mtg commander 2017 best deck Review: Commander Part 1 (White, Blue, Black, Red) and Arcane Wizardry Hydra Commander Deck - Mono

Choose one of five clans and discover your favorite way to play, then prepare your forces for nature's fury

Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total

Ravensburger certainly heard the cries but made the unusual decision to errata (retrospectively change the card) rather than ban it

Consider Blistercoil Weird, Flameborn Viron, or Graveborn Muse

Merry, Warden of Isengard + Pippin, Warden of Isengard The cards Merry, Warden of Isengard and Pippin, Warden of Isengard were designed to be partners, so it makes most sense to look at them together