Dominaria United is a really exciting time for Magic: The Gathering. The start of its 30th anniversary, the kicking off of its year-long Phyrexian invasion story, and the departure of not one, but two key Planeswalkers in the story made this feel like a bigger event than any other set released this year.
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With so many things happening, TheGamer’s Magic: The Gathering team decided to weigh in on which cards they’re most excited to play from the new set. Whether they play Commander, Modern, Pioneer, or Pauper, there’s something in this set for everyone to enjoy.
While mutate remains one of my favourite mechanics in all of MTG, I’ve never really clicked with the few commanders built around it. Right now I’m running an Archelos, Lagoon Mystic deck that combines the usual Archelos resource denial stuff with blue/black/green mutate goodness to sweeten the deal, but I think Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief may be what I’ve been looking for to replace it.
Ivy does a lot of things, but I’m most excited about casting mutate creatures and copying them onto Ivy for double the value. The really cool thing is that, as long as you put some protection on Ivy, she undoes the usual mutate deck problem of putting all your eggs in one basket. I could spread out and mutate onto multiple creatures, and Ivy will pick up the copies and keep them all in one, big, trigger-friendly stack at the same time.
Being able to copy Aura enchantments and combat tricks from other players is a really nice extra, making Ivy more than enough to drop the black from my current Archelos deck and go full Simic (blue/green) instead.
Thanks to Blizzard Brawl, players familiar with Standard have
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