My Essential Grixis List for Commander

[@Torsav]

Words to live by "every pod needs an archenemy."

[@sevenangerywasps6103]

Love this idea/video! Would love to see other Commander Crew member do this! Richard's essential mono white, Tomer's essential budget (maybe land or ramp focused?), Seth's essential jank, Phil's essential value pile. Something like that anyways :)

[@AdaWongMistress]

Richard will say that swords of plowshare is not that good

[@Lucarioguild7]

@@AdaWongMistress It always makes my brain short circuit when Richard says spot removal is bad and that he rarely plays swords and path

[@bulbasaurappreciator]

Followed all the tips in this video.. my pod all killed me, my friends hate me, my partner left me, lost my job, and now I've been disowned by my parents. Thanks Crim!!!

[@musicalcacti]

Crim is even covered in Grixis colors, the Rakdos shirt and Dimir hair!! 🤣🤣

[@rara2ra2yrra3racjj2]

Man, Crim, your player persona is one of the most flavorful things that I've ever seen in online Magic. This is one of the reasons why you're one of my favorite MTG personalities.

[@Lucat27]

Do what you love Crim, do what you love

[@starmanda88]

This was great Crim. You’re so engaging and fun to watch/listen to. Would love more videos like this from you. ❤️

[@danielerdmann2952]

Just finished building my Cormela combo deck and loved to share some appreciative moments with a fellow grixis enthusiast. Keep it up and great video idea!

[@quantumlasagna4669]

Great video!!! Would love to see a vid like this for the other shards maybe from the rest of the crew.

[@leekosuave7816]

Heck yea Crim, I am in the works of making my first grixxis commander deck with Kess. Just got some more singles including Bolas PWs and cruel ultimatum so it was great to see them on your list! Go grixxis!

[@GoDzJtFr]

I've been a Grixis fan since I built Thraximundar back in 2011 and it warms my heart to see so many of my all time favorite cards in this video getting the love they deserve. Cruel Ultimatum truly is the greatest card of all time

[@erfunk]

One of my earlier Commander decks was Crosis the Purger, that was discard tribal with a subtheme of specters and dragons. It's how I came to love Sedraxis Specter. People tended not to let me get off the ground, especially Crosis itself, so the specters did a lot of the heavy lifting. The deck mutated a few times, being dragon tribal for a while, then OG Bolas heading a Bolas tribal deck, before The Ravager being printed revolutionized the deck. It needs a rebuild, but is likely to be more reanimator-focused this time around.

[@WolfShadowmancer]

The Bolas vs Ajani duel deck was probably my favorite product ever released. I played Bolas, my brother played Ajani, and when I resolved either Ult or Nici B, it was usually game over. Man what a Grixis mage I've turned out to be.

[@TheSynisterMinister]

im loving maestros confluence! what a house in my sakashima vial smasher deck!

[@BobardeZanzibar]

Nicol Bolas the Ravager made me love Grixis and remains my favorite card to this day.

[@cnelson1025]

Dragon, control, superfriends, yep that’s every archetype checked off. Lol great video, love seeing this stuff.

[@patrickhannen4832]

Love the production quality on this! Hope to see more stuff like it, I'm sure they're harder to make but it's great stuff.

[@OhSarcasticOne]

This is such a great video. I'd love to see all members of the crew do something similar (eg best budget commanders from tomer, favourite jank win conditions from Seth). I'd also love to see best controlling/super friends cards in the 99 from Crim! Stuff that's a bit more 'out there' like spreading plague or wrong turn.

[@EvanPlaysPc]

I look forward to seeing the cool decks that will come out of capenna, grixis definitely got the most out of the capenna cards for commander, personally I'm excited to build Cormela

[@FightinTheGorlax]

I'm always the default target at my play group, and Grixis is my favorite color combo (first competitive standard deck was grixis after shards came out). I still don't have a Grixis commander deck yet though because I haven't found THE commander for the deck yet. Considering building Xander

[@rteishe]

I love Grixis, and I love how much Crim is devoted to the best shard as well, haha. Jeleva will forever be bae...just hands down my "funnest" deck. A timmy at heart, my two fav decks are Jeleva & Kaalia, because they're essentially the same thing...just one's mardu & one's grixis. 4 cmc flying ladies with terrifying timmy attack triggers. My jeleva deck has no real wincon, but it's fine because I'm just hear to steal shit & free-cast mob rule, worst fears, ultimatum, extra turn spells, etc 😁

[@Tae_Grixis]

Grixis for life! Started with Bant, moved to Esper and found my home in Grixis.

[@Hammy_3]

The first commander deck I built when I first got introduced to magic was a Grixis deck led by Mairsil, the Pretender. At first it was really budget being made with mostly pieces of the wizards precon it came in but has since become one of the more powerful decks in my playgroup. It remains my favorite to this day and gets all the new goodies I acquire. It’s awesome to see Grixis get some love!

[@iiGiacomo]

I’ve been wanting more content like this on this channel

[@karlos.xwares]

Can we get more Crim videos? Love this!

[@pauldyson8098]

Literally a Selesnya mage. Still love you, homie.

[@justinveron698]

We need more of Crim's Grixis wisdom!

[@salem326]

Loved you dressing in Grixis colors Crim, excellent style, excellent video for us Grixis folx.

[@SSolemn]

Just have 1 Grixis deck and its Cecily, Haunted Mage. I made it as a Creature/Proliferate with a hint of fling style effects and big damage spells that Cecilu can cheat. Very fun even in a casual budget.

[@laelnoj]

My Grixis journey started with Nekusar and has evolved into a "Nikki B Annoying" deck. It is fun to play the foil sometimes and the Nicol Bolas with rogues theme fits perfectly. Mycosynth Lattice combos, 10ing someone with Sorin Markov, Notion Thief, Tergrid, Etali and the list goes on. Wouldn't play all the time but sometimes the pod needs a baddie so a hero(s) can emerge and an epic tale can be told.

[@davidbutterworth1126]

I triple cast Cruel Ultimatum last night in my commander pod with Anhelo and Twinning Staff. Felt amazing!!!

[@Jerhevon]

Heh, my first EDH Control deck was a deck much like the Thraximunder one mentioned here, but with Garza Zol at the helm. Expensive, but good at controlling the board and then haste to be coming down and smiting people. What I really love about Grixis is how varied the strategies are. Jeleva is strongly different from Nekusaar and so on for Marchesa, Bolas, Mairsil. etc. So many good value commanders, but built in ways that they don't often go in each other's decks.

[@garrethatch5362]

Yo, make more videos like this in this format. This is good. Clicked on it as soon as I saw it.

[@Lycodrake]

Would love to see this sort of video for other colors or color combinations!

[@GenericProphets]

Grixis is THRIVING recently my guy. Last year has been so good for Grixis in commander oh my GOD

[@charmandenator5686]

I love Cruel Ultimatum. I built a Kess deck with the explicit purpose of copying Ultimatum as many times as possible. It's great.

[@merakimagic7764]

I put Yawgmoth's Will, Ashiok, Dream Render, and Oubliette in every Grixis commander deck. Rakdos Charm is probably my favorite as its very versatile at instant speed either exiling a graveyard completely, destroying an artifact or each creature dealing 1 damage to its controller. Rakdos Charm has come in clutch so many times. I run it in any deck that can. I have multiple Grixis commander decks because Grixis has so many different builds allowing it to be almost any style of deck. We need an elemental blast for green spells like Hyrdoblast or Red Elemental Blast.

[@T_Peazy]

This was great. Thanks Crim!

[@sscbs]

Thraximundar with tons of removal and counterspells was my first edh deck too, so fun at the time. It was banned from my friend group initially until everyone else figured out how to build better decks.

[@renobelk]

love the troll white border on basic lands for blue/black/red intro

[@isaac1288im]

I started playing recently and Sauron the Dark Lord made me fall in love with Grixes. Controling my opponents and shutting them down feels like a win to me😂

[@R3C0NSPARTAN]

I currently run both a Nicol Bolas Vorthos deck and a Thraximundar attack trigger deck. My first deck ever was a 60 card casual Nicol Bolas theft+fling list. My friend had a planeswalker in his deck so I curiously looked up all the PWs of the time. When I saw Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker I just knew I had to build him

[@jackpabich763]

Also, like how the shirt and hair match with the colors for what is being discussed

[@ryanmalinowski7529]

Great video! I look forward to other videos like this. Maybe one on mono white with Richard, or Seth with panharmonicon effects, or one with esper from you, Crim.

[@QuicksilverSG]

Marchesa, the Black Rose is my pick for best Vampire tribal Grixis commander. It's not merely the plentiful +1/+1 counters she bestows upon her minions, Marchesa can grant your Vampires virtual immortality. Just nip her with Olivia Voldaren's bite, and Marchesa becomes a Vampire herself, capable of spreading Haunted One's Undying curse across your Vampire horde.

[@Lucarioguild7]

I've never been a grixis fan but Evelyn has started converting me so this hit at the perfect time

[@MustangMike52]

We need an updated list Crim! Fellow disciple of Bolas, share your knowledge with the congregation

[@jordanbusch6588]

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker is what got me into the game

[@DukeGusion]

i think one of my favourite games with my kess storm deck, was winning with thousand year old storm creating way to many copies of cruel ultimatum. absolute fave card.

[@DarkJusticeMetal]

Even though I'm not a Grixis mage, listening to Crim talk about it makes me understand the shard a little more

[@xicarus8141]

Thanks for making this, I'm definitely gonna make my first Gryxis deck with Evelyn! XD

[@didupaytheone2678]

Great video bro. these some spicy cards , my lord Xander deck is great

[@Belphegor926]

Immediate like. Crim has been my favorite on Clash once I realized we were Grixis brethren; busy building my fifth Grixis deck. Also, Anya is a meme and I love it.

[@loganvain3]

Anhelo the Painter is not only becoming my favorite Grixis commander but my favorite commander ever. I love sacrificing my stuff to punish my opponents. To me he is the opitomy of Grixis

[@ZeroTheOtter]

I’ve recently gotten into magic myself and Bolas the ravager has become my favorite card. I just wish I knew how to build a deck for him lol.

[@alexanderl187]

What clans/guilds do you play? I play Dimir, Naya, Izzet, Jeskai, Sultai, mono-green, and soon Golgari for Halloween and Bant for Christmas. I used to play Gruul and Rakdos too. Now I'm inspired to make a Nicol Bolas-dragon tribal deck in 2024! :)

[@gatophantasma]

Nicol Bolas the ravager is my favorite commander, make them all discard, and make them all sacrifice creatures until they are all out of resources, don't let them draw additional cards, and play waste not, and you got the perfect group hug deck. my opponents hug each other for emotional support because they have no creatures or cards.

[@mikeheximer7638]

Enjoyed Crim letting his Crimness bubble out

[@darylmcnaughton748]

Originally started my grixis commander deck as thrax and its was pretty much grixis good stuff and was pretty mean, then when i finally got the FTV Nicol Bolas i used him for a very long time killing plenty of people with commander damage with him. Then when the Ravager came out I immediately switched to him and now the deck is like a grixis artifact deck with a super friends subtheme using all the Bolas walkers and a few tezzerets and a liliana (for use with lilianas triumph)

[@carriongaming744]

Crim I need a 2023 one!! Working on a Crosis deck and could use the ideas lol

[@MstrKipper]

I really want to build Grixis nonsense, I'm just still not sure who to run as a commander

[@Spaced92]

That's the neat thing, it doesn't matter! You're half dead before you cast it. In all seriousness Niccy B The Ravager is nice if your deck is really nonsense.

[@gypsieking3280]

This is delightful.

[@infylos5035]

Dropping in a year later to say that before Paradox Engine was banned in Commander, I had an indefinite involving that and a few wizards, and Inalla. It being indefinite rather than infinite meant I could take a 20 minute turn just to whiff and get obliterated on the crack back. I've dismantled that deck due to feeling icky.

[@JEL625]

Cruel ultimatum is grixis. It doesnt do well against established boards but it basically makes 1 player a non the threat for several turns without outright killing them. Grixis isnt about winning, its about dominating. And now I want to find a way to cast infinite cruel ultimatums and make that my commander win con.

[@EmbracetheTrace]

Got thrax and Cruel in my Marchesa deck- great list! Need Nicol B

[@TheAmazingSpiderman87]

Inalla is life, pretty much tuned mine to not quite cedh level but damn close with thoracle combos.

[@nitro5247]

I think Cruel Ultimatum in a Zevlor deck would be positively diabolical. Definitely not the first to think of it, but just imagine.

[@didupaytheone2678]

I like these videos everyone gets their video and talks about their favorite cards? Then end the end have them fight each other

[@anthonym.ocasioiii2948]

I would like to see how you ramp your grixis decks. Thats my biggest issue with mine.

[@vonjynx]

We demand a Mono white essentials for Richard even though we all know what they are

[@ujustdiealready7402]

Cartographer hawk x9 and a dowsing dagger...its white right?

[@vonjynx]

@@ujustdiealready7402 Hawk Hawk Hawk Hawk Hawk Hawk Hawk Hawk Dowsing Dagger Secret Rendezvous

[@ColorwaveCraftsCo]

Been waiting for this!

[@mitchelljudson9237]

Would absolutely love to see crim play a pirate deck based around adirmal Beckett brass and stealing things, underrated grixis commander for stealing

[@CheeseWedge056]

I love grixis, but I dont like to make 3 colour mana bases, so I build the 2 colour combinations from it.

[@taa347]

Cruel Ultimatum is a card people underestimate because it's single target, but I play an Anhelo deck. When I drop an ultimatum, I'm copying it 2 or 3 times and just decimating people. It's actually disgusting. And god forbid I hit it with Arcane Bombardment and just start casting it again on every person's turn for free + whatever else I'm doing.

[@willofkhonshu7287]

Going from a more Gruul / Temur player and I want to get into Grixis but can't decide what route to take.

[@gypsieking3280]

Inalla for life

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

I have a single deck designed around a resource denial power house deck. That runs many of these. Xander marchesa covetus and some other gnsrly bits. Designed arounf alot of copy and theft. Mill discard or take ping dmg. Marchesa as the commander and stuff like deadeye navigator and other good wide soread reanimators and things to generate counters for marchesa on stuff. Goblin rogue fae tribal generally. But also some non human and party mechanics. 3rds based template as its being built and designed for further tuning to the owners selection. Doing 2 versions. 33 lands 33 creatures 33 non land non creature. 11 goblins. 11 "fae" 11 other. But mostly within rogues as well but not entirely wizards clerics warriors and some other stuff. Like 5 vamps. 11 direct hard counterspells. Goblin side has infinite ping dmg red mana and goblin tokens. Pashalik mons hobgoblin bandit grenzo krenko skirk prospector. Goblin recruiter and 2 ither govlin tutors. Demonic tutor and the creature version. Pyschic intrusion. Xander. Some other goodies like carrior feeder and sengir. The cyber controller. 7 of the artifacts are mana ramp or fixers in some way. Like 11 total minimum draw increasers including infinite draw combos. Fae and goblin token generators for blockers and swarm and early game stuff plus generic buffers and such.

[@NeoSlimey]

I play Rakdos, and I play Dimir on occasion, but blue and red should never have been allowed to meet. Despite my love for Bolas as a character, I am forever sorrowful that I cannot play him as a matter of principle.

[@samdalfthegray4495]

My favorite Bolas-y card has got to be Fraying Omnipotence! It cuts game times in half for just 5 mana XD

[@xxenergizedxx6695]

Great Video Crim!

[@imatarrasque5558]

Grexit rogues seems like A lot of fun I might need to build another rogue deck

[@fromadhdtodndtomtg]

I started giggling on the Segway for a new sitcom

[@omgitsjoshjames]

Love it Crim!

[@MajraMangetsu]

Love it 😃

[@Nuke100]

I have something to add. Just play sultai instead because it is the superior u/b/x color pairing. NYA NYA NYA

[@jehutyreigns]

Obeka is my favourite grixis commander at the moment. Have you tried her?

[@edissoncajilima7396]

Would love to see his Evelin deck

[@VultureXV]

Is there a reason why only two colors were given the ability to regularly deal with enchantment-based threats?

[@ByronAndOnAndOn]

You get my like just for the accent in the beginning lmao.

[@AKASyx]

Praise be to Lord Bolas

[@DominoAmor]

Gwendlyn Di Corci will always be my favorite. She's got a thicc booty to ward off aggro and interacts fun with untap shenanigans (minamo land makes her give a hymn to tourach every turn). She's lost a lot of power with the loss of paradox engine, but she will always be my favorite. I still run her in a dedicated control deck. I also still run a crosis deck too. Newer commanders are interesting but I tend to enjoy my childhood favorites. Recently I've been trying to make Parnesse work. Honestly a real challenge.

[@bigbadvolk6124]

I'm shocked there is no Geyadrone on the list, I think Crim mentioned its one of his favourite new Grixis PW

[@MisterAnimeFreak]

A lot of people seem to hate this video. I love it tho.

[@regail7143]

Crim out here trying to make more Crims...

[@jozefkeresturi2139]

Just that disclaimer Is worth a like. And the white border lands. This is going to be a lot of fun.

[@reznorcp4157]

Nekusar The Mindrazer would be my favorite Grixis card

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

Did you say Lord Crim, the Crimmer? that's what i heard. That reminds me i need to make more grixis decks thats not just wheels with either Lord of Tresserhorn or Nekusar and yes wheel Tresserhorn sounds troll and it is when they are taking 14 damage per summoning or bouncing your commander but gets you less targeted than simply having a Nekusar

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

I should also note my wheel deck that i named The Deck of Time can accidently kill the driver so embrace the chaos and see who comes out on top and play a Timeshifter while you have glacial chasm out and low on life due to the land because you did not want your own spells to burn you down fast as you are wheeling and stuff like Phyrexian Tyranny don't care who controls it as it burns everyone equally unless they pay the 2 per card draw so thats 14 damage unless they pay 14 mana when you wheel. Spiteful visions and fevered visions are also great in the deck as spiteful visions affects everyone equally and you draw a card or the two as the extra one from visions per turn before you have to put it on the bottom due to puzzle box and draw a new hand taking so much damage. Though Fevered visions is not that great as it is not per card draw it is if they have 4 or more cards in hand so basically a bit worse version of Black vise that also makes them draw at their end step however it is good in the fact that it effects all of your opponents not just a single player and Black vise deals damage per card in in their hand minus 4 so it has no cap. Gustha's Scepter is also in the deck because sometimes you just want to keep a certain card so you exile it face down under the scepter and best part is if the scepter leaves play or you lose control of it all of the cards exiled with it goes to the grave so you can just do something like Timetwister and get them back into your deck. Since it is a wheel deck it is great to have a hidden hand that they can not tamper with unless they blow up the artifact, also it even says as long as the card is exiled you your self can look at it anytime even though it is exiled face down so it is also great for hiding your combo and even better if you have something to untap your scepter and my uncle is never going to let me forget animating my scepter with animate artifact with a intruder alarm out then suddenly i Niv-mizzet curiosity from nowhere by playing my commander to untap the scepter lol Put a Krenko with thornbite staff or any creature type of infinite sac engine in the deck and suddenly with the scepter and intruder alarm you don't have to worry about your puzzle box wheeling your hand away or them getting rid of your hand so you basically gotten rid of most of the downsides of the wheel deck. But that's not how i like to play i like to risk it all in the gamble of either my deck kills me or i kill them first or they kill me first however if i am playing more spikey i will definitely switch to that combo as the only use it has is untapping my scepter meaning they don't know what i am setting up unless they mindslaver me as for all they know i have 3 mana open and i might have a opposition agent under the scepter Ignore my dumping fast mana artifacts turn 1 then wheel of fortune to refill my hand which may or may not have another fast mana artifact or turn 1 Nekusar you try to counter spell then i Force of Will....i uh made the deck mean as it is Wheel.deck literally all of the Timetwister effects 21 cards including Timetwister granted not the ones in the other two colors or the banned one sway of the stars which would make a Nekusar deck too strong. But i want ancestral recall unbanned as come on man give me blue lightening bolt lol My uncle looked at me and said "Even if Nekusar is not the commander some jank zombie is it is one of the meanest Nekusar decks i have ever seen you just need a cyclonic rift to send their stuff back to their hands then wheel" I should actually note that if playing the deck seriously the actual win strategy is different depending on if you are playing Lord of Tresserhorn (i call him tesserhorn as pet names annoys people) or Nekusar, the Mindrazer as the commander since Nekusar by default is far stronger as Lord of Tresserhorn is a 10/4 4 cmc grixis legendary that says "When Lord of Tresserhorn enters the battlefield, you lose 2 life, you sacrifice two creatures, and target opponent draws two cards. Tap a black mana: Regenerate Lord of Tresserhorn." like you can just straight up play him without any other creature to force your opponent to draw cards as that ETB will trigger even if he somehow is not on the field with two creatures or if somehow he gets put into your hand by the end of it thus not going to the grave or back to the command zone. So you can tell by having stuff like Spiteful visions out and Phryrexian Tyranny it is a targeted hate card when you play it as suddenly you are dealing like 14 damage for 4 mana so it basically becomes lightening bolt on crack that happens to be in your command zone

[@undying3132]

There is a 60% likelihood that I will build an Evelyn deck with only swamps

[@charlier409]

R/10, great job king

[@sailorforce]

Was anybody else expecting Crim to say “be careful with this one, she’s an old lady” during the opener? :-p

[@eliwashburn5264]

The irony of using Anya graphics in a grixis video and not an esper one 😉