Welcome one and all to another edition of the life, today's big deal is the fact that wizards of the coast seems to love reprinting old rares that no one played or either had little experience with and here is no exception to this rule perhaps the greatest dragon of all time though has been reprinted from the Shards of Alara block, who am i talking about, the one the only Flameblast Dragon, here for your viewing pleasure is the new version of said card let's take a look shall we?
Yes he's back in all his fiery glory, this is the new and improved flameblast dragon which will hit store shelves on the 15th of July and is perhaps one of the better reprints wizards has made to date, so for 6 mana you get a flying 5/5 with the ability whenever it attacks, you may pay x and one red mana, if you do flameblast dragon deals X damage to target creature or player. Note the second ability which was really useful for the Jund shard of Alara block and ended up being used in some sideboards of said type of deck when it first came out, this is sure to hit a 3.00 range and is a decent rare to be reprinted, another reprint however is from a entirely different block which was featured yesterday let's take a look at Archon of Justice
Now this particular reprint is from the Eventide set, or what is known as Lorwyn/Morningtide/Shadowmoor/Eventide block which was pretty damn good and presented a crap ton of good rares and such, as well as some powerful tribal variants, this is only one of two such Archons in game with the other being Archon of Redemption from the Worldwake set. His original wording though is a little different it says "Whenever Archon of Justice is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile target permanent:" here it says "Whenever Archon of Justice dies, exile target permanent" note they removed a lot of the wording and simplified into a form of "Dies" instead of the usual "Go to the graveyard from the battlefield" terminology we are so used to. Though his stats and cost have stayed the same, 4/4 flyer with 5 mana to summon it, you get a dude that is pretty beefy for a white creature and i believe this was Eventide's 6th best rare alongside a few i'd rather not mention but this is decent enough in my opinion of course.
That's all she wrote for this particular article since there hasn't been any other reprints besides Sorin Markov to talk about and we all know he's still busted as ever, so till next time this is vergil and i will see you round the web with another M12 update real soon.
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