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Magic: The Gathering Adventures in The Forgotten Realms Commander Deck – Planar Portal (Red-Black)

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The Magic The Gathering Adventures in The Forgotten Realms Bundle is a great addition to any collector of Magic The Gathering. The bundle gives new and experienced players a chance at getting involved in Magic: The Gathering and experiencing the wonders that bringing two massive franchises together can hold. and Prosper, Tome-Bound, Ebony Fly, Grim Hireling, Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Mind Stone, Rakdos Signet, Talisman of Indulgence, Commander's Sphere, Orazca Relic, Unstable Obelisk Along these lines, this article is going to be overflowing with interesting ideas. However, I certainly won’t be able to think of every available possibility. Feel free to use my ideas as a springboard for whatever new and creative build you come up with yourself. And when you think of a cool idea that I missed, please leave a comment about it below. Cards like Captivating Vampire and Patron of the Vein can turn your small tokens into big threats. Alongside various lords and tribal pump effects, you can get off to extremely fast starts. Even if your opponents manage to deal with your board, or if your aggressive plan stalls out, you still have cards like Blind Obedience, Blood Artist, and Sanguine Bond that give you extra reach to close out games. Plunder the Graves has lots of small creatures meant to provide a little extra value, which become perfect sacrifice fodder later in the game. Skullclamp and Butcher of Malakir can really take advantage of killing your own creatures, as can your commander: Meren of Clan Tel North.

Wizards pre-cons frequently come, out the gate, with a garbage mana base, and a garbage interaction suite, a bunch of clunky overcosted creatures, enchantments, and artifacts, and a bunch of swingy, 5+cost sorceries as “interaction”. Then they’ll have a few absolutely core cards that you need and will go up in price rapidly. Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat are total must-have cards. Free, instant speed interaction is golden.Well, this is a crazy effect, nabbing enemy creatures. It’s carefully worded to make it hard to really abuse, because the obvious combo would be to be gaining enough life off the creatures to keep reanimating, and then using something like Conspiracy to remove all creature types. If you manage to drop Lorcan and Conspiracy and then have say a Zulaport Cutthroat and a couple other life gain triggers, that’s pretty much that.

What Planar Portal is trying to do out of the box is a bit clunky, and unfocused. There’s a “play cards from exile” theme built into the commander, and this is used to generate value, and then there is a weird sacrifice/rate subtheme. There are no death triggers, not a lot of card draw, though there is the exile pseudo-draw off your commander. There’s a bit of control, but more is probably necessary. The artifacts and land base are solid, and should let you cast your spells more or less on time, the enchantments add some value. But then the average mana value is 3.62 without lands. Missing land drops or just stalling out are huge risks, with so many big swingy cards, and playing them will almost certainly force you to tap out, not allowing you to hold up much for interaction. Thankfully you have the treasure generation, so that may help ease the burden. If you know someone who loves Magic: The Gathering or wants to start playing it, then the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Gift Bundle is an excellent choice. Or even, if you want to get your hands on lots of new cards from the set, as well as a few extra special bonuses then this is definitely something you should be thinking about. Uba Mask is a spicy addition to this list; it disrupts opponents’ card drawing by turning it into impulse draw, and gives us access to at least one Treasure-maker per turn with Prosper out. Powerful and varied synergies between the cards. A decent number of good tutors. Good mana curve. Has an efficient and consistent way to win on turns 10-12 (level 7) or 7-9 (level 8). Some social rules — like no mass land destruction, no consistent combo wins — still exist.Share the Spoils is another one but is much cheaper to cast and as an enchantment could potentially be sacrificed and returned to the battlefield to reset it. Chaos players will certainly love what this card does. Dauthi Voidwalker and Draugr Necromancer are two cards with basically the same effect. They let you cast spells that go to your opponents’ graveyards. Additionally, they have the added bonus of being graveyard hate.

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