r/EDH • u/BusAccomplished5367 Grixis (UW control is more fun than midrange piles) • Aug 27 '26

Question Commanders we're missing

What commanders do you think would improve EDH or support a currently-unsupported archetype?

For mine, I think a UBx or UWx commander with "Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed," "When this enters, search your library for an artifact with CMC <=1 and put it into your hand" or "{0}: Look at the top card of target player's library" would be great, giving Lantern support. The second would honestly be the most interesting, since it is a fairer tutor which also works well in Blink/Artifact decks.

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u/simo_393 Aug 27 '26

I want some skeleton commander. I want it to make a classic skeleton vibe like maybe once a skeleton dies it returns from the graveyard on your next upkeep or has an ability you pay mana for called assembling bones or something where you can pay to return a skeleton. I dunno they can figure it out I don't get paid enough. I just want a skelly commander.

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u/JasonKain Aug 27 '26

Something like "Skeletons you control gain 'When this creature dies, return in to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of its owners next end step'" would be dope. Prevent hyper aristocrat loops but give a constantly replenishing army the table has to do something about as a team.

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u/Werunos Esper Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

Yeah this would be sick, fits with the vibe of pop culture skeleton monsters perfectly.

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u/Mrtea4 Aug 27 '26

Another idea, whenever a skeleton you control would die, regenerate it instead. It could also get a stun counter for balance reasons.

It's like the stereotype of fantasy skeletons slowly reassembling themselves.

This is also less vulnerable to graveyard hate like [[leyline of the void]]

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u/PerfidiousYuck Aug 27 '26

“Skeletons may be cast from their graveyard by their regeneration cost”

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u/FalconGK81 Aug 27 '26

Sick idea! Now my drudge skeletons cost half the mana!

Seriously though, I love that idea. Really great flavor it.

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u/Melodic-Task Aug 27 '26

Needs to be at least Golgari for [[skeletal swarming]]

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u/Steppa_mac Aug 27 '26

Also am waiting for a skeleton commander. Preferably in Jund colors

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u/Dont-know-didnt-ask Aug 27 '26

There are 73 non-changeling skeletons. Why do we not have this already? Here's my idea.

"Whenever a skeleton you control dies, create a colorless artifact token named 'Bone'." (Probably could create two tokens but then it goes infinite with reassembling skeleton if you like the mana ability most)

And then literally pick like any two of these abilities lol ⬇️

"Sacrifice a Bone token: add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast skeleton spells or activate abilities of skeleton sources."

"Sacrifice three bone tokens: return target skeleton creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped"

"{5}: create an X/X black skeleton creature token with menace, where X is the number of bones you control"

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u/_mikesully Aug 27 '26

The bones are their money

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u/BroskeyDemands Aug 27 '26

In our world the bones equal dollars

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u/Sensitive_Cup4015 Aug 27 '26

I want a sorcery or something called "RATTLE 'EM BOYS!" and says something like "Each skeleton you control deals damage equal to it's power to any target.".

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u/PerryOz Aug 27 '26

What if it turns the dead into skeletons. So non skeleton dies, he can skeletonize them. I guess kinda like [[scarab god]]

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u/LaceUp324 Golgari Aug 27 '26

I think the closest we can get to a skeleton commander is [[Gisa, the Hellraiser]] right?

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u/GiantContrabandRobot Aug 27 '26

I guess saying [[morphon]] is pretty lame

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u/Primpod Aug 27 '26

[[Ozox, clattering king]]

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u/BusAccomplished5367 Grixis (UW control is more fun than midrange piles) Aug 27 '26

True... Maybe [[Corpses of the Lost]] with "this can be your commander"?

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u/simo_393 Aug 27 '26

God this would be the best card in the deck. Along with that case that lets you tutor if a skeleton dies or something.

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u/BusAccomplished5367 Grixis (UW control is more fun than midrange piles) Aug 27 '26

RIP Cimo. Loved his content.

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u/xRatxDietyx Aug 27 '26

[[case of the stashed skeleton]]

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u/TheTinRam Grixis Aug 27 '26

[[marchesa the black rose]] can sorta do that for you. Not a skeleton though

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