Really, with a bigger budget you’d mostly just be upgrading the creature package, with blink and protection almost at their apex. Mavinda, fresh off a under 600 defeat, is still a commander worth your time to explore, and given recent reprints, Mavinda can be an absolute banger at sub $50. Which is much appreciated given we can use Mavinda to get a lot of that back. Illuminator Virtuoso, hailing from the Obscura, focuses more on just crazy amounts of card filtering. Less so in Mono-white, but Rumor Gatherer can give us a lot of scry and hopefully a bit of draw - the kind of card advantage we need in spades to keep up with a mono-white deck. With the Cabaretti focusing on “Creature-fall” ( Alliance), there’s plenty of great effects for creature ETBs in Naya. , buuut it’s amazing for the monetary cost and great backup as the third copy of the effect in this deck. There’s a few more hoops to jump through to get Far Traveler running as opposed to It’s important to remember that backgrounds don’t always have to live in the command zone. Skip if you’re seasoned in that style of play or give it a look if you need a primer or refresher. A lot of readers might be familiar with classic blink synergies and value engines, so I’ll save that stuff for the end of the article. Instead of starting with the bread and butter mechanics, I’m going to first focus on the cool Mavinda-specific payoffs and more recent cards people might have missed. Alright, ready to rumble? The Coolest Stuff Our main plan is to coast into the late game with blink and protection subthemes before winning with To those ends, Mavinda will play out much more politically and control-minded than the Boros-aligned angel. That’s not to say these two cases will happen all that frequently, but having that added utility is great in preventing catastrophic situations like a What Feather provides in consistent value, it loses in the flexibility to also be casting instants and sorceries that don’t target AND casting a spell twice in a single turn. This also brings us to what I think separates Mavinda from the more popular target-your-own-creatures Commander, Vastwood Fortification / Vastwood Thicketīirgi, God of Storytelling / Harnfel, Horn of Bounty The pingers mentioned earlier are the real meat of the creature package, but they’ve got friends in classic staples like: , among others) so we have as high a chance as possible to “go off” when the stars align. Storm is also why we’re running a bunch of MDFCs that still work with Blanka ( Since Blanka gets +2/+2 with every targeted spell, Grapeshot’s one damage per copy will never get through and Blanka doesn’t need these spells that target to be cast so… you see where I’m going with this. , instead of focusing on aiming these totally fair cards at our opponents, they’re actually the best Blanka-fodder we’ve got in the 99. oth want to be playing as many spells as possible, as fast as possible (Editor’s note: what a novel concept!) Aetherflux Reservoir essentially serves as a backup win-con from just frying our opponents the old fashioned way, while Mizzix enables truly gangbusters turns in the end game. It’s just that Storm and Blanka have so much in common. So we’re not actually a Storm deck… but we are flirting with the idea. Slap one of these puppies down when Snake Umbra is out and about and you’ve got yourself a magical Christmas land.įinally, Season of Growth is amazing in a deck already promising to target with reckless abandon. , they are just as, if not more, effective with Blanka, generating 6 points of damage minimum with every recursion. Both from that one cycle from Invasion that spiked with It upset every Hexdrinker when I first debuted it. So whether it’s Blanka or our backup singers Have the audacity to say “Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent…” notedly NOT specifying combat damage. This is also where I get to talk about a couple of our best value pieces.
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