Fight Club, The Deck: A Guide To Neyith Of The Dire Hunt EDH / Commander | Magic: The Gathering

[@johncreekpaum4998]

No love for Gargos, Vicious Watcher in this deck? Turning all your opponent's removal into a fight and a card draw, doubling your fight spells, etc. makes him seem like a great include.

[@JABarnes18]

I think bc Gargos only triggers when a spell targets, and not an ability, you might have to devote too much of your own spells to target your stuff, when you really are wanting to target your opponents.

[@Bartleby1892]

I think bc he just forgot.

[@nicolasjax8684]

I dont mean to be so offtopic but does any of you know a trick to get back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot my login password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me

[@dravenzachariah8454]

@Nicolas Jax Instablaster :)

[@savishgamer4931]

Your literally one of the reasons I came back to magic professor. I love the videos and I need to see you playing more!

[@bewarebear22]

Same here!

[@alexm7689]

I thought we weren't supposed to talk about this.

[@CascadeSpam]

This was immensely helpful, I was struggling with the wording of the first part of the card

[@josiahcroel3069]

Prof, I think you need to build a deck around this. Comment Increases your devotion to KZbin Algorithm by 1 for each other permanent named Comment. A deck may have any number of cards named "Comment"

[@ashenwuss1651]

"When a likable comment enters, put a like counter on it."

[@vividplasma227]

Comment OP, B&R coming any day now

[@lostmarble540]

Oh boy can't wait to build a deck containing 300+ comments and a playset of Battle of Wits

[@ashenwuss1651]

@@vividplasma227 Pssshh. I already can't wait for a recomment

[@derpnowitzki1766]

"You can be sure we are running a questing beast in this deck" Tell that to the decklist in the description

[@PaulMFDouglas]

I think a list of all the cards mentioned would have been nice. Gonna have to watch and pause and write down.

[@Twistedlittlesmile]

Quartzwood crasher seems like it will be a rockstar in neyith or any gruul big power deck. Next deck tech should be Inniaz the gale force! Then the rest of the guild pair jump start legends

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

I recently added Quartzwood Crasher to my Xenagos this is how it went: t1: Forest, Expedition map t2: Mountain, Sol ring, cracked Expedition map for Rootbound Crag t3: Xenagos, Rootbound Crag t4: Quartzwood Crasher, Xenagos gives haste and doubles in combat. Quartzwood does 12 trample damage and makes a 12/12 trampler token t5: Friend scoops after single targeting Quartzwood leaving a 12/12 trample token that can double to 24 ...and to think I was going to remove Quartzwood for Elder Gargaroth LOL

[@EvilShade82]

Very nice guide on this awesome new commander Prof. I am building a Neyith deck my self at the moment. I was considering the folowing cards, you did not mention for the deck: Gargos, Vicious Watcher (double up fighting with fight-spells) Garruk's Uprising (card-draw and Trample for the team) Hunter's Insight (another good draw spell for big creatures) Marauding Raptor (cheaper creatures, synergy with Enrage-Dinos) Nylea, Keen-Eyed (cheaper creatures, nice target for fight-spells) Polyraptor (crazy Enrage-effect, combo-finish-potential) Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded (nice target for fightspells, haste for the team) Quarzwood Crasher (Trample synergy) Rada, Heart of Keld (lands from the top of library, can get huge late-game) Silverclad Verocidons (nasty Enrage ability) Temur Sabertooth (save creatures, repeatet ETB-effects, indestructible) Terror of the Peaks (nice ETB-effect with big creatures) Not all of them may make the final cut, but i think some of them could be quite good in this deck. What do you think?

[@kristengregory7014]

Some of those made it into the sample decklist! Some really good shouts. I think the deck can be customised to how you like it. Definitely excited to test it further.

[@ikeharahana]

I came here straight from the most exciting jump start cards for commander, and I’m soooo excited for this card!

[@oberondargos5465]

This commander and the Djinn are most interesting ones to me, so glad to see this one is getting attention.

[@xXDerPuppenspielerXx]

Love to see you post this video, i have already started to change my Ulrich Werewolves Tribal deck to Neyith as a Commander and a stronger fighting focus as a secondary theme. She just gives the deck so much more consistency and power then Ulrich can. So he has to accept his place in the 99.

[@Ourolen]

Thank you for correctly addressing Ezuri's Predation with Neyith. Like every other content creator I've seen discuss Neyith has brought up that card as a recommendation and I'm just sitting here like "no, that doesn't work..."

[@snakeman830]

It's still worth running, though!

[@harrybaldino8955]

I don't believe it is accurate. So Eacj of those beasts fight at the same time BUT they each fight a creature SEPARATELY. Each of them have a separate instance of fight. Which means you would draw a card for each separate instance of fighting each creature.

[@snakeman830]

@@harrybaldino8955 It's a single effect causing the fight, so Nayeth only triggers once (whenever one or more).

[@umpatte0]

Hi Prof. Thanks for this video! I'm late to the party making a Neyith deck, but your video helped me fill in some slots I wasn't aware of (Tornado Elemental for example). Your older videos are still appreciated being around!

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

Glad I could help!

[@umpatte0]

@@TolarianCommunityCollege Senpai noticed me!

[@Jimmythehead]

I’ve added Zada, Hedron Grinder to the deck, as targeting her with a fight spell means you’re targeting all creatures you control with a fight spell and it will be different occurrences of fighting for each creature and it’s really nice

[@Jimmythehead]

Oops, update. Fight spells don’t only target Zada, but Zada and an opponent’s creature. So the ability doesn’t trigger. But for double power and double strike instants it does and with Neyith’s double power ability already it’s still useful in the deck

[@MekanikKommandoh88]

Just watched the Casually Competitive high power deck tech for Neyith. It’s always nice to see both casual and higher power builds of Commanders from trusted sources.

[@melind82]

Vigor was the first card that comes to mind. It is a win more card, but it must be answered quickly since it will allow you to get even more advantage from your blocked creatures and lets you have your creatures fight each other with no risk (while getting huge). It can even combine it with red damage based board wipes make your board instantly deadly. I'd probably run a subtheme of token generation to give you access to a lot of chump blockers/attackers and keep the decks momentum.

[@scoopphasetcg]

I’m never going to get to sleep when jump start comes to arena LOL

[@RionCaughman]

It's not standard.... Lol

[@scoopphasetcg]

Rion Caughman didnt say it was lol

[@mj1mj3]

@@RionCaughman it's still coming to arena

[@LadyTsunade777]

11:21 Dolmen Gate is worth a look too, since it protects your attacking creatures from all combat damage. 12:15 Some more good blocker invalidators: Legion Loyalist, since he gives your team first strike, trample, and straight up prevents tokens from blocking. Siege Behemoth, since it lets you assign combat damage ignoring blockers. In a pinch, there's Predatory Focus for a sorcery version of the effect until end of turn, or Outmaneuver for an instant combat trick.

[@carsonmichalowski6075]

This kind of Legend is exactly what I want in Commanders! Takes a mechanic that is primarily locked to one or two colors and provides a payoff for it! I like how it's just on "fight" not not "punch" effects because having that on "punch" effects would be too one-sided. Other cards that might be worth considering: Volcanic Salvo from the New M21, with the large amount of power on creatures it's all too easy to get it down to just RR to deal 6 damage two two targets. Blasphemous Act can be a good 1 mana board wipe if it's needed. Ulasht the Hate-Seed can become large rather quickly, and Apocalypse Hydra can easily enter the battlefield as a 10/10 or mor, with both it and Ulasht able to ping down smaller creatures to prevent them from chump blocking.

[@sjoerd972]

Thanks for this! I always love the EDH deck techs and have had quite some fun with Kaseto. I'll be trying some version of this, although I think I'm going werewolf with this.

[@michaelloftis2349]

YES! Been excited for this since it was mentioned in the “top 5” video earlier! Woot woot!

[@DamonE619]

There is a super cool casual Saskia Wild Pair deck that the Spike Feeders made. Its right up your alley I think. One of my favorite decks atm. It runs sooooo many old and unknown cards that work super well.

[@quasarkrankinero5004]

Was going to brew Gargos as a fight deck but this seems a lot more fun! Thromok the insatiable seems like a hilariously fun include to make massive and fight into grothama to draw a ton of cards! Thanks for the inspiration Prof

[@Thorinox]

Iv already built my deck for her and she runs beyond awesome. Paired with Fiery Emancipation, Garuuk's Uprising and my favorite, Apex Altisaur paired with Heroic Intervention = board whip and win.

[@frankieh]

Minotaurs was my first Commander deck back in Theros block with Mogis as the Commander. I never thought Morophon would be upstaged as the best default Minotaur commander but I am 100% fucking stoked to make a Sethron deck.

[@MangoBasketball]

Great guide, looking forward to brewing Neyith!

[@gatorkittygaming]

I'm super looking forward to building Emiel! Such a fun value / combo commander.

[@ahoyturtle]

Two more cards you might consider for the deck are Dolmen Gate and Angel's Trumpet. Dolmen Gate seems a no-brainer, since it adds another form of protection to your attackers, and makes fights always profitable for you. Angel's Trumpet is a bit trickier, since it could punish you for going wide instead of tall, but it can ensure your attackers can still block later, and punishes more controlling decks. It also makes sure that you can get plenty of card draws of blocking.

[@Petronio39]

I brewed a gruul fight deck a while back using Stonebrow as the commander. One card in particular I think should not be overlooked is dreadhoard arcanist, which possesses the ability to recur many of our low cost fight spells, and can turn into a regular card draw engine with the help of the new commander, and season of growth.

[@HighlanderHND]

Excellent deck guide! Keep put the good work!

[@Crazymachin3gun]

Stop disliking profs vids they are awesome vids

[@MadolcheGabbana]

"Mr. Owl how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?" 1-2- @0:46 3!

[@nikosgiginth]

I love the craig refence when talking about infect xD Also real amazing work prof!! I will defendly try this deck!!

[@asinclair666]

If you go the Enrage route, Rite of Passage and Pyrohemia is a great combo i will be running in her, Rite works well with fighting as well. Super Excited to build her!

[@michaelheitz3537]

I am just imagining giving creatures double strike and double power for quad damage. There is also those damage 2x or 3x damage enchantments. Imagine seeing a 1/1 attacking with doublestrike becoming a 2/1 then having the 2x damage enchantment for 8 damage from that 1/1. Imagine that from a bigger creature or any of the creatures mentioned by the professor.

[@k9commander]

Imagine that on a creature with infect.

[@VeznansDeadbeatDad]

My bud is gonna love this DT. Shared!

[@CarronBarboza]

Been waiting for this!! Thanks for all the great content, Prof!

[@hjthesurvivor2757]

Got Neylith out of one of my promotional Jumpstart pack so I excited to see what you have in mind

[@HZRT_lgd]

Great and useful video as always, Prof! Thanks for the guide~

[@romnicksalvador8348]

Just downloaded the movie fight club. And saw this on my notification. What a coincidence Prof..

[@haingis]

I already have a surprising amount of these cards... then again, I have been planning to make a fight deck for a couple of years

[@SylveonSilver]

What a brawl to witness in action!

[@smashpie]

You forgot contested cliffs!! That's a gruul powerhouse for fighting. Plus it adds a generic Mana and comes in play untapped!!!

[@stickmanphil12345]

How many beasts are we playing tho?

[@LegendLeaguer]

@@stickmanphil12345 there are quite a few Beasts that fight and are generally worth playing. And like Smashpie said, it also taps for mana

[@smashpie]

@@LegendLeaguer they're super cheap at like 50 cents per card. It's worth having around.

[@ianoneill8392]

I’d love to see a Winota deck tech, maybe with some Kiki-Jiki or Helm combos as a backup plan to aggro. She’s a super unique and interesting commander in often overlooked colors.

[@MrGruzzle]

I am currently working on a "Sekki, Season's Guide" Deck. I would love to see how the Prof. approaches to it. Besides, i am still unexperienced to play Green in my Commander Decks.

[@cantstopmygo420]

I love that prof thinks of rhythm of the night for RotW lol. I sing it every time someone plays it xD

[@jaafarmhasan8713]

I got it's Artwork as my FB cover and I looks amazing

[@draxthemsklonst]

Questing Beast...that three headed teddy bear is awesome.

[@patrickpoirier7177]

Sweet deck prof!!

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

LOL Apex Altisaur is so fun and Kogla! Primal Rage or Rancor for Trample. No Trample not Gruul! Finale of Devastation is so broken, I will never understand how the designers of that card thought searching your graveyard was fine, its not black it is green!...like searching for creature was not good enough with the 10 mana bonus clause giving +x/+x and haste to all your creatures also.

[@onlygalactic1744]

Im new to magic and thought you could only play cards with the mana cost of commander. Now I know different lol

[@Mr_Myst13]

Another card to consider when making this deck is Frontier Siege. If you have a lot of fliers in this deck, then you could just pick Dragons and have constant fighting and card draw. However, if you need extra mana for your dumb stuff, then picking Khans is great too!

[@mortycremwatch]

Toralf seems great here to make sure none of that fighting energy goes to waste. If you give him deathtouch he can potentially take down a lot of creatures.

[@warrioraidan]

I want to see a Kels, Fight Fixer deck tech with evoke and off the wall ways to sacrifice creatures for value.

[@jasons9895]

Prof, I think a cool deck would be Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire, or Sidisi, Brood Tyrant, or Tasigur, the Golden Fang

[@EvilShade82]

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire is one of the coolest commanders to brew arround i think. I would love to see Profs take on him.

[@rastislonge6370]

Professor says: "Etali, Primal Hunger" Me: *Triggred*

[@DarkX64]

It's about time this card got attention, she's bonkers powerful. Easily takes the spot as the premiere fight club commander and gonna make top 5 Gruul commanders in no time. Gruul Ragebeast makes all my creatures removal that draws cards? The real estate has never been more free than this come ON!

[@jacquesdespadas]

With the curve (and the P/T) going so high, seems like Combustible Gearhulk, Warstorm Surge, and the like could be good as a subtheme.

[@Dovahninja]

Nessian Wild's ravager would be pretty good

[@Sir_Francis]

Every Gruul deck needs Decimate! :) (Also the Zoltan Boros Ravnican art for that card is amazing!)

[@NebulaMK]

I made a deck list for this card and it’s very similar to your mentions.

[@brianwinter7724]

Both Tolarian Community College and Casually Competitive both made a Neyith deck within 10 minutes of each other... it must be good.

[@raydelmartinez2905]

Great as a commander or member of the 99 in most Gruul decks.

[@blakerusso4474]

Would love to see you build a unique edh deck and play with it

[@TheKamenZero]

If I may add onto this spicey little deck idea, might I suggest the card "Breaker of Armies"? It's a bit pricey in the mana department, but it's a 10/8 that has to be blocked by all available creatures an opponent controls. It might not be the most fantastic choice, but it could be good when you need to get some combat damage through an army of tokens. All those chump blockers made by Krenko or Edgar won't really mean much if they're all blocking the big scary Eldrazi monster.

[@empirean1166]

you can also add infiltration lens

[@ArchChronarch]

All right prof, out with it. Why the hate for Tiny Bones? Poor lad did nothing to deserve being used as a dummy for fight examples. Kidding aside excellent video as always. I've been thinking about updating the old Xenagos and this might be it.

[@StarDoesntUpload]

When I started playing magic at the kitchen table in middle school, giving a battlefront krusak menace was an UNSTOPPABLE COMBO and we banned it from the playgroup.

[@itsazombiethingsgaming1107]

I will talk about 3 cards that provide Neyith flexiability and were not previously brought up in the video. Wicked Wolf from Thrones provides another fight card, while Assembled Alphas the BETTER wolf card provides effects for being blocked or while blocking, then lastly how do you play your Ghalta's, Gods, MEGAMANA creatures faster ... Thats right Fires of Invention because simply we don't have a ton of instants, and this provides a quick outlet for your big spells. Just my thoughts.

[@Reik483]

Magebane armor is a neat way to make a creature immune to damage from fighting.

[@korbenstone4849]

A Shrines deck tech would pretty cool

[@RaunienTheFirst]

What a beautiful singing voice, Prof.

[@w00dm31st3r]

Craig is proud of this deck already 😂

[@libraryofalexandria8528]

go into the double the power theme with berserk, fatal frenzy, and wine of blood and iron

[@maxmaier7023]

Prof, in your infinite wisdom of all things magic, you gotta find a golgari commander to do a deck tech on to take advantage of deathtouchers! Like using the Vraska from War and the new rare snake from core 21!

[@paolomigliorati6141]

Great deck tech, unfortunatly I have always this feeling gruul can be build in just one stompy way

[@des-trina]

I have a Rosheen Meanderer deck that plays a bunch of mana dorks and casts big X spells.

[@perilousfighter.0235]

personally i would love to see a rashmi, eternities crafter deck. she is a fun creature that can do some wacky things to the bored state.

[@mega2009man]

Can't wait to throw Neyith into my Godzilla deck 🥰 Hey prof are you gonna do a video for Sethron too I'd love to see that, I'd love to see your ideal suggestions for him 😍

[@jkoon78076]

I would love to see you do a tech on krav and regna

[@jadethompson2301]

If you're up for it you should do a deck tech on the new Niambi

[@MrRattail8888]

Godzilla would be very interesting to play in the deck.

[@bobbymichealson798]

Would you please do an update of you slivers edh deck?

[@nilshaukeholtfester6311]

Thanks for help 😉

[@CrabBaskets]

So I really love this new commander, however I am kind of bummed out because it's in Gruul colors and not Mono Green. I really enjoy my Rhonas the Indomitable deck, and my group has told me no that I can't slot it into the 99. I do love this deck tech and have considered added a couple of cards from this list :)

[@natebeal18]

The Craig reference was funny

[@Golnax]

Wow that Troll is busted! Wonder why I haven't seen it before now?

[@thetogtube2]

Curious if you would slot Neyith straight into Xenagos or Radha? I love this deck tech but already have 2 Gruul decks that are pretty tuned.

[@yoishan2731]

You totally had me until you said Infect. Beside that I loved some of the ideas of the deck and this is my absolute favorite Jumpstar Commander. She gives a lot of value and I know at the minimum she will be going into my Marath, Naya deck.

[@FlashLeopard22]

I just built my first draft of Neyith and so far it is really good. I'm curious to see what you did prof. I had one issue though. With 2 color decks there are sooooo many good options compared to 3 because your best cards are more limited. One example, obviously rishkar's expertise screams autoinclude, but so does Great Henge. I chose Henge over it, but I feel like expertise is worth a slot.

[@burakkunaito6510]

Finally! A commander other than Ulrich for my gruul werewolves!

[@TheRealSarceus]

What, no mention of Fiery Emancipation? It's already a pretty strong candidate for "auto-include in every red deck," so why not put it in this deck?

[@kristengregory7014]

Because otherwise, what would you have been able to comment? :D

[@Limrick1029]

I’d hardly call it close to an auto-include, it’s a gratuitous ‘win more’ card. If you can dump 6 mana on a do-nothing enchantment, you’re probably already winning anyways. Same thing as Sunbird’s Invocation, it’s strong sure, just kinda overkill.

[@clairechristenson9705]

You obviously can't have a bunch of effects like this but (at least in my opinion) EDH is the place to run a few big "do-nothing" enchantments since they won't be as competitive elsewhere.

[@afspeellijstnaruto]

bit late to the party. I think gruul might be one of the easiest colors (for me ) to build with. Like, most gruul commanders just care about creatures and/or pump em up. A lot of cards in Gruul are usefull in MOST gruul decks, be it a land-fall deck or simply a big stompy deck. Spells that let creatures 'fight' are already decent in any creature-heavy deck. Neyrith just gives that a bit more value. My gruul decks: Thromok the insatiable > LOT of ways to win, either with tokens, commander damage, mill (altar of dementia hehe), Fling or simply commander damage. Nikya of the old ways > put in 60 creatures with value and i was good to go. I even put in a lot of other gruul legendaries cuz well...they are good on their own. Notable (commander) creatures in the deck: Neyith, Omnath locust of rage, Ruric Thar, Tuya Bearclaw and Xenagos. Phylath > landfall ramp deck I choose for Nikya out of flavor. But i might just as well put any of the other gruul commanders at the helm and it still works. I just lose the utility from non-creature spells. But most creature spells (as i said) have some effects like fighthing, removal, etc. Love Gruul! Cool deck tech Prof. bit late to the party but have my like ^^

[@TheForbiddenDance]

Grun the lonley king has entered the chat. Talk about one shot with mage slayer.

[@nikolaj6502]

Awesome idea

[@smittywerbs]

Could u make a tech about uro? Land matters is fascinating

[@Runis0]

Hey, professor, have you seem that the pokémon company released rules for "raid battles" on pokémon TCG? Do you have any kind of insight or opinion about that? Sorry, I know that's not the subject of the video, but I got really curious to hear your thoughts on that

[@caseywilliams4145]

Well I know it isn't indestructible but mog maniac from I want to say strong hold is the og brash taunter and only one and a red its a definite inclusion

[@MrAnybody12345]

Ilharg, the raze boar could be useful to playout a giant creature for free when you attack..

[@jzoobs]

Some day I'll build a commander deck in paper. Brawl is fun on Arena but it's starting to get stale, especially when you're just using matchmaking. Some games feel a lot less balanced because they're just 1v1.

[@therealeightabove]

Holy mana cost Batman! What's the avg. CMC of the deck 5?