I've often seen these generals as ways to prop up terrible strategies. I have a Derevi deck that is highly tuned, but its purely flier aggro and counters etc to keep the bodies on the board. It draws hate because its %$#% but anything way too obscene or kept taking over the game I'd just take it out...

Gix, Phyrexia Incarnate [No mana cost] Legendary Creature - Horror 1UBR , sacrifice a red creature, a blue creature and a black creature: Put ~ onto the battlefield. Use this ability only if ~ is in the command zone. Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card and lose 1 life. Then, if the sacri...

Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian General 1RRBB Legendary Creature - Horror You may cast creature cards in graveyards, and for each B or R in a cost of a creature spell cast this way you may pay 2 life instead. Creature spells cast this way are Black and Red Artifact Horrors instead of their other creature ty...

Voted "idea is fine, execution is a problem" but for me problem is too strong a word. I'm not the biggest fan of the two color partners because of the ease of four color. The mono color partners coming up would surprise me immensely if they were a problem in any way other than a particular...

Balthor the Stout & Balthor the Defiled A dwarf barbarian, expelled from his home he joined up with barbarians including Kamahl and was involved in Kamahl's storyline. He sacrificed himself at one point and was resurrected as a zombie, but he retained much of his personality and kind of went ro...

Crosis is what I'm making at the moment, but it will eventually become something less bad and more competitive within my playgroup.

Commander for me is pretty much 100% just the meta that I create with two groups of friends who play. If we don't like stuff, we don't play it. Very rarely do I go to a card store to play randoms, live just a little too far away and just a little too old to be bothered with that any more (not to men...

Garza Zol, Plague Queen Ok, random vampire, overcosted as hell, has no meaningful lore so going to work with her mechanics. Garza Zol, Plague Queen 3UBR Legendary Creature - Vampire Flying, Haste Whenever a vampire you control deals combat damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it (it must su...

Nobody plays control in my meta. Its mostly a playstyle thing - it can be a fine line between 'stopping degenerate stuff' and 'oh look nobody does anything, such fun'. So while every deck usually has a couple of removal spells, I've been looking to try and fill that role as typically control is my f...

Ok, big entry today. I have 'credit' stored up from a whole day of moving furniture yesterday that I'm kind of cheating with. It's also the final day of lockdown! Crovax the Cursed / Crovax, Ascendant Hero / Ascendant Evincar / Selenia, Dark Angel Ok, lot to digest with this guy. He's a generic warr...

Phew, long day helping with moving, but I haven't missed an entry yet! Maraxus of Keld Meant to be "keld personified", and keld is essentially the nation of mono-red. So he's gonna encourage creatures swinging and give burn as a payoff for it; Maraxus of Keld 2RR Legendary Creature - Human...

Thanks! I will change Gabriel to incorporate ability counters as that is easier to track. I think with this method I might be running out of proper 'remasters' soon, and will get into simple balance tweaks. I'm already up the first 'passable commander' which is Lady Evangela . Speaking of which; Lad...

Sun Ce, Young Conquerer Little to go on for this guy. He did strike out and conquer lands, as suggested in his title. So gonna add a bit to that. Sun Ce, Young Conquerer 2UU Legendary Creature When ~ deals combat damage to a player, gain control of target land that player controls of that players c...

Urgh, accidentally closed without posting and wiped it all. Going to do the abridged version. Eron the Relentless Eron the Relentless 1RR Legendary Creature - Human Rogue When ~ dies, return it to the battlefield under its owners control at the beginning of the next end step. 2/1 May seem like a bet...

Ayesha Tanaka This card gives me plenty to go with. An armourer who is born with natural affinity for artifacts and enchantments, she once animated the armour of an army to trap its wearers. Ayesha Tanaka 2WW Legendary Creature - Human Wizard Equipment spells you cast and equip abilities you contro...

Sir Shandlar of Eberyn No fluff to work on, just a generic GW knight. Obvious best buddies with another generic GW knight named Torsten Von Ursus . Time for another take on Knight Tribal. I really like the Knights & Legends theme I've seen in some recent cards so will build off of that. Sir Sha...

Purraj of Urborg Alright, so this character's lore is well represented by several other cards; Song of Blood , Blind Fury and Bone Mask . These cards include flavor text and/or depictions of the character that tell me that she needs an ability that is very different from her current one, and should...

Vannifar, Supreme Adaptionist 3UG Legendary Creature - Elf Ooze Wizard When ~ enters the battlefield, goad each creature. When a creature attacks, exile it. Reveal cards from the top of it's controller's library until a creature card with a converted mana cost 1 higher is revealed. Put that creatur...

Five more days unless we get an extension. Lets see how far through this pile of cardboard I can get! Kei Takahashi A cleric with natural talent in healing magic and can sense danger. Some weird story about getting an insect parasite that changed his mindset and made him aggressive. Sacrificed himse...

Sima Yi, Wei Field Marshal Terrible card, potentially interesting design when you look at the lore - which is pretty much summed up in his flavor text. Sima Yi will serve faithfully, while plotting behind the scenes to put his own family on the throne. Sima Yi, Wei Field Marshal BB Legendary Creatu...

Another day, another batch of crap to filter through. Its still early but its looking rainy so thats probably it for exercise today. Jedit Ojanen I'm really starting to dislike the old dominaria storyline. Very hokey, very generic RPG stuff. This guy is the pinnacle of it all, seems to be a pretty g...

Riven Turnbull We're given very little to work with here. A revolutionary, who due to his colours must be exploiting the rebellion for his own ends. Rules wize, a very expensive 5/7 with a terrible mana generating ability. Ok, lets get to work merging those concepts (or at least the interesting bit...

I dislike extra turns, dislike powerful effects that can only be interacted with on the stack, dislike no setup "win conditions" as I've seen cards like this described as, and dislike big ramp payoffs. Not hard to extrapolate my stance on this card from all of that. Despite all that, if it...

Hi all, New Zealand has just been put into a second lockdown and that means I'm stuck at home for two weeks with little to do. Another New Zealander? That makes 2 others I know of here on Nexus. Enjoy your relative inactivity, I'm working fulltime through Alert level 3 with a 3 month old child :anx...

The others are way, way, way to strong for their costs. You seem to be referring mostly to power and toughness. If not, could you be more specific? IE "Xun Yu, giving you a conditional xenagos effect for 3 mana is absurdly powerful because X" Regarding Power and Toughness stats, we'll hav...