Hey all, I do hope you are all doing fine after the celebration last weekend. We start the New Year 2022 with a Kamigawa Neon Dynasty card leak preview. I got this from the Magic TCG Reddit thread posted earlier today, and this card is named Eiganjo Uprising.
Check out its card ability below.
The card is situational and can’t win by itself and at times can become a drawback.
By its minimum casting cost, it is a three-mana 2/2 Vigilance creature with Haste & Menace on ETB is already good by itself. With White’s common strategy of pumping its dudes, getting it to a 3/3 can already wreck efficient early damage and not to mention the Boros Aggro deck is already established in the format.
I think I can have at least two copies in the maindeck to act as sort of a situational Alpha strike but having a playset is also okay if you are leaning to the tokens with anthem strategy (Paladin Class & Wedding Announcement).
By the definition of a situational card, in cases where the opponent has established more board position than yours then this is basically a dead card. To solve this, you’d need to make sure that you can early curve on the first three turns and retain the board.
Of course, opponents will try to develop theirs also by having a bigger creature or just plainly kill off yours. It is then by your decision if you’d go casting this on turn four or turn five and anticipate what your opponents’ play next. Just avoid playing it into a Meathook Massacre.
Overall, this is a go-wide card that ain’t that good as a game-winner but can still help you win games given that you have an existing anthem effect.
That is a wrap for this Kamigawa Neon Dynasty card preview. Until the next blog post.