Post by Sigarda on Dec 13, 2014 0:41:20 GMT
There are some commanders out there who give group hugs, there are some who are strong but fair and then there are the few commanders that will always cause a collective groan at the table when you reveal them to the other players. These are the commanders that don't even try to hide your own personal loathing for the rest of the universe.
Here are my personal three favorites of this genre:
Coming in at third is Sen Triplets. Way of exposing a players hand to scrutiny by the rest of the table? Check. Lets you take away their cards and play them? Check. Stops them messing with anything you put on the stack? Check. Huge political tool to influence players who don't want it done to them? Check.
For bonus points play this card in Duel Commander when going one on one against an opponent.
In second place is Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon. At five mana - and therefore easily castable by turn 3 - we have a 4/4 FLYING dragon with INFECT - something which is almost impossible to remove the 'damage' of unless you can get rid of poison counters. Or, to put it another way, even unbuffed we have a three turn clock on any one player. Oh and before you think that's everything you can give him haste when he comes back after the first time he is killed on sight. Oh and on that note you can regenerate him as well??
If you play this card then you weren't ever brought candy floss as a child.
Taking first place however - and very much in my own personal colors of choice - is Gaddock Teeg. This is a card that says "I know how long you spent finding the best cards for your commander deck. I understand that you have the foil copies of Sphinx's Revelation and Blue Sun's Zenith in your deck and also that your whole strategy is to tutor up Rise of the Dark Realms then mill yourself before reanimating everything... but I DON'T CARE BECAUSE I HATE YOU... ALL OF YOU.. I WANT YOU TO LOOK IN HORROR AS YOU REALIZE THAT 2/3 OF YOUR DECK IS NOW USELESS IN YOUR HAND WHILST I MAKE GADDOCK HEXPROOF AND GIGGLE HAPPILY AS I PLAY MY BIG CREATURES AND LITTLE SPELLS... SUFFER YOU IGNORANT FOOLS"
Playing this card as your commander more than once in a 3 year cycle probably means you never really got over your crush on the Cadbury's bunny from the 80's.
So that's my list of cards that cause joy and happiness whenever they are shuffled into their owners library or otherwise taken from the game. What ones can you add to the mix?
Here are my personal three favorites of this genre:
Coming in at third is Sen Triplets. Way of exposing a players hand to scrutiny by the rest of the table? Check. Lets you take away their cards and play them? Check. Stops them messing with anything you put on the stack? Check. Huge political tool to influence players who don't want it done to them? Check.
For bonus points play this card in Duel Commander when going one on one against an opponent.
In second place is Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon. At five mana - and therefore easily castable by turn 3 - we have a 4/4 FLYING dragon with INFECT - something which is almost impossible to remove the 'damage' of unless you can get rid of poison counters. Or, to put it another way, even unbuffed we have a three turn clock on any one player. Oh and before you think that's everything you can give him haste when he comes back after the first time he is killed on sight. Oh and on that note you can regenerate him as well??
If you play this card then you weren't ever brought candy floss as a child.
Taking first place however - and very much in my own personal colors of choice - is Gaddock Teeg. This is a card that says "I know how long you spent finding the best cards for your commander deck. I understand that you have the foil copies of Sphinx's Revelation and Blue Sun's Zenith in your deck and also that your whole strategy is to tutor up Rise of the Dark Realms then mill yourself before reanimating everything... but I DON'T CARE BECAUSE I HATE YOU... ALL OF YOU.. I WANT YOU TO LOOK IN HORROR AS YOU REALIZE THAT 2/3 OF YOUR DECK IS NOW USELESS IN YOUR HAND WHILST I MAKE GADDOCK HEXPROOF AND GIGGLE HAPPILY AS I PLAY MY BIG CREATURES AND LITTLE SPELLS... SUFFER YOU IGNORANT FOOLS"
Playing this card as your commander more than once in a 3 year cycle probably means you never really got over your crush on the Cadbury's bunny from the 80's.
So that's my list of cards that cause joy and happiness whenever they are shuffled into their owners library or otherwise taken from the game. What ones can you add to the mix?
