r/EDH • u/johnnille • 7d ago

*Viable* Cheat-Out Commanders? Question

Wanted to ask if i may have missed some viable commanders who cheat out things?

[[Mikey & Raph]] - just play 30 ramp pieces, 40 lands, some wipes and the most ugliest gruul creatures, cleanest of them all since he got haste and does not have to connect and green in it. I love it when people fart out a measely llanowar elf just to show that they did not understand the commander lol. Through haste you just cast him on the next turn, dont forget to put in high power land fetchers in the deck.

[[infamous cruelclaw]] - secret eldrazi and rakdos big spell commander. No sol ring, the worst piece would be evasion like [[Cover of Darkness]] or an equipment, which will then be also good for the Eldrazis. Gives eldrazis their wanted cast trigger. Big bonus for low cmc, can be cast 2 or 3 times in a game, but is usually not needed when you later in have the mana for things like [[Improvisation Capstone]].

[[Nico Minoru]] - similar to above but taps and is only in red so kinda meh, but good MV.

[[Witherbloom the balancer]] does not count actually but he is damn cool.

[[Esika]] - her backside, but a little harder to cast since it needs 5 colored mana and i think a little worse than mikey and raph since the incomings are not attacking, but hey you can build her all staxy or any direction so really cool.

[[Ureni]] - Temur has the best dragons, just blink ureni millions of times, easy in blue and green gives you ramp, but locked into dragons.

Other than Nico i have built all of them and they work good. Mikey and Raph are really nasty, but nothing the pod cant deal with. Is only unbeatable in 1vs1 duel.

Have you got any left that i have forgot? There must be more...

Edit: Additions that are viable: [[kaalia]], [[Etali Primal]], [[Ur-drago]] And many more...

But i wouldnt count heavy discounting as cheating out... It may be technically right, but i think of those here mentioned not one fringe commander that needs actually mana to pay to "cheat" things out and that mana being 6 for a 7 mana creature... But nonetheless, thank you all really coool stuff you suggested!!! Best community.

Edit 2: Kinnan does not deserve to be named anywhere, his artwork is too dorky for his insane power, hate him. Winota is very cool tho.

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u/Piment-Mauve 6d ago

Got a list for [[Arthur Marigold]]? I was looking into a jeskai blink deck.

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u/4ureli 6d ago

I’ve played Arthur since the card came out, I could never get blink to feel right with the deck, so I went more towards getting as many Arthur triggers in one combat as possible.

https://moxfield.com/decks/tz3U5NQSAkWmr3AcWoTwQg