I built a Codie deck just because my name is Kodie and it felt like the right thing to do

I think this set is honestly the weirdest when it comes to card evaluation. I think a number of them are automatically dismissed for one reason or another or put into a very narrow box. It'll be interesting to see how people build around a lot of the undervalued members

Remy won't be happy that Mavinda was in d tear.

I personally love Blex. I Iove black and green and building a deck of creepy critters sounds fun. I dont care if its strong but I'm gonna make it.

I can see Lukka having crazy synergy with artifact creatures and lorehold spells such as "wake the past."

Man right before the step where I pay for cumulative upkeep

I like how detailed Mavinda is because its an owl with arms and also wings. National Geographic has always overlooked this detail about owls.

I like the focus on politicking in silverquill commander cards. I *needs* them I love stirring the pot and hoping it doesn't kill me

I made a awaken the blood avatar deck but the token for the avatar is the pillar men from jojo and i call the spell awaken my masters

Perfect, this is exactly the insight I need to buy some new singles for commander right now.

The production value on your videos is always top notch. I really appreciate the fact that you planned the video out instead of just shooting from the hip like a lot of other tier lists.

Mavinda is 100% a Modern/Standard card. He’s okay in commander decks, but he’s really here to be used with Killian in a Silverquill Magecraft deck.

Well, I was building a Lorehold deck with the dragon and it's pretty strong, but it's not suited for Edh for the land destruction and neither Cedh, because it's slow. You have Restore Balance, Armageddon and Cataclysm, the fun white cards. For extra combats, I found: Resurgence,Relentless Assault, Seize the Day, Savage Beating, World at war, Waves of Aggresion. The things is,I think you can cast very powerful things with overload, like Mizzix Mastery. I think it could be placed in B tier (sorry for my English haha)

the boros ones are gonna be A and S, calling it right now

Absolutely looking forward to building and playing Witherbloom. I love dragons, Golgari, and life gain.

Thanks a Lot Mitch! Keep up the good videos! Fans from Brazil!

Rionya's pretty crazy, being mono red is kind of an advantage for creating a wincon with damage and getting everything out for sure, and you can easily ramp her out before turn 5. And once she's out it's easy to already have a humble defector out and play a 1 mana draw spell and draw 5 the very next turn, or have precursor golem and draw 7, even moonveil dragon draws 3. The best creatures afaik are 5 cmc or less, so you can play goldspan dragon or rapacious dragon and ramp out 4 mana the turn after, that's almost double your mana, and since rionya is 2 red fanatic of mogis is even better and terror of the peaks is just wild. If you can manage to get 2-3 turns with her out and you manage to draw into more draw, which at least in my deck is a tiny bit inconsistent rn, she just pops off by setting up her next turn more and more. She's a super version of any mono red or colorless creature. I don't really know of any mono red commander that can ramp out and draw and do anything as much as she can from almost only her being out, and it's easy before turn 5. But no she's not really witherbloom lol.

I'm in the credits at 37:45. I'm currently $3.24 for my Commander 2014 printing on TCGPlayer.

I mean I feel like beledros should be bumped up to s tier simply because while prismari can just tap artifacts for instants and sorceries one good nuke on field and it's pretty much useless whereas when beledros dies you're in black/green so you know that you have ways to get her back for like dirt cheap where as red/blue really doesn't any artifact recursion. Idk that's just me😅

Just the right timing

Huzzah! Let's see where Velomachus Lorehold falls on this list. I cracked him in a prerelease pack yesterday, and am already brewing a bit.

oh boy, all the disclaimers. i feel you mitch. people take it so personally when you rank their favorite new commander too low. myself, i won't be doing it anymore. just a headache.

i think gyome should be a tier because: beledros+gyome+ashnod's alter=fun

Love the list Mitch!

LOL My spellslinger Rootha deck where I am copying insane ass spells off her trigger for infinite galore says you're wrong about Rootha.

Liking the look of the izzit elder dragon. Was looking for a comander to build my "denying wind untill nothing your deck is worthwhile" deck around

Loved this episode! Would you possibly look at doing one of these for each set going forward? 🥺

That's a really good review of all the possibile commanders of Strixhaven , I really thought Beledros would have been S tier , but it makes sense given the mana value /cmc

I will end up swapping Beladros to the head of the precon and leaving the other commander in the deck. Was considering going for more ways to use my life as a resource but I am still working out the kinks

Reading the comments. Mitch, you got your work cut out for you. Everyone loves your ranking system, so now you gotta go back and rank all Ravnica legends. All Ravnica. Legends. Put on a big pot of coffee and let's jump into it! 🤣

I’ve built a deck fro Rowan//Will from the new set and I’ve managed to get a crazy amount of wins both in standard and historic. Love the list yall!

Top 2 commanders I’m looking forward to building around: Osgir & Extus/Awaken

Mitch, I really liked this episode. It's always nice to hear what commanders are the dominating forces in a set, but please don't stop doing your Golden Toilet awards and Golden Pig awards either! This is just a nice new addition to the goodness that is the Golden Pig and Golden Toilet!

Gyome is a lot more interesting then he seems IMO. I specifically plan on building an artifact creature deck, taking advantage of the absurd number of food tokens you can produce and sac for value, either with cards like Bontu or KCI.

Valentin and Lisette will be right at home in a Ghave deck in the 99. Each would synergize well, especially if you have a way to turn creatures into mana or life.

Adrix and Nev is absolutely an insane commander. I have built armies of dozens, sometimes even over 100, creatures from having almost nothing on the board in a matter of only a few turns. I don't even have a fully optimized Adrix and Nev deck, it's just so naturally powerful that I didn't need to overtune it for my play group's average power level. Bought an extra Adrix and Nev to through into my Yarok deck. Can't wait to see the interactions.

Excited to build an esix based on the precon

YESSSS KEEP DOING CARDS IN THIS CHART

I'm so stupid excited. I got the r/u and g/u precons smashing them together and having the storm sire as my commander, added a rikku, jadzi, and eye of the storm. Going to have SO many shenanigans

I pulled awaken a few days ago and im looking forward to building around it

I really love willow dusk! I've been able to just spiral out every lifelink creature. It's super satisfying when it works out.

I Just built a quintorius deck and its very cool to have a boros gy EDH

Also I understand if it makes it easier production wise to do them in order in the tier list but generally I prefer going through them alphabetically

Already have a couple of nice builds for both osgir and alibou. Looking at making velomachus, felisa, veyran, and adrix and nev

I made a Velomachus deck where I just keep taking multiple combat steps! It's pretty neat and I have yet to actually lose a game with it! There's like a 20% chance that I just kill someone via commander the turn I play him and it makes him a ticking timebomb that no one I play with expects!

Definitely agree with the jadzi, I just started to make her for commander, she's really powerful and would definitely be better with less mana, I found that trying to make a storm deck with her is both fun and a pain just from the amount of triggers

people are really sleeping on the front side of Extus/blood avatar

It's funny because when I chose to get the Prismari commander precon deck, I thought since it was the cheapest by far that it would be the weakest. Plus, Zaffi wasn't doing it for me. But now I have it rebuilt to synergize with Veyran and I've been cackling like a madman for weeks lmao

I love blex sooo much. It’s just a fun card

Zaffai + infect is something I hadn't thought about. Sounds pretty evil!

I think the boros dean is proper underrated here. Just having a 2 mana rummage effect in the command zone seems good in boros.

Well, great video to start with. Lot of good takes. Now to counterpoint. First, I am a Simic/Quandrix Stan so I acknowledge my opinion is skewed. But I am really looking forward to using the new fractal and the twins in my Simic Commander deck. It is already based around creating a bunch of tokens, specifically mimics of other creatures. Esix and the Twins will add to my ability to do that. Additionally, I feel that this is the answer to the Blood Avatar. I will be able to go just as wide as that deck, if not wider and wait for my opening to take the kill with unblockable creatures, or Ruxa making all my bears (oozes and fractals mostly) hit as though they weren't blocked. So I think maybe you didn't give them as fair a shake as you should have, but I agree this is your opinion and you have the right to it, and to be wrong if you choose. Ha! 😄

@the commander's quarters how do you make a one of those ranking templates? I always see it but could never figure out how to use one myself

I'm gonna try Uvilda/Nassari in my Animar deck, because Nassari sounds pretty sweet in that case, especially with the mana reduction of Animar being factored in.

I get that 7 mana seems like a lot in a vacume, but beledros is in green he's coming out maybe 1 turn after if not the same turn as galazeth and he'll be getting mana advantage going faster because he doesn't require much setup

One thig that forgot to mention about those dual commanders creature/sorcery is that you can choose never put it into the command zone again, there is a lot of cards that can bring it back from graveyard as creature so you can play it again as sorcery, ej. Tourtured existence, Malevolent Awakening, Oversold Cemetery, etc.

Hoping for Osgir somewhere in A-B.

At least we found out what happened to London from suite life she became a vampire and joined silverquill lol

If on a pure competitive level, Dina probably is the strongest. Part of a 2 card combo with exquisite blood, and can be a sacrifice outlet for protean hulk to otk the table. Fill out the rest of the deck with tutors and reanimators to get the hulk. Buuuut that is only under the assumption you want to open a mortgage to play Magic

I really think you’re underestimating how powerful having Search For Blex in the command zone is. If you’re going for the strongest version of Blex then you wouldn’t even bother casting Blex and just cast Search for Blex, no jank tribal aspect

I feel like alibou should be higher at least a B. I built the deck and it can win on several different axis.

I can't wait to see awaken the blood avatar deck list

Nice vidéo! I don't see how Rootha can be so low, while in a deck mixing cantrips and huge spell, the recursion in copying spell for 5 seems above Willowdusk

I've come to love Adrix and Nev more than I thought I would. I bought the Quandrix commander deck assuming I would build around Esix because it is interesting, but I was rather disappointed. After making a few upgrades and switching back to Adrix and Nev, my eyes have been opened to just how powerful they can be. All it takes is a 2 CMC spell in the form of Double Major, target Adrix and Nev, and now, you get 8 times the tokens! That's insane! S-tier is definitely fitting, and for the most part, I agree with the rest of the tier list

Extus's front side I feel like can make some fun decks that abuse the getting creatures to hand, although it might be in the more expensive and sweatier side, an example is with Extus, Worthy Cause and dockside extortionist netting 5-6 treasures ( you can just stack the triggers and loop it). There are also ways to use Birgi and other cheaper cards like Impulsive Pilferer to blast through your deck with low-cost red draw cards to storm off or have a lot of sacrifice triggers. Although it's a debate if it's better than the back which I'm not too sure is fun having to sack everyone's creatures all the time.

Blex doesn't benefit rats tho? So I'm confused why Relentless Rats was brought up.

I still like Willowdusk a lot, but I feel like the nerf on her ability is gonna force her into the 99 instead of the CZ.

Blex and ezzaroot channeler with a sac outlet and a way to make a green on cast/death is infinite storm/etb/life gain/death. As a combo commander, I’d put Blex way higher than D tier.

If Tivash triggered whenever you gained life it would be super easy to break it with Ajani's Presence effects.

20:35 not sure if anyone else saw this, but in zaffai's text it says "thunder collector" not "thunder conductor". i know that chances are it's a mistake and it's suppose to say thunder conductor and chances are that's gonna get errata'd. just figured i'd point that out

Good video, I am a bit confused with the Velomachus ranking though. Don’t the majority of extra combat spells cost 5 or less?

I have finalized my Extus Cycling deck. I'm gonna ride my bicycle!

Losheel should get a little more love, if you get flash for your artifact creatures you can draw cards on other players turns as well, plus Mono White is finally giving us more options for card draw. Codie is a fun commander, would love to experiment with it.

Got alot of staples from mardu colors and built extus. It came out really nasty!

Veyran definitely a major player ut of this set. Already building a cedh deck around her. Should be GG pretty quickly! 😎

I think an imbraham deck wouldn't suck. It seems like a good way to tutor for spells and keep your options open

I thought the DMFC could be cast at either sides cost? Wouldn't that make the Green/Blue guy only 4?

Honestly idk about awaken the blood avatar rating. For casual he's definitely gonna be strong and I pretty much have all the cards to build him except the Mana base, super excited for the mardu politics

Before the set dropped I heard there was a "Voldemort" kind of black commander that had a horcrux gimmick, would anyone happen to know what I'm talking about?

Dos Zaffai give you all of the riders when you cast a 10 or greater spell?

Jaskei storm, might also be my next sauce

Does anybody know what program he uses to rank them?

Mitch. On the double side cards, like the white cleric and red shaman, can the deck be boros or does it have to be mono?

I think silverquil could be a tier because of how good it is with token putting a counter on all you creatures every turn! Plus the political value is great

I think Alibou is a bit more potent than initial estimates might indicate. The way it's worded, it looks like one could just use loads of mana rocks tap them for whatever other spells one is casting, and have a single thopter swing in to trigger the fireball, which is made massive by the amount of tapped mana rocks. Then, if one were to strap something like Grafted Exoskeleton to Alibou before triggering the damage, it would have infect applied to it and be more than capable of one-shotting someone. That seems more like a B-tier or possibly even A-tier to me.

Doesn't Valentin combo with Lifeline by only allowing your creatures to return to battlefield from the graveyard but not your opponents?

I love cheap but impactful commanders that aren’t powerful enough to get focused. I’m currently working on a Kylian list.

One correction with Hofri is that he returns the exiled cards to the owner's graveyards, so builds that rely on theft will not work that well.

will you be making a tier list for 5 color commanders?

Luka works well with Osgir. +1, discard an artifact, draw a card or two. Then pay the mana, tap Osgir, and get two copies of it instead of just 1

I can't believe you put velomachus in C tier. I have a great commander deck with him.

Hey Mitch big fan, any chance we could do a revisit to teysa karlov? Lots of new sacrifice stuff came out since then And I noticed you don't have the $.80 grave pact in white called Martyr's bond

Willowdusk is so insane. You can pump a creature regularly by 4-10 each turn. Also you can pay a lot of life and then pump a lifelink creature to get it all back. This is so good....

While Plargg isn't the best Augusta is the better half, which means all exert cards can do their ability every single time, which is incredibly powerful with glory bringer which kills a creature every time, or Combat Celebrant with infinite combat steps

I think Killian is an A, reducing 2 for any aura, instant and sorcery that targets a creature is pretty good for a voltron deck

i wonder what veyran does with thousand year storm...

When Fain does the Loki look better than Valki... *Looks at her Norse mythology deck and smirks*

I didn't realize how many legendary creatures was part of this cycle

I feel like you're slightly underrating Alibou honestly

My favorite thing to do with Erix is to cast a terostidon.... kill 3 of my ramp artifacts or lands... make 3 more terostidon... destroy 9 of there lands