10 Cards You Should Be Putting In Your Commander Decks | Episode 23

[@Stu-Houston]

This series is responsible for at least 20 additions to my commander decks. Keep these vids coming man. Love it.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

you are welcome good sir.

[@flailingweasel8541]

Thanks for Burnout. I always get at least one or two cards from these lists.

[@basicgiraffology3709]

Burnout goes in every one of my red decks. Not because it is a counter, but because it has the best flavor text, and channeling Dave Chappella "GOTCHA bitch" lmao

[@johnhildreth6681]

Burnt Offering. As per usual, you keep giving me the cards I didn't know my decks wanted/needed. Keep it up man. Love these vids!

[@ssnow5516]

Love Jaya’s quote on burnout. Quality. Feels like I might make an awesome quotes jank deck

[@_skux_life5023]

Adding bubble matrix to my Varina deck and loved seeing burnt offering, I have that in my Prossh deck. Love these lists!

[@whirlwindsky]

Captain's Hook I love in my Blim, Comedic Genius deck, since instead of just his normal strategy of giving his own things away I'll use effects like Enslave and Confusion in the Ranks to give my opponents creatures to other players. The hook will help keep the bigger things in check. Also going to give Bubble Matrix a try in my Thantis, the Warweaver deck.

[@fishinfromscratch5484]

Great stuff! I've been running Bubble Matrix in my Maze's End deck since the gates came out.

[@gman963]

I put Skirge Familiar in my Damia deck too. It doesn't ramp as hard, but it puts the cards in your graveyard instead of exiling them if that's something you want to do for reanimator strategies.

[@EidoEndy]

Bubble Matrix! I love using it with Pariah.

[@immortalgamer3960]

My wife runs Brutal Horde Chief in her Saskia deck and it has straight up won her several games. It's real good. Bubble matrix seems like it could be pretty good in mill. You don't actually have to have red in your deck to run burnt offering. It only counts mana symbols, since the card just says red, it's fine. Hmm, I was originally thinking that Burnout was just worse than Red Elemental Blast, but after you talked about it, I think it might actually be better. Cool.

[@supereece1337]

ha, bubble matrix would work great in my Reidane damage reduction tribal deck and it'll go fantasticly with protector of the crown

[@timtauber5557]

Prosper/bloom was the type II deck that made cadaverous bloom famous. It’s a very underrated card still. Works pretty well with necro or ad nauseam, in conjunction with torment of hailfire in my opinion.

[@ruitan1060]

Bubble matrix could be used in a firesong and sunspeaker deck

[@zoltarth]

bubble matrix would be particularly good in a token deck, you can swing wide and chump block for eternity, I always love seeing these neat finds

[@adamboin719]

Burn offering goes great in Licia, Sanguine tribute. 8 cmc commander you can cast for 3, then burnt offering into an Exsanguinate

[@Storehouse-805]

You outdid yourself on this one!

[@dreddbolt]

> Definitely had to put Brutal Hordechief in my Licia (Sanguine Tribune) deck. > Burnout is basically an auto-include in a mono-red deck for me just out of principle. I don't have any copies currently though. > Captain's Hook definitely needs to go into my Ardenn // Rograkh partner deck.

[@emerson685]

Callous Oppressor is awesome! It's also really good with Thassa, Deep Dwelling and Conjurer's Closet, because you can take the creature, blink into play under your control, and reuse Callous Oppressor's ability.

[@CUtTHrOaT_GHOST]

Captain's hook is one of my favorite cards and I was really surprised to see it here! I love pirates, I'm doing a breeches and ravos deck, where you steal all of their shit, can't wait to finish this deck!

[@Nosferat_AN]

Call of the Wild does great things in Vaevictis Asmadi, The Dire

[@dangerfield6855]

Burn at the stake should be an auto include in Wort the raidmother or Firesong and sunspeaker. Holy cow.

[@robinros2595]

I choose to believe that "Holy cow" is referring to Firesong and Sunspeaker

[@dangerfield6855]

@@robinros2595 they're minotaurs? So I guess it's be holy goats.

[@robinros2595]

Nah, a Minotaur really is half bull (so cow), half human :)

[@maicolazzalin6017]

Bubbling Muck, what a card! Never seen before, thanks!

[@O_violet]

I'm running Call of the Wild in my Shigeki deck and it works as an alternate way to close games if I get enough mana!

[@markp7262]

Love Burnout, though I haven't put it in any of my decks. At my LGS, when my opponents pull out their blue decks, I pull out my "Yes" deck. Every spell in it either has "Can't be countered." or has Split Second. It's not the most high powered deck, but it's quite funny to watch the control decks scramble to come up with Plan B.

[@Belena711]

I have bubble matrix in my Questing Beast deck. It's pretty sweet there.

[@masonwatamura3742]

Just curious, how does bubble matrix interact with trample?

[@markp7262]

@@masonwatamura3742 You have to assign lethal damage to the creature, which is then reduced to zero. The extra damage still tramples over to the player/planeswalker, but the creature lives.

[@01MEGABOB]

Bubble matrix was my favorite card in my QB build. Perma fog that you don't need to turn on is disgusting.

[@juliablin1684]

It would also be good in a token deck where you build a lot of weenies. You can leave a few behind and swing with the majority of them without having to actually lose any tokens.

[@01MEGABOB]

@@juliablin1684 but the damage is prevented in either direction so the tokens won't die but they won't trade or kill any creatures that block. Only damage to other players isn't prevented by the bubble matrix.

[@skoogebluge]

Just added burnt offering to my Sengir/Jeska deck last month! I play this card, and even the most seasoned players at my shop go…. Woah woah, what the heck is that??

[@robertmendez8383]

Statecraft is almost a second copy of Bubble Matrix if your in blue.

[@wikidclowne6891]

1) Burnout is my personal favorite card. I love the art on it. 2) Burnt Offering can be put in a mono black deck. Although it says black/ red, it doesn't have a red mana symbol on it, which is what affects its identity. 3) That's good tech with Pirates Hook, just remember when you unattach it you have to put it on a creature you control, so pick something expendable or indestructible so when you move it to another opponents creature. Edit: Number 2 is incorrect.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

the reprint of burnt offering has the mana symbol on it, so i'm not sure about that one.

[@wikidclowne6891]

@@edhdeckbuilding Ah, it seems your right. They reprinted it but it's a digital only reprint. It's probably how they'd reprint it if they did put it back on paper. Good call. Edit; I looked at it again and it seems oracle has it with the symbols so you are 100%correct.

[@hermodnitter3902]

@@wikidclowne6891 I came her just to say the same, had no idea that it actually needs a commander with both red and black. I run it in my Prossh deck, luckily I can still run it there.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i'm quite certain that any card that talks about a certain color of mana has now been erratted with the actual mana symbol.

[@gabelujan2836]

I'm not sure if you've thought about this, but I'd love to see a skeleton ship deck tech!

[@BurgerManStan]

Finally someone speaks on cadaverous bloom. It will forever and always be my favorite card in magic. Its so versatile and very slept on.

[@mortem9126]

I love this series! I only recently got into it and it so interesting looking at cards that are largely forgotten. May I request you look at profane momento? If you have discussed in a previous episode that I missed I really do apologise, just that card seems really good, a generic 1 mana artifact that gains you a lot of life.

[@bananabread4217]

So many ideas for my mono red decks!

[@cheer90099]

Burnout and Burn at the Stake will work great in the Reyhan/Tana deck I'm building!

[@Seedmember]

The only card that comes into my mind, that has the same ability as Bubble Matrix, is Rune Tail Kitsune Ascendant/Essense. Of course it goes only into decks with white in them, but its trigger usually happens the moment it enters the battlefield in EDH and it only affects your creatures.

[@TDMicrodork]

Burnt offering is a card I pulled not to long ago. Always looked interesting

[@ZtgWolf1354]

I have an absolute perfect deck for Bubble Matrix. I have a mono red Torbran deck that is ALL non combat damage. It's a ping deck, with all tap to deal damage creatures. Card would be PERFECT for my deck.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

there you go. nice.

[@apock2474]

Great insight as usual!

[@madspyn8]

Thanks for the dailys advices. As a new EDH player, I really like your contents. I'm trying to do a Dimir Zombie deck atm with Narfi. Do you have some ideas for valuables cards ? Have a nice day.

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

Burnout art reminds me of Disintegrate and Incinerate (Mirage version). I love the classic burn them into blackened skeletons, very Red :P

[@WholeLottaNada]

hopefully you see this! it would be great if you could review your yasova dragonclaw deck. i know you had mentioned you had one and it would be awesome to see your take on the deck!! thank you!!

[@edhdeckbuilding]

saw it! i actually don't have it anymore. took apart years ago.

[@FlowADHD]

Bubble matrix is perfect for my galazeth edh deck :)

[@moreparmesan5261]

Play bubble matrix in Pramikon. Trust me. It's awesome.

[@03thinking]

Oooo, I use the #6 in my krenko's 99, it's a blast

[@corrosivecabal]

Call of the Wild is one of my pet cards. I like to use it or Zoologist with Haunted Crossroads or Mortuary.

[@Neuverfleischer]

Bubble Matrix looks fun in Moraug

[@FR3nkly]

Bubble matrix for Sevine 👌

[@sethtobar9843]

By the way, notice that Brutal Warchief's activated ability doesn't say that it has to be you who attacks. You could have one opponent attack another and control the blocking. What I am curious is the wording. "Creatures your opponents control, block if able." So every creature capable of blocking HAS to ? You can't just say "Well, you don't block any of the attackers"?

[@edhdeckbuilding]

they have to block. but you can choose all their creatures to block only one attacker or any other arrangement.

[@austinchuilli3652]

Have you ever brought up caravan vigil it's super underrated ramp 1 green to put a basic in your hand with morbid that puts it on the field untapped

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i will give it a mention just for you buddy

[@tsdunn9]

Burn at the Stake in an Obosh deck could be nice

[@jeansthompson9342]

Hey man, another great vid. Your content is fantastic. Preface: played the sheet out of your Questing Beast list this weekend on MTGO. Absolutely love it. Question for you: Do you consider that deck casual? I'm thinking I'm playing a mono color build that relies on attacking creatures and rabid bites so I'm clearly the most casual dude present, but people get extremely salted when I remove their enchantments and artifacts quick and in a hurry (which your list excels at). Am I not playing "correct" by using removal? Am I not playing "correct" by using removal to early? Are a lot of people just cry babies who quit early when they don't get their way? Would be great to hear your thoughts and opinions on the "culture" of the MTGO commander scene and how to navigate the random tag lines people use for various games (casual, casual-ish, CEDH, Chill-Fun, etc) in a future video. Keep up the great work.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

wow if there's someone out there that doesn't think my questing beast deck is casual, i want to meet them. i don't even consider that deck to have a ton of removal. it's monogreen after all. just sounds like alot of crybabies to me.

[@lokidragon8725]

I used to run Cadaverous bloom in my Garruk Apex predator oathbreaker deck back when that was a viable format. Kinda miss it tbh.

[@ewanporteous2232]

First to view. Ive never done that before! Great episode as usual.

[@DragonairBuddy]

Best merfolk tribal commanders? Looking at simic or mono blue I just have a bunch

[@whirlwindsky]

I got a Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca merfolk tribal and he is very good. If you don't want to use him then Momir Vig, Simic Visionary would also do well. For mono blue I think Kopala, Warden of Waves is really the only "merfolk tribal" specific option, but Empress Galina might work, or even Callaphe, Beloved of the Sea. I think going with a simic option would be best though.

[@DudeMcAwesome]

Shouldn't be so dismissive of putting captains hook in a pirate deck. Becket Brass is grixis so plenty of steal effects there, plus making it a pirate makes the Admirals ability easier to trigger, you steal something and put the hook on that, swing in, steal something else, then switch the hook. You destroy one creature and have the other press gagnged. Love it.

[@robertmendez8383]

Algorithm boosting comment 💪

[@jamesbv4862]

Shriveling rot is a card I just found and put in to a deck and it's already won me two games

[@countmarius75]

Fantastic choices again!

[@alea.4917]

Burn at the stake does wonders in my Kykar deck!

[@zacharythorp6095]

Mmm, Burn at the Stake. I remember playing this when it was in Standard, hitting for 12 to 15. It hasn't registered on my searches because it doesn't do set damage values if you're searching for 4, 5, or 6 damage. Call of the Wild, not so much. This ability was printed at common in War of the Spark, it's still a bad ability. The only, only time it's good is when you are peeking at the top card and when the things being played are quite expensive.

[@michaelcieri3723]

I feel grafted wargear is stronger than the pirate hook as it causes sacrifice not destroy, so you can take someone's avacyn and than move the wargear between creatures and she gets sac'd.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

doesn't work in the ardenn deck though because you can't sacrifice creatures you don't control.

[@michaelcieri3723]

@@edhdeckbuilding fair point. Guess I was focusing more on the act of treason type plays. Will have to consider the hook in any deck I play ardenn.

[@laharlfan71]

only problem with captain's hook is you need creatures on your side you are willing to sacrifice as well

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i see what you mean, but if your in a steal theme you can always just keep stealing and re-attaching to stolen creatures.

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

If I'm not wrong, Bubble Matrix's ability will allow all trample damage through, so... Infect >:)

[@edhdeckbuilding]

hmmm? not sure about that one. trample requires you to do enough damage to kill the creature before you trample over. so if you can't kill the creature with damage it shouldn't trample at all.

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

@@edhdeckbuilding in this case I believe all the damage done to the creature is reduced to zero, but the damage still exists to go on to the player in full. That's how my friends and I always understood it.

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

Never mind, I just looked it up. The excess Trample damage still goes through like normal, the blocking creature will just survive.

[@HinderYourGeneral]

I play bloom and bubbling much in my sultai storm deck.

[@unimaginative_artist]

Brutal Horde Chief is great in my Najeela

[@nathanott3149]

Bubble matrix in nekusar?

[@ericwilson6777]

Great content

[@baulsmahoney]

Cadaverous bloom is so insane. I play this card a lot and it can snowball out of control easily

[@satpiegaming6756]

Burn at the stake seems great for Xyris!

[@satpiegaming6756]

Captain's Hook looks awesome for Hofri steal tribal xD

[@danielgoldberg2129]

So, you were in the BR-CA part of your library today huh? Next up, CA-CR! 😂

[@ameliaward7429]

This is about the fifth video like this where Cadaverous Bloom is featured as an 'overlooked card' and no mention of Prosbloom whatsoever. Guess it got memory holed.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

pretty sure it's the first time i've mentioned that card.

[@ameliaward7429]

@@edhdeckbuilding Right. You are aware that there are approximately 10 other channels that run a similiar series, no? But ya, first time I have seen you mention it. Just noting the trend I have noticed.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i am not aware. everyone says they love the series because no one else does it.

[@ameliaward7429]

@@edhdeckbuilding It's a great series. You got my click and multiple comments. The Magic catalogue is vast so its not like there is a ton of overlap. The alphabetical thing is a new twist which is cool. Like I said, I was just noting how a card like Cadaverous Bloom gets covered alot (because it is a great card) but the nostalgia of it is never so much as mentioned. Its a pretty significant milestone deck in Magic history that's all.

[@royalcollectables]

Hey Demo I would love to talk to you about my deck idea

[@edhdeckbuilding]

patreon gets you more personal attention.

[@Actionman401]

I have burn at the stake in my locust god deck where it isn't hard to get 20-30 locust's

[@DanG626]

Yes. NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT CALLOUS OPPRESSOR.

[@KennethLim-Canasian-Nomad]

Grafted wargear

[@edhdeckbuilding]

actually grafted wargear doesn't work the same. you can only sacrifice things that you control.

[@robertmendez8383]

Dark Ritual is better than Bubbling Muck unless you have more than 5 swamps.

[@Belena711]

More than 4 swamps, you mean.

[@robertmendez8383]

@@Belena711 nah cuz with 5 Dark rit is still better because it's at instant speed and gives the same mana.

[@robertmendez8383]

@@Belena711 wait no my math was off lol

[@robertmendez8383]

@@Belena711 I thought you got the same amount of mana from them at 5 swamps

[@timtauber5557]

Also use a mana rock that can produce black mana to cast it leaving your lands untapped to benefit from the mana doubling effect

[@HughMurphy395]

Grafted Exoskeleton has a similar removal ability to Captains Hook, and I love that card in my Osgir deck.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

the difference being you have to control the creature. you can't sacrifice a creature you don't control.

[@HughMurphy395]

@@edhdeckbuilding true but if you're stealing the creature for the turn, giving it infect and then sacrificing it by equipping the exo to another one of your creatures has merit.

[@Uma_and_friends]

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[@marianocolsin8968]

I don't know how expensive it is, but fatespinner