Apparently, WOTC has decided to go with a "silent" announcement - Commander 2015!
* 5 Enemy colored decks
* 15 New cards in each deck (some cards will be featured and distributed with a new event offering on Magic Online - the "Legendary Cube")
* 10 Tokens
* 1 Oversized Foil Commander card
* Release date: November 13, 2015
* MSRP: 34.99$
I have no idea why this wasn't announced during the PT, but I assume we'll get an arcana announcement in the upcoming days.
EDIT 8/5/2015: Added new info and updated the set logo and symbol from the official announcement
EDIT 10/15/2015: Added the "Wade into Battle" (R/W Deck) snapshot
Legendary Auras that can be your Commander and allow whichever creature they enchant to do Commander Damage! We're supposed to screw with how the command zone is supposed to work in each of these sets now, right?
Hopefully we get some much-needed variety for (G/U) and (W/B)!
For the love of God, PLEASE make one of the new WB Commanders Reanimation-Centric
(and another one life-drain-centric if you want to permanently shut me up)!
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Certainly not going to complain about getting access to more Izzet stuff - maybe I'll even end up with enough stuff to build both Melek and Narset. Or one of the new commanders in the deck, I suppose. (All of this might be moot if the U/R deck isn't spell-focused, but...well, it's U/R. At least part of it is going to be spell-focused. Hopefully.)
Anyone care to speculate on the "reprint" commander for each deck?
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Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
WB: Taysa, Orzhov Scion beacuse I don't think she's ever been reprinted and she's a popular WB commander
BG: Glissa, the Traitor & probabaly mirrodin/new phyrexia infect themed since poison is one of MaRo's favorite win condiontions and usually there is one commander deck that is heavily artifact themed. Possibly the perfect deck in which to reprint Inkmoth Nexus and Blightsteel Colossus since both have skyrocketed in price when it was revealed that MM15 wouldn't have any infect in it.
GU: Either Prime Speaker Zegana or Momir Vig, Simic Visionary depending on if they choose to make GU about big creatures like Simic Sky Swallower or small hexproof ones like Slippery Bogle.
UR: This color combo is the biggest mystery, but I'm leaning toward Jhoira of the Ghitu just because I like the suspend mechanic and would like to see them print new cards that interact with it.
RW: One of the boros angels perhaps or Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, whichever ones are left out of FTV: Angels most likely will get reprinted here.
I would bet on the Golgari deck having a elf theme/commander to sell all that fresh Origins hype.
Dwynen post shadowmoor corruption sounds nice. Granted shadowmoor elves are GW so maybe back to Lorwyn elves. Ether way I want to get some elvish champions
Wonder if we will ever get the Four Color legendaries at some point. Yes its nice to help the already Helped Wedges since Khans brought us a lot to play in those decks.
Enemy Colors have been such a desire for so long. Glad to see four colors wasn't done. I doubt they'll print the Zendikar fetches, but maybe enemy filter lands and possibly the Mirage Fetches
[EDH] It's built to be a casual format and to a specific vision, and if you don't like the vision, there's nothing wrong with that, but it's not going to change to accommodate everyone. Big tent is not a goal.
Incoming U/R Artifact Commander. I feel it in my bones. As for the reprint commanders, I'm betting either original Niv-Mizzet or Melek for U/R, simply because U/R's other theme is instants and sorceries and I expect the 2nd commander to deal with those somehow. They're also popular in those color combos.
55 new cards sounds great. I wonder if any characters from my signature shall finally appear? IDK if Serra or Arixmethes, both likely mono-color, would though. Can't wait to see what the new stuff is. Hope not too much of it is multicolor though.
* 5 Enemy colored decks
* 15 New cards in each deck (some cards will be featured and distributed with a new event offering on Magic Online - the "Legendary Cube")
* 10 Tokens
* 1 Oversized Foil Commander card
* Release date: November 13, 2015
* MSRP: 34.99$
I have no idea why this wasn't announced during the PT, but I assume we'll get an arcana announcement in the upcoming days.
EDIT 8/5/2015: Added new info and updated the set logo and symbol from the official announcement
EDIT 10/15/2015: Added the "Wade into Battle" (R/W Deck) snapshot
http://wpn.wizards.com/en/products/commander-2015
there will be 5 decks as usual, not six
It says "five"...
Agreed. I run a commander cube with 3 generals/guild, and some of theme just don't have a well-rounded roster yet (orzhov, simic, boros).
"Personally I love high-riak, low-reqars gambles. Life's best with a decent amount of riak. And f*** reqars."
YAY!!!
Hopefully we get some much-needed variety for (G/U) and (W/B)!
For the love of God, PLEASE make one of the new WB Commanders Reanimation-Centric
(and another one life-drain-centric if you want to permanently shut me up)!
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Anyone care to speculate on the "reprint" commander for each deck?
Also to those who say we don't have any good Orzhov commanders -- Teysa, Orzhov Scion says hi. (The combos!)
Modern
UBR Grixis Control
U Merfolk
Pauper
U Mono U Delver
Ancestral Visions is freed
By the same token, I will be utterly shocked (and annoyed!) if at least one of the new UR commanders isn't all about artifacts.
Also, here's hoping for some new, non-legendary gold cards- they haven't made any for Commander so far.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
WB: Taysa, Orzhov Scion beacuse I don't think she's ever been reprinted and she's a popular WB commander
BG: Glissa, the Traitor & probabaly mirrodin/new phyrexia infect themed since poison is one of MaRo's favorite win condiontions and usually there is one commander deck that is heavily artifact themed. Possibly the perfect deck in which to reprint Inkmoth Nexus and Blightsteel Colossus since both have skyrocketed in price when it was revealed that MM15 wouldn't have any infect in it.
GU: Either Prime Speaker Zegana or Momir Vig, Simic Visionary depending on if they choose to make GU about big creatures like Simic Sky Swallower or small hexproof ones like Slippery Bogle.
UR: This color combo is the biggest mystery, but I'm leaning toward Jhoira of the Ghitu just because I like the suspend mechanic and would like to see them print new cards that interact with it.
RW: One of the boros angels perhaps or Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, whichever ones are left out of FTV: Angels most likely will get reprinted here.
BChainer, Dementia Master(Big Mana/Reanimator)
BRRakdos, The Showstopper (Mass Life Loss/Ramp)
BUThe Scarab God (Zombie Tribal/Control)
BWKarlov of the Ghost Council (Life Gain)
BGJarad, Golgari Lich Lord (Stompy/Dredge)
BRGProssh, Skyraider of Kher (Tokens/Non-infinite Combo)
Dwynen post shadowmoor corruption sounds nice. Granted shadowmoor elves are GW so maybe back to Lorwyn elves. Ether way I want to get some elvish champions
Only if they are in Battle of Zedkar too, or all the GB, UR, and UG will be on the secondary market for $50+ depending on the other cards in them.
I am all for them being in there though is that first condition is true, which hopefully it will be.
I am certainly crossing my fingers for UR to have an artifact theme, finally.
R Citizen Cane (Feldon of the Third Path)
Enemy Colors have been such a desire for so long. Glad to see four colors wasn't done. I doubt they'll print the Zendikar fetches, but maybe enemy filter lands and possibly the Mirage Fetches
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||