
Some people play budget, but it's not mana crypts, fast mana, etc. In five-color, ] lets you pick any Dragon creature card, with ] for recursion.Meta Power Level: Medium depending on the group I'm playing with. In Esper, ] lets you pick any enchantment creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less with ]/]/] for recusion.

In Simic, ] lets you pick any creature card, with ]/] for recursion. In Selesnya, ] lets you pick any legendary card, with ] for recursion. In Azorius, ] lets you pick any creature card with flying, with ]/] for recursion. In mono-green, ] lets you pick any creature card, with ]/] for recursion. In mono-black, ]/]/] lets you pick any creature card, with ]/]/]/etc. Also, ] lets you pick any nonlegendary creature card, with ]/]/] for recursion. In mono-blue, ] lets you pick any noncreature artifact card, with ] for recursion.

In mono-white, ] lets you pick any Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 5 or less, with ] for recursion. Without further ado, here are all the commanders that can do exactly that:

That essentially allows you to make any applicable card into your "commander" since you both have the consistency of getting it each game and the recursion to play it over and over. Have you ever wanted to play some other card as your commander, except it's not a legal commander or it doesn't have enough colors? Well let me introduce you to what the community refers to as "hidden commander" decks: instead of playing the card that the deck is based on in your command zone, you use a commander that can tutor it and one or more cards that recur it from the graveyard instead.
