Protection, Counters and Removals This deck is completely based on creatures and can only win through combat damage, so any protection spell you have is worth it
The best cards from Commander Masters could be a list of all of the reprints in the main Magic: The Gathering set, but because its already pretty well-documented which cards are good and which are bad - and in a Masters set most of the cards are at least some degree of good - were going to be looking at just the new cards added in by the new, and uncomfortably pricey, Commander decks
Baru doesnt necessarily make it any easier to cast those wurms, so theres a strong subtheme of ramping into those 6- and 7-cost creatures
Mithril Coat can be played as a flash -- that is, as a surprise -- and makes its target indestructible
The only way to beat them is to ignore the card for a few months
That meant you needed a lot of hate cards, which in turn makes the Abzan matchup unfavorable