Otule, Matriarch of Migration

Legendary Creature - Elephant Matriarch Avatar

When Otule, Matriarch of Migration enters the battlefield, search your library for a forest or plains card. Then if you control another elephant, put that land onto the battlefield. If not, put that card into your hand.

Elephants you control gain +X +X where X is the number of basic forests and plains you control. If X is 5 or more, other Elephants you control have Vigilance, Trample, and Ward .

Whenever one or more creatures attack you, you gain 2 life for each basic land you control.

5/5

"Mother, Shepherd, Leader of the Heard - Otule goes by many names known by many children. Generation after generation followed these paths, until Otule appeared again to lead them."

That was surprisingly fun. Elephants are insanely intelligent and have been observed to remember many branching migration routes, perform funeral rights, and more.

Create a martiarch card for another typal group that doesn't get a lot of love.

Issekai, Story's Thread

Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter Spirit

Flying, Ward

You may have Issekai, Story's Thread enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature, except it has "token copies of this creature are non legendary" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that is a copy of this creature."

0/0

I love clones, I love token copies, and I would absolutely use this card in a few different decks. Repeat!

Spektor, Master of Neutral Jing

Legendary Creature - Cat Beast Cleric

: The next time target spell or creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way, and target opponent loses that much life.

1/4

My cat Spektor is a master of redirecting damage, it's crazy to watch her basically professionally wrestle and always turn aside her brothers attacks. A card for her.

Make a colorshifted version of one of your favorite cards.

Krlk, Ever Reaching

Creature - Plant Elemental

Whenever you play a land and a creature on the same turn, you may pay . If you do, return Krlk, Ever Reaching from your graveyard to the battlefield, or from exile to your hand.

Whenever an opponent plays a land or a non token creature, put a +1 +1 counter on Krlk, Ever Reaching. If ~ has three or more counters, it gains trample.

3/2

"Perhaps the worst thing to come from the omenpaths is Krlk. We have incinerated, purified, necroticized, and dismantled this plant on a molecular level but it won't stop growing. Perhaps instead of tyrants and inter-planar colonists we should have been more concerned about invasive species..."

Cant kill the Kudzu bud. Make a card that supports Leyline creatures. (Leyline creatures are elementals, oozes, angels, shades, and weirds.) If you feel so inclined you can add another type to the Leyline list.

Naught But Wind

Enchantment

Whenever you exile one or more cards from your graveyard create a 1/1 elemental illusion token with flying and "Sacrifice this creature after it deals damage".

"A story hidden will always be more valuable than a story told."

I don't play much outside of EDH these days but I've seen some cool decks with Murktide Regent, so here ya go!

Make a card that synergizes around clones and token copies!

Tip of Tripnah

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equip

Whenever the equipped creature attacks, if it is not attacking a player, it gains unblockable and +2/+0 until end of turn.

: Sacrifice three permanents, exile equipped creature and all equpiment attached to it. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner’s control. If you do, return the other cards exiled this way to the battlefield under their owners’ control attached to that creature.

"It's easy to pass without trace when you don't leave any"

Create a card that creates some kind of enchantment token like food, clue, tresure, etc.

Imiz, Flamekin Sharpshooter

Legendary Creature - Elemental Warlock

Haste

Whenever a source you controls deals noncombat damage to a player, you may copy target instant or sorcery spell and choose new targets for the copy.

: Deal 1 damage to each opponent.

2/4

"Lorwyn was a little to sleepy for my tastes, but Thunder Junction will suit me just fine for now."

Create a card that make one kind of creature a sea monster in addition to its other types. (Sea Monster is Serpent, octopus, leviathan, kraken)

Ishpal, Friend to the Wilds

Legendary Creature - Merfolk Mutant Druid

Whenever a land is destroyed, create a 5/5 Green Wurm token with Trample.

: Destroy target nonbasic land. It's controller searches their library for a basic land card and puts it onto the battlefield tapped.

Sacrifice a land: Return target creature to it's owner's hand.

3/3

"The Gruul lack information and long term plans. I lack neither, and I will see the wilds return to Ravnica. One building at a time if I must."

Bant Wurm Tribal and Land Destruction! This guy actually came out more fun than expected. The idea is he was originally a high ranking member of the Simic, but they lost sight of their original goal: to balance nature and an ever growing city. Instead the Simic became weak and succumbed to outside pressure and instead began to experiment on themselves instead. Ishpal remembers when the Simic were founded, and he remembers why they were founded. He leaves the combine and begins to expand Selesnya's wild territory- but he's not stopping there.

Create a card that depicts goings on or key figures on one of your favorite planes (either of which can be made up, doesn't have to be canon)

Agar, the Ever Bountiful

Legendary Creature - Rabbit Wizard

Whenever you put a +1 +1 counter on a creature you control, target opponent draws a card.

Whenever an opponent draws a card, target creature you control with a counter on it gains your choice of hexproof or indestructible until end of turn.

If you would put a +1 +1 counter on a creature you control, you may put that counter on a creature an opponent controls instead.

Whenever you place a counter on a creature an opponent controls, draw two cards.

2/7

I am really sick of bant commanders only ever getting boring themes like group hug and +1 +1 counters (like in the bloomburrow deck unfortunately) SO design a new theme and commander for the bloomburrow bant deck

Crow_Umbra Literally just made my day, thank you for this. I realized that I was doing both of those, trying to make a deck work when I didn't love the play style and building for everyone else a bit too much. I love that we're always on the same wavelengths because Vraska was the most exciting commander I saw come out of thunder junction and it looks like a weird build opportunity, which I always love. Let me know when your deck is up!