Still, cards over 30 years old are worth a lot in todays market
Designer Notes: Get a bunch of merfolk into play, then use your commander to start drawing cards, swinging for unblockable damage and putting +1/+1 counters on all your creatures
The creature side is a reasonable rate, and in the right deck youll be able to flip this pretty reliably, at which point you get a bunch of value
But the other stuff is all game
The best thing about Commander is and always has been that we can play what we want
Eventually, it would come to be known as the Base Set, but that name actually encompasses four different runs: 1st Edition The first release of the Base Set was released on January 9, 1999