Unfortunately, the Varis we got has the restriction and that will mean he’s stuck in his little Dungeon-Elves niche. There’s even a synergy between all the scrying that two of the Dungeons do and Realmwalker to make sure the top of your deck is a stream of Elves. Varis wouldn’t even need other Dungeon enablers to manage it. If Varis didn’t have this limitation, we could effectively go off and complete a Dungeon immediately, especially combined with a card like Realmwalker. Our Elf decks can often throw out a bunch of creatures in one turn. The thing that’s holding Varis back from seeing play outside a very focussed deck is the ‘once each turn’ clause. This is only really relevant for the Dungeon-centric Elves list I’ve been playing in Future Standard, but it’s still quite fun to play. Varis gives us access to the Dungeon basically every turn. The massive boost in mana that the two cards provide together makes cards like Craterhoof Behemoth trivial to cast. I’m also playing Circle of Dream Druid alongside Archdruid in some of my Historic builds. ![]() It was nice to see a brand new card help Elves in a format we were struggling with before. We’ve already had success with the Druid on stream immediately after the release of Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. Circle of Dreams Druid helps cover these issues while not fully replacing Marwyn, but working alongside her. ![]() Marwyn has two issues: she’s legendary and you need to play her before your other Elves to have her make much mana. Pioneer is a format that was sorely lacking in three-drop ‘lots of mana’ creatures with the only real option before this being Marwyn. While a three-mana 2/1 is incredibly fragile and it can’t really compare to Elvish Archdruid in formats that have access to it, there are formats that don’t get to play Archdruid. Circle of Dreams Druid is the card I’m most excited about in the set.
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