Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor

Chosen commander for the requested strategy.

Artifact

essential artifact acceleration

Artifact

efficient two-color mana rock

Artifact

on-guild mana fixing and ramp

Artifact

untapped white and blue mana ramp

Artifact

mana acceleration plus unlimited hand size

Artifact

early ramp that cycles into a fresh card later

Artifact

consistent low-cost mana producer

Enchantment

taxes opponents' draws to generate massive treasure stores

Creature — Human Knight

tutors Plains directly into play to catch up on mana

Artifact

Azorius mana rock that doubles as an evasive blocker

Enchantment

taxes opponents' spellcasting or draws steady cards

Artifact Creature — Human Soldier

early taxing body that draws on noncreature spells

Enchantment

drastically penalizes opponents who rely on noncreature spells

Instant

iconic Azorius burst card draw and life gain

Instant

instant-speed card selection and advantage

Instant

recurrent instant card draw with jump-start

Sorcery

refuels hand while disrupting opponents' sculpted hands

Legendary Planeswalker — Teferi

draws cards, untaps mana, and provides exile control

Legendary Planeswalker — Jace

steady card advantage that threatens an oppressive ultimate emblem

Instant

instant-speed deep digging for answers using the graveyard

Instant

premier unconditional single-target creature exile

Instant

one-mana exile removal for problematic threats

Sorcery

uncounterable Azorius signature board wipe

Instant

classic baseline stack interaction

Instant

uncounterable denial against opposing noncreature spells

Instant

one-sided mass bounce for board stabilization or game-ending tempo

Instant

flexible removal that deals with any permanent

Instant

efficient answer to creatures, enchantments, and artifacts

Instant

cancels a spell and completely shuts down the player's turn

Instant

counters a spell while buffering the life total

Sorcery

modal mass exile to clear multiple permanent types at once

Enchantment

Azorius enchantment that captures target permanents and duplicate tokens

Sorcery

clean win condition well-suited for a drawn-out defensive game

Enchantment

produces scaling flying threats whenever noncreature spells are cast

Creature — Sphinx

resilient flying finisher that draws cards and gains life

Creature — Archon

slows enemy nonbasic lands and caps spells at one per turn

Creature — Spirit

pillowfort creature imposing an attack tax on adversaries

Enchantment

taxes opponents for every creature sent your way

Enchantment

blue attack tax enchantment protecting life total

Enchantment

makes attacking you practically impossible in an enchantment-heavy deck

Enchantment

restricts all players to one spell each turn to dictate game pace

Creature — Bird Wizard

flashes in to paralyze opposing search and tutor effects

Legendary Creature — Angel

shuts down all activated abilities of opposing creatures

Creature — Archon

introduces the monarch and negates all combat damage dealt to you

Creature — Kraken Horror

flash game-closer that bounces spells and permanents with every cast

Legendary Planeswalker — Teferi

stops instant-speed interaction from opponents while breaking timing rules

Legendary Planeswalker — Narset

chokes opposing extra card draw while finding noncreature spells

Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth

creates chump-blocking soldiers and wipes out large enemy threats

Creature — Giant

recurs key taxing permanents and mana rocks whenever it enters or attacks

Enchantment

converts unmolested turns into a swarm of 4/4 flying Angels

Legendary Creature — Sphinx

stops opponents from casting instants or sorceries and draws cards on attack

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

shuts down free spells and penalizes rapid mana ramp

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

forces opposing creatures and nonbasic lands to enter tapped

Creature — Human Wizard

forbids a specific card from being cast, naming enemy commanders or win conditions

Enchantment

forces enemy artifacts and creatures to enter tapped with extort life drain

Enchantment

blunts haste-based aggression and continuously regains life

Enchantment

taxes opposing artifacts and enchantments and can be sacrificed to destroy one

Instant

ultimate defensive spell that phases your entire board out of harm

Artifact — Equipment

provides hexproof protection and haste for key creatures

Artifact — Equipment

free equip cost to protect the commander from targeted removal

Enchantment

forces opponents to play with hands revealed, enabling perfect decision-making

Enchantment

ensures consistent basic land drops every turn for a single white mana

Land

No maximum hand size.

Land

Card draw from the mana base.

Land

Makes a creature unblockable.

Land

Extra mana in the late game.

Land

Produces any color in your identity.

Land

Flexible multicolor fixing.

Land

Color fixing with scry on creature casts.

Land

Ramp from the mana base.

Land — Island

Recurs an instant or sorcery.

Land

Mono-color utility land.

Land

Mono-color utility land.

Land

Nonbasic dual land for color fixing.

Land

Nonbasic dual land for color fixing.

Land

Dual land with scry.

Land — Plains Island

Nonbasic dual land for color fixing.

Basic Land — Plains

Basic land allocated from mana pip counts.

Basic Land — Island

Basic land allocated from mana pip counts.