Can’t wait for the three color series

Anyone notice a small flavor fail on Killian? He's supposed to be the Ink *Duelist,* but because he has menace, he can't ever fight anything one on one. Or maybe is that a flavor win? Maybe the idea is that he's so renowned as an unbeatable duelist that even Emrakul pisses herself at the idea of facing him one on one? That's actually kinda cool

Osgir, the Reconstructor is so much fun. I never felt like he was oppressive. I love having the ability to get 2 or even 4 Wurmcoil engines in play.

Beezy: "Grand Arbiter is lame because you are the only one having fun" ... also Beezy: "Brudiclad is awesome because you can make a token of lodestone golem and then copy it."

Rakdos lord of riots is my favourite, let's me play demon tribal without spending millions of mana but I do find myself having to convince people there's no eldrazi quite often

The "I can't NOT win with it" argument for Kinnan is exactly why I took apart my Chulane deck with Party Mechanic. It wasn't even Chulane combo, more just creature goodstuff, but it just went so hard every single time, it was no longer fun.

im suprised to see Brudiclad here it’s one of my favorite decks! ❤️

I just started playing a Hofri deck and it is so much fun to pilot. Great Boros commander

i will never understand why Wizards had to nerf Allies in Battle for Zendikar. No one ever complained that Allies and their synergy is too strong, but for some reason they gave allies trash abilities on ETB

This video was fun. I’m normally all about listening to you guys talk 💩 on popular cards like Niv and Kinnan, but now I really just want more picks for commander designs you love. I want to see the runner ups you love from each guild because I bet there were some spicy ones that barely missed the cut. Are you guys gonna do more of these for monocolored or 3/5 color?

Storev has one special word on him. Planeswalker. Meren doesn't hit planeswalkers. Most green black don't. Your other option is Carth. And while Carth is amazing(and fairly new), if you want a casual golgari planewalker(maybe Garruk tribal?), Storrev is your boi.

"Why is he bonding with Basalt Monolith?" Had me laughing out loud

For Dimir I have been loving Wilhelt the Rotcleaver, but I’ve always been partial to zombies. Had to restructure my Grimgrin deck but I’m loving the change so far.

Honestly, I understand where you're coming from with the Niv combo, but there is something flavorfully cool as shit about the idea that if you just get Niv the slightest bit curious, it's completely game over for your opponents

So I have a Tahngarth deck and I like him. I drop menace on him (makes him unlockable) and other Voltron stuff and he can reliably two shot players. You goad people and he kills everyone on other players' turns. It isn't perfect but it can be fun. He plays better the more players are in the game.

First off, love your videos! Please don't wear yourselves out. It's always fun to see these cool decks across the table. I'd love to see my pg play with more of these fun commandwers. I'm definitely building either Osgir or Griswold soon though. Griswold with the Assault Suit?!

fun fact: The Old Legends in Legends were design with something like Commander in Mind. The should start outside the game in a different zone, like Companion. The you could cast them anytime and the next time a bit more costly. That's why most of them are relatively costly mana-wise and not so strong in there abilities. Thx and peace out!

Cool to see Neyith here. I keep getting Neyith whenever I grab a set of Jumpstart. Finally making a deck around it because….it’s a sign! Probably

For saying you've never had a blue/black deck (If I heard that correctly) my first deck I built with help from a friend, is just The Scarab God, zombie tribal, I started building it before midnight hunt announced their deck types, so I ended up with a few cards from there. But is an insanely fun deck within my play group.

Grismold with Decayed zombies is a fun concept as well!

Because Prosper is now a thing and treasure tokens are becoming more prominent, I've been putting Veridian Revel in all my Green decks. Everytime someone casts a spell with Prosper, I draw like 6 cards just from them using their treasure tokens lmao I love it. I get to draw all the cards before their spell is even cast lmao

Best card for Volo that has yet to be made: Creatures you control and creature cards in your, hand, library and graveyard lose all creature types.

Veyran is my new favorite Izzet commander. She's a ton of fun if you like spell slinging.

I love my Volo build. I have very few overlaps, and it pops off, but the most important thing is keeping Volo safe.

Hofri Ghostforge is crazy good, definitely one of my favorite.

Prosper is So.Much.Fun. Easily my favorite precon commander of the past couple years (since k'rrik in 19 probably 😈). Such a cool design space...controlled chaos, theft, treasure tokens & artifact payoffs...all on a good blocker body. I get so many random wins or close 2nd-place finishes with the deck even though it's probably my only deck that doesn't contain a single infinite combo (lots of really strong cards, but no infinites). Even when I lose with Prosper, I still usually had a good time. They really killed it with him...

I'm really happy I found this channel. You guys are awesome, and I love the focus on balance and fun

God these are some great choices Ive loved playing with eloise and ended up making an artifact token deck thats been really fun

I watched and followed your advice on the deckbuilding 101 video in regards to playing the 1 mana elf dorks instead of the usual 3 mana spells to go get a tapped land. My new Tovolar deck came flying out the gates and managed to kill the mill player turn 6 with overwhelming stampede.

I hope you guys continue this with favorite and least three color commanders and so forth!

Great Video! Would love to see videos where you guys talk about your favourite commanders or cards in general of each respective guild.

6:45 I felt the same, but the deck that broke the mold for me was Gyruda, Doom of Depths. Playing clones to churn through your deck till your opponents spill something neat or just tossing an Ulamog into play is fantastic.

I have a Kinnan deck, let me just say he is nuts to the point of feeling guilt when playing him. I have won with him on turn 2 on more than one occasion. Winning like that is cool the first 1 or 2 times then you feel like a tool. Needless to say I powered it down. Nice vid as always

My Favorite dimir commander is the partner combo of Ghost of Ramirez DePetro and Armix, Fildagree thrasher. The combo of attacking and discarding and then dealing combat damage and getting that card back is incredible because of the discard triggers. And on top of that, you get to kill something because of the amount of mana rocks you’re playing

I actually had a blast playing with and against blim. I built it as group slug, so the effects are neutral and it doesn't matter if your give them away. It makes for some high intensity games where the table is always under pressure.

Veyran, Voice of Duality is also super fun for a storm setup. Pair it with thousand year storm, apex of power, and mana geyser/seething song and prepare for 20 min turns

If you give Tahngarth menace, he becomes unlockable. It makes every attack step into your attack step.

Tahngarth is actually pretty fun. If he gets menace, he's unblockable and if you combine him with forced combat stuff, it's not impossible to kill a couple people in one round around the table. He's the one commander that I think makes really good use of colossification, and it tapping Tahngarth is situationally an upside.

I get and respect your opinions on Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts but I absolutely love her for my specific EDH deck lol. It's a fun aristocratic Exquisite Blood/Sanguine Bond combo deck and it's nice to have a commander like Teysa to drop late game if necessary to help protect you till you get the combo or another alt win con. Thanks for your great videos :)

For Dimir, tribal rogue with krydle from AFR is super fun.

My favorite blue white commander is Yorion, the massive blinks are awesome, and the way it loops with other cards makes you so hard to pin down. Also I love value way too much. Favorite Golgari is Old Stickfingers. It can be really good in mid level formats, but it also seems like it has the potential to be incredible in cEDH (play necrotic ooze, phyrexian devourerer, and walking ballista and any reanimation spell is a one card combo kill with the cast trigger of your commander)

This video was unbelievably entertaining thank you so much. Most enjoyable video from this month for sure, It was

I just built Grismold and he is so much fun!! An absolute powerhouse and completely flies under the radar until you wipe all the tokens and swing lethal commander damage! I’m definitely putting assault suit in now!

Blim is definitely a 99 card, for sure. I run him in my Xantcha deck to "give" auras already on xantcha to my opponents, mainly the auras that don't care who controls it at least.

Thanks for the content. I like your philosophy of good designs being those that promote multiple viable directions.

Of these, I briefly had Teysa as a general. It was very casual, and this was also in 2017 - so just pre-“everything is designed for commander” and pushed. She wasn’t a great (or even that good of a ) commander, but it was a fun Orzhov deck overall. Now though, the card is so incredibly outclassed, it would make no sense at all. I’m building better/more fun decks.

My current favorite commander is Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle. I was looking through my cards and saw I had a bunch of big stupid sea creatures and decided to build a deck around them. I thought it would be really cumbersome and slow, but with cards like Kiora’s Follower you can cast Arixmethes on turn 3 and create 4 mana with it on turn 4. It’s been a lot better deck than I was expecting.

Depala is my favorite Boros commander. i love playing it with the dwarf/vehicle tribal budget deck

This is a fun series. Hope you make more for the mono and 3 color sets!

When Tangarth came out, my buddy built him and won in the most stellar first game. It was brilliant. I have no idea how he did it

Oona is fine IMO. My least favorite blue black Commander is yuriko. Commander ninjutsu was a mistake.

Would love to see this series continued for other color combinations and monocolored!

i really enjoy munda in the 99 of my 5 color allies, pairs really well with realmwalker

Momir vig is my personal favorite simic commander. A tutor on a body for playing simic creatures is awesome. I average winning by turn 7 or earlier.

I feel as though you gotta give Tahngarth a bit more credit. I've got a Tahngarth deck and its hands down one of my favorite decks to pilot. Hes got lots of potential politicking and synergy with menace to make him unblockable AND the potential to straight up kill anyone within one turn cycle, which almost everyone agrees to if someone is running away with the game. Hes really unique and is a lot more fun than you seem to give him credit for. Also, you mentioned assault suit which is great for preventing him from getting sacked. Great video regardless, I always love your guys' content!

Would love to see like a most fun/ least fun to play list

My favourite Dimir commander is Vela, the Night Clad. Play her with a bunch of Devoid Eldrazi and your team can only be blocked by artifacts. Chuck some Reconnaissance Mission effects in there. Juicy!

I play Osgir at cEDH tables and yes, he absolutely can be miserable to play against. I got a turn 1 Rule of Law, turn 2 Osgir, turn 3 Karn the Great Creator who can return cards exiled with Osgir back to your hand so I kept looping artifact lands and Sphere of Resistance so by turn 6, I’m at 12+ mana and I have 6 sphere of resistances so all spells cast 6 more. No one could cast spells while I was playing cards out of my graveyard and just ran away with the game. That was a pretty extreme example though because I had like the perfect hand but Osgir in general is pretty powerful and a very creative commander. Can be built to perform in all power levels.

Sad to see my boy Blim on your hitlist, but I really enjoy playing him in an Act of Treason style build, it leads to some fun politics when I steal the best creature on the board and have to decide who to give it to. That way I play fewer "bad gifts" and it's more engaging for everyone.

Love the shout out for Osgir. Just last night I was able to take five turns in a row by discarding an Ugin's Nexus, then double-double reanimating it using Osgir wearing Illusionist Bracers.

I’m a simple man. I see Osgir in the thumbnail, I watch the video!

For Gruul, though it isn't as bad as Tahngarth and I quite like it as a card, Thromok, the Insatiable isn't much of a commander. I love devour and this is one of the coolest devour creatures, but it takes a lot of setup just to come out as a huge vanilla creature. It's a really plain strategy and if your opponents interfere with your setup at all, they stop you completely. And you can't do devour tribal, because devour creatures don't have room to share their food. Still, Thromok is pretty cool in the 99 of any token deck.

The new unfortunate part about brudiclad, is that now we have essix who just does his job but better.

Homie did you pronounce Prosper's race as "tie-fling" lmao it's pronounced as "tee-fling" that gave me a good laugh, great video though guys! Love Prosper

It's really, really refreshing to hear people talk about how the new designs for commander are being done well. I feel like so often you hear people complaining about how Wizards is 'ruining the format' by designing cards specifically for commander. I think 95-99% of their designs have been absolutely killer and allowed a ton of new and interesting stuff in the format. Appreciate someone finally saying something about it.

Joe, taking into account how much you love playing your opponents cards against them, I think you would enjoy making a deck similar to one I used to run. Lazav, Dimir Mastermind mill/control. Every big splashy scary creature in your opponents decks becomes a potential Lazav transformation target. Throw in control magic sort of cards, reanimate stuff from everyone's graveyards, so on and so forth, and that seems like it would be right up your "play my opponents decks" alley. Not arguing that he's at or anywhere near the top for Dimir guild commanders, this is just a specific recommendation because you've said you like playing decks like that in previous videos.

I have a Niv-mizzet parun deck. I just took out curiosity type card, I totally agree that those cards does leads to victory, but a little too consistently, in which to me is my favorite part of commander. taking out 2 card infinite combo make the deck a lot more fair and make you work a lot more to set up an insane combo.

As someone whose first deck was Niv-mizzet Parun, the critique is pretty fair. I try to mitigate it by not trying to turbo out to my Curiosity, and try to focus more on wheels and some control. Granted, I still keep those cards in just in case.

In the defence of Tahngarth, all you have to do is give it menece and it will be unblockable. Since his text says he can only be blocked by one creature, and menece says he must be double blocked, then nothing can block him so its free damage.

Prosper is so fun to play. It has become one of my favorite commander in an instant! Also, i have never seen that Teysa, ever. I wasn't aware of its existence at all! Osgir is the first not boros attack commander? What about fire song and sunspeaker burn?

As someone who has gotten the trostani helm combo off it is a lot of fun

UW- Raff WB- Vona BR- Prosper RG- omnath GB- BU- the scarab god UG- arixmethes GW- sythis WR- Iroas RU- Rielle

Tahngarth is actually one of my favourites. Menace makes him literally unblockable, and there's an abundance of ways to grant it.

I have built a deck around Storrev and I loved that deck. He is a 5/4 with trample that can get you a creature or planeswalker back when it hits for 4 mana. He has a lot a value with him but I think you guys overlook it because it has to deal combat damage. It has trample and 5 power. He is going to get at least 1-2 point of damage throught to trigger. Also if you throe a couple cards making it unblockable, that 5 damage adds up. I'm not saying your evaluation is trash, I think you just need to revisit it. Sorry for the long rant

Do it for mono-color too, great video!

Thanks for such an entertaining video guys!

The best way to play Blim is using symmetrical stax pieces to slow the game down, then gift players cards like Forbidden Crypt and Immortal Coil. Nefarious Lich is a great gift because it forces that opponent to keep you alive because if you die, they die.

will you be doing a video with your favorite/ least favorite mono colored commanders?

So I have had multiple Gruul decks that haven't done anything special, just Gruul creatures that attack when you draw overun.With that in mind, I don't enjoy "typical" games of magic as much as I like unique situations. Needless to say, I have an awesome Tahngarth deck that I absolutely love! People sacrifice creatures by attcking just to get Tahngarth attacking as well, and i have goad regardless. He combos with menace making sure he's never blocked. I have plenty of spot removal to remove sac outlets, and double strike can easily close out the game. There isn't even a need for board wipes, when you're Commander is unblockable, you can just kill the player instead! (PS you become a target pretty fast sometimes, so bring some protection) So the next time Wizards makes a Gruul unblockable commander, THEN you can put Tahngarth as the worst Gruul Commander. Therefore, I challenge you to make/play a Tahngarth deck on the channel.

I know this is a year out now but what y’all think of fire mind rather than parun? He’s counter-able but has a more manageable cost, he can tap to start the infinite but that means he needs haste to start infinite out the gate so that’s 3 spells cast for about 7+ mana and all are presumably counter-able.

You missed incubate tokens with Bruticlad. They're the best ones because they come with counters that stack on top of whatever you turn them into.

The thumbnail got me excited cause I build an Iroas deck and want some good cards in that color combo.

Interesting to hear your insights on some commanders, even learned about new cards too (I first started around Darksteel and didn't play again until War of the Sparks) * Ranar: Hmm maybe I underestimated him, the precon didn't seem great to me * Eloise: She seems super interesting, seems potent * Prosper: Crazy strong * Neyith: Interesting, never heard of this one - fighting seems pretty sweet, the bottom portion reminded me of Xenagos * Trostani: She's okay, Nykthos Paragon is very scary with her * Killian: Looks super interesting, good amount of ways to go, Liesa is my Orzhov fav though, what is commander tax lol * Grismold: Very interesting, I feel like Golgari has a lot of interesting commanders that I want to try out * Volo: Super nasty, very fun deck construction, and a lot of cards people have never heard of * Brudiclad: I love tokens, I love the way it works * Ozgir: Value town in Boros, who would have known lol - I think it also helped that the precon had some very sweet value * Bonus - Niv-Mizzet: I remember building him when I wasn't satisfied with playing spellslingers with the C19 Jeskai precon - took wins with Thousand Year Storm to resolve something like a Comet Storm or Earthquake copied multiple times. I feel like the Vadrik from Midnight Hunt to be a great Izzet spell deck to play

Grenzo, dungeon warden is simultaneously my favourite and most infuriating rakdos commander to play

Interesting to see so many new/recent commanders on both sides of the spectrum. It's cool that WotC are pushing new and mechanically unique cards, even though they miss the mark from time to time.

Beezy you should look at Aurami! You might like her. She seems to be a little more focused on things different from normal dimir things

Niv-Mizzet/Curiosity is a lot less threatening in 3+ player games, because you're unlikely to kill all other players with the infinite combo before you draw yourself out. You need to be careful, unless you've got a Lab Maniac or Jace Wielder on board.

What do you know, I built a Trostani deck and I have to agree she was a ton of fun, though as I play tested the build and made adjustments, the whole thing started leaning more on smaller tokens and I found Rhys the Redeemed to be far better suited for the commander slot. But still thinking Trostani with Helm of the Host could be a ton of fun. Later maybe, I'm messing around with Sythis right now.

Oh boy! I can't wait to bond with my Simic Cluestone with Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy.

My best friend has a Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts deck where it’s focused on lifegain. I think it’s pretty fun to fight though it does discourage me from attacking at times but it also seems like he really enjoys playing it.

Loved this videos, I hope you make more, mono color next?

Great video! Now do shards and wedges 😊

My Niv-Mizzet deck is awesome loving ping people pairing him Veryan voice of duality is great

Tangarh: Give him menace, he is now unblockable Give him Assault suit, now he can't be sacced Give him greaves, now he can't be blinked. Overall, you now have a 7/7 who is effectively attacking every turn. Can't be blocked. I wanna build this now.

Imagine kinnan having the ability to soulbond multiple times or for different benefits. Might fit the flavour better

I love Blim. My Blim deck is my haha funny I’ll give you this deck. I focus on instant lose conditions. It’s a lot of fun.

another fun video! Thanks guys!

Boros Allies was an extremely fun deck to play and the line it walks is thin but to stack the top of the deck is fringe good. Trust me, it did work. Wheels. If you're wheeling you never have to discard the allies. I'm not disagreeing that he is weak but he was fun.

No shit, real Storrev field report here: I use him in a deck. It's Kethis, Hidden Hand elves, with lots of legendaries (of course, in this case many elves). He brings recursion for some key non-legendary elves that is recurrable himself, triggers elf effects and synergies, legendary synergies, and best of all, is one of the first I exile to trigger my commanders ability.

If you're looking for weird Dimir commanders, I recommend Dralnu. And if you want to be extra spicy, try donating him to opponents so you can deal a bunch of damage to him.