top commander decks mtg Most Hated Magic the Gathering Commanders and Best Commander Decks for Beginners

Commander, previously (and still in some circles) known as Elder Dragon Highlander, is a popular MTG format in which players use carefully-designed, 100-card singleton decks, headed up by a powerful Commander

Cards like Gray Merchant of Asphodel or lifegain strategies make paying 5-8 life trivial compared to the board control achieved

In a format where attacking a specific opponent without a reason is too often taken as a personal offense, introducing a simple reward for doing so is usually enough to incentivize players to rightly commit to the combat phase, leading to more interactive play patterns and a quicker game pace

This means it is pretty good for the Sneak and Unearth cards