It hasn’t even been a week, yet we’re already on the last day of a very condensed MTG Lorwyn Eclipsed spoiler season. To end things on a high note, Wizards isn’t slowing down today, as tons of new constructed and Commander-focused cards have been revealed. In fact, a few of the final Lorwyn Eclipsed spoilers look like they have serious multiformat potential.
MTG Twilight Diviner
Thanks to Surveilling on entry, Twilight Diviner enables itself, dumping creatures into the grave that it can make copies of. This also gives Diviner a high floor, fixing the top of your deck and eating a piece of removal at the absolute worst.
So long as it sticks around, it’s incredibly easy to get insane value off Twilight Diviner. Whether you’re using creatures like Bloodghast or spells like Reanimate, getting double value from reanimation effects is insane. Naturally, this makes it a perfect inclusion within an Orah, Skyclave Hierophant deck and other reanimator strategies in Commander.
Sadly, Twilight Diviner does have a pesky once-per-turn clause; however, that’s hardly the end of the world. If you’re able to flicker it, or sacrifice and repaly it, for example, you can reset this ability. This even opens up an infinite combo using Karmic Guide, Felidar Guardian, and a sacrifice outlet, like Phyrexian Altar.
- Start with Phyrexian Altar and Twilight Diviner in play, and Felidar Guardian in the graveyard.
- Cast Karmic Guide and reanimate Felidar Guardian.
- Stack the triggers so you copy Felidar Guardian with Twilight Diviner first. This will give you two flicker triggers.
- Target Karmic Guide and Twilight Diviner with the flicker effects. Before either creature enters, sacrifice the nontoken Felidar Guardian to Phyrexian Altar.
- Twilight Diviner and Karmic Guide will reenter, reanimating Felidar Guardian and creating a token copy.
- Repeat the above three steps for infinite mana, Surveil, enters effects, leaves the battlefield triggers, and Felidar Guardian tokens.
MTG Kinscaer Sentry
Kinscaer Sentry looks like an easy auto-include in existing go-wide Standard shells, so long as they choose to dabble in white. This two-drop is already extremely powerful in battlefield-based matchups because of its keywords. Partner the Kithkin with Ouroboroid, and racing this strategy will become impossible.
That said, keywords alone would not be enough to make Kinscaer Sentry playable outside of Limited. The attack trigger that this card offers not only makes it a slam dunk in aggressive constructed decks but also makes it an enticing option in a variety of battlefield-centric Commander decks. Partnered with multi-body creatures like Badgermole Cub, or Mobilize creatures like Stadium Headliner, this creature can cheat in some serious pressure ahead of schedule.
In Commander, any decks that care about attack triggers will want to use Kinscaer Sentry to accelerate deadly attackers into play. Isshin, Two Heavens as One lets the Sentry cheat two creatures into play instead of one, setting up a massive attack on the next turn. If you have a particularly wide board, you can pair Kinscaer Sentry with Master of Cruelties, knocking out an unsuspecting player from nowhere.
MTG Dream Harvest
It’s difficult to justify paying seven mana for anything in Commander nowadays, but Dream Harvest is certainly worth the cost. Thanks to stealing fifteen-mana’s worth of spells at minimum at an average Commander table, Dream Harvest easily pays for itself. Even if you roll low, this could become a generic new staple in the Bracket 3 format as a whole.
While this should be a fantastic upgrade to any Dimir Commander deck, Dream Harvest will do a bit of extra work in some specific places. Don Andreas, the Renegade can create tons of Treasure Tokens off the spells you steal with Dream Harvest. Alternatively, Garland, Royal Kidnapper and Jon Irenicus, Shattered One turn any creatures you steal into a nightmare for your opponents to deal with.
The only thing holding Dream Harvest back is its color identity. There are still plenty of Commanders like Marvo, Deep Operative, that can do powerful things with Dream Harvest, but a Dimir color identity severely restricts the decks that would otherwise be interested in this. Sadly, because of a lack of multiple opponents, Dream Harvest isn’t too interesting in two-player formats.
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