Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker 2WU
Legendary Creature - Bird Monk (mythic)
Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.) Through me, the Great Teacher's voice will rattle this world.
1/1
God i thought i would like the patner mechanic but it ended up nerfing the power of these cards because of it. Ludevic card is a huge crime and wil lremain salty because of it.
Strong but boring. Even without partner, protecting this should be easy (Mother of Runes, Spellskite, etc.). It gets out of hand very quickly in a multiplayer game and naturally has evasion.
Wow, 1/1 for 4? I mean, multi-player format, lots of opponents potentially casting spells, but holy cow is she fragile and expensive.
EDIT: oh AND she's mythic? Would she have been broken as a 2/2?
She's mythic because she's a Commander and is only in one deck. But I agree, she could have been 1UW for 1/1 or maybe 1/4 for 4. Or... vigilance? Something.
Wow, 1/1 for 4? I mean, multi-player format, lots of opponents potentially casting spells, but holy cow is she fragile and expensive.
EDIT: oh AND she's mythic? Would she have been broken as a 2/2?
Rarity in these kinds of sets mena little to nothing. The potential is there for this card to be nuts, especially in the Atraxa deck where it will likely be found
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Taigam is mono Blue I believe. I think he's going to be in Return to Tarkir and Arixmethes in Return to Theros honestly. They're the 2 most demanded legendaries and are monochrome so I expect they'll be hype for the main sets.
2/2 would have been better or at least having flash. Either way I am not about Tarkir cards so bye.
This one is 100% phoned in. So far all the partner commanders strike me as either mediocre or poor, except for the absurdly powerful Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix.
This one is 100% phoned in. So far all the partner commanders strike me as either mediocre or poor, except for the absurdly powerful Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix.
The BG Abzan legend isn't that bad either, giving modular to your creatures is solid and interesting
The BG Abzan legend isn't that bad either, giving modular to your creatures is solid and interesting
Still, it's a striking contrast. The others do attacky-blocky things or draw you a few cards. Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix ramps you into whatever nonsense if you're playing vaguely fair and generates infinite colorless mana with relative ease if you ain't. She'd be strong without partner!
This one is 100% phoned in. So far all the partner commanders strike me as either mediocre or poor, except for the absurdly powerful Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix.
Bingo. That's the issue here. The Partner mechanic is only as exciting as it's available commanders and most of them are dull. What I don't understand is that this is a mechanic that seems like it was built for synergy and mixing and matching two different commander abilities that do interesting things together but what we got for the most part are weak and boring stand alone effects. Which makes you wonder, why is this even being done other than for the color combinations? Which in turn makes me think: Isn't it kind of terrible that the only immediate advantage a lot of people are thinking of when it comes to Partner is the colors? Because if people are almost never going to cast their Partners unless they absolutely have to then wouldn't that mean that most people are just treating these as blank cards with color indicators? That seems like a failure in design to me. I would think that you would want players to be excited with what their commanders do.
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Wow, 1/1 for 4? I mean, multi-player format, lots of opponents potentially casting spells, but holy cow is she fragile and expensive.
EDIT: oh AND she's mythic? Would she have been broken as a 2/2?
Rarity in these kinds of sets mena little to nothing. The potential is there for this card to be nuts, especially in the Atraxa deck where it will likely be found
I actually spaced out and was meaning that she was the Mythic of the two commanders in her colors, forgetting about the fact that it's only the enemy pairs that get two commanders in the deck.
Well, I'd say after the C13 debacle in terms of raw power in the command zone, I think they definelty played it safe with Partner, and rightly so. Don't forget, folks, all of these are meant to be paired with another legend, which is always accessible in the CZ. Some are really powered down (as seen above) but some can really synergize well with each other, and make up for poor stats or expensive costs. I mean, Ludvics Opus and the above legend really punish players for casting spells, for instance.
I actually like it quite a bit. It snowballs the longer its in play and it really doesnt take any focusing to make it work. Its a fire and forget threat.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
That rules text is so painful to read a more expensive Managorge Hydra in two colours. Such beautiful art and commander product space wasted. Why?! The EDH gods weep.
Legendary Creature - Bird Monk (mythic)
Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Through me, the Great Teacher's voice will rattle this world.
1/1
Source - http://www.gatheringmagic.com/jasonalt-10262016-better-together/
EDIT: oh AND she's mythic? Would she have been broken as a 2/2?
Also only triggrs on opponent's a huge disapointment so its a weaker Managorger Hydra and Forgotten Ancient.....
God i thought i would like the patner mechanic but it ended up nerfing the power of these cards because of it. Ludevic card is a huge crime and wil lremain salty because of it.
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Yeah with both a Jeskai and a Sultai legend they were pretty loudly ignoring him.
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She's mythic because she's a Commander and is only in one deck. But I agree, she could have been 1UW for 1/1 or maybe 1/4 for 4. Or... vigilance? Something.
Rarity in these kinds of sets mena little to nothing. The potential is there for this card to be nuts, especially in the Atraxa deck where it will likely be found
Standard - Some kind of control
Modern - UB Mill (casual)
EDH - Meren's Grave Shenanigans
2/2 would have been better or at least having flash. Either way I am not about Tarkir cards so bye.
|| 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 ||
On the other hand, I'm glad Taigam isn't a 4-mana Taurean Mauler that exchanged 1/1 for flying.
The BG Abzan legend isn't that bad either, giving modular to your creatures is solid and interesting
Still, it's a striking contrast. The others do attacky-blocky things or draw you a few cards. Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix ramps you into whatever nonsense if you're playing vaguely fair and generates infinite colorless mana with relative ease if you ain't. She'd be strong without partner!
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I actually spaced out and was meaning that she was the Mythic of the two commanders in her colors, forgetting about the fact that it's only the enemy pairs that get two commanders in the deck.
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This and the GB legends tie in into Atraxa Proliferate Deck covering all 4 colors
Same way Ludevic and Sidar tie in into Gaykings.dek
Modern:
WBG
Legacy:
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