"And the first card that dominates on our list is WAYFARERS BAUBLE"

Didn't realize Mitch was gonna just go through my decks today and call out my stuff lol

Time to make a 5 color deck that makes my friends hate me

I need this on a shirt “drawing cards in commander is good - Mitch”

I remember when Nyxbloom Ancient was revealed, I had to read it at least three to make sure I understood it correctly.

Hey I think a card you might have overlooked because you didn't mention it a single time was a powerful artifact creature called Blightsteel colossus. It's a little obscure so I can understand not talking about it

One of my friends had opened 2 Nyxbloom Ancients from the prerelease. Needless to say, after some trading, my Yarok and Roon decks each have a cool new addition.

I also would have included Ugin the Spirit Dragon on the list, every time I cast Ugin and it resolves the game becomes about how they can kill it so I can't minus again, or even better ult it

1. Wayfarer’s Bauble

Razaketh the Foulblooded, being a sack outlet to turn decks on, on top of being a big beater and a tutor on a stick I think hes spectacular in edh and doesnt get enough love

The amount of value a turn 2 sylvan library provides is game changing. Bolas's citadel is insane every time I've cast it. Also rhystic study changes the way people play for as long as it's in play

Zur’s Wierding. I run it in Muldrotha, at it absolutely changes the entire game the moment it hits the battlefield. I would recommend for any graveyard deck or deck that doesn’t mind discarding in blue. Edit: I need to learn to spell. The card costs U3, Players play with there hands revealed. Whenever a player draws a card, that card is revealed. Any other player may pay 2 life to make them discard that card instead.

I guess Mitch is considering "Cards in Commander that End Games" and "More Cards in Commander that Dominate Games" For which I have two words: More, please

One of each color: Rhystic Study. Smothering Tithe. Bolas's Citadel. The Great Henge. Mana Barbs/War's Toll (kinda tied in my playgroup)

Nyxbloom is amazing in Gargos and casting huge hydras, especially since Gargos can help protect it

Avacyn angel of hope. The amount of times it just sticks on the board because the table can't find an exile effect is very shocking plus it allows you get around the symmetrical nature of board wipes . If you really like rubbing salt into the wound play armageddon

Nice video as always! Some cards I would add that I always find to be very influential whenever they appear: Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, Butcher of Malakir, Martyr's Bond, etc. If you get out a Grave Pact, have creatures/tokens to spare, and instant speed sac outlets, then your opponents pretty much can't play creatures. These kinds of cards MUST be answered, I find them to often be better than one time board wipes because they stick around and allow you to control enemy boards for prolonged periods of time, and they even get around indestructible creatures! They even have political and defensive applications, "Don't attack me or blow up my creatures unless you want to lose your stuff too." "Hey player B, attack player C for me if you don't want me to blow up your board!". These are devious cards! Run enchantment removal!

I know quite a lot but it would be a THICC list so i'll go with these: - Doubling Season: Tokens, counters, superfriends you name it. It hits the field, you are already a huge threat. - Mycosynth Lattice: No one plays this without a reason, be Memnarch, Karn the Great Creator, Vandal Blast or simply trolling with mass artifact destruction, it always works. - Aetherflux Reservoir: 1 life left? No problem, it will patch you up in 1 turn and will charge its lazor faster than you can say Wayfarer's Bauble. - Marrow-Gnawer / Krenko, Mob boss: Leave them alone 1 turn and you will be swarmed with a horde and pray they don't have something to get them untapped. - Akroma's Memorial: What is worse than 1 Akroma? a crap ton of Akromas that are stronger than Akroma! - Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker: Combo or not this asshole just works if there are decent creatures. - Grave Pact / Dictate of Erebos / Martyr's Bond / Butcher of Malakir: It would be a shame that i had a crap ton of disposable creatures on my side. - Storm Crow / Crow Storm: You know why. - Ashnod's Altar / Phyrexian Altar: Sac outlet for mana? No one would DARE to abuse that! - Contamination: It would be a shame if you don't play a black deck. - Ashen Rider: Geez i wonder what everyone will copy and/or resurrect?

Almost each phyrexian preator could be on the list. Especially gin gitaxias.

In my experience Gisela, Blade of Goldnight can take over boards pretty well. It deals tons of damage, turns up the pace of the game by a ton and makes it almost impossible for people to attack you profitably.

Love playing Cyclonic Rift at my neighboring opponents end step

After you mentioned Elesh Norn, and Vorenclex I was surprised Jin Gitaxias was not the next card. Things can go down hill very fast when he hits the board.

Excellent Video, Mitch! Some excellent choices there! I love playing Elesh Norn and Vorinclex but Hate playing against them! Same can be said for Lurking Predators and Omniscience! And you've introduced me to a couple of other cards that I need to keep an eye out for! 👍👍

Great vid mitch :) had to share it with my playgroup :) so they will know what cards are usually in my decks :)

More of this, please! I really enjoyed this video, actually.

I pulled a Nyxbloom ancient, and I'm definitely going to put it into the Golos deck I'm building.

Haha Elesh Norn was the first card I thought of when I saw the title. Last time I landed her the entire game became about her. Somehow my opponents didn't have removal for it for a long time.

All of these things mentioned are really expensive, and I am surprised that Lavinia of the Tenth wasn't mentioned. Do you like your mana rocks? she says no. Do your mana dorks? she says no. Ashnod's Altar? Nawh. She gives so much advantage to the person that plays her, especially when it is put into a flicker deck, as she stops so many things from going on and allows you to use your kill and counter magic on targets that are relatively threatening and not annoying. She is a card that dominates games.

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Mitch: "We're going to be talking about Commander cards that dominate games." Me (before watching): "The gamer in me is betting that you mention stax at some point. The meme-lord in me is betting you open with: First off, there's Wayfarer's Bauble." Also, y'know what makes Nyxbloom Ancient *really* disgusting? Stonecoil Serpent. In my Standard format monogreen +1/+1 counter deck, I think my record for tallest Stonecoil is somewhere around 216 power.

I have a group slug deck built around Mogis, and Sire is in it. My playgroup hates that deck so much, and I love seeing their reactions

A good combo w/ nyxbloom ancient (like it needs the help) are the Shadowmoor/Eventide filter lands: In total, you tap 2 lands for 8 mana instead of 6.

Mitch, with all these sets coming out that are sort of returns to old sets, have you thought about doing a "Return to" series for older Deck Techs? Kind of go back and redo with some of the newer cards that have come out and the updated budget. Maybe bring back the ole pig Ilharg with some of the new dragons and big cards. Just curious would love to see it.

Lighthouse Chronologist. My friend has it in his mono blue deck, and he always runs away with the game every time he plays it. He waits to play it during the late game, and levels it up to max all in the same turn, too.

Two of my favorite cards ever. Ruric Thar and Havoc Festival. Good times.

Hello and welcome to an episode of Commander's 2 Cents, where today we'll show you a list of cards that cost seven mana or more

Nyxbloom ancient: exists Faeburrow elder and bloomtender: I'm gonna make so much Mana

never seen a consecrated sphinx stick the board for the caster's next turn

So does running vorinclex in my ruric thar deck along side my nullstone gargoyle and void winnower make me a jerk? Do I need to add grafted exoskeleton?

4:01 This plus Nyx Lotus and that color fixing druid... All sorts of fun times ahead

Really enjoy these and the podcast episodes :)

Each praetor aside from Urabrask deserves a spot Id also add Swarm Intelligence, and if built right, Porphorus God of the Forge

Thinking of building a Ruric Thar deck as my first one

I had omniscience and wounds reflect out with my Yuriko deck. Free bounces/counters and double yuriko trigger. I felt like a GOD

Rakdos is sweet for this list. I saw some cards i really didnt expect. Kearvec is in my opinion the card that dominate games the hardest. Kearvec hits the battlefield and instantly everyone tried to befriend the kearvec player and make deals. Perplexing chimera gives that feeling a little bit as well, maybe this is an idea for the most politic cards... :)

Even though I'm sure he was trying g to exclude commanders I see Xenagos, God of Revels in the 99 enough to think it deserves a spot on this list. Kinda like Wound Reflection and Havoc Festival it just puts people on a timer, except I think this card can be much more dangerous. The fact that he's indestructible and usually an enchantment makes him difficult to deal with. Also since he's only going to allow you to effectively kill one player at a time, I've seen people let him live until they're the ones being swung at which by then can be too late.

I have two decks that although not very strong their commanders have quite the impact once they are on board. One is Admiral Beckett Brass that i almost always cast when im capable of stealing something on the spot and once she is on the board everyone is trying to find ways to kill her or prevent the dmg or the attack by making deals and such. The fact that the deck is not strong is also on purpose so that it does not draw too much hate :P The second one is Thantis the warweaver (the jund spider from a previous commander set that forces attacks for those who have no idea). In this deck i have other cheaper ways to force attacks as well and since the deck is full with deathtouch creatures it makes it much more likely that my opponents will be attacking each other instead of me. Thantis (along with the other effects that force attacks) make a huge impact on the board cause it makes people unable to keep their utility/ not-meant-for-combat creatures safe and makes them attack each other unless they want their big creatures to be killed by 2cmc spiders that i can get back anyway through Isareth, Soul of Innistrad, Palace Siege, Phyrexian Reclamation etc. Again not particularly strong as deck but really fun to see how much it changes the game's course.

Nyxbloom Ancient - "it produces three times as much of that mana instead." I checked the ruling at gatherer.com and you're right, but I'm still really surprised. "Instead" normally indicates a replacement effect and I would have assumed that multiple contradictory or redundant replacement effects would go off only the one with the newest timestamp, rather than being cumulative. I feel this ruling pushes it from "overpowered" to "broken." Add in Candelabra of Tawnos and/or Magus of the Candelabra and you've already got a real mess on your hands anyway!

4:53 I stole 2 of these with a Consuming Abberration of the field once. It was a fun turn.

Avoiding a lot of these is one of the reason my favorite deck (Teneb, the Harvester) can be so successful. Instead of single, big, scary cards, it just likes to run incremental advantage cards that synergize really well and can even go infinite if I get the right ones out. Probably the two cards that people don't realize they have to deal with right away are *Recycle* and *Null* *Profusion* They see the downsides and think it's no big deal, and then I have one turn where I draw 15 cards and play a Reliquary Tower or Thought Vessel.

Notification squaaaaaaaad! Love the videos as always Mitch, great work!!!

Nezahal, Primal Tide. He is pricey to cast, but he can't be countered and gives good card draw too. On top of the card draw, discard 3 cards (just a tad steep, but worth most times) and blink him to avoid distruction or exile if not already protected. He wins me games all the time

Very sweet video buddy hope your doing well

Nyxbloom Ancient is definitely an immediate target, in Chulane bounce it's pretty insane especially with Abundance out, I can just keep getting lands and mana.

A similar card that is just as impactful as Lurking Predators is Mind's Dilation. It's more random since it depends on your opponent's top cards and only affects one spell per player per turn, but it doesn't just hit creatures, but any non-land permanent. You can counter anything that your opponent plays if their next card is a counterspell, or you can maybe find something even stronger. You sometimes exile some of your opponents combo pieces and just make it very hard for them to win. It's chaotic and very powerful which is one of my favourite kinds of card.

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger Amulet of Vigor (extremely overlooked card for what it does.)

I dominated a game once by casting Cyclonic Rift into a Windfall followed by a Rule of Law effect. The table was in an uproar.

I would also have included jin gritaxias, usually if that thing stays on the battlefield for 1 round it’s over, and even before at the first end step (if cou cast it on your turn) you draw 7 giving you the ability to get some counterspells or protection spells

I just built a deck that plays havoc festival and wound reflection together.

I beat a bolas deck running omniscience with my lathliss dragon deck. And to this day I have never seen that friend get so proud. Cause earlier he said he had never lost a game with omniscience on the field.

My Hydra commander deck with nyxbloom is so much fun especially when I have 150mana each turn ;)

I'd have to say Narset, Enlightened Master and Narset, Parter of Veils. Enlightened Master allows you to play normally hard to play cards such as Omniscience for free on top of being hexproof herself which makes her that much more difficult to deal with. Parter of Veils is a Leovold style Planeswalker that can end a game with teferi's puzzle box or windfall style effects.

I actually really want to get an elesh norm for my teysa karlov. I dont play a ton of blood artist effects so i want more general pump effects.

If an opponent if mine is playing Elesh Norn, I'm playing Vorinklex, that's just the way it's gotta be 🤣 EEEY my boi Ruic Thar made it into the vid! LOVE that guy; it's between him, Nikya or Omnath for my Gruul colored commanders...oh, Mina and Denn too ❤

Honestly suprised i didn't see a bolas's citadel maybe an honorable mention is autherflux reservoir, usually locked down fot atleast a couple of turns till someone can maybe remove it before they get hyperbeamed.

Nicol Bolas, godpharaoh makes all oponent top decking in few turns and it is using plus 1

I finally got a nyxbloom ancient off in a game with a growing rites of itlimoc and i was taping for 100s of mana with a beast whisper and elemental bond, I was just casting my entire freaking Library. It was nuts

Sphere of Safety. It may not give you a punishment bonus or even a lot of advantage, but if you can protect it you can keep anyone from touching you.

Nyxbloom ancient + rite of replication = 1 land taps for 729 mana.. or if it's a bounce land that taps for 2, 1458 mana :) it's great in something like a temur deck, you tap Gruul Turf for Red and Green, you get 729 of each and you cast fireball and burn your opponents to death 10 times over. pretty fun. yes it is overkill, but it would still be fun. so you hit them for 1455 damage (1 red to cast and 2 mana to kick it twice = 1455 left).

A commander that always decimates the board is Zacama. She has the most insane board presence and control out of any commander i have seen or played. She basically destroys everything your opponents have tried to build up before she comes into play.

Field of the dead in a lands deck can be freaking insane. My playgroup struggles to keep my Korvold lands deck and my buds Lord Windgrace deck in check when we have that land on the field.

Mitch, *talks about omnicience.* Me and my steal enchantment *hysterical laughter*

Can you make an Uril the miststalker deck?

Grave betrayal is definitely up there.

I use Ruric Thar in my Mayael deck and if you happen to have Gisela out then it’s 12 damage per spell. Pretty nuts

What about the Charging Badger??? Nice video!!

Mimic Vat the Nyxbloom Ancient, populate with Ghired Conclave Exile or another spell while Anointed Procession is out. Ghired is a repeatable populate on attack

Enter the infinite, necropotence, seedborn muse, beguiler of wills, sentriplets, blazing archon, advacin indestructible, platinum angle, scroll racks, staff of domination, pro lagged position, yisan, btw I have all of these in one deck. (Now not in the deck) memnark sliver anything (also have a sliver deck) Arlen, azorius guild mage, LIFE LINE DECKS with a sneak attack (have one)

Havoc Festival is one of my favs, so is wound reflection.... so it Sire of Insanity... am I a bad person?

Apparently I am a monster, in my omnath locus of mana. I had both vorinclex and lurking predators.

I have 2 omnicince, both opened from packs 😎

I still can't forget the game where elesh norn got reanimated around 4 times (two of them by me, stealing my opponent's graveyard xD)

had Ruric thar deal 16 damage to someone playing infect who used 2 combat tricks. I also had a torbran on the board : ) he died the next turn from my klothys and impact tremors triggers.

Wait.... Mitch, how did you miss Wayfarer's Bauble? Now that is a game changer!

Nyxbloom is pretty astounding with Kinnan

Venser the Sojourner can be super busted if you have a deck that has tons of ETBs, or just to goof up your opponents any time you cast a spell

Lurking Predators refuses to pop off when I use it but when my friend uses my deck it always pops off :-(

Every time I use an Eldrazi Titan as commander I'm destroyed before I can even cast it. I'm like "guys, my decks are terrible!" And they're just "yeah, but your commander isn't! "

One card you didn't mention was Purphorose, God of the Forge. That card comes out in a creature centric deck everyone will be eyeing their removal or are preparing to lose a lot of life.

I p;layed out a Nyxbloom Acient against someones Brudiclad deck, and needless to say, he made a token copy of it and turned all his other tokens into it. he had 14 Ancients I think which means his mana producers produced 4.78 Million mana per pip it produced. was totally nuts, and really fun

you didn't mention Enter the infinite with Omniscience? that's like a guaranteed instant win combo, especially if you throw down bound // determined or maybe veil of summer earlier in the turn to lure out counterspells for cheap

You should do a video of the most powerful commanders

I have a very sick part of my mind that makes me grin with joy when I see my opponents stare at Baelesh Norn in the command zone >:3 Usually I'm dead before I get a chance to cast her but gosh is it fun to bring her onto a battlefield of tokens & mono white anthems

Archfiend of Despair is Wound Reflection on a creature. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned.

I was playing an Ayula bear deck and someone played elesh norn. It turned off all my creature and removal.... so rip me

How I deal with Nyxbloom Ancient or Omniscience: Krosan Grip, especially since Omniscience gets stopped cold when Grip goes on the stack, due to Split Second.

Best game I've had was one in which the Omnath player played Vorinclex, the Breya player cloned it with Phyrexian Metamorph and I copied it with Echo Storm, so everyone but the Gisa and Geralf player ended with one. Guess who won.

Been having some fun with copying Nyxbloom Ancient with Wall of Stolen Identity

Mindmoil.

A lot of people seem to be confusing combo pieces for "cards that dominate the game". Ashnod' Altar is a combo piece. Without certain other cards, it sits on the field looking ugly and occasionally turns one of your own creatures into 2 mana. You could go a whole game using Ashnod's to pay equip costs--not exactly game changing. Yes, there are a lot of other cards that pair well with Ashnod's, but in the end Ashnod's is just a rock with benefits. Vorinclex, Omniscience, etc., on the other hand, outright screws the rest of the table if unanswered. I get the confusion, though. My high synergy cards (Cathars' Crusade, OG Gisela, Ashnod's, Zulaport Cutthroat, etc.) draw a lot of heat, seems like that "proves" they are powerful. But that doesn't mean they are going to "dominate" the game. The definition needs to stay narrow, or Mitch will be making these CTDTG vids until the end of time.