Baldurs Gate 3 Intellect Devourer

The newest Magic: The Gathering set is on its way in just a couple of weeks (prerelease starts a week from Friday, so become sign up for events at your local game store). Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate returns the game to the setting of Dungeons & Dragons and the Forgotten Realms, but as it says in the name, the set focuses on an important location in video games equally well as tabletop adventures, Baldur's Gate. Last week, we posted a rundown of the gear up and its mechanics, and then cheque out that story to go the lowdown on the new and returning mechanics.

Wizards of the Coast has graciously allowed united states of america to preview i of the cards coming with this set, and this creature may desire all of the large-encephalon plays you lot can muster. Take a await at Intellect Devourer.

Art by Brian Valeza

This creepy fellow will do its all-time to make certain you e'er have a play to make afterwards slamming this 2/4 horror into play for 3B, and yous don't even have to dig through your own deck. Intellect Devourer exiles a card from each opponent'due south manus (of their choosing) until Intellect Devourer leaves the battlefield. Then, yous can play lands or spells from among those exiled cards and spend mana equally though information technology were of any color to cast them. You may not get the best of what each player is holding, merely this fauna tin can offer tons of value to you in the correct deck while becoming a major badgerer to the balance of the table.

Fine art past Martina Fačková

Naturally, Intellect Devourer fits into decks that care about playing spells you lot don't own or control. Battle for Baldur's Gate already has a great Commander for this theme with Tasha, the Witch Queen, a Planeswalker that rewards you with 3/3 fliers whatsoever time yous cast someone else's spell. Tasha too steals spells from an opponent's graveyard, which will work wonderfully with Intellect Devourer considering the spells exiled and bandage with information technology are going straight into its owner's bin after you're done with them.

Art past Zack Stella

To keep the manus-stealing of Intellect Devourer going strong for multiple turns in a Tasha deck, might I advise a copy of Thassa, Deep-Habitation? Thassa tin can exile and return up to one creature you command to the battlefield (too under your control) at the end of your plow. Blinking Intellect Devourer in this style essentially refills your manus just in time for your opponent's turns. You lot tin can besides work some fun political plays with allies by having them give you their removal spells, state drops, or creatures to cast that would benefit the truce y'all've built. Be conscientious with Thassa's blinking, though, equally Intellect Devourer specifically says it exiles cards until it leaves the battleground, pregnant in one case Intellect Devourer is blinked by Thassa, those stolen cards go back to the owner's hands if they weren't used. Brand sure yous've played and cast as much as possible earlier restocking your supply of swiped spells.

Those are just a couple of employ cases for this brainy horror that's sure to crusade some frustration in any Commander playgroup if used in the right mode. If you accept whatsoever devious ideas on how to employ Intellect Devourer to its fullest, let me know in the comments below.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur'southward Gate is a fully draftable Commander-focused set that releases in newspaper on June x, with prerelease events starting on June 3 at participating WPN game stores. If yous're looking to play digitally, Boxing for Baldur's Gate tin exist drafted on Magic Online on June ten, while MTG Arena will also become in on the Baldur's Gate fun with an injection of cards in the Abracadabra and Historic formats on July 7.