Ikoria: Lair of Uncommons
Hey everyone its me Brandon or Fox MTG. Recently Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths has released online with a increasing amount of bomb cards. Because of these bomb cards I just had to do an article covering them all. Today I will be talking about the top 10 best uncommons for all formats in Ikoria, get ready!
1. Call of the Death-Dweller
Imagine paying 3 mana and getting back a Snapcaster Mage and Death’s Shadow! This amazing card brings back both of them and gives you a menace counter as well as a Deathtouch counter to distribute as you please. Furthermore, this wonderful card will be a great inclusion in any black deck in standard as well as Pioneer. The value is endless.
2. Dire Tactics
Dire Tactics is an unconditional exile spell in the right deck. If it’s played in a B/W/x human deck, a majority of the time it just exiles any creature with no downside. In addition, if your deck plays mostly human creatures a two mana exile spell still is good as life is only a resource. Make humans great again!
3. Heartless Act
Heartless Act is the latest Doom Blade as it’s a 2 mana removal spell; yes, it does not kill counterless permanents but when do you find a situation where that is needed? Furthermore, it also kills Nissa, Who Shakes the World‘s elementals which, in this meta, is hard to deal with. In conclusion, this spell nails so many threats that I can see it being played in many formats.
4. Skull Prophet
Golgari decks love two things in life, milling themselves and making mana. Skull Prophet gives you mana and dumps cards into the graveyard, sort of a 2 for 1 dork. In addition, this card will see tons of play in Commander and Standard graveyard decks. However, in Modern and Pioneer, I could see it not taking hold at all. Maybe I am wrong but I rather love this card.
5. Sonorous Howlbonder
Rakdos Beatdown has always been a dream for aggro players in historic, standard, and pioneer. This card may allow the archetype to become a thing as the majority of the cards similar to Stormfist Crusader and Labyrinth Raptor have Menace and putting these cards together create an extremely evasive deck that without constant board-wipes will crush any opponent in front of it.
6. Jubilant Skybonder
Azorious Flyers is back baby because this Flying spell pierce makes all your threats hard to deal with combining Skycat Sovereign to create a deck of evasive flyers that gain life as well as draw cards. Furthermore, in Pioneer and Standard, this will make all flying lords hard to deal with, do you make a blocker or pay 4 mana to kill the lord? Up to you.
7. Grimdancer
Us in the community have called this card ‘Nightmare No-hawk’ as a homage to Vampire Nighthawk. However, this card allows you to choose what you want from it choosing from a combination of two from Menace, Lifelink, or Deathtouch. A 3 mana 3/3 with upside that can be on its toes is such a great threat. It may even be played in the Rakdos Menace deck I was talking about before, a deck of powerful proportions.
8. General’s Enforcer
Once again I am back talking about humans. Now everyone imagines a Modern humans deck that instead of being Bant, it was Orzhov or even Mardu. This card protects Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and the new lord General Kudro of Drannith. In addition, any other cards in Modern humans that fit the archetype will make this deck one heck of a bomb. I cannot wait to start brewing.
9. Barrier Breach
Now I admit that this card is more of a Commander card. However, with the recent release of Theros: Beyond Death, I would understand the power behind this card because exiling up to three enchantments is a powerful mechanic, especially in a Standard meta with a lot of enchantments. Furthermore, the cycling part of this card means it will never be a dead card in your hand; it’ll be, on the worst day, a 2 mana draw spell.
10. Cunning Nightbonder
Out of all the decks coming to Standard and Pioneer, Dimir Flash has to be my favorite. Flash is a mechanic that, if paired really well, can destroy the meta. Cunning Nightbonder allows these flexible threats to be flashed in cheaply and undisturbed, as any control deck that allows this threat to stick around deserves to lose.
Conclusion
Ikoria has some crazy cards in it of all rarities. I believe we are at the top of the power curve and should be seeing a lowering of power level starting with the next set. Thank you once again and have a wonderful day.