Summary

• Loyal Subordinate excels in aggressive burn strategy, delivering consistent 3 life burns.
• Crackling Drake is a strong option for Voltron playstyle, gaining power with spell usage.
• Erinis and Street Urchin combo shines in creature removal, leveraging deathtouch abilities.

Pauper Commander is a variant of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's Commander format. Instead of only legendary creatures, your commander can be any creature that has been released at the uncommon rarity, legendary or not. It follows the same rules as regular Commander in that your deck has to fall within your commander's color identity.

However, unlike Commander, your 99 cards can only consist of cards released at the common rarity. There is a giant amount of possible Pauper commanders, but some stand out above thﷺe rest as the best in the format, often performing well at competitive Pauper events with higher-than-average win rates.

10 ꦡ🎉Loyal Subordinate

The Subordinate Becomes The Commander

Despite being mono-black, the lack o☂f multiple colors makes it easier to always have the right mana for a Loyal Subordinate deck. The lieutenant ability triggers so long as you control your commander, and since it is the commander, the effect is alw🌊ays available in the command zone, burning each opponent for three life.

Loyal Subordinate decks play into 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an aggressive burn strategy, taking advantage of the various ways black can burn all your opponents, such as with Gray Merchant of Asphodel. It also plays a control shell to keep other threats off the battlefield along with ways to bring Loyal Subordi♋nate back to the battlefield right away if it gets removed.

9 Cracklin♛g Dr🍰ake

The Voltron Dragon

Crackling Drake is one of the best options in Pauper Commander for those 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:who enjoy a Voltron playstyle (relying heavily on 🔯one creature to do all your attacking). Crackling Drake can easily build up its power just by playing spells, since each instant and sorcery used will grow its stat, even if it gets countered.

Crackling Drake is especially strong since you only nee🃏d 16 commander damage to take someone out of the game. Since Crackling Drake decks play a lot of cantrips (one mana spells that draw a card), you can make its power 16 quite easily. Thanks to its color identity, it has access to protection and counterspell✤s to make sure it sticks on the battlefield.

8 Erinis, Gloom Stalker + Street Urch🍃in 🍸

Remove Any Creature

Erinis, Gloom Stalker lets you use any Background as a second commander, but Street Urchin is far and away the best choice to pair it with. Since Erinis has deathtouch, the ability Street Urchin gives it will cause a creature with dea🌟thtouch to deal damage to any target, meaning it will be enough to kill any creature on the battlefield.

You want ways to create sacrifice fodder so you always have something to sacrifice for Street Urchin's effect. This is often done through Treasure and creature token generators, as they can be used in other ways. It's a control deck, that is very efficient at shutting down creature-based strategies.

7 𝔍 Third Path Iconoclast

Spells For Tokens

Third Path Iꦓconoclast can get out of hand very quickly. For every noncreature spell, you get a 1/1 creature token. With how many cheap noncreature spells there are in 𝓡Pauper Commander, it is very easy to amass a token army to overpower your opponents.

There are two primary ways to build Third Path Iconoclast, either as a combo deck or a midrange deck. The combo route utilizes loops involving cards that can untap themselves and Retraction Helix that gives them the ability to bounce a zero-mana 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:permanent to hand to go infinite. The midrange version plౠays a more controlling game plan, amassing tokens while countering and removing potential threats.

6 ꦍ Tatyova, Ben💧thic Druid

Doing Simic Things

Tatyova, Benthic Druid, is one of the pillar cards of Pauper Commander. It provides a ton of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网🅘:card advantage with its landfall abilit😼y, and the lifegain is nothing to scoff at since the starting life total is only 30, something that can dwindle very quickly depending 𒆙on what your opponents are playing.

Tatyova, Benthic Drওuid decks can draw a ton of cards, making it easier to assemble your combo pieces to start generating infinite mana to bounce everything using Tidal Bore. There are also Ghostly Flicker loops to const𓂃antly blink lands as a way to generate infinite mana.

5 Gretchen Titc♑hwillow

Easy Ramp

Gretchen Tichwillow decks are ramp decks that eventually be♏come combo. Once you have access to the ability to generate four mana, Gretchen can continuously draw you cards w💎hile putting lands directly onto the battlefield. The blue part of Gretchen gives you access to counterspells and extra card draws to see your key cards quickly.

The deck often wins by untapping lands that are enchanted by various Auras tꦍhat let them generate more mana than normal. It continuously makes more and more mana on one turn to eventually win the game off of infinite combos.

4 🍷 Dargo, The Shipwrecker🧸

Good With Any Partner

Dargo, the Shipwrecker, is one of the best partner commanders in the format. As for who to partner it with, there isn't any wrong answer, and it's up to personal preference, although Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar, Keleth, Sunmane Familiar, Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor, and Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator are the most common choices.

What makes Dargo so good is its ability to hit the battlefield very early. There are a ton of cheap artifacts in Pauper Commander that you can have hit the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:battlefield early to sacrifice to cast Dargo, sometimes as early as turn one. Since its stats are very high, if Dargo hits the battlefield quickly enough, it can dodge removal if your opponents don't have the mana to cast it and deal large swaths of damage.

3 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer🎃 + Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

The Pirate Pair

Breeches, Brazen Plunderer, and Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Naviagor, pair well with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:each other since both are Pirates, letting you take advantage of both of their effects. Since there aren't too many notable Pirates, the deck often plays cards that give creatures all creature types to make them into Pirates.

The strength comes from the ability to ping for one damage. This gives you the effects of both your commanders, and since the ping damage happens one at a time, the effects trigger one by one. This gives you a ton of treasure tokens and opponents' cards to work with, which you can use to win the game off of this synergy.

2 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward

Any Background Works

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward can be played with a Background, though which Background you use is up to personal preference because Abdel is so strong on its own. The most common choices are Agent of the Iron Throne and Sword Coast Sailor.

Abdel Adrian decks take advantage of cards with useful enter-the-battlefield triggers by having Abdel exile them, then blinking Abdel so they all return to the battlefield, and then rinse and repeat. Thanks to the white part of Abdel's color identity, 168澳🅠洲幸运5开奖网:you have access to all the best blink cards.

1 Ley Weav🌞er + Lore Weaver

Command Zone Combo

What makes Ley Weaver and Lore Weaver the best commanders in the format is that they give you access to combo enables right in the command zone. The ability to untap lands is fantastic, especially when it's enchanted by Freed from the Reel to untap it right away to easily generate infinite mana. Lore Weaver covers the rest, letting you draw out your whole deck or forcing your opponents to draw their whole deck and lose to mill on their upkeeps.

Even if one of the cards gets removed, you can get access to the combo right away again since they'll just go to the command zone to cast again later. Simic (green/blue) has access to a ton of protection and counterspells.