The Commander
First strike, protection from legendary creatures
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: Destroy target legendary creature. It can't be regenerated.
Guide
Gameplan
Tsabo Tavoc is a 7-mana beater that hunts other commanders—she has protection from legendary creatures and can repeatedly destroy any legendary creature for . You ramp into her, use her tap ability to remove problematic commanders and legends each turn, and grind value while attacking for chunks of damage. The deck plays as a Rakdos midrange/control shell that punishes a table full of legendary commanders.
Strengths
- Repeatable, hexproof-ignoring removal that kills any legendary creature, including commanders, without regeneration
- Protection from legendary creatures makes her hard to block or target with most opposing commanders
- First strike and a sizable body let her trade up and attack safely into legendary blockers
- Strong in commander-heavy metas where nearly every deck leans on its general
Weaknesses
- Seven mana for a do-nothing-immediately body that demands extra mana to activate
- Untap-dependent: she can only kill one legend per turn unless you add untappers
- Dead weight against decks with few or no legendary creatures
- Vulnerable to board wipes and non-legendary removal/blockers like tokens
Key Cards
- Thousand-Year Elixir — Lets Tsabo tap the turn she enters and effectively untap to destroy two legends per turn cycle.
- Magewright's Stone — Cheap untapper that doubles her removal output each turn.
- Aggravated Assault — Extra combat steps untap her and add more activations plus attacks.
- Whip of Erebos — Lifelink and recursion keep her relevant and bring her back after wipes.
- Sword of Feast and Famine — Untaps your lands on combat damage to fund repeated activations and grants protection.
Upgrade Path
Add untappers (Thousand-Year Elixir, Magewright's Stone, Aggravated Assault) so she removes multiple legends per turn, and ramp/cost reducers to cast her earlier. Layer in resilient recursion (Whip of Erebos, Phyrexian Reclamation) and equipment to turn her into a closing threat, then round out with Rakdos interaction and a couple of compact combos so you're not purely reliant on her against legend-light tables.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Commander damage through repeated unblockable-against-legends first strike swings
- ▸Grinding the table out of resources by destroying their commanders every turn
- ▸Voltron kills with equipment like Swords and extra-combat enablers
Archetypes
- Control — Her repeatable kill ability lets you lock down a board of commanders and grind out the game.
- Midrange/Stax-lite — Punishing legendary-dependent decks while deploying value creatures slots into a disruptive Rakdos shell.
- Voltron — Protection from legendary creatures and first strike make her a resilient equipment carrier.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BR), by popularity.
