What makes a commander precon powerful
While it is powerful and can be a free card, it restricts deck building
Every turn, you can tap Bloodline Keeper to make a 2/2 Vampire with Flying and slowly build up your army
Magic: The Gathering Magical Thinking: Portal Three Kingdoms Welcome back to Magical Thinking, the series where we look at the cards and art of Magic: the Gathering through the eyes of a casual fan, set by set from the beginning
Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total
These are the types of cards that I want to pair with dice-rolling synergy pieces