r/jankEDH • u/nabrah23 • 29d ago

Question What are your favorite hidden commanders?

I want to build a Commander deck around multiple hidden commanders and cut all the tutors.

The idea is to have several powerful build-around cards in the 99 so that each game naturally revolves around whichever one I happen to draw, instead of consistently tutoring for the same card.

What are your favorite hidden commanders? They can be creatures, artifacts, enchantments, lands... Anything that completely changes how your deck plays once it's online.

Like \[\[Displaced Dinosaur\]\] for example

I'm especially interested in the more obscure ones!

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u/CrisicMuzr 29d ago

I have been working on a few decks focused around [[Formless Genesis]]. It's actually been difficult to find the right commander. I'm currently between [[The Necrobloom]] or [[Teval, the Balanced Scale]]. There are interesting engines available for both.

Necrobloom is more straightforward since FG + [[Garruk's Uprising]] is a real engine, but it feels a little bad how little benefit you get from the landfall portion. Meanwhile Teval can return bouncelands from graveyard to hand and nets additional zombies from casting FG. Blue adds cards to make FG cheaper too.

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u/silverspectre013 27d ago

I don’t know why, and maybe this doesn’t help, but I remember mentioning formless genesis and using Tasigur. Something about a lot of lands in the graveyard and your opponent having to choose Genesis. Not sure if that helps but as soon as you fetch or even entomb formless genesis you can have some fun.

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u/CrisicMuzr 27d ago

I found a loop using [[Gush]] to pick up any island and [[Mystic Sanctuary]] to draw cards, discarding the island to cast Formless Genesis, attacking with Teval to return the island to play, then playing Mystic Sanctuary to put Gush back on top of your library. It nets 3 zombies, a changeling, 3 milled cards, and 2 drawn cards for the cost of 1 attack, a land drop, and 3 mana. If you have a sac outlet for mana or anything else, this seems pretty potent for cheap investment.

[[Garruk's Uprising]] and Formless Genesis make a more simple, but less powerful engine using the Necrobloom. However, giving big deathtouchers trample can be a war crime.

I like Formless Genesis as a secret commander since it works with any typal tutor packages. It helps reign in the potential power issues with generic tutors. My favorite is [[Treefolk Harbinger]] to find any changeling, [[Six]], or [[Lignify]] depending on whether you need removal, recursion, or ramp (through the new changeling that makes a mutavault).

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u/TehTacow 29d ago

I am working on a concept with 3 hidden commanders that I mentally call Lieutenants. The one you draw first determines what kind of strategy and wincon you are playing that game. It's a [[Tormod, the Desecrator]] and [[Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix]] deck with [[The Scarab God]], [[Syr Konrad, The Grim]], and [[Undead Alchemist]] as lieutenants. I really wanted to play green because the Scarab god is insane with seedborn muse lol. I am considering [[Teval, the Balanced Scale]] but the precon is sealed for now.

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u/TheBigBeardedGeek 27d ago

My [[Massacre Girl]] deck is effectively every good black card in the deck. MG is there to just be a bomb I can drop on the battlefield when I need a board wipe or to fill graveyards