If you didn't know the backstory to Phelddagrif, you wouldn't understand the card name or why it's so weird, with the image of a Phelddagrif not helping
The Crab first got the milling ability based on the logic I explained above in Drowner Initiate
The snazzily-dressed FFXV antagonist gives your demons buffs, and also has a neat Starscourge ability that uses your graveyard as a Demon-generating machine
When I spoke with the principal game designer Annie Sardelis at MagicCon Amsterdam, she stated that "anytime we [WotC] made up a creature, we would just kind of look through the book for, like, what is a characteristic about that creature we can evoke." Following up on this, principal designer Gavin Verhey said: "If it's in The Hobbit, it's in the set somewhere." Based on the Hobbit cards we've seen so far, this certainly rings true
As players prepare to enroll once more, these previews highlight how the set continues to reward mastery, strategy, and the careful use of knowledge as power