It’s hard to keep a good Lizard Beast down, and as long as you can keep playing morphs and turning them face up, Deathmist Raptor can keep coming back, even if it dies. But even Raptors have an enemy that can even stop their saurian shenanigans, and on Tarkir that creature is Anafenza, the Foremost (not the Anafenza from Dragons of Tarkir. Apparently, that version of Anafenza never got into dinosaur hunting). Anafenza’s ability to exile opponent’s creature cards instead of letting them hit the graveyard means no Raptor shenanigans for you. But what happens if they trade in combat? What if that Raptor blocks the attacking Anafenza? Can that Raptor make it to the graveyard?
So, if you’re wondering why Tarkir doesn’t have its own version of Jurassic Park, Anafenza may be the reason. She just has something against dinosaurs (and creatures going to the graveyard in general).
Today’s Rules Tip was written by Nathan Long