A Tier List of The Most Popular Commanders EVER

We're putting ALL of the most played commanders in the format into a tier list and judging them based on how fun they are to play with and against!
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[@MAGWAII]

Krenko, Mob Boss

[@justinwendt3472]

Say less lmaooooo

[@joshuaforrest4135]

Legit have never seen anyone play Krenko

[@millzy8885]

Watch people get scared cuz of one little goblin 😂

[@lordpokesmoke]

Krenko, Mob Boss

[@dawsonyang2595]

I feel so blessed to be the 100th

[@erichunt1974]

Mia figuring out the Krenko guy was her friend Eric is still one of the heaviest laugh's I've given myself. Sometimes it's really hard to bring Krenko, Mob Boss up and still fit the theme of the video but I try my best.

[@brendans1983]

I have noticed the Krenko comments are slowly overtaking the Gravy Train comments... are you The Creator?

[@sparrow5701]

18:30 I was laughing so much when beezy says “geometric growth” and Mia turns to the camera and gives a tiny head shake

[@IIAndersII]

Haha nice catch!

[@martineng4499]

the prismatic bridge is almost a perfect secret commander enabler

[@ryrysamurai92]

I built a Kenrith deck that took all my Playgroups most popular commanders and threw them in the 99. It was a fun Avengers Assemble type deck where the whole point was to make them all work together and do cool weird unexpected synergies, and kill people with their retired commanders

[@discoviolenza1984]

i agree that Edgar decks are usually just okay. They usually fold to one or two board wipes unless they get their clamps going

[@dasfabelwesen]

Edgar is the kind of deck that is a 6 on a 9 table. The commander makes you play a lot of bad cards.

[@paracat4893]

Get poor Krenko to S tier! 🎉

[@erichunt1974]

This commentor is spitting straight facts!

[@sirKonradical]

Krenko and artificial evolution is true S+

[@aclevername7613]

Hes far better then atraxa in regard to design and ability. Far more interesting and entertaining of a card.

[@hanschristopherson8056]

Jodah deserves to be in poop tier

[@jeremiahchamberlain4179]

Miiram sentinel wyrm is sweet, making clones is always fun.

[@vincentpey3929]

Fully agree on that Gishath rating he enables Dinosaur Tax evasion and for that he deserves the S tier.

[@HinduGangsta]

that 1 sec pause before beezy said anything gave me life

[@stratuvarious8547]

I don't consider Jodah boring, but he is definitely pushed. The whole legend cascade gives you some game variety, but, it's definitely a kill on sight commander. Like about 8 of these on this list.

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

I love playing Arcades, the Strategist, nice to see him ranked A. On CuIts 3D there's even a custom deck holder for him with the tiny flags I'm thinking of getting for him since I love playing him so much.

[@derrickpaulson3093]

Arcades is my current oldest deck (when you’ve been playing since 1994 you sell out a few times) and I still break him out once in awhile. So much bad cards but with real synergy can be great fun!

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

@@derrickpaulson3093 Looking forward to tossing the Pride of Hull Clade into my Arcades deck for next week, hopefully he hits the table. :)

[@aclevername7613]

Arcades is great.

[@josephotterby9871]

I feel like i gotta defend Miirym a bit - Why there is a huge gulf in rating between Miirym and Ur Dragon baffles me. I understand that Miirym is basically Ramp -> Play big dragons, which isn't exactly a complicated, or particularly varied strategy. But Ur dragon is just as linear, with fewer sub-themes that you can tack on when compared to miirym, Such as clones, ETB Abuses, or blink. Only thing you're left wondering with Big Ur is which dragons are in the deck, and what method they're using to Power them out. Not exactly a ton of variety there either.

[@Shimatzu95]

To put it simply: Ur dragon is linear Miirym is exponential In addition to that there is a quite large ammouth of people, myself included, that think ignoring the legend rule is about as dumb as emminence.

[@tommieboi707]

I have an ur dragon deck. Someone in my pod has a miirym deck. I can beat him 4 out of 5 times because my dragons come out sooner and I have spells that miirym does not have like tutors(black), protection(white like teferis protection) and removal like swords to plowshares. Not only that but the dragons that have white and black in them are super powerful. Miirym does not have access to those creatures. Ancient gold dragon plus scourge of valkas/dragon tempest can outright end games on the spot.

[@alexbessaoud8553]

Krenko was my first deck ever because goblins don’t cost much money, now I’ve fine tuned my Krenko deck to win on turn 5 on average. I guess I maybe took him too far lol 😝

[@sirKonradical]

Wait till you see what krenko can do with artificial evolution and intruder alarm in an izzet pirates deck lol

[@jodylester9118]

Always blows my mind when people mention not swinging with Shorikai. It only takes 3 of the pilots, there's cards that can animate it, and the alt-commander from the pre-con, Kotori, is great for bringing that cost down. It lends it more to a "Vehicles Kindred" deck, and it's a blast. It makes me sad to see the fun play style reduced to a weird value engine.

[@Jimmythehead]

I don’t have a Shorikai voltron deck, but I do have a reanimator one. It’s not a deck that abuses its ability, but once each turn is enough to discard the fatties. It used to have Niambi as the face but Shorikai is able to discard the fat nonlegends so I switched. It’s also limited in power to white’s bad reanimation cards, but it’s surprisingly consistent (probably thanks to shorikai’s insane card advantage even when it’s not built around haha)

[@TheViralMC]

Squirrels have a special place in my heart because Overrun cast after Deranged Hermit was how I won a tournament back in 99 😅

[@ClocksTickin]

I'm not sure what this is a tier list of. Fairness? Strength? Uniqueness? Seems the scale shifts with each consideration that doesnt take into consideration the bias of the hosts. Unless this was a Favorites tier list. That might make the most sense. Also, what counts as "boring" here? The criticism used for Edgar decks was that most don't play them straightforward enough but then Jodah and Chatterfang are too straightforward? Personally my favorite deck of all time is Go-Shintai because of how versatile it is and how easy it is to shift its power level up or down. And it has deck exclusive win-cons you wouldn't use anywhere else which is always a plus for me. Plus you can use quite a few alt win-cons that win without dealing any damage for pacifist games and that's a whole other level of play that no one else at the table has to adhere to, just another fun limit to try to win with that's possible with this commander. For anyone interested in commanders that didn't make it high on this list, play what you want! You might discover something you really really like 😁

[@Cybertech134]

Probably a tier list of how fun to unfun it is to play against. Most sweaty nerds are out here trying to be the king of the casuals instead of trying to cultivate a fun experience for the table. Jodah and Yuriko, for example, are shit to play against despite being enjoyed by the worst types of sweatlords.

[@daytonthegreat]

My 2 favorite commanders aren't as popular as it used to be but I enjoy them nonetheless. Chainer, Nightmare Adapt is one of my favorites and I had him setup as a Wheel/Graveyard build where I love to disrupt plays so I can do mine more easier. My other favorite commander is Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and I have him built as a Dredge/Graveyard deck. Milling myself while I make bigger beefy boys for Jarad is always satisfying.

[@archerfeett]

never ceases to amaze me how they manage to shrink and then grow back to normal size on these videos. do you guys do this as a party trick sometimes

[@marcpr3032]

Animar is S power level, Gishath is super easy to deal with

[@vincentperon2950]

yeah but the point is coolness. Animar is sticky and annoying to interact with, that's why they didn't put it at a higher rank.

[@kenwang500]

Chatterfang is my favorite commander, the forest walk and ability to sac tokens to kill creatures and sac outlet on top of its main ability makes it so good and unique

[@eisenmenger14]

They're just haters. Chatterfang is awesome.

[@jessesandburg]

Agreed.

[@Chucklepuffs]

I loved Prosper the first time I played him but he gets so much hate at my table that I can’t really play him lol

[@tomdoetsch8603]

The black Titan, you mean, the Grave Titan? What did Beezy go to college for?

[@NitpickingNerds]

I majored in avoiding bad cards

[@Cybertech134]

Blight Titan

[@BreakingEvans]

As a miirym player, she deserves better. At least C/B tier.

[@aclevername7613]

Far better then atraxa in design and fun

[@SamySapphyre]

Mia and I had the same introduction to commander. First it was an Edgar, then a Kaalia. Sadly I took both apart. I do still have a mardu deck (Queen M) and definitely stay on the higher colour commanders like Mia. Although I have a mono colour commander for each and they are surprisingly powerful and usually fly completely under the radar (except my mono blue Braids - there be no flying under the radar with her) 😂

[@SamySapphyre]

I also totally agree about Miirym. If I want to go smash and win on turn 6, I’ll play this deck. But I don’t get it out super often because while it really tickles my inner Timmy to have 20+ hasty dragons and swing, it’s quite linear and not my preferred gameplay

[@SmithLeong]

mono blue braids is love! do u have a deck list?

[@sebastienchenier785]

Lathril voltron is crazy broken

[@bobfranklin2572]

For some reason the "Even if you're wrong you're lying" absolutely sent me creasing 😂

[@coryledwitch6492]

S- Atraxa, Kenrith, Ur-Dragon, A- Jodah, Edgar, Ishin, Krenko, Miirym, Giada, Gishath, Yuriko B- Nekusar, Prosper, Lathryl, Esika, Wilhelt, Animar C- Go-Shintai , Kaalia, Muldrotha

[@davidcurtis5452]

I have a Transformers Jodah deck does that change it into C atleast? lol

[@AMindfulGamer]

That’s awesome

[@Cybertech134]

No. Played against Transformers Jodah and it's still cancer. Y'all know you don't HAVE to play Jodah, right?

[@Whiplash47]

One of my favorite Commander memories was making a Yuriko deck scoop to my Blinding Angel

[@ItsSaME-Joey]

Krenko was my 2nd deck after making an Isshin samurai tribal!

[@yannikkissa9419]

Here the 2nd after going for Ninjas

[@TheHighwayVideo]

Jodah? Poop? The entire deck is filled with commanders. One of my favorite decks…

[@Cybertech134]

Still poop tier to play against

[@ashketchum13579]

It was cool meeting you guys at pax! I was the guy who had yall sign my flumpf 😂

[@stratuvarious8547]

Opponents: Do you have this deck? Me: Yes.

[@elscourou6654]

I don't run Chatterfang as my commander, I run him in my Korvold deck, where he is even more evil :D he's a squirrel though!! so cute right!?

[@MrCamel254]

You did ma boi Schnatterzahn, Eichhörnchen General real dirty with this video. Squirrels are not at fault that Pitiless Plunderer exists.

[@joshuadempsey5281]

Hot take: None of these commanders are above B-Tier because of the “fun-to-play-against” effect: none of these have fresh or interesting decks and they mostly bring out groans from your opponents.

[@MareczqZglos]

I remember when still with Cherry - You roasted Arcades as boring and un-fun commander (Yes it was long time agoo ;P).

[@lunarlight3131]

mia is a better host in my opinion.

[@MareczqZglos]

I would not say that - for sure she is not worst - both are great , and I enjoy both content. I think Mia is more "diffrent" in opinion then boys - so its better for "interesting" talks and points of view ;) @@lunarlight3131

[@adamcampbell2787]

I really like playing Go-Shintai Gates and Shrines. Shrines are 5-color jank. Gates are 5-color jank. It makes for a fun combination. Throw in some enchantress staples, and the deck runs fine. You're either doing gate stuff or shrine stuff, and in either case you're doing somwthing you want to do.

[@Mecal00]

When they said Krenko was the first commander deck people build, damn, so true. I built him as my 2nd deck ever. Still have it, still love it

[@yannikkissa9419]

Hahah, yeah, second one EDH deck here too. Came back after 20 years and since the only deck, I played on a tournament back then was goblins, I had to build him

[@AdamJohnson-h3c]

People are sleeping on a lot of great commanders is all I'm saying. :P

[@GuillaumeDaigle-p1v]

The black titan is grave titan

[@brendans1983]

🥳

[@matte6403]

i have an animar creature deck (all lands-creatures) and it wrecks! lol, it can rebuild so fast, and get outta hand real quick

[@stephenball2108]

If Golos was on this list I would request the first tier below poop. Golos would be in the tier where the poop from the poop tier falls on.

[@bikeguy3034]

My Edgar deck has all Vamps. I even have Vampiric Tutor with no combo to find...cause Vamps!😂 I have all 4 Eminence decks and only play them when both my wife and I play an Em deck - she likes the Cats 🐈

[@Charlesnoel16]

Im a chatterfang player, and ive never made that 15 squirrels joke XD

[@danielhavens8819]

I hate that Go-Shintai is a green card with a WUBRG ability. Just make the card itself WUBRG or colorless! It's always been central to Shrines that they're equally represented in all colors, so even if their commander has a five color identity it makes me never want to play it, because it would feel like a green shrines deck, which is just unnatural (unless you're actually making a mono-green shrine deck, in which case you're a legend).

[@BattleAxeRX]

I finally built a keranos deck

[@Chucklepuffs]

NERDS! NERDS! NERDS! Moxfield ad at 23:02 since Beezy has been switching it up. Thanks for more content gang ❤️😁

[@Chucklepuffs]

I swear I didn’t cheat lol you guys have been doing them in the later portion of the videos lately to switch it up on us

[@theboller4154]

I absolutely love Nekusar! My draw deck may not be the most powerful (it's still ridiculously strong), but it is by far the most fun to play.

[@tommieboi707]

I have an ur dragon deck and some one in my pod has a gishath deck and i beat him 9 out of 10 times. Having access to all 5 colors plus flying dragons is extremely powerful. Id definitely rate ur dragon a step above gishath in terms of power.

[@Dgoold2]

Don’t have any commanders on this list gang 😎

[@Stitchington]

Josh Lee Kwai would be so sad about Shorikai placement

[@MTGfiro]

im playing giada it is very cool and friendly for new player :)

[@Rexcilious]

I’m building a themed Kenrith deck- calling it, the King’s Domain. It’s based off of the domain mechanic and it’s quite fun

[@devin5297]

I’ve built -Isshin -kenrith -atraxa -Esika I also started lists for -Edgar -lathril -chatterfang my friends in our playgroup have built -kaalia -wilhelt -animar -omnath -korvold -jodah -juriko -arcades -gishath -Krenko and we’ve had overlap where multiple of us build the same commanders

[@eveninghat8715]

I would never lie about guessing 4:20 for the moxfield ad

[@yannikkissa9419]

Goblins or Elfes - that's usually what people build when they move from borrowing decks from friends or playing some arbitraty precon/leftover to their first deck

[@Partridge3377]

jodah sure can be very quick and punishing but however as soon as you kill jodah the board shrinks in power and so i dont think is that bad and definetly desreves to be higher maybe D/C

[@tomfisher6422]

I never thought of Chatterfang as a commander. I just want the extra tokens in my decks...

[@FatstaxMTG]

It’s funny to look at the list as a weakest popular commander because it’s pretty close to right.

[@Marcosomos]

I NEVER cheat, the moxfield ad is at minute 3 with 4 seconds

[@cameronk.2777]

i used to play korvold, fae cursed king, and ran into the issue that i just wasnt at my friends power level, and i never played it because it wasnt fun to stomp. now i play korvold, gleeful glutton, and its a much fairer card that i still do demonic things in.

[@geofferiswheel]

I wish Omnath wasn't a kill on sight commander. Everyone always targets me and I never win. Now I have to run Greaves, Boots and Flicker effects to keep it on the battlefield. Good thing I can use the Flickers offensively too ;-)

[@blupinto1629]

Guys! Jodah could be fun! Just build him with lots of interactions, cheap legends (predominantly humans) and have fun! It's all about the direction you give him

[@aperture2408]

Give this commenter a medal. Someone that understands Jodah.

[@schwar977]

Krenko deserves A tier at least.

[@Sonicron86]

Ur-Dragon was my first foray into Commander back when the precon hit, but I haven't played it in years now. It's fun, but it rarely sticks... mainly it just enables its tribe, which is good enough for me. It just so happens I've been hyped about dragons ever since I was 3 years old, so this deck was love at first sight for me. Maybe I should overhaul it and sleeve it up again... Also, up high, Beezy - none of my active commanders are on this list either!

[@gilliganallmighty3]

I saw Ishen/Eldraz-annihilate tribal it was gross. " When Iattack, you sacrifice your board"

[@representativejoints1188]

Isshin, humans, dungeons. He says have fun attacking in mardu find almost any path from there. Good design. If he had any additional power or text he'd be gross.

[@Mandus_The_Mad]

For all of you giada players out there you are sleeping on Sigarda, Font of Blessings. Who needs a mana dork in the command zone or bad card draw when you have green

[@egreenwood1117]

I like Shorikai as my commander. but my deck is all about vehicles. Kindred vehicles that will literally over-run people!

[@seanmower3926]

Want to play a really fun deck? Build kadena, morph is a super intresting ability and there’s alot of shenanigans you can do with it

[@kevintiemann6875]

Yuriko FTW…I love playing it and enjoy lefties tears as I flip it over as my commander. Salty tears never tasted so sweet.

[@kimicain]

My birthday is tomorrow! I’ll be looking forward to my HBD wish from you guys!

[@leonfriedemann9151]

And Ur dragon is not poop tier????? 👀

[@kinuckles7419]

I may be blind but I don’t see Mia’s Edgar deck on Mox field . Just the tune up one you guys did.

[@jessesandburg]

Kenny is def mid range bananas or group hug. Hardly any other from what ive seen.

[@captainsc00ter31]

I guess it isn't at 29:29, cuz I'm lying no matter what?

[@TheAmazingSpiderman87]

Beezy checks under his bed for Grave Titan.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Every night

[@amadoromero4823]

Idk how anyone can miss golos. It was always a 1 color splash staples etb get coffborg or cradle snoozefest. Good riddance, press S to spit on grave

[@GrimmTutelage]

5 of my 13 made the list from C to S..sweet. Gishath is so fun to play especially with discover...suprised Korvold was only C though.

[@lukebooth7412]

Grave Titan, right?

[@jeremiahchamberlain4179]

Queza, esper wheels and best wheel commander and also skyshark wheels both play smothering tithe.

[@threepup]

sad that my favorite magic power couple Rin and Seri didn't make this list... don't have any commanders built from this list, closest is that I have Thirteenth Doctor//Yazmin Khan and maybe will eventually build all of the cast from exile decks because I like that theme so much.

[@despiciouz]

Shorikai going face is quite fun, especially once u have a small army and born to drive equiped, sometimes he even oneshots on command dmg xD Kotori helps alot too, giving lifelink and vigilance

[@chapter_129]

Wort, Boggart Auntie not getting the respect she deserves as the best Goblins commander. Access to the Snoop combo, black tutors, grindy value and she's not kill-on-sight like Krenko.

[@rasmusberthelsen5281]

There’s no black titan, Grave Titan crying in the Conor

[@kimberly81612]

Animal + Ancestral Statue vs Edgar Markov deck = Very unhappy wifey.. literally nothing I can do about it.

[@komicczz3211]

I can’t believe miirym gets hate 🤣 It’s my favorite commanding WHATS BORING AGOUT NOT ONE BUT TWO DEAGONS WVERY TIME

[@timothypledger2253]

Jodah not being appreciated is the strangest thing to me. In a format that encourages pet cards and unique legendary creatures, it seems that a card that allows you to play your favorite legendary cards would be the most diverse commander.

[@matthewanderson3261]

Beezy, what'd you study in college?

[@12jacobmar]

Nerdanomics.

[@matthewanderson3261]

In addition to philosophy, of course.

[@brendans1983]

Bant: Empyrial Archangel

[@matthewanderson3261]

@@brendans1983 🤔

[@doctorrobz]

All that Chatterfang hate 🥲

[@billlong4586]

Thought selvala heart of the wilds would be on here. I absolutely love her, big beaters, card draw, mana..it may help i built her in my friends memory..now if primetime would come off the banned list so i can slot it in as it was one of his favorite cards

[@fredericks7890]

I haven't been able to bring myself to pull her apart, but she's just not that much fun to play. So linear, so explosive, and turns can take a long time when you are really stacking the mana up and figuring out how you can pull it together to kill one or all of the players at the table this turn. I just don't have that much fun playing her and my table doesn't either. And I say this as a Krenko player, who has a tuned Krenko deck. Selvala is just so much less fun for everyone.

[@billlong4586]

@fredericks7890 to be honest, if not for my friend, I probably wouldn't have such a fun time playing her myself. It's a deck he would have made though, maybe tuned a little more than he would have done, though. Maybe a 7 or 8, has 2 infinite mana combos, both needing selvala, and some fast mana but I wouldn't say it's a cedh.

[@Rastalyn7272]

Animar at C tier?! Disrespect! Lol wish I could put y'all in check 😅.

[@Sean.Cordes]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds Kenrith boring af. I'd put him in D or less. A buddy has one and the pattern is the same every game - he gets out Zirda or Training Grounds, then Beledros or Peregrine Drake or similar and untaps everything every turn for cheap and just blows everyone out. You can remove things and slow him down but the momentum is so high that if you dont beat him fast you'll probably lose, and it's always going to be the same shit every time.

[@matthewanderson3261]

I'd take another Shrine commander if they gave me one. I've been a shring boy aince the beginning!

[@joshuatran6526]

As a Yuriko player, commander ninjitsu reasonably just reads "hex proof". People know it can come back so they just chose not to kill it. And because the burn is even, you basically become the clock and win if nobody else is fast enough. While you go for stacked burns when possible, often it's just a random draw and there's something thrilling about a game being decided by going to the casino and betting everything on deck construction.