Dendra, Alternative Art Breaking through to the top 5 most expensive SV Paldea Evolved cards is the Special Illustration Rare variant of Dendra
The card also has potential in the different red ramp decks in the format, be they Jund Wildfire or classic Gruul Ramp
Whoever draws the most cards and spends the most mana tends to win games, and these two cards give your opponent the option of choking themselves on mana or giving you a card and mana advantage
The Deck Okay, here is the full decklist: Creatures (33) 1 Throat Slitter 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Nether Traitor 1 Bloodghast 1 Pawn of Ulamog 1 Reassembling Skeleton 1 Blood Artist 1 Bloodsoaked Champion 1 Grim Haruspex 1 Noxious Gearhulk 1 Pitiless Plunderer 1 Krav, the Unredeemed 1 Cavalier of Night 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain 1 Sengir, the Dark Baron 1 Tormod, the Desecrator 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia 1 Persistent Specimen 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky 1 Dokuchi Silencer 1 Body Launderer 1 Cult Conscript 1 Sloppity Bilepiper 1 Tallyman of Nurgle 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor 1 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist 1 Argentum Masticore 1 Forge, Neverwinter Charlatan 1 Uruk-hai Berserker 1 Ringwraiths 1 Haunt of the Dead Marshes Planeswalkers (1) Lands (39) Spells (26) 1 Nevinyrral's Disk 1 Sol Ring 1 Night's Whisper 1 Skullclamp 1 Wayfarer's Bauble 1 Damnation 1 Sign in Blood 1 Go for the Throat 1 Open the Graves 1 Arcane Signet 1 Tome of Legends 1 Feed the Swarm 1 Sword of Hearth and Home 1 Deadly Dispute 1 Relic of Legends 1 Gruesome Realization 1 The One Ring 1 Call of the Ring 1 Nasty End 1 Gollum's Bite 1 Barrow-Blade 1 Claim the Precious 1 Inherited Envelope 1 The Black Breath 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue 1 Bilbo's Ring Here are the deck stats from our friends at Archidekt: What must-have cards might I have missed including here
Almost as great as the artwork
If it were printed today, it would be used for a very different purpose
