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Notably, Dour Port-Mage also triggers if your creatures get exiled directly from the battlefield, whether that's with your own blink effect, or with an opponent's exile removal like Banishing Light

You can cast it as a Force Spike for 2 mana and counter your opponents 2- or 3-mana play, and you can put any amount of mana into it later to counter bigger things

The best Magic: The Gathering cards arent as set in stone as you might think, because the games a roiling mass of cardboard thats ever-changing

We've seen cards like True-Name Nemesis and Containment Priest from past Commander sets maintain significant value, but at first glance, it doesn't seem like there are any Legacy standouts hiding in Commander 2016 , so this exception probably won't be relevant to our discussion

I look forward to seeing how this plays out in Commander tables

It won't copy any other effects that have changed that creature's power, toughness, color, and so on