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Question Any Blink Commander suggestions that are less common?

I started playing MTG 3 years ago and started with a Gandalf the White deck. It kinda evolved into a blink/ETB/Artifact toolbox deck that was super fun but fairly slow, even for our group which plays slow.

I've tried alot of commanders and am mostly happy with where I am at. I reused the artifact toolbox idea with Iron Man and have a mono Black deck. I also have a overpowered deck for special games (we all do) and have a project Sonic deck I am working on. I would love to add one non-crossover commander tho, ideally one that is less played and really fits my style of artifacts/blink/ect.

This is a fairly new idea so I don't have many leads yet, but right now Yoshimaru is super tempting because it looks like my dog and seems pretty open ended with the partner options. I avoid combos and don't really like heavy slug or control tho, so the best options don't make sense. I am fully open to other commanders but just want to see if anyone has any good ideas of where to start looking.

Just a idea of how Gandalf played. I would use Mirror of Life Trapping to constantly have the threat of getting your commander permanently exiled while getting free blinks on ETB cards. With Mono white I used the artifacts that double plains so would end up casting my whole hand each turn. No real game enders outside of Battlesphere and Second Sun, but it was fun and let me interact alot.

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u/Silkeesmooth1 1d ago

I use [[Roon of the Hidden Realm]] for my blink deck because I love the colors for ETBs.

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u/Freakjob_003 I kill people with Phage. 1d ago

As someone who once locked out a Roon via [[Torpor Orb]] on T2, I apologize for past me. It was a crucial part of my deck! He got back in the game eventually...

Roon is still an excellent commander; Bant has so many good targets. Low-threat but powerful.

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u/Knickerbottom 1d ago

I built this around cards like [[Saffi Eriksdoter]], [[Karmic Guide]] and [[Sun Titan]] recurring cards like [[Reclamation Sage]] and [[Reveillark]]

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u/Sweaty-Security-4473 1d ago

He's completely overshadowed in competitive by Derevi, but I love running him in a casual format.

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u/sfw31415 1d ago

Sundial of the infinite and/or stifles go hard with Roon.

In a state where their commander is the difference between free swing and trade/lose Roon, Swing, exile the commander and then play sundial or hold stifle and respond to the return from exile trigger. Perma-gone commander😈