The reality of playing a 4-player environment is that it’s not enough to just get some resource advantage and then leverage it to play more powerful cards, netting you increasing card advantage until the game ends. Ramping is good, and can be quite a useful strategy, but Commander is home to so many stand-out cards with extremely low converted mana costs that it’s not something you necessarily need.
Card draw is typically good, but Commander offers amazing card draw engines like Rhystic Study and Wheel of Fortune, making Uro’s draw a bit less important. Life gain is mostly negligible starting with 40 life means that players routinely treat their own life as a useful resource but don’t that commonly die to things like combat damage, at least at lower power levels. Drawing and ramp and life gain are all powerful things in 1v1 play, but they tend to be less powerful in Commander. Apparently they’re not willing to let people buy the secret lair version and then immediately ban the card, which is fair enough.
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But this last week Wizards announced that Uro would be banned in practically every format except commander.Īlthough the banning wasn’t necessarily a surprise, the way we learned about it was – in their announcement for an upcoming secret lair drop series where several titans got a runic Kaldheim version, Wizards clarified that Uro was finally going to be banned, something they did the following Monday. Uro kept escaping (get it?) these bans but finally felt the wrath in standard. This pushed out a big deck and moved the meta towards the Temur adventures deck, which shockingly included Simic colors and, in my opinion the better version of it ran Uro to counter mill decks and aggros, and then they banned Lucky Clover. August 8th saw the banning of Wilderness Reclamation and Growth Spiral. It’s hard to say if Wizards current strategy of pumping out overpowered cards and then aggressively banning is sustainable. It’s hard to say exactly but Simic has been at the center of a number of cards which required banning due to their overpowering the meta. Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath, is probably the stand-out card of Theros: Beyond Death. Credit: Vincent Proce, Wizards of the Coast
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