[CMR] Mothership previews 8/22 - Monocolor Partners

[Mookie]

First official spoilers for (and explanation of) Commander Legends.
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Highlights: monocolor partners, help for white, finishing battlebond 'crowd land' cycle.

[Krishnath]

Sengir is so friggin awesome.

Also happy to see Halana and Elena.

[BeneTleilax]

And we already have our Adaptive Shimmerer for the set. I wonder why they previewed that today, other than to remind everyone that this was a limited-based set.

[Mookie]

I'm quite excited for Keeper of the Accord - ramp (and token production) in white is much appreciated. If the stars are aligned, you can potentially get lands on every opponents' turn, which is... sort of absurd. Alternatively, sacrifice them all to Claws of Gix or another sac outlet and recur a giant pile of lands with Planar Birth? Throw in a bunch of expendable tokens (not entirely unlike Ophiomancer) and you get a very nice package.

I don't have a particularly strong opinion re: Halana, Kessig Ranger and Alena, Kessig Trapper yet. Halana provides repeatable removal / fight effects for green (since green traditionally lacks good creature removal), while Alena provides repeatable mana production for red (which, again, red traditionally lacks). Both look reasonable, but don't know how good they will be in practice.

Sengir looks... fine, but not amazing. That said, Partner is an extremely powerful mechanic, so will at least be very good in limited.

The Prismatic Piper is obviously not great outside limited, but it's an interesting way to make sure that everyone is guaranteed a legal deck.

Completing the land cycle is very much appreciated. I wish they had started with enemy lands, but better late than never. Hopefully these will end up being more affordable than the allied ones (or that the allied ones get reprinted), but I suppose we'll need to wait and see.

...sadly, may be difficult to actually play in person, but I'll try to get to a draft if I'm able to. Dedicated legend slots in Dominaria were a lot of fun, so glad to see it returning here.

[Guardman]

It's more than Adaptive Shimmerer, if I understand what is written in the article correctly, it is sort of like a basic land in the set. So if you don't have a legendary creature that can be your commander, you can grab one or two of them from outside your draft pool to use as your commander(s).

Also - *Return the slab.*

[folding_music]

I want to make a partnerless Piper commander deck now and fail to choose a colour. the art is the best

[Cyberium]

I'm quite excited for Keeper of the Accord - ramp (and token production) in white is much appreciated. If the stars are aligned, you can potentially get lands on every opponents' turn, which is... sort of absurd. Alternatively, sacrifice them all to Claws of Gix or another sac outlet and recur a giant pile of lands with Planar Birth? Throw in a bunch of expendable tokens (not entirely unlike Ophiomancer) and you get a very nice package.

I'd Armageddon first before Planar Rebirth. Most people play multicolors and have very few basic lands, let them bite the dust.

Keeper triggers at EACH opponent's end step too, so you might potentially end up have 2~3 lands/tokens after a round.

[TGambitG]

About that Sengir.. I only have 2 words to say.

Aetherflux Reservoir.

[CommanderMaster999]

About that Sengir.. I only have 2 words to say.

Aetherflux Reservoir.

aaaaand Rhox Faithmender or/and Boon Reflection

[TGambitG]

About that Sengir.. I only have 2 words to say.

Aetherflux Reservoir.

aaaaand Rhox Faithmender or/and Boon Reflection

[Legend]

The Prismatic Piper is an ingenious way to fill a huge hole in limited.