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by ElspethFTW, Old School Duelist 
Abzan Beastmaster is an interesting creature card from Fate Reforged that helps you fuel your hand. The Beastmaster allows you to draw an extra card at the beginning of your turn if you control the creature with the greatest toughness or tied for the greatest toughness.
Wizards of the Coast seems to love this card a lot because they decided to commission alternate artwork for a Friday Night Magic promo card, which will be handed out as part of the prize packages for May 2015 FNM events. So far it hasn't seen much play outside of sideboards, but it's a card with some potential. With high-toughness creatures such as Siege Rhino (5) and Wingmate Roc (4) seeing considerable play, it's not hard to see the Beastmaster consistently drawing you a card or two in the course of a game.. It does have a rather fragile body at 2/1, and currently creatures like Courser of Kruphix take up the 3-mana slot in many Standard decks. But at the September 2015 rotation, there will be room for this card to see play. In Commander, there are plenty of options in Green for card draw.. Garruk's Packleader, which lets you draw a card anytime you play a creature with power 4 or greater, is a bit more consistent at the creature level. If you can pump out a ton of creatures quickly, though, the Beastmaster should be able to draw you at least a couple of cards, but there are better things to put out in Commander on turn 3. Plus, you have Harmonize, which draws you 3 cards for 4 mana (2GG). Beastmaster is a bit slow for that format. While Abzan Beastmaster isn't the strongest Friday Night Magic promo ever, it's one that should be played a bit at some point, so it's a good one to have around for when it does end up in some top lists.
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by ElspethFTW, Old School Duelist 
Hordeling Outburst is an excellent choice for a Friday Night promotional card, especially considering the amount of Standard play it has been getting. Decks such as RW Aggro and Jeskai Tokens have been using it in four-of's. Jeskai decks, especially, can take full advantage of the fact that it's a non-creature spell with their Prowess mechanic. Mardu (red/white/black) decks have also been known to use this card, although not to the same extent. Three mana for 3 1/1 Goblins is pretty sweet and perfect for aggressive strategies.
Since this is a card that is often seen been played in four copies in many decks, this should be a highly sought after promotional card come March. It was one of my favorite cards when it was spoiled in Khans of Tarkir, and with all the great aggressive creatures released in Fate Reforged, this card has become much more valuable. by ElspethFTW, Old School Duelist  Disdainful Stroke is a very useful counterspell. With the February Friday Night Magic promo version, now players could foil out their copies. It was a sideboard option in pretty much any deck playing Blue in Standard format at the time. There were some control decks even played it in the main deck. This was due to the number of 4 mana or greater cost spells being played in the current format. It's not a bad sideboard option in Modern, either.
Players could also look forward to March's promo, Hordeling Outburst, and April's promo, Suspension Field, both of which are very useful and playable cards. Wizards of the Coast was doing a very good job with identifying cards that players would like to have promotional copies of in order to "pimp" out their decks and collections. |
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