Mirrormade

Hybrid Cards Impact

New • 24 Dec 2019 • Asked by badatcommander • 176 Comments

Hybrid hurts commander in two ways. First, hybrid seems to lend itself to lots of strong bends and breaks. Spitting Image is not a green card, Mirrormade is not a white care, and *the new Kiora is not a blue card*. Second, one of the best things about commander is deck diversity. It's a way to escape the tyranny of "the best card that does X". Deckbuilding restrictions are key to that, and anything that relaxes those restrictions hurts the format.

The color breaking quality of hybrid is greatly overstated. Let me use your examples. Spitting Image is a bend and not even a horribly big one. If it was “creature you control” it’s not even a bend. Green is number two at cloning, it just usually copies it’s own stuff. Mirrorweave (that’s what I assume you mean, Mirrormade is monoblue) is a bend for white but far from a break. White making everything the same is a theme white has done on other cards.The new Kiora (the blue/green) is not even a bend. Yes, blue doesn’t tend to get its card draw off large creatures, but it’s king of card draw, it could if it wanted to. That’s the space hybrid plays in where you find overlap where one color could do something because it goes broader, but could be narrower to overlap.I assume you picked what you thought were three egregious examples and none of them are even serious bends, let alone breaks. Which brings me back to my point, the color pie breaking-ness of hybrid is way overstated. As to your second point, yes restrictions are a fun part of the deck restrictions, but restrictions for the sake of restrictions aren’t the point. You could add a rule that you could only have three card types in your deck. That would restrict things more, but that doesn’t necessarily make the format better.
Bend / Break Blue Card Draw Card Types Card Types Color Pie Colors Commander Creatures Escape Green Hybrid Mirrormade Mirrorweave Rules Spitting Image White

Copying in White

New • 08 Oct 2019 • Asked by remasuri • 25 Comments

Could we see a card like Mirrormade in white? I feel white needs more cool cards instead of removal and taxing stuff and giving it copying for whites relevant card types like enchantments seems cute.

Blue is primary in copying and red and green are secondary.
Blue Card Types Card Types Enchantments Green Mirrormade Primary Red Secondary White

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