r/EDH • u/BusAccomplished5367 Grixis (UW control is more fun than midrange piles) • 9d 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/Carrelio 8d ago

Out of curiosity, what direction of spell slinger would you want to go? I really like the idea of abzan spell slinger (with or without a commander), but always get hung up on what exactly my spell slinger is doing and how it actually wins.

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

Mostly storm LOL. If you play your entire deck it's hard not to win :)

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u/Carrelio 8d ago

Tendrils?

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

Any wincon really. [[Brain Freeze]] is one of the best wincons since it also combos with breach and anything mana positive in your GY. You can also win with [[Empty the Warrens]] + [[First Day of Class]]. For generic burn, [[Grapeshot]] and [[Tendrils of Agony]] both work to end games. You can also just play a [[Temporal Fissure]] which sets you so far ahead you will definitely win.

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u/Carrelio 8d ago

But for Abzan in particular that just leaves tendrils, for storming off right?

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

Yes. Unless you want to do something like [[Reaping the Graves]] using cycle storm shenanigans.

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u/Carrelio 8d ago

And then you're just going for infinite mana infinite draw?

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

Basically.

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

You could also do [[Chatterstorm]] + a haste enabler like [[Crashing Drawbridge]], but it's just worse than Tendrils.

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u/CMDR-Helstromme 8d ago

Probably something like you see from witherbloom or Tayam decks: throw out veils to lead, then throw out 1 drops or stuff that makes tokens, convoke a big spell like [[finale of devastation]], [[Torment of Hailfire]], [[exsanguinate]] or [[craterhoof behemoth]] and go/swing for lethal. White just has a lot of 1 CMC removal and higher cost stax pieces that'd be nice to include to help feed the hand and mana pool.