With Magic: the Gathering reaching its 30th anniversary, I wanted to celebrate the many artists who have been central to bringing the many worlds of Magic alive... and what better way to do it than through Magic's most popular format, commander?
And so I have written a programme to process the Scryfall bulk data feeds and find artists and commanders for which decks are possible. By possible I mean they have:
There is absolutely no guarantee that any of the decks will play well, due to the limited pool of cards.
I'll aim to update this list after each new set release; if I don't, give me nudge! The current set was generated at 04/05/2024, 19:10
- Stephen Tavener (mrraow)
The lists here contain all commander-legal cards for a given commander and artist combination; you may have to do some pruning to get down to 100.
For your convenience, I have tried to list the cards in a format which can be pasted into Moxfield with little effort.
I found a few corner cases for legal commanders, listed below. Let me know what I'm missing!
A deck that is marked as updated has gained new cards recently. The current definition of 'recently' is on or after 01/01/2024.
These decks have everything you need; basic land, cards, and a suitable commander. See further down for the near misses.
These are commander decks with two or more by artists. I include in this section artists who frequently collaborate (>= 3 cards) and have illustrated cards alone, plus a few other connected artists I have added manually. Relationships I'm aware of (tell me what I'm missing):
Note that there will be inevitably overlap between the decks in this section and the sections above.
Collaboration | Viable Decks | Near Misses | Pauper EDh | pre EDh |
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Zoltan Boros+Gabor Szikszai | 15 | 15 | 3 | |
Jana Schirmer+Johannes Voss | 4 | 11 | ||
Tim Hildebrandt+Greg Hildebrandt | 5 | |||
Kaja Foglio+Phil Foglio | 1 | |||
Matthew D. Wilson+Chippy | 2 | 5 | ||
Terese Nielsen+Ron Spencer | 9 | 5 | 2 | |
Seb McKinnon+Drew Tucker+Erin Vest+Nils Hamm | 7 | 11 | ||
Justyna Dura+Piotr Dura | 1 | 3 | ||
Kaja Foglio+Phil Foglio | 1 | |||
Daniel Gelon+Heather Hudson | 3 | |||
Sam Guay+Rebecca Guay | 2 | |||
Seb McKinnon+Rebecca Guay | 4 | 3 | ||
Alayna Danner+Rebecca Guay | 2 | 3 | ||
Dmitry Burmak+Ekaterina Burmak | 34 | |||
Cliff Nielsen+Terese Nielsen | 4 | 2 | ||
Volkan Baǵa+Donato Giancola | 33 | 4 | ||
Brian Snõddy+Nicola Leonard | 1 | |||
Alpha artists | 54 | 266 | 48 |