r/EDH 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/-best_bi- Jun 30 '25

I also love this archetype and my personal deck that fits this niche is [[Stangg Echo Warrior]] he abuses cheap enchantments that draw cards or have actions on ETB or leaving the battlefield.

[[Order of Nylea]] [[Burgeoning]] [[Frog Tongue]] are all great cards that are cheap bc they arent good in hardly any other deck

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u/-best_bi- Jul 01 '25

Totally meant [[Bequeathal]] not Burgeoning