gandalf mtg card A Mythic makes an appearance! And he's mono red! #magicthegathering #mtg #MTGxTheHobbit draw a card. Gandalf the White

Marina Vendrells Grimoire Marina Vendrell's Grimoire provides a massive burst of card draw with the promise of more on the way if you gain some life, which isnt hard if you pair this with cards like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic and Cosmos Elixir

While the most obvious question we could ask is, Is there a Commander deck here? the question I set out to answer was, What does Energy do that will contribute to a winning strategy? Its easy to see Energy as more of a Rube Goldberg machine than an effective resource, and so I set out with the intention of doing just that

Dimir (Blue/Black) Midrange: A flexible and powerful strategy that combines efficient threats with hand disruption

Time would show that it was a bit too restrictive and that just caring about any creature dealing combat damage would have been fine

It would be surprising if, when we check back on the most popular commander rankings a year from now, Kess, Dissident Mage isn't in the top 15, at the very least