Commander Game

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Erziel: Hypergenesis meets the infamous GDS3 design. I like that it encourages you to kill creatures, make opponents discard, and restock your hand with Green's various Regrowth effects. I feel like it'll generally benefit off of Black effects way more than Green ones but other that I think it's a very good alternative twist to all those graveyards-matter Golgari commanders. Definitely helps that Green and Black are no strangers to card draw.

Arissa: Interesting with Entreat the Angels, Arcane Adaptation, and the like. I like that even if there's an obvious synergy the better decks with this commander will come from people getting creative. I don't like that you have to remember what each individual effect an Angel has - memory issues for token decks for days. Should've been chose one effect and all Angels get it.

Kesta: Straightfoward Angel reanimator that fits what Innistrad's about. I'm mainly curious as to how the Human/Angel ratio would ultimately balance out in decks like these, also ironically good Brisela support. A bit niche with requiring two tribals but not without potential.

Liara: I guess if Tarkir monoGreen dragons can fly, I don't see why not. Seems like an interesting sidegrade to Kamahl where you rely less on Kamahl pumping things and moe on getting Liara to have a single big guy get in with evasion.

Cestra: Banding and flying are a nonbo iirc if your band has nonflying creatures. Banding and Flanking is a clever combo though. I get the chaotic feel this card is going for but I honestly don't see how you'd control the to your advantage in anything outside Zedruu (and that means Cestra) isn't the commander. Given that the idea of "banding commander that discourages blocking" and "random enchantment" feel too randomly slapped together.

Kalon: Interseting that's she's essentially a Voltron supporter rather than being the ideal Voltron target herself. Excellent in the 99 for sure.

Valor: Now this is how you flip a well known effect on its head. No real complaints here, perfectly captures the spirit of the archetype.

Idalla: Hmmm. Less practical flicker? Upping the storm count? I feel like this has potential, I'm just not sure where.

Grizelda: There's not a lot about this card that's (and this is Pre-SOI Innistrad so White as a color hasn't been warped on a design level either). As a monoB creature I think it would be great but as is it's sort of a near miss to me.

Nyka: Very different way to do the powerpuff girls but I actually like it, to the point I'd want a similar cycle of them. I like the passive push towards using black cards like Phyrexian Arena without flat out stating it, and it handle the typical weirdness "Draw a card" very well in the context of the card. Not sure if I view it as a powerpuff but I view it as a very intriguing Commander.

Rana: I love the idea of potentially, deliberately drawing spells towards you to get more tokens so that you can counter other spells later. There's a lot of text there but I think resulting effect has this nice, efficient appeal to it. Also doubles as a more casual control option that doesn't punish opponents until they start trying to hit you.

Arisa: Good call on having a simple but notable effect to make sure the new use of the card type doesn't throw everyone for a loop. I do like the potential of Scheme creatures, allowing you to ensure Schemes aren't just completely useless out of Archenemy. I'm actually really impressed at how this card could fit in either format without really upsetting anything.

Phalia: Slight wording hiccups aside ("Flying, haste", "Other creatures you control have"), it's a good "infinite pings" enabler and I like that it can support itself, but not as efficiently as an external card engine might.

1st: gateways7
2nd: Fleur
3rd: elf491

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viriss: Joanna is a cool idea, but the major problem I see is that if one player wants to use a board wipe, they bring down everyone’s land supply and make the game kinda unfun. If they had recursion or indestructible, I think the card would be a lot more fun. I also think the card would be interesting if the power of the lands scaled with the number of times their controller has cast their commander rather than just you.

vedrick: I like Zhestra’s design and the constraints it gives, because instead of allowing the creature to disrupt and ruin opponent’s +1/+1 spells/commanders, you have to find good cards that do it yourself. I think that it’s a pretty interesting card!

Tesagk: Graw is a solid card. I like the way that it turns massive token creators into Overrun-style effects, giving those effects different kinds of uses. I also like the interaction it has with haste creatures and other things that have triggers when they enter the battlefield based on their power. However, I think that the card might benefit if it also gave your creatures some static ability when something enters the battlefield - maybe trample, if that’s not too broken. (Also, Furbolg is definitely not a supported creature type.)

augur: Although Fenaire is a cool idea that could be fun to play, it doesn’t work well as a commander because it’s really hard to build around it. The trigger doesn’t work for your creatures with good ETB / LTB triggers because it only triggers for opponents. If you changed that, I think it would be a more fun card to play.

gluestick248: Augustus feels like an un-card in both flavor and effect. However, taken in that lens, it’s a really fun card that would be fun to build around for commander. There are a lot of ways to exploit that card, though. Drawing 10 cards for three mana? Nuking the board and making 10 1/1’s for 2? 0-mana 10/10? This feels super-broken.

mrlozano: Von feels like a good way to play on something like Consecrated Sphinx, but in the same way that Rhystic Study gets annoying, I feel like this would be unfun to play against, because everytime someone draws a card, you ask them to sacrifice a permanent - and the cost of sacrificing a creature is a lot higher than paying 1.

Daij_Djan: Hei’lyn’s a pretty interesting, Notion-Theif-esque way to interact with extra cards drawn, but I feel like the ability is a drawback a lot of the time - I’d rather draw 5 cards than make 5 1/1 flyers. I don’t think there’s a good reason to play this card.

Xenozfan2: Shanta is a cool card but it’s not innovative and just grants your board a keyword ability (that I am strongly biased against. Absorb sucks, because 90% of the time, it’s just the same as giving a creature +0/+1.)

Lady Mapi: Elsein is good in concept, but Dark Depths exists. “BG: Make a 20/20.” Tacking on the fact that you can bring her back from the commander zone, she’s way, way too broken.

Jartis: Fatespinner seems interesting at first glance, but all it really does is make scrying annoying, and makes it complicated to interact with the top / bottom of your library. I do like the interaction it has with putting creatures on the top of your library, though.

It was close between Vedrick and Tesagk but I'm gonna have to give the win to Tesagk 's Graw, Heart of the Wilds.