One of the best parts of Magic: The Gathering is that it’s been around so long that there are unexpected interactions between cards printed in 2026 and those that that shipped in the ’90s (at least in formats that don’t rotate, like Commander). Still, I wasn’t quite expecting one of the Commander cards in Magic’s the latest set, Secrets of Strixhaven, would be essentially broken with a card from last year’s Final Fantasy set.
Dina, Essence Brewer, helms the Witherbloom Pestilence precon, the Golgari (green-black) offering in the quintet of boxed decks. She’s a 2/3 druid that lets you draw a card whenever you sacrifice a creature, but also has an activated ability that requires two generic mana and triggers that card draw.
