Most people build Commander decks using a specific theme or idea. The joys of having everything in your deck synergize together into one cohesive thing is a joy, and it can suck to upset that balance.
However, it’s important to make sure you still have things like card draw, removal, and things like ramp even if they’re not strictly what your deck is all about. However, if you’re building a five-color deck, you need to save two spots for these two cards.
This land is essential
Even if you decide that you don’t want to go all-in on this duo, there’s no reason not to have The World Tree in your deck.
The World Tree
The World Tree
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
is a land, not even a legendary one, that enters tapped and can be tapped for one green mana.
Alongside that, it also allows you to tap your lands for any color as long as you have six or more lands. This is great if you’ve got fetch lands but no longer have targets for them, and it’s good if you’ve got utility lands that can’t normally tap for mana. Plus, it helps you fix your mana, which is a huge boon in a five-color deck.
Finally, it has an ability that costs two of each color, and you can tap it and sacrifice it to, “Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.” In short, this can be used at instant speed to fill your board with Gods, and that can only be a good thing. Now all we need is a bunch of God cards. Oh, look…
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The artifact that goes with it
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Maskwood Nexus
Maskwood Nexus
Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)
? This is a four-mana artifact that you can pay three mana and tap to make a 2/2 changeling. Yay?
As that’s obviously not the part of the card that’s relevant, what we’re going for here is the first ability, which reads, “Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren’t on the battlefield.” So, all of a sudden, every creature in your deck is a God now, and that means you can fetch them all up with
The World Tree
The World Tree
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Being able to summon whichever creatures you want from your deck at instant speed is obviously a good thing. You can also utilise this in a variety of ways too. Maybe you’re keen on the idea of going all-in on a combo using Peregrin Drake,
Deadeye Navigator
Deadeye Navigator
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."
, and
Thought-Knot Seer
Thought-Knot Seer
({C} represents colorless mana.)
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.
. Maybe that doesn’t appeal to you so you just want to use all of the Praetors. Whatever your preference is, these two cards unlock all of these things at instant speed, and while it’s not a very mana-efficient way of doing things, it sure is funny when it works.