This is getting discussed everywhere else already, so I'm going to start it here.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/formatsIn short, Oathbreaker has been added to the MtG formats page. This has caused a resurgence in people checking out what this format is about, and making decks. For those who don't know, it's a commander variant that uses 60 card decks, is multiplayer, 20 life, and you have 2 cards in your command zone. The first is your oathbreaker, that functions exactly like a commander except it's a planeswalker instead of a legendary creature. The second is your signature spell; an instant/sorcery that falls within your
commander's oathbreaker's colour identity. You can only cast the signature spell if your oathbreaker is on the battlefield, and it has it's separate commander tax of 2 mana per cast.
There are a few other rules to iron out the details of a signature spell and the format has its own
banlist.
So, does anyone else still have Oathbreaker decks? Anyone going to build some new ones? And what do you think of the format as a whole?
I have two older decks that haven't been updated in a while. The first (and my favourite) is
Xenagos, the Reveler +
Genesis Wave. It does exactly what you expect; play creatures, ramp hard, cast a massive
Genesis Wave, attack to win. I make a lot of Gruul decks, but this is the only time I've truly done gruul stompy.
My second is
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries +
Paradigm Shift. This one is much faster, more consistent, and more resilient than most other decks. It works by first exiling it's own graveyard (if necessary) and then casting
Paradigm Shift. You win off Jace with an empty library. And because it's mono-blue, most of the rest of the deck is just protection spells.
I'm currently working on a
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler +
Glimpse of Nature storm deck. We'll see how it turns out.