Despite the sheer power and popularity of the Eminence mechanic in Magic: The Gathering, two of the game's most popular Commanders bearing it have recently been overtaken by a Final Fantasy card.
Eminence is a Commander ability that lets your Commander have an impact on the game even while they're in the Command Zone. Not every Eminence Commander is a game-changer, but they're all powerful in their own right, and two of these Commanders now lead some of the most expensive precons that money can buy.
Updated on September 1, 2026, by Niall Walsh: Commanders with Eminence continue to be a rarity in Magic: The Gathering, but two of the precons built around the mechanic are now among the most expensive in the entire game, despite both Commanders being overtaken by a Final Fantasy card in the EDHREC rankings. We've updated this article to reflect those recent trends and changes.
While Oloro doesn’t have Eminence as a keyword because it didn't exist at the time this card was printed, its final ability functions just the same. If Oloro, Ageless Ascetic is in your command zone, you gain two life at the beginning of your upkeep. This ability also triggers if it is on the battlefield, much like other eminence effects.
Oloro came out in the Commander 2013 series, and though it predates the eminence mechanic by about four years, it has the same functional effect.
When Oloro is in play, you can also pay one mana to make your opponents lose a life, and you draw a card. Given his built-in abilities, you can build a pretty strong pillow fort deck, with tons of ways to trigger life drain and slowly drain your opponents' life total over the course of the game.
A premier Cat-themed deck Commander, Arahbo, Roar of the World, turns all your little kitties into chunky Cats even if it isn’t in play. When combat starts on your turn, Arahbo gives another Cat you control +3/+3 until the end of the turn, whether it's in play or in the command zone.
However, if you do have Arahbo out on the battlefield, you can turn a Cat you control into an even bigger Cat for just three mana. Arahbo gives your deck some versatility. You can, of course, go to a more token-based or kindred-based deck, with a way to go tall with your strongest creature, making one creature stronger than anything else on the battlefield and trample over with equipment and other abilities.
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