If you follow my blog you know I have been getting back into Magic the Gathering. I started playing in the 2000s and there’s been a lot of changes since then. So o figured it was time to upgrade from standard play to the new and massively popular Commander format.
For those that don’t know tnis format is for four players per game and deck sizes are 99 cards + 1 commander card. The game duration for this format should be about 20 minutes per player.
The Commander format is all about picking your hero and building a deck around them. In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players are only allowed one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic's history.
I had a hard time picking which commander o wanted and I have been looking at a few different options but I landed on favorite video game Fallout. This was also a massively popular set with collect booster going for hundreds.
As you can see the cards are beautiful with my commander on top! Dog Meat is a favorite character of the game.
The set comes with a booster pack with 2 cards, some tokens, a life counter and instruction guide. The look of this set is pretty sleek and and the art is beautiful.
The best part of this buy was I was able to get the set at a pretty steep discount. It was almost 45% off the original price. Let me tell you magic is expensive these commander decks can go for $60-100 retail price.
I played it like 20 years ago, collected lot of cards then stopped, there was no commander stuff at that time
Do you still have your cards?
I wish, my parents when moving decided without asking anything to trash old stuff including all my cards 😐 I don't remember a lot but I had seraphim, nishoba phantom, and many rare of those set, even a foil of that one looking like triceratop
these cards reminds me of the game we play when we were kind, it was called monopoly
Very different
yes, but they are giving me the same vibe
I don't understand any of this! I was at City BBQ in Grand Rapids on Friday picking up some take out and the guys at the table behind me were talking about something and I am pretty sure it was MTG. They seemed really into it.
City BBQ is pretty good! I was at dinner last week and the guy next to me saw me looking at cards online and he was a avid player. It seems really mainstream right now.
It's probably some of the best BBQ I have had up north. Especially for being a chain. They do things really well. I kind of regret that I never got into MTG.