Magic: The Gathering Card Review: The Red Praetor

With the release of the Praetors, none has looked cooler than the Red Praetor, Urabrask, The Hidden. Today I will discuss its synergy with red and the decks out there and its effects in the metagame and in limited play.

As with all Praetors, Urabrask has a positive effect for the user and a negative effect for the opponent. Being red, his effect focuses on the ability of a card to attack right after being played. He grants all your creatures haste and forces your opponent's creatures to come into play tapped. This can give you an edge in landing powerful attacks from creatures that would have otherwise had to wait a turn. That can mean the difference of a game when your dragon comes in and wrecks havoc on that same turn, and then another because your opponents cant set up a blocker. Also in the vein of a typical red card, Urabrask also costs the least of any other Praetor at a modest five mana, compared to the other Praetors who run from 7-10 mana. 


Urabrask can be a huge asset to certain red and green decks that rely on a heavy beatdown. No deck would appreciate having a Primeval Titan hitting them the turn it came out and then also not being able to set up any form of defense. However, past this point, Urabrask has fewer uses. Despite his low cost, he probably wont see much use and his price will probably remain stagnant at 5 dollars, unless a card from a future set comes in and gives this card new life.


As a limited pick, Urabrask doesn't fulfill any desirable roles like the other Praetors. He isn't that much of a color commitment, meaning that he can be splashed, but he doesn't compare to his brethren in the limited format.


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