With Casualties of War and Nissa being in all the mirror matches
This is Commander's stapliest blue staple, after all: One of the best stax cards in the game, one of the best card draw effects in Magic, and overall among the strongest enchantments you can play
Ixhel naturally has toxic 2, dishing out two poison counters when you deal damage with it to a player
My beloved Simian Spirit Guide is the least powerful of the bunch but also the most recently banned
He tells Wargamer that a seven-card hand is taller than a fully sleeved Commander deck , and that "in order to shuffle the deck in a conventional manner, you would require at least five people." Again, in the pro column, there's the intimidation factor that comes from rocking up to a game with your posse of card shufflers (slash hype men) in tow, and placing a mountainous, towering deck in front of your opponent
But they can spend a Blue mana to untap them