Ravenous Dragon 4R
Creature - Dragon (U)
Flying
When Ravenous Dragon enters the battlefield, create two Treasure tokens.
3/3
EDIT: It's worth noting that based on the fact that the explanation of what a Treasure token is lives in reminder text for this card, Treasure tokens now have automatic rules baggage?
EDIT EDIT: Given that this comes right before Reckless Air Strike, its name should be "Ravenous Dragon".
This is a core set - I believe core sets always include rules baggage / reminder text on the cards since they're intended as "introductory" sets.
That's not what I'm referring to, though. All existing treasure creation says "create a colorless Treasure artifact token with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color." This just says "create two Treasure tokens".
I am kinda hoping we get a Dragon Tyrant level hilarious but impractical beater that of course continues the flavor text running joke. Something like "Oh..." -Some Dude the Mighty, last words.
Their point was that previously the ability of treasure tokens was in the actual rules text of the card (reminder text is not rules text) now the ability is not spelled out in rules text which must mean that the subtype treasure now has the rules baggage much like the basic land subtypes.
Neat, a Dragon that makes Treasure! Goes perfectly with Dragon's Hoard. The Hoard can even curve into it if you hit enough land drops. "Ravenous" suggests the Dragon should eat creatures, though.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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Which is the templating they could have used for Contraptions.
But they made them Un-Set jokes instead. Too bad
Not exactly. The way this templating seems to work means all Treasures do the same thing, so all Contraptions would do the same thing. The term 'assemble' has a specific in game meaning (well, now, because of the unset) and having that just be errata'd to 'creates' would be a fairly lackluster punch line to the 'Assembles a Contraption' lineage of Steamflogger Boss.
(Clues could the same template as Treasure, some specific creature tokens like Marit Lage could as well I suppose. Where the token's name has a specific set of baggage to it that doesn't change.)
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Ravenous Dragon 4R
Creature - Dragon (U)
Flying
When Ravenous Dragon enters the battlefield, create two Treasure tokens.
3/3
EDIT: It's worth noting that based on the fact that the explanation of what a Treasure token is lives in reminder text for this card, Treasure tokens now have automatic rules baggage?
EDIT EDIT: Given that this comes right before Reckless Air Strike, its name should be "Ravenous Dragon".
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Also, obligatory mention of how this is really good for most mono red edh decks, especially decks like Feldon.
-Chandra Nalaar
Agreed, that was my first thought as well. Straight into my Feldon Dragon reanimator.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
But they made them Un-Set jokes instead. Too bad
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(Clues could the same template as Treasure, some specific creature tokens like Marit Lage could as well I suppose. Where the token's name has a specific set of baggage to it that doesn't change.)