Starter Commander Decks

SCD · 352 cards · Released

Atarka, World Render
Legendary Creature — Dragon

Flying, trample

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

"Her hunger knows no limit. Left unchecked, she would feast on all of Tarkir."

—Yasova Dragonclaw

6/4
Emmara, Soul of the Accord
Legendary Creature — Elf Cleric

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

"Whatever hatred destroys, a single act of trust can revive."

2/2
Gisa and Geralf
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.

"These fiends are slightly less tolerable than you." "A sentiment that warms my heart, sister."

4/4
Isperia, Supreme Judge
Legendary Creature — Sphinx

Flying

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

"I serve only justice. But through that duty, I serve all of Ravnica."

6/4
Kardur, Doomscourge
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.

4/3
Ajani, Caller of the Pride
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.

Loyalty: 4
Archon of Redemption
Creature — Archon

Flying

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

Until Emeria is freed, he raises his sword in her name.

3/4
Aven Gagglemaster
Creature — Bird Warrior

Flying

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

An aven's gear is enchanted to avoid weighing them down during aerial maneuvers.

4/3
Banishing Light
Enchantment

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

The Champion reached for a stone, and Heliod placed the sun into her hand.

—The Theriad

Cartographer's Hawk
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.

2/1
Citywide Bust
Sorcery

Destroy all creatures with toughness 4 or greater.

"Oh, you fellas are going to love the lockup. Excellent gruel. Very low ceilings."

—Libuse, Boros sergeant

Cleansing Nova
Sorcery

Choose one —

• Destroy all creatures.

• Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

In their final moments, the demons gazed upon grace in its purest form.

Commander's Insignia
Enchantment

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

At the general's triumphant return, renewed strength surged through the soldiers' ranks.

Conclave Tribunal
Enchantment

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 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.

Condemn
Instant

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

"No doubt the arbiters would put you away, after all the documents are signed. But I will have justice now."

—Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Crush Contraband
Instant

Choose one or both —

• Exile target artifact.

• Exile target enchantment.

The Izzet mage knew she would neither get her thermoinverter back nor have the satisfaction of exploding it herself.

Dawn of Hope
Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

"To wage war, secure peace within yourself."

—Emmara

Devouring Light
Instant

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

Exile target attacking or blocking creature.

"Even your shadow is too foul to tolerate."

Dictate of Heliod
Enchantment

Flash

Creatures you control get +2/+2.

"Daxos, I'm in need of a champion. Who else would I turn to but you?"

Disenchant
Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Where the holy light of the angels has shone, only purity remains.

Emeria Angel
Creature — Angel

Flying

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

When the earth shudders, the sky overflows.

3/3
Felidar Retreat
Enchantment

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.

Generous Gift
Instant

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

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Gideon Jura
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.

Loyalty: 6
Hanged Executioner
Creature — Spirit

Flying

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

, Exile this creature: Exile target creature.

1/1
Hour of Reckoning
Sorcery

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

Destroy all nontoken creatures.

Those who are chosen do not doubt. Those who remain do not lament.

Kangee's Lieutenant
Creature — Bird Soldier

Flying

Whenever this creature attacks, attacking creatures with flying get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Encore (, 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.)

1/1
Mentor of the Meek
Creature — Human Soldier

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

"In these halls there is no pass or fail. Your true test comes with the first full moon."

2/2
Path to Exile
Instant

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

Rally of Wings
Instant

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

Even the clouds became a field of battle. Known as the Sky Theater, it saw the Eternals clash with squadrons of angels.

Remorseful Cleric
Creature — Spirit Cleric

Flying

Sacrifice this creature: Exile target player's graveyard.

A lifetime of keeping up appearances is not enough to earn an eternity of rest.

2/1
Rootborn Defenses
Instant

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.)

"No harm can come to me while the Worldsoul shelters me."

Sephara, Sky's Blade
Legendary Creature — Angel

You may pay 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.)

7/7
Soul Snare
Enchantment

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

"Shackle the body, and the anguish lasts only until death. Shackle the soul, and the wicked can be punished for eternity."

—Inquisitor Laerin

Steel-Plume Marshal
Creature — Bird Soldier

Flying

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

The defenders watched in terror as the flying V split apart into a bristling battle formation.

3/3
Storm Herd
Sorcery

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

"When you hear thunder on a cloudless day, take cover and brace for the coming of the storm herd."

—Skotov, Tin Street basket vendor

Swords to Plowshares
Instant

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

"The arc of my blade has carved a path of light for the peace that will follow."

True Conviction
Enchantment

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

"Heroism is more than a single act; it is hundreds of small decisions, made every day, in pursuit of a heroic cause."

Valor in Akros
Enchantment

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

There's no stronger armor than the bravery of those beside you.

Vow of Duty
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

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

"I prefer loyalty to be a matter of respect, not of magic. But one does what one must."

—Kaalia of the Vast

White Sun's Zenith
Instant

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

After the Battle of Liet Field, the white sun crested above Taj-Nar, bringing hope to all who survived the carnage.

Aetherize
Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners—and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Angler Turtle
Creature — Turtle

Hexproof

Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.

It is ancient, immense, and irresistible.

5/7
Bident of Thassa
Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

, : Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

The wills of mortals shift as the tide ebbs and flows.

Counterspell
Instant

Counter target spell.

Deep Analysis
Sorcery

Target player draws two cards.

Flashback, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"The specimen seems to be broken."

Diluvian Primordial
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.

5/5
Distant Melody
Sorcery

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

Oona's song is like a twisted dinner chime. All the faeries return home, but it is Oona who feasts—on the stolen dreams and rumors they serve her.

Eternal Skylord
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.

3/3
Ever-Watching Threshold
Enchantment

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

"You think they know we're here?"

—Orlo, goblin raider

Faerie Formation
Creature — Faerie

Flying

: Create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying. Draw a card.

The throng flitted from castle to castle, leaving a trail of star-crossed love, damaging rumors, and missing heirlooms in their wake.

5/4
Favorable Winds
Enchantment

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

"Like ribbons of wind and wisdom the coatls fly, twisting mystery into truth, shaping the clouds to suit their inscrutable will."

—Huatli

Geralf's Mindcrusher
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.)

5/5
Gravitational Shift
Enchantment

Creatures with flying get +2/+0.

Creatures without flying get -2/-0.

As they awakened, the Eldrazi reasserted their mastery over all of Zendikar's natural forces.

Inspired Sphinx
Creature — Sphinx

Flying

When this creature enters, draw cards equal to the number of opponents you have.

: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

5/5
Laboratory Drudge
Creature — Zombie Horror

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.

"Many hands make light work."

—Ludevic, necro-alchemist

3/4
Lazotep Plating
Instant

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.)

Negate
Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

"As one, nature lifts its voice to tell you this: 'No.'"

Sharding Sphinx
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.

Whether mechanical or biological, life finds a way to propagate itself.

4/4
Sinister Sabotage
Instant

Counter target spell.

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

"We have intel that some guilds have fallen under an invader's influence. Until we're sure, no venture succeeds."

—Lazav