Now that we've chosen our commander, let's start by adding in as many cards from the original Vintage deck as will work here. Others that lean more into reanimation like Karador, Ghost Chieftain or The Mimeoplasm are also worth considering, but let's go with Tasigur for more utility and a varied strategy like the original Vintage deck has. Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis, Tasigur, the Golden Fang, and Varolz, the Scar-Striped are probably the best for the job, two using Delve and the other Scavenge. Let's look at some commanders in similar colors that use the graveyard that we'll be filling up. Thrasios is mainly for cEDH (Competitive EDH), so you'll be putting a big unnecessary target on your back using him without an infinite mana strategy. Ravos also has soft reanimation, but probably costs too much. Some honorable mentions are Ravos, Soultender and either Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix or Thrasios, Triton Hero because they give us all 4 colors from the original Vintage deck. You can't self-mill your commander, plus she's mono-White which is way to restrictive for what we want to do here, so she's not a viable option.

Elesh Norn is a great reanimation target but not so sweet a commander. Now let's figure out what commander we're going to use to lead the final deck in this article. This is a Red-less self-mill deck that reanimates big creatures like Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite and Ashen Rider and mechanics like Flashback or Dredge to get them back in play from the graveyard. Here is an example of the archetype upon which our conversion to Commander is based that went 6-0 in a Vintage challenge: 1 Ashen Rider We'll start by taking a look at Vintage Dredge, which is 35% of the Vintage metagame at the time of this writing. We're going to mix in elements from the competitive 60-card decks that usually don't make it into Commander to make it interesting, and more familiar to the 60-card players. These won't be the typical decks you see for the selected commanders. Or if you're a veteran Commander player, maybe you'll still find something cool here to try out. If you're new to Commander, doing so helps you dip your toes in the water with a style of play to which you're already accustomed.

This is the first in a series of three articles where I'll discuss transferring some of your favorite 60 card deck archetypes into Commander.

Simic dredge edh