Ranking Every Strixhaven Commander | Which Strixhaven Legends are the Best?

[@randymotter51]

I love playing Beledros Witherbloom as a commander, he is a ton of fun to use without being too strong or too easy to play. Building a deck around the pests and playing the value game with sacrifice is a lot of fun. Totally a 10 on fun for me.

[@Dodexus]

“They always tickle me in the... pleasure zone” - Beezy 2021

[@slicksamos8334]

Don't google that XD

[@NitpickingNerds]

@@slicksamos8334 I’m sensing a twilight zone spinoff

[@Draco9909]

@@NitpickingNerds brought to you by the hub...you know what I'm referencing

[@Draco9909]

@Cullen Grant welp time to Google another scam like the instahax thing

[@trajanpb]

Great showmanship, glad you kept that in. Couldn’t stop laughing

[@Turkin4tor]

Regarding Jadzi//Journey to the Oracle, that back half sorcery seems real good if you're playing with lots of +max hand size cards, who cares if your commander costs 8 if you just put 7 lands into play for free, and untapped

[@cameronengland6377]

I love how you guys rank with all the categories, and I love that you rank the new set into the existing commanders. Great video!

[@mikep5330]

Just opened my first Set booster box. Kasmina,Demonic Tutor and a Galazeth borderless foil. Galazeth becomes my next commander by default.

[@jamesgratz4771]

Sick box

[@starlord157]

Kasmina is in this set???

[@raresux]

i got a box just recently and it had a foil AND a non-foil mystical archive teferi's protection. absolutely amazing box other than that surprise value too, had beledros and some other $2-10 cards

[@SchemingGuide]

I haven't finished the video yet but my favorite commander is the Witherbloom dragon

[@vitogordin5067]

I haven't started the video but same

[@Dodexus]

Have been messing around with a Beledros Witherbloom brawl deck on Arena. Tons of fun with it so far!

[@EntheogenShaman]

Based

[@NitpickingNerds]

Witherbloom rocks!

[@lunarlight3131]

51:52 you're referencing Grave Titan subliminally now.

[@crawdaddy2004]

Kianne should have a 10 for art, because she has the hot librarian look with the glasses.

[@ich3730]

shes like, 50. Plus she got an old owl man stuck to her back xD

[@jamesgratz4771]

Boros is great in this set. I’m glad it got more of a value focus

[@yaboiskittlez7943]

Favorite so far is Silverquil Dragon. I'm not done with the video, yet, but I haven't seen it, yet. I like the political stuff you could do with it. You don't see that often in stronger black white decks.

[@everythingisbizzaaaaaro3694]

Breena seems like fun. That Witherbloom dragon tho...

[@BobbyBev95]

Currently turning my Talrand deck into an Octavia, Living Thesis deck since I love the flavor so much

[@aesirloki4833]

May I suggest a video series idea? Îd like to see your take on the most notable cards from the set for certain strategies in edh. The boros cards are some really good examples. Great content as always guys!! I love it. And the sorting hat is pretty grouchy

[@aesirloki4833]

Beezy and i love them golgari shenanigans too

[@EntheogenShaman]

I want to build a deck for both sides of Blex. His back side seems neat for a dredge deck. Are there better options? Definitely. Just seems cool to have a sorcery that fills the grave in the CZ.

[@spoodercluster9714]

47:30 I made a Shadrix deck very recently, and I'm so happy to see his score here. A 10/10 on uniqueness is extremely deserved. This guy even has a group-huggy aspect to him, something you would never expect to see in black and white. Not the strongest for sure, the five mana to cast him hurts a bit specially on these colors. But then again, he is an AMAZING casual commander. On politics? EVEN BETTER

[@baconsir1159]

Slept on Codie way too hard, probably just didn’t consider the suspend spells like Profane Tutor or Inevitable Betrayal

[@RecoveringSpartan]

Love the random Enter the Gungeon shout-out that game is great!

[@Jimmythehead]

I’m very excited for my Augusta dwarf vehicle tribal deck with Magda as the secret commander

[@tuesday3477]

I made a Tanzir Quandrix deck with Scourenging Bandar as the hidden commander. I love brewing and doing unexpected stuff with not very good commanders like Tanzir, and making a strategy where the early game is all about making Scouranging Bandar as big as possible with a late game of making my Tanzir a house by double the counters on bandar and transferring them all over to Tanzir was extremely fun/exciting for me.

[@TheHive616]

In my experience, you guys were right on when it came to Jaddi. The 8 mana thing, even with plenty of that simic mana boost, is generally such a slog, and there is a tendency to save up a lot of little spells for after she's cast, so you can try to chain together some triggers. Even if you could manage to get Omniscience on the top of your library, you still need the Mana open for the spell that triggers Magecraft, then the additional 1 mana for a discounted Omniscience. By the time you're able to do that, you know what else you can do? Hard cast Omniscience. When a 9-Mana discounted version of Omniscience is a bigger pain in the ass to fire off than just hard casting Omniscience, your shortcut might not be a shortcut.

[@dr.lemonade242]

I'd love to see you guys do a deck tech on Extus, considering how challenging it would be to to balance creatures with instants / sorceries.

[@bananajoe275]

Instant and sorceries that make tokens is the way to go i think.

[@dr.lemonade242]

@@bananajoe275 Yeah, I'd want to go all-in on the instants & sorceries synergy. I just wish there was way to create infinite creature tokens using only instants and sorceries.

[@bananajoe275]

@@dr.lemonade242 I think the infinite combos are more with cards like chain of smog, dualcaster mage, world gorger, dockside, cloudestone curio, birgi and such. I think the most power will be to generate infinite mana and cast the backside once you have it.

[@Dubi264]

The card you're looking for with Extus is living lightning. LL + a ritual like jeska's will or battle hymn and you get inf (usually red) mana. Diabolic intent is also completely insane since you immediately get back the thing you sac as the cost.

[@h4ckthepl4n3t]

Great Video! This was awesome and beats just reading the cards!

[@NitpickingNerds]

Thanks Joshua!

[@golgariguy]

Great list! I think someone mentioned that because of the wording, there are only a couple extra combat spells that are going to work with the Lorehold dragon

[@esrohm6460]

so why did we get elder dragons again, we have the original elder dragons and tarkir was all about dragons. this would e perfect for some strange elders like elder spider (witherbloom), elder buffalo (lorehold), elder sphinx (prismari), elder ooze (quandrix) and elder spirit (sliverquill). i want to see a super old ooze that is super intelligent but also ooze like and just eat a lot, how awesome wuold that be.

[@mod.3x]

Need that for my ooze tribal deck haha

[@robertschweikert285]

I think you guys missed the mark on Galazeth Prismari. He's much stronger than a 4 for power. He's a powered-down Urza but with the upside of adding red into your deck.

[@ethanwhite145]

I love how the deans are random assortments of creature types you don’t normally find on that plane

[@bradensorensen966]

Commanders are required to be legendary creatures, but not all legendary creatures are required to be good Commanders. I think the MDFC legends from Kaldheim and Strixhaven were thought more as standard cards vs Commanders. Which is good because doing the reverse gave us Uro and Omnath.

[@alexj.6891]

I agree on Omnath, straight up OP Commander precon straight into standard, but is what possible way was Uro not a super pushed constructed bomb. I mean its good in EDH, way to good up a card not to be, but not that OP and its arguably is most underperforming format. Now if you said Kinnan or Koma then I woulda agreed with you on that.

[@jordonpohl7393]

This video and channel tickles me in the pleasure zone, as much as it can without making you feel too weird! ... this set doesn’t exactly do the same unfortunately 🤷‍♂️ still some fun things as always ... like the prismari artifact dragon :) Though certainly agree about the direction of cards being more specific deck focused.

[@calemr]

I've made an Extus deck that, in all the games I've ever played, Never plays the Extus side. It's just built around spamming out tokens to sac, casting blood avatar a few times a turn, and having a handful of hasty creatures. It's not crazy powerful, but it's fun. Especially when I get real lucky and Skull/Fury/Empyrial Storm for 10+copies (Fury Storm ON Awaken the Blood Avatar is extra fun.).

[@entothechesnautknight1762]

One thing I will compliment this set on is that Lukka was consistent, not just in this set, but somehow with Ikoria too; In this set, lukka's an aimless chaotic anarchist, referencing his experience with kudro's "betrayal", but he's also still got his orderly soldier background influencing how he acts and giving him a desire for a group. He becomes the second in command (and then takes control when Extus dies) to the Oriq after people try and murder him for the crime of just thinking he might possibly be one, and the dragon guard just wreaked like 20 of their collective shits in a wristflick. He even *actually* bonds with a creature, rather then doing his usual "mind control bonding" he does, showing his card character while keeping in tone with the book's version somehow. Basically, Lukka decided to try and uproot and fuck up an entire plane's society because he had a couple bad weeks, but also didn't plan shit and just followed orders to generally fuck shit up. He's going to be a fun villian going forward, I think, especially once he learns to planeswalk properly.

[@jonathantop3285]

Most extra combat cards don't actually work with Velomachus unfortunately. Most of them require you to be in your main phase in order for them to work. Makes me sad for this commander :( .

[@HomeCookinMTG]

I don't know I think there are far more cards that give you extra combat steps that do work with him then there are ones that don't. The only two I know of that don't work with him are waves of aggression and seize the day. I think the actual problem with the strategy is that there just aren't enough instants and sorceries that give you extra combat steps. Part of the reason that the strategy works in Narset is because Narset is blue and gets access to the extra turn cards in addition to the extra combat cards

[@TheSilverFox442]

@@HomeCookinMTG This is incorrect. There are (at this time) only two extra combat spells that work with Velomachus: World at War, and Savage Beating. The other extra combat spells MUST be cast during a main phase in order to work properly. Additionally, the reason the strategy works in Narset is ALSO because she does not automatically cast the spells immediately, but instead allows you to cast them until the end of the turn, which means you can cast your extra combat spells during your next main phase, when they will work as intended.

[@jackkronktula5797]

Why would I wanna play a 7 mana witherbloom if I can play a 6 mana grave titan? Witherbloom < Grave titan

[@WTF-Cubing]

...maybe because you can play witherbloom, untap all lands, then play Grave Titan?

[@jonasbley2602]

42:42 "Mavinda is so cool" - coolness 6

[@lilacpilot3437]

The Lorehold commander can't use extra combat spells because they need to be cast during main phases.

[@Xepherys20]

Only one I really love is the witherbloom dragon. Where using him in Scion of ur dragon mid ability trigger on his shape shift to untap your lands and doing some shenanigans with Teneb or bladewing to reanimate it.

[@EDHCoffee]

YAAAAAAAAAAS been waiting for this! (Djinn is pronounced with a silent D :) The Sorting Hat in the books is neither grumpy nor happy, it just does its job. In the movies it's definitely a grump

[@peterMolodecki]

I think he's adding the d ironically.

[@ben_clifford]

"They always tickle me right in the pleasure zone" - Beezy, 2021

[@joaocisne556]

brace yourselves, because the D&D will probably have the dragon gods Bahamut and Tiamat, who will probably be five colors

[@kelseyo402]

Tiamat for sure. I have a feeling Bahamut might be mono-white flavor wise.

[@AutumnFallen]

Or colorless with symbols in the text to give it 1 to 5 colors. Either way... Very excited

[@jacobjensen7704]

You were right about one. Now we're waiting for Bahamut.

[@qwormuli77]

@@kelseyo402 Called it.

[@colink638]

Dean Ambros From "The Shield"

[@attackkataka6599]

I’ve been waiting since Khaldheim for this

[@SWAT6809]

Blex not getting points for his backside which is an outlet to mill your entire deck except the cards you want in your hand feels bad. Front side is unplayable but hey, you can play green now.

[@jdogbemple1]

Definitely calling him Quint. Sorting Hat is a grump and Ralph Fiennes is Voldemort.

[@arthurvandenbergh1881]

Great video as always, can’t wait to build a deck around Extus, he looks really cool!

[@verlandes1]

Just become a patron, you're probably my favourite edh-channel out there. Also you look like Tom Hardy and Zack Woods, so that's a plus.

[@AllegoryGar]

“ You wanna puff up” - Beezy confirmed stoner part 3524

[@GreenLightningHood]

35:24

[@ems6706]

Fairness about Luca, his color identity is WR and White does have reanimation in it's color identity even if it's never really been particularly focused on cause that's card advantage and that would be too easy I guess? idk i wish they made it properly it part of whites color identity in any kind of efficent way like Green and all of it's secondary parts of it's color identity. I think that's the issue with white is that in theory there are good parts of it's color identity in EDH they're just sadly under focused on compared to any other color.

[@austinblankenship7631]

yesss, so many people have been poo pooing on Mavinda and I have a pile set aside to build her already. Going with mono white flicker, because I love flicker but its really hard to not build it oppressively. Hard to be oppressive in mono white 😏 (excluding armageddon, cataclsym, and all the oppressive cards BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT)

[@EPICLYFATALERROR]

I think the only flaw in your all’s system is uniqueness is trying to capture flavor and mechanics at the same time often. Also I enjoy your all’s channel and the responsiveness is cool.

[@zoltarth]

I'm personally attached to the silverquill dragon, not terribly good but tons of fun

[@hesnotbad9045]

Would love a best wuberg commanders video

[@JaimeAGB-pt4xl]

Fun fact... a lot of people are overlooking (can't totally blame them) that life gain got a Huge Boost in this set (aside from spell slingin and general boros gameplay) ... pay attention to OTHER commanders that might like it... my Lathiel project is looking way better thanks to Strixhaven

[@sephyrias883]

All those double faced legends have so much text, geez. I feel like it is almost worth giving them a -1 for "Fun" for it. Imagine everyone at the table plays one of these. Gonna take like 5 minutes to read each other's commanders before the game. 36:30 I think this one is a little bit more powerful. Combos with Ghostly Flicker, Archaeomancer and something that generates artifact tokens from casting instants or ETBs, or spell cost reduction cards like Goblin Electromancer.

[@Greenhorn.]

I'm officially overwhelmed. I'm going outside IL see you guys next fall

[@josephfishman9825]

For Jadzi, just looking at it, I think the back side is much cooler. Imagine tatyova + journey to the oracle to just landfall storm off.

[@CmdrUD87]

Stupid question, but what about the legends from the commander decks? Are you doing a separate video on those?

[@z4t3k21]

[@poofypeanut0221]

Many sweet.cards/commanders in the set can't wait for mail day. My favorite though has gotta be Tanazir Quandrix. I love how a lot of the community (from what I've seen) seems to be sleeping on Mr Quandrix

[@pauldyson8098]

Dina is such an amazing card.

[@dillonmoss6594]

Ppl are definitely sleeping on her. She’s easily cedh viable

[@pauldyson8098]

@@dillonmoss6594 I'm not a cEDH player, so I trust your judgment here. I think she's super strong, though, and I agree that people are sleeping on her. She's a proper Golgaribloom aristocrats commander.

[@dillonmoss]

@@pauldyson8098 Yeah even outside of cedh, just the fact that she's 2 cmc and combos with exquisite blood. black has loads of tutors making that incredibly fast. I rarely play cedh, but the fact that she has the potential says a lot. There are loads of options at all power levels and that will make her popularity rise. p.s Lifegift is also incredible in this deck. Even when an opponent plays a land, everyone loses life and you gain a life. Then add in the ramp in green and it should be a fairly quick game

[@AbyssArray]

Velomachus has one glaring flaw, most extra combat spells can't be cast during Combat (or have no effect)

[@erikohman2294]

Mavinda feels like one of the best cards in your Feather deck.

[@benjaminwileman4771]

tickled right in the pleasure zone should be a new staple saying

[@Jimmythehead]

Velomachus sadly doesn’t work with most extra combats with his ability sadly just like Etali since it’s a trigger when he attacks and you’re not in a main phase. World at war I think is one of two that do work

[@kingginger3335]

Dean Ambrose is a WWE wrestler

[@Munchie3777]

The sorting hat was grouchy xd

[@olivermeloche2042]

made a killian deck, suprised at how much i enjoy it

[@NitpickingNerds]

He is so damn cool!

[@Draco9909]

47:41 ..... I'm sorry can you repeat that I thought I heard you say a 3/6 doublestrike

[@jeremylindemann3933]

I am currently building a Mila deck, and I hope that I get an opportunity to FLATTEN you with it. :)

[@immortalandeternalgod-empe4681]

1 thing ive missed: where are the STX Commander Prencons Commander?

[@immortalandeternalgod-empe4681]

Oh theyve got a separatrd list xD

[@elgordo9525]

Are there any Strixhaven commanders that can be good in the future when different cards from future sets are released?

[@alslayer18]

The sorting hat is indeed grouchy. He even looks grouchy! (In the movies anyways)

[@nycstreetpoet]

The entire dean cycle could’ve been fantastic because they are complementary, except they’re both on the same card, which makes them TERRIBLE cards for commander.

[@rmreagle]

Why no alt art discussions on the dragons? Silverquill even better in alt art, best of all 10 imo

[@joshua3539]

Completely insane!

[@DonWanri]

What decks do you play ?

[@atlasrises4]

Codie still let's you play lands, just can't CAST permanents

[@djbisson9819]

Have any more sub goals in mind? Like the under water booster box?

[@NitpickingNerds]

A couple but they are mostly far away, live Joe changing his name at 250K

[@TheSLATEcleaner]

Extus's infinite combos are kinda weird due to magecraft only triggering on instants and sorceries. Combos with Living Lightning are useless, since Living Lightning + Supernatural Stamina + Phyrexian Altar/a sac outlet and Pitiless Plunderer is already infinite without Extus and kills with anything that triggers on sacrifice. Pulse of the Fields + Wall of Blood and infinite mana gives infinite magecraft, but it kills with Grapeshot just as easier than Extus. There are some combos along the lines of the Chain of Smog combo though because of one special card - Bartered Cow. I'm not joking. Bartered Cow + Extus + Chain of Smog makes infinite Food Tokens, which can kill in a bunch of different ways - magecraft, artifact etb triggers, etc. Chain of Smog also goes infinite with most magecraft stuff in some way or another without having to play Bartered Cow. But killing a table with Bartered Cow is probably worth it just for the meme.

[@justinjones671]

Mavinda with rebound spells would be sweet

[@mtgcamfan]

48:10 is my favorite

[@ben_clifford]

28:40 Beezy is wrong. The sorting hat is grouchy.

[@EntheogenShaman]

The only thing that I hate about Beledros is that I need to buy three copies of him.

[@abeybaebe2514]

Extus+Buried alive= Value town baybe

[@Ins4n3Destiny]

"Angry grouchy book". "Angry grouchy hat". This is the HP set, so yeah--pretty much the same thing.

[@jellymiaouthekillerpuff7975]

Extus+ phyrexian altar+ jeska's will+...LIVING LIGHTING (yeah this is infinite)

[@crawdaddy2004]

I think I want Shaile in my 1v1 Alela deck.

[@odogz1081]

who would know the best wepon is a quill in strixhaven

[@GT-li8wg]

I think Codie exists solely for Fractured Identity

[@mariesidman7905]

The sorting hat is grouchy and mean. He tried putting Harry in slytherin

[@jazoinklastname4289]

How is tanazir only a 3 in uniqueness

[@eduardolagunas69]

Umm there's literally a book in harry potter that bites I think that's the reference not the hat

[@jacobjensen7704]

You all rated the Boros equivalent of Lord Windgrace as the lowest commander in the set? Holy moly, ya'll are crazy.

[@Mae_halloween]

The sorting hat is grouchy

[@ExKiwi-yw8er]

The creature/creature mdfcs are just SO underwhelming, really hope they work in 60 card formats at least. But then why are they legendary?

[@ashutoshmadhu9821]

Codie is a literal suspend polymorph Cedh commander.

[@ashutoshmadhu9821]

This man goes off with hypergenesis he should be WAY WAY higher on the list

[@TheButlerofdeath]

sorting hat always seemed kinda grouchy

[@kolorz2775]

Dean embrose has been errata'd to Jon moxley

[@pickles632]

fastest click in my youtube career. Can't wait!

[@SilverwolfCommander]

Extus is bonkers!

[@Munchie3777]

Whoa whoa whoa beezy the pleasure zone (*.*)>