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Two new Reality Fracture rares materially widen the tools available to Commander strategies. Kindred Judgment brings the Kindred Dominance template to white, giving typal commanders such as Pantlaza and Choco access to a one-sided board wipe without splashing black.
Ajani’s Anguish fills a different gap: for one red mana it grants the entire team trample, and additional mana turns it into scalable direct damage. That makes it useful both to creature-heavy Commander decks that need to push through blockers and to current Standard Landfall shells looking for late-game reach.
The same preview batch includes Simulacrum Shaper, a three-mana green analogue to Solemn Simulacrum, and Curse-Marred Demon, whose Gamble-style tutor can turn its discard clause into upside in graveyard decks. These are new color-access and role-compression options, not merely generic card rankings.
Ajani’s Anguish fills a different gap: for one red mana it grants the entire team trample, and additional mana turns it into scalable direct damage. That makes it useful both to creature-heavy Commander decks that need to push through blockers and to current Standard Landfall shells looking for late-game reach.
The same preview batch includes Simulacrum Shaper, a three-mana green analogue to Solemn Simulacrum, and Curse-Marred Demon, whose Gamble-style tutor can turn its discard clause into upside in graveyard decks. These are new color-access and role-compression options, not merely generic card rankings.
Original source: New MTG Cards Could Become Commander Staples ↗MTG Rocks