Next week I feature bacteriophage the untouchable. That article should be out tomorrow.

It's like saying Lightning Bolt is not strictly better than Shock because an opponent can Fork it back at you. You gotta draw the line of ridiculous scenarios somewhere…

Predator's gambit, in a set where black's consolation prize for lacking miracle cards is their solo mechanic, is a very very strict upgrade to unholy strength. In a black-heavy build, especially in the draft format where black can always be your main color when you want it to and your splash doesn't have to have creatures if you don't want, gambit makes your one beater into a game-winner. In a set with practically no removal, taking demonic taskmaster from a strong flier than smashes chump blockers to death 1 at a time into an unblockable 4 turn clock is no joke. I mean he's practically unblockable. How many creatures in the set block a black flier with intimidate? Gambit on the 3/2 soulcage fiend is even better since he has no evasion to begin with.

Zealous strike is almost always better. You couldn't use skillful lunge to save a creature from pillar of flame or death wind in a pinch, and this card does just that. The toughness bonus is relevant more often than it's a drawback, which even you concede is a hard scenario to envision.

If anything, into the void got the least amount of improvement because all they did was improve the mana, not improve the effect of the card.

In regards to the article I somehow missed the Klug iama and he’s one of my favorite artists so it was good to catch that. I agree on your opinion with the helavault. It was free stuff so at the end of the day I can’t complain and I was able to get a bunch of the oversized cards and my artsy fiancé will surely put them to good use.

Good to see you flex your writing muscle a little more than usual in this article great stuff, can’t wait to see more especially after release weekend and some of the new decks that might come out of the release of this set.