Necrogenesis

Pharika's Superior Tokens

The problem with Pharika is that Night Soil and Necrogenesis cost less and always give you a token. Upstaged by an uncommon and something from Fallen Empires (other than Hymn, of course) is hardly mythic material.

Night Soil and Necrogenesis both give you vanilla 1/1 creature tokens. Pharika gives you a 1/1 creature token WITH DEATHTOUCH. Killing almost anything it blocks is considerably better than chumping. It’s a huge difference. Also, because I’m now obligated to mention it, the creature tokens are also enchantments. That too very much can matter in this set.

Creatures Deathtouch Enchantments Fallen Empires Gates Necrogenesis Night Soil Tokens Uncommons Vanilla

Highlighting Deathtouch

Given that every single person I've talked to about Pharkia -- more than five so far, some of whom studied the card fairly intently -- missed the reason she's not strictly comparable to Necrogenesis, can future printings of her print deathtouch as DEATHTOUCH? Maybe underlined?

There’s honestly not much more we can do than list it in the rules text. We don’t use bold or italics as a mean to stress things in rules text.

Card Printing Deathtouch Necrogenesis Rules

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