The Commander
Guide
Gameplan
Flood the board with Dwarves, tap them en masse (via convoke, attacking, or tap effects) to generate piles of Treasure, then convert five Treasures into game-ending artifacts or Dragons fetched straight onto the battlefield. You ramp explosively while assembling a tutor-to-battlefield engine in mono-red.
Strengths
- Repeatable artifact/Dragon tutor that cheats mana costs entirely
- Explosive Treasure-based ramp and color fixing in mono-red
- Low 2-mana commander that comes down early and snowballs
- Tribal anthem makes Dwarf tokens and bodies relevant
Weaknesses
- Heavily reliant on Magda staying on the board; removal stalls the engine
- Mono-red lacks strong interaction and card-draw outside artifacts
- Needs critical mass of Dwarves before the Treasure engine comes online
- Vulnerable to board wipes and graveyard/artifact hate
Key Cards
- Clock of Omens — Tap two artifacts to untap Magda, enabling repeatable tap loops for infinite Treasures with the right Dwarves.
- Reckless Fireweaver — Turns the torrent of Treasure tokens into direct damage, a common combo finisher.
- Dwarven Recruiter — Stacks your library with every Dwarf for explosive board-building turns.
- Maskwood Nexus — Makes all your creatures and tokens Dwarves, supercharging Magda's tap trigger and anthem.
- Goldspan Dragon — A premier tutor target that doubles Treasure value and provides a fast clock.
- Battle Hymn — Untaps nothing but pairs with mass tapping to convert your Dwarf army into huge Treasure/mana bursts.
Upgrade Path
Add dedicated untap enablers (Clock of Omens, Voltaic Key, Manifold Key, Sword of the Animist) to assemble infinite-Treasure combos, and lean on fast mana like Mana Crypt, Jeska's Will, and Sol Ring. Curate tutor targets so every fetch wins or stops the table—Blightsteel Colossus, Bolas's Citadel, and big Dragons—and include protection such as Heroic Intervention to shield Magda from removal.
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
- ▸Tutor Dragons like Goldspan, Terror of the Peaks, or big haymaker artifacts to overwhelm the board
- ▸Infinite Treasure loops drained into Reckless Fireweaver or Marionette Master for direct damage
- ▸Wide Dwarf swarm buffed by Magda's anthem plus extra-combat or haste effects
Archetypes
- Combo — Untap loops with Clock of Omens or Liquimetal/Voltaic Key style enablers generate infinite Treasures to tutor your whole artifact suite.
- Tribal Aggro — Magda's anthem and cheap Dwarves let you go wide and beat down while taxing the table for Treasure.
- Artifact Ramp — Treasures fuel fast mana and cheat expensive artifacts and Dragons onto the battlefield ahead of curve.
Combos
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw + Clock of Omens + Liquimetal Torque
→ Infinite tapped Treasure tokens, Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw + Clock of Omens + Universal Automaton
→ Infinite tapped Treasure tokens, Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw + Clock of Omens + Metallic Mimic
→ Infinite tapped Treasure tokens, Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw + Clock of Omens + Adaptive Automaton
→ Infinite tapped Treasure tokens, Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw + Clock of Omens + Roaming Throne
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite Treasure tokens, Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (R), by popularity.
