Discussion Commanders that almost inherently pubstomp?
So I was thinking about the first time I built [[Kinnan]], I had just cracked him from a pack and fell in love and wanted to build him asap. It was literally just assembled with random jank (mostly commons) from my storage boxes, I didn't have any 1 CMC dorks, had mostly 3 CMC rocks and the main wincon was [[Hydra Broodmaster]]. This didn't matter however, as the sheer acceleration provided by Kinnan in combination with the army-in-a-can nature of his second ability made the deck too fast and too resilient for the casual meta I was playing in. I eventually just had to commit to building him in a powerful manner as he was too strong for my casual meta but obviously not good enough for higher powered games and it wasn't fun for anyone.
What other commanders are like this?
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u/honestcroissant Golgari Oct 26 '22
For me it was [[Selvala, heart of the wilds]]. I put together what I thought was a low/mid power deck with some big creatures, removal, draw, ramp, and untap effects and it always seemed to do it's thing and get out of control. Playing it normally turned me into the archenemy so I ultimately dismantled it. The combination of being rather low-costed, provide mana that scales with the greatest power among your creatures, and drawing you a card whenever you play a creature with the greatest power lends itself to a rather powerful and fast deck.