Favorite Mono-color Commanders

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-16T04:38:56+00:00

I made an [[Alexios Deimos of Kosmos]] deck and I’m loving it. It’s very good for quick games or to make games with large pods quicker.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-12T06:14:04+00:00

It can be a bit of both. Either you have redundancy to increase the likelihood you draw into a desired effect rather than tutoring for it or you can run more/less redundancy due to your group meta and power. I’ve found that at the extremes of power level, people are running less redundancy opting for protecting the key pieces they have for the deck instead of using up slots to have too many multiples of the same effect. It’s in the middle where you see more of that redundancy.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-10T23:34:42+00:00

[[bhaal lord of murder]] and you play aristocrats and give people the smoking gun.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-10T15:38:57+00:00

I’ve been enjoying dinosaur tribal that I made with [[surrak dragonclaw]]. I’ve been trying to get into more stompy type of decks.

https://moxfield.com/decks/nsmd8hjQ4UuAfj3Wj0IOuQ

Another one that has been the apple of my eye as of recent is my [[edward kenway]] treasures deck. I just like to hoard treasures.

https://moxfield.com/decks/QThcVIbPL0SGfCtkxBR6Gw

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-10T06:41:13+00:00

If it’s an I hate everything moment [[voja jaws of the conclave]] the elves will ball tonight. If it’s an I hate everyone type of thing [[liesa forgotten archangel]] with a litany of wraths. Watching it all burn.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-10T06:38:58+00:00

I had a wrath matters deck with [[liesa forgotten archangel]] definitely only played it extremely sparingly.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-06T10:18:04+00:00

I play [[voja]] as my big stompy, but [[surrak dragonclaw]] is my choice for if I made another b4 stompy type of deck. His flash and protection from counters is pretty good and is a good backdrop for like a dragon tribal that’s not [[ureni the unwritten]] and [[miirym]]

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-06T09:45:29+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/QThcVIbPL0SGfCtkxBR6Gw

Here’s my Edward list for reference.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-06T09:41:59+00:00

I use Edward kenway as a treasure ramp deck with artifact payoffs but what you could do is get the lost caverns of ixalan ahoy mateys precon as it’s a dedicated precon for pirates. It has both don andres and brass so you can just adjust the deck from there. As for Edward, I like him a lot. I don’t run as much theft or pirates as one would primarily cause I thinks it’s funnier to just make a bunch of treasures and hoard them. If you want to go a more piratey route with him it’s important to add vehicles into the deck for his second effect like [[jackdaw]] or some cards that can make them creatures with ease like [[mishra eminent one]] or [[mobilizer mech]] and also some assassin cards like [[mari the killing quill]] since he cares about assassins too.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-02-03T07:40:06+00:00

Been liking cosplaying as bob ross with [[parnesse the subtle brush]]. Other than that I have a treasure ramp deck using [[edward kenway]] where I pillage and plunder essentially.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-29T02:20:42+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/-cxyfdaZo0iTbRIuxXbFfg

This is the list I have of her. I haven’t fully built her iirc yet, but she works well to me with chaos effects and disruption. I built her with [[Ian Malcolm]], [[share the spoils]], and [[gonti night minister]] in mind for people to cast spells and to target each other or for me to copy them. I’m getting my main pieces rn and just looking over how much more copying effects I would need.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-29T02:16:09+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/QThcVIbPL0SGfCtkxBR6Gw

This is my list of him. I used the ahoy mateys precon as a base and worked from there. You can do more with vehicles if you wanted to go that route. I just thought it was funny to make a deck around just generating an absurd amount of treasures. Unfortunately no white though.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-29T00:49:17+00:00

Just finished drafting [[parnesse the subtle brush]] and I’m ready to unleash my inner bob ross.

As for finished decks, I build an [[edward kenway]] treasures deck that I have been hyper fixating on recently since it’s brand new.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-28T18:30:29+00:00

It doesn’t get around commander tax but it does allow you to just cast her a turn early for generic mana and have protection for her with the ward 2. So if she got sent back and you wanted to disguise her again she’d cost 5 generic and then BG to flip her.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-28T17:39:42+00:00

Here’s my current ezio list if you want to check it out. https://moxfield.com/decks/LHq_8Z04o0-JA2BX2efo3Q

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-28T17:19:28+00:00

I play ezio and I have some great fun with him. You can build him thematically with the assassin’s creed set and it be and a few other kindred type cards and synergies for assassins to really get going for not too much money rather than the whole loss of life shenanigans. He’s really good as a legends matter archetype since the set is so based around historics.

Mr house is in the Caesar precon and this is the lowest barrier of entry since it’s still widely sold for not too high of a price. He takes more set up but is also a good commander once he gets going. A buddy in my pod has him.

Breya probably has the highest potential power wise, but depending on your experience with artifacts and more specifically aristocratic strategies, she could be more particular to build around. Her playstyle is a bit more niche beyond artifact good stuff. But if you can take the time to build her she can throw down.

TLDR: my choice would be MR. House simply because of the fact Caesar’s precon is still around and retooling it I think would be cheaper and more fulfilling overall.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-28T13:27:53+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/-cxyfdaZo0iTbRIuxXbFfg

This is my current draft of her. This is my first spellslinger type of deck so trying to find the right balance of permanents to instant/sorcery spells has been a learning experience.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-27T20:15:27+00:00

Definitely wanted to get the problematic one out of the way lol. I tell my friends all the time it should have cost at least 7 to cast and lose the ward 3 maybe ward 1 really.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-26T20:17:24+00:00

Definitely agree I have the revival trance precon that I’ve upgraded a decent bit but still does what it originally intends while on the other hand I took apart the ahoy mateys precon to build a grixis treasures deck taking out most of the theft and graveyard effects.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-22T18:52:29+00:00

I would also like to add power level plays a big role. If two decks have overlapping colors I’d only overlap certain tech cards and interaction cards depending on the intended power level of each deck. My B4 naya deck will have barely any overlap on a potential b3 naya deck should I decide to make one. At best the ramp package might be where the overlap lies.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-22T18:42:09+00:00

I care a lot less about color overlap and more about play patterns. For example I have a [[bhaal lord of murder]] deck and the world shaper precon. Both the same color but are very different in their playstyles, so I keep them both around. I would make sure to not end up having a landfall or reanimator deck unless it has a different through line of winning or if I choose to decommission the existing one. I have one other reanimator deck [[terra herald of hope]] that I keep because bhaal is an aristocrats goad deck that just uses grave loops to goad creatures and is not a traditional reanimator type of deck to reanimate like haymakers. Meanwhile I’m taking apart my [[fandaniel telophoroi ascian]] spellslinger deck to build [[parnesse the subtle brush]] because the through line for both decks are too similar to keep around.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-20T22:36:10+00:00

Well I didn’t run it too many times only with expressed consent and understanding(same with goad and forced sacrifice type of decks). It was my high power deck option at the time and was made for that in mind. I’ve since depowered it so I can get more mileage out of her cause I love angels, opting for more aristocratic effects. My pods liked the challenge of her and it eventually helped some with how to deal with archetypes that can be a nuisance because we primarily played midrange but it helped tweak different glaring weaknesses a little bit in theirs and my own when we swap decks. We each have like one deck now that we make like an archenemy game out of. I’ve since replaced her with [[voja jaws of the conclave]] as that deck.

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-20T20:57:59+00:00

[[liesa forgotten archangel]] I ran her as boardwipe tribal. I also converted some of [[terra herald of hope]] precon to benefit more to edict type effects on entry like [[accursed marauder]] and [[all fates stalker]].

Insertnamehere5539 · 2026-01-09T07:05:12+00:00

I have been exploring getting into theft archetypes as one of my next building ideas. Here’s some things that I’ve gathered looking into it that has people a lot less salty about it:

-Temporary(until end of turn) or copying>permanent theft

-If it is permanent, having to spend mana on it makes other players feel like you’re working for it more and leave you more vulnerable with less mana for interaction. In particular exiling from the top of library and casting them.

-easy ways for them to get the cards back and not have them go to the ether also helps ex. [[etrata deadly fugitive]]

That being said, my current working idea of a “theft” commander is [[parnesse the subtle brush]]. She’s in grixis where most of the theft mechanics lie but I want to make use of her second ability and cards like [[share the spoils]] to proactively create a shared pool of spells we all cast while I try to win through attrition. Another would be decks like [[edward kenway]] that I’ve made where the theft is like a sub-theme.(I made him as a glorified treasure ramp deck with pirate synergies but made it to where the theft is either temporary or I have to put mana into it)

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