The Commander
Flying
Whenever Crosis deals combat damage to a player, you may pay 
. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.
Guide
Gameplan
Crosis is a 6-mana 6/6 flyer that wants to connect with players and strip their hands of an entire color each hit. You play a Grixis control/midrange game—remove threats, protect Crosis, and use evasion plus combat triggers to grind opponents into topdeck mode. Win by attrition, big flyers, or a Grixis combo/control finish once everyone is hellbent.
Strengths
- Repeatable, color-targeted hand disruption that wrecks combo and control opponents
- Grixis access to the best removal, counterspells, and card advantage in the format
- Evasive 6/6 body that pressures life totals while it disrupts
- Flexible enough to lean control, voltron, or combo
Weaknesses
- Six mana and dies to any spot removal, losing its whole engine
- The discard trigger costs an extra , slowing your tempo
- Discard does nothing against an empty hand or topdeck-heavy decks
- No built-in card advantage or evasion-stacking; needs support to be more than a beater
Key Cards
- Rogue's Passage — Guarantees Crosis connects through blockers to fire its discard trigger.
- Whispersilk Cloak — Grants unblockable and shroud, making Crosis a reliable, protected attacker.
- Sword of Feast and Famine — Adds protection, untaps your lands for the discard tax, and forces extra discard on hit.
- Notion Thief — Turns opponents' draws into your card advantage, pairing brutally with hand attack.
- Cyclonic Rift — Premier Grixis reset to clear blockers and protect your board state.
- Vampiric Tutor — Finds protection, removal, or a wincon to stabilize the grindy gameplan.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Mana Crystal, Arcane Signet, Sol Ring) and reanimation (Reanimate, Animate Dead) to deploy Crosis early. Lean into evasion/protection (Lightning Greaves, Sword of Hearth and Home) so the discard trigger fires consistently, and consider stax pieces like Bottomless Pit to multiply the hand denial. For higher power, include a compact combo (Notion Thief + Windfall, or a Grixis storm/Oracle package) so the disruption buys time for a deterministic kill.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Commander damage and evasive beatdown through Rogue's Passage or unblockable equipment
- ▸Grinding all opponents to hellbent then closing with big flyers or value creatures
- ▸A Grixis combo finish (e.g., Notion Thief + wheel, or Thassa's Oracle line) protected by counters
- ▸Mass discard plus stax locks that suffocate the table out of resources
Archetypes
- Control — Grixis removal, counters, and Crosis's recurring discard let you dismantle every opponent's plan.
- Voltron — Evasion and protection equipment turn the 6/6 flyer into a disruptive beatdown threat.
- Stax — Pairing hand attack with resource denial like Smokestack and Bottomless Pit keeps opponents hellbent.
- Reanimator — Cheating Crosis and other Grixis dragons into play sidesteps its high cost.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BRU), by popularity.
