I would assume that Brisela's combat damage counts as general damage if you have one of its constituent parts as your general. But you can't run Brisela herself as a commander, since it's a back-side.
It's not scared, it's sensible. It's the same thing they do with every other new mechanic these days, after some of the disasterous ALL-IN mechanic introductions of the past. Start simple, start safe. Let people play with the cards for a year. If the reception is good, start bringing out the crazy/prolific designs next time you have a chance.
It's better than vomitting a ton of it into the cardpool right away, then finding out a few months later that "Oh, Affinity is cancer."
General Tazri is a fantastic Changeling Commander. Mostly because she tutors up Mirror Entity when you cast her, and has an overrun effect stapled to her butt if that doesn't work.
Watching the coverage, I wonder if Davis' CoCo still has Avacyn in it. You'd have to cut into your White sources to make room for the 4 Yavimaya Coast (Since it appears that they're still running a full contingent of the U/G Manland, and coverage noted the removal of Shadowlands and the trimming of Battle Lands, which happen to be prime sources of the deck's White Mana), which would make the double-white cost contentious. On the other hand, if you're going out of your way to accommodate Eldrazi Displacer, it would seem silly to drop Avacyn, since she interacts fabulously with the Displacer.
It could also be the order in which the set is distributed in packs, since pack-mapping is still a thing, just way more iteration-intensive than it used to be (or is worth, unless you're getting it in document form straight from someone else and can skip the whole "track thousands of pack openings" bit).
The flavor text from the spoiled cards in SOI hints at an ancient secret. A new mechanic is actually artifact clues tokens. The main plot in Innistrad is something ancient being uncovered.
Time for Nissa to wake up a 4th Eldrazi Titan. It's cool, there's no elves to hurt.
On the plus side, if you hate Lantern Control, having a flood of people copying the CFB Eldrazi list and rocking Simian Spirit Guide+Chalice of the Void is a pretty solid way to thin the lantern herd
@Kkowboy: "even when they were cast on a reasonable curve" is a reference to the games without mana acceleration referred to in those two sentences. And Tao's deck doesn't have Spirit Guides, so, again not having to do with what I was discussing?
I did find it interesting how frequently Tao was able to win with his deck in games on camera where he didn't benefit from an Eldrazi land (either never getting one, getting one so late it didn't matter, or having his eye GQ'd or Fulminator Mage'd before it did anything), over the weekend. Seemed like the format was pretty weak to "Random creatures with 4+ toughness" even when they were cast on a reasonable curve.
Nezumi Graverobber has been falling out of favor as the format has gotten less durdly, but I still love how it screws with Graveyard decks on multiple axes, both by removing their cards, or by, once mana is plentiful, stealing their targets in order to fizzle their recursion/reanimation while progressing your own boardstate.
writemew asked: Hey MaRo -- Since we're all sitting on the edge of our seats awaiting the release of Commander 2015, can you pretty please tell us when the official spoilers will start? Thanks!
I’ve written my preview article so I believe in two weeks from Monday.
November 2nd. You can also find this information by clicking back one page on this thread.
It's better than vomitting a ton of it into the cardpool right away, then finding out a few months later that "Oh, Affinity is cancer."
Time for Nissa to wake up a 4th Eldrazi Titan. It's cool, there's no elves to hurt.
November 2nd. You can also find this information by clicking back one page on this thread.