While interacting with each other's cards, players attempt to accrue twenty points (known in game as "lore") before their opponent
And back up your devils with instants like Backlash, Lightning Bolt, and Go for the Throat
Damage prevention spells and abilities can still be cast and played
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan has four new Commander precons with classic Ixalan archetypes, and this one features merfolk one of the oldest and proudest archetypes in all of Magic
It has cool effects that are all expensive
Going into this deck build, I hadnt intended on making graveyard recursion a part of the strategy, but I found through the process of looking for Vorthos cards that there were several cards that synergized with the decks flavor while also providing us with recursion effects, and given that there arent a large number of sticker and attraction cards in the deck, its important to find ways to make the most out of the sticker and attraction cards that we do have, and recursion provides us a means of retrieving those cards and allowing us to trigger their effects again while also just providing us a lot of value