You’re going to bring up Boarded Window, and you’re right. I know Healing Salve is the most maligned of the Alpha cycle that also gave us Lightning Bolt, and I also know that it took almost ten years before design gave up on ever more “powerful” versions of Samite Healer, but I can’t help but think that if they keep printing cards like Valkmira, Protector's Shield and Blessed Sanctuary that some kind of alternative build to Ghostly Prison-style pillow fort decks might be in our future. But this is still strictly worse than Ronom Unicorn, even in the sac-to-kill-an-enchantment space. We get these effects on ETB in every set now. You’ll pay this in unicorn tribal because you’re playing unicorn tribal and this has a mane of fire, but you’re never actually happy to top deck this. I know I played Daybreak Charger when I (probably unwisely) tried to make mono white aggro work in M21 Limited. One of the better white commons in M21 Draft, Valorous Steed seems overcosted even for an Emiel the Blessed deck that blinks it. I run a pretty effective Selesnya ( ) adventures deck when Arena rolls out a midweek Magic using the Artisan format, but even in that deck I won’t play this unicorn. Lonesome UnicornĪt eight mana to cast both the adventure side and the creature, Lonesome Unicorn may be the least efficient adventure creature in Throne of Eldraine. Inspiring Unicorn is pretty uninspiring, actually. Revered Unicorn still feels unplayable in a normal deck, but you can generate an interesting lifegain loop with Emiel the Blessed. This is an interesting space for cumulative upkeep I’d have liked to have seen go further. Power creep! Pearled Unicorn, meet your strictly better counterpart from Portal! Still, I can throw down a Celestial Unicorn for the same casting cost as Regal Unicorn. But Pearled Unicorn is the OG, so this has to be an auto-include if you’re running unicorn tribal. Pearled Unicornīelow rate for a creature even back in Alpha, you can imagine what power creep means for this card. And you can’t actually run it in an EDH deck with a unicorn commander since it has a blue pip so you’re spared that difficult choice. Cumulative upkeep! Concern with mana burn! Look, if you’re running Mystic Remora and then dropped Adarkar Unicorn the next turn, I’d absolutely just stand up and start slow clapping.īut aside from that boomer meme-pocalypse moment in your cumulative upkeep tribal deck (why, though?), there’s no point in running this unicorn. This rules text has aged about as badly as anything in Ice Age. Magic is still missing the rainbow manes, but they’ve gone all in on the white. Just image search “unicorn” and you’ll mostly see a pile of white unicorns with rainbow manes. Three quarters of the unicorns in Magic are white, which makes sense given their representational history. This thematic consistency is what really allowed unicorn tribal to exist since the majority of unicorns in Magic were printed in the last four years when what matters to unicorns was becoming more focused. Although early unicorns had a range of abilities, unicorns cared about lifegain and +1/+1 counters in the post- Modern Horizons era. Unicorns are a creature type that was first printed in Alpha with the vanilla and overcosted bear Pearled Unicorn. Prized Unicorn | Illustration by Rudy Siswanto
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