Ah carry on then...you seem to be a big fan of Blue.
I adore Blue. Even my dual color decks are 99% Blue. Let alone having majority Mono-Blue decks. White is my second favorite color though, and my favorite deck is my U/W one, which is Jace and Theros themed. My love of white is why I want a Serra card here, as well as Angels. The prediction I am most confident in is that we are getting a Mono-W Serra this year. Dominaria, Lyra, 25th anniversary, had to go with Nahiri for story purposes last time, etc. Just too many clues not to be Serra this year.
Here's a list of the most desired Legends for Commander:
1) Taigam (16)
2) Arixmethes (14)
3) Yawgmoth (13)
4) Lord Windgrace (12) -tie
4) Fblthp (12) - tie
6) Feather (11)
7) Xantcha (10)
8) Massacre Girl from Ravnica (6) - tie 8) Archmage Jodah (6) - tie
10) Ashnod (5) - tie
10) The Raven Man (5) -tie
12) Tocasia (4) - tie 12) O-Kagachi (4)- tie
I could see Serra with a Feather Legendary card (doesn't have to be Boros, she can be a W Angel). I could also see a Black leaning deck with Yawgmoth and Massacre Girl Legend cards.
I think we are going to get Lord Windgrace, Serra, Leshrac, and a new planeswalker from Dominaria as the face cards for the decks.
Urza won't be printed (impossible to capture), but there's a small possibility Yawgmoth will be printed as one of the 3 other legends included (though this is doubtful, as Yawgmoth is such a huge character in magic lore, they will probably save him for a future commander set to be a face card).
I think they will print second planeswalker commanders (not restricted to Dominaria) in each box, but none of them will be current Gatewach Members / Team Bolas Members. Half will be new characters, and half old. Then I think our third legend in each box will be Planeswalker Supportive but is a creature, and the 4th will be a wild card commander.
I think they're going to theme the Commander Set after Dominaria primarily with their face cards in honor of the anniversary and the recent Dominaria set. They will focus the majority of cards to be coming from that plane.
Those are my predictions. (Let's see how wrong I get it)
I think an Urza PW card would simply need to capture what he did, rather than all he can do. An ability that allows you to search your library for multiple cards and put them on top of your library would represent the Bloodline project, for example, showing Urza's knack for long-term planning. Another ability could involve wrathing stuff since his ideas do tend to result in large-scale destruction.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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I think we are going to get Lord Windgrace, Serra, Leshrac, and a new planeswalker from Dominaria as the face cards for the decks.
Urza won't be printed (impossible to capture), but there's a small possibility Yawgmoth will be printed as one of the 3 other legends included (though this is doubtful, as Yawgmoth is such a huge character in magic lore, they will probably save him for a future commander set to be a face card).
I think they will print second planeswalker commanders (not restricted to Dominaria) in each box, but none of them will be current Gatewach Members / Team Bolas Members. Half will be new characters, and half old. Then I think our third legend in each box will be Planeswalker Supportive but is a creature, and the 4th will be a wild card commander.
I think they're going to theme the Commander Set after Dominaria primarily with their face cards in honor of the anniversary and the recent Dominaria set. They will focus the majority of cards to be coming from that plane.
Those are my predictions. (Let's see how wrong I get it)
Ah, but would it pre-phyrexia Yawgmoth, or post-Phyrexia Yawgmoth, because the former is easy, the latter needs to have the creature-type God on its typeline, because that is what he ended up as. A god mind you, that even the most powerful oldwalkers (Urza and Taysir) couldn't defeat. He would literally have to be a creature that would win you the game the turn after you put him onto the battlefield to do him justice, and he would thus probably end up getting banned rapidly.
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Looks like "Lord Windgrace" might be are first confirmed walker commander
He looks like he's Jund or Abzan Colored. Neat.
What about Naya?
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
Mardu seems right to me given Divine Light and Aryel, Knight of Windgrace - he did a lot of things for the common good up to sacrificing himself. I'm not actually sure what's black about him other than being a black panther from Urborg. And Planeswalker's Fury and Illuminate seem to establish him as pretty red.
Given Windgrace's connection to Panther Warriors, I think green is practically a guarantee. And if these decks have new non-PW commanders, Windgrace being Naya could mean we finally get a RGW Cat Legend as well. And if Windgrace is the face commander, maybe Ajani will be a subcom or even a secondary commander? They could represent his vengeful phase as RGW, maybe with a temporary copying ability for creatures and/or planeswalkers to represent how he defeats Bolas in Alara.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
I'm still holding out hope for Yawgmoth, he's been a huge character for as long as Urza, and also hasn't seen a card yet.
Maybe we could see Serra as a Mono-White card with Bant or Jeskai symbols in the text, for color identity. I really hope that we don't see any mono-color commanders, they are just so much less interesting in the format.
If Windgrace get the spot than Serra is highly unlikely. Windgrace will be white and red for sure.
And another year where cats get the spotlight.
I'm pretty sure one face being white doesn't preclude another from being white. In all likelihood, every color will appear at least twice on average in Commander products going forward. That said, since Serra herself seems to lean monowhite, I'd be all for her appearing as a subcom in a multicolor deck, maybe a WB deck lead by Sorin or possibly even Windgrace's own deck.
I've got my fingers crossed for WUB Crucius and maybe WU Azor. Since they just did UBR, if Leshrac and/or Tevesh Szat get a deck, they'll most likely be BR. We could also get a BR Ob Nixilis and/or Tibalt.
MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
Actually, each deck always includes three options of the deck's colors, generally two new cards and a reprint, though there have been cases where they've had to flex the reprint rule like C16's four color and last year's tribal theme. But sometimes they include subcommanders as well. They could choose to do so with PWs this year, or maybe include PWs with partner as Will and Rowan Kenrith suggest such is possible. If Serra has Partner, she could be part of a cycle, which would warrant a minimum of two partner PWs per deck.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
White is in dire need of a solid defensive Planeswalker for EDH/Commander. Elspeth, Knight-Errant didn't make the cut since her 2nd +1 ability is only good for offense rather than defense due to how Planeswalker abilities only work at sorcery speed. Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants is able to combo with Twilight Drover to compensate his -2 ability for getting back CMC 2 creatures from graveyard. Unfortunately there's not a whole lot of creatures that trigger abilities off of removing +1/+1 counters depending on what colors you're in If you're playing EDH/Commander.
If Windgrace is confirmed as a R/W Planeswalker for Commander 2018 since Boros doesn't have a lot to choose from with Ajani Vengeant and Nahiri, the Harbinger being the only two good options then that'd be a major plus. Selesnya I feel also needs more Planeswalker support since the only two good one's I can think of are Ajani, Mentor of Heroes and Huatli, Radiant Champion. I've been pretty underwhelmed with the new M19 Planeswalkers thus far minus Sarkhan, Fireblood for Dragon Tribal and perhaps Tezzeret, Artifice Master.
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|| 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 ||
But yeah I think they have to include Serra especially if they don't do Urza.
1) Taigam (16)2) Arixmethes (14)
3) Yawgmoth (13)
4) Lord Windgrace (12) -tie
4) Fblthp (12) - tie
6) Feather (11)
7) Xantcha (10)
8) Massacre Girl from Ravnica (6) - tie
8) Archmage Jodah (6) - tie10) Ashnod (5) - tie
10) The Raven Man (5) -tie
12) Tocasia (4) - tie
12) O-Kagachi (4)- tieI could see Serra with a Feather Legendary card (doesn't have to be Boros, she can be a W Angel). I could also see a Black leaning deck with Yawgmoth and Massacre Girl Legend cards.
|| 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 ||
Urza won't be printed (impossible to capture), but there's a small possibility Yawgmoth will be printed as one of the 3 other legends included (though this is doubtful, as Yawgmoth is such a huge character in magic lore, they will probably save him for a future commander set to be a face card).
I think they will print second planeswalker commanders (not restricted to Dominaria) in each box, but none of them will be current Gatewach Members / Team Bolas Members. Half will be new characters, and half old. Then I think our third legend in each box will be Planeswalker Supportive but is a creature, and the 4th will be a wild card commander.
I think they're going to theme the Commander Set after Dominaria primarily with their face cards in honor of the anniversary and the recent Dominaria set. They will focus the majority of cards to be coming from that plane.
Those are my predictions. (Let's see how wrong I get it)
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Ah, but would it pre-phyrexia Yawgmoth, or post-Phyrexia Yawgmoth, because the former is easy, the latter needs to have the creature-type God on its typeline, because that is what he ended up as. A god mind you, that even the most powerful oldwalkers (Urza and Taysir) couldn't defeat. He would literally have to be a creature that would win you the game the turn after you put him onto the battlefield to do him justice, and he would thus probably end up getting banned rapidly.
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Looks like "Lord Windgrace" might be are first confirmed walker commander
He looks like he's Jund or Abzan Colored. Neat.
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What about Naya?
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Maybe we could see Serra as a Mono-White card with Bant or Jeskai symbols in the text, for color identity. I really hope that we don't see any mono-color commanders, they are just so much less interesting in the format.
I'm pretty sure one face being white doesn't preclude another from being white. In all likelihood, every color will appear at least twice on average in Commander products going forward. That said, since Serra herself seems to lean monowhite, I'd be all for her appearing as a subcom in a multicolor deck, maybe a WB deck lead by Sorin or possibly even Windgrace's own deck.
I've got my fingers crossed for WUB Crucius and maybe WU Azor. Since they just did UBR, if Leshrac and/or Tevesh Szat get a deck, they'll most likely be BR. We could also get a BR Ob Nixilis and/or Tibalt.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
If Windgrace is confirmed as a R/W Planeswalker for Commander 2018 since Boros doesn't have a lot to choose from with Ajani Vengeant and Nahiri, the Harbinger being the only two good options then that'd be a major plus. Selesnya I feel also needs more Planeswalker support since the only two good one's I can think of are Ajani, Mentor of Heroes and Huatli, Radiant Champion. I've been pretty underwhelmed with the new M19 Planeswalkers thus far minus Sarkhan, Fireblood for Dragon Tribal and perhaps Tezzeret, Artifice Master.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
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