Disdainful Stroke Dont get me wrong, Disdainful Stroke is a powerful counterspell
The last Steward of Gondor begs leave to surrender his office. Illustrated by Anna Podedworna Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Not Legal Historic Not Legal Modern Not Legal Brawl Not Legal Legacy Legal Comp
Sure, it's just one cheaper than Mind Rot, but two cards, at random, on turn two (or earlier) is just hard to stop, and hard to answer
In retrospect, his opponent in the finals piloted a list many of us would likely have preferred: Creatures (12) Lands (20) Spells (29) 4 Fireball 4 Lightning Bolt 1 Icy Manipulator 1 Sylvan Library 1 Control Magic 1 Regrowth 1 Mind Twist 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Time Walk 1 Chaos Orb 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Channel 4 Chain Lightning 2 Psionic Blast 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire Sideboard Lestrees deck was an early foundational piece of Magic technology, giving birth to the first Zoo deck (so named for the Kird Apes and Savannah Lions that would go on to replace Argothian Pixies)
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrater
Each of the cards in the preview is a borderless full-art depiction of the classic comic characters and their tools of the trade
