This card is great for use against terrifying commanders, because they can’t just recast them like when you kill or exile the commander. Holy Avenger gives you free auras when an equipped creature deals combat damage, so dust off your Eldrazi Conscription and Colossification! And Immovable Rod shuts down a threat on the board. Fiendlash dishes out some serious damage, and is great in decks with big power, like Zilortha, Strength Incarnate or the new Zalto, Fire Giant Duke. Vorpal Sword, which I talked about in my deck tech for Krydle, can kill a player if you’ve got the mana. Expensive to cast, but that’s why we play Commander, right? To play the big dumb spells. With it, you get to exile instants and sorceries from graveyards and play them! And if you hit that natural 20.well, it won't happen often. Wizard’s Spellbook is one of my favorite cards in AFR, and you can currently pick it up for a quarter. While it does have a color restriction, it’s still a great budget replacement for Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves.

One of those is Winged Boots, which is in the Forgotten Realms Commander product. This set has a ton of great artifacts that you can pick up for cheap. And Warlock Class is a less powerful Wound Reflection at Level 3. Monk Class decreases the cost of the second spell you play each turn and gives you some great card advantage on level 3. Druid Class lets you play an additional land per turn on level 2, and it's the only mono-green permanent under $5 with this effect. Cleric Class increases life gain, beefs up your creatures, and will bring any creature card back from your graveyard when you hit level 3. Not all of the class cards are friendly on the budget, but most of them are quite affordable. So they’re kind of a blend of the Level Up ability and sagas. The classes are all enchantments that grant you an effect or ability as soon as they hit the board, but you can also pay mana to level them up for additional effects. And one of the best connections is the class cards. While I don't have experience playing D&D, I still greatly appreciate the way this set connects to that world. One of the best things about Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is all of that delicious D&D flavor that it brought into the game. For just one mana! All of the modal spells in this set are dirt cheap, and they’re all absolute gas in the right deck. You don’t lose out on casting a spell! You’re Ambushed on the Road can save one of your creatures by either bouncing it to your hand or making it bigger.

But if you Cascade into this card, you can just draw 2 and discard 2. Or how about You Find the Villains’ Lair for your Cascade deck? I don’t run counterspells in my budget Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty deck because it’s no good to Cascade into them. You Find Some Prisoners acts as removal or card advantage, or even ramp if you choose to play an opponent’s land card! This is a great card for Prosper, Tome-Bound, who loves playing cards from exile. Some of the best budget cards in this set are the modal cards, the cards where you get to choose its effect when you cast it. Make Good ChoicesĪ few articles ago, I talked about the power of modal cards in Commander, and how I view them as another form of card advantage. Can’t afford Tiamat or Old Gnawbone? No problem! This set is overflowing with cheap goodies that are fun to play with. Yes, we’re talking all the great new cards from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms that won’t wreck your wallet. Today we’re going to look at cards that combine two of my favorite qualities in a Magic card: they’re cheap, and they’re new. I hope you’re all staying safe and having a great summer. What’s up friends?! Welcome back to another Commander article here on Cardsphere.

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