Command Tower

Land

{T}: Add one mana of any colour in your commander's colour identity.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

FadingReality on Dragons, Dragons, Dragons

2 weeks ago

A couple ramp options that are all either land ramp (the best) or ramp that isn't artifact or creature based.

1.) Wild Growth

2.) Three Visits

2.) Wargate. Wargate gets any land in the game untapped; a very rare effect at any mana range (much less 3 mana). It is {W}{U}{G} as opposed to {3} but aside from that it's superior to even Darksteel Ingot. 3 mana to get an untapped Command Tower is strictly better than 3 mana to get even an indestructible artifact (artifact can still be exiled). This card also gets utility lands that even fetches can't get. On top of all that, Wargate also gives you the additional option of making X be more than 0. If you do that, you can tutor any permanent in your deck directly onto the battlefield. Very useful late game in that regard. So there's a ton of utility in this card for the same price as a 3 mana rock that just gives any color. Lastly, the blue pip in the casting cost gets you closer to being able to run Force of WillGC.

3.) Archdruid's Charm. Currently the only other card in the whole game besides Wargate that can get any land in the game for 3 mana. {G}{G}{G} could be tricky, but your mana base can handle it honeslty. Although the land you get with it does come in tapped, Archdruid makes up for this by being instant speed! What really makes this card shine is its utility. It is ramp, removal for artifacts, creatures, and enchantments, AND it is a creature tutor. Again, compare this to a 3 mana rock that just gives any color. This gives any LAND instead of a rock, also tutors, and is also removal. This card is nuts.

Lastly, this card isn't ramp per se, but The World Tree can give you a Chromatic Lantern effect and doesn't take up a deck slot. It can be tutored with wargate or archdruid's charm. Just something to keep in mind if you do cut Chromatic Lantern. I'd try to implement all 3 of the land ramp recommendations and then add wild growth if you still need more ramp. Alternatively, you could cut Delighted Halfling for wild growth. Wild growth gives you colored mana for any spell (not just legendaries like halfling), survives WAY more boardwipes and removal, and is also slightly faster since enchanting an untapped land with wild growth allows you to use its mana immediately. Halfling will never tap for mana same turn unless it has haste.

Shadowblade778 on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread

1 month ago

Femme_Fatale: You are correct that there was no line of foundations commander product. There were, however, three cards contained within the foundations starter collection with set code FDC (foundations commander) and the accompanying set symbol instead of the regular foundations code and symbol. These cards were Arcane Signet, Sol Ring, and Command Tower. I forgot about sol ring in my initial post. All three of these cards are in the FDN CIG.

Shadowblade778 on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread

1 month ago

The Foundations Commander (FDC) printings of Command Tower and Arcane Signet found in the foundations starter collection don't appear to be in the system.

bankrupt_on_selling on Mayael's Opera House

3 months ago

Ancient Tomb, Command Tower, Yavimaya Hollow all seem like good inclusions. Sun Titan is good in my mayael being able to recur things like fetch lands and Strip Mine, Wasteland.

Los333 on General Tazri’s Allies

4 months ago

Akoum Battlesinger Beastcaller Savant Harabaz Druid Kor Bladewhirl Makindi Aeronaut Serene Steward Chasm Guide Ally Encampment Black Market Connections Cavern of Souls Changeling Outcast Conjurer's Mantle Cryptic Gateway Descendants' Path Haunting Voyage Kindred Charge Kindred Summons Molten Echoes Patchwork Banner Path of Ancestry Radiant Destiny Raise the Palisade Reflections of Littjara Secluded Courtyard Shared Animosity Stoneforge Masterwork Unclaimed Territory Unified Front Unsettled Mariner Urza's Incubator Arcane Signet Chromatic Lantern Command Tower Cryptolith Rite Elven Chorus Smothering Tithe Song of Freyalise Tarnation Vista Unknown Shores Elfhame Sanctuary Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip Crumbling Necropolis Crystal Grotto Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip Reflecting Pool Mistgate Pathway  ^Flip Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip Mystic Monastery Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip Nomad Outpost Savage Lands Seaside Citadel Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip Spirit of Resistance

Craeter on Avian Uprising

7 months ago

jaketheaccountant I think I know what you mean, as the deck is predominantly {W}/{U} with a small amount of {G} and even less {R}. This deck does struggle a bit with color balancing, but it seems to work out most of the time in my play testing. There are a number of cards that can produce any mana color: Ancient Ziggurat, Command Tower, Vivid Crag, Chromatic Lantern, Commander's Sphere, Paradise Mantle, Patchwork Banner, Migratory Route and Sword of the Animist can search for a missing basic land.

That being said, this deck could likely benefit from more options for any colored mana. So let me know if you have any specific suggestions. Switching all of the {W} to {G} isn't really an option for me, as like said the basis of the deck is {W} / {U} birds. To take out all of the {W} would involve building a whole new deck essentially. And Nadu is the best bird commander atm so I'd like to stick with him.

I'm not very attached to Stolen by the Fae, any color mana ramp or Forest tutoring would be better than that card imo for instance. I might just swap it out for Thornwood Falls or something similar and go a bit over 1/3 lands here for more mana options.

Profet93 on Samut, Vizier of Naktamun

1 year ago

SufferFromEDHD +1 because of you, interesting deck.

Dualcaster Mage - For the combo potential with hit shimmer and twinflame, as well as general utility.

At the risk of being winmore, Alhammarret's Archive?

What is the point of squee, synergy with survival of the fittest? Reminds me of when I used to run Genesis for a similar interaction.

Skullclamp - Draw, or is it not needed?

Land Discussion

Do you have enough mountains to trigger valakut? I feel the slot would be better utilized with a Castle Garenbrig?

Command Tower/Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip - Color fixing

Turntimber, Serpentine Wood  ^Flip - Utility

War Room - Draw

Extra Combat

Have you considered adding some extra combat step cards to trigger your commander's ability and deal additional damage such as Karlach, Fury of Avernus, Relentless Assault, Seize the Day, Scourge of the Throne, World at War, Breath of Fury, Combat Celebrant or my personal favorite Aggravated Assault?

legendofa on Tap Lands

1 year ago

There are two main reasons I can see people using taplands.

First, they're generally very affordable. Some people can't or don't want to spend lots of money on their decks. Maybe they want to keep it below a certain budget, or they don't want to put in individual lands that are worth more than the rest of their deck combined.

Second, some do have some special utility. The Ravnica bounce lands, like Simic Growth Chamber, have a specific place in stuff like Cultivator Colossus combos and similar decks. Axgard Armory offers hard-to-counter tutoring, Hall of the Bandit Lord grants haste, Triomes are some of the most reliable color fixers not named Command Tower, and so on.

Yeah, taplands are slow, but they're cheap and easy to find, and there are plenty that do things besides make mana. They get outclassed quickly, but sometimes they're the right level of budget and utility for what a deck wants.