Magic: the Gathering Artist Commander Resources

Introduction

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 09/04/2025, 09:58

- Stephen Tavener (mrraow)

Notes

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 01/03/2025.

The Decks

There are quite a few viable and almost-viable decks now, so I've condensed my report down to a table. Click through to the artist to see all the decks you can build. Note that I have categorised decks as follows:

Viable
A complete deck, with commander, basics, and sufficient other cards.
Near Miss
One thing is missing to make this a viable deck. When you click through to the artist, you'll get more information about what's missing.
Pauper EDH
A complete pauper EDH deck (an uncommon creature commander, and only common cards maindeck).
preEDH
A complete preEDH deck ()commander rules with no cards after the first official commander product was printed.
Artist Viable Decks Near Misses Pauper EDh pre EDh
Aaron Miller 9  
Adam Paquette updated 22  
Adam Rex 4  
Alan Pollack 11  
Aleksi Briclot 7  
Alexander Mokhov updated 4  
Alix Branwyn updated 1  
Amy Weber 2  
Anastasia Ovchinnikova updated 2  
Anato Finnstark 1  
Andrew Mar updated 6  
Andrey Kuzinskiy updated 2  
Anna Steinbauer 4  
Anson Maddocks 1  
Anthony Palumbo 2  
Anthony S. Waters 9  
Antonio José Manzanedo updated 3  
Bastien L. Deharme updated 1  
Billy Christian updated 1  
Brandi Milne 1  
Brent Hollowell updated 3  
Brian Valeza updated 1  
Bryan Sola updated 1  
Caio Monteiro 2  
Campbell White 14  
Carl Critchlow 11  
Chase Stone updated 46  
Chase Stone 9  
Chippy 7  
Chris Rahn updated857  
Chris Rallis updated 35  
Chris Seaman updated 2  
Christopher Moeller463 
Christopher Rush 4  
Clint Cearley 2  
Craig J Spearing updated 1  
Cristi Balanescu updated 7  
Cynthia Sheppard 1  
D. Alexander Gregory 1  
Daarken631  
Dan Frazier updated 2  
Dan Murayama Scott updated110  
Daniel Correia 1  
Daniel Ljunggren updated 5  
Daren Bader 13  
Darrell Riche 1  
Dave Dorman 1  
Dave Kendall 2  
David Gaillet 1  
David Palumbo updated 2  
Deruchenko Alexander updated 1  
Dmitry Burmak 10  
Dominik Mayer updated 7  
Donato Giancola181  
Douglas Shuler1   
Edward P. Beard, Jr.32  
Ekaterina Burmak updated 1  
Eric Deschamps 20  
Fajareka Setiawan updated 1  
Filip Burburan updated 12  
Franz Vohwinkel 1  
Gaboleps updated 1  
Gabor Szikszai15  
Glen Angus 1  
GodMachine 4  
Greg Hildebrandt 5  
Greg Staples5262 
Grzegorz Rutkowski updated 5  
Heather Hudson 1  
Helge C. Balzer 1  
Howard Lyon 6  
Igor Kieryluk 18  
Ilse Gort 1  
Irina Nordsol updated 1  
Izzy updated 9  
Jaime Jones 7  
James Paick 10  
James Ryman updated 5  
Jason Chan 1  
Jason Felix 3  
Jason Rainville 13  
Jeff Miracola 8  
Jesper Ejsing updated315  
Jim Murray 2  
Jim Nelson 1  
Joe Slucher updated 1  
Johann Bodin updated 4  
Johannes Voss updated511  
John Avon updated221 
John Stanko 6  
Joseph Meehan 4  
Josh Hass 2  
Joshua Raphael updated 1  
Josu Hernaiz updated 4  
Justyna Dura updated 5  
Karl Kopinski 10  
Kekai Kotaki 6  
Kev Walker34 181
Kieran Yanner 37  
Lars Grant-West updated 3  
Lie Setiawan updated 13  
Lius Lasahido updated 10  
Livia Prima updated 2  
Lucas Graciano updated945 
Magali Villeneuve updated2628  
Manuel Castañón 2  
Mark Poole71  
Mark Tedin721 
Mark Zug6106 
Marta Nael updated 2  
Mathias Kollros 7  
Matt Cavotta 7  
Matt Stewart updated 37  
Matthew D. Wilson 1  
Mike Bierek 2  
Milivoj Ćeran updated 2  
Nicholas Gregory 6  
Nils Hamm 6  
Néstor Ossandón Leal updated 1  
Paolo Parente updated4   
Pete Venters66  
Randy Gallegos 5  
Randy Vargas updated 15  
Raoul Vitale 4  
Raymond Swanland 12  
Rebecca Guay2   
Richard Kane Ferguson 5  
Rob Alexander2   
Ron Spears 3  
Ron Spencer updated5  1
Ryan Pancoast updated435  
Scott M. Fischer 14  
Scott Murphy updated 2  
Scott Okumura updated 2  
Seb McKinnon11  
Sidharth Chaturvedi 4  
Simon Dominic 9  
Slawomir Maniak updated 17  
Steve Argyle 3  
Steve Ellis 1  
Steve Prescott updated66  
Steven Belledin updated104  
Svetlin Velinov241  
Terese Nielsen42  
Thomas M. Baxa 4  
Tim Hildebrandt 2  
Titus Lunter 2  
Todd Lockwood 3  
Tomasz Jedruszek 2  
Tony Szczudlo 1  
Tyler Jacobson 13  
Tyler Walpole updated 1  
Uriah Voth 1  
Victor Adame Minguez updated 29  
Viktor Titov 1  
Vincent Proce updated24  
Volkan Baǵa updated115  
Volta Creation 4  
Warren Mahy updated 5  
Wayne Reynolds 16  
Willian Murai 1  
Winona Nelson updated 6  
Yeong-Hao Han updated51  
Yongjae Choi 15  
Zack Stella updated 8  
Zezhou Chen updated 6  
Zoltan Boros updated17172 
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Collaborations

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
Greg Hildebrandt+Tim Hildebrandt 5  
Josh Newton+Scott Okumura updated 2  
Zoltan Boros+Gabor Szikszai updated19153 
Jana Schirmer+Johannes Voss updated512  
Kaja Foglio+Phil Foglio 1  
Anthony S. Waters+Cara Mitten 10  
Chippy+Matthew D. Wilson25  
David Robert Hovey+Scott Okumura updated 2  
Terese Nielsen+Ron Spencer updated12 52
McKinnon/Vest/Tucker/Hamm9 12 
Justyna+Piotr Dura updated58  
Kaja+Phil Foglio 1  
Gelon+Hudson 3  
Rebecca,Sam Guay updated2   
McKinnon+Guay43  
Danner+Guay updated23  
Ekaterina+Dmitry Burmak updated 43  
Cliff+Terese Nielsen42  
Baǵa+Giancola updated35 4 
Leonard+Snoddy 1  
Alpha artists updated61 26848