Hey all! Today Wizards of the Coast dropped a bomb on us with the appearance for Partner, which allows you to have two commanders instead of one. In addition to making a whole bunch of two-color legends available, they’ve taken the added step of making them obscenely flavorful. Here’s @markrosewater‘s breakdown of the legends:

- A four-color legendary creature (new characters but from known worlds) printed at mythic rare

- An allied two-color legendary creature with partner (characters from Magic’s past that haven’t yet been printed as cards) printed at mythic rare

- Two enemy two-color legendary creatures with partner (characters from Magic’s past that haven’t yet been printed as cards that are creatively linked to one another), one printed at mythic rare and the other at rare

Today we had a number of the older characters revealed. Ludevic is confirmed in as the UR legend, but I’ll wait for his card before including him. In the mean time, here’s where you can learn about the rest:

Silas Renn

Silas is a member of the Seeker’s of Carmot. He was Tezzeret’s chief rival among the Seekers, as shown in The Seeker’s Fall. He’s also a major player in the dubiously canonical novel, Test of Metal. He comes from a wealthy family and has an entire body of Etherium (as opposed to Tezzeret’s arm). If you dislike Tezzeret, you’ll probably also enjoy Silas knocking him on his butt, repeatedly, in the comic.

Bruse Tarl

Bruse is famous for his lines of flavor text, as one of the chief wranglers for the Goma Fada Caravan. His most famous line comes from Pillarfield Ox (which appears behind him):



“May starving fleas birth a thousand generations on your stubborn hide, cow!”

—Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad



Kydele

Kydele is a Prophet of Kruphix from Theros: Godsend Book 1 and the aptly titled story, Kruphix’s Insight. She has a crisis of faith following Xenagos’ brief rise into godhood, after which Kruphix opens up to the young prophet about the reality - and dangers - of the multiverse, and even somewhat the nature of gods.



Sidar Kondo

Mark Rosewater’s Howdy Partner describes some of Kondo’s background. He talks about Kondo more in Kings & Things from last year. Essentially, Kondo is the chief of a Jamuraan clan, adopts Gerrard as his son, and ends up being killed by his own biological son Vuel (later Volrath). He appears in the novel Rath and Storm.

Note that the four-color legends are all new characters, so they won’t have any existing lore attached.