Oathwatch Tokens

Plant (0/1 edition)

(Nissa, Voice of Zendikar)
Dammit Nissa, would it kill you to make a useful 1/1 plant instead? It's just on one mythic, so we'll survive but it still seems needless to have both 0/1 plants and 1/1 plants in the same block. It's a reprint of Worldwake so whatever.

Octopus

(Crush of Tentacles)
The Octopus comes back! Sure it's just on another mythic but always good to see. Also apparently no Oath octopus token, just use the BFZ one.



Still love the art on that one.

Zombie

(Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, Drana's Chosen, Null Caller,
         

10th/2012, 2010/2011, Avacyn/Innistrad/Conspiracy/2013/2014/2015, DTK, Nyx, KTK, Mirrodin, Alara, Innistrad (2), Innistrad (3)

Zombie always has a lot to live up to, since it's guaranteed to come back and back and back. I admit I like the new zombie here, merging the organic shuffle with the hard hedron geometry. Makes sense now while still working going forward (unlike the Mirrodin/Alara ones).

Elemental

 

(Chandra Flamecaller, Seed Guardian)

A brief reminder on the mess that is elemental:
           

Oath carries that tradition forward by having not one but TWO elementals with differing power/toughness. You have Chandra pooping out red 3/1 temporary ones and the Seed Guardian knocking out a green X/X on death. I'm surprised that wizards didn't just make one of them black while they were at it.

The good news is that you can repurpose the 3/1 elemental from Theros block (that fact that it's not supposed to be an Enchantment Creature will be forgiven by opponents impressed at the art variance) A bit more of a stretch would be using the red */* elemental token from Rise of Eldrazi for the Seed Guardian. I'm willing to bend on semi-pointless card type but playing a token of entirely the wrong color seems wrong.

Kor Ally

( Captain's Claws, Oath of Gideon)

Sure, whatever. Still just BFZ. Also only on two rares.

Knight Ally Token

Ditto ditto ditto. Except it's on an uncommon. Yawn.

Eldrazi Token

   

Pretty slick that we have three new art reflecting Kozilek's more arcane geometry. Big fan. Also of interest, apparently they repeated the BFZ scions as well? interesting. Well I guess Ulamog is still around.

Angel

(Linvala, the Preserver)

3/3. An Angel is 3/3. This reeks of R&D desperately trying to tweak a card. (btw the mythic rare is still so absolutely stone-cold absurd that I don't see 3/3 or 4/4 making a difference) But now we have a 3/3 Angel contaminating the token pool.

BUT WHAT A SWEET TOKEN. Excellent art direction, cleverly asexual without being sexless. Big fan.