Magic: The Gathering's Double Masters 2022 Previews – Day Three Highlights
It’s time for the graveyard shift for Magic: The Gathering’s Double Masters 2022 preview season. The weekend is always a quiet time for spoilers, with fewer cards revealed ahead of the bumper crop we can expect over the next week.
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Despite the slowness, we’ve still had some excellent cards revealed. From a combo-potent commander to numerous staples, Double Masters 2022 is really shaping up to be where all the Commander spice we hoped for from Baldur’s Gate went.
Two generic, one white, one black, one green legendary creature – Fungus Shaman – 0/0:
Ghave, Guru of Spores enters the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters on it.
Pay one generic, remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Pay one generic, sacrifice a creature: put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Aside from having one of the best creature type lines in all of Magic, Ghave is infamous as being one of the most unintentionally broken commanders in the game. It’s scary to think we’re getting a set with both Ghave and Phyrexian Altar in it, as whenever they see play together the answer is usually some kind of infinite or instant-win combo.
One of the best-known combos for Ghave is found in cEDH (competitive commander), and uses the cards Young Wolf and Earthcraft to produce infinite Saproling tokens with infinite +1/+1 counters on everything. This also works with Phyrexian Altar, making both of their appearances in Double Masters 2022 terrifying.
Regardless, Ghave’s inclusion confirms that one of the goals of this set was to include a lot of the format-defining commanders in a single set. With Ghave, Muldrotha, Augustin IV, and
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