Weekly Sale Commander: Caturday!

Posted on January 27, 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!

This week is the Caturday Sale! If you haven't figured it out by now, our sale, and by extension this list, revolves around cats! We've got a spicy 101-card list, courtesy of Rin and Seri, Inseparable and Kaheera, the Orphanguard! Companions introduce restrictions on your lists but also sit outside of your 100 cards, so they give you a 101st card. They still have to be within your Commander's color identity and the restrictions apply to your Commander and your main 99. In this case, Kaheera, the Orphanguard makes it so that each creature card in our 100 cards must be a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or a Beast card! The Caturday sale makes this easy and we have 43 creatures in our list! Almost all of them are cats, we've also got some Changelings and a new Elemental as well. Let's get into it!

Feline Superiority!

Our Commander, Rin and Seri, Inseparable, creates tokens whenever we cast a cat or a dog, and also has an activated ability to deal damage based on the number of dogs we have and gain life equal to our cats. I've opted to have mostly cats here, for obvious reasons. We're going to be casting lots of cats, which will give us dog tokens mostly, but our Changelings will give us both a dog and a cat, so overall, we'll still have more cats than dogs.

To start, let's talk about our cats that make more cats! Starting on the lower end of the spectrum, we have Modern all-stars Ocelot Pride and Ajani, Nacatl Pariah! These two cards work so well together, but also just work well in our list that makes tokens and creates cat tokens often. Arahbo, the First Fang is a great cat-lord that also creates more tokens. Brimaz, King of Oreskos makes cats when it attacks or blocks and you can exert Pride Sovereign to make lifelinking cats (which pair well with Ocelot Pride!) and also make Pride Sovereign bigger. Leonin Warleader is kind of a Cat-version of Hero of Bladehold and Regal Caracal is our higher cost lord that also makes tokens! Finally, our lone non-cat in the deck, Belonging, makes Changeling tokens, so I've included it here. It also has Encore, so you can make 3 Changeling tokens per opponent once you attack with the encored version!

Utility Cats!

We've got a few cats that give us great abilities for any situation as well. Qasali Pridemage, Chomping Changeling, and Qasali Slingers help deal with pesky artifacts and enchantments. Whitemane Lion, Fleetfoot Panther, and Temur Sabretooth will let us save or reuse our creatures by returning them to our hand. Roxanne, Starfall Savant and Mutable Explorer give us a little ramp, whereas Changeling Wayfinder and Oreskos Explorer will help us find lands when we're low! Prowling Serpopard will protect your spells, and Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar will protect your spells and also give you some card draw! Felidar Guardian is our alternate win condition, once we've used Rin and Seri, Inseparable's ability to gain tons of life. Finally, Alms Collector prevents our opponents from drawing too many cards and Keeper of Fables will let us draw cards as long as we're dealing combat damage!

We've also got quite a few combat-related cats, from abilities to buffs! Adorned Pouncer seems small at first, but gets big if you Eternalize it, and then you can use Scythecat Cub and King of the Pride to make it huge because of its double strike! Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist makes it so that your opponents only get one creature to choose for combats, as long as you're attacking. Skyhunter Strike Force will let you benefit from attacking all of your opponents, Jetmir, Nexus of Revels gives you incremental value and abilities, and Marisi, Breaker of the Coil will make your opponents attack each other and clear the way for you to attack them! Those abilities, on top of Arahbo, Roar of the World, Jazal Goldmane, and Kaheera the Orphanguard's pump abilities will give you plenty to push through your opponent's life totals!

On the noncreature side, we've also got Ajani, Strength of the Pride to make cat tokens and gain us more life, Collective Inferno (another Lorwyn Eclipsed banger for typal decks!) to double our damage, and Personify to blink and create another (technically!) cat. Herald's Horn, Patchwork Banner, and Vanquisher's Banner are just great for typal decks as well, giving you card advantage, mana, and extra power. Abundant Countryside will give us Changeling tokens, and Animal Sanctuary can make pretty much all of our creatures bigger!

Change the Game!

For our Game Changers, we've got ones that are fantastic in go-wide, creature-based strategies. Aura Shards will keep your opponents' Ghostly Prison, Humility, and other anti-creature Artifacts/Enchantments in the graveyard, where they belong. Worldly Tutor will let us find whichever utility kitty (Utilikitty? Yeah, definitely Utilikitty) that we need at any given moment. Finally, Teferi's Protection (and its baby versions, Heroic Intervention and Flawless Maneuver) will keep our creatures from dying to wrath effects! We also play former-Game-Changer Deflecting Swat since we are actually a Red deck, and its protege, Redirect Lightning! These will help send away pesky removal spells toward our opponent's creatures.

If you want to beef this up to higher brackets, I would add cards like Food Chain for some quick creature chaining and some fast mana like Mox Amber and Chrome Mox for quicker plays. You could also drop the Kaheera Companion restriction and just put Kaheera somewhere in the 99, which will give you access to the rest of the creatures in Magic, loading you up on options!

Thanks for reading, see you all for the next one! As always, I'm mattynewns on most social platforms, drop me a line if you wanna chat about my lists or make recommendations and requests!