Every one of them anchors a clear game plan a new player can pilot on turn one, and every one of them is the kind of deck our AI MTG deck builder can fill out for you in seconds
NEW COMMANDER OF THE YEAR JOSHUA, PHOENIXS DOMINANT // PHOENIX, WARDEN OF FIRE I have already waxed lyrical about this Commander, so its kinda flogging a dead horse at this point, but boy oh boy did I have the time of my life brewing and playing this deck this year
W for a 1/1 (So far, so good.) 2W for a 2/2 (Pearled Unicorn, but not horrible.) 10W for a 5/5 first strike creature (Wait, what?) 1U for a 0/3 (Eh, but bearable.) 3U for a 0/6 (Getting pretty bad here.) 11U for a 6/6 islandwalk creature (Wait, what?) B for a 1/1 (Muck Rats, but okay.) 4B for a 3/3 (Looking a little worse here.) 12B for a 5/5 creature with pseudo-fear (Wait, what?) Those ultimate mana costs were paid out over multiple turns, but if your creature died before hitting their highest level game over, tons of wasted mana, yikes
Given its almost universal playability, it takes the top slot