The Commander
You may choose not to untap Rubinia Soulsinger during your untap step.
: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Rubinia Soulsinger and Rubinia Soulsinger remains tapped.
Guide
Gameplan
Rubinia is a Bant control-stealer who taps to steal opponents' best creatures one at a time, accumulating an army while leaving your rivals defenseless. Early turns build mana and protection, then you tap Rubinia to grab a threat and keep her tapped to hold it. You leverage stolen creatures, blink/untap tricks, and sacrifice outlets to make the thefts permanent or repeatable, eventually overwhelming the table.
Strengths
- Repeatable, color-fixing-free creature theft that doubles as removal and ramp in one ability
- Bant gives access to the format's best protection, blink, and untap effects
- Stolen creatures can be sacrificed or blinked to keep them permanently
- Strong political tool—you can leverage threats against the biggest board
Weaknesses
- Theft ends the moment Rubinia dies, untaps, or leaves play, so she's a removal magnet
- Only one creature locked at a time unless you add untap/blink support
- Slow and durdly without protection; can fall behind fast combo/storm decks
- Boardwipes punish a deck built around borrowed creatures
Key Cards
- Thousand-Year Elixir — Untaps Rubinia so she can steal a second creature while keeping the first locked under her tap.
- Sword of Feast and Famine — Untaps her on combat damage and protects against the green/black removal that ends thefts.
- Sundial of the Infinite — Lets you end the turn to keep a stolen creature even after Rubinia untaps, or dodge 'until end of turn' losses.
- Conjurer's Closet — Blink a creature Rubinia stole to take permanent ownership while freeing her to grab another.
- Swiftfoot Boots — Hexproof and haste keep Rubinia alive so your borrowed army doesn't snap back to its owners.
- Goreclaw, Terror of Qinala — Caretaker-style untappers and cost reducers help, but Goreclaw-type payoffs let stolen fatties hit immediately—pair with sac/blink to keep them.
Upgrade Path
Add untap enablers (Thousand-Year Elixir, Seedborn Muse, Magewright's Stone) so Rubinia can steal every turn while holding prior targets, and sac/blink outlets (Ashnod's Altar, Conjurer's Closet, Felidar Guardian) to make thefts permanent. Prioritize protection—Swiftfoot Boots, Lightning Greaves, Heroic Intervention—since Rubinia is a removal magnet, and round out with broader theft like Bribery and Agent of Treachery. Push the curve down with fast mana (Sol Ring, signets) so you steal a threat by turn 5 and snowball from there.
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
- ▸Beat down with an army of stolen creatures plus your own board
- ▸Sacrifice borrowed threats to a Goblin Bombardment / Ashnod's Altar engine for value and reach
- ▸Steal key combo or finisher pieces to assemble your own kill
- ▸Grind opponents out of resources until your accumulated steals overwhelm the table
Archetypes
- Control — Rubinia neutralizes the strongest threat each turn while you grind out card and board advantage.
- Theft/Steal — Her ability is the centerpiece of a 'take everything' shell with Mind Control effects and untap engines.
- Blink — Flickering stolen creatures converts temporary control into permanent ownership and resets ETBs.
- Aristocrats — Sacrifice outlets let you permanently exile opponents' best creatures via your borrowed bodies.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GUW), by popularity.
