SelesnyaLegendary Creature — Human RangerAragorn, Company Leader
Mana value3Rank#10,903
The Commander
Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Aragorn as your Ring-bearer, put your choice of a counter from among first strike, vigilance, deathtouch, and lifelink on Aragorn.
Whenever you put one or more counters on Aragorn, put one of each of those kinds of counters on up to one other target creature.
Guide
Gameplan
Aragorn turns the Ring temptation and any counter you place onto him into a board-wide buffing engine, copying keyword counters (and any other counters) onto a second creature each time. You curve out into proactive creatures, get tempted by the Ring early, then snowball with +1/+1 counters and counter-doublers to build a wide, evasive, keyword-stacked board that overruns the table.
Strengths
- Free recurring value: the Ring tempts you repeatedly, drip-feeding keyword counters every turn
- Second ability triggers on ANY counters, not just keyword ones, so +1/+1 counter synergies double up
- Cheap 3-mana body in GW lets you start the counter engine early and rebuild after wipes
- Grants relevant evasion/keywords (lifelink, deathtouch, vigilance, first strike) that fix attacking math
- Flexible host for counters, proliferate, and go-wide token strategies
Weaknesses
- The Ring temptation only adds keyword counters, not +1/+1 counters, so raw power needs outside sources
- Removal-heavy tables can blow up Aragorn and stall the engine
- Slower than dedicated combo decks; relies on connecting in combat
- Color identity lacks card draw and interaction depth of other shards
- Buffs are spread thin if you don't go wide or pick high-value targets
Key Cards
- The One Ring — Guarantees you keep getting tempted (and protects you) while drawing cards to fuel the board.
- Doubling Season — Doubles every counter Aragorn places, turning his ability into explosive board growth.
- Hardened Scales — Cheaply amplifies counters placed on Aragorn and the copied creature.
- Branching Evolution — Multiplies +1/+1 counters distributed through Aragorn's second trigger.
- Inkmoth Nexus — A counter-friendly target that converts your distributed +1/+1 counters into an infect/poison kill.
- Cathars' Crusade — Each token or creature entering pumps the team and feeds Aragorn's counter-copy engine.
- Skullclamp — Provides the card advantage GW counter decks badly need off small creatures.
Upgrade Path
Add counter multipliers (Doubling Season, Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution) and proliferate effects (Evolution Sage, Flux Channeler) to exponentially scale Aragorn's distribution. Improve consistency and protection with The One Ring, Heroic Intervention, and Swiftfoot Boots, then top off with finishers like Craterhoof Behemoth or Triumph of the Hordes for explosive close-outs. Tighten the curve with strong GW dorks and Skullclamp-fueled card advantage to keep the engine fed.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Overrun a wide, keyword-laden board with anthems or Craterhoof Behemoth
- ▸Voltron a single creature loaded with counters and evasion for commander damage
- ▸Poison/infect kill by routing +1/+1 counters onto Inkmoth Nexus or infect creatures
- ▸Grind out attrition with lifelink and deathtouch making profitable attacks every turn
Archetypes
- +1/+1 Counters — His second trigger copies any counter, so flooding him with +1/+1 counters duplicates them onto another creature.
- Tokens / Go-Wide — GW makes tokens easily and Aragorn hands out evasive keywords plus counters to scale the swarm.
- Voltron — Stack first strike, lifelink, deathtouch, vigilance, and +1/+1 counters onto one creature for a lethal threat.
- The Ring / Tempt Synergy — He uniquely rewards being tempted, leaning into Ring-tempting cards for repeatable value.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GW), by popularity.
