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Marneus Calgar

Legendary Creature — Astartes Warrior

Double strike
Master Tactician — Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, draw a card.
Chapter Master — {6}: Create two 2/2 white Astartes Warrior creature tokens with vigilance.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{2}{W}{U}{B}
Color identity
BUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Warhammer 40,000 Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#5128
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Marneus Calgar card art
Marneus Calgar turns every token created into a card drawn, which means the engine starts immediately and scales with anything that floods the board — pair him with Nadir Kraken and every card you draw makes a token that draws another card. Inquisitor Greyfax brings vigilance and pseudo-evasion to the token army Calgar is generating, but the real cost is six mana in a three-color shell that folds hard to early board wipes before the loop gets going.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Inquisitor Greyfax

Inquisitor Greyfax

54.1% of decks · synergy 0.52

Inquisitor Greyfax runs Marneus Calgar because the combination is a self-feeding loop — Greyfax's tap-based control package slows opponents down while Calgar converts every token trigger into card advantage, and 54% of Greyfax decks have already made this call.

02

Soundwave, Sonic Spy

51.1% of decks · synergy 0.49

Soundwave, Sonic Spy generates tokens off casting instants and sorceries, which feeds directly into Marneus Calgar's draw trigger — every spell Soundwave rewards becomes a draw, giving the deck both velocity and a board presence that compounds each turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Marneus Calgar belongs — the format's longer games give him time to come down, generate tokens, and convert those tokens into the card advantage that snowballs past opponents. As a commander himself he's a reliable engine in the command zone, but he's equally strong in the 99 of any Esper or Dimir token shell that needs a draw engine bolted to its go-wide plan. Legacy and Vintage technically allow him, but a six-mana creature with no immediate protection competes against formats defined by turn-one and turn-two wins, making those appearances vanishingly rare in practice.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

6,263 decks
Marneus CalgarNadir KrakenAshnod's Altar

Marneus CalgarNadir KrakenAshnod's Altar

Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Near-infinite colorless mana; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers

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Price Context

Current price

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.