Every New Card In MTG's Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur's Gate's Mind Flayarrrs Deck
It’s the end of Magic: The Gathering’s Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate’s preview season, which means it’s time for the preconstructed Commander decks to have their big debut. We’ve already seen the red/green Draconic Dissent deck, and its huge amount of goad, but now it’s time to go for something a bit more horrific.
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Mind Flayarrrs is a deceptively silly name for an absolute beast of a deck. Horror tribal is the name here, and trying to mill your opponents out to steal the best cards from their graveyard is the game. With lots of support for Horrors and mill on offer, this is one any Dimir (blue/black) lover is going to want to pick up.
Three generic, one blue, one black legendary creature – Horror Pirate – 3/6:
Horrors you control have menace.
Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent’s graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.
It’s hard not to feel sorry for Innistrad: Crimson Vow’s Umbris, Fear Manifest. It was only the go-to Horror tribal commander for a few sets, before Captain N’ghathrod came along and offered something much more appealing.
For the same price as Umbris, you get a commander who can mill your opponents for an immense amount of cards, before stealing one and putting it onto the battlefield under your control. For all but the most dedicated of graveyard decks, the theft makes up for N’ghathrod’s lack of exile, and for everything else, there’s nothing saying you can’t run Umbris
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