mtg archenemy nicol bolas card list Extract from Darkness - Archenemy: and a 20 A Reckoning Approaches (Schemes) [Archenemy:

Its not quite as good as a Thoughtseize, but its better than your opponent choosing to discard the card that matters the least

Jackal, Genius Geneticist Saffgor: I want to like Jackal a lot, but 1

He combos off if you so much as look in his direction with any number of different cards

And while Magic has featured other video game crossovers in the past (hello, Assassins Creed and Fallout !), with the way this set is constructed, from card mechanics to art, you can tell this one is a developer favorite, sure to appeal to the massive chunk of people who love both games

There are matchups where the card is weak, but often those are matchups where it also just feels unnecessary, so you dont mind sideboarding it out or keeping it in and just not investing too much mana into it

There are some limits to this, though