Traditional foils will be exclusively awarded to top finishers
If this play-before-prerelease feels familiar, thats because the exact same stunt happened during Tarkir: Dragonstorm , when Ornate Imitations began spewing neon-fresh dragonlords a week ahead of schedule: Source: Reddit And players had already noted that Fear of Change could do something similar back in October last year: Source: Reddit In fact, as soon as this week's Arena Announcement said that the FF cards were going to be patched a week before launch, players were already getting their Ornate decks ready
Mastering the Emerald/Ruby deck is all about understanding what an opponent is doing and how to control it
Its headline foil rare, 005-048-elsa-the-fifth-spirit, is an amazing card thats heavily played in the competitive scene
For as long as that land has a blight counter on it, it loses all land types and abilities and has Tap: Add C. Whenever you tap a land for C, add an additional C
Which, given that you need 20 Lore to win a game of Disney Lorcana, can be incredibly powerful when combined with draw abilities on other cards