Hello happy folks and I hope your day is going super mega well! This is my next article unpacking the good stuff from Tarkir: Dragonstorm for casual play like Commander, and other Highlander and multiplayer too as well as Five Color, Type Four, Peasant, Pauper and more! If it's played at the kitchen table it's here. This is a sequel to my Top 15 a few weeks ago here, and then a couple of weeks ago too, and then last week here. Check them out! Today we'll be around another 15ish cards so we can move to our 5 new Commander Deck ones, next week, also deep.
Let's get this thing a-started!
Honorable Mention. Sibsig Appraiser
This three-drop 2/1 Blue common (Pauper, Peasant) has an ETB ability to dig two, and draw one and then toss the other into your graveyard, great for graveyard fodder, or flashback, recursion or threshold or just using your 'yard as a second hand!
Honorable Mention. Qarsi Revenant
This three-drop on-curve 3/3 with flying, deathtouch and lifelink too is the same cost as casual favorite Vampire Nighthawk but a bigger power! Then you can spend three at sorcery speed and exile it from your graveyard to toss its keywords as counters on your dork from Commanders to beaters on ground and more! Love it, you will too!
#15. Stadium Headliner
It's got mobilize 1 and then a sac for 2 mana to shoot a dork for damage equal to your dork total, normally a White thing. Love that much here in Aggro or Tokens decks like my Mardu Zurgo Commander Brew here.
#14. Dragon Sniper
This better one-drop on-curve 1/1 with deathtouch is just strong since it also has reach to block all flyers and even vigilance to get its swing on unblocked and then keep it back. With reach this is the best one-drop deathtouch ever printed!
#13. Iridescent Tiger
This five-drop mono-Red, sorta, 3/4 uncommon Cat is next! If cast this will make 1 mana of each color on arrival. That's a massive mana making and smoothing powerhouse for the Five Color Format or 5C decks. But you need that color identity in Commander since it's not splashable there, so that's why it's here at the fourth list, but it's format-dependent.
#12. Warden of the Grove AND Yathan Tombguard
This pair of counter caring, three-drop two-power Golgari dorks is next! The Green rare will toss a +1/+1 counter onto it your EOT and then when a another nontoken arrives you it arrives with a size boost equal to this's counter count or make a token its size. The Black one with a higher toughness and evasion with menace will turn creature damage with counter to drawing you a card like Bident of Thassa and you'll lose that life too! This doesn't have the phrase "or more" there so each dork that smashes draws. Great card flow there and then the first really can make foes grow or make dorks, and we all know how beloved +1/+1 and other counters are at the kitchen table!
#11. Jeskai Shrinekeeper
This five-cost flying, hasted Jeskai named and colored Dragon uncommon is next! It has a combat damage trigger to draw on an evasive flyer, like Shadowmage Infiltrator's fear or Thieving Magpie, and then with haste and a bigger power too. Plus, you'll gain that life too! Love this thing very much, I'm sure you will when you try it, from Five Color Format to other stuff if you've got the colors, why not try this out?
#10. Surrak, Elusive Hunter
This mono-Green three-cost legendary dork has a great size at 4/3 with evasion in trample and then don't sleep on that uncounterable too! Then when it or other dorks are targeted by anything of your foes from abilities to spells, you'll draw that sweet card! Love it, with him run artifact and enchantment dorks like Archetype of Endurance to protect them as well. But that can be a bit, not great, since if they need to, they'll target your Consecrated Sphinx or this and you probably won't draw that much. In Commander, multiplayer or Five Color probably better as a support piece than handing him the lead. Get it and run it much!
#9. Yathan Roadwatcher
When this arrives, did you cast it? Mill four and Sun Titan a cheap dork to the battlefield. Nice, but just when cast and ETB so not blinked or recurred. Note you don't have to recur what was milled, love that much. Nicely done!
#8. Neriv, Heart of the Storm
This on-curve, legendary Mardu 4/5 flyer is next. If a dork you control would deal damage it's doubled if it arrived this turn? It's in the color of haste enablers from Anger to Hammer of Purphoros, but doesn't give it himself. Love a damage dealer though even with that restriction.
#7. The Monument Cycle
Next are the three-color enemy cycle! They are artifacts that cost two and then ETB with a basic land in their three colors to your hand and then at sorcery speed sac with three colors of mana and then for various abilites and tokens left after they've help out mana, love them with artifact recursion like Golbin Welder for a post-self-sac to bring back and get another trigger or fodder to bring better stuff back.
#6. This Blue Trio that Cares About Things Leaving your Graveyard
Our last one before our final Top Five is this trio! The four-drop Sultai 3/3 flyer will turn that into ramp with Treasure! It also renews at sorcery speed to grow and fly your dork permanently! The Simic Bear cost and size with flying has that leaves play, but once per turn, draw that card though! The three-drop rock in Blue will surveil in your upkeep and then tap for no mana to make a 2/2 dork that's if something left your 'yard, and no mana needed, just cast and tap immediately. Love this trio much!
#5. Narset, Jeskai Waymaster
Top Five Time! This three-drop Jeskai legendary dork with a fine 3/4 size will in your EOT step discard if you want to draw equal to the spells you've cast. Great for Aggro, Storm, Wheels, Cantrips and such since that's all spells not just non-creatures. Just have a low casting cost average and draw tons! I love here free stuff like Memnite or Ornithopter or mana postive mana rocks or neutral like Basalt Monolith and Grim Monolith too.
#4. New Way Forward
This five-mana Jeskai instant is next! Three words, so sorry symmetry folks it's not next. This will prevent all of the damage that a source would deal to you this turn. A few bad things there - it doesn't stop all damage it deals to you or your team, so if someone cast Earthquake you could stop you from taking it, but not your stuff or others, or just one dork swinging your way. Then you can face-punch that damage to them and then you draw...that many....cards!?!?! That's amazing in Type Four with infinite mana but one spell/turn or the Five Color format or Commander if you've the mana color identity.
#3. Lotuslight Dancers
This three-color Sultai five-mana Zombie Bard is next with its 3/6 lifelinking size and then ETB to toss one card each in its colors into your graveyard. That doesn't have to be a dork, so in Blue you could give your team flying with Wonder or card draw with Deep Analysis. Love that graveyard filling for recursion, threshold or much more! I'm sure you will too if you try it out as well!
#2. The Assault Enchantment Duo
The Mardu one costs five, gives your team a bigger size like Glorious Anthem and then deathtouch too, nasty; when it ETBs if it's your main phase you get a Relentless Assault too. Then the six-cost one in Sultai will when it ETBs it shoots everthing for three like a better Pyroclasm! Then the landfall will make free 4/4 flyer Dragons nasty good there.
#1. The Good Equipment
Last are the three good equipment here! The one-drop colorless equip four at most but with a built-in cost reducer gives it +2/+2 and hexproof from monocolored things so great for most targeted removal. Then the two-drop Red one gives haste, +1/+1 and then evasion better than menace in trample. You can equip for two, not bad for that and then make a free 1/1 Monk token with prowess for when you flurry. Then the two-drop White one with two equip too gives a massive 3 power, and then draw a card when it swings and enough others are too. Yay! Great card!
There we go! I hope you enjoyed today's final Top 15! Next week we are tackling the Top Cards from this set's large 5 Commander decks. See you then and have an awesome day!





























