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Boros Legion - Guilds of Ravnica

Legion Guildmage | Zack Stella

Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice | Chris Rahn

Hammer Dropper | Lake Hurwitz

Chance for Glory | Bram Sels

Swathcutter Giant | Aaron Miller

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Rock the Brawl

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I’m going to be filling in for @niv-mizzle today, and sharing my personal brawl deck! I wasn’t super interested in Brawl when I first heard about it. I tend to only play eternal formats and limited, mostly Commander. So the idea of a rotating Commander with a smaller card pool sounded pretty uninteresting. But I threw together a list with cards I already had and was pleasantly surprised. I think that where Brawl really shines to me is in 1v1 when you want an experience similar to commander, but more like a normal game of magic, especially when it comes to the length of games.

But enough about the format itself, lets talk about Hapatra. The obvious build around is -1/-1 counter synergies and a list that looks like something out of Amonkhet Block. But that’s not how we do things around here. One of my favorite deck archetypes is BG Control, more popularly known as The Rock. I first heard of the archetype when I was getting into standard for the first time around Kamigawa-Ravnica. I read this article and fell in love with the archetype.

The main goal of the deck is to consistently out value your opponent with ramp, removal, and card selection. The Rock wins with slow attrition, beating down with a superior board position, 2-for-1-ing whenever possible. Cards like Ravenous Chupacabra and Noxious Gearhulk kill a problem creature, and stick around long enough to kill something else. Our Aftermath cards are another kind of card advantage. Mouth/to/Feed lets you make a 3/3 early, and refill your hand later. Never/to/Return acts as removal, that also stops graveyard shenanigans, or just makes another creature when you need it.

We also fill out the rest of the deck with cards that Synergize nicely with Hapatra. The goal of the deck is to function fully without her. Shes an early threat that can build a dominating board presence against certain match ups, but hardly essential. However, we have some ways to take advantage of her if left unchecked. FIrst off, we have creature’s that put -1/-1 counters on themselves to trigger Hapatra without combat. We also have some ways to take advantage of the tokens we do make, Whisper lets you trade snakes for things like Noxious Gearhulk, or more likely, something that will come with a snake. Cards like Torgaar and Ghalta also get a lot easier to cast when we have a tonne of tokens.

So how do we actually close out the game? We intend to gum up the board as much as possible, stopping our opponent from ever actually doing anything that matters. But that doesn’t do it on it’s own. Cards like Twilight Prophet and Bontu can slowly close out a game. But what’s more likely is to either drop a Ghalta and start swinging in past their unfavorable board state, or taking apart their hand and board with a large Torment of Hail Fire, leaving them totally open to our board.

The Rock is a powerful archetype that a lot of decks just cannot deal with. Control can’t counter your key spell, if everything you play is pure value. Yet you have the midrange effect against aggro, but backed up by Hapatra’s ability to destroy their board state if they swing into you. Combo doesn’t have time to sculpt its hand if you’re swinging in undisturbed.

Stay chill, stay hydrated. Love you. -IZ

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This was a fun one to write up. I have been pretty outspoken about my disinterest in brawl as a format. But I do think it’s really fun. Unlike some other formats (like tiny leaders), brawl doesn’t just feel like commander lite. Instead it feels like commander limited, which is actually really cool.

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Skyship Weatherlight in D&D (Download)

For the release week of Dominaria, I decided to make my first rules set for a vehicle with the most iconic one in magic’s history: The Skyship Weatherlight. This design works using the rules for Airborne and Waterborne Vehicles found on page 119 of the Dungeon Mater’s Guide. The additional rules I added focused on simple necessities for the ship, like roles of crew members and the ship’s high speed rule (since none of the similar vehicles in the DMG need rules for going this fast), as well as on depictions of the Weatherlight on cards.

For example, the Thran Metal Hull ability was inspired by the card Captain’s Maneuver, which also gave some of the inspiration for the maneuver option of the Powerstone (specifically that a charge can be expended to grant advantage on the pilot’s dexterity saving throw granted by Thran Metal Hull). The Powerstone ability was also designed as a way to regulate the ship’s planar travel ability.

These rules are designed to work for Dominaria’s past and present stories, but can also be used in other settings - the Weatherlight would fit well in Spelljammer!

This is one of my first pieces content for Dominaria, when more comes out (and it’ll be coming soon after this post), you’ll be able to find that, as well as what I’ve already made here! If you want to support my work, you can make a donation to my ko-fi here, or support me on Patreon here for early access to upcoming content and patron-only design process posts.

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Muldrotha, the Gravetide Commander Deck

Last week I showed my Arvad Brawl decklist featuring fun new cards from Dominaria, and now we get to see my new list (one I am actually working on in paper) for Muldrotha, the Gravetide in Commander

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1066327#paper

This deck was designed more in mind for a few combo synergies and also better for 3 or less players in a game, but the value you can generate from your graveyard is enough to win any game once it gets going.

The sideboard includes more expensive cards that you could play if you have the money for them or your playgroup allows proxies. The more expensive cards that are maindeck can obviously also be swapped out as per budget restrictions but they are more essential for competitiveness.

As always feel free to let me know what you think and I hope you all enjoy!

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Reblogging because I realized I posted this at like midnight last night

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Gryff’s Top 10 Rivals of Ixalan cards for Commander.

Yeah it’s late, but I got to really look into Rivals as a set for Commander. Well, this set blows. It blows so hard that it makes a Hurricane seem like nothing. “But we have all these new Generals!” Yeah, and? New generals are nice and all, but I need things for the 99. This set has at most 9 cards I deemed “Good enough” for decks. Yeah yeah, personal opinions and shit. There’s an Honorable mention, but yeah. Again, these are my personal opinions. If you think there are better cards, please share them below.

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Magicwatch Patch Notes:

New Hero- Akande Ogundimu, Doomfist

Hero Updates-

Sombra, the Illusive: Mana cost of card and abilities were increased to give her more power. Third ability can target any nonland permanent, instead of just creatures

Orisa, Defender of Numbani: Second ability reworded and given a cost, since it being free is kind of silly in hindsight.

D.va, Savior of Korea: Reworded for easier reading and function.

(Last patch notes here)