Anje was only pushed out of the top three by more-recently printed commanders. What kind of legacy does it have?Īnje Falkenrath and Chainer, Nightmare Adept are in the top ten black-red commanders. Including Command Tower and Sol Ring, there's twelve cards in here for most players to use elsewhere with ease and that's. Also, come on, not even a Terminate or a Dreadbore ?! High Utility, Low Priceįair play: at the time of printing, Solemn Simulacrum and Chaos Warp were not below $2, but so it goes. There could have been better, more desirable reanimation spells here. ![]() ![]() This deck demonstrates one problem with a specific keyword-based theme is that the cards won't have much application or desire elsewhere. There's $20 in this deck once you cut out the chaff. How desirable are the cards? Value Cards: She has an otherwise straightforward gameplan, but I like there being decks in the format that enable weird, otherwise bad cards. She has firmly planted madness's place in the format under her banner, even if she has a tendency towards Worldgorger Dragon combos, which even shows up in cEDH. This helps shore up the fact that most madness cards just don't cut it in commander.Īs for that core theme, Anje Falkenrath remains the queen of madness. The deck has plenty of discard rewards and ways to get creatures out of the graveyard, which synergizes nicely enough with the back-up commanders. The 99 only has 19 cards with madness in it (out of a total of 37 possible red or black cards with madness printed at the time). It's not often that I discuss the bonus commander, but this one certainly made an impact by turning all black mana symbols into Phyrexian mana! The notable "bonus commander" in this deck would be K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth. The other back-up option was Greven, Predator Captain, a unique sacrifice voltron commander that leant away from the deck's themes the most. He lets you discard one card in your hand to cast a creature card from your graveyard, which means bonus value from madness cards, but also allowed for the broader black-red theme of a graveyard deck. The first back-up commander was Chainer, Nightmare Adept, a fascinating pseudo-reanimator. Leading the charge would be the fittingly flavorful Anje Falkenrath, who could rummage and be untapped when discarding madness cards. Once thought of as green-blue due to its first outing, madness eventually settled as a black-red mechanic thanks to its affiliation with the vampires of Innistrad in Shadows Over Innistrad. It wouldn't be until 2021's Draconic Rage that each ally color pair would finally have a precon release.Īlright, side-bar aside, Merciless Rage was the deck that focused on madness. Our first deck is Merciless Rage, the first ever black-red preconstructed commander deck! Something I forgot to mention back in 2017's article was that an ally-colored cycle of precons had gone unreleased by the time they switched to the biodomes. Other than morph, they also tied into a broader playstyle that could be interwoven to give players alternate build paths if they got tired of the relatively narrow version offered by the face commander. All four keywords had fans but none had a dedicated commander. Even so, these four keywords made a lot of sense to build around. The keywords chosen would be madness, populate, flashback, and morph.Īt the time of their announcement, we the players had no idea they would be the last set of precons to exist independent of a set. Each deck would be built around that keyword, introducing a commander that cared about it in some way and some new cards with it. In the final biodome of the era, Wizards of the Coast continued the shared theme idea and settled on keywords. What kind of note did it ring out? Let's dive in! Commander 2019 Overview Namely: they wouldn't get another chance to throw in some cool legacy characters in the normal Commander deck line, so they really went all-out here! Five characters from the Weatherlight saga got cards!įour years ago this August, an era of preconstructed design would end. ![]() I believe that it being the last Commander deck release of its kind had a clear impact on how it was designed. It followed the formula established in 2017, but it would be the last in the line to do so. ![]() There's no time like the present to dig up the past: it's time for another Retrospective Review! We're here to talk about Commander 2019, released August 23, 2019, at $39.99 each. Dockside Extortionist by Forrest Imel Retrospective Reviews: Commander 2019
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