MTG Salvation

Quote from joejack8445 »

I could see them doing Comrade if it had a downside or two. That way, adding another color to a commander is a process you have to think about. I've seen various versions of adding one color to a commander that had starting hand size reduced by one, skip their first draw step, or increasing the casting cost of the commander by 1 of the new color. I've dabbled on the idea, that gave your opponents X thing where X was the number of times you cast the main commander that game.
tl;dr: I think it's possible to add a color if some downsides went with the decision.

I specifically think the piper would be fine paired with any deck. The design space for being able to graft a commander onto any deck is going to be very small, though. Partners designed to be partners are already weaker than normal commanders. How anemic would they have to be to partner with any commander? There's also the combo problem. Huge swathes of commander designs will be super problematic to partner with any legendary creature ever to exist. The piper, however, is a vanilla 3/3 for 5. It's easily the worst card in your entire deck and would simply be an emblem that gives you an optional extra color for the most part.