andrew

But that's the whole reason I'd want to play them 😜

Oh dang I totally misread that! Thanks for the note.

One of these that can pull from the graveyard would be cool though.

This is great, I didn’t know at least half of these existed.

Too bad Ashiok’s Forerunner is a rare, would have loved to annoyingly chain those in limited.

Agreed on all 3 points, particularly your first on their commander focus. I've never considered the color pie corruption via Commander too but that makes a ton of sense.

I think when they started printing directly to Commander—as opposed to letting cards printed for standard sets trickle down naturally to Commander--they introduced immense issues to both Commander and regular formats. It's a format designed for 4 players and an eternal one that they need to now "rotate" with increasingly powerful cards. Not only does this corrupt the spirit of Commander (finding new uses for cards that never got played elsewhere), it cannot work with 2-player constructed formats and has caused a ton of issues there.

I just wish they'd go back to only designing cards for Standard and limited, and let the eternal formats (Commander included) get them naturally. Sadly it just is never going to happen, it's too big a cash cow.

Aw man now I really want this 😞 What a great idea for a commander precon

This doesn't directly answer your question on paring the big pool down, but I bookmarked this a while ago that had a pretty good overview of EDH deckbuilding basics that might help, including numbers on how many of each category to go with: https://www.archidekt.com/decks/1048638#EDH__Deck_Template_(read_description_at_bottom) (and original source). It links to a separate guide on lands too which is helpful.

In general I think it's really helpful to set a goal at the beginning. Are you building a deck to primarily have fun and/or explore a theme, do you want to try to be competitive, etc. I tend to choose the cards that I enjoy playing over those that might be "strictly better," for instance, particularly ones that I have nostalgia for. I also tend to build around themes/tribes a lot which naturally limits the pool.

Wow lots to take in here! This was apparently revealed during SDCC, a bit more info: https://bleedingcool.com/games/magic-the-gathering-showed-off-the-doctor-who-cards-at-sdcc/

Putting my extreme distaste for UB aside for a moment, kind of cool that they're doing more with Planes/Phenomenons. Exterminate also seems like it could be pretty strong, particularly with Changeling.

Alt art frame with the Humanist sans-serif font is pretty wild for an MTG card.

Well that's a colorless Time Walk! I love that it combines the titan's cast triggers.

Add it to the list of MTG sets that have their own cards too.

I'd never heard of him before but it looks like he's a human from Innistrad. Seems like a really cool character.

Wow the art for the token is incredible!

Amazing art. Hard to replace the OG with Hannah/Squee but this in an old frame I think would get me.

I don't play enchantress but this looks super strong no?

It'd be even nuttier if it too was an enchantment (tutorable, triggers enchantresses, shroud from grove) but this can really help you go off.