The Commander
When Toluz enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard.
When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.
Guide
Gameplan
Toluz turns discarding from a downside into a stockpile: every card you pitch gets exiled under it and returns to your hand when it dies. You build card advantage through looting, cycling, and rummaging effects, then either flicker/sacrifice Toluz on your terms to refill, or pivot to discard-matters payoffs and reanimation. The deck grinds value while assembling an explosive turn fueled by the bank of stored cards.
Strengths
- Generates massive card advantage by converting discard into a reusable hand reserve.
- Esper colors give access to the best card draw, removal, and recursion in the format.
- Turns 'symmetrical' discard and wheel effects into one-sided value engines.
- Resilient: you choose when to cash in Toluz, so spot removal can play into your hand.
Weaknesses
- Heavily commander-dependent; if Toluz is hated out or exiled, the engine and stored cards vanish.
- Three colors create demanding mana and slower early turns.
- Cards exiled under Toluz are inaccessible until it dies, so timing matters.
- Graveyard-recursion plans are weakened since discards leave the yard.
Key Cards
- Faithless Looting — Cheap repeatable discard that loads cards under Toluz while digging.
- Windfall — Mass discard you bank under Toluz, refilling your hand on its death while disrupting opponents.
- Ephemerate — Blinking Toluz re-triggers connive and lets you reset, though stored cards stay until death.
- Viscera Seer — A free sacrifice outlet to cash in Toluz and return the whole exiled pile to hand on demand.
- Containment Construct — Adds extra value when you discard, synergizing with the deck's looting core.
- Thrasios, Triton Hero — Strong card-flow partner-adjacent engine; pairs with the deck's draw-heavy plan for late-game inevitability.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and dual lands (Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, shocks/fetches) to smooth the three-color base, then lean into free sacrifice outlets and flicker effects to control Toluz's timing. Include high-impact discard targets like big reanimation bombs and wheel effects (Windfall, Echo of Eons) to maximize the banked value, and consider a compact combo finish so your refilled hand converts directly into a win.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Out-grind opponents with overwhelming card advantage and finish with a haymaker bomb.
- ▸Reanimate large threats discarded early for fast, efficient beatdowns.
- ▸Assemble a combo or alpha strike fueled by the reclaimed hand after Toluz dies.
- ▸Lock the table with control pieces and win at leisure via commander damage or value creatures.
Archetypes
- Card Advantage Control — Toluz's banked hand plus Esper draw and removal grinds opponents out of resources.
- Discard/Madness Synergy — Looting and rummaging fuel both Toluz's stockpile and discard-matters payoffs.
- Aristocrats — Sacrifice outlets let you reliably kill Toluz to reclaim your stored cards.
- Reanimator — Discard big threats and reanimate them before Toluz exiles them, or store backup hands.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BUW), by popularity.
