Commander Precon Spoilers: Zurgo Stormrender, Felothar the Steadfast, and More

Spoiler season for Tarkir: Dragonstorm has arrived, and there’s a lot to be excited about. With tons of powerful cards and new booster fun treatments

Spoiler season for Tarkir: Dragonstorm has arrived, and there’s a lot to be excited about. With tons of powerful cards and new booster fun treatments, this set looks like a blast.

On top of what we get from the main set, one really cool aspect of Tarkir: Dragonstorm is that we’re blessed with five new Commander decks. Each clan gets its own Precon.

Today, we’re here to show off the face Commanders and secondary Commanders for each deck. Some were already previewed or leaked ahead of schedule, but now we know all 10 new legends. To kick things off, let’s take a look at one of the strongest token-themed Commanders ever printed.

Zurgo Stormrender

First up, Zurgo Stormrender is also an excellent Commander to construct a deck around. On its own, Zurgo gives you a 1/1 when it attacks. If it gets blocked down, you get to draw a card. If it doesn’t, you’ll sacrifice it at the beginning of your end step and each opponent will lose a life.

Where things get really exciting is when you pair Zurgo with lots of token production and ways to sacrifice them. Cards like Song of Totentanz give you a slew of tokens to attack with. Then, any free sacrifice outlet becomes devastating.

With enough tokens in play, you can just sacrifice them right away, and Zurgo will win you the game. Otherwise, you can attack with your tokens, and any tokens that don’t get blocked, you can sacrifice during the end of combat step to draw a card. Zurgo truly is a great leader for a Mardu tokens deck.

Felothar the Steadfast

Next, we have the non-Dragon Commander for the Abzan clan. Felothar the Steadfast is absolutely awesome. It’s reminiscent of Doran, the Siege Tower, but with a couple key bonuses.

First, your Defenders get to attack at will. This opens the door for cards like Wall of Omens to actually start connecting in combat. The really juicy part of the card, though, comes from Felothar’s final ability.

Felothar has the ability to draw a boatload of cards if you construct your deck with high-toughness creatures. Landing Tree of Perdition or Tree of Redemption, then sacrificing the Tree to draw 13 cards is a recipe for success. Felothar is one of the most exciting legends in Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander hands down.

Eshki, Temur’s Roar

Eshki, Temur’s Roar is a rather simple design. The goal is to play a high density of creatures with high power. If you do, Eshki acts as a card advantage machine and a win condition all at once.

It’s in your best interest to make sure your six-power creatures are as efficient as possible. Being able to immediately follow up Eshki with large monsters that trigger it is important. Creatures like Anzrag, the Quake-Mole, and Ghalta, Primal Hunger come to mind.

All things considered, Eshki isn’t insanely strong, but it is a nice build-around.

Ureni of the Unwritten

The Dragon Commander for the Temur deck is Ureni of the Unwritten. Ureni is also very simple, but can put a lot of power and toughness onto the board at once if you’re playing enough Dragons.

Beyond simply filling your deck with Dragons, Ureni incentivizes you to play with haste enablers. Ureni is a bit clunky, though if you can play it and attack on the same turn and get multiple triggers, you can get your mana’s worth.

Ureni also synergizes with cards that manipulate the top of your deck. Worldly Tutor-style effects ensure Ureni puts exactly what you want directly into play. As far as Umeni’s overall power level is concerned, the card seems decent. Unfortunately, competing with Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm as a Temur Dragon legend is very difficult. Ureni will likely end up as a Dragon in the 99 of other Dragon Commander decks, which many players will be ecstatic about.

Kotis, Sibsig Champion

Kotis is the Sultai non-Dragon Commander, and it has the potential to offer a decent amount of value. Getting to cast creatures from your graveyard is powerful. However, because you need to exile three other cards from your graveyard to do so, you need a lot of self-mill effects to make this card work.

This isn’t asking too much, however, and by milling yourself, you’re more likely to find some of your best creatures to cast out of your graveyard with Kotis. Spells such as Entomb become creature tutors in conjunction with Kotis, which is cool.

While Kotis’ final ability to grow when creatures enter from your graveyard isn’t usually