I'll probably even laugh when in some future year you're playing your Friends deck and you flash in "Chandler Bing, Witty Apartment Mate" and you happily quip "Could a surprise blocker BE any less convenient for you right now???" (RIP Matthew Perry, by the way - taken too soon!) Looking back at 2023 it was a really interesting year with a lot of really interesting cards added to our format
Sylvan Scrying puts a land to hand, Ulvenwald Hydra comes with an excellent body for blocking, and Elvish Reclaimer is a repeatable engine that can keep tutoring for your lands
1 in 4 Set Boosters includes a card from "The List"a pool of reprints, ranging from powerful to flat-out wild, presented in their original art and frame
Watch your life total, though
But even without it's pretty strong here
4 Solemn Simulacrum Our highest-charting colorless card is this classic card affectionately called many names