Design principles

• Designed for two and four-player drafts.
• Powerful synergies and enablers.
• Avoid cards that can steal the show on their own.
• Avoid excessive card text and rules complexity.
• Low shuffling.

Notes

• Gold cards serve as guild signposts.
• : +1/+1 counters theme. Infinite combos are possible using Metallic Mimic, a sacrifice outlet, and either Basri's Lieutenant or a persist creature.
• : powerful ETB abilities and blink engines including Ephemerate, Displacer Kitten, Yorion, Sky Nomad, and Kaya, Ghost Assassin.
• : graveyard theme, including several recurring creatures, token generators, and sacrifice outlets like Warren Soultrader, Goblin Bombardment, Braids, Cabal Minion, Phyrexian Tower, and Grafted Wargear. Rakdos can wear down opponents with Marionette Apprentice and Mayhem Devil. Golgari has value engines in Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Survival of the Fittest, and Recurring Nightmare.