Today continues the slower, quieter pace of weekend previews, as Magic: The Gathering's Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate preview season gears up for much more to come next week. We saw just four cards revealed on Sunday, and no legendary creatures for the first time this season.
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Today's highlights include… basically everything, really. There's a fascinatingly political mass-destruction spell, a major new reanimation tool for white, an adorable Owlbear, and Magic's second-ever Demon Bird just one set New Capenna's Falco Spara.
X generic, three white sorcery:
Return all creatures and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Ascend From Avernus.
White is getting a lot of love in Baldur's Gate, and Ascend From Avernus may be one of the best reanimation spells it's ever had.
White is the colour of cheaper creatures, so you'll likely not have to spend too much mana to get the majority of your graveyard back into play. Esper Sentinel, Drannith Magistrate, Grand Abolisher, Mother of Runes, Skyclave Apparition, Mentor of the Meek, and Thalia, Guardian of Thraben are all less than three mana and have a huge impact on Commander games.
Ascend From Avernus also specifies it returns planeswalker cards, which makes this a must-have for Superfriends decks as well. Planeswalkers can skew a little on the expensive side, but even then, the most you'll be paying is twelve mana to pull any planeswalker in the game back from the graveyard. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker; Ugin, the Spirit Dragon; Ashiok, Dream Render; Narset, Parter of Veils; Oko, Thief of Crowns; there is so much
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