Nerds: "Alela isn't too specific, she's cool. A tier" Also Nerds: "Breya isn't specific enough. B tier"

I built Korvold thinking he had a really cool name and look, not realizing what I was getting myself into. Now I have no friends

SS tier: grave Titan F tier: everything else

I can't believe you did my boy Arcades dirty like that! He doesn't just rely solely on combat at all; yeah, he makes it very easy to go aggro, (and really what other aggro deck gives you a bunch of 4/4s and 6/6s for 1-2 mana that replace themselves?) but he lends himself real well to combos as well, and the best part is that, by and large, you're comboing off with the SAME cards you're going aggro with, which gives you a unique ability to pivot between aggro and combo that few decks outside of maybe Krenko can provide. They're not just the same combos you get in any other deck, either: What other deck is going infinite with Axebane Guardian and Overgrown Battlement? And while plenty of other decks can go infinite with bounce/flicker shenanigans, how many are doing it with the aforementioned 1-2 cost 6/6es that ALSO draw you a card? And the sheer number of asymmetric board wipes? Chef's kiss. He basically epitomizes everything you said you liked about other commanders; Feather is S-tier because she lets you play with cards that no other commander does? Well, so does Arcades! You like cards that provide a powerful effect, but have some weakness that you need to work around? Well, your reliance on protecting Arcades is totally that weakness! Arcades may not be the #1 commander on EDHRec, but he's #1 in my heart. Arcades: You are my wonderwall.

Its the beautiful nitpicking bois! These teir lists have been the ultimate relaxation tool for my return to college these past couple weeks. Thank yall so much!

Eminence is honestly crazy. I’m shocked WOTC ever made it

I was so worried that your were gonna miss today!!! I get so excited when you guys post! You usually post at 10 I think so I’m relieved y’all are still on the daily content! Keep up the good work guys

This was my fav pleasant kenobi video, cool to see you guys do it

As a new mtg player that’s growing to love mtg, edh, and invest more into it, thanks for being so enlightening, sharing your opinions and being diverse! I love that you two aren’t afraid to differ in your opinion and express them!

Man I've been watching you guys daily since like 2k subs and gotta say the quality of these vids are insane!! So happy to see you guys are growing in popularity, its well deserved :)

Loved this episode. I'd be interested in seeing similar tier lists for the various colour combinations.

I’m surprised Syr Gwyn is that high. I think it’s a great card (partially because I love aggro and Marcy) but I thought it would not be quite high enough to make this tier list. Good job Gwyn you keep on crushing it.

Joe pointing at the camera at the beginning made me feel happy and I cannot understand why. Good stuff, guys!

Great Video guys! I love all the tier list episodes yall do, keep up the good work! I really appreciate the daily content! So I played Paper Mario Color Splash on the Wii U, great game by the way, and I had to check but it came out in 2016. Joe was so close! Lol

Would love to see a Best Commander of each letter tier list! Whether it be judged by fun, or power I think it would be super fun especially with letters that dont appear on this list such as P and J and such.

My boy Kenrith was done dirty!! (I love playing him in a deck full of as many assist, ravnica ‘hunted’ creatures and ‘friend or foe’ cards)

I recently got back into MTG after like 6 or 7 years off and wanted to play commander. Always been a Boros guy even though I know it was not the best in commander. Was so excited to see Feather when I was browsing through all the new legendaries over the years. Already pieced a budget build together until I get more cards in. Glad to see shes getting the love she deserves!

I tend to play less popular commanders and actually have never played any of the commanders on this list. Thank you for giving me some insight into the quality of the most popular ones! I would love to see the second through fourth (fifth, sixth, etc.) popular groups and get your opinions on their tier ranking and play value.

I have a friend who created a “subversion of expectations” deck where he did ramos door to nothingness, but attached it to ramos with bludgeon brawl. Technically wins with door to nothingness but in a funny way.

I'm building a Krenko deck atm so it was cool to see him get some love in the video and comments. I just love and prefer the simpler commanders and knowing I'm running mono red goblins makes it easier to process while playing. I like that the list was formatted not by raw power but took into consideration how much fun a card is and how broken a card is. My first ever commander deck was a precon vampire deck "Vampiric bloodline". It was an okay deck to start with and once I researched and bought cards to pump it up it became almost too good. The commander is fair (Has to attack in order to take advantage of the blood token ability) but I realized in my play group that it ramps up so fast it's nearly been unbeatable unless I have mana trouble. I only bust it out now when I'm on a losing streak with my other decks and need a pick me up lol.

Thanks for the daily content!

I felt like you guys were a little too mean to arcades 😭 yeah a lot of slots are taken by defenders and he attracts removal but he does the same cool thing feather does where he makes a whole group of previously unplayable cards good in only his deck. Another cool thing they have in common is that basically every new set has a wall or a Boros targeted spell to consider for each deck. I enjoyed listening to you hate on other commanders though lol. I’ll look forward to part 2 of this tier list for sure.

Gonna have to update this already... Golos banned

Great list guys, my order would be different, but only because I play Cedh. Good job, well done and good arguments for regular commander play.

Ur-Dragon is weird because despite being the definitive dragon tribal commander, there are like 4 dragon commanders that are stronger than it.

Super important weakness playing Feather, you have to use boros cards! 😂

i aporeciate that you guys take more than power into consideration. i wish i knew what standards you both went by to consider how good or bad a card design is, but all the more some of the takes are quite interesting to consider. :)

I feel personally attacked by this list but still enjoyed your content! I imagine if I opened up my box of decks, you would just groan for 5 minutes straight LOL. But besides that, I feel inspired to do something unique with some of my decks if anything from now on. Awesome video as always, thanks guys!!

You nerds and your nitpicking, keep up the great work :D

Just shoehorn in Yawgmoth every ep and say how great he is so I can feel happy and validated. (love my Yawgmoth deck and you guys

Oh sweet love the tier list vids

I love my Kess storm deck! So fun. Usually what I do is cast Thousand Year Storm and hold up a counter spell. Once I untap with it I cast High Tide, then Bubbling Muck, then anything else I can and end with a Torment of Hailfire ×30 which gets multiplied by TYS and kills all my opponents.

This was a great list of Commander's

Makrs me really happy to see the 5 commaders i have from this lineup all landing in either A or B.

Bros We like your content!!!! Keep doing what your doing!!!!

My friend built a strong vampire deck with Strefan as his commander. He is able to steal so much life early game and snowball with blood tokens. What would be a good counter for this?

My head when u are talking about Windgrace and Jund Lands "You guys know a great Jund Lands commander? Korvold lands is great" :v

I’m new to magic but these guys are a big help. Thanks nerds! Lol

What are your thoughts on Volrath Shapestealer? It’s a super fun deck so I’m kinda surprised it isn’t more popular. I guess this is a list of all the most powerful commanders

I'm here for this one!

What is the card your talking about between Curiosity and Tandem Tactics? Sounds like affinity eye or something.

Played MTG like 20 years ago and recently started building some pauper and commander decks, I like that these formats don't rotate. My first commander is gonna be Alela which I'm pulling some high power level stuff out of my old card binders for. Gonna make an Omnath (Roil) one too with a little more of a budget mindset.

I agree and disagree with Golos. When most people build a Golos deck, they do exactly as you guys explained. I do believe though that more experienced deck builders can have a lot of fun with him. For example, I built a pretty competitive Golos blink/flicker deck just to have access to all 5 colors and half the times I play that deck, I never even cast him. Side note though, I’ve been watching your channel for quite awhile now and the strides of improvement I’ve seen is incredible and just wanted to recognize that. Great job guys and keep the content coming!

Been waiting all day and now I gotta drive home before I can watch 😔

I LOVE Alela. Shes probably my most expensive deck right now, lol. I also have a pretty goofy Korvold board control/commander damage matters deck.

Y’all are off the rock with that Ur-Dragon pick

Spent countless hours over my yuriko deck , I have a reanimation package that uses big bad demons instead of the usual take more turns theme

I'm surprised there was no Urza or Yawgmoth

I've built 8 of these decks. I only pull Chulane out when my playgroup goes high power, but it is such a fun deck to play.

always awesome

I would put Windgrace in S tier. I'm biased because he's my favorite deck. But I have it built in a way that is landfall, but is extremely fast! I would say in 98% of games I will have at least 10 lands out by turn 3 and then I'm looking for one of my infinite landfall combos. You can achieve this through Kodama of the East Tree + a Bounce Land + any landfall token payoff. Or Ashaya Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger + any landfall token payoff. The best part about the 2 combos is that you can use any "Permanent Entering the battlefield" effect to use as a combo piece also. Like Altar of the Brood to Mill people out or Impact Tremors to damage their faces.

Please do a rejudgement of Kaalia! With the new Ancient Dragons out, she got a huuuge power increase. I love that you get to connect with the dragons right away. I now it plays kinda samey over several games, but it is so much fun 😂

Hey guys long time viewer here, would you do a deck tech with Adeline, Splendid Cathar? She's a new mono white legend from innistrad and could you add Rick, Steadfast Leader?

Not the perfect list, but I think it is your best one yet. I've played with or against almost all of these commanders. Keep it up.

I play chulane and love, I'm building Korvold, I have Golos in my Sisay superfriends deck. Am I a bad person?

Feather can be really oppressive, I have a deck that my friends hate to play against because it storms, it protects, and it controls. Just really hard to interact with once you get going, but at least it's boros! Just surprised she's an S.

I think I just had a sweet idea how to build Arcades. Since he turns your walls into cantrips, you could play a ton of 1 mana Walls and maybe 2 mana Walls. But you could use that card draw advantage to get to a combo to combo off and win as fast as possible. It's in the proper colors to ramp and have protection. But it could be fast enough to win quickly. Idk. What do you think? Everyone would expect it to be a low power deck until you win outta no where lol

Oh my god I have a Queen Marchessa Monarch Knight deck and it's kicked ass so far, I got Syr Gwyn and the other legendary knights in it of her color code and it's so fun having like a "knights court" along side spells like death or taxes

Sorry for leaving so many comments (hey hope it helps with the algorithm at least) but it’s nice to finally see Golos, Chulaine, Kenrith get what’s coming to them. Playing brawl against them was miserable

I built a group hug deck around Kenrith and it’s one of my favorite decks to play. Kenriths abilities help out so much

What would you rate Esix and Piru? Asking for myself

Atraxa is just the only WUBG commander. Makes total sense to use her as just a placeholder to play those colours. In fact I might even make all my decks Atraxa considering I don't collect red at all

"Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two photos" *Kykar and Alela* "They're the same picture"

Yarok ETB is incredibly fun, powerful, and resilient. It’s different from the landfall version you normally see, but I think it’s stronger and more entertaining to play.

Most played channel on my mtg playlist? You know it's the nerds!

Honestly, I love edgar, primarily because of Vampires, my favorite Tribe. Like you guys mentioned though, I cannot find another vampire that's even close to it. I was thinking a mono black Anowon or Stephan Rakdos vamp tribal but I really like the the fast pace, Mardu vampire tribal.

As Kaalia is my 1st commander I totally agree with 5 spot removal per deck in stead of 10 :))

I wanna make an Edgar deck because I have always thought vampires are super cool (don’t worry I never have watched twilight) because they are super power undying creatures of great power both physically and with magic AND have fun metal capabilities unlike almost all undead. They are just super rad. The other thing is I love the marsh colors and I really like aggro decks so when I found out about Edgar Markov it felt like it was made for me.

Arcades is tons of fun. Also him intruder alarm and wall of kelp make infinite walls/draws. Just need either haste or a payoff i.e. altar of dementia and you have a combo win.

Need a part 2!

28:00 Got a niv deck and took out the combo, cause me and my friends found it a boring way to end and I wanted to do more spellslinging. Well, it does do that now, but when it does, it takes way too long to resolve everything. Now my friends hate the deck even more to a point where I don't even wanna play it anymore. So be careful what you wish for there. Just for that I would probably put Niv lower even though it breaks my heart, given how much I love the card.

I made an Eldrazi Golos deck, a mainly colorless deck where the only colored cards allowed are eldrazi-themed, so I could play the devoid ones or stuff like decimator of provinces I stopped playing it because it was still very same-y, because of Golos I would always to get the broken eldrazi lands and fetch the titans

I have a kykar polymorph deck that i randomly shuffle 15 insane creatures into before the game starts. I have no idea what I'll flip into and neither do my opponents.

Krenko is the commander I would recommend to people who are just getting into edh. He's very simple, there's a million cards that can go in the deck, and his skill ceiling can be pushed up to the door of cedh so he can be played at any casual power level. As well, he's unlikely to be stricken by power creep any time soon unless they print a strictly better goblin commander

I have a chulane deck but make sure to only play him if everyone is playing their strong decks, rule zero is always important to keep games fun for everyone

Feather is my Boros deck and lvoe her. So fun and unique. A miracle in Boros colors.

I had the ur dragon precon was a real fun time man

A few thoughts: Historic Brawl is awesome and I’m so glad it’s permanent however, some of the five-C commanders like Golos, Esika and Codie are absolutely miserable to play against, and the 100 cards and default landbase make for a lot of non-games. Also not every card that is good in commander will be good in brawl and vice versa. And of course the card selection for some commanders are not quite there, but it’s definitely my go-to format on Arena. And I agree with the tier list. Zaxara has poop art but is def A tier. And Paper Mario: Origami King was a blast, but the combat system probably will keep me from playing it again even though the rest of the game was so awesome.

"Ties the room together" 10/10

"If you kill it, it's harmless." Well, ya don't say? :P

Ur-Dragon and Muldrotha here. Playing an early Morophon makes Ur-Daddy super-accelerated. Muldrotha just wins value-town slug-fest games especially now that I've added counterspells.

*cries for Korvold* Korvold is like my favorite deck and I built it more on a budget so it isn't super insane. I have some explosive turns but I usually end up decking myself out before winning.

cool tierlist idea and i like the reasoning.. but as i biased Kenrith reanimator player i disagree on his position, in my opinion he is extremly fun to build around since he gives u a ton of options to use BUT i have to admit that there is a lot of unfun ways to build kenrith as well sooo ur kinda right but i love my king kenny

Disrespectful not to put Krenko in A tier, mono red deckbuilding restrictions alone bump him up a tier, pushes you in one direction and has inherent weaknesses.

As a historic food player I do sometimes wish Korvold was worse or there was a good 'worse Korvold' for commander because as fun as he is, I also dislike commanders that do this much

Eminence is great and can be fun if they continue to make it and build it right. Take these commanders with two steps to their effects. Take Arcades. His eminence effect could be defender creatures can still attack. His on field effect would be to draw a card. It allows you to not get completely shut out just from having 3 people remove you commander over and over again.

I use Kenrith as a Mardu Reanimator deck, no green or blue in it. I like the versatility he can provide if you restrict yourself building him.

Golos is cool if you play it as a Mazes End deck. You play a bunch of Clones so you can get all the Gates. Then you activate Mazes End for the win

I’ve just put Golos on top of a human-non-human/legendaries tribal, it’s meh but it’s fun, the commander can push the deck just enough to do some stuff

What do yall think of sarulf realm eater?

Ummmm... Was able to play my Ur dragon deck a couple days ago and win. Played against a Edgar Markov and Atraxa in a 3 player game. It was great, they felt bad for me and ignored me because I was missing one crucial mountain.

I make my Kess a wheels deck, basically a Nekusar deck. Also Breya is my favorite

I'm confused, is this not a tier list for the best commanders to play? Like I was agreeing with their choices until they started to make hard to process choices like putting Yuriko and Kaalia in D tier.

I love marsh and big creatures so I think Kaalia is super awesome and I feel like I might be able to not have a huge issue since I am a very casual player but at the same time I’m. It sure if I should spend a ton of money building a deck with it since Kaalia decks are full of power creatures that cost some money

i agree with most of these but my Kenrith deck is far and away my most fun and unique. every single time i play it a new strategy and win con is drawn. mana cost reducer + willbreaker is just so brutal

WE NEED AN UPDATED TIER LIST OF THIS KIND :)

I don't get the Kalamax love. Tried making one and it never really did much. Switched it to a sorta similar Wort, the Raidmother and it was stronger and more fun. Also I believe Wort is better than Krenko as a Goblin Commander

I agree with there being way too many “cop out commanders” that deserve poop tier. I like when we get uncommon legendary creatures and more niche commanders where its not samey and busted like golos, and is more towards something unique. I dont want commanders where you cannot have different ways to build it. Why build a deck with 70 auto include?? Thats so whack.

I wonder how you guys would rate something like Galazeth Prismari. He is very similar to Urza which is a very obnoxious card. On one hand he is cool because he is limited to instant and sorceries and doesnt have a pay off stapled onto him like Urza does. On the other hand he is still bonkers and interact well with stax pieces like winter orb. He also have a similar problem to Golos, that whenever you cast him he ramps you by 1, so if he dies the commander tax is kind of mitigated.

As someone who owns Chulane, I can agree. Also, Golos Dragons Maze, the activated ability isn’t that fun, but abusing the etb is where it’s at. Kenrith politics, with cards that have restrictions, try to make an actual government. Krenko looks fun, but I’ve make them concede with Curse of Death’s Hold. Muldrotha is just fun. Sisay legends voltron. Nuff said