With all these Legendary character cards of characters that were featured in the book where is Cado? He was a pretty important character so I would have expected to see him. Perhaps he's yet to come? Or is Syr Alin supposed to be him? Syr Alin has a scar over his eye like Cado does and perhaps Alin is Cado's surname?
The book is written long after the set is done. In order yo not hamstring authors Wizards allows them to create "story only" characters that they have complete agency over. So it is possible and likely that the more interesting characters of a story aren't in the set.
It's also possible that's him but it's hard to say.
He's clever no doubt but he's far more lucky than intelligent. He's also hardly a puppet master; outside of when he was using his shapeshifting the only people ever fooled by him into anything were Will and Rowan, as well as some hotheaded elves and they were only fooled into continuing to do the things they were doing. Everyone else was not moved by any of his actions. He happened to stumble upon two of the most knowledgeable and ignorant individuals on the entire plane. Then he didn't even manipulate them by reading their dispositions and adjusting to them but rather happened to have enough in common with one of them that they didn't see anything he did or said as suspicious despite a lot of it is very suspicious. It takes very little intelligence to take the information that these two sides are at war and here is one faction's king away from their castle to come up with his plan. His power set is exceptional for infiltration and assassination and as I said earlier he is very lucky to come across Will and Rowan rather than someone less knowledgeable or more competent.
I felt Oko was one of the better villains we've had in quite some time. Makes me want to build a deck around him. The writer protrayed him as far more devious and intelligent than even Bolas in the WAR book. Not genius-level intelligence, but you got the sense in reading about him that he was smarter than anyone else around him, and it made you nervous whenever he was in a scene.
This is interesting because I partly agree but I never actually saw him as intelligent. He easily is smarter than most of the people he interacted with in the story, which isn't saying much as it includes a deranged Garruk, some children(17 is a child) nearly every adult proves to be smarter than him or at least smart enough not to listen to him. He is almost certainly regularly the most knowledgeable person in a room because he is the one running whatever scheme he's got everyone else wrapped up in and by nature of being a walker who is interested in knowing things he's better learned than plane bound people living on planes set in the dark ages where intelligence was a rare trait. Overall no part of his actions or schemes seem intelligent but they are great in their simplicity. Kidnap the king and trick people into killing him to start a war isn't complex and that makes it easy to get behind rather than the multistep rube goldberg machines that other scheming villains build to prove how smart they are.
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It's also possible that's him but it's hard to say.