The fact that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering’s latest set, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, even eℱxists is kind of a miracle. It takes us back to the world of Ixalan, one inspired by the Aztecs, Incas, and the Age of Discovery, but the first time we visited it in 2017 wasn’t exactly a big success. A stellar story and worldbuilding were let down by some of the roughest set design in a long time, leading many to assume it’d be thrown on the backburner like Kylem, Rath, or Mercadia.
Every Card In Magic: The Gathering's The Lost Caverns Of Ixalan
It's time for Magic: The Ga✃thering to head below the surface and into The Lost🧜 Caverns Of Ixalan.
Instead, The Lost Caverns Of Ixalan is giving it its own Kamigawa moment, and not only expands the world of 𒅌Ixalan with a whole new civilisation and a more genuinely Latin American-themed aesthetic, it’s goꦛt some incredible cards to go with it. Ixalan is back, and we’ve got two cards from The Lost Caverns Of Ixalan to show off ahead of the set’s release on November 17.
Kutzil’s Flanker
While the surface of Ixalan is known for its Vampires, Pirates, Dinosaurs, and Merfolk, another group vies for power deep beneath its surface. The Malamet are a species of Jaguar warriors who ferociously defend and worship th🔯eir leaders while coated in jade armor. Katzil’s Flanker is one such Malame🐎t, and gives you access to an entire toolbox of abilities all for just three mana.
Normally, having flash and being able to enter the battlefield with a load ꧑of +1/+1 counters would be the main event of a card like Kutzil’s Flanker. In one-on-one play it might not be quite as silly, but in Commander and other multiplayer formats, it’s a great answer to board wipes. Who coul𝔉d say no to a huge Cat Warrior that can deal massive damage to a defenseless player with right away?
Kutzil's Flanker works excellently with another Malamet from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, Sovereign Okinec Ahau, if you choose the first mode. Whenever Okinec attacks, you'll be doubling the number of counters on Kutzil's Flanker.
However, it’s actually the ability to exile a target player’s graveyard at instant speed that makes Kutzil’s Flanker such a powerhouse, especially in Standard and Limited. One of the major mechanics of The Lost Caverns Of Ixalan is descending – putting permanent cards into your graveyard, and having other effects care about how many ar💝e already there. Kutzil’s Flanker can completely turn that off by getting rid of your opponent’s entire graveyard before they c⛄an have much descending fun with it.
The middle option, sc🔯rying and gaining life, is likely going to be the least useful one. That said, if you’ve got nothing else to play, scrying two and getting a 3/1 at instant speed for three mana is still very, very nice.
Corpses of the Lost
Zombies get a lot of love in Magic, but their fleshless siblings the Skeletons don’t get anywhere near as many goodies. Fortunately, Corpses of the Lost gives them a new tool, possibly even putting Skeleton decks into a somewhat෴ playable position.
On its own, this looks like a worse version of Adventures In The Forgotten Realms’ Skele♎tal Swarming. +1/+0 and haste isn’t too much to🃏 look at. But then consider that, in Standard, we’ve just had a set that loves sacrificing enchantments in Wilds of Eldraine, and this card gets a bit more interesting.
There are lots of easy ways to get Corpses of the Lost into your graveyard in Standard right now, w🌱hich also gives you a way to effectively get a 3/2 Skeleton 𝓡Pirate with haste for three mana. If you can repeat this every turn, you’re building up quite the board state.
I𒆙f you sacrifice Corpses of the Lost, that counts as descending, so you can put it into your hand at the end of the turn with no extra work needed.
This likely won’t blast open any formats the way Skeletal Swarming did, but Corpses of the Lost is still an interesting tool for both ൲Standard and Limited that you won’t want to sleep on.