The Tarrasque... You would think WotC would know its own property 🙄

The line that defines Preston Garvey for me is "Another settlement needs our help!" The fact that him taking actions is what makes settlements feels perfect to me.

It's wild that the new cappena commander decks were a flop yet they have so many incredible individual cards

No legendary creature has disappointed me more than Sengir, the Dark Baron from Commander Legends. Mono black with Partner that....gains you life when someone loses the game? Let's forget the fact that mono black is known for looping Kokusho and Grey Merchant, or going big with Torment of Hailfire and Exsanguinate. Black is really good at killing everyone at once, which makes his headlining ability a gargantuan "win more" condition that rarely comes in helpful. But OMG you can do voltron to one-shot someone and gain like 30 life! Great! Now I can super kill one player, get my commander instantly removed, and just durdle around with an extra high life total! I honestly don't know what the design process looked like to result in Sengir, the Dark Baron being the best design they could conceive. I know some legends are meant to be duds constructed for the draft environment, but this is Baron freaking fracking Sengir. This underwhelming text box should have been stapled to a rando new character to preserve the draft environment so they could make Sengir, the Dark Baron an interesting and unique commander worthy of his place in MTG lore.

Regarding Feldon: The ronom excavator makes total sense in flavour in the storyline, which is the main engine of the card-design. Nevinyrral is also spot on regarding his storyline, even if it is not a fun commander to play against.

Gnostro seems to be the kind of card Wizards designs worrying too much about how it can become busted and ends up becoming completely lame instead.

33:30 I think a lot of people are disappointed with ghimbal, not because there are hoops to jump but because the deck it was in was just extremely lackluster. It was one of the more interesting commanders to come out of that commander set but that deck. Ooof.

To be pedantic on Gerard: The wave of equipment commanders came out *after* him. Prior to him though, the vast majority of Boros was indeed combat-centric, with Feather and Firesong and Sunspeaker being standouts that broke the mold.

Mine would be Gavi, Nest Warden. I wanted so much to love her. I’ve built her several times, each time I play it, am disappointed and take it apart. This was an interesting episode, thanks guys!

Man, Odric was such a disappointment. I always thought he should've taken keywords from opponent's creatures. Sucking the strenghts of the opponents' monsters and giving them to your team.

My most disappointed legend was Kyodai from Kamigawa Neon Dynasty. I've been playing since og Kamigawa and I am into the lore of that particular plane (yea, I was a huge weeb back then). So when O-kagachi came out as a 5c spirit, it didn't actually do anything as a 5c spirit commander, much like how Ulrich was for werewolf. Fast forward to Neon Dynasty, Kyodai could have been the perfect 5c spirit commander but instead I felt that I was given another Ulrich 2.0. As for Feldon, there is an explanation on why the Third Path & the Ronom Excavator are so disconnected. The Third Path version was after he went on a journey of learning "resurrection" spells from masters of various colours. He wanted to bring Loran back from the dead. **That story was on the Magic Story Archive. Ronom Excavator was like the pre-Loran's-death version.

New Cappena was such a fire set! Like how y’all treat Baldur’s Gate is how I felt for NC. It had awesome cards and great flavor and I love the aesthetic! But yeah, generally those precons didn’t feel super good. Though I think it’s because magic has such a problem with storytelling and lore. Characters like Avacyn were so pivotal that a ton of cards referenced her looked at the effect of her absence, or Gisa and Geralf who were built up over the course of their respective block

I played Commander a couple of months ago for the first time in about two years, and someone brought a slightly upgraded Kitt Kanto deck, and with the other decks in our pod it was pretty fun. Someone had a theft deck, so he was stealing stuff from the rest of us while Kitt was making us fight amongst ourselves. It ended up being pretty wild and fun.

People cooled off on Smuggler's Share BEFORE Trouble in Pairs came out. They realized it would be ok at drawing you cards (your opponents drawing 2+ cards happens fairly often) and terrible at making treasures (your opponents having 2+ lands enter tends to be rather rare outside of green decks going very heavy on ramp or landfall shenanigans).

if you want a couple of Boros legends that actually might have some interesting builds around them, Thunder Junction came out with both Taii Wakeen and Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor.

When I started playing commander I thought I was a Golgari/Sultai player. I then build a budget-ish (still not cheap!) Winota cedh deck. I kind of fell in love with Boros. Now branching out to Jeskai and feeling that out. And I quite like the idea of Esper as well. funny how I found most fun in what apparently is the least diverse build around commanders. :p

I think Joey subtly landed on why Gimbal was disappointing, and that's because the tinker time precon is one of the worst that we've gotten in a long time, even among a famously lackluster set like the March of the Machine batch.

Blinking Odric with any card that pings opponents for Artifacts entering the battlefield is so powerful though.

Odric absolutely is the right example to showcase disappointment. As a huge Innastrad/Odric fan myself.. he could have been a really cool new take but instead they just warped his ability into something boring. So sad. And I get both your thoughts and critiques on Boros but for me I feel like other colour combos can be just as guilty as being samey they just might hide it better. Top 6 Simic commanders on EDHREC - Kinnan - value engine Aesi - value engine Hakbal - merfolk value engine Ivy - unique simic queen Volo - value engine Adrix - value engine.. You get me? 😅

I was super disappointed that the Mysterious Stranger wasn't made into a legendary creature. How much fun would have been to build a deck that just let him flash in for one turn, auto kill something, then return to the command zone. Felt that was such a missed oppurtunity.

So like, as a white player, you cannot say Feather Radiant Arbiter is ok while Ivy Gleeful Spellthief exists. The strategy and effect is exactly the same, “cast stuff to voltron up one of your creatures and hit the other players”. Except that Ivy is less mana, Ivy can copy mutate spells, Ivy gets the copy for FREE, AND Ivy can steal your opponent’s buffs. To be clear I love Ivy and think she’s great, but when you have a card that is sooo similar and who’s previous versions have been so fascinating and powerful and who’s art so goes so hard, you can’t look at this and tell me it isn’t disappointing.

12:45 My brother solved that problem by playing Ezuri as his morph commander. Morphs are 2/2s. Makes sense.

My biggest disappointment was a Phenax, God of Deception mill deck. It was full of weird old cards that otherwise didn't fit in almost anything - some huge toughness creatures that let you throw out a massive blocker & then mill a ton of cards on end-step, and some combos with jank cards like Intruder Alarm or Eater of the Dead. I'd even run some reanimator shenanigans to exploit opponents' graveyards as a plan B. Sometimes it'd just straight-up win or knock a player straight out of the game. Bruvac on board + kicked Maddening Cacophony was an immediate win, barring any interaction. Bruvac + an Unearthed Teresian Mindbreaker would take a single player out, almost irrespective of their board state. Getting Sheoldred out & flipping her to the True Scriptures over and over was nearly a lock on the game if I could keep a counterspell in hand. It was capable of some brutal wins. Other times it'd just spin its wheels or get pieces all out of order for where you'd want them. A Ruin Crab on turn 1 is going to put in a scary amount of work as you just hit land drops & do a little ramping. A Ruin Crab on turn 6 feels more like a dead draw. Reanimator cards feel dead in hand when there's just nothing in my yard, and I only had a few things worth reanimating. Self-mill could end up throwing reanimator in the bin. I always joked that the deck was super consistent: I'd come in first because I got my engine on and won, or I'd come in second because I'd be so irrelevant that I'd get targeted last. I ended up selling a few of its pieces after the Wise Mothman created some mill hype, especially expensive cards that I thought were not actually great. Mind Grind might be okay if you get infinite mana somehow, but it's awful if you're limited to finite amounts of mana.

I was personally disappointed with Anikthea from the commander masters precons. I’ve been hoping for an abzan enchantress commander for ages, because Myrkul didn’t feel right and the rest of the abzan creatures had a more fitting theme elsewhere. Then we get advertised an Abzan enchantress commander, but after seeing her it just feels a lot like Myrkul where you exile your own things from the graveyard to create token copies of them. The good thing to come out of it is I built an enchantress list with Tayam instead and it turned into a neat toolbox commander with an interesting set of restrictions.

I personally really like Kamiz and alongside with Henzie is one of my favorite commanders. Kamiz can be build in many, many different ways and is a great enabler for decks that want to hit face by either making creatures unblockable or giving double strike on already evasive creatures.

For me it's Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor because he's not really a fairie commander. His card says faerie a bunch of times in the rules text but it's about faeries dying instead of doing tricksy faerie things. Faeries aren't really built for aristocrat decks -- it faeries are dying after all that makes Spellstutter Sprite weaker (also how was she not included in the 99 of that faerie precon?). What Tegwyll really is is a Bitterblossom deck. Alela, Cunning Conqueror is a much better faerie commander from a mechanics perspective and she's a Flash commander.

For me, it was the UG Lord of the Rings precon, in particular with Galadriel. Would have loved an in-universe version of Beast Whisperer, a voting commander that actually did something good (maybe like Tivit, but Elves/Food as opposed to Treasures/Clues?). The deck, while decent, noticeably was out-performed by the other three.

13:30 - wow, I've never seen those cards before... they're very different from what Boros is usually doing, but they're so BAD for what Boros is usually doing or needs. One's all payoff for high-CMC spells in the notoriously-struggles-to-ramp red/white pair (and not even an impressive payoff?) and the other's a reward for already winning the game. Cool.

My experience with Volo was amazing. I built my Volo commander deck without any help. I just searched my collection for all sorts of different creatures types, and jammed them in. It turned out very fun to pilot. But I will say, once I wanted to upgrade it, it was fairly easy to do so. Just jam in all the wild etbs like Hoof and Gilded Drake. I leaned heavily toward token creation at the beginning too. I put in creatures like Falcon Abomination and Precursor Golem. After tuning, I dropped a lot of those. I have had to reel it back some tho because it dominates kitchen table Magic. Getting two is always better than one. So, I agree with being a lil disappointed in how it turned out, but I still love the deck because I have dialed it back. Volo will always be one of my favorite commanders.

Tom Bombadil is just Go Shintai for sagas. He builds himself and kind of invalidates all other saga decks because he's WUBRG. The new Gonti is also dissapointing because he's so close to being good.

I found the food joke quite tasteful

I have both a dissapointment and a happy suprise: One of my dissapointments in recent memory was trying a different take on Muldrotha. I have played with it for a while and wanted to try making it into a more interesting version asi was getting bored with the similar games, but nothing seemed to stick. The commander is surprisingly restrictive when you get down to building it, and it is also very vulnerable. My (so far) greatest surprise was building Caparocti Sunborn, specifically as a go-wide midrange equipment deck. The amount of card and mana advantage that commander provides is highly underrated, and very consistent!

The Eleventh Doctor works with Amy Pond (like in the show). Together, they have 3 colors (she adds red), and she is both small enough to be affected by his ability, and removes time counters on combat damage. The Doctors are the most powerful half of the team, but they do get a whole other card to assist their plan. It's like looking at 2/3's of a card to judge the Doctor with no Companion.

Myrel Shield of Argive..... every game with her played the same. I was so excited and she got me back into EDH..... and then she just wasn't fun.

I built a great Gerard, Weatherlight Hero deck. The issue was that it was not fun to play against. It turbo'd into Obliterate with artifact ramp. Apparently, other players don't like that.

Thanks for the mention in Challenge the Stats, and thank you for calling out Volo for being a disappointment! Even after adding Keruga for more deck restriction he just plays out like a parody of Simic Good Stuff .deck

By far my most disappointing commander was Jared Carthalion. I ordered it when it was first spoiled, largely just because it's a Jared Commander, and I'd already built Jared Carthalion, True Heir and Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord. However, I saw, from the abolities that we were making Kavu tokens and focusing on multicolored cards. Where Kavu have, traditionally been all about changing colors and land types and interacting with things of different colors, I was super pumped for this awesome color-changing, landtype matters, Kavu tribal deck. Then they spoiled the rest of the deck list... Another disappointment was Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer. At first, I was really excited, because I had a secret commamder deck with Skirk Fire Marshal, and putting a tutor into the command zone, while giving me access to green seemed just too perfect. I built it, but then it seemed like I'd just copied my other Naya deck, and lost most of the identity that made my Tajic, Legion's Edge build awesome. I ended up just combining the two, with Jared Carthalion, True Heir at the head, but Skirk Fire Marshal got the axe, ending its run as a pet card of mine since it came out way back in Onslaught.

To me the Gimbal issue is it's hard to find any underlying synergy to tie the deck together. The token generators have to be making a motley of stuff, so the only way to consistently benefit from them is to trigger gimbal or just have generic artifact token synergies. In the end it becomes a +1/+1 counters beatdown deck via token generation, and the overruns & combat tricks youd want to use to finish games have nothing to do with the token generators. Gimbal is also a bit hard to cast, and if you don't have him out your board just looks like a yard sale because he's the core payoff for everything you go into the game expecting to do.

Joe thirstrapping in the thumbnail and I’m so here for it

How do I go about submitting a challenge the stats

I am a fan of Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist. During the 32 deck challenge I had built Eruth (and Grand Calculatron) for card draw. I had a spellslinger Kenrith and Lord Windgrace for big mana plays. I also planned on a 4 color +1/+1 counters deck, so when I got to Simic I wanted a different experience. Gor seems like a group hug deck, but is surprisingly political and as your Salamanders have protection from other Salamander, it is hard to swing into you. I really thought it would be a meme deck, but having played it recently I realize I underestimated the build.

Its wild to me that Matt thinks the New Capenna commanders were bad. They're some of my favorite precons to play and Anhelo, Kamiz, and Phabine are all decks I ended up building!

My biggest disappointment so far was Riku of Two Reflections. The idea of copying and cloning was awesome, Temur is awesome but it was just to mana heavy. However I will revisit him and already got some ideas how to tweak him.

Saruman of the Many colors was my biggest disappointment of recent memory. I love the character and the Esper colors, but his text was so convoluted that I had trouble keeping it straight. I’d spend more time explaining it to my opponents than anything else during games so finally I just took it apart and built mono blue Saruman

Looking at Kitt Kanto, it seems like it would be great at a table where someone was going aggro or had a voltron deck that hadn't found protection yet. Looking at the New Capenna decks it doesn't look like it has a great matchup there, with maybe Henzie or the Obscura deck being the best options to goad. I haven't played the deck, but the objective seems to be to go wide, politic while directing your opponents biggest threats, and when it's down to 2 or three players you have an army, and you can buff your biggest threat and grant trample. I don't know that it sounds like compelling gameplay, but I understand the goal.

What happen to the shout out to Chase?

Zethi, Arcane Blademaster(Chun-li) is a commander I was disappointed with. I was hoping she would play similar to feather and she really didnt. Turns out she is a lot slower than feather. Kasla of the broken halo was another one I was disappointed with. She is so weird to build around and I was never able to find the balance of spells with convoke and ways to have creatures. I wanted a whole convoke deck but it requires so many creatures

When I started playing Commander after playing "normal" Magic for 20 years I saw Zedruu and was like "That looks like so much fun!" But I started with other decks first to get the grip on the format. Last year I finally got the chance to build a Zedruu deck and was so hyped to play with it. Sadly after 8-10 rounds I had 0 fun. So it turns out that the idea of playing Zedruu was way more exiting that actually playing it. I took it apart now and used most of the manabase and some good cards for my Gavi deck, which gets me exited everytime I can play her. For the topic of Boros, I was looking for a cool Boros commander and felt like they are all pretty much the same. So after some time I found Depala and fell in love with this deck. Vehicles, Dwarfs, Treasures are exactly my gem! Its so much fun to imagine dwarfs riding a car and smashing faces. Furthermore im able to play the card seven dwarfs which is a rare instance for this format.

Ishkanah, Graf Widow and then Shelobb really dissapointed me. Still waiting for a sweet GB Spider commander that actually does the spider thing

I really like my Nevinyrral deck, since it's fun to play the table villain and it's a very good deck at specifically making an infinite horde of zombie tokens and daring the whole table to find a way to kill you before they die. When building the deck, I had treated the disk text as an afterthought. But as I played it, the fact that late-gamer I have a potent boardwipe in the command zone became so impactful. Over time, it became very obvious that since zombo decks excel at sac outlets and reanimation, it was just very easy to decide that if a board state didn't suit me, I could simply reset it. The only solution for it was to make the non-commander synergies better to make me cast him less, and to hold the Nevwipe not as an active tool but as a threat since it can be fired at instant speed in response to an attack.

My only complaint with Go-Shintai of Life's Origin is that it was quickly categorized as "kill on sight" commander by my playgroup. Not super high power level one, just "either it dies or it randomly wins the game, so don't let it stick, ever". Didn't help that one of the few times I played it I realized mid-turn I can just win, AFTER one of the other players had already realized it and was just waiting for me to catch on. It's usually the other way around.

Wizards: hey we have a thing that can copy spells that target it Me: oh boy another mutate commander Wizards: no screw you specifically.

I feel like Matt's standards for cards/what he wants power level to be is so far off from mine that its hard for me to really get the opinions stated. Like Gimbal, I saw it and went "wow that's a lot of work for a mediocre token, I see the complaint" and he's just like.. "the work is worth it because the payoff is so high". And then we get to like, "people are used to easy value in temur".. yeah tbh most generic value commanders give you more than that token is worth, regardless of color combination.

I think things like Nevinyrral are fine. If something's iconic, it should probably hearken back to that iconic thing. It'd be like a Lotus card not making mana, or a Mox costing more than 0, or a Goyf not caring about stuff in the graveyard.

I love Kitt Kanto and the Caberetti deck, but maybe that's just me lmao Y'all hit most of the commanders I'd have put on the list. I'd probably say that Tiana, Ship's Caretaker from Dominaria was probably my biggest disappointment. Had trouble making it work and it didn't resonate with me. Ended up feeling like another low-powered Boros equipment deck.

Your issue with Preston Garvey mirrors my issue with Frank Horrigan, also from the Fallout stuff. In the games, Frank Horrigan is the final boss of Fallout 2, and his whole thing is that he's a super durable monster thanks to all the experiments that were rub on him. So, the "indestructible as long as he attacked" makes sense, but why does he have proliferate?

Henzie is an excellent aristocrats and/or persist combo commander. And Falco Spara makes for an excellent source of card draw in the command zone for Elf-Ball type decks with a very low mana curve and easy access to +1/+1 counters and blue to help keep creatures available on the top of the library. The precons may have been grindy and decks like Anhelo can be very removal heavy when tuned. But Henze and Falco don't have to be grindy if built right.

I guess for most of the SNC commander decks, Wizards was trying to persuade players to build in a more political way so that more 'win-win' interactions are to be expected in a game. That's why you are seeing strange cards like Kitt Kanto, Vazi and Parnesse.

I can't speak on the New Capenna precons, but I put Kitt Kanto at the head of the Marisi goad deck I already had. It's actually pretty fun and effective, building a wider board letting you better able to control combat without risking your board. It's a lot like the recent Nelly Borka precon, but replace the pillowfort cards with token makers, which protect you just as well while also building towards an actual win condition.

If you really like Feldon's flavour, I don't think you can be disappointed that his newer version does something completely different. Like, at the time the new card depicts him, his wife was alive and he had no reason to do anything related to bringing people back from death. The flavour of him crawling around a dangerous glacier in search of knowledge is actually quite neatly translated in this new card, in my opinion.

I love that new Feather. I changed my Bant auras deck into Feather, Radiant Arbiter and it rocks.

Anim Pakal would be a great design in place of Kalemne. Just swap the +1/+1 counter for an experience counter.

With gimbal, if you find a way to consistently put stickers on your tokens you can double the number of different names easily

Amazing episode, yet again! If I may make a suggestion for another topic, I would absolutely be thrille about an episode focusing on flavor fails and/or wins

I tend to look at underwhelming/disappointing commanders as a challenge. A lot of people build their decks around the commanders when sometimes, the deck could/should work independent of the commander. It can make for some interesting games where people underestimate you and you can fly under the radar until you pop off.

I was wrecking with Gerrard, even made a custom playmat for him. There were so many infinite playlines with him. I could probably make an even better version of him now, thanks to stuff like Magda

Intros are the best! I love the cheesy dad jokes you guys are awesome and helped me up my gameplay thank you so much!

I built Gerrard, Weatherlight Captain. I feel that he's more of a combo commander.

Can you do a mechanics that disappoint episode? I know I’ve was trying to build Jasmine Boreal of the Seven and it got announced that Karlov Manor was gonna have a morph variant which got me excited. But it turned out the mechanic was a complete nonbo with Jasmine and I got hardly any new cards in the pool, if any.

Bought the Gimbal Precon because I loved an artifact theme in temur plus being so unique. It turned out to be too clunky as a commander so I simply switched with Rashmi & Ragavan and now it goes so much better.

the new feather would have been fine if it says pay 1 instead of 2. cause two more mana is a huge task! esp if the things you copy arent gain that mana back.

Elas Il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim is one that stood out to me. I see it as the now defacto orzhov aristocrats deck and pushed a bunch of older orzhpv commanders that are doing aristocraty things out of the spotlight. I think it was decently received by the community, but it didn't make the landing to me.

I fully agree that Gimbal and Feather are actually really cool Decks, that you can build in different very good directions like Impetus Voltron or Hidden Brudiclad. The card that however disappointed me alot was Saheeli the Gifted. All Decks I have built and seen with her end up being all feast or famine. Explosive turn 5/6 kills or a few copters into a concede. She wants you to build around her in a certain way, but that way is also incredibly prone to being stormy or bricky so it encourages you to lean into the consistent bauble-like artifacts at which point why aren't you playing Johira Weatherlight Captain?

That thumbnail! Someone has been working out!

I... think... I was disappointed with Moira Brown from the Fallout set, expecting to get some kind of benefit from my creatures getting auras or counters. I was expecting to be disappointed by the WHOLE Battle for Baldur's Gate set, but BOY HOWDY was I wrong. The choose a background legends solved so many problems and helped make decks from my bulk rares and bulk legends.

Tried doing Optimus Prime at one point because I am a huge fan of Transformers and he just ... didn't really work? Maybe I brewed him wrong but his core mechanic is bolster with the secondary being if he dies in robot mode he comes back in vehicle. I looked at it and thought hey, bolster gives +1/+1 counters, so I'll do that but the issue was actually making use of the counters because bolster is very limited in how you apply said counters. Other way of doing it I thought of would be voltron and just have the bolster passively to beef up support creatures and give evasion but since his resurrection puts him in vehicle mode he is only a creature during your turn so it doesn't play well with auras or equipment and to get him back to robot mode you need to deal combat damage with a creature he bolstered off his attack trigger. Basically Prime is a card I would run in the 99 of a deck that has access to him but not as a commander, which feels weird for the leader of an entire faction. If anyone made a Prime deck that works I would love to hear about it.

For me it's firesong and sunspeaker. 6 mana is just way too much. These days it'd be a firesong card and a sunspeaker card that cost 3 mana, each have one ability and they have partner with

Yes!! Matt you and I are SO on the same track. I am all about Naya, and experience counters Ezuri is my go to edh deck

11th doctor is actually one of my favorite cards. It pairs with amy pond, which is thematic. She is a 2/2 that helps take time counters off things. I get him by himself being seen as very meh though!

Absolutley adore Mizzix, Replica Rider... in theory. I've found that I kinda bounce of most izzet commanders and that sucks because it's flavorwise my favorite guild. It just kinda feels like it always end up with either "and then I combo and win" or "and then I take a 15minute turn and pass". I try to be very concious about having ways to end games, so I put in a 3 card combo that ends the game, thinking "if games go long, I might get this - but the deck is also filled with impulse draw and losing one piece turns it off so it shouldn't be a combo win every game". It wasn't every game, but 6/8 games I palyed I won using that combo before I quit playing that deck.

I would love to hear more about Matt’s take on new Feather. The internet is full of people saying the same thing. I want to build her but feel like there isn’t a lot of guidance to go off of.

Preston Garvey is super cool! I just wish he was 3 or 4 mana instead...

For me they are a little older all the five color Sliver that just give all the slivers a strong mechanic, where as queen and overlord were unique and added a lot to sliver. But when they have five color just add strong mechanics, they could to have just had an expensive two or three color do that and they could to have add some amazing traits to the five color that didn’t share before

Gimbal is not a disappointment because it's not a value engine. It's because it doesn't even come CLOSE to synergizing with energy, OR do the gremlin thing of artifact destruction! It was a return to a beloved plain without thinking about what people would want to DO with it!

To be fair to the 11th Doctor, he's gotta be paired with Amy Pond as his partner. He make her unblockable and she take time counters off the cards he puts on suspend. Plus Amy brings out Rory so it's almost like having 3 creatures in the command zone. I wouldn't run them as the commander but they have there place in the 10th Doctor's 99

Parnesse isn't that bad. She gives you and all your permanents "Ward - Pay 4 life". They should have probably put that on there instead of the full text, but also, Ward was pretty new at the time.

is that thumbnail AI or is Joey just a daddy? 💪🏼👀

Kalemne is one of my favorite commanders of the past who I still use. I understand it's a repeat of most boros themes but you can say that about most commanders of the same colors. She's just not busted which makes her unpopular.

Gnostro can do some cool stuff with Brash Taunter or Stuffy Doll and a damage doubler but that's a silly build around to make it work.

Second Feather is doing *RADIANCE*. That's why it's familiar, it's the freaking OG Boros mechanic. Also, was Argus Kos' partner.

I love Preston Garvey! I feel that his card was actually a slam dunk. The flavor is on point and it's damn near perfect in my humble opinion. I built a Preston deck and he's a ton of fun to play.

Marneus Calgar, Is not amazing in his own Deck and best thing is generating cards from tokens. Which is both not very space marine like and makes him more of a combo commander in a deck that wants to be tempo control. (Maybe if the draw affect happened when Astartes entered the battle field) Inquisitor Greyfax Feels almost a good commander. Just add Menace for the commander. This would be very flavorful and allow the vigilance part of her kit to really feel good. I would also like if she could tap any permanent instead of just creatures as some time the ability is useless against some opponents and would occasionally allow for some sneaky plays against some artifacts.

An interesting video... when you got to talking about Self-Solving commanders... I wish more people felt the same way you and myself did... but I still regularly see people play Self-solving commanders because they don't care about playing the game, they just want easy wins and... it's so tiring...

I can't help mentionning Voja. She was such a miss of a great tribal commanders turned into an easy powerhouse. I've been quite disappointed about the Balrog(s) from LOTR as well.

I have a gimbal deck I really enjoyed building and the issue with him is even well tuned he is still just slow and always feels 2 turns behind the table. I only bring him out at pre-con power level decks and when compared to the knight deck from the same set gimbal out of the box doesn't stand a chance. The only way I've ever won with gimbal is from cyberdrive awaken or rise and shine which is kinda lame considering gimbal and his ability have nothing to do with that win.

Every time I hear Joey mention building honest rutstein i need to see a video on his thought process more and more

In my opinion, Bright-Palm from March of the Machines.

9:41 Velomachus Lorehold was a disappointment for me because Lorehold was supposed to be like a historian tomb raider. And he felt like a boros spell slinger

I remember being VASTLY disappointed by the Raven Man. We have a necromancer, one of the most famous ones in all of Magic lore, manipulating another of the most famous necromancers in Magic lore. What do we get? Worse Tinybones. That does nothing of what we'd expect of a necromancer manipulating a necromancer!

I can't really think of any commanders that disappointed me on the gameplay front, but I did lose interest in building a Kasla, the Broken Halo deck before I had finished it, does that count?