His first ability gets super expensive super quick. I had him as a commander years ago and there was just usually a much better sac outlet available at any given time. His second ability makes him pretty sticky, you just use that after he's removed twice and you'll never pay more than 4 to cast him,...

I don't like this despite running, and liking, Yawgmoths Vile Offering. Yawgmoths filthy proposition costs more mana, has the same caring restriction, and is a sorcery, and has the additional restriction of being useless if there's no creatures in any graveyards, but reanimating a creature is huge v...

People do still run Return to Dust for that sweet 2for1

The original duals are almost never worth it, IMO - the monetary cost to upgrade your weakest land into one will pretty much always be better spent on upgrading something else unless you're getting into actual cEDH territory. I'm willing to give a pass to people that have been playing for ages and ...

The huge play is somehow getting an expensive artifact or enchantment into the yard then cheating it in, but that requires a lot of setup and deck building requirements. This does a solid job of just recurring artifacts and enchantments for value though, so I think it really wants a deck where cheat...

The best case scenario with this in a 4 man pod is you freecast 6 random spells in exchange for a 6 mana spell, a creature, and a bunch of life. It could be pretty fun in a few decks without the paying life rider. I used to have a Jeleva deck focused on stealing opponents cards that this is perfect ...

It's either her or Overlord as technically best Sliver for the combo potential (Overlord grabs her and a haste enabling sliver and manaweft). She does it cheaper (on mana) and with more style, but he's more consistent. Still, there's a whooping 5 slivers that grant slivers haste and 3 slivers that l...

I can agree that I'd rather see commanders like this than some of the broken nonsense like Chulane that usually get pushed as face cards, but I don't think it needed this much complexity to get there. Maybe merge the last to clauses, so instead of the Ring tempting you when an army you control deals...

Dirk, I think its more sensible to compare his ward cost to other ward costs rather than hexproof. Obviously actual hexproof is cancer on splashy commanders, but that doesn't mean his ward cost is actually well thought out. A simple mana based ward cost can accomplish the same thing but be more or l...

Sort of emblematic of the problems with the set, this card has a lot going on rules wise that doesn't actually add up to all that much. Before getting into the rules text, its baseline stats are fair. 7/6 for 6 is expensive but big enough to rumble and kill in three hits. Not great, not terrible. No...

Why would I run this guy to be my control commander when I could run Chromium 2? Yeah, 2 more mana, but flash is huge for a control deck and he kills in three hits instead of 5.

This Sam is pretty boring. It's a pretty narrow regrowth with the Ring tempts tacked on. Probably has some use in a dedicated Hobbit deck or dedicated Ring deck, though those both kind of suck. As for the Teshar loop, just one of many and not the most useful on its own nor most well suited to the ro...

Madness also works against this because a lot of madness cards aren't creatures, which limits the hits, and if you choose to exile madness creatures to be able to cast them then you can't get the opportunity to free fast them. Basically, why not run a discard outlet you can control and which also ac...

I gotta be honest, I'm not feeling the cowboy setting at all. This, New Capenna, and even the last Ravnica set with its goofy old timey detectives just seem to much like Un sets in terms of their setting.

Yeah, I could definitely see it playing well in Henzie, 5 mana to attack with a 4/4 haste and draw 2 cards (one from blitz the other from sac) and then dredge it to repeat. Unfortunately, the dredge to repeat costs you a draw so you really only see one extra card per turn. If you've cast Henzie a fe...

I've built Thantis before myself, and in terms of forcing attacks Thantis is better at it. In the Ruhan deck I have to find the cards that force attacks. There's a fair number of them so it's not really a problem, but it's not in the CZ like with Thantis. Playing the Ruhan deck, it's less all in on ...

Ruhan of the Fomori Infamous giant of poor threat assessment, Ruhan is one divisive chonker. In a vacuum, lets be honest, he sucks. Ruhan does, however, have a lot of interesting aspects once you break him down that serve as inspirations for decks, so I'll start with his features and then move into...

Nice suggestions on cards. I actually used to run the Knight of the White Orchid style cards but cut them over time. I have Keeper in there because he can repeatedly find lands if one of my opponents is ramping a lot, but the other ones surprisingly didn't pull their weight. The curve of this deck i...

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I tested a number of commanders before settling on Mangara

as an aside do you have this deck online anywhere? I spent some time brewing Mangara and would be interested!

At some point I'll post it here. My decks tend to stay in flux as I swap in new stuff.

First thing I do is figure out what I want to do with the deck. Why am I building this deck? What experience do I want, how do I want it to play, how is it supposed to win, what is the overall strategy? Maybe I'm building it because I want to use a specific commander, maybe I'm building it because I...

Tandris, at her cost with this ability, would have been a fairly neat but not OP commander, while this creature with her ability instead would have been a fair support card.

Dragons Maze was such a a mistake of a set.

She's absurdly good in decks that can support her. If you regularly can get 7 cards in your yard, then even just untapping three basics is a solid rate, and she becomes bonkers once you start untapping multiple lands that produce multiple mana each. One important thing about this class of cards more...

Keep in mind that it's also useable as a removal spells that can be recurred with Sun Titan. Enchant an opponents important creature, deal yourself damage to kill it, attack with Sunny Tits, get it back on something else you want to kill.

Pariah enables Charmin soft locks, which are completely fair. My favorite goofy interaction though is to combo Pariah with a creature that has the Jackal Pup effect, then give it indestructible. With no other intervention it draws the game. If you've got a Sanguine Bond out or give it lifeline thoug...