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Last updated on July 15, 2026 Verdant Catacombs | Illustration by Alayna Danner To this day, Ive never met an MTG player whos never gotten screwed by a bad land draw

Just look at the stats: 9/7, haste, lifelink, and indestructible

Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm Let's knock out the Black card first

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In standard it was the core to the aptly named Puresteel Paladin deck, using its main ability to draw into more action and later on the metalcraft ability to cheat out on some equip costs, but it has also seen play in Cheerios, a deck based around 0 mana artifacts and Paradoxical Outcome to eventually cast Grapeshot, and most recently in Hammer Time, which focuses on Colossus Hammer, where Puresteel Paladin once again comes in to both help circumvent equip costs

Though the name suggests we could see more of the wider plane, it will also include a return to the Strixhaven school and its five colleges