Summary
WUBRG cards inMagic: The Gatheringare cards that contain all five colored pips: white, blue, black, red and green. Obviously, these cards are among the most difficult to cast in most decks, as players must have an incredibly diverse mana base to even have a hope of casting them.
Many WUBRG cards are eminently flavorful, impressively powerful or a combination of both across a wide variety of formats – ranging from game-changing creatures to brutally powerful enchantments. So grab your Timeless Lotus and dive into some of the best WUBRG cards ever.
11Garth One-Eye
A Free Black Lotus?
A strikingly flavorful mythic rare from 2021’s Modern Horizons 2, this legendary WUBRG creature is a 5/5 Human Wizard that has a rather unusual activated ability. If you tap him, you may create your choice of a copy of the following cards: Disenchant, Braingeyser, Terror, Shivan Dragon, Regrowth and Black Lotus.
While this card is more fun than anything else, any card that says “create a copy of Black Lotus” is going to raise some eyebrows, and this card is certainly fun to throw into a WUBRG Commander deck as part of your 99. Heck, you can make it your commander if you want to create a chaotic and fun pod.
10Niv-Mizzet Reborn
A WUBRG Parun
One of three WUBRG Niv-Mizzet cards (with three others being in the Izzet blue/red colors), this mythic rare from War of the Spark allows you to sift through your library for cards that each contain a different color pair (blue/red, black/green, etc.).
As a 6/6 flyer for five mana, this card already comes in above rate, and its ability to find you multiple strong multicolor cards after hitting the battlefield is terrific when playing all five colors.
9The Kami War//O-Kagachi Made Manifest
Synergistic And Flavorful WUBRG Saga
This WUBRGsagafrom Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty features two debilitating removal options as its first two chapters. Sure, paying six mana to exile any nonland permanent is a lot, but the next chapter also provides nonland permanent removal.
The third chapter allows this card to transform into the legendary creature O-Kagachi Made Manifest, which is a 6/6 flying trampler that can boost its power by returning a card from your graveyard (of an opponent’s choice) to your hand. A strong, synergistic and flavorful WUBRG card. Also, look at that art!
8Sanctum of All
Incredible In Shrine Decks
An absolutely busted card when playing a Shrine deck, Sanctum of All serves as an amazing enchantment “lord” for decks that care about getting as many shrines into play as possible and triggering them a ton of times.
Thank goodness this card is a legendary enchantment, as multiples of this enchantment in play on the same side of the battlefield would lead to some truly bonkers Shrine-based shenanigans.
7Sliver Overlord
Not The First Sliver Lord, But Maybe The Best
When it comes to WUBRG Sliver creatures, you’re spoiled for choice, as they’re all quite powerful. At the end of the day, it came down to the Overlord vs. The First Sliver, and as an MTG player who’s been with the game since the late 1990s, the retro option (Scourge’s Sliver Overlord) is the choice here.
Being able to tutor up any Sliver to aid your cause for three mana is tremendously powerful, and if you’re able to switch the creature type of your foe’s creatures (with cards such as Conspiracy or Unnatural Selection), you’re able to steal them for a measly three mana.
6Progenitus
First-Ever Card With Protection From Everything
Double WUBRG is an absolutely massive price to pay for anything in MTG, but you almost always get something out of it that will win you the game (just ask Door to Nothingness). That is certainly the case for Progenitus, which debuted all the way back in 2009’s Conflux set.
One of only six MTG cards ever that has the text “Protection from everything,” this one predated the next one by eight years (the next being white instant Teferi’s Protection). Progenitus pretty much wins you the game within a few turns of being case since players don’t live long if they’re attacked by a 10/10 with protection from everything every turn.
5Scion of the Ur-Dragon
WUBRG Dragon For The Win
Dragons are always a popular creature type among MTG fans (and fans of the fantasy genre in general, for that matter), but there are surprisingly only nine WUBRG Dragons – including the first one ever: Scion of the Ur-Dragon from 2006’s Time Spiral expansion.
While this card’s big brother, The Ur-Dragon, originally from Commander 2017, might have more raw power, the Scion is likely the more enjoyable Commander card, as it can tutor up any Dragon card you’d like and transform into that card. Beyond that, it fuels any Dragon reanimator strategies you might want to play.
4Jodah, the Unifier
Potentially The Best WUBRG Commander
A powerhouse WUBRG legend from 2022’s Dominaria United set, this card is the ideal choice for Commander or MTG Arena Brawl players looking for a “superfriends” commander option, as his abilities lend themselves perfectly to piloting a deck that’s chock-full of legendary permanents.
Boosting power and toughness based on the number of legends you have in play plus adding a pseudo-cascade to legendary nonland permanents makes this card an amazing build-around and an eminently enjoyable WUBRG creature.
3Esika, God of the Tree//The Prismatic Bridge
Extremely Powerful Legendary Enchantment
A dual-sided card paired with green creature Esika, God of the Tree, The Prismatic Bridge is an incredibly strong WUBRG enchantment that nabs you a free creature or enchantment from the top of your deck during each of your upkeeps.
That is a staggeringly powerful effect, and if you can pair it (or another of themost powerful upkeep effects ever) with something that gives you additional upkeeps, such as Obeka, Splitter of Seconds (one of the best Grixis commanders for Brawl) or Shadow of the Second Sun, you’ll get even more value.
2Kenrith, the Returned King
Five Killer Activated Abilities
While this card might only have one colored pip in its mana cost, this card is clearly one of the best WUBRG cards of all time due to its five tremendously strong activated abilities – all of which have a different, ascending mana cost that uses a different color.
Much like other cards with five activated abilities – such as Morphling or WUBRG honorable mention Cromat – some are stronger than others, but Kenrith’s first two are among his best, as they lend Kenrith to performing well in aggro decks that prioritize getting creatures on the board as fast as possible.
