MTG Commander: Full Obscura Operation Decklist and WOTC’s Gavin Verhey on the Rise of Treasures
With Magic: The Gathering’s new Streets of New Capenna set just over the horizon, IGN is excited to reveal the full decklist for its Obscura Operation Commander preconstructed deck. Alongside official first looks at all of the deck's new cards, I spoke with Wizards of the Coast senior designer Gavin Verhey to discuss its saboteur-focused design, the rise of Treasure tokens in Commander, and one of the deck’s breakout cards.
Like all five of New Capenna’s Commander decks, each based on a different one of its five demonic crime families, Obscura Operation contains 17 brand new Magic cards. It’s a White-Blue-Black deck lead by Kamiz, Obscura Oculus, with a strategy centered around using creatures that have a triggered abilities when they hit an opposing player – often referred to as “saboteurs.”
Flip through the gallery below to see all of the new cards alongside the full decklist, and read on just below that to hear Verhey talk about the deck itself and the increasing prevalence of Treasures in the format.
Commander: Kamiz, Obscura Oculus
New Commander Cards (shown in gallery above)
New Cards from Streets of New Capenna
Reprinted Spells
Reprinted Lands
According to Verhey, this precon went through the most tweaks and changes of the five from New Capenna. “What we really wanted to capture was the feeling of the Obscura,” Verhey tells me, “and the Obscura in New Capenna can get in any locked door, they know all the secrets, and it was a great fit for Saboteurs.” That means you’ll be sneaking creatures past your opponents defenses to steal knowledge for yourself, frequently in the form of cards to play.
Verhey says a saboteur-themed precon is something WOTC has never actually done before. “We’re making plenty of Commander decks every
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