In the world of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the most things that players resonate the most with is the monsters! There’s a deep bag of creatures in the game and with Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate in preview season, we expect to see some of them. Where there’s a couple of cuddle creatures that were previewed that may look nice, but they’re scary once they’re in a game!
2 Cuties!
So we have a couple cute lookin’ creature to talk about today. Let’s meet them!
First up, we have the ever famous
Owlbear Cub
Owlbear Cub
Mama's Coming — Whenever this creature attacks a player who controls eight or more lands, look at the top eight cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that player. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
! The Owlbear Cub is a tiny beast that shows up in many a campaign, and when there’s a cub, there’s always a mama! When it attacks, if the opponent that you’re attacking has 8 or more lands, you look at the top 8 cards of your library. Then you can put a creature from among those 8 onto the battlefield, tapped and attacking that same player.
Right away, you could definitely throw the Owlbear Cub into
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Whenever another Bear you control enters, choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target Bear.
• Target Bear you control fights target creature you don't control.
for Bear tribal. But Owlbear Cub also fits really nicely into just any bog standard green based creature deck. Often times, those decks aim to cheat big threats into play, and this could be another fantastic addition there.
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The other little fur baby that we have here is
Displacer Kitten
Displacer Kitten
Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
! For anyone who isn’t familiar, Displacer Beasts in D&D are creatures that have the ability to bend light, essentially “displacing” an image of themselves up to 3 feet from where they actually are located. This makes them great at hiding!
Now as it pertains to
Displacer Kitten
Displacer Kitten
Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
, this card allows us to do some really crazy stuff, “displacing” our own permanents, essentially hiding them away from the world. Blink decks are very popular and powerful, as they abuse many strong enter the battlefield abilities. Because of the popularity of these decks, Displacer Kitten has many easy homes.
Just to name a few, some of the top blink decks are
Brago, King Eternal
Brago, King Eternal
Flying
Whenever Brago deals combat damage to a player, exile any number of target nonland permanents you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.
,
Roon of the Hidden Realm
Roon of the Hidden Realm
Vigilance, trample
{2}, {T}: Exile another target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
, and
Yorion, Sky Nomad
Yorion, Sky Nomad
Companion — Your starting deck contains at least twenty cards more than the minimum deck size. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
Flying
When Yorion enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you own and control. Return those cards to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.
. Each of these have been the heads of the Blink archetype for a while. With each of these, we want a mix of really great enters the battlefield / leaves the battlefield effects and blink effects and Displacer Kitten fits the mold.
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We have a few more days worth of previews to come, so hopefully we get a few more fun little critters to bless our battlefields in cuteness!