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Jonathan Zucchetti
Nov 20, 2025
Jonathan Zucchetti
The Best Commander From Every Year of the 2000s
With 2025 drawing to a close, let's take a look back at this quarter century and pick out the best commanders from each year.
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Desperate Plea
9.1%inclusion1 decks11 decks
8%synergy
Callous Inspector
9.1%inclusion1 decks11 decks
8%synergy
High Synergy Cards
Serrated Scorpion
89%inclusion33 decks37 decks
87%synergy
Bone Shredder
84%inclusion31 decks37 decks
82%synergy
Skullport Merchant
78%inclusion29 decks37 decks
76%synergy
Dusk Legion Zealot
78%inclusion29 decks37 decks
76%synergy
Greedy Freebooter
81%inclusion30 decks37 decks
75%synergy
Cadaver Imp
73%inclusion27 decks37 decks
71%synergy
Viscera Seer
86%inclusion32 decks37 decks
70%synergy
Bloodthrone Vampire
65%inclusion24 decks37 decks
63%synergy
Doomed Dissenter
65%inclusion24 decks37 decks
63%synergy
Shambling Ghast
68%inclusion25 decks37 decks
62%synergy
Top Cards
Zulaport Cutthroat
78%inclusion29 decks37 decks
55%synergy
Blood Artist
70%inclusion26 decks37 decks
39%synergy
Village Rites
65%inclusion24 decks37 decks
40%synergy
Feed the Swarm
65%inclusion24 decks37 decks
14%synergy
Swiftfoot Boots
65%inclusion24 decks37 decks
33%synergy
Blood Pet
65%inclusion24 decks37 decks
57%synergy
Carrion Feeder
62%inclusion23 decks37 decks
51%synergy
Big Game Hunter
62%inclusion23 decks37 decks
60%synergy
Novice Occultist
62%inclusion23 decks37 decks
60%synergy
Skyscanner
62%inclusion23 decks37 decks
61%synergy
Game Changers
Bolas's Citadel
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
-13%synergy
Creatures
Syr Konrad, the Grim
59%inclusion22 decks37 decks
39%synergy
Fume Spitter
59%inclusion22 decks37 decks
58%synergy
Abyssal Gatekeeper
59%inclusion22 decks37 decks
58%synergy
Pilgrim's Eye
54%inclusion20 decks37 decks
53%synergy
Tattered Mummy
51%inclusion19 decks37 decks
50%synergy
Disciple of Perdition
51%inclusion19 decks37 decks
50%synergy
Sling-Gang Lieutenant
51%inclusion19 decks37 decks
50%synergy
Bloodflow Connoisseur
51%inclusion19 decks37 decks
50%synergy
Burglar Rat
49%inclusion18 decks37 decks
37%synergy
Morbid Opportunist
49%inclusion18 decks37 decks
26%synergy
Pitiless Plunderer
49%inclusion18 decks37 decks
30%synergy
Clattering Augur
49%inclusion18 decks37 decks
47%synergy
Marionette Apprentice
46%inclusion17 decks37 decks
35%synergy
Priest of Forgotten Gods
43%inclusion16 decks37 decks
35%synergy
Ayara, First of Locthwain
41%inclusion15 decks37 decks
15%synergy
Elderfang Disciple
41%inclusion15 decks37 decks
34%synergy
Grim Haruspex
41%inclusion15 decks37 decks
31%synergy
Mindless Automaton
41%inclusion15 decks37 decks
40%synergy
Nezumi Informant
38%inclusion14 decks37 decks
31%synergy
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
38%inclusion14 decks37 decks
-14%synergy
Virus Beetle
38%inclusion14 decks37 decks
31%synergy
Gleaming Barrier
35%inclusion13 decks37 decks
34%synergy
Bottle Gnomes
35%inclusion13 decks37 decks
34%synergy
Lampad of Death's Vigil
35%inclusion13 decks37 decks
34%synergy
Dockside Chef
35%inclusion13 decks37 decks
33%synergy
Butcher of Malakir
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
26%synergy
Infestation Sage
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
28%synergy
Soldevi Adnate
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
28%synergy
Dutiful Attendant
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
32%synergy
Leaden Myr
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
26%synergy
Perilous Myr
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
32%synergy
Deathgreeter
30%inclusion11 decks37 decks
26%synergy
Snarling Gorehound
27%inclusion10 decks37 decks
26%synergy
Yarok's Fenlurker
24%inclusion9 decks37 decks
24%synergy
Vengeful Bloodwitch
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
16%synergy
Scorn-Blade Berserker
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
21%synergy
Smothering Abomination
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
19%synergy
Pawn of Ulamog
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
12%synergy
Falkenrath Noble
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
13%synergy
Thoughtpicker Witch
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
18%synergy
Basal Thrull
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
18%synergy
Elvish Doomsayer
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
17%synergy
Plagued Rusalka
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
18%synergy
Weaponcraft Enthusiast
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
18%synergy
Skittering Surveyor
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
16%synergy
Corpse Blockade
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
16%synergy
Reassembling Skeleton
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
-1%synergy
Ornithopter of Paradise
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
11%synergy
Thorn of the Black Rose
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
13%synergy
Cauldron Familiar
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
12%synergy
Instants
Tragic Slip
62%inclusion23 decks37 decks
42%synergy
Corrupted Conviction
59%inclusion22 decks37 decks
47%synergy
Deadly Dispute
49%inclusion18 decks37 decks
24%synergy
Dark Ritual
49%inclusion18 decks37 decks
-18%synergy
Plumb the Forbidden
35%inclusion13 decks37 decks
31%synergy
Defile
30%inclusion11 decks37 decks
-8%synergy
Altar's Reap
30%inclusion11 decks37 decks
27%synergy
Armor of Shadows
27%inclusion10 decks37 decks
25%synergy
Supernatural Stamina
24%inclusion9 decks37 decks
17%synergy
Professor's Warning
24%inclusion9 decks37 decks
23%synergy
Costly Plunder
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
19%synergy
Eviscerator's Insight
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
14%synergy
Offer Immortality
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
14%synergy
Reckoner's Bargain
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
10%synergy
Undying Malice
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
4%synergy
Body Count
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
12%synergy
Nasty End
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
10%synergy
Without Weakness
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
13%synergy
Fake Your Own Death
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
7%synergy
Not Dead After All
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
-1%synergy
Withering Torment
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
-21%synergy
Feign Death
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
3%synergy
Mausoleum Secrets
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
6%synergy
Imp's Mischief
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
-16%synergy
Wake the Dead
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
7%synergy
Shred Memory
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Thrilling Encore
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
3%synergy
Unnatural Endurance
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Murder
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
-5%synergy
You Are Already Dead
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Overwhelming Remorse
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
4%synergy
Debt to the Kami
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Cremate
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
4%synergy
Flare of Malice
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
-7%synergy
Doom Blade
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
-2%synergy
Maximum Overdrive
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
4%synergy
Disfigure
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Infernal Grasp
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
-20%synergy
Sorceries
Eaten Alive
62%inclusion23 decks37 decks
59%synergy
Victimize
43%inclusion16 decks37 decks
17%synergy
Bone Shards
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
29%synergy
Worthy Cost
22%inclusion7 decks32 decks
20%synergy
Eliminate the Competition
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
21%synergy
Bankrupt in Blood
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
21%synergy
Sign in Blood
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
-15%synergy
Spark Harvest
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
18%synergy
Killing Wave
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
17%synergy
Mutilate
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
-2%synergy
Final Vengeance
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
14%synergy
Diabolic Tutor
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
-1%synergy
Dread Return
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
1%synergy
Unearth
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
2%synergy
Exsanguinate
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
-14%synergy
Night's Whisper
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
-14%synergy
Bone Splinters
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
6%synergy
Pitiless Carnage
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
7%synergy
Read the Bones
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
-10%synergy
Blasphemous Edict
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
-9%synergy
Bubbling Muck
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
-10%synergy
Blood Money
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
2%synergy
Reanimate
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
-34%synergy
Annihilating Glare
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
4%synergy
Invoke Despair
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
3%synergy
Dimir Machinations
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Utility Artifacts
Desecrated Tomb
38%inclusion14 decks37 decks
35%synergy
Ashnod's Altar
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
13%synergy
Spawning Pit
27%inclusion10 decks37 decks
26%synergy
Skullclamp
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
0%synergy
Lightning Greaves
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
-15%synergy
Wayfarer's Bauble
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
0%synergy
Lightning Coils
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
16%synergy
Vat of Rebirth
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
10%synergy
Transmogrant Altar
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
10%synergy
Witch's Cauldron
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
10%synergy
Jet Medallion
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
-50%synergy
Magistrate's Scepter
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
8%synergy
Mirror Shield
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
8%synergy
Bontu's Monument
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
-20%synergy
Whispersilk Cloak
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
2%synergy
Darksteel Plate
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
6%synergy
Mask of Avacyn
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
7%synergy
Weatherlight Compleated
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Genesis Chamber
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
3%synergy
Enchantments
Bastion of Remembrance
62%inclusion23 decks37 decks
46%synergy
Dark Privilege
54%inclusion20 decks37 decks
53%synergy
Agent of the Iron Throne
41%inclusion15 decks37 decks
37%synergy
Open the Graves
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
29%synergy
Vampiric Rites
32%inclusion12 decks37 decks
27%synergy
Soul Enervation
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
21%synergy
Cultist of the Absolute
22%inclusion8 decks37 decks
21%synergy
Black Market
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
-2%synergy
Kaya's Ghostform
19%inclusion7 decks37 decks
9%synergy
Fallen Ideal
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
16%synergy
The Sibsig Ceremony
15%inclusion5 decks33 decks
13%synergy
Into the Pit
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
12%synergy
Blessing of Leeches
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
10%synergy
Blight Mound
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
8%synergy
The Meathook Massacre
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
-9%synergy
Mind Slash
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
7%synergy
Soul Channeling
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
8%synergy
Chthonian Nightmare
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Teval's Judgment
6.3%inclusion2 decks32 decks
4%synergy
Hecatomb
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Phyrexian Scriptures
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
4%synergy
Phyrexian Reclamation
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
-5%synergy
Skeletal Grimace
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Shadows of the Past
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Attrition
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
2%synergy
Quag Sickness
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Crippling Blight
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Dark Prophecy
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
1%synergy
Phyrexian Arena
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
-35%synergy
Tortured Existence
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
1%synergy
Utility Lands
Mortuary Mire
49%inclusion18 decks37 decks
35%synergy
Bojuka Bog
41%inclusion15 decks37 decks
-6%synergy
Witch's Cottage
41%inclusion15 decks37 decks
16%synergy
High Market
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
9%synergy
Polluted Mire
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
12%synergy
Reliquary Tower
16%inclusion6 decks37 decks
-15%synergy
Westvale Abbey
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
7%synergy
Barren Moor
14%inclusion5 decks37 decks
3%synergy
Temple of the False God
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
3%synergy
Susur Secundi, Void Altar
8.3%inclusion2 decks24 decks
1%synergy
Memorial to Folly
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Desert of the Glorified
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Crypt of Agadeem
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
-3%synergy
Spymaster's Vault
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
-2%synergy
War Room
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
-8%synergy
Hidden Necropolis
8.1%inclusion3 decks37 decks
6%synergy
Midgar, City of Mako
6.9%inclusion2 decks29 decks
-5%synergy
The Dross Pits
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
4%synergy
Buried Ruin
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
0%synergy
Guildless Commons
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Mana Artifacts
Sol Ring
84%inclusion31 decks37 decks
-3%synergy
Arcane Signet
57%inclusion21 decks37 decks
-6%synergy
Mind Stone
35%inclusion13 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Charcoal Diamond
30%inclusion11 decks37 decks
7%synergy
Thought Vessel
24%inclusion9 decks37 decks
-3%synergy
Crowded Crypt
11%inclusion4 decks37 decks
6%synergy
Thran Dynamo
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
-1%synergy
Lands
Swamp
100%inclusion37 decks37 decks
5%synergy
Myriad Landscape
35%inclusion13 decks37 decks
9%synergy
Demolition Field
5.4%inclusion2 decks37 decks
0%synergy
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