Command Tower

Land

: Gain one mana of any colour in your commander's colour identity.

Discussion (47)

unwucht on Omnath, A Song of Creation and Chaos

1 day ago

I see. Cradle is for sure more powerful than a Command Tower.

One additional note: Ancient Greenwarden is a bit tricky with bounce lands, though, as it makes you bounce two lands instead. Might get you locked sometimes.

Starsky2814 on Omnath, A Song of Creation and Chaos

1 day ago

Normally I would add Command Tower, but I didn’t feel it was necessary when the goal is to abuse fetch lands and needing plenty of lands that can be fetched with them. What little room left was for Gaea's Cradle and bounce lands to abuse landfall triggers.

unwucht on Omnath, A Song of Creation and Chaos

1 day ago

I see. Btw, this is one of the first four coloured EDH decks I see without a Command Tower in it ;)

Feiryn on Here there be DRAGONS!

1 day ago

Assuming you still would like help, here are my thoughts just going off what you already have (so your mainboard and sideboard).

First of all your land situation needs to be sorted out. You have an insanely high average cmc (4.74) so you're going to be looking at about 40 lands without the very pricy ramp cards. 30 lands is in the range that decks with an average of about 2cmc or lower run. Here's a quickly made list of your lands that I'd use:

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• Bloodstained Mire
• Canopy Vista
• Cavern of Souls
• Cinder Glade
• Command Tower
• Dragonskull Summit
• Drowned Catacomb
• Exotic Orchard
• Fabled Passage
• Flooded Strand
• Godless Shrine
• Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• Indatha Triome
• Ketria Triome
• Path of Ancestry
• Prairie Stream
• Reflecting Pool
• Sacred Foundry
• Savai Triome
• Scalding Tarn
• Smoldering Marsh
• Sunken Hollow
• Sunpetal Grove
• Unclaimed Territory
• Watery Grave
• Wooded Foothills
• Woodland Cemetery
• Zagoth Triome
• 1x Island
• 1x Plains
• 1x Swamp
• 3x Forest
• 6x Mountain

You almost always want to prioritise lands that can come in untapped over ones that always enter tapped. This is because auto-tapped lands basically set you back a turn, so it's often better to just run a basic over something like Sheltered Thicket. The exception here goes to the Triomes because they offer three colours and more importantly can be picked up by your fetchlands.

As for the rest of your cards, here's what I recommend cutting:

• Aether Vial
• Coat of Arms
• Crucible of Fire
• Deathbringer Regent
• Kilnmouth Dragon
• Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• Nicol Bolas
• Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• Ojutai, Soul of Winter
• Ryusei, the Falling Star
• Scapeshift
• Shared Animosity
• Supreme Verdict
• Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• Utter End

And add in their places, assuming you're running 40 lands:

• Bladewing the Risen
• Dromoka, the Eternal
• Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
• Rampant Growth
• Sol Ring

Hopefully that helps, and let me know if you have any questions! These are just suggestions after a brief runthrough of course, so feel free to take them or leave them!

multimedia on Welcome to Gishathic Park

1 day ago

Hey, nice Scroll Rack Invention :)

Some budget cards to consider adding:

• Sol Ring
• Command Tower
• Congregation at Dawn
• Forerunner of the Empire
• Quartzwood Crasher
• Ripjaw Raptor
• Garruk's Uprising
• Rhythm of the Wild
• Elemental Bond
• Orcish Lumberjack
• Faeburrow Elder
• Farseek
• Canopy Vista
• Cinder Glade
• Exotic Orchard
• Naya Panorama

Sol Ring and Command Tower are some staple budget cards in Commander. At TCGPlayer you can find Sol for less than $3 and Tower for less than $1. Congregation at Dawn is a good budget creature tutor with Gishath. Cast it the same turn you want play Gishath or the turn before to tutor for and arrange the top of your library with any three Dinos to cheat onto the battlefield. Forerunner of the Empire is a Dino tutor (puts the Dino on top of your library) and a repeatable enrage enabler when a Dino you control ETB.

Quartzwood Crasher is one of the better budget Dinos since it can be a repeatable source of Dino tokens since many other Dinos have trample especially with Ghalta. Crasher combines well with Garruk's Uprising which can be a repeatable draw source and can give all creatures you control trample. Ripjaw Raptor has a powerful enrage ability to draw a card when it takes damage. Rhythm of the Wild makes all creatures you cast uncounterable and it gives nontoken creatures when they ETB the option of haste or make it bigger with a +1/+1 counter.

With Orcish Lumberjack sacing a Forest you control can make four mana since you can tap the Forest for mana before you sac it which can be a quick way to ramp into Gishath or other Dinos. Farseek is two drop land ramp that can search for a dual land such as Stomping Ground, Canopy Vista, Cinder Glade. At TCGPlayer can get Vista and Glade for less than $2 each.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Timber Gorge
• Tranquil Expanse
• Gruul Guildgate
• Selesnya Guildgate
• Blossoming Sands
• Nissa's Pilgrimage
• Font of Fertility
• Hunt the Weak
• Pounce
• Insult / Injury
• Gruul Keyrune
• Burnished Hart
• Ravenous Daggertooth
• Raging Regisaur
• Radiant Destiny
• Overgrown Armasaur
• Kinjalli's Caller
• Zhur-Taa Druid

Good luck with your deck.

DragonSliver9001 on Here there be DRAGONS!

4 days ago

Aether Vial isn't mana ramp, nor do you want to rely on it for big dragons. Gauntlet of Power costs too much mana to be good ramp (you want to stick to cmc 3 or less) plus it doesn't color fix, and only works with basics (which you don't have much room for in a 5c deck). imo, Mox Amber is also too slow when all your legendaries are 5+ mana. it won't be able to produce mana until after you've already reached a point where you can cast your dragons anyway. you want stuff like Arcane Signet and Darksteel Ingot, as well as Farseek which can grab dual lands.

as for lands, a 5c mana base is easy if your group allows proxies. 1 of each fetch land, original duals, and shock lands gives you 30 lands. the rest you can fill out with rainbow lands like Command Tower, and Cavern of Souls. stay away from lands that enter tapped.

SynergyBuild on A New Way To Play …

1 week ago

I assume that doesn't include the lands like the dual flip ones from ZNR because their faces are non land, but I do want to ask, as well how does Arcane Signet/Command Tower interact. I assume they tap for the commander's color identity, not the flipped one for the deck?

SynergyBuild on A New Way To Play …

1 week ago

So can I ever cast my commander, and how are cards like Command Tower affected, you said I have to run cards outside my commander's identity, so is it the identity is flipped, letting my command tower tap for the colors of my deck, or of my commander, and do I need "any color" mana sources to ever cast my commander?