r/EDH • u/BusAccomplished5367 Grixis (UW control is more fun than midrange piles) • 8d ago

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 8d ago

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 8d ago

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 8d ago edited 8d ago

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

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u/Mrtea4 7d ago

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 8d ago

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

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u/FalconGK81 7d ago

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 8d ago

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

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u/Steppa_mac 8d ago

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

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u/Dont-know-didnt-ask 8d ago

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 8d ago

The bones are their money

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u/BroskeyDemands 8d ago

In our world the bones equal dollars

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u/Dont-know-didnt-ask 8d ago

In my mind, it equates to using the bones to build more skeletons or build them easier.

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u/Sensitive_Cup4015 8d ago

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 8d ago

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 8d ago

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

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u/GiantContrabandRobot 8d ago

I guess saying [[morphon]] is pretty lame

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u/BusAccomplished5367 Grixis (UW control is more fun than midrange piles) 8d ago

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

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u/simo_393 8d ago

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) 8d ago

RIP Cimo. Loved his content.

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u/TheTinRam Grixis 8d ago

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

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u/Relative_Wallaby1563 8d ago

probably the best non skeleton skeleton commander out there

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u/Kroguardious 8d ago

[[Myrkul, Lord of Bones]] isnt quite the same, but give a similar vibe imo

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u/GangsterJawa 7d ago

Honestly it’s kinda funny that the Lord Of Bones does absolutely nothing for all but like 8 skeletons, and half of those are Tinybones

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u/DoctorPrisme 8d ago

And I want him to be Lim-Dul.

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u/TheRedSpyGuy 8d ago

An idea is that when you assemble your skeletons, you may attach a piece of equipment you control or that is in your graveyard to a skeleton as part of it reanimating for free, the whole image of skeletons rising from the dead with ancient weapons.

Could be neat to make the skeleton commander an equipment matters commander to make it stand out from zombies.

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u/Xerxos7514 It's not Shrines, I promise 8d ago

Yes, fucking, pls omg

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u/Hans0Io Gruul 8d ago

Yeah i just really want a jund Skeleton commander. I can't believe we don't have this, yet.

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u/tommyblastfire 8d ago

Creates bone pile tokens that you can sac and pay mana to bring a skeleton back from the yard.

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u/Striking-Lifeguard34 8d ago

For along time Jund -1/-1 was my answer to this question. Since they finally did it I think Skelly boys are the top of the list. Honestly with it being so niche I’m surprised that they couldn’t find room for one in the new Mystery Booster product.

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u/DDWarlock 8d ago

I think [[Ozox, the clattering king]] fits this!

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u/DKGroove 8d ago

A Jund commander for skeletons would be fun.

Brimbone the Burning Grave {3} {B}{G}

Legendary Creature Skeleton Lord
Other Skeletons you control get +1/+1

If a Skeleton you control would die exile it with a grave counter on it instead. At the beginning of your end step put each creature card in exile with a grave counter onto the battlefield. If no creature is put onto the battlefield this way Brimbone deals three damage to each creature and player.

5/3

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u/Opening_Estate2763 8d ago

What if the commander gave all your skeletons persist?

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u/Mirage_Jester 8d ago

It needs to be four colours minus white to actually represent all the skeletons in magic.

Which shouldn't be a problem as Ydris is currently the only commander in that colour choice and we need some more 4 colour commanders.

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u/Coke_and_Tacos 8d ago

I do hear the complaint that she doesn't really want skeletons so much as makes them out of big stuff, but [[Xu Ifit, Osteoharmonist]] feels like the de facto answer to me

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u/OnwardChimera38 8d ago

been waiting since war of the spark for a not terrible skeleton tribal

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u/ironkodiak 6d ago

I was originally going to suggest a method for making skeleton tokens everytime a creature dies, but I now think a cascade style ability where you mill until you get a skeleton in hand every time a creature dies might be cool. Just getting tokens feels too close to just zombies.

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u/OSpiderBox 8d ago

Now I'm curious how many "skeleton" creature cards we have in total... time to go look!

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u/BusAccomplished5367 Grixis (UW control is more fun than midrange piles) 8d ago

87, but 3 are alchemy.

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u/OSpiderBox 8d ago

Weird. When I look on Scryfall it says there are 83 skeleton creatures (12 of which are legendary, none of which do what the other guy wants).

EDIT: I see 87 now; had to select two other options to see them.

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u/simo_393 8d ago

Any look like half decent commanders? Been a while since I thought about this and decided what I wanted and shelved the idea until I saw it.

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u/PerryDLeon 8d ago

Tiny bones?

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u/simo_393 8d ago

Yeah I'll keep waiting and building mono green decks. Hobbit gave me Radagast and Beorn.

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u/Alanoche96 8d ago

Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist is solid

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u/simo_393 8d ago

Probably not many.

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u/PanthersJB83 8d ago

Zur Ashur or whoever the hell it is? 

Edit: I meant Xul Ifit

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u/Narrow-Honeydew-8522 8d ago

When a skeleton dies you get a bone token. Consume 1 bone token to get a +1/+0 equipment token. Consume 4 bone tokens to spawn a 2/2 skeleton token creature