The fact that you get the creatures you merged to summon it back when it dies is the icing on this delicious, Gundam-flavoured cake.
They arent worried about the fidelity lost to this artistic choice because the entire set will apparently push the envelope of what players expect from a core MTG set
The Octopus is a three-drop 2/2 with flash and mutate, and we don't have any Humans in this deck so anything is mutate-able
Still, the graphic is blowing up on social media causing many to speculate that this is an early leak seeming to imply a 2026 Pokemon McDonalds set

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