Top 30 Colorless Utility Lands For Commander

[@sawderf741]

When you play field of the dead it's good to add one of each basic snow land for the extra card names.

[@zix308]

I really like endless sands. Get extra etb as well as protection for creatures. Still taps for mana and is a desert if you are running something like scavenger grounds.

[@maxmazza2987]

Me, with a Kozilek commander deck: "I'm already 4 parallel universes ahead of you."

[@benyura]

Speedrunning Mario is too powerful!

[@johnpratts2856]

I understood that reference. 😊

[@ydpf]

You probably won’t see this. But I’ve been binge watching your videos lately. For your next “commander cards you should be playing” video. Please include Ashes to Ashes if you believe it should see more play. I love this card. I really just want to hear you talk about it and ways to use it/decks to use it in. Thanks. It’s a great card because it allows you to exile 2 creatures for 3 mana, this also gets around indestructible.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

it is a great card. i'm going in alphabetical order so i will eventually get back around to it again.

[@nervosuu]

I liked rogues passage in hapatra bc if I have no other options, I can put a counter and get a snake just by attacking

[@heraclius1045]

I know these are crazy expensive but The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Vale and Bazaar of Baghdad are super powerfull in certain decks.

[@Illianor123]

The main reason I want strip mine is for abundant growth and similar cards. Getting that basic land that taps for 5+ is important

[@punkypinko2965]

Elephant graveyard ... $350. I'm making a Hamza deck. Now I remember why I didn't include it :)

[@110890nick]

I think make would be ok in a burn deck because you need the time to get mana and your combo rdy for play

[@fallendeus]

Field of the dead wouldnt be terrible in an omnath deck if you are running snow lands in addition to normal basics because then you are basically at the same point of running 4 colors but only actually running 2 and snow lands are basics so all ramp cards work with them. Mountain, snow mountain, forest, snow forest.. boom already at 4 different named lands and field would be 5 so just two other lands and you're set.

[@angelfury8182]

You left out the best utility land in magic. The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

[@BananaNationTV]

14:05 glad we dont have to say that sentence anymore about nearly every land/big mana card

[@TitoHalberd]

Field of the dead can be good even on monocolor decks but you need to use a fair amount of non basic lands. For example I'm using it on me Azusa EDH along with 25 non forest lands + bala ged recovery + turntimber symbiosis.

[@sawderf741]

Safe have a scute swarm after you make a token. That way they have to get rid of it twice.

[@chadanenberg6454]

Tyrite sanctum is beast in my muldrotha deck

[@jaygriffiths100]

I feel like Forge of Heroes is outclassed by Tyrite Sanctum which leaves Forge of Heroes only viable in a deck where a Planeswalker was the Commander. You mentioned Safe Haven but not Endless Sands which is a better version of the same card since it produces mana, is a desert (if that is relevant), and you can sac it anytime (not just during your upkeep) to return creatures to the battlefield.

[@marvin5342]

I play field of the dead in rhys the redeemed just because of fetchland/ and ramo synergie also I have almist no basics and those are split in sbow covered and not

[@walkingdonut1385]

I've been wondering how you would make a colorless commander deck

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i actually have a really funny idea for that.

[@marvin5342]

@@edhdeckbuilding are you going to make a video on that?

[@edhdeckbuilding]

@@marvin5342 I just might do that.

[@laughlan]

My karn deck can win on turn 1 ⚔️

[@110019a]

Field of the dead only 17 it is buster in like all decks

[@heavenbot]

Fuck yeah, lands!! Just foil-peel your favorite utility land, grab a Golos, and build a janky ass deck around it. I recommend Frostwalk Bastion, it's a weird one!

[@JUSTINBURPER666]

I run a Tatyova deck with an infinite stripmine loop and a few ways to get it online, though I NEVER use it unless I absolutely know I can end the game then and there. It's just not fun for anyone and politics are hard enough when you're drawing 1/3 your deck per turn anyways.

[@sawderf741]

When you pay mana and tap a land to use it's ability: you pretty much pay that mana plus one.

[@motherbat8344]

time counters dont go on permanents really, they go on cards in exile.

[@Logic-cg7qy]

Think you forgot Tabernacle. Also, Tower of the Magistrate is fantastic and I find is often more useful than Arcane Lighthouse

[@edhdeckbuilding]

not sure about the comparison. tower of the magistrate gives protection from artifacts. sure you got the right card?

[@technyst]

@@edhdeckbuilding I think the idea is that Tower absolutely hoses any voltron/equipment decks that come up in your meta. Having a land that hates out an entire strategy is very powerful.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

@@technyst sure unless the greaves is already attached, then you can't target it.

[@Logic-cg7qy]

@@edhdeckbuilding you're right, shouldn't have compared the two. But Tower is still a great colorless utility land because it just hoses equipment

[@tacocat1466]

Didn’t even mention zacama on sanctum of eternity

[@jeffweitzel6312]

high market seems good for token players sacrifice them to gain life

[@HZAres]

careful putting too many of these in your decks, colored mana is important

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

You're Marc Maron, aren't you?

[@Garl_Vinland]

The absolute conceit this man has for Tribal decks.

[@joaolargado]

Man, i'm so happy that i found your channel! I love to build decks just for the fun of it. And you give me such good ideas! I dont have a playgroup so i build them in my deck app and now im feeling excited to build some physical decks to play with myself. Much love and keep going, bro!

[@edhdeckbuilding]

thank you. glad you enjoy.

[@hahahafunniness]

Same. Kindred spirits 😢

[@glimlik]

Wow! Every time I watch a new episode of EDH Deckbuilding, I learn something new. Thank you for the awesome content!

[@wollexq5893]

Magic has such a sick amount of different cards!

[@Wrokzor]

Elephant Graveyard/Swarmyard are also really good in Orvar.

[@josephconnolly8493]

Yea, any Changeling commander like Morophon too.

[@badass4208]

Yeah, and just 500 Dollar for Elephant Graveyard

[@griffinwolf5704]

Yeahhh! Griffin Canyon! It's me- I am the one guy you are addressing. Happy to be here! It's Zeriam though, not Zuberi.

[@ZaberFangAT]

Another note with Nesting Ground - the second target doesn't have to be one you control. You could even just use it to move -1/-1 counters from your creatures to your opponents'. There's probably other counters as well. For instance there was a legendary creature that put bounty counters on your creatures. I don't remember what they did exactly, but it would be useful to be able to move them around.

[@lokidragon8725]

There's a desert version of safe haven, called Endless sands, that taps for mana. I run both in my zirilan of the claw deck, they're good at getting around his exile at end of turn downside. They also work as instant blinks for anything that has a coin counter on it in Athreos the shroud-veiled you don't even need to sacrifice them the creatures just come straight back without a counter! XD

[@jakeknell6358]

So happy for this episode. My favorite type of card has always been (utility) land!

[@Draconior87]

I love when my glacial chasm sits there while my suspended eldrazi are getting closer and closer. Or when I drop glacial chasm with muldrotha. That usually ends the game.

[@issacsantana6419]

Was actually trying to find something like this the other day. Great timing!

[@aquablue3dsi]

Nesting Grounds move your luck counter to your gemstone caverns onto another land. Why? Cuase your land needs some luck :D

[@DUxMORTEM]

The fact he references merith when Muldrotha is the best graveyard commander in the game, somewhat blows me away.

[@armon3344]

Blast zone is my favorite piece of interaction ever, so versatile

[@joshuiadloehr9897]

nesting grounds can keep the 2nd age counter off your glacial chasm or anything else with cumulative upkeep (also don’t forget solemnity for C.U.)

[@burningpapersun1]

I love strip mine and I put it in my 3 color kess deck a lot. Sometimes I just want to lock another player who is playing multicolor as well, then you take out that 2 color land they need. Good times.

[@robloxplayer0003]

"In a golos deck this is an auto-include" Wizards: :)

[@marvin5342]

Please do a video on your rules of deckbuilding, I would be really interested in that

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i sorta did already. but i'll probably make a newer one.

[@dreddbolt]

Zuberi (Golden Feather) currently has 49 decks on EDHrec.

[@hermodnitter3902]

Griffin Canyon also goes well with every legendary creature that is a changeling, or in any changeling heavy deck

[@nathanielh.6711]

Field of the dead is fantastic in 2-color decks even, especially green. You have snow covered and normal basics and at least two other lands plus field and already you are making ton of zombies. And now imagine vesuva on field and using fetch lands. 2/2 zombies are very good for earthcraft and gaeas Cradle and other creature count matters strategies.

[@VitorFaccio]

watching this video today, 3 years after release, now with Omo, Queen of Vesuva available, is giving me a lot of ideas....

[@lukenzur1667]

Field of the Dead - personally i feel this is broken in Commander - I have his land nearly in all of my 3+ color commander decks - OMG - once you have the seventh land out - every land drop after + 1 zombie - that's one blocker, a creature to sac or great to get a creature to swing with :)

[@Drifthut]

I play a memnarch deck. Not because I'm a scum bag... but I like the idea of creating synergies mid game. I completely agreed with the idea of non creature spells typically being the cards that ended the game. Then I met bane of progress. Recurring bane of progress. Now I run void shatter 🤮

[@marknicklason]

Big draw for urborg [and yavimaya for that matter]. It lets glacial chasm and maze of ith tap for mana. Much bigger deal for chasm, but not nothing with maze.

[@SteveHarvey2]

This video came out a few months before Urza's Saga. You could make the case for that being number 1 now. It easily cracks the top 5 though.

[@josephbienek4504]

Acceptable video overall, but his next level assessment of some of these cards is sub-par at best. Case in point Cavern of Souls so low. Field of the dead will only be used in a deck that is gonna abuse it. Why spend the large price on a land that isn't going to be maximized

[@henlohenlo689]

was ice floe mentioned? ice floe: tap target creature you may choose not to untap ice floe, and as long as ice floe is tapped that creature remains tapped. this might be better than maze of ith because it can stop a creature with a tapping activated ability. but it could be also use along side maze of ith. there is a draw back though is that it can't target a creature that has flying. but has the extra perk of locking down creatures with tap abilities.

[@petermason7221]

Regarding Nesting Grounds, only other card that does something similar is Slippery Bogbinder but only moves counters from your creatures to target creature.

[@keiharris332]

Hmm... those first 2 lands scream changeling deck. Too bad they don't even have triple digits worth of choices...

[@MycobraII]

In Horobi death's wail commander deck your maze of ith taps to kill any creature.

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Top 30 utility lands? Fantastic!

[@norrock1]

Why couldn't mono colored decks run field of the dead successfully? If the entire land base is non basics shouldn't be an issue. You may not trigger it every turn but it'll trigger enough

[@blorgarmy2605]

What’s the song you use in your intro? It absolutely slaps!

[@tefin420]

Worth noting rogues passage is target creature not creature you control. If the boards congested and your the easiest but not best player to hit you can say "hey don't hit me and I will make your creature unblockable" there are decks I play it in where I make other people's creatures unblockable more than my own

[@igdebubwe4521]

Another solid pick is terrain generator

[@marcellosalis5063]

Opal Palace is better than Forge of Heroes. Opal Palace costing 1 more mana is not a downside because it gives you back a mana of any color.

[@satpiegaming6756]

I use crumbling vestige in my Kenrith deck to pay for eldrazi displacer/peregrine drake combo!

[@BatCaveOz]

Field of the dead is overrated trash.

[@xavierdrakhen]

Pretty nice to see many of the lands i love in a top list. One interaction i have used many times and that i would like to share is to remove the counter from blast zone with nesting grounds and blowing up zero mana artifacts and tokens. Many players don't see that one coming. As for the question: "how many colorles do i put on 4 or 5 colored decks?" I would say max 3. And there is gotta be a very strong interaction with the strategy overall to meet that 3 cap. In my ramos deck for example i included 2 colorless lands. Both give flash to all spells. (Don't recall the names of the top of my head) one has a simic activation and the other sacs itself. This is to maximize the usage of ramos mana producing ability during my opponents turns.

[@moxavenger]

Glacial Chasm & Eon Hub.

[@DUxMORTEM]

The fact he references merith when Muldrotha is the best graveyard commander in the game, somewhat blows me away.

[@DUxMORTEM]

The fact he references merith when Muldrotha is the best graveyard commander in the game, somewhat blows me away.

[@DUxMORTEM]

The fact he references merith when Muldrotha is the best graveyard commander in the game, somewhat blows me away.

[@michaelericson45]

IF you have an Elephant graveyard xD I just looked at the price and my heart died a little bit xD

[@moritzbierdimpfl7233]

i like blast zone because of the art and because u can just hate on tokens if you have a way to remove the counter.

[@NovaBugDrayosix]

field of the deck is mainly used in a deck that like's to use a certain card, that let's you get rid of all of your lands, and swap them out for different ones from the deck tapped. I know there is a deck i saw, that had a token doubler, and then played that card, and it let them send their 10 lands to the grave, get 10 lands from the deck including field of the dead, and then get 20 2/2 black zombies on board.

[@jetazei7807]

Scapeshift?

[@NovaBugDrayosix]

@@jetazei7807 yah that's it! scapeshift :D

[@garythacker6731]

I play field of the dead in Omnath Locus of Creation. And it does work

[@kriptonite981]

I love using High Market in my Nevinyrral deck, cause most sac outlets will be destroyed, but lands stay

[@broejoe53]

YOOO Glacial Clasm is GREAT in a Heartless Hidetsugu deck

[@nanoacido5174]

Isn't Command Beacon underplayed? Shouldn't it go into every deck where the commander is 5< and essential for the deck?

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i honestly don't see command beacon that much. very surprising.

[@G8RRPh1]

I may be reading this wrong, but could I take a finality counter off of one my permanents and place it on an opponents? From target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Doesn't specify onto a target permanent you control.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

correct.

[@thumbwrestler12]

Cool video awsome lands I might use some of them

[@ApexZer0]

Glad to see you taking field of the dead down a peg. The card isn't that good in edh

[@mor4261]

Tower of the magistrate for stripping equipment. Very fun!

[@MrTurbomillenium-dd5fj]

Glacial Chasm is a powerhouse in landfall decks.

[@johnshepherd5669]

What happens if, with nesting grounds, you move an age counter to a permanent that does not have the cumulative upkeep rule, do they have to pay to keep it?

[@solyluna4967]

No

[@leet9548]

Field of the Dead is best in a Yarok deck. In my opinion.

[@algee2005]

but ... ain't all lands technically colorless though?

[@-8h-]

Temple of the false gods is probably my most hated land.

[@SWNJim]

Emergence Zone is way too low. People often forget about it, you crack it when you need it, and it can’t be removed unlike Vedalken Orrery or another flash granting permanent. It’s my first include after Command Tower in all of my Mardu decks.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

well clearly you value flash more than most.

[@SWNJim]

@@edhdeckbuilding Flash is one of the most powerful abilities in the game. Most people would agree that instants are better than sorceries, because they can be played whenever you want, and not limited to your main phases. This puts all of your sorcery speed spells at that same level. In fact, was announced that flash will be given to white to help fix the color.

[@norrock1]

I run field of the dead in my simic tokens. I love it in there

[@schlockfather]

Boseiju is hella great. Makes your Blaspehmous Act uncounterable after you have a Repercussion/Varchild's war-riders synergy engauged. Get on that investment before it's too late haha

[@theinfinitejourney904]

I put field of the dead in an ulamog deck and it destroyed

[@flodehaan3935]

Dude... Tabernacle! Ever played against it? You lose!

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i didn't include it for that reason. too expensive and isn't really a casual card. i see no point in putting a card like that on this list because it helps no one.

[@cax1175]

Buried ruin is an amazing artifact recovery land

[@sanokillzone]

I run urborg and kormus bell in my Marisi deck.

[@julianvickers]

How did Safe Haven make the list but the considerably better Endless Sands didn’t?

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i don't consider it better. too mana intensive.

[@julianvickers]

@@edhdeckbuilding it's considerably better because it taps for mana and you can activate it whenever you want. The first thing being critical. There's a reason Safe Haven is in barely any decks at all and wouldn't make most people's top 30 utility lands list. Calling Safe Haven too mana intensive is neglecting the fact that it doesn't tap for mana itself. If you play Safe Haven, you are missing out on a mana that a regular land could have tapped for every single turn. Let's say you played it on turn 3. By Turn 7 you've given up 5 mana in total.

[@quinnastin3670]

Ghost Quarter in my Titania deck is the goat

[@tefin420]

Also with no budget let's not forget The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

[@edhdeckbuilding]

yes i purposely left that card off the list.

[@DUxMORTEM]

For me geier reach sanitarium is an auto include in all decks. 2 mana for a loot effect in bad situations could be a life saver.

[@haseltine1560]

Late reply but a lot of people don’t know you can use it to deck anyone in cedh using a pact or consultation line before they thassa

[@LoveStrangeDr]

Counterpoint to using Strip Mine over Wasteland in paper EDH: it’s much cheaper.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i was actually shocked to find out it was cheaper. i'm not even sure why.

[@LoveStrangeDr]

@@edhdeckbuilding I think it's because Strip Mine is banned in Legacy and Restricted in Vintage. I do agree that it probably freaks people out more when they see it over Wasteland. Thought depending on your meta that could be considered advantageous. lol

[@GrompEconomics]

I prefer detection tower, because I have had one too many run-ins with my opponents making THEMSELVES hexproof in my decks that need to target my opponents lol

[@owlsayssouth]

Command beacon is meh. Just ramp.