Hi folks! We're taking a break from the Weekly Sale Commander column to bring you another top 10! Like my fellow collaborators here on CoolStuffInc, I also have a top 10 list to close out 2025! This one is going to be the Top 10 2-Color Cards of 2025! For you math wizards out there, you'll realize that there are only ten 2-color combinations! This means that we're going to take it a step further and we're going to show off the best 2-color card in each combination, for Commander. Let's get into it!

Honorable Mentions!

We have 3 honorable mentions. Since this list is catered toward Commander, all of our honorable mentions are 2-color cards, but they have more than 2 colors in their color identity.

HM #1 - Terra, Magical Adept

Terra, Magical Adept is an awesome Gruul card, but in Commander, it's a Five-Color card because the backside has mana symbols in its fourth Chapter Ability. She's been making waves in cEDH as another Five-Color "Good Stuff" Commander, since playing her in combination with Food Chain can win you the game by finding you Underworld Breach with her ability! From there, you can find your Thassa's Oracle, winning you the game with an empty library.

HM #2 - The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel falls in the same wheelhouse as Terra, Magical Adept, as the card itself is only 2 colors in Simic, but it has a Five-Color color identity. The Wandering Minstrel is great in Lands-Matters lists, because he acts as a Spelunking, but in the Command Zone! That, on top of having access to all five colors gives you a great shell for a lands-matters deck!

HM #3 - Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist is our final honorable mention, this time in Orzhov colors, but with an Esper color identity! Hashaton thrives in its Esper color identity as some of the best discard cards to make its triggered ability work well are blue! Cards like Ghostly Pilferer, Psychic Frog, Frantic Search, and Rhet-Tomb Mystic all synergize with Hashaton's ability to create copies of awesome creatures when discarded, so Hashaton earns the Honorable Mention spot.

Azorius - Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury

Kicking things off with Blue and White, we have Aang, Swift Savior! Aang, Swift Savior might be the best Spell Queller ever printed, because not only does he airbend any spell, he can also airbend any creature! He can be a Commander if you want a Counterspell in the Command Zone, and he is even a source of two different styles of bending if you're playing Avatar Aang! I've personally included Aang, Swift Savior into two of my three decks that can include it, and I think you should try it out!

Dimir - Superior Spider-Man

Superior Spider-Man, a weird amalgamation of Peter Parker's body and Otto Octavius' thoughts and drive, is an absolutely amazing Magic card! This 4-Mana 4/4 is a cheaper Body Double that keeps its power, toughness, and name, while also exiling the card that it copies. Being able to control the graveyard is cool. Being able to do it and attack with a copy is cooler. It slots well into lists that use the graveyard in Dimir colors, which is arguably all of them. Superior Spider-Man even made waves in Standard, seeing play in 4C Reanimator due to its amazing synergy with Overlord of the Balemurk!

Rakdos - Deadpool, Trading Card

This was a hard decision for me! Both of my top two choices for Rakdos were Secret Lair exclusives, between Shadow the Hedgehog and our winner, Deadpool, Trading Card. Ultimately I went with Deadpool, Trading Card because I think it has more versatility in lists. Shadow the Hedgehog has a super unique ability, but that uniqueness leads it to more of a "build-around" than something as easy to include as Deadpool, Trading Card. Wade Wilson's anti-hero swordsman is great at removing pesky creatures' abilities and has a sweet interaction with clones that can make it so that you just leave your opponents with something that Lightning Bolts their life total or gives you cards while you keep their best creature!

Gruul - Bumi, Unleashed

For Gruul, we've chosen the earthbending master of the White Lotus, Bumi, Unleashed! Bumi is a 5-Mana 5/4 Human Noble Ally with Trample that ETB's to Earthbend 4. Earthbending for 4 is already quite strong at that cost, because you're essentially getting 9 power for 5 mana. On top of that, when Bumi, Unleashed deals combat damage to a player, you get to untap all of your lands and take another combat phase that only lands can attack in. In my games, I've just been using him to earthbend and then reset all of my mana so I can basically have all of my mana in both of my main phases!

Selesnya - Brightglass Gearhulk

Our first Universes Within card on the list, we have Brightglass Gearhulk! Gearhulks, hailing from the plane of Avishkar, always have great ETB effects and great stats for their costs, often including useful combat abilities as well. Brightglass Gearhulk is no different, boasting a 4/4 with both First Strike and Trample for only 4, and a strong ETB to boot. When it enters, you get to search for any two artifact, enchantment, or creature cards that cost 1 or less. It essentially draws you two cards that you have a chance at using right then and there. From searching up utility artifacts like Shadowspear or Ghost Vacuum, to finding a combination play of a Lotus Petal and an Esper Sentinel, you have so many options with Brightglass Gearhulk! I once saw someone search for The Ozolith and Hardened Scales in a deck revolving around +1/+1 counters.

Golgari - Beifong's Bounty Hunters

Next up, we have Beifong's Bounty Hunters! These two earthbenders have the absolute pleasure of being the reason that Toph, the First Metalbender exists, because they decided to lock her up in a metal box, only for her to realize that metal contains earth. In Magic, these two are great for turning all of our creatures into more creatures, similar to other Golgari cards. Whenever a nonland creature you control dies, you get to earthbend equal to its power. It's worth noting that this can include tokens, so if you have a lot of tokens dying, then you're earthbending a lot, as long as they're not lands already. With Bloodghast and any sacrifice outlet, you would also have an infinite earthbending combo that gives you infinite of whatever that sacrifice outlet is, since you can loop the earthbent land and the Bloodghast!

Orzhov - Ketramose, the New Dawn

Ketramose, the New Dawn is one of Magic's newest gods, courtesy of the plane of Amonkhet. Ketramose is quite nice in decks that are continually blinking in play or decks that are exiling from the graveyard. There's no limit to the card draw either, so if you keep exiling, you'll keep drawing! I have a 5-Color gods deck that I slotted it into immediately on release, and it's surprisingly good with Thassa, Deep-Dwelling! It's also seeing play in Modern as well, due to how good it is with Ephemerate or even Quantum Riddler's Warp ability.

Boros - Lightning, Army of One

Bringing up the most aggressive color combination, we have Lightning, Army of One! Our protagonist of Final Fantasy XIII is a 3-Mana 3/2 with First Strike, Trample, and Lifelink. On top of that, when she deals combat damage to a player, until your next turn, all sources that deal damage to that player are doubled! Since she has first strike, most creatures that are attacking with her are going to do the same. My buddy has slotted her into his Aragorn, the Uniter deck and she is a powerhouse that I am TERRIFIED of, because doubling damage in a deck that is already dealing a lot to me just from spells being cast is super strong.

Izzet - Vivi Ornitier

Are we really surprised by this one? Our Izzet choice for the year is the wonderfully brave, humble Vivi Ornitier, who also just got banned in Standard. He is probably the best spellslinger ever printed, and can even fuel more spells due to his ability to create mana. Once you include cards like Agatha's Soul Cauldron, Ophidian Eye, and Curiosity, then the shenanigans start snowballing hard. He's great in both the 99 and the Command Zone, and you should be playing him!

Simic - Auroral Procession

Finishing out strong, we have Auroral Procession! Auroral Procession might be a simple uncommon, but instant speed Regrowth is nothing to scoff at. It has become an auto-include in all of my decks that have Green and Blue, and I firmly believe that it should be played more! Recursion has so much power in this format of ours that rewards deck-building, so give it a shot!

Thanks for reading my list, see you all next week!