Planeswalker Commanders in Mystery Booster Commander Edition

Mystery Booster Commander Edition pushes planeswalkers beyond sideboard superfriends tech. Multiple new legends printed as planeswalkers that can be your commander debuted at Gen Con 2026, alongside returning favorites like Greensleeves and Feroz, Ulgrotha’s Warden. Wizards also introduced new planeswalker subtypes—Arzakon, Dyfed, Feroz, Greensleeves, Sifa, Thomil, and Worzel—while The Unluckiest Planeswalker deliberately ships as Legendary Planeswalker with no subtype, echoing The Wanderer’s printing history. This page profiles the headline planeswalker commanders, their mechanical roles, and the deep-cut lore tying Worzel and Thomil back to Magic’s earliest fiction.

For individual creature legends and Rulebreaker creatures, see new commanders. For spoiler timelines and gallery context, see spoilers.

Arzakon, conqueror of Shandalar

Arzakon ({W}{U}{B}{R}{G}) is a five-loyalty five-color planeswalker referencing the final boss of the 1997 MicroProse Shandalar computer game. Loyalty abilities map to iconic Alpha cards: +2 deals three damage to any other target (Lightning Bolt energy), −3 creates a Black Lotus token, and −7 shuffles each player’s hand and graveyard into their library then draws seven (Timetwister scale). As a WUBRG commander, Arzakon demands a manabase draft pools rarely supply naturally— treat him as a build-around in eternal formats after Festival in a Box release, and as a risky but flashy Limited pick when your pool fixes all five colors.

Sifa Grent and political black-red

Sifa Grent ({3}{B}{R}) is a four-loyalty planeswalker with a static drain whenever a creature dies, +1 goading up to two creatures, and −6 exiling the top two cards of each opponent’s library with permission to cast them free this turn. Goad synergizes with multiplayer politics—forced attacks create chaos that benefits Rakdos-flavored pools. Release notes clarify goad timing and that free-cast permissions follow normal timing rules for lands and sorceries. Sifa pairs conceptually with sacrifice-heavy new commanders when drafting black-red, though her three-color identity prevents the synthetic partner exception from adding a mono legend without careful color planning.

Thomil, the Destroyer — Alpha’s dark rival

Thomil, the Destroyer ({3}{B}{B}) is Thomil from Worzel’s Story (1993 Alpha rulebook) and Roreca’s Tale (1994 Pocket Player’s Guide)—one of Magic’s first planeswalker characters, rival to Worzel. He begins at four loyalty with parallel structure to Worzel: +2 creates a 2/2 black Zombie token (summoning undead as in both stories), 0 sacrifices a creature to add {B}{B}{B} (Dark Ritual pacing—not a mana ability, so it uses the stack), and −5 creates a Lord of the Pit token as he did in Roreca’s Tale.

Thomil’s black identity reflects the Black magic he wielded in fiction. In draft, he rewards creature density and sacrifice outlets; in constructed, Lord of the Pit tokens demand ongoing fodder or you take seven damage. Thomil and Worzel make a flavorful fictional pair, but both are three-mana-heavy legends with multicolor or multi-pip identities—you cannot run them as synthetic partners under the MBC draft exception.

Worzel, the Protector — Alpha’s white counterpart

Worzel, the Protector ({1}{W}{W}{W}) mirrors Thomil’s structure from the same Alpha stories. 0 creates a 1/1 white Cat token with “{T}: Put a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control”—possibly referencing Roreca, Worzel’s companion cat in fiction. −1 looks at six cards, may reveal a planeswalker or basic Plains, and puts it in hand—echoing Worzel’s struggle to find Plains leylines in Roreca’s Tale. −8 creates ten Scryb Sprites tokens, as Worzel did in that story.

Worzel’s epithet The Protector foils Thomil’s The Destroyer, and her white identity reflects White magic mastery in both stories. Mark Rosewater noted Worzel’s defining story moment involves getting color-screwed—fitting for a mono-white planeswalker in a five-color product. Collectors and lore fans should read the original Alpha fiction alongside spoiler roundup coverage.

The Unluckiest Planeswalker — no subtype, Rulebreaker auras

The Unluckiest Planeswalker ({2}{R}) appears as Legendary Planeswalker without a subtype, first seen in art on the Curse cycle from Commander 2017. Rulebreaker allows Aura cards of any color identity plus any basic lands—enabling enchantress shells that ignore traditional red boundaries. +1 adds one mana of any color and creates a Gremlin token when that mana casts an Aura; −3 discards your hand, draws twice your Aura count, then moves each Aura attached to you onto opponents of your choice (hexproof opponents can be chosen; protection from you blocks specific Auras).

This design intersects Rulebreaker mechanics and curses-matter strategies. It is not a partner piece for Thomil or Worzel mechanically, but thematically completes a cycle of planeswalker commanders across colors.

Other planeswalker commanders in the set

Dyfed, the Guiding Hand and Greensleeves join Feroz, Ulgrotha’s Warden and Venser, Visionary Traveler in the broader planeswalker roster—Thran lore, Dominarian nostalgia, and blink-style value respectively. Greensleeves creates Giant Badger tokens and can dump permanents from mill, while Dyfed interacts with powerstones from Thran history. These cards expand commander options in the same booster slot as creature legends; evaluate them with the same color-fixing discipline as any multicolor planeswalker.

Drafting and eternal migration

Planeswalker commanders follow normal Commander Draft deck sizing: sixty cards plus basics, color identity restrictions, and optional synthetic partner pairing for eligible mono legends. Planeswalkers do not change combat rules—they sit in the command zone like creature commanders and accrue commander tax when cast from there.

After MagicCon Atlanta and Festival release, planeswalker commanders from MBC 1–60 enter eternal formats together. Build deck lists during draft with tonight’s Limited legality in mind; sleeve for Commander leagues only after confirming legality timing. Cross-reference Future Sight reprints for mana fixing that supports multicolor planeswalker starts.