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Either (A) they picked a stronger card in the Abzan colors (perhaps possible for the player who opened the pack if there was a bomb rare) or (B) they aren't drafting Abzan (more accurate is to say that they weren't drafting Abzan at the time they made the pick)

Flavor Text When a battlefield falls silent, it's rarely due to a cease-fire

But unlike Mutate which needed preemptive FAQs to explain all the corner cases it could generate outside of Standard these modal cards are blissfully intuitive

While the Hydra Avatar has gone down a good deal in terms of power - which is really strange to say - it's still a card with a tremendous amount of presence, and hey, it's now Standard legal as well for the next five years thanks to Foundations

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This makes it easy to move your curses around the table as they become more or less useful depending on which player they target