The bans have already led to reduced card value, impacted gameplay pace for good or bad, and balanced Commander deck power levels, but have also divided the community
8 Strixhaven: School of Mages Cards Worth $10 or More Demonic Tutor (Mystical Archive) Price: $44.99 Teferis Protection (Mystical Archive) Price: $29.99 Tainted Pact (Mystical Archive) Price: $25.99 Beledros Witherbloom Price: $18.99 Professor Onyx Price: $15.81 Time Warp (Mystical Archive) Price: $13.99 Natural Order (Mystical Archive) Price: $13.99 Galazeth Prismari Price: $13.95 Just like previous Standard-legal sets, most of the cards from Strixhaven will likely continue to decline a few weeks after its release, but its possible that certain cards could go up in value
Wilderness Reclamation did something very similar, but for lands, not non-lands, so this new version needs a little more buildaround to really break
If going wide doesnt sound like your style, you can always attach Light of Promise to Daxos himself and try to win through commander damage
The budget draw package For any two-color deck, here's a card draw package under $5: In black: Night's Whisper ($0.22) + Sign in Blood ($0.18) + Read the Bones ($0.14) + Phyrexian Arena ($1.93) In green: Harmonize ($0.19) + Beast Whisperer ($0.44) + Guardian Project ($1.67) + Return of the Wildspeaker ($0.62) Colorless (any deck): Tocasia's Dig Site ($0.08) That's consistent card draw for about $3 per color
It uses a modified version of the Champion mechanic, requiring you to Behold a Goblin to cast it, which protects a key utility piece by exiling it until the Champion leaves the battlefield
