Modern Horizons 3 Looks Ridiculous Already

5 new commanders form Modern Horizons 3.
Patreon
/ edhdeckbuilding
The T-shirt I'm wearing
intotheam.com/...
promo code: EDHDeck

[@michaelpatalano9884]

Every card I look at, is like “there’s no way they printed that”😂

[@DanielGonzalez-cd6lu]

Yet ... emrakul is banned 😑 😒

[@imaginarymatter]

In Omo, Queen of Vesuva turns your lands into Urza lands so you can turn on your Urza's Tower / Mine / Power Plant along with any other Desert/Gate/Locus/Cave synergy.

[@drakor98]

You could even do a land destruction combo here, putting everything counters on opponent's lands and combining it with crux of fate. Edit: Oop that won't work. But it can still be a boardwipe

[@brandyourfan9244]

​@@drakor98It could work... But you'd need to animate your opponents lands. Natures Revolt or Living Plane. Urborg with Kormus Bell. Yavimaya with Life and Limb.

[@zeta280]

Turns out all the leaks were real, again.

[@thrasherftw]

Not so much leaks as forbidden spoilers..

[@spoodercluster9714]

when i saw this ulamog being leaked at first i was like THATS SO FAKE, AINT NO WAY THATS REAL... and here we are :,-)

[@hugo3925]

Bc there not really leaks , and it’s another dam commander set. Mtg is dead

[@ImWithSmeghead]

Lord of Atlantis goes perfect with Omo. It turns your stuff into merfolk and gives them island walk. AND Omo gives your opponents islands! 🤯

[@andrewfornes5320]

I was just brewing a deck that took advantage of playing expensive creature bombs (since my lands are going to be Tron) & making them all Merfolks with Lord of Atlantis. Making Omo unlockable is also really useful.

[@HereToSuffer247]

Damn the health of edh is looking bleaker for every set that comes out. My commanders from 2017-18 already feels obsolete. How can anyone be optimistic about the future of edh is beyond me.

[@Poenas]

Yeah just for casting an Eldrazi getting such a massive effect is wild. Should make a new keyword that translates to “When you cast this spell, if X or more mana was spent to cast it - do the thing” That makes it so you have to at least have a plan to get some mana and not just cheat it out

[@andrewamann2821]

They already have a similar mechanic to that... It's called "Adamant," where, if you spent some amount of some type of mana, you get an additional effect.

[@andrewfornes5320]

Man, it is refreshing to see a Simic commander that doesn't just drop lands and draw cards or tell you how to build the 99 within the text box. Omo has sparked sone deckbuilding creativity with me tonight. Making my lands into tron lands, dropping Lord of Atlantis and passing out Islandwalk abilities. This deck will make me box my current Simic commander.

[@recklessfireweaver5718]

Yeah Omo is by far my favorite commander from this set

[@michaelpatalano9884]

For Omo: my first thought was those “Domain” cards that care about all the basic land types you control, are actually playable now

[@ryanwood4263]

This works?

[@goldcreeper7376]

It was really funny hearing Mike & co trying to worm their way out of the questions calling this a commander set before they essentially admitted it

[@scaredycat3146]

People said the same about MH1 and MH2 tbf. It can still have major impact on modern. It doesn't take that many cards to warp a format forever.

[@Level_1_Frog]

Omo sounds like a really fun build around for a 'hate' deck, where you have really powerful but really specific cards, like Choke, that target land and creature types and lock your opponents out of the game. Sure you could build her to be 'lord tribal' or something but being evil is just more fun 😈

[@jacobstone4070]

For that Vasuva deck, you could do a "landwalk" tribal type of thing. Could be fun. All you need is to get an everything counter on 1 land for each opponent and you're good to go!

[@andrewfornes5320]

I reply to someone else but I am doing this exact build. Using cards like Lord of Atlantis that gives my cards landwalk abilities while also playing bombs with my tron lands lol. I haven't seen a unique simic commander in a while. She has sparked my thinking tonight.

[@wikidclowne6891]

Ulamog in The Mimeoplasm, just saying.

[@SadDogofShimano]

I personally think that Ulamog is busted

[@wikidclowne6891]

If you have a Clone Shell with Ulamog exiled, when the Clone Shell dies and you reveal Ulamog, it'll see itself in exile as it enters and come in with 10 counters. This will not work with things like Cascade, or have you cast from exile because when determining what's in exile, Ulamog will be on the stack not in exile. Any cards that put Ulamog from exile directly on the battlefield will work. Have fun.

[@psinaut4775]

Dude. It’s so funny to me how exasperated you sound when you’re like “I guess it’s spoiler season again” or whatever in the front. Just makes me giggle. Love the vids.

[@snowmanO07]

Pearl-Ear is crazy. 3 mana for a 3/4 Lifelink that draws cards and essentially ramps? 3/4 Lifelink and maybe one more ability would be power creep. Why add card draw on top of that? They are crazy with this set.

[@crimsonleg4237]

The new Ulamog is fairly awesome. For ten mana, it better be. It is hilarious seeing people already wanting it banned. 😂 Apparently, they did not learn from Lord Xander and Tergrid.

[@rquer7913]

As with every set beyond 2021, my fear for the health of commander grows. It is not rule zeroing some things out, it should be rule zeroing the new powercrept sets out entirely... WoTC is trying so hard to end with EDH...

[@shaadysintime]

Omo turns the lands in every land type, which means they’re also urzas, locus and so on. Could also be used as a big mana commander

[@bruh-mb6hs]

Omo could be a cool island walk/forestwalk commander

[@andrewfornes5320]

Lord of Atlantis MVP.

[@TheVividen]

I'm just glad we're getting at least one dinosaur in the form of Sawhorn Nemesis

[@DennisSzer]

OG Emrakul is banned in our format, and now we get something worse with Ulamog...dafuq wotc?! 😅😂 This Eldrazi is absolutely busted. Like Maldhound said: "ward is always given to the dipshits that deserve to be targeted with things."

[@williamdrum9899]

At least it's not a ward mana cost.

[@jongailey85]

Pearl Ear is going to be just a really great card in the 99 as well as the CZ. Not as potent or quick as Light Paws, but having pseudo-ramp and straight card draw on a cheap creature is just really great. I think the Affinity will still make her a pretty fast commander once you get around 2-3 auras out, since a lot of the really good auras in white are at or around 3 mana.

[@johnathandavis7006]

100% this. I'd argue it's going to be similar the mono green selvala . You get a payoff for doing the thing . Light paws is definitely much stronger, but this has very nice grind potential and makes going over the top with Eldrazi Conscription ( one of my favorite auras that basically has to be cheated in ) alot more viable. I am pumped for this card to say the least .

[@Pyberspace]

I probably want to pick her up for my midrange Bruna, Light of Alabaster deck that already runs Light-Paws. It's a good time to be a nongreen enchantress player 😁

[@johnathandavis7006]

@Pyberspace can I peek the list ice? I've been trying to tune my bruna list for the more recent times, and I've been struggling to find the right balance moving the game plan forward and actually hitting my opponents for lethal

[@chayadol]

I love that Emrakul Gain control, big hit with 12/12 power based could go in just 6 mana Ulamog basically almost a game finisher card Kozilek You draw 4 then create weird 4 morph bear, at least 2 not even yours, and weird buff

[@doubleblindman]

Runadi, Behemoth Caller works insanely well with the new Ulamog - 6 extra +1/+1 counters and haste

[@YazakaiRZ]

You can make a mutate planeswalker deck. Take a few different designs, but double everything.

[@YazakaiRZ]

For the new Arna

[@drummerboy0511]

Fun fact: there are currently 9 non-sticker cards with proliferate that are legal in colorless decks.

[@MrSamthefan]

Six storm is still possible and it could even possibly go infinite (?) if you cast Aeve Progenitor Ooze and have a phyrexian altar out. Each time you retrace it you get more and more mana as well as tokens you just need to get your storm count up high enough and find a way to keep recurring lands to hand which shouldn't be too hard cus when you already got Aeve up to a storm count of like 10 you could combo it with a card that lets you bring back lands to hand from grave (Turntimber Sower, Tilling Treefolk, etc.)

[@BigHat501]

The first cards I thought of for the esper commander at the end would be the myojins for sure

[@monkeyaround4901]

Im thinking Arna but with Equipment Creatures, so if Arna or any of the creatures we modify die, you’d have an army of token creatures to use after

[@TheUltimateRey]

Eldrazi used to be cool because the titans were just supposed to be representations of the blind eternities like some lovecraft stuff but now they’re just literal creatures that go destroy

[@mattjackson2390]

I’m excited to make an Arna Planeswalker Deck!

[@drakor98]

Everything counters on lands could easily be used to get the requirements for Maze's End, or to exploit silly landwalk abilities

[@TheGreatPyroWolf]

Would Omo work with Gate lands?

[@uhfrank]

it would indeed give any land with a Everything counter the Gate subtype

[@erwanprn5491]

Pearl-ear mana reduction and card draw on 3/4 body for 3 mana, I strongly dislike modern 3 mana commander design Make it just the first paragraph is already super fun, aura affinity wao

[@Dothreban]

Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor is an auto include in my Eriette, the Beguiler deck.

[@McfcxEz]

I use Kozilek-The Great Distortion as the hidden partner commander in my Eligeth Crossroads Augr deck.

[@itskmillz]

When I saw the Ulamog, the Defiler spoiler the 1st time I assumed it was a joke because of the last line of text. Then it was later confirmed to be...actually a real card. It just doesn't sound real.

[@ana-alyciajuarez5958]

Eldrazi Conscription goes into the Pearl-Ear deck HANDS DOWN!!! you can get it out for free!

[@chrisgebben2043]

wait until he reads ulalek based on the reaction to the annihilator part of Ulamog

[@tomasrojas9676]

the ward on ulamog is unnecessary

[@AngelusNielson]

"Colorless" is the theme for Elderizi...

[@shorewall]

Demo sounds broken in this one. :D

[@ninjaman0003]

i'm kinda of iffy on this set. 20% seems fun (like the bear commander, the aura commander, and omo) but most of it just seems like cards were made ridiculously powerful to justify the absurd price of the box. i'm hoping that ulamog gets banned cause screw exiling half a deck, getting huge amount of counters, then making your opponent sac almost their entire board. it isn't a toxic card like the angel that flat out stops one color from playing the game but i think it isn't going to be fun.

[@nerdaccount]

Eldrazi Conscription with Pearl-Ear?

[@TeethMeat-jm8ou]

I really thought if they were going to do eldrazi titans again to make the cost colorless instead of all generic. Omo would work for urza and locus shenanigans

[@ceronmachtdinge]

for Kennerüd: Animate a Magistrates Scepter, get charges counters on it, attack, take extra turn, repeat.

[@WeasyMTG]

How does this work? Wouldn't you have to pay 4 to put a counter on it?

[@rraimundobruno]

​@WeasyMTG There are other charge counter cards so it's possible for it to get one without paying, though it wouldn't be in any way convenient. For the combo to work you'd need scepter + animate spell + commander + either three counters or two counters and a way to proliferate every turn. That's an unreasonable combo but if manage to assemble it you'd deserve the win.

[@TheUltimateRey]

Also Omo works with Domain cards

[@Rufas_Aer]

On the topic of Animating Planeswalkers, don't the Gideon Planeswalkers already animate themselves? I also swear there was a type of enchantment that could be placed on Planeswalkers to give them extra abilities. Just a shame we can't add red for Sarkhan, or green for the new Oko.

[@Rufas_Aer]

Found them, the Talent cycle. Would only be able to use three of them Elspeth's, Liliana's and Teferi's. But doubling those types of cards would certainly be interesting. The deck wouldn't likely be any good, but interesting is sometimes better than powerful.

[@kommanderkronk]

Ulamog going in my Umbris and Ezuri Stalker of Spheres deck lol

[@CrimsonXenoProduct]

I'm a vorinclex player, and I don't even want to put the new ulamog in the deck, as funny as it would be to swing with a annihilator 80 and wipe everything, it would get old fast

[@Azkeden]

9:00 the land type is LAND type, not BASIC land type, so now every land is a desert, a cave, urza's.... 12:30 this card will be really good on voltron auras decks, like the usual modify people do to Virtue and Valor precon from Wilds of Eldraine

[@Thessik73]

It won't make them basics, but it will make them plains, forests, etc. which will let them tap for the associated color.

[@moderneaux]

Erriette the beguiler will be happy

[@ceronmachtdinge]

Playing Eldrazi is the same as playing Sheoldred as commander: expect to play 3v1, at least when I am at the table.

[@fishinfromscratch5484]

Divinity counters could be interesting with Arna.

[@davidstar2686]

Doubles the luxioir as well. Kinda wild.

[@zeta280]

With Ulamog, exile your own Draco somehow, get annihilator 16, it doesn't even matter that you can oneshot the guy, that opponent is not in the game anymore even if he chumps.

[@chesterfieldthe3rd929]

Of course there are broken cards! How else will the scabs at wotgreed get you to spend your rent money on 1 box.......

[@jasonst.george5799]

This ulamog is too good. It will probably get banned once people figure out how to abuse it. It's crazy how Wizards keeps making really overpowered cards.

[@izaiahsundquist6877]

Green is the new black, except sometimes better.

[@farty555]

Pearl ear is ridiculous, sram but better stats and lifelink (the best ability) for only one more mana, and has the enabler stapled on it cuz why not

[@Bryan-T]

Why are they putting attack triggers on a 1/5 and a 2/4 reach? Stupid.

[@cathalmolloy2002]

The high toughness means they will probably survive though. They might also have ways in the deck to protect them

[@LegiondaryBro]

Everything was borderline okay except the eldrazi... Why does this thing need ward Sacrifice two things...!

[@TheUltimateRey]

Arna and charge counters maybe?

[@sipoffinewine5798]

Just remember kids... [Break the Ice] will make eldrazi players cry... do with that information what you will.

[@fplruben297]

Ulamog will go in my Henzie deck 😅

[@PawzBrownMTG]

MH3 in not buying any but might buy me some singles. Done it thru the past couple sets. I was down with FallOut

[@UnkleToe]

Over design for commander will kill the format , not today or tomorrow but eventually.. i do miss finding cards that don't have a home a place to be played 😢

[@LegiondaryBro]

I'm gonna Proxy everything I want instead of giving wizards money lol

[@ottomccarthy7421]

sick, edhdb vid

[@PALIGames]

My main colorless deck has the no eldrazi creatures restriction on it so i want more colorless options that are not eldrazi i am happy we got a few however

[@uhfrank]

the day i build a colorless commander deck, i too want to impose this restriction on myself. currently no commanders have grabbed my creative interest, which is a shame and the ones where i think "yeah i guess if i had to pick one, this one would be ok to build around" and then i look into how i could make it work remotely ok enough not to suck and it ends up going down playstyle territories i dont particularly care for given the options to support it that isnt eldrazi or combo. i dont mind playing against, just not my style. at best so far, if avoiding those completely, i still end up with a deck that looks like every other in the colorless pie. colorless could do with more variety in playstyle and support that isnt tied to eldrazi or artifact engine go brrrr. i do see that theyre trying though and for me its probably only a matter of time before they design something that makes me go "THATS THE ONE"

[@PALIGames]

@uhfrank play omarthis turn your deck into 2/2's and swing. This is the deck I was referring to and it is one of my favorites I even made custom dragon shields for it. So they are them selves the manifest tokens

[@uhfrank]

@PALIGames yeah he's one of the few I considered but in my attempts to build him he ended up looking like most people's decks. but he's definitely the most interesting of them so far

[@PALIGames]

@uhfrank I don't know what most people lists look like because I brew with cards I have on hand at first when I build. it was probably modular, though, or eldrazi, which I mostly avoided. I think there is one modular card in the whole deck

[@MisterWebb]

No love for the new Eladamri, eh?

[@envies_ephemeres]

This set has 2 overwhelming themes - throwbacks to other cards that border on parody (Wight of the reliquary, Strix Serenade, etc.), and WAY too gross to have been printed cards (New Ulamog, Arna Kennerud, etc.). Maybe it was just done to try and justify the obscene cost they're asking, but the set as w hole comes off as severely overpowered. ESPECIALLY the Eldrazi tribal/typal. I've always been a fan of the eldrazi as a theme, as it's the closest we really get to lovecraftian concepts, but mechanically, I can't stand them. It's just too much, and if you're running a colorless deck, it's too easy to overwhelm your board - with newer additions to the tribe and meta, even the higher casting costs aren't a hindrance. Enter Ulalek, Fused Atrocity. If you sit across from me in a commander game with this thing at the helm, you are the target. It's just too much.

[@imnotwadewilsonsee3656]

Gonna be a lot of banned cards for sure

[@andrewmcallister3529]

Eldrazi and energy 💤

[@rainbowcrash6990]

Six? Seriously? Your permanents all have retrace?? Lol at my old Karador deck

[@yago8642]

I for the death of me can't comprehend the eldrazi hate, big dumb eldrazi already exist and they see virtually no play. If you grab out of the top 100 colorless cards every version of the big 3 (Ulamog, Kozilek and Emrakul) and add them together they have less presence on decks that Jeweled Lotus, a card with 7% usage. The point I'm trying to make is that people don't play Eldrazi not because they aren't good, they don't play them because they don't want to, the new Ulamog isn't going to be the exception.

[@avall0nNn1992]

Also Eldrazi are just not good. They thrive in low power enviroments but instantly fold in high power and dont even exist in cEDH (Viod Winnower sees some play but thats it).

[@dimitriid]

Yeah I'm making a personal ban list: I'm not playing vs any deck that can use 'Anihilator X' It was a broken mechanic already before we had crazy ways to ramp mana and this new Ulamog doesn't even needs colorless is just 10 generic: it means any super fast ramp deck than potentially drop this inside 3 or 4 turns: I refuse to even bother I'll concede on sight out of principle: even with decks that I know can get there faster or have enough interaction to perpetually keep it off the field before it can attack we shouldn't get one card wins on top of the ones we already have.

[@Dragon_Fyre]

I will play versus any deck except STAX once. I just don’t see the appeal. It’s certainly not fun, it’s quite linear and boring, requires no skill… and typically, Eldrazi are an expensive deck. I guess if you have a combo to cheat them in for CEDH it is OK, but who does this appeal to in EDH ?

[@Jwhiz24]

Do we really need new mechanics every set? I already don't know what half the cards in a game do with their yugioh style paragraphs.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

one of the things that i've disliked for along time is the fact that they think we need new mechanics in every set.

[@Starphx]

island walk with the shapeshifter

[@mattboots5453]

Any kind of landwalk ability

[@josephjelinski1489]

Would Arna work for a Gideon planeswalker tribal deck? I think they all turn into creatures with their own abilities

[@mtggodzilla7308]

The new cards are too strong. At this point maybe we can get worry about the ban hammer. 😅

[@LexAnarchy]

I'm considering quitting. Every new set is just full of cards that are power crept to hell, every commander builds itself, every colour can do pretty much everything. Every deck I see is playing the same staple cards. So boring.