And the twentieth core set packs a suite of legendary creatures that tick all my boxes when Im perusing the previews for my next commander: Cheap to cast Thematic (Mostly) mono-colored The Wheeler philosophy of Commander is centered on taking advantage of the formats uniqueness: diving deep into the games history, only to surface when Ive found the perfect abysmal uncommon from Mirage or functional reprint from Portal Second Age
The upside here is that each mode on Borrowed Hostility can target a different creature, so there's some mid-combat blowout potential, but it's hard to set that up for a full 4 mana
Every 1,000 XP nets you one Mastery level on the Mastery track, and each level has the possibility for extra goodies
The highest difficulty isn't particularly high if you have even half an on-meta deck of your own (speaking as a lapsed, at most casual TCG player myself), and so once you know what you're doing they can get a bit repetitive
The next set on the horizon is "Wilds of Eldraine." It takes us away from the kingdoms and keeps of our first visit and into the wilds