Commander Game

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Flo00 - Ashiok, Soul’s Eclipse: I think this is a good unsparked Ashiok card. Its’ abilities are interesting, as it gives an opponent a couple of choices often: do I leave lands untapped and use it later? Do I perfectly use my mana? Maybe I’ll let the Ashiok user surveil+gain life? Or I’ll take the lifeloss myself? Works well with Psychic Venom as an addition to the deck: it does what Ashiok does, but way smaller and it enables Ashiok’s not wanting lands be tapped.



thaneofglamis - Pargrod, Caldera Keeper: A card that doubles down on your common’s discard ability. It being more controlled with the amount of cards makes it a better commander though. Supermenace is a good choice with its ability to exorbitantly pump itself. The pump is a heavy cost, as you lose cards from your hand (or you gotta madness them), so this combo is proper. I’d be interested in what the deck build around it would look like (and if it could function properly as it’s a mono-red discard deck that prefers to discard specific cards with multiple types.)



vizionarius - Trivink and Vimlinkt: That’s a fun combo of abilities. Prowess and pinging everything. The Goblin Wizardry would want to get prowessed up as well before you use the ping or fly. But as your card desires for that as well, I would guess that isn’t hard at all. Also, you left open the possibility of Goblin tribal with its typing, which is cool beans.



kefke - Cordevia, Blood Sculptor: That’s a nice aristocrat. Your thought process behind the commons leading to this commander is a great insight, and does make one already think of what one can build around Cordevia. The lifeloss being 2 makes this more of a choice, as too much token creation on your side can really hurt, but as it is commander, it’s a bit less hefty of a price. Also, one would probably built the deck with cards like Death Greeter to trivialize the lifeloss. Only thing I have question marks around is the token type: why create a new graveborn type when zombie already is a thing?



Jartis - Lonnie, Getaway Driver: Very simple commander, that really fits the common, but it’s still strong in what can be done with it. Treasures are after all very strong, and it should be fun to build around strong vehicles with hefty mana costs. Should make a fun build-around.



Daij_Djan - What Goes Bump in the Night: Lure-like effect every turn on a commander. Neat. That should make for some fun building. Possibly with deathtouchers, tramplers and maybe flying to limit what can block your creature. It does work well with the commons you described, though, seeing as those cards aren’t good in any capacity, you might never use them. Still, this commander would be the best commander for them. Its own block-ability, the 10 mill, I don’t find interesting in commander. Maybe if you can steal from your opponent’s graveyards, but building around that doesn’t sound like the right direction. Maybe as a small aside in the deck, like 5 cards that do that.



boxlaunch - Anil, Stern Enforcer: A strong white-blue control commander. That is strong in its own way, not in the counters up the ass or pillowfort ways that white-blue control commander decks are more known for. Its ability is also fairly simple and one-directional, which I like. Though it does give it a weakness: hexproof for example, or untappers through abilities. But hey, everything has a weakness. This commander would give a new home to plenty of not-that-great tappers, which is something I think is great. Also, love that the name of a “Stern Enforcer” is essentially: Anal. Because that’s how he is about things; anal.

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Gotta say, I think all of these entries are really great. They’ve all got something going for them. But hey, this game needs a winner to continue, so: boxlaunch wins, with kefke as the second place.

{Design Notes For Those That Care}
Lately, some have judged certain features of my cards as though they were unintended consequences of the design. To alleviate that; I am fully aware that this applies to milling/discarding down to hand size/etc. That is intended.

That may seem powerful to some people. Well, Magic has been powercrept into oblivion lately. It's not necessarily something I agree with, but it does mean cards have to be a bit more pushed to see play, especially in specialty products like the Commander Masters precons.