Some players do love seeing cards that throw a curveball into the set's overall aesthetic, and others, well, they see a butt on Holy Light and just can't get their minds past why hard-to-understand art would be in a game
Luckily, many of the new cards fit this theme as well
First strike, for example, can also be thought of as speed but that's more about combat, and Hermes was not a fighter
Four things drive almost every valuation you will see: Rarity and print run, the starting point for any premium Condition and grading, which can multiply or shrink a price Edition and print variations, where small differences mean big gaps Errors and misprints, the quirks that occasionally create value Once you know what to look for, the final step is knowing where to confirm a cards current market price
(Click the following to see the deck's tokens and helper.) Prismari Artistry Tokens 3x Elemental // Dragon Illusion tokens 3x Elemental (Haste) // Copy tokens 2x Elemental (1/1) // Phyrexian Myr tokens 1x Elemental (4/4) // Treasure token 1x Elemental (4/4) // Manifest (helper) token 0002a_MTGSOS_ToknBstr: Elemental Token // Dragon Illusion Token 0019a_MTGSOS_TknComm: Elemental Token (Flying) // Copy Token 0021a_MTGSOS_TknComm: Elemental Token (1/1) // Phyrexian Myr Token 0020a_MTGSOS_TknComm: Elemental Token (4/4) // Treasure Token 0020a_MTGSOS_TknComm: Elemental Token (4/4) // Manifest (Helper) (Back) Witherbloom Pestilence 0001_MTGSOS_CommBord: Dina, Essence Brewer 0003_MTGSOS_CommBord: Gorma, the Gullet Dina, Essence Brewer Gorma, the Gullet Merchant of Venom Defiling Daemogoth Ominous Harvest Stensian Sanguinist Feral Appetite Pest Rescuer Ribtruss Roaster Eccentric Pestfinder Immoral Bargain Turbulent Fen Ophiomancer Toxic Deluge Tendershoot Dryad Fabled Passage Blight Mound Bloodghast Final Act Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia Nether Traitor Priest of Forgotten Gods Smothering Abomination Veinwitch Coven Witch of the Moors Woe Strider Yahenni, Undying Partisan Awakening Zone Blossoming Bogbeast Gilded Goose Mycoloth Ohran Frostfang Pest Infestation Trudge Garden Assassin's Trophy Beledros Witherbloom Casualties of War Creakwood Liege Culling Ritual Gyome, Master Chef Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest Wight of the Reliquary Witherbloom Command Exotic Orchard Festering Thicket Grim Backwoods High Market Llanowar Wastes Necroblossom Snarl Temple of Malady Twilight Mire Vernal Fen Viridescent Bog Woodland Cemetery Arcane Signet Sol Ring Command Tower Teacher's Pest Witherbloom Charm Terramorphic Expanse Titan's Grave Blood Artist Infernal Grasp Morbid Opportunist Night's Whisper Pawn of Ulamog Plumb the Forbidden Umbral Collar Zealot Viscera Seer Zulaport Cutthroat Cultivate Elvish Mystic Sakura-Tribe Elder Springbloom Druid Deadly Brew Dina, Soul Steeper Moldervine Reclamation Mortality Spear Haywire Mite Bojuka Bog Haunted Mire Path of Ancestry Study Hall Witherbloom Campus 8 Swamp [47HaAiAIYcM30VkuT4vdQy] 8 Forest [t4EzNaWDJsGojkreXwWBP] Check out all the cards in the Witherbloom Pestilence deck in the Secrets of Strixhaven Card Image Gallery
