In these dire times I require your aid!
I'm doing a secret Santa with my playgroup were we will buy a commander for each others and make a budget deck (50$) out of it.
The commander should be one of the following colors:
Red White Black
Black Green
Green
Does anyone have any unique/cool commanders they would suggest for these color combinations?
#Secret Santa Commander Suggestions
humble nexus
distant briar
[[Omnath, Locus of mana]]
surreal sigilBOT
distant briar
[[Kaalia of the Vast]]
surreal sigilBOT
distant briar
Just my two cents.
hoary bear
I still think [[isshin]] for mardu, [[herald, king of skemfar]] for golgari and [[ghalta, primal hunger]] for mono green
surreal sigilBOT
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
This spell costs 
less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample
The earth walks, strongest of all.
12/12
hoary bear
If you're looking for unique that is. You don't run into those that often
cobalt talon
Oooh I love these. I always like to suggest people put a Christmas spin on the deck as well. Like I have seen people build theme decks around famous Christmas Songs. My favorite was a Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith/Kodama of the East Tree deck themed around the song Rocking around the Christmas Tree. Doesnt fit your colors but Im sure with some thought you could find other interesting concepts to play with.
hoary bear
Oooh I love these. I always like to suggest people put a Christmas spin on the d...
Love this
surreal python
[[ColneferTheLastYew]] or [[Doran the seige tower]] are fun for the song O Christmas Tree
surreal python
[[Colfenor]]
surreal sigilBOT
surreal python
[[Colfener, The]]
surreal sigilBOT
surreal python
[[ColfenerThelastYew]]
surreal sigilBOT
rustic ocean
Could go with [[Piru, The Volatile]]
surreal sigilBOT
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Piru, the Volatile unless you pay 
.
When Piru dies, it deals 7 damage to each nonlegendary creature.
Chasms of dueling energies course within her.
7/7
hoary bear
Spicy tech, but hurt by the lack of ramp in those colors
rustic ocean
Yeah, you’d probably have to play it pretty focused, but I am a fan of decks where even if you lose, doing occasional hilarious or crazy things gets ya the warm fuzzies
Oh also, if you’re going for budget friendly mardu and the potential person getting the gift is LGBT, could always get [[Alesha, Who Smiles At Death]]
surreal sigilBOT
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
First strike
Whenever Alesha, Who Smiles at Death attacks, you may pay 
. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
"Greet death with sword in hand."
3/2
rustic ocean
First canonically trans magic character, the secret lair of her is like 50 cents, and she has a good focused value engine effect
Lots of ETB effects going off on combat with some budget commander protection equipment to keep her in
humble nexus
Thank you all for the wonderful ideas! Keep em coming! A lot of these were added to the list 😄
spark verge
[[gyome]]! A wonderful, wacky, but christmassy, commander
surreal sigilBOT
Legendary Creature — Troll Warlock
Trample
At the beginning of your end step, create a number of Food tokens equal to the number of nontoken creatures you had enter the battlefield under your control this turn.
, Sacrifice a Food: Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.
5/3
spark verge
Can be played for lifegain, sacrifice, control, the list goes on
Bonus points for Christmas themed food tokens
Oh, [[armix]] and [[ich-tekik]] are cool as well
spark verge
Tons of cool stuff there.
rustic ocean
I'm curious if you've picked any for the deck o 3o
hoary bear
Me too
distant briar
Me three
shut cloud
[[Edgar Markov]]
surreal sigilBOT
hoary bear
[[Edgar Markov]]
We're going for unique, not the literal most expensive, most common mardu commander
shut cloud
Oh shit, I didn't know he was so expensive. I have an oversized version (still 20$ Wtf?)
chilly epoch
[[sarulf, realm eater]]
surreal sigilBOT
chilly epoch
voltron commander with many removeall
distant briar
ooooooo that's a neat one
proper sage
Poking through scryfall, here's a weird commander, [[Vhati il-Dal]]
surreal sigilBOT
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
: Until end of turn, target creature has base power 1 or base toughness 1.
"Sir, I just thought . . . ," explained Vhati. "Don't think," interrupted Greven. "It doesn't suit you."
3/3
proper sage
For mono green, [[Yisan]] seems interesting
surreal sigilBOT
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue Bard
, , Put a verse counter on Yisan, the Wanderer Bard: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of verse counters on Yisan, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Designed by Brian Fargo
2/3
proper sage
in Mardu [[Kelsien the plague]] also seems interesting
surreal sigilBOT
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin
Vigilance, haste
Kelsien, the Plague gets +1/+1 for each experience counter you have.
: Kelsien deals 1 damage to target creature you don't control. When that creature dies this turn, you get an experience counter.
"Aim for an eye. Better they never see you."
2/2
shut epoch
I bet Akiri/Keskit is a fun WBR build with all the artifact stuff that’s come out recently, and probably very doable on a budget
shut cloud
We're going for unique, not the literal most expensive, most common mardu comman...
[[Megatron, tyrant]]
surreal sigilBOT
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot
More Than Meets the Eye (You may cast this card converted for .)
Your opponents can't cast spells during combat.
At the beginning of your postcombat main phase, you may convert Megatron. If you do, add 
for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.
7/5
Megatron, Destructive Force
Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
Living metal (As long as it's your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.)
Whenever Megatron attacks, you may sacrifice another artifact. When you do, Megatron deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to target creature. If excess damage would be dealt to that creature this way, instead that damage is dealt to that creature's controller and you convert Megatron.
4/5
shut cloud
Bg [[nath of the gilt leaf]]