To understand why, we need to take a journey back to 2002. Wizards have been on my radar as a tribe to build a deck around for almost two decades. Quite frankly, Kadena’s ability being limited also prevents one from breaking one of the Commander Commandments: “Thou shalt not overcommit.” I’ve heard some complaints that she doesn’t allow every morph spell you cast each turn to come down from free-which would be ridiculous-but I like her endorsing a morph deck in the same fashion as Tuvasa the Sunlit endorsed an Enchantress build. But if you didn’t want to play a Temur deck, a general with a similar cost reduction ability like Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer was going to be very important towards breathing life into this archetype. The morph mechanic has been held back from being a viable archetype in Commander because it lacks enablers beyond the interaction with Animar, Soul of Elements. I was impressed by how often cards I wanted in the deck were already included in the preconstructed version.

What really impressed me was how differently thee Faceless Menace deck played than I was expecting. Even so, all seemed very well balanced, and I had fun playing against each one of them over the course of the night. With all four decks on display, it was clear that all of them were going to be moving significantly slower than your average game of Commander. I chose Faceless Menace as my weapon of choice going into the event. This past weekend I was able to take part in a release event for the new product, Commander 2019.

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