While Gen Con has been finishing up, there were two more panels featuring spoilers from the upcoming Commander 2019 decks. The initial spoilers from a couple of days ago were just the commanders and their accompanying signature cards, and we got even fewer spoilers from there on. However, we are supposed to see a complete deck list for one of the four decks each day from Monday through Thursday next week, so then we’ll really be able to judge the value coming down the pipeline. On Friday, one new legendary creature, a spell and a land were revealed:

This new legendary is pretty nuts. He’s expensive, but only if you pay the full 7 CMC. He has phyrexian mana in his CMC, which we haven’t seen for a while, and is also quite powerful. This means that one can pay either three black mana or six life plust the four generic mana to cast this creature, and that opens up a bunch of options. Not only that, but he also effectively turns all black mana symbols in phyrexian mana which can really help to break black. It doesn’t stop there though, K’rrik also gets +1/+1 for each black spell you cast, and he has lifelink to heal you back up after spending life as a resource. There are some aristocrats, some extort creatures and other lifelinkers to make this into a viable way to cheat a bunch of cards out. I’m looking forward to brewing around this one. Next up, a spell and a land that sort of do the same thing in different ways. The spell is a little more flexible, as it can remove an opponent’s commander and also replaces itself with a card. The land would be more focused on returning your own commander to your hand, but it can only be done during your turn, so it’s likely just an extra blink effect for those commanders who want that. I don’t really find either of these cards very appealing. On Saturday there was another new legendary and one new creature spoiled:

Gerrard is fine I guess. A 4 CMC 3/3 with first strike is very Boros. He plays well with board wipes, particularly those that target both creatures and artifacts, as he will return all of those permanents back to the battlefield afterwards. Seems pretty niche, and not something worth building around. Probably pretty good in a deck that’s wiping often. As for the new creature, the Scaretiller is decent but a little expensive. It will ramp you each time it’s tapped, so this is probably baller in affinity decks that are always tapping and untapping artifacts. Probably good in Windgrace as well, to constantly return lands from the yard to feed your Gitrog Monster.

Overall, I have not been overly thrilled with any of the spoilers so far. I like K’rrik, but I’m not in love. We’ll check back in later this week with more on this set.