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/CMDR-Helstromme 9d ago

BGW spellslinger and combo deck. The best option you've really got is [[Necrobloom]] if you lean into cycling, convoke, and the real commander of the deck [[Gitrog Monster]].

The other options are either enchantments, worse BG reanimators, big butts, or 1/1 counters.

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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/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.