It's fun to play and enables many possible strategies: Merfolk, +1/+1 counters, graveyard strategies, or good old-fashioned midrange with creatures that generate value and get more prominent as the game goes on
True or not, it certainly does give me hope that my fears are massively overblown
Once you're sure you have an opening to make an attack with the Kraken, you can fire off some spells to remove its remaining slumber counters and crack in for a modest 12 damage
It was competitive with the colored four drops, and my second major deck used it as its four drop despite being three colors - and a control deck
Throw on an Aqueous Form on her to make her unblockable, and hurl some cheap red spells beforehand and you have a recipe for a devastating blow in your second main phase as you put the Storm in storm
While it is true that a few of these cards have now been Masterpieces twice (Mana Vault, Ancient Tomb, Through the Breach), we need only look as far as Mana Crypt and Sol Ring for examples of cards that have had multiple rare and shiny versions that have tended to trend upward together once the Masterpiece started to rise
