MTG New Transformers Set Review 

You’re wrong about Optimus and Bolster. He doesn’t require any other creatures on the board. I put together an Optimus Prime deck immediately after I realized that he boosters at the end of each turn and if he’s the only creature you control, he’ll just bolster himself. So if you can play him, give him haste, and bolster him by 2 (or play and wait to swing with him next turn), he’ll Convert into a 4/8 with 2 +1/+1 counters on him already. Then he’ll Bolster himself 4 times before it comes back around to your turn. So on the second turn he’s out, he can be a 10/14 and then be suited up with equipment to give him some kind of evasion and double strike. He’ll start one-shotting people on that second turn he’s out. There’s ways to make that work, and he’s in the right colors to give him protection from removal.

I wish we were getting Commander decks so I don't have to mix Magic cards with them in order to play.

I am putting all 13 that fit in a Breya deck and using all sorts of Artifact Creature - Humans to represent the Headmasters and Targetmasters and a bunch of Reconfigure creatures to represent Minicons. I don't care if the deck is good or not, I have been a Transformers fan since before I can remember and this has me so hyped. If nothing else, I want to make a deck around Goldbug since he was my absolute first Transformer toy. Bumblebee is my favorite Transformer of all time too.

Starscream and flamewar are the ones I'm excited to make decks for.

This set looks so fun. I might pick up a few of these cards as commanders when they come out.

As the weird kid that play goad deck, I think slicer is a good card to give to people that tried to evade goad by not summoning anything. It's also fun seeing Him hopping over people's board at every upkeeps.

This actually got me back into mtg and built a new deck around Magnus. It’s quite a powerhouse (especially when you mix in cards which put counters on any artificers/creatures when the enter the battlefield)

I’ve already built Megatron, and I think you may have undervalued the Neheb effect. It’s incredibly easy to fling an artifact and remove a players only blocker and hit them for at LEAST 7, then immediately flip back. I had it make 36 the other day by splitting the damage between two players, and then I used that mana to Exsanguinate 😂

I can just imagine combining Soundwave with the imperium deck with how token heavy it is…it’ll be amazing!

Thank you so much for covering these! I’ve been so excited about them! Tho I feel they haven’t been discussed much for possible deck techs!

Hey I love how you put them side by side with the alternate art thanks for that

I really really miss Shockwave 😢 But otherwise this is so cool 👍

Think you undervalued Cylconus quite a bit. There multiple ways to boost his power cheaply (blackblade e.g.) and then give him doubstrike allows him to deal regular damage, which then flips him before second damage is dealt, and you immediately get extra beginning phase. Very powerful card I'd say

I feel like these are gonna do better than the dracula cards.

Slicer is much better than you said, that double strike for turn 3-4 makes really hard to most edh decks to have something stronger on table, make it mandatory to block him, in the other a correct deck build should allow him to be stronger anyway.

Does anyone know if there is a reason why Arcee doesn't have a shattered glass version?

The new Weatherlight should have had Living Metal lol

Ratchet in vehicle mode is an ambulance!

The cards are pretty sweet and I'm excited that they are being made, but man i don't like the art on magic cards, it litterly looks like someone made a custom card on mtgcsrdsmith and used a image from Google. Don't get me wrong I love the art style itself, very nostalgic and awesome, just looks weird on a card

I brewed and played a Megatron deck tonight with a friend group who was okay with me proxying the card (since ofc it isn't out yet). Played early enough, even something like a signet or talisman aimed at an opponent's 1/1 is enough to set Megatron up, find someone with no blockers or utility creatures they want to keep to deal 7 commander damage, and then drop a Myr Battlesphere, Meteor Golem, or Spine of Ish Sah. Goblin Welder is of course great for trading a Myr token you have laying around for the Myr Battlesphere you just blasted out. And it's worth noting the tokens that Osgir makes copy the entire card, including the mana value. Rune of Mortality is a useful aura to ensure the 'ammunition' tramples over and gets to flip Megs, and unlike most auras won't fall off when he stops being a creature. I actually need to amend my deck to include some colorless mana sinks so I can do something with all that mana he makes and I've already dropped down a Triplicate Titan from hand.

Combat DJ is awesome! I've been wanting more modular for a while now. I hope living metal is a sign we may he getting more living weapons!

These are pretty cool, I love vehicles so I was pretty excited to try and get these. Though, they don't really feel like they fit in my Shorikai deck, so I guess I'll have to see what a Soundwave deck could look like if I can get my hands on one.

Optimisers bolster on each end step is actually really good turn your tinny 1 mana creature into a tank with one rotation round the table

What I like about these cards is that they are nice, but not the best build arounds for their strategies. So you can use them as a commander or in the 99, but there's no... Oh I'm building a Mardu aggro deck and need Megatron vibes.

Soundwave in Marneus would be pretty sick

Great work DJ nice break down.

A friend in our playgroup is very excited for these, and we want to try to get a copy of Soundwave for them since he's their favorite!

Also, @15:58 it's an older card, but it checks out.. From Mirroden "Energy Chamber" (At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one: Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact creature you control or an energy counter on target non-creature artifact you control)

Soundwave was my favorite transformer when i was little so i am absolutely building a commander deck around him. I'm okay with the bots being a bit clunky since as crossover cards they're better as casual pieces.

No Dimir or Grixis Shockblast? Missed opportunity.

I think the conclusion fights with the tone of the rest of the video. Almost each individual card has a lot of cool text, "*but it has to attack*". Each time you say this you sound disappointed or underwhelmed, but then at the end you're happy they're not pushed, and creature combat is healthy for commander? Heavily mixed signals I love a lot of these cards, I've already built Megatron and Optimus Prime lists. Even when there's a ceiling on new cards/commanders, they can still be extremely cool and flavorful

So are they Commander decks? Like Warhammer? Or are they just in packs? Because it seems I don't know if I could play with transformers without a full deck of transformer theme things. It would feel weird to cast

Great overview! I like Goldbug in the 99 of Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer to help her dig and protect her.

I started brewing a Cyclonus deck with equipment and voltron things, but realized that they would all fall off on my opponent's turn. back to the drawing board with that one! But I will inevitably build one of these generals, I just need to decide on a strategy/theme

What if you don’t make a commander deck with these and instead make a standard deck with 4 of all of these and nothing else. How stupid/awesome would that be?

Flamewar and Goldbug are probably the two most interesting to me. I do hope they come up with some in universe equivalent though.

As someone who grew up watching the old animated transformers movie I’m glad they made two different arts styles one being cartoon version. Star scream and megatron will be mine.

I plan on getting the entire set of 80’s art cards.

Still hate ALL the universes beyond without confirmed in-universe alternatives. Even 40k, but especially the ones without thematic similarities with magic.

I still think Megatron should transform into an Artifact Equipment card instead of a tank.. Tanks are cool, but these are all G1/barely G2 iterations of themselves & Starscream & Soundwave both have used Megs to put down Autobots more times than I can *COUNT* & to negate that potential is kinda meh.. Give the equipped creature +3/+0 first strike (cuz ranged attack) & either death touch or RFG.. Am I wrong??🤔

Make a Cybertron alt card of Jodah, The Unifier and put all the Transformers there. 🙃

4:07 Wait board wipes only look for the typing of creatures?! Am I hearing you right?

I just hope the transformers are easy to pull

i am making a +1+1 commander deck and i think to put in optimus and blaster and i find out about the transformers being in the brothers war i was happy and was thinking on using blaster as the commander but it become very limited so instead i am going to use the first sliver with maskwood nexus

The only thing I really dislike about these cards is that transforming them is not a may ability. They look clunky, they'll transform when you'll not want it and it's gonna be hard to get value reliably because often they'll be on the wrong side

Please don't ruin this for me! I love it!

Arcee would be AMAZING to mutate onto!

WE NEED AN UPDATES GRIMLOCK DECK TECH!

am i the only one that noticed for Megatrons Shattered Glass artwork, they used Blitzwing.

I am working on a 5 color myr commander deck would ratchet be good for that it's mostly an artifact deck

so basically just use an ozolith so if he dies put the counters on the oz your good?

Nothing on Blaster says that X cant be 0 so you can just tap him to give haste

🤔Judah the unifier as the commander and 💁🏿‍♂️ Transformers tribal😁

I made a 5 color Tribal Transformers deck with Kenrith as my commander….. the synergy is disgusting 😂 I highly recommend

With a lot of these Universes Beyond cards, it really feels WOTC made sure to keep their power in check, to avoid them seeing too much play and people getting angry at seeing them too often or being too expensive They all seem cute and somewhat underpowered cards that do flavourful things

would Megatron go in a dihada binder of wills deck?

I need more golgari transformers

Lulz ALSO also.. Why isn't Slicer called Wheeljack?!? Does anyone know if Hasbro lost the license/copyright for the name?!?🤔 I mean, the head & body are obviously Wheeljacks design.. Why didn't they call him what he's SUPPOSED to be?!?

I am soooooooo excited!!

::sigh:: Fine, more commander build-arounds, ho-hum. I think if I’d do anything with these I’d build them as Rule 0 4-color ‘all autobots’ and ‘all deceptions’ decks. It’s annoying that they don’t really play nice with one another.

wheres the link to the FOIL PEELING video??

Where can I get these?

I will own all of these cards.

I am waiting for the play doh set

Hoping they do power rangers at some point

So is any one else seeing Optimus in an arcadies big butts deck ???

good video

The need more transformer

They didn’t make bumble bee though! :(

These are cool cards… but not very keen on getting them in BRO. Would prefer regular magic cards to be honest.

I don't care that transformers is in mtg. I hate how lazy they were with the art. Instead of making it stylized and cool, they just threw the cartoons on it.

Theres been a lot of luxury products that haven’t been for me. I haven’t cared about any universe beyond releases. This is the one for me. I can feel wizards draining my bank account already.

This set was as disappointing as Godzilla cards.

I refuse to play with anyone who brings these to a table.

I DONT WANT THIS IN MTG

Transformers, Commanders in disguise

Just found out about this set can someone point me to the right booster boxes to get these cards from ?

Ive been thinking of adding the UB transformer to my Scarab God deck because of that extra beggining phase you get but since it costs so much and theres combat involved ive been second guessing wether to get that card or not

the thing with Jetfire is that even if he has counters on him on his Vehicle mode, you can still convert him. it's "UUU: Convert Jetfire, *then* Adapt 3." If he has any counters, he'll still flip, then try and put those counters and fail. You can then remove those counters to add mana and flip him back to his Vehicle mode. The only issue with it is that the ability on his front face *isn't* a mana ability, because it targets, so anything that prevents you from activating non-mana abilities will prevent you from adding the mana. Also: Flamewar is even better than 'just a bomat courier'. If Flamewar dies, you don't lose the exiled cards like Bomat does. She isn't looking for the cards she exiled, she's looking for cards you own with intel counters on them. Removal doesn't lock you out of the cards she's stashed away!