While Arcane Signet remains the gold standard, and is luckily under $3 due to constant reprinting, the Talisman cycle has largely superseded the older Signet cycle in high-level play
Current work needed: Set symbols AKR GK2 - Rakdos HA1 KLR PTG TSR UND PZ2 - Gradients ZNE Guru - Rare Have but wrong shape C19 (Common) Watermarks WM22 MPS Various M25 watermarks and unhinged card watermarks Old Gruul, Simic Other Golgari, Izzet, Simic - Colored Loyalty up and down frame 2 paint brushes Alpha set black mana SB 1 and 2 (see folder "Work on these" for reference images) Last edited by Dathorin on 29 Apr 2022, 19:19, edited 11 times in total
Pumping your Merfolk creatures a bit and granting them a very powerful form of evasion with islandwalk means you are free to keep attacking so long as your opponent controls an island
In Pioneer, Cori Steel-Cutter as an attempt to curve the steadily-rising dominance of Izzet shells
These zero mana artifacts are functionally lands, coming into play untapped and letting you tap them for their associated color identity
Note that those triggers aren't from just their color but any