Every New Card In MTG's Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur's Gate's Draconic Dissent Deck
As you would expect from a Commander-focused product, Magic: The Gathering’s Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur’s Gate is coming with a full suite of four preconstructed decks for you to buy and shuffle up.
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The first of these decks is Draconic Dissent, an Izzet (blue/red) deck built around Firkraag, Cunning Instigator. This deck is all about two things: Dragons and goading. Forcing your opponents to attack each other can cause chaos at the table, and, with these ten cards exclusively debuting in the deck, you’ll have a few new powerful tools for really inciting some mayhem.
Three generic, one blue, one red legendary creature – Dragon – 3/3:
Flying, haste.
Whenever one or more Dragons you control attack an opponent, goad target creature that player controls.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, if that creature had to attack this combat, you put a +1/+1 counter on Firkraag, Cunning Instigator and you draw a card.
As the face commander of this deck, Firkraag showcases the main plays: throw out lots of Dragons, and use them to goad your opponents into attacking each other. While there have been complaints about how frequently goad is showing up in Commander products recently, tying it to an expensive creature type like Dragons is an interesting way to hold it back a bit.
Four generic, one red legendary creature – Elf Shaman – 2/5:
Creatures your opponents control with power less than Baeloth Barrityl’s power are goaded.
Whenever a goaded attacking or blocking creature dies, you create a Treasure token.
Choose a Background.
If Firkraag is an attempt to make a ‘reasonable’ goad commander in
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