5 Elenda, Saint of Dusk Makes Combat Miserable For Opponents Beware the Dreaded State-Based Action Check The Magic design team has moved away from using Hexproof in favor of the Ward keyword, to some players' delight and others' chagrin, but sometimes a card makes its way through design with a special form of Hexproof, such as Elenda, Saint of Dusk, whose Hexproof from Instants ability allows her to dodge the majority of targeted removal in the MTG Foundations format
You might already know that theres another way (outside of alternate win condition cards) to win a game of Magic: when your opponent must draw a card with an empty library
Fact or Fiction was already stating to struggle competing with a lot of the card draw planeswalkers before Treasure Cruise and the more damning Dig Through Time came along to really ruin the day of Fact or Fiction
Kopala, Warden of Waves Fun fact, Kopala is somehow only the second legendary creature to mechanically care about the Merfolk creature type, joining [casthaven]Sygg, River Guide[/casthaven] from Lorwyn
You thought you couldn't lose that combat, but that was silly, because your opponent was clearly representing what is probably the best common morph in the set: 2