The Commander
+2: Until your next turn, up to two target creatures each have base power and toughness 0/3 and lose all abilities.
−2: Target player draws two cards. Until your next turn, instant, sorcery, and planeswalker spells that player casts cost 
less to cast.
−8: Target player gets an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy."
Partner with Rowan Kenrith
Will Kenrith can be your commander.
Guide
Gameplan
Will Kenrith is a mono-blue planeswalker commander that wins by slow card advantage and a spell-copying engine. Use +2 to neuter attackers and protect Will, -2 to refill your hand and discount your instants and sorceries, and grind toward the -8 emblem that copies every spell you cast. You play the long game as a draw-go control deck, eventually doubling up counters, removal, and burst card draw to bury the table.
Strengths
- Built-in board control: +2 turns two threats into vanilla 0/3s with no abilities, blanking commanders and combat
- -2 is a Divination plus a recurring cost reducer, making your blue spells dramatically cheaper
- -8 emblem is a game-ending spell-copying engine for a deck full of instants and sorceries
- Self-protecting commander that generates value the turn it lands and is castable repeatedly
- Can be played solo or with partner Rowan Kenrith for a stronger superfriends shell
Weaknesses
- Mono-blue gives no answers to resolved enchantments and limited artifact removal
- Slow clock; the deck rarely closes quickly and relies on reaching ultimate
- Vulnerable to aggressive boards and direct planeswalker attacks despite the +2
- No interaction with the stack from the command zone—Will himself provides card flow, not counterspells
- Heavy reliance on protecting a 6-mana planeswalker that draws removal and creature aggression
Key Cards
- The Chain Veil — Lets you activate Will multiple times per turn, racing to the -8 emblem far faster.
- Doubling Season — Loads Will to ultimate immediately and doubles loyalty from his +2.
- Teferi, Time Raveler — Stops counters to your spells and lets you cast at instant speed while protecting your walkers.
- Mystic Sanctuary — Recurs your best instant or sorcery to fuel repeated value with Will's cost reduction.
- Cyclonic Rift — Premier mono-blue reset that becomes a one-sided sweeper and is copied by the emblem.
- Pull from Tomorrow — A scalable draw spell that the -2 discounts and the -8 emblem doubles into a massive refill.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and loyalty doublers—Sol Ring, Mana Vault, Doubling Season, and The Chain Veil—to reach the -8 faster. Bring in efficient blue interaction (Counterspell, Swan Song, Fierce Guardianship, Cyclonic Rift) and proliferate effects like Karn's Bastion to protect and accelerate Will. For the highest power, pivot toward a tighter spellslinger or stax-control list with strong instant-speed payoffs that the emblem can copy into a kill.
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
- ▸Land the -8 emblem and copy a big draw spell or burn/mill spell to overwhelm the table
- ▸Grind opponents out of resources with repeated card advantage and board lockdown, then deploy a finisher
- ▸Copy a wincon spell like a fork of a lethal X-burn or mass bounce plus a beater
- ▸Assemble proliferate/Chain Veil loops to ultimate planeswalkers for inevitability
Archetypes
- Control — Will's +2 and card draw let you sculpt a draw-go shell that polices the board and out-resources opponents.
- Spellslinger — The -2 cost reduction and -8 copy emblem reward a deck packed with instants and sorceries.
- Superfriends — As a planeswalker commander he naturally headlines a walker-heavy deck, especially with partner Rowan.
- Combo — With proliferate, untappers, and The Chain Veil you can chain activations toward the game-ending ultimate.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (U), by popularity.
