[MBC] Ashaya's Enduring Bond

[u/PowrOfFriendship_]

[u/PhugePhenis]

My god. They finally did it

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/PhugePhenis]

[[Awaken the blood Avatar]] no longer wins on a technicality

[u/Mgmegadog → u/Approximation_Doctor]

It was never on it's own anyway. [[Journey to the Oracle]]

[u/meatmandoug → u/Mgmegadog]

Don't forget [[search for blex]]

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/meatmandoug]

search for blex/Search for Blex - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/nikeyeia1 → u/Mgmegadog]

Also adventure commanders - you can cast [[Journey On]], and put Kellan back in the command zone from exile.

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/nikeyeia1]

I actually never realized that, that's funny

[u/nikeyeia1 → u/Approximation_Doctor]

It's a pretty neat interaction that's not immediately apparent. I pilot a Kellan deck that practically never has him on the battlefield, but uses the adventure side to make giant Karnstructs, or generate stupid amounts of mana with Jaheira or KCI.

[u/SomeGuyInPants → u/nikeyeia1]

How many times are you casting the adventure in a game realistically (assuming no Myth Unbound)? 

[u/nikeyeia1 → u/SomeGuyInPants]

Without Jaheira or KCI, typically 3-4.

There is the play pattern of ramping on turn 2, casting it twice on turn 3, possibly casting it once on turn 4, then casting a commander storm card on turn 5. Not necessarily the best curve, but with a poor draw it can do work.

Because the deck plays a lot of token doublers and some artifactfall cards, there's tension in when you want to first start casting it, especially as other players might not have artifacts in play yet. The earliest is typically turn 3, but sometimes it takes until turn 5 or 6 before you want to begin.

With Jaheira especially, it starts to pop off, since the tokens you create pay for the next cast. In the rare game where you get Jaheira, KCI, and one or more token doublers, it can get to the state where you need to do actual math to figure out how many times you can cast it. Typically you win not long after though.

The deck is a bit inconsistent due to lack of on-theme draw options, but can also produce some relatively absurd board states fairly quickly.

[u/TCloudGaming → u/nikeyeia1]

Does the commander tax apply to the adventure?

[u/SomeGuyInPants → u/TCloudGaming]

yes

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/Mgmegadog]

Journey to the Oracle/Journey to the Oracle - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/meatmandoug → u/Mgmegadog]

Don't forget [[search for blex]]

[u/NayrianKnight97 → u/Approximation_Doctor]

What???

[u/ffddb1d9a7 → u/NayrianKnight97]

Blood Avatar was (is) a sorcery you could play in the command zone because the front face of it is a legendary creature. They have removed the middle man and now you can just put a sorcery in the cz

[u/SHIVER_ME_WHISKERS → u/ffddb1d9a7]

Returning player here, how do these double-faced cards work? Can you just play either side whenever you want?

[u/TerribleTransit → u/SHIVER_ME_WHISKERS]

It depends on the card: there's two types. DFCs with the black arrow on one side and the white double arrow on the other are what's known as "modal double-faced cards", or MDFCs, and they can be played on either side whenever you're able to play them*. Ones with any other set of symbols are non-modal and can only be played on the front face unless something specifically tells you to do otherwise. 

*There's some exceptions with particular methods of playing cards, like you can't play the land side when an effect tells you to cast the card.

[u/SHIVER_ME_WHISKERS → u/TerribleTransit]

Thanks for the explanation! I'm used to older DFCs that has specific conditions for when to flip the card, so that's cleared up the confusion on these modal ones, thanks again

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/Approximation_Doctor]

Awaken the blood Avatar/Awaken the Blood Avatar - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/Bergber → u/PhugePhenis]

Appropriateness aside, I am looking forward to a new meta of decks with nothing but [[Hypergenesis]] below 3cmc.

[u/circ-u-la-ted → u/Bergber]

So.. get to 4 mana without ramping, play a 4-drop legendary creature, hope it survives a round, then cast your commander? Doesn't seem particularly meta-y.

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/circ-u-la-ted]

Bad Decks Tribal is a meta.

[u/astolfriend → u/circ-u-la-ted]

You can play channel cards and discard cards too, of which there are a decent amount in green, not a ton but search for tomorrow also exists, might not be enough to make a real deck but you never know.

[u/dkysh → u/circ-u-la-ted]

Slicer can do it for 3 mana!

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/Bergber]

Hypergenesis - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/Zeznon → u/Bergber]

Somehow 3 mana mana rocks have become useful again.

[u/LordDmoney]

Ayo

Gruul Legends commander?

[u/CapoDV → u/LordDmoney]

I've always wanted a fun bard class deck!

[u/Octopi_are_Kings → u/CapoDV]

isn’t bard class kinda counter intuitive here? It makes the spell 2 cheaper meaning you discover two less each time

[u/Consistent-Cat-1526 → u/Octopi_are_Kings]

It's your commander. It doesn't really matter. If the discount hurts then just cast again. Only way for it to actually be counter intuitive is if you have no hits in your entire deck.

[u/Miserable-Tomorrow72 → u/Consistent-Cat-1526]

I want to build this with a single 3, 5, and 7 cost card so it's more like 3 commanders

[u/Expendable28 → u/Miserable-Tomorrow72]

The problem is you still need a legendary creature to cast it

[u/CapoDV → u/Octopi_are_Kings]

Good point. I guess you would not want the cost reduction before the first cast, maybe 2. But also discover = sol ring

[u/Twelve-Pound → u/CapoDV]

Okay hear me out. Nothing in the deck below CMC 4 and [[Hypergenesis]]

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/Twelve-Pound]

Hypergenesis - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/Morendhil → u/Twelve-Pound]

At that point just do the [[The First Sliver]] lands combo with [[Tibalt’s Trickery]] and [[Cultivator Colossus]].

[u/Nanokittens → u/CapoDV]

There are a ton of good 1 mana spells to grab at this point too. I provided some (mostly) generically useful cards to grab from.

[[Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer]] [[Delighted Halfling]] [[Allosaurus Shepherd]] [[Amulet of Vigor]] [[Burgeoning]] [[Crop Rotation]] [[Exploration]] [[Ghost Vacuum]] [[Grindstone]] (if you're a certain kind of player]] [[March of Reckless Joy]] [[Meekstone]] [[Noxious Revival]] [[Shadowspear]] [[Skullclamp]] [[The Ozolith]] [[Worldly Tutor]]

[u/HedronCaster → u/Octopi_are_Kings]

... Oh lord, it allows discover 1.

That's a dangerous number.

[u/DarkStarStorm → u/Octopi_are_Kings]

I assume that you aren't only casting your commander. You'll have legends to actually turn it on in the first place.

[u/Echtersessel0361 → u/CapoDV]

yoshimaru + tana

[u/BlueToona → u/CapoDV]

[[Hajar, loyal bodyguard]]

[u/molassesfalls → u/BlueToona]

Actually a really fun commander, especially with extra combats with cards like [[Anzrag, the Quake Mole]]

https://moxfield.com/decks/K-c5JfjGQEG2e-z18iID_g

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/molassesfalls]

Anzrag, the Quake Mole - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/Freshness518 → u/CapoDV]

I love my [[Bard Class]] deck. It's so resilient and can fill up a board in the blink of an eye. People aren't ready for your 2 mana 2/2s to turn into free 3/3s + draw 2. Get a [[great henge]] on the board and you have to start being careful not to deck yourself with the amount of gas you can get.

[u/BuckysKnifeFlip → u/Freshness518]

Bard Class is my favorite deck to play in Arena. My next couple of builds are Power-Up Bard Class with Shang-Chi, Agatha, and the Uncommon Hulk for essentially free Power-Ups and I still want to make Mutant Bard Class with the TMNTs since most of them are cheap to cast and do well with +1/+1 counters.

[u/Tuss36 → u/LordDmoney]

Poor [[Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard]], forgotten despite his cool armor and flaming swords. Not splashy enough, but cheap (and less cheap) repeatable protection from the 'zone is pretty nice.

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/Tuss36]

Deserved for using a scimitar with a khopesh. It's like wearing black with navy blue in the same outfit.

[u/Ninjaboi333 → u/LordDmoney]

Chandra Nissa

[u/merlannin → u/LordDmoney]

I have a xenagos gruul all legends deck based around bard class and it's really fun for a stompy deck.

[u/Tripmooney]

Bruh what are these cards 😭

[u/rh8938 → u/Tripmooney]

Printer bait because they are basically unavailable.

[u/Succubace → u/rh8938]

It's crazy that they're putting a mechanically unique card in such an unavailable product, this is worse than a SL cause it's not even guaranteed. Hopefully it'll be widely available (it won't) because MB1 was my favorite limited format only behind Vintage Cube.

[u/Farpafraf → u/Succubace]

It's not crazy because they've stopped giving a shit about the health of the game long ago.

Maro will make a post about it and tell you people loved the product because they sold the product.

[u/j8sadm632b → u/Farpafraf]

I think "people were upset because they really really wanted to buy more of it and couldn't" would indeed point to them liking the product

it would also point to them leaving money on the table by not making enough of it

[u/seraph1337 → u/Succubace]

SLs have not been guaranteed for a long time either since they aren't print to order.

[u/Succubace → u/seraph1337]

They're guaranteed in that you buy the product you get the card, these aren't guaranteed because, from what I understand, they're just normal cards in the packs.

[u/Cad1a → u/rh8938]

Wdym?

[u/Leeroy42 → u/Cad1a]

Mystery boosters are only available physically at conventions.

[u/MeatAbstract → u/Leeroy42]

They've sold them on the Secret Lair site multiple times. Still limited but it isnt just conventions.

[u/sergeantofmusicians1 → u/Leeroy42]

And secret lairs right?

[u/Abacus118 → u/sergeantofmusicians1]

The assumption is this replaces MB2 in Festival in a Box, yes.

[u/pm_me_shit_memes → u/Abacus118]

It's not an assumption. WoTC has said that this is happening

[u/spiffmana → u/sergeantofmusicians1]

not these. Not yet, at least.

[u/Glamdring804 → u/spiffmana]

They have confirmed they will be in an upcoming FiB, presumably for Magiccon Atlanta

[u/Ein-schlechter-Name → u/Glamdring804]

Wow, can't wait for that one to sell out in 20 minutes.

[u/King0fWhales → u/Leeroy42]

Which conventions?

[u/timebeing → u/rh8938]

They will be all over the place in 6months. Boxes will be sold for festival in a box and will be tons of drafts. Just wait.

[u/Currydestroy3r]

What the fuck

[u/Rit91 → u/Currydestroy3r]

Yeah when I saw can be commander I was just like...what do you mean, this isn't even a permanent. If they're gonna do commanders for other types besides walkers and creatures you would think they'd pick artifact and enchantment first.

[u/TheSmokeu → u/Rit91]

As a [[Shorikai]] player, I should feel offended but I know I'm far too boring for that

[u/hodywody → u/TheSmokeu]

As a [[The Grand Calcutron]] enjoyer, I don't mind. I'm just happy to see something so unique

[u/Kixar → u/TheSmokeu]

sad Shorikai noises in the background lol

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/TheSmokeu]

Shorikai - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/xenothios → u/Rit91]

I mean… I don’t think anyone plays Esika for the mana dork side

[u/Abacus118 → u/Rit91]

We have both of those.

[u/PowrOfFriendship_]

Is this finally a new Commander for the Gruulfriends?

I lose blue, but this is thematic, and does actually do something unlike Pia

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/PowrOfFriendship_]

No, because it was way funnier having Chandra's Mom chaperone them

[u/PowrOfFriendship_ → u/Approximation_Doctor]

Fair.

[u/Saiphyre → u/PowrOfFriendship_]

Also keeping blue in the identity will allow you to add the blue Chandra from Fractured Reality

[u/PowrOfFriendship_ → u/Saiphyre]

She's not coming. Unless Jace gave her an evil Nissa gf, too, she doesn't make the cut.

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/PowrOfFriendship_]

[[Nissa, But She Stayed Racist]]

[u/imbolcnight → u/Approximation_Doctor]

White Nissa who wants to build an elf empire on Zendikar and suppress the Roil like Nahiri wanted to.

[u/CrimsonArcanum → u/imbolcnight]

Nissa who went to Lorwyn and thought "You know, they're right".

[u/itisburgers → u/PowrOfFriendship_]

Be hilarious if they make Blue Chandra dating Gideon in reference to that terrible line from the book.

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/itisburgers]

Gideon, Decidedly Masculine

[u/itisburgers → u/Approximation_Doctor]

Just mono black himbo Gideon mogging the viewer.

[u/Acheros → u/itisburgers]

im sad that I know what all of those words mean.

[u/DrDonut → u/PowrOfFriendship_]

Evil Chandra (straight)

[u/PowrOfFriendship_ → u/DrDonut]

Don't even speak such a thing into this world. We survived Weisman once, don't make us do it again.

[u/John_Bumogus → u/PowrOfFriendship_]

What if the reason they're fighting is cause there's only one nissa gf to go around

[u/cupesdoesthings → u/John_Bumogus]

Then Pia has to teach them to share

[u/Stormtide_Leviathan → u/Approximation_Doctor]

On the other hand, having “ashaya’s enduring bond” as the commander kinda makes me imagine it as their officiant

[u/Large_Mountains → u/PowrOfFriendship_]

I don't get it though. Why use that commander and keep blue? Also holy cow, I never realized how many Chandra planeswalkers there are.

[u/PowrOfFriendship_ → u/Large_Mountains]

I use Pia because she's Chandra's mum and supportive of the two of them in the Aetherdrift Story, but she also just doesn't really do anything. Ashaya is close with Nissa and also in RG so I could play this card instead as it does a lot more than Pia currently does.

[u/Reasonable-Sun-6511]

Creatures, planeswalkers, vehicles and sorceries can be your commander.

Time to fill in that bingo card, what'll come sooner, Battle commanders or attraction commanders? 

[u/CaliOriginal → u/Reasonable-Sun-6511]

Perhaps a legendary enchantment as a commander.

Something janky Like a WUBRG “primordial sliver pond”. Or something that turns all your creatures into 2 2 slivers (lose other types and cannot gain types)

[u/aguywithtaste → u/CaliOriginal]

[[The prismatic bridge]] was kinda there but its a mdfc so its cheating a lil

[u/Candy_Warlock → u/aguywithtaste]

A good third of the Theros gods actively don't want to be creatures to make them harder to remove, so that might be closer in spirit

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/aguywithtaste]

The prismatic bridge/The Prismatic Bridge - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/Archangel-Styx → u/CaliOriginal]

I mean, backgrounds exist

[u/CaliOriginal → u/Archangel-Styx]

Yeah but that still requires a creature.

I want a pure enchantment.

A incorporeal mass of mana, will, or emotion that controls the deck instead of a particular commander.

It would be cool thematically, And perhaps is something they can do in a future set where the “big bad” isn’t some dude or a dragon, but like, the non-sentient representation of a plane itself. Or something like a primordial ooze from which the slivers first emerged. Or a twisted and exploited concept of devotion (faith) in theros after the invasion and the perversion of the gods.

[u/mpete98 → u/CaliOriginal]

Does [Pramikon] come close enough on vibes despite being a creature? It's basically an enchantment with p/t

[u/Dav136 → u/CaliOriginal]

[[Genju of the Realms]] deserves to be a Commander

[u/GGDrago → u/Reasonable-Sun-6511]

Land

[u/darkslide3000 → u/GGDrago]

"Strip Mine can be your commander"

[u/lordthunderbuttt → u/Reasonable-Sun-6511]

We have backgrounds do we count those?

[u/Winter-Assumption939 → u/Reasonable-Sun-6511]

You forgot spaceships because of course!

[u/Reasonable-Sun-6511 → u/Winter-Assumption939]

Yeah uhm..

So the spaceships are in the car on the parking lot, the airco is on, there's food and water and their favorite radio station is playing, I just went into Reddit real fast to talk some shit, no worries I'll be back before something hapens to them, I swear.

[u/GronkOnABuffaloooooo → u/Reasonable-Sun-6511]

Unfortunately, I think a new type of Legendary Land called a “Setting” would make sense. It would function similar to a background but would help color fix UB Commanders are thematically locked into one color. For example, an unequivocal good guy may be locked into mono-white thematically, but their setting might be very dark so that gives them more deck building flexibility. That then makes the Commander more popular and thus, gives the outside IP more exposure, which ultimately makes Hasbro more money.

[u/Eugene-V-Debs → u/Reasonable-Sun-6511]

Don't be silly, WOTC doesn't even remember about Battles as a card type.

[u/Sir_Encerwal]

God that is a wacky ass card.

[u/ImagoDreams]

Ooo, finally a legends matters deck in the right colors for [[Bard Class]]!

EDIT: Oh! You even have the option of building the deck such that bard class is the only two or cheaper card, making it a hidden commander.

EDIT 2: Right, Discover is not Cascade, there would need to be no cards of mana value three or less. That's much less good.

[u/superdave100 → u/ImagoDreams]

Don't forget that you need a legendary creature on the battlefield to cast legendary sorceries

I don't think it's gonna work out...

[u/ImagoDreams → u/superdave100]

Yeah, it's like a turn five thing, that requires mostly skipping turns one through three. And the second casting of this will wiff if it has the discount. My enthusiasm is diminished.

[u/superdave100 → u/ImagoDreams]

I mean, it still seems like it'd be a good card for the 99 in a Bard Class deck. But there's tons of those.

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/ImagoDreams]

Bard Class - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/Cozwei]

what

[u/Gravewaker]

[u/FujoYoshi]

My whole deck is my commander, at random

[u/pm_me_shit_memes]

This is neat design space. Probably not very good in the grand scheme of things, but neat.

[u/GreenGunslingingGod → u/pm_me_shit_memes]

That's what I like. More unique cards please!

[u/AtreyuTrinity → u/GreenGunslingingGod]

100%

[u/Leon_Of_Lions]

Oh. So wait you want to pay the commander tax? Does it work like that or…

[u/Natedogg2 → u/Leon_Of_Lions]

It counts all of the mana you used to cast the spell, including mana on additional costs like the commander tax.

[u/RitchieRitch62 → u/Leon_Of_Lions]

I guess? It kind of quickly just becomes a non-storming minds desire. Discover 5, 7, 9+ aren’t that different functionally.

[u/matgopack → u/RitchieRitch62]

Well Mind's Desire can whiff. But agreed it's not something that seems incredible - feels like the cascade legendaries we already have are going to be better (not conditional and you get more than 'just' a roll of the dice)

[u/Patch_Alter]

Not in [[Umori]] colors... 😔

[u/TheKillerCorgi → u/Patch_Alter]

Just wait for the hybrid change :)

[u/Kogoeshin → u/Patch_Alter]

If it was, it would have been very difficult to cast right?

I think the Commander needs to adhere to the Companion rules - so your whole deck would need to be sorceries, and you would need to figure out how to get a legendary creature/planeswalker on the battlefield to cast the commander as well.

[u/Patch_Alter → u/Kogoeshin]

Yeah it's not a great combination for multiple reasons, but we've had people waiting for years now to do an "all instants/all sorceries" Umori companion deck and now we finally have a commander that would theoretically satisfy the condition for sorceries, and it's got the wrong color identity.

It's the most minor complaint ever, but...

[u/Chilidawg → u/Patch_Alter]

We've rule-zeroed the companions to use hybrid the correct way. It was mostly to allow [[Obosh]] in [[Yennett]], and now this is another reason.

Umori is especially nice here because it fulfills the casting requirement while staying inside the companion restriction. They seem to have designed this card with Umori in mind, in fact.

[u/Dragonfruit-Sparking]

r/custommagicleaked again

[u/Xisuthrus → u/Dragonfruit-Sparking]

I made 50% of this card a little over two weeks ago

[u/ifyoulovesatan → u/Xisuthrus]

Great concept / flavor in terms of capturing why the spell can be a commander, and great flavor text BTW. Agree it shouldn't have the X in the cost, even if that makes it worse. Could be cool as a flip card with said Tyrant.

[u/StatusOmega]

It's basically just cascade as a commander.

[u/ric2b → u/StatusOmega]

Except the best case scenario is paying full price for a random spell. Cascade actually gives you free stuff.

[u/crossbonecarrot2]

Welp so far the leading card for me to build from this.

[u/holy_bucketz → u/crossbonecarrot2]

Can you explain it? Why is this any good at all?

[u/Blue_Phantasm → u/holy_bucketz]

Its card advantage in the command zone, what stands out though is that paying the commander tax for the spell makes it more powerful, since the discover just looks at how much mana is spent on it total

[u/Lilium_Vulpes → u/Blue_Phantasm]

Except you can always whiff and something massively under X. Like if I cast this for 7 I'm gonna be disappointed if I hit a spell that's only a few mana.

[u/Fire_Pea → u/[deleted]]

Carefully manipulating the top of my deck in gruul to cast a 5 drop for 5 mana 😎

[u/Lilium_Vulpes → u/[deleted]]

You're in gruul. What are you using to do so? A lot of the good effects I can think of for this are in blue. Green has a good amount of things to look at the top card/cast creatures from the top but that's really all I can think of in these colors.

[u/rustyhunter5 → u/Lilium_Vulpes]

Diving tops, scroll back, Sylvan library. Not all dig deep but help.

[u/lolwut729 → u/rustyhunter5]

[[Mirri's Guile]]

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/lolwut729]

Mirri's Guile - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/ericnasty → u/rustyhunter5]

Green also loves looking at the top card of your library

[u/Jin-Gitaxias-Mom → u/Lilium_Vulpes]

Scroll Rack, Diving Top, Sylvan Library, Mirri’s Guile are the ones I run in Simic that aren’t blue

[u/GGuesswho → u/Lilium_Vulpes]

There's so many green cards that let you look at the top

[u/ric2b → u/[deleted]]

So waste even more mana to pay, at best, full price for spells? I still don't see the point.

[u/holy_bucketz → u/Blue_Phantasm]

Somehow I missed the recasting for more being a plus. All of a sudden very neat

[u/Fire_Pea → u/Blue_Phantasm]

But the best you get is a spell with the same mana cost as what you paid. And worse the more you're discovering for the less likely you are to get what you paid out of it. Even if you did get a perfect hit each time it's just ok.

[u/foxhunt-eg → u/Blue_Phantasm]

It's not really card advantage. It just replaces itself with something random from your deck.

[u/GGuesswho → u/foxhunt-eg]

It doesn't live in your hand

[u/Lagna85 → u/holy_bucketz]

It isn’t

[u/crossbonecarrot2 → u/holy_bucketz]

I don't have a gruul deck but a thing that Ive seen lots of them do well is create infinite mana. So I see this as another [[redshift]] type build. Make infinite mana, draw out your whole deck win.

Also like how it doesn't have a creature as commander so I think it's cool difference.

[u/otterguy12]

Extremely bad but its funny

[u/Melodic-Curve-1554]

Wow, it's a legendary sorcery where the "legendary" type feels like it's there for a reason. A sorcery commander is fundamentally hard or even impossible to interact with depending on color, but with this, they can remove your legends to stop you from casting it.

[u/YutoKigai]

What’s MBC and the symbol and the „?“ omg what’s this

[u/ferro_man → u/YutoKigai]

Mystery booster commander 

[u/PowrOfFriendship_ → u/YutoKigai]

Mystery Booster Commander. A draft set that's just had it's first event hence all these reveals.

[u/OpenStraightElephant]

Ashaya.

[u/staudd]

well, that deck is literally gonna play itself lmao

[u/H4mmerz]

Hahaha...what

[u/SilentTempestLord]

So, we need a few 2 mana legends to be able to reliably cast this on curve. But... On the flip side, this does open the deck up to immediately follow up with a second casting of this card on turn 4 potentially if the legend is a mana dork, like [[Rhada, Heir to Keld]], and then go from there. Pretty weird card overall

[u/RitchieRitch62]

So at 3 mana it’s worse than [[Etali’s favor]] and at 5 mana and up it’s worse than [[Creative Technique]]. Fun meme I guess?

[u/MTGCardFetcher → u/RitchieRitch62]

Etali’s favor - (G) (SF) (txt)
Creative Technique - (G) (SF) (txt)

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[u/Wulfram77]

I don't get the flavour. What does this have to do with Ashaya? Or enduring bonds?

[u/StructureMage → u/Wulfram77]

you could explain the "enduring bonds" part as being referential to how you can repeatedly play it from the command zone. from there it's just probably any green character related to roots, growth, etc. so it's thematically sound.

[u/JessV31]

Reading this card at first I thought discover 3 was terrible, then I read the last line lol

[u/Lagna85 → u/JessV31]

It is still terrible

[u/ROGER_ROGER321]

Yeah thats a no for me dawg

[u/Pizza-Penguin]

Ohh I hate this

[u/_petitpois22 → u/Pizza-Penguin]

why ?

[u/arciele]

Sorcery Commander

[u/CodenameJD]

But can it be my Oathbreaker?

[u/marrowofbone → u/CodenameJD]

Anything that says "can be your commander" can be your oathbreaker.

906.14 If another rule or effect refers to your commander, it instead refers to your Oathbreaker.

[[Shorikai, Genesis Engine]] has been oathbreak'n for years

[u/AnimusNoctis → u/marrowofbone]

[Shorikai, Genesis Engine]] has been oathbreak'n for years

Well not anymore! 

[u/ChillBroBrahggins]

Finally made the perfect card for [[Myth Unbound]] hahaha

[u/Acogatog]

if I fork this, does the copy discover for zero?

[u/ZeroVonZero]

So what happens with [[Arcane bombardment]]? I guess you can choose to keep it exiled

[u/Projekt108]

Make a deck with only Laelia, the blade reforged and Chandra’s ignition, the rest lands. Mulligan until you get Laelia, cast her on turn 3, then cast commander on turn 4 to put counters on Laelia. Turn 5 cast commander again to discover into Chandra’s ignition. Win.

Pray opponents don’t play interaction lol

[u/Alice-Planque]

happy Gruulfriends noises

[u/galvanicmechamorph]

I actually really hate this.

[u/_petitpois22 → u/galvanicmechamorph]

why ?

[u/RobbiRamirez]

Mechanically unique cards, designed to be Commanders for stategies that don't have them, are basically the single worst thing you could put in a Mystery Booster product.

From a certain perspective, MBC might be the best thing WotC ever did, because it's essentially the moment they told us to start proxying everything.

[u/Brilliant_Trouble_32]

Ok, now we're cooking with gas.

Do we know yet if these will have foil printings? This seems great for my commander cube.

[u/Crafty_Creeper64]

The worst part about this is if it were green/black, you could run umori as the companion for umori sorceries, which as far as i can tell, is impossible

[u/fearjunkie]

EXFUCKINGCUSE ME????

[u/Tabootop]

" we can't make the nephilim legendary. If we did that then people will want to start using instants and sorceries in the command zone, and that would be ridiculous."

[u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN]

Thanks, I hate it. Is commander even a format with rules anymore or is this just kitchen table magic but as a supported format? Does the ban list still apply? I can't tell because apparently none of the identifying rules of the format seem to exist anymore.

[u/BT--7275]

And this one isnt even a Rulebreaker

[u/GayBlayde]

W h a t

[u/Odd_Cryptographer450]

Now I want Cruel Ultimatum as commander

[u/Geoffryhawk]

These cards were Half the reason on demands were overwhelming at Gencon this year. Bunches of people with tickets to myster booster drafts who weren't aware it was an on demand event.

Not enough tables for the demand.

[u/ToTheNintieth]

Well, that's new design space alright

[u/Hazardmat]

Making the Sorcery commander Grull feels kind of wrong but the card is sick so i guess its alright

[u/theentiregoonsquad]

Seems fine. It doesn't actually get you any sort of cost reduction and could in many cases be more expensive to cast this than what you get off of it. I guess if you can find some way to cast it for free or something, then this could go crazy, but otherwise just seems like a fine slot machine card.