For example: When Edge of Eternities released on August 1, 2025, Dominaria United, The Brothers' War, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, March of the Machine, and March of the Machine: The Aftermath rotated out of Standard like they did for Alchemy in September 2024
Because Nissa no longer has her spark, her most recent cards, Nissa, Resurgent Animist and Nissa, Worldsoul Speaker, have been legendary creatures with the cracked planeswalker symbol watermark
in just the past few years, weve gotten Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Orcish Bowmasters, Razorkin Needlehead, and Scrawling Crawler to supplement the game plan
His conditional indestructibility has the potential to turn off kill cards from decks that dont have early drops or cant keep them on the table, and his recursive potential is unlocked by any deck that either a) plans to use Delve (Tasigur, Angler, Treasure Cruise, Dig Through Time) or b) plans to abuse Deathmist Raptor and Den Protector
But all the different abilities and effects which impact total cost are implemented differently in the rules, and not always in the way youd like The first kind of cost-related mechanic to consider are alternative costs
Since Pioneers inception, the Mono Green deck has been a player in multiple formsfrom the early builds that kept getting waves and waves of bans to the more recent builds which are much heavier on bigger spells like Karn, the Great Creator and Storm the Festival