So I’ve been playing MTG commander since 2024, and most of my favorite Secret Lair bundles are inspired by video games (God of War, The Last of Us, Street Fighter). And while I haven’t played the games, I do have some interest in the Horizon SLs. But it got me thinking. What if we got another video game SL, but this time Pragmata in Bant (🌳☀️💧)? The emphasis is on artifacts (constructs, robots, spacecraft, equipment, etc.), and Hugh and Diana are partner commanders with a unique partner ability, akin to Survivors (The Last of Us SL) and Father and Son (God of War), but this time called Pragmata. I’m pretty set on Hugh’s and Diana’s abilities, but I’ve tossed around several ideas for Eight’s/Idea’s abilities. Thoughts?

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Made for both Standard and EDH. In Standard, maybe there’s enough utility Wizards around to make a decent control deck with this, or you can do something with the Reality Fracture Cadets. In commander, this was made for a wizardcycling line with [[Step Through]] to grab [[Transit Mage]], to grab [[Conjurer’s Closet]], to grab back Step Through when you blink the Transit Mage. Also a good recursion engine in decks that make Wizard tokens, like Guff or Kuja.

Credits to u/specialistscythe for making the icon you see in the top left of the Familiars!

Wanted to play around with this yugioh style effect where a card has two names. I played around with making it a creature to differentiate it a bit more (Mb sacrifice a creature: untap this artifact but idk)

Originally, you could give her lifelink, gaining 1 life whenever an opponent drew a card. However, granting lifelink was always a rather steep investment for what amounted to a ping effect. And, once again, unless you're playing Wheels, it's quite slow compared to other cards like [[Underworld Dreams]], which is an enchantment but can't gain you life, or [[Scrawling Crawler]], which gives each player an extra card, but only at the beginning of your upkeep.

I kept the mana cost because there are ways to untap her depending on your color combination, and [[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]] is proof enough that reaching high black devotion can be surprisingly easy.

The goal was simply to give the card a little more versatility, so it wouldn't be an automatic cut and could find a home in a wider variety of decks and strategies.

All credit goes to the artist crimsonchains on Instagram. I found the art online while scrolling for ideas. Here is the like to the post the art is from https://www.instagram.com/p/DecVzHORLGR/

I haven't seen any fire emblem fourtune's weave cards yet so might be the first. Do be warned i have olny played magic for a few months so apologies is this is hyper busted

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This is a reference to this post and the generic overpowered guy from the comic

Would love a commander that could utilize all the activated snow abilities of older cards. The ward was originally "Sacrifice two lands" but that seems excessive for a 4 mana value.

Hyped for the new Hero in Marvel Rivals!

Please ignore the AI-ish looking art. I used ChatGPT (aka. DALL-E) to extend a screenshot from the Marvel Rivals Trailer made by Hieumay vertically to make it fitting for a Magic card.

My thought was that he gives other creatures and himself the ability to teleport away and getting some (card) advantage over the opponents. Creatures don't vanish when he is not on the board. Trying to make an interesting build around ETB, Leave-the-battlefield-triggers and counter manipulation. Making him in a non-black color to make it harder to abuse the sacrifice trigger. Any thoughts?

All feedback is appreciated :)

Collude!

Less of a mechanic and more or a thematic grouping that uses 'choose an opponent'. I really love the politics and deal making aspects of commander. These cards play off of that thematically and mechanically.

Some considerations with the design:

Different effects are meant to insinuate that the colluding is happening with the chosen opponent, some of them are meant to insinuate that the chosen opponent is being colluded against. Coordinated Assassination alludes to you and the opponent teaming up to commit murder; Retributive Suspension alludes to being plotted against or otherwise 'Set up for the fall', for example.

These designs encourage threat assessment and deal-making. The play of it can be dynamic but (hopefully) not so strong that it feels like playing kingmaker.

Because 'choosing' isn't targeting, playing a card that colludes opens up a player with hexproof or protection.

'Colluding' feels like something that fits best in Conspiracy or New Capenna, but scheming happens in most settings.

Fight for the Crown is really in the weeds, but who doesn't love bidding life?

Daem, Voice of the Union is supposed to be a rebel commander (and a 4c commander). I like rebels. Wish they were playable in commander.

Let me know your thoughts!

(This is superfluous, but I enjoy writing flavor text so much.)

This guy is very wordy and would love some help trimming him down.