![]() Sometimes Kicked (about 40-60% of the time)ĭomain may be the single most impactful mechanic in Dominaria United because it can have huge effects on how you draft and build your deck and mana base. Let’s take a look at my usual kicker patterns, rares excluded, to get a better idea. It’s of course only ever beneficial to have more options, but there’s still value in preconceiving how your cards will usually be played. Finally, cards like Benalish Sleeper and Bog Badger are true 50/50s, functioning as both vanilla curve filler and powerful situational cards. Other creatures bundle a full card’s worth of value into their kickers so are best when kicked, like Sprouting Goblin and Vineshaper Prodigy. Some kicker cards, like Shalai's Acolyte, are played mostly for their base mode (in this case Skyswirl Harrier), but also have extra oomph late game. Don’t forget that you can still play cards without access to their kicker color if you really want to, though. This introduces some tension for drafting and dovetails with the domain mechanic, increasing the utility of mana fixing and the value of splashing other colors. You need to be that 2-color pair or have some other way to generate the required mana (like Crystal Grotto or Salvaged Manaworker) to play cards for their kicker cost. Whether or not you use a card’s base mode or kicked mode varies from card to card.Ī notable fact about kicker in Dominaria United is that no card in the set has a kicker cost of the same color as its base cost. You should always evaluate every kicker card for its base mode and its bonus kicker mode. Every card with kicker is basically two cards in one, and every mechanic in the game is basically just kicker. Kicker is of course the quintessential MTG mechanic. I won’t bore you by repeating the basics, but I do want to touch on some more advanced concepts for each mechanic. If you’ve already drafted Dominaria United then you’re likely familiar with the set’s four mechanics: kicker, domain, enlist, and read ahead. Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief (Dominaria United) | Illustration by Evyn Fong
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