Even though they arent technically legal in any sanctioned format, if you can get your hands on them, theres a good chance your Commander pod will let you utilize the original card
Perhaps chief among them is the ability to buff, nerf and rework the actual text of cards week-to-week through balance patches, with the promise that this will avoid complaints of a stale metagame
Jan 19, 2026 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan Commander Deck Tech If churning out artifact tokens until your opponents can't breathe sounds like a good time, then you need The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
One Reddit user commented on Kraken of the Strait's low-quality CGI-style look, saying that the giant Blue creature "looks like a cutscene from a PS2 game." Certainly, the card does seem to be of lower quality than cards of a similar style
Agadeems Awakening and Shatterskull Smashing could be cast for less mana, but their design nudges the caster to put seven or more mana into them
But +3/+3 for a single mana is a fantastic rate for this black aura if you can both reliably enable delirium and care about buffing creatures
