MTG Salvation

Prava of the Steel Legion 2W
Legendary Creature - Cat Soldier
During your turn, creature tokens you control get +1/+4
3W: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
Partner
1/4

Big butts token tribal? Okay...
Also previewed here are Ancestral Blade, Captain's Call, Doomed Traveller, and First Response.

Card draw for the same permanent type, and mill monarch. I have no idea what to do here other than re-tool an Aminatou deck and start digging. They also mentioned Gift of Paradise and Cage of Hands as reprints.

The problem with animating your lands is that now they die to practically everything. It doesn't help that they're usually 0/0's with counters on them. Kamahl and his Will offer a simple solution: make them indestructible 1/1's instead. Kamahl then gives your team a free Overrun. Not bad for an 8-mana 5/5.

Today Gavin talks about why cascade is in the set. Long story short: casual players enjoy it.

Yurlok of the Burn Thrash 1BRG
Legendary Creature — Viashino Shaman
Vigilance
Whenever a player loses unspent mana, they lose that much life.
1, T: Each player adds BRG.
Jund's gufts are never free of charge.
4/4

Horizon Stone 5
Artifact
If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.
One day, Kruphix dreamed that he was traveling to an unknown land on the edge of the world. Out of curiosity, he picked up a stone there, and discovered when he woke up that it had followed him in reality.

Mana burn is back, and so is Kruphix's mana transformation. Joining them are reprints of Valakut Invoker and [card]Phyrexian Rager[/mana].

Source: Numerama

Gor Muldrak, of Cryptohistories fame, is here to warn you of the Amphinocalypse, and give you a GU legend that has absolutely nothing to do with mana or card draw. His one Amphin friend agrees. Also, cascade Naturalize.

Just a heads up, outside of the Mutineer, there are ten Salamanders in Magic so far.

Source: Mashable

Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar 1R
Legendary Creature - Elemental Lizard (U)
Whenever a commander you control deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent.
Partner
1/1

The leaked first of the familiar cycle, and a Pirate that forces you to alpha strike on opponent at a time... for at least two per turn.

Source: NGA

Zara, Renegade Recruiter 3UR
Legendary Creature — Human Pirate (R)
Flying
Whenever Zara attacks, look at defending player's hand, you may put a creature card from among those cards onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Return that creature to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
4/3

Red has a lot of cards that put a creature from your hand into play for 1 turn. Adding blue means you can now do that, with your opponent's hand. Reprints include Makeshift Munitions and Run Away Together.

Source: MTGSHEEP

Numa, Joraga Chieftain 2G
Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay XX. When you do, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target Elves you control.
Partner
2/2

Straight out of the leaks Magic's Taiwanese Instagram account, more Elfball. Oh, and the FTV:20 Fyndhorn Elves art makes it to a nonfoil printing (and a foil printing that's worth less than its current $21 price tag).

Source: MtG Chinese (Traditional) Instagram

Sky-high piracy, anyone? And yes, Malcolm is nuts with Glint-Horn Buccaneer, requiring only two opponents to make an infinite loop.

Source: Sheldon Menery

Averna, Blossoming Chaos GUR
Legendary Creature - Elemental Shaman
As you cascade, you may put a land from exile into play from among the exiled cards.
"Nature is a dance. Master it and the world will have no secrets for you."
4/2

Forceful Denial 3UU
Instant
Cascade
Counter target spell.

Aurora Phoenix 4RR
Creature - Phoenix
Flying
Cascade
Whenever you cast a spell with cascade, return Aurora Phoenix from your graveyard to your hand.
5/3

Emberwilde Captain 3R
Creature - Djinn Pirate
When Emberwilde Captain enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
Whenever an opponent attacks with one or more creatures, if you are the monarch, Emberwilde Captain deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.
"A worthy foe, but flammable."
4/2

Cascade tribal, and a red monarch card. And yes, the counterspell is a common.

When this was leaked last week, it was priced at $150. It's currently hovering at $100. This might be the Berserk of the set.


Oh, and these two are a thing.

Source: Weibo

Another common Commander, and another partner. So far, so good.

Source: Magic: The Gathering Chinese Traditional Facebook

"DEBT AND ALE AND CARDS AND FESTIVITIES!"
—Breeches (yes, he actually says this, and it's meant to be so much louder than you're imagining)

Today Gavin tells the story of how Monarch made its way into Commander Legends.