"Azorius is the literal fun police" - Me, a House Dimir agent and Rakdos Cultist
@volosguidetomonsters34402 ай бұрын
Wait are you me in the mirror?
@macmacox2 ай бұрын
Azorius is my least favorite, I play more Dimir, Simic or Golgari I despise board wipes. why can't I hit you where it hurts in destroying your lands? back to basics should be fair against those.
@volosguidetomonsters34402 ай бұрын
@@macmacox Land destruction is funny
@macmacox2 ай бұрын
@@volosguidetomonsters3440 I mean nonbasics, blood moon is mean but if you only have 5 basics in your deck that deserves some punishment.
@volosguidetomonsters34402 ай бұрын
@@macmacox Oh... but I like Red-Green Ponza decks
@adkohler2 ай бұрын
(Holds my 4 Dimir decks close) “You don’t listen to what those mean nitpicking nerds have to say”
@evanelliott8231Ай бұрын
Same!
@thepeteshop2 ай бұрын
It’s bananas that Scarab God and Wilhelt didn’t get a mention in Dimir. Golgari is number 1 and Dimir is 10? Weird.
@DrummurDer19922 ай бұрын
zombies are boring thats why
@BaconBitZ20072 ай бұрын
My most fun deck I've built is a Scarab God life burn deck @DrummurDer1992
@thepeteshop2 ай бұрын
@@DrummurDer1992 oh thanks I didn’t realize that
@evanelliott8231Ай бұрын
My Scarab God deck is my most cherished deck and couldn’t imagine not having it.
@geoffreypotter8362 ай бұрын
The lack of Simic love is fine. We will grow on you, whether you want it or not. Evolution cannot be stopped.
@artgosling26962 ай бұрын
Every simic deck is just draw cards and ramp, that’s the issue. That’s literally the only thing simic commanders do 🥱
@wickederebus2 ай бұрын
@@artgosling2696 my +10/+10 Hakbal keeps getting stolen by the Orhzov Vampire precon.
@danielcurren21192 ай бұрын
@@artgosling2696what about cascade and copy creatures? Swarming the field and boosting power of creatures. Plus turning lands into creatures is fun too
@11epicnoob2 ай бұрын
I dunno... not enough crab for my liking
@alexjunge58262 ай бұрын
@@artgosling2696 My Ivy Deck - with her 16 copies - begs to differ.
@ProfBrunoClemente2 ай бұрын
The Syndicate is displeased with its current classification. It demands a correction, or you can expect an increase in the mana tithe.
@geoffreypotter8362 ай бұрын
"its"
@voxkine93852 ай бұрын
I feel like Boros has become a top 3 “fun” in recent years. They’ve focused so much on fixing Boros and really done well at giving it a decent range of options. I’d love to see Azorius and dimir get some similar focus. Both of them often feel so heavily focused on their respective core mechanics (“fun police/flying” and “mill/ninjas” respectively) that it’s hard to find an interesting way to build them.
@Wackyfox2 ай бұрын
Dimir needs to expand into Prowess/spellslinger territory - Rona is a good start but we can do better.
@egreenwood11172 ай бұрын
THATS ME!!! I'm the poison Chun LI player!!! Omg so honored for the shout out!
@Blacklodge_Willy2 ай бұрын
Got a list?
@egreenwood11172 ай бұрын
@@Blacklodge_Willy its called Chun-Li compleated
@vivianboor142 ай бұрын
Rakdos is the only guild that knows how to have fun.
@user-ph2gq6dn1o2 ай бұрын
I agree
@israelrobles6812 ай бұрын
We Boros have fun too, but we follow the rules!
@shesgard372 ай бұрын
I'd like to vote that gruul also has fun
@shaneg90812 ай бұрын
Yeah, it's all fun and games until you become the human sacrifice.
@richardstevenson12662 ай бұрын
Hell ya Brother!!!
@slaughtermelon77372 ай бұрын
Izzett is the most solitaire type deck storming off like crazy for 20 minutes
@Shimatzu952 ай бұрын
I guess its fun for people that like solitare.
@theblan1k0ne2 ай бұрын
@@Shimatzu95that’s me. I’m people.
@AlwaysGrowing0Ай бұрын
Enchantress is a solitaire style as well.
@Shimatzu95Ай бұрын
@@AlwaysGrowing0 only if it has green in it aka all the enchantress cards ever
@BlueFox5712 ай бұрын
I’d love to see your opinions on the wedges and shards, too!
@Steve_and2 ай бұрын
yes def wedge and shards!
@jordonbrown97622 ай бұрын
I third this idea
@lostinthewoods22012 ай бұрын
Thing i like about the game is the roleplaying aspect. Dimir lets me explore the evil scientist/cultist with commanders like Phenax and Tezzeret. Milling people into insanity, surounding yourself with artificial servants, scheeming to cast huge spells and foil plans at instant speed.
@BlitzFlix12 ай бұрын
Can't be throwing hate at Dimir, Transmute has been saving wallets and hearts with those cheap tutors!
Here is the thing, I do believe Selesnya is the least fun color combination, but i can't stop playing it. Selesnya is very permanent-dependent, usually plays at sorcery speed, and is extremely held back by it's lack of card draw, but there's just something about a board full of tokens that just tickles my brain. Ok fine, it's also pretty good at enchantress I guess...
@viperdragon35lol62 ай бұрын
Dimir always brings me the vibe of taking your things and using it against you. Cards like covetous urge, kotose, scarab god etc.
@aselbst2 ай бұрын
Yeah, I thought it was weird that Beezy said that's a rakdos thing out of the grixis colors. I feel like that's more dimir's identity.
@gabrieldossantossanta56562 ай бұрын
That's exactly what my anowon Mill/grave thief does.
@SefrisGuy2 ай бұрын
I took 1d4 psychic damage listing dimir as most fun for me and seeing you put it at the bottom
@danielcurren21192 ай бұрын
I love izzet, simic and gruul. Black and white don’t really do much for me, except for sultai and naya
@jonknowsnothing42592 ай бұрын
I loved this video! It’s such a fresh, refreshing video. Loved that there were “more fun” and “least fun” categories. I’d kill for a 3 color video similar to this.
Golgari and Orzhov are my favorite guilds due to being able to sacrifice my creature to get a lot of value.
@TunazOP2 ай бұрын
The Rakdos puts the "Fun" in "Funeral"
@jasonbarry33012 ай бұрын
Dimir’s mechanical identity is generally a bunch of shit black could already do either with no twist or a slightly blue caveat to the effect. It’s generally blacks hand disruption, blues deck manipulation, and sometimes graveyard interaction usually involving exiling shit from your yard to allow the card doing it to do something in relation to the card exiled. I know that last one sounds pretty run of the mill but it was relatively novel when dimir was conceived.
@haroldsaxe5912 ай бұрын
Dimir is about cool combat tricks, and creatures that are hard to block that give you cool triggers
@xanderjones62392 ай бұрын
Rakdos does so much stuff. It's my all time favorite color combo. Rakdos is where the fun is
@Zacharadus2 ай бұрын
The Boros Legion understands your current positioning, but expects you to do better in the future.
@MRAIClassroom2 ай бұрын
It is interesting that you stated in the video a few times that red as a color is not great… or I believe you even said weak… and I have always sorta thought the same thing, but of your top 4 guilds , 3 of them have red! I also was recently taking inventory of my decks as I’m up To 15, and when I think of the colors I’m not a huge fan of red, but I do have a lot of decks that have red in them! So I guess it’s a great support color?
@lancearmada2 ай бұрын
I really like dimir, selesnya, and azorius. For some reason theres just a lot of interesting commanders there. Helps that I really like zombies, rogues, and mill themes.
@deamonscar59522 ай бұрын
“Red is weak” *laughs in zada*
@adym152 ай бұрын
I'm giving you a thumbs up for not making Boros dead last like most people would.
@volosguidetomonsters34402 ай бұрын
A defense of Dimir But I like Rilsa Rael Also, Dimir's original identity was "It's the deck manipulation guild" Look at Lurking Informant (The Dimir signpost uncommon in City of Guilds) Besides, have you seen the crimes deck? Way better than Simic, at least. My other color pair is Rakdos, I play Valki, Cosmic Imposter // Totally not Tibalt and Blim
@markc65712 ай бұрын
Selesnya is my personal favourite. There are so many types of strategies and archetypes available.
@Shimatzu952 ай бұрын
How the hell is azorioz, aka the fun police above selesnya?
@marvinbuck59842 ай бұрын
I agree with the ranking for the most part. I'd have to say though Rona, Herald of Invasion is Dimir's saving grace. It's so much fun to just loot a bunch and play a bunch of pingers to hit your own commander and cast big spells and creatures from your hand.
@justinjacobs15012 ай бұрын
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind is probably my all time favorite deck. It uses incidental mill to fuel reanimation and clone effects so that my deck can become an amalgamation of every deck at the table and often wears the faces of the scariest things around.
@jordanuu-bernard6038Ай бұрын
If you think selesnya is boring try Trelasarra, moon dancer! You play soul sisters (plus essence warden!) and turn small instances of life gain into Voltron. Also play hardened scales effects etc.. It’s literally my fav commander.
@neon46352 ай бұрын
Dimir has one of the best identities imo and has a ton of interesting strategies. I dont even own a dimir deck but my friend has several, and every one is unique.
@anactualopinion8682 ай бұрын
As a dimir/grixis mage..Dimir does grixis stuff...control..card advantage combo..punish..graveyard stuff...it's GREAT ....iv top 16 major tournaments with Talion the kindly lord....and I know yall weren't talking CEDH..but that should be considered
@xaxscratchxax9262 ай бұрын
Love my Talion deck. It's titled, I want my friends to hate me. And they do when I play it.
@MegaMan41412 ай бұрын
This was a cool video. I’d like to see it for the triads next!
@zramirez54712 ай бұрын
Orzhov is so cool and has so much on its own, but people like themes, and all of the themes in Orzhov require a little blue or red or green - incredible strong base, hard to separate from the more exciting derivative guilds...
@collinthomson79422 ай бұрын
I definitely thought this was gonna be about in-lore which guild would’ve been the most fun to live in
@Jude302 ай бұрын
I love Golgari. As mono colors green and black are my favorite colors. They just work so well together and there are so many strategies you can use
@DemonOfMyMind2 ай бұрын
Dimir is one of my favorite. Playing against it is fun, playing with it is fun. Least favorite is Boros then probably Gruul. I've built several Dimir commanders in the past and all of them played quite differently. Dralnu, Phenax and Scarab God are all decks I've owned at one point I have a deep fondness for. Big Butts on Phenax was noval, Dralnu was so risky to play but the pay off was huge. He was the gambler's commander because it could really blow up in your face. Scarab God let you steal and reanimate. I ended up using the Eldrazi Processors to get multiple copies of my opponent's best creatures. For me Dimir, Golgari and Izzet are my favorites with Simic being 4th. Simic has been getting a bad rap as of late but honestly, it has some really cool commanders like Experiment Kraj or Prime Speaker Vannifar. Yeah, Vannifar usually plays the same but I really like birthing pod. I think its a really fun strategy. Azorious I can't stand playing against. Even the "Fair" Azorious decks are miserable to play against. "Oh you just spent 10 minutes resolving blink triggers, are we dead? No, there's a chance we could get out of this? What's the odds, can we just move on to the next game?" Playing with Azorious is fun.
@zemineriver80432 ай бұрын
"Dimir has no distinct identity" Resource denial...
@upperplus79532 ай бұрын
I play my Imoti + Keruga deck. End of turn flash in my hullbreaker horror. Untap and Cast Apex Devastator. I challenge you to find ANYTHING in magic that's more fun than that :D
@Vanmoire2 ай бұрын
Been into Magic for a few months, and watching a LOT. Of different channels. This video just cemented your channel as my favorite. I fucking LOVE Golgari. I only have 2 commander decks so far. But both are Golgari. Graveyard play is just the most fun in any card game ive played. Look forward to more videos guys! One question! Ive kind of become the focus of my pod to kill first. Im running a Meren deck, basically constantly forcing everyone to sacrifice their board til a draw into a win con (usually an infinite combo) My pod is fairly competitive, what are some tips you have for winning in a reanimate deck without resorting to infinites (mikaues/triskelion) kind of stuff. Or what are some good Golgari decks that dont seem OP out of the gate but can sneak wins? Thanks guys!
@NitpickingNerds2 ай бұрын
So glad you’re enjoying the channel! We love Golgari here! I play it for graveyard value and Mia loves it for having ramp and removal. I think the best way to clinch wins without infinites is to go for one-shot KOs with things like Living Death or Rise of the Dark Realms grabbing everything you’ve milled over all at once, then sacrificing everything to get death triggers. That usually does the trick for us
@biiill52592 ай бұрын
Before it starts I know it’s rakdos but I’d argue the subset of azorius that is oops all artifacts is also a fun experience for all. Not countering, not controlling. Just doing a lot and playing with toys until suddenly you’re the threat with 300+ power on the field
@tarzangief2 ай бұрын
I 100% thought this was gonna be a lore video of the Ravnica guilds in which case its like the reverse of this list lol
@Chimeraiam2 ай бұрын
I've never thought about my opinions on the guilds, but I tend towards 3 color commanders and Sultai is the one where I can't find a single commander that sounds interesting to me. And Dimir + Simic being the bottom two picks here certainly validates that for me
@kamilwhaley-kalaora48392 ай бұрын
My pick for most fun Boros commander would be Hofri. A boros aristocrat deck is super interesting, plus you can build it as a steal your opponents creatures deck or even a spirit deck. Plus also chaining an imperial recruiter into a reckless fireweaver and two dockside’s is neat :)
@Pimpulus2 ай бұрын
who would ever skip the sponsor shoutouts? GOOD SLEEVES
@hermesthenerd99672 ай бұрын
golgari is absolutely the swiss army knife guild. it. can. do. everything. ramp. draw. kill anything. recover. engines. synergies. game enders.
@ryanfournier9522Ай бұрын
Really solid rankings. My fav deck I own is Gruul with Agatha of the Vile Cauldron it’s so much fun. Building both Laughing Jasper Flint and Vraska the Silencer right now and those will be my first decks in those guilds and I love stealing stuff so I’m excited. Agreed about Stella Lee, bought the precon and upgraded it and will be tearing it apart lol
@Pantoufles_2 ай бұрын
Dimir is most fun to me cause like, i got three hands. My library, my graveyard and my hand
@marcolariviere72 ай бұрын
i feel like araumi is actually a really cool and unique-ish dimir commander.
@williamhewitt77912 ай бұрын
My favorite deck is my mirko deck. Instead of surveil, I focus on having powerful 0 cost clones from my graveyard, reanimating powerful black and blue creatures and spamming clones of them. With mill, counter spells, recursion, and leveraging other peoples graveyards against them. Cloning an astral dragon or archfiend of despair for free feels really good.
@shanaeverowe96262 ай бұрын
For green/white, I have a Siona deck that loves creating humans with my auras and banging out damage across the whole board
@laughingman45702 ай бұрын
I run a Dimir Ramses, Assassin Lord deck. It poisons, proliferates, Voltrons and has counter spells. It's fun because I have to take out a player while the table tries to stop me.
@Dskinny232 күн бұрын
Is there a world where extra turn spells are what makes a deck viable instead of a week, and in turn, you're up for playing against them? I've had this idea for a couple of commanders/decks. They'd NEVER work unless against a blind built deck buuuut if you trigger a double extra turn it might have a chance.
@dendostar54362 ай бұрын
Everyone, in unison: “Selesnya.”
@kitcobb60462 ай бұрын
I’ve been considering building a Yusri deck myself! Glad to see it’s the favorite of a popular MTG person. I also recently build a Nath of the Gilt-Leaf discard/elf/group hug deck that I can’t wait to play for Golgari.
@crashka58602 ай бұрын
I’m a die hard golgari fan aswell, normally I pair it with another colour. My favourite pet deck atm is Chevil, bane of monsters. A weird combo of deathtouch tribal and tons of removal. It punches up really well due to tones of interaction
@BurgerManStan2 ай бұрын
Finally some golgari love. Best guild 10/10 started for me with the gitrog frog and have always had a soft spot for jarad
@ThorMan915872 ай бұрын
Orzhov is my favorite by a country mile. Rakdos is my number two, though
@devingoff19442 ай бұрын
yall sleepin on dimir my captain N'gathrod goes crazy
@rougeofda21stcentury2 ай бұрын
Aesi was my first commander and still is in one of my active decks. Beezy has a very fair assessment of him, from someone who went so hard into Aesi that I have a Red Gyrados metal proxy of him. But I also am a victim of the advice they give which is bully the simic player early. My wife hates Scute Swarm with a burning passion that even if I played it on turn 2, and no lands in hand, she would kill it. My other buddies in the pod actually know my combo pieces and actively work to prevent me from getting them.
@francisserpa44652 ай бұрын
I'm happy seeing Strixhaven commanders getting so much love. It's a great setting
@markcahalan56982 ай бұрын
"Loss of life like OG Rakdos" Hellbent would like a word I kind of hate what they did to Simic. Yeah, "good stuff" is fun for a few games, but Graft synergies are more interesting. The original guildmage is actually pretty cool Honestly, they should have put squirrels in Simic, as a callback to when squirrel opposition decks were a thing in standard. Chatterfang they just became saprolings but with a parallel lives, sac outlet, and removal in the command zone.
@brucevanbaalen49922 ай бұрын
I would turn you into a Crab ox Octopus for that simic Ranking, but since Izzet and Golgari are in Top, your Mistake is forgiven.
@Murmaider42 ай бұрын
Immediately lists my three favorite guild colors:
@dullestpenguin41512 ай бұрын
Guilds just wanna have fun, oh guilds just wanna have fun 🎉
@CourtJesterCowboy2 ай бұрын
The recent "Kill-Crime" Dimir deck archtype was pretty dang fun... Idk.
@TOOLandNINfanАй бұрын
Yenna, Redtooth Regent is my favorite current commander. The exponential potential with copies of doubling season or anointed procession is ridiculous. Even just one copy made of Three Blind Mice early game just keeps snowballing.
@daytonthegreat2 ай бұрын
I'm glad my two most favorite guilds are the most fun. I always like playing with my Golgari and Rakdos decks due to all the crazy things you can perform on the dot.
@CDPeyton12 ай бұрын
I love drafting Dimir but struggle with it in EDH. I ran Sygg for years as the head of multiple decks (rogues, steal stuff, control, & good stuff). None had a real identity that fit Sygg, though; he was just a value engine (before several better were printed). Dimir control/steal was my go to at LGS random games as it was excellent as a power neutral deck and could handle just about anything that was not pure enchantress (pre Sythis). Basically, it scaled with the table better than most decks. Recently, I have been running Mirko surveil at 25 USD budget, and it has been a blast.
@minine65082 ай бұрын
“There are decent things you can do that don’t involve you being a cop” REAL
@MedievalWerewolf2 ай бұрын
I play Inniaz as my Azorius. Flying tribal, sure, but passing stuff around like a yankee swap when I swing can make things very interesting. Also I rock Niv Parun with zero infinites, as more of a controlled burn.
@THEEStickyxbootz4 күн бұрын
I’m new to magic, but I’m learning that I very much like Izzet.
@lostinthewoods22012 ай бұрын
Would an XXR spell that reads "Destroy x target lands. If a non basic land is destroyed this way search for a basic" - be enough to disciplin landfall decks?
@Bedni872 ай бұрын
thx for vid. I have build a house, plant a tree, and made a kid so now I can have some serious life goal like have a deck for each color combination
@joshsifert625611 күн бұрын
"Ooh I can't wait to see where they put my beloved Dimir!" - 1:38 :0
@lookslikeajob42 ай бұрын
When i play dimir i like to think of a card like Evil Twin. Impersonate/steal other things and kill off/prevent problems.
@MrMattogreen252 ай бұрын
Me with my Rivaz Dragon Rakdos deck: hurr durr I like big dargons
@dameonpigeon27362 ай бұрын
20:48 one of my favorite commanders, such a fun deck that can run so many different cards. Can be really jank or really good, I love it
@DamnItMarco2 ай бұрын
Dimir is a weird way to say Boros, my favorite is probably Simic but its def fitting where yall ranked it, and boros is my least favorite by a landslide, im hoping ditching equipments for a sunforge Firesong and Sunspeaker deck can change my mind.
@gabrielkopp92482 ай бұрын
My ranking before I watch the video, prove me wrong 😁: 10 (least fun): Boros 9: Azorius 8: Gruul 7: Rakdos 6: Selesnya 5: Orzhov 4: Golgari 3: Izzet 2: Dimir 1 (most fun): Simic
@crisgon95522 ай бұрын
Rakdos being #7 is wild. Their parties are to die for
@spinningtrain90912 ай бұрын
yeah swap rakdos and simic's places and i agree
@timkvernen48522 ай бұрын
Simic has sort of painted itself into a corner by being the draw-cards-and-ramp guild. When you already do the two most powerful things in the game at a ridiculous pace, adding anything just breaks it wide open. I almost hope they never add anything to it.
@jozi93012 ай бұрын
I've always said rakdos is the only unique guild. Imo there's no contest. Rakdos #1
@kevinthecarpathian2 ай бұрын
Azorius at #6 is wild, feel like I only see stax in those colors
@xanderjones62392 ай бұрын
I though it'd be the least fun
@perryhunter12 ай бұрын
Azorius affinity is fun lowkey
@Purewater100Percent2 ай бұрын
Hardened Azorius player here, finding fun things to do in Azorius colours, like flash or flicker decks or whatever is its that Chun-li is doing, isn't actually all that hard to do. The problem is the Azorius players that only play stax, they're the ones who make it unfun, it's the players not the colour combo itself, though I might be a little bias cause it's my favorite combo to play but I hate stax.
@xanderjones62392 ай бұрын
@Purewater100Percent I have a Belaruius Cawl deck, that I enjoy. It's an artifact army deck.
@Purewater100Percent2 ай бұрын
@xanderjones6239 Artifacts aren't my favorite thing in MTG, but i do have a soft spot for my 50 dollar budget Malcator, Purity Overseer deck
@xMitchxRecklessx2 ай бұрын
Breezy- “Copying a time stretch? I’m out, I don’t care what you do.” *Me, in Izzet, doing Izzet Bullshit, copying Expropriate twice.
@lordosis56502 ай бұрын
Araumi, the Grave Tide, self mill encore, I love that deck. That's my bid for dimir.
@gnezlukc2 ай бұрын
Simic is funny because sometimes you get double the mana of your opponents and then you can spam
@braxtonrenfro90292 ай бұрын
I really like my Dimir Anowon deck. It's rogue tribal, basically ignoring the mill and focusing on dealing combat to player triggers. Evasive, turn creatures sideways strat.
@patrickera12 ай бұрын
Me as an ugly fellas and self-milling enjoyer just came in to see where my favorite guild was placed and was really amazed to see that it is on 1st! In my playgroup I'm the only one ho likes golgari at all and I'm called the "grave guy" all the time, my fave commanders are Hapatra and Mycotyrant at the moment
@dbull6202 ай бұрын
I've actually struggled a lot with trying to "figure out" Rakdos in EDH. I got introduced to commander about 6 months ago but despite a lot of searching I haven't been able to figure out what Rakdos's niche is. In kitchen table 1v1 it accels at burning and destroying everything in its path but when you have 3 opponents it's not able to scale that level of removal wide enough to work the same way, and while it seems to do ok in Aristocrat strategies Orzhov and Golgari seem to do it better. I feel like I must be missing something but I just haven't been able to figure out what it is.
@sothisis19622 ай бұрын
I love simic my favorite color pair. In commander. Draw cards, play lands. You do stuff. All the time. Interaction. Etc. also the point of view for the nitpickers is different from mine. I like doing things. Spinning wheels and always doing something. I love winning. It ain’t simic but one my my favorite commander is the elmimster. The constant scry and being on blue and white for interaction. Similar stories for simic.
@SilentGe422 ай бұрын
Gruul, Rakdos. The only guilds out there.
@mikecarroll59802 ай бұрын
This list amuses me because my two favorite guilds are Dimir and Golgari, the bookends. :)
@derickpelton31072 ай бұрын
Golgari, Azorious, and Simic are my absolute favorites while Orzhov, Selesnya, and Izzet hold 2nd place. I just frikkin love Ravnica in general.
@Seeker_of_Avalon2 ай бұрын
What are your thoughts on ramses and assassin tribal dimir decks? (Pre assassin's creed cards release)