The Commander
Flying, trample, haste
If Darigaaz would die, instead exile it with three egg counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled with an egg counter on it, remove an egg counter from it. Then if this card has no egg counters on it, return it to the battlefield.
Guide
Gameplan
Slam a 7/7 flying, trample, haste beater that swings for huge chunks immediately and shrugs off removal by exiling itself and hatching back in a few turns. Build around aggressive Jund midrange, ramping into Darigaaz early and backing it with sacrifice value, recursion, and reanimation to keep pressure relentless. You grind opponents down with repeated commander damage and resilient threats.
Strengths
- Extremely hard to permanently remove—dies into an egg and returns on its own
- Comes down swinging thanks to haste, trample, and flying for fast clocks
- Three-color Jund access to ramp, removal, recursion, and card advantage
- Functions as a beater that demands answers every single turn
Weaknesses
- Exile-based removal and tuck effects shut down the recursion entirely
- Egg phase leaves you without your commander for multiple turns
- 21 commander damage requires three connects—midrange speed against fast combo
- Color-intensive seven-drop is clunky without ramp
Key Cards
- Cultivate — Cheap ramp and fixing to power out a three-color seven-drop ahead of schedule.
- Cabal Coffers — Generates explosive black mana to recast and recur Darigaaz repeatedly.
- Skullclamp — Turns your sacrifice and token bodies into a steady stream of cards in Jund.
- Dockside Extortionist — Burst ramp that helps you recast Darigaaz the moment he's exiled.
- Sneak Attack — Cheats Darigaaz and other fatties in for surprise haste attacks.
- Goldspan Dragon — Adds a fast, evasive threat and mana acceleration that fits the Dragon theme.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Jeweled Lotus) and strong ramp to deploy Darigaaz on turn three or four, then layer in cheat-into-play effects like Sneak Attack and Through the Breach. Tighten removal with efficient interaction (Assassin's Trophy, Deadly Rollick) and add resilient card advantage like Tireless Tracker and Phyrexian Arena to out-grind opponents.
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 commander damage from a recurring 7/7 flyer
- ▸Beating down with a wide Jund board of fatties and tokens
- ▸Reanimating or cheating out a critical mass of large evasive threats
- ▸Closing with burn/finisher dragons like Goldspan or a haymaker spell
Archetypes
- Jund Midrange — Darigaaz is a resilient evasive beater backed by Jund's removal, ramp, and grind.
- Voltron — Flying trample haste plus equipment closes games fast with commander damage.
- Reanimator — His self-exile synergizes with a deck full of big bodies you cheat back repeatedly.
- Aristocrats — Sacrifice outlets give value when Darigaaz dies and fuel a token engine.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BGR), by popularity.
