So, it’s my go to pre con.” The best way to play Commander online Image: Spelltable So, this is a red/white artifact deck, which plays very differently from every other red/white deck and I thought it was a really, really cool unique deck. We love taking fan feedback to heart, it’s so important to me. A really popular fan request was ‘hey can you make a red, white deck that isn’t all about attacking’. “The Lorehold deck from Strixhaven is one of my favourites we’ve ever made. It has green, white and blue cards.’ Now we’re much more like ‘OK we’re building zombies that are built to adapt based around this mechanic’ or, ‘here’s a deck that’s attached to this set’… So we do a lot more theming around the decks, which is really really cool.”Īccording to Verhey, the best pre-con Commander deck actually came out this year.
“The very first commander decks were basically, ‘This is a green, white and blue deck. Other problems include the themes not really being strong.” “A lot of the early decks mana acceleration, because we didn’t know kind of what cards to put in there. This changing attitude towards Commander also shows in the attitude the team has had towards the pre-con Commander decks, which were first introduced in 2011 and have since evolved dramatically. Why would I want to play anything else?’” Because it really sucks when you’re like ‘Wow I love to build with this new commander, but this card they made is just the best blue green commander you could ever play with. Any new legends we make, we want to make sure do their own thing and don’t displace some other commander. “Because anything we make is going to be in commander forever, so we want to really make sure that whatever we make it something that will be healthy for the format and not outmode other cards. The big problem became considering not just how the cards interacted in the ever-rotating style of Standard, but also interact with every other play mode. “In the beginning we were a lot more cavalier about the cards that we made, just like making whatever cards we felt like,” he explained. That’s great for players who want to build a high-end deck and know they can play it forever, but presents a major challenge for set designers like Verhey. The main reason cited for liking Commander was that cards don’t rotate out of the format. Why do people like Magic’s Commander format so much? Commander was born out of the Elder Dragon Highlander format, which relied upon the Elder Dragons introduced in Magic’s third set, Legends. To put that into perspective, booster draft is the second most popular format with 10.8% of players, so Commander is crushing it right now. According to the most recent MTG Play Activity Report from 2020, “42.8% of players say that Commander is their most favoured format”. So, when I was given the chance to sit down and play with senior designer Gavin Verhey, I jumped at the opportunity to find out how Wizards of the Coast approach this fan-made format.įirst, I think a lot of people underestimate the popularity of Commander. Commander has long been one of the best Magic the Gathering formats around.
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