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As you would expect from a Commander-focused product, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering’s Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur’s Gate is co😼ming with a full suite of four preconstructed decks for you to buy and shuffle up.
The first of these decks is Draconic Dissent, an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Izzet (blue/red) deck built around Firkraag, Cunning Instigator. This deck is all about two things: Dragons and goading. Forcing your opponents to attack each other can cause chaos at the table, and, with these ten cards exclu🅰sively debuting in the deck, you’ll have a few new powerful tools for really inciting some mayhem.
Firkraag, Cunning Instigator
Three 💃generic, one blue, one red legendary creature – Dragon – 3/3:
Flying, haste.
Whenever one or more Drago💙ns you control attack an opponent, goad target creature that player controls.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, if 🐭that creature had to attack this combat, you put a +1/+1 counter on Firkraag, Cunning Instigator and you draw a card.
As the face commander of this deck, Firkraag showcases the main plays: throw out lots of Dragons, and use them to goad your opponents into attacking each other. While there have been complaints about how frequently goad is showing u🧔p in Commander products recently, tying it to an expensive creature type like Dragons is an interesting way to hold it back a bit.
Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer
Four generic, one red༒ legendary creature – Elf Sham♋an – 2/5:
Creatures your oppoꦡnents control with power less than Baeloth Barrityl’s power are goad🎐ed.
Whenever a goaded attacking or b🤡locking creature dies, you create a Treasure token.
Choose a Background.
If Firkraag is an attempt to make a ‘reasonable’ goad commander in this new Commander Evergreen era, Baeloth, the secondary commander for the deck, is the opposite. This feels overly oppressive, especially for a pℱreconstructed deck intended for new players.
This is a new kill-on-sight commander, thanks to how easy it is to puff him up with equipment, counters, or enchantments. It doesn’t help that the Backgrܫound exclusive to t🌠his deck is designed to do just that.
Clan Crafter
One generic, on👍e blu🏅e legendary Enchantment – Background:
Commander creatures you own have “Pay two generic, sacrifi⛄ce an artifact: put a +1/+1 counter on this cre🍸ature and draw a card”.
On its own, this is potentially one of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:more interesting Backgrounds released in Baldur’s Gate. Having a sacrifice outlet for artifacts at instant speed can be very useful, and giving you counters and card🎶 draw for doing so makes it even better.
It’s just a shame that this has been paired with Baeloth Barrityl in a Commander landscape that is so rife with Treasure that can easily be 🐲thrown at it to allow it to grow and Goad yeꦛt more creatures.
Artificer Class
One generic, one blue enchantment – Class:
The first artifact spell you cast each tur꧑n costs one generic less to𒁏 cast.
Pay one generic and one blue mana when at level one: Level Two – When this Class becomes level two, reveal cards from the top of your library until yo꧅u reveal an artifact card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bot🐭tom of your library.
Pay five generic and one blue when at level two: Level Three – At the beginning💖 of your end step, create a token that’s a copy of target artifact you control.
Thanks to the ubiquity of Sol Ring and Arcane Signet in Commander, Artificer Class may well become a new auto-inclusion for any blue deck. Hitting 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a mana rock with the level two ability you can then use to level up and make copies of every turn is ridiculous ramp for a colour that doesn’t normally come by it as easily.
If copying mana rocks seems small to you, then you could beef up your pillow forting by copying a Norn’s Annex, give yourself lots of card draw with an Esper Sentinel, or🥃 just ♊go haywire with additional Academy Manufactors.
Astral Dragon
Six generic, two blue creature – Drag𒁃on – 4/4:
Flying.
Project Image – when Astral Dragon enters the battlefield, create two tokens that are copies of target noncreature permanent, except they&rsqꦛuo;re 3/3 Dragon creatures in✱ addition to their other types, and they have flying.
Noncreature animation is always funny, and turning a land, enchantment, artifact, or planeswalker (though be careful of the legend rule) into two flying dragons is always going to get a laugh at the table. And yet there is a lot more going on here than it first seems: Astral Dragon is an excellent 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:blink target through something like Displacer Kitten to keep the🔯 token☂s coming.
A particularly good thing to copy would be a land. As the cards retain all the types of the original, a land creature can’t be destroyed by anything that reads “nonland permanent”. Not only does that give the Dragon ꦉa bit of protection, it also allows them to tap for mana.
Mocking Doppelganger
Three generic, one blue c🎐reature – Shapeshifter – 0/0:
Flash.
You may have Mocking Doppelganger enter the battlefield as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it has “Other creatures with the same name as this creatu🌠re are goaded.”
Mocking Doppelganger is an awesome double-whammy of a creature. Not only can it enter as a perfect copy oඣf someone else’s biggest threat, doing so will then goad the original and throw it into🦹 the line of fire.
The best bit is that, despite seeming like it should, Mocking Doppelganger doesn’t actually target anything. You can copy a creature with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hexproof, shroud, ward, or protection just ൲as you could any other – one of the few ways to make such a cr🧸eature goaded without having to do it to the entire battlefield at once.
Bothersome Quasit
Two generic, one red creatu𒁏re – Demon – 3/2:
Menace.
Goaded creatures your oppon꧒ents control can&rsওquo;t block.
W🍷henever you cast a noncreature spell, goad target creature an opponent controls.
On any other card, goading a creature whenever you cast a noncreature spell would be a huge deal, especially when it’s on a three-mana card. Shockingly, Bothersome Quasit outdoes itself with the preceding line that prevents any goaded creature from being able to block.
For targeted goad, such as from Firkraag, it’s a great way to shift a big, hefty blockers out of the way. But when you put it behind a mass goad effect, like Baeloth Barrityl or a Disrupt Decorum, the effect is potentially game ending. Your opponents will likely have to take a large amount of the damage from each other player’s♌ attacks, and your non-goaded creatures can breeze on past them to𝄹 take the win.
Death Kiss
ജFive generic, one red creature – Beholder – 5/5:
Whenever a creatuꦇre an opponent c🗹ontrols attacks one of your opponents, double its power until end of turn.
X generic twice, one red mana: Monstrosity X.
When Death Kiss becomes monstrous, goad up to X target creat𒊎ures your opponents control.
Monstrosity is a returning mechanic from the original Theros that allows you to pay a mana cost and put X 1/1 counters on Death Kiss. When you do, it ‘becomes monstrous’, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:triggering its second ability to goad a lot of creatures.
When paying a double X cost, you need to pay the same amount into both instances – in other words, you put counters on Death Kiss and goad creatures equal to half the total amount of generic mana you paid. It’s a pricey ability, but with no upper ceiling you could be pulling off s𓄧ome huge plays with it.
Loot Dispute
Three generic, one red enchantment:
When Loot Di꧟spute enters the battlefield, you take the initiative and crea🦄te a Treasure token.
Whenever you aꦬttack a player who has the initiative, create a Treasure token.
Loud Ruckus – Whenever you comp๊lete a dungeon, create a 5/5 red Dragon𝕴 creature with flying.
Four mana for this feels like a big ask, as you have to jump through a lot of hoops before getting a decent amount of value off of it. Taking the initiative and completing a dungeon can take multiple turns, and yet you’re also incentivised to repeatedly lose the initiative and then take it back. If you pull it off, you’re rewarded wit🅘h a 5/5 Dragon and the whole rigmarole starts again.
It almost feels like this was designed for a different deck. If you successfully goad your opponent’s creatures, they can’t take initiative from you. If they can’t take initiative from you, you can’t take it back and get 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a Treasure token, and so you’ll have to sit and muddle through the whole dungeon for the sake of one Dragon roughly every five turns.
Spectacular Showdown
One generic, one red sorcery:
Put a double strik✃e counter on target creature, then each goad creature that had a double strike counter put on it this way.
Overload: four generic, three red mana.
Following Commander 2020’s Avenging Huntbonder, this is the second card ever that can give a creature a double strike counter. This makes it great for counter-centric, keyword soup, or even Kamigawa 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Modified decks as ano💯ther𝔍 way to get an uncommon counter type onto a creature.
By paying the overload cost, you can put double-strike counters on every creature and goad all of them at once. This also affects your creatures, but if you combine it with a Bothersome Quasit it could be all you need to close out a game.