An unusual spoiler from Modern Horizons 3 called Marionette Apprentice is a powerful two-drop in Black for Aristocrat decks for Magic: The Gathering Commander builds.
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The official spoilers for Modern Horizons 3 began on May 21, with MTG cards like the Flare Cycle, Frogmyr Enforcer, Mogg Mob, and Ulamog the Defiler grabbing the spotlight. But slipping under the radar was an Uncommon called the Marionette Apprentice, a Mono-Black Human Artificer creature with two drops, Fabricate, and the ability to drain opponents’ hit points whenever another creature or Artifact you possess goes to the Graveyard.
The name may sound familiar to MTG Aristocrat players, as a similar card called Marionette Master was printed via the Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in Forgotten Realms Planar Portal Commander Precon. It also had Fabricate, but had a CMC cost of six mana. When Marionette Apprentice was revealed, content creator Dev of Strictly Better MTG called it "A Zulaport Cutthroat Marionette Master mashup." He also called the MH3 Aristocrat card "ridiculous" and said that it will be in "every deck he plays."
Marionette Apprentice is a ridiculously powerful MTG card in a Commander Aristocrat deck, because an opponent loses life whenever another creature or artifact you control is put in the graveyard. Tokens don’t actually reside in a player’s graveyard, but they technically visit it first before being consigned to oblivion. This means that blood tokens, treasure tokens, clue tokens, food tokens, and creature tokens are now fair game in an Aristocrats deck, which is a game changer.
