Notably, you as a player do not phase out and neither do the cards in your hand, library, graveyard, or any other game zone aside from the battlefield. The same is true of any spells or abilities that you control on the stack.

In this article, I catch up with Greg Sablan of the Commander Advisory Group (CAG) and the other founding members of the Alliance of Military Magic Players (AMMP) to talk to them about how the community got started and get to know them a little better.

There was a period of time where blue was occasionally given the ability to destroy a creature by polymorphing it into something else. In this case, you can help your opponent’s best creature channel its inner ape. I’m pretty sure that there’s even a popular meme for this concept.

Deep Gnome Terramancer seems like an instant staple that’s never going away until they release something even better. I feel this is what WOTC originally intended to do with Boreas Charger or Cartographer’s Hawk, but maybe at that point there wasn’t as high of a demand to ‘fix white’ in EDH or they just weren’t sure how far they could push white while still staying within the boundaries of the color pie.

You can’t have a Mindflayer captain without a ship! Nautiloid Ship gives you another graveyard exile effect - but this one allows you to use the cards exiled by it, making it a nice card for both its mechanic and its flavor.