Five-ColorLegendary Creature — God // Legendary EnchantmentEsika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
Mana value3Rank#2,495
The Commander
: Add one mana of any color.
Other legendary creatures you control have vigilance and ": Add one mana of any color."
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature or planeswalker card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Guide
Gameplan
Cast The Prismatic Bridge side and use its upkeep trigger to cheat huge creatures and planeswalkers onto the battlefield for free, snowballing into an overwhelming board. Alternatively, cast Esika to enable a five-color legendary tribal ramp deck that turns every legend into a mana dork. Either way you assemble a critical mass of powerful bodies faster than fair decks can keep up.
Strengths
- Free top-deck cheats out a creature or planeswalker every single upkeep, generating relentless card and tempo advantage
- Full WUBRG identity means access to the best removal, ramp, tutors, and bombs in the format
- Esika's mana ability turns legendary creatures into rainbow mana sources, fixing and accelerating any plan
- Two strong modes on one card give flexibility and resilience to the command zone
Weaknesses
- The Prismatic Bridge whiffs on lands or can hit weak hits if your creature/planeswalker count is low
- Vulnerable to enchantment removal and board wipes that undo the value engine in one card
- Bridge costs five mana and does nothing the turn it lands, so it's slow against fast combo
- Stacking legends with Esika invites Pithing Needle and graveyard/removal hate
Key Cards
- Jodah, the Unifier — Synergizes with the legendary theme and pumps your wide board of legends.
- Tooth and Nail — Entwined, it tutors and puts two game-ending creatures directly onto the battlefield.
- Atraxa, Praetors' Voice — A flagship Bridge hit that immediately stabilizes and grinds out value.
- Cultivate — Cheap ramp and fixing that powers out the five-mana Bridge ahead of schedule.
- Eldrazi titans like Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger — Massive payoffs the Bridge can cheat in for free, even with no cast trigger.
Upgrade Path
Add fast ramp (Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, mana dorks) and tutors (Demonic Tutor, Eladamri's Call) to deploy the Bridge on turn three or four. Optimize your nonland top-deck density so the Bridge never whiffs, leaning on a high count of impactful creatures and planeswalkers over situational spells. For a higher-power finish, include Tooth and Nail combo packages and protection like Heroic Intervention and counterspells to defend your engine.
Core Cards
- Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist
- Urza's Ruinous Blast
- Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame
- Rhys the Redeemed
- Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel
- Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun
- Mila, Crafty Companion // Lukka, Wayward Bonder
- Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition
- Time Wipe
- Sphinx of the Second Sun
- Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins
- Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
Seeded from a single deck — rates appear once more public decks exist.
Win Conditions
- ▸Overwhelming the board with free fatties cheated in by the Bridge and swinging for lethal
- ▸Cheating in Eldrazi titans or other haymakers to dominate the game
- ▸Tooth and Nail combos like Mikaeus + Triskelion or other two-card kills
- ▸Grinding incremental value with planeswalker ultimates and stacked legends
Archetypes
- Cheat-into-play / Reanimator-style — The Prismatic Bridge puts your biggest creatures and planeswalkers onto the battlefield for free each turn.
- Five-Color Goodstuff — WUBRG identity lets you run the best bombs, removal, and ramp regardless of color.
- Legendary Tribal — Esika gives all your legends vigilance and rainbow mana, rewarding a critical mass of legendary creatures.
- Superfriends — The Bridge can hit and protect planeswalkers, building an oppressive control shell.
Combos
- Najeela, the Blade-Blossom + Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
→ Infinite combat phases, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB
- Aggravated Assault + Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
→ Infinite untap of creatures you control, Infinite mana creatures you control can produce, Infinite colored mana
- Sisay, Weatherlight Captain + Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge + Intruder Alarm
→ Put a selection of creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw + Freed from the Real + Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite Treasure tokens, Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld
- Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge + Emmara, Soul of the Accord + Intruder Alarm
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BGRUW), by popularity.
