This week, It’s time for Gatecrash, and the new round of Keyrunes and Signets. When I was thinking about the Orzhov Guild, I ended up thinking about the guilds in Ravnica that are an alliance of traditionally opposing colors: Simic, Orzhov, Izzet, Golgari, and Boros. Of those, I always found the balance of life and death in the Orzhov especially interesting, and found it was done incredibly well in the original set. That being said, in reading some of the backgrounds of the guilds, I rather liked the Orzhov as a syndicate, and their “extort” ability seemed quite fitting. Today, however, you won’t have to extort me to get a new mosaic, you’ve got two: Orzhov Keyrune and Orzhov Signet.

The thing I like about the Orzhov Keyrune, is it’s heft. Ok, so, I haven’t actually tried to lift the thing, but it looks heavy, and with that bit about power of control…