Best Budget Commanders to Build Around Under $5

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Your commander is the one card in a Commander deck you can always get to, and it decides what the other 99 cards should be. Choose a legend whose ability is a game plan, like making Goblins, doubling death triggers or drawing a card off every land, and the deck has a direction from the first card you add. Choose one that is just a good creature and you end up paying to patch the missing plan with generically strong cards, which is the expensive way to build.

This guide sits one layer above our colour-identity staples guides. Those 25 guides fill the 99 with budget cards for each mono-, two- and three-colour combination, and the master list of MTG Commander staples under $5 ties them together. This one helps you choose the card on the front. Every commander below was under $5 on Scryfall's default printing as of September 2026, has an ability you can build a whole deck around, and has a real following on EDHREC, so there are plenty of public decklists to borrow from.

If you already know how you want to win, read the strategy sections in order: go-wide, aristocrats, landfall, spell and blink engines, then Yuriko. If you already know your colours, skip to the router table, which gives one cheap commander for every mono-, two- and three-colour identity, plus a five-colour pick, and links straight to the right staples guide. The quadrant table near the end sorts the picks by how fast they close games and how many decisions they ask of you each turn.

How We Picked These Commanders

Price. Every pick was under $5 on Scryfall's default printing as of September 2026. That is the number we quote throughout, always as an "about" figure, because singles prices move every week. Foils, borderless frames and older printings of the same card can cost several times more, so compare printings before you check out. Sythis, Harvest's Hand sits closest to the line, at about $4.29. One popular commander missed the cut on exactly this point: Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm's Showcase printing was about $4.65, but her default printing was over $6 as of September 2026, so the Temur row uses Maelstrom Wanderer instead. Check the live price on TCGplayer or Card Kingdom on the day you buy.

A real build-around ability. The commander has to tell you what the 99 should be. Krenko, Mob Boss asks for Goblins. Teysa Karlov asks for creatures that do something when they die. Tatyova, Benthic Druid asks for extra land drops. If you could swap the commander for any other creature in its colours and the deck would barely change, it did not make the list.

A community behind it. We checked EDHREC deck counts as of September 2026. A popular commander means more public decklists, more upgrade ideas and a better chance your playgroup already knows how it works. Krenko, Mob Boss had about 44,000 decks on EDHREC and ranked fifth among all commanders there, which tells you price and popularity are not the same thing. This is not every legend under $5, just the ones we would build around first.

Not a Game Changer. None of the featured commanders or router-table picks in this guide is on the current Game Changers list, so every one of them can lead a Bracket 1 or Bracket 2 deck as far as the commander itself is concerned. What you put in the 99 still decides your bracket.

Brackets and Game Changers in 60 Seconds

Commander Brackets is Wizards of the Coast's beta system for matching decks by power before a game starts. There are five brackets: 1 Exhibition, 2 Core, 3 Upgraded, 4 Optimized and 5 cEDH. Brackets 1 and 2 allow no Game Changers, Bracket 3 allows up to three, and Brackets 4 and 5 have no limit. Our MTG bracket system explainer covers the whole framework.

Two updates matter for this guide. The 21 October 2025 brackets update described each bracket by expected game length (Bracket 2 games should run about eight turns or more, Bracket 3 about six or more, Bracket 4 about four or more), dropped the tutor limits entirely, stopped tying Bracket 2 to precons, and took ten cards off the Game Changers list without adding any. Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow was one of the ten. Wizards' reasoning was that a commander is easy for a table to spot and opt out of, so power alone was not a reason to list one. A 9 February 2026 update added two cards to the list and changed nothing structural, and no further Commander changes have been announced through the 10 August 2026 banned and restricted announcement. The Game Changers list and brackets guide has the full card list.

One more rules note: since the Edge of Eternities rules change announced in June 2025, legendary Vehicles and Spacecraft with a power and toughness box can be commanders too. They are legal and some are cheap, but we left them out of the featured picks because a first build-around deck is easier to learn with a creature that just stays a creature.

Go-Wide and Tribal Commanders

Go-wide decks put lots of creatures on the table and win by out-numbering the blockers. Tribal decks do the same with one creature type, which makes deckbuilding simpler because the commander tells you exactly which creatures to look for. These three are the most-played go-wide and tribal commanders in this guide, and each one plays differently. If the idea of flooding the board appeals, our token swarm strategy guide explains the archetype in depth.

Krenko, Mob Boss (Mono-Red Goblins)

{2}{R}{R}, mana value 4. About $3.61 as of September 2026. Krenko has one ability: tap him to create X 1/1 red Goblin tokens, where X is the number of Goblins you control. Krenko counts himself, so the growth compounds. As an illustration, if Krenko is your only Goblin, his first activation makes one token (two Goblins), the next makes two (four), and the next makes four (eight). Every Goblin you play before you activate adds to the count, so the deck is simply Goblins, cards that give your team haste or a pump, and ways to keep Krenko alive long enough to untap.

That last part is the catch. Krenko has no haste, so he needs a full turn on the battlefield before he can tap, and the table knows exactly what he does. Pack protection and a few ways to win without him. In exchange you get the most-played commander on this list, with about 44,000 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026, spread across every bracket from casual to highly tuned. The budget Goblins tribal deck under $100 is a full build around him, and the red Commander staples under $5 guide covers the support cards.

Lathril, Blade of the Elves (Golgari Elves)

{2}{B}{G}, mana value 4. About $2.46 as of September 2026. Lathril has menace, so an opponent needs two creatures to block her, and whenever she deals combat damage to a player you create that many 1/1 green Elf Warrior tokens. Her second ability is the finish line: tap Lathril and ten other untapped Elves you control, and each opponent loses 10 life while you gain 10. Tapping those Elves is a cost of Lathril's ability, not their own tap ability, so Elves that arrived this turn can help pay it.

Elves are one of the deepest creature types in the game, many of them are cheap, and black adds the removal and recursion that green is short on by itself. Lathril had about 35,800 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026, ranking 13th among all commanders. Build the 99 from the budget Golgari Commander staples guide and fill the creature slots with Elves.

Giada, Font of Hope (Mono-White Angels)

{1}{W}, mana value 2. About $1.19 as of September 2026. Giada is a two-mana flyer with vigilance that does two jobs for an Angel deck. Each other Angel you control enters with an extra +1/+1 counter for each Angel you already control, and because Giada is an Angel herself, even the first one gets a counter. She also taps for {W} that can only be spent on Angel spells, which matters because Angels tend to be expensive creatures. From the turn after she lands, she is a mana source aimed at exactly the cards you want to cast.

The deck is straightforward: Angels, ramp, removal and some life gain, which many Angels already provide. It is a strong first mono-coloured deck because white removal is cheap and the plan is easy to explain. Giada had about 35,500 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026, ranking 14th. The white Commander staples under $5 guide covers the non-Angel slots, and the budget lifegain deck guide is worth a read if you want to lean into the life total.

Aristocrats and Drain Commanders

Aristocrats decks turn creatures dying into value. You need three kinds of cards: fodder (creatures, usually tokens, that you are happy to lose), sacrifice outlets (cheap or free ways to sacrifice your own creatures on demand), and payoffs (cards that drain, draw or make more tokens when something dies). The Sacrifice & Aristocrats engine guide breaks the loop down piece by piece. These two commanders approach it from different angles.

Teysa Karlov (Orzhov Aristocrats)

{2}{W}{B}, mana value 4. About $2.68 as of September 2026. Teysa's first ability says that if a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, it triggers an additional time. Every "when this dies" creature and every "whenever a creature dies" payoff you control now works twice. Her second ability gives your creature tokens vigilance and lifelink, so the same tokens you plan to sacrifice can also attack and block in the same turn cycle and gain you life along the way.

Teysa does not kill anything herself, so the deck lives or dies on having outlets and fodder. That makes it a good teacher: you learn to sequence triggers and to judge when a creature is worth more dead than alive. She had about 21,600 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026. Our budget Aristocrats Commander deck under $100 is built on Teysa, and the budget Orzhov Commander staples guide covers the rest of the white-black card pool.

Syr Konrad, the Grim (Mono-Black Drain and Mill)

{3}{B}{B}, mana value 5. About $1.67 as of September 2026. Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent whenever another creature dies, whenever a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, and whenever a creature card leaves your graveyard. His activated ability, {1}{B}, makes each player mill a card, and every creature card milled from any library pings every opponent. Discard, self-mill, reanimation and board wipes all feed him, so the deck has more ways to trigger him than a normal sacrifice list.

He has a smaller following as a commander, about 6,200 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026, and mono-black is one of the easiest colour identities to fill on a budget. Pair the black Commander staples under $5 guide with our explainer on how mill works in Commander. Syr Konrad's creature-dies trigger is exactly the kind of ability Teysa Karlov doubles, and he fits her colour identity, so he also makes a strong card in an Orzhov aristocrats 99.

Landfall and Ramp Commanders

Landfall decks get paid every time a land enters under your control. Because you were going to play lands anyway, the baseline is forgiving: even a bad draw still makes a land drop most turns. The deck then adds ramp spells that put extra lands onto the battlefield, cards that let you play more than one land a turn, and ways to replay lands from the graveyard. The landfall engine guide explains the card types that make it work.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (Simic Landfall)

{3}{G}{U}, mana value 5. About $0.29 as of September 2026. Tatyova's landfall ability is short: whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card. That turns every ramp spell that puts a land onto the battlefield into a card-draw spell and makes it hard to run out of gas. She costs five mana, so the first few turns are about ramping into her. Once she lands, every extra land drop is a card, and the deck starts to snowball.

Tatyova is the cheapest featured pick and one of the most forgiving. The engine triggers on its own, every land you hit draws another card to smooth out your draws, and the main skill to learn is when to keep ramping and when to cash in. Our ramp vs card advantage guide covers that decision. She had about 9,400 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026. Build the 99 from the Simic Commander staples under $5 guide.

Omnath, Locus of Rage (Gruul Landfall Tokens)

{3}{R}{R}{G}{G}, mana value 7. About $0.33 as of September 2026. Omnath, Locus of Rage turns every land into a threat: landfall creates a 5/5 red and green Elemental token. Whenever Omnath or another Elemental you control dies, Omnath deals 3 damage to any target, so trading those tokens in combat or sacrificing them still pushes damage. Where Tatyova draws cards, Omnath builds an army of 5/5s that opponents have to answer one at a time.

Seven mana is the catch. At that price, Omnath asks for a lot of ramp, and every time it dies and you recast it from the command zone the commander tax adds another {2}. Protect it or build the deck so a single resolution wins. Omnath had about 8,900 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026, and the Gruul Commander staples under $5 guide covers the ramp and removal you need.

Spells, Blink and Enchantment Engines

Engine commanders reward you for casting a certain kind of card, then compound that reward turn after turn. They usually ask for more decisions than the go-wide decks above, and they are slower to kill a table, but they are hard to run out of resources. These four cover instants and sorceries, re-using enter-the-battlefield effects, and enchantments.

Veyran, Voice of Duality (Izzet Spellslinger)

{1}{U}{R}, mana value 3. About $1.53 as of September 2026. Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery, but the real text is the second ability: if casting or copying an instant or sorcery causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, it triggers an additional time. Note the word "permanent". Veyran doubles the permanents that care about spells, usually creatures and enchantments, not the spells themselves, so the deck wants a healthy number of those payoffs alongside cheap instants and sorceries.

Veyran had about 11,400 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026. Our budget Spellslinger Commander deck under $100 is built on Veyran, the Izzet Commander staples under $5 guide lists the spell package, and winning with instants and sorceries covers the archetype from first principles.

Talrand, Sky Summoner (Mono-Blue Spells into Drakes)

{2}{U}{U}, mana value 4. About $1.89 as of September 2026. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery, Talrand creates a 2/2 blue Drake token with flying. Every instant or sorcery, whether it counters, draws or removes, now leaves a flyer behind, so a control deck that normally wins slowly builds an air force by answering threats. It is the simplest version of spellslinger to understand, and mono-blue keeps the mana easy. The blue Commander staples under $5 guide covers the 99.

Talrand had about 7,000 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026. His trigger is on casting, so it also counts as one of the permanent triggers Veyran, Voice of Duality doubles, which makes Talrand a natural card in an Izzet Veyran 99. If you would rather win by milling than attacking, The Mindskinner (about $3.22 as of September 2026) is the other mono-blue option worth a look: it can't be blocked, and if a source you control would deal damage to an opponent, that damage is prevented and each opponent mills that many cards instead.

Brago, King Eternal (Azorius Blink)

{2}{W}{U}, mana value 4. About $3.02 as of September 2026. Brago flies, and whenever he deals combat damage to a player you exile any number of target nonland permanents you control, then return them to the battlefield. Every creature with an enter-the-battlefield ability fires again, and mana rocks come back untapped. The deck is built from cards that do something when they arrive, plus ways to make sure Brago connects. Leave your tokens out of the blink, because a token that leaves the battlefield ceases to exist and does not come back.

Brago had about 15,200 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026. The budget Blink/Flicker deck under $100 walks through a full build, and the Azorius Commander staples under $5 guide covers the white-blue support cards.

Sythis, Harvest's Hand (Selesnya Enchantress)

{G}{W}, mana value 2. About $4.29 as of September 2026. Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, Sythis gains you 1 life and draws you a card. At two mana she arrives early, and from then on every Aura, enchantment creature and cheap enchantment replaces itself. The deck plays like a steady card-advantage engine that builds a defensive board and eventually wins with a pile of Auras or an enchantment-based finisher.

Sythis is the featured pick closest to the $5 line, so price-check her first. She had about 14,200 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026. Our budget Enchantress Commander deck guide covers the archetype and the Selesnya Commander staples under $5 guide fills the rest of the deck.

The High-Power Pick: Yuriko and Ninjas

{1}{U}{B}, mana value 3, commander ninjutsu {U}{B}. About $3.40 as of September 2026. Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is the high-power pick in this guide and the one most likely to surprise a casual table. Commander ninjutsu lets you pay {U}{B} and return one of your unblocked attackers to your hand to put Yuriko onto the battlefield tapped and attacking, straight from your hand or the command zone. Because that is not casting her, the commander tax never applies to it. A one-mana evasive creature that attacks on turn two can bring her in on the spot.

Her trigger is where the damage comes from. Whenever a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player, you reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand, and each opponent loses life equal to that card's mana value. Each opponent, not just the player who was hit. Reveal a five-drop in a four-player game and the table loses 15 life in total, and you still keep the card. The deck is cheap evasive creatures, Ninjas that return them for value, a handful of expensive spells to reveal, and ways to set up the top of your library.

Now the bracket note. Yuriko had about 31,900 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026, ranking 19th among all commanders, but of the decks that list a bracket, only about 470 sit at Bracket 1 or 2 against roughly 7,500 at Brackets 3 to 5. She was removed from the Game Changers list in October 2025, so she is technically allowed in a Bracket 2 deck, but most people build her to win quickly. Tell your playgroup what you are bringing before the game. Because the whole deck depends on an early evasive creature, the Commander mulligan guide is worth reading before you shuffle up, and the Dimir Commander staples under $5 guide covers the blue-black 99.

Colour Identity Router: Commander to Staples Guide

If you already know which colours you want, start here. Each row gives one under-$5 commander for that colour identity, what its deck is trying to do, and the staples guide that fills the 99. A Commander deck is 99 cards plus the commander, singleton except for basic lands, and every card's mana symbols must fall within the commander's colour identity. Colour identity counts the symbols in a card's rules text as well as its cost, which is why a commander whose only coloured mana symbol is white can still be five colours. There is no four-colour row because there is no four-colour staples guide yet, and the five-colour row points to the overall hub for the same reason.

A few of these rows deserve a sentence more than a table cell allows. Ghalta, Primal Hunger costs {X} less, where X is the total power of the creatures you control, so a board of big creatures turns a twelve-mana trampler into a cheap finisher. It had about 9,200 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026, and most of the ones that list a bracket sit at Bracket 2, which makes it a friendly first mono-green deck. Kardur, Doomscourge is a table-politics card: when it enters, your opponents' creatures must attack each combat and must attack a player other than you until your next turn, and every attacking creature that dies drains each opponent for 1. If you want a Rakdos sacrifice deck instead, Juri, Master of the Revue (about $0.28 as of September 2026) gets a +1/+1 counter whenever you sacrifice a permanent and deals damage equal to its power when it dies.

In Boros, Arabella, Abandoned Doll deals X damage to each opponent and gains you X life whenever it attacks, where X is the number of creatures you control with power 2 or less, so a board of small tokens and utility creatures becomes a drain engine. In Abzan, The Necrobloom makes a 0/1 Plant on every landfall, or a 2/2 Zombie once you control seven or more lands with different names, and gives land cards in your graveyard dredge 2. Tidus, Yuna's Guardian can move a counter between your creatures at the beginning of combat on your turn and lets you draw and proliferate once a turn when creatures with counters connect; the budget +1/+1 counters deck guide is the natural companion read.

A few of the three-colour picks lean stronger than the rest. Zur the Enchanter puts an enchantment with mana value 3 or less straight onto the battlefield every time he attacks, and about 688 of his decks on EDHREC sat at Bracket 5 as of September 2026. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King makes you sacrifice another permanent when he enters or attacks, then draws you a card and grows every time you sacrifice anything, and he has a large Bracket 4 and 5 following on EDHREC too. Kykar, Wind's Fury makes a 1/1 flying Spirit for every noncreature spell and lets you sacrifice Spirits for {R}. Muldrotha, the Gravetide lets you play a land and cast one permanent spell of each permanent type from your graveyard during each of your turns, which turns your graveyard into a second hand.

Fire Lord Azula, Isshin and Baylen are the three most-played three-colour picks in the table. Fire Lord Azula had about 38,100 decks on EDHREC as of September 2026, ranking tenth among all commanders. Firebending 2 adds {R}{R} when she attacks, and that mana lasts until end of combat, which matters because her copy trigger only works on spells you cast while she is attacking, so the deck leans on instants and flash. Saruman, the White Hand (about $0.82 as of September 2026) is the Grixis alternative if you prefer building an Orc Army off noncreature spells. Isshin, Two Heavens as One (about 30,700 EDHREC decks, 25th) makes attack triggers of your permanents trigger an additional time; Queen Marchesa (about $2.42 as of September 2026) is the Mardu alternative, making you the monarch when she enters.

Baylen, the Haymaker (about 29,800 EDHREC decks, 27th) lets you tap two untapped tokens for one mana of any colour, three to draw a card, or four to put three +1/+1 counters on Baylen and give it trample until end of turn.

Temur needs a closer look. Maelstrom Wanderer (about $0.39 as of September 2026, about 8,100 EDHREC decks) gives creatures you control haste and has cascade twice, so casting it lets you cast two free spells from the top of your library, each with a lower mana value than its eight. The deck is ramp, big creatures that hit hard the turn they arrive, and expensive spells that make each cascade worth more. Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm is the more popular Temur commander of the two, with about 28,600 EDHREC decks (28th), and she creates a nonlegendary token copy of every other nontoken Dragon that enters under your control. She missed the router table on price: her default printing was over $6 as of September 2026, while her Showcase printing from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate was about $4.65. If you want her, buy that printing on purpose, and read our budget Dragons tribal deck guide for the Dragon side.

Kenrith, the Returned King is the odd one out. His mana cost is {4}{W}, but his five activated abilities use all five colours, so his colour identity is five colours and the 99 can include any card. Four of them can be pointed at another player: a +1/+1 counter on any creature, 5 life for any player, a card for any player, or a creature card returned from any graveyard to the battlefield under its owner's control. That is why the deck plays well as politics and group hug. There is no five-colour staples guide yet, so start from the overall hub and our budget Pillowfort and Group Hug deck guide.

Pick Your Quadrant: Speed vs Complexity

Power level is only one axis. The other two that decide whether you enjoy a deck are how quickly it tends to close a game and how many decisions it asks you to make each turn. A high-decision engine deck is wasted on someone who wants to attack and see what happens, and a simple aggro deck gets old fast for someone who likes long, tense board states. The grid below places the featured picks and several of the router picks. It is a rough, illustrative placement, and your own build will move each one a little.

If you want a fast, simple first deck, the top-left box is your shortlist, and Krenko is the obvious starting point. If you want to learn the format slowly with a deck that forgives mistakes, the bottom-left box is friendlier, led by Tatyova. The right-hand column rewards experience: the top-right decks can close games quickly but punish a sloppy sequence, and the bottom-right decks win by out-thinking the table over a long game. When you are not sure, pick the commander whose ability you would most enjoy seeing trigger twenty times, because in a 100-card singleton format your commander is the one card you will see every game. Once you have chosen, the $50 Commander deck blueprint shows how to split a small budget across the 99.

Common Mistakes When Choosing a Budget Commander

Choosing by power level instead of play style. It is tempting to pick whichever commander a list calls strongest. But if you like long games with lots of interaction, a fast Ninja deck will feel like a coin flip, and if you like attacking, a slow enchantment engine will feel like homework. Why it costs you: you end up rebuilding around a second commander and buying a second 99, which costs far more than the $5 legend ever did.

Picking a commander that doesn't shape the 99. A legend that is just a solid creature gives you no reason to prefer one card over another, so every slot has to be a stand-alone good card. Stand-alone good cards are exactly the ones that get expensive. Why it costs you: without synergy doing the work, you pay for raw card quality instead, and a cheap deck stops being cheap.

Building the 99 from the wrong colour guide. Colour identity includes the mana symbols in a card's rules text, not just its cost. Kenrith, the Returned King costs {4}{W} but is five colours, and a card with a coloured activated ability can quietly add a colour you did not plan for. Why it costs you: you buy cards you cannot legally play, or you miss cards you could have. Check the identity before you open the staples guide.

Buying the whole deck the day a commander gets popular. Demand can move any of these cards. Sythis, Harvest's Hand was about $4.29 as of September 2026, less than a dollar under our $5 line, and Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm's default printing was already over $6 while her Showcase printing sat under $5. Why it costs you: buying at a spike means paying more for a card that can drift back down or get reprinted a few months later. Buy the commander first, play it with a rough 99 or proxies your group agrees to, and fill in the deck over a few weeks. Our precon vs singles guide compares that approach with starting from a preconstructed deck.

FAQ & Quick Reference

What is the best budget commander for a beginner? Krenko, Mob Boss if you want to attack, Tatyova, Benthic Druid if you want a forgiving engine. Krenko was about $3.61 and Tatyova about $0.29 as of September 2026, and both have simple, visible plans that teach the format without asking you to track a dozen triggers.

Are budget commanders weaker than expensive ones? Not as a rule. A commander's price reflects demand and how often it has been printed, not how well it leads a deck. Krenko, Mob Boss ranked fifth among all commanders on EDHREC as of September 2026 while costing about $3.61, and Fire Lord Azula ranked tenth at about $0.94.

Is Yuriko a Game Changer in Commander? No. Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow was removed from the Game Changers list in the 21 October 2025 brackets update, along with nine other cards. She is still one of the strongest commanders under $5, so bring her to a Bracket 3 or higher table unless your group agrees otherwise.

Which staples guide should I use for my commander? The one that matches its colour identity, not just its mana cost. The router table above maps one commander to each of the 25 colour-identity guides. For four- and five-colour commanders there is no dedicated guide yet, so start from the overall Commander staples hub.

Will I outgrow a budget commander? Some scale up and some stay casual. Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow, Zur the Enchanter and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King all have large Bracket 4 and 5 followings on EDHREC, so you can keep upgrading the 99 for years. Giada, Font of Hope and Ghalta, Primal Hunger are mostly played at Brackets 2 and 3. Both paths are fine; just know which one you are choosing.

What does "under $5" mean in this guide? The price of the card's default printing on Scryfall as of September 2026. That is why Maelstrom Wanderer, not Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, holds the Temur row: Miirym's Showcase printing was under $5, but her default printing was not. Other printings can cost more, and prices change weekly, so treat every figure as "about" and check TCGplayer or Card Kingdom before you buy.

Can a Vehicle or Spacecraft be my commander? Yes. Since the Edge of Eternities rules change announced in June 2025, legendary Vehicles and Spacecraft with a power and toughness box can be commanders. We left them out of this guide to keep the first-deck picks simple.

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