![]() ![]() ![]() I would like to note, however, to the folks hoping this fixes power level issues: it doesn't. Maybe that's because folks really do prefer the cards that were designed around Standard rather than designed for an eternal format, or maybe it's because people don't like the icky feelings that Command Tower and Eminence referencing the command zone gives. More the intent of the format, beyond nostalgia, appears to be to return to a heyday before Wizards was designing around Commander. Suffice it to say, there are a lot fewer options than what we're used to these days, but that in no way means there aren't still a lot. That leaves 152 options total that make up the rest of your multicolor options, with 92 two-color options, 49 three-color options, 11 five-color options, and no four-color options whatsoever (unless your playgroup would like to rule zero the Nephilim, as has been fairly commonly done since the beginnings of EDH). All 426 legendary creatures in between form your commander options for the format, with three possible options for colorless, 59 for mono-white, 51 for mono-blue, 61 for mono-black, 53 for mono-red, and 49 for mono-green. This means the last commander printed into the format was Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer , with the first being Adun Oakenshield. Put simply, PreDH is meant to recapture the "good old days" of Commander by only allowing cards printed before, well, Commander! For those not intimately familiar, the first Commander precons were released in June of 2011, immediately following New Phyrexia. You can decide for yourself whether that's an admirable (or even possible) goal, but the latest attempt to recapture the nostalgia of at least the early days of EDH, if not our youth, is "PreDH". Since then, there's been many more attempts to capture the nostalgic feeling of just sitting around a table with friends, worrying more about companionship than competition. In the everlasting struggle to reclaim the good old days of kitchen table Magic, the first salvo was the invention of EDH itself. Welcome to Too-Specific Top 10, where if there isn’t a category to rank our pet card at the top of, we’ll just make one up! (Did you know that Vaevictis Asmadi is the only Elder Dragon with three different activated abilities?) ( Grand Arbiter Augustin IV | Art by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai) A Long, Long Time Ago (And Also Today)
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