The Best Spoilers Of MTG's Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur's Gate Preview Season – Day Five
The weekend of a Magic: The Gathering preview season is often a quieter affair than the surrounding days, and Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate is no different. With the rush of the 80-cards of the first day far behind us, we now had just six or seven new things to look at.
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Not that that's a bad thing, though. Preview seasons can be overwhelming, so having quiet spots like this to process everything we've seen is nice. We weren't completely without fun new cards either, as today we have a new counterspell to watch out for, an interesting Azorius (white/blue) group hug commander, and a blue tool for the Ur-Dragon rivals the classic Vedalken Orrery.
Three generic, two blue instant:
Exile target spell, then roll a d20 and add the mana value of that spell:
1-14: You may cast the exiled card for as long as it still is exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any colour to cast that spell.
15+: You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost for as long as it remained exiled.
A five-mana counterspell in Commander usually isn't worthwhile, but this one has the added benefit of stealing your opponent's spell from them and casting it yourself. It's also potentially better than a spell like Narset's Reversal or Deflecting Swat, because you don't have to decide the new targets there and then, you can just sit on the card until you're ready to play it. Countering a Cyclonic Rift with this would be gnarly.
Hitting the 15+ roll to cast it for free isn't going to be too tricky either, especially in lower power level games with high mana value spells being flung all the time. The catch, however,
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