Boring $0.19 Five-Color Commander Makes Infinite Turns and Mana on a Budget

Five-color Commanders have always been a weird bunch in Magic: The Gathering. With access to all of the best cards without restriction, even a vanilla five-color card could make a compelling deck. For better or worse, this has made five-color cards rather boring, especially with Wizards churning them out recently.

Following the advent of Rulebreaker cards, which handily prevent five-color soup decks, these Commanders are easier to hate than ever. That being said, it’s hard to deny just how powerful five-color Commanders can be, especially with the right support. With this in mind, Infinite Guideline Station is very much worth paying attention to, especially because it’s actually quite interesting.

MTG Infinite Guideline Station

As much as Infinite Guideline Station is a Spacecraft, it thankfully isn’t a truly boring five-color set mechanic Commander. Technically, yes, you can run every Spacecraft in MTG along with it for a weird soupy amalgam. Thankfully, though, this card does its own thing, and the Stationed effect is a powerful, yet basically ignorable upside.

With Infinite Guideline Station, the star of the show is its ability to effortlessly create tons of 2/2 Robots. All you have to do is build a wide multicolored board, and that’s not exactly a high bar to clear. Not only are staples like Jhoira, Weatherlight CaptainJhoira, Weatherlight CaptainWhenever you cast a historic spell, draw a card. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) naturally multicolored, but there’s plenty of specific multicolor support.

Leveraging cards like Faeburrow Elder and Bloom TenderBloom TenderVivid — {T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color., getting mana to fuel your plays is surprisingly easy. Similarly, Fallaji Wayfarer can effectively reduce costs, while Inga and Esika can refill your hand. Once on the board, General Ferrous Rokiric helps grow your army even further, and Tam, Mindful First-Year keeps everyone safe.

Thanks to Infinite Guideline Station’s multicolor focus, value engines like Aragorn, the Unifier, are basically free inclusions. The same is also true of Rienne, Angel of Rebirth, Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile, and Jodah, the Unifier, which all work wonders together. While activating these cards is trivial, Leyline of the Guildpact makes it a done deal, while also supercharging your Robot Tokens.

By making any Robot Token that Infinite Guideline Station creates five-colored, things get very silly very quickly. Using Abuelo, Ancestral Echo, for instance, you can flicker Guideline to double your board instantly. As if that’s not enough, you also have access to Anointed ProcessionAnointed ProcessionIf an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead., Bard, King of Dale, and Doubling SeasonDoubling SeasonIf an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead..

Countless Colorful Combos

While Infinite Guideline Station is very capable of playing a fair game and spiraling out of control, it’s also got a nasty combo suite. It might be a Game Changer, but Coalition Victory is arguably the fairest, and potentially easiest of these. While you can force it with Leyline of the Guildpact, realistically, you’ll hit this card’s conditions just by playing your deck.

If you want to be slightly meaner, you can use Infinite Guideline Station alongside Time Sieve and a repeatable flicker engine. Using Abuelo, Ancestral Echo, for instance, you can easily flicker Guideline to make more Robots to sacrifice to Time Sieve. So long as you have four or more multicolored cards, this easily gives you infinite turns for an easy win.

Similarly, you can also use Abuelo alongside Phyrexian Altar to generate infinite mana. So long as you have over three multicolored cards, you’ll always net one mana doing this, opening up Walking Ballista wins. Notably, this combo has plenty of redundancy, with cards like Urza, Prince of Kroog and Chrome Dome being optional inclusions.

A True Budget Bomb

While we were initially rather cold on Infinite Guideline Station, there’s no denying this card is powerful when built around. Hell, we’ve not even touched upon its Station ability, which can draw you an obscene amount of cards. The real selling point, however, is this card’s price, as copies are under $0.20 on TCGplayer.

With this price point in mind, it’s little wonder that Infinite Guideline Station is rather well played in Commander already. According to EDHREC, this card helms a little over 10,000 decks, though it’s not very popular in the 99. Thankfully, this popularity isn’t enough to make it expensive, so it’s well worth considering for your next deck.

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