Wild Colorless Robo-Hero is a Multi-Archetype Auto-Include in Commander

Last updated on June 10, 2026

Jocasta, Automaton Avenger | Illustration by Myles Wohl

Aggro commanders have a new tool, and it’s available to all of them because Wizards decided to print a colorless engine in Marvel Super Heroes. The Fantastic Four precon has a host of cool cards, but few stand out like Jocasta, Automaton Avenger.

It’s a 3-mana legendary artifact creature 2/2 with flying and text that cares about your commander getting aggressive: When your commander attacks, you can reanimate Jocasta for free, and it comes into play tapped and attacking; when your commander deals combat damage to a player, it gets a +1/+1 counter, adding additional pressure.

Jocasta is perfect for aggressive decks as a recursive threat that comes back post-board wipe without more mana invested, which is great because you’ll need that mana to recast your commander. As a colorless card, any deck can run it; here are a few promising archetypes.

Artifact Aggro

Artifact commanders that want to get aggressive love Jocasta because the artifact creature typing is relevant. There are a few different flavors of aggro here, but they commonly want a critical mass of artifacts; commanders like Urza, Lord High Artificer, Alibou, Ancient Witness, and Akiri, Line-Slinger scale with the number of artifacts you control, so an artifact that doesn’t die for long is handy.

Sacrifice/Aristocrats

Jocasta offers sacrifice commanders a repeatable source of sacrifice fodder. You can sacrifice it, then bring it back every turn, similar to a Bloodghast or Nether Shadow. That gives sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar plenty of fuel to trigger all the associated death triggers.

As an artifact creature, Jocasta has synergy with more niche sacrifice commanders. Artifact-specific sacrifice commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper and Iron Man, Titan of Innovation are just as happy to run it as Marchesa, the Black Rose and other, more traditional sacrifice commanders.

Equipment

This is more niche, but Jocasta, Automaton Avenger appeals to me for equipment-based Voltron commanders. Since it’s an artifact creature, it synergizes with artifact support like Bronze Guardian or Foundry Inspector these decks might play; more importantly, it backs the commander up should they fall.

As long as you control your commander and can attack, Jocasta comes back into play, so it outlives your commander if your opponents use spot removal to answer it. As an evasive threat, Jocasta is the perfect card to wield a Buster Sword or Umezawa's Jitte while you get your commander back online. Even if you’re equipment commander is like Nahiri, Forged in Fury that wants you to equip many creatures instead of one, the resilience paired with evasion is a perfect combination.

Self-Mill/Discard

Perhaps the best application for Jocasta is self-mill, discard, and other graveyard-based decks; truth be told, Teval, the Balanced Scale was the first card I thought of when I saw Jocasta. These decks naturally fill the graveyard, and a creature that comes back for free provides perfect synergy. Dredge a Golgari Grave-Troll, mill Jocasta, then attack with your commander for a free creature! Or connive the legendary artifact away with Doctor Doom, King of Latveria only for it to return straight away. It’s also a pretty sick gravebreak enabler for no mana.

While I expect graveyard decks to profit the most from Jocasta, Automaton Avenger, aggro decks of all flavors and colors should consider adapting it for the many small synergies it provides—I didn’t even touch on commanders with double strike or this being a self-modifying creature!