tyranid mtg cards card spikes 350% thanks to unlikely team up with Sonic the Hedgehog Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control Tyrant Guard - Universes Beyond:

Having a bunch of card draw and recursion makes the deck surprisingly good at grinding through removal, and the janky-looking "draw a second card" creatures are actually surprisingly strong in a deck built to support them

But oh, how I wish the card was playable...

Making 3 or 4 1/1s over two turns is nice, and theres value in it, but you arent attacking opposing graveyards or lands or hands or anything

Short of reprinting Snapcaster Mage as a legendary creature, I dont know what I thought a solid flashback general would look like

Trust me, when you win with a deck like that, everyone is having a good time laughing along with the absurdity of that premise

[38] During the COVID-19 pandemic, which drew more players to the online Magic games and generated volumes of data of popular deck constructions, Wizards of the Coast was able to track popular combinations more quickly than in a purely paper game, and in mid-2020, the company banned additional cards that in specific combinations could draw out games far longer than desired