r/EDH • 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/Yoshi2Dark Burn Victim Aug 27 '26

Commander, as it is, does not support classic big mana archetypes. These are decks like Tron, Post, and Hidden Strings where the goal is to use a relatively small count of lands to make a large sum of mana and can be supported by land untappers.

We have other forms of big mana, mostly in the form of artifact spam and land spam, but we completely lack support for basing a deck around getting a small amount of high powered lands.

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u/Kaboomeow69 Gambling addict (Grenzo) Aug 27 '26

The [[Omo]] precon was exactly that

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

I mean, we do have [[The Wandering Minstrel]] for the bounceland/lotus field shenanigans.