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General Ferrous Rokiric General Ferrous Rokiric would love it if you went for more colors than Boros, but there are plenty of solid RW cards to make it tick

Yet even in standard form, The Queen is a Legendary card

Meanwhile, Verdant Command offers a Raise the Alarm (a card that already sees some play in Historic, backed by Transmogrify and Intangible Virtue) with the additional upside of hating Cauldron Familiar or a Dreadhorde Arcanist target from the graveyard, gaining life against aggro, or possibly Stifleing a planeswalker activation against control

Weve created this resource because, frankly, not all deck-building experiments end well, and sometimes its worth knowing where you started from so that you can retread your steps and start from solid ground

Usually triggering this powerful ability requires another creature to enter the battlefield, but with Scampire, the creature will trigger its own ability and be able to attack immediately as a 13/13 with haste