![]() Tymaret, the Murder King will do extra murdering, and so on. There are a few less well-known cards, like Relic Vial, Rakdos Riteknife, and Carnage Altar that I suggest exploring. We unfortunately can’t use the eponymous Ashnod’s Altar, since it’s a mana ability. Fortunately, there are other cards in other decks which apply. Sadly for me, most of the sacrifices in my Altar of Thraximundar deck are either triggered abilities or activated abilities of enchantments, which don’t qualify. Since Ashnod follows in Mishra’s Grixis footsteps, the first commander that comes to mind is Thraximundar, who loves a good sacrifice. When we sacrifice one or more permanents to activate a non-mana ability of an artifact or a creature, she lets us copy it and choose new targets for the copy. Mishra’s honey badger apprentice/ally/lover, Ashnod is all about amplifying what you’re already doing. I’m thinking we give the creatures lifelink and generate a few extra combats to really send their power into the stratosphere. Multiple triggers mean multiple bumps and could add up to quite a bit. ![]() Then, whenever we gain life, each Advisor, Artificer, and Monk (with 244 choices in Jeskai colors) gets + X/+0 until end of turn, with X being the amount of life we’ve gained. We start off with a little bit of passive lifegain if we keep our hand at five or more cards. With Urza in Esper colors, it was open to a card like Sharuum the Hegemon being part of the 99 (and possibly secret commander?). ![]() If that Construct is our only artifact, it’ll be a 1/1, but given the nature of the deck we’ll want to build around Urza, it will be much larger. ![]() In addition to giving menace to our artifact creatures, he has an end step trigger which creates a Construct token that gets +1/+1 for each artifact we control. Urza, Chief ArtificerĪrguably the stronger card of the two due to its affinity for artifact creatures helping pay its mana cost-and, importantly, commander tax-Urza creates instead of transforms. I’m particularly fond of the Helvault idea, especially if we’re getting back a slew of our own creatures. What’s more likely is that we take advantage of artifacts that give us some benefit when they get put into the graveyard, like Helvault, Ugin’s Nexus, or Spine of Ish Sah. If we’d like to beat down with some Powerstones or Scrap tokens, we can (although Powerstones enter the battlefield tapped, so we can’t battle with any new ones). Don’t worry if the artifact was cast this turn, because Mishra also gives it haste. Mishra, Eminent OneĮvoking Mishra’s ability to turn artifacts into engines of war, this Mishra has a beginning of combat trigger which allows us to turn a noncreature artifact into a 4/4 Construct. Let’s look at every one of them, listed alphabetically (you can find the full lists here at the mothership), except that we’ll look first at the two commanders. Between the two decks and the eight Commander cards in Set and Collector Boosters, there are 28 new cards. While that gives us fewer new cards than a four-deck release, it also gives us the opportunity to dissect each one of them in more detail. In a move that makes complete sense from a flavor standpoint, there are only two new preconstructed decks to come out of The Brothers’ War Commander: one from Urza (Urza’s Iron Alliance) and one from Mishra (Mishra’s Burnished Banner).
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