In the lore of Kaldheim based on the Norse mythology, it is quite unusual to see other creature types that are far related to the theme but is included in the set. One good example is today’s Kaldheim card preview: Cleaving Reaper.

A Black Angel is not uncommon, but having a Berserker as an additional creature type adds to the possible tribal deck in the Kaldheim Standard metagame. Also, a 5/3 with Flying and Trample for five is a decent stat but what is good here is the recursion trigger when another Angel or Berserker enters the battlefield.

You won’t be afraid of trading it with the opponent’s critters early on as long as you can just recur it after. The only drawback is the frequent use of graveyard removal and exile effect of spells in the metagame, greatly decreasing its card advantage.

To conclude, I still hope for a Berserker tribal aggro deck in Standard, though it might just look like an improved Rakdos Escape deck if there weren’t enough creatures in the new set to be listed in the “tribe”.

Until the next blog post.