If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion
"CMC=3 Power=3 -Color=Green" will return creatures that have a converted mana cost and power equal to three, but will exclude any green cards
A combination of ~2 answers to targeted removal, ~2 answers to board wipes, and ~2 flexible counterspells is a good starting point
5 Invasion of Regatha Invasion of Regatha has become a stand-out card in Standard's mono-red decks
Chaos Warp I feel like this is a commercial for Commander itself, the way Viking River Cruises dominates PBS programming sponsoring in the United States
What I came up with is that purple takes one spell effect from each of the other non-green colors: from white - enchantment removal (worse than white) from red - direct damage (worse than red) from blue - countermagic (exclusive) from black - edicting (exclusive) If purple had been around from the beginning, it would definitely have at least one exclusive ability, so blue doesn't get any countermagic at all in this set
