Mitch in 2 years: "that cost includes commanders under 10 dollars doesn't include basic lands or *wayfarer's bauble*

"A deck there's no commander for... like a cycling deck." Professor you guys need to stop blatantly time traveling.

8:13 We accept your apology, Mitch. 😔😔😔

Mitch: raised the price of wayfarer's bauble Dev: effects prerelease value of single cards on the secondary market Josh n Jimmy: Got Paradox Engine banned Professor: ..Merfolk

First off, there's Wayfarer's Bauble... 😂

Step one: wayfarers bauble Step two: pad out deck with 99 cards

8:28 "I'm sure that guy with a warehouse full of them (Wayfarer's Bauble) is very happy with me too". Mitch, we all know you're that guy you can stop playing coy.

List to do while staying at home: 1 Do laundy 2 Start brewing my first commander deck Thanks again Prof!!

Love the Commander's Quarters. Love when the mtg content creators do cross overs.

"No pet cards." I'll take out my pet cards when YOU PRY THEM FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS

I could not agree more with the statement about Cyclonic Rift in a Golos deck. This point underscores how certain "auto-include" cards really are not as universal as you might think.

They said that Avengers was the most ambitious crossover ever done..

I just pressed play but I'm expecting: "first there's wayfarer's bauble"

This guy needs more credit. This man saved me so much money and end up beating all these timmies anyways. Expensive dont mean anything if you dont know how to use them or to full potential.

Thanks for inviting mah boi Mitch! I hope you invite his twin Maximilian to talk about the expense of Magic Cards next

I took away Sensei's Divining Top, Necropotence, Chrome Mox and Demonic Tutor from my Kokusho EDH to put cards such as Cruel Entertainment, Dark Tutelage and Praetor's Grasp and Choice of Damnations in their place. I realized that good and expensive cards that go in every deck regardless of its theme are not fun at all, and raising your power level just reduces the amount of decks that you can play with fairly.

I would never copy and paste a decklist from mitch, but I will always watch his videos for budget versions of cards when im building my own deck, its great to see cards that aren't too expensive be useful in commander

I just love the fact that Prof is wearing some bomb purple socks and no shoes

I had asked this question on one of your videos and some guy responded with "use EDHREC lol". Good to actually have a video that outlines your process.

Thanks for the content Prof, we need you more the ever right now with some commander talk

If WotC is watching give Mitch the preview of the reprint Wayfarer's bauble in Commander Legends

Mitch, no need to justify your statements or qualify them with "sometimes" or "not every deck yada yada" just because people can get nit-picky in the comments. Save your breath and the run-time and let the trolls do what they're gonna do on the keyboard anyways! :)

Been watching the commanders' quarters since his first vid. He's great and I hope he gets bigger from this colab. I and my friends have cEDH, tooled EDH, and causal. He's perfect for new players to the format. Build a budget, and just add to it until you're up to a tooled good EDH level but it's fun and a process and this guy gives you a good footings.

Loving the guest burns at the end of each episode.

Rhystic Study vs Kumenas Awakening: You don't need to get superbowl star players when you're only playing college football. As long as it meets the need of your deck, there's no need for excessive spending

I started watching Commander quarters from the beginning it makes me super happy Mitch is getting this recognition!

Hell yeah we’ve got another one with Mitch! Great video as always prof

Glad to see Mitch on here! Good videos boys, keep up the great content 🤟

I've used a lot of Commander's Quarters techs and it was cool to hear the behind the scenes strategy and creativity going into those decks. Would love to see Mitch on the podcast again!

Budget commander is super fun. Keeps the games much more interesting and balanced. I hosted a $50 budget tournament at my lgs and had over 20 people, more than the normal commander tournaments had at that time. Its always fun to brew new builds and not go broke or take other decks apart in the process. Great video

"Don't do that, that's going to put me out of business.... DO NOT DO THAT..." LMAO

I really like to hear Mitch talk freely. While I like the content on his channel and his insights on budget deckbuilding, I find myself not liking how he narrates his videos. It always makes me feel like I watch a cheeply made commercial. This is so much better! Thanks for having him on, prof!

Great guest! I love his budget decks

I made grist the hunger tide with his 25 dollar fullart showcase alt art card for 30 total. I literally used damaged forests and swamps as part of the flavor, that my card shop was going to throw away. And ive never lost with it. I got a rings of brighthearth list copy for 2 dollars and every other card was a simple common, uncommon, or bulk insect.

So it's like CEDH but in the opposite direction. In CEDH you kinda do the same thing just without the price worry. Everything needs to work as efficiently as possible. Budget decks do the exact same thing. Cool stuff

2 of my favorite personalities in one video. Thanks Prof and Mitch!

Always nice to see a video and hear my self "oooh" without even thinking about it.

This is so great. Thanks Prof & Mitch!

Two of my favorite creators! I love you guys!

Mitch is always such a great guest

Yes! More budget kitchen table options! Glad to see my request got realized :)

Chemistry between the two was legit. Great podcast. Thanks guys!

Another great video! I enjoyed the interview

Heck yeah another video ty prof. Hope your safe and doing well

Hey Prof, just saw your last video about your beliefs and of course this had to be the next video :) I also want everybody to enjoy every aspect of MTG and Commander Decks for about 25$ are a huge part of this for me. Those are always fun when I play with them or against them and in my LGS are lots of younger players relying on them. Thanks for giving this topic more publicity! Every player should have a budget EDH deck!

I really like Mitch he helped in theorizing my budget brago. I watched and learned a lot of really unique ideas.

When Prof asked about cases where splurging on a more expensive card made sense, I immediately remembered the outcry when Mitch did a deck with Smothering Tithe in it.

Love all the content on both of your channels, keep up the excellent work guys! On the subject of budget tutors I find myself using Wishclaw Talisman a lot. I like using it as a political tool, I'll usually end up asking the player who's the most behind at the table that if I give them the talisman if they'll give it back after they use it. I almost always get a yes from them and if i don't someone at the table will usually agree

I have a lot of fun building decks from The Commander's Quarters, esp the Sram Voltron one.

Step one: Ashling the Pilgrim. Step two: 99 Mountains.

I like these guest spots with Mitch. When I watch "The Commander's Quarters" I have to play at 1/2 speed. When he appears over here, I can play everything normally.

Back at it with the consistent uploads as always. You’re too good for us Prof.

I think this is my favorite magic podcast now

I keep coming back to this video need more like this! 🙏🙏🙏

I'm building a budget Muldrotha deck for a friend as a gift and...honestly once you've played for a while. You're shocked just how much you've got to work with.

Loved that outro! Ask your playgroup today if proxies are right for you!

The first minute is pure gold hahaha

I feel the conversation so much about finding cards for YOUR deck and not worrying about running all the staples. Even in my $550 Riku of Two Reflections deck I run a couple cards that are less than a dollar and people barely run them but they're so good. Guided Passage, Reality Scramble, and a couple others where I people look at them and will rarely consider them but my deck loves doing things with those cards.

Thanks for a great compilation video. Also, Mitch looks like his other job is shaping surfboards.

very cool video thanks a lot. having a guest is very fun

Proffesor, you are consistently the most likeable figure in the magic scene, please keep it up.

Good talk. Glad to hear about some of Mitch's trade secrets.

This is the kinda video I needed today.

This was a sweet episode!

Before the end of the world, we just started an Ascention League at my LGS. You start with every card in your deck as a common, and then you can "level" one up to uncommon for each kill you get. You can eventually get to rare and mythic, but the way we were doing it that wasn't really going to happen until the next season. It was super fun and I highly recommend it. I was able to build a pretty killer Grismold deck using cards I just had lying around, thanks in part to lessons learned from Mitch. I can't wait to get back to it when things are back to normal.

I finally got to use Wayfarer's Bauble in my Jeskai Spellslinger deck. I feel so accomplished now. It is a natural fit in Elsha of the Infinite. And I would not have every thought to put it in if not for Mitch's channel. Minnesota Magic Players UNITE!

Oh my god! 😃 Mitch is in the college! 😃 This Video is a dream come True 😃😃😃

finally i see whos behind that channel, i love it

I always wanted Talrand to be a card I could put to use, but never found the time to tinker with him. But I just saw the Talrand deck Mitch created recently for $15-ish and I fell in love immediately. Speaks volumes when a fan of the game does a better job with casual formats than the company making pre-cons for it.

Very helpful. Thank you guys 🧙‍♂️

I have a version of Mitch's $10 Talrand deck. It's one of my favorites right now.

How to Build a Budget EDH Deck Step one: First off there's Wayfarer's Bauble

Prof + Mitch, a match made in heaven.

I think the Commander's Quarters deck that I bought that really brought home the point about budget not being much of a thing is when I built the CQs K'rrik deck with a few of the reasonable upgrade cards. I did not know that black had so many good budget tutors! And with a deck like the K'rrik deck were you may just win in the same turn you use one of the tutors it doesn't really matter if it helps your opponents some. - Behold the Beyond: Discard your hand to tutor for THREE CARDS. - Demonic Collusion: Tutor for a card and buy it back by discarding two cards. - Ill-Gotten Gains: Each player discards their hands and can tutor for any three cards out of their graveyards. - The transmute cards are all very underrated cheap tutors especially when your wincons have the same CMC as the transmute cards. While these may not hold a candle to the demonic or vampiric tutors these budget tutors are all still very good! K'rrik is a very good commander in his own right and is heavily relied upon to make this deck work but he became a terror in my play group. The extort triggers really do add up over time and can make the deck win out of nowhere.

great video as always!

What a great conversation about edh.

Finally Mitch with prof

I had a fun Damia deck that was built around Recycle/Null Profusion and Flashback. The win condition was usually Army of Darkness and Psychic Spiral.

My LGS Playgroup had an idea; use EDHREC to randomize a list of 3 commanders. Choose 1; build a deck using that commander with a budget under $25 (the cost of the commander not included) I build Hanna, Ship's Navigator deck that is currently the cheapest budget deck on EDHREC and it functions VERY well. The ironic part is, the theme fits right in with Gavi, Nest Warden.

"Basically I try to build a deck with win conditions." Sage advice good sir.

As Seto Kaiba even I build budget decks. I made Locust God for like $55 now its a Kykar deck worth about $400. :)

Great conversation

I’ve made proxy decks and it’s tons of fun. There’s one deck I specifically want to print and run. It’s a hugely interactive deck that’s kind of like a group hug deck, but it lets me get others involved when I take an action. Will of the council stuff, monarch, fact or fiction, card draw for all etc. Otherwise, definitely, it’s fun running some of these budget decks up against each other. The only problem is that it’s hard to find budget board wipes. White has a lot of them, but black doesn’t have many, red doesn’t have many, blue has bounce which doesn’t help a lot, and green has basically nothing. That’s what we ran into when playing some of his decks against themselves. One player got ahead and just couldn’t be stopped. I wish we had more budget board wipes.

Great video! Allll the entertainment

As someone who also builds budget decks on the semi-regular its interesting to see how similar my mentality and process is to CCs. Although the tools and thus the methods differ a bit someone over here in Europe. At the very least I can still include Wayfarer's Bauble.

I find it hard to believe that those chairs in Mitch’s office are six feet apart.

Just came to leave a like and watch later. Prof and Mitch.... happy birthday

Honestly I was building Siona, Captain of the Pyleas and I built her straight out of my collection, as a result she’s actually NOT budget because of the size of my collection. But I noticed that she’s definitely budget friendly and gives you two easy plans of winning all by her own design. She’s one of my favorite decks now. It’s actually interesting to look at how I could include random cards like fists of ironwood because it works with her design. Of course things like anointed procession and eldrazi conscription also made it into the deck because I had them on hand, but there are plenty of cheap decently strong auras you can include to make her a budget deck, and there are even a couple enchantress type cards who can fit the budget

Man that skit with kenobi at the end👌🏼

Thank you, Professor and Mitch, for this video! I built my first $30 deck with Lim Dûl the Necromancer because of CQ, and I was going to make a Dwarf deck until I realized there aren't many at all. It's like WotC likes Elves and hates Dwarves. 😒

Dang, my playgroup could have really used this video last Christmas, we had a EDH budget deck white elephant and had a few weeks of just playing those. Some of them were pretty good, and some were just really bad.

i have an Isperia the Inscrutable deck that i love for the same reason you love Skeleton Ship, it's a fun synergistic deck that no one expects to ever see

One of my personal favorite things is to find the uncommon rarity commanders and seeing what I can do. Possibly one of the biggest surprises I can get is when I throw down my Syr Feron deck and basically have someone dead to rights by turn 5 because it's just full of dumb swinging things and a lot of Giant Growth type instants.

Speaking from the perspective of someone who buys a lot of commander products and someone who has also built Mitch's Jhoira build, Mitch's decks and the precons are not comparable, they are designed to exist in different environments. The Jhoira deck (which has had a couple of modest upgrades) can hang with 8s and 9s, the precons obviously can't but they are not designed to. They're designed as a semi closed environment that are still capable of sitting at a table with built decks while still being friendly enough for new players to get their feet wet with. Mitch's decks (generally) need to be piloted. The precons are toyboxes, Mitch's decks are toolboxes.

"I'm bringing this out and my friends are going to go 'What in the world is that?'" I get that every time a new player sees my mono-red control Starke of Rath deck and I love it!

Solid intro!

Love both of u guys and mitch don't be too hard to yourself for the wayfarer's bauble. Wizards should reprint it more often so you can feel better :D

Recently found a shop that has commander games and events. Talked to the owner and one of his gamekeepers, they seem nice enough, both of them using words like "casual" and "fun" while talking about their friday night commander games/tournaments. Fast forward two weeks- i have put together a primal surge deck with Svella the ice shaper as commander. Lacking the best mana and card ramp for sure, but the fact I have some graveyard recycling and steam vines in there+ Ramunap excavator makes me smile. I sit down to a "friendly" game with three other dudes I don't know. Immediately, the guy across from me opens with an Esper Sentinel, I am pumping out tokens as soon as I can, but nobody else is paying 1, and he is smiling from ear to ear because every round he has basically drawn at least 2-3 cards. His deck is Kaalia of the vast, and he had been dropping tri lands, and heavy hitting angels that are indestructible. He pretty much mops the board with everyone. It wasn't fun, i didn't get to even lignify one of the angels, much less deal with Kaalia. Words like "fun" and casual" don't belong in a game against decks that probably cost $750+ minimum. How is a multi player game" fun" if the only "fun" cards for a group scenario are unplayable? They're too expensive (converted mana cost), and slow and I will hazard a guess that this sugar daddy and his Kaalia of the vast demon/dragon/angel deck are not the only ones crammed to the last with competitive single mana drops... The owner of the store is nice, but he will never put a price limit, because he absolutely adores the sugar daddies that go in and buy the best cards as soon as they're available. Other players who walk in with a budget deck are just punching bags and there is no way of winning... How is that fun? PS: vigour is not a budget card 🤣 Not even a year ago was it a budget card🤣🤣🤣 i wanted to buy it last year and found it for $64 AUD...even converted to USD that's not a budget card...🤣🤣🤣🤣

I personally run steel hellkite in almost all my budget decks just because it can be a target removal card, a big threat cause its a 5/5 flyer, and it's like a dollar so it's easy to put in while keeping it cheap.

The Professor and Mitch in one room! What is this, a crossover episode?