<h6 style="text-align: right;">Card art from <em>Edge of Eternities</em> | Illustrated by <a href="https://www.artstation.com/andreapiparo">Andrea Piparo</a> | Image credit: Wizards of the Coast</h6>
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<p>Wizards of the Coast has announced two new formats for Commander play, starting with <em>Edge of Eternities</em>. They're both awfully familiar to players who've been around the block for a bit. That said, Wizards is making an effort to revitalize them for a modern player base. However, do these formats hit the mark? Read on and find out more!</p>
<h2>2-Headed Giant Commander</h2>
<p>The first of these two Commander formats is 2-Headed Giant. This format pits two teams of two players each against each other in head-to-head combat. Players have a shared life total (of 60, in the Commander context) and can block attacking creatures for each other. Other rules apply, including the other standardized rules for Commander.</p>
<p>Wizards of the Coast introduced this revitalization of 2HG in <a href="https://wpn.wizards.com/en/event/two-headed-giant-commander-night-edge-of-eternities">a Wizards Play Network article</a> regarding <em>Edge of Eternities</em> events. You can read that piece for more information about this format!</p>
<h2><em>Edge of Eternities</em> Commander Box League</h2>
<p>The second and final "new" Commander format is the Commander Box League. This format takes the unofficial Commander Boxling League and changes key points from it in a way that fundamentally challenges Commander's core rules and spirit.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://wpn.wizards.com/en/event/edge-of-eternities-commander-box-league">WPN's article on this league</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>After players open their Play Booster box, they construct a 60-card Commander deck from the contents. <em>Buy-a-Box and Commander promos may not be used in deck building.</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Decks may include multiple copies of cards opened from the Play Booster.</li>
<li>Any legal commander opened is allowed.</li>
<li>Color identity rules in deck building are ignored; players may build decks with any colors they want, regardless of their commander's color identity. <em>Note: commander color identity still applies when cards refer to color identity (for example, with Arcane Signet).</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Players may adjust their decks between games using cards from their Play Booster box.</p></blockquote>
<p>The fundamental differences between this and Commander as a whole are stark. As a result, the new format's rules have left many players scratching their heads about why. <em>Magic</em> veteran <strong>Brian David-Marshall</strong> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/bdm.bsky.social/post/3lseiqpv7xc2m">had this to say on social media</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The difference between “Box League” and a “Boxing League” (the latter being the format I designed with [Commander format founder <strong>Sheldon Menery</strong>]) is that Boxing League is about building a Commander legal deck. Color identity, 100 card, singleton etc. only exception is Playtest cards in Mystery Boosters or stuff like that.</p></blockquote>
<p>To this, <em>Magic</em> personality <strong>Brian Kibler</strong> responded, "It's odd to call something a Commander format when it doesn't follow most of the rules of Commander at all."</p>
<h2>Commander on the <em>Edge</em></h2>
<p>So with that, we open the floor to you, dear readers. What is your opinion on the Commander revitalization of 2-Headed Giant or the recreation of the Commander Box League? Do you like these formats? Will you play either once <em>Edge of Eternities</em> comes out? Sound off below!</p>


Edge Of Eternities: Two New Commander Formats Announced

<p style="text-align: right;"><em>Image credit: Wizards of the Coast</em></p>
<p>Starting with <em>Edge of Eternities</em>, <a href="https://edhrec.com/articles/edge-of-eternities-rules-update-vehicles-can-be-commanders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all legendary Vehicles (and Spacecrafts) with a power/toughness box will be eligible as commanders</a>. With this announcement, I've devised the ten best legendary Vehicle commander cards that already exist in Commander.</p>
<p>Let's take a look at some of these fantastic rides and how you can make the most of them in your next Commander game.</p>
<h2>Honorable Mention</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Shorikai, Genesis Engine"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Shorikai, Genesis Engine" href="#" target="_blank">Shorikai, Genesis Engine</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a powerhouse of a card.</p>
<p>As you may guess, any Vehicle commander making creatures that can crew your commander is going to be super powerful. Furthermore, if it can accrue value for you in other ways, that's amazing too.</p>
<p>Shorikai is all of this and an oppressively strong body to boot. I would have made Shorikai our #1 pick... If not for the fact that it was already eligible as a commander.</p>
<p>In this article, I wanted to highlight the Vehicle commanders that weren't already there. Share the limelight, Shorikai!</p>
<h2>#10. Parhelion II</h2>
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<p>It's no surprise that many players, upon learning about this new rule change, flocked to the idea of making Parhelion II their Vehicle commander. However, with 21 total options available (besides Shorikai), Parhelion II is arguably the <em>worst</em> of the best.</p>
<p>It's a middling commander. For one, while it makes bodies, it already costs a staggering <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-6" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-w" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-w" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> to cast and four power to crew. Sure, it can then replace any crew with its 4/4 Angel tokens, but this clunker of a Vehicle's crew cost can't easily withstand board wipes without added help.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong, it's still a force to be reckoned with in the late game, but it's not going to shine through other mono-white options.</p>
<p>Plus, it isn't even the top mono-white option on <em>this</em> list. Nevertheless, it's strong enough as a battlecruiser to make #10 on my list.</p>
<h2>#9. The Falcon, Airship Restored</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="The Falcon, Airship Restored"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Falcon, Airship Restored" href="#" target="_blank">The Falcon, Airship Restored</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a new option from the <em>Final Fantasy</em> Commander decks. It's a formidable option because it can not only recur a creature upon connection, it also has the ability to recur itself from the graveyard.</p>
<p>As such, The Falcon is a commander tax evader. This has always been a powerful ability to have on a commander (e.g., <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Derevi, Empyrial Tactician" href="#" target="_blank">Derevi, Empyrial Tactician</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>).</p>
<p>Alongside its reasonable size and fairly low crew cost of 2, The Falcon is a fair choice for my #9 pick.</p>
<h2>#8. The Indomitable</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="The Indomitable"></div></div>
<p>At #8 is <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Indomitable" href="#" target="_blank">The Indomitable</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. Another tax evader from the grave, this flagship of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Admiral Beckett Brass" href="#" target="_blank">Admiral Beckett Brass</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a neat choice for either a Pirate deck or a Vehicle deck. Or a combination! It's a choice I could endorse here.</p>
<p>This card is a #8 because of the amount of value it accrues as a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Coastal Piracy" href="#" target="_blank">Coastal Piracy</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>/<span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Bident of Thassa" href="#" target="_blank">Bident of Thassa</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> variant. Also, as a trampling 6/6, it has built-in pseudo-evasion for combat, and that's really strong.</p>
<p>Crew 3 is nothing to worry about, and if The Indomitable goes down, you may have already tapped three Pirates to facilitate its return!</p>
<h2>#7. Golden Argosy</h2>
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<p>The #7 pick for this list is <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Golden Argosy" href="#" target="_blank">Golden Argosy</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. This ship is really funky. It wants to blink the creatures that crew it, but is stuck in colorless - its only real flaw here.</p>
<p>I wouldn't even fully call it a <em>flaw</em>, though, because decks can be built in colorless to work around or even exploit that fact. There are plenty of artifact creatures, and even some colorless nonartifact creatures, that can make the most of a blink effect such as this Vehicle's.</p>
<p>To make Golden Argosy your Vehicle commander is a choice, to be sure, but it can't be said that it'll always be a bad one.</p>
<h2>#6. RMS Titanic</h2>
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<p>The <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="RMS Titanic" href="#" target="_blank">RMS Titanic</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, in all of its memetic glory, is my #6 pick for best Vehicle commander to exist currently.</p>
<p>As a meme, the deck is a bad one. (This won't stop me from writing up a deck tech about the memetic version, but even still, the deck won't be about a Bracket 2!)</p>
<p>However, if you're making the RMS Titanic with a serious, dedicated mindset, this deck could be <em>very</em> potent. There are more than enough artifact synergies in mono-red to make a deck like the RMS Titanic do work in context.</p>
<p>Still, there are better non-Vehicles eligible as commanders that do similar things. Towing a line between bad and pretty good, the RMS Titanic also tows the midpoint of this list.</p>
<h2>#5. The Regalia</h2>
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<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Regalia" href="#" target="_blank">The Regalia</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is another colorless Vehicle commander option and is #5 on my list. Being colorless hurts it a bit for this ranking, much like Golden Argosy, but more decks can utilize The Regalia in context.</p>
<p>Namely, The Regalia is an interesting, if decidedly withheld, choice for a commander in an Eldrazi kindred deck. It also works for decks that just want to ramp up to expensive, splashy colorless spells.</p>
<p>Heck, there are plenty of Vehicles that would love this as a commander, not to mention the sheer mass of expensive artifacts elsewhere that could benefit from more ramp in the command zone. The crew cost of 1 is also really nice here, not to mention having haste.</p>
<p>It's an easy, intuitive card to use, overall, but there are some better options with colors, which is why The Regalia is <em>only</em> my #5 pick.</p>
<h2>#4. The Prydwen, Steel Flagship</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="The Prydwen, Steel Flagship"></div></div>
<p>Coming on at #4 is <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Prydwen, Steel Flagship" href="#" target="_blank">The Prydwen, Steel Flagship</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. This beast of a flying Vehicle is certainly stronger than Parhelion II, due to its passive ability synergizing with its crew cost, which then enables you to attack with The Prydwen at least one turn before most players can reliably cast Parhelion II.</p>
<p>Sure, it has fewer keywords, but The Prydwen makes up for this with better stats and a much stronger token-generating ability in a general sense.</p>
<p>In a more perfect scenario, you're swinging in with The Prydwen <em>and</em> its many 2/2 Knight tokens every turn. Plus, those Knights will more often be 4/4s than 2/2s most turns you're attacking with them.</p>
<h2>#3. Esika's Chariot</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Esika&#039;s Chariot"></div></div>
<p>I really appreciate <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Esika&#039;s Chariot" href="#" target="_blank">Esika&#039;s Chariot</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> as a Vehicle commander. As my #3 choice, I would suggest that a <a href="https://edhrec.com/tags/tokens/mono-green" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tokens-matter</a> build is best for the card. Fortunately, mono-green has plenty of ways to make that kind of deck possible.</p>
<p>One way to make Esika's Chariot shine is with cards like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Idol of Oblivion" href="#" target="_blank">Idol of Oblivion</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Tarmogoyf Nest" href="#" target="_blank">Tarmogoyf Nest</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. Both create some really strong token creatures right away. Then, the attacking Chariot can do a lot to make that one token into many.</p>
<p>The card is great, plain and simple. There are two better options for Vehicles in the command zone, though.</p>
<h2>#2. The Last Ride</h2>
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<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Last Ride" href="#" target="_blank">The Last Ride</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is my second pick in this list. The best way to describe this commander is this: Don't ever animate it unless you need a trigger from its death.</p>
<p>What you're doing instead with The Last Ride is playing it on turns two or three, and then capitalizing on its <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Greed" href="#" target="_blank">Greed</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>-esque activated ability.</p>
<p>This deck is for fans of the aforementioned Greed, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vilis, Broker of Blood" href="#" target="_blank">Vilis, Broker of Blood</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Dark Confidant" href="#" target="_blank">Dark Confidant</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, or even <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Griselbrand" href="#" target="_blank">Griselbrand</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> (who, as of writing, remains Grisel-banned). These cards (barring the last one) would be fantastic additions to a deck like The Last Ride.</p>
<p>And at just <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-b" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> for a cost, you can't really go wrong!</p>
<p>That leaves us with our final, #1 pick for this list of best Vehicle commanders. What got there in an absolute photo finish?</p>
<h2>Best Vehicle Commander</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Jackdaw"></div></div>
<p>The <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Jackdaw" href="#" target="_blank">Jackdaw</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>!</p>
<p>Jackdaw is a two-color legendary Vehicle (one of only two, the other being <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Belligerent" href="#" target="_blank">The Belligerent</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>), and a fantastic choice for a commander.</p>
<p>Being able to play this card in a blue-red artifact-centric shell is no joke. The ability to discard your hand and immediately draw maybe six or seven fresh, new cards is amazing.</p>
<p>It fuels <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Daretti, Scrap Savant" href="#" target="_blank">Daretti, Scrap Savant</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Locust God" href="#" target="_blank">The Locust God</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, and even the semi-thematic <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Captain Howler, Sea Scourge" href="#" target="_blank">Captain Howler, Sea Scourge</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> (if you have an extra combat at the ready)!</p>
<p>That's why, of all the potential Vehicles that could be your next commander, I endorse Jackdaw as the priority pick here.</p>
<p>With that, I'll open the floor to you, dear readers. How do you feel about the new rule change, effective August 1st? Are you planning to make any of these potential Vehicle commanders into your next deck project? Sound off below!</p>


The 10 Best Legendary Vehicles to Be Your Commander

<h6 style="text-align: right;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Blood Artist" href="#" target="_blank">Blood Artist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Illustrated by <a href="https://www.juliedillonart.com/">Julie Dillon</a> | Image credit: Wizards of the Coast</h6>
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<p>According to a recent article on DailyMTG, <em>Magic: The Gathering</em>'s main news hub, beginning with <em>Edge of Eternities</em>, art cards will no longer be included in Play Boosters. Instead, you can now only find art cards in Collector Boosters.</p>
<h2>The "Collecting <em>Edge of Eternities</em>" Article</h2>
<p>The article states the following about the rates for pulling art cards in Collector Boosters (section in <strong>bold</strong> typeface for relevance):</p>
<blockquote><p>Each <i>Edge of Eternities</i> Collector Booster box contains 12 Collector Boosters, each of which contains the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>15 <i>Magic: The Gathering</i> cards
<ul>
<li>5 Traditional foil commons</li>
<li>4 Traditional foil uncommons</li>
<li>1 Traditional foil or galaxy foil celestial basic land</li>
<li>1 Traditional foil rare or mythic rare</li>
<li>1 Non-foil extended-art or borderless <i>Edge of Eternities</i> Commander card</li>
<li>1 Non-foil Booster Fun card</li>
<li>1 Land from the Stellar Sights bonus sheet
<ul>
<li>Non-foil, traditional foil, and galaxy foil lands appear in this slot.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>1 Foil Booster Fun card</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>1 Art card or traditional foil double-sided token</strong>
<ul>
<li>A traditional foil double-sided token appears in 65% of Collector Boosters.</li>
<li><strong>1 of 54 Art cards can appear in 30% of Collector Boosters. An additional 5% of Collector Boosters can have an art card with a gold-stamped artist signature or Planeswalker symbol.</strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h2>The Internet's Reaction</h2>
<p>This change is largely ambivalent to whether fans like the cards or not. Many players actually <em>liked</em> art cards. However, they originally seemed to be firmly in the minority among players who had an opinion of the cards. According to one Redditor, "As the one person at my LGS who collects art cards this makes me very sad. Usually during drafts people just give me the art cards they open cause nobody else wants them, so I get why WotC is doing it. But still. Pain." Another said, "Oh, I must be part of the few that actually likes them, I have tons of tokens and can make more but the art cards feel distinctive and cool."</p>
<p>Despite my earlier statement, it seems that these comments were not drowned in an ocean of approval. This potentially leads us to believe that more players liked these cards than the public lets on. Nevertheless, you can now find art cards at a rate of approximately 1 in every 3 Collector Boosters. This potentially raises the scarcity of these aesthetic add-ins.</p>
<p>And speaking of add-ins, Wizards of the Coast has also officially announced <a href="https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/collecting-edge-of-eternities">an end to ad cards in Play Boosters</a> as well. Silver linings, one could suppose!</p>
<p>And now, we'd like to ask you: How do you feel about <em>Magic: The Gathering</em>'s art cards? Was this a good move by Wizards of the Coast? Finally, with its gorgeous space-age landscapes, was <em>Edge of Eternities</em> the place for this change? Sound off below!</p>


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