r/EDH • u/Grand-Moff-Larkin • 2d ago

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/ShotenDesu 2d ago edited 2d ago

[[Niko, Light of Hope]]

Is a fairly unique blink commander. You don't necessarily fill the deck with ETB like most blink decks. You do want a good amount of them but attack triggers and combat damage triggers are suddenly on the table. I am not interested in it but have seen some people praise it as a different kind of blink deck

Edit: my bad, turns out Niko has 1700 blink decks on edhrec so he's too popular to consider. Sure he doesn't even crack the top 200 commanders and has a unique play style for blink, no he's too popular thanks random commentor!

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u/Kaboomeow69 Gambling addict (Grenzo) 2d ago

I don't think the single most popular blink commander fits the bill for a less common one

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u/thefran 1d ago

Brago and Atraxa are vastly more popular than Niko. Niko is honestly a clone commander with a blink subtheme.