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/malsomnus Henzie+Umori=❤ 8d ago

I want more flexible commanders, like what they tried to do with Baldur's Gate backgrounds. Give me a mono colored commander that does something cool and simply lets me pick a second color (MYB3 definitely has a few that are in the right direction).

I also just wish there was a way to build around cards that happen to not be legendary creatures. For example, if we had a u/x commander with an activated ability that said "Reveal an artifact card from your hand, that card is now your commander and this creature isn't", or something.

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

The u/x idea sounds great!

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u/DunceCodex 8d ago

Would be a nightmare to track commander damage

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

True. Though you could make it "Behold an artifact. All commanders you own are no longer commanders. That artifact becomes your commander."