If the card has these extra-round corners and is black-bordered with no set symbol (and a card that was actually printed in Alpha ), then youre holding an Alpha card
They are simple affordable and very useful for long term protection
Ancient Gears Keep the Wheel Going: While Ive wanted to do a full article on modern Ancient Gears for a while now, I am sorry to disappoint that we will not be exploiting their powerful Fusions today
Paying 1 mana to get rid of any 1-drop is huge, and with problematic cheap permanents like Sol Ring or Aether Vial around, its even better
Even a card as simple as Erase or Unravel the ther could destroy Jeskai Ascendancy, and the deck would cease to function properly
Cyclonus is the only Transformer who has a higher More Than Meets the Eye cost than the robot side, with Cyclonus, Cybertronian Fighter costing an expensive 7 Mana to cast