Also called EDH or Elder Dragon Highlander, Commander is Magic's most popular format and all about picking your hero and building a deck around them. In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature to serve as your commander and build the rest of your 100 card deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players are only allowed one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic's history.
Commander combines the command zone, color identity, singleton deckbuilding, multiplayer strategies, and the entire MtG cardpool for one of the most exciting and fresh ways to play.
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My oldest deck is [[Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait]] which has turned into a bit of a monster since I added a few cards that happen to create a bunch of ways to make infinite Landfall combos. It could probably be even stronger if I took out some of the high-cost sea monsters to focus just on Landfall, but I like big sea monsters.
After that my [[Gishath, Sun's Avatar]] deck is pretty new, I just made it this year, but I already love it. Big dinos!
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[[Isperia the Inscrutable]]
This is the only commander deck I've consistently kept around over the years. I don't remember how I discovered this card, but I think it's a neat ability and the commander itself feels flavourful and badass. I started playing during Return to Ravnica, which perhaps added a bonus feeling of "wow, it's the original Isperia!".
My deck isn't terribly good since I don't play Commander very competetively. I've tried to have sphinxes and stuff that feel badass and fitting for the deck instead of busted combos or whatever. [[Medomai the Ageless]] is a typical target to search for.
The only "combo" I can think of off the top of my head (been a while since I've played the deck) is [[Bruna, the Fading Light]] and [[Gisela, the Broken Blade]]. I think that combo is hilarious due to the name of the melded card: Brisela. We ship Brisela.
Grand arbiter Stax with winter orb :)
I built a [[Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar]] $50 budget deck a number of years back that is just a mono green spell slinger build. It is pretty simple to play for new people and resilient enough to play with my normal group.
Being a budget deck I even run it unsleeved and get that nostalgia of playing kitchen table magic as a kid.
For me it's anything with [[Stitcher's Supplier]] in it. Right now I really love trying to make Dredge work in Historic and soon Pioneer.
E: didn't see this was in Commander. That would be Kenrith, the Returned King 😛
