Starter Commander Decks

Legendary Creature — Dragon

Flying, trample
Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, it gains double strike until end of turn.

Atarka, World Render

Soldier

Legendary Creature — Elf Cleric

Whenever Emmara becomes tapped, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Emmara, Soul of the Accord

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

When Gisa and Geralf enters, mill four cards.
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature spell from your graveyard.

Gisa and Geralf

Legendary Creature — Sphinx

Flying
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, you may draw a card.

Isperia, Supreme Judge

Legendary Creature — Demon Berserker

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.
Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Kardur, Doomscourge

Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.
−3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn.
−8: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Ajani, Caller of the Pride

Creature — Archon

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control with flying enters, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

Archon of Redemption

Creature — Bird Warrior

Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life for each creature you control with flying.

Aven Gagglemaster

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Banishing Light

Creature — Bird

Flying
When this creature deals combat damage to a player who controls more lands than you, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Cartographer's Hawk

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures with toughness 4 or greater.

Citywide Bust

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Cleansing Nova

Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.

Commander's Insignia

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Conclave Tribunal

Instant

Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

Condemn

Choose one or both —
• Exile target artifact.
• Exile target enchantment.

Crush Contraband

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
{3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Dawn of Hope

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Exile target attacking or blocking creature.

Devouring Light

Dictate of Heliod

Disenchant

Bird

Creature — Angel

Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Emeria Angel

Cat Beast

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Create a 2/2 white Cat Beast creature token.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.

Felidar Retreat

Elephant

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Generous Gift

Legendary Planeswalker — Gideon

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able.
−2: Destroy target tapped creature.
0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Gideon Jura

Spirit

Creature — Spirit

Flying
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
{3}{W}, Exile this creature: Exile target creature.

Hanged Executioner

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy all nontoken creatures.

Hour of Reckoning

Copy

Creature — Bird Soldier

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, attacking creatures with flying get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Encore {5}{W} ({5}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Kangee's Lieutenant

Creature — Human Soldier

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Mentor of the Meek

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Path to Exile

Untap all creatures you control. Creatures you control with flying get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Rally of Wings

Creature — Spirit Cleric

Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Exile target player's graveyard.

Remorseful Cleric

Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Rootborn Defenses

Legendary Creature — Angel

You may pay {W} and tap four untapped creatures you control with flying rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flying, lifelink
Other creatures you control with flying have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Sephara, Sky's Blade

{W}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Exile target creature that's attacking you or a planeswalker you control.

Soul Snare

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, other attacking creatures you control with flying get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Steel-Plume Marshal

Pegasus

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

Storm Herd

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Swords to Plowshares

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

True Conviction

Whenever a creature you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Valor in Akros

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has vigilance, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.

Vow of Duty

Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens. Shuffle White Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

White Sun's Zenith

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Aetherize

Creature — Turtle

Hexproof
Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.

Angler Turtle

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Bident of Thassa

Counterspell

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Deep Analysis

Creature — Avatar

Flying
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Diluvian Primordial

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Distant Melody

Zombie Army

Creature — Zombie Wizard

When this creature enters, amass Zombies 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Zombie tokens you control have flying.

Eternal Skylord

Whenever an opponent attacks, if they attacked you and/or a planeswalker you control, draw a card.

Ever-Watching Threshold

Faerie

Creature — Faerie

Flying
{3}{U}: Create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying. Draw a card.

Faerie Formation

Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.

Favorable Winds

Creature — Zombie Horror

When this creature enters, target player mills five cards.
Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Geralf's Mindcrusher

Creatures with flying get +2/+0.
Creatures without flying get -2/-0.

Gravitational Shift

Thopter

Creature — Sphinx

Flying
When this creature enters, draw cards equal to the number of opponents you have.
{3}{U}: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Inspired Sphinx

At the beginning of each end step, draw a card if you've cast a spell from a graveyard or activated an ability of a card in a graveyard this turn.

Laboratory Drudge

Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Lazotep Plating

Negate

Artifact Creature — Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Sharding Sphinx

Counter target spell.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Sinister Sabotage

Flying
When this creature enters, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.

Sphinx of Enlightenment

Creature — Drake

Flying
Whenever you attack with two or more creatures with flying, draw a card.

Tide Skimmer

Creature — Bird Wizard

Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Warden of Evos Isle

Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.

Windreader Sphinx

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Draw two cards.

Winged Words

Ambition's Cost

Creature — Demon

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Archfiend of Depravity

Zombie

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Army of the Damned

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Bloodgift Demon

Creature — Zombie

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
{2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Cemetery Reaper

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Champion of the Perished

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Crippling Fear

Destroy target non-Zombie creature. It can't be regenerated. Return up to one target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cruel Revival

Enchantment — Aura Curse

Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Curse of Disturbance

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Deadly Tempest

Each opponent chooses a creature card in their graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Dredge the Mire

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Feed the Swarm

Creature — Zombie Warrior

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Fleshbag Marauder

Tap five untapped Zombies you control: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Gravespawn Sovereign

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)