This 100-card deck, led by the legendary Jirina Kudro, features a powerful combination of red, white, and black cards
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur is a classic blue reanimation target in MTG
Taxing opponents for every card they play ensures that your hand will almost always be overflowing by the time your turns come around, hitting all your decks best options as early as possible
Green cards will frequently return permanent cards from the graveyard to the hand, Klomparens says, and so much of this set is about expectation setting that we wanted to make a new card here doing it in the most basic way to give players an expectation of the baseline, so its easier to engage with the versions of this effect with the frills that theyll see in our tentpole booster releases or Commander decks. Finding these iconic reprints to seed throughout the product suite was something we put a lot of effort into. Leading the Elves deck is Elvish Archdruid, who buffs all your elves (just like Elvish Champion)
Playing large creatures early with cards like Reanimate and Sneak Attack is already a strategy in Commander, so having a commander that can do the same with a unique mechanic is exciting
I played my first game of Magic right before Theros came out, attended a draft a couple weeks later, bought 2,000 cards with my friend Eric from some random guy on Craigslist, and never looked back