Legendary Creature — Elemental

Horde of Notions

Mana value5EDHREC#6,485

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The Commander

Vigilance, trample, haste

{W} {U} {B} {R} {G} : You may play target Elemental card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Guide

Gameplan

Horde of Notions is a five-color Elemental tribal commander that grinds value by recurring Elementals from your graveyard for a WUBRG payment, turning every removed creature into card advantage. You ramp into a wide Elemental board, leverage ETB-heavy bodies, and eventually overwhelm with creatures or assemble an Elemental-based combo. Its built-in evasion and vigilance also let it attack and pressure life totals while staying back on defense.

Strengths

Access to all five colors gives unmatched flexibility in removal, ramp, and answers
Self-recursion makes the commander resilient and turns the graveyard into a second hand
Elemental tribe has deep, high-value ETB creatures for grindy value
Vigilance, trample, haste make it a competent attacker the turn it lands

Weaknesses

Five-color mana base is expensive and prone to color-screw without good fixing
WUBRG activation cost is demanding and clunky on a tight mana base
Commander does little to protect itself and dies to spot removal easily
Tribal payoff plan can be slow and grindy in a fast meta

Key Cards

Risen Reef — Premier Elemental value engine that draws cards and ramps every time an Elemental enters.
Cavern of Souls — Fixes color while making your key Elementals uncounterable in a deck that wants to resolve threats.
Omnath, Locus of the Roil — A flexible Elemental payoff that draws cards, ramps, and acts as removal as you build the board.
Smokebraider — Generates mana specifically for Elemental spells and activated abilities, easing the WUBRG strain.
Chromatic Lantern — Turns all your lands into any color, smoothing out the brutal five-color costs and the commander's activation.

Upgrade Path

Prioritize the mana base first: dual lands, fetches, shocks, Cavern of Souls, and mana rocks like Chromatic Lantern make the five colors functional. Then add high-impact Elemental ETBs and engines (Risen Reef, Omnath, Locus of the Roil, Mulldrifter) and recursion enablers, trimming weak vanilla tribal members. For higher power, lean into a focused combo or stax shell rather than pure goodstuff, since the commander's raw value plan is slow without tight synergy.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Go wide with Elemental tokens and payoffs, then alpha strike with trample threats
▸Grind out the table with recurring ETB value until opponents run out of resources
▸Assemble an Elemental-based combo (e.g., recursion loops with Risen Reef or token generators) for overwhelming advantage
▸Beat down with buffed Elementals using anthems and Omnath-style payoffs

Archetypes

Elemental Tribal — The commander rewards a deck full of Elementals with recursion and synergy payoffs like Risen Reef.
Value Midrange — Grindy ETB Elementals plus graveyard recursion let you out-card opponents over a long game.
Reanimator/Recursion — The activated ability cheats expensive Elementals back from the yard, rewarding self-mill and sacrifice.
Combo — Five colors and Elemental loops enable engines like Spark Double or sacrifice-recursion chains for infinite value.