This continues a trend weve seen recently
MTG fans react to new Assassins Creed card designs Over on Reddit, the top comment thread points out that it no longer looks like a Magic card: This looks like a different card game altogether, yeesh. Responding to it, another said that it looked like Wizards other trading card game, Netrunner: My first thought was Oh sick, theyre bringing back Netrunner! Netrunner was licensed out to Fantasy Flight games, which SubtleNoodle mentions that it looks like something the company would put out
This archetype often has enough draw payoffs to make them worth 3 or 4 mana
Combined with Reaper King, each on-theme creature hits hard
The one downside is that only Ally cards can be returned to the top
He also said the cards are aimed at casual and Commander players where customization is the motivating factor to play the cards, not power-level