MTG Salvation

here are some potential cards.

kor spiritdancer, this one is expensive but very powerful, if you add it consider adding pacifism, prison term or faith's fetters as removal

for protection from removal:
mother of runes, very powerful card, useful in any white creature deck you will ever build in the future
or swiftfoot boots

predator's gambit is a better unholy strength

for defense:
ghostly prison
sphere of safety

Quote from Truth »

So guys some perspective: imagine you play Snapcaster Mage to flashback Kolaghan's Command. You spend a total of 2RUB. Then imagine you flashback K-Command with this. You pay 3RR total. This card essentially has 3 modes:

• 2RR 4/4 Menace, give a CMC1 spell Flashback
• 1RR 4/4 Menace, give a CMC2 spell Flashback
• RR 4/4 Menace, give a CMC3 spell Flashback

You give up Snappy's instant speed, but get a much better body (evasive!), get to do shenanigans with split cards and get to ignore colors completly, letting you flashback a Thoughtseize with only red mana available. This card is insanely good and will see widespread Modern play after some time. It's essentially a Midrange Snapcaster Mage, and once you realize Snapcaster NEVER actually costs 1U unless it's a body only, you start to realize how great this card is.

I'm not sure how you can believe this card compares to snapcaster in power level. The advantages of this card has over snapcaster are so insignificant compared to what you are giving up. Are you planning on playing thoughtseize without black mana in your deck? not having to pay multiple colors is nice but not terribly significant. Losing flash and versitility of converted mana cost is much more of a detriment to anything this guy brings. Also, you can play snapcaster for his casting cost turn two to flashback phyrexian mana spells like gitaxian probe.

Overall I like this card, but dont consider him comparable to snapcaster.

Play whatever you want

Clone is "rare" in modern sets but it's also clearly a worse card than the likes of Skinrender or Shriekmaw.

Curse of Predation is busted but not because it's a Commander card; nobody complains about Skullwinder with the exact same mana cost.

Keywords like Will of the Council and the Monarch ability were very consciously designed so they DO work in 1v1 -- not the same as in multiplayer, clearly, but still totally functional. I don't really like the role that TNN plays in Legacy (or Cube), but stuff like Coercive Portal and Council's Judgment and Custodi Squire are all really sweet and fun cards.

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Aven Mindcensor is recently upshifted, but I'd argue that if you have to add that to your banlist due to your methodology then you're probably just better off abandoning a strictly kept list and just treating it card-by-card.