BorosLegendary Creature — Elephant ClericQuintorius, Loremaster
Mana value5Rank#9,414
The Commander
At the beginning of your end step, exile target noncreature, nonland card from your graveyard. Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
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, Sacrifice a Spirit: Choose target card exiled with Quintorius. You may cast that card this turn without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.
Guide
Gameplan
Quintorius turns your graveyard into a token engine: each end step you exile an instant, sorcery, artifact, or enchantment to make a 3/2 Spirit, then later sacrifice those Spirits to recast the exiled cards for free. You grind value off spells and tokens, building a wide board while reusing your best noncreature cards, and close by going wide or chaining free big spells.
Strengths
- Generates a 3/2 every turn for free, building a board with no mana investment
- Recurs powerful instants/sorceries/artifacts for free via the sacrifice ability
- Vigilance lets it attack and still block, surviving better than fragile value commanders
- Loves self-mill and discard, turning graveyard filler into bodies and value
- Synergizes with token payoffs and aristocrats sac outlets
Weaknesses
- Both abilities are slow and need setup; little immediate impact the turn he lands
- Free-cast ability is mana- and tap-gated, only one cast per activation
- Relies on having noncreature cards in the graveyard to make tokens
- Board wipes erase your Spirit army and reset the engine
- No card advantage or protection built in; vulnerable to removal and counters
Key Cards
- Faithless Looting — Fills the graveyard with noncreature cards for Quintorius to exile and recur.
- Underworld Breach — Doubles as a graveyard recursion engine that pairs with exiling cards for value.
- Anje's Ravager — Aggressive engine that loots noncreatures into your graveyard to feed end-step Spirits.
- Impact Tremors — Each Spirit token deals damage, turning the token engine into a clock.
- Purphoros, God of the Forge — Every Spirit pings all opponents, converting tokens directly into a win condition.
- Dockside Extortionist — A high-value spell worth exiling and recasting for free off the activated ability.
Upgrade Path
Add efficient graveyard fillers (Faithless Looting, Cathartic Reunion, Wild-Magic Sorcerer) and self-mill so the engine never misses. Lean into token payoffs like Purphoros, Impact Tremors, and Anointed Procession, plus sacrifice outlets to fuel the free-cast ability proactively. For higher power, include cheap protection (Deflecting Swat, Heroic Intervention) and explosive recastable spells to abuse the no-mana-cost ability.
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
Archetypes
- Spellslinger Value — Recasting exiled instants and sorceries for free generates repeatable spell advantage.
- Tokens — The free 3/2 Spirit each turn anchors a go-wide token strategy with anthems and payoffs.
- Aristocrats — Sacrifice outlets and the built-in Spirit sac ability turn tokens into damage and value.
- Reanimator/Graveyard Value — Self-mill loads the yard so Quintorius can convert it into bodies and free casts.
Combos
- Pull from Eternity + Quintorius, Loremaster + Teferi's Protection + Isochron Scepter
→ Permanents you control phase out during your opponents' turns, Your life total can't change during your opponents' turns, You have protection from everything during your opponents' turns
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
