When I was looking over the Kaldheim spoiler in search of some inspiration, I was shocked by Faceless Haven. I hadn't seen it before—there was no hype on social media about the card that was clearly designed to be a Standard staple. A colorless creature land, accessible to all five colors, and with a Changeling status? It's the perfect card for any tribal deck, and draws obvious comparisons to Mutavault. A defining feature of the format during both of its runs in Standard, Mutavault is a card that needs little introduction.
Creature lands have always been key factors in the Standard metagame whenever they were around, from the era of Shambling Vent, to Celestial Colonnade, all the way back to Treetop Village. Mutavault was no different, but its colorless status has typically restricted its use to one-color decks that can afford the colorless land. Faceless Haven will function in much the same way, but its activation cost requiring multiple Snow mana also requires a heavy commitment to Snow lands. This means not playing typical dual and trilands, and because the Snow options for mana fixing are weak, Faceless Haven will be at its best in single-color decks.
I got curious about just how many Snow lands a deck will need to play to reliably activate and attack with Faceless Haven on turn four, so I consulted the most useful article in Magic ever written, Frank Karsten's guide to manabases, and found that, like Cryptic Command, Faceless Haven will require 20 Snow lands to be used on turn four reliably, which Frank posits is 90% of the time. In theory, not being able to activate the land is not as devastating as not being able to cast a spell, so this number could be slightly relaxed, but it's not ideal.
The thing about Faceless Haven is that, as a Snow land itself, additional copies can pay for the first, so a deck with four could count three of them towards that 20—it would only need 17 other Snow lands. That's a minimum of 21 lands, which is a great number for a low-curve aggressive deck with something like Faceless Haven to sink mana into. It leaves a few slots available to utility lands or double-faced cards in decks that require more mana. It's the loss of access to these cards, which are major staples of Standard, that are the real cost of Faceless Haven.
If you play a deck that contains many utility lands and double-faced cards, you may not find Faceless Haven worth giving them up for. Much of the value of a creature land is adding utility to your manabase, and things like the double-faced cards or Castle Ardenvale do this in their own powerful ways. Times have changed since Mutavault, and there's more competition between great cards for slots in a deck. Nor will every deck want Faceless Haven strategically, as it will be best in aggressive decks, and best of all in those that can take advantage of its tribal nature or Snow status.
In those decks that do want Faceless Haven, it offers a massive dose of power locked into a land. While it costs much more than Mutavault to use, it hits twice as hard, and is twice as threatening for the opponent. Ability to synergize with tribal or Snow cards could push it over the top. While Faceless Haven won't be as prevalent as Mutavault was, I'm confident it will find its place somewhere as a staple of Standard.
I've started exploring its potential by building some decks to make the most of it. With the goal of finding the best possible homes for Faceless Haven, my focus is on one-color decks, but I have one example of how two-color decks could work. I also looked for tribal decks and built them everywhere they had enough support.
Green is a good place to start with Faceless Haven. It currently boasts a Mono-Green deck as one of the best in Standard, and Kaldheim is bringing Elves as a tribe with heavy support, including even a planeswalker.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Green Snow-Covered Food by Adam Yurchick
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Scavenging Ooze
Color Identity:G
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{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/scavenging-ooze
Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
Color Identity:G
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You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. +1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it. −2: When you cast your next creature spell this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser converted mana cost, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Kogla, the Titan Ape
Color Identity:G
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When Kogla, the Titan Ape enters the battlefield, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls.
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Kazandu Mammoth
Color Identity:G
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Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Kazandu Mammoth gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
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Witch's Oven
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{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Create a Food token. If the sacrificed creature's toughness was 4 or greater, create two Food tokens instead. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/witchs-oven
The Great Henge
Color Identity:G
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This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/the-great-henge
Tormod's Crypt
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{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/tormods-crypt
Gilded Goose
Color Identity:G
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Flying
When Gilded Goose enters the battlefield, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
{1}{G}, {T}: Create a Food token.
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Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
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+2: Ugin, the Spirit Dragon deals 3 damage to any target. −X: Exile each permanent with converted mana cost X or less that's one or more colors. −10: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Snow-Covered Forest
Color Identity:G
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Ilysian Caryatid
Color Identity:G
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{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/ilysian-caryatid
Questing Beast
Color Identity:G
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Vigilance, deathtouch, haste Questing Beast can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Combat damage that would be dealt by creatures you control can't be prevented. Whenever Questing Beast deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to target planeswalker that player controls.
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Trail of Crumbs
Color Identity:G
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When Trail of Crumbs enters the battlefield, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Food, you may pay {1}. If you do, look at the top two cards of your library. You may reveal a permanent card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/trail-of-crumbs
Faceless Haven
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{T}: Add {C}.
{S}{S}{S}: Faceless Haven becomes a 4/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/faceless-haven
Wicked Wolf
Color Identity:G
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When Wicked Wolf enters the battlefield, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Sacrifice a Food: Put a +1/+1 counter on Wicked Wolf. It gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.
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Castle Garenbrig
Color Identity:G
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Castle Garenbrig enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/castle-garenbrig
Feasting Troll King
Color Identity:G
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Vigilance, trample
When Feasting Troll King enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, create three Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
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Thrashing Brontodon
Color Identity:G
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{1}, Sacrifice Thrashing Brontodon: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/thrashing-brontodon
Wilt
Color Identity:G
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Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
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Lovestruck Beast // Heart's Desire
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Tangled Florahedron
Color Identity:G
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Mono-Green Food suffers from the aforementioned issue of playing many double-face cards and utility lands, so Faceless Haven isn't a seamless fit, but it plays so many lands in addition to them that it's not a huge stretch. The deck even already plays some colorless lands (typically three Bonder's Enclave), but some lists are replacing some with Crawling Barrens. Faceless Haven is much more efficient than Crawling Barrens as an immediate threat, and it could be supported if the deck prefers aggression over the ability to grow.
The thing getting in the way is the playset of Castle Garenbrig, which is a key card for fueling the deck's six-drops. The current stock list plays 22 actual land, with 15 basic Forest that could easily become Snow, which with two or three Faceless Haven would require three or four more Snow land to hit the 20 required. Cutting Castle Garenbrig isn't the best idea, but perhaps trimming one and making due with less Snow lands would get the job done if you really wanted it to.
I'm more excited about Faceless Haven in Elves, which Kaldheim makes a legitimate tribe with a ton of new support joining a few good cards we already had. It's a Golgari tribe, and a Snow version with Faceless Haven might just work, but there is enough support for a Mono-Green version.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Green Snow-Covered Elves by Adam Yurchick
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Llanowar Visionary
Color Identity:G
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When Llanowar Visionary enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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Realmwalker
Color Identity:G
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Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As Realmwalker enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells of the chosen type from the top of your library.
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Sculptor of Winter
Color Identity:G
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{T}: Untap target snow land.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/sculptor-of-winter
Faceless Haven
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{T}: Add {C}.
{S}{S}{S}: Faceless Haven becomes a 4/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/faceless-haven
Tyvar Kell
Color Identity:B,G
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Elves you control have "{T}: Add {B}."
+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target Elf. Untap it. It gains deathtouch until end of turn.
0: Create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast an Elf spell, it gains haste until end of turn and you draw two cards."Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/tyvar-kell
Snow-Covered Forest
Color Identity:G
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Tajuru Paragon
Color Identity:G
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Tajuru Paragon is also a Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.
Kicker {3}
When Tajuru Paragon enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, reveal the top six cards of your library. You may put a card that shares a creature type with it from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/tajuru-paragon
Canopy Tactician
Color Identity:G
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Other Elves you control get +1/+1.
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Elvish Warmaster
Color Identity:G
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Whenever one or more other Elves enter the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
{5}{G}{G}: Elves you control get +2/+2 and gain deathtouch until end of turn.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/elvish-warmaster
Boreal Outrider
Color Identity:G
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Whenever you cast a creature spell, if {S} of any of that spell's colors was spent to cast it, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/boreal-outrider
Wildborn Preserver
Color Identity:G
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Flash
Reach
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Wildwood Tracker
Color Identity:G
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Whenever Wildwood Tracker attacks or blocks, if you control another non-Human creature, Wildwood Tracker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Turns out, Elves mesh well with the Snow theme. Sculptor of Winter adds an aggressively-slanted mana source. Boreal Outrider is a powerful tool for an aggressive Elves deck filled with cheap creatures to pump, and one that might be a Standard staple good enough for other green creature decks.
The best new card for the tribe is Elvish Warmaster, a fantastic aggressive Elf that may even make it to Modern and Legacy. Like Boreal Outrider, it pushes the deck towards a ton of cheap and aggressive creatures, which it has access to plenty of. The secondary ability of pumping the team is an afterthought that's hardly necessary, but it certainly is welcome, and helps make this two-drop excellent at all stages of the game.
The creature swarm plan is further cemented by Realmwalker, a Changeling that does a perfect impersonation of an Elf. It will generate incredible card advantage in a deck with many cheap ones to play. This quietly feels like one of the best cards in the set, one likely to find its way into all types of tribal Modern and Legacy in decks like Humans and Elves, and more fringe ones like Elementals and Slivers. I imagine it will feel pretty broken in Standard.
Kaldheim also brings Canopy Tactician, a part lord and part mana engine that feels like a watered down version of Elvish Archdruid. It will be a solid card in a deck with so many tokens to pump and sinks for mana, but it does feel a bit underwhelming at four mana.
It's all topped off by Tyvar Kell, which brings a ton of useful abilities. A static ability that turns all Elves into mana sources feels quite powerful, especially alongside Elvish Warmaster's ability to generate a ton of tokens. War of the Spark brought planeswalkers to the next level with static abilities, and Tyvar Kell is built in this new mold. This mana can all be sunk into more threats, especially with Realmwalker in play to generate them. It's also a black mana fixer, which makes it an important part of any two-color Elf deck. Tyvar Kell also makes tokens of its own, so it's a mana engine in itself. It can also make mana with its +1 ability untapping a mana Elf, which can be used to grow any Elf into a bigger threat. Add in a broken ultimate that acts as two Glimpse of Nature plus Concordant Crossroads, and it's quite the planeswalker.
Elves seems like quite the tribe, and one that has the tools for a competitive deck. Getting the most out of Elves will require embracing two colors and perhaps putting Faceless Haven on the sideline...but I wonder if it's possible to have your cake and eat it, too.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Golgari Snow-Covered Elves by Adam Yurchick
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Woodland Chasm
Color Identity:B,G
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({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
Woodland Chasm enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/woodland-chasm
Boreal Outrider
Color Identity:G
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Whenever you cast a creature spell, if {S} of any of that spell's colors was spent to cast it, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/boreal-outrider
Wildwood Tracker
Color Identity:G
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Whenever Wildwood Tracker attacks or blocks, if you control another non-Human creature, Wildwood Tracker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Snow-Covered Forest
Color Identity:G
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Tajuru Paragon
Color Identity:G
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Tajuru Paragon is also a Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.
Kicker {3}
When Tajuru Paragon enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, reveal the top six cards of your library. You may put a card that shares a creature type with it from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/tajuru-paragon
Darkbore Pathway
Color Identity:B,G
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Realmwalker
Color Identity:G
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Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As Realmwalker enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells of the chosen type from the top of your library.
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Faceless Haven
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{T}: Add {C}.
{S}{S}{S}: Faceless Haven becomes a 4/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/faceless-haven
Harald Unites the Elves
Color Identity:B,G
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Mill three cards. You may put an Elf or Tyvar card from your graveyard onto the battlefield. II — Put a +1/+1 counter on each Elf you control. III — Whenever an Elf you control attacks this turn, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
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Skemfar Avenger
Color Identity:B
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Whenever another nontoken Elf or Berserker you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
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Llanowar Visionary
Color Identity:G
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When Llanowar Visionary enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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Snow-Covered Swamp
Color Identity:B
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Tyvar Kell
Color Identity:B,G
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Elves you control have "{T}: Add {B}."
+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target Elf. Untap it. It gains deathtouch until end of turn.
0: Create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast an Elf spell, it gains haste until end of turn and you draw two cards."Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/tyvar-kell
Harald, King of Skemfar
Color Identity:B,G
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Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When Harald, King of Skemfar enters the battlefield, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an Elf, Warrior, or Tyvar card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Fabled Passage
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/fabled-passage
Elvish Warmaster
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $2.00
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Whenever one or more other Elves enter the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
{5}{G}{G}: Elves you control get +2/+2 and gain deathtouch until end of turn.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/elvish-warmaster
Skemfar Shadowsage
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.05
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When Skemfar Shadowsage enters the battlefield, choose one — • Each opponent loses X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common. • You gain X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common.
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Wildborn Preserver
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.26
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Flash
Reach
Whenever another non-Human creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {X}. When you do, put X +1/+1 counters on Wildborn Preserver.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/wildborn-preserver
Central to playing multi-color Snow decks in Standard will be Fabled Passage, which can fill in as a Snow-Dual. Woodland Chasm adds a true Snow dual, which is not ideal as a tapland, but a necessary evil for supporting Faceless Haven. Those eight lands plus a Snow-Covered Swamp to fetch is 9, so add four of the new double-faced dual Darkbore Pathway and you'd have enough black source for two-drops like Skemfar Avenger, another incredible new Elf.
Four Faceless Haven leaves room for 4 or so Snow-Covered Forest, and plenty of green mana. A Golgari Elf deck would want to play Fabled Passage anyways, and the mana fixing is poor. The next best thing would be a Zagoth Triome, so playing Woodland Chasm as a tapped land may not be as much of a cost as it seems, and Snow Golgari Elves is actually the ideal version.
Beyond Skemfar Avenger, Harald, King of Skemfar and Harald Unites the Elves are two more black pickups also bringing welcome card advantage. Skemfar Shadowsage is a strong variation on Shaman of the Pack that offers the option of gaining life instead of hurting the opponent, and may be worth playing in the crowded four-drop spot.
Beyond Green, the most successful Mono-Color decks in Standard are Red. Mono-Red Aggro is the perfect home for an aggressive card like Faceless Haven, and wouldn't be hard to support if it's willing to give up some Castle Embereth or Shatterskull Smashing, which seems like a reasonable tradeoff.
A recent 6-0 list from an SCG Online Qualifier featured 17 Mountain, 3 Castle Embereth, and four Shatterskull Smashing as mana sources. Replacing 4 Mountain with Faceless Haven and the rest with Snow-Covered Mountain means the deck needs four more sources, so trimming some combination of these utility lands would get the job done. In this sense, Faceless Haven is directly replacing the other value lands, so it's a question of whether or not it's better than the existing options. Keep in mind Faceless Haven is better in multiples as a Snow mana source, so it's ideally all 4 or none at all.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Red Snow Aggro by Adam Yurchick
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Shatterskull Smashing
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $7.06
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Shatterskull Smashing deals X damage divided as you choose among up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers. If X is 6 or more, Shatterskull Smashing deals twice X damage divided as you choose among them instead.
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Claim the Firstborn
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.34
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Gain control of target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
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Embercleave
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $10.83
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Flash
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each attacking creature you control.
When Embercleave enters the battlefield, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
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Relic Robber
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.15
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Haste Whenever Relic Robber deals combat damage to a player, that player creates a 0/1 colorless Goblin Construct artifact creature token with "This creature can't block" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you."
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Faceless Haven
Market Price: $1.35
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{T}: Add {C}.
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Ox of Agonas
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $5.57
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When Ox of Agonas enters the battlefield, discard your hand, then draw three cards.
Escape—{R}{R}, Exile eight other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
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Anax, Hardened in the Forge
Color Identity:R
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Anax's power is equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.)
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Rimrock Knight // Boulder Rush
Color Identity:R
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Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
Color Identity:R
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If a red source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.
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Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp
Color Identity:R
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Phoenix of Ash
Color Identity:R
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Flying, haste
{2}{R}: Phoenix of Ash gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Escape—{2}{R}{R}, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
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Snow-Covered Mountain
Color Identity:R
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Castle Embereth
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.33
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Castle Embereth enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
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Robber of the Rich
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $4.47
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Reach, haste Whenever Robber of the Rich attacks, if defending player has more cards in hand than you, exile the top card of their library. During any turn you attacked with a Rogue, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
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Soul Sear
Color Identity:R
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Soul Sear deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker. That permanent loses indestructible until end of turn.
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Roiling Vortex
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.32
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At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Roiling Vortex deals 1 damage to them.
Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, Roiling Vortex deals 5 damage to that player.
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Fireblade Charger
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.15
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As long as Fireblade Charger is equipped, it has haste. When Fireblade Charger dies, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
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Frost Bite
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.03
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Frost Bite deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If you control three or more snow permanents, it deals 3 damage instead.
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The Akroan War
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.26
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Gain control of target creature for as long as The Akroan War remains on the battlefield. II — Until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able. III — Each tapped creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.
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Fervent Champion
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.18
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First strike, haste
Whenever Fervent Champion attacks, another target attacking Knight you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
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By embracing Snow, red decks do gain a nice tool in Frost Bite, a super-charged Snow Shock that as a fixed Skred (or fixed Lightning Bolt) may be one of the best snow cards in the set. It can't hit the opponent, but it seems great in a format with creatures like Soaring Thought-Thief and Kazandu Mammoth to kill.
Red also offers the possibility of the Dwarves tribe, one Kaldheim has brought back support for after many years. It's admittedly a bit light on playables and doesn't offer much in the way of choice, but it does have enough cards to make a deck work.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Red Snow-Covered Dwarves by Adam Yurchick
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Fearless Liberator
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.05
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Boast — {2}{R}: Create a 2/1 red Dwarf Berserker creature token. (Activate this ability only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/fearless-liberator
Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $1.37
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If a red source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.
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Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $1.50
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Shatterskull Smashing
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $7.06
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Shatterskull Smashing deals X damage divided as you choose among up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers. If X is 6 or more, Shatterskull Smashing deals twice X damage divided as you choose among them instead.
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Magda, Brazen Outlaw
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.85
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Other Dwarves you control get +1/+0. Whenever a Dwarf you control becomes tapped, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice five Treasures: Search your library for an artifact or Dragon card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Bearded Axe
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.20
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Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Dwarf, Equipment, and/or Vehicle you control.
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Seven Dwarves
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $1.96
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Seven Dwarves gets +1/+1 for each other creature named Seven Dwarves you control. A deck can have up to seven cards named Seven Dwarves.
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Castle Embereth
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.33
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Castle Embereth enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
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Embercleave
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $10.83
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Flash
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each attacking creature you control.
When Embercleave enters the battlefield, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
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Toralf, God of Fury
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $3.64
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Trample Whenever a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls is dealt excess noncombat damage, Toralf deals damage equal to the excess to any target other than that permanent.
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Rimrock Knight // Boulder Rush
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.04
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Frost Bite
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.03
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Frost Bite deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If you control three or more snow permanents, it deals 3 damage instead.
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Goldspan Dragon
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $21.11
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Flying, haste
Whenever Goldspan Dragon attacks or becomes the target of a spell, create a Treasure token.
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Faceless Haven
Market Price: $1.35
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{T}: Add {C}.
{S}{S}{S}: Faceless Haven becomes a 4/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/faceless-haven
Snow-Covered Mountain
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.52
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The big incentive to play Dwarves is Magda, Brazen Outlaw, which is a lord plus mana engine in a two-drop, and makes for a fantastic card. Making the most of it means playing some Dragons and artifacts to find, so it opens up a small toolbox of them to find, like the new Goldspan Dragon that's a new staple, and a great card in its own right. Bearded Axe adds some fun Dwarves flavor, and quietly feels like a pretty strong card as a sort of Cranial Plating for Dwarves.
Faceless Haven also has great potential in Mono-White, a color typically known for hyper-aggressive decks that offer a great home for a creature land. It's not currently a top-tier Standard strategy, but they are out there, and are improved by this new threat. Kaldheim also brings a couple of excellent new tools for a white aggressive deck.
I'm extremely impressed by Clarion Spirit, which easily produces valuable flying tokens in a deck full of cheap cards that allow it to trigger the Clarion Spirit. Usher of the Fallen is even more impressive as a threat, and its ability to produce extra tokens is quite welcome in an aggressive deck.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-White Snow Aggro by Adam Yurchick
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Castle Ardenvale
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.28
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Castle Ardenvale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/castle-ardenvale
Maul of the Skyclaves
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.89
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When Maul of the Skyclaves enters the battlefield, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and first strike.
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Faceless Haven
Market Price: $1.35
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{T}: Add {C}.
{S}{S}{S}: Faceless Haven becomes a 4/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/faceless-haven
Clarion Spirit
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.10
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Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
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Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.38
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−1: Up to two target creatures you control each get +2/+1 until end of turn.
−2: Create two 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens.
−3: You gain 5 life.
Escape—{4}{W}{W}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/elspeth-suns-nemesis
Lurrus of the Dream Den
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $0.00
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Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has converted mana cost 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may cast it once from outside the game.) Lifelink During each of your turns, you may cast one permanent spell with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard.
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Snow-Covered Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.23
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Skyclave Apparition
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $9.54
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When Skyclave Apparition enters the battlefield, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with converted mana cost 4 or less. When Skyclave Apparition leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the converted mana cost of the exiled card.
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Alseid of Life's Bounty
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.61
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Lifelink
{1}, Sacrifice Alseid of Life's Bounty: Target creature or enchantment you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/alseid-of-lifes-bounty
Selfless Savior
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.49
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Sacrifice Selfless Savior: Another target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
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Seasoned Hallowblade
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.24
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Discard a card: Tap Seasoned Hallowblade. It gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
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Luminarch Aspirant
Color Identity:W
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At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
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Usher of the Fallen
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.14
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Boast — {1}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Human Warrior creature token. (Activate this ability only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/usher-of-the-fallen
Giant Killer // Chop Down
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.27
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Kaldheim also brings a nice new tribal tool in Rally the Ranks as an anthem, which would pump Faceless Haven. The white tribe in Standard most capable of making it work is Humans.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-White Snow-Covered Humans by Adam Yurchick
'Mono-White Snow-Covered Humans' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
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Giant Killer // Chop Down
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.27
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Seasoned Hallowblade
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.24
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Discard a card: Tap Seasoned Hallowblade. It gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
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Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $19.58
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Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.
{1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/heliod-sun-crowned
Lavabrink Venturer
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.13
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As Lavabrink Venturer enters the battlefield, choose odd or even. (Zero is even.) Lavabrink Venturer has protection from each converted mana cost of the chosen value.
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Shepherd of the Flock // Usher to Safety
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.10
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Maul of the Skyclaves
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.89
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When Maul of the Skyclaves enters the battlefield, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and first strike.
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Rally the Ranks
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.27
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As Rally the Ranks enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
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Snow-Covered Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.23
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({T}: Add {W}.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/snow-covered-plains-276
Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.38
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−1: Up to two target creatures you control each get +2/+1 until end of turn.
−2: Create two 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens.
−3: You gain 5 life.
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Castle Ardenvale
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.28
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Castle Ardenvale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
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Archpriest of Iona
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.13
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Archpriest of Iona's power is equal to the number of creatures in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you have a full party, target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.
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Faceless Haven
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{T}: Add {C}.
{S}{S}{S}: Faceless Haven becomes a 4/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/faceless-haven
Speaker of the Heavens
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.89
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Vigilance, lifelink
{T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate this ability only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only any time you could cast a sorcery.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/speaker-of-the-heavens
Luminarch Aspirant
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.89
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At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
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Charming Prince
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.92
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When Charming Prince enters the battlefield, choose one — • Scry 2. • You gain 3 life. • Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
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Neither Blue nor Black provide any existing clear Mono-Colored homes to slot Faceless Haven into, but it's always possible! There's also a whole variety of potential two-color decks that could try to make Faceless Haven work. It's going to find a home somewhere, and when it does, it will excel as a dangerous threat and a new facet of Standard that must be respected.
