Were not likely to get another bout of inclusion in Standard to make this an $8 card again and if we do it will be accompanied by a reprinting, but this has upside and it shrugs off Dusk so already its worth looking at
[On Play] You may add 1 card from the top of your Life cards to your hand: Draw 2 cards and trash 1 card from your hand
I dont think anyone would blame you for not spotting this one yet, but its something you should probably be aware of
A few years later, we started getting pretty good elf cards, elf lords, and cards that make elf tokens, and today we have excellent competitive elf decks that swarm the board across different competitive formats
You choose a nonland card from it
Some of Duskmourn 's most-powerful creatures and spells cost lots of mana, and for good reason