Gaston, Intellectual Powerhouse A smart choice Beauty and the Beast villain Gaston isnt usually known for his brains, but Rise of the Floodborn card Gaston, Intellectual Powerhouse reimagines the brawny baddie as consuming as many books as he does eggs
It's a little surprising that two of the three batches of reskinned Secret Lair cards (sometimes called 'Universes Within') are set on the same plane, Innistrad
It is has a reasonable casting cost, and while being a creature makes it susceptible to removal, it does have Ward 2 on it
Iona, Shield of Emeria The problem is that this effect easily shuts a player out of the game: it totally stops monocolor players from playing Magic , and even many two-color decks often have a large portion of their hand (and their commander!) rendered uncastable by Iona
It was actually the first time we designed a top-down block (one could argue the first top-down set was Arabian Nights , Magic 's first expansion)