MTG Salvation

I wanted to start a discussion on where Golos, Tireless Pilgrim fits as a Commander in the realm of EDH. Is he just another goodstuff Commander?

Well goodstuff will definitely be the main reason to play her/him. I heard that he/she could be the Gate-Commander Maze's End.

I was in the process of building a 5c jank tribal Niv-Mizzet Reborn deck which includes the 11gates and Maze's End.
With the spoiling of this card, i'm sure this is the commander fo 5c lands/jank tribal

My plan is to basically convert my Karn, Silver Golem deck over to Golos. I don't use Karn to blow up people's lands with Mycosynth Lattice, so it's really just a fun artifact deck, but Karn himself isn't actually that useful most of the time.

I can basically leave my 40 utility land manabase intact and just add one Cascading Cataracts to activate Golos. (It's even indestructible!) So Golos can either search up the cataracts, or any of my 39 other utility lands like Maze of Ith, Inventors' Fair, Blast Zone, or the amazing new Field of the Dead! The new color identity also allows me to add in some cards that I can't play with Karn even though they don't require colored mana, such as Spellskite and Bojuka Bog.

I can also play a few other colored spells that seem fun and add in a few more colored sources. Adding a blue splash seems like the most obvious, for stuff like Sai, Master Thopterist and The Antiquities War.

So yeah, you could just make 5C goodstuff, but I'm pretty excited about a colorless utility land commander.

I’m thinking of doing basically the same thing to my Kozilek, the Great Distortion deck, which was basically a janky artifact deck. I’m restricting myself to solely colorless permanents but I’m allowing for colored spells, specifically topdeck tutors, to smooth things out. Congregation at Dawn is pretty sweet in with Golos’s activates ability in a deck with multiple Eldrazi titans

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I’m thinking of doing basically the same thing to my Kozilek, the Great Distortion deck, which was basically a janky artifact deck. I’m restricting myself to solely colorless permanents but I’m allowing for colored spells, specifically topdeck tutors, to smooth things out. Congregation at Dawn is pretty sweet in with Golos’s activates ability in a deck with multiple Eldrazi titans

I'm going to try not to have more than 5 lands that make colored mana (plus I'll have some artifacts) so I figure I can only play cards that have one colored symbol at most. If you're thinking about Congregation at Dawn, what's your manabase going to look like?

Yea good point, I don't think I can support it. The oldschool topdeck tutors will be good in this scenario though.

I'm planning on using him as a lands commander. I was going back and forth over whether to make a Sultai lands deck, a Jund lands deck, a 4 color lands deck with Ydris at the healm or some blueless concotion. Now I can just run 5 colors and be done with it. Plus I've never built a 5 color deck before so this'll be fun.