Magic The Gathering

[I'mma real anime gurl]

For instance: Bloomburrow. I asked about it previously, and I was told that it was apparently "fine" in terms of lore and such, it's just... after dealing with similar settings like Small Saga over the past few years, I feel like I have to approach everything asking whether or not it's "woke" these days. I want to enjoy the lighterhearted Redwall-esqe setting, was planning on building a Commander deck around it, but I've heard enough comments about "no gender issues" and "everyone being equal" that it makes me hesitant. It's shit, I know, but after dealing with the Radiant Citadel in DND...

Aside from that, I've been having trouble figuring out which specific settings to get into, both for lore and gameplay. I was considering Innistrad, as playing as a werewolf sounds fun on paper, but the whole Day/Night mechanic sounds like an absolute pain in the ass to deal with. Aside from that... if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them. Assuming half my response doesn't get deleted again and I have to type everything out...

Bello, Bard of the Brambles is a perfect commander that had come out of Bloomburrow. You could make Bello into a enchantress, vehicle, or even artifact commander. It's literally simple and all you need is ramp, removal, and high mana value artifacts and/or enchantments. Like that commander alone is a standout despite the two tri color frogs and the cat that turns everything into food.

Recently there's Rootha and Muddle which takes spellslinger in different directions. Rootha cares about the mana value of instants and sorceries so that she makes a fat ass elemental that has flying and haste but sticks around unlike the other shit that'll create elementals. Whereas Muddle could be any nonlegendary creature (that you control) with myriad if you cast a instant and sorcery. But there's a cycle of elder dragons in Secrets of Strixhaven that gives instants and sorceries various abilities that you can tinker with.

However one other commander that I'll suggest is Calix, Guided by Fate. Now currently it's a 13$ card but it and Ob Nixilis are the standouts from MOM: Aftermath. It's a enchantress voltron commander that copies your enchantments when you deal damage with Calix or deal damage with a enchanted parament. You could use it to copy your ramp, pillow fort, or stax piece and any enchantment creature that you might want.

Point is there's good niche commanders that you could find and work with without really looking at their lore.