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The idea in Red is to drop your hand as fast as possible and then cast this and lose little maybe one or two cards while your foes are discarding way much more and then you win out in card advantage

Even if you lost the match, often you walked away from it with valuable technology

Jumpstart booster packs are loaded with cards from throughout Magic The Gathering (MTG) history plus 37 cards that get their first-ever printing and dozens of cards from Core Set 2021 (M21) Best Set for Standard 2026 Beza, the Bounding Spring | Illustration by Martin Wittfooth Want to jump into Standard with the release of Secrets of Strixhaven

This is the backbone of Hammertime decks in Modern and one of the first cards you should reach for when you build your equipment deck

Fae-Cursed King remains a menace in commander and was a finisher in many constructed Food and sacrifice decks