A Bad Rule Currently, the color identity of a Meld card is determined only by its front face
This will be my first of several articles looking at this deep set for casual kitchen table formats like Commander, multiplayer, Type Four, Cube, and Five Color and Highlander too
Decklist Commander (1) 1 Aminatou, Veil Piercer Creatures (16) 1 Archetype of Imagination 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled 1 Auramancer 1 Burnished Hart 1 Demon of Fates Design 1 Doomwake Giant 1 Dream Eater 1 Nightmare Shepherd 1 Mesa Enchantress 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric 1 Ondu Spiritdancer 1 Prognostic Sphinx 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Starfield Mystic 1 Verge Rangers Instants (9) 1 Arcane Denial 1 Brainstorm 1 Inkshield 1 Otherwordly Gaze 1 Return to Dust 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Thirst for Meaning Telling Time 1 Utter End Sorceries (8) 1 Aminatous Augury 1 Diabolic Vision 1 Entreat the Angels 1 Ponder 1 Portent 1 Read the Bones 1 Terminus 1 Time Wipe Enchantments (12) 1 Cast Out 1 Extravagant Replication 1 Life Insurance 1 Mirrormade 1 Monologue Tax 1 One with the Multiverse 1 Shark Typhoon 1 Sigil of the Empty Throne 1 Sphere of Safety 1 Spirit-Sisters Call 1 The Eldest Reborn 1 Timely Ward Lands (38) 1 Adarkar Wastes 1 Arcane Sanctum 1 Ash Barrens 1 Azorius Chancery 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Caves of Koilos 1 Dimir Aqueduct 1 Evolving Wilds 1 Halimar Depths 1 Hall of Heliods Generosity 1 Obscura Storefront 1 Orzhov Basilica 1 Tainted Field 1 Tainted Isle 1 Temple of Deceit 1 Temple of Enlightenment 1 Temple of Silence 1 Thriving Heath 1 Thriving Isle 1 Thriving Moor 1 Underground River 1 Command Tower 1 Terramorphic Expanse 5 Island 5 Plains 5 Swamp Artifacts (7) 1 Arcane Signet 1 Azorius Signet 1 Brainstone 1 Commanders Sphere 1 Mind Stone 1 Orzhov Signet 1 Sol Ring New Cards (9) 1 Ancient Cellarspawn 1 Cramped Vents // Access Maze 1 Fear of Sleep Paralysis 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic 1 Phenomenon Investigators 1 Redress Fate 1 Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor 1 Soaring Lightbringer 1 The Master of Keys Miracle Worker Tokens 1 Insect (Jump Scare!) // Manifest (helper) token 2 Wurm // Fractal tokens 2 Phyrexian Beast // Manifest (helper) tokens 1 Wurm (trample) // Manifest (helper) token 2 Wurm (trample) // Insect (Jump Scare!) tokens 1 Fractal // Scarecrow token 1 Beast (3/3) // Scarecrow token Miracle Worker Scheme Cards My Laughter Echoes Power Without Equal I Am Untouchable Mine Is the Only Truth Your Own Face Mocks You Kneel Before My Legions You Are Unworthy of Mercy Chaos Is My Plaything Your Plans Mean Nothing You Will Know True Suffering 2) Death Toll With a decent statline and cost, Winter, Cynical Opportunist is going to make your graveyard decks really pop off
Optimized decks can probably drop these in favor of more 1- and 2-mana acceleration, but these are still staple-status for casual Commander decks
At 3 Strength shes just out of reach of Brawl but still within range of being Medusad
The four oldest sets: The First Chapter, Rise of the Floodborn, Into the Inklands, and Ursula's Return, are rotating out, but over half of the Fabled set consists of reprinted cards from those first four sets
