There's an incredible amount of lore in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering and most of that lore can be seen in its most historic cards. Legendary spells🍒, artifacts, and Sagas tell the story 🐠of Magic from its inception to the modern day, which now has a Doctor Who crossover to contend with.

Universes Beyond: Doctor Who's Blast from the Past commander deck is all about ge💜tting a little extra from playing those historic cards, whether that be Food or Clue tokens, or a copy of the card you may have just played. Playing this deck proves without a doubt that ﷽history is never boring.

Blast From The Past Commander Deck List

Here's the full Blast from the Past deck list broken down by card type.

Blast From The Past Commander Deck Key Themes

Blast From The Past has a lot of sagas, a lot of artifacts, and a lot of legendary creatures. It's clear this deck is running a historic theme, and cards♔ like Alistair, the Brigadier, Peri Brown, and The Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth Doctors just drive tha🐠t theme home.

However, Blast From The Past also has a few cards that don't really fit into this theme. The First Doctor, for example, would prefer to be in a deck with a lot of cascade spells. Ace, Fearless Rebel would prefer to be in a more dedicated artifact deck. The Fifth Doctor would preferꦕ to be in a deck that doesn't attack at all – some🐷thing this deck definitely needs to do in order to achieve victory.

What Blast From The Past needs is to focus on that historic theme, which is what we'll deal wꦗith in the following sections.

The standard commanders are The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, who make a fine pairing. Jane hits the board first to generate a few Clue tokens, and then Doཧctor Four arrives to begin playing more historic spells and create Food tokens. You get card advantage, life gain, and access to a bunch of artifact tokens.

There are a few other options to consider. Keeping the Bant colors, The Sixth Doctor could be paired with Romana II to triple every historic spell cast. The Eighth Doctor could be paired with Jamie McCrimmon ꧃to have a potent recursion theme centered around historic cards, but it might benefit from having a few ways to play cards from exile.

Other possible combinations certainly exist within Blast From The Past, but they'd generally prefer to be in decks that are dedicated to their respective themes. For this deck, stick with the historic theme.

There are ten Plane cards in the deck, something that isn't too common in casual Commander games. Be sure to ask your group if you're playing Planechase, anꦕd if not, consider replacing TARDIS and Start the TARDIS, as they'll have less of an effect without ⭕any Planes to jump to.

Blast From The Past Commander Deck Analysis

About half of Blast From The Past will trigger a historic effect, which is an excellent place to start. We've got three decent board wipes in Crisis of Conscience, Time Wipe, and The Night of the Doctor, a d💫ecent number of mana rocks and ramp spells, and a few good instant-speed answers to ensure that a few crucial combat steps go your way.

What the deck needs is to clean up some of the spells in this deck that aren't quite up to snuff. There are a lot of Doctors with fun effects, but they really don't fit the theme. There are also cards of questionable value and efficiency, as well as cards ꦐthat just seem to have little benefit.

Underperforming Cards

Barbara and Ian both really like sagas, but with eight in the deck, they're unlikely to provide much benefit. Ace, Leela, and Sergeant John Benton don't fit the historic theme and would benefit from being in another deck. Ditto to The First, Fifth, and Seventh Doctors.

With so many Doctors cut, The Five Doctors and Gallifrey Stands lose much of their utility (although it should be noted that Gallifrey Stands' alternate win condition is impossible without The Sixth Doctor copying a lot of Doctors). Bessie, Alistair, and Banish to Another Universe are of questionable value for their effects, so they get the cut too.

That leaves us with a number of Sagas that are beautifully thematic of Doctor Who lore, but aren't very good outside of triggering historic effects. The Sea Devils, Curse of Fenric, and War Games all create a bunch of creature tokens that don't do much to swing the game in your favor. The Caves of Androzani wou♕ld prefer a deck with more counters on permanents than this deck has.

Finally, there are just better cards than Hero's Blade and TARDIS that we could easily substitute for.

Blast From The Past Commander Deck Budget Upgrades

It's important to keep (or even improve) the ratio of historic cards in Blast From The Past, so while we're getting rid of Doctors and Sagas, we've got to replace them with legendary cards, artifacts, or more Sagas. Gꦕood thing there are plenty of better historic cards to add for everything that was cut.

Other Budget Upgrades To Consider

Return To Dust isn't the most efficient way to remove an artifact or enchantment. Beast Within hits more permanents, and is cheaper. You could also consider Pongify and Rapid Hybridization over Time Lord Regeneration since there aren't꧟ as many Doctors in the deck anymoreꦇ.

Explore isn't the greatest ramp spell, so perhaps consider replacing that with Felwar Stone.

And finally, you could increase the number of legendary permanents in the deck with a few legendary lands. Minas Tirith, Rivndell, and The Shire are all great additions and could replace Ash Barrens or any of the Thriving l𓆉ands.