karakas mtg card Price Art by Drew Baker Originally released December 7 Karakas · Ultimate Masters (UMA)

This year, eager to see what others were doing with the format, I went searching for events and groups to play

Merlin's Overdeveloped Brain ability is the first time we have seen a true "tutor" effect in Lorcana

If you watch the games, you'll see that we got a ton of wins by flipping it into Black Chocobo, which then grabbed a land to trigger its landfall to grow all of our Birds and all of our other landfall, generally leading to us dealing around 50 damage and winning the game on the spot

We can still build around Dragons and payoffs like the damage wrath wincon of Wrathful Red Dragon but use Chainer staples like Doomed Necromancer and Archpriest of Shadows to cheat out our high-mana beasties way ahead of curve and arguably more efficiently than a Rivaz deck