I recently moved to a new state and want to get back into the game after 3 or 4 years out of the loop. I finally found a great LGS and don't want to sit down at a table and make a bad first impression with out-of-date decks (or banned cards). I've been trying to do my own research into all of the sets released since around Fate Reforged but there is a TON to catch up on! I noticed the top 50 list thread on here is dead (at least for now) and instead of combing through each approved deck list I was hoping someone might be able to help summarize the last three years in the realm of Commander?
(In typing that it seems even more ridiculous than it sounded in my head.)
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Ummmmmmmm let me see what I can do to summarize things:
Rules Changes:
Banned as a commander has been removed. If you recall correctly, there used to be a few cards like Braids, Cabal Minion and Erayo, Soratami Ascendant whom were banned as your commander but legal in the 99. They removed this mechanic in favor of making the rules simpler so those cards are now just entirely banned.
Tuck no longer works on commanders. If a Commander would be put into a library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, its owner may choose to move it to the command zone instead.
The restriction on what mana you can make has been removed. City of Brass for instance can tap for mana outside of your commander's colors. The restriction of color identity remains though. The mana restriction was primarily redundant to the color identity restriction on building though so it was removed to streamline and reduce the number of rules.
I apologize as that probably is not in order of how it happened. I mostly listed it off in the order that I could recall it and some of it might have been before you left.
NEW STUFFS.... this is me doing my best to go through standard and highlight some of the more impressive rare / mythics. There are some that are good that I don't mention that might be roleplayers or just something I missed.
Aetherflux Reservoir - its terrifying for decks that play lifegain strategies or storm based strategies. Once you have the life to fire this thing off its really hard to interact with.
Azor's Gateway - its somewhat handy in decks that lack good card advantage like mono white, mono red, and boros. Its not that likely that you ever get to flip it but if you do there are some decks that would run away with its effect. I think the reasons to run it though are based on what it does on its front side though.
Blackblade Reforged - its a big buff and the cost to equip is reasonable. Unlike Strata Scythe you are not punished for running more colors or nonbasics.
Dowsing Dagger - its a nifty amount of ramp, I really like it with decks who have a 1-3 mana commander where you could curve it fairly well too. The land side of it is non legendary too so you could copy it with things like Vesuva which is sweeeeeet.
Growing Rites of Itlimoc - its really a poor man's Gaea's Cradle. Its nowhere near as good but.... there are decks that you would run it for still.
Helm of the Host - its really amusing with some commanders who have ETB effects or an effect that would be brutal to stack like Grand Arbiter Augustin IV. Notice that the token is not exiled or sacrificed so you keep the copies.
Hour of Promise - its sort of like a bad Primeval Titan in that its one and done but it is still decent in a lot of cases.
Karn's Temporal Sundering - its a strong Time Warp effect and costing one more than really the good ones but getting that bounce might be just fine.
Nezahal, Primal Tide - it has self evasion on it and it draws cards. I have not seen it much yet but it seems like a fairly good creature all around.
Noxious Gearhulk - its got a nice ETB and being its black you can potentially loop it with rez effects. It is a little different effect from Duplicant but I can see times you would vary between which you would run.
Panharmonicon - double ETBs and its colorless so you can run it anywhere.
Paradox Engine - it combos really hard with mana stones. There don't seem to be much for non combo uses but it goes off hard.
Tendershoot Dryad - the number of tokens it can make given the time it takes to make them and then also boost them is a little nutty. Just playing this card can result in situations that require wraths.
The Immortal Sun - its nice draw for colors who are starved for draw like white, red, and boros. The cost reduction can also be really nifty for some decks that chain spells together.
The Scarab God - its such a strong control creature. It is stat efficient and somewhat hard to remove not to mention its effect being very useful for positive value as well as depriving opponents of creatures in grave.
Whir of Invention - its a really sweet artifact tutor due to the improvise + instant speed + the artifact going to play. Responding to some big fat ETB creature with tutoring Torpor Orb to play is really good.
World Shaper - somewhat useful with sac outlets. Somewhat of a silly combo is to run this with Emeria Shepherd which can do silly things together.
THANK YOU! More than I expected, I appreciate it sooooo much. There's so much I can't comment more at the moment but I wanted to make sure I replied!!! This is extremely helpful!!!!!
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(In typing that it seems even more ridiculous than it sounded in my head.)
Help?
Sig by the amazing RIVENOR
BRWKaalia of the VastBRW
GWRMayael the AnimaGWR
GWRUril the MiststalkerGWR
GRThromok the InsatiableGR
Rules Changes:
I apologize as that probably is not in order of how it happened. I mostly listed it off in the order that I could recall it and some of it might have been before you left.
NEW STUFFS.... this is me doing my best to go through standard and highlight some of the more impressive rare / mythics. There are some that are good that I don't mention that might be roleplayers or just something I missed.
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THANK YOU! More than I expected, I appreciate it sooooo much. There's so much I can't comment more at the moment but I wanted to make sure I replied!!! This is extremely helpful!!!!!
Sig by the amazing RIVENOR
BRWKaalia of the VastBRW
GWRMayael the AnimaGWR
GWRUril the MiststalkerGWR
GRThromok the InsatiableGR