![]() ![]() Anyone planning to take advantage of playing the long game in Time Spiral Remastered will appreciate one more way to gain value later and later in the game. It continues to see Commander play now and, I confidently believe, for years come, too. It has a valuable enters-the-battlefield trigger. (This is probably the first card you cut when upgrading the deck.)Īnd for Time Spiral Remastered, a retro frame card on the bonus sheet reflects another "modern" card that's still powerful today. ![]() Late in the game you can do worse than six mana to make a creature and draw two cards. Citanul Woodreaders won't turn any heads in terms of power, but if your deck cares about Humans or Druids, the value for the early game goes up.Yavimaya Dryad is a ramp spell-always valuable in Commander-that works off its enters-the-battlefield trigger.(And Commander has plenty of artifacts and enchantments you're happy to destroy.) Seal of Primordium is that second copy of Seal of Cleansing in decks packed with value built on playing enchantments.The legacy of these Time Spiral block cards, however, lied in the future-where we are today-and that they all continue to see play in Commander: Originally a card shifted from Seal of Cleansing into green for Planar Chaos, it returns in Time Spiral Remastered as a nice-to-have removal spell for the artifacts and enchantments that wreck your life. While you should be careful about holding something like Woodreaders in hand to kick for cards-you'll often benefit from ensuring you have enough creatures in play- Seal of Primordium is exactly the kind of card that can satisfy delayed gratification. Drawing this late in the game was amazing: you get a defensive creature plus two more cards, and your opponent probably frowns. A Horned Turtle green 1/4 is a solid blocker and helps buy time for suspend and other long-game plans to come together, but it also staples Divination onto it for a simple kicker cost. In 2007, the Two-Headed Giant format was giving competitive Magic a go-culminating in a Pro Tour defined by a draft strategy-and there you could help ramp your other head to go bigger or faster.Ĭitanul Woodreaders is a great example of why you'd want to play the Dryad for yourself. While giving one of your Forests to an opponent typically isn't a great idea, there were times you'd be happy to shove a Forest to their side and attack-or at least give an ally the extra land if there are several players on hand. Yavimaya Dryad has a clever way to ensure its forestwalk ability could, in theory, always matter. They ensure you have a play reasonably early-though aggressive decks opening with a one-drop into two-drop love to see an empty battlefield on the other side of the table if you wait that long-and often come with a bonus attached. Three-drop creatures are important in Limited. Getting that Future Sight pack one, pick one Sprout Swarm (a Time Spiral Remastered story Mark covered already) aside, blue had premium late-game cards that made green's tough creatures and ramp spells stand out. In my adventures with drafting throughout Time Spiral block, I fondly recall discovering how blue and green could work together, setting up a late game that was nearly unbeatable. (I couldn't complete extended research, so maybe I'm wrong.) Everything seemed to revolve around those two ways to play. FNM- Friday Night Magic-was simply dominated by two formats: Standard and Draft. Modern, Pioneer, and Historic weren't ready yet. When Time Spiral block was designed, the earliest days of what would become Commander were just around the corner. ![]()
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