Red's role in Commander has always been explosive. It doesn't care about subtlety because it cares about impact, spectacle, and making sure your tablemates never feel safe. With Edge of Eternities, Red got an entire arsenal of wild mechanics, artifact synergies, and "blink-and-you're-dead" finishers. This set doubles down on red's identity as the color of speed and destruction, but also shows off just how far design has come for Commander play...against a backdrop of spacefaring theatrics.

Here are my picks for the best Red cards from Edge of Eternities for Commander. No particular order because, really, how do you rank different kinds of explosions?

Tannuk, Steadfast Second

If haste wins games, Tannuk, Steadfast Second ensures you're already across the finish line. Granting haste to all your creatures means no more waiting around as every threat you cast becomes immediate pressure. This ability alone would make Tannuk playable, but it doesn't stop there. Artifact cards and Red creature cards in your hand suddenly gain warp, letting you exile them for a discount and cast them on a later turn. That's pure gas. Did anyone say Sneak Attack?

As a commander, Tannuk plays into artifact aggro, vehicle synergies, or even just good-stuff Red decks that want to keep up a relentless pace. In the 99, it's a haste enabler with upside, making it nearly universal in aggressive strategies. Think of it like a cross between Fires of Yavimaya and a Goblin Engineer's favorite toy chest.

Suggested cards:

• Extinguisher Battleship - Warp in to explode something else
• Etali, Primal Storm - Get that sweet ETB trigger from this Elder Dinosaur
• Cityscape Leveler - Level (get it?) the playing field by warping (aka cheating) this in

Devastating Onslaught

The name isn't exaggerating as this card is exactly what it says. X spells are already dangerous in Commander, and Devastating Onslaught turns every extra mana into a duplicate of your best artifact or creature. Not just one token, but X tokens, each with haste. Sure, they get sacrificed at the end of turn, but do you care when a pile of Combustible Gearhulk copies, or Inferno Titan duplicates, already left your opponents in ashes?

The applications are wild. Copying value artifacts like Solemn Simulacrum, duplicating ETB-heavy robots, or simply flooding the board with lethal attackers makes this one of the set's premier finishers. The flexibility is what makes it scary 'coz it's both a combo card and a win condition.

Suggested cards:

• Goblin Engineer - I don't know about you, but I smell graveyard shenanigans here
• Combat Celebrant - Multiple combat steps to pulverize your opponents
• Imperial Recruiter - Weenie-tutor en-masse

Memorial Vault

Red card draw has come a long way from rummaging spells, and Memorial Vault is proof. Sacrificing another artifact exiles cards from the top of your library equal to its mana value plus one, and you can play them that turn. It's card advantage wrapped inside artifact synergy, and Commander decks love both. It also kind of reminds me of Birthing Pod in a way.

Treasure-heavy decks see this as almost free gas. Clue and Food decks can use expendable tokens to churn through their deck. High-cost artifacts like Spine of Ish Sah or Wurmcoil Engine let you dig absurdly deep. The key here is timing: drop Vault early, then cash in expendable artifacts to reload when you need to push ahead.

Suggested cards:

• Daretti, Scrap Savant - This gobbo is always good in an artifact deck
• The Endstone - Build up to this badboy...
• Darksteel Colossus - ... or this even badder one

Terminal Velocity

This is the kind of haymaker Red rarely gets: cheating something enormous into play and turning it into a board-wide bomb. Terminal Velocity lets you slam down an artifact or creature from your hand with a built-in death trigger that deals damage equal to its mana value to each creature. That's a one-card wipe plus a finisher, depending on what you drop.

Picture dropping a Blightsteel Colossus, swinging with haste, then nuking the table's boards when it inevitably dies. Or bringing in something like a Myr Battlesphere just for the ETB army, knowing it's also going to wipe small creatures on the way out. It's flashy, it's destructive, and it screams Red Commander design.

Suggested cards:

• Blightsteel Colossus - INFECT will take the entirety of the multiverse out
• Chandra's Ignition - More fire, more damage
• Sneak Attack - A permanent version of sneaking things in

Depthshaker Titan

Here's your kaiju moment. Depthshaker Titan enters and animates any number of your noncreature artifacts into 3/3 attackers, which you then sacrifice at the end step. If that wasn't enough, it also grants melee, trample, and haste to your whole artifact creature team.

This Titan shines in decks that pile up Treasures, Clues, or any other artifact token. Suddenly, your vault of resources is a lethal robot army. The temporary nature of the creatures isn't even a downside between ETB triggers, sacrifice synergies, and the raw damage potential, you're getting value no matter what. In the right shell, this is a game-ender kind of like red's own Craterhoof Behemoth.

Suggested cards:

• Academy Manufactor - triples your token production, which Deepshaker Titan turns into an instant army.
• Brass's Bounty - floods you with Treasures
• Inspiring Statuary - lets you tap artifacts for spells

Final Explosive Thoughts

Red has always been the color of chaos and carnage, but Edge of Eternities pushes it further into explosive artifact synergy and all-in finishers. Tannuk, Steadfast Second turns your deck into a haste-fueled warp engine. Devastating Onslaught creates kill turns out of nowhere. Memorial Vault fixes Red's card advantage woes in style. Terminal Velocity drops a bomb on the board. And Depthshaker Titan turns your utility artifacts into a marching army with trample.

If you're a Commander player who loves high-impact plays, these are the Red cards you'll want to pick up from Edge of Eternities. These are downright engines of mayhem. And honestly, isn't that exactly what Red should be doing in Magic: the Gathering?

Peep my article about the best Legends to build from Edge of Eternities if reading this got you hyped for some interstellar mayhem!