"Dragon Throne of Tarkir:Power from the Throne"

"Dragon Throne of Tarkir:Power from the Throne"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.

There are kings who fight among their soldiers. There are kings who decide the fates of men. Then there are kings who do nothing but give people strength by being exactly where they are.Deriving power and authority from he who sits the throne. Now that Game of Thrones fever has caught on to more souls than ever we are ever mindful of the true power that thrones could give.

The recently spoiled Dragon Throne of Tarkir is no exception.For 4 colorless mana this artifact has the ability to turn your soldiers into super soldiers but there is a catch this strength is derived from the one who sits the throne or in this case whoever is equipped with the Throne.

Yup , power is what the throne sees and gives to your creatures. There is an equip cost of 3 mana and a mana activation cost of 2 colorless mana as well but then again if you have three 1/1 soldier tokens attacking and let us say you have someone like Kamahl , pit fighter (6/1) equipped with the throne and let us say your opponent has 1/1 tokens to block all of them. Kamahl steps back and taps. All your other creatures have +6/+6 and trample all of a sudden which makes them 7/7 and even if they were blocked 18 points of damage would still punch through! So who cares if the equipped creature becomes a defender right?

Another approach might be to just InstaGrowth the King or Queen who is sitting on the Dragon Throne of Tarkir before activating it. Opponents can laugh at your lowly 1/1 who is equipped with it and then the laughter stops when they realize that you just pumped this guy with Giant Growth twice and the three 1/1 soldiers you attacked with are now 8/8 monstrosities.

There are a lot of ways to make your king and Queen big like Auras like Madcap skills or Artifacts like Swords but nothing is more shocking than a well timed Mutagenic growth or Giant Growth. One thing I would like to try with Dragon Throne of Tarkir is a creature equipped with a Cranial Plating let us say a Myr in a modern deck that is artifact heavy. a 10/10 creature isn't so hard to achieve.

So far Khans of Tarkir has been giving me a lot of evil thoughts for the future. I can't wait till spoiler week starts again.