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** And then there is [[wikipedia:Gerrard Capashen|Gerrard Capashen]]. Plot-wise, he is a pinnacle of ages-long eugenics plan formulated by Urza, a powerful and very intelligent Planeswalker. Gerrard was specially engineered as a "Super-Soldier", to fight the denizens of Phyrexia, also known as ''The Nine Hells''. Gerrard also receives several whole sets of cards dedicated to his (and his skyship's) crew: Weatherlight Adventures (Which is the name of one of the expansions). His card? [http://magiccards.info/ap/en/11.html Utterly unremarkable]. Bonus points for the card flat-out losing to every other card representing opponents that Gerrard defeated or overcame in the novels.

** Karona, who emerges in Onslaught block as a [[Physical God|physical manifestation of Dominaria's mana]] formed from the [[Fusion Dance|fusion]] of the powerful and iconic legends Phage the Untouchable and Akroma, Angel of Wrath, is far less useful than she has any right to be as well--so much so that head designer Mark Rosewater [http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr232 publicly apologized] for how lame she was:

** A [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=221103 Dragon Engine] is supposed to be a titanic siege weapon, Mishra's great weapons in the Brothers War. Its printed version can be easily destroyed by two [http://magiccards.info/po2/en/63.html Bear Cubs].

** The series' main villain of many years, Yawgmoth, also couldn't get a card printed depicting him because he was so powerful that a large group of old-style planeswalkers (mages powerful enough that they could create their own planes of existence if they wanted to—new-style planeswalkers are ''substantially'' weaker) armed with soul-powered nukes could only barely defeat him after hitting him with a weapon forged from Urza's thousands of years of planning and an impressive [[Xanatos Gambit]] on Urza's part. Several cards depicting aspects of Yawgmoth have been printed over the years, including [http://magiccards.info/scans/en/ud/75.jpg Yawgmoth's Bargain] and [http://magiccards.info/scans/en/us/171.jpg Yawgmoth's Will], which are well into [[Game Breaker]] territory. Given that [[Word of God]] states Yawgmoth is [[Deader Than Dead]], it's unlikely the game's most iconic villain will ever be rendered in card form, even ''if'' it wouldn't be the equivalent of having [[God]] as a Top Trumps card.