Prismatic Bridge Superfriends Commander Deck Guide

Last updated on March 13, 2025

Esika, God of the Tree | Illustration by Collin Estrada

Hello planeswalkers! Whether you’re into Richard Wagner, metal music, or even Marvel movies, they’ve all been inspired by Norse folklore. MTG is no different, and the realm of Kaldheim accentuates this in interesting ways. Need to get to Asgard quickly? Why not take the Bifrost? Esika, God of the Tree will be our guide for crossing The Prismatic Bridge.

Having a dual-sided 5-color commander can be a killer advantage over your more traditional commanders with access to all five colors of Magic's color wheel. There’s no doubt in my mind that many of you brilliant players can make some mean Commander decks with those two advantages. I’ll throw my hat into this deck-building challenge and see what kind of superfriends Commander deck we can make with Esika, God of the Tree.

The Deck

The Prismatic Bridge | Illustration by Collin Estrada

Gather your real friends so that they can witness this superfriends deck. That’s right, with a color identity and the cheating-ability of The Prismatic Bridge, this deck has a ton of planeswalkers. The goal is simple: Ramp up your mana and dominate the game with your planeswalkers’ activated abilities. Let’s “proliferate” your wins and have you become the Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God of your friend group.

The Commander: Esika, God of the Tree / The Prismatic Bridge

Esika, God of the Tree and the reverse side The Prismatic Bridge can lead a whole bunch of play styles. For this superfriends deck, I’m mostly focused on The Prismatic Bridge. This list has plenty of cards to fix your mana situation, so the key is to play this legendary enchantment ASAP. The quicker and cheaper you can play planeswalkers, the faster you can gain huge advantages.

The Prismatic Bridge is such a good enchantment for this deck, so it’ll definitely be a removal target. You’ll probably play this enchantment a few times from the command zone. But fear not! If you can cheat a planeswalker or two onto the battlefield, you should have some very nice advantages over most opponents.

The Planeswalkers

Outside of the The Prismatic Bridge, the planeswalkers are the real stars of the deck. A few goals of your planeswalkers should be to slow down the game, get more planeswalker abilities or loyalty counters, and use those final loyalty abilities to wreak havoc.

Relatively cheap planeswalkers like Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor slow opponents’ removal and attacks down. Once your mana pool is established, planeswalkers like The Eternal Wanderer remove some of the bigger and wider threats.

This Commander deck is all about extracting a ton of value from your planeswalkers’ loyalty abilities. Some of the solid abilities to take advantage of are: Sarkhan the Masterless’s ability to turn all your planeswalkers into dragons, Commodore Guff’s abilities to make mana-producing tokens and draw cards, and even static abilities like Chandra, Legacy of Fire’s.

Once you've gained a grip of the battlefield, it’s time to use the final loyalty abilities of planeswalkers like Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and Vraska, Relic Seeker to finish the game!

The Creatures

This deck’s creatures are used mostly to support the planeswalkers. You have ramp cards like Delighted Halfling, protection cards like Onakke Oathkeeper, and fetch cards like Sisay, Weatherlight Captain. Two darling creatures of this deck are Atraxa, Praetors' Voice, and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider for the number of extra loyalty counters they can bring to your planeswalkers.

The Removal

No superfriends deck would last very long without some way to remove the threats that might attack the planeswalkers. You’ll for sure have some great removal abilities from planeswalkers like Ral Zarek. However, you also need some targeted removal like Atomize and some board wipes like Urza's Ruinous Blast. Removal is a highly subjective choice in deck building, so if you feel that this deck needs more removal, I wouldn’t be offended.

The Ramp

Five colors and a pretty high curve need ways to fix and ramp mana. This deck has a little bit of everything to ramp up to your planeswalkers. Ramp creatures like Birds of Paradise, spells like Growth Spiral, and of course an artifact like Chromatic Lantern. Also, you can annoy your opponents with Smothering Tithe and hopefully gain a few Treasure tokens.

The Mana Base

The mana base has a few of every basic land and also many useful nonbasic lands. To fix your mana needs, every shock land, most triomes, and New Capenna hideouts are included. Lands like Interplanar Beacon and Great Hall of the Citadel help you to cast planeswalkers, while Karn's Bastion increases their loyalty counters. You also have a few mana dorks to help out. I chose this mana base for its consistency and utility with a few other lands like Cascading Cataracts that could be included if you want.

The Strategy

The strategy is quite simple here. Develop and ramp your mana base to play your planeswalkers quickly and efficiently. Once you have some control of the board, it's time to let those planeswalker loyalty abilities dominate the game. There isn’t always a set path to victory as in doing damage or alternate wincons, but hopefully you can consistently pull out wins with the different planeswalkers available to you. The best way to achieve this strategy is to get The Prismatic Bridge on the battlefield ASAP and protect it and your planeswalkers until you gain a massive advantage.

Combos and Interactions

The fun part about this deck is you’ll have a ton of unique interactions in games depending on which planeswalkers you can play. You’ll want to combo cards like Deepglow Skate and Oath of Teferi with your planeswalkers to increase their loyalty counters and use their abilities more than once. With so many possible interactions, I’ll highlight two.

A sneaky wincon in this deck can be poison counters from Vraska, Betrayal's Sting. The trick is to combo this planeswalker with either Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider or Innkeeper's Talent to double the loyalty counters when it enters and increase the poison counters to a game-winning amount.

An infinite combo to aim for involves Teferi, Temporal Archmage, The Chain Veil, and Carth the Lion. If you can get all these cards onto the battlefield and have one or two more planeswalkers, you’ll achieve infinite loyalty abilities. Teferi can untap the lands used to activate The Chain Veil, giving you many extra uses of loyalty abilities. This is great with just the two cards, but Carth the Lion reducing the cost of Teferi makes this combo infinite. Make sure to check with your playing mates that you aren’t violating Rule 0 and everyone is cool with the possibilities of infinite combos.

With so many planeswalker combinations there is a wide world of combos. If you have an interesting one please leave it in the comments below.

Budget Options

Let’s bring down those cost for you a bit if you're on a budget.

If you don’t want to spend a ton of money on planeswalkers like Teferi, Master of Time and Vraska, Betrayal's Sting, other planeswalker options include Teferi, Timebender or Ob Nixilis Reignited.

If the costs of the planeswalkers and their support are too expensive, you can use fewer planeswalkers and use more support cards like Agent Frank Horrigan or Jaya's Phoenix.

Making some simple decisions like River's Rebuke instead of Cyclonic Rift saves you some serious money in your build.

Other Builds

My build focuses heavily on the The Prismatic Bridge side of this superfriends commander, but there are great options if you prefer the Esika, God of the Tree side. Two options that can seem quite strong are gods or legendary creatures.

With the gods your focus is on satisfying your god creatures' devotion so that you can stomp opponents with gods like Xenagos, God of Revels, and Keranos, God of Storms. As huge supports to all your god creatures, Altar of the Pantheon and The World Tree are must-includes.

For the legendary creatures deck, it’s all about getting those legends out there and pumping them up! You’ll want to include legendary creatures like Jodah, the Unifier, Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge, and Kethis, the Hidden Hand. To support these legends, might I suggest cards like Heroes' Podium and Flowering of the White Tree?

These are examples where I think both sides of Esika, God of the Tree can be useful. Most importantly you’ll have access to all colors and can customize your deck however you prefer.

Commanding Conclusion

Urza's Ruinous Blast | Illustration by Noah Bradley

So there you have it! Esika, God of the Tree, and more importantly for my build, The Prismatic Bridge can make a viable superfriends Commander deck. I’ll never claim to be the best deck builder or even MTG player, but I do believe this deck can do well. Plus, this game is all about testing out a deck and tweaking it. Get out there and test it!

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The flavor text of The Prismatic Bridge says: “Starnheim Awaits.” I believe that MTG awaits for us all!