Today’s blog post goes again with the card spoilers from the upcoming Magic: the Gathering set, Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. The source is another thread from Reddit/MagicTCG posted by user EsteBatto95, and this card preview is the new version of Dragon Spirits in the lore of Kamigawa.

Check out Junji, the Midnight Sky.

Here is what the card text reads:

We can say that this is the new and improved Kokusho with a one-less mana cost, the Menace ability, and additional options that trigger when it dies. The discard effect can truly devastate control opponents, while the replacement of a non-Dragon creature maintains and keeps the pressure against opponents especially if that creature was a threat you played earlier. Much more if your deck build is on graveyard shenanigans. Adding Menace to Flying makes it difficult to chump block, especially with the popular Bird tokens produced by Epiphany decks in the metagame.

Based on the current Standard deck archetypes, this Dragon Spirit can fit well on Dimir and Mono-Black Control. They can just kill off or discard opponents’ threats and later on reanimate them as they get to deal with Junji. Also, Golgari might have this as its top curve and finisher and there are ways to cheat it to the battlefield and get creatures in the yard for its trigger ability to target.

Lastly, this confirms the cycle of Dragon Spirits in the set and well see what its companions’ abilities would look like.

That is a wrap for now on this card spoiler, until the next blog post.