The three mana isn’t so curve-friendly, but you can deal damage to any target, you can proliferate, and it’s an instant. One downside with this card is that sacrificing artifact tokens won’t do anything. You can get value out of your artifact cards like Solemn Simulacrum, then sacrifice them to ramp up to your bomb cards like Cityscape Leveler. Slobad, iron Goblin will be a fantastic card for artifact ramp. Toxic and its rat-digging ability will add value to cards like Marrow-Gnawer and Rancid Rats. Karumonix, the Rat King will have immediate value for rat tribal decks in most non-Standard formats. It’s imperative to see the new “king” and “god” of certain tribal builds in new sets.

It also adds some draw value, which can be a great help for drawing more creatures and surviving removal spells. Jor Kadeen, First Goldwarden perfectly fits into the deck theme of equipping creatures and swinging hard. This can get interesting with stealing opponent’s creatures, ETB triggers, and other aristocrat shenanigans. It allows you to sacrifice creatures to find nonlegendary creatures with lower mana value and put them on the battlefield. Kethek, Crucible Goliath may be your new aristocrat all-star. It has great protection and can be pumped to do some serious damage.

What’s not to love about an indestructible creature with trample? Thrun, Breaker of Silence is a solid midrange creature to apply pressure on your opponents. There are plenty of cards to proliferate and move oil counters around to make this an interesting play in certain builds. The Filigree Sylex works like a Ratchet Bomb in removing certain mana value cards, and it can be the wincon for any oil counter decks. I’m sure a lot of players will want to make clones of their powerful cards, like Biowaste Blob or Fiendish Duo. The equipped creature may become a copy of another creature you control. Blade of Shared Soulsīlade of Shared Souls will be an effective clone strategy in a lot of formats. Sword of Forge and Frontier has some okay protection and pump, but the draw and land advantage you can get from dealing combat damage is where this sword shines.

Tyvar’s Stand is a great protection spell that gets better as the game goes on, while Minor Misstep is devastating to a lot of 1-mana plays in Legacy, Pioneer, and Modern. While rares and mythics are often the talk of every set, cheap and useful spells often make a big difference in Constructed and Limited decks.

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