#SAHEELI THE GIFTED FREE#
Affinity can essentially make spells free if they don’t have colored mana in their cost. Saheeli, the Gifted gives a spell you cast Affinity for Artifacts each turn. All this protecting and token flooding is going to need a purpose however, if we’re not winning through repeated alpha strikes. From there a well timed Rite of Replication-which can be kicked easier with Saheeli’s second ability-means that you can possibly knock a player out if they don’t keep their defenses up. I wouldn’t leave home without Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer also plugged into the deck, a workhorse that can turn any tokens you do create into your best creature token. To help push the artifact theme, I recommend Wing Splicer, Golem Foundry, Hammer of Purphoros, and Precursor Golem to make and augment some sizable golem tokens. We can go beyond protecting our suite of planeswalkers with simple chump blockers and focus our attentions on bigger creatures that might be able to withstand an attack. But this week we also saw the preview of Saheeli, Sublime Artificer from Commanderin’, further pushing our plans by allowing us to start generating 1/1 servos when we cast our general. Luckily we can curve out for Tezzeret, Artifice Master as a possible second copy of the ability the turn after dropping our general, protecting our planeswalkers further and allowing Saheeli to focus on her other abilities. A 1/1 body probably looks insignificant and in this case, but we have an imperfect imitation of Goblin Assault. One of the traits of a good planeswalker is its ability to protect itself. She is a strong general that can often fly under the radar until becoming the biggest threat at the table.
#SAHEELI THE GIFTED HOW TO#
I will analyze each of her abilities and how to best tell tailor a deck to take advantage of them. So this week I would like to explore Saheeli, the Gifted as a viable Commander which deserves more time at the table. Additionally, Tawnos, Urza’s Apprentice seemingly wasn’t either. But her relatively low showing means that she hasn’t connected strongly with the player base and was not the artifact-matters Izzet general many have been asking Wizards for over the last two or three years. I like this incarnation of Saheeli, even going as far as to say in my first impressions of her that she felt like the kind of planeswalker I would have expected to headline the Kaladesh block if it hadn’t been Chandra’s story. A Case for SaheeliĪs I worked towards trying to refine my thoughts about Planeswalker generals beyond where I had landed a year ago I was taken aback by the placement of Saheeli, the Gifted in the ecosystem of Commander, both within her color identity and as twelfth in a list of fifteen planeswalkers. Allowing planeswalker generals would make anyone who has already gone deep on Vraska, Relic Seeker or Huatli, Warrior Poet happy, while also empowering hesitant people to explore the new space. In all honesty, I think the Rules Committee should seriously consider making this change. I question if that would change the landscape of the format for many players, as that level of popularity would still likely leave them outside of the top 20 most popular generals of all time by EDHrec’s numbers. I take that as reasonable proof that planeswalkers would rise to the top if a rules change came down from the Rules Committee. Planeswalkers being generals have been a fairly popular, with a majority of the legal generals being in the top ten of their respective color identities. Kytheon, Hero of Akros (209) #15 in White
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath (270) #17 in Black Nicol Bolas, the Ravager (442) #11 in GrixisĬhandra, Fire of Kaladesh (364) #12 in Red Nahiri, The Lithomancer (558) #5 in White
Liliana, Heretical Healer (670) #6 in BlackĪminatou, the Fateshifter (650) #6 in Esper Teferi, Temporal Archmage (753) #4 in Blueįreyalise, Llanowar’s Fury (677) #5 in Green Let’s take a look at where each planeswalker general currently sits on EDHrec: But I think the truth is really in how people have taken to the generals that are already legal as commanders. I’ve covered this topic before, though I admit that I had some blindspots that skewed my analysis-for example the existence of Doubling Season and just how degenerate Tezzeret the Seeker could be.
#SAHEELI THE GIFTED FULL#
With War of the Spark previews in full effect, the viability of Planeswalkers as generals has become a big discussion amongst Commander players.
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