What Is Commander – Crafting the Deck’s Strategy

January 7, 2025 By p个护家清k

There are many places to start when building a Commander deck. Up to this point, I’ve provided a lot of different jumping-off points that have hopefully helped you decide:

How you want your deck to win; and,
What strategy or commander you’ll use to do so.
If you haven’t already chosen a commander, it’s important to do so in the early stages of crafting your deck’s strategy. You can only use colors that are part of your commander’s color identity; therefore, you’ll need to use this limitation when choosing the other 99 cards.

Previously, we discussed an ideal Commander Deck Template. This template recommends that about 32 of the deck’s cards are focused on executing the strategy. This is a great second aspect of a new deck to consider, research cards for, and add to a deck list