"Mu Yanling , Sky Dancer: Island Victory!"

"Mu Yanling , Sky Dancer: Island Victory!"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I took one long good look at Mu Yanling and all I could think about was my Team Virulence team mate Nolan as he was finally able to activate her Ultimate ability. That devilish smile spreading across his face as he now looked at his Islands as card drawing machines. That has always been his dream. To draw cards and to maximize how he can do it. With Mu Yanling he can now abuse his Islands. Seemed like a weird thing to say but if you knew Nolan he loves his Islands way too much.

Mu Yanling is that latest planeswalker to represent Blue , now that we have all been a little bit saturated with all the Jace's floating around in the multiverse. She costs 3 mana and at the same cost as the original Jace Beleren.

Coming in with 2 Loyalty counters , I find her a bit squishy and in a set that sees the reprinted Shock there should be some concern for this. Although I believe she can activate her first ability and get that loyalty counter to 2 before she dies from the dreaded instant. And what does that do? Well it weakens an early creature on the board  with a -2/0 and it grounds it by making it lose flying(if it had it) until you can stabilize a bit.

Her 2nd ability which gives you a 4/4 Blue Elemental  Bird  token with flying. Since it is a -3 it means that she has to survive her first activation. Another thing to note is that since Chandra has an Elementals matter theme , it would be interesting if there is a Temur deck of Elementals that will come out with this planeswalker as well. Hmmmm

Her ultimate ability though should be the main consideration to put her in a mono blue deck. It would take 4 turns to possibly activate it and get the emblem and what would be a great way of winning with all these Island Card Drawers? Well with another Blue Planeswalker in Jace , Wielder of Mysteries who acts like the planeswalker version of Laboratory Maniac.

In my mind that Lab Maniac is my friend Nolan. Laughing all the way as he draws and wins.