Something to note about jinnie Fey, she changes ANY token into cats or dogs, there's a lot of cheap ways to make food/blood/clue tokens that you can turn into creatures easily

I think you’re underselling Jinnie by putting her in the B tier. She does something that no other commander (or care to my knowledge) does. Not to mention her with Brass’s Bounty or Dockside Extortionist. She definitely doesn’t belong in S Tier, but I’d put her firmly in A without question

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Rigo's ability says "or more", so at most you will draw three cards for attacking each of your opponents. Regardless of how many creatures are attacking.

I think that a little clarification needs to be made on Jolene, the card does stare your opponents. So your opponents swinging into you doesn’t give them a treasure. I blame Eddie

I don’t care what anyone says. Having Syrix as a commander looks so fun. We’ll find a way to make it work!!

Anhelo casualties tainted pact searches for thassa’s oracle and the copy tainted pact exiles the entire deck. Cast the searched thassa’s oracle and that’s GG.

I have a feeling that Lord Xander is a prime example of “How to Lose Your Friends”.

Jinnie is not just replacing 1/1s into 2/2's it replace clue, food, treasures whatever the hell token u want meaning u can create absurd amounts of 2/2 cats w haste throw in a coat of arms or something and you can do some really powerful stuff imo

Gotta say I think Oskar is quite strong, and its a very obvious and powerful engine. I think he'll be popular, and he does have a few combo lines if you want to go that route. A tier to me :3

Youre undervaluing Cormela. She can do some absurd things, especially with the upcoming Saw in Half. She's cEDH-viable. And Xander is not nearly as strong as youre representing. First off youre reading him wrong and missing the very important "rounded down" clause. This means even an infinite loop will leave opponents with something. 7CMC to start is far more problematic that you're representing. And any deck that can loop him infinitely would literally just be better off using Evelyn, who would actually win the game by exiling opponents' libraries. Xander is a terrible Commander. Hes going to draw a ton of attention while not providing the power to back that up. Nowhere remotely close to S-tier.

I would have put Jetmir in A. Even with all the hoops you have to go through and his obvious weaknesses, having a 4MV craterhoof behemoth in the command zone is just insane

im just glad someone knows the power of rocco, green lets it ramp up so fast to tutor for any creatures you ever wanted, its just so fun to play.

Mr Oreo "Double Stuff" definitely got shafted in this review. He is a very plain commander but insanely powerful. It doesnt take much to have cards duplicate his doubling trigger to double again and of course you have fling and infect at your disposal as well. I guess requiring other cards to make him effective is a downside but not too much. Zangief along with other jund commanders welcome Oreo to the deck

Raffine is underrated

Surely your joking claiming lord Xander at S. He only targets one player for each effect, he is seven mana in a deck that isnt green, filling your opponents' graveyards is often a terrible idea, and best case even if you loop him your opponents get to keep their best things.

Just built Raffine in a reanimator build as a discard engine with the key card to get out is Adeline. Going to try it out and see if i can turbo through to try and find my reanimator targets and cards.

Jetmir is gonna be a menace. You know you're a strong card when people are considering you for cedh!

Hey Mitch! I always love these videos but I have a suggestion for you incase you’re open to feedback on the format of your videos! Rather than go in order from worst to best, maybe just list the commanders off in a random order in your video and place them on their perspective rankings that way. I was thinking from an engagement perspective, it might be more exciting for the audience to be able to guess where you’re going to put the commander vs knowing every time we move up a tier. Or if you want players to be able to skip through your video to the end just to see the best ones, maybe only do A-D ranking commanders and then at the end list all of the S ones in a particular order! That way you could label the video in the time bar “S - Rank commanders” for people who only come for that. And if it wasn’t too much trouble, the S tier could be the only one you specifically do an order for going from let’s say 3rd to 1st if there’s 3 S ranks in your opinion. I was just thinking about this as I was watching as a way of keeping your engagement and watch time up cause people will be more glued to the screen to see where the commander will land vs knowing it’s going in the C or D tier and not caring much about the first half of the video vs the last half. Just a thought! Either way I enjoy your content and think you and your editor do a great job!

Yah just pulled Lord Xander, the Collector today. Excited to make a commander Deck around it.

Honestly, I am surprised to not see Jetmir in A tier. Token generation isn't exactly super difficult, and his colors let him ramp easily enough to sustain some high-mana plays. All it really takes is an anointed procession and 5 mana into a secure the wastes to meet Jetmir's condition for +3, vigilance, trample, and double strike. That's a total of 13 mana you can spend over 1, 2, or 3 turns to essentially have a small, terrifying army

I'm kind of surprised The Beamtown Bullies didn't land at S, that card just seems really nuts. I'm quite pleased that Ziatora was an A though, that seems like a really good commander.

Jolene says when a player attacks one of YOUR opponents so if your opponents attack you they don’t get the treasure

Gadia is now the must have angel commander for angel token decks- and angel decks in general in my opinion

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with jinnie it's pretty easy to go infinite if you choose to go aristocrats one example is requiem angel and a sac outlet, it's infinite dsie triggers and if you have altar of dementia it's an easy 3 card win also it procs on any token, so you can also exchange treasure, food and clue tokens

I think a fun side effect of Evelyn is your denying so many cards form your opponents jsut by playing your creatures. If you swarm enough, it’ll make getting so many of their cards impossible for them.

A note on Anhelo; If you have a Narset's Reversal under an Isocron Scepter you can bounce the original even if it has an exile clause to keep it in hand while replacing it with another copy!

Unfortunately I have to go to bed, but I now have a first watch of the day ready to go

Falco Spara could’ve been the strongest planeswalker commander ever if you could remove any counter

Id rank Tivit definitely S. Its very easy to get infinite clues and treasues, there's multiple 1 card combos on top of just a great ETB like you said. Infinite clues and treasures lets you draw your deck and win. When testing the deck I comboed off a lot faster than anyone expected, i used control for the first 1-4 turns and would win turn 3-5 every time (assuming no counterspells)

So I’m a new player and have a question… why is it seen as a negative to be a single color? I would think that’s useful and simplifies things, maybe explain a bit?

About Falco, you can't lost counters trying to cast something that can't be casted because you may look the top of your deck, which means you'll know what's up there

Quick note: opponents don't get treasures from Jolene for attacking you, only your opponents.

I've been looking into making a Dimir cycling deck. Oskar seems like a perfect fit.

feels good to be early

Doesn’t Jolene only give your opponents treasures if they are attacking YOUR opponents? Meaning they will not generate a treasure by attacking you?

Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder. Hydras, Dragons, Demons. whaaaaaaat!

Also really like Ognis, haste matters is a cool angle, and she's less scary than Korvold which is great. I actually like that the treasures come in tapped. Makes her more fair.

Nailed it, great episode. I specifically am choosing Maestros for my family for hopes of the painter

Good video, I believe you're mistaken with the persist thing tho. They will still have -1 and+1 counters even if the math negates

mr orfeo, grunn the lonely king (kicked), attack with grunn...power is at 40, follow up with Chandra's ignition, and a fling for good measure. just make sure you can haste grunn.

I’m from the future and Tivit turned out to be the most powerful commander in New Capenna

No way Xander is S tier. I saw that and immediately started strongly doubting your list. 7 mana and it just isn't that great. It singles out one player to dish the hurt on, you might screw one guy over before it gets removed and you have to pay 9. It's not even the best commander in it's colors for this set, Anhelo is much better. No Jeleva, but not far off. I'd say Tivit is the straight up most busted, he goes infinite with just Time Sieve. Falco draws your deck with devoted druid and divining top and is fringe Cedh, along with Raffine who can be a fringe Cedh deck reanimating Razaketh or Thoracle. Both Raffine and Falco can be made easily into very strong high power decks with things like managorger hydra, quirion dryad and reanimation. 3 and 4 mana value respectively are big upsides, cheap commanders fare better. Rigo is similar to Tymna and Edric, but has a shield counter and the draw triggers off attack, not damage. There are a lot of dorks and hatebears/tutor/ramp creatures with 0-1 power and stuff like the jellyfish. If you want to push him to fringe cedh you can loop extra turns. As far as high power casual and cedh goes, these 5 are my picks for S tier. Rocco is good, I've seen Cedh brews around him and Protean Hulk - but it's 9 mana. In high power pods it's the same problem - super mana intensive.

Raffine, Scheming Seer is basically Varina, Lich Queen but instead of token generation it pumps up creatures with counters and has Flying, Ward 1. If you have a I played it in place of Varina for my commander deck of her and it worked out pretty much the same way only the token generation is way more valuable than Counters, Flying, and Ward 1. I felt it was worth mentioning because you have two videos on Varina, Lich Queen Decks, and realized this when I saw it.

Anhelo and Xander in my evelyn decklist. So much value from the vampires in new capenna

Scute Swarm with Bess, Soul Nourisher 😱😳

Feels like Cormela got criminally underrated here

Henzie was my personal pick for the precons. Glad he made A tier.

Parnesse is the first grixis Commander that has encouraged me to go past just Izzet for my Storm deck, each of my Storm spells can be given to an opponent and it costs them 4 life to target me and my permanents. 1 grapeshot copied say 40 times means that to point that back at me would cost a total of 160 life, all the while I have Grapeshots waiting to resolve and if I need to I could Flusterstorm the copies they do point at me!! PLUS I GET TENDRILS OF AGONY AS AN ADDITIONAL FINISHER!!

Evelyn needs to be knocked down tier. Although, yes her first ability is amazing, especially with a panharmonicone effect. You are still limited in the amount of vampires you can throw out. Sure they are heavily supported, but majority of token generators for vampires are in W/B, there is about 5 in mono black R/B. Yes you can go for a flicker deck combo, but once again you're limited in how much you can flicker due to blue having a limited amount of flicker effects. If anything Evelyn should be knocked down to a B tier if not low A tier.

How could you do that Lagrella? She's powerful as heck.

Don’t go Anhelo extra turns unless you have no friends or if you hate your friends or just really like playing solitaire

I think raffine is very low on this list I think it’s easily s tier with draw grave yard fill power up and making a stax build I’ve definitely seen it as cedh thank for vide!

Rigo only makes you draw 1 card because one or more creatures attacking and because player or planeswalker it doesn't matter how much you attack or how much you attack with

i didnt even realize how good Anhelo could be, i was like yeah sure you can copy stuff like torment and shiz but i never thought about extra turn spells, ty

Lagrella in the D tier? when she is possibly one of the best blink commanders in the best colours? in my local group the lagrella player just slays

Bullies+Worldgorger+Kill Spell is hilarious.

Jolene is One of my favorite Commanders from this set. Seems like a Fun Voltron Commander. Easy to make Treasure in Gruul rn especially after this set. So easy to pump Jolene. Equip her then Swing for the Fences.

As much i like the aesthetic of the set, im skipping this pre-release. It just didnt grab me. The D&D commander set seems more exciting to me.

Dr. Doofensmirtz: Perrie, The pulverizer!!?

For Jinnie Fay I think you missed the fact that it turns ANY type of token, not just creature tokens

I find it bizarre that you put your contenders for (and winner of) the Golden Pig so low, while also lambasting someone like the Magpie for being so narrow while praising them so highly prior.

Def thought Cormela would be B or even A, great colors and combo lines, makes mid cards good, gotta love it. Damn you Eddie!

Icu mitch rank lagrella low so when you stomp your pod you got defense for it like "look at what I ranked it bro it's bad"

Cormela combos with Saw in Half, Demonic Tutor and Dark Ritual

I really like my Rocco deck. I'm glad he's in the s tier.

Funny how Mitch apologizes to his waifu for putting her in D tier.

Imagine someone Beamtown Bullies a Blightsteel Colossus out...

I think Rigo is definitely good, but unless you have a bunch of other effects out you’re drawing 1 card/attacked player. 3 extra cards a turn is great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not 1 card per attacking creature. Just to nitpick for a sec. Also, I feel like people are missing the fact that Bennie Bracks can easily come in for free, no mana spent. A card draw engine for 0 mana is very good, just saying. The downside of creating a token to draw a card is negligible if the deck is built well. I think he’s pretty amazing. Not game-breaking or anything, but very good.

Wife is looking forward to buffing her Arcades (based on your budget Arcades deck btw) with Rigo. I'm dreading this.

Except for anhelo I don’t think any of the other s tier commanders are s tier

A question that comes to mind for me is: Does Evelyn finally give Edgar Markov competition in terms of the best vampire tribal commander? Answer is probably not, but she definitely seems like a very close second

Interesting idea to buff Falco what if you use a shield to cast from the top they get it so you are pushed a bit towards using your shields on allies that don't spawn with them

Ok, I agree with most of your placements, but Jetmir is one of the most powerful legendaries in this set, there’s so many ways to set him up, defend him, and get all those creatures. He’s also really good because your not likely to get targeted in multiplayer for a while. With Xander though, you’re gonna get targeted and killed before you can even bring him out. Jetmir is at least A tier.

Saying that Rocco is Tier S is the same as pretending that Worldly Tutor is broken. If that would be the case, every Commander game would be a game of "who will find his tutor first". The ability is strong, but he is doing nothing else. In other words, if your win combo needs just two pieces, and one of them is a 3-mana creature, you need to have another combo piece and 3RGW. Until that time, your commander is doing NOTHING - not even guards your life. And to find that second combo piece, you will still need a lot of tutors. Evelyn is overrated as well. Unlike many cards with "you can play the exiled card" words, Evelyn's ability is tied to herself, not to the cards, so when Evelyn is removed, you lose the ability to play the cards. Of course, you will be able to play them again if you re-cast Evelyn, but 7 mana is a lot, not even talking about more. She is very good, but not S-tier. And if you consider Lord Xander S-Tier, then Tivit should be S-Tier too. Both require some combo pieces to reveal their full potential. If you copy Lord Xander, you will almost destroy one opponent. What if you blink Tivit? Five tokens on each ETB trigger is absurd. And blink effects are much cheaper than clone/duplicate effects, and there are permanents that blink Tivit many times. If you have 20+ tokens, you can win in multiple ways. One Rise and Shine will be enough.

I can't wait to put together Lord Xander, The Collector! Can't wait for a video on him and your recommendations on the 99 to go with him.

I saw a Deck, that gave everything unlimited shield counters

I disagree a Lot :( Kamiz in B? Xander in S? I agree that xander is a stronger card, but a stronger commander? A tier S commander? Anyone can see It coming Miles away and Just counter it This list are about card Power level, not the best commander

falco spara in ramos.... i like

Raffine is not a go wide commander, they're much better as an aggressive reanimation commander, imo!

You can tell a lot about the comments section over the years by how thorough his disclaimer needed to be.

Lagrella C tier

Also, Rocco just broke Food Chain again lol

I’m excited for a Mr. Orfeo double strike buff jank deck

Rocco is 100% the BEST Naya commander hands down! Birthing Pod in the command zone is extremely strong

Wait some people still believe Red to be better than White in commander ? Shocking (bad pun intended)

"Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jo-le-ee-een! Please don't take my treasure, just because you can." Wait, she does what? She GIVES them treasure?

I'm definitely building Ognis. I would run ziatora but her high cmc stops me. Our meta has... too much removal and if you play a commander higher than 4 cmc at our table it will likely be killed so many times you can't cast it again.

Evelyn is broken: Dualcaster mage-Ghostly Flicker- Evelyn get Thassa win fun deck 😅

Really liking Xander and Evelyn.

falco spara in italian means literally "hawk shoot(with a gun)".

im pretty sure oskar is at least b if not a tier commander

Rocco making it to S surprised me a bit, the rest of S did not. Honestly I'm a bit surprised they didn't try to balance out the families a bit better. The Maestro cards feel much more powerful than the others, even without casualty, and some are overkill with it. Part of me hopes to see Xander banned in Commander, and Cut ayour Losses should absolutely be banned in Standard.

Look they they did my boy jetmir he should be at the very top he is insanely strong and ive won turn 5 with pure combat damage and thats saying something

So sad to see Roco at S. Imo, having such an easy tutor, especially in those colours, will make for boring games.

I'm convinced Bennie Brax is gonna be an expensive card, no matter what tier you put him in.

Anhelo, Talrand, extra turn spell and Narset's Reversal goes infinite..... Cast extra turn spell, Talrand makes a token, cast Narset's Reversal targeting your extra turn spell and Casualty the token Talrand made. The copy targets your Reversal returning it to hand and the second copy copies the extra turn spell and returns it to hand. So, you take an extra turn with both the extra turn spell and Narset's Reversal in hand.

Question to Errant: Creatures coming back from the Graveyard with Effects like Marchesa are Spells, right? So do I gat a Token for just 2 Mana?

Rigo Infect, here I come