While five-mana sorceries may feel a bit slow in today's StandardSunfall has largely fallen out of favorUltima has an edge: it removes both Cori-Steel Cutter and the Monk tokens it creates, addressing one of the format's key threats
Vorapede couldn't quite hack it and as a result got left in the dust, but it definitely seemed cool at the time
Leyline of Anticipation and Vedalken Orrery set us up for success, while Vedalken Mastermind, Erratic Portal and my personal favorite Crystal Shard really knock things out of the park
You trade a small life payment or minor enchantment risk for immediate access to the best black creatures MTG graveyard decks can abuse
Warden of the First Tree is another new card with life gain potential that has been performing fairly well but is a bit narrow and far too costly and vulnerable to be relied on as life gain
