Illustrated by: Greg Staples Multiverse ID: 175104 Not Legal Traditional Standard Not Legal Traditional Alchemy Not Legal Traditional Explorer Not Legal Traditional Historic Not Legal Traditional Timeless Rulings 2008-10-01 Suppose you control Empyrial Archangel and a planeswalker, and a source controlled by an opponent would deal noncombat damage to you
This fits the pattern established by Dragonlord's Prerogative, Draconic Roar, and Scaleguard Sentinels in that these new Dragon-oriented spells are generally better than their counterparts Opportunity, Searing Blaze, and Kalonian Tusker if you control a Dragon, but worse if you do not
The reason for this is mainly that since the printing of Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Dragons Rage Channeler and Murktide Regent the tempo archetype reinvented itself in being primarily blue-red and making Deaths Shadow not a necessary creature for tempo shells anymore
(4/27/2018) The token gains haste indefinitely, and this effect isn't copiable