The Commander
Flying
Whenever Blim deals combat damage to a player, that player gains control of target permanent you control. Then each player loses life and discards cards equal to the number of permanents they control but don't own.
Guide
Gameplan
Connect with Blim's evil flying body, then donate your nastiest permanents to opponents so the second ability forces them to bleed life and discard for every permanent they control but don't own. You stockpile cursed and downside permanents (or Illusions of Grandeur–style enchantments), shove them onto the table in front of opponents, and turn donation into a recurring life-loss and hand-shredding engine that closes games fast.
Strengths
- Turns traditionally bad cards (cumulative upkeep enchantments, downside permanents) into lethal weapons
- Each connect punishes the whole table, not just the player hit, via the discard/life-loss clause
- Politically flexible — you choose who gets the gift and who suffers
- Cheap four-mana flyer that pressures opponents and recovers quickly after removal
Weaknesses
- Relies on combat damage from a fragile 3-mana-tier body that dies to most removal
- Donation effects clog your deck with cards that are weak when Blim isn't out
- Hexproof/protection and fog effects shut the combat trigger down entirely
- Opponents can give permanents back or remove them before the counting clause resolves
- Telegraphed strategy invites preemptive removal and political ganging-up
Key Cards
- Harmless Offering — Hands an opponent a giant permanent count, then Blim's trigger punishes everyone for what they don't own.
- Bazaar Trader — Repeatable donation engine to stack permanents onto opponents before swinging.
- Akroan Horse — A token-spewing artifact you donate so the controller piles up permanents they don't own.
- Grave Pact — You keep ownership while opponents bleed, and donating sacrifice payoffs amplifies the chaos.
- Rogue's Passage — Guarantees Blim connects to fire the donation-and-discard trigger.
- Sun Titan — Recurs cheap donatable permanents and removed pieces to rebuild the engine.
Upgrade Path
Add more reliable donation enablers (Harmless Offering, Bazaar Trader, Puca's Mischief) and a critical mass of high-permanent-count gifts like token engines and Akroan Horse to maximize the counting clause. Improve evasion and protection for Blim — Whispersilk Cloak, Rogue's Passage, Lightning Greaves — and include recursion (Sun Titan, Feldon) so the engine survives removal. Push toward a combo finish by donating Illusions of Grandeur or pairing repeatable damage doublers with the drain trigger for one-shot kills.
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
- ▸Repeated Blim damage triggers draining the table for life equal to donated permanent counts
- ▸Donating Illusions of Grandeur / Phyrexian Unlife–style enchantments combined with theft to swing life totals
- ▸Grinding opponents to empty hands via mass discard, then closing with evasive beaters
- ▸Aristocrats payoffs (Grave Pact, Blood Artist) draining the table while donations clog opponents
Archetypes
- Group Slug / Donate — Blim weaponizes giving permanents away, turning donation into table-wide life loss and discard.
- Politics / Chaos — You decide who receives gifts and who eats the punishment, brokering deals and threats.
- Aristocrats — Donating sacrifice-fodder and Grave Pact–style effects compounds opponents' losses.
- Voltron-lite — Evasion enablers and combat pumps make Blim's connect reliable and recurring.
Combos
- Demonic Pact + Blim, Comedic Genius
→ Target opponent loses the game at the beginning of their next upkeep
- Archfiend of the Dross + Heartless Act + Blim, Comedic Genius
→ Target opponent loses the game at the beginning of their next upkeep
- Blim, Comedic Genius + Vilis, Broker of Blood + Underworld Dreams
→ Infinite card draw for target opponent, Infinite draw triggers for target opponent, Near-infinite damage to one opponent
- Blim, Comedic Genius + Vilis, Broker of Blood + Kederekt Parasite
→ Infinite card draw for target opponent, Infinite draw triggers for target opponent, Near-infinite damage to one opponent
- Blim, Comedic Genius + Vilis, Broker of Blood + Fate Unraveler
→ Infinite card draw for target opponent, Infinite draw triggers for target opponent, Near-infinite damage to one opponent
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BR), by popularity.
