Magic: The Gathering’s special editionWarhammer 40KCommander series is an incredible achievement. Fully licensed art from Games Workshop alongside brand new lore-inspired abilities mark the cards as a must-have for fans of the revered saga taking place about 40,000 years from today.
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The art from the four Warhammer Commander decks features striking characters, legendary scenes, and war-torn massacres. Whether you are commanding a human or monstrous army for your duel, there are bloody fine paintings for all. Choosing the best among them is an enormous challenge, but we have done so for the glory of the God-Emperor of Mankind.
10Defenders Of Humanity
The Space Marine is the face of Warhammer 40K. The Astartes Warriors are the foremost defenders of humanity, hence this enchantment’s title. The God-Emperor’s favorite children are armed to the teeth and lined up in perfectly glorious symmetry.
Defenders of Humanity showcases layer after layer of the legendary power armour, with banners and towers spanning the art frame. No member of the Imperium of Man could look upon such a sight and fail to revel in the glory of Mankind.
9Tyranid Prime
The Tyranids are an extragalactic swarm of insectoid monstrosities hell-bent on spreading and spawning forever. Tyranid Prime represents your lead warrior in the Hive Mind’s ever-expanding army. They lead not because of their sheer power — but due to theiradaptability.
Tyranid Prime gives every creature you control evolve, letting your army share in this terrifying leader’s adaptative capacities. The card displays a gorgeous painting of the Tyranid wave of chitinous horror arriving at the scene of your battlefield with a scream.
8Hour Of Reckoning
Hour of Reckoning features the epic confrontation of Space Marines and Tyranids. The Battle of Baal, also known as The Devastation of Baal, was the largest Tyranid attack ever encountered by Humanity. This reprint gives MTG’s Warhammer series a chance to depict the violent glory of that battle.
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This sorcery favors tokens, which both the Astartes Warriors and Tyranid Hive are able to copiously produce. When viewing history, real or imagined, every war of relatively equal sides often comes down to the performance of the rank and file.
7Biotransference
In Warhammer lore, the Biotransference was a process wherein the organic Necrontyr transformed into mechanical, immortal bodies, then becoming known as Necrons. This black, artifact-focused enchantment exhibits that legendary moment with an eclipsing planet and the vile visage of the steel-skulled Necron.
Biotransference features the rare ability to influence not only your existing battlefield, but every spell cast from there onward. It’s inexpensive at four mana and with a small price to pay, so continue to build your nefarious Necron army with this deck-defining enchantment.
6Shard Of The Void Dragon
The ethereal C’tan are some of the oldest beings in Warhammer’s universe. These mechanized angels float and fill the air around them with wells of destructive gravity, able to “unmake” the war engines of lesser foes.
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Shard of the Void Dragon is like a walking black hole, consuming nonland permanents with every attack. This dark demigod is given a glorious art piece to match the unspeakable strength they hold, easily sitting side-by-side with MTG’s top Demons.
5Lord Of Change
The greatest of Tzeentch’s daemons, the Lord of Change is a potent finisher in blue. Able to “hurl foes into nightmares, or blast enemies with wyrdfires,” this Demon flies, wards itself, and gives a burst of card advantage.
Look upon the mighty Lord of Change and see a two-headed bird monster with a book staff doubling as a warhammer. Vivid colors and a stream of demonic manta rays launching themselves into the fray mark this art as one of MTG’s best.
4Hierophant Bio-Titan
Hierophant Bio-Titan is the Tyranid Godzilla, a behemoth 12/12 with a bevy of abilities. Behold its titanic form relative to the sky and trees. It can steal your army’s +1/+1 counters to arrive earlier and cannot be blocked by any foot soldiers.
In mythic lore, the “hierophant” is a symbol of spiritual worship, the leader of a divine doctrine. For the violent Tyranid swarm, the Bio-Titan is the leading icon meant to counter the war engines of their foes in size and might.
3Imotekh The Stormlord
The Necron Commander Imotekh the Stormlord is the master of their emerald mecha domain. A grand strategist unmatched by any, he leads campaigns to take entire star systems under the wing of Necron.
Low cost and with a pair of abilities to build and empower your army with, the legendary Stormlord features signature art for the Necron race. With glowing staff and menacing robo-army behind him, Imotekh appears unstoppable. His primary role is to fortify your strongest military asset at the beginning of your turn’s combat.
2Be’lakor, The Dark Master
Be’lakor, the Dark Master is the champion for your army of Demons. Scornful of the struggle of his foes, this Demon Noble is merciless in taking life and neither men or gods have yet been able to stymie his ambitions.
Daarken’s magnificent art for Be’lakor manifests the Demon’s fearsome perspective from above the chaos of battle. The Prince of Chaos and Lord of Torment is high above the fray on big leather wings, flying between bullets and blood, wielding a giant smoking sword and looking right at home with a demonic grin.
1Shard Of The Nightbringer
Shard of the Nightbringer gives us the glory of what can only be described as:GIANT LASER WITCH. This “killer of stars and of worlds” is a perfect card in black, and a superb portrait of the ageless C’tan being.
Shard of the Nightbringer’s art presents Death herself, a gargantuan grim reaper with laser eyes casting down over a full moon, annihilating Space Marines with a floating sweep of the battlefield. According to lore, C’tan Shards “can manifest energy blasts, control the minds of lesser beings, manipulate the flow of time, and banish foes to alternate realities.” Their powers, like the Warhammer mythos itself, are limited only byimagination.
