"Always have a backup plan."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Recovery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I know it's around here somewhere."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Sanctuary

Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

Ixalan Checklist

Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring

Primal Amulet

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on this artifact. Then if there are four or more charge counters on it, you may remove those counters and transform it.

Primal Wellspring

(Transforms from Primal Amulet.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color. When that mana is spent to cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Once guarded by the Knights of the Reliquary, the tower stands now protected only by its own remoteness, its dusty treasures open to plunder by anyone.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

"Our world is vast, but Thraben is its heart. The cathedral must stand even if the hinterlands are lost."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

As magnigoth trees expanded across the sea into Almaaz and New Argive, it became clear Yavimaya's borders were never confined by its coastline.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

The boiling seas around Shiv provided a welcome layer of protection for the reclaimed Mana Rig.

Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

The village's name was long forgotten, its crumbling ruins a monument to the fragility of civilization.

Spire Garden

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

"We have inherited the mysteries of the Thran, but few of the answers."
—Jhoira

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Cliffs echo and branches quake at the roar of life.

Rootbound Crag

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

In places where the sea meets the trees, it's easy to forget the darkness that rules most of Innistrad.

Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

When a werewolf changes for the first time, that first howl is said to echo through the wilds till moonset.

Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Without Garenbrig's strength, the realm would succumb to the wilds.

Castle Garenbrig

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

Forest

Island

Mountain

Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature
{U}: Untap enchanted creature.
{U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn.
{U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
{1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Visitors marvel at its design, unaware of the other world that inspired it.

Chromatic Orrery

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}{C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

It harnesses the power of night in a land where daylight fears to show itself.

Umbral Mantle

Equipped creature has "{3}, {Q}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn." ({Q} is the untap symbol.)
Equip {0}

The greatest wonders of nature are found in the smallest saplings straining toward the canopy.

Mana Reflection

If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces twice as much of that mana instead.

When a strong mind moves, form and energy shift to heed it.

Freed from the Real

Enchant creature
{U}: Tap enchanted creature.
{U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Mycosynth Lattice

All permanents are artifacts in addition to their other types.
All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are colorless.
Players may spend mana as though it were mana of any color.

Ancient yet ever-young, it is wise and subtle—and cruel and reckless as the spring itself.

Nyxbloom Ancient

Trample
If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces three times as much of that mana instead.

"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Torching Krosa would be pointless. It grows faster than it burns.

Explosive Vegetation

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Flowstone spreads, but new life spreads faster."

Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

The Temur see themselves as a pack, their bonds more primal than the Abzan's.

Temur Sabertooth

{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Genesis Hydra

When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library.
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Animar, Soul of Elements

Protection from white and from black
Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar.

"Basically, we turn a bunch of little lightnings into one big lightning."

Electrodominance

Electrodominance deals X damage to any target. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

"I do things in my own time."
—Etha, initiate of Rhet crop

Pull from Tomorrow

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Nissa, Who Shakes the World Emblem

Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land.
−8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
−1: Untap target permanent.

"No, not 'washed' ashore. It *walked* ashore."
—Shafring Hulm, beachcomber

Risen Reef

Whenever this creature or another Elemental you control enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.

Beneath crashing waves lies an ocean of secrets waiting to be explored.

Thrasios, Triton Hero

{4}: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, draw a card.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Klothys, God of Destiny

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Klothys isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your first main phase, exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a land card, add {R} or {G}. Otherwise, you gain 2 life and Klothys deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"Walls crack. Buildings fall. Always the wilds return."
—Domri Rade

Wilderness Reclamation

At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.

Gold

Curse of Opulence

Jingling coins beckon many an eager hand.

Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a Gold token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same. (A Gold token is an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

It will come to the defense of all wild things, from the shivering wren to the towering giant.

Thorn Mammoth

Trample
Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, this creature fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Vigilance, reach
Ruric Thar attacks each combat if able.
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, Ruric Thar deals 6 damage to that player.

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Arbor Elf

Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest
As this Aura enters, choose a color.
Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Veyran, Voice of Duality

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

"This is a tale to make all Kaldheim tremble..."

Birgi, God of Storytelling

Whenever you cast a spell, add {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.
Creatures you control can boast twice during each of your turns rather than once.

Like her well of stories, Birgi's horn never runs dry.

Harnfel, Horn of Bounty

Discard a card: Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty

"This air feels so heavy and thick. There are no winds to speak of. I fear the knowledge that comes from a place like this."

View from Above

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.

Elemental

Rakka Mar

"The finest pawns are those with pawns of their own."
—Nicol Bolas

Haste
{R}, {T}: Create a 3/1 red Elemental creature token with haste.

Thornbite Staff

Equipped creature has "{2}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target" and "Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature."
Whenever a Shaman creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {4}

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Copy

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

Treasure

Magda, Brazen Outlaw

Other Dwarves you control get +1/+0.
Whenever a Dwarf you control becomes tapped, create a Treasure token.
Sacrifice five Treasures: Search your library for an artifact or Dragon card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Before being presented to its lord, each shaku is blessed by every hero of every region within that lord's domain.

Honor-Worn Shaku

{T}: Add {C}.
Tap an untapped legendary permanent you control: Untap this artifact.

Sporocyst

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Defender
Spore Chimney — When this creature enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Many of the inventions built to fight the Phyrexians have since been repurposed for civilian use.

Marketback Walker

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Tervigon

Tyranid

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Trample
Spawn Termagants — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Tyranid creature tokens.

Exocrine

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Bio-plasmic Barrage — When this creature enters, it deals X damage to each player and each other creature.

"Naga shed their scales. We wear ours with pride."
—Golran, dragonscale captain

Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Sita Varma, Masked Racer

Exhaust — {X}{G}{G}{U}: Put X +1/+1 counters on Sita Varma. Then you may have the base power and toughness of each other creature you control become equal to Sita Varma's power until end of turn. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)

Termagant Swarm

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Death Frenzy — When this creature dies, create a number of 1/1 green Tyranid creature tokens equal to this creature's power.

Mawloc

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Terror from the Deep — When this creature enters, it fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

"If nothing else, that Loot is one brave little rat."
—Winter

Willowrush Verge

{T}: Add {U}.
{T}: Add {G}. Activate only if you control a Forest or an Island.

Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied

Reach, trample, indestructible
Sab-Sunen can't attack or block unless it has an even number of counters on it. (Zero is even.)
At the beginning of your first main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on Sab-Sunen. Then if it has an odd number of counters on it, draw two cards.

Unbound Flourishing

Whenever you cast a permanent spell with a mana cost that contains {X}, double the value of X.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell or activate an ability, if that spell's mana cost or that ability's activation cost contains {X}, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"They said we were weak, did they? Let's show them what happens when we fight as one!"

Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

A hive tyrant's synaptic link is the primary conduit through which the Hive Mind enforces its dominance over a hive fleet's lesser creatures.

Winged Hive Tyrant

Flying, haste
The Will of the Hive Mind — Other creatures you control with counters on them have flying and haste.

"While Loot's ability to predict Omenpaths is extraordinary, I'm more impressed by his unrelenting curiosity."
—Pia Nalaar

Riverpyre Verge

{T}: Add {R}.
{T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Mountain.

MTG Deck Builder: Generate your next Commander deck with ease using AI

Prompt (Optional)

Deck Type

Commander (Optional)

Commander (1/1)

Deck (99/99)

Total Price: $408.45

Creature (32)

Planeswalker (2)

Instant (6)

Sorcery (8)

Enchantment (9)

Artifact (8)

Land (36)

Recent Decks

Shoutbox