Summary
Wilds Of Eldraine is the second visit toMagic: The Gathering’s Eldraine plane. The return sees mechanics and characters returning from the original set, such as Adventures, which for the first time have different mana costs for the Adventure and creature cost.
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There are plenty of strong multicolored cards in Wilds Of Eldraine, from Adventures that are two colors to powerful creatures who do a lot for a low cost. They all support various strategies across all formats, making it handy to have them on your radar. Some are strong enough to create entire archetypes around them to be the face of specific decks.
10Heartflame Duelist
Heartflame Duelist is a solid addition to any Boros (red/white) burn list. One of the problems burn decks have is running out of steam and creatures, which lets your opponent deal out damage. Heartflame Duelistturns your burn spells into lifegainas well, making it easier to make it further in the grind game.
Although it costs three mana, the Adventure side is still solid, as three damage is a decent amount of damage for the cost. You only need one Heartflame Duelist on the battlefield for the lifegain effect, making it easier to feel comfortable casting the Adventure side.
9The Goose Mother
The Goose Mother is a very solid top-end finisher for a lot of decks. It has a low base, but when you’re able to pay a lot of mana for its “X,” it can become a massive threat. It also turns all of your Food tokens into draw power when it attacks, giving another use for them instead of just being a source of lifegain.
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Since The Goose Mother has flying, it can be rather evasive from blockers when it comes in with a lot of counters. It becomes a must-answer threat, or else it can deal devastating amounts of damage to your opponent.
8Eriette Of The Charmed Apple
Eriette Of The Charmed Apple turnsall of your Aurasinto stun effects. Negative Auras become especially strong as not only do they harm your opponent, but they will also cause burn damage while gaining you life to ensure you stay in the game.
There is no shortage of powerful Auras that Orzhov (white/black) has access to, so splashing other colors to play Eriette isn’t even necessary. Eriette is capable of winning games on its own and can very quickly spiral out of control if the opponent doesn’t have removal for Eriette or the Auras.
7Pollen-Shield Hare
Pollen-Shield Hare is a ton of value for a very low amount of mana. Its Adventure is great late-game in decks that swarm the battlefield with creatures as it gives a creature a hefty stat boost. On the battlefield, it gives a nice boost to all creature tokens.
White often has plenty of ways to create a lot of tokens, making Pollen-Shield Harean excellent choice in token-based strategies. The stat-boosting effect stacks with other copies of Pollen-Shield Hare on the battlefield and can make them into giant threats when multiple Hares hit the battlefield.
6Will, Scion Of Peace
Lifegain is relatively easy to accomplish, especially in white, which Will, Scion Of Peace is. It can give a steep discount to all your white and blue spells, which can let you cast a ton of spells for just one turn.
There isno shortage of cards that easily give you lifeand combos to give you infinite life, so you only have to pay for colored mana in your spells. It doesn’t cost any mana to use Will’s ability, only tapping it to ensure you’re loaded up with mana to cast whatever you like.
5Rowan, Scion Of War
The opposite to Will, Rowan, Scion Of War discounts spells for each life you lost the turn you use its effect. This is very easy to accomplish, as many spells make you pay life - including some that make you pay life to add mana. This makes it so you not only discount your spells but also create mana to cast them.
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Rakdos (red/black) has plenty of self-burn for value, making Rowan discount your spells incredibly easily. With the right combo of cards, Rowan can win the game in just one turn with a powered-up Crackle With Power.
4Hylda Of The Icy Crown
Hylda Of The Icry Crown cares about tapping your opponent’s creatures, something Azorius (white/blue) colors have no struggle to do. You only have to pay one mana to activate any of Hylda’s effects, all of which provide a ton of value.
Hylda Of The Icy Crown either gives you a powerful 4/4 token, a counter on all your creatures, or a card into your hand. This effect isn’t once per turn and applies to any time you tap a creature, so if you tap multiple with one card, you can pay that much mana to use an effect on Hylda.
3Talion, The Kindly Lord
Talion, The Kindly Lord cangive you a lot of draw powerwhile dealing burn damage. It does have a specific requirement of picking a number between one and ten, and whatever number you choose will do burn damage if an opponent plays a card that matches that number in its cost, power, or toughness.
Many decks tend to have a frequent number of one and two mana spells, making them the safest numbers to name. This can also spiral out of control by dealing out slow burn damage and keeping your hand fresh with cards.
2Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron
Discounting abilities is a powerful effect, and Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron can do just that. Although it only discounts by one by default, having ways to boost the stats of Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron can make your abilities only cost a small amount of mana, if not entirely free.
Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron can even give a stat boost to all your creatures as well as give them trample and haste. Agatha’s own effect can even help discount the normally six mana needed to activate it.
1Elusive Otter
For just one mana, you get a powerful attacker that can deal a ton of damage on its own. Although it starts as a 1/1,the prowess can increase itand make it unblockable if you can grow its stats high enough.
Elusive Otter’s adventure side is great as well later in the game, as it can spread a ton of +1/+1 counters across all your creatures. It combos well with itself, giving an Elusive Otter more counters so that more creatures will be unable to block it.
