Setting the Stage
This set, released in 2024, used a Maple Leaf as its set symbol and featured fantasy animals as its theme.
Bloomburrow
This land taps for any color in your commander's colour identity.
Command Tower
A keyword ability found on creatures. A creature dealt any amount of damage by a creature with (KEYWORD) is destroyed. (KEYWORD) has no effect on players or planeswalkers.
Deathtouch
This Ravnica guild colour pair using Red and Blue is known for spellslinging and taking 30-minute long turns.
Izzet
This rank 1, 5 colour commander makes use of the controversial Eminence mechanic to give your other creatures of a specific type a 1-cost reduction.
The Ur-Dragon
This Universes Beyond set introduced four new mechanics based around the basic elements.
Avatar: the Last Airbender
This land cycle allows you to sacrifice it, pay 1 life, and search your library for a land with two basic types.
Fetch Lands
(KEYWORD) is a static ability. “(KEYWORD)” means “This permanent or player can’t be the target of spells or abilities.”
Shroud
This Ravnica guild using White and Blue loves control, stax, and making you pay your tax.
Azorius
This cryptid commander, sitting at rank 11, loves to make Rad tokens, forcing opponents to mill cards and lose life.
The Wise Mothman
This set introduced a one-out-of-one headliner card that eventually sold for $2 million.
Lord of the Rings: Tales from Middle Earth
This Legendary land has the ability to pay mana and discard it from your hand to destroy an artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land.
Boseiju, Who Endures
To (KEYWORD) means to choose any number of permanents and/or players that have a counter, then give each one additional counter of each kind that permanent or player already has.
Proliferate
This Tarkir Clan using White, Black, and Red is known for aggro and aristocrat strategies.
Mardu
This red/blue commander at rank 15 was legal in Standard for only 5 months until he was banned.
Vivi Ornitier
This set introduced the clue token, and was themed around the investigation of a crime.
Murders at Karlov Manor
These 3 lands have,
"(tap), Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle "
Terramorphic Expanse OR Evolving Wilds OR Vibrant Cityscape
A keyword ability found on creatures. (KEYWORD) allows a creature to deal excess combat damage to the player it’s attacking, even if the creature is blocked. If you’re attacking with a creature that has (KEYWORD) and it is blocked, you have to assign its combat damage to the creatures blocking it first. If it destroys all of those creatures, then you can assign any excess damage to the player it’s attacking. If an attacking creature with (KEYWORD) is blocked, but there are no creatures blocking it when damage is assigned (for example, if you used a spell to destroy the blocking creature), then all of its damage is assigned to the player it’s attacking. (KEYWORD) does not work on Planeswalkers, unless the creature has “(KEYWORD) over planeswalkers”.
Trample
This Alara Shard using White, Red, and Green loves go-wide strategies, ramping mana, and using combat buffs.
Naya
This mono-red commander at rank 4 loves to tap and double your creatures of a specific type.
Krenko, Mob Boss
This old set, released in 1994, introduced the mechanic of Legendary creatures.
Legends
This is the name of the Blue/Green OG dual land.
Tropical Island
(KEYWORD) is an activated ability that functions only while the card with (KEYWORD) is in a player’s hand. “(KEYWORD) [cost]” means “[Cost], Reveal this card from your hand, Return an unblocked attacking creature you control to its owner’s hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.”
Ninjutsu
Witch-Maw is the unofficial name for this four colour group, named after the OG Nephilim creature in this colour pair. The only Legendary in this colour pair is Atraxa, Praetor's Voice.
WUBG or Redless
This commander at rank 5 has a text box that reads,
"Vigilance
At the beginning of each end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, you draw a card.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, (NAME) deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life."
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed