Streambed Architects Blue Card in Magic the Gathering

Video Transcript

"MIKE LOPEZ: Hi. I'm Mike Lopez with Expert Village. And today, we'll be discussing the blue cards from the blue block of Magic: The Gathering. Here, we have Streambed Aquitects. It's a one, two blue. It's a common. It's 20, 25 cents at your local gaming store. It's a very powerful card to have nowadays because, once again, the environment is very merfolk heavy. Here, we have-- he's a merfolk scout. He's a 2/3, once again, which is pretty much even for the mana cost. But here, you're going to get two free abilities. That's right, two free abilities. They're both tap abilities, which means you have to tap them to use the abilities. However, one of the abilities is if you tap them, merfolk creature, target merfolk creature gets plus one, plus one and gains island walk, which means not only did you build up a merfolk creature, but if your opponent controls an island, then that creature is now unblockable. Also, his other ability is, and if you tap him, you could target a land and that target land becomes an island until the end of turn. So if you have two of these guys, you can tap and make an island for your opponent and then give island walk to a creature. So in essence, if you have two of these, you can make a creature unblockable for a turn."