The Commander
When Perrie enters, put a shield counter on target creature. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Whenever Perrie attacks, target creature you control gains trample and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of different kinds of counters among permanents you control.
Guide
Gameplan
Perrie is a Bant counters-matters deck that stacks as many different counter types as possible across your board, then turns one creature into a trampling beater with +X/+X equal to the number of distinct counter kinds you control. You ramp early, deploy proliferate and counter engines, and protect your team with shield counters while building toward a single lethal swing.
Strengths
- Counts every distinct counter type, so even one of each kind balloons X quickly
- Built-in protection: each cast/recast hands out a shield counter to dodge removal
- Bant gives access to the best ramp, card draw, and proliferate package
- Flexible attack trigger can target your hexproof voltron threat or a token swarm enabler
Weaknesses
- X scales by variety, not quantity, so a slow board start leaves Perrie a vanilla 4-drop
- Heavily reliant on permanents staying in play; board wipes reset your counter spread
- Attack trigger only buffs one creature, so wide go-wide builds need extra payoffs
- Wants many moving parts, making it vulnerable to stax and graveyard/permanent hate
Key Cards
- Doubling Season — Doubles counters placed, supercharging your distinct-counter engines and planeswalker loyalty.
- Hardened Scales — Cheap engine that adds extra +1/+1 counters and helps diversify your board's counter spread.
- Inspiring Call — Draws a card per creature with a +1/+1 counter and protects your team through a wipe.
- Evolution Sage — Proliferates on every land drop, adding more counters of each kind to grow X.
- Branching Evolution — Doubles +1/+1 counter placement, accelerating both board size and Perrie's pump.
- The Ozolith — Banks your counters across removal and lets you reload threats, keeping X high.
- Conclave Mentor — Adds counters and gains life while feeding the variety Perrie cares about.
Upgrade Path
Lean into doublers (Doubling Season, Branching Evolution, Hardened Scales) and consistent proliferate (Evolution Sage, Flux Channeler, Karn's Bastion) to inflate counter variety fast. Add protection and recursion like Heroic Intervention, Teferi's Protection, and The Ozolith so a wipe doesn't erase your engine. Tighten the mana with Bant duals, fast ramp (Sol Ring, signets, Three Visits), and a couple of evasive haymakers so Perrie's swing reliably ends games.
Core Cards
- Jenara, Asura of War
- Wingspan Mentor
- Planar Outburst
- Oblivion Stone
- Llanowar Reborn
- Rishkar's Expertise
- Ajani Unyielding
- Together Forever
- Park Heights Maverick
- Brokers Confluence
- Vorel of the Hull Clade
- Shield Broker
Seeded from a single deck — rates appear once more public decks exist.
Win Conditions
- ▸Connecting with a single trampling creature pumped to lethal by Perrie's attack trigger
- ▸Commander damage via a shield-protected voltron threat
- ▸Going wide with token and counter synergies, then overrunning with an anthem or overrun effect
- ▸Grinding incremental advantage with proliferate and superfriends until ultimates close the game
Archetypes
- Counters / +1/+1 Synergy — Perrie's pump scales with counter variety, rewarding a dense counters-matters shell.
- Voltron — Hand a single protected, shield-countered creature trample and a huge buff for one-shot kills.
- Superfriends — Planeswalkers add loyalty counters as another distinct kind to raise X while providing value.
- Proliferate Control — Proliferate engines diversify and multiply counters while keeping the board stable.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GUW), by popularity.
