Commander Cards MOST Worth Buying | Cards that are 100% Worth Their Price

[@IdlestHands]

Here's the list for easy copy and pasting: Felidar Retreat Species Specialist Rhythm of the Wild Teferi, Master of Time Altar of Dementia Goblin Bombardment Toxic Deluge Beast Whisperer Field of the Dead Bolas's Citadel Agent of Treachery Goblin Welder Deadly Rollick Cathars' Crusade Dig Through Time Chord of Calling Living Death Bala Ged Recovery Mizzix's Mastery Mystic Confluence

[@NitpickingNerds]

Feel free to paste that list into any of your favorite affiliate link shopping carts 😂

[@dwaldron]

@@NitpickingNerds maybe post a direct link to this list to buy these in the description? Make that dough boyyyys!

[@obadijahparks]

Way to shorten this video.

[@lum26akua28]

Ready for the price on all these to increase.

[@jimjordan29]

Have all but 3 of these, that makes me feel good.

[@Vidious808]

I'd love to see a video of you guys going over your personal decks.

[@NitpickingNerds]

It's on our list of vids to make!

[@kovala]

The dream. I know it’s gone now but damn do I wanna see Beezy’s Skullbreezy deck.

[@SirCorn]

"So this is my Golos deck, but I know what you're thinking... It's not that kind of deck. But it does use Field of the Dead as a backup finisher..."

[@thebootknifer]

I would love to be your celebrity guest for this video. And by Celebrity, I mean a complete random off the internet.

[@JohnDoe-df7bl]

How about a gameplay episode

[@sweetjamin01]

Long work day over, cold beer in hand, and Nerds on the screen. Nice.

[@JaimeAGB-pt4xl]

Being a budget player (none of my decks go beyond the $200 mark), I LOVED this video, specially since I like to stock up on "staples" (yes, there are budget staples) for future projects .... Thanks guys, keep up the great work

[@NitpickingNerds]

Thank you for watching the video 😊

[@JaimeAGB-pt4xl]

@@NitpickingNerds Thank you guys for sharing all the valuable knowledge, not only for deck building and strategy, but also for my pocket ;)

[@WillEnj0y]

$200 is budget? Yikes

[@JaimeAGB-pt4xl]

@@WillEnj0y sadly... it kinda is... I consider a deck budget $200-100 ... less than 100 tends to (not always of course) be very suboptimal in all ways. While $200-100 you can access to power plays or synergies more often

[@jamesoakley9333]

@@WillEnj0y 100 cards× $2 ave is budget....

[@tylermasek1213]

Agent of Treachery is so good in Araumi. 3 copies for 3 steals then draw 9.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Absolutely NUTS in that deck!

[@robv4849]

@tyler masek AoT is bonkers in my araumi deck

[@andrewduncan9431]

He’s in my Brago

[@robertt.4176]

Wish I'd bought up a bunch of field of the dead when it was 79 cents.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Was it ever that low??

[@robertt.4176]

@@NitpickingNerds For the first month it was under 2 dollars with a low of about 70 cents.

[@BMazeing]

First time checking out your channel. I appreciate your insight and speculations. Great job with a good quality video and visuals. I'm also super impressed at how chill you were about plugging sponsors. I'll be back to watch more.

[@Markjwecho1]

Species Specialist 👌 I love that card. It’s great in my Athreos, God of Passage deck. Pick zombie, then bounce my zombie ETB cards back and forth from my hand/graveyard for tons of value.

[@skirtsftw]

Goblin welder is amazing in my krenko artifact deck

[@loganator326]

Genuinely curious if people think the triomes will go down in price once they leave standard. Shocklands dipped down after they left standard (not by a ton but they're not all 40 bucks now) so I was curious

[@NitpickingNerds]

We can hope, right? If so we need to snag like, 3 of each

[@wlewis19760]

Beast whisperer is so cheap because of the media promo they made of it and ended up on every Walmart Mystery box.

[@WayfarersBauble]

22:59 You say that like it's a bad thing!

[@NitpickingNerds]

But of course not! :P

[@benjaminking3677]

Just some food for thought: chord of calling doesn’t necessarily work well with stuff like craterhoof because it requires you to tap a lot of creatures down. So you might not be able to get your big swing in.

[@NitpickingNerds]

True

[@kyles8294]

That's why you do it on the end step before your turn

[@timbombadil4046]

Agent of Treachery is *absurd* in Araumi. One encore steals 3 permanents, draws 9 cards in a 4 player game.

[@faperito2389]

Pretty much a wincon, yeap, Araumi can do absurd shit so easily, my playgroup fears her so much lmao. Off the top of my head, great cards for her that I put into the deck are: enigma thief(return 3 permanent to each opponent's hand), altar of dementia, syr konrad, treasure cruise, panharmonicon, consuming aberration, mystical reflection, myr battlesphere, agent of treachery, pityless plunderer, peregrine drake, true-eyed navigator, any creature that entombs on etb! Have fun winning!

[@paulhanbury1930]

37:25 There is a consistency: if the target is a spell on the stack, the spell is copied (and not cast); but if the target is a card (in exile or the graveyard, for example), the card is copied and then the spell is cast.

[@paulhanbury1930]

I was wrong... your example of "Teach by Example" doesn't do it the way I expected.

[@p1k4nurxp13sr]

The creature that gets around Toxic Deluge: Norin the Wary 🙃 The Beast Whisperer “reprint” you guys are referring to is the “Walmart” promo that comes with those big box repacks.

[@zoltarbuzz3523]

Love the channel. Keep up the content-becoming one of my fav go to spots for MTG.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Thanks Zoltar we appreciate it!!!

[@zoltarbuzz3523]

@@NitpickingNerds you bet. I’ve been sharing the channel with my FN Spelltable group. 🔥

[@bobbiechristine]

noooo bala ged is a second copy of regrowth not a replacement 😭😭😭

[@josephmaldonado9439]

I love Teferi in muldrotha deck because of the dredge cards I basically get to mill a bunch of cards on each of my oppents turns

[@acmarcan]

Joe’s thoughts on Damnation: “Amazingly Fine”

[@NitpickingNerds]

Sometimes he worries me

[@sasukesteiner177]

I believe the command zone ruling states anytime the commander would change zones you may put it in the command zone so being on the battle field to battlefield no problem but if they reanimated your commander I do believe you can put it in the command zone

[@marsrocks247]

pretty sure the rules say anytime your commander changes zones you can choose to place it into the command zone. so, you can't really... reanimate someone elses commander... you can only force it out of the graveyard back into the command zone.

[@NitpickingNerds]

The rule say specifically hand, exile, library or graveyard

[@marsrocks247]

I am wrong. Derp.

[@canbeone7277]

Mystic confluence DOES have 27 combos. since you can pick the same option more than once and you are picking three times, three options * three options * three options 3x3x3=27

[@atomsk1972]

Nope, it's ten.

[@reddragonminecraftmodsandm4366]

Where are you guys getting these prices? Agent of Treachery cost me $8 and field (which I want for my yarok deck) always shows up as about $20. Is there somewhere I can get them cheaper than card kingdom?

[@NitpickingNerds]

We use tcgplayer prices for all our videos, try checking it out there!

[@reddragonminecraftmodsandm4366]

Okay, thanks for the response

[@NitpickingNerds]

@@reddragonminecraftmodsandm4366 also use our link to help the channel 😅

[@jasonsteavens158]

I frequently shop from both. CK has higher prices usually (not astronomically high) but sometimes you can find the cards for cheaper on CK. I think they mark up their prices for convenience purposes. When you order from CK it's one store so it's all there. Shopping from TCG player is fine and prices are good, however sometimes you have to wait longer for shipping if everything wasn't ordered through direct. In short CK quicker shipping slightly higher prices. TCG player might have you waiting for your cards longer for cheaper.

[@jasonsteavens158]

That is true, I have ordered quite a few "G" grade cards which is there lowest and the cards always are close to NM.

[@psychozen7169]

I missed out on treachery at 99 cents. My friend spent a ton of money on that card and been selling them for 3 to 5$ and still has many copies. I just did not see it and normally I can pick out good cards but at 7 mana at most anyone would want is one copy for niche decks but that card shows up in so many decks who knew?

[@Cr4bc4kes]

Those spells that cast for nothing when your commander is out work really well for Oathbreaker format too.

[@daniellmartin1993]

I just cut Felidar Retreat from my Rin and Seri card pile on Moxfield lol, guess I need to rethink that. BTW Nitpicking Nerds, could I pay you two to look at my card pile on Moxfield and make your own cuts so I could compare your cuts to my cuts?

[@emerson685]

But have you ever cast Living Death from the top of your library using Bolas's Citadel, bringing back your Agent of Treachery to steal your opponents Field of the Dead?!

[@NitpickingNerds]

GOOD GRAVY

[@MTG69]

You will need a shovel for all that salt.

[@joshholmes1372]

Goblin welder seems amazing in prosper tome bound. Cheat out bolas, or cloudkeep and sac outlet.

[@meatrace]

Agent of Treachery goes into my: Marchesa, the Black Rose, Muldrotha, Yarok, and Aminatou decks. And every time I cast it I become archenemy. But then I yoink their Cradle or something and it's always worth it.

[@kiprockwood5232]

The only time you cast copies of spells is when the card is exiling cards from graveyards then copying them so that actually makes sense

[@dakotastockton4883]

Love the video. Realized I had cards to get still. Cord of calling for Yaron, and cathars crusade for alela, artful provocateur

[@bombermen1000]

Thx now I'm gonna combo nadir kraken, ashnods altar and species specialist...

[@RubrDuky1]

Casting copies vs just copying: when a spell is on the stack, the copy is created on the stack. When you copy a spell card in a different zone, the game cannot create the copy on the stack. In order to get the copy on the stack, it needs to be cast.

[@allbadmanners]

5:36 I use the +1/+1 counter when someone has a blind obedience or static orb etc... In play.

[@voxkine9385]

I’ve actually begun running more land destruction recently. Field of the dead is an amazing piece, but makes a very obvious case for why land destruction (targeted, not mass) is unduly taboo. I just ordered several obsidian charmaws because I’m tired of games where having counters to major combo pieces is forbidden…

[@NitpickingNerds]

Exactly! It's time to answer Vesuva, Coffers, Cradle, Field, and Valakut. I've been liking Fulminator Mage as well

[@Mana2Burn]

19:35 - My favorite border

[@mmmbetter55]

Question for Cathar's Crusade- if I have a token generating sorcery that lets me put out say, 4 goblins, does it trigger once for each goblin? Or just once for the entire spell? Thanks

[@MrDeeluv1996]

+1/+1 counter trigger for each goblin. So each will get 4 +1/+1 counters.

[@mrurameshi9433]

Rainbow Vale, RL rares from Mirage, cards from The Dark with no reprints 🔥

[@wolframflorian]

Whenever someone of our Playgroup casts Rythm of the wild, the whole table starts to sing "The Rythm of the night" by Corona, but with wild instead of night... 😂

[@Zwagger318]

Imagine Cathars’ Crusaide and scute swarm

[@RazgrizAce67]

I think Species specialist is a good card but for zombie tribal as you guys mentioned, Undead Augur, Midnight Reaper, and Graveborn Muse are better options as they are zombies themselves. But for sure, other tribes without draw support love it, I have it in my B/R Goblin tribal.

[@jordonpohl7393]

Love this 🙌 went to look for species specialist the other day at LCS but no luck :( … from commander deck specific right? Gotta start buying online 🤦‍♂️

[@NitpickingNerds]

Good luck!

[@andreaferro3850]

fable passage + felidar retreat and cathars'crusade is a great combo

[@squenjamin3508]

Rythm of the wilds is so good in my animar deck. Great video

[@boombox_up_to_11]

The number of combinations for Mystic Confluence is an n choose k with repetition problem. With 3 options and 3 choices that gives us 10 possible combinations: Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Bounce Counter Counter Draw Counter Bounce Bounce Counter Bounce Draw Counter Draw Draw Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Draw Bounce Draw Draw Draw Draw Draw

[@adconklin]

I plan on building a trelassara deck and adding felidar retreat and a beast whisperer. Any other suggestions? Love the channel. I love that you keep it budget centered.

[@Kysa2]

Felidar retreat is amazing in a Chulane deck

[@breakingtide]

I did buy a 4 of for species specialist when it dropped. So good.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Confirmed good by the nn

[@elipetrou9308]

Mine is liliana dreadhorde general, really expensive, but incredibly good.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Card puts in WORK

[@realinitials4909]

Btw altar of dementia mill can’t kill it’s different rule wise for some reason.

[@enderfratze6602]

I bet that both of em have a great position in those cards :P

[@jamesoakley9333]

I enjoy the videos and look forward to more.

[@PawzBrownMTG]

I really enjoyed this video guys keep up the great work

[@golgariguy]

Well I have 17/20, not too bad... Time to buy the 3 missing ones! :)

[@Winterhe4rt]

Arent there like over 20 different combinations of Mystic Confluence?

[@Deviant_Entity]

As far as I can count, Mystic Confluence has 10 total options: 1. Counter, Counter, Counter 2. Counter, Counter, Return 3. Counter, Counter, Draw 4. Counter, Return, Return 5. Counter, Return, Draw 6. Counter, Draw, Draw 7. Return, Return, Return 8. Return, Return, Draw 9. Return, Draw, Draw 10. Draw, Draw, Draw

[@stuartgoodlad1481]

Looks like Joe cherries I wearing a pointed blue hat!

[@joshuahall1249]

Fire Covenant is about 5 bucks. Great multi-targeting spot removal.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Also a sweet card we play a lot

[@stevenfairhaven6388]

When you make recommendations are you allowed to put the set it comes from because sometimes it’s hard to read the bottom part of the car to see if you wanna buy that car and I guess their links that you put in but not always can you just say whatever said they are from but you’re talking about thanks appreciate it if possible

[@psychozen7169]

My rule on buying cards. If I buy one I buy 2. If I want a playset I buy 2 playsets. If it card I am going to flip after a reprint I won't tell you how many I will buy but it usually so many that when the price doubles I make enough to feed my cardboard addiction.

[@daimonds.7306]

Whats with the hate against blightsteel colossus?😂 Can somebody link me to the vid where they first mentioned it?

[@catit6599]

Speacie specialist tracking sand creatures on the beach

[@Chonus]

1 year later and deadly rollick is more than double the price.

[@Ninguin]

Mizzix’s plus thousand year storm would be a degenerate combo

[@NitpickingNerds]

Game over more like :P

[@djbisson9819]

I love mystic confluence. One of my pet cards for sure.

[@NitpickingNerds]

It’s such an awesome card!

[@stevenfairhaven6388]

Getting back into Magic and Main out that long what’s ETB

[@g1stylempdesign929]

Great video!!

[@donshackles2031]

Everyone forgets lurking predators

[@SWAT6809]

Field of the Dead? Jokes on you, I preordered a playset for 1€ total. :D

[@wolfgangbang21]

living death with tergrid sat on my battlefield

[@O.G.Alphaborn]

I think your link TO TCGPLAYER IS BROKEN. Also I have in the past bought cards using the link how do I know if you got credit for my purchase. I might be having issues because I am using my phone to make the purchase now. Laptop seems ok

[@kainar4046]

I love it. Great content.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Thank you ! Great viewer 😊

[@Npocommander]

Back to nature is the best to buy with all those enchantments decks

[@NitpickingNerds]

It’s ok

[@Npocommander]

@@NitpickingNerds on mtgo there are a minimum of 4 enchantments matters deck sissay mardu green white and esper, and even voltron enchantments decks

[@vecvecvec]

for the record mystic confluence has 27 options-- 3 modes to pick from with each choice and choosing 3 times 3x3x3=27

[@stainedClass2112]

it's 10 options because order is important. i.e., because the effects resolve in the order printed on the card, not in the order you select them, it's a permutation not a combination

[@vecvecvec]

@@stainedClass2112 o shit ur right

[@austinbentheimer9452]

24:57 Nice

[@NitpickingNerds]

We are 10/10 mature

[@afriendofafriend5766]

Can someone explain to me how the "support your lgs" cards work

[@NitpickingNerds]

Unfortunately we don't know exactly lol

[@meatrace]

I'm still baffled that Citadel is as cheap as it is. Maybe cuz it's 6 mana, and is such a combo-enabler that people see it as just not fun. One day we're going to wake up and it will be a $25 card, mark my word.

[@GunzOfWarNoobz]

"he hunts clerics, so stupid" ah, you haven't met patches from dark souls

[@Mavczers]

+1 on teferi? More like +4 on teferi And there is some promos of chord of calling for like 1,99$.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Mwahaha

[@uphillwalrus5164]

Toxic Deluge is arguably worse than Damn in many ad nauseam decks

[@gtesorieri]

Species Specialist + Extintion Event

[@NitpickingNerds]

Flavor fail or win?

[@dmereel]

Joe looks like Ben Affleck

[@alexbiersner3350]

This caaaaaahhhhhd is great

[@TheCrimsonYoshi]

The real trick is to buy all of the cheap, splashable hate effects that turn these off. ;)

[@williamstotzkowski148]

Aside from felidar retreat and species specialist, every one of the cards you discussed, are heavily played staples in commander. I'm glad I skipped through the video instead of watching the whole thing.

[@TheUbiouS]

Where is Grave Titan???

[@pepesantiago3806]

Altar of dementia over ashnods altar??? Nah ashnods is better even with the aggro u pull

[@catit6599]

Mizzizs mastery is more pike rise of the dark realms but one sided

[@terencetensen3832]

38:21 Magecraft doesn't work like that dudes, you need to copy a " spell " and not a " card " .

[@NitpickingNerds]

WAT. That's so lame and confusing T_T

[@terencetensen3832]

@@NitpickingNerds Also Veyran doesn't work with delated triggers like Pyromancer's Goggles and Primal Wellspring :(

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

"If they don't kill it, you can't lose!" You underestimate how bad I can make a deck. In my last game, I had three tutors in my hand and no idea what to do with them.

[@NitpickingNerds]

😂

[@elipetrou9308]

Yikes

[@johnperseo1044]

My first time playing demonic tutor in commander was T2 demonic tutor for a basic swamp. Who knew demonic tutor was a bad sylvan scrying. 😅

[@elipetrou9308]

@@johnperseo1044 bruh, just get solo ring if you really need mana

[@johnperseo1044]

@@elipetrou9308 It was my 1st time piloting a friends deck new to commander. It's was a good laugh thinking back. I agree ofc but again I was new to the deck and format.

[@EdHGuru]

Rhythm of the wild with persist creatures and death loops chefs kiss

[@voxkine9385]

I think you just described my Korvold deck…

[@Orrphoiz]

I JUST BUILT A KORVOLD DECK WITH THIS GOD DAMN IT STOP READING MY MIIIIIND

[@jeffnorris211]

Grumgully!!!!!

[@bobbiechristine]

the most worth buying?! sounds like a list of a thousand grave titans baybee 😎😎😎😎

[@waitingwarrior4203]

I love your content. Not gonna lie. You guys have got some awesome commentary, fast and funny information. Ugh i've been looking for a commander podcast JUST like yours for so long. Keep it up guys

[@bastienclarke1810]

Pioneer is great! Lots of play locally in person.

[@N1ghthavvk]

37:25 There's already consistency with copying spells by the way: * Cards (in graveyards, hands, exile, etc.) are copied first, then cast (and maybe exiled afterwards). Examples: Isochron Sceptre, Mizzik's Mastery, Reversal of Fortune * Spells on the stack are always just copied and never cast. Examples: Bonus Round, Dualcaster Mage, Radiate It's basically just two different types of effects.

[@NitpickingNerds]

I didn’t know that but thank you for explaining

[@SirDeLisSDLTV]

@@NitpickingNerds and also, when you copy cards with Mizzix’s Mastery and such effects - you don’t get magecraft triggers for copying, just for cast. It works like this because magecraft triggers on “whenever you copy instant or sorcery spell”, but in every other zone not in stack - it’s not a spell, it’s a card.

[@selkokieli843]

anyone know why this is?

[@SirDeLisSDLTV]

@@selkokieli843 because spells are not cards.

[@mathieubrebouillet714]

I'm glad to see I got nearly all the cards under 5 €

[@NitpickingNerds]

Solid choices!

[@Oreospartacus]

I love your videos. I’m new to magic and you guys have been a huge help in putting together a deck that lets me hold my own on Friday nights!

[@trialbyicecream]

Don’t dead open inside (first time seeing that. How much else am I missing?) great video btw.

[@NitpickingNerds]

We have all the secrets!

[@thrillhouse4151]

Didn’t know Species Specialist existed, that’s why I watch these videos! My toxic deluge arrived today!

[@NitpickingNerds]

We got you homie!