U.S.S. Excelsior, Cutting Edge

Legendary Artifact — Spacecraft

Chosen commander for the requested strategy.

Artifact

Essential format staple for explosive mana acceleration

Artifact

Standard cheap mana rock for consistency

Artifact

Reliable two-mana ramp in mono-white

Artifact

Ramps early and cantrips when mana is abundant

Artifact

Provides colorless acceleration with no maximum hand size

Artifact

Two-mana rock that can synergize with artifact removal

Creature — Human Knight

Catches up on plains and provides a body to station the commander

Creature — Dog

Early ramp on an efficient body to station counters

Creature — Human Soldier

Fetches plains and produces tokens to power up stationing

Artifact

Keeps pace with opponents' land ramp and smooths land drops

Enchantment

Generates treasure tokens and card draw off opponents' actions

Artifact Creature — Human Soldier

Taxing early drop that consistently draws cards

Creature — Vampire

Draws cards from low-power utility creatures and tokens entering

Enchantment

Provides steady card advantage whenever creatures enter

Creature — Human Soldier

Cheap card draw off small creatures and tokens

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

Artifact or enchantment removal that can draw cards and tap creatures

Legendary Enchantment — Background

Triggers card draw when casting creatures matching the commander's type

Creature — Elf Wizard

Filters draws and draws cards when multiple creatures enter

Artifact

Consistent draw engine when creating creature tokens

Sorcery

Provides burst draw in mono-white while aiding politics

Enchantment

Introduces the Monarch and spawns high-power flying tokens

Instant

Premier one-mana instant-speed exile removal

Instant

Efficient single-target exile removal

Instant

Versatile answer to any permanent type

Instant

Flexible unconditional noncreature permanent removal

Creature — Human Soldier

Taps opposing creatures to enable the commander's destruction ability

Creature — Kithkin Soldier

Repeatedly taps opposing threats to set up Excelsior triggers

Sorcery

Flexible sweeper for either creatures or artifacts and enchantments

Sorcery

Customizable board wipe that can spare your commander

Legendary Planeswalker — Gideon

Forces attacks, taps targets, and directly destroys tapped creatures

Creature — Angel

Sweeps all tapped creatures on entry, synergizing with tap strategies

Instant

Cheap removal spell that preys on blocked and tapped creatures

Creature — Human Soldier

Grows rapidly as opponents' creatures become tapped

Creature — Angel

Massive flying threat that stations Excelsior immediately and protects your team

Legendary Creature — Human Knight

High-power attacker that generates tokens to repeatedly station Excelsior

Creature — Giant

Heavy body that recurs destroyed utility creatures and permanents

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

Substantially buffs your creatures for stationing while wiping opponent's boards

Creature — Angel

Five power body that adds five charge counters immediately while stabilizing life

Legendary Creature — Angel

High power flying lifelink threat that powers stationing

Creature — Angel Spirit

Revives key high-power creatures and provides blink synergy

Creature — Human Soldier

Creates an army of tokens to swarm the board and tap for stationing

Creature — Human Cleric

Wide token producer to easily exceed station charge requirements

Artifact Creature — Construct

Large artifact creature that trims opponent boards while leaving Excelsior intact

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem

Nine power artifact creature that fully stations Excelsior in one tap

Artifact Creature — Angel

Modular cast that grants evasion and provides solid power for stationing

Creature — Angel

Exiles a problem permanent and has good power to station the commander

Creature — Phyrexian Human Artificer

Provides multiple bodies including a 3/3 Golem to quickly add charge counters

Creature — Kithkin Soldier

Sneaks soldiers onto the battlefield tapped and attacking

Creature — Human Knight

Massive power in go-wide decks that stations Excelsior in a single activation

Legendary Planeswalker — Gideon

Gains loyalty based on opponents' creatures and turns into a massive attacker

Enchantment

End-step blink to repeatedly trigger Excelsior's destroy ETB

Artifact

Repeatedly flickers Excelsior to eliminate tapped creatures every turn

Instant

Inexpensive instant-speed flicker that rebounds to trigger Excelsior twice

Instant

One-mana combat trick that retriggers Excelsior to remove a tapped attacker

Creature — Elemental

Creature that temporarily exiles Excelsior to reset and trigger on return

Creature — Angel

Flash body that flickers Excelsior and adds substantial power for stationing

Artifact — Equipment

Protects Excelsior and key creatures with hexproof and haste

Artifact — Equipment

Gives haste to creatures so they can attack or tap for stationing immediately

Artifact

Duplicates Excelsior's ETB destroy trigger or station trigger

Artifact

Provides early removal and repeatable proliferate for charge counters

Artifact

Versatile artifact that can tap down opponents' creatures on demand

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

Mono-color utility land.

Basic Land — Plains

Basic land allocated from mana pip counts.