10 Cards You Should Be Putting In Your Commander Decks | Episode 42

[@phyrexian_dude4645]

You forgot something on Livewire Lash and te main reason it was played when it was in its early days when it was in standard: Infect. Any deck that has an infect card can abuse that equipment a lot and to a lesser extend creatures with Wither too. Another card that has being forgotten is Aether Snap. It has aged like fine wine with so many counters, superfriends and token strategies that have being poping out now days.

[@elsanto2401]

Livewire Lash works well with a Zada Hedron Grinder; you're constantly targeting it with red cantrips and that damage can add up fast

[@gahbunk]

Just woke up, watchin' this with my tea. Gonna buy these all out BAHAHA! But naw. Thanks a tonne for these videos and the work you put into them though. You have definitely helpped me out a few times :)

[@heavenbot]

Legacy Weapon is a pet card of mine! You always pick some gems for these videos, great work

[@SirGrimLockSmithVIII]

I honestly prefer the commander cards that also benefit the opponents or require your opponent to choose something to really go off. It contributes to the eb and flow of a commander game much better than "lemme take the next 15 minutes to play solitaire and beat everyone with Lab Maniac/Thassa's Oracle."

[@schlatta-dirtydeeds9351]

I use Livewire Lash in my budget Syr Carah the Bold deck. Getting that extra burn spell when someone tries to remove her is usually great

[@orsettomorbido]

About Livewire Lash. So, there is a deck called Cephalid Breakfast. Cool deck. It show that you can equip a creature with an equipment that already is equipped to that creature. WELL, enter Puresteel Paladin or Fighter Class. Now you have a three card combo! Or even two! °_°

[@planetpoog]

not sure if you’ve already covered this card in this series but War Report is an extremely underrated common commander card

[@codefive6480]

Man, the cards you post are always fire! Thanks for sharing, as always.

[@olafthemoose9413]

Lifeline is a great card. Works so well with yosei. Kinda mean but nobody can complain about a 3 card combo for around 14 mana that doesn't even win the game on the spot.

[@LTJ]

I have it in 3 of my decks, all aristocrat decks. So good.

[@charliemarlow647]

Big fan of Light From Within! Definitely need to be in a white devotion theme to make the most of it. It's interesting and unique because most of the time people want anthem effects is to buff tokens, but this specifically benefits nontoken creatures.

[@IBN5100SG]

Haha, literally just had Lightmine Field stop everyone else in a Bruna deck. Glad I'm not the only person who still remembers this card.

[@andrewmccallum9829]

You may have already seen this card but I feel like Reverant Mantra is pretty good. Especially for politics

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

As far as green enchantments go I really like Snake Pit,from Mercadian Masques;whenever anyone casts a blue or black spell,put a 1/1 green snake creature token into play. I used it in my simic snake deck,along with mystic snake and the orochi creatures from Kamigawa.

[@shhearns1025]

Not to mention with Leonin Elder it's whenever an artifact, not just specifically when you cast an artifact spell. That's a great card.

[@cobaltdeleon]

If you do an "Underused Removal" video, I'd like to throw out Ashes to Ashes, especially in a life gain strategy. 3 Mana to exile two creatures is pretty great.

[@zxxDarkLightxxz]

He did already mention this card in another 10 cards you should be putting in your commander decks video, that's how I found it! And it's now in my lifegain deck.

[@nathanielnelson5669]

Lightmine field with repercussion with total war or something could be fun (of course dingus staff and death pits of Rath just make this worse...especially if you are giving opponents creatures with varchilds war riders or forbidden orchard). Also stormwild capridor and stuffy doll effects seem effective.

[@astroriehle]

Lifeline seems absolutely bonkers! I want to see people go nuts with that.

[@wjdouma734]

yea, you can make it a one sided effect by using leyline of the void or dauthi voidwalker or similair effects.

[@olafthemoose9413]

May I introduce: yosei the morning star + sac outlet

[@micahhonig1575]

LEONIN ELDER IS SO GOOD. I put it in my Oloro Ajani’s-pridemate-themed deck a while back and it does WORK.

[@bigdawg6471]

I threw lightmine field in my Oloro lifegain-pillowfort deck to help versus a Krenko deck... I eventually just cut it since Krenko decks can easily get out of it with sac-outlets + direct damage, so it really depends how optimized those decks are :) ... but i guess that goes for anything really !

[@Xaxares]

Was hoping to see and hear your comments on Library of Leng. Maybe it's in another video I haven't seen yet.

[@christopherfitzpatrick1483]

from this series so far, the amount of cards demo showed us is 420

[@Veremospostagem]

Lemme just ask something out of curiosity: how many of these episodes do you plan in advance? Took me longer than i've imagined but i kinda figured out that this series always delivers cards for us in alphabetical order. And that's not a bad thing by any means, i've been a sub to your channel since episode 3 when i first met 'Earthshaker Giant' and could afford it as a "budget Craterhoof Behemoth" for my mono-G deck. (also, that episode was about letters "E" and "D", i had to double check, haha!). Nevertheless, my point is: you put a lot of time and effort on your youtube vids and i must say i'd never had heard of tons of good cards i was sleeping on if it wasn't for your channel. So in respect for the time you took by searching and making these lists, i took a little time myself to tell you that i really appreciate your channel and your work here. Thanks a lot, dude. 🙂

[@JimboBango]

Nearly all these cards are new to me! Lightmine field is just a ton of fun imo

[@john30991]

You’re giving me evil ideas for my kinnan deck. All I need is basalt monolith, kinnan, and a mana filter, then I could play out legacy weapon destroy all permanents each my opponents control and fill my board using kinnans ability and potential win off of it

[@Ryluth]

I have a mono green control enchantment deck that abuses painter's servant and lifeforce, it's nasty. I even has alt win cons like Helix in the deck. What video has Jacques in it? I must of missed it

[@chickenwater900]

Live wire lash is crazy in my atemsis deck. I use it as a more interactive replacement for swiftfoot boots

[@VinnieKielbasa]

Lifeforce is sitting in my Elf deck. It's one of the greatest cards you can use against a mono black opponent that you teamed up with. When it comes down to a duel between you and them, you have them locked out with Lifeforce.

[@bend5963]

You should talk about Apostle’s Blessing in your next “10 cards you should be playing video.” It barely sees any play in the format, but it’s a really flexible protection spell allowing you to shield key creatures or artifacts from targeted removal or get in for damage, especially in a voltron deck. I’ve got it in my Halvar equipment deck and it works great

[@empty5013]

you can also use it to counter an enemy creature equipping something. not the best play most of the time, but it might save your life once or twice.

[@bend5963]

@@empty5013 nah cause you can only target artifacts or creatures you control with it

[@empty5013]

@@bend5963 damn, you're right. all these years and i never rtfc :(

[@bend5963]

@@empty5013 all good, I’ve made that mistake before too.

[@protomandln.0003]

I own 3 Livewire Lash, I put one in every infect deck :)

[@andrewmccallum9829]

Just a fun idea for a video series. I know I’ve definitely have seen some cards that I never would have know about

[@tienus82]

Livewire is pretty good in a Skithiryx deck 👍. Also i used to run lightmine field with goad like stuff (fumiko). I thought it was pretty funny.

[@lockecole3726]

9:21 I use it on my Rick, steadfast leader deck.

[@KT-dq6wv]

Fun and unique for sure. In reality, most of these cards are the ones you are cutting for better things. In the other hand, I do fancy owning at least one deck at a time, with more gimmicky stuff. Nevertheless, keep making these videos! I do enjoy them and its always fun to check things, that are not popular

[@adamdaigle847]

I added Leonin Elder to my deck last week and laughed at how long it took me to realize how good it is. I play Azban Bolas citadel lifegain cats... NO BRAINER :)

[@Doomblaaade]

Lightmine Field would be amazing in my Gabriel Angelfire, Circle of Protection deck.

[@lukedeal5150]

Light minefield goes in my Iroas God of victory deck. I have tons of Goblins that love running at mines. Per the flavor text.

[@adrianbusto9102]

Bro some of these are just so good wth

[@Vodkanada]

Question about the Patreon benefits. Does the $10 tier get access to the Discord, or just the $40? Fuzzy on that whole thing.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

everyone gets access to discord.

[@marljevincalabia3746]

Livewire lash on my orvar deck... thoughts?

[@Mecal00]

I actually play Liability in my Ghen (mardu) enchantment deck. It would work well if I could pull off a Ruinous Ultimatum Edit: I've never seen Light from Within, but holy smokes that's good!

[@krunchyapples]

I stuff legacy weapon into pretty much all of my 5 color decks whenever I can because it's just like fist of suns except it removes things instead of putting them onto the field

[@matheusw.colomboandrade3902]

I think livewire lash is a good choice for a mutate deck... or not?

[@kapiatgatas]

I play Light from Within. It gets other players startled because they have not seen the card before. They would not block my 1/1 tokens and got awaken when I said the damage. With True conviction, that's a 6/6 with double strike and lifelink.

[@AwesomeJerkface]

I have livewire lash in my Rhonas the indomitable fight deck.

[@Zamerux]

Does liability just go infinite with mindcrank?

[@meerschweinchen12345]

Nope, since Liability cares about the cards entering the graveyard from the battlefield, not from anywhere. Mindcrank would mill them whenever they lose life but the mill would not trigger Liability. If you are still confused, look at the oracle (actual) text of Liability on Scryfall or Gatherer :)

[@edhdeckbuilding]

it does shut down several combos though, like worldgorger/animate dead

[@meerschweinchen12345]

@@edhdeckbuilding yeah, basically any Sacrifice-Loop gets punished, which makes Liability even better, as Graveyard decks are everywhere :D

[@andrewchristie5296]

Ayeee I use light from within in my Bruna Light of Alabaster edh, thought it’d be more popular

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

I miss Blue's ability to change target text because cards like Lifeline, Lifeforce that target one colour could be changed to target other colours...

[@stonedyeti8825]

Death grip and lifeforce get gross with painter servant I play both

[@terryscheidt6105]

Not a rules expert but doesn't lifeline say "from YOUR graveyard" mean that your opponent can put your card onto their field and they can't recur their own stuff

[@alexknutson1617]

There's an errata out on it. Its a board-wide effect, but good catch

[@p1k4nurxp13sr]

Lifeline is bonkers in any Uro/Kroxa deck. I run it in my Kroxa, and it makes my opponents hellbent in a hurry.

[@TrulySilentLie]

Wait wait wait... Legacy Weapon is Legendary? *Happy Sisay noises*

[@SWNJim]

I have Lightmine Field in a Queen Marchesa “forced combat” deck. I make my opponents attack and they end up nuking their entire army.

[@akmenoskragmar7840]

I use lightmine field in my exalted deck :D

[@kaster108]

Legacy weapon is one of my pet cards, my friends have taken to removing it as soon as possible, because I like to use it a lot

[@brianmcevoy1990]

Lightmine field is great in Rafiq

[@patrickbaillargeon7568]

Lightmine Field ❤️

[@Jod3lay]

Lifeline + Sneak Attack

[@MintyMagicMTG]

Lifeline is so gross. It basically lets you win in a Syr Konrad sacrifice deck.

[@DaftDart]

420 cards 🥦🌬

[@edhdeckbuilding]

very perceptive.

[@grognozzle4916]

Lifeline used to be just you. I had a type 1.5 lifeline + deranged hermit deck that was pretty sweet until they errata'd it

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

Yeah, that errata nerfed it pretty bad. It was one of the few powerful cards I had back then, and it would greatly help keeping my Black Weenie decks alive.

[@MTG69]

Hundreds of cards buried in bulk boxes, look to Demo as their savior.

[@bamblebee896]

Legacy Weapon is just terrible imo. 12 Mana removal in WUBRG? Yes it's repeatable but you literaly have acess to every single removal spell.

[@psycoteck0808]

I put life force in my sythis deck

[@distranthegloriouslydeform9259]

Ayo, I scored 2 points this episode

[@edhdeckbuilding]

do you get points for playing these cards?

[@distranthegloriouslydeform9259]

@@edhdeckbuilding yeah or at least having them. Much love, bro. You've got an amazing youtube channel

[@edhdeckbuilding]

thanks.

[@bladetb3934]

Sometimes you have good ideas. And other times it very obvious you don't really know what your talking about. Legacy weapon isn't 5 mana remove something. It's literally 12 mana to remove something. Then it's 17 mana to remove two things. Very very very few decks should ever be playing removal that mana inefficient. Livewire lash and lightmine field are pretty good though

[@jasonferguson9052]

Is it just me or is flood of recollection vastly under played?

[@MareczqZglos]

Sorry but Library of Lat-Nam is BAAAD card... 5 mana for any of this efect is BAAAD for commander (Draw 3 is OKISH but you can do that for much less mana, and Tutor for 5... even in mono BLUE its baaad.... you just skip yours turn)... ... and even you dont have option to use as You like it ? Why you ever want to play that card... :D

[@swiftmic8402]

12 mana to exile a permanent ... 12 not 5

[@swiftmic8402]

17 mana to exile 2

[@edhdeckbuilding]

rhystic study: 3 mana to draw zero cards seems pretty bad too. weird how things work in commander.