(It turns out there is some narrative content, but at the time I hadn't heard of any.) So I thought to myself: why bother with a story that includes characters from previous sets making a return, certain characters from cards canonically dying - and why did Wizards of the Coast push all this secret backstory onto the cards
This makes Shadowborn pretty niche, you want to be playing it in some dredge style deck or one with loads of recursive stuff like Bloodghast
Not needing to commit to one face or the other gives your curve a break and enables powerful turns
This includes both the main set and the four pre-constructed Commander decks, one of which features the fantastic new legend, Aragorn, King of Gondor
The new cards had a high support level for Dragon-type, with some new cards to add to a player's Dragon deck, including Dragonite and Regidrago
Thankfully, not every copy of Mana Vault costs over $1000