You can look at Dark Heart of the Wood to understand this – sacrifice a Forest to gain some life. What I am saying is that someone who enjoys building around restrictions, Iname as One is a bridge too far.Īll that being said, Iname as One is important to understand as one expression of Golgari as a color pair: it perfectly represents the cycle of life and death.īlack and green were set up from the start as a color pair that cared about the way life and death interaction. Commander should be about what you want to do. I’m not going to tell you to not build Iname as One if you want to do just that. In black and green, you can’t get any combination of cards that has a large enough impact to warrant spending 12 mana. But let’s say you go through all of this work and you get two Spirits of your choosing. Even if you manage to cast this from your hand you can’t pull any Phyrexian Reclamation shenanigans since you have to exile Iname as One to get its effect. And you have to cast it from your hand to boot, which means using cards like Command Beacon, Netherborn Altar, and Road of Return. Twelve! If you manage to hit a ramp spell on two mana, four mana, and two on six, you’re still not likely to get this thing out until the eighth.

Let’s look at it piece by piece.įirst, that mana cost.

I’m not saying you can’t run it or that you shouldn’t, but the card has a ton of baggage. The truth of the matter is this: Iname as One is not a good Commander.

Iname as one commander