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Card Kingdom Preview Card: Grasp of Darkness Good news for Limited players and fans of two-mana removal spells: Grasp of Darkness returns to Standard at common

Rating: 4/5 Lyle Tiberius Rourke - Cunning Mercenary Lyle Tiberius Rourke is a new Villain character with a John Silver - Alien Pirate type effect on play

The card has to also be desirable outside its artificial scarcity

Ramping from five lands to seven lands is also pretty decent, especially if doing so is going to trigger your landfall abilities in the process

Anthony does a nice job of counteracting that with Batterskull, Wurmcoil Engine, and Sword of Light and Shadow out of the sideboard

Not unusually for private sales, Xopher declined to confirm the final price of the sale or the exact date, though he told us on June 20 that it took place "last week", which would make his the world's first sale