March of the Machines is packed with impressive and powerful Magic: The Gathering cards for a variety of formats. Whether you’re looking for your next commander tech or looking for new battle cards to suit any deck, March of the Machine has many good answers.
As you can imagine, March of the Machine has fewer colorless and artifact cards, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have some very impressive options. Knowing which cards are good in different formats is key to winning games in all formats, from Commander to Limited.
8 Hello Hopper
The best way to play Halo Hopper is for free, and with the Recruit feature, it might happen more often than you think. Convoke is a returning mechanic that makes it easier to cast spells by tapping creatures instead of lands. Halo Hopper is a colorless artifact his creature, so he doesn’t need to tap a creature of a specific color to meet his mana value commitment.
Halo Hopper is most likely to be played in Limited formats, where reduced casting costs like Affinity allow you to get free or very cheap creatures. This little frog can be traded up on blocks, making it a great creature to play early in the game. Also, if you play a creature on turn 1, it can be downed on turn 2.
7 flywheel racer
Flywheel Racer combines card games and motorcycles for a sophisticated limited beater and mana ramper. For just 2 mana, this 3/2 vehicle has a crew cost of only 1, making it super easy to turn into a creature. It also has vigilance, so you can animate it to attack the open board and use it to generate mana in your second main phase.
Creatures that tap each other to generate mana aren’t new to Magic, but they aren’t always in a vehicle. Flywheel Racer is effectively his Springleaf Drum and can also pinch opponents’ life totals or chump his blocks.
6 Phyrexian Archivist
Another predominantly Limited creature, the Phyrexian Archivist is a sinister bookworm, albeit a burly one. You can pay two mana to tap it to put a card back from the graveyard on the bottom of its owner’s library. If your opponent is trying to reanimate a specific card from their graveyard, you can use this defensively to prevent yourself from being crushed if your deck is weakened or offensively.
This card is a Phyrexianized version of the Cogwork Archivist from Strixhaven: School of Mages, so there’s a bit of flavor here. As a librarian, I needed long arms to reach for the tall books on the shelves. And now, as a Phyrexian, it takes a long arm to catch anyone fleeing the library.
Five Glittering Surveyor
Skittering Surveyor, which locks in all-star mana in Limited formats, is one of the best ways to secure the color land drops you need most in later games. With an enters-the-battlefield trigger, you can search your library for basic lands and immediately add them to your hand. This smooths out land drops in the mid-to-late game and helps catch up when colors are lacking.
March of the Machines contains all kinds of mana-hungry legendary creatures and huge mana-hungry spells. If he’s playing more than 3 colors in the deck, I recommend drafting a few of those colors to keep his mana as smooth as possible.
Four godfire pot
One final limited bomb, Urn of Godfire, helps filter mana when you’re out of color or when used as a late-game removal spell. Even in Limited formats like Sealed or Draft, it doesn’t feel very good to pay 2 mana and he gets 1 mana back, but it could be a way to get the mana you need if you’re running out of colors. I have.
The real power comes from Divinefire Urn’s second ability, which destroys a creature or enchantment by paying 6 mana and sacrificing the urn. It’s a removal spell that costs a little mana, but just keeps it on the table until you need it.
3 Invasion of Ravnica // Paragon of the Guildpact
The only colorless battle card released in March of the Machines, Invasion of Ravnica is a very special removal spell that exiles nonland permanents that aren’t technically two colors.
If you remove all battle counters from Invasion of Ravnica, it becomes a Guildpact Paragon, a 5/5 creature that helps you dig for two-color cards. Just as he casts a two-color spell, from the top of his library he looks at six cards, from which he chooses exactly one of the two-color cards and adds it to his hand. increase. Filling your deck with tons of his two-color spells always rewards deck building.
2 Realmbreaker, invasion tree
Key to Elesh Norn’s new Invasion, Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree is the Commander’s powerhouse. For just 2 mana, he can force his opponent to smash 3 of his cards and he can take 1 land from his graveyard and add it to his field.
A little circumstantial, you can steal lands that were already in your graveyard before milling, and get fetch lands that might have been cracked earlier in the game. Then, once he has ten lands, he can sacrifice Realmbreaker to take any number of his Praetor cards from the deck and put them directly into play. With 3 cards each for New Phyrexian Praetor and his 2 creatures Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor, and others with this type, you can get up to 18 creatures for just 10 mana.
1 Sword of past and future
The last of the Mirran Sword cycle, Sword of Once and Future, ends the cycle by granting the equipped creature blue and black protection and two powerful abilities based on those colors when dealing combat damage. complete.
Sword of Once and Future requires planning to maximize your survey triggers and free spells. There are many spells that cost two mana or less. In particular, spells that help you draw cards when resolving and dig deeper for answers.