That's disappointing. I really liked the idea of replacing a card in your hand with your companion. Companions were rarely seen in casual level Commander games; now, they will probably become non-existent. Three generic mana is too steep a cost in my opinion for companions to become playable in virt...

The most interesting piece of information we can extract out of companion is that it proves just how broken Commander really is. They printed "commanders" that force you to build your decks in (arguably) a more restrictive way than color identity, can only be cast once from the command zon...

Tovolar, Skaharra, or Rahilda. Pretty much any legendary werewolf that can lead a werewolf commander deck. Other than that, I echo many of the names that have already been spoken in this post.

If the rest of the set is as good as the cards they just previewed, the current price may be worth it. But we all know that's not going to be the case. We will be shown all the best and awesome cards first to excite players and let speculation run wild, and the commons and uncommons will mostly be u...

I vote for the dragon first, and the wall second.

I would definitively cut Slumbering Dragon and Pramikon, Sky Rampart . I've tested Slumbering Dragon before in Thantis, the Warweaver .cmd, to see if I could make it work, and... yeah, it just sucks. It will die long before you can start attacking or blocking with it. "Forced combat" is de...

I'm on the camp that Reliquary Tower is overplayed and overestimated. I see it as a card for n00bs, in the sense that, if you're running it, you are not at an advanced skill level yet where you can clearly plan ahead and access how you're going to win. You don't really need 10+ cards in your hand to...

I nominate the Ikoria Triomes.

How many cards are missing from the deck now?

We're lacking on black cards and big spells. Since I hate control decks, and our objective is to make creatures attack us, I nominate Thought Distortion 😈

Since we're currently lacking on black cards, I will complement the blue X legendary wizard with Maga, Traitor to Mortals.

I generally start building my decks with very generic removal spells because, in my experience, versatility wins games. However, during testing, much of that removal ends up being, well, removed. I've found that even the versatility of a generic removal spell is not enough to deal with all the varie...

Maraska, Underworld Scourge 5BR Legendary Creature – Hellion Horror If Maraska, Underworld Scourge is your commander, it starts the game in your graveyard rather than in the command zone. Escape 3BR , pay 3 life, discard a card, sacrifice a permanent, exile seven other cards from your graveyard. (Y...

As predicted by many professional players, companion is dominating Standard. More than half the decks have a companion of some sort. The surprising fact is the metagame is actually diverse. So it appears Wizard's strategy to make companion popular and interesting in Standard worked. Now I'm curious ...

I would like to add a point that I believe has not been discussed properly in this post before. Drannith Magistrate doesn't just stop your commander, it stops everyone else's too. In some circumstances, this can actually be advantageous to the table as a whole. I won't lie, I added the Magistrate to...

Parcelbeast is okay; I'm not sure I would call it amazing. I'd be lying if I said I didn't preorder a couple of copies. I think the Jeskai mutate situation is pretty sad. Vadrok looks really exciting to me on paper, but most of the white mutate creatures look pretty lackluster, red has almost nothi...

It's funny because I had a very similar idea, also thinking about the Smogon tier list for Pokémon :grin: I think this is a very good idea if you address such tier lists as suggestive , rather than as banned lists. They would help new players identify at what kind of power level they are building th...

I agree with the previous posters' concerns. The loss of Flash will have very little impact on casual players. But I'm worried about the precedent this will bring to the format. Maybe everything will turn out okay and the cEDH players will be pleased with this shift in the metagame. But what if a ne...

If Gyruda ends up being banned from Standard, that will probably be the end of Play Design as we know it. They already screwed up really badly with Throne of Eldraine - I am still baffled at how a team of pros managed to fail to detect the obvious power level of Oko, Thief of Crowns and Once Upon a ...

From a practical standpoint, of course it's 101 cards. But the 100 card limit is a pointless and meaningless rule anyways, so who cares. It's these kinds of comments that make it so damn annoying to argue with you. It's pointless and meaningless to you , not to other people. And apparently a lot of...

The rules of Magic change every time a new set is released. Changing a couple of words in the rules of the format to accommodate the set's new mechanic is hardly groundbreaking, no more than integrating Companion into other formats. What Sheldon was talking about in terms of "we don't change r...

Anyway, how one defines a "corner case" is obviously a bit subjective, but if he was literally talking about making a BaaCompanion list for Lutri alone, then I think there's a pretty decent amount of space between 1 card versus 8 - even ignoring how much more potential a card being used i...

I do have a large problem with Cyclonic Rift and I would dance in the rain if it ever becomes banned in Commander. I hate that card with a passion for two reasons. For one, it's very hard to interact with it. There are virtually less than ten cards (outside of countermagic, discard, and similar effe...

I opened the image gallery and literally the first card on the list has a reference to The Wanderer. How come we've never heard anything about her being in Ikoria??

It suddenly occurs to me: if you mutate a creature, is it summoning sick since it is a new creature on the battlefield and not a creature without summoning sickness that had an aura slapped on it? If so, Otrimi is a little less awesome. It is not summoning sick, I'm positively sure. The mutated cre...

Damn, I knew it was too good to be true...

I just checked the article again, and the text I quoted was removed.