MaRo stated that they used the past couple commander sets to make cards for previous story characters that never received a card, or niches that needed filled. Fantastic! A lot of the community really likes that.
So... Tourach.dek?
3 cards have him in their name, 5 cards mention him in their flavor text, 0 cards depict him or represent him. We need a Tourach!
Tourach, Serra and Gix compile my list of characters I want to see.
I need a Tourach so I can put him in my Belzenlok deck with his named edited to be "Tourach Belzenlok, the Foo Bar".
MaRo stated that they used the past couple commander sets to make cards for previous story characters that never received a card, or niches that needed filled. Fantastic! A lot of the community really likes that.
So... Tourach.dek?
3 cards have him in their name, 5 cards mention him in their flavor text, 0 cards depict him or represent him. We need a Tourach!
Tourach, Serra and Gix compile my list of characters I want to see.
I don't particularly care what they do with the decks theme-wise this year, especially if they are going to keep at 4 per set, because that means we won't ever be getting some cycles I'd hoped to see repeated, such as allied colors with experience counters. I would prefer they not go heavily tribal, but I guess would be okay with it if they make the decks interesting enough. Last year's PW decks weren't a huge smash hit, and the quick (and entirely welcome) demise of Brawl suggests being able to use planeswalkers as generals isn't that big a deal to much of the player base, so I hope we go awhile without further PW commanders. Like, 15 years or so sounds about right.
I am as excited as anyone about interesting new commanders and cool new cards in general, but I am particularly interested in the quality of the reprints included in the decks. This year, that quality was unusually poor, especially when you consider that they upped the cost of the decks. If they are going to continue printing Commander decks and have people keep buying them, they seriously need to up the quality of the reprints. The land selections are particularly awful, and this was especially notable in the Lord Windgrace deck, which included only a couple lands that have any synergy at all with the deck's obvious theme. Command Tower in every deck and a handful of moderately useful utility lands in each deck does not make up for the guildgates and *****ty CIPT duals. Nobody is expecting shocklands or quality fetches or Wasteland reprints, but I don't think the world would end if they included a few more lands which people might actually want to play in their decks. Maybe they could complete the Battlebond dual cycle or include the Theros Temples or something. I would love to see Strip Mine, but even Ghost Quarter would be a huge improvement over most of the complete ***** that makes up Commander precon mana bases.
As to nonland cards, there are lots and lots of solid Commander cards that could be reprinted without making these decks attractive to the non-EDH crowd. Last year's decks lacked a lot of obvious cards that would have made them a lot more playable, and there are a lot of great cards that could definitely use more reprints to make them more available and/or to introduce them to players who have never seen them. . Things like Sylvan Library or Asceticism or Leyline of the Void or Toxic Deluge or Archangel of Thune or Mind's Eye or Glen Elendra Archmage or Sneak Attack or any of a gazillion other cards that are more interesting than unplayable crap like Celestial Archon and Epic Proportions and Savage Twister. Maybe reprint some planeswalkers who aren't good enough for modern but who are somewhat popular in Commander like some of the WB Sorins or Sarkhan Vol. Maybe reprint some staples like Vedalken Orrery that are played pretty much only in EDH but which have become somewhat pricey because they are very popular in EDH but haven't received a large printing in awhile.
I could not have put my thoughts more succinctly. This pretty much touches on everything I want from C19.
Better reprints, yes. I'd LOVE for them to change up the included lands a little and give us a bit more value there. I'm tired of seeing guild gates, bouncelands et al every year.
Other than that, partner was a really great mechanic that gave us an enormous amount of creativity. I'd love to see it back again.
I think the chances of more walkers is slim to zero, FWIW. Two years in a row is a bit much, and given the general reception of last year's batch I think they'd be fools to go back down this road.
Hey, a theme is a theme. If that's your goal, you play sub-optimally. I play some fairly average stuff in my Kresh deck.
Tourach, Serra and Gix compile my list of characters I want to see.
I'd love to see this too.
Definitely. I still remember feeling ripped off that Daretti got [c]Wurmcoil Engine[c] and the Teferi I bought got...nothing decent I can recall.
edit - checked it out, the money card was Cyclonic Rift or Thran Dynamo. Still, hard to argue with $30 NZD value in a single card.
I could not have put my thoughts more succinctly. This pretty much touches on everything I want from C19.
Other than that, partner was a really great mechanic that gave us an enormous amount of creativity. I'd love to see it back again.
I think the chances of more walkers is slim to zero, FWIW. Two years in a row is a bit much, and given the general reception of last year's batch I think they'd be fools to go back down this road.