The Commander
+1: Create a 3/3 Kavu creature token with trample that's all colors.
−3: Choose up to two target creatures. For each of them, put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of colors it is.
−6: Return target multicolored card from your graveyard to your hand. If that card was all colors, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens.
Jared Carthalion can be your commander.
Guide
Gameplan
Jared is a five-color planeswalker commander, so you build a WUBRG goodstuff/superfriends shell that protects him and abuses his abilities. Tick up for a steady stream of all-colors 3/3 tramplers, use -3 to grow your multicolored threats (especially WUBRG cards), and grind value with the -6 to recur your best gold spells. The deck wins by snowballing board presence and protecting a planeswalker you can ultimate or by leaning into a multicolor 'sliver/Voltron/superfriends' payoff.
Strengths
- Full five-color identity means access to the best removal, ramp, and tutors across all colors.
- Commander is a planeswalker that generates a token every turn with no mana cost, providing constant board presence even after being killed.
- All-colors Kavu tokens trigger 'multicolored matters' and 'all colors' payoffs while being immediately relevant 3/3 tramplers.
- -3 makes WUBRG and gold creatures absurdly large, enabling fast clocks and commander damage swings.
- Self-recurring engine: the -6 returns your bombs and refills your hand with card draw and Treasure.
Weaknesses
- As a planeswalker, Jared has no innate protection and dies to combat or burn before generating much value.
- Five-color manabases are greedy and need significant fixing to function on time.
- The token-making +1 only makes a single 3/3, so the board builds slowly against fast aggro.
- The deck can be unfocused 'goodstuff' without a tight wincon, leaving it to grind out long games.
- Heavily reliant on the commander for value, so repeated removal/exile leaves you light on engine.
Key Cards
- The World Tree — Fixes all five colors perfectly and can pump out Avatars to close games in a deck full of WUBRG permanents.
- Doubling Season — Doubles Jared's loyalty and his tokens, letting you ultimate immediately and flood the board.
- Esika's Chariot — Copies your all-colors Kavu tokens and crews itself, snowballing board presence around Jared.
- Niv-Mizzet Reborn — A gold-matters payoff that refills your hand and pairs with the multicolored shell.
- Cultivate — Cheap, reliable ramp and fixing that keeps a five-color manabase honest while you deploy Jared.
- Teferi's Protection — Shields Jared and your board from a wipe or alpha strike on the turn it matters most.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and premium fixing (Mana Crypt, Arcane Signet, fetch/dual lands, The World Tree) to deploy Jared on curve and protect him with instant-speed answers. Lean into proliferate (Flux Channeler, Tezzeret's Gambit) and Doubling Season effects to reach his ultimate faster, and tighten the win with a compact combo such as a five-color reanimator or Niv-Mizzet Reborn value engine. Trim vanilla goodstuff for protection spells like Teferi's Protection and Heroic Intervention so your planeswalker survives the turn cycle.
Core Cards
- Baleful Strix
- Crystal Quarry
- Mana Cannons
- Selvala, Explorer Returned
- Sunken Hollow
- Cinder Glade
- Cascading Cataracts
- Tiller Engine
- Painful Truths
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Time Wipe
- Path to the World Tree
Seeded from a single deck — rates appear once more public decks exist.
Win Conditions
- ▸Ultimate Jared (or proliferate to it) to recur bombs and grind opponents out with overwhelming value.
- ▸Go wide with all-colors Kavu tokens plus anthems and token doublers for a lethal alpha strike.
- ▸Pump a multicolored creature with -3 and swing for big trample/commander damage.
- ▸Assemble a five-color combo or bomb engine (e.g., Niv-Mizzet draw loops, Maelstrom Wanderer chains).
Archetypes
- Superfriends — Jared headlines a planeswalker-centric deck where proliferate, protection, and loyalty payoffs reinforce his abilities.
- Five-Color Goodstuff — His unrestricted color identity lets you run the strongest removal, ramp, and bombs from every color.
- Tokens/Go-Wide — His +1 makes all-colors Kavus each turn that synergize with anthems and token doublers.
- Multicolored Matters — All-colors tokens and -3 counters reward gold and WUBRG payoffs like Niv-Mizzet and Maelstrom Wanderer.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BGRUW), by popularity.
