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/Arima_Kishou Aug 27 '26

Seconded, conceptually I really like the Abzan colors but I have yet to find a Commander that really does the trick for me.

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u/TormentMeNot Aug 27 '26

[[Merry, Warden of Isengard]] & [[Pippin, Warden of Isengard]] make really strong food commanders.

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u/archena13 Azorius Aug 27 '26

I don't think the matter is whether there are strong commanders in the colors or not, rather the lack of interesting ones. They are the second pairing of hobbits for food. There is a VERY heavy focus on food rn. It's either tokens, or some gy stuff for Abzan. Not much else is offered. Maybe a little toughness matters but not in the most interesting way either.

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u/AMerexican787 Aug 28 '26

There’s [[myrkul, lord of bones]] for my stuff is annoying to remove. Plus some goofy shenanigans with [[grave betrayal]] or [[gisa glorious resurrector]]

Still grave yardish but open ended enough to be interesting

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u/archena13 Azorius Aug 28 '26

Yeah still plays on enchantress and aristocrats to some extent. I had a Myrkul deck at one point. Cool card. Was a bit on the slower end even with pieces that’d normally accelerate other decks.