After weeks of silence, it looks like MTG spoilers are slowly starting to flow wild again. Technically, the Phyrexia: All Will Be One spoiler season hasn’t started right now, but a series of leaks have given players a glimpse of what to expect. Two new commanders in the All Will Be One preconstructed decks were inadvertently revealed, but they didn’t disappoint! Phyrexia: Two New Commanders to Lead the All Will Be One Preconstructed Decks Here’s who! Please note that these are leaks from pretty strong sources. However, if you want to wait for official spoilers, Consider this a spoiler warning.
Phyrexia: All in One Preconstructed Commander Deck
Pictured above are two Phyrexians: all the first in one commander deck. Both of these were accidentally leaked on Bazillion’s Amazon site so they may need to be translated a bit, the following translation is from the main his thread discussing these leaks provided by his Redditor in part.
Ixel, descendant of Atraxa – 1WBG
Legendary Creature – Phyrexian Angel
flying, vigilant, poisonous 2
Corruption — At the beginning of your end step, each opponent with three or more poison counters exiles the top card of their library face down. As long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them and play them, and you may spend mana to cast those spells as though you were any color. 2/5
If Ixhel plays as translated, it’s a pretty impressive engine. For those unfamiliar, Toxic is a new Phyrexian mechanic. All Will be One works as a weakened version of the infection. Instead of changing the creature’s damage directly to poison counters, creatures with Toxic deal physical damage in addition to poison counters. Ixhel has a Toxic count of 2. So it does 2 Commander damage (because it has 2 powers) and 2 Poison Counters.
In order for Ixhel to start playing cards from his opponent’s library, he must put 3 poison counters on his opponent. There may be other cards in the deck that make this state more effective. Once you reach that state, Ixel begins exiling one card of his per corrupted opponent each of your end steps that you can play with mana of any color. All in all, this seems like a pretty exciting Commander.
Phyrexia’s second Commander deck: All Will Be One spotlights the new Phyrexian allies desperately rebelling against the Phyrexians. This Commander is very unique, so be prepared for a lot of discussion by players:
Vanguard of the Sun, Neyari 2RW
Legendary Creature – Human Rebel
Attack tokens you control have double strike.
Whenever one or more tokens you control attack a player, exile the top card of your library. You can play that card during the turn you attacked with a token.
Unlike Ixhel, Neyali has no evasive capabilities. However, Neyahel doesn’t trigger its own advantage abilities. Both of these commander cards exile cards from the opponent’s deck to cast, but unlike Ixel, who needs to corrupt the opponent, Neyari is more concerned with attacking tokens. In particular, there is some confusion as to whether the correct translation here is “token” or “token creature.” Still, no creature has ever cared about attacking tokens or token creatures. The closest cards with text like this are cards that create tokens that attack when created. For those interested, here is the source of the leak.
Where can I play these cards?
Either way, the existing “token matter” EDH decks are filled with Neyali excitement. As many of her Redditors have pointed out, this card absolutely sucks at 99 in decks like Jinnie fay from Jetmir’s Second. Ginny Faye can turn any token you create into a 2/2 green Cat token with haste, or her 3/1 green Dog token with vigilance. Neyali can give Double Strike to all of these creatures, essentially drawing an extra card from your opponent’s deck for use on the turn those creatures attack.
That said, many players are unsure if Neyari is strong enough to serve as a commander. While she’s very powerful in token synergy, Neyari is pretty bad on her own:
“The bottom is really low (only 3/3 vanilla for 4 mana), but the ceiling can be high. Another reason I think she’s lackluster is that under certain conditions There is an almost direct comparison to Ixhel, who is also a 4-mana Legend who exiles the cards you play by reaching them.
Advantages of Ixhel over Neyali:
- Better overall stats, 7 total stats versus Neyali’s 6
- Keywords such as flight and alert
- can function on its own
- It’s a player killer in throwout games
- Once her impulse draw condition is met against a player who is always on, players rarely remove poison counters, as opposed to Neyari’s need to attack creature tokens.
- Cards she exiles can always be used as opposed to Neyari
Advantages of Neyari over Excel:
- It’s less color intensive, requiring only 2 pips of colored mana versus Ixhel’s 3.
- Give creature token double strike
- It requires less setup than Ixhel. It’s probably easier for him to get 3 attacking creature tokens than giving every opponent his 3 poison counters each, but this may change in future sets and cards.” – BananaLinks
As for players’ initial reaction to Ixhel, many are excited about the influence of this commander and more traditional infect-style cards:
“Oh, I really like the way it was designed to work with older Infect cards in a way that promotes healthier interactions for multiple players. A lot of people don’t like Infect in Commander. Because most strategies, including that, just shoot one player with a glass cannon and do nothing for the rest of the game. , rather than finishing the game for a few players, distribute it to each opponent to capture value and incentivize everyone to play the game.”
Each player must have three poison counters for Ixel to start making cards, giving traditional Infested Commander players more reason not to Voltron anyone out of the game. Infect could end up being a win condition for the deck as it only takes 10 damage to knock a player out of the game, his one trade-off here is that anyone playing with Infect will immediately It means that there is a tendency to be hated by the game. Either way, players are excited to see what these new Commanders and unreleased exclusive cards in each deck will bring to the game in his early February!
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