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6/28/2025, 9:36:53 PM
>>95966533
>TQ: What's your favorite Commander gimmick?
I unapologetically love the idea of Partner, but I feel that every time they've tried it seems like they just gets worse and worse
>Half of the C16 Partners are stupidly broken (Thrasios, Tymna, etc) while the other half are unplayable garbage by comparison (Reyhan, Kraum), all of them enable stupid 4c goodstuff piles regardless
>Bring it back for Commander Legends, but in a completely neutered manner since they're afraid to make them close to the powerlevel the original 15 were, only like 5 are really played (Rograkh, Sakashima/Krark, Kediss, Kodama of the East Tree) out of the 56 they made
>Make "Partner With" as a band-aid, the original pairs from Battlebond are barely ever played asides from the coinflip duo and and the only pairs after them that are actually played regularly are Haldan/Pako and Frodo/Sam.
>Make the Stranger Things SL with "Friends Forever" as another bandaid, this time so that they only mesh with themselves and you can't make a 5-color commander combo with Eleven and Sidar Kondo
Backgrounds though I totally fuck with however. They feel a bit more flexible in what you can do with your deck since it opens up a lot more venues for theorycrafting. Take Ganax for example, you can build him with:
>Far Traveler to blink a bunch of dragons and kill with Scourge of Valkas
>Feywild Visitor to lean into making a bunch of faerie dragon tokens and do weird creature type shit with Reflections of Littjara and Kindred Discovery
>Agent of the Iron Throne and use that treasure production to win via the background itself along with Reckless Fireweaver effects
>Guild Artisan and make a treasure-focused deck and win via Hellkite Tyrant
>Acolyte of Bahamut and play plain-old Gruul Dragons.
I think it's design space that they should go back to at some point, even if it's just a cycle of creatures with Choose a Background and some matching Backgrounds in some future set.
>TQ: What's your favorite Commander gimmick?
I unapologetically love the idea of Partner, but I feel that every time they've tried it seems like they just gets worse and worse
>Half of the C16 Partners are stupidly broken (Thrasios, Tymna, etc) while the other half are unplayable garbage by comparison (Reyhan, Kraum), all of them enable stupid 4c goodstuff piles regardless
>Bring it back for Commander Legends, but in a completely neutered manner since they're afraid to make them close to the powerlevel the original 15 were, only like 5 are really played (Rograkh, Sakashima/Krark, Kediss, Kodama of the East Tree) out of the 56 they made
>Make "Partner With" as a band-aid, the original pairs from Battlebond are barely ever played asides from the coinflip duo and and the only pairs after them that are actually played regularly are Haldan/Pako and Frodo/Sam.
>Make the Stranger Things SL with "Friends Forever" as another bandaid, this time so that they only mesh with themselves and you can't make a 5-color commander combo with Eleven and Sidar Kondo
Backgrounds though I totally fuck with however. They feel a bit more flexible in what you can do with your deck since it opens up a lot more venues for theorycrafting. Take Ganax for example, you can build him with:
>Far Traveler to blink a bunch of dragons and kill with Scourge of Valkas
>Feywild Visitor to lean into making a bunch of faerie dragon tokens and do weird creature type shit with Reflections of Littjara and Kindred Discovery
>Agent of the Iron Throne and use that treasure production to win via the background itself along with Reckless Fireweaver effects
>Guild Artisan and make a treasure-focused deck and win via Hellkite Tyrant
>Acolyte of Bahamut and play plain-old Gruul Dragons.
I think it's design space that they should go back to at some point, even if it's just a cycle of creatures with Choose a Background and some matching Backgrounds in some future set.
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