Top 10 Reserved List Cards in Commander

[@NitpickingNerds]

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[@TheGingertarian]

This video reminded me that I used to own a Near Mint Unlimited WOF. I had to sell it to help my brother pay for chemo for Stage 3 cancer. While it hurts to miss that card, it will never beat knowing that my brother has been cleared of his cancer.

[@RecoveringSpartan]

First, while I'm sure it was a clear decision for you it's still admirable that you were willing to part with it to help your brother. Second, the good news is it's much easier to print a WOF than it is a brother

[@TheGingertarian]

@@RecoveringSpartan yeah, but I didn't have a Nekusar deck back then like I do now. It would make my deck way better. All I can say is fuck cancer, man.

[@ospero7681]

There is an enchantment that has the Tabernacle effect - Pendrell Mists from Weatherlight, which is also on the Reserved List. (It's also subtly different in that it forces you to sacrifice the creature if you don't pay, whereas the Tabernacle's effect says "destroy".)

[@Jackad7]

They acknowledged this in their video didnt they?

[@forceofwillhk]

Ps. Tabernacle is also sacrifice. Please check the oracle text

[@ospero7681]

@@Jackad7 Yeah, but they didn't name it.

[@ospero7681]

@@forceofwillhk I did. It's "destroy", not "sacrifice" according to both Gatherer and Scryfall.

[@austinblankenship7631]

@@forceofwillhk tabernacle is destroy, I know this because of how relevant it is with Marit lage in legacy

[@dakodastevens8972]

I bought a wheel of fortune and a time spiral for 45$ combine from a LGS eight or so years ago. I'm pretty happy with that, they are in my Mizzix deck.

[@thomaslepage5941]

Weirdly the first time I encountered a Tabernacle of Pendral Vale, I was playing Edgar Markov, but won. I thought my deck was useless, but I had a blood artist on board and vampires in my hand, paying for blood artist to live every turn. No one did anything to me for 4+ turns. I plopped down a Bola's citadel, cast 4 vampires and Malakir Blood Witch, then tapped the citadel to finish the game. So yeah, sometimes downhill matchups aren't impossible.

[@Zelphiez]

Having st least one thing to look forward to every day(you guys making a video upload)makes life better overall. Thanks nerds, you're the best!

[@NitpickingNerds]

Aww so glad to hear it!

[@ChristopherSmithNYC]

Serra's Sanctum is basically a Geaea's Cradle in a Go_Shinai Shrines deck. Just picked one up for $200 lp.

[@66exe]

I'll never regret buying my Cradle. good list, thanks for the honorable mentions too

[@littlemrdoom5997]

Grim feast is my favorite card that is on the reserve list. It's pretty good in my beledros witherbloom deck I have on cockatrice

[@hermodnitter3902]

Hmmmm, midnight snack!

[@MasonSheffield]

Commenting for Joe's purple cowlick 😍.

[@ZhangHe2369]

Favorite thing to do with humility is to pair it with Jace, Architect of Thought. Just locking everyone out with the -1/0 delayed trigger is so evil.

[@NitpickingNerds]

That IS evil!

[@nickhughes8179]

A long time ago I wanted to do a deck based on Humility, Lightmine Field and Maddening Imp. Now I can just use Night of Souls Betrayal or the 5cmc curse that gives cursed player’s creatures -1/-1.

[@BookTrivia]

My guess is 14 minutes in for the moxfield ad, it always falls around there. I love moxfield so much and learned about it from you guys.

[@Greg501-]

You have learned their video format well

[@brendans1983]

My guess is 14minutes and 7 seconds. I used the same method as you 👍

[@BookTrivia]

@@Greg501- I have watched every single on for the last 6 months

[@skythewolfe9120]

When I first started playing in 2001, I remember how shaken up the kitchen table meta was when I bought 4 wheel of fortunes for my burn deck because I kept running out of burn. (We always played multi-player free for all.) Unfortunately those are long gone, but hey, we all look back on magic financial mistakes lol

[@Fausto_4841]

i've run into the Tabernacle a few times. now i just don't play with that guy. totally coincidentally, the rich dude with the 12,000$ stax deck is vehemently opposed to proxies. God forbid anyone else have the power that he does bc he "earned" those cards. i get stax to an extent, but why play commander at all if you don't want anyone to be able to play with you?

[@tonyngo1885]

Stax is a game of cat and mouse. I’m trying to stop you from winning, you’re trying to find a way to push through and win before it’s too late. Stax is a lot of fun in high interactive games like in cEDH. It forces players to think and play creatively and it also puts a lot of weight to your resources and interaction and it can feel like trying to solve a complex puzzle. Reactive control with instance speed stack interaction is not the same kind of control as stax. Stax answers a problem by presenting a problem where as traditional control is a game of timing and balancing resources to stay ahead of everyone. It’s the opposite with stax. Instead of controlling the tempo, you reset the pace of the game and then it becomes a question of how are you going to play through this and when is the right moment when you should try to win? It keeps games from becoming a rat race to the finish and also introduces some elements of politics into the game as well. Sometimes it’s best not to remove the stax pieces because although it might be slowing you down, it’s also slowing your opponents down and it can give you some time to relax and gathering your resources to break the lock and win all at once because if you break the stax but don’t win, you may have just allowed someone else to steal the win. The person playing stax is constantly weighing their decisions of what pieces will impact which opponents the most all while trying to survive being the archenemy. If they lock the game and prevent everyone from winning, they successfully outplayed everyone and it’s very satisfying because stax is a difficult strategy to play.

[@Zelphiez]

Superiority complex I'd say as someone with just the information you've presented and past experiences with people of similar ilk. They feel better than others because their deck has the power level it does and being vehemently opposed to proxies give them an easy out as opposed to playing against other people with a similarly powerful deck with proxies and losing they can just feel superior because they think thousands of dollars worth of cardboard makes them better.

[@damonlouis6536]

I play tab. im not rich just old, I don't put it in stax but rather run it in low creature builds which is a tough strategy to play. It definately warps games and changes board states especialy for aggro creature decks, which is why I like it. I also encourage proxys and discourage stax at casual tables

[@mirado57]

@@damonlouis6536 I am in the same demographic, playing since '93- I run tab in my go-tall Ball Lightning tribal deck, I like that it kind of gives all of my opponents creatures a similar downside to my own Ball Lightnings

[@eveljkov]

@@mirado57 Ball Lightning tribal...love it. I'd even tolerate a Tab on the field :)

[@donniemilby5848]

Nerds just wanted to say I love that you guys put the card up even for cards you only briefly mention it helps new players a lot just something I wanted to mention a seriously choice step in the right direction keep up the fantastic work

[@mtgsus]

Earthcraft is one of my all time favorite cards. As a token player it really is an staple in all my green decks. Good I bought 4 copies like 20 years ago. Didn't realize they where that expensive right now. And no shame Beezy, my best friend bought that judge promo gaea's cradle for 2k that you've missed. Mainly he did it because of a friend of ours runs a lgs and he wanted to support him during the covid pandemic.

[@Isolanporzellator]

I used to run Humility with Night of Souls Betrayal in my Oloro deck. The deck had no creatures and Oloro works without being in play so it was completely one-sided. What's especially backbreaking about Humility is that a lot of the enchantment hate people play in green and white is on creatures like Reclamation Sage, Druid of Purification, Skyclave Apparition or Bane of Progress while grixis colors have very few ways of dealing with enchantments at all. ETBs don't work with Humility in play, so many decks literally have nothing or just one to two cards that can answer it. Lands like Cradle and Tabernacle make me glad that we now have access to Boseiju, who Endures, giving every green deck the ability to answer such oppressive permanents reliably. Strip Mine and Wasteland existed before, but in my experience not enough people were playing them whereas Boseiju is in practically every deck that can run it.

[@BrodyTwice]

Can confirm that cradle is the best card on the reserve list in Commander. I worked a few extra jobs last summer to get another copy

[@pauldyson8098]

Amber living her best life.

[@crawdaddy1234]

I’ve actually done the Ethereal Absolution with Humility combo…

[@mthlay15]

When you said moxfield I was caught off guard because I was thinking "I've NEVER heard of that card. I wonder if it's like manaweb...omg they got me."

[@joshuarobinson1737]

Time Spiral is a one time use as it exiles itself, so sure it's essentially free but you can't abuse it. Timetwister is by far the superior card because it's cheaper mana value-wise and can be abused

[@rodrigooneto1116]

Use narsets reversal. Then we talk.

[@skate14eras]

I feel like wheel of fortune is just a great card for any collection. I definitely want one some time in the future.

[@danielgoldberg2129]

I have a Wheel deck with no Wheel of Fortune just because it’s too expensive.

[@skate14eras]

@@danielgoldberg2129 it really is up there in price. I would love to own one but probably never gonna happen 😅

[@mattdeters8306]

Three of the top ten are from Urza's Saga. It's almost like that was the most pushed set ever printed...

[@NotSoSerious69420]

Eh, it was just designed differently. I’d say, I don’t know. Modern horizons 1/2 probably are the most pushed sets that ever were printed since TONS of cards from both setts are now currently all stars in every format they’re legal in.

[@gaiascradlek6215]

time spiral is literally time twister + time walk in a single card

[@danielgoldberg2129]

I want Humility just for the Phil Foglio art!

[@cax1175]

Mishra's Workshop is amazing. I recently got a couple of RL cards for my colorless deck in Grim Monolith and Metalworker and they're great. None of these cards should be this expensive however, screw the RL

[@BigDrew49]

Gaea's Cradle is just lucky Grave Titan isn't on the RL.

[@markgrochowicz4098]

Thanks for the video! Nice list :)

[@erikohman2294]

My first modern deck was land destruction. I didnt know the format so I figured aggro hembrew would be terrible. I played "Magus of the tabernacle". Its a 4 mana 2/6 creature that grants creatures upkeep cost of 1. Also it blocked like nobodys buisness. Delicious.

[@emerson685]

Unfulfilled Desires is actually a pretty sweet Reserve List card that's only $6 list time I checked. I use it in an Esper graveyard/control deck where it's essentially draws two cards for every one excess mana you have.

[@aaroncorsini6165]

Earthcraft is sooooo underrated Glad it got a mention. It's also my favorite card

[@LucasSkywalker19]

not ironic, the cards on this list is the ones I know from the RL because they good! Just awesome video guys ❤️

[@NitpickingNerds]

Thanks Luca!

[@pascalraskal9347]

Cool list, i got my cradle it's amazing and fun to play with creatures when it's to Bad boardwipe and we start again from 0

[@psychozen7169]

Guantlet of might better be on this it the best mono red artifact ever. Sorry Carl I am playing krenko friday

[@strongarthanyew8650]

Tolarian Entrancer, with a way to give it indestructible and force blockers

[@AulaGeschrabbel]

My Moxfield-Ad-Prediction (Paused at 1:53 and accidently had a look at the frame of 5:07) -----> 16:23

[@NitpickingNerds]

Swing and a miss!

[@eveljkov]

While not the strongest, Forcefield provides some of my favorite reactions from newer players. "It does WHAT and it doesn't target!?"

[@NitpickingNerds]

It is quite a weird card

[@spic9h592]

MoxDiamond is good but I'm not sure it's that good. I've had one that I sold recently for 20 years. It went in and out of decks. I think the last straw was roaring it from Jhoira to Ghitrog to Lord Windgrace and playing it a total of once. Finally sold it to help pay for roof repair and have never looked back. Survival definitely deserves it's spot though. I tend to play "fairer" decks with it and it still puts on so much work when it sticks. You don't even have to try with it; you just need to be running creatures.

[@SteamSteamers]

Mox diamond is in over 98% of cEDh decks on Mox field, higher than sol ring. It is that good, and literally makes every deck it is in better.

[@NotSoSerious69420]

You cannot say you run survival in “fair” decks because that single card is in of itself not a fair card lmao. Also diamond is literally the best mox. I’d keep a one land hand and discard the land to the mox every single time.

[@hobez64]

I like the alternate name of this video "Top 10 most proxied commander cards"

[@tryggveborchers8721]

No Yawgmoths Will? That’s my favorite! Great list though

[@NotSoSerious69420]

Isn’t it banned? Lol

[@kjellegilhustad2095]

Missing three cards from todays video. I dont have Tabernacl, the Workshop and the power 9 card.

[@xiaoxinghuli]

One thing to mention - your Cradle cancels out your opponent's Tabernacle, yey 🙂

[@allenjohnson7355]

I’ll still run red wheels in Boros decks that have a tough time with draw. That aside, definitely reserve them for locust god/nekusar decks.

[@sephyrias883]

Carnival of Souls is pretty good too imo. Not among the top 10, but maybe an honorable mention.

[@Omenshaper]

Agreed, it's also extremely cheap despite being a rare from Urza's Destiny.

[@shawnosnap3462]

Happy I collected them when I was younger I would never suggest to a friends starting to play mtg they should beer get the og dual lands. You don’t need them at all they just look nice and make you feel good but that’s about it there’s enough lands now.

[@jkojiro4945]

I forgot to use your affiliate link on my TCG Player order. Can I retroactively add it?

[@ThePaido]

I find it funny that they rank Wheel of Fortune slightly higher than Timetwister because it can fuel the graveyard. Personnaly, I rank Timetwister slightly above Wheel because it's graveyard hate :)

[@JD-gk7eh]

In Vintage, Wheel is definitely stronger because it doesn't recur your opponents Force of Wills and because you may wish to set up a Yawgmoth's Will, which Timetwister is not so synergistic with. But in Commander, I agree it's the opposite. Not fueling your opponent's graveyard is important. Further, there aren't enough copies of Force of Will in your opponents deck to worry about recurring one that has been cast.

[@ThePaido]

@@JD-gk7eh Make sense. My comment was assuming Commander format since I think this is also the assumption of their list.

[@JD-gk7eh]

@@ThePaido I agree with you. I also think they haven't played with Timetwister. Really, it's very close to same as playing with Wheel, kinda, but there's less risk because you're resetting the zones instead of giving opponents more resources.

[@leocoelho12]

what do you guys think about copy artifact in commander?

[@ajaydassani9931]

I was thinking playing tabernacle in my jund deck

[@cstaie85]

Someone tried shutting down my humans deck with humility... I had gavony township out. So everyone had 1/1 and I had 25 3/3. It was bad...

[@grizzlypug8520]

Glad I got my gaeas cradle for $80 back in the day

[@noxington4260]

This is why ✨proxies✨ exist

[@counterclockwisepup5237]

You so cute when you grumpy, Joe :P

[@sQuibleable]

Wood elemental #1

[@NitpickingNerds]

Clearly! It's OP

[@leobro6398]

I really hoped for the tabernacle to be on the list

[@stevep5669]

If I had 4500 extra I would buy and play. Love vintage cards, especially if cant be reprimanded, and like to win🤷‍♂️….have a cradle but not a tabernacle 😔

[@jayemdaewarehouse9027]

Should have an honorable mention for Haunting Wind. Might as well say “Any player who plays Dockside Extortionist loses the game.”

[@JD-gk7eh]

They don't lose. They just don't get anything from the dockside. It's effectively counterspell on Dockside.

[@jayemdaewarehouse9027]

@@JD-gk7eh Haunting Winds deals damage when someone activates an artifact doesn’t it?

[@JD-gk7eh]

@@jayemdaewarehouse9027 Yes. But they don't have to use the treasures. Haunting Wind is kinda like a softer version of Null Rod in that respect in that it turns them off but they can be used with pain. (I like this. It prevents people from going wild but doesn't shut the game down.) So following a Dockside with a Haunting Wind just means your opponent doesn't get much from the Dockside.

[@therealjeromeo4366]

Not gonna call the time of the ad, just gonna try to call that it’s gonna be a mention of a mox, probably mox diamond, before going into the ad Edit: freaking called it

[@graylowe2586]

I am gonna guess that the moxfield ad is gonna go with a card that says mox in it's name Edit: I was close, it was after!

[@Seven_Leaf]

Get a Tolarian Academy in case it gets unbanned. Yeah it’s broken but everyone loves to play it and it’s affordable. A speculation card.

[@floriankaeder]

Moxfield ad guess 09:29

[@allnaturalfarmraisedhandma8637]

Wow the crazy $500 cards I've always known about are the top 10? Wowe I am shook

[@chesterfieldthe3rd929]

Asmira, Holy Avenger

[@JD-gk7eh]

Your list is a bit biased toward cards that became (unreachably) expensive only recently, Tabernacle excepted. Mishra's Workshop (despite the mention) and Bazaar of Baghdad are glaring omissions and those are probably the two most objectively powerful cards in the format. They do require build-arounds but if you want to watch your graveyard deck operate at level 12, get Bazaar out and see what happens. Mishra's Workshop in artifact decks is similar, being like a superturbocharger when you draw it early. Timetwister is also a big omission; it's designation as "power 9" feels like a product of its time but I think if storming is your goal, it's better than Wheel because it doesn't accidentallly fuel graveyard decks. Humility over Moat also feels like you haven't experienced the debilitating feeling of Moat. Humility shuts off value but it does to you as well; Moat is always going to be asymmetric if you build your deck for it. No one attacks you. You attack. Humility can still have you beat down by 1/1s and any deck making tokens can still get you; anthems still work too. I think you guys probably haven't experienced all these cards because they've all been hundreds of dollars since before commander was a format.

[@NotSoSerious69420]

Neither cards are particularly good in commander, casual, or competitive. They HAVE uses but even in artifact decks (mono U ususally) I would basically never want workshop ever. Oh boy I can cast my trinisphere turn one but am now unable to cast anything else because I have a land that doesn’t do anything for most spel cards. I play Urza in both high and mid power variants and have never wanted workshop even remotely. Also oh BOY let me draw 2 and discard 3 in commander! I’m now down 2 advantage for a land that does nothing for casting spells! Both these lands are usable in other formats but not in commander on any power level. Also for the most example I think you’re missing something, lots of newer commander decks don’t actually require attacking to win at all. Also someone (if they’re losing or are behind or don’t care) are WAY more likely to help protect a humility over a moat. I’ve never seen anyone help protect a moat but have for humility.

[@JD-gk7eh]

@@NotSoSerious69420 If you're saying that your artifact deck doesn't want Workshop because you don't have enough artifacts to cast, you don't have an artifact deck. If your graveyard deck doesn't want a *free* way to put cards into the graveyard, it's not much of a graveyard deck then.

[@NotSoSerious69420]

@@JD-gk7eh I play Urza THE artifact deck and you never want workshop. A land that cannot cast Urza is really, really bad. You do not want bazzar in most graveyard decks. You can self mill or dredge WAY easier. Bazzar does for sure have uses. Workshop has its uses for sure too but neither are “the two most powerful individual cards” in the format and they’re not even close.

[@bavarianwolf3806]

the tabernacle is so expensive.. a NM card in Europe is 5000 euros ^^

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

My favorite reserve list card is Time Walk. The first time I used my Spellseeker to get Time Walk was priceless; I sat there giggling as I proceeded to get Time Walk back with an Archaeomancer on my extra turn and casting again for another turn, that card is not at all busted, LOL :P

[@anonymoususer5351]

Time Walk is banned in commander and 100% was not legal before Spellseeker was printed so I feel sorry for your friends who you took serious advantage of. If this was not in commander then my defense would be assuming that you would only post a scenario from a commander game on a commander channel

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

@@anonymoususer5351 Thank god for rule zero and the pre commander game discussion :P

[@anonymoususer5351]

@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 idk what kind of rule zero anyone could ever use to justify Time Walk being allowed in a game. Aside from Lotus and Recall it's probably the best card in the game and whipping it out in commander of all things no matter your power level is stupid and nonsensical.

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

@@anonymoususer5351 Wow sad to be you, I am sorry someone hurt you in MTG, maybe you should try playing with some power some time or a better play group? Have you ever tried making a deck with a Unset commander? The point of the game is supposed to be fun. The rules are guidelines. Do you take the time to have a Commander discussion before gameplay? I do. Have you ever thought about what the other players were playing in that game that would allow me to use Time Walk? I think not, you too busy trying to be negative and ruin someones experience they have shared online. I hope you have a fun game soon :P

[@anonymoususer5351]

@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 "The game is supposed to be fun" says the dude who can apparently only have fun by jamming broken garbage into decks. And if your opponents were allowed to run equally broken things, at that point its not commander and just 100 card vintage. I have plenty of fun in commander, but it doesn't take me being an asshole who has to ask to flex his valuable and broken cards to do it. There's so much variety in the format as it actually exists that you can do a nigh infinite number of things more "fun" than Time Walk. I can guarantee that you don't give a care about fun or the format and just want an excuse to show off Time Walk. Just play vintage dawg and don't tell me that I need to explicitly break the rules of the format to have a good time. Plus if you play vintage you can show off even more of the cool Power 9 cards that I'm sure you have.

[@andreasmuller8395]

Wizards should just reprint these cards in gold Border and make them legal in Commander. Most people play gold Border anyway :D

[@hunterwelch6229]

Moxfiels guess 15:55

[@jacobyspurnger8488]

22:12

[@riseofthephoenix]

Willies

[@aidenbodycoat3681]

All the mox cards and black lotus are banned in commander this surprised me too guys but saved me enough money to buy a good car 😂

[@NitpickingNerds]

That car can't win you magic games!

[@Eifuh]

Just made a Jon Irenicus deck. Gonna go spend an ungodly amount of money on Tabernacle so that the only creatures left on board are my dumb fatties that can’t be sacrificed (Not wasting my money on that dumb card, but it seems like it would be okay in the deck)

[@Seergun]

I doubt you'd ever buy a tabernacle, but it doesn't sacrifice, it destroys, so no synergy.

[@TheJoker3334]

The proxy list

[@Cujucuyo]

Gaea's Cradle is so bad, you can't play doom-blade with it in a mono-green deck, this is why it's always in the $1 bin.

[@petermullins10]

12:14 moxfield

[@grahamoliver1470]

Two words: Yawgmoth's. Will.

[@G.Snackwell]

If only Tolarian Academy wasn't banned....

[@turdferg9703]

Yawgmoth's Will doesn't even make honorable mentions?

[@brendans1983]

🤘 HATRED 🤘

[@MedievalWerewolf]

EEEE I just bought a Time Spiral!

[@MaliciousCricket]

Woah, I always thought Earthcraft was banned

[@timfoley9272]

16:45

[@aaroncorsini6165]

Cradle needs a ban

[@energetek661]

Amber!!!

[@JaimeAGB-pt4xl]

Great... I have no money on my BD and we are talking about reserve list cards I wouldn't be able to get even if I had money 🤣🤣🤣

[@bogiebeillin]

Breezy, you look tired. Get some rest!

[@flpn2275]

Videos of lists like these are both entertaining and toxic for the game. Surrounds cards with hype that inflated their prices and not for the good of anyone but the specs and “investors “

[@kirbyfanprime]

When nearly ever card is already breaking multiple hundreds of dollars, I don't think the price is going to be affected too much by one video.

[@NotSoSerious69420]

Ah yes. I’m sure a channel with pretty minor reach will impact the price of cards that are already super expensive and rising in price.

[@Fausto_4841]

Ohhhh Reginald....... i disagree!

[@redzone4412]

15:49 fuck it

[@helmhamerhand733]

I miss Joe….

[@snowhusk]

about 18 minutes in

[@juts89]

Reserved list not being banned in commander is absurd at this point.

[@NotSoSerious69420]

Make proxies? Lots of proxy sites are plenty good enough to fool most people if they’re “no proxy”. Might not be moral but it is what it is.

[@joshmallett5718]

I stopped watching for about a month because you guys went mildly "woke push", I'm trying this video out to see if it has changed back.

[@p1k4nurxp13sr]

Humility is the holy grail of stax pieces, and I think it’s fun as hell to play (I have cEDH shorikai 🤖) Also, with regards to the dual lands, occasionally five color ultra greedy decks cut plateau because boros 🫥

[@NotSoSerious69420]

Humility is one of the worst stax pieces because it is absolutely getting removed eventually. Lots of other “minor” stax has a way higher chance of surviving.