Magic: The Gathering's Rootpath Purifier is a potentially overpowered card for Commander decks
As Magic: The Gathering’s spoiler season continues, The Brothers’ War expansion also had some cards focused on Commander. Although there is no green representation in the two Commander decks for this expansion, Magic: The Gathering players recently discovered a card that will completely break how lands are handled in the format in the future.
Thankfully, this card, called Rootpath Purifier, is not available in Standard, but this creature is going to make many players thrilled, and just as many absolutely furious. What can this card do, and what makes it so overwhelmingly powerful?
Rootpath Purifier is a Commander card that will be introduced in the expansion for Magic: The Gathering, titled The Brothers’ War. This particular card immediately caught the attention of players, considering what it has the power to do. The card makes non-basic lands easier to access than ever before, with one simple ability.
As long as this creature is in play, every land in your deck is considered “basic” land. This is similar to a classic card known as Blood Moon, which is a red enchantment that turns all non-basic lands into Mountains. However, Rootpath Purifier allows players to keep whatever features their special lands had in the first place.
Why is this such a dangerous and powerful Magic: The Gathering card? Suddenly, Field of the Dead can be fetched by any Tutor/Land Fetch cards. As long as that card allows you to search for a Basic Land, you can pull any powerful, ridiculous land out of your deck.
Field of the Dead, for those who do not remember, gives you a 2/2 Black Zombie creature token whenever a land comes into play under your control if you have seven or more lands with different names. You can then, play that on turn one with
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