your fave cards from official Commander releases
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 11:05 am
I love that these decks are printed every year intended to be played in Commander while creating new casual archetypes and new-border versions of cards that were previously very expensive. I've seen people be wary of the overall price of the goodies inside, knowing that it's probably gonna be a single staple, maybe a few acceptable land and rocks with the remainder of the cards being under a dollar, but as someone who builds a million decks I kinda appreciate the availability of Commander set singles.
my faves:
Turntimber Sower - a really gorgeous card that creates my type of churn. Cute that it matches both with Seton, Krosan Protector as a druid and with the mostly terrible common and uncommon lands from the set Seton was from. Works really well with Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
Coveted Jewel - in the land of four-of casual this creates both excess and chaos, promoting action and giving dozy opponents a reason to attack when winning isn't such a big concern. Plus you can just keep extending your BIG MANA decks skyward with cards like these when more sensible formats would see you stop at Thran Dynamo. It also definitely promotes attempting the Blinkmoth Infusion deck. a really beautiful greedy card <3
Anje Falkenrath and Anje's Ravager - I love looting, ditching Squees and Ashen Ghouls and I was so into Basking Rootwalla and Fiery Temper back in the day. Perhaps Anje makes it a little too easy to combo off? but I tend to build low power so it's never occurred to me to ruin someone's day in that manner. Brallin, Skyshark Rider, another Commander original, goes crazy well with both, with or without the shark.
all these cards cost next-to-nothing to acquire and make bizarre decks possible and I love them.
least fave:
Fierce Guardianship - this is a really unnecessary effect that seems to make the game worse, right? I have a copy, I'd love it if they crashed the price so I could tear it up
Noticed that a lot of the stuff in my collection is only there because it was reprinted in EDH decks. In particular I have to shout out this year's decks for turning Fluctuator from a thirty dollar card into a nine dollar one, or a fifty cent one if you prefer the new art!
my faves:
Turntimber Sower - a really gorgeous card that creates my type of churn. Cute that it matches both with Seton, Krosan Protector as a druid and with the mostly terrible common and uncommon lands from the set Seton was from. Works really well with Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
Coveted Jewel - in the land of four-of casual this creates both excess and chaos, promoting action and giving dozy opponents a reason to attack when winning isn't such a big concern. Plus you can just keep extending your BIG MANA decks skyward with cards like these when more sensible formats would see you stop at Thran Dynamo. It also definitely promotes attempting the Blinkmoth Infusion deck. a really beautiful greedy card <3
Anje Falkenrath and Anje's Ravager - I love looting, ditching Squees and Ashen Ghouls and I was so into Basking Rootwalla and Fiery Temper back in the day. Perhaps Anje makes it a little too easy to combo off? but I tend to build low power so it's never occurred to me to ruin someone's day in that manner. Brallin, Skyshark Rider, another Commander original, goes crazy well with both, with or without the shark.
all these cards cost next-to-nothing to acquire and make bizarre decks possible and I love them.
least fave:
Fierce Guardianship - this is a really unnecessary effect that seems to make the game worse, right? I have a copy, I'd love it if they crashed the price so I could tear it up
Noticed that a lot of the stuff in my collection is only there because it was reprinted in EDH decks. In particular I have to shout out this year's decks for turning Fluctuator from a thirty dollar card into a nine dollar one, or a fifty cent one if you prefer the new art!