Card advantage is still very important to consider today, but its importance also has to be measured alongside the quality of the card(s) youre looking at
For one thing, its the first Bant legendary creature with a typal payoff for birds
Playing two colors in a color-hungry deck like Merfolk makes that dream a bit more difficult
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness encourages you to cast white and black spells by handing out +1/+1 counters and useful combat keywords like vigilance and menace to your whole legendary squad
The commander cards that got previewed sometime had me concerned as that was our first look into the set
This, however, still leaves a lot of room for everything else, since the Typal theme is only 29 cards strong