This means Japanese cards often have a higher chance of achieving a perfect gem-mint grade (PSA 10) when professionally graded
Theyre tied to the vampires of Innistrad, and theres some concern that theyll be difficult to include in future sets for flavor reasons
With Shroud, you're prevented from interacting with your own creature you can't target them with anything, which can backfire depending on the deck
4/4 Savanti is everything a Commander card should really be a big creature with a high ceiling that also has two popular creature types
Does your Temur deck with two Curates, a Campus Guide, two Field Trips, and Cultivate really need an 18th land over another spell
But given that Thousand Moons Smithy comes down and makes a Karn-struct thats reasonably large right away in an affinity deck and then also likely flips the next turn, this seems like a nice artifacts top end, especially because Barracks of the Thousand is an artifact land