The Hardest Creatures to Kill in Magic | Magic the Gathering

The Commander's Quarters is your Magic the Gathering source that helps you Command Your Budget! Today Mitch goes through the toughest creatures to kill in Magic! Indestructible, hexproof, and protection? How about all the above and more!
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[@themtgnerd5811]

Last time I was this early Mitch wasn’t inflating prices on all my favorite cards

[@TLG1255]

😂😂

[@RionCaughman]

Yeah, it seems like all the old budget cards aren't budget anymore

[@grahamoliver1470]

Everyone talks about how he pumped up bauble. But what about how much he pumped up pitiless plunderer?

[@mbaker807]

That’s priceless 😂😂

[@Sorrykinda]

@@mbaker807 but sadly wayfarers bauble isn't anymore😞

[@WayfarersBauble]

I'm in the credits at 13:54. As of this posting, my lowest TCGPlayer market price is currently $2.91 for my Duel Decks: Venser vs Koth printing.

[@flbthptheintroverted5913]

One day you will be reprinted... one day.....

[@violetvulpine5356]

Damn I'd happily pay that little for a card. Come to Australia, Wayfarers Bauble is $6.44/$5usd regardless of Version.

[@thelizord2157]

I have more appreciation for all Mitch does after hearing that he edits all his videos.

[@cortezmonaro2714]

We could actually count in the same way Yuriko, since it just always comeback only for 2 mana

[@chaosbuster1275]

Kathril can also be hexproof and industructable if cards with those keywords are in your graveyard. And True Name Nemesis has protection from a player.

[@shayneanigans]

Oh Squee, Korvold’s favorite meal.

[@philipcalabrese164]

Love the list! But I think Koma, the cosmos serpent should have made it. It’s so difficult to deal With

[@danieliussupienis9703]

Yeah, I've seen gameknights episode with that. Pretty nasty, not gonna lie.

[@hiddenleaf414]

My friend made a Koma deck. Our playgroup has learned to play the enchantments that remove effects now instead of all spot removal.

[@SlainOracle]

Exile? Minuses? Forced sacrifice? Split second? I feel like if Swords to Plowshares can kill it, it isn't hard to deal with

[@hobez64]

I mean a majority of cards on this list, especially the first half, are dealt with by swords to plowshares so that means that really isnt a requirement for a list like this

[@kkyle53]

"Why won't you die !" tribal deck with Progenitus at the commander.

[@phoslacer939]

Mitch, please make a deck vid for this 🙏

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Nanomana, son, it regenerates me in response to taking damage... face it, you can't hurt me, Jayce!

[@aidanmason4672]

That's exactly what I was thinking

[@collinthomas1880]

This would be an amazing deck tec

[@weaselhatgaming1010]

Run all the board wipes

[@TheFirstTriplefife]

Thrun was my first commander. I really enjoyed the heck out of playing him. Had him built as a equipment strategy so I would win by commander damage.

[@waffleman2211]

My longest played commander was Varolz. I also usually won through commander damage

[@demolisherman1763]

The real hardest creatures to kill are the 2017 commanders - eminence gang

[@dif4797]

I just love them, especially Inalla. My playgroup hates this deck😄

[@madara4447]

I love my Edgar deck

[@demolisherman1763]

@@ericharden4914 oops

[@ericharden4914]

@@demolisherman1763 np

[@filippoborga1437]

Arahbo likes it

[@abecascade]

Never been this happy for being early in your content Mitch!!

[@IDKingddd]

I say persist/undying creatues with solemnity. Alternatively, persist with melira, mikaus the unhallowed, the great henge, etc.

[@cellard00r60]

Mickie was my first deck build. Always will have my ♡

[@sanitarymailbox-8023]

My favorite unkillable has to be spore frog in my meren deck. You've never heard someone groan quite as loud as my table when I drop that turn one. It's near impossible to get rid of completely, and helps me put up a ridiculously Mana efficient wall that my opponents just can't get through

[@davidfrance2915]

I'm a simple man. I see Aetherling in the thumbnail, I click.

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Aetherling is the best!

[@davidfrance2915]

@@TheCommandersQuarters I started Magic in high school with Tempest and Arabian Nights. I stopped around Mercadian Masque. I came back during RTR and instantly fell in love with Azorious control. Aetherling was my favorite finisher by far.

[@uptheirons22]

I feel like this list speaks to me directly as each of these go in nearly every deck they could for me.

[@connorhawkins315]

I just built my Falthis/Jeska damage doubler deck and I needed some creatures that would stick to the battlefield when I saw the notification, thanks Mitch!

[@lillehei]

Hey Mitch! Love the content! Keep up the great work :)

[@joshuaraper61]

Fantastic presentation and content as well brother. 💯

[@Semmelein]

That was a great watch! Thanks Mitch!

[@EineChillkroete]

We always misunderstood Argent Sphinx effect, which made it even harder to remove. We thought it coule use its effect even in the graveyard :/

[@BlueGriffin20]

8:38 the category title is “I’ll be back.”, but Mitch introduces it at “Be right back.” Gotta love hunting those errors! Still a great video.

[@kajun316]

Challenge : Build a budget deck revolving around creatures featured in this video :-)

[@spectralcards]

Use Progenitus as the commander so you can play all these cards haha

[@TitanicTortise]

When you mentioned turbo fog I thought of a thantis deck made up of a ton of these tough creatures (and more like spear breaker behemoth) with as many board wipes as possible. That's a war weaver.

[@Hashbrown1682]

THRUN HERE I COME

[@jimmiescott7050]

Checking in from Rexburg Idaho our LGS is open! Commander pods tonight at 7:00!! Playing Toski

[@mmartak]

Awesome topic. Also: Gravecrawler! Hard to kill AND goes infinite with the altar of your choice.

[@eternalfear88]

Kind of surprised Athreos, Shroud Veiled isn't in the video. He may not be hard to deal with himself technically, but he can make other creatures hard to deal with.

[@Daomus]

I always love the background music to these episodes.

[@TitanicTortise]

When you mentioned turbo fog I thought of a thantis deck made up of a ton of these tough creatures (and more like spear breaker behemoth) with as many board wipes as possible. That's a war weaver.

[@invertedghostgames9899]

I'm honestly surprised that he didn't show Blightsteel Colossus. It's a really good example of "Impossible to Kill," especially with what it does. That said, this was an awesome video! Maybe one day we'll see a 5 color "You can't kill me!" deck.

[@thegonk1345]

Hello There

[@buttersauce1548]

Hi

[@daegon789]

Hello!

[@lillehei]

General kenobi!

[@dif4797]

General Kenobi!

[@thegonk1345]

@@dif4797 you forgot to cough 😌

[@neobaldurevermore3757]

Informative! Thanks.

[@fsfreturns5242]

My playgroup has an alternate name for the Reassembling Skeleton : the "IKEA" skeleton (because you're putting it back together much like how you would put back a shelf). I've been meaning of making a voltron deck tech list for Rayami, actually. With boardwipes, this could be quite hard to deal with.

[@damientalrose553]

There's a few other cards that you could have listed here. Anything with Embalm, encore, etc. that return a creature as a token would be annoying to deal with. Anything that dies and leaves behind a token of itself. One of my favorite combos is Soul Foundry and Progenitor Mimic (PM). Every turn (or more, depending), for 6 mana you get a clone that makes clones of itself. If you don't deal with PM right away, it will slowly create an army. And with Soul Foundry, you can put a new PM into play every turn. And PM can copy something that is indestructible or has protection or hex proof (because it doesn't target). Now, combine that with Doubling Season...

[@turbofrog_froggy]

Watching this while I sleeve up my newest Turbo Fog deck. TURBO FOG FOR LIFE!!!

[@kristennorth3268]

This is my favorite kind of content!

[@francistorta8043]

Hey Mitch! I'm a big fan of you from Italy. I would have included Uril, the Miststalker in this list. He has hexproof, plus in an aura deck it gets incredible hard to kill, with totem armour, indestructibile, ecc..😉

[@MrBe56]

Best answer for these are cyclonic rift and scour from existence. Also helpful if you have cards that reduce the cost of those instants like Mizzix of the Izmagnus so you aren't paying 7.

[@MrBe56]

But yet for all I've tried I can never get rid of Squee. SQUEEEEE!!!

[@calebdoty9090]

@@MrBe56 Try tuck effects like Condemn. In most games, it is going to be a VERY long time before they get it back. Bonus, Condemn is absolutely brutal on Commanders for the same reason. There are some other cards that have the same effect, but not usually as efficiently.

[@anonomis9685]

@@calebdoty9090 another idea is use cards that allow you to search for a specific card and remove it from the deck

[@wildernessc6349]

you forgot prime time. He can't die because he can't be played!

[@johannesisaksson7842]

Love the music!

[@HeWhoHungers]

In the "I'm out of here" category you really should've mentioned cards like Master Transmuter that return (potentially) itself to your hand as part of a cost. They are in some cases even harder to deal with than, say, an aetherling because whereas you could theoretically run the controller of an aetherling out of mana by continually casting removal spells in response to the Aetherling's blink, Master Transmuter, provided she does not have summoning sickness, will react to your first attempt and be off the battlefield before you get a chance to respond again.

[@justinjacobs1501]

My boy Norin! He's such a powerful commander and one of his best friends Purphoros is also on the list. It's hilarious when new players see Norin, look at me, and ask, "How is this supposed to be good?" Then the blinking starts and the hurt follows soon after.

[@zousssnotzeus5341]

is it bad i was taking notes

[@cellard00r60]

I pause to add the card to my cart lol

[@markkarlo4869]

niv-mizzet, parun can be included here... it is in blue so counterspells are always on check, but casting spells to remove him makes the owner draw cards which would likely be something that can protect him...

[@Hammy_3]

Aetherling is one of my favorite cards in my Mairsil, the Pretender deck.

[@GardeniaCreations]

Last time I was this early, I had a turn one Wayfarer's Bauble.

[@TLG1255]

Have you done a video on your own creatures you want to kill? Or put in your grave yard? Like haakon or anger? I think that could be fun

[@connarobertson3416]

Hot take: Progenitus shouldn’t be here as ‘any’ board wipe will kill him

[@SlainOracle]

No? Protection from everything includes indestructible

[@AroundnBackAgain]

I am missing your point, please explain if you could.

[@tuckernevel]

persist and undying keywords help creatures be hard to kill, but great list!

[@jordanbanister1192]

My Illharg the raze boar once he hits just does not want to leave. Pretty fun

[@Ouja]

I have a green/white spirit deck. While my friends find a couple of of the legendary spirits annoying, they despise the Blinking Spirit. They have to either counter it or force me to discard it in order to stop it from recurring. And, let's be honest, who wants to waste a counter on what is otherwise a 2/2 vanilla creature and a random discard might not get it on a single attempt.

[@Emmerlaus007]

I would have mentionned Mirage Mirror... its not a creature but it can become one for 2 mana and its a card that is hard to get rid off. Still, nice video, very helpful!

[@j-lohome-slice7425]

Squee, the worlds best punching bag I feel so bad for that little goblin

[@FergyB20]

I was just waiting for Norin!

[@MageSkeleton]

i was hoping you'd go over the Food Chain combo as everything that deals with Food Chain exploits the exiled creatures ability to be cast from exile and there's a creature that has an ability cost (like reasembling skeleton) to put it back on the battlefield from exile though this doesn't work with Food Chain. Sad to had not heard about Oathsworn Vampire, it's an amazing vampire card. I can understand why you didn't mention Gutterbones. No mention of Sanitariam skeleton or Coiling pillbug?

[@yagosouza7381]

I missed the god eternals from war of the spark. Had so much fun with people trying to exile my kefnet only for it coming back a few turns later.

[@EDRVerano]

Koma has been headache in my playgroup. Surprised it's not in this list.

[@Digihubtcg]

another honorable mention would be my favorite land, Treetop Village

[@danimitetwitch]

Finding out phasing does not operate like flickering was a weird conversation. You don’t get exit the battlefield or ETB effects, it just...doesn’t exist for bit.

[@christopherfleuette9881]

Spiritmonger was tough to deal with back in the day.

[@kjkhanikwijibo398]

...That rock chameleon was obnoxious. When playing red, I personally thank wizards incinerate existed, though...

[@justinanderson2631]

Kathril after looking at Raymi making the list. "Well whatever, it's in his name, should we cross paths, he'll be the first to fall!"

[@JonShep93]

Relentless dead deserves a mention in this list, along with a few others such as god-eternal oketra, the scarab god

[@draco4569]

There's one thing you didn't mention that's incredibly hard to kill: Commanders!

[@sudonpc-inputerror8999]

Need to make a five color deck with all of these creatures and bunch of board wipes

[@hectorgalaviz3960]

I'd add Eternal Scourge aswell!!👌

[@DutchSnake]

Gravecrawler: I'm i a joke to you?

[@Zaelkrie]

No mention of the Undead Gods from Ravnica, The new Kraken creature or creatures that counter spells you play against them and also no Dream Trawler?

[@jettblade]

I had a Norin the Wary deck that had stuff like that dealt damage when the creature ETBs. Actually really funny one game I cast Norin on turn one and then attacked with it turn two and the guy just kinda stopped and was dumbfounded for like 5 minutes. He couldn't wrap his head around what just happened and why I would play it. After I got several Pandemonium out with a few power increasers to trigger Where Ancients Tread when Norin came in he got the picture and dead.

[@GamingChaoscrew]

I can see it clearly! 5C-dont-mess-with-my-board-tribal! XD

[@DahVoozel]

Oloro. That is not dead which can eternal sit in the command zone.

[@Funkytrip73]

There is another green creature whose name eluded me. A 5/3 treefolk who returns to owner's hand when it dies.

[@TheFirstTriplefife]

I want to see a new version of Norin the Wary where they include for game mechanics that he is considered a coward. It would not only be great flavor, but it could be a good excuse to include in a upcoming set that has cowards in it.

[@wilsoncrunch1330]

Norin the Wary is Edward the Bard from Final Fantasy in card form

[@dreddbolt]

Most Difficult Commanders to keep in the Command Zone. First one which comes to mind is Yuriko (the Tiger's Shadow).

[@marecar900]

There is a special place in my heart for Aetherling

[@EDHCollector]

I want to see the best of them in a Vultron EDH deck :D

[@Gameflyer001]

If any of these cards were to "die" when Draugr Necromancer is on the field, only Squee would be able to come back under its owner's control.

[@binksy6134]

id say dream trawler belongs on the list. i use it as basically my only creature in some decks as... it just works.

[@rickeygurley6080]

Surprised you didn't mention Avacyn, Angel of Hope

[@chrisgebben2043]

Great topic but you definatly missed a couple Gravecrawler, is the exact same thing as Reassembling skeleton plus it goes infinite with phyrexian altar Yuriko, no point on commander tax with NinJutsu since it will keep coming back no matter how you kill her as the commander SpearBreaker Behemoth is a real pain in the neck it's indestructible and can give any other creature with 5 power or greater indestructible till the end of turn for just one single dang mana and it can be any color Genesis its gonna stick around in the graveyard but the reason I'm mentioning it is because if it's in the yard...ALL THE CREATURES BECOME VERY HARD TO GET RID OF! Batterskull, It's not a creature but this equipment can bounce itself back to hand for just 3 mana so they try to remove it its gonna bounce one last card Will-o'-the-Mist it's one black regenerate pretty typical but the reason I'm mention this card is I want to remind you of the mechanic ikoria brought which is mutate and Otrimi a 6/6 with regenerate for just one black is just beyond nasty

[@reymarkable]

Tymaret the Murder King is pretty hard to kill..ive returned him back from the graveyard several times in a game

[@dif4797]

Where do you get all these ideas??

[@justindman00]

Thrun is my voltron deck lol

[@tobiaspause1775]

Hmm, have the Feeling he kinda hooked us with using the most Broken ones up front. Progenitus at 3 Min. mark? Got to watch this. And than he comes with Cards like Selesnia... which bounces herself. Yes you can say she is kinda immortal coming back, but most people would argue if you make your oppoment pay 5 Mana again, you did kind of deal with it.

[@joostdebacker9073]

Weatherseed Treefolk Is one you could maybe add to your list

[@Tuturial464]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

[@wubberducky9765]

My favourite is still phylactery lich with any darksteel artefact

[@magiccardmaster9921]

Squee the immortal is the hardest creature to kill permanently in mtg change my mind

[@watsondontaable]

Ok, I would like to do a hard to kill commander deck now 🤔

[@zachtolen1035]

I'm surprised gravecrawler wasn't included

[@jessemurray6841]

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner is hard to kill without untargeted removal

[@Aetohatir]

My favourite thing is to O-Ring big Emrakul. Most people don't think about this interaction.

[@kjkhanikwijibo398]

...It has protection from colored spells. O-ring is white. How does that work?

[@markbrand6746]

No mention for the best ladybird Kathril, Aspect Warper? Feels bad man

[@ShorinRyu74]

Eternal Scourge is a real pain in the ass without a destroy or bounce boardwipe

[@Seedmember]

Sigarda Voltron ftw. You start putting totem armors on her or even better Indestructibility and you got a real flying cockroach. Add Pariah to Indestructibility and you can't die from damage.

[@TheIhplodur]

Obzedad is also hard to kill, because you can only do it in instant spead.

[@StxneVI]

Scarab God is looking at you very condecendingly right now

[@hobez64]

Shoutouts to Gravecrawler, a free cast as long as she isn't the only zombie you got

[@CosmicConical]

You also forgot Gravecrawler if I'm not mistaken.

[@stenchofjustice]

Had my fingers crossed for Hypnox, exiles opponents hand when cast from hand. Technically he's easy to kill, if you had card in your hand *wink*

[@mrstruppi2545]

Crystalline Sliver + Sliver Hivelord + Ward Sliver + Hibernation Sliver

[@elipeveto7514]

So who is gonna make a deck now that uses most of these creatures for everyone's favorite deck!