What's your preferred 4 color combo/stax/control/aggro schemes?
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on Aug. 9, 2016, 9:42 p.m. by kengiczar
With Commander 2016 happening late this year now is the time to start planning and building your 4 color deck. Before spending all that time doing so why not get some input from the community as to what 4 color combo you should play for each type of deck?
These are just my opinions and I may very well be wrong. What do you all think are the best 4 color combinations for each archetype? Lets say you think the scheme with no 
is the best for Aggro. If that option isn't available would you stay in that color scheme or switch to a general more aggro oriented?
combos require 3+ cards. Other colors all have more 2 card combos. The only thing you really lose is Enlightened Tutor and Idylic Tutor. 
has more than enough combo pieces to make up for that.)
control cards but ultimately the best control spell has is Krosan Grip. To me that does not justify choosing it over or /X cards. goblins, elves, aggro with backup board wipes, or 
aggro of any kind backed up by combo and kill spells.) I have to agree with TheDevicer. If you want an overarching 4-color combo deck where each color adds to/is a part of the color, well just play Hermit Druid, but you're making a pretty big assumption. Colors can be used for support, and each color supports that.
For combo, white gives you board control and the rare tutor effect.
For Stax, red gives you War's Toll, land destruction, recursion and Chaos effects to clog up boards.
For control, green gives EXCELLENT finishers (Craterhoof Behemoth, The Great Aurora, etc.) as well as the third best draw power in the game, only being edged out by black because Necropotence is hilariously broken.
For aggro, you have some very powerful Voltron commanders, like Geist of Saint Traft, Bruna, Light of Alabaster and Rafiq of the Many or good tempo options. Also, keep in mind that in EDH, the aggro variants you mentioned are almost always going to be very light on colors in order to increase consistency, so I doubt that 4-color aggro could even be a thing.
Anyways, that's just my insight. Honestly, I don't think that, at this point in time, we can judge ANY 4-color combination without knowing the dudes in charge. There may not be any 4-color commander good for aggro, or good for stax, or voltron, or control (although control and combo can kinda get away with armchair commanders anyway).
August 9, 2016 11:45 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #4
I predicted nonblue will be about tokens, nongreen will be about control, nonred will be about infinite combos, nonwhite will be cheating fatties, and nonblack will be voltron at post #185, so it's interesting to see where we differed. I don't know, all of my predictions seem pretty obvious to me, but those are a lot of aggro subthemes while control and combo aren't broken down into any subthemes.
Arvail says... #2
You're making some serious assumptions here in that every color needs to serve the primary purpose of the deck. Take Edric, Spymaster of Trest, for instance. He's absolutely one of the better generals available in the game and heads an approach based pretty darn heavily in creatures. He's also blue.
Also, I don't need to use white to further my combo plan. I can splash white for boardwipes, spot removal, general hate, and so on.
This type of reasoning can be applied to all of the colors. I'd be pretty hard-pressed to come up with sweeping statements atm.
August 9, 2016 10:05 p.m.