The 7 Most Sneaky Commanders (And Their Decks)

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8 ай бұрын

These commanders always sneak up from behind to steal games! This is who we think are the SNEAKIEST commanders in the format!
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@CantripCaniac 8 ай бұрын

I can confirm Balmor is a certified “wait, what?” type of commander 😂

@tko_5 8 ай бұрын

More videos like this!!! I love finding the small little commanders that turned out to be really really good. Love the videos!!!

@lichinthepolo 8 ай бұрын

Second this, these are exactly the kinds of commanders ive been trying to find

@blupinto1629 8 ай бұрын

Great content, for me the best one of the best on the channel! Spotting and exploiting under track lines Is what makes the experience unique!

@saucysam4 8 ай бұрын

Loved the Kamber shoutout. I've got a deck around them and their partner and it just does everything while somehow maintaining a low profile.

@ClarkAfterDark1111 8 ай бұрын

I played the oskar deck for months and it warranted so much with such absurd reanimating early game. I only won to people conceding to the terror of archfiend and toxrill plaguing the rest of the game.

@Beckola44 8 ай бұрын

These are really cool Commanders. Some of them I have never seen before. Thank you for the video Nitpicking Nerds.

@erichunt1974 8 ай бұрын

You need to be pretty sneaky to survive on the mean streets of Ravnika, especially if you're trying to run a mob like our guy Krenko does.

@Domekarl 8 ай бұрын

Great list, thank you 🎉

@dustinmartin648 8 ай бұрын

Another sneaky deck that I really love is my Volrath, the Shapestealer deck. Its suffed with all those cards that are naturally balanced because they're 1/1's that have a "do something equal to this creatures power". Volrath just goes supersayan when he can turn into something with evasion and then before damage turn into a Cold-Eyed Selkie, Dreamstealer, or Tervigon! It's so much fun to watch peoples jaws drop xD

@isbad234 8 ай бұрын

Great list having played all these decks I can confirm they are really surprise once they rolling another few decks I might add is Osgir he seems to always get underestimated but he can do some work I have a deck with him they never expect Boros to draw 30 cards and get 10 lands in to play/ in hand on turn 5

@kaibatoctoy6032 8 ай бұрын

I built Oskar on a whim and can agree he is a menace when I play him! Giving all your stuff pseudo flash is bonkers 😛

@stevenlannon1020 8 ай бұрын

I use desecrated tomb in my Aclazotz deck that I just built. It's great for the bat theme and reanimator style strategy.

@dapperghastmeowregard 8 ай бұрын

"People don't kill Baeloth fast enough." My Baeloth / Clan Crafter deck: "Before I untap with him isn't fast enough?" :P Shirei was the first deck I made a list and bought singles for (although this was a 60 card deck) can confirm. My favorite card is Chimney Imp to Yata-lock everybody.

@marcoottina654 8 ай бұрын

1) Tayam - Warden of the Sanctuary: nice to draw and generate tokens, nice to saceifice and trogger Cathar's Crusade - Fain the Broker loves removing counters for treasures! 7) Yurlock - Sword of the Paruns: it's basically the same as Umbral Mantle

@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 8 ай бұрын

21:28 ''...Swing somewhere else.'' I have Noble Heritage in my Ninth Doctor deck for double upkeep triggers, I love how fast it can grow a board state via +2/+2 x2= +4/+4. Noble Heritage is underrated. - So Balmor works like a Xada Hedron Grinder deck with lots of cantrips and storm AND its Izzet? Sign me up, most people know that Xada is too crazy to allow out... the things I've done with 2 1/1 tokens in a mono red deck but now a Izzet version *evil laughter :P

@icon8543 8 ай бұрын

Nice, I've literally been brewing a jaheira & urchin deck!

@mikedunn6089 8 ай бұрын

Yedora the grave gardener is my sneakiest commander. On face value it makes forests when your creatures die. Then you pair it with land animation and a decent sac outlet and let the crazy loops begin

@zakbrooks7354 8 ай бұрын

I literally JUST built tayam like two weeks ago and it functions so good. Nobody expects three or less to contain so many relevant threats until there's ten to fifteen of them that basically can't die

@echoesvayne9790 8 ай бұрын

board wipes... I've discovered lately that people don't play enough... I only started playing again about 2 months ago... it seems like I'm the only one running them... is there some stigma against them... it isn't like I am playing board wipe tribal... just 5 to 7 a deck. so I usually hit one ... literally have only had spot removal and counterspells played against me... usually they are countering a commander... i get the mana curve, but getting the whole board is sort of counter magic

@sunflowertheog 8 ай бұрын

@@echoesvayne9790 5 or 7 boardwipes is quite insane imo i think most decks should run 2/3, one being able to hit most nonland perms and 2 for creatures 5-7 means you alone are probably casting 3 a game unless you dont have a lot of card draw

@echoesvayne9790 8 ай бұрын

like yes.. you can pay 2 mana to stop one thing... or you can pay 4 to 7 mana to stop a dozen things....

@zakbrooks7354 8 ай бұрын

@@echoesvayne9790 there's not really a stigma against board wipes as a whole, but definitely against playing any more than 4 in a single deck. If you're board wiping that many times, you should either be winning the game, or theyre one sided in which case you basically won't he game. They extend the game for too long when you play that many in one game

@sunflowertheog 8 ай бұрын

@@echoesvayne9790 boardwipes also hit your permanents, unless you're playing an indestructible pillow fort deck in which you could probably just win the game with an aristocrats style or some other way that doesn't involve a 15 turn game. i play mostly high power games now but it's a miracle if 3 boardwipes happen before someone wins, and in battlecruiser if you're boardwiping every other turn, the game will last 2 hours

@michaelsparks1571 8 ай бұрын

I know we called Devoted Druid in Tayam "fair", but any Giant Growth-type effect of +X/+2 or greater goes "infinite" with Tayam+Druid because you can make the 3-mana AND the three counters with the Druid alone. So you mill out your deck, and return every 3-mv permanent you need.

@chrisgallo2236 8 ай бұрын

I absolutely LOVE my Baeloth/Noble Heritage deck. I’m giving my opponents counters and cards which don’t hurt me all the much with them being goaded and such. It’s so much fun because it’s a little political as well and budget as well.

@planetak. 13 күн бұрын

Aye I just so happened to watch this on my bday thank you😊

@hanschristopherson8056 8 ай бұрын

My sneakiest deck is definitely gylwain, people get caught up on what the role tokens do but after the game people are like oh that’s busted, turns out getting enchantress triggers of playing creatures is pretty good

@Dadiplomatt23 8 ай бұрын

Kalain the reclusive painter is also always ignored when I play her. People are worried about everything else, as they’re getting a ton of +1 +1 counters. Tons of treasure and weird win conditions.

@IVISMiLESIVI 8 ай бұрын

I've been looking for a commander with a discard engine in mind so Oskar might be the perfect fit.

@q.7556 7 ай бұрын

I have a super nasty Jaheera deck with haunted one background as an elf tribal and it some serious work

@DavidS-gx1ok 8 ай бұрын

Can you post your baeloth and noble heritage deck?

@strygwyn9584 8 ай бұрын

oh hey Baeloth made it somehow! Unfortunately, people tend to remove him when they realize the goad is a pain in the ass lol

@dustinmartin648 8 ай бұрын

My friend has a Tayam deck and it is such a "win out of nowhere" kind of deck. The amount of times I've had the upper hand and he'll throw out a "Well, let's activate Tayam and see what I can pull together" and then proceeds to go infinite, is too high to count 😂

@JustforKikX 8 ай бұрын

Tayam is high tier cEDH. He's absolutely a kos commander.

@nickwildschut5959 8 ай бұрын

Lazav, the Multifarious says hello

@44Midfield 8 ай бұрын

There's a guy in my play group that has a Yurlok deck. It's so nasty, and it looks like it doesn't do anything, then all of a sudden, you lose half your life and are just sitting there, speechless.

@heresyseed 8 ай бұрын

Oskar… one of kamiz’s best employees 😅 Jaheira… she’s Sam and Frodo’s mvp!

@TheRodlund 8 ай бұрын

I don't see the Yurlok of Scorch Thrash deck listed on Moxfield when searching by your decks? Was it accidentally marked unlisted?

@evanturk7609 8 ай бұрын

I love Yurlok so much. "Here, have all this mana. Now suffer!"

@watchdogsboston 8 ай бұрын

If I run Tayam, and I throw on doubling season, do I throw two vigilance counters on my creatures? Effectively leaving one on when activating the effect of Tayam?

@francisserpa4465 8 ай бұрын

I have a Baeloth/Noble Heritage deck. It's a lot of fun. It's basically equipment Voltron, but I don't attack, I just get him bigger and bigger to goad everything on the board 😂

@DavidS-gx1ok 8 ай бұрын

Deck list?

@chrisgallo2236 8 ай бұрын

I also have one of these decks and my opponents hate it. It is a fun deck to play though and it’s also fairly budget which is awesome.

@devindabney198 7 ай бұрын

As a proud Tayam pilot, this video made me smile :)

@obadijahparks 8 ай бұрын

Sherei can be such a budget commander too.

@gianlucam7456 8 ай бұрын

Matzalantli, the Great Door goes insane in Oskar decks

@ruanew959 7 ай бұрын

Need that $50 Oskar deck on moxfield 🙏

@anonymoususer5351 8 ай бұрын

I wish my opponents underestimated Shirei lol he dies approximately 15 seconds after I play em unless I have some sort of protection

@Jeff32479 7 ай бұрын

I didn't even know this channel still existed.

@jschleter254 8 ай бұрын

I don't see the Yurlock deck listed!

@thork_tv 8 ай бұрын

I Love to copy all seeing Arbiter. Because each one triggers of all discard I casted a rite of Replikation in it once... Now I Draw 12 discard 6 nerf 36 creatures

@nzephier 8 ай бұрын

A sneaky commander is Nezahal. I swear, someone built it to be voltron, and he whipped us all

@ubberJakerz 8 ай бұрын

16:50 I'm pretty sure storm doesn't trigger Balmor.... It needs cast triggers. Am I wrong?

@NitpickingNerds 8 ай бұрын

Mia was just talking about a big Balmor turn and she didn't mean that storm cards would trigger Balmor extra 👍

@ubberJakerz 8 ай бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds That'll do it! Thanks for the clarification. I would've had to go back to the drawing board on a few of my decks!

@okranad 8 ай бұрын

For Tayam its worth considering nazgul.

@jordancee6595 8 ай бұрын

Wait the other guy left? Maybe I can finally subscribe😂.

@frankenhumper 8 ай бұрын

What happened to Joe Cherries?

@robertoso8796 8 ай бұрын

my katilda deck is even sneakier than jaheira. there are so many 1/2/3cmc humans and now Esper Sentinel, Soul Warden, and E-Wit are mana dorks. jaheira is also a human and i make tons of tokens and katilda gives +1 counters so Rishkar Peema Renegade adds more redundancy. then i can Shamanic Revelation into Collective Unconscious into Camaraderie into thousand Year Elixir into Halo Fountain for the win.

@tylercraig5633 8 ай бұрын

Tayam is literally the Spanish Inquisition of commander lol

@d.a.d.-ohgosh 8 ай бұрын

I have a pretty new deck that has a ridiculous win rate. It's Octavia, Living Thesis. It's not that good tho lol. Somehow by a miracle it currently has a 100% win rate! You might be thinking that's absurd! Well I've only played 5 games with it and it's always won by the skin of it's teeth lol.

@caseywilliams4145 7 ай бұрын

If you have archfiend of ifnir and you're not playing tortured existence then you need to start

@benjaminwilliamson8653 8 ай бұрын

I refuse to play the wii without a wrist strap!

@echoesvayne9790 8 ай бұрын

the general rule is just kill the comanders always lol... it feels bad... but that's the play... most of the games I win are because I ironically don't early cast my commander.

@micheal5973 8 ай бұрын

5 Color sissay people always underestimate until they see it in action then you just become the archenemy every time you bring it out😢 Ya my sissay is the only thing on the field and can only tutor out cmc 2 or less… I cast giant growth make her a 5/5 and tutor out either jagantha or 5 Color lotus on someone’s end step and just win….

@palace_gaming2256 8 ай бұрын

If people you play against underestimate Sisay they’re not good magic players, any decent magic player is killing the creature that has tutor stapled to it, with a high ceiling and is a commander

@mibbzx1493 8 ай бұрын

Multiple tutors = its a threat getting anything you want since its one of the strongest things to so in the game.

@ialwaysbluff 8 ай бұрын

Deck lists plz! I heard Moxfield is decent.

@wincent.. 7 ай бұрын

oskar gang representtttttt

@ecos889 8 ай бұрын

For me and the dude is so on theme with your channel would be the commander Circu, Dimir Lobotomist, because he slowly mills and may if you are very lucky exile and ban Sol ring from the game like it rightly should be. Thing is run a lantern control package along with isochron scepter a sol ring as of course we cast ours before banning it before anyone else cast it and of course dramatic reverse you out of nowhere reduces everyone decks into nothing. Whilst being a absolute nitpicking nerd declaring card is banned and nitpicking what is allowed in a person's hand and what is not allowed. Truly sneaky and diabolically nitpicking.

@ipsyop 8 ай бұрын

tayam is sneaky ? isn't he like a fairly popular cedh commander I wouldn't call it sneaky tbh

@zotmaster 8 ай бұрын

I'd throw Hallar, the Firefletcher in there. Hallar always gets underestimated: it's an uncommon 3/3 for 3, most Kicker spells are mediocre at best, and Hallar's trigger deals damage equal to the number of +1/+1 counters instead of power...but Hallar gets people dead so much faster than you'd think.

@micheal5973 8 ай бұрын

Throw in all the just double counters on a creature and it goes wild. All I want is a blue red green kicker commander so I can jam my Verizol and halar into one deck

@aclevername7613 8 ай бұрын

Teferi master of time is a busted card and a mistake. It is busted and one of the planes walkers I try to kill as soon as possible>.>

@aclevername7613 8 ай бұрын

Being able to use his abilities at instant/flash speed is disgusting and a broken ability.

@igolark 8 ай бұрын

you miss the most sneaky of all. eruth

@davidjones2921 8 ай бұрын

Boost

@thecanadian5428 8 ай бұрын

Beantown bullies

@palace_gaming2256 8 ай бұрын

That was sneaky like the first week it came out, after that people figured out to just kill the commander, without the commander you have cards that actively make you deck worse

@SporeTres 8 ай бұрын

Jaheira is most definitely not sneaky, lol.

@joseaguirre7914 7 ай бұрын

Has anyone ever noticed that she is a hottie with a hidden body ❤

@PhyrexianacademicSocialStudies 8 ай бұрын

I’ve said it once I’ll say it again, I’m super happy that Joe cherries left, he really brought the episodes down always looking upset he wasn’t the one talking, kinda also tracks why his channel didnt do so hot

@robertoso8796 8 ай бұрын

i miss his updates on his dating life because it wasn't super thirsty or strange and kinda creepy at all. AT ALL.

@jeffreylong1478 8 ай бұрын

Kinda lame to go out of your way to insult someone for no reason

@itzmimz8238 8 ай бұрын

who asked

@PhyrexianacademicSocialStudies 8 ай бұрын

@@billygregory1547 I didn’t see that as a problem, but hey that’s your 2 cents can’t complain after I put mine in

@jeffreylong1478 8 ай бұрын

@billygregory1547 Bullies are so cool, how’d you get so tough and edgy to talk like that, you’re amazing! 😂