MTG Salvation

Building a Tergrid deck, but after much testing she is a poor commander. Too much to get out quickly enough and survive the constant hate she invokes.

In order to be A: more sneaky about it and B: more effective, I have decided to build a deck around her but not have her as the actual commander. This should open the door for more colors to get involved.

My problem is figuring out a commander that would be the most effective at getting her into the field and pushing her agenda of the only person playing magic and using any of those decks is me. If there isn't enough salt farmed to keep Orville Redenbacher stocked for the next decade then the deck isn't doing its job. So figuring out colors should be first, and to that end I have settled mostly on Jund or Grixis due to ramp, control, and wheel options available in those colors. That being said I have been away for quite a while now (4 years roughly) and I am not familiar with where power levels are and what has come out since Kaladesh really. So I ask the community for their feedback, their deck ideas and what commanders would best serve this humble but positively terrible goal. I want to take Tergrid to the greatest heights she can be taken, but pretty sure she can't do it by herself.

For reference, this is the old deck

Obviously you'd want a commander that forces your opponents to sacrifice or discard.


Sacrifice

• Malfegor
  
• Mogis, God of Slaughter
  
• Negan, the Cold Blooded
  
• Rakdos, The Defiler
  
• Savra, The Golgari queen
  
• Thraximundar
  
• Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
  
• Wasitora, Nekoru Queen
  

Discard

• Crosis, The Purger
  
• Gwendlyn Di Corci
  
• Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
  
• Nath of the Gilt-Leaf
  
• Neheb, the Worthy
  
• Nicol Bolas
  

Thrax and Wasitora for sacrifice and Nath and Nicol for discard. Z
I think are good but they are very expensive mana wise compared to Tergird though, but you get more colours to play with.

I have a Rafiq of the Many commander deck where I started using Atraxa, Praetors' Voice as the commander. I just found I never really wanted Rafiq till later in the game when I could protect him better, and Atraxa and the black gave me the ability to fairly easily tutor him when ready and so much more.

[[peer into the abyss]] combos bueteffly with tergrid. they discard down to seven and you get half their library!

Some 'Low Threat' Commanders that could still synergize, or allow for synergies, that come to mind are Chainer, Nightmare Adept, Garna, the bloodflame, Malfegor (was already mentioned), Nekusar, the mindrazer, Sol'kanar the Swamp King... These are mostly Rakdos and Grixis - but if you're looking for wheel effects, Red and Blue are the colors you'll want to include.