Outlaws Of Thunder Junction Commanders

My thoughts on some of the more interesting commanders from Outlaws of Thunder Junction.

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[Lootsweeper]

The sniper is a draw engine at 2 mana, she's top tier. I'll be including Rocket Launcher in my list for flavor lol

[ArtGuyCharlie]

The draw engine part is nice, but I feel like the real power of Taii is that she turns every non-combat damage effect into a Fireball.

[gianfrancodaristotile]

Already ordered cards for my Taii Wakeen build. So glad you mentioned her because she is such a cool commander.

[wikidclowne]

A nice inclusion for Kaervek is Merrow Bonegnawer. You can tap it to make an opponent exile a card in their graveyard (they don't even have to have any cards in it) which commits a crime.
You cast your black spell from your graveyard, which untaps the Bonegnawer and you can repeat the process.

[thefool]

With Kaervek the Punisher, you have to pay for the spells, so he's not that broken. But you might still be able to do some interesting things with him.

[Ryley_O]

I made a Taii Wakeen deck immediately when I saw her. The deck focuses on creating a large number of 1/1s and even giving my opponents some 1/1s before dealing 1 damage to the board and drawing an obscene number of cards. Super fun and even when that doesn’t happen like that you often are still a go-wide token deck and can win through combat.

[DioxideCad]

Obeka + Court of cunning + Syr Konrad a nice combo. You could trigger your own deck to get more creature triggers.

[coreyroberson]

13:34 - I already have a WG Vehicles deck around Emmara, Soul of the Accord that runs a bunch of the "when this becomes tapped" creatures. Wylie Duke is absolutely going in, and it may even become the commander.

[lordfarquaad]

Will let you know whenever I get that Taii Wakeen deck done.
Just realizing right now I have to make sure I include cards that aren't just killing creatures and drawing me cards... I feel like this commander is one of those where you can get lost in the sauce and forget to add cards that will close out games.

[webbc]

Taii Wakeen may as well not even have the first paragraph. If you're worried about Obeka being too good, I honestly think Taii Wakeen is even better. With nothing more than an Impact Tremors you can easily threaten lethal with a few cheap goblins, it's stupidly powerful. The fact that she only costs two mana is absurd.

[jeremyv]

Bring your snacks and amovie when you play against Obeka. You'll be waiting around for the 12 upkeeps to resolve

[DOTSliveSDO]

While I totally agree that Kambal is awesome and is a bit bonkers, I don't think it's gonna be super popular at least early on. It'll maybe get to the 600 mark on EDHrec. With the discourse amongst a lot of content creators, it seems to be more regulated to a 99 card rather than a commander. If it catches popularity, I think it will be a after a few people play against it and see it interact with cards like Tombstone Stairwell.

[dakotacouch]

Kellan is gonna be my build around. Super flexible and strong also doc arlock in that 99.

[infinitedaryl]

Another underrated commander that does the tapping theme sneakily is Kitt Kanto. Wylie is a slam dunk there. Alongside any untapper too like Seedborn…value town!

[MisterManuva]

With the boros commander you can also build around creatures having LTB abilities

[andrewfornes]

My favorite from this set is Laughing Jasper Flint. Although that may be due to my playstyle (I have a Circu, Dimir Lobotomist & a Jeleva deck based around exiling cards.) The fact that a ton of outlaws make treasure to allow you to play your opponent's cards seem nice.

[NoTengoIdeaGuey]

One thing i like about this set is that it feels like the design team is getting a feel for design that works in both standard-type formats and commander.

Most times you have a distinct split where cards are like either "decent in commander" or "decent in modern/draft" but never both.

In OTJ even the so-called draft chaff from my prerelease is alot of stuff I'd be totally cool with putting in a commander deck. That hasnt been the case in my experience for as long as I've played mtg.

[OniTreefolk]

Kellan, the Kid is going to be a fun Adventure commander.

[walterfox]

Super hyped by Roxane, I still don't know in what direction I'm gonna take her, but maybe multiple triggers with Panharmonicon / Strionic Resonator / Lithoform engine and others, some treasure makers and then just pile in a bunch of mana dumps (Hellkite Igniter comes to mind).
Obeka really struck a chord with me too, of course the Courts of "something" work great, I wanna try some upkeep group slug effects like Spawn of Mayhem, Descent into Avernus is gonna make for a really quick game, I wanna try suspend, playing with the initiative (Loot Dispute) and I've been looking for a deck where replicating ring would be really busted.

[radvillainy]

The issue when your commander does something as unique as either of the Obekas is that somebody is just going to blow it up before you untap and now your entire deck is pretty much turned off.