The Prismatic Piper

Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter

If The Prismatic Piper is your commander, choose a colour before the game begins. The Prismatic Piper is the chosen colour.

Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (13)

Chino90 on Volo, Guide to Monsters

11 months ago

you do understand how volo works, right? Because your deck is full of wizards, shamans and beasts, humans, and legendary creatures. You might as well run 2 The Prismatic Piper as your commanders.

Grind on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

The reference commander is The Prismatic Piper.
The new commander:
The Libatious Lutist {U}{G}
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Druid
Partner
Whenever a shapeshifter enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.
Creatures you control with base power and toughness both equal to 3 gain flying, trample, and get +X/+X, where X is their mana value.

1/3

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Challenge: Pick another bad partner commander and make a partner that makes it playable.

coolcid78 on Now on Stage: Kitt Kanto and the Piper!

1 year ago

hey The Prismatic Piper only can be used if both commanders have partner, so you cant have it giving you blue for your commander's color identity saddly

mlequesne on The Black Machine

2 years ago

I see you're running tevesh as a loner, It would be epic to add The Prismatic Piper just for fun.

Ashdust on The Prismatic Piper, but better.

2 years ago

I always thought that The Prismatic Piper was super weak, but one small edit can make it super powerful.

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The Prismatic Piper, Tooter of Horns {5}

Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter

If The Prismatic Piper, Tooter of Horns is your commander, choose a color before the game begins. The Prismatic Piper, Tooter of Horns is the chosen color.

Double Partner (You can have two other commanders if all have Partner.)

3/3

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Please let me know if you have any recommendations!

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Rule 0, Non-Legendary creature commander …

2 years ago

The Prismatic Piper ;)

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Rule 0 is a possibility for sure, and Smoke Braider seems a good choice. But I want to give you some fodder for thought: The colour identity restriction is meant to have players be creative with their game plan. You could make a list of the red effects you'd want to include in your WBR Soulshrieker list, and then try to find alternatives for that in WB. This could be considered a "lesson" in deck building while also maybe finding a handful of cards that are powerful with shrieker that you normally wouldn't play.

StopShot on How to make new 2-color …

2 years ago

@TypicalTimmy I agree with what you mean about having a partner restriction in a draft environment would cause problems, but as you have definitely laid out, the problem belies in the draft format itself. Commander is in essence a color restricting format and when you throw in the unpredictable probability of getting opposite colors to your potential commander colors you're just in for a bad time. If your best draft picks are in Mardu, 10 out of the 20 cards at least contain two of Mardu's three colors and of course the variants of The Prismatic Piper like Commander Lengends draft rules would also apply, so if you don't pull any of the Pipers you're free to include one or two anyway. If your closest Mardu commander is "Mono-Green - Partners with Red and White" you could run the Red-Piper, name White as its chosen color (or vice versa) and run a Naya deck with 2/3's of your card pool or if you're really adamant about running pure Mardu you could run the White-Piper with the Red Piper and name Black for the chosen color joining the two. Neither is a particularly ideal, but I think removing randomness is an aspect that you can't ever entirely remove from a draft environment. Perhaps it would be better if the Pipers had more themes/abilties tied to them to make them feel worth playing if you have to run one or two. It would give you something to build towards if you're expecting the worst case scenario.

StopShot on How to make new 2-color …

2 years ago

@TypicalTimmy I believe one big reason for The Prismatic Piper is to protect poor drafters from themselves. Like, say you actually drafted those commanders minus The Prismatic Piper, but all your other cards are white and you literally don't have enough non-white cards to make a draft commander deck. You basically have to forfeit every game you play while your opponent sits awkwardly for everyone in the current round to finish.

Another thing to note is the Commander Legends draft rules state you can have The Prismatic Piper be your commander even if you never drafted it. Its basically a protection policy so that you can build a deck even if you draft horribly such as not drafting any legendary creatures in the first place.

I believe my version for this made-up set is a bit better as you can use it to give certain commanders two extra colors as opposed to the one The Prismatic Piper gives.