Kings Court also has new cards to help out a wide variety of Decks you might have started building in 2021, including new cards related to Deck strategies and themes introduced or supported in Legendary Duelists: Season 2, Lightning Overdrive, and more
Youd think that the artists would be given some inkling about the effect of the card to help them match the art to the card, but thats not the case, as Fackova explains: The brief doesnt describe what the card will do in the game so we dont specifically know the mechanics when we work on the art. The brief I receive specifies the colour(s) the card will be associated with, what plane it exists on, the requested subject matter, and any features theyd like to be made prominent, adds Finnigan
One of the reasons is that some MtG cards are really old
Cavern-Hoard Dragon does have one significant advantage that Dockside never had, which is being a giant hastey flampling 6/6 dragon, which I hear has its perks