I don’t think [scryfall]Scythe Leopard[/scryfall] will be the next [scryfall]Steppe Lynx[/scryfall], but it does have some potential. I’m not sure about the [scryfall]Undergrowth Champion[/scryfall]. There must be some reason it was made a mythic, but I’m not sure I see it. Still, I would like to test it. The thing is, there will be a suite of removal that is popular and it is going to have to react to what is happening in the metagame. Is it going to be good? Are people going to have to rely on something to kill all the big Eldrazi, perhaps this little guy can get through. Perhaps the triggers are just valuable enough to play it anyway. After all, it can quite easily grow beyond [scryfall]Languish[/scryfall].
Hopefully there’ll be more usable Landfall creatures, because now I’m stretching this a bit thin, but we’ll see. [scryfall]Retreat to Kazandu[/scryfall] might also work, especially with the [scryfall]Avatar of the Resolute[/scryfall].
[deck]
[creatures]
4 Scythe Leopard
4 Undergrowth Champion
4 Den Protector
4 Warden of the First Tree
4 Avatar of the Resolute
3 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
1 Oran-Rief Hydra
[/creatures]
[spells]
4 Nissa’s Pilgrimage
3 Savage Punch
[/spells]
[lands]
4 Canopy Vista
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Plains
12 Forest
[/lands]
[/deck]
It would be nice to get the Spell Mastery in [scryfall]Nissa’s Pilgrimage[/scryfall] to work, but that’s not going to be a thing.
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