I mean , so has Dishonored 2 . Titanfall was on sale not long after it came out as well . <| sep |> People are going to be denying the obvious until it ' s undeniable The partner mechanic has failed . Give it more time ? Nah . I don ' t know why some people are so insistent that there ' s some secret code to crack here we know what the strongest and most popular effects are , and how to build them . Figuring it out at this point means deciding whether Breya is actually Tier 1 or Tier 2 , or whether Yidris works better or worse as a Waste Not deck . It doesn ' t mean figuring out from a bunch of lousy Partner cards whether two shitty ones are actually SUPER GOOD or SUPER FUN together . If the community hadn ' t picked up the scent by now , don ' t bet your money on it . Yes the community totally overlooks cards sometimes , but that ' s usually about standard cards , not an eternal format where things need to hold a candle to broken cards like Vampiric Tutor , Necropotence , Force of Will , etc . At least when the community is wrong about something it ' s usually on people ' s radars e . g . is Thing in the Ice good in modernlegacy ? and is Torrential Gearhulk good in standard ? and is Thought Knot Seer good in modern ? . but have the partners really been on a whole lot of radars ? Also those things got figured out pretty quickly . In a general sense , new legendary creatures in EDH succeed as commanders if they inspire people to build decks around them some people want broken decks and some people want fun weird decks . The partners are very obviously lowpower level across all budgetary restrictions so they don ' t appeal to the cutthroat players . No there ' s no secret code to crack a shit card is a shit card , and the vast majority of partners are total shit . There are a very small handful that had potential but it ' s pretty clear by now there are no particularly broken ways to abuse them . From a competitive perspective , total complete failure . The partners also aren ' t interesting from a casualbrewer ' s perspective . They don ' t really have particularly fun or exciting effects that make you want to build a whole deck around them . WotC deliberately gave them shitty and uninspired effects and hoped that the Partner mechanic itself would somehow make up for it .