Faerie Mastermind Part of the inspiration for this article, Faerie Mastermind is always a good card to have in Commander
At the time of writing, there are 226 unique cards (plus around 14 additional "promo" cards) available, split across three choices of pack (one each themed after Charizard, Mewtwo, and Pikachu) and all together making up the game's first expansion
When it started, Magic was indeed a single game

Table of Contents show The Deck Shelob, Child of Ungoliant | Illustration by Lorenzo Mastroianni Commander (1) Creature (36) Aunt May Spinneret and Spiderling Radioactive Spider Spider-Woman, Stunning Savior Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man Spider-Man 2099 Spider Manifestation Gwen Stacy Spider-Punk Mary Jane Watson Miles Morales Spider-Ham, Peter Porker Spiders-Man, Heroic Horde Twitching Doll Sensational Spider-Man Symbiote Spider-Man Spider-Byte, Web Warden Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit Araa, Heart of the Spider Scarlet Spider, Ben Reilly Spider-UK Superior Spider-Man Silk, Web Weaver Arasta of the Endless Web Spider-Man, Peter Parker Spider-Man 2099, Miguel O'Hara Spider-Man Noir Gwenom, Remorseless Ghost-Spider, Gwen Stacy Web-Warriors Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary Spider-Man India Shelob, Child of Ungoliant Spider-Man, Miles Morales Spider-Rex, Daring Dino Instant (7) Path to Exile Swords to Plowshares Spider-Sense Counterspell Heroic Intervention Arachnogenesis Double Trouble Sorcery (5) Farseek Nature's Lore Three Visits Cultivate Kindred Dominance Artifact (6) Sol Ring Arcane Signet Chromatic Lantern Herald's Horn Patchwork Banner Urza's Incubator Enchantment (5) Origin of Spider-Man Kindred Discovery Spider-Verse Impostor Syndrome Web of Life and Destiny Land (40) Arid Mesa Blood Crypt Bloodstained Mire Breeding Pool Command Tower Commercial District Elegant Parlor Flooded Strand Forest Godless Shrine Hallowed Fountain Hedge Maze Lush Portico Marsh Flats Meticulous Archive Misty Rainforest Mountain Multiversal Passage Overgrown Tomb Polluted Delta Prismatic Vista Raucous Theater Reflecting Pool Sacred Foundry Scalding Tarn Shadowy Backstreet Starting Town Steam Vents Stomping Ground Swamp Swarmyard Temple Garden Thundering Falls Undercity Sewers Underground Mortuary Verdant Catacombs Watery Grave Windswept Heath Wooded Foothills Zagoth Triome The core of the deck is all about spider synergy, and while it qualifies as a Bracket 2 Commander deck, the combination of its cards and mana base make it play closer to the optimized Bracket 4

The -2 ability can be great when we are running such a toolbox of interactive creatures, letting us get back a discard, removal, or another casting of Gray Merchant
Magics managed to sidestep the ongoing controversy over lootboxes in video games, but its impossible not to look at The One Ring and just see Collector booster packs as lottery tickets for a card so valuable that it could let you put a deposit down on a house