Cyclonic Rift opens the path to a clean victory in a turn or two while your opponents scramble to put their hands back into play
A couple poorly-called coin flips add up in a 20-life format, but Commander's starting life total of 40 shrugs this off and facilitates some of the fastest possible openings in the format
Gallery and List of The Ring Tempts You Cards Aragorn, Company Leader Bilbo, Retired Burglar Birthday Escape Bombadil's Song Boromir, Warden of the Tower Breaking of the Fellowship Call of the Ring Claim the Precious Dreadful as the Storm Dnedain Rangers Elrond, Lord of Rivendell Enraged Huorn Faramir, Field Commander Fiery Inscription Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit Frodo Baggins Frodo, Sauron's Bane Galadriel, Elven-Queen Galadriel of Lothlrien Gandalf, Friend of the Shire Glorious Gale Gollum, Patient Plotter Gollum's Bite Horses of the Bruinen Inherited Envelope In the Darkness Bind Them Mirrormere Guardian Nazgl Now for Wrath, Now for Ruin
Infamous for the mountain of value it can create, this card-drawing artifact is hardly used for its intended purpose
Doug Beyer (Exploratory Design, Vision Design) Doug is the creative director for Magic worldbuilding
I got a rebuy on a bad pool thanks to a clerical error, and I still couldnt open a deck good enough to win matches
