Hello happy Commander enthusiasts. I thought it would be fun to look at my top Commanders for the X matters deck archetype. Ever since Fireball, Mind Twist and Braingeyser in the first set defined their colors and early MTG stuff, we've gotten them all up and down the block. I also have built a few X Matters decks for you as well as a real life one!

Here we go!

Honorable Mention

Mizzix of the Izmagnus

This fun four-drop 2/2 Goblin is first! Whenever you cast a spell with more mana than experience counters, get one. Then your instants and sorceries cost less for each one you have. So, you can use your mana cheap benefit with an X cost spell to always cast them and get more counters and get better results. You can blow stuff up with burn stuff and win with that like Jaya's Immolating Inferno or Comet Storm to kill them all. This win con needs to be more burn and less Rock Hydra for that win since the cost reductions are for spells not permanents. I would still run some as backup win cons as well as things like Guttersnipe and such. Love it leading the X-Spell Matters!

Hinata, Dawn-Crowned

This four-drop Jeskai dork is next! It's on curve with 4/4 flying and trampling size. Your stuff is reduced in cost by 1 mana for each target so that's great for things like X-Matters stuff with multiple targets! Then you can add in White to for things like Heliod's Intervention, Aurelia's Fury and Sphinx's Revelation. Then your foes are taxed for that too, rough deal!

#5. Rosheen Meanderer

Our first printed X Spell matters lady is also our first in our Top Five too! This four-drop Gruul uncommon 4/4 is first with a simple tap to make four mana but just for X spells and costs like Disintegrate and Lair of the Hydra. Then note she adds in Green for things like dorks such as Apocalypse Hydra and Steelbane Hydra or spells like Tyvar's Stand or Strength of the Tajuru. I have built around her in real life here (https://www.coolstuffinc.com/a/abesargent-05122020-real-life-commander-rosheen-meanderer).

#4. Rowan, Scion of War

This three-mana 4/2 tapping lady in Rakdos is next! She's got menace, and then your mana spells this turn are reduced by how much life you lost! So, let's say you lost 6. Tap her, and then lead with an X drawing but life losing for six like Damnable Pact and keep some mana untapped. Then cast the game winning Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire you just drew. Ouchie!

#3. Rosheen, Roaring Prophet

This Modern-legal four-drop version of Rosheen is next! Still a 4/4 size in Gruul, when she ETBs you mill six and then put any card (not needed to be a milled one) back to your hand from your graveyard with an X in its mana cost. You can tap her to reveal X cost spells to make double that for just them. Because of her recursion built in and a better tap, she's clearly a bit higher than her previous one.

#2. Magus Lucea Kane

This Temur four-drop 1/1 is next! She gets +1/+1 counters on her in your combat. Then you can tap her for two mana to make two mana. If used for X spells you can copy them. Free copies of huge spells you tap out for? Love her much! I'm sure you will too!

#1. Zaxara, the Exemplary

This four-drop Sultai colored is our only non-Red leader! They have a 2/3 deathtouch body to keep away attacks from bigger stuff. It taps for two mana of a color, and then has a cast trigger for X stuff to make an X sized Hydra equal to X. Nasty good, and I made a Budget Commander brew around them here - https://www.coolstuffinc.com/a/abesargent-12282021-budget-commander-63-commanding-zaxara. Love them much!

There we go! Thanks for reading! What's your favorite to unleash and what do you like for the X-Matters archetype? Enjoy!