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#1Feb 3, 2022
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The final signpost uncommon points to the old "GU set mechanic strategy" plan again. Thankfully, it's the very versatile channel.
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#2Feb 3, 2022

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Play your T-posing skyturtle to assert dominance.

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Great limited card. Tempo, recursion and finisher.

Split card channel is cool.

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Might Living End decks in Modern want this card? Anti-hate and recursion, all in one!

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I'm surprised there isn't a cycle of these dual channel cards. If you happen to have Genesis in your graveyard this is a nice, constant Regrowth effect that is hard to counter.

This likely goes in Living End decks as well.

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#6Feb 3, 2022

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Such a great limited card. Makes the other colour pairs seem like trash. Stupid useless modified and 'have to have both art and enchants in play' are just asking for you to draft bad cards. Green blue, nope draft solid creatures that can also become spells in a pinch. GU is like a running meme at this point.

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I wouldn't be surprised to see this break into all kinds of formats, but I'm definitely gonna try to remember him for Commander. If you haven't tossed your Simic Sky Swallowers in the trash yet... it's time.

#8Feb 4, 2022

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Such a great limited card. Makes the other colour pairs seem like trash. Stupid useless modified and 'have to have both art and enchants in play' are just asking for you to draft bad cards. Green blue, nope draft solid creatures that can also become spells in a pinch. GU is like a running meme at this point.

Modified is mindlessly easy with all the +1/+1 counters floating around in the set.

#9Feb 4, 2022

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The worst thing about this as a draft signpost uncommon is that the green channel effect may be attractive enough for most green drafters to just snatch this from you if you are in the color pair.

Planar Chaos was not a mistake neither was it random. You might want to look at it again.

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Such a great limited card. Makes the other colour pairs seem like trash. Stupid useless modified and 'have to have both art and enchants in play' are just asking for you to draft bad cards. Green blue, nope draft solid creatures that can also become spells in a pinch. GU is like a running meme at this point.

Not too sure about the WB 'have both an enchantment and artifact' theme so far. There are a lot of artifact and enchantment creatures in the set.

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This uncommon is a lot better than some of the rares in this set. Versatile and has good effects. Low chance it sees constructed play but it'd probably work better than a lot of jank rares.

#12Feb 4, 2022

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This will see play in living end for sure, and ironically against living end as it's pretty easy to cycle it to the yard for good effect.

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A giant turtle with a lighter-than-air gas-filled shell? That such a cool concept for a fantasy creature (just don't ask what it feeds on, I guess). I've always thought OG Ravnica's Zeppelids were interesting, and this one is quite similar. And on top of that, it's even got good mechanics! This might be one of my overall faves from this set.

#14Feb 6, 2022

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Should have a bigger butt on it. Should have been like a 3/7 or 2/8.

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