Quick reminder for those of you that forgot, Explore means the following: Reveal the top card of your library
If youre brand new to the format, read our step-by-step guide to building a Commander deck first, then come back here for the tribe-specific picks
Whichever you choose, you'll still be getting a 10 mana 7/7 (plus a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the highest mana value of cards in exile) with annihilator x equal to the number of counters and ward that exiles half of your opponent's library
Countering a spell with storm won't affect the copies
Mechanics & Firsts While this was technically an expert-level set, the set mechanics of shadow and buyback are actually pretty intuitive
[22] Turns follow a sequence of generating ink, playing cards, using actions from cards, and challenging opponents' character cards