Commander TwentyNeighTeen · 2:08am Aug 30th, 2018
On a whim possibly inspired by the overall middling reactions to Commander 2018, I’ve been spending some time designing some cards for what may turn out to be a mock-commander set sometime in the future. It’s uncertain if I’ll finish it, but I’ve gotten the ideas written down for the sake of writing them down. Here’s what I have so far.
Deck: Arcane Royalty
Theme: Spellslinger
Subtheme: Extra Combats
Primary Commander:
Twilight, Soul of Magic 2URW
+2: Draw a card, then discard a card. If an instant or sorcery card is discarded this way, draw another card.
-3: Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Copy that card, except the copy has lifelink. You may cast the copy this turn.
-10: Exile up to one instant or sorcery card from your hand. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, if it isn't an extra turn, copy the exiled card and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.Twilight, Soul of Magic can be your commander.
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Secondary Commanders: Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest and Ruhan of the Fomori
Deck: Vital Equinox
Theme: Lifegain
Subtheme: Weenies
Primary Commander:
Sunset, Radiant Dusk RWB
Legendary Planeswalker — Sunset
0: Create Sunset Flare, a legendary 2/2 red and white Elemental Avatar creature token with vigilance, lifelink, and haste.
-2: Scry 1. If you gained life this turn, draw a card.
-7: Destroy target nonland permanent. You lose 7 life.Whenever you gain life, put a loyalty counter on Sunset, Radiant Dusk
Sunset, Radiant Dusk can be your commander.
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Secondary Commanders: Alesha, Who Smiles at Death and Licia, Sanguine Tribune.
Deck: Psychic Compost
Theme: Self-Mill/Dredge
Subtheme: Theft
Primary Commander:
██████████, the Forgotten 1BGU
Legendary Planeswalker — ██████████
+1: Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. If at least one of them is a permanent card, create a 0/2 green Plant Wall creature token with defender.
-3: Choose target permanent card in your graveyard or target instant or sorcery card in an opponent’s graveyard. You may play the chosen card this turn.
-8: Choose a card from each player’s graveyard. Put all land cards chosen this way onto the battlefield under your control, then cast all nonland cards chosen this way without paying their mana costs.██████████, the Forgotten can be your commander.
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Secondary Commanders: Tasigur, the Golden Fang and The Mimeoplasm.
Deck: Shamrock’s Fortune
Theme: “Cards In Hand Matter”
Subtheme: Landfall/Lands
Primary Commander:
██████, Mystic Mind 3GU
Legendary Planeswalker — ██████
+2: Draw a card, then return a land you control to its owner’s hand. You may play an additional land during your next turn.
-3: Add an amount of C equal to the number of cards in your hand minus 5.
-10: Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures, where X is half the number of cards in your hand, rounded up.You have no maximum hand size.
██████, Mystic Mind can be your commander.
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Secondary Commanders: Thrasios, Triton Hero and Tishana, Voice of Thunder
Physic compost should have muldrotha as a secondary commander, just sayin
(Censored 2)'s seems a bit underwhelming. Even the card advantage engine stymies your tempo. There may be turns where the best play is to not use any of its loyalty abilities. Of course, I don't know what the rest of the deck might look like; I may just be looking at it outside of its niche.
And I do look forward to seeing what (Censored 1) does in your stories once their spark ignites.
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The deck would generally have a fairly large number of extra land drop spells, as well as a few landfall cards that can take advantage of having a consistent land-play engine.
Granted, this is all mostly conceptual, so I’m open to tweaking it a bit. I’ve bumped up the CMC by one for the last card, and modified its ability to more facilitate the deck’s main theme.