#5 Obsessive Pursuit I love the Aristocrat archetype, and I see this card being a great value piece for a Rakdos or Mono Black deck looking to sac Treasures or creatures
Delightful Discovery | Illustration by Manuel Castan While Standard is the primary driver for printing new cards and it was the most popular format until Commander, there was still a demand for other products that didnt have to affect the fragile Standard environment or were focused on a different aspect of gameplay like drafting (with Conspiracy ), multiplayer ( Archenemy and Battlebond ), or formats like Jumpstart
These can be hard to find and even harder to pull by chance, so it is a nice surprise when you do find one
While I'd love to provide concrete examples, we're still in the early exploration and prototyping portion of this project, so I want to be careful about setting expectations that are later crushed because the path we settle on is different than our current blue-sky concepts
Cards like Braids challenge the player to use extra effects to make symmetrical effects more one-sided, and blue offers plenty of such cards
