Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC) Guide
Some sets arrive with Commander precons that feel like afterthoughts. The Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander decks - released alongside Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) in February 2023 - are not those. Two decks, two very different flavors of Phyrexian conflict, and a clean on-ramp to Commander for players who just cracked their first booster of New Phyrexia's latest chapter.
Set code ONC covers the full 174-card pool shared across both decks, including new cards printed specifically for this release alongside a curated selection of reprints.
What is Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander?
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC) is the Commander preconstructed product released alongside Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) in 2023. Like most modern Commander precons, each deck comes ready to play out of the box - a 100-card singleton deck with a designated commander, lands, and a mix of new and reprinted cards.
Wizards designs these decks as on-ramps to Commander: low barrier to entry, thematically coherent, and built around the story and setting of the parent set. They're a great starting point whether you're new to the format or looking for a shell to upgrade.
The ONC pool contains 174 cards spread across both decks.
The two decks
ONC ships with exactly two Commander decks, each capturing a different side of the conflict at the heart of ONE's story.
| Deck Name | Color Identity | Commander | |---|---|---| | Corrupting Influence | White / Black / Green | Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa | | Rebellion Rising | White / Red | Neyali, Suns' Vanguard |
Corrupting Influence - Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
This is the Phyrexian side of the story, and it plays like it. Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa leads a White/Black/Green deck built around the poison and toxic mechanic space that defines ONE's mechanical identity. The deck leans into infect-adjacent strategies - spreading corruption across opponents, building up poison counters, and winning through attrition and inevitability rather than direct combat math.
Atraxa herself is one of Magic's most iconic Commander cards, and Ixhel as her "scion" fits neatly into that lineage: a commander designed for players who want to control the pace of the game and win through accumulation rather than explosiveness.
Rebellion Rising - Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
The resistance gets Neyali, Suns' Vanguard, a White/Red commander built around tokens and attacking. Where Corrupting Influence is patient and grindy, Rebellion Rising wants to build a board and go wide. Neyali rewards you for swinging with your team - the kind of aggressive, creature-forward gameplay that White/Red tokens strategies have always excelled at.
This deck is, in my opinion, the more accessible of the two for new Commander players. The gameplan is intuitive: make tokens, attack, trigger Neyali, win.
Themes and mechanics
Both decks reflect the mechanical themes of Phyrexia: All Will Be One, even if they approach them from opposite angles.
Corrupting Influence is built around poison and the toxic keyword introduced in ONE. Toxic lets creatures deal poison counters in addition to regular combat damage - a player who accumulates ten poison counters loses the game, regardless of their life total. This is a distinct and sometimes polarising win condition in Commander, since it operates completely outside the normal damage-and-life-total framework.
Rebellion Rising leans on token creation and the exalted-adjacent payoffs for attacking. White/Red has historically been the go-to color pair for wide creature strategies, and Neyali's design rewards exactly that.
Format check: Both decks are legal in Commander (EDH) out of the box. Individual cards from ONC may also appear in other formats depending on their print history, but ONC itself is a Commander product - it doesn't affect Standard, Pioneer, or Modern legality.
Lore and setting
New Phyrexia is one of Magic's most recognisable planes - a world of metal, oil, and horrifying biological transformation, where the Phyrexians have conquered and "compleated" (transformed into Phyrexian beings) much of the population. Phyrexia: All Will Be One represents the Phyrexians at the height of their power, preparing to launch an invasion of the multiverse.
Ixhel, as a scion of Atraxa - herself one of Magic's most beloved compleated characters - sits firmly in the Phyrexian hierarchy. Neyali, by contrast, represents the spark of resistance, the survivors fighting back against an overwhelming tide.
The two decks are essentially telling the same story from opposite ends of a war, which makes them unusually satisfying to play against each other as a two-player experience.
Set legacy
The ONC decks arrived during one of the most story-significant sets in Magic's recent history. Phyrexia: All Will Be One was the crescendo of a years-long Phyrexian storyline, and the Commander precons captured that energy well - thematically tight, mechanically coherent, and clearly designed with the lore in mind.
Corrupting Influence in particular attracted attention from players interested in poison-based Commander strategies, a niche that had long lacked strong preconstructed support. Ixhel gave that archetype a legitimate, dedicated starting point.
As on-ramps to Commander, both decks do their job. As expressions of one of Magic's most dramatic story moments, they do something a little rarer: they make you feel like you're actually part of the conflict.
