5 Interesting Budget Commanders to Build 5 (and budget 99 picks)

[@shannongill189]

Like the simple conversational style of your breakdowns.

[@NerdinKorea]

Thanks, much appreciated!

[@steveme6664]

I could be wrong but I don’t think the wort copies get the extra parts like descend because descend is a cast trigger, wort is creating a copy so there wouldn’t be a cast trigger on the copy. Not sure if I am right or wrong there. Magic is hard 😁

[@NerdinKorea]

Oh dang, yup, I didn't think of that. I will have to give that a look! Thanks!

[@TimIce-s4n]

Era with the blink sounds so powerful. Nice video. I like that it can counter channel abilities too.

[@NerdinKorea]

Yeah, requires some extra set up, once it is off the ground, I don't know what stops that train.

[@NerdinKorea]

Oh damn, for some reason, I thought I saw something that said channel could not be countered. Huh, that does make more sense.

[@TimIce-s4n]

@@NerdinKorea some people say channel can’t be countered because nobody runs spells that counter abilities.

[@NerdinKorea]

@@TimIce-s4n Yeah, I think that is probably what they meant. I even thought that sounded wrong at the time.

[@The-Swift-Kobold]

Cool video. I think Sarulf is worth building for the artwork, simply stunning.

[@NerdinKorea]

That is one I thought little of the first time I saw it, and on second look was like... whoa!

[@jameslabbe4119]

I built sarulf simply because of the art and let me tell you he's one of my favorite commanders because of how unique his play pattern is. I decided to not build around counters or even permanents but as a kind of spellslinger because Sarulf just eats permanents. It's important to remember his trigger is extremely unique, your opponents need to decide whether they want to remove Sarulf when he triggers but before you actually decide if you'll remove the +1 tokens. You don't have to actually tell them whether you will remove the +1 tokens or not, they have to pass priority and then they'll find out what you decide to do.

[@NerdinKorea]

@@jameslabbe4119 I think he would make for an interesting game. How often do you use his exile ability?

[@jameslabbe4119]

@@NerdinKorea usually at least once each game was enough, and that was to save the table from the token spammer or the stax guy, so Sarulf was the hero in most cases. Never more than twice. Once people saw I wasn't aggressively wiping the board over and over they left Sarulf alone so you can get up to shenanigans. This is the perfect deck for Forbidden Orchard, and I run Chain of Acid as a pet card in this deck.

[@NerdinKorea]

@@jameslabbe4119 Nice! That is on my list for budget deck tech commanders for sure!

[@adammcknight5584]

Hey there's one of my commanders - Sydri! She works great with those indestructible dual artefact lands from MH2.

[@NerdinKorea]

I use one of those in my Saheeli deck! They are great for getting your artifact count up.

[@keanulinkers4487]

whats that background music from like 2:30

[@NerdinKorea]

Good question, I had to look that one up! I probably should remember by now, it is 'James River - DJ Williams'.