
Mana Value
5
Popularity
#842
of 3,381 commanders · via EDHREC
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elemental
If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes black instead.
At the beginning of your first main phase, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card if it has three or more colored mana symbols in its mana cost. If you do, add three mana in any combination of its colors and put it into your hand. If you don't reveal it, put it into your hand.
4/4
Midrange · Steady · Minimal interaction · Wins by engines
Ramp decks are for players who want to spend the early game accelerating so later turns happen ahead of schedule. This strategy wants to build more mana than the table, using mana ramp EDH staples, extra land drops, dorks, and rocks, to win through earlier threats, large spells, or a resource lead opponents must answer. Ramp is different from Landfall because acceleration is the point, and different from Big Mana because it is the engine rather than the payoff. The best ramp commanders reward extra mana sources while still giving you something meaningful to cast.
Big Mana decks are for players who want the game to build toward casting one spell that changes every resource count at once. This strategy wants to accelerate beyond normal mana development, using land ramp, mana rocks, doublers, and big mana commanders, to win through X spells, huge spells EDH tables have to answer, or haymakers like Torment of Hailfire and Expropriate. In the Ramp, Landfall, and Big Mana overlap, Ramp is acceleration, Landfall turns land drops into triggers, and Big Mana is the payoff plan for spending all that mana. Unlike Storm, it usually casts fewer spells in a turn and asks each one to matter on resolution.
Landfall decks are for players who want every land drop to become a trigger, not just another mana source. This strategy wants to put lands onto the battlefield repeatedly, using fetch lands, extra land drops, land recursion, and landfall commanders, to win through tokens, counters, damage, cards, or other lands matter decks EDH payoffs. In the Ramp, Landfall, and Big Mana cluster, Ramp accelerates mana, Big Mana spends that mana on huge spells, and Landfall treats the land entering as the engine itself. The deck feels like turning the most reliable game action into a chain of visible rewards.
| # | Commander | Identity | Strategy | Price | Price Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Mill | $1.09 | ▲ 81.7% | ||
| 02 | Extra Combats | $0.51 | ▲ 6.3% | ||
| 03 | Treasure | $42.07 | ▼ 1.1% | ||
| 04 | Aristocrats | $4.76 | ▲ 6.2% | ||
| 05 | Lands Matter | $12.70 | ▼ 1.8% | ||
| 06 | Group Hug | $5.11 | ▲ 90.7% | ||
| 07 | Equipment | $8.19 | ▲ 247.0% | ||
| 08 | +1/+1 Counters | $3.93 | ▼ 3.9% |