Best Landfall commanders

Omnath draws a card when it enters, and its landfall changes with each land in a turn: the first gains you 4 life, the second adds {R}{G}{W}{U}, and the third deals 4 damage to each opponent and their planeswalkers. A fetch land counts twice, so three landfalls a turn is realistic, and every turn after that deals 4 to the whole table. Four colors give the best extra-land effects and the removal to protect the plan.

Best for: Players who want the strongest Landfall deck.

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Aesi lets you play an additional land each turn, and whenever a land enters under your control you may draw a card. That is ramp and card draw in one body: two land drops a turn mean two cards a turn, and fetch lands draw twice. The deck never runs out of lands to play or cards to play them with. Simic colors add counterspells and the best land-ramp cards.

Best for: Players who like a steady engine and big hands.

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Every land you play makes a 0/1 Plant — or a 2/2 Zombie once you control seven or more lands with different names. Land cards in your graveyard have dredge 2, so you can return a land to your hand instead of drawing, milling two cards along the way. Fetch lands and land sacrifice turn into a cycle: play, sacrifice, dredge back, play again. A 2/7 for four that defends well while the tokens add up. Abzan colors.

Best for: Experienced players who like graveyard engines.

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Hearthhull is a Spacecraft: you tap other creatures to put charge counters on it. With two counters it can tap, pay {1} and sacrifice a land to draw two cards and play an additional land that turn — a land in the graveyard, a new one on the battlefield, another landfall. At eight counters it becomes a 6/7 flying, hasty creature, and every land you sacrifice makes each opponent lose 2 life. Jund colors.

Best for: Players who like building an engine over several turns.

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Every land you play makes a 5/5 Elemental with Omnath on the battlefield, and whenever Omnath or another Elemental you control dies, it deals 3 damage to any target. A fetch land is two 5/5s. The board grows fast, removal on your Elementals only deals more damage, and a sacrifice outlet turns each one into a burn spell. Gruul colors and a very simple plan.

Best for: Newcomers and budget builders.

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In a Landfall deck, Tifa is the payoff that ends games: each land that enters doubles her power until end of turn. Exploration and Azusa give extra land drops, fetch lands count twice, and ramp spells that put lands onto the battlefield count too. Four landfalls take a pumped Tifa to lethal commander damage. Mono-green keeps the mana simple and the deck inexpensive.

Best for: Players who like combo-like turns.

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Toph makes your nontoken artifacts lands as well, so every mana rock and Equipment you play triggers landfall. At each of your end steps she earthbends 2: a land you control becomes a hasty creature with two +1/+1 counters, and it returns to the battlefield tapped when it dies or is exiled. The deck mixes artifacts and landfall payoffs, with an army of lands that keep coming back. Naya colors.

Best for: Players who like unusual synergies.

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The first landfall each turn manifests dread: look at the top two cards, put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 and the other into your graveyard. Each later landfall lets you turn a permanent you control face up — no mana cost needed, so a face-down creature becomes the real thing for free. Two land drops a turn mean a new body and a free flip. Simic colors.

Best for: Players who enjoy hidden information and surprises.

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Flubs lets you play an additional land each turn, and whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card if your hand is empty — otherwise you discard one. The deck dumps its hand fast, then draws a card for every land and spell. Discarded lands come back with Crucible of Worlds or Ramunap Excavator, and madness cards turn discards into free spells. Temur colors.

Best for: Players who like unusual card-flow puzzles.

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Whenever one or more Birds you control attack, Choco looks at that many cards from the top of your library: you take one, put any lands among them onto the battlefield tapped, and the rest go to the graveyard. Each attack is card selection, ramp and several landfall triggers at once, and Choco grows by +1/+0 with each land. A Bird typal deck with a Landfall core in Bant colors.

Best for: Players who want an aggressive flying deck with Landfall.

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