kicker cards mtg Best in (2026) — Top Picks for Commander & Beyond Standard MTG decks —

This card can be acquired through the Steel and Sapphire starter deck, so it's not all that rare

Fierce Guardianship is the break-out card from the free-to-play cycle in C20 and is the reason this deck is in high demand

Kataki, Wars Wage I could likely justify Katakis inclusion on this list from its prolonged sideboard use across Legacy, Vintage and Modern

It shuts down other effects as well - your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands, so no casting spells using Madness, Plot, Mayhem, or a whole bunch of red impulse draw effects

In a typical set, you will open a specific mythic from 1 in 121 packs, while in Rivals of Ixalan , this number drops to 1 in 141 (basically, instead of opening a mythic from one in every eight packs like usual, it will be one in every nine packs in Rivals of Ixalan )

Some players also use it in frog decks for flavor reasons, even though Sab-Sunen doesnt have the frog creature type