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Top 19 Strongest Mono-White Commanders in Magic: The Gathering
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It is for this reason that many often disregard Mono-White decks as being one of the weakest options in the format. However, there is still a great deal that White is able to do effectively, and it has numerous means of holding its own with the best of commanders.
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So here today, we're going to embrace the commander underdog and count down the top Mono-White Commanders in . Updated August 29th, 2022 by Paul DiSalvo: While White has long been viewed as the weakest color within the Commander format, over the past few years, an obvious effort has been made to help the color in areas important within the format.
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While the printings of cards such as Archaeomancer's Map and Smothering Tithe have provided white with powerful options in the Commander format, helping white catch up to the other colors, Wizards has put the pedal to the metal with additional great white cards. In just the past year, we've seen the printings of several great white all-stars from Archivist of Oghma to Smuggler's Share. White has also received many great new commander options recently, allowing for unique and distinct decks that each bring a different element of White to the table.
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Hokori Dust Drinker
Though not the most enjoyable of strategies to play against, White is one of the colors with the strongest capabilities to restrict what players are capable of doing throughout a game of Commander, and this is truly exemplified by Hokori Dust Drinker. Preventing players from untapping more than one land per turn, Hokori brings most decks to a screeching halt, as it hinders the use of each player's primary resource.
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However, as the player bringing Hokori to the party, you're able to plan accordingly, filling your deck with alternative means of creating mana, namely in the form of artifacts.
Abdel Adrian Gorion' s Ward
Among the most underrated white commanders in Magic, Abdel Adrian Gorion' s Ward was printed in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate and can be played alongside a Background. Regardless of which background is paired with Abdel Adrian, it's a great option for a white Flicker commander, capable of generating a sizable number of tokens.
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Upon entering the battlefield, this commander lets you exile any number of nonland permanents you control until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield, creating a 1/1 Soldier for each permanent exiled this way. This means that if you can reliably flicker this commander, you can quickly amass a frankly enormous number of soldier tokens you can use to overwhelm your opponents.
Odric Lunarch Marshal
Many classic white strategies such as "white weenie" often utilize low costed creatures that have above-average stats as well as relevant keywords.
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If one were seeking to build such a deck for the commander format, Odric Lunarch Marshal would likely be your best option for a commander. Brandishing an ability that effectively provides each creature you control access to all keywords currently on any creatures you control, Odric bolsters the utility and power of your previously less useful creatures by sharing their abilities with the rest of your board.
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Odric decks often appear underwhelming on the surface, but quickly become visible threats once players realize that your entire board is now toting double strike, flying, and lifelink.
Eight-And-A-Half-Tails
Some of the strongest commanders in the format are those who are able to wield versatility and adapt to numerous situations.
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Thus is the case with Eight-and-a-Half-Tails. Able to provide protection from white to permanents as well as change the color of spells and permanents, this commander is capable of using its abilities in both offensive and defensive manners. One can make creatures effectively unblockable by supplying protection and altering colors, and opponents' removal can be made useless in the same way.
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Isamaru Hound Of Konda
Few Voltron decks are able to maintain the consistency of a deck like Isamaru, Hound of Konda. Though, at first glance, the hound's lack of abilities may paint it as an underwhelming commander, its converted mana cost of one allows for Isamaru to be played on the first turn of nearly every game. This immediate access to your commander and Voltron strategy often presents an uphill battle for your opponents from the very beginning of a game.
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Adeline Resplendent Cathar
Printed in Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, Adeline Resplendent Cathar is an excellent option for a mono-white token commander. Reasonably-costed at three mana, Adeline is a human knight with vigilance and power equal to the number of creatures under its owner's control. Luckily, Adeline can create sizable board states in multilayer games rather quickly, as whenever its controller attacks, they create a 1/1 Human token tapped and attacking for each opponent.
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Sephara Sky' s Blade
One of the strongest things that you can do in commander is to mitigate mana cost in meaningful ways. Sephara Sky' s Blade is a creature who is able to reliably cut her own mana cost down to a single white mana, by simply controlling a substantial number of creatures with flying.
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Once you cast Sephara, she is able to further perpetuate a flying creature-based strategy by bestowing them with indestructible while also serving as a 7/7 with flying and lifelink whom you only paid one mana for. In addition to being economical, this provides a great form of protection to cards key to your flying-based strategy.
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Darien King Of Kjeldor
Darien, King of Kjeldor is an extremely interesting commander due to the fact that he contorts one of the primary goals of your strategy. It is often stated that "your life total is a resource," and Darien is a commander who truly embodies that statement. While many strategies opt to preserve one's life total, Darien provides a 1/1 Soldier token for every damage that you receive.
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This incentivizes you to deal damage to yourself, and even letting your opponents deal damage to you. Paired with cards like Soul Warden and Soul's Attendant, players can even immediately gain that lost life back and create an immense army of soldiers.
Balan Wandering Knight
As the color with the most direct interaction with , it's no shocker that White has access to some of the strongest Voltron commanders in the format.
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Unlike Isamaru, who is able to get out quick and attack early, Balan Wandering Knight has the ability to circumvent the equip costs, attaching all equipments you control to him. This allows you to save a great deal of mana, and get a ton of value out of cards like Colossus Hammer that possess a very low mana cost, but a very high equip cost.
Avacyn Angel Of Hope
Art by Jason Chan with background art by Greg Staples There are some cards in Magic whose straightforward nature and raw power require little explanation.
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This is epitomized in Avacyn, Angel of Hope, who bestows every permanent you control with Indestructible, making them very hard for your opponents to deal with. Avacyn is one of the most potent Angelsin all of Magic, and it isn't hard to see why. When using Avacyn, nearly every board wipe becomes a one-sided affair, and quickly tilts the nature of the game into your favor.
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Just be conscious of her very high mana cost, as you won't be able to get her onto the battlefield as quickly as many other commanders.
Rick Steadfast Leader
Printed as part of Secret Lair: The Walking Dead, Rick Steadfast Leader is a stellar option for those looking to play mono-white Human tribal.
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A 3/4 for four mana, upon entering the battlefield, Rick's controller chooses two abilities from among first strike, vigilance, and lifelink, providing all humans under its owner's control with the chosen abilities. While this can flexibly provide the most suitable abilities you may need in different situations, Rick also provide all other humans with +2/+2, guaranteeing they'll be dealing substantial damage.
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Heliod Sun-Crowned
Background art by Caio Monteiro The second iteration of the mono-white God of Theros, Heliod Sun-Crowned is a perfect fit if you're looking to build a white life-gain deck. An indestructible 5/5 enchantment creature that only counts as a creature when its controller has enough devotion to white, Heliod is incredibly difficult to remove. In addition to being able to give a creature lifelink until the end of the turn for two mana, whenever Heliod's controller gains life, they can put a +1/+1 counter on a creature or enchantment, allowing a player to buff any of their creatures, including Heliod itself.
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God-Eternal Oketra
A recurring theme among the strongest commanders in Magic is their ability to create massive amounts of extra value and accelerating your strategy. Pair this idea with White's ability to create tokens and hard to remove body, and you have God-Eternal Oketra.
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Possessing a triggered ability that creates a 4/4 token with vigilance for simply casting a creature spell, God-Eternal Oketra allows you to quickly create a massive and bulky army of tokens that can be used for both offense and defense. Paired with creatures such as Whitemane Lion and Kor Skyfisher that are both capable of bouncing themselves to your hand, Oketra is capable of setting up reliable engines of token generation.
Bennie Bracks Zoologist
When it comes to mono-white token commanders, Bennie Bracks Zoologist is simultaneously among the most powerful and the most innocuous.
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For four mana, this Elf Druid states that at the end of each turn, you can draw a card if you created a token this turn. If you're capable of reliably creating tokens at instant speed, this can allow you to draw several additional cards per turn rotation, an excellent boon for a color not well known for card draw. Furthermore, as this commander has covoke, you may tap creatures in order to help pay for its mana cost, meaning that early and late into a game alike, Bennie Bracks can be played for a negligible amount of mana, if not for free!
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Oswald Fiddlebender
While there are several amazing options for artifact-based commanders, Oswald Fiddlebender makes a great case for choosing to make a mono-white artifact deck. A 2/2 Gnome Artificer for only two mana, Oswald has an activated ability that can be used for a single mana, allowing it to sacrifice an artifact under its owner's control.
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if they do, they can search their library for an artifact with a mana value equal to one plus the mana value of the sacrificed artifact, putting that card directly into play. This allows Oswald to offer an effect comparable to that of Birthing Pod or Prime Speaker Vannifar, though for artifacts rather than creatures.
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Mangara The Diplomat
For four mana, Mangara, the Diplomat is a mono-white commander that excels in an area White traditionally struggles: card draw. A 2/4 with lifelink, whenever an opponent attacks Mangara's controller with two or more creatures or whenever an opponent casts their second spell of a turn, Mangara's controller draws a card.
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This means that Mangara can frequently draw its controller several additional cards per turn rotation as opponents will regularly cast more than one spell per turn, with Mangara even functioning as an attack deterrent.
Giada Font of Hope
Printed in New Capenna, Giada Font of Hope is a stellar, efficiently costed commander that serves as the premier option for those looking to play an Angel tribal deck. For the low cost of two mana, this flying and vigilant 2/2 can be tapped to produce one white mana, though this mana may only be used to cast angel spells.
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Despite this restriction, this is reliable white mana ramp that conveniently lives in your Command Zone. While mana ramp is nice, the offensive benefit that Giada offers is even more powerful, as whenever another Angel enters the battlefield under your control, it enters with a +1/+1 counter for each other Angel you control. This means the more Angels you cast, they progressively grow more and more devastating, potentially dealing serious damage to opponents unable to block your evasive force.
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Sram Senior Edificer
One of White's biggest weaknesses in Commander is its lack of means of creating reliable card draw and card advantage. For only two mana, Sram Senior Edificer throws that problem out the window.
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Sram only comes with one ability but said ability could not be more relevant. "Whenever you cast an Aura, Equipment, or Vehicle spell, draw a card." If you've built your Sram deck correctly, this effectively means that the majority of cards in your deck will immediately draw you additional options and answers upon being played, making the deck extremely resourceful and costantly capable of casting additional spells.
Light-Paws Emperor' s Voice
For those looking to build a mono-white Aura deck, it's hard to argue with the choice of Light-Paws Emperor' s Voice.
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An excellent two-mana commander, this 2/2 Fox Advisor states that whenever you cast an Aura, you can tutor for an aura with a lesser to equal mana cost and put that card directly onto the battlefield attached to Light-Paws. Not only does this double the value of every single Aura in your deck, but it also provides a significant layer of consistency, as you can reliably tutor for the most integral Auras in your deck each game, all while subverting their mana costs.
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