Add a card to your inkwell Only once per turn Play a card Characters, locations, actions, songs, or items Use an item or locations ability Play a character ability that doesnt require Move a character to a Location Also, with a character that was in play at the start of the Beginning Phase and is Ready , they can: Quest -OR- Challenge a location, or an exerted character -OR- Sing a Song card -OR- Use an ability that requires it to be exerted Every type of card and action can only be played once per card unless noted
For four mana, you get a 4/4 that lets you sacrifice a creature on attack to add Red mana equal to its power
Commander players often dont pack much in the way of graveyard hate, so Im all about cards that can come down early to deal with reanimation targets and the like and then provide a big upside later in the game
If the monarch leaves the game during their turn, the next player in turn order becomes the monarch
Use cards like Show and Tell or Academy Rector to cheat it onto the battlefield as early as turn two or three
Details like this matter when youre trying to squeeze every point of power out of the card