Her -1 ability, creating a 2/2 Samurai token with vigilance, provides invaluable board control and pressure - when combined with her +1 to give first strike and a +1/+1 counter to a creature, it's a formidable attacker and an effective way to protect the Emperor herself
Ive found that for things are pretty good the main accessory items like deck boxes, sleeves, and playmats
For Commander players, this means we get a lot more cards every year
Also that shield is NOWHERE near that big in game
Split Up is a three-mana mass removal spell that will no doubt create headaches in Standard - it's excellent at removing blockers after an alpha-strike from an army of tokens , for instance, but it's also a great early answer to a deck curving out into threats on turns one through three
While writing about the price of Blue Ugin, being a dragon aficionado and collector, I pondered about where Blue Ugin would rank among the most expensive dragons in Magics twenty-two year history
