Featured within the new Lorcana cards will be the first appearance of the Madrigal family - from the animated film Encanto - within the trading card game, alongside iconic favourites like Mickey Mouse and Mulan
Creatures your opponents control lose first strike and can't have or gain first strike
It also plays incredibly well with cards that trigger off your opponents permanents getting sacrificed, like Morbid Opportunist or Mayhem Devil
His first ability allows aristocrat decks to keep up card advantage, while his second ability comes ready to drain with blood artist text
If no trend appears, you can just assume that the sudden popularity is coming from another format that may have gotten a meta shift with a recent release
This, more than any other Magic: The Gathering IP crossover effort in recent memory, feels like more than just an exercise in branding and revenue generation