Arzakon

Arzakon is a five-color planeswalker commander that wants to generate value and mana while slowly grinding toward its ultimate. The +2 ability gives you repeatable damage that chips away at opponents and removes small threats, while the −3 creates explosive mana acceleration through Black Lotus tokens—perfect for ramping into bigger plays or powering out spells the same turn. Your game plan is to protect Arzakon, untap with it, and keep activating abilities until you hit the −7, which acts as a pseudo-restart that resets the board state and refills everyone's hand. This makes it a midrange control deck that wins through attrition and commander damage over time.

The deck thrives on mana acceleration and loyalty gain to fuel repeated activations. Include ways to untap Arzakon (like Doubling Season effects or Spark Double) to maximize loyalty generation, and pack the deck with ramp to cast it early and protect it with interaction. Since you're five colors, green gives you land ramp while blue and black offer counterspells and removal. Tokens will accumulate naturally from the −3 ability, and you can lean into sacrifice outlets or just sit back and generate value. The ultimate is your long-game closer—shuffling hands and graveyards disrupts graveyard strategies while giving everyone fresh resources, but you'll be ahead on tempo.

Win through a combination of commander damage (Arzakon ticks up), tokens swarm (if you untap repeatedly), and attrition via removal and control. The deck can pivot to Superfriends synergies if you include other planeswalkers, or go deep on Artifacts to maximize the Lotus tokens.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.