3/20/2023 0 Comments Battlebond double commander![]() Each pair is so chock-full of fun flavor that I imagine it will be a blast building Commander decks around each pair, since you can use both as your commanders. There is one partner set corresponding to each enemy-color pair. For my money, it’s all the sweet legendary creatures you can build new Commander decks around.įirst up is the return of the partner mechanic, but this time each legendary creature partners with a specific other legendary. When the Modern G/W Hexproof deck got popular and included that card in many of the lists, the price went up quite a while.Įven if Battlebond just featured all these sweet reprints, it would certainly gin up a lot of excitement for Commander players, but that’s not even the coolest part of the set. Another card I’m happy to see is Kor Spiritdancer, which is a great card to include in any sort of Aura-heavy Voltron-style deck. Slipping it into Battlebond is a real gift to Commander fans.Ī lot of these other cards have gotten surprisingly expensive over the years, so the Battlebond reprint will help quite a bit. It was designed before planeswalkers were more than a twinkle in R&D’s eye, so when you cast a planeswalker with a Doubling Season on the battlefield, it gets double the loyalty, which often means the planeswalker can activate its ultimate ability immediately…which basically means that Doubling Season will never, ever be printed in a Standard-legal set. ![]() The card is insane in Commander because of its interaction with planeswalkers. It was reprinted once since then in Modern Masters, but at $10 a pack and a relatively limited print run, it didn’t have much of an impact on the price. Doubling Season was printed way back when we first visited Ravnica thirteen years ago. The big jaw-drop moment was when Doubling Season was previewed. Commander fans are hoping that these cards being reprinted will mean a considerable drop in the price tag. Many of these have been out of print so long as to have gotten quite expensive, which puts them out of reach for a lot of folks. The first exciting part of Battlebond is a handful of great reprints for Commander. I don’t think any Commander fan was expecting this! If I thought about it, it would have obviously been interesting from a Commander perspective since Two-Headed Giant is a multiplayer format, but… wow. When I heard about Battlebond, I was mildly curious how a set designed with Two-Headed Giant in mind would look. I haven’t really considered playing Two-Headed Giant since then. One half of the other team was Pro player and SCG resident Control Master Shaheen Soorani, someone you definitely don’t want to make a mistake against! For the first Two-Headed Giant, a friend and I actually made it to the finals for Virginia, but after an extremely long day (it was after midnight when the finals started), we made a bone-headed mistake and our opponents were able to capitalize and steal momentum from us and take the win. Some years ago, Wizards experimented with holding State Championship tournaments, one with the Standard format, and one with Two-Headed Giant format. ![]() Team Magic definitely adds an enjoyable social element to the game. You are still subjected to the randomness there without a whole lot of wiggle room, but at least you have a partner to go through the experience with, good or bad. Two-Headed Giant is a bit better because you get a larger card pool to work with, and you can put together two coherent decks more often than not. The only time I like playing Sealed is at Prerelease events, and that’s mostly just because I want to get my hands on the new set’s cards before I can buy them. For a lot of people, this is a feature and not a bug, but it’s not really my cup of tea. ![]() At the top of my list are Commander and Standard, mostly because I love the deckbuilding possibilities with a large card pool and being able to execute any sort of gameplan you can cook up in the format.Īt the bottom of my list is Sealed, because I hate being locked into the random and relatively few number of cards in the card pool you happen to open sometimes you can get lucky and get some crazy powerful bombs, and sometimes you get unlucky and open cards that don’t play well in Limited. I’ve been playing Magic for 24 years and have played just about every format imaginable, and over time, what I love, like, and don’t like all that much has pretty much been set in stone. I’m really surprised at how excited I am about this set.
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