"Retriever Phoenix: A Deadly Memory Arises"

 

"Retriever Phoenix: A Deadly Memory Arises"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

There have been a lot of Phoenix's in Magic's history recently it was the Arclight Phoenix who has been taking the spotlight because you can have it come back from the graveyard when certain conditions are met. And so in Strixhaven we have the Retriever Phoenix.

Retriever Phoenix is a memory of itself. I no longer play standard but this Phoenix can be good in long playing decks. 

When it enters the battlefield you Learn , meaning you can fetch a lesson card from your sideboard but if there is another Retriever Phoenix in your graveyard you can bring that back to the battlefield instead of "Learning". You access a lesson you have learned long ago. To Summon a Phoenix! 

So now that you have 2 of these in a stage of the game when most opponents are now depleted of resources/responses you now have a chance to defeat them from a Memory.