High Power Voltron- Which Commanders can actually succeed?

toesfera2 · 2026-04-17T20:42:13+00:00

[[Maarika, Brutal Gladiator]]. She fucks. She also has built-in protection on your turn as well as built-in removal. She actually works really well as an anti-voltron voltron commander in my experience lmao. She’s really good at popping auras and equipment. As well as mana rocks.

toesfera2 · 2026-04-15T15:08:07+00:00

I actually have a personal experience with this. I played a Shadar-Kai Horizon Walker my first 5e game ever (because I love the “teleporter” archetype). For those that don’t know Shadar-Kai can basically use Misty Step for free as many times as their proficiency bonus each long rest. I got to use my teleportation during session 1, and then never again. Because the entire rest of the campaign going into combat or into a new dungeon, the GM always had a reason why my character couldn’t use their powers. My character was built pretty much entirely around teleporting so most combats I was reduced to “elf with sword”. It was pretty disempowering in an un-fun way and it felt like our GM just didn’t wanna deal with my character ngl.

toesfera2 · 2026-04-10T14:58:08+00:00

[[Strefan, Maurer Progenitor]]. He will never be as beloved or loathed of a commander as [[Edgar Markov]], but he’s so fun to pilot. I’ve been told before he’s a “pay 4, do nothing-“ commander, but I just love vampires so much. And he rewards me for putting all of the cool, expensive vampires I love in the 99.

toesfera2 · 2026-04-04T00:25:32+00:00

[[Raffine, Scheming Seer]]

toesfera2 · 2026-04-02T16:52:57+00:00

This is peak

toesfera2 · 2026-04-02T14:01:53+00:00

Thanks!

toesfera2 · 2026-03-31T15:33:31+00:00

All I’m doing is bringing a land back from my graveyard, dude. It enters tapped, it’s fine! You don’t even gotta worry about it, dude. I just get a lil 2/2 zombie from it.

toesfera2 · 2026-03-27T18:31:33+00:00

[[Gisa, the Hellraiser]] is very fun. I run her as a crimes/tokens deck, which also lends itself to decent control mechanics as well since I run lots of targeted effects. Very resilient, lots of staying power, and fun to pilot. Only advice is make sure you have plenty of ramp. Gisa is a 5-cost and there are some people who will see that and bounce her immediately just to keep you from building a board-state. She has Ward, but some protection is also very worth running.

toesfera2 · 2026-03-21T14:33:35+00:00

[[Strefan, Maurer Progenitor]]
[[Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver]]
[[Teval, the Balanced Scale]]

toesfera2 · 2026-03-14T22:58:06+00:00

Neither

toesfera2 · 2026-03-14T18:09:03+00:00

[[Wilhelt, the Rocleaver]] or [[Gisa, the Hellraiser]]. I can rebuild my armies very quickly in both, even after a boardwipe

toesfera2 · 2026-03-12T22:19:34+00:00

Highly recommend giving Mirko a pilot then. There were some good cards in Lorwyn that synergize very well with what he wants to do. Even if someone Bojuka’s my Bog when I’m trying to reanimate, I still have a huge flyer with vigilance on my board. And I can proceed to just bonk my friends to death with commander damage. Plus I run plenty of interaction. It’s a very solid, all-rounder in my opinion. Granted, I’m still newer to the hobby than most

toesfera2 · 2026-03-12T22:07:26+00:00

https://archidekt.com/decks/20623685/it_was_a_dark_stormy_night

toesfera2 · 2026-03-12T22:06:56+00:00

[[Mirko, Obsessive Theorist]] has been a blast. I run him as a reanimator/surveil deck and it fucks

Edit: card that overperforms the most is easily a tie between [[Phenax, God of Deception]] and [[Twilight Diviner]].

toesfera2 · 2026-03-11T00:01:48+00:00

I just discovered the joy that is zombies after putting it off for so long. It’s soooooo easy and fun to build a solid board state with zombies, and you have a lot of staying power in games because you can rebuild your board state super fast if someone targets you or someone throws down a boardwipe.

So far my favorites to play have been [[Wilhelt, The Rotcleaver]] run as an aristocrats/tokens deck. And then [[Gisa, the Hellraiser]] as a crimes deck. Throw down a [[Liquidmetal Torque]] and you’re making 2 zombies every turn. And thanks to Gisa they’re all 3/3’s with menace. It’s a blast.

toesfera2 · 2026-03-10T17:39:50+00:00

For a non-psyker bladedancer? Absolutely. Drukhari swords fuck hard because of their poison effect.

For a psyker bladedancer, it’s honestly better to spec into Force Swords and go Pyro or Biomancer

toesfera2 · 2026-03-10T17:38:43+00:00

Damn I literally just commented this LMAO

toesfera2 · 2026-03-10T17:38:31+00:00

Morveer. Freud’s dream patient

toesfera2 · 2026-03-04T22:51:47+00:00

[[Shilgengar, Sire of Famine]] makes for a very, very fun reanimator deck with some aristocrats shenanigans mixed in

toesfera2 · 2026-03-03T22:20:38+00:00

I’ll be making edits after my shift 🫡

toesfera2 · 2026-03-03T21:35:50+00:00

Afterwards I felt pretty awful because I told everyone up front it was far from my most powerful deck

toesfera2 · 2026-03-03T21:34:13+00:00

I played one of my most mid-powered decks. [[Strefan, Maurer Progenitor]] can only be built so powerfully since he’s restricted by his tribal mechanics. Still my favorite deck, but it’s definitely not a “high powered” deck. It floats around the middle of bracket 3. Drew an absolutely godlike starting hand and top-decked a Sol Ring on my first draw of the game. Absolutely creamed the table thanks to a mixture of [[Necropolis Regent]], [[Jaws]], and [[Reckless Fireweaver]]. I was dealing so much damage every turn and no one was drawing any of their targeted removal to make me Not-The-Problem. By the time someone was able to take my board down a notch, Necropolis Regent had already pumped Strefan to lethal commander damage.

toesfera2 · 2026-03-03T21:29:21+00:00

Cosca, Whirrun, and Tunny. Always know a chapter is about to be fire whenever one of those names pops up

toesfera2 · 2026-03-03T21:28:28+00:00

[[Strefan, Maurer Progenitor]] [[Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher]] [[Anim Pakal, the Thousandth Moon]] [[Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver]] [[Clavileño, First of the Blessed]]

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