A selected group of these cards were then added as non-rotating, Standard-legal cards available through the mono-colored starter decks
All PRB-02 cards are slated to be legal in Standard play even after April 2026s first scheduled rotation, since these reprints are being marked as Block Foureven if they originated in earlier sets
Due to its aggressive nature, Rakdos often applies this strategy, since discard is usually a black thing in MTG
Snarling Gorehound Staple the basics of that ability onto an easy-to-reanimate creature in black, and youve got Snarling Gorehound, which is finding its way into tons of EDH decks and lives happily in those Insidious Roots builds in Standard
Lockes greatest weakness as a commander is that Coram, the Undertaker has basically the same ability but with casual Commanders best color attached, while Locke gets points for Treasure synergies