Summary

• Rogues in Magic: The Gathering are now competitive with added spell steal mechanics for combos.
• Cards like Anowon buff Rogues, synergizing with spell steal and unblockable effects.
• Commander format Rogue archetypes are stronger than ever, with cards like Rilsa and Sygg.

Rogues have always had a place in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering for slipping past your opponent's defenses and whittling down their health, all while drawing additional cards. As sets like Outlaws of Thunder Junction and Battle for Baldur's Gate were released, Rogues became extremely competitive and more fun to play as a creature archetype.

This also allowed Rogues to do more than just ping your opponents' health until they were ten life points lower than they were six turns ago, adding spell steal mechanics and potential shenanigans that opened the flood gates for combos. However, the tried and tested Rogue archetypes are stronger than ever in the Commander format.

9 🐼 Anowon, The Ruin Thief

Rogue Buff, Deck Mill, And Card Draw

Immediately, Anowon, the Ruin Thief is valuable for Rogue decks in that it gives a flat +1/+1 bonus to all of your Rogues, which they sometimes desperately need to compete with most other creature types in terms of damage. It also buffs your Rogues by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:rapidly milling your opponent and gaining potential card draw.

This synergizes with Rogue archetypes like unblockable effects that make it reliable to trigger the mill while dealing more damage from each attacking Rogue. By combining Anowon with cards like Tinybones, the Pickpocket, you can also use the excess cards in your opponents' graveyard to steal their most powerful spells.

8 🌱 Rilsa Rael, Kingpin

Dungeon Delving For A Big Reward

Suited for longer games of Commander, Rilsa Rael, Kingpin rewards you 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:for completing dungeons and taking the initiative, which gives you access to significant effects from the Undercity dungeon. Bei🃏ng five mana, however, means it is be💎st to combine Rilsa with cards like Safana, Calimport Cutthroat to further advance into the Undercity.

Once you do complete the Undercity, Rilsa gives one of your creature's a massive buff that makes it rewarding whether it is blocked or not in terms of killing creatures or dealing massive damage. Also, the final ability of the Undercity dungeon gives you immediate access to a perfect target to use Rilsa on.

7 Sygg🌸, River Cutthroat

Cheap With Reliable Card Draw

Sygg, River Cutthroat is a low-cost commander that allows you to rely on your unblockable effects from blue and black Rogue creatures to reliably draw additional cards each turn. Sygg works best when combined with other low-cost cards like Oona's Blackguard to quickly get card advantage on your opponents.

With strong enough creatures like Zareth San, the Trickster or Halo Forager, you can focus on just🐼 allowing one creature to deal combat damage and buff it with unblockable effects. In a Commander game with multiple opponents, any opponent needs to lose three life for you to potentially draw multiple cards before you even take a turn.

6 🍷 Kamiz, Obscurꦕa Oculus

Connive With Combat Tricks

Adding a splash of white to the usual blue and black of Rogue archetypes, Kamiz, Obscura Oculus allows your biggest creatures to get beefier while protecting your smaller creatures with double strike. Also, being in white, blue, and black, you get access to the most 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:amount of connive mechanics.

Kamiz excels at making itಞ safe for your creatures to attack by both making them unblockable and giving them an edge in combat, which most Rogue commanders require additional costs to allow. The double strike can also let Rogue creatures like Grim Hireling trigger their ability twice.

5 Krydle Of Baldur's Gate

All-Around Rogue Synergy For Cheap

While alone, Krydle of Baldur's Gate seems underwhelming, it has all kinds of synergy with most Rogue creatures that make it a perfect low-cost commander. For only two mana, you can guarantee combat damage effects from cards like Anowon, Ruin Thief and Oona's Blackguard.

Krydle can also help with graveyard steal by milling cards into the graveyard every turn, and can trigger life steal effects from cards like Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood. ♛Overall, Krydle dabbles in every form of Rogue subclass tropes while only costing two mana.

4 Zareth San, The Trickster ♏

Creature Steal And Cheat Mechanics

Allowing you to swap attacking Rogues to your hand, Zareth San, the Trickster can allow you to steal creatures from the graveyard, which becomes more powerful the more opponents you have. Also being in black, you can use creature kill spells to both remove a threat from the b🐻oard and reanimate it on your side in the same tu🌱rn.

Also being in blue, you can force opponents to mill their decks, giving you more targets for Zareth. The only downside for Zareth is if you want to use its sec꧑ond ability, you have to somehow get it into your hand, which can be done with ninjutsu cards like Prosperous Thief, trading them back and forth from your hand.

3 ไ Felix Five-Boots

Multiplying Trigger Abilities With Combat Damage

Felix Five-Boots is a commander that is ideal for putting most other potential Rogue co꧒mmanders inside it. Cards like Anowon, the Ruin thief, Edric, Spymaster of Trest, and Zareth San, the Trickster all get to duplicate their triggered abili𒊎ties while Felix is on the field.

This also works for non-Rogue permanents like Reconnaissance Mission and Rogue Class which synergize heavily with Rogue creatures. If you use Helm of the Host, you can triple and quadruple your triggered abilities, which might force you to start using🎀 pen and paper to keep track.

2 Edric, Spymaster Of Trest ♚

Political Commander With Card Draw

Ideal for multiplayer commander,꧋ Edric, Spymaster of Trest makes you the least attractive target in the game by rewarding everyone for attacking each other instead. It also synergizes with rogue cards that use ninjutsu or unblockable effects that make dealing combat damage reliable.

Rogue cards like Faerie Vandal is perfect for Edric because you get to prioritize low-cost cards that can get bigger every turn. By also adding Testuko Imezawa, ♔Fugitive, most of your rogue cards can become unblockable, allowing you to draw many cards per turn as soon as turn three.

1 ✅ Gonti, Canny Inquisitor

Stolen Cards With A Discount

Gonti, Canny Inquisitor becomes more powerful the more opponents you have, allowing you to steal their cards and play them for cheap, and sometimes evಌen for free. Like most Rogue commanders, Rogue creatures are the best for making use of triggering its ability reliably.

Cards that also allow you to steal spells, like Rogue Class and Gonti, Lo💙rd of Luxury will also allow you to cast those s❀pells for a reduced cost while giving you additional ways to keep playable cards in exile. This also allows you to build up exiled cards before playing Gonti, as it has a steep mana cost compared to most commanders.