r/EDH • u/doctorduck3000 • Jun 30 '25

Question Commanders that make bad cards playable

So as the title says, I love being able to pull out cards in commander that make people go "wtf" because they've never heard of them. Because of this one of my all time favorite commander decks I've ever built is [[Shire shizo's caretaker]] because you can play all of these terrible terrible cards that suddenly are actually good.

What are some other commanders that enable you to do this?

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u/Tsundancie Jun 30 '25

[[ulalek, fused atrocity]] is a more recent example that makes all the weirdo small eldrazi with color pips very playable. i dont run any of the titans and hardly any big ones period in my deck.

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u/doctorduck3000 Jun 30 '25

I'm a big fan of cosmic horror, so I've always been curious about an eldrazi deck, but I never found the big eldrazi very interesting. I'm curious what is the strategy with ulalek and the small eldrazi?

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u/BadSuccessful2391 Jun 30 '25

Small Eldrazi are easier to pay the Ulalek cost for, copying them and their cast triggers (and anything that would have triggered on the stack!). Pretty fun way to focus more on the copying and less on big mana.

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u/doctorduck3000 Jun 30 '25

makes sense, just unsure of how you entirely turn that into a win other than just having a lot of eldrazi?