Commander: Top 6 Best Cards from Tarkir: Dragonstorm for cEDH!

The new set, Tarkir: Dragonstorm, will bring us a few cards that may see play in cEDH. But which one of them will truly impact this format?

Let's see the main cards from this set and understand why these effects are so strong in competitive formats.

Voice of Victory - Protection and Constant Pressure

Voice of Victory reminds me of Grand Abolisher and Silence, which are key pieces in white decks that need to protect their combos. In cEDH, if you can prevent interactions on your turn, you essentially get to make sure your combos resolve. And, keep in mind, this is a permanent that costs 2 mana.

Furthermore, it also creates tokens when it attacks, so it isn't completely dead if your combo fails. Decks like Tymna & Thrasios or Winota, Joiner of Forces (which isn't a combo deck, but anyway) could get a lot of extra value from this card.

Clarion Conqueror - A New Collector Ouphe and Cursed Totem

In competitive metas, many strategies rely on mana positive artifacts (Mana Vault, Sol Ring, Moxen) and creatures with powerful abilities, like Thrasios, Triton Hero, and Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, to grind or win the game.

Clarion Conqueror disables all of that at the same time. It is a mix of Collector Ouphe (which disables artifacts) and Cursed Totem (which disables creature abilities), and also disables Planeswalkers as well!

It will be great in stax decks like Winota, Joiner of Forces or Ellivere of the Wild Court, two decks that only need triggers to work.

Will of the Jeskai - A Wheel With a Free Flashback

This is one of the most explosive effects in this set. In Storm decks, this card plays two incredible roles:

- If you run out of gas, you can use its wheel effect and draw 5 new cards.

- If your graveyard is full, its Flashback effect can easily win the game for you.

Decks like RogSi will love this card. After all, paying 0 mana for your commander is incredibly strong. The combination between creating value and enabling loops makes Will of the Jeskai an incredibly interesting option for combo players.

Glacierwood Siege - Combo and Immediate Value

Its Sultai option turns any Storm/Underworld Breach deck into a self-mill machine. Its effect, with its Breach, lets you set up combos like Thassa's Oracle and Loops overall a lot faster, so you'll have another card for these decks besides Brain Freeze.

As for its Temur option, it lets ramp decks, like Tatyova, Benthic Druid and Kodama & Sakashima, get a lot of value by reusing lands from the graveyard. Yes, we know these are fringe decks, but they're still playable.

Mistrise Village - Protection Against Counters For Any Deck

The immediate comparison is with Boseiju, Who Shelters All, which has a similar effect, but only protects an Instant or a Sorcery. What sets Mistrise Village apart is that it can protect any type of spell, including creatures, artifacts, and enchantments.

This makes Mistrise Village extremely useful in combo decks that need to avoid interactions, like Ad Nauseam or Food Chain lists.

Windcrag Siege - Double Your Tokens or Your Triggers

Its first effect, the Mardu effect, doubles attack triggers, so it fits decks like Winota, Joiner of Forces and other aggressive strategies perfectly. In this case, it doubles all creatures Winota puts in play, so it makes this strategy even more explosive.

If your only focus is tokens, you can use this card in lists like Tymna, The Weaver & Jeska, Thrice Reborn, which value board presence. Yet, this is a more casual view of this deck.

The new set, Tarkir: Dragonstorm, brought us a few cards that can impact cEDH through all angles: stax, combo, and storm.

Cards like Voice of Victory just show how much we need effects that protect our turns, whereas Clarion Conqueror is another powerful resource for stax decks, as it disables combo pieces and "advantage" pieces. Furthermore, explosive effects, like Will of the Jeskai, are new ways to get value immediately and speed up strategies centered around sorceries. It is a viable choice for Storm decks.

With all these new additions, Tarkir should influence the cEDH meta quite a bit. It will give new tools to well-established strategies and even potentially open some space for new competitive strategies.

If you enjoy this format, you should test out these cards and see which ones really impact your board.

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