Summary

• Early aggression is often key with one-mana commanders, setting the pace and dominating the board quickly.
• Partner mechanics like K-9 offer versatility and added abilities to legendary creatures in your deck.
• Utilize small commanders like Valentin and Lisette to bring graveyard hate and additional value to your game plan.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's Commander format is all about creating engines, using the early stages of the game to set up, develop your mana, and eventually start slinging some powerful spells around. Or, you could beat all your opponents to the chase and start by casting your commander on turn one every single game.

One-mana commanders are an oddity in Magic, but the ones that do exist provide a sure-fire way to get underneath all your opponents and start the game off in your favor. These usually (but not always) indicate 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an aggressive strategy, looking to attack down life totals while players are🐻 still in the set-up phase. Others do an exceptional job of grinding into the 💯late game.

10 🐟 K-9, Mark I

Bark, Bark! Er... Beep, Beep!

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Doctor's Companion and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:similar Partner-esque mechanics are proof that one doesn't truly have to be the loneliest number. Hailing from 168൩澳ꦡ洲幸运5开奖网:the Doctor Who Universes Beyond crossover, K-9 can pair up with whichever Doctor you prefer, while also adding blue to your deck's color identity.

K-9 also spots your legendary creatures a few bonus abilities. You'll never turn down Ward 1, but the real appeal is the ability to make a legendary creature unblockable for a turn. Most of the Doctors have attack triggers or combat damage triggers, which makes K-9 the perfect enabler for their abilities.

9 𒅌 Kytheon, Hero Of Akros 🐲

A Toss-Up Of White One-Drops

Some commanders just want to come out of the gates swinging. After all, if you can kill your opponents quickly then you don't have to worry about all their late-game shenanigans. Kytheon's the one-drop white creature of choice to get the job done fast.

Technically there's also Isamaru, Hound of Konda, which is pretty much exactly as popular as Kytheon, but most of the time you'll be happy to trade out the extra point of toughness for some actual upside. Either way, your goal is to attack fast, hit hard, and close the game out in a hurry.

The planeswalker side of Kytheon still cou🧜nts as your commander. Damage dealt by Kytheon and Gideon are combined and treated as commander damage from the sam⛎e source.

8 🌼 Errant, Street Artist

A Commander That Rewards Creativity

Errant's part inside joke, part deck-building exercise. The joke is a callback to Future Sight card Bonded Fetch, which combined the haste and defender keywords on 🌳one card. The card was funct♛ional, but that anti-combo still raises eyebrows.

The deck-building aspect comes in when you question how you're going to use Errant. You'll note she only copies spells that weren't cast, which is strange since that's the way you're typically 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:getting spells onto the stack in the first place. But you can get creative with copy effects like storm🌊, casualty, and replicate.

7 Valentin, Dean Of🌞 The🍌 Vein

Two Commanders For The Price Of One

Valentin's cheating the categorization a bit. While yes, Valentin is technically a one-mana creature, it also has an entire second four-mana creature stapled to the back of it. That means Lisette, Dean of the Root is also simultaneously your commander, and you can cast either one.

The Strixhaven 'Dean cards' are a bit inelegant, especially since Valentin and Lisette can't exist on the battlefield together at the same time. Still, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:graveyard hate in the command zone is useful, and Lisette's no slouch either if your deck runs enough incidental sources of lifegain.

If Valentin's your commander, your deck has a green-black color identity, even if you have no intentions of ever using Lisette.

6 💝 Yoshimaru, Everfaithful

A Loyal Partner

Yoshimaru's certainly the goodest of boys, but who this dog's loyal to is completely up to you. Will Yoshimaru be partners with the ox-herding Bruse Tarl? Perhaps 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:competitive Commander all-star Tymna the Weaver? Or was he owned by the demonic Tevesh Sza🃏t, Doom♋ of Fools all along?

What you don't have much control over is Yoshimaru's ability. It does pretty much the same thing game-in, game-out, definitely earning that 'Everfaithful' moniker. That 'thing' is just growing as legendary permanents hit your board, a trivially easy feat that just asks you to play enough legendaries in your deck.

5 Frodo, Sauron's Bane

A Tempting Commander

Frodo received four different iterations across all the different Lord of the Rings crossover products. While they range in quality and popularity, Frodo, Sauron's Bane is easily the most unique of the bunch as a one-mana legend with a potential alternate win condition tacked on.

This Frodo's fairly mana-intensive, but he rewards you for finding a way to sneak through in combat and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:activate the last ability to finish a player off. It takes time and build-up, but it's not too herculean of a task if you enlist the help of other 'tempted by The Ring' cards.

4 Tinybones, The Pickpocket 🐠 🎀

Tiny Bones, Big Profits

As the newest member of the One-Mana-Commander Club, Tinybones has had less time to prove his worth in the format. While the design is somewhat reminiscent of Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer (hit someone, steal their stuff), it's a little bit harder to set up Tinybones' trigger.

Assuming there's a juicy permanent worth snatching from someone's graveyard, you still have to connect with Tinybones in combat and have the mana to cast the permanent you're eyeing. Deathtouch goes a long way toward making this happen, but you'll probably need to get crafty to make Tinybones pop.

3 Norღin The Wary

Nothing To Fear But... Everything

Norin the Wary's a bit of a joke, the whole idea of the card being that Norin's a 'scaredy cat' that runs away at the first sign of trouble. But that 'weakness' is also incredibly unique and opens up some pretty awesome opportunities.

The key cards to unlock Norin's potential are ones with effects that trigger when creatures enter or leave the battlefield. With Norin as your commander that means 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:mono-red enchantments lik🌌e Impact Tremo𝓰rs and Purphoros, God of the Forge, or you can cause mass chaos with Confusion in the Ranks.

2 ಌ Rhys The 🔯Redeemed

No Wrong Way To Build A Rhys

Rhys the Redeemed is a wildly popular 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:green-white commander and one of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the most beloved tokens commanders out there. Rhys basically says whatever token shenanigans you're up to, do twice as much of that. It also makes its own tokens, so it's a bit of a self-contained engine.

There are two approaches to the typical Rhys deck. You could flood the board with small Elves and other such tokens, then just go much wider than what your opponents can handle. The other involves making a few enormous tokens, copying those, and going over the top of your opponents' decks.

1 🐼Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Monkeying Around On Turn One

Ragavan's not a very subtle card; it's power creep incarnate on a one-mana legendary. And it's no mistake either. This Modern Horizons 2 card was designed to be the next evolution of Constructed-playable one-drops. It's in the conversation for best one-mana creature ever printed.

Does that power translate to the command zone though? To some extent, yes. It's huge having a reliable turn-one play that will almost always connect with someone on turn two and ramp you 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:via Treasure tokens. It drops off as opponents build up defenses, but Ragavan's still a scary card to face down.