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Unlike Deranged hermit, liege of the hollows has a recorded price record of below fifty cents in 2013. That means there was a time that this card was true bulk. Did you purchase your copies when they were under a buck? If you did then you could probably sell them for ten dollars or more right now. Even so, the card was almost fifty bucks during the reserved list spikes of 2021. After the crash the card settled at about 5 dollars and it has not been true bulk since then. Possibly it will never be bulk again. Why? First, Mark Rosewater is a huge promoter for the squirrel creature type. On blogatog, Mark Rosewater even has a squirrel named Sally that functions as an avatar and answers questions. Bloomburrow is also going to be released at the end of the month so there is a lot of hype for the ten supported animal tribes in the set. Squirrel is one of those tribes and even got a commander deck that has a squirrel theme. There have also been a number of typal squirrel commanders so people are anxious to build different squirrel decks. Will liege of the hollows make the cut in these decks? I do not think the liege is an absolute staple in squirrel decks but flexing older reserved list cards in your deck is certainly a choice you can make. The squirrel cards I'm bloomburrow support a food archetype but many of the cards support tokens in general which could mean either food tokens or squirrel tokens. Liege of the hollows makes squirrel tokens so it fits the token theme of bloomburrow. However, liege of the hollows takes work. You need a sacrifice outlet so you can maximize the number of tokens you can make. It is not fun if your opponent destroys your liege when you have no available mana. It is even worse if they have a ton of open mana and make tokens using your card. I normally do not like double edged cards like this especially since squirrels do not have a strong sacrifice theme. Albeit, you can build a squirrel deck with a sac theme as food tokens need to be sacrificed to utilize. Both food decks and squirrel decks will be eating food after this set! Liege of the Hollows has a plethora of new commanders that this card can slot into. Hazel of the rootbloom and the odd acorn game could both include the liege and it would perform decently in either deck. These cards just got revealed alongside the squirrel commander deck so it is not a surprise that squirrel related cards are spiking. I expect the cards to settle after the hype for these new toys dies down. I would be remiss to not mention chatterfang or toski as other homes for liege of the hollows. Even in the bloomburrow main set you have a typal squirrel commander. I just saw a spoiler for a commander that gives all squirrels menace. Yes, attention is currently on these guys but how long will they stay in the spotlight? Is liege of the hollows a flash in the pan or will the price hold and go up even more?

Why do birds fly? Do they fly out of a sense of duty? Do birds fly because they must;because they were designed or created for flight? Or do birds fly because they can. Do birds fly for fun? Do birds enjoy flying. These questions represent the main theme in one of my favorites games. If you have not played Tales of Berseria, I highly reccomend you give it a try especially if this philosophical question made you think. All of the tales games are quite good so if you have not heard of the franchise it is one of my favorite jrps with an entertaining and engaging battle system. So why did I go off on this tangent when discussing serra aviary? On blogatog, there has been an ongoing dicssion about birds and flying. The current rule is that all birds had flying. Exceptions could be made for penguins and ostriches because everyone knows those birds famously cannot fly. Recently, they made a roadrunner card and did not give it flying. Roadrunners can fly in real life. This was a reference to the roadrunner from the bugs bunny cartoon who never flew so it was allowed. Roadrunners are know for running fast. It is literally in the name! I did know that roadrunners could fly but it would be strange to give a creature flying when it is clearly running on the ground. I did not know peacocks could fly. I have seen peacocks just walking around the Bronx zoo but maybe they clip the wings. There is one peacock in mtg and it does have flying but it is clearly depicted as flying in the art. Peacocks are know for strutting around and showing off their feathers. Noone ever thinks about a peacock in flight. I do not think a peacock depicted as just walking around should have flying but I do acknowledge that they are birds with flight. It is so weird that flying is so closely associated with birds since some birds literally cannot do this. Birds are birds because they have feathers! A fly is the animal that should most be associated with flight. A fly is called a fly because it flies. Even then, other animals that are not birds can fly such as bat's which are mammals. I bring this all up because serra aviary givesa +1 +1 buff to all creatures with flying. Flavorfully, this card should pump birds only as an aviary is a bird house. Instead, all creatures including angels and dragons, get pumped from being in a bird sanctuary. This just shows the way society thinks and associates things. Birds fly so anything associated with birds can flavorfully justify bonuses to all flyers. I do not agree with this. The card is actually decent. Enchantments are the hardest permanent type to remove and this can see play in a flying deck or an angel deck or a dragon deck or a bird deck or a bat deck. Flying is one of the most basic strategies and this is a simple card that telegrahs the deck it wants you to build. Sometimes cards that strongly imply you should build certain decks are helpful to newer players because they can build competent and synergistic decks without much understanding of complicated strategies. You run creatures with flyingin your flying deck and cards that care about flying. There are better lord effects and this effect would probably cost 3 or less mana so it is a little overcosted but playable in casual or fun games. I do not think your competitive ur dragon deck needs this but a fun bird deck might want this. This card had one spike in 2021 when almost every reserved list card was being bought out but flying is a popular and common strategy. There will be more flying support and this is an easy include. I assume that this supports all flyers and not just birds because this aviary belonged to serra, a popular planeswalker. She was not angel but often took the form of an angel and created an entire realm of angels. They probably wanted a serra card to support angels in some way and since almost all angels fly this was another way to connect serra to angels. I never knew serra was also so into birds though.

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