Theres card draw and pressure, but more importantly, Yshtola works as a powerful value engine once you stack it with auras like Curiosity and Sigil of Sleep
I proposed last week that we would most likely see Blue Ugin as a judge foil within the next few years, rather than a widely accessible reprint
I wish I could tell my opponent, look, the only way for this deck to work is for me to play this card, and its likely that you dont care and you may be playing it too, so here we are. It turns out that whats basically a 3 mana Time Walk is powerful enough to see consistent play at all levels of the game
When they were just a small sub-brand of Magic, this made perfect sense, but now that half of all Magic cards released will be Universes Beyond, distinguishing between 'normal cards' and UB cards in this way does seem more arbitrary
There are loads of key dorks in here you'll want to save from your Damnations, like the Silent Arbiter above, or that Crypt Ghast or Magus of the Coffers, so it's here for that too