commander · Commodore Guff
Planeswalker Party (CMM).
A Jeskai planeswalker tribal deck led by Commodore Guff — deploy a squadron of planeswalkers, proliferate their loyalty counters, and win through ultimate abilities and The Chain Veil.
The Commanders
Planeswalker Party is a Jeskai Commander deck built on one of Magic's most unique tribal themes: playing as many planeswalkers as possible, protecting them, and cranking their loyalty counters to ultimates through proliferate. The deck runs seventeen planeswalkers alongside dedicated support that doubles activations and stacks loyalty counters every turn. It's a political, high-threat deck that asks opponents to spread their removal thin.
Commodore Guff is the engine. He adds a loyalty counter to each other planeswalker you control at the beginning of your end step — every planeswalker you have ticks up for free each turn. His minus ability draws cards based on how many planeswalkers you control, and his ultimate puts all planeswalkers in your hand directly onto the battlefield. Guff turns a wide planeswalker board from a threat into an inevitability.
Leori, Sparktouched Hunter is the aggressive alternative. Leori deals damage equal to the number of planeswalkers you control whenever an opponent planeswalks — and in a Commander game full of planeswalkers, opponents often activate abilities that increase loyalty. Leori converts your opponents' own planeswalker usage into direct damage, making him a surprise win condition in pods where players run their own walkers.
Key Cards
The Chain Veil
The deck's power multiplier. Each turn you can activate The Chain Veil to allow each planeswalker you control to activate an additional loyalty ability this turn. With four or five planeswalkers on the board, that's four or five extra activations per turn — ultimates fire every two or three turns instead of five or six. Chain Veil is what transforms a midrange planeswalker board into a game-ending cascade of abilities.
Deepglow Skate
When Deepglow Skate enters the battlefield, double all counters on all permanents you control. Cast this with three or four planeswalkers on the board and every single one of them is one activation away from their ultimate. Guff's counter-stacking plus Deepglow's doubling means planeswalkers that should take five or six turns to ultimate do it in two. This is the deck's most explosive combo piece.
Flux Channeler
Every noncreature spell you cast triggers Flux Channeler to proliferate — add a counter to any number of permanents that already have counters. In a deck where you're constantly casting instants and sorceries to protect planeswalkers or remove threats, Flux Channeler keeps all of your loyalty counters climbing passively. Cast a counterspell? Every planeswalker on the board just got one turn closer to their ultimate.
Elspeth, Sun's Champion
Six mana for a planeswalker that creates three 1/1 Soldiers on her plus, destroys all creatures with power four or greater on her minus, and creates an emblem making your creatures indestructible and giving them flying on her ultimate. Elspeth protects herself and other planeswalkers by flooding the board with tokens as blockers and clearing large threats. Her ultimate is genuinely game-winning. With Commodore Guff ticking her up each end step, she reaches ultimate in two turns instead of four.
Spark Double
Copies any planeswalker or creature, enters with an extra loyalty counter, and isn't legendary — so both copies coexist. Copy Commodore Guff and two instances are adding loyalty counters to your entire planeswalker fleet each end step. Copy any other ultimate-primed walker and fire the ability immediately. Spark Double is the deck's best value spell and wins games that chain copy into Deepglow Skate.
How to Play
Build early board presence with cheap instants, counterspells, and small creatures to protect your planeswalkers. Deploy your first planeswalker on turn three or four, then get Commodore Guff in play as soon as possible — his end-step loyalty pump makes every subsequent planeswalker threaten an ultimate two turns faster. Load the board with walkers, drop The Chain Veil, and start double-activating each turn.
Win through planeswalker ultimates — Elspeth's indestructible flying army, Chandra's direct damage, or Guff's own ultimate putting your hand directly onto the battlefield. Deepglow Skate into a board with five planeswalkers is frequently enough to end the game in one turn. The deck is fragile before the engine is running, so protect your walkers aggressively and prioritize getting Guff online.