0 Land Commander Deck | No Joke | Powerful | Commander | Magic the Gathering

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

The decklist link should be working now! Thank you everyone who let me know it was down.

[@willbearer]

Still not working :(

[@rainbowdash2057]

@@willbearer blame Eddie ;)

[@damienresendez]

Don't you have to hit a land that can be seen in order to stop the revealing process in order to deal damage? Otherwise aren't you just in a endless loop of revealing?

[@willbearer]

@@rainbowdash2057 Eddie please stop messing around with Mitch's Links

[@willbearer]

@@damienresendez Rullings taken from the Gatherer: 08/06/2016 You must choose a target for Goblin Charbelcher’s ability as you activate it, before you reveal any cards. 08/06/2016 If you reveal no land cards, Goblin Charbelcher deals damage equal to the number of cards revealed, and then you may order your library as you like.

[@xtrevorr1299]

You can add Abundance, choose Land and order your deck the way you want. "If no card of the chosen type is found before your library empties, you don’t get a card, but you do get to order all the cards in your library any way you choose."

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Good call!

[@Zouzk]

You wont get a card if you do that though, if can't draw more than 1 card a turn

[@alexanderficken9354]

@@Zouzk still, I would take the option to rearrange my deck instead of a draw for one turn

[@Zouzk]

@@alexanderficken9354 yeah, but it's still good to keep in mind that you skip the draw

[@adamk5487]

Cards with a back side card type are that card type. Wouldn't work. There are lands in this deck.

[@enjaded7222]

all lands deck vs no lands deck. the anti mirror i wanna see at a table one day

[@bobdylanlovr69]

Definitely making both and trying it

[@seasnek7024]

The most epic battle of the century

[@drpibisback7680]

Turbo-Belcher versus Maze's End + Boardwipes control seems heavily imbalanced in favor of the Belcher deck.

[@sharpshooter9407]

He's done it

[@alchenerd]

Rule 0 discussion: "This is a deck built around a mechanic: that mechanic checks the top of my library one by one, until a certain criteria is met." "Oh so it's like cascade." "You can say that, it's similar, yes. Definitely not suspicious at all."

[@thomasjefferson6418]

Rule 0 is for safespace clowns

[@uniwolfacorn]

@@thomasjefferson6418 Because healthy conversations about wanting everyone to have fun a game is bad

[@darkflmmstr]

@@uniwolfacorn yeah fun is bad, only be competitive, winning is all that matters, especially at a table of friends trying to have a good time.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

@@darkflmmstr Exactly.

[@nemohimself2580]

@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor true. But every group should have at least a couple games every so often that throw out rule 0 for the lolziedoodles. 90+% of games: rule 0 in effect. The remainder: throw it out. You still get mostly fun games, but that one power gamer gets to have his moment in the spotlight so he won't bug everyone else about it constantly.

[@animationmaster121]

Mitch, it's getting hard to command my budget when I want to buy every one of your deck ideas hahaha

[@julesad1894]

Printer

[@bloodtypexneg]

Hello, I love your channel and all your suggestions. I am a dad, so my budget for Magic is now extremely tight and your suggestions has helped a lot. I played during the origonal Ravnica block in the early 2000s, and I loved the Orzhov guild. I was hoping you could do a new deck list based off of Obzedat, Ghost Council. I love the Life Drain, Life Gain mechanic. I am sorry I am not a Patron, and if I had the budget, I would be happy to further support your channel. Thank you.

[@jackhayes6969]

I hope you have a good day

[@freezingfire127]

next idea: commander with 0 cards in the deck

[@Larghz]

So you play Leveler and Lab Man?

[@owenzheng8357]

It already exists. It’s called the nonexistent deck that I will never build

[@bonesofeao3968]

Ive been thinking about this concept since zendikar came out, but could never decide on q commander for it, so glad its getting some recognition

[@christopherkirkwood6409]

Very interesting concept. I was hesitant to agree with you on the "deck with no lands" it seems like you got off on a technicality there.

[@notafan1139]

You sound fun

[@jakeybabes2192]

@@notafan1139 , but he also sounds rlght

[@markmarquis5580]

@@notafan1139 Name checks out

[@seasnek7024]

Average mtg player: man I hate having mana issues and fixing my mana base Mitch: *I will show you the true power of the dark side*

[@thomasdurso]

My friend actually built this deck a few months ago when golos was still legal and you get to play him and tutor inventors fair to guarantee always having goblin charbelcher charbelcher.

[@elliottroose4194]

I think 'No Joke' should be a permanent subseries on this channel. It's just so appealing in concept, and they're my favorite deck ideas on the channel

[@GambleChance]

I would love to see a "Break the Bank" version of this deck.

[@MrAllekzander]

I imagine Kozilek and/or Ulamog so you don't get 1 shot by a Dimir style mill until a land effect.

[@nahboi483]

@@MrAllekzander or make that with that in mind and mill yourself and win instantly with thoracle

[@RedDawn430]

Am working on it, so many Rocks, no MDFC's

[@RedDawn430]

@@nahboi483 better lab man than thoracle I'm sick of thoracle

[@nahboi483]

@@RedDawn430 that’s fair.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

I actually made one of these months ago, called it popcorn and just filled it with every mana rock I could think of. It was awful, but surprisingly enjoyable.

[@tianholla]

MANA CRYPT

[@enshroudedcloud]

This was what I wanted to do, but I didn't have a conceptual strategy to go with it XD

[@IamtheTolle]

No hate here, but I love how Mitch hates Reconnaissance because it doesn't play the way I seems like it should, but constantly builds decks that don't work the way decks should.

[@psilimit]

Like his multiple decks that cheat cast suspend cards because CMC 0? Yep, that.

[@AndyBravoAndrewJCC]

Evil Commander's Quarters: Every card except the Commander, cost more than One dollar 😈

[@drpibisback7680]

That's just most Commander decks.

[@donschellenberg6625]

Another Excellent deck tech, Mitch! Two thumbs up 👍 👍 Going to build this one as well and run it right after I run Space Baby 99! Great stuff!

[@Alphine_Agnitio]

This deck is basically MDFC: the deck.

[@heftybandicootgaming5047]

Breaking Magic, one mechanic at a time.

[@gabialhwashy7503]

I built the Child of Alara 99 land deck how you did it, and tried it a couple of days ago. The look of utter confusion on their faces when one of them used Agonizing remorse and saw nothing but lands was priceless. The moment I nuked the field for the first time is when it started to set it, what my strategy was. The deck was just too mean to play with more than once though, but it was so fun.

[@recordinginsanity3234]

While technically this is a 0 land deck, I would at some point love to see a TRUE 0 land deck

[@sipoffinewine5798]

Goblin Charbelcher + Endless Horizons has allways been my favorite win combo in mono white, love seeing Goblin Charbelcher getting some love

[@Buchaus]

Since your deck so full relies on Charbelcher, Riftsweeper would be a decent addition on the off chance Charbelcher gets exiled. Karn the great creator is the only other card I can think of that grabs stuff from exile, but it's significantly out of budget for the deck.

[@psilimit]

There's a white instant (or 2) that retrieve from exile...they cost next to nothing.

[@AGabeToRemember]

Pull from eternity is another great almost budget option! I think it’s like $2. It’s in his codie video.

[@joedoe7572]

@@AGabeToRemember it's like 50 cents

[@buddhathegod]

Another fun card to add could be Mimeofracture. It's not the best by a longshot, it's 4 mana for a land, but could be a fun way to "generate your own landcards"

[@caasIsirhC]

Really cool video! I wonder if any of the Ixalan transforming lands are budget? One suggestion I might add to the deck is Stone-Seeder Hierophant. It's a slower but definitely great budget option for a little bit of ramp and preventing your lands coming in tapped. It taps to untap a land then untaps when a land enters the battlefield. It's like Amulet of Vigor/Archelos but it has to tap, so it does ramp you by one each turn even though it's slower.

[@astuteanansi4935]

I feel like this deck, like most decks with only one big wincon, could really use a couple of return from exile effects, like Pull from Eternity and Riftsweeper. No one expects the return from exile play, in fact, I don't think most people even know these effects exist

[@ozmond]

OMG Garth is my current commander lol. I love him so much fun to play with.

[@MakiMaki.]

So the trick to the no-lands-deck is that it does play lands after all. Who would have thought.^^

[@RabbitsRi]

I was obsessed with this style of deck when I saw a Canadian highlander deck with only 8 lands. It was pre-MDFCs. Now that MDFCs are a thing, I have a much more expensive version of this list using all my heavily played legacy/Canadian highlander cards. It gets crazy once you start using the most efficient tutors and mana rocks.

[@korehaven8908]

To explain why the title 'technically' isn't wrong is that since all the lands being used are the backside of a MDFC, they fall under this ruling : 712.4a - While a double-faced card is outside the game or in a zone other than the battlefield or stack, it has only the characteristics of its front face.

[@esbenschmidthansen3416]

Mitch, you absolut madlad!! This is the most creative decktech I've EVER seen. Hats off to you good sir!

[@Marlokan]

I've brewed an Oops All Spells deck before too! Right when the MDFCs came out. General Tazri was my Commander because she digs for party creatures and both Balustrade Spy/Undercity Informer are Rogues. I went with both LabMan and Charbelcher as wincons. It has some of the Legacy Combos in it where you can sac artifacts to bring other things back. It's a unique build. I forgot about Transmute though! I need to add those to my list because I also prefer Charbelcher

[@Mrdblackpower10]

Mitch, i'm from Brazil and i love u and your decks !

[@Phavahg]

Recent experience with this deck in my play group: Got Goblin Charbelcher (GC) and Unwinding Clock in play around turn 5 or 6, along with enough mana rocks to generate 3 mana. During next player's uptap phase, I untapped it all, ran GC using the now-untapped mana rocks, and killed that player. Then did the same for the next player. And then, the last player. Game over. I was told to never play that deck again. Thanks!

[@MageSkeleton]

i love the idea, and it would be neat to experiment having a different commander but Garth may be the best. i would recommend making use of a handful of things that would allow you to "Sacrifice an artifact" because the last thing you need is someone exiling your Goblin Charbelcher.... And then i hope your running Vito, Blight Priest, Sanguine Bond, and Exquisite Blood.... Or craterhoof.

[@firemaker282]

as someone who used to play one land spy in pauper I am thoroughly disappointed that this deck wasn't built around balustrade spy instead. but it does give me inspiration to build it now.

[@hosersupreme]

I used to play 1 land Belcher in Legacy for like a decade almost a decade ago - I appreciates this build

[@nyrdil]

I made a 32 modal spell land kenrith deck. Very easy to win t4 if you naturally hit one of the "put my deck into the graveyard"-cards. Wordly tutor, Fauna Shaman and Survival of the fittest are mvp's to! The can find the combo parts and fix your lands by searching for the modal creatures!

[@martinpalmenberg2678]

Leave it to Mitch to make decks like this

[@martinpalmenberg2678]

@@MrNbkelly ahahaaa so funny got the whole squad laughing :/

[@nikos731]

The Netpicking Nerds also had a 0 mana deck about 2 months ago in their deck ideas videos. Ideas from both videos can be combined. :)

[@jallen3775]

Neat, I'd love to see someone try to play this deck. A few years ago I played against a Goblin Charbelcher deck, it took out two players (of five), but it didn't win.

[@kylejohnson4662]

I built this deck once before except without a budget and it was amazingly consistent and fast. I used Golos as the commander for it 😢RIP

[@jinjieee305]

Sir! Do you have a deck list of your Golos>

[@kylejohnson4662]

@@jinjieee305 unfortunately I've altered the list to have Esika as the commander. So I don't have the list with Golos, sorry

[@RedDawn430]

MDFC's are still "lands" if you play them as lands

[@nontowfoo]

I have Goblin Charbelcher and a bunch of mana rocks. This gave me an idea. Thank you.

[@randyzap6948]

He must be the most lucrative affiliate link pushers of all the MtG channels. These decks have been ridiculously interesting lately.

[@eloidasarmi6815]

Yeah, all that graveyard stuff is cool, but what if your GP would land in exile zone? May be add "Pull from eternity"?

[@Closer2Zero]

Can you build a deck around man lands? And animating lands as a smaller focus? I think manlands are the coolest type of card in the game and i would love to see what kind of deck could be build around them, and what commander would fit them. I also know theres a blue/white merfolk commander Noyan Dar, i think, that animates lands on instant/sorcery cast and ive always thought he was sick af

[@barabasdrake]

I know the old Jolrael from time spiral did something like that. Fun 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' kind of card. Since you can animate your opponents lands too.

[@hesnotbad9045]

If you have a haste enabler and infinite mana you can loop the Garth blink for etbs

[@aaronscott7467]

I've been trying to work on a similar deck for a while, except the commander is grist, the hunger tide. He can be the commander because of his first ability making him a 1/1 insect creature while he is not on the battlefield. The deck is, of course, a combo deck that utilizes cards like doubling season to help him ult the turn he drops, and then undercity enforcer and balustrade spy to self-mill your entire deck. I have been struggling with the deck though because there just aren't enough green or black mana dorks and mdfcs to both consistently power your mana base AND have enough left in your graveyard to one-shot the table.

[@donray4075]

A card I feel might have great use in the deck is Khalni Gem, it has you bounce two lands back to hand, giving you back a possible spell to use instead if needed

[@VictorRodriguez-sn3rv]

May I suggest recross the paths? It orders your whole library, and it's budget friendly. Edit: For those that don't know how the card works, it lets you put the cards you took from searching your library on the bottom of your library, and you get to choose the order! So as there are no lands you basically rearrange all your library.

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

A fantastic suggestion!!!

[@joedoe7572]

@@TheCommandersQuarters I feel like once you are making exceptions for the MDFCs, you should be allowed to make the exceptions for Pull From Eternity and Riftsweeper, both of which would save your deck if Goblin Charbelcher gets exiled

[@tienkieu3200]

For those who wish to "CEDH" Tainted Pact + Thassa Oracle is the way to go

[@billsmith3042]

was able to get 67 of these cheaply, just printed the rest. very cool deck!

[@somersetbassett4580]

I played Charbelcher Storm on legacy for years. Love the portover!!!!

[@MitchieDBBC]

Eh, I thought the idea of using the flip lamd cards was a cop out. Does it work? Yes. But they're still lands.

[@john_djr]

This is really cool. What are some of the other wincons you can build around?

[@LightningV313]

Love this deck, I'll probably put lab maniac in too as I have no reservations about winning with him

[@generalfenix]

Had a mono red Goblin Charbelcher deck that was a ton of fun to play. Going to have to build this!

[@FreshSqueezedBreastMilk]

By your technicality of these mdfc not being lands, it makes you 99 land deck video invalid

[@budgetdeckmastermtg2144]

"Look Ma! No Lands!"

[@joshuamcgrath4106]

I have had this deck built since the mdfc cards came out. I used Progenitus as the commander though when I built it initially then switched to Garth when it came out. It is fun to play but the table tends to hate it.

[@vowelboy8713]

Mitch during this episode: "Coming at you with super sonic speed"

[@evansmith6216]

NOOO, THE DECKLIST LINK ISN'T WORKING. OTHER THAN THAT I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS! NO MORE ISSUES WITH MANA CLUMPS!!!!

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Apologies and thanks for the heads up! It's working now!

[@severalgaming9775]

I built a cEDH version (note I haven’t started the video) so seeing a budget version is amazing

[@kypinkham797]

Rules clarification, you never actually find land, so how does this card actually trigger? Doesn't it not have a valid condition to cast at that point?

[@ThomasBomb45]

It's an activated ability that is legal to activate. While the ability is resolving, you reveal cards until you reveal a land card or until you can't reveal cards any more. The rest of the ability still takes effect. The only time a spell or ability "fizzles" is if the spell's target(s) are invalid. BTW, "trigger" is a specific term that applies to abilities that trigger when something else happens. Such as "when this enters the battlefield" or "when you deal damage to a player". This ability doesn't ever "trigger"

[@jonathancantu9849]

The most expensive part of a good deck is the mana base... The commander quarters be like "hold me beer"

[@2099arashiko]

I know its probably a little pricey but Amulet of Vigor will be awesome in this deck.

[@someepicnerd7821]

Shivan dragon is super good. I can’t believe you called it a bad card that thing no win me so many games when I was just learning and only had the intro packs which came with 2 30 card decks. It’s really funny since because of that even though I started playing magic in late 2017 I still go “oh man shivan dragon was so good back when I started magic” with the people who have been playing since 10 years before I was born lol

[@angrywizard3199]

96% land list a friend sent me. Maelstrom Wanderer, Worldfire, Mystical Tutor and Meandering Towershell + 96 lands.

[@littledipper8608]

used to be a fan. fooled me once with the 99 lands deck. fooled me twice with this one. won’t stick around for a third.

[@As_Father_and_Son]

Mitch, I have Eternal Witness, Enlightened Tutor, and Gaea's Blessings... what cards can I take out to add those? Or shouldn't I do it?

[@daviddent5662]

This is so perfectly, wonderfully cheesy! XD And to think I was just gonna use Garth in a prismatic Bridge deck or maybe Tiamat to help pay for dragons. I also happen to have a Charbelcher I got from the Mystery packs that I had no use for and is coming back outside of the trade binder.

[@mrmajor124]

I made one of these with Progenitus as the commander. I finally got the goblin charbelcher to go off after about 5 games or so.

[@originalatogscoins]

Sweet! Me and my Consuming Aberration thanks you!

[@andrewrockwell1282]

Wow. I have Garth, I might build this one. I might tweak the mana rocks because I have a lot of them already.

[@Sonboui]

You can also order all your deck with Recross the Paths like in modern Belcher

[@vidiot5533]

99 Lands deck: MDFC cards are also lands for the purpose of this deck 0 Lands deck: MDFC cards are not lands for the purpose of this deck uhhh....

[@johncantrelliii9161]

Yay!! Now I have somewhere to put all of my Secret Lair signets when they come in!!

[@AnimEva_33]

Very good flavor deck! Def big surprise to the opponents the first few times played

[@TheOneMarty]

You could also put Balustrade Spy and Undercity Informer in and win with a Psychic Spiral. I don't know about you, but my table never sees that card coming :D

[@blundermecrazzy8652]

0 cards deck, no cap guys it’s seriously powerful! Commanders quarters there is your challenge

[@SnipezThrice]

If youre willing to drop a bit of money for upgrades on this then isochron scepter would be nutty af with dramatic reversal imprinted on it so you can untap your dude and kill everyone in one turn

[@ulf-nicklassdegenhardt-mei3121]

Well using MDFCs here as cards that don't count as a land, and using them in your 99 lands deck counting them as lands there is a little inconsistent...

[@TheMorbidHobo]

Whatever you say, man. Those are totally lands.

[@Blaze2020v]

Dear Mitch, for this year's commander christmas from you (the santa of commander xmas) is some kind of new Maze's end/Gates/lands deck of whatever kind thx R.I.P golos

[@diegomora9299]

Hi thanks for the video. Are you aware that those modal cards can be played from the top of the library or from the graveyard if a card allow you to play lands from those places? It could be nice if you share a deck that use that as the main mechanic.

[@houndoom73]

That looks like so much fun. I really want to build both this and the 99 lands deck

[@titorex]

These seems fun, great idea

[@marsteller1658]

Question: does cloudshift go partially infinite with Garth? He can make 3 mana per blink and regrowth is 2 + cloudshift being 1. It'd be clunky, but can that work?

[@alexanderficken9354]

You would need haste

[@100beep5]

If you can give him haste, then sure.

[@Buchaus]

Note also that black lotus gives you three mana of any one color, so I don't see how it works, even with haste. You tap Garth for lotus, crack lotus for white, use a white to cast cloudshift, then when Garth re-enters, you would have to find a way to make a green. Tapping for a lotus again would mean you would need an additional way to untap him because cloudshift would be in your graveyard. Tapping for regrowth means you wouldn't be able to cast it with the mana in your mana pool.

[@marsteller1658]

@@Buchaus if you tap for green mana first, then the second one for white, it is possible to get infinite etb's, but you'd have to add one or two extra mana to get it started. It'd just be really weird tho. Plus, he would need haste somehow.

[@Buchaus]

@@marsteller1658 I'm still not seeing it. If you tap for green first, you wouldn't have the white mana for cloudshift. Even if you had one white open and cast cloudshift, you would have to tap for regrowth, which would leave you with one green mana to bring cloudshift back. Then tapping for another lotus, this time for white, to cast cloudshift, leaving you with 2 white 1 green, and tapping again for regrowth, leaving you with 1 white to get shift back. Cloudshifting again, leaving you with no mana left over, and tapping for lotus would leave you with 3 green, cloudshift in your graveyard, and Garth tapped so you couldn't activate him again for a regrowth. It's entirely possible I'm missing something, but I can't see how it goes infinite.

[@denismichaels7400]

Well. Time to build my next charbelcher deck.

[@dreddbolt]

Ok. I'm definitely interested in 5 color again. Excellent alternative for Golos.

[@thebomb945]

Rookie here, So if mdfc’s don’t technically count as lands what happens with goblin charbelcher exactly? You reveal cards from the top of your library until you find a land card that’s no where in the deck?

[@NumbSkull90]

To be clear, if you have 80 cards left in your library, the damage will cap at 80 since there won’t be any cards left in the library and there are no lands? Or does it go into a loop since you put the card back on the bottom, making you draw infinitely? Thanks

[@hiddenleaf414]

Draw infinitely from what?

[@joedoe7572]

No, the cards only go back on the bottom of your library after you finish revealing all the cards. So you won't reveal more cards than are in your library

[@adamtorres9000]

This is fascinating! Wondering if it'll play the same way as it looks on paper

[@coder1852]

In the 99 land deck you used nbfc's and said there were a land and here it is not

[@enshroudedcloud]

Would it be off base to just add that *one* mountain for the pure but absurd chance of that double damage possibility? Then it could be just the "Garth One-Land" variation.

[@thetokenasian77]

My question is, do the MDFCs count as lands and can played as such? And then when you can pay the mana cost for the front side, they can be used? I'm confused on where the mana is coming from, since the MDFCs are summoned front side up?

[@deankrahling6060]

my science teacher made this pre-flip lands, and it worked as a solid 6-7 then, before even watching I already know how broken hermit druid into mill into flashback on dread return into angel of glories rise into lab man and a human that sacks for a card.

[@Hankathan]

Does the price include the cost of basic lands?

[@heathbasner9276]

I use goblin charbelcher in my grum gully non-human counters deck it's a crap shoot but it's great when it works