A Tier List of The Most Popular Commanders EVER

We're putting ALL of the most played commanders in the format into a tier list and judging them based on how fun they are to play with and against!
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[@MAGWAII]

Krenko, Mob Boss

[@justinwendt3472]

Say less lmaooooo

[@joshuaforrest4135]

Legit have never seen anyone play Krenko

[@millzy8885]

Watch people get scared cuz of one little goblin 😂

[@lordpokesmoke]

Krenko, Mob Boss

[@dawsonyang2595]

I feel so blessed to be the 100th

[@erichunt1974]

Mia figuring out the Krenko guy was her friend Eric is still one of the heaviest laugh's I've given myself. Sometimes it's really hard to bring Krenko, Mob Boss up and still fit the theme of the video but I try my best.

[@brendans1983]

I have noticed the Krenko comments are slowly overtaking the Gravy Train comments... are you The Creator?

[@sparrow5701]

18:30 I was laughing so much when beezy says “geometric growth” and Mia turns to the camera and gives a tiny head shake

[@IIAndersII]

Haha nice catch!

[@martineng4499]

the prismatic bridge is almost a perfect secret commander enabler

[@paracat4893]

Get poor Krenko to S tier! 🎉

[@erichunt1974]

This commentor is spitting straight facts!

[@sirKonradical]

Krenko and artificial evolution is true S+

[@aclevername7613]

Hes far better then atraxa in regard to design and ability. Far more interesting and entertaining of a card.

[@spenceredington792]

These videos are the bomb! You guys have some cool synergy together.

[@ryrysamurai92]

I built a Kenrith deck that took all my Playgroups most popular commanders and threw them in the 99. It was a fun Avengers Assemble type deck where the whole point was to make them all work together and do cool weird unexpected synergies, and kill people with their retired commanders

[@Jimmythehead]

I don’t have a Shorikai voltron deck, but I do have a reanimator one. It’s not a deck that abuses its ability, but once each turn is enough to discard the fatties. It used to have Niambi as the face but Shorikai is able to discard the fat nonlegends so I switched. It’s also limited in power to white’s bad reanimation cards, but it’s surprisingly consistent (probably thanks to shorikai’s insane card advantage even when it’s not built around haha)

[@discoviolenza1984]

i agree that Edgar decks are usually just okay. They usually fold to one or two board wipes unless they get their clamps going

[@HinduGangsta]

that 1 sec pause before beezy said anything gave me life

[@ashketchum13579]

It was cool meeting you guys at pax! I was the guy who had yall sign my flumpf 😂

[@archerfeett]

never ceases to amaze me how they manage to shrink and then grow back to normal size on these videos. do you guys do this as a party trick sometimes

[@bobfranklin2572]

For some reason the "Even if you're wrong you're lying" absolutely sent me creasing 😂

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

I love playing Arcades, the Strategist, nice to see him ranked A. On CuIts 3D there's even a custom deck holder for him with the tiny flags I'm thinking of getting for him since I love playing him so much.

[@derrickpaulson3093]

Arcades is my current oldest deck (when you’ve been playing since 1994 you sell out a few times) and I still break him out once in awhile. So much bad cards but with real synergy can be great fun!

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

@@derrickpaulson3093 Looking forward to tossing the Pride of Hull Clade into my Arcades deck for next week, hopefully he hits the table. :)

[@aclevername7613]

Arcades is great.

[@jeremiahchamberlain4179]

Miiram sentinel wyrm is sweet, making clones is always fun.

[@BreakingEvans]

As a miirym player, she deserves better. At least C/B tier.

[@aclevername7613]

Far better then atraxa in design and fun

[@dasfabelwesen]

Edgar is the kind of deck that is a 6 on a 9 table. The commander makes you play a lot of bad cards.

[@josephotterby9871]

I feel like i gotta defend Miirym a bit - Why there is a huge gulf in rating between Miirym and Ur Dragon baffles me. I understand that Miirym is basically Ramp -> Play big dragons, which isn't exactly a complicated, or particularly varied strategy. But Ur dragon is just as linear, with fewer sub-themes that you can tack on when compared to miirym, Such as clones, ETB Abuses, or blink. Only thing you're left wondering with Big Ur is which dragons are in the deck, and what method they're using to Power them out. Not exactly a ton of variety there either.

[@Shimatzu95]

To put it simply: Ur dragon is linear Miirym is exponential In addition to that there is a quite large ammouth of people, myself included, that think ignoring the legend rule is about as dumb as emminence.

[@Chucklepuffs]

I loved Prosper the first time I played him but he gets so much hate at my table that I can’t really play him lol

[@Whiplash47]

One of my favorite Commander memories was making a Yuriko deck scoop to my Blinding Angel

[@Rexcilious]

I’m building a themed Kenrith deck- calling it, the King’s Domain. It’s based off of the domain mechanic and it’s quite fun

[@TheViralMC]

Squirrels have a special place in my heart because Overrun cast after Deranged Hermit was how I won a tournament back in 99 😅

[@Sami-rw8cs]

Mia and I had the same introduction to commander. First it was an Edgar, then a Kaalia. Sadly I took both apart. I do still have a mardu deck (Queen M) and definitely stay on the higher colour commanders like Mia. Although I have a mono colour commander for each and they are surprisingly powerful and usually fly completely under the radar (except my mono blue Braids - there be no flying under the radar with her) 😂

[@Sami-rw8cs]

I also totally agree about Miirym. If I want to go smash and win on turn 6, I’ll play this deck. But I don’t get it out super often because while it really tickles my inner Timmy to have 20+ hasty dragons and swing, it’s quite linear and not my preferred gameplay

[@SmithLeong]

mono blue braids is love! do u have a deck list?

[@cameronk.2777]

i used to play korvold, fae cursed king, and ran into the issue that i just wasnt at my friends power level, and i never played it because it wasnt fun to stomp. now i play korvold, gleeful glutton, and its a much fairer card that i still do demonic things in.

[@vincentpey3929]

Fully agree on that Gishath rating he enables Dinosaur Tax evasion and for that he deserves the S tier.

[@stratuvarious8547]

I don't consider Jodah boring, but he is definitely pushed. The whole legend cascade gives you some game variety, but, it's definitely a kill on sight commander. Like about 8 of these on this list.

[@adamcampbell2787]

I really like playing Go-Shintai Gates and Shrines. Shrines are 5-color jank. Gates are 5-color jank. It makes for a fun combination. Throw in some enchantress staples, and the deck runs fine. You're either doing gate stuff or shrine stuff, and in either case you're doing somwthing you want to do.

[@Sonicron86]

Ur-Dragon was my first foray into Commander back when the precon hit, but I haven't played it in years now. It's fun, but it rarely sticks... mainly it just enables its tribe, which is good enough for me. It just so happens I've been hyped about dragons ever since I was 3 years old, so this deck was love at first sight for me. Maybe I should overhaul it and sleeve it up again... Also, up high, Beezy - none of my active commanders are on this list either!

[@daytonthegreat]

My 2 favorite commanders aren't as popular as it used to be but I enjoy them nonetheless. Chainer, Nightmare Adapt is one of my favorites and I had him setup as a Wheel/Graveyard build where I love to disrupt plays so I can do mine more easier. My other favorite commander is Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and I have him built as a Dredge/Graveyard deck. Milling myself while I make bigger beefy boys for Jarad is always satisfying.

[@kimicain]

My birthday is tomorrow! I’ll be looking forward to my HBD wish from you guys!

[@MTGfiro]

im playing giada it is very cool and friendly for new player :)

[@Chucklepuffs]

NERDS! NERDS! NERDS! Moxfield ad at 23:02 since Beezy has been switching it up. Thanks for more content gang ❤️😁

[@Chucklepuffs]

I swear I didn’t cheat lol you guys have been doing them in the later portion of the videos lately to switch it up on us

[@alexbessaoud8553]

Krenko was my first deck ever because goblins don’t cost much money, now I’ve fine tuned my Krenko deck to win on turn 5 on average. I guess I maybe took him too far lol 😝

[@sirKonradical]

Wait till you see what krenko can do with artificial evolution and intruder alarm in an izzet pirates deck lol

[@kenwang500]

Chatterfang is my favorite commander, the forest walk and ability to sac tokens to kill creatures and sac outlet on top of its main ability makes it so good and unique

[@eisenmenger14]

They're just haters. Chatterfang is awesome.

[@jessesandburg]

Agreed.

[@isbad234]

I use to have Shorikai Voltron it stacked dictate heliod effects so when you crewed him he was a hard to block one shot truned it into a token deck though because Voltron was to easy to shut down

[@micahlaremore8224]

Great list

[@one-barwarlord8280]

I love gishath! Hes so much fun. And LCI really helped him out

[@eisenmenger14]

*Her

[@marcpr3032]

Just save a removal all game long until he comes out and kill him before the attack

[@one-barwarlord8280]

@@eisenmenger14 oh, didn't know. Neat. She* is super cool. Love the card

[@eisenmenger14]

@@one-barwarlord8280 I packed one in as a prerelease in the latest set. I would have never guessed it was a girl if I didn’t watch a bunch of deck techs on it.

[@one-barwarlord8280]

@eisenmenger14 only reason I know etali is a girl is because of the nerds 'best commander of each set' where they talked about her

[@theboller4154]

I absolutely love Nekusar! My draw deck may not be the most powerful (it's still ridiculously strong), but it is by far the most fun to play.

[@JOEY805x1997]

Krenko was my 2nd deck after making an Isshin samurai tribal!

[@yannikkissa9419]

Here the 2nd after going for Ninjas

[@matte6403]

i have an animar creature deck (all lands-creatures) and it wrecks! lol, it can rebuild so fast, and get outta hand real quick

[@robertpfunder1757]

Kenrith with Zirda - activated abilities theme - great fun.

[@elscourou6654]

I don't run Chatterfang as my commander, I run him in my Korvold deck, where he is even more evil :D he's a squirrel though!! so cute right!?

[@GrimmTutelage]

5 of my 13 made the list from C to S..sweet. Gishath is so fun to play especially with discover...suprised Korvold was only C though.

[@jodylester9118]

Always blows my mind when people mention not swinging with Shorikai. It only takes 3 of the pilots, there's cards that can animate it, and the alt-commander from the pre-con, Kotori, is great for bringing that cost down. It lends it more to a "Vehicles Kindred" deck, and it's a blast. It makes me sad to see the fun play style reduced to a weird value engine.

[@devin5297]

I’ve built -Isshin -kenrith -atraxa -Esika I also started lists for -Edgar -lathril -chatterfang my friends in our playgroup have built -kaalia -wilhelt -animar -omnath -korvold -jodah -juriko -arcades -gishath -Krenko and we’ve had overlap where multiple of us build the same commanders

[@davidcurtis5452]

I have a Transformers Jodah deck does that change it into C atleast? lol

[@AMindfulGamer]

That’s awesome

[@Cybertech134]

No. Played against Transformers Jodah and it's still cancer. Y'all know you don't HAVE to play Jodah, right?

[@MrCamel254]

You did ma boi Schnatterzahn, Eichhörnchen General real dirty with this video. Squirrels are not at fault that Pitiless Plunderer exists.

[@eveninghat8715]

I would never lie about guessing 4:20 for the moxfield ad

[@threepup]

sad that my favorite magic power couple Rin and Seri didn't make this list... don't have any commanders built from this list, closest is that I have Thirteenth Doctor//Yazmin Khan and maybe will eventually build all of the cast from exile decks because I like that theme so much.

[@billlong4586]

Thought selvala heart of the wilds would be on here. I absolutely love her, big beaters, card draw, mana..it may help i built her in my friends memory..now if primetime would come off the banned list so i can slot it in as it was one of his favorite cards

[@fredericks7890]

I haven't been able to bring myself to pull her apart, but she's just not that much fun to play. So linear, so explosive, and turns can take a long time when you are really stacking the mana up and figuring out how you can pull it together to kill one or all of the players at the table this turn. I just don't have that much fun playing her and my table doesn't either. And I say this as a Krenko player, who has a tuned Krenko deck. Selvala is just so much less fun for everyone.

[@billlong4586]

@fredericks7890 to be honest, if not for my friend, I probably wouldn't have such a fun time playing her myself. It's a deck he would have made though, maybe tuned a little more than he would have done, though. Maybe a 7 or 8, has 2 infinite mana combos, both needing selvala, and some fast mana but I wouldn't say it's a cedh.

[@andrewtaylor5883]

Bruh...respect the ghost[s] of standard/modern's past! Calling Hero of Bladehold a weirdo...! I'm hurt ! haha

[@Mecal00]

When they said Krenko was the first commander deck people build, damn, so true. I built him as my 2nd deck ever. Still have it, still love it

[@yannikkissa9419]

Hahah, yeah, second one EDH deck here too. Came back after 20 years and since the only deck, I played on a tournament back then was goblins, I had to build him

[@jeremiahchamberlain4179]

Queza, esper wheels and best wheel commander and also skyshark wheels both play smothering tithe.

[@thomaslepage5941]

Me with my 40 vampire Edgar deck: Lol I still brick. I desperately want changeling tribal non-creature cards to come back.

[@tomdoetsch8603]

The black Titan, you mean, the Grave Titan? What did Beezy go to college for?

[@NitpickingNerds]

I majored in avoiding bad cards

[@Cybertech134]

Blight Titan

[@stratuvarious8547]

Opponents: Do you have this deck? Me: Yes.

[@Charlesnoel16]

Im a chatterfang player, and ive never made that 15 squirrels joke XD

[@volosguidetomonsters3440]

If Atraxa was ever legal in Standard it would've been banned It's a 4 mana 4/4 Flying Lifelink Vigilance Deathtouch seems fair

[@geofferiswheel]

I wish Omnath wasn't a kill on sight commander. Everyone always targets me and I never win. Now I have to run Greaves, Boots and Flicker effects to keep it on the battlefield. Good thing I can use the Flickers offensively too ;-)

[@ClocksTickin]

I'm not sure what this is a tier list of. Fairness? Strength? Uniqueness? Seems the scale shifts with each consideration that doesnt take into consideration the bias of the hosts. Unless this was a Favorites tier list. That might make the most sense. Also, what counts as "boring" here? The criticism used for Edgar decks was that most don't play them straightforward enough but then Jodah and Chatterfang are too straightforward? Personally my favorite deck of all time is Go-Shintai because of how versatile it is and how easy it is to shift its power level up or down. And it has deck exclusive win-cons you wouldn't use anywhere else which is always a plus for me. Plus you can use quite a few alt win-cons that win without dealing any damage for pacifist games and that's a whole other level of play that no one else at the table has to adhere to, just another fun limit to try to win with that's possible with this commander. For anyone interested in commanders that didn't make it high on this list, play what you want! You might discover something you really really like 😁

[@Cybertech134]

Probably a tier list of how fun to unfun it is to play against. Most sweaty nerds are out here trying to be the king of the casuals instead of trying to cultivate a fun experience for the table. Jodah and Yuriko, for example, are shit to play against despite being enjoyed by the worst types of sweatlords.

[@coryledwitch6492]

I think that maybe you dropped the ball on this content. I mean, your criteria for the list was- 1. How fun it is to play, and 2- how fun it is to play against. How can Beezy be impartial when he doesn’t own half the decks, and judges solely off of fun to play against? Have you even played the commanders that find unfun to play against? And Mia’s like- I have this deck and it’s so much fun to play so it’s A tier, and this one is so boring to play against, so poop. Lmao. I feel like this list is very very biased and subjective. I’ve played and played against fair and reasonable versions of all of these commanders, and you couldn’t have gotten this more wrong. Edit- I’d just like to say that I love this channel and subscribe to it. My thoughts on this one definitely are not how I feel about almost all their other content. I do respect their knowledge and opinions of the game.

[@seanmower3926]

Want to play a really fun deck? Build kadena, morph is a super intresting ability and there’s alot of shenanigans you can do with it

[@kinuckles7419]

I may be blind but I don’t see Mia’s Edgar deck on Mox field . Just the tune up one you guys did.

[@Goodthrust69]

Why dont people put shorikai in more decks? I was thinking about this the other day. It's just 4 mana artifact that let's you super loot and make a random token. And maybe once in a blue moon attack for 8.

[@jordonpohl7393]

My first was zada gobos as didn’t hav krenko 😂

[@tomfisher6422]

I never thought of Chatterfang as a commander. I just want the extra tokens in my decks...

[@bikeguy3034]

My Edgar deck has all Vamps. I even have Vampiric Tutor with no combo to find...cause Vamps!😂 I have all 4 Eminence decks and only play them when both my wife and I play an Em deck - she likes the Cats 🐈

[@marcpr3032]

Animar is S power level, Gishath is super easy to deal with

[@vincentperon2950]

yeah but the point is coolness. Animar is sticky and annoying to interact with, that's why they didn't put it at a higher rank.

[@Partridge3377]

jodah sure can be very quick and punishing but however as soon as you kill jodah the board shrinks in power and so i dont think is that bad and definetly desreves to be higher maybe D/C

[@sebastienchenier785]

Lathril voltron is crazy broken

[@despiciouz]

Shorikai going face is quite fun, especially once u have a small army and born to drive equiped, sometimes he even oneshots on command dmg xD Kotori helps alot too, giving lifelink and vigilance

[@thebwags7490]

I have a Kaalia deck, I call it 1/3 Kaalia because there aren't any Demons or Dragons, it's an Angel Kindred deck. She's only the commander because I wanted orzhov and boros angels

[@stephenball2108]

If Golos was on this list I would request the first tier below poop. Golos would be in the tier where the poop from the poop tier falls on.

[@TheHighwayVideo]

Jodah? Poop? The entire deck is filled with commanders. One of my favorite decks…

[@Cybertech134]

Still poop tier to play against

[@representativejoints1188]

Isshin, humans, dungeons. He says have fun attacking in mardu find almost any path from there. Good design. If he had any additional power or text he'd be gross.

[@user-tp9bn8lp6t]

People are sleeping on a lot of great commanders is all I'm saying. :P

[@skullkrusher-dx4kg]

Dusk legion duelist makes you want to cast edgar. Esikas front side is a pretty good legends tribal deck. I also think esika is probably B or A for legends specifically. Its def better than jodah.

[@Marcosomos]

I NEVER cheat, the moxfield ad is at minute 3 with 4 seconds

[@brtthys1]

I guessed the wrong mox field time…and I’m lying.

[@gilliganallmighty3]

I saw Ishen/Eldraz-annihilate tribal it was gross. " When Iattack, you sacrifice your board"

[@coryledwitch6492]

S- Atraxa, Kenrith, Ur-Dragon, A- Jodah, Edgar, Ishin, Krenko, Miirym, Giada, Gishath, Yuriko B- Nekusar, Prosper, Lathryl, Esika, Wilhelt, Animar C- Go-Shintai , Kaalia, Muldrotha

[@MrPickettFence]

I’m not here for the chatterfang hate😭

[@caseyp5665]

This week on nitpicking nerds, Mia has trouble connecting to her emotions! But dont worry, shes fine with it!

[@BattleAxeRX]

I finally built a keranos deck

[@egreenwood1117]

I like Shorikai as my commander. but my deck is all about vehicles. Kindred vehicles that will literally over-run people!

[@Stitchington]

Josh Lee Kwai would be so sad about Shorikai placement

[@user-mk4li3tu1m]

The black titan is grave titan

[@brendans1983]

🥳

[@MareczqZglos]

I remember when still with Cherry - You roasted Arcades as boring and un-fun commander (Yes it was long time agoo ;P).

[@lunarlight3131]

mia is a better host in my opinion.

[@MareczqZglos]

I would not say that - for sure she is not worst - both are great , and I enjoy both content. I think Mia is more "diffrent" in opinion then boys - so its better for "interesting" talks and points of view ;) @@lunarlight3131

[@STS-qi1qy]

Krenko: Easy to build, cheap to build, easy to pilot, and people love goblins. So, yeah, not surprised he's a common first deck.

[@yannikkissa9419]

Goblins or Elfes - that's usually what people build when they move from borrowing decks from friends or playing some arbitraty precon/leftover to their first deck

[@danielhavens8819]

I hate that Go-Shintai is a green card with a WUBRG ability. Just make the card itself WUBRG or colorless! It's always been central to Shrines that they're equally represented in all colors, so even if their commander has a five color identity it makes me never want to play it, because it would feel like a green shrines deck, which is just unnatural (unless you're actually making a mono-green shrine deck, in which case you're a legend).

[@captainsc00ter31]

I guess it isn't at 29:29, cuz I'm lying no matter what?

[@rhyswilansky-traynor1170]

were the veyran voice of duality at?

[@steamh4mmer264]

Its a Video about popular commanders

[@jessesandburg]

Kenny is def mid range bananas or group hug. Hardly any other from what ive seen.

[@allenmwh]

The list feels like if it is powerful then it automatically loses points. Like power is the inverse of cool anf that doesnt seem fair.

[@thriftypsgr]

I love my chatterfang

[@thrillhouse4151]

Ahh my Voltaic Key just arrived for my boring deck! Why untap Shorikai when I can untap The Ring?!

[@Dgoold2]

Don’t have any commanders on this list gang 😎

[@timkoHRMNY]

lol all of my commanders are either poop or D except Giada. Great video tho 😂

[@teferitoots8043]

No Urza? What is your grade? I give it a D, maybe poop.