Magic’s most tedious card ever makes this Marvel Commander impossible to top

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Magic’s most tedious card ever makes this Marvel Commander impossible to top

Polygon · 2 hours ago

Molecule Man is presented as an unusually powerful Commander in Magic: The Gathering’s Marvel Super Heroes set because he lets the first nonland card drawn each turn be cast for a zero mana miracle cost. This can apply on opponents’ turns as well if its controller can draw cards, allowing expensive spells to be deployed repeatedly for free and making the otherwise obscure Marvel character a potentially dangerous build-around card.

His main restriction is that a Molecule Man Commander deck must be colourless, but the article highlights Sensei’s Divining Top as a way to arrange and draw the desired top card each turn. The Top, banned outside Vintage, Oathbreaker and Commander partly because it can slow games, could enable free threats such as Galactus, Ulamog the Defiler, Kozilek, Butcher of Truth and It That Betrays; the latter costs 12 mana, has Annihilator 2 and can take opponents’ sacrificed permanents.

  • Molecule Man can cast the first nonland card drawn each turn for free.
  • Sensei’s Divining Top helps guarantee the desired free spell.
  • Colourless Eldrazi offer especially punishing targets for the combo.

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