MTG: How To Build Decks For New Street Fighter Commanders
The newest Secret Lair for Magic: The Gathering is a crossover under the Universes Beyond product line with Street Fighter, and there’s already talk about brewing decks with them in one of the most popular formats, Commander. The cards will be available to preorder until March 18, so there’s still time to order these and start building decks. Each card is a legendary creature, which means that all of them can be played as the leader of a 99-card deck designed around their abilities.
Given these cards are inspired by Street Fighter, each one has a combat-based ability, whether it’s a power and toughness boosting effect, an attack-based trigger, or simply something aggressive. In addition, the flavorful Magic and Street Fighter crossover abilities call back to the powerful moves that the original characters had in their game — Chun-Li’s card even has a pun regarding Magic’s Multikicker mechanic. Designing and building decks around these characters will require strategies that take advantage of their unique mechanics.
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Combat and Magic’s Commander format have a tough and interesting history, as many of the best ways to end a game are combos or one-shot kills like Craterhoof Behemoth. When each player starts at 40 life, it’s hard to kill opponents with combat damage. Aggressive decks will still often have powerful near-game-ending combos that deal large amounts of combat damage in one fell swoop. The Street Fighter commanders and their respective MTG Commander deck builds don’t immediately break any formats and some don't have many other cards to build around, but with the right cards, they can still be incredibly fun and powerful to play with. Here are
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