Commander Game

Apiq, the Abominable
Legendary Snow Creature — Elemental
Players skip their untap steps.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Apiq, the Abominable unless you pay .
Other tapped snow creatures you control can block as though they were untapped.
5/4

I'm honestly just upset I didn't think of it first.

Quazzar, Frost Lord 
Legendary Snow Creature - elemental 
Snow permanents are indestructible
Other Snow creatures get +1/+1 for each snow permanent  
Snow spells cant be countered
3/4

Mirrodin's Shard cycle already has a more elegant template for that last ability: or :

Eris, King of Snow
Legendary Snow Creature - Centaur Druid
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play the top card of your library if it's a snow card.
: Put the top card of your library on the bottom of your library.
4/4

It's a copy/paste/edit of Vizier of the Menagerie, and sort of Crown of Convergence. Good with the aforementioned cards, as well as Future Sight and miracles. Fun fact: there are no human snow creatures.

viriss My main problem with this card is that it doesn't support snow tribal as much as I'd like. You don't actually have to run snow creatures to get the most out of this commander, just snow lands. It is a snow creature and it obviously works for snow tribal, I'd just like to see it a bit more focused. By extension, it is a much more versatile card as-is.



kefke I love the flavor. I feel like it could maybe be a bit bigger, maybe 8/8, given that it has an additional restriction to cast beyond its already huge cmc. I like that it "freezes" non-snow permanents, since it really slows down your opponent. It doesn't necessarily support snow tribal as much as it hates non-snow, but I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily, since it still encourages you to play snow. My biggest concern is that it is a huge target for removal, and casting this commander out multiple times is gonna be a chore, even with Rimefeather Owl making your nonbasics snow.



gluestick248 Honestly, this feels too detrimental to play. Being able to block with your tapped creatures is weird, but not too confusing, I guess. But this card would grind the game to a standstill where no one, yourself included, can attack, activate tap abilities, or even cast spells.



Daij_Djan Support for snow and hate for non-snow all at once in a very castable package. It's not necessarily exciting, but it's definitely gonna give you the tempo advantage.



mrlozano Honestly should probably cost a bit more. A 4/4 for 4 is already not bad, but a 4/4 for 4 that buffs your creatures and gives you powerful mana fixing is amazing, even if it might debuff some of your creatures (though if you're running every other snow card, you'll not have much room for other creatures after you add in instants, sorceries, and your mana base). I do like that it allows you to play every snow card, which is the best way to support tribal for a type that's just there enough to almost be relevant (there's 47 snow cards.)
Also, looking back, since it doesn't buff "other" snow creatures, it's technically a 5/5.


qorbin High cost is usually bad for commander, but this card really makes you wanna try it anyway. An indestructible Coat of Arms that isn't likely to help your opponents, makes casting your spells completely safe, and has legs to boot? Plus being able to run every snow card, like I mentioned previously.



Flo00 A bit of card draw is always good on your commander, since it gives you a slight bit more advantage than card draw elsewhere. I like the return of ice counters, though I wish it was still "target permanent," even if its final ability still only targeted creatures with ice counters.



Tesagk I honestly like the implication of this card more than anything. The gods tend to come in cycles, and if there's a snow god, then that means we'd have new other supertypes (though I don't know what they'd be) to play with. As for the card itself, the thing that stands out the most to me is its ability to create more snow creatures, which is really needed imo. (Formatting sidenote: It should be "Create a 1/3 white and blue Elemental snow creature token." Very minor thing.) As for the rest of it, flying and vigilance make this card look a lot better than it does initially, and they make sense thematically. The lord effect is nice too, with the added bonus of vigilance.



Xenozfan2 The card advantage this commander gives is amazing. It'd be costly, but you can cycle through a good portion of your deck until you find what you want to cast in a given situation and that's phenomenal. Especially considering you could hold up mana until the end of your opponent's turn and then cycle your deck one card at a time. It doesn't support snow as much as I'd like, explicitly (beyond the ability to cast snow cards from the top of your deck) but it's still a commander I think anyone would be a fool to not consider.


This is probably the hardest challenge I've had to judge so far. I'd probably run every one of these cards if I could. Ultimately, though, I have to pick a winner, and I'm gonna have to give that to qorbin. mrlozano was an incredibly close second, but I just want to reiterate that everyone did really well.

Thanks for the win Jartis
For the next challenge design a 4 color commander

Here it is, now with a corected CMC, a new image, since I could not find the original author, thank you for the advice.

Put up to X +1/+1 counters on up to X creatures?

gateways7: I suggest you change that last ability to the more standard template of "At the beginning of the next end step, exile that token.", as it's completely busted as it is now with flash creatures.