10/17 Commander 2013 spoilers Thoughts

There were 3 commander 2013 spoilers just now. I wanted to talk about each of them and what I thought about them.

First up we have:

I think this is a cool land. Outside of your commander, its just a filter land which isn't that great. But the counter clause is extremely good with some of the commanders. Any voltron style commander this will help immensely such as Thrun. I can also see this being very very good with the Jund and Naya commanders as they rely on counters. Any commander with counters is going to be really good with this. Thromok the Insatiable from the planechase decks will be really really good with this.

 The next card spoiled is this blink general. I actually do not think that it is the most interesting in terms of design. However, bant has some of the best enter the battlefield abilities, and there has not been a good commander to be able to blink them all until now. I can see myself feasibly changing rafiq into Roon of the Hidden realm after it comes out. The best part is that you can exile creatures you don't control if you need to get in for that last push of damage, or you want to be mean and combo off with Gilded Drake.

Here is the final card spoiled. It is the weakest card in my opinion mainly due to the mana cost. I think it is a fun card that will be used in multiplayer commander, but I still think it is too slow. It is a nice reliquary tower effect that punishes players for holding cards, and could combo well with cards like the rack or something like rule of law that forces them to only play one spell per turn so they are stuck holding cards, especially if you are making them draw. Probably really good vs a consecrated sphinx as well.

Anyway those are my initial thoughts on these cards. I could be completely wrong! Bottom line: I am excited for these commander 2013 decks to come out!