Look to Afterlife cards from RNA or older staples like Requiem Angel.Īs a Commander: 7/10 - Strong build-around options, though not as high of a raw power level as her original iteration.Īs Part of the 99: 9/10 - Staple in all aristocrats decks that can cast her. When building around Teysa, creatures that make tokens when they die are basically the ideal support cards for her. Being able to pay life to your black effects and have faith that you’ll gain the padding you need to survive being attacked and taxing your own life total simply by enacting your game plan is very useful. Her token anthem effect is not a huge deal, but incidental life gain is important in many metagames. She fills none of the three roles by herself, but makes all the existing synergies even more potent. She wants you to have all the pieces of the archetype in your deck in equal amounts (sac effects, creatures to sac, and abilities that trigger when creatures die), and just puts the whole process into overdrive. I’ve talked before about how much I like different approaches to the same archetype and this is a unique payoff for her archetype. She obviously lends herself to an aristocrats strategy (one where you kill your own creatures for value), but she does so in a unique way. Regardless of my bias, I believe her new incarnation is one of the coolest Legends printed in a long time. Teysa, Orzhov Scion was the first Commander deck I ever built, so this character will alway hold a special favor from me. Overall: The rounded average of the scores.Įach visit to Ravnica has given us a new version of this Orzhov representative and she has been ever-present as a driving force in the guild and a stabilizing counter to the actual guild leader(s). Legends with high versatility scores are great based on stats and require minimal support to want to include in existing decks.īudget Friendliness: This is how easily a Legend can be built on a budget while still being functional and fun to play. Versatility: This is basically the opposite of being a build-around. Cards can get points for being fun build arounds, promoting unique deck building choices, or potentially being powerful competitively.Īs Part of the 99: This is how well I see them fitting into existing decks or archetypes, with preference given to support cards, as opposed to build-arounds I will be giving x/10 scores on the following axes:Īs a Commander: How well I think a legend will do as the leader of its own deck. Because of that, I felt it was appropriate to borrow an article style from a previous series on Flipside and examine the Legends in RNA through a couple predetermined lenses.įor those that have been following Flipside Commander content for a while, you’ll recognize these metrics from Kilian Johnson’s articles: This new set has powerful options for all formats, but I’ve been most impressed by the Legendaries. But mostly, I’ve spent my time getting extremely excited for Ravnica Allegiance (RNA). It’s been a bit, and in our time apart, I’ve continued brewing sweet Commander decks and running to medium finishes at large tournaments. Hello again, MtG expert Nathan McCarthy is back with some more Commander content!
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