5c colorless Eldrazi (colorless mana matters, exile matters, both?). It could use new versions of the 3 titans that each have devoid and 5color activated abilities such as any of the following:
2WUBRG, T: Cast a colorless creature spell from your hand without playing its mana cost.
Put two cards an opponent owns in exile into that player's graveyard and one of the following costs:
-WW: Counter target enchantment spell.
-UU: Counter target instant spell.
-BB: Counter target artifact spell.
-RR: Counter target sorcery spell.
-GG: Counter target creature spell.
WUBRG: Exile target permanent.
or maybe a static ability like:
You can spend mana produced by Wastes as though it was mana of any color.
these might a few tweaks to make them work, but this kind of deck could open up a chance for a reprint of the likes of Urza lands that didn't get a reprint in UMA or any of the MM sets as well as cards like Expedition Map ect. It could be a cool way to touch on things like the Blind Eternities, processors, and eldrazi that Wizards may or may not want to return to any other way. Furthermore, if they follow the same pattern that they did with 5c Dragons in 2017, they could have the 3 5c (colorless) commanders and then a 3 color commander and a 2 color commander. I would guess that those could be an Abzan commander (since Abzan colors has pretty strong graveyard hate for an exile matters theme and processors is sort of an Orzhov archetype. Plus they could have Ancient Stirrings) and an Izzet commander that gets to utilize abilities like Jump-Start or Crackling Drake-esque abilities.
Here's my next thought: GR Transform. Obviously werewolves is a beloved tribe that just never got the love it deserved. There are a few token werewolves that are pretty awesome, but certainly not enough support (or even a compelling enough commander) to build an entire EDH deck around. However, with two blocks of Innistrad, new cards from Ixalan and RIX, and a "Transform Matters" theme rather than a "Werewolves Tribal" theme, wizards might have enough cards to piece together something. It would only take a couple of transform support cards and some filler bits/staple reprints and voila.
My next idea is a little more generic, but much asked for from the playerbase: Boros "Something other than aggro" theme. Boros is objectively the worst color pair in commander, not to mention the least compelling. Not that turning your creatures sideways and smashing face isn't fun, but it can get pretty old really fast. In the recent past we got Firesong and Sunspeaker, which is a really cool commander, as well as some really good red support. We also can't forget Teferi's Protection. Most recently, Wizards printed Smothering Tithe and Dawn of Hope, which improve white a little bit, but printing some Boros commander totally out of left field could be a chance to redeem the color pair and improve the individual performance of the colors across tons of decks. I really love that idea. However, they could also print a Jeskai deck that has a Boros commander as the non-face commander.
I also like the idea of an Energy deck. If I were to think of the top 3 commanders right now that could pull off an Energy counters theme might be Roon of the Hidden Realm for ETB gets energy effects, Animar for free Artifact creatures that ETB w/counters as well as cheapifying expensive Energy creatures (like Aetherwind Basker or Aethertide Whale), and Atraxa for obvious reasons. Each color could utilize some really great energy pay-offs (that maybe don't currently exist. Wizards would have to print something that uses Energy better than what we have, cuz its pretty low impact in a multiplayer commander setting) as well as effects like Proliferate etc. If I were to have everything I ever wanted, I would like to see a Temur Energy build or maybe a Sultai one.
Another thing to consider about these ideas is that most all of them could also fall under the Planes theme. Energy comes from Kaladesh, Transform from Innistrad, Colorless from Zendikar or even the Blind Eternities, which leaves some flexibility for Boros.
What do you think? I have a couple of other things I would really like to see in commander, but this is a good place to start
5c colorless Eldrazi (colorless mana matters, exile matters, both?). It could use new versions of the 3 titans that each have devoid and 5color activated abilities such as any of the following:
2WUBRG, T: Cast a colorless creature spell from your hand without playing its mana cost.
Put two cards an opponent owns in exile into that player's graveyard and one of the following costs:
-WW: Counter target enchantment spell.
-UU: Counter target instant spell.
-BB: Counter target artifact spell.
-RR: Counter target sorcery spell.
-GG: Counter target creature spell.
WUBRG: Exile target permanent.
or maybe a static ability like:
You can spend mana produced by Wastes as though it was mana of any color.
these might a few tweaks to make them work, but this kind of deck could open up a chance for a reprint of the likes of Urza lands that didn't get a reprint in UMA or any of the MM sets as well as cards like Expedition Map ect. It could be a cool way to touch on things like the Blind Eternities, processors, and eldrazi that Wizards may or may not want to return to any other way. Furthermore, if they follow the same pattern that they did with 5c Dragons in 2017, they could have the 3 5c (colorless) commanders and then a 3 color commander and a 2 color commander. I would guess that those could be an Abzan commander (since Abzan colors has pretty strong graveyard hate for an exile matters theme and processors is sort of an Orzhov archetype. Plus they could have Ancient Stirrings) and an Izzet commander that gets to utilize abilities like Jump-Start or Crackling Drake-esque abilities.
Here's my next thought: GR Transform. Obviously werewolves is a beloved tribe that just never got the love it deserved. There are a few token werewolves that are pretty awesome, but certainly not enough support (or even a compelling enough commander) to build an entire EDH deck around. However, with two blocks of Innistrad, new cards from Ixalan and RIX, and a "Transform Matters" theme rather than a "Werewolves Tribal" theme, wizards might have enough cards to piece together something. It would only take a couple of transform support cards and some filler bits/staple reprints and voila.
My next idea is a little more generic, but much asked for from the playerbase: Boros "Something other than aggro" theme. Boros is objectively the worst color pair in commander, not to mention the least compelling. Not that turning your creatures sideways and smashing face isn't fun, but it can get pretty old really fast. In the recent past we got Firesong and Sunspeaker, which is a really cool commander, as well as some really good red support. We also can't forget Teferi's Protection. Most recently, Wizards printed Smothering Tithe and Dawn of Hope, which improve white a little bit, but printing some Boros commander totally out of left field could be a chance to redeem the color pair and improve the individual performance of the colors across tons of decks. I really love that idea. However, they could also print a Jeskai deck that has a Boros commander as the non-face commander.
I also like the idea of an Energy deck. If I were to think of the top 3 commanders right now that could pull off an Energy counters theme might be Roon of the Hidden Realm for ETB gets energy effects, Animar for free Artifact creatures that ETB w/counters as well as cheapifying expensive Energy creatures (like Aetherwind Basker or Aethertide Whale), and Atraxa for obvious reasons. Each color could utilize some really great energy pay-offs (that maybe don't currently exist. Wizards would have to print something that uses Energy better than what we have, cuz its pretty low impact in a multiplayer commander setting) as well as effects like Proliferate etc. If I were to have everything I ever wanted, I would like to see a Temur Energy build or maybe a Sultai one.
Another thing to consider about these ideas is that most all of them could also fall under the Planes theme. Energy comes from Kaladesh, Transform from Innistrad, Colorless from Zendikar or even the Blind Eternities, which leaves some flexibility for Boros.
What do you think? I have a couple of other things I would really like to see in commander, but this is a good place to start