10 Cards You Should Be Putting In Your Commander Decks | Episode 52

[@jacobstone4070]

I LOVE Psychic Possession. Such a fun card. Works great with Teferi's Puzzle Box. Skip your draw step so you don't wheel, AND when your opponent that Psychic Possession enchants does wheel, you get to draw the same amount they do.

[@Krisays49]

I read an article on EDHrec and this card was in there as a replacement Concecrated Sphinx.

[@syctheofsymphogear4290]

Another Way to Use enchant target player, use any exchange card, so as long has he can`t draw card he will never draw a card again

[@vonz1499]

Psychic battle helps against extra turns cards as well. Such a fun interaction

[@moosemtg4962]

Want to give you a huge shout out. I know a lot of weirder cards, so most of these are not new to me. BUT... HUUUUUGE shoutout for introducing me to Grim Feast. I got 50 life from it today on my Zacama Fight Club deck. Love the channel. Keep it up!

[@NA-oe5jj]

thank you for this series. first reap, now proteus staff. love all the great suggestions you come up with

[@coreyroberson4550]

I like Proteus Staff in a temporary theft deck like Yasova. The owner shuffles, but the controller gets the polymorph. Also, the most hilarious play I have ever seen with a Proteus Staff was when Player 1 had a Blightsteel Colossus in play, so Player 2 cloned it and then used Staff to tuck the original. Player 1 revealed Swamp, Dark Ritual, Swamp, Phage the Untouchable - and went from terrorizing the table to dead! Of course, now we all had to deal with Player 2 and his Blightsteel clone, but we were all laughing.

[@SuperTominou]

Proteus staff gonna be insane in my Talrand deck, i only have 3 creatures, all seven drops or more :O

[@markomalmi7989]

Psychic spiral is always a jawdropper in a game. A guy milled the entire table passed the turn smirking. Everyone else scooped, I played it cool, untap, upkeep sacrifice scribe of the mindful, return psychic spiral to my hand (at this point the guy begun sweating) aaaand how the turntables

[@its_CatNap]

was testing out priest of yawg in a rakdos deck and liked it but wasn't running enough artifacts to always be useful, I replaced it with soldevi adnate cuz always had black creatures to sac for mana of course sac itself at worst. thx for vid!

[@olburgle2841]

I felt the same way, sacrificing artifacts is a very red thing nowadays which hasn't been easy making it work when stuff like treasures are very prominent.

[@chrisgebben2043]

psychic battle might also be good in a deck full of high cmc stuff the most obvious for this is Animar soul of elements since it will almost be impossible to lose the pshyic battle since nearly everything is higher cmc and you can also manipulate the top card in animar

[@brockpoling9180]

I'm considering it for a Yuriko deck honestly. Works great with scrying & scroll rack.

[@_jordaank_4970]

Price of glory is a gem for Krenko decks

[@angelsepulveda9211]

Love Psychic Spiral. Won me games in my Bruvac deck

[@dapperghastmeowregard]

I had a Primal Forcemage deck back when people played things besides Commander. The central combo was Forcemage, Pandemonium, and Whitemane Lion. Patagia Viper and Cream of the Crop were also pretty choice.

[@unimaginative_artist]

Proteus Staff is AMAZING I have it in my Xyris Thousand-Year Storm Deck where I have three creatures Ulamog, Hullbreaker & Tidespout I can use it as defense or I can Staff a snake and get an Ulamog 33% chance also run polymorph 🤫

[@FozzyFUCT]

That must feel so great to pull offff.

[@geekmp3]

Psychic Battle sounds like a ton of fun!

[@leodewald1087]

I've played Primal Forcemage in Xenagos, God of Revels and with him you get a +6 Attack bonus which is really nice.

[@Vyn_HK]

I love Priest of Yawg in my Glissa the Traitor deck.

[@joshuadempsey5281]

Don't forget that Forecast is like Channel; can't be countered unless you Stifle it. With Proteus Staff, it gets around indestructible as well as graveyard recursion strats.

[@cointoss4825]

psychic battle is also good cause if your opponents want to get rid of it, guess what? they usually have to target it. so in a way it can kind of protect itself.

[@sockka4725]

If I've watched 10 of your "10 Cards You Should Put in Your Commander Decks" videos, I would have a full deck now.

[@VinnieKielbasa]

3:00 Soldevi Adnate is a much better alternative to Priest of Yawgmoth.

[@thelunchlady8276]

The Adnate says artifact creature. The priest could do both. But the Adnate can do black non-art creatures so, it depends what your deck is running. Why not both?

[@VinnieKielbasa]

@@thelunchlady8276 While it has to be a creature for the Adnate, it doesn't have to be an artifact, it could be a black creature as well so it's such a great addition to mono black. Priest of Yawgmoth doesn't cover black creatures. The main difference is it allows sacrificing regular non-creature artifacts, but I feel like there's more mana cost heavy creatures and artifact creatures than high cost artifacts that are sacrifice material in Commander. And yeah, you're right, no need to choose when you can have both. 🙂

[@MsJoshthomas]

Primal forcemage reminded me of one of my favorite underplayed cards, valor in akros! So many times in token decks people are not expecting the HUGE boost to my team out of nowhere from like a secure the wastes or something like that!

[@apock2474]

I love making decks where the commander can fetch out a specific card and use it as my commander, building a couple of Arcum Dagson decks in a similar vein, but do you have any cool green creatures that would be fun to build around? I think Yisan would make a great version of these decks

[@stevenguitink5947]

Soldevi Adnate is also good if you haven't covered that one before. It's like Priest of Yawgmoth except you can sac black creatures too for the same effect.

[@kingginger3335]

Soldevi Adnate is a other Priest of Yawgmoth effect. Sac a creature, add black equal to its mana value. Very nice

[@callumbowen6604]

I would just like to thank you so much for brining my attention to Psychic Spiral, I have a Gyruda deck and i don't want to run cards like Thassa's Oracle because I find i boring but with Psychic Spiral I can kill a trouble some opponent and reload my deck. Plus I can do this with Torrential Gearhulk and cast it from my graveyard even if I mill it.

[@moreplease394]

Psychic battle is so good with that new Jeskai commander from Kamigawa

[@philippschmidt9499]

How? Doesn't it screw you a lot more?

[@dysfunctionalfuk]

@@philippschmidt9499 the revealed card doesn't go to the bottom of your library. Just have to keep manipulating the top of your library.

[@zxxDarkLightxxz]

This series is always so interesting and good entertainment! :)

[@marcellosalis5063]

Primal Forcemage is auto-inclusion with Wild Pair! Cast a 1/1, stack the triggers so it gets +3/+3 first, then tutor for a 4/4! 😊

[@xMr.Agenda]

Man I’m going to go broke watching your videos lol I can’t stop buying cards you suggest. I’m a new player and my third time commander day I have won 2 times and now every time I play I win at least once. Everyone is always amazed about how I set up my deck

[@LadyTsunade777]

Another great deck for Proclamation of Rebirth is Shadowborn Apostles, specifically the Athreos variant.

[@loganboehnlein2738]

Psychic Possession also auto kills any player that controls a Consecrated Sphinx. They draw a card, which makes you draw. Sphinx makes that player draw 2 since you drew a card, which makes you draw 2, that the sphinx now draws 4 from. This turns into 8, 16, 32, and right around this point at 64 the person will be killed immediately from over drawing. And if you don't wanna go too deep with your Aura then you don't have to. It's a may ability, Sphinx is not. Kinda cool interaction there

[@edhdeckbuilding]

sphinx is a "may" unfortunately.

[@a.b.2723]

Primal forcemage sounds awesome with cards that make tokens tapped and attacking too!

[@edhdeckbuilding]

absolutely.

[@grimreefer4110]

Wow great selection in this video. Got 5 new cards I want now lol

[@dylanfarley8136]

I'm not sure if you've covered this card yet, but Lure of Prey is a great card for green stompy decks. Got a Xenagos deck put togther and finally played it and used Lure of Prey to drop Atarka, World Render on T3. I didn't but I could've played Xenagos and swung with Atarka for 24 flying damage on T4.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

way way long ago. episode 5. love that card.

[@warrioraidan]

Price of Glory blew up a game against Titania, Protector of Argoth. They tapped all their lands on the turn before they won to get an army.

[@matheuscomparini1663]

One of my favorite sentences i say in my Yasova Dragonclaw deck: Proteus Staff targeting your commander, chain Willbreaker to steal.

[@andrewpeli9019]

Oh man... Proteus Staff triggers PTSD from the days of tuck.

[@williamsonnerhed1111]

Nice vid as always Demo!

[@54m0h7]

Psychic Possession isn't even card disadvantage. Even if who it's enchanting isn't drawing extra cards they still have their draw step, which you will also draw in. So it's a delayed draw at worst, and insane draw at best. Your draw is also a MAY, so you can't get decked out.

[@kristiandahl1310]

Hmm might throw psychic battle into my Hinata deck, it runs a lot of high cost spells cause easy spell reduction.

[@JSBozick]

Proteus Staff is great in an Eldrazi deck. Pay three mana to get rid of a spawn or scion token, and replace it with a big nasty annihilator creature.

[@laughingskuls7000]

Primal forcemage works is amazing for my tolsimir friend to wolves deck. Pumps the wolves before they fight other creatures

[@Kr0ml]

Psychic Battle still cares for legal targets, so you can't equip to another player's creatures. still a fun card :>

[@edwinquinones9356]

I had a 60 card deck with “primal forcemage” and “Nacatl War-Pride” all those copies come in huge

[@BenCulverson]

Primal forcemage could pair well with the likes of ulvenwald horror.

[@svenvannimwegen4936]

Psychic possession is the all-star in my xyris deck. It's soooooo good

[@OverlyCriticalAnime]

What you do with Proteus staff is steal there creature then do it. That way you remove their creature and you get the benefit.

[@Suppaichu]

Price of glory seems funny with piracy, it's not mld, but if you want to tap your lands in response to deny me the mana it becomes a treasure xD

[@nathanwilliams9158]

Price of glory + mana short

[@VinnieKielbasa]

Price of Glory is the ultimate troll against those heavy counterspell EDH players.

[@andynorez8795]

Just built a Naya token deck, Primalforce Mage would be amazing in it!

[@silentcrow5220]

Primal forcemage, allstar in my Tolsimir friend to wolves deck

[@andrewwebb3813]

Psychic Spiral in a Tormod partner deck? Specifically with Syr Konrad

[@marcellosalis5063]

I think with Phychic Battle you don't even have to bother having the highest cmc card on top of your library. Let's say somebody is trying to cast Reanimate on Elesh Norn, as long as the one who's actually choosing the target is not him, the outcome will be the same.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

great point.

[@johnnapier8830]

Been subbed to the channel for a very long time and never thought I'd see Psychogenic Probe on here! I got that card as a reward, it was a part of a 1 dollar rare prize at my friends Cube tournament. Fast forward about a year or so later, I needed a few more cards in my Nekusaur deck and I just tossed it in, did not think much of it at the time. However, its since become a great source of extra damage. In my play group, there are several decks that do tutoring/searching and theres alot lf deck shuffling that goes on, so naturally probe ends up helping me alot here.

[@ivernedit]

Priest of yawg sounds dope on my king macar deck

[@ajpothast]

leggo!

[@ethanvetter7289]

i own psychic battle! it’s so funny to play with

[@zxxDarkLightxxz]

Gotta try it out!

[@Noddy-Gaming]

Lol I have put price of glory in nearly every red deck I run, I tend to run free fast spells to allow myself to interact

[@greysonmiller9407]

Just put psychic surgery in a deck because my playgroup really likes to tutor and ramp. Youd be surprised how insane that card can be in the right situation.

[@DoctorCataclysm]

I like to use "partners with" on my opponents to get them to shuffle their libraries

[@Glottoneria]

I play Price of Glory on my Ruric Thar anti-blue deck. I love it since I have no interaction and just want to hate on blue.

[@XEndlessSteelX]

Anyone who plays counter-spells deserves a permanent "Price Of Glory" on their opponent's field in every game.

[@GoldenTicket17]

Nightmare incursion in mono black is insane

[@rudeoldguy]

As a newer player, it always confuses me when people call something a polymorph effect since I always think of the cards that turn your opponent's creature into a 1/1 frog as a polymorph. I think Transmogrify effect is cleaner since there aren't multiple cards with that in the name that have different effects, but that's just my little nitpick.

[@astralman]

It's because of the card "Polymorph". 3 and a blue for a sorcery to destroy a creature and it's controller gets the next creature in their deck similar to "Proteus Staff". You can use the the official "gatherer" site or "scyfall" to search for any card that's ever been printed to find specific wordings and rulings and inspire new deck ideas.

[@Denny1026]

Wow price of glory is nuts

[@mattsmetalATX]

🤘🏼

[@Pachumain]

I want to test psichic battle in a atemsis deck. Let’s go heavy cmc deck

[@03thinking]

I love how your videos don't have an intro of 1937399 minutes long

[@mattboots5453]

Demo on Proteus Staff: If I have control over an opponents creature could I use it on that creature and then put a creature from my library in? Creature owned Then creatures controller.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

yes. "that creatures controller" gets to reveal. so works particularly good in a steal theme.

[@Armdad44]

Imagine an enter the infinite combo'ed with psychic spiral omg

[@nathanwilliams9158]

I put proteus staff in my Yuriko fatties deck. Tuck a ninja, get a Draco

[@cyricnosferat227]

Esper artifacts have been around a min.

[@jasonrustmann7535]

Hope my brother doesn't learn about psychic battle, i have a Feather deck that he hates and that would hose it so hard lol

[@PerpetuallyTiredMillennial]

This is why I love this channel/series, Proteus Staff sounds like such a fun card and I didn't know about it despite playing during the mirrordin block. Debating on throwing it in my Adrix and Niv or another token deck to throw in some fun randomness

[@danielharrison2383]

sidisionly makes one zombie at a time. mass mill doesn’t work with them

[@pseudonym7606]

Price of glory + piracy 😂

[@richardcozzuol7452]

I think we swung to hard the wrong way against land destruction. Yes armagheddon is rude but if i destroy your maze of ith or urborg i'm the jerk bah i say bah!!!

[@freireisender2]

Nice title for the vid... 10 cards to put into your commander decks episode 52... so we should play more than 99 cards?

[@sinfulkri8ivity]

You can't tuck commander creatures

[@MrAlouis1000]

You can tuck your own, and you can tuck there's, they just have the options to put it back to command zone