Ranking ALL of our Commander Decks From Worst to Best

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[@rulamagic]

They should make a card that gets a counter every time someone does takesies backsies. And when it has 10 you win the game.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Please let it be UW 🤞🏻

[@erichunt1974]

One of the funniest interactions was a friend running Edgar Markov stealing Krenko with New Blood and getting to double their vampires instead of goblins. That game quickly spiraled out of control. I'm sure your Markov Deck is quality.

[@lVideoWatcherl]

@theundergrad5994 That it's so cheap it's basically free (mechanically speaking, not monetarily), and therefore usually pretty blandly op especially in casual.

[@zakbrooks7354]

​@@lVideoWatcherlcan concur. I have a "bad" miirym deck that's still really powerful

[@xahhfink]

The best I've seen was when someone took The First Sliver

[@lVideoWatcherl]

@@zakbrooks7354 Yeah, frankly you'd have to build the deck without dragons or shapeshifters at all if you wanted to actually have a 'bad' myrrim deck, because the synergy is just that generically powerful together with the fact that dragons are likely the most powerful generic tribe (with minimal boardstate) in the entire game.

[@zakbrooks7354]

@@lVideoWatcherl yep. Even with a pretty bland mana base, fairly slow ramp, and little interaction, the inherent ability to build so quickly after getting miirym out makes it so unfun to play against. Nothing like a double scourge of valkas to ruin a game real fast

[@Chucklepuffs]

You guys make Monday’s worth the struggle. Looking forward to seeing your decks!

[@SpeedyTurtleful]

Can i see a deck list for these decks anywhere?

[@RobertTheSmall]

Honestly glad Beezy got Oskar to a place he's happy with, It's the one deck I've ever played of the Nerds' (that and Cherry's Henzie), back in Commandfest Richmond (I think it was 2022), it was when it was still Budget and lucked into winning after misplaying like 15 different times because I was able to pull off a Revelark/Karmic Guide infinite in a pod I didn't really have a deck that fit well with (Everyone else was playing budget and all I had were just weird mid to mid/high power piles oops), but thankfully the nerds were good sports about it.

[@UniversalJuan]

Baeloth works extremely well as R/G Elf Tribal w/ Raised by Giants as the Background. Green helps the ramp w/ Elves with Red goad synergies and Elves also helping make Baeloth even bigger. One of my best decks, especially with Concordant Crossroads out

[@hanschristopherson8056]

Now I really want to see you guys play these decks

[@ShinJagouki]

A couple of questions for Mia's Atraxa deck: - How important is Fathom Mage in your build? - Do you take any advantage from Evolution sage and Flux Chaneler? - What advantage have Slaughter Singer over Necrogen Rotpriest? - Is Midnight Clock really good in your deck? - Do you don't think that Brokers Ascendancy could be used in Atraxa? - What do you think about Mutational Advantage and/or Ripples of Potential as a pseudo protection spell/proliferate?

[@NitpickingNerds]

Hi there! -Fathom Mage lets me draw cards while keeping to a proliferation theme. I think it has been great but it is also replacable. -I have won the game with having Evolution Sage and Flux Channeler out, though they are often kill-on-sight targets if people have 4+ poison counters on them. These are amazing cards. I'm not sure what you mean by "take any advantage"? -Poison decks are often targeted immediately and so I prioritize getting things down that deal poison immediately to get everyone's first poison counter on them. The difference between 2 mana and 4 mana is immense. -Midnight Clock has been great! I love being able to proliferate the hour counters on it to speed up the effect of drawing a new hand. -I'm sure it could work in other Atraxa decks, but my deck is specifically poison themed and this doesn't help me poison people. - When choosing proliferate spells, I prioritize either picking the cheapest proliferate spells possible or picking spells that are slightly more expensive than their non-proliferate counterparts but still do comparable things. I think this would be better in decks that revolve around +1/+1 counters or planeswalker decks, but since I am running poison, I don't have many permanents with counters on them. Also, I might just run a counterspell if I can run blue instead of a protection spell, but that's just me.

[@mitchwhite8941]

Beezy please make a spirit tribal karador deck you'll love slaming an iname and dropping 25 spirits into the grave yard. It's one of my scariest decks it's so resilient.

[@Lazydino59]

I built that deck back in 2010ish when karador came out and it was real bad at the time but def a ton of fun

[@movieguy4245]

Just bought your playmats wish you had one more for a complete commander pod but i can't wait!!!

[@NitpickingNerds]

Keep an eye out, we're planning for more in the future! 👀💖

[@Shoyro]

I sense a challenger... i have 152 decks in my collection. Most are precons, but I try to modify them when possible.

[@wadewilson5712]

50 and counting on homemade decks and between 20-30 precons myself , tho some my decks are the same tribal but mostly different cards in the decks.

[@braddorcas9363]

My Oskar deck really puts to pain down too. Get to play all the fun self discard payoffs that are hard to find other homes for. Not surprised it hit the S tier

[@skullkrusher-dx4kg]

Something ive learned with kahlia, deploy a threat before her rather than speeding kahlia out. Its board wipe or bust at that point.

[@metricarea7546]

The Protean Hulk combo in Karador sounds amazing!

[@NitpickingNerds]

It’s SPICY

[@TheFootballstar5588]

Gotta keep in mind this is their decks. Wernog Bjorna is a solid cedh pair if you go max power

[@Wojtek36762]

I keep wanting to make a Wernog deck (probably with Othelm for my first Azorius deck to do aristocrat things) but I’m afraid it’s gonna be the same and just make clues. My list has a few combos to draw into, and ways to drain by running the engine, but I’m not convinced it’ll work. I might just build the new Teysa, she’s doing similar stuff but points more toward some win conditions.

[@lordbeckham1147]

I kinda love the friendly bickering

[@joschajustinski14]

Love the dragonlord idea :D

[@CBandTh3Jake]

What changes have you made to the Brudiclad deck yall? thanks!

[@errinscroggins291]

Ever thought of making wernog into a teysa, opulent oligarch deck? Kinda similar but way more fun imho. I’ve got a mid power teysa deck built around clues/aristocrat ish themes with wernog in the 99 and I love it

[@ArrekBawrrin]

Whoa long time since I've been here.... where joe cherries???? Also awesome that you're still saying good sleeves. Been here since before the new studio look. Dang it's been a while. Happy to see you're still here and it all still feels like it used to

[@Glizzytron9000]

You could try going the artifact animation route with Bjorna/Wernog. Like rise and shine and tanglegrove kelp. Can't really think of any other good win cons besides mechanized production under 5$ lol.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Yeah it’s really hard to weaponize a million artifacts for such a small amount of money. I might be taking the deck apart’

[@danielgoldberg2129]

I play Baeloth in Gruul with Raised By Giants. Makes ramping to his high casting cost a lot easier. He’s also not budget. lol It’s about $500.

[@finks1]

Checked out your casual Kaalia on Moxfield (sponsor of this channel) and can’t for the life of me understand why Path of Ancestry is in it. Granted I thought for years that Kaalia was an Angel Cleric and was shocked to realize she’s just a human…

[@NitpickingNerds]

That deck is just a deck of cards that is sentimental to me, just like how Casual Karador is to Beezy!

[@cptregalz8091]

Lol I absolutely loved this. The mini roasts and including celestus just to annoy Mia -- just amazing

[@NitpickingNerds]

“It’s daytime” -me every single turn of the game

[@cptregalz8091]

@@NitpickingNerds LOL STOP. I'm going to start doing that

[@isnith]

Now I want a cat version of Queen Marchesa.

[@ApproachoftheSecondGame]

Balmor IS sooooo GOOD! One of my favorite commander from last year

[@NitpickingNerds]

I love a simple uncommon commander, they’re some of my favorites

[@stetsoncrobison]

Beezy, you gonna swap out Beledros for The Necrobloom?! I immediately thought of you when I saw that spoiler!

[@micahlaremore8224]

Beezy. I know you had said you wanted to build mono red this year. How would you like a deck where mishras bobble was card advantage? You should build kurkesh with me. I just put one together online and tried it out. Really fun as a lower power budget deck. Millennium calendar is a good wincon for it but you can also just ramp and card draw in mono red until you drop so big threats

[@NitpickingNerds]

I might consider it but unfortunately Kurkesh is one of the ugliest magic cards I have ever seen and I can’t stand to look at him

[@yuen4817]

where do i get that queen marchesa =0

[@NitpickingNerds]

It's actually available on our whatnot store as a playmat: whatnot.com/invite/nitpickingnerds

[@geoffreypotter836]

I love Spiketail Drakeling!

[@robertcarsten4050]

Didn't see Oskar in the queue for the longest time. Was feeling pretty sad thinking you ditched him Beezy.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Nope, he’s still my boi! But I had to juice him wayyy up because he’s busted

[@ZVanAitken]

Still thinking of you guys in the DGD video and how my 2 worlds collided - looked like fun.

[@romanostone6254]

Guys, I think, I THINK, Beezy likes Kerador

[@BigWoobiez]

Add prediction at 24:36 b4 watching

[@cipher_____]

Do you have Mia’s Kaalia decklist? As you can see I am a big Kaalia enthusiast and would love to see how she built it!!

[@NitpickingNerds]

I have both on Moxfield! You can type in "gotta go Vast" for my cEDH one or "casual Kaalia" for my more fun one!

[@cipher_____]

@@NitpickingNerds Thanks!

[@mitchwhite8941]

Jahora polymorph into timestream navigater is gross. Token creation spells and manifest stuff and also a bunch of legendary creatures. Infinite turns and both gin gitaxis cards.

[@logical5060]

im the biggest nerd (1st)

[@NitpickingNerds]

It’s true, you are

[@guadalupereyes9789]

Could you update Oskar?

[@NitpickingNerds]

It’s pretty updated, I made it super spicy

[@movieguy4245]

My dentist approves of nerds👍🏻

[@russelravellette6612]

3:56

[@thatguyintherain3168]

Ajax is the strongest warrior in Grease ;)

[@mauiiiwauiii329]

Need That beledros Deck List 🥹

[@NitpickingNerds]

Check our Moxfield! It should be on there 😁

[@jisusmike4375]

No slivers deck? Sad noises

[@kismet8010]

Galadrial list where??

[@NitpickingNerds]

Moxfield!

[@bazzam429]

I'm interested in new deck ideas

[@NitpickingNerds]

Here’s 30-something!

[@danielgoldberg2129]

You’d think there would be a video for that. 😂😂😂

[@bazzam429]

@@danielgoldberg2129 yeah lol

[@mikgenta]

No liara?

[@NitpickingNerds]

I tried to make her work twice and ended up taking it apart both times 😭

[@mikgenta]

@@NitpickingNerds fair, she’s actually pretty nuts with a tuned build. My high powered variant can win usually by turn 5-6

[@Daedraheart]

not enough mono colored decks

[@NitpickingNerds]

Mia never builds mono color decks and I’m striving for one of each

[@snowmanO07]

Really confused about the $5 deck they’re talking about, that’s $.08 a card, assuming 35 basic lands, rounded up… even the most garbage cards are listed for ~$.25 at every LGS and every large online card distributor.

[@NitpickingNerds]

At the time, it was using TCGplayer prices through Moxfield and was just under $5

[@harvenger0death]

.08 cent mythics literally exists. Trust me, you can build for a $5 budget lol

[@thezerowulf2046]

Jund or I riot

[@locu5ts]

Predict 22:45

[@NitpickingNerds]

This is a good prediction

[@Maboroshi00]

I cant stop making new decks. Send Help.

[@davidjones2921]

Boost for the algorithm

[@gavinkecan8917]

I’m only 5 minutes in and loving the video, if it keeps going this way, I hope you two enjoy couples therapy just as much. I kid, I kid.

[@starwars22221]

#stopbuildingatraxapoison do something interesting like counters or superfriends.

[@jaredsmith3938]

I love it with saprolings and spore counters is so fun

[@starwars22221]

@@jaredsmith3938 so many things you can do with proliferation. Energy counters, that new rad counter mechanic so many options. With infect, you literally poke your opponents once, then pillow fort because its only a matter of time lmao

[@adap8400]

Atraxa in general isn’t interesting

[@starwars22221]

@@adap8400 id also agree with that

[@Jodor--]

So you're saying the queen Marchesa has a win con like Grave titan

[@NitpickingNerds]

Nothing that good unfortunately

[@davidrosenberg9615]

I'm very early this time!

[@NitpickingNerds]

Extra early! This video was actually a half hour late

[@Apocalypse1977]

Not a Big Fan of This new Lay out for KZbin.

[@jollygreenjackson5787]

A lot of this video just felt like her pooping on your decks, felt a little rude tbh but overall great vid

[@SHlNT0]

Within the first minute there was this disclaimer 😅

[@lanceh1297]

I disagree but hey we are entitled to our opinions

[@Vidious808]

There was a disclaimer as a joke for sure, lol. Seems like how couples interact with each other sometimes. Especially when she started talking about how annoyed she was when he was making his Oskar deck at 43:30

[@jollygreenjackson5787]

@@Vidious808 ah cheers I guess I totally whiffed hearing that. See where is disclaimer guy when you need him??

[@Vidious808]

​@jollygreenjackson5787 Oh man, that's an old call back XD

[@talzumon101]

... also your a liar and if you know you know 😂😂 it's funny because I know lol

[@voidprism_studios666]

All your decks are poopy

[@NitpickingNerds]

😭😭😭

[@kirbgold]

DGD brought me here!! Was cool seeing you in the music video!

[@BarbeqdBrwniez]

I think just based off that Ojutai deck, Beezy would enjoy my old (now defunct) Azami Lady of Scrolls Mono-Permanents deck. No instants, no sorceries, a LOT of Morph wizards and flash-enablers and flash cards. It was pretty spicy.

[@overbet36]

3:15

[@kevin171994]

Where is krrik

[@jQuartz85]

I need the Dargo/Kydele list!

[@TheMarmicz]

Will you share the decklists with us as well?

[@NitpickingNerds]

They're all on our Moxfield!

[@CharlieG407]

What does the final list look like?

[@bigmacmm5]

Bruh