Changelings are interesting because treefolk are usually expensive, so cards like Masked Vandal and Chameleon Colossus lower the curve and add versatility
But broadly speaking, rats have been spreading the plague since the beginning of Magic
The art in this card is absolutely amazing, having been done by Raita Kazama, an artist who has worked with Magic before, as well as the Pokemon TCG and tons of video games
The combination of being prominently featured in the novel really helps when we choose Gandalf, for instance, because even though we had done a number of other Gandalf cards, being able to find a place in his development that we wanted to capture was key
High Noon Just like Rule of Law and Eidolon of Rhetoric, High Noon helps you stop storm decks in their tracks
Creatures (3) Lands (20) Spells (37) 4 Mana Drain 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Grim Monolith 1 Yawgmoth's Will 4 Force of Will 2 Diabolic Edict 1 Mana Vault 1 Sol Ring 1 Mind Twist 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Time Walk 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Disrupting Scepter 3 Impulse 1 Merchant Scroll 2 Pyroblast 1 Amnesia 1 Black Lotus 3 Fact or Fiction 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire Sideboard While Long had originally employed Elemental Augury as part of his endgame (it kept then locked up), the printing of Fact or Fiction forced his hand
