Tyrite sanctum is a land opponents will destroy on sight or stress about lol (especially if you're playing green)

inga and esika being in the "cool kids" club is clearly written by someone who has never experienced mana dork bro-storm

You could have just named this "Cards that will get you kicked out of the pod."

Blue is the best colour in Magic, easily. It’s not even close. The best cards in the game are all blue cards and artifacts, with the occasional black card throw in. Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, Tinker, Mana Drain, Force of Will, etc.

Oh well,thanks to removal spells my angry RDW worshipper friends never played with me again 😆...

Im gonna say it glissa shouldnt count as a commander because shes not a legendary creature, she specifically says elf legend, not Legendary creature

the calamity beasts aren’t all big bad monsters. Maha for example was only on a rampage throughout the plane because her egg was stolen. beza can actually be seen helping small critters get away from the red elemental wolf. then the dragon hawk is suggested to not be from this plane therefore not really a true calamity beast although very much acting like one. eluge seems like the best defined as a calamity beast as it just seems like he floods places over and over. lumra is the only one never really spoken about or shown in any other form other than card art. So some of these calamity beast are like their names suggests while others are more like protectors or neutral in their ways

These videos are really good and your presents style is refreshing. Please make a new channel for mtg, the algorithm is working against you really hard rn. Good luck either way!

Elenda has always been my fav commander. She was in the 99 of Edgar Markov but I ended up searching her up all the time so I just decided to make it the commander. It's fun and fair, if a bit slow starting

spell pierce is actually an incredibly good counterspell though, as most people will try to bait the counterspell out of your hand early in the turn or early in the game, you can easily leave 1 up almost every turn and get their finisher countered and bounce back and kill them with draw or just poke them to death with your tiny creatures

The play patern i find wierd is that ppl whit just fair or stompy decks do not play something against my control deck when i have 2 mana up. Because while getting your spells countered might suck. Leaving the control player whit mana open at the end of your turn so they can play a draw spell is even worse. Playing into the counters to keep the card advantage even is often a good idea. If your deck can not bluff flashing in a threath just burn the mana and card instead of going to card disadvantage. At least that is what i find works for and against me.

Mana tithe always gets people

Chalice of the Void is the best cs 🙃

Just throwing some interaction your way to give the algorythm a thumbs up: Who do you think wins the ''best counterspell'' crown? Is it force of Will? Mana drain? Daze? Flusterstorm? Pact of Negation? Mana Tithe? Or my personal take: Mental Misstep? My reasoning is that Mental Misstep being free and playable in any colour makes it a mandatory 4 of in any deck even if it is just to counter the opposing Mental Misstep. Let the comment section know down below why 0:)

Stax is only a problem if you're trying to play to win. I play so that no one can interact with me. In the end, it becomes a 1v1v1 with me playing solitaire, and solitaire wins every time. Pillowfort for the win.

Eight-and-a-Half-Tails. He says "NO" to interaction. Also overall, a great video

Been playing for 4 years now and just figured out what stax means lol thank you!

I just came to get cards to ruin my Pods night. Like. Thats it. Nothing else. I live to be the wrench in my friend groups machine. Also, subbed.

Monstrous Vortex.

Is the rock paper scissors really reversed in commander or os the video just wrong? Aggro generally murders control, because it wins on turn 4, and control cant stabilize its recursive boardwipes and fogs yet, and control murders combo, because it does have recursive countermagic and hand disruption, meanwhile combo cant afford to dilute its combo pieces and tutors with utility options too much, so it always loses the counter war.

0::10 I can tell the video is more jokey but the comp player in me hard disagrees with "green" being the best color in comp. It is arguably one of worse it plays fair magic compared to the stupid bullshit other colors do. Green and Blue is definitely one of the strongest tho.

LOVE the tactic of putting goldfishing footage with the voiceover to keep eyes on the video. Laughed so hard when I realized what was happening. It did confuse the hell out of me at first because I thought it must be synced to the audio. But no. I'm just being Subway Surfered 😂

okay, neat video. but: shallow in my opinion. Yes, Aggro, Combo and Control are the big 3 categories in any format. But edh decks rarely neatly fit in those categories. A lot of edh decks run combos as finishers, but they aren't exactly combo decks. many combo decks run a very strong control package because we're a singleton format and getting to your combo might take some time. Also you entirely ignored the value-based strategies. They don't fit anywhere really. They take their time like a control deck but usually rarely interact with the opponent. Rather commit to building a boardstate themselves. They often include many creatures or token generators but trade pressure for stability and safety unlike any aggro strategy. And finally they don't win by any combo but rather by everyone else conceding due to them taking yet another 15 minute turn where nothing substantial happens other than they recur some cards, put more lands into play, gain some life and draw some cards. They reach a point where they're uninteractable with as they have piled up so many resources they can easily undo any damage done previously.

I'd actually argue blue is the strongest but that's using the old facts of a basic island being the highest wr card played in legacy. Idk if it's the same nowadays

Dimir is the best color combination. I really dont think its a debate. Blue and black can interact at every and any point. Green is better in lower powered pods because green is supported by the social contract.

Living the content so far! Very entertaining and I see you getting deeper as you go. Awesome stuff so far!

My defacto boros equipment deck is Arden+Bruse, so silly to play Bruse with Arden in play, go to combat and slap a haste tool on him, and swing both as d-strike lifelinkers. And dont underestimate Tarl with field-tested frying pan, just 7 power unblocked is lethal.

While technically Temur because partners with, Madame Vastra is a refreshing different take on the Simic formula: force blocks, make tokens for card draw & life gain, and find a way to capitalize. Then her partner, Jenny Flint, turns those tokens into growth for Vastra so shes more likely to survive blockers, and growing by attacking alongside V so she can deliver the killing blow.

See here's what i dont get... R&D clearly saw this being busted and limited it with a once per turn clause, sure, that's balanced gameplay. Explain Nadu. Make it make sense.

Love that outro. You're making good content, so know that this is a constructive criticism. While you did manage to cover a wide variety of strategies, if the intent of the video is to educate, then you didn't exactly do that. Most of your descriptions were full of jargon and buzzwords that a new player wouldn't intuit. For example, what's a voltron? Or what's an Anthem? I believe a little explanation of terminologies will not only make the information more digestible, your video longer( more likely to gain views) and give more opportunities for that awesome wit and prose.

Treasure deck? Make tokens, make vampires, have mana, ability to card draw. Once per turn keeps you in first gear, but he's got some towing power behind it

If only devour was an orzhov mechanic. As it stands, it's not the worst aristocrat.

It’s funny how the simic cards that aren’t just value engines tend to be the ones that are actually associated with the simic combine on Ravnica. On Ravnica, Simic cards normally have a focus on +1/+1 counters, rather than just accumulating card draw and ramp (like, they still have access to both, because simic’s component colors are blue and green, but that’s not their focus).

Meh

I prefer skullclamp

What is presented would work better as Zexara deck with that extra zombie theme.

Given how legendary heavy the deck is you may as well go with historic pay offs.

Good video, looking forward to hearing about Selesnya😉

Nice video, first time i wqtched anything from you, really enjoyed it. Been playing Akiri/Bruse Tarl for years, can really punch hard, especially with Gisela present!

Simic player knows my heart. Im all about those tokens and creature copies. Ive made pretty much all these commanders except Ivy and Kinnan.

I love Volo and he was my first commander deck, but I think the "challenge" of playing different creature types isn't really a challenge at all. Just play the two best elves, merfolks, beasts, sphinxes, dragons, etc and go to town. The challenge inherent to tribal decks is playing sub optimal cards that punch up when supported by their tribe. With Volo you can basically play the best creature from each tribe, and his ability will make a "tribe of two" from that one creature. Not to mention the potential of playing copy creatures. I've seen a merfolk tribal Volo deck that went nuts with copy creatures which usually have an illusion or shapeshifter type on cast.

You could have picked any creature that wasn't a beast and you chose craterhoof as an example of a thin the other decks clone that this one wont

That's a good combo

The deck isn't Green Deck wins... all I'm saying.

Dimir is the most broken 2-color combination because of two cards : Thassa's oracle Demonic Consultation

It sucks cuz with power creep, wotc feel pressured to make more simic value engine commanders to keep up the pace, leaving alot of actually interesting commanders like Jyoti, Omo, or Gor Muldrak feeling second class.

I don't think Ivy is really on the same level as the other Simic value engine commanders you mentioned. You reelly have to work pretty hard to make her good. Don't get me wrong, I have an Ivy deck, and it's a lot of fun, but I always feel like I am having to work for my wins, unlike when I played a Tatyova landfall deck.

I have recently purchased a Xyris deck and a Zaxara deck. With those, I now have every single combination of Simic + a color in my deck list (the other being Lagrella), along with my two actual simic decks 😌 I love this color combination and the value will never end

The best color is green? I don't know if I can take this channel seriously.