Product Review

Travel back in time to a war-torn Tarkir where five clans clash with the mighty dragons of the past. The choices made now will decide the fate of Tarkir. Because the clans of Fate Reforged are less defined, the set does not contain three-color gold cards. The color identity of the cards is instead marked by the use of hybrid ability activation costs (for example a Temur card with green mana cost, and blue/red hybrid ability cost). This allows for these cards to be played in two-color decks (in this example either green/blue or green/red). Like in Khans of Tarkir watermarks are used on the cards for the different clans, while adding watermarks for the different dragons broods. Because mana fixing is very important in multicolor blocks, the basic land slot of Fate Reforged booster packs may contain nonbasic lands. There are reprints of the ten common Khans of Tarkir taplands. They will have new artwork and the Fate Reforged expansion symbol. Boosters may also include Khans of Tarkir fetch lands, which will have the Khans of Tarkir expansion symbol. The set features the colorless planeswalker Ugin, the Spirit Dragon Sarkhan Vol travels 1,280 years back in time, to change the moment that sealed Tarkir's fate: the battle between Nicol Bolas and Ugin, the demise of the latter and all dragons of Tarkir (Crux of Fate). The clans still exist back in the time; they are not fighting each other but are constantly fending off the legion hordes of dragons that are terrorizing their world. Sarkhan meets khans of the past, like Yasova Dragonclaw. The history of Tarkir is rewritten.