Hellkite Tyrant This is another personal favorite of mine, one that I feel so strongly about that if youre running any sort of Dragon synergy or artifact token-based decks in red, this is a must-include
It sees play in Standard lifegain and life drain decks as well, as those decks can afford the 6 life, in which case this is closer to an Arwen's Gift with a nice bonus
As soon as one player breaks ranks and refuses to pay their taxes, everyone else follows suit, leading to lots of lovely card draw for you
I believe if new decks are to going to rise in the tiers of the RotF meta, they will be built around these engines, so before you simply bow to our active draw overlords, explore what being passive may net you!
Unless it has the read ahead ability found on some Saga cards in the Dominaria United set, it also won't enter the battlefield with any counters
Yes, there are a bunch of decks with Thragtusk, but theyre hardly Thragtusk decks. And some of the decks without Thragtusk are the ones that have done the best recently, which ought to suggest that the sky-is-falling cries about how Thragtusk is somehow dominating the format are without much merit
