After all the talk about black finally being allowed to remove enchantments, I was surprised for not having seen yet more of these effects in a set about enchantments. I'm glad Pharika's Libation came late rather than never. For one extra mana, it offers more control over what gets sacrificed than M...

To make it crazier mana reflection doubles the mana but cost 6 mana this cost 7 so only 1 more stinkin mana more than doubling it takes just 1 more mana to triple it wow. I mean the one difference here is that Nyxbloom Ancient is a creature (and only a 5/5 for 7 mana) which makes it a hell of a lot...

I get the idea, but the second ability is over complicated for such a weak pay-off. (You need to constantly keep WG up to be useful.) Agree, transformation would've been a cleaner and more intuitive use for this card. "When Bronzehide Lion dies, return it to the battlefield transformed and att...

Guardian of Skofos' Labyrinth 3R Creature - Minotaur Warrior {1} - This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever another creature becomes the target of a land you control named Skofos' Labyrinth, you may have this creature fight that creature. 3/4 The question now is, what does this Labyrinth...

Could this finally be a proper commander for Sea Monsters?

This is a deceptively very powerful finisher. First, you create an hexproof Kraken. Then you get rid of all blockers. And to finish the deal, you can gain control of whatever blocker your opponent just cast. In other words, this card can effectively deal 16+ damage under average circumstances. For s...

This is an excellent political card for commander. You can team up with an opponent to resolve a difficult board situation for you both. And five cards for five mana is a very good deal, even if you have to sacrifice your best spell in the process. I predict many Commander players, particularly thos...

I hope this means they finally found a good way to reference keyword abilities, and cards like Rayami, First of the Fallen , Odric, Lunarch Marshal and Soulflayer no longer need to have such big walls of text. That's something that has been bothering me since forever, and I'm surprised it's taking W...

If I was working on Play Design, I would feel so ashamed at this announcement. I think the Standard bannings were a correct decision on their part, but to think Play Design was created precisely to avoid these issues… and now we have four cards banned in Standard. Talking about poor work.

I went through the trouble of looking at the Commander strategies featured at EDHREC . Here is a list of the strategies/tribes that are currently missing a good commander, at least for some of its color combinations. Feel free to suggest more to the list! Angels (Boros) Beasts Centaurs Clerics Demon...

I didn't list tutors because we'll be lucky to get one and certainly we won't get them all. I will be praying that we get as few tutors as possible. Commander was designed as a singleton format with the purpose to promote games and strategies that vary widely between games. Tutors have been the ban...

Random hypothesis: one of the reasons they decided to create this format is because Brawl, despite all their efforts, did not take off as intended, largely because players don't want to play mini-commander in a rotating format. Thus, if Brawl ends up failing, they can try to enlarge its card pool to...

I don't know if this counts as a mistake, but someone once tried to convince me that whenever a card refers to a name, it applies to every card you control with that name. For example, if you control two Siege-Gang Commander and sacrífice one goblin, you trigger both the commanders' abilities and ca...

From a flavor perspective, I don't understand why Cauldron only works on creatures that are already dead. I thought the idea was that you would drink from it and become immortal? I think the idea is it can bring the dead back to life (graveyard to battlefield) and then prevents the living from dyin...

From a flavor perspective, I don't understand why Cauldron only works on creatures that are already dead. I thought the idea was that you would drink from it and become immortal?

You should watch this. It's not the exact product you bought, but I guess the principle behind it is the same.

For me, an enjoyable Commander should last between 10 and 15 turns. More than that and players start getting tired and losing focus; less than that and you may feel like your deck did not have enough time to show off its strategy. There are exceptions to this, of course. I've had some laughs losing ...

So Mortify can now be a mono black card... That's pretty interesting! It's too early to say that. I don't think black will be able to directly hit enchantments as efficiently as green or white, the same way black can destroy creatures directly, but green needs powerful creatures on the battlefield ...

I was initially going to say that giving him the Phyrexian Obliterator text and ignore the life loss possibility would've made this a lot more playable. But then I remembered that madness makes it a lot easier to flash this demon in, which could be problematic in a casual game. Nobody wants to suffe...

Well, that will shut down a little bit the people who were complaining there were no valuable reprints in these decks.

Called it! I'm guessing Tsabo Tavoc will be the new legend in the madness deck. I'm sorry the correct safe bet is a new and improved Crovax he's a vampire and vampire tribal has Ben the sub theme of madness I also thought about Crovax, but he has had three printings so far, while Tsabo has only had...

Looks overcosted and redundant. Was this tested? I mean, Growing Ranks populates every upkeep and was present in Standard for a while without seeing any significant play. So considering an average of one spell a turn, I feel this card should've costed four mana as well, or at most five if you consid...

YES!! A thousand times yes! Commander needs more of these kinds of ramp-punishing effects. Awesome design: triggers on attacking to prevent it from being abused with blinking effects, has haste to immediately punish mana-greedy players, and a relatively low toughness to keep it from surviving too lo...

Called it! I'm guessing Tsabo Tavoc will be the new legend in the madness deck.

Nice one, I'm always happy to see a card that can help defeat the top dog at the table. Although I wasn't expecting Tahngarth to have a green identity, to be honest.

Excellent card. Get rid of those low-cost combos, or cast your opponents' Demonic Tutor straight from their deck. Good for both casual and competitive Commander!