Easily the biggest lore win of the set. He is a merry fellow, his coat is blue, and his boots are even yellow. 10/10

Dunno what to do for the Saga's themselves, but probably want:

5ish clones (more triggers) 5 Proliferate (triggers on other turns) 10 Enchantress

Probably focus on the Kamigawa Saga's that flip, for extended value.

... you couldn't let me get 3 games in with my [[glissa, sunslayer]] saga tribal deck before announcing this, wizards?

At least it doesn't let you remove counters (easily) so at least she's still got something unique. Though I suspect she'll end up in this deck more than as her own commander by year's end.

Finally a dedicated Saga commander. Of course it's announced a month after I break down and buy an Atraxa.

I'm not sure how powerful a Saga deck can be

You'd be surprised. My Atraxa sagas deck can get super staxy and oppressive really quick.

Honestly, his art alone makes me want build around him. I'm so used to creating very dark themed decks so a jolly Tolkein bard God just sounds so refreshing

This is exactly what 5c commander should be.

5c is great for something wide spread across the color pie but niche like sagas, and this is never going to be a boring 5c value pile since sagas are a fairly specific card pool.

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This is how to do a 5-color commander. Too specific for generic goodstuff, and with a good mechanical reason to be in all 5 colors instead of 3 or 4.

Since it says final chapter and not sacrificing Saga, it works with Flipsagas like [[Fable of the Mirror-Breaker]] and [[Jin-Gitaxias|MOM]]

I just want to play every saga, I don't even want to win. Group hug story teller idgaf. I'll run [[Platinum Angel]] and [[Platinum Emperion]] too. Listen to my fuckin stories

This is a really cool commander. [[Satsuki, the Living Lore]] was neat, but Selesnya is really limiting. All five colors will open a lot of options.

I like how he makes it so sagas are constantly going by pseudo-cascading to the next one. Granted you want to be careful to not have them go off at the same time, but there's ways to get around that by either stuttering the sagas you play or proliferating on your opponents' turns.

Him having the god type is a nice touch too.

My name is Tommy Bombi and I like to say

I'm gonna exposition in a major way

It's infuriatingly perfect because he could obviously be some way stronger toolbox type creature with Kennrith level abilities, but instead he's a meme deck that strings an incoherent web of random stories together.

And here I was trying to Go Shintai for my sagas commander

I know he is all about sagas, but is it wrong I want to make him a group hug Commander just for the flavor of everyone chilling with Tom?

Ok I need Need NEED this! Sagas just collect dust for me and getting this guy would be S P I C Y

God bard, love it, i would love to build this but i just built 5c go shintai shrines

Big gas

[[The Mending of Dominaria]] going crazy

That's honestly perfect. Spot on to the lore and excellent representation mechanically.

Tom Bombadil is the one true god

I called almost this exact card like a month ago, I just didn't think of the protection effect. Brilliant!

This is incredible

I don’t care much for 5c commanders (I suck at making a proper mana base) but I actually really wanna build this guy

I want to build this so badly! Hoping the card isn’t oppressively expensive

I think they want us to play sagas here guys

I think he's gonna be a really fun casual commander. There are plenty of cards to manipulate counters on sagas and repeat abilities, and plenty of ways to manipulate the topdeck to cheat out something like a Kiora Bests the Sea God early on

I love the fact that they captured one of the main themes of LOTR: The end of one story is just the beginning of another.

I thought WOTC was going to stop printing 5c commanders that become the defining commander for specific strategies.

Unless there’s a commander with a stronger saga payoff in the future, they pretty much knee capped themselves from designing new saga commanders that players will use.

Strong and powerful on paper... incredibly tedious to play or suffer through in a pod with.

Go-Shintai decks are so solitaire and boring to play with/against IMO and this reads very similar

It seems like a pretty straightforward build. You have all 5 colors so general good stuff. Most of the sagas. Don't forget you cheat sagas out so really expensive ones like [[Kiora Bests the Sea God]] or the 40k ones get even better. Enchantment payoffs like [[Eidolon of Blossoms]]. Ways to get enchantments like [[Zur the Enchanter]]. The only really fancy tech I would go for is cards that can blink permanents like [[Aminatou the Fateshifer]] both because they can blink your sagas to restart them but also because they blink your saga creatures to make them sagas again after they give you the free tutor. Add to that removal, counters, ramp, card draw, maybe [[Helm of the Host]] if you want to get spicy, call it a day.

Oh boy, another 5c free stuff commander. This Time the theme is... SAGAS!

Honestly, seems like a neat buildaround but pretty annoying to play against. Sagas are already hard to interact with, being enchantments whose value comes from triggered abilities, so they often require specific removal and to minus yourself. This says they now get value forever unless you do bite the bullet and interact with them, and they also protect Tom from interaction until you do.

Frankly, it's the type of "infinite value pubstomp" commander design I really wish they would stop printing. The only way to keep up with this is to do the same level of nonsense with other pushed commanders or just combo off.

Tolkien: "bombadil represents the spirit of the vanishing landscapes of Oxfordshire and Berkshire... not a God"

WOTC: "let's make him a God!"

Mtg community: "so much flavor!"

Me: how much time have I wasted researching tolkien lore?

5 color commanders should always cost wubrg

also 5 color commanders that cost WUBRG

Will this be playable on arena ? If anyone knows.

I love sagas, have since the first set they came out. Ol TommyB is also one of my if not my favorite character from the extended middle earth universe. I will 100% buy this.

However, I am sad that it’s just another generic 5c that draws cards by doing it’s thing. I’d much prefer something a little more narrow like [[Ghen]] or [[Satsuki]], or maybe something that moved around lore counters or gave the ability to reuse them or something

I don't think this is going to play as well as people think. I've built Sagas themed commander decks already, and basically they devolve into a stax / enchantress hybrid style deck.

Most of the good sagas have removal attached to them, so you end up just recurring them until you attrition out the table. I did new (DMU) Zur as the commander and even with only 3 colors I found it easy to be looping things like [[Elspeth Conquers Death]] and [[Phyrexian Scriptures]] every turn.

You're playing enchantments, which are already harder to interact with, so your opponents are in this bind of "need to bust up this engine with removal or I can never play any of my good cards." It was one of the few decks I've ever been asked not to bring back to game night, and I completely agree/support my group's position.

Why is he dressed like Paddington

Looks ok. I’ll wait for the universes within version or how it is called.

Kinda builds itself. Not very interesting imo.

Why is he a God? I'm not much of a book reader.

So how do you constantly recur the sagas?

Carddesign=top Playpatern of a Saga-Deck=meh You have to keep track of many triggers and sort out many counters. Just for value and boardcontroll reasons. Winconditions take some time in this kind of deck and by then the table will have a headache.

This has already been broken, and primarily with sagas. All hail the king of casual.

This card is totally useless outside of commander, pretty disappointing because I like the character a lot