The new card from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Reality Chip, could also prove useful. Cards like Sol Ring are, of course, auto-includes, but Alela players should also consider Talisman of Dominance and Talisman of Hierarchy, as well as stat-boosting enchantments like Favorable Winds, Etchings of the Chosen, and Intangible Virtue. Players running Alela are going to want to look for not just fun and useful faeries to include within the deck, buy also efficiently costed artifacts and enchantments to help ramp and provide anthem-like effects (respectively). What really makes her shine, however, is her final ability, which can get out of hand if you build around her well. As for Alela, her mechanics are fine and her first ability - the one providing a small offensive boon to your other flying creatures - is a nice touch. Faeries are, for the most part, quite low-cost and often have fun, useful abilities. #12 Alela, Artful Provocateur ($3)Ī very budget-friendly option (but not the most wallet-friendly on this list), Alela, Artful Provocateur is a fun three-colored commander that is ran in slightly more than 5,400 decks.Įssentially the de-facto commander for faerie tribal, this 'flying matters' commander is all about going wide and doing it in the air.

If you're looking to build with Kaalia of the Vast as your commander, seek out cards such as Demonic Tutor, Wheel of Fortune, Profane Tutor, and Gamble to help keep your hand loaded, and creatures such as Aurelia, the Warleader, Kaalia, Zenith Seeker, Scourge of the Throne, Terror of the Peaks, Lord of the Void, and Archfiend of Depravity to keep your opponents on the defensive. There also needs to be a quick mana base as well as ways (such as tutoring or wheels) to refill one's hand with new creatures for Kaalia to cheat in. But the deck isn't just stuffed chock-full of big and expensive angels, demons, and dragons. As such, those who build decks around her tend to look for appropriate creatures with enter-the-battlefield and/or useful triggered or activated abilities. Whether it be angels, demons, dragons, or a combination thereof, she wants to get these big-bodied creatures in play on her terms and take advantage of not just their size, but their skill as well. #13 Kaalia of the Vast ($20)Ī great commander option for aggressive strategies, Kaalia of the Vast is currently found in some 5,320 or so decks.ĭespite being a human cleric, Kaalia screams tribal (just not HER tribal). Sweepers such as Damn and Wrath of God, as well as the make-combat-silly card Disrupt Decorum are also great inclusions. She is often paired with cards that fit right into that mold, such as Deflecting Palm, Crackling Doom, Smothering Tithe, Ghostly Prison, Court of Grace, and so on. Rather, the idea is to navigate the course of the game so that players instead take certain actions or play a certain way because that is what the board setup allows - essentially playing right into your hands not because of trickery, but rather because their bad plays just happen to be their best options based upon the situation at hand. A Queen Marchesa decks seeks not to trick or convince an opposing player to take a particular action or play a certain way.

While typical political strategies often include deal making (and breaking), manipulation, obfuscation, and so on, Marchesa players tend to go a slightly different way. Ran in roughly 5,130 decks, according to EDHREC, she is a perfect option for those preferring more of a politics-style of gameplay. Perfect for Aikido-style strategies (that is, strategies that focus on a combination of defense, control, and deflection), Queen Marchesa has become one of the most popular commanders. With the help of the database at the awesome EDH deckbuilding website EDHREC, we count down the fourteen most loved commanders in EDH over the past two years (because, you know, Valentine’s Day is on February 14). It wouldn’t be surprising, of course, for some commanders to be more popular than others. One of the most appealing aspects for EDH is that any legendary creature (as well as a handful of planeswalkers) in the history of Magic: The Gathering can be the commander for one’s deck.

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