As a colorless EDH player, I'm really looking forward to your future "How To Build A Colorless Commander Mana Base" video.

I half-expected this video to be "Just run all basics" and 19 minutes of elevator music.

Another great colorless utility land is Throne of the High City, cause Monarch is really fun to play with.

Don't forget about the medallions! Emerald medallion, Ruby medallion, pearl, and jet. They each cost only 2 Mana, and they make every spell you cast of the respective color cost 1 less. 1 less on EVERY colored spell you cast adds up very quickly! All those two Mana spells turn into one Mana spells. All those three Mana spells turn into two Mana spells. All those four Mana spells turn into three Mana spells. It effectively drops your entire curve down by an order of magnitude.

10:30 urborg doesnt work with cabal stronghold, stronghold is only for basic swamps you control

Well professor you seemed to of covered everything in a nice neat package. Covered every color possible. EXCEPT!.....mono Colorless! Ah ha I got you now. High five instructor!

Perfect timing. I was just about to sit down and plan out a mono-colored deck for each color.

The cycle is complete. *monks chanting*

Thank you for always having amazing video production, with wonderful and loud sound quality. You are Very appreciated brother, keep up the great work!

Great video professor, love this format for your videos, no-nonsense and no extra stuff, straight to the point and very useful information for deck building.

Thank you so much for this! You reminded me that there are many utility lands available that can help with your color's shortcomings. (Like drawing cards in white). I greatly enjoy, and actively look forward to your videos. I always learn something. 🥰

I found this video really insightful and has helped me better understand how to construct a solid mono-colour mana base for my EDH deck. I’ve been struggling lately and this has given me the appropriate guidance so I can get out of the rut I’m in. Thanks Professor!

Stop telling people about Blast Zone! -Enchantress Player

Thanks for the vid, always happy to have more of your tutorials

This was excellent, and EXTREMELY helpful as a noobie deckbuilder - thank you so much! I didn't know there was a 2-color guide, been really struggling to make my Jarad EDH deck tick, I'm going to give that one a watch now!

This is a huge help for my first edh deck. Thank you very much.

this is exactly what I was looking for yesterday! Thanks Professor!

Thanks for this video, Prof! I tend to play more mono colored decks, so this was very helpful.

For those saying that 38+ lands are too much, consider the functions that the utility lands perform. For each color, the Professor is offering a toolbox of useful effects to bolster your deck, no matter who your Commander is or what your strategy for winning may be. Whether it be drawing cards, ramping, removing threats, providing damage support, and more, this guide shows players the importance of a healthy land count and what it can do in Commander. The benefit of including utility lands, as well as basics are numerous. Think of the utility lands as zero cost cards that are difficult to stop. There is no spell to counter, and most removal or discard can't touch lands. The trade off of only being able to play one land per turn can be mitigated in various ways. Furthermore, as your game develops, having these reusable effects at your disposal opens up new strategies and can improve your chances of winning. Well said, Professor!

Prof, you're killing it lately. Keep up the awesome content!

Damn Prof, I had always questioned your Commander acumen, but these Mana bases are next level good calls, and demonstrate a breadth of knowledge on commander staplers and the lands that go into them.

Thank you Professor for this video, that a wonderful mix of staples for beginner and a great strategy recap for seasoned player☺️Being able to entertain both is Majestic☺️

As someone considering building a Mono black and mono green deck I needed this. Thanks prof!

Great video! I'm putting together my first mono color deck for my daughter (I usually go 2+ colors), so this is helpful 😃

I don't you can understand how long I've wanted this video!!!!!

Zhalfirin void, New Benalia and Geier Reach Sanatarium are great in my Monowhite Deck. They help me dig to combo pieces and Win Cons. I think I'll look into the center of the sea as well.

was really looking forward to this video, I tend to play mono standard but all my friends play commander which is completely new format to me coming back from not playing since mid 2000s, only to find for some reason this one has no closed captions available like most episodes.

This is really good! Would be nice to have the other videos updates as now there are more cards that can be swapped and optimized

This is actually super helpful to me! I’m just getting started on a mono red commander deck, and it’s my first time building a commander deck from scratch. Thanks for the video!

I find it funny how despite the fact that Sword of the Animist has Nissa, a primarily green character, in its art, it's more common to find in nongreen decks since it's effective colorless ramp.

Excellent list of utility lands, I will take note on these.

Yes! I loved the prof's previous videos on EDH mana bases and have been waiting for a mono-version!

Great tips prof! Thanks a bunch.😎

Great insight Prof!

Gosh darn Prof you're so relevant as I am currently building oketra and talrand

Love your content prof!

Great video, Prof!

First! I LOVE YOU TOLARIAN ACADEMY! YOU ARE THE REASON I AM ABLE TO GET SO MUCH BETTER AT MTG! THANK YOU

As a cedh player, 38 lands sounds absolutely suicidal but I understand it for battlecruiser casual games with big big spells. We would run 29 to 32 lands at most but obviously pack the whole 10 mana dorks/rocks and all the fast mana artifacts to compensate.

Just what i needed i was thinking this year to produce mono coloree decks as a personal achievement in my friend tables to win with all colors

Oh! This is super useful for me! I didn't even know half of those lands existed!

Excellent tutorial.. Thank you for the help! :)

I once used crop rotation to search for khalni garden, because I realy was in need of a body to sacrifice. x)

I would think that Nissa's Pilgrimage should be played over or in addition to Cultivate or Kodama's Reach as a mono-green mana accelerant

I would also suggest the Diamond's. They're 2 mana, ETB tapped, and tap for one color.

The cycle is complete!!! Except for Colorless Commander decks. Will you cover this special case Prof?

You forgot the most important ramp card; wayfarer's bauble.

Thanks a lot for all your videos. I'm Building a colorless Commander with Kozilek. I'm waiting a video in which you analyze the best colorless cards for a commander.

Dont just assume its "jam some basics and a Nykthos" Actually there can be a bit of nuance depending on color and strategy, several mono colored lands that do fun things like the memorials, blighted lands, and strategy specific stuff like crypt of agadeem. As a matter of fact Nykthos doesnt feel good in a spells matters deck, because often you dont have the devotion necessary to make it pop.

Great video Professor! I was using this guide to start crafting my first mono blue commander deck. I felt replacing one of the cycle lands with Tolaria West was a strong enough addition to point out here. It can tutor for utility lands as needed or utility cards with 0 CMC like Pact of Negation or Ancestral Vision, just to name a few. (Expand for next part of comment) I also wanted to pose question. At what point should Mono Color decks consider running Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx? I'd think its an auto include in most Mono Color commander decks (its also a target for Tolaria West) but didn't see it mentioned in this video.

I would love to see this series updated with all the new lands we've gotten over the years

Sea Gate Wreckage and Arch of Orazca have been underrepresented. I have love these cards for years.

Such good quality videos

Snow lands are a slight advantage for no downside in a mono-colour deck. Paired with scrying sheets, you can get some incidental draw and with extraplanar lens more often then not only your mana will be getting doubled, Arcum's astrolabe is pretty good, and not to mention some of the other colour dependant snow synergies that exist.

9:05, considering it's prevalence in CanLander: Mystic Sanctuary, while on the list at 14, is a much sooner include depending on your spell density/reliance.

Seeing mono ramp broken down per color along with its accelerants was great to see. I assumed the video would just talk mono ramp as a whole

Hanweir Battlements should be an honorable mention for Mono Red. Especially useful in a Krenko, Mob Boss deck (or any deck with a commander or creature with a tap effect) since it allows you to give him haste and start producing tokens as soon as he's played.

Great video prof.! You forgot pendelhaven for Green

Several things. First: Hello to all. X) Second, Thanks so much on finally making a Vid on how to build a Mono Color Manabase! As a suggestion though, what would make for a good 38 Land/8 Accelerant Colorless Manabase? Tickle me interested; I plan to make a Colorless CMDR Decklist is why... & a Haktos "No 2, 3, or 4 Mana Deck" w/ Voltron/Exalted elements; but no Aura/Equip to back him up. :/ Last, I'm really sorry about what happened elsewhere, I'd like to guess what wrongdoings I did, but I can't remember all of them. I really like your vids here, & your input elsewhere; Maybe I'm not as interested in Hearthstone nor Legends of RUNETERRA as many others are (Just an opinion guys, calm down, please.), but I have to ask, Prof: Since there's no way in Heck there's a chance of unblock, just analyze this for why I like your stuff on twitter; & stuff you liked, or retweeted. Now if you don't mind, this post has gone too long, so I say: Thanks for the memories Prof. Brian Lewis! ^_^ Oh, & Thumbs up for sure. I just ponder about a Colorless Manabase never mentioned though... :/

He finally finished it!!

Nice!

Boseiju Who Shelters All is a must have. I have it in mono black for spells like Exsanguinate and Hailfire.

I would love an updated 5 color deck video, with or without expensive fetches.

Another fantastic resource - thank you! Idea for a collaboration: Budget Five Color Mana Bases with you and Commander's Quarters?

Emergence zone is a lifesaver for me in mono black. Many killspells, board wipes and wincons are sorcery or creatures giving you the ability to cast spells as if they had flash can really turn the tides

Thank the gods I needed this I'm making a mono blue mil commander deck

Turns out my 2 commander decks are at the edges of the manabase spectrum: I have a yuriko deck that uses tempo and many small creatures to use her triggered ability to win the game. Most of those cards cost one colored mana. I will never have to pay commander tax for yuriko as her ninjutsu lets me skip that. I don't even run sol ring in the deck. The other deck features Richard Garfiel Ph.D as the commander and runs an ungodly amount of mana rocks. Because of his ability I can turn those manarocks into Voltron equipments and swing in for commander lethal with Garfield himself. Cool video prof, will look into the blue manabase you presented for the Garfield deck.

Tithe is also a good alternative to Gift of Estates because it's an instant and can be played before your second turn, as long as you aren't going first.

Urborg does not work with Cabal Stronghold, it looks for basic swamps not just any swamp (

I've found a lot of success playing mono colored decks with the basic land ramp package Myriad Landscape Wayfarer's Bauble Burnished Hart Solemn Simulacrum Extraplanar Lense Gauntlet of Power Caged Sun Different colors allow you to run more cards in addition, but the basic point is that you get as many basics into play as you can and double them. It requires you run no more than 2, maybe 3 utility lands, and the rest basic snow lands (for Extraplanar Lense.) I've found that it completely solves mono white and red's ramp problem, and even makes them better than most green decks at ramping.

Before I continue watching this video. I bulit mono red goblins with nothing but base lands cause i have stuff like price of progress and blood moon in my deck. It's just fun to spike them for the none base lands then turn them all to mountain. Without having to worry about taking damage myself. It works great and people hate it.

I would like to add that, if you play something you want to take advantage of right away, a land like Hanweir battlements is pretty good in mono red and you don't ne4ed something like rogue's passage in that deck, so you can add Hanweir battlements instead. I would also argue that having the fetch lands in the deck to thin out your deck is a good thing, so lands like wooded foothills, Arid Mesa, Scalding tarn and Bloodstained mire are fantastic to thin your deck with 3 lands so you draw more gas later on. As for your mono green, the same rule applies with fetch lands, you will want as many of them as you can get your hands on to thin your deck, also, not every green deck might want 38 lands, I run 29 in my mono green seton deck. this, because almost all my creatures tap for mana thanks to the commander because most of them are druids and some tap for more than 1 mana, so sometimes I will have 2 lands out and have a full board of druids and other creatures, its such great fun. I started off with 32 lands, but I cut 3 because I was flooding alot. only once have I mulliganed to 6 cards at the begining of the game because I had no lands in hand. But Seton, Krosan protector is not your typical green commander. he requires very little in the way of land mana to get going, unless someone agressively removes your mana dorks early game you are good. it's a very fun commander that I would recommend to anyone. once you get to enough mana, you can fetcch large green monsters like Vorinclex, Voice of hunger and craterhoof to finish off the game. you can also use "Gilt-Leaf Archdruid" to tap down 7 druids you control to steal all lands from target player. then you do it all over again the next turn if you have seedborn muse out. this was really fun when paradox engine was legal, you tap 7 druuids, steal someone's untapped land, play something small, untap everything, tap them again to steal the next opponents lands and do it all over again. But since that is banned, we rely on seedborn muse for such shinanegans. this video was very useful for my mono red Krenko mob boss deck, it will just be very expensive to replace those basic mountains with all this stuff. I'm gonna have alook at your 2 colour commander mana base deck as well as 3, as I play 2 and 3 coloured decks as well. I don't have any 4 or 5 just yet.

I think in mono-black there is a strong argument to run a large amount of snow swamps, there are a lot of good control cards and sweepers looking at snow permenants where if you can just unload with your swamps become very powerful. Another thought towards accelerants is the medallion cycle, they don't generate mana but a 1 colourless reduction on most if not all your spells in a mono coloured deck can easily generate a lot more value while also being harder to turn off.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx can be very powerful in a mono deck. Gaea's Cradle and Growing Rites of Itlamoc in any green deck with reasonable numbers of creatures. Maze of Ith is useful, although I possibly wouldn't really count it as a land as it doesn't produce mana. Strip Mine and Wasteland aren't bad includes to take care of problems like Maze of Ith, Glacial Chasm and Gaeas Cradle. Vesuva is similar to Thespian stage only it copies a land when it ETBs rather than it being an ability you have to pay for. If you are running Thespian stage or have ways of messing with counters Darkest Depths is also one to consider.

The best way in my opinion for any number of colors in a commander deck is run 34 (+/-2) lands. For anything above two color mana in a commander use the appropriate dual lands relevant to the heaviest color you use and use lands that come in tapped only if they provide some sort of effect such as scrying. As an example, if my commander is Edgar Markov, I’ll be using white, black and red mana. However because it runs heavy on black I will only be using dual lands that tap for black and red or black and white. In addition, I will only be using 3 of each of the many dual colored land because of the 3 different colors on the commander. If my commander had 4 different colors then I would use 4 of those lands which are the shock lands, the check lands and the fast lands. Using the red white land isn’t as effective as it deprives the deck of the much needed black mana and is best if replaced by cards like command tower. Keeping everything balanced I would also use 3 utility lands and those only relevant to my commander. Basics will then be used to fill in the remaining slots leaning more towards the heaviest color in your deck adding up to a total of 34-36 lands. If the commander had 4 colors in its cmc, like breya, then I would use the 3 types of dual lands relevant to the heaviest color, in this case blue, and 4 of the dual land types (I.e. shock lands, check lands, fast lands and scry lands) always allowing me to have access to blue above all else. The same rule applies for 5 different colors in a commanders cmc.

I like the sac cycle from Alliances, or 3 of them anyways. R and G are, to be polite, very uncomfortable toilet paper, but the W and B ones are really fun to use, while U can be a decent value engine over time.

Journeyer's Kite is a good one for decks with many instants. If you want to have mana for counterspells or other stuff you want another option if you didn't need to cast that instant. As control deck are usually excell with more and more mana Journeyer's Kite gives your deck more power every time you use it. Thaumatic Compass is the better option if you just need about seven lands and want some extra protection against creatures.

Is Gaeas Cradle allowed in the format? If yes, i would add Crop Rotation and Gaeas Cradle to any green deck.

I'm pretty new and green, but I have a question regarding Valakut. The oracle text of that card displayed on screen says "target creature or player", not "any target" so I am unsure how planeswalkers can be targeted with this effect. Please advise.

A land that Prof forgot is Cryptic Caves... It's basically the painless but colorless version of Horizon Canopy... It's good because if you're flooding, you can just sac it for another card, basically making it another cycling land...

I feel halimar depths was excluded from the mono blue Mana base. It helps you fix your next three draws

Solid

Also, running the Diamond's (Fire Diamond, Sky Diamond, Marble Diamond, etc.) in decks that have a hard time ramping, like red and blue and white, are pretty good.

I play almost only flavorful casual/jank decks, like a meren superfriends deck, or an avacyn angels only deck, do you have any advice on making fun weird decks? Like should I just not? I do know my meren-friends deck gets plenty of incredulity at my LGS bit is it really that bad to run a deck that isn’t made to competition level perfection?

You should cover all of the ramp artefacts. Talisman, Signits, Lockets, Cluestones, Keyrunes, etc.

You can run Urborg in non-black decks as well. Which makes Kormus Bell hilarious.

7:53 myriad landscape, dust bowl, rogue's passage, endless sands, blighted woodland, winding canyons, 17:50, fabled passage, evolving wilds, 28 green tapping lands and 10 utility

Video started 30 seconds in for some reason. Restarted it to hear that sweet sweet intro

Fetches are worth running in mono blue, for Mystic Sanctuary.

For black decks, Cabal Stronghold only taps equal to basic swamps. It doesn’t synergize with Urborg and non-basic lands.

I feel like Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx is another good option for most monocolour commander decks Also, is there any chance we can see a colourless mana base guide? That's the one where I feel really unsure. There are so many good colourless utility lands, but how many wastes do I have to play to not be soft to blood moon?

I run mono red Neheb the Eternal with 26 lands and some rocks because I like living in the edge. Dragonstorm turn 3 or bust, baby

Didn't see kjeldoran outpost on the white mana base... It is a great card and not so expensive, way better than the castle, same is true forvsoldevi excavations, it scries 1 instead of 2, but it requires less mana to activate and adds more mana to your mana pool

Would there be any recommendations to this in current mono color decks

Most people playing blue will (probably rightfully) skim light on the lands, particularly the Cycling lands, and instead run some of the very efficient 1-2 drop instants to dig for mana drops. Practically the same result in most cases, and better in cases when you aren't short on early mana, since those cards will provide you significantly more value than hitting a land on your draw step later on.

Wew! Within the 1000 viewers 😆

Star Compass is an excellent dirt-cheap accelerant that works better the fewer colors you are in, and if you're in monocolor and aren't green, it can be a great budget substitute for Arcane Signet.

So I’ve always heard that you should have 38 lands in your commander deck, but since I play in a faster more competitive play group I’ve always been satisfied with between 34-30 lands depending on the curve and level of interaction. I typically curve out at 2-3 in most decks that play and they have lot of low cost ramp. I also typically play fast combo decks that want to race to the combo win. The reason I bring this up is that I disagree with the Prof in this aspect, but I don’t know if that’s bc of my experience with a faster play group of because of my views of the game. What does everyone else think?

I love Lake of the Dead in monoblack.

You forgot isolated watchtower and temple of false god. And for mono W cards like weathered wayferer, knight of the withe orchid, tithe are nice