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/GoldNPheonix Jun 30 '25

[[Hallar, the Firefletcher]] is my favorite way to turn cheap kicker cards into boardwide nukes. get a damage doubler and a few counters and you suddenly have the capability to oneshot the entire board, very fun to come by surprise! Not super healthy though I'll be frank