Weekly Sale Commander: Swords and Sorcery!

Posted on January 20, 2026

Hi folks! Welcome to the Weekly Sale Column! This column, as always, is aimed at showing you some cards on sale that could give you some new ideas for your lists. These lists will *usually* be Commander lists in Bracket 3, so you'll be able to play these in any Bracket 3 (or higher) pods. If you want to play in lower pods, just swap out the Game Changers for other choices, and/or add more Game Changers along with some other competitive combos if you want to compete with Bracket 4 and 5 pods! Keep in mind that the game changers in your deck aren't the only thing that moves you up and down a bracket. Your intent with your deck, inclusions of other interactions, engines, and combos, and overall playgroup are also be factors! Remember that the weekly sale ends on Sunday night at 11:59 PM EST, so you have until then to get your cards ordered!

Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms

This week's list focuses on the Swords half of the Swords and Sorcery sale! There is exactly one legendary creature in this sale, and it just so happens to be the perfect Commander for our deck! Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms is a four-mana 4/4 God that gives all of your creatures that are enchanted or equipped double strike! He can also move one Aura or Equipment from one of your creatures to another at the beginning of combat for free. This just heavily pushes us into an equipment deck, as having the flexibility to move our equipment for free while also having double striking creatures is going to be phenomenal. The backside, Sword of the Realms, is also worth using if we're low on creatures to attack with, as it lets us recycle them as long as it's equipped. Let's get into it!

Voltron!

To start, let's look at our equipment! This is what we're all here for, and there are some real bangers! Aettir and Priwen, Blackblade Reforged, and Wreckling Ball Arm will make our equipped creature huge, which pairs well with double strike. We're gonna want some utility when we attack as well, not just when we connect, so we've got Argentum Armor, Genji Glove, and Sword of the Animist! Sword of the Animist is going to be especially useful, as ramp can go a long way in a Mono-White deck! Conformer Shuriken is another good attack trigger, as it both taps a blocker down and also potentially makes our creature bigger!

Some of the best equipment cards also create creature tokens, so we can have more creatures to equip! Batterskull makes a 0/0, but it immediately gets +4/+4, Vigilance, and Lifelink, and the helmet itself is reusable. Mirrormind Crown will make copies of our equipped creature whenever we would make other tokens, which can be great with some of token generators. Helm of the Host also makes copies, but it can make a non-legendary version of legendary creatures, which can go great with our Commander too! We've also got our protection courtesy of some shoes with Lavaspur Boots, Swiftfoot Boots, and Lightning Greaves. Robe of Stars gives us some reusable protection with phasing, and Whispersilk Cloak + Trailblazer Boots will make our double strikers unblockable!

Who's Going to Attack?

We're gonna need creatures to carry these equipment, and White decks have the best choices for that! First, we've got the equipment searchers: Stoneforge Mystic, Cloud, Midgar Mercenary, and Relic Seeker! These are all aggressively-costed at 2-mana, but we've also got Armored Skyhunter at four mana and Stonehewer Giant at five mana! All of these creatures are great at retrieving equipment and/or cheating them into play!

In addition, we've also got some other equipment utility! Lion Sash is a creature that can reconfigure into an equipment, Sram, Senior Edificer will give us efficient card draw, and Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist lets us move our equipment to one creature at the beginning of combat, similar to Halvar. Codsworth, Handy Helper and Danitha Capashen, Paragon will help us play our equipment faster, and although it's not a creature, The Aetherspark is Magic's very own Planeswalker Equipment! It has the ability to gather loyalty counters extremely fast, even in just one attack, so we'll be able to get the value out of its 10-loyalty ultimate quick! Sigarda's Aid and Forge Anew will let us equip our equipment for free and at instant speed. Finally, Kemba, Kha Regent will create tons of 2/2's for us, which is going to work quite well when we equip Mirrormind Crown on something else, like Sun Titan or Stonehewer Giant!

After those, we've added a few other utility cards, from creatures to tutors! Grand Abolisher and Voice of Victory give our spells protection while also being low-costed, so they can carry equipment easily. Leonin Abunas protects all of our artifacts, and Keeper of the Accord lets us always play a little catch up. Sevinne's Reclamation works well with lots of our creatures, but can also target equipment that got destroyed or countered. Modal Double-Faced Cards like Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow, Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier, Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave, and Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins are always worth playing since they can just useful spells if we don't need the lands, and Approach of the Second Sun is our secret second win condition that our opponents will never expect!

Change the Game!

White has some of my favorite Game Changers. First, we have Enlightened Tutor, which can find our free-equip enchantments like Sigarda's Aid/Forge Anew or it can just find any equipment! It has great utility here. Next, we have Teferi's Protection, which will absolutely get used; Voltron decks will get targeted by the table, and you'll need the full turn cycle protection at some point. Finally, we play Ancient Tomb. Ancient Tomb is quite nice in an equipment deck because we play lots of artifacts with colorless costs, so being able to play those a turn sooner is well worth the life loss.

This deck is pretty firmly in bracket 3, probably leaning a smidge closer to bracket 2. If you want to beef it up, I'd just add some more fast mana in, along with a couple Mono-White combos, like Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Walking Ballista or Drannith Magistrate + Knowledge Pool! If you wanna get really cheeky though, add Grafted Exoskeleton and Super State (courtesy of the Sonic Secret Lair), because you can use those two together on any one creature to make each opponent lose the game. That's a much funnier win and your opponents deserve it if they let you do it, too.

Here's the list, see y'all next time!