Star City Games closes Commander VS season with fan-requested decks
Commander VS closed Season 46 with four fan-requested decks, turning the finale into a community-picked showcase of the cards viewers actually wanted to see on camera.
Star City Games ended Commander VS Season 46 with a finale built around the kind of decks Commander players argue about, tune around, and jam for fun: four fan-requested lists. Commander VS #492: Finale For The Fans! landed on June 3, and the setup made the episode feel less like a routine gameplay upload and more like a direct read on what the audience wanted from the format.
That framing fits Commander VS perfectly. Star City Games calls it the flagship Commander video series it produces, and the finale leaned into the series’ biggest strength, not raw competition but personality. Commander culture lives on pet cards, odd commanders, and themes that would never survive in a tighter, more efficiency-driven format. A season-ending table full of viewer picks turns that impulse into the point of the episode.
The finale was not a one-off gimmick, either. Star City Games used the same fan-submitted-deck structure to close Season 45 on March 26, 2026, with Commander VS #482: Finale For The Fans! An earlier version of the idea showed up in 2023 as Commander VS #362: Fan Request Finale!, when one lucky winner picked four decks for the crew to play. That recurring pattern says a lot about how Commander VS reads its audience: the series is not just showing games, it is holding up a mirror to what Commander players are excited to watch, build, and debate.
That matters because Commander itself is built for this kind of audience-driven deck choice. Wizards of the Coast officially describes Commander as a constructed format built around a 100-card deck with one commander, and that structure leaves a lot of room for identity, nostalgia, and spicy tech. Since October 2024, Wizards has managed the format after taking over from the Commander Rules Committee, and the company also introduced the Commander Format Panel on October 22, 2024 to bring in community input. Against that backdrop, a fan-request finale is a neat fit for the moment. It closes the season with four decks the audience asked for, and it does exactly what Commander VS has always done best: put the format’s taste, quirks, and favorite ideas right on the table.
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