I believe Erdogan (and Turkey in general) were big players in getting the wheat trade deal settled, as well as the prisoner exchange, though I could be misremembering. It's just a weird situation of Erdogan having a history of centralizing power, but also making moves to be more relevant on the global stage.

For a Master of Keys, he doesn't really help with unlocking doors or playing rooms, huh?

Title drop card

Plus it synergizes with the Survivor archetype in green/white this set.

Is it covert if you know it's happening and have agreed to it?

I agree, this feels like the worst of the leylines shown so far this set. Does literally nothing until maybe turn 3 or 4, depending on format, and hitting WUBRG is fairly difficult in Standard, Pioneer, and Pauper. It's unusable in Mono-G Commander decks due to color identity.

There's a reason Jodah, Archmage Eternal isn't a factor in competitive formats.

That's true of a majority of commons.

I was trying to see if this could fit into Insidious Roots, but it's 2 mana instead of the 1 mana that helps the combo go off, and its power is too high to trigger Gorehound. The fact that they haven't already slotted Thespian into those decks means this won't fit either.

Why is this a news article? Why is this posted to this community? It's a well written article, but it carries no new news, and is just an article by the author of a book that's about to go on sale.

Aw dang, Special Guest. For a second I thought it was coming to Standard.

So... This allows you to get some attack triggers without risking getting killed by blockers?

For deck building purposes, I always have Scryfall up, and if I'm doing EDH, EDHRec is something I like to reference to see if I'm missing something obvious.

I want to build a deck largely out of cards I have, and I want it to be my deck, not just what people consider to be the best shell for my commander. But, I can always use a very powerful search tool, and sometimes my knowledge of cards is pretty limited, so seeing what other people are doing can help inspire me to look for similar lines or concepts in my own deckbuilding.

This game gave me my first real experience of melancholy. A sort of bittersweet sadness, born of what was and what could have been.