The Best Temur – Green/Blue/Red

Summary

• Temur deck commanders offer impressive versatility and access to card draw, ramp, and aggressive creatures.
• Beluna Grandsquall makes deck building cheaper and stronger with Adventure mechanics and card mill abilities.
• Me, The Immortal grows stronger over time and retains counters even when changing zones, making it a powerful commander option.

Magic: The Gathering‘s Commander format has exploded in popularity. A format in which decks are constructed around key legendary creatures that are selected as a deck’s commander, decks can only include cards within that commander’s color identity.

This means that commanders with more colors within their color identity have larger card pools to draw from when constructing a deck, allowing for more options and variety. For this reason, decks of three or more colors are quite popular. Temur, the identity of blue, green, and red, is a robust combination that has access to impressive card draw, mana ramp, and aggressive creatures.

Updated on March 19, 2025, by Ryan Hay: Temur is back with three newer legendary creatures to build around. These commanders embody the controlled chaos that comes with the unique color combination, with Flubs, the Fool giving you all sorts of weird draw circumstances, Storm, Force of Nature letsyou storm out wiht your favorite spells, while Loot, the Key to Everything gives you a versatile way to access a ton of your deck.

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Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills

Adventures Await

Beluna Grandsquall is one of those cards that will only get better with time. The creature side of Beluna is a respectable 4/4 that causes your permanent spells with the Adventure mechanic to cost one less. If you build your deck right, it will make the majority of your deck a little cheaper to play, which can help accelerate you up in a game.

The more interesting part of Beluna though, is her adventure side. When you cast Seek Thrills, you mill yourself for seven cards, and then take everything you milled with an Adventure and put it in your hand. The odds are pretty good you’ll be grabbing at least a few Adventure cards when you have enough in your deck. As Magic continues to print new cards with the Adventure mechanic, Beluna will only get stronger and more versatile.

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Me, The Immortal

You Have All The Time In The World

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Coming from the Universes Beyond: Doctor Who expansion comes Me, the Immortal, a rather unique card that grows stronger the longer it is out in play. Once Me it out and it survives to your combat step, you get to pick one of four counters to put on it. You can repeat counters, so once you get all the extra abilities on her, you can start ramping up the counters.

The unique thing with Me is that counters stay on her anytime she changes zones, other than if it would go into your hand or library, though you can always choose not to have it happen if she’s your commander. She lets you keep all counters on her too, not just the ones she adds, so if you can add a flying counter or even counters that would make her indestructible, they will stick around forever.

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Lara Croft, Tomb Raider

Always More Treasure To Be Found

One of the more unique commanders to ever be printed comes from a Secret Lair Universes Beyond tie-in with the Tomb Raider universe. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider is all about uncovering legendary artifacts and lands from your graveyard, rewarding you for digging them up. Anytime Lara Croft attacks, you get to exile a legendary artifact or legendary land from anyone’s graveyard, putting a discovery counter on it.

Cards that have a discovery counter on them can be played if Lara Croft’s ability triggers, and even better, she creates a Treasure token after she attacks thanks to her Raid ability. Not only is it incredibly thematic given her history as an explorer and treasure hunter, she can steal your opponent’s legendary cards from their graveyard. With a few ways to mill your opponents or some destruction spells, you can fill all the graveyards up with treasures to steal.

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Averna, The Chaos Bloom

Blossom On The Battlefield

A three-mana Temur commander, Averna, the Chaos Bloom is a solid option for those looking to build a deck around the cascade mechanic. While cards with the cascade mechanic allow you to exile cards from the top of your library until you hit a spell with a lesser mana cost, casting that spell, this mechanic interacts very little with lands.

That’s where Averna comes in. A 4/2 Elemental Shaman, Averna states that when triggering cascade, its controller can put a land from among the cards into play. This allows cascade effects to effectively double as mana ramp as long as Averna is in play.

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Illuna, Apex Of Wishes

Mutate Into Something New

Printed in Ikoria, Illuna, Apex of Wishes is a 6/6 with flying and trample for five mana. Boasting a mutate cost of six mana, Illuna allows each mutate effect in its owner’s deck to provide significantly more value.

Whenever this creature mutates, you exile cards from the top of your library until you hit a nonland permanent card, putting that card directly into play or in your hand. This allows for massive and impactful permanents to be cheated into play, subverting high mana costs.

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The Swarmlord

Tyranid’s Gonna Swarm

Coming from the depths of space is The Swarmlord, the massive leader other Tyranids and a beast of a commander in Magic. The Swarmlord is a mix of two different mechanics, +1/+1 counters and death triggers. Thanks to its Rapid Regeneration ability, The Swarmlord enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters for each time you’ve cast your commander from the command zone. The more times it’s died, the stronger it gets.

Then, whenever a creature you control with counter on it dies, you get to draw a card. Cards like Hardened Scales shine with The Swarmlord, as well as cards that place counters on your creatures passively, like Arwen, Weaver of Hope and Renata, Called to the Hunt. While you don’t want to be recasting your commander a bunch in a game, it coming back stronger each time can be a punishing reward for your hard work.

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Maelstrom Wanderer

Wander What You’re Going To Do

A splashy yet effective commander, Maelstrom Wanderer is a 7/5 for eight mana that provides all creatures under its owner’s control with haste, allowing them to attack and be used with more immediacy.

Most notably, Maelstrom Wanderer, has two instances of cascade, meaning that upon entering the battlefield, its controller triggers cascade twice, casting two additional spells for free. As Maelstrom Wanderer gives all other creatures haste, if creatures are put into play via its cascade, they can attack or activate abilities as soon as they come into play.

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Omnath, Locus Of The Roil

Make Those Lands Do Work

Omnath, Locus of the Roil is a great commander choice for a Temur Elemental-themed deck. Upon entering the battlefield, Omnath deals an amount of damage to any target equal to the number of Elementals its owner controls.

Either removing a threat or dealing substantial damage to a player, this ability is quite useful, especially when casting Omnath within an already established board state. Omnath also synergizes with lands and mana ramp quite well, putting a +1/+1 counter on target elemental whenever you play a land, even drawing a card if you control eight or more lands when you do so.

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Riku Of Two Reflections

Twice As Nice

A 2/2 Human Wizard for five mana, Riku of Two Reflections is a Temur commander that allows you to copy not only instants and sorceries, but any creature spell you cast as well. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery, you can pay two mana (one red and one blue) to copy that spell.

Creatures you cast that become copies are now turned into tokens with Riku.

Similarly, whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay two mana (one green and one blue) to create a token copy of that creature. This allows you to double the value of nearly all of their spells as long as you have access to enough mana.

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Xyris, The Writhing Storm

Wheel And Deal

Drawing cards is often regarded as the most powerful and important thing that you can do in the Commander format. Xyris, the Writhing Storm is a commander capable of converting other players’ card draw into value. Whenever another player draws a card outside of the first they draw during their draw step, you create a 1/1 snake token.

Xyris can draw cards on its own too, letting you and whichever opponent you attack to draw cards equal to the amount of combat damage it has dealt.

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Rashmi And Ragavan

Two For The Price Of One

Joining forces to stop the Phyrexian invasion, Rashmi and Ragavan come together to provide tons of card advantage for you in your games. The first spell you cast on your turn lets you exile the top card of an opponent’s library and gives you a Treasure token. You can then cast the card you just exiled for free if its mana value is less than the number of artifacts you control. If It’s more, you have to pay to cast it.

Spamming the board with tons of mana rocks and Treasure tokens is a great way to go, ensuring you can always cast your opponent’s spells for free, and if you can’t, you’ll have plenty of mana available to do whatever you want. Cards like Dockside Extortionist and Academy Manufactor are your best friends in this deck, creating tons of tokens for you to take advantage of.

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Magus Lucea Kane

Your X Spells Got Better

Magus Lucea Kane is a commander you can let sit for a bit while you build up your board since it adds a +1/+1 counter to any creature of your choice at the start of your combat. With a few extra combat steps in a turn, you can start dishing out a fair number of counters with Kane.

The real power of Magus Lucea Kane comes from her second ability, Psychic Stimulus. This ability gives you two generic mana to use for anything you want, but if you use it for a spell with X in its mana value or to activate an ability with X in its cost, you copy that spell or ability. You even get to copy creature spells that have X in their mana value, giving you two creatures for one cast.

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Loot, The Key To Everything

Who Can Say No To That Face

Drawing cards is the hallmark of Temur, giving you access to some of the best cards possible for keeping your hand full. Drawing some inspiration from the red aspect of the color combination is Loot, the Key to Everything. This little cutie doesn’t draw cards necessarily, but instead gives you access to the top cards of your deck by exiling them for the turn and letting you play them.

This ability triggers at the start of your turn, and checks the number of card types among permanents you control. You’ll have at least two cards getting exiled if you have lands and Loot out, and can get up to six cards each turn if you have all these permanent types in play.

• Planeswalker
• Land
• Creature
• Artifact
• Enchantment
• Battle

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Kalamax, The Stormsire

Take On The Storm

A 4/4 for four mana, Kalamax is a widely popular Temur commander that allows its controller to copy the first instant or sorcery they cast each turn. While this ability only triggers once each turn unlike that of Riku, it requires no investment of mana, allowing it to be used more reliably.

Kalamax has to be tapped to copy spells, but attacking might not always be an option. Consider running a few vehicles or cards that let you tap creatures for extra effects to get Kalamax into position.

Additionally, whenever Kalamax’s controller copies a spell, a +1/+1 counter is put on Kalamax, allowing it to function as an offensive threat in addition to as a source of spell-based value.

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Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm

Here There Be Dragons

Dragon-themed Commander decks have a new powerhouse in the format in Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm. Every time a nontoken Dragon enters the battlefield, Miirym makes a token copy of it except it isn’t legendary if the original creature was. With all the extremely powerful legendary Dragons in Magic, Miirym gives you an incredible amount of power very quickly.

Miirym even protects itself with ward 2, taxing your opponents an extra two mana if they want to target it with a spell to try and remove it. All these abilities help keep Miirym in play to grow your Dragon army to greater heights.

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Storm, Force Of Nature

True To Her Namesake

If you want an absolute powerhouse in the command zone, look no further than the X-Man goddess herself and build a deck around Storm, Force of Nature. This four-mana commander has both flying and vigilance, giving you a bit of evasion for when you go swinging in. The game changing power comes from her Ceaseless Tempest power ability, giving you an elegant way to put your spells to good use.

When Storm deals combat damage to another player, the next instant or sorcery spell gains storm, which lets you copy it for each spell you’ve cast before it this turn. Sure, she has to make contact with an opponent to get there, but she has flying already, and it won’t be too difficult to push some damage given the amount of removal and tempo spells you can run.

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Animar, Soul Of Elements

Easy Temur Combos

Animar, Soul of Elements is by and large one of the most powerful creature-focused commanders in the entire format. A 1/1 elemental with protection from white and black for three mana, Animar can grow in size quite quickly, gaining a +1/+1 counter whenever its controller casts a creature spell.

While a large commander with protection from two colors is nothing to scoff at, Animar’s strongest ability comes in the form of its cost reduction ability, reducing the mana costs of all creature spells its owner would cast by an amount of mana equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it. This means that, the more creatures you cast, the cheaper they will be, meaning that Animar can allow you to cast some of the largest and most devastating creatures in Magic’s history for a negligible cost.