Good commander options for "all the damage"

[Mimicvat]

I'm looking for suggestions for commanders that can throw around a ton of damage pretty quickly, be it commander damage or otherwise.

Current lead contender is Brion Stoutarm, who can throw creatures at players to bring that life total down and also gains me life to keep ahead if it is a race or the damage effects are symmetrical.

What do you guys think?

[lyonhaert]

I've never seen more damage from finite combo (no infinite loops, just exponential synergy) than Zada, Hedron Grinder. Especially with the arcane package -- more in Crazy Monkey's thread.

[Mookie]

I'll throw out Heartless Hidetsugu as one suggestion. Often capable of bringing most opponents into burn range with just one or two activations, and does even more damage if your opponents have gained life. Particularly silly alongside damage doublers.

Xenagos, God of Revels is another option, if you want to be attacking with giant hasty monsters. Also very good alongside extra combat steps, or any effects that care about power (such as Momentous Fall or Soul's Fire).

[Mimicvat]

I'm wanting to avoid mono-red as I already have a red deck. A friend of mine plays Hidetsugu and I'll second that it can be super fast. I used to have a Xenagos deck, it was pretty legit but looking to run something new if possible. Though talking about it makes me remember how sweet it was to get double damage and haste on every creature

[Rumpy5897]

This is the obligatory Maelstrom Wanderer weaponised goodstuff recommendation. Carry on.

[DirkGently]

If you want to throw tons of damage around - not always at players, but sometimes - Kaervek the Merciless would be my pick. He can get really funky with a political spin - my decklist is here (I should maybe migrate it to the new forums...hopefully I don't get in trouble for the link?) https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the ... experiment

[lyonhaert]

If you want to throw tons of damage around - not always at players, but sometimes - Kaervek the Merciless would be my pick. He can get really funky with a political spin - my decklist is here (I should maybe migrate it to the new forums...hopefully I don't get in trouble for the link?) https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the ... experiment

There's no trouble in posting links such as that.

[Cow31337Killer]

I'm looking for suggestions for commanders that can throw around a ton of damage pretty quickly, be it commander damage or otherwise.

Current lead contender is Brion Stoutarm, who can throw creatures at players to bring that life total down and also gains me life to keep ahead if it is a race or the damage effects are symmetrical.

What do you guys think?

All of the suggestions so far have been cute and all, but if you want BIG damage, it doesn't get much bigger than Thromok the Insatiable|PC2. You haven't lived until you've cast Fling|M11 with him in play.