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With Dominaria hitting Arena any minute, I thought I’d write up a quick post about the cards I am most excited about in the set. I’ll go through them by color, then aggregate my favorite cards overall at the end.

Top White Cards

Lyra Dawnbringer is a solid creature even without other Angels, basically Baneslayer Angel 2.0. In full-on Angel tribal it can be insane.





Shalai, Voice of Plenty is a great card, even when you’re not playing green. You’re going to want to be playing green, though, because that activated ability can really help close out a game.





White Honorable Mentions

Top White Uncommons and Commons





Top Blue Card

With In Bolas’s Clutches, you get two Legendary permanents for 6 mana, one of which is your opponent’s best permanent. This is a huge swing, especially if your opponent is light on bounce/removal.





Blue Honorable Mention

Top Blue Commons and Uncommons

Top Black Cards

While there are a lot of good Black cards in the set, none of them really stand out as especially good like some do from other colors, which means I have a few choices here for “top” card.

Cast Down is super efficient and hits a huge range of things. Dominaria introduced a lot of Legendaries, but decks are going to be playing a lot of non-Legendary cards from the other sets, as well.





Demonlord Belzenlok is one huge Demon. It always draws you at least one spell, and has the potential to draw you multiple real cards. The life loss payment for these cards is a joke, and unless you’re already so far behind only Tetzimoc, Primal Death would save you, you can win the game off of this.





Without the kicker, Josu Vess, Lich Knight is already a decent aggressive creature. 4/5 Menace for 4 mana is a great deal. If you cast this for mana, it’s going to be hard to lose.





Phyrexian Scriptures is basically a Wrath of God suspended for 1 turn that allows you to keep your best creature. Playing this in an artifact-creature heavy deck might just get insane (I don’t actually have any idea what that deck would look like, but I’d love to see someone build it).





Black Honorable Mentions

Top Black Uncommons and Commons

Top Red Card

Siege-Gang Commander is an amazingly good card no matter what part of the game you are in, and against just about any match-up. Most removal is not good against it, it can kill flyers, and it is an aggressive threat.





Red Honorable Mention

Top Red Uncommons and Commons





Top Green Cards

Multani, Yavimaya’s Avatar is Colossal Dreadmaw on steroids. It starts as a 6/6 (at least, usually), and gets bigger as the game progresses. Also, it’s hard to deal with due to its activated ability.





Territorial Allosaurus is a 5/5 for 4 mana that can fight something when kicked. This seems really decent in the R/G or Naya Dinosaur decks.





Green Honorable Mention

Top Green Uncommons and Commons

Top Multicolored Cards

Aryel, Knight of Windgrace is a straight-up efficient bomb. Your opponent must deal with her immediately, or she gets quickly out of hand.





Darigaaz Reincarnated is a super-bomb. Big flying hasty trample damage that dodges a lot of removal and keeps coming back. Great top-end for Jund or even just splashed as a finisher in R/G or G/B.





Multicolored Honorable Mentions

Top Multicolored Uncommons





Top Colorless and Artifact Cards

Karn, Scion of Urza is an inexpensive Planeswalker you can play in any deck, draws you cards repeatedly, and comes in with a high loyalty count. If you can keep him around, he’ll be a huge help in decimating your opponent.





Icy Manipulator is a reprint that anyone who has played with or against it knows is difficult to overrate. At the very least, it keeps your opponent’s best creature out of combat, and if your opponent plays a better creature, it can switch to tapping that one instead. There are plenty of other shenanigans beyond this floor, and I can’t wait to see what people do with it.





Artifact Honorable Mentions

Top Artifact Uncommons and Commons









Overall Top Card of Dominaria

So, this might be a little controversial as Siege-Gang Commander probably isn’t the most powerful card in the set. I chose it because of its versatility and basically how it is always good, and with an eye to Arena, specifically, and what it can do for the deck(s) it goes into. I think, especially, Red Deck Wins will welcome this addition.

Overall Honorable Mentions

First Card to Craft

Settle the Score is a better “budget” alternative to Vraska’s Contempt than anything we currently have in Arena, and will probably be the first card I craft (for that purpose).





Those are my picks, what are yours?

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Peace.

Joseph Eddy is a Father, Husband, Son, Brother, Software Developer, and Gamer. Magic is his favorite hobby, and he’s looking forward to seeing you all on Arena. He streams Magic Arena on a weekly basis (or more), but currently is unable to keep to a set schedule.