Full list of commanders...?

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Posted on Nov. 14, 2015, 6:54 a.m. by 123katty

Hi everyone,

I am looking for a full list of every commander, sorted by popularity, but I cannot find one. I want this list because I am to 'cool' for those darn popular commanders and want to use one with few decks. Oloro? Bah! Taniwha is more my style. Thanks, 123katty

hyperlocke says... #2

As far as I know, there is no such list. There are so many legendary creatures and the player base is so strewn over many sites and there are so many decks not registered on any site, that it's impossible to rank all commanders by popularity.

You could try to find the most popular commanders on any given MTG related site. That would be a lot of work and most sites don't have a feature that displays such a statistic.

What I could find were the 25 most popular commanders on edhrec.com.

If I had to guess, I'd say that many of the Legends Commanders are very unpopular. Barktooth Warbeard and his like...

My personal advice: Find a Commander you like and go an unusual route with it. Most Commanders are at the top of quite similar lists, because they work well with certain cards. Try to make them work with other cards.

November 14, 2015 7:10 a.m.

Gidgetimer says... #3

If you go to EDHrec and click on the "sets" button you can view possible commanders from each set and it will have the number of decks in their database for each one. I'll keep looking to see if I can find all commanders somewhere. The site isn't the most intuitive.

November 14, 2015 7:11 a.m.

123katty says... #4

Thanks Gidgetimer, the EDHrec Sets list isn't perfect but it's probably the best one out there.

And sorry Hyperlocke, but I want to punch anyone who mentions Sir Shandlar of Eberyn or his flavor text. Thanks to both of you.

November 14, 2015 7:15 a.m.

Gidgetimer says... #5

So I just clicked around some more and you can see all commanders for a given color identity by clicking the check boxes on top and hitting "catalog". This seems to be the closest thing I can find to what you want as long as you just want to find a little used commander in your color identity. If you want to be all hipster and play Alexi, Zephyr Mage just because no one else is it isn't going to be helpful since you need a color identity to do the search and it doesn't show commanders with 0 decks.

November 14, 2015 7:19 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #6

You could just go onto gatherer and under card subtype select 'legendary' then for type select 'creature' then search?

November 14, 2015 7:24 a.m.

Gidgetimer says... #7

He was wanting a list by popularity, not just a list of all possible commanders. I originally came here thinking the same thing, but with magiccards.info as the suggested site because gatherer is garbage.

November 14, 2015 7:37 a.m.

JANKYARD_DOG says... #8

Legendary Creature Search

The only thing missing is the Planeswalker Commanders. Who cares about popularity, go with something you like rather than what everyone and their uncle is playing.

November 14, 2015 9:21 a.m.

Gidgetimer says... #9

I'm starting to think that people aren't reading the OP. They want a list of popularity so that they can play UNPOPULAR commanders to be more unique. I don't see the point in choosing a commander based on popularity one way or another. If you ever want to do something to stand out: Always remember you are unique. Just like everyone else.

November 14, 2015 10:04 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #10

I did wreathe OP, but I assumed s/he would know which commanders were popular and therefore, by extension, which weren't.

November 14, 2015 10:16 a.m.

Well... it's not paper, but this may give you a rough idea. The list doesn't contain all the commanders, but you can find some lesser known ones, as well as deck list ideas.

MTGO Commanders

November 14, 2015 11:02 a.m.

DVLuca says... #12

Hi everyone, my suggest is Reaper King, in a few have build this as a commander because is very difficult to make it competitive.....one of the reasons is the existence of Rite of Replication. If you don't want to count is 30 Vindicate effect!!!If you like (I understand if you dont, dont worry) and make a good list link me please, i'm looking for it!!!!

November 14, 2015 11:18 a.m.

As someone mentioned earlier, most of the commanders from Legends are relatively unpopular (I absolutely adore them, but that's because I'm weird like that) so that's a good place to start. most of them were reprinted in Chronicles, too, so they won't be too expensive for you to get ahold of. my personal favorite card of all time, Xira Arien, happens to come from that set.

November 14, 2015 11:44 a.m.

Lightpulsar9 says... #14

Here is a list of all commanders in EDH. They are seperated by tiers.

November 14, 2015 11:53 a.m.

__fense says... #15

There's 600+ possible commanders in the game, so you might just want to bring up a list and choose one at random, chances are it isn't going to be very popular.

You might want to try Haakon, Stromgald Scourge. He just became playable for the first time with the printing of Command Beacon, so yesterday was the first time anyone was able to cast him as a commander. You'd be getting in at the ground floor. All he really needs is a few sets with mono-black knight tribal being a thing before he can be a real force to be reckoned with.

November 14, 2015 4:30 p.m.

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