While having a deck built around flightless, oversized chickens sounds like a meme, the synergies are actually shockingly powerful, to the point where I think that Chocobo might actually be a real deck in Standard, especially once rotation and bannings make red aggro less dominant
Well cover these in more detail in the next steps, but they are: [10] Add a card from your hand to your Inkwell Play a card to the play area Use a Character ability that doesnt require them to exert Trigger an Item or Location ability If a Character was in play at the start of your turn, then you may also take the following actions: Quest to earn Lore Challenge an opponents exerted Character or Location to banish them Use an ability that requires being exerted Choose a card from your hand that has the Inkwell Icon around the cost
I assume a popular character like Cloud is going to be on more than just this card in the same way Frodo or Galadriel were in the Lord of the Rings set I know you cant get into main set spoilers here, but is there anything about designing around these characters for a commander-only product that you enjoy getting to do differently from a product that has to be in Standard
6 Summon: Valefor Soul Shatter For Blue Players Though it doesn't see a whole lot of play, Soul Shatter is one of the most dread-inducing cards in Magic
While this is definitely too slow for Standard, I can easily see this becoming a new Commander staple for white
On the competitive stage, this card operates as a devastating late-game finisher designed to wipe out opposing boards