The Top 100 Blue Commander Cards of All Time

[@drunkgerbil9962]

I'm actually a huge fan of long form content occasionally, maybe like once every week or two!

[@tristanherrick7273]

Another Super Nerds' deep dive. These are two of the hardest working MTG KZbinrs out there! I love these guys! 🧡💜🧡💜

[@NitpickingNerds]

Sooo sweet

[@hanschristopherson8056]

Grave titan can’t even escape being roasted in a blue video! 😂

[@theodorealkro3583]

Timestamps: (Contains Spoilers) Rank 100 | Walk the Aeons 0:52 Rank 99 | Turnabout 1:17 Rank 98 | Mental Note 1:42 Rank 97 | Thought Scour 2:04 Rank 96 | Rite of Replication 2:20 Rank 95 | Shark Typhoon 2:46 Rank 94 | Thieving Skydiver 3:09 Rank 93 | Nezahul, Primal Tide 3:37 Rank 92 | Confounding Conundrum 3:58 Rank 91 | Leyline of Anticipation 4:20 Rank 90 | Search for Azcanta 4:48 Rank 89 | Mana Vortex 5:14 Rank 88 | Transmute Artifact 5:36 Rank 87 | Jace, Wielder of Mysteries 5:58 Rank 86 | Venser, Shaper Savant 6:19 Rank 85 | Thassa, Deep Dwelling 6:42 Rank 84 | Embargo 7:06 Rank 83 | Midnight Clock 7:32 Rank 82 | Temporal Mastery 7:55 Rank 81 | Treachery 8:17 Rank 80 | Peregrine Drake 8:41 Rank 79 | Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur 9:02 Rank 78 | Echo of Eons 9:30 Rank 77 | Mind over Matter 9:55 Rank 76 | Baral, chief of Compliance 10:17 Rank 75 | Blatant Thievery 10:47 Rank 74 | Deadeye Navigator 11:01 Rank 73 | Evacuation 11:33 Rank 72 | Ponder 11:54 Rank 71 | Phantasmal Image 12:15 Rank 70 | Personal Tutor 12:41 Rank 69 | Azami, Lady of Scrolls 12:55 Rank 68 | Blue Sun's Zenith 13:22 Rank 67 | Archmage Emeritus 13:47 Rank 66 | Perplexing Chimera 14:09 Rank 65 | Jace, Vryn's Prodigy 14:35 Rank 64 | Imprisoned in the Moon 14:55 Rank 63 | Drown in Dreams 15:18 Rank 62 | Commander's Insight 15:42 Rank 61 | Arcane Denial 16:05 Rank 60 | Faerie Artisans 16:28 Rank 59 | Emry, Lurker of the Loch 16:55 Rank 58 | Clever Impersonator 17:20 Rank 57 | Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir 17:45 Rank 56 | Amphin Mutineer 18:10 Rank 55 | Rising Waters 18:33 Rank 54 | Omsiscience 18:56 Rank 53 | Whir of Invention 19:19 Rank 52 | Temporal Mastery 19:40 Rank 51 | Tezzeret the Seeker 20:04 Rank 50 | Mystic Confluence 20:27 Rank 49 | Pongify/Rapid Hybridization 20:50 Rank 48 | Intruder Alarm 21:09 Rank 47 | Fact or Fiction 21:37 Rank 46 | Snapcaster Mage 22:02 Rank 45 | Palinchron 22:19 Rank 44 | Phyrexian Metamorph 22:40 Rank 43 | Windfall 23:02 Rank 42 | Kindred Discovery 23:26 Rank 41 | Mana Breach 23:51 Rank 40 | Agent of Treachery 24:16 Rank 39 | Reality Shift 24:42 Rank 38 | Bribery 25:03 Rank 37 | Glen Elendra Archmage 25:27 Rank 36 | Swan Song 25:53 Rank 35 | Time Stretch 26:12 Rank 34 | Stasis 26:41 Rank 33 | Commandeer 27:06 Rank 32 | Back to Basics 27:31 Rank 31 | Glasspool Mimic 27:59 Rank 30 | Treasure Cruise 28:17 Rank 29 | Gitaxian Probe 28:43 Rank 28 | Narset, Pater of Veils 29:09 Rank 27 | Overburden 29:32 Rank 26 | Force of Negation 29:54 Rank 25 | Dream Halls 30:20 Rank 24 | Urza, Lord High Artificer 30:54 Rank 23 | Nexus of Fate 31:21 Rank 22 | Pact of Negation 32:03 Rank 21 | Dig Through Time 32:25 Rank 20 | Time walk/Temporal Manipulation/Capture of Jingzhao 32:43 Rank 19 | Consecrated Sphinx 33:09 Rank 18 | Spellseeker 33:30 Rank 17 | Sunder 33:55 Rank 16 | Expropriate 34:19 Rank 15 | Teferi, Master of Time 34:50 Rank 14 | Frantic Search 35:19 Rank 13 | Sea Gate Restoration 35:40 Rank 12 | Thassa's Oracle 36:11 Rank 11 | Intuition 36:44 Rank 10 | Gilded Drake 37:10 Rank 9 | Timetwister 37:27 Rank 8 | Mystic Remora 38:03 Rank 7 | Cyclonic Rift 38:30 Rank 6 | Fierce Guardianship 38:59 Rank 5 | Mystical Tutor 39:12 Rank 4 | Time Spiral 39:34 Rank 3 | Mana Drain 40:03 Rank 2 | Rhystic Study 40:28 Rank 1 | Force of Will 40:58 Thank you!

[@yannikkissa9419]

Now, Im only bavk to the game for a couple of months (after 20 years), but I'm very happy to report that Ive heard of about 1/3 of the cards.... Mainly due to your vids, many thanks, its highly appreciated. Educational and fun yo watch!

[@wchenful]

Missing Cards: (no particular order) 1. The Reality Chip 2. An Offer you Can't Refuse 3. Brain Freeze 4. Displacer Kitten 5. Hullbreaker Horror Faerie Mastermind (from the latest set - I assume the video was probably recorded before the release though 😄)

[@scottcoey8472]

I didn’t see Orvar, the All Form either and feel it should’ve definitely made the list.

[@Beckola44]

I appreciate the both of you taking the time to make your list of the top 100 Blue Commander cards. There are some really good cards on your list. Some of these cards have a very high casting cost though. Thank you for the video Nitpicking Nerds.

[@aaronwindham6065]

Appreciate the list based videos. Some of my favorite content. Easy to listen to at work too

[@cabbagedestroyer1693]

As a green player, no stompy card, me no care, me like smash things.

[@matthewboumeester3569]

"enjoy and tell us in the comments all the things you disagree with" - HILARIOUS!! Reddit is wrong! You can't nitpick the Nerds!! 10/10 content!

[@nicolasperrin4518]

A bit sad "an offer you can't refuse" didn't make the list, I feel like it's the best counterspell before the free ones (and if we're considering casual commander, prob. better than Pact of Negation)

[@g4greed502]

arcane denial, delay, and An Offer You Can't Refuse are the best casual counterspells imo

[@mcCoy0te]

Love how beezy calls uses the pronoun he for Joe when he’s talking about bribery 😂😂

[@lookaspam]

Both blue wheels in the top 10 don't deserve to be ranked that high. Especially the spiral. Walk the Aeons is the most budget extra turn that does not exile itself, which means you can take infinite turn loops with it. Should be rated higher.

[@RedCometNurse]

Walk the Aeons is great in a landfall deck. You are likely running a ton of cards that let you put those Islands back in play, so it works out quite well. Save your land drop until after it is cast to keep that loop going.

[@DemikDragonganger]

Heck yeah, I was just thinking I need some long form content to binge while gaming nice timing!

[@griffingovernment]

5:45 Transmute Artifact says if the artifact you tutored has a greater mana value than what you sacrificed you need to pay the difference so there is no mana discount but it's still a good card.

[@JustRightPinedo]

Love love this video. Thanks so much for your deep work!!

[@nilsjonsson4446]

Awesome video! Something to consider would be to also write the approximate price of a card! This video would be amazing to watch and consider every card for my decks, but I know that most of them are far outside of my budget, so it's a lot less useful

[@overknox6558]

Yes!! A fat nerdy video from the NPN!! This is why we subscribe!! - but I must: force of will on top? xD

[@Luke-wt2ph]

Nice to have some longer videos. Hopefully you guys can do some more often!!

[@WayfarersBauble]

Not blue, don't care ❤

[@lilwigese1]

Cry more

[@RedCometNurse]

Get good, scrub.

[@Fausto_4841]

i remember when you used to just be hyped you were still worth a dollar. what happened, Baubes?

[@griffingovernment]

Know your enemy. Watch this video.

[@jostkohler-kae2997]

Finally and yeah cant beat the Force ! Great Job guys

[@Wiseguy150]

I thought it was funny that Joe didn't say any part on this list. I thought they would do the top 50 or something

[@rahminh]

This was a fun great video!

[@halcyonviews3693]

Did I hear Joe say “nice” when you started talking about Azami?

[@jajahatman8842]

Broooo why do you guys keep posting bangers the night before my final exams 😅

[@12jacobmar]

When i first started playing magic, i thought blue was BIG STINKY. Now its in over 86.75309% percent of my decks. Where did i go wrong? Now all my firends say im the BIG STINKY. I may be able to counterspell their commanders, but i cant counterspell my sadness. 😞

[@wakefieldwade4019]

Did we do this already? #1 force of will right is this an update

[@NitpickingNerds]

It IS an updated version; first one had bad audio balancing and was tough to watch for some

[@wakefieldwade4019]

@@NitpickingNerds I like them both.. keep up the good work

[@Fausto_4841]

Urza Block is the best block. change my mind. Timetwister is one of my favorite sorceries in my Balmor deck. That deck needs card draw so it's got great synergy, and most players have never seen it resolve. oh, btw, i only spent like 18$ on that deck.

[@jklote51]

Amazing video - thank you

[@GrimmTutelage]

Nice just in time for the top 10

[@frankmagyar5532]

Grimm!

[@GrimmTutelage]

@@frankmagyar5532 what up man!

[@markocelenkovic]

How is counterspell not on the list? Personally, I think that counterspell is only a bit worse than Arcane Denial, which is 61 on the list. There was plenty of room for counterspell, and I don't even think its a competition when compared to niche cards like ponder.

[@crawdaddy1234]

Maybe I missed it, but I really think Trinket Mage should have made it over quite a few of those cards.

[@woodsmithjr]

Don't think I saw just plain regular counter spell... Just because there are better options it's still universally powerful especially in the Singleton format,

[@LimboLance]

how about a printout of the list?

[@stevematthews4473]

You missed Grave Titan.

[@leobro6398]

Fierce guardianship might be better than force of will. I feel like its overrated in general

[@CodeTitan]

can you link the arcane denial short in the description? i can't find it

[@henrycooper9808]

I love dragon shield always and forever

[@ecpmath5658]

Ok, there’s 0 chance imprison in the moon is better than treachery

[@AlwaysGrowing0]

Imprison in the Moon costs 3 to cast versus 5 to cast treachery. Also, Imprison in the Moon hits significantly more permanent types which is very relevant.

[@baconsir1159]

Jin had no business being on this list lol, let alone above Peregrine Drake

[@ChrisLovesYahweh]

Switch rhystic study and force of will then this top 100 will be accurate 🎉

[@igolark]

The difference with white is so big that is hilarious

[@gab_mic98]

Where is my guy Arcum Daggson? I prefer him over like the last 30 or more cards of this list

[@quantum6637]

Holy crap this video is the perfect way to explain why I hate blue so much. Way too good, and way too unfun.

[@Fausto_4841]

i held a 20+ year grudge against blue and all blue players. Back when damage still went on the stack, i played a game where i sacced a few creatures for black mana plus 2 dark rituals for a Drain Life for like 15, well into lethal damage. My opponent hit me with Deflection, then said he wins. the prick even read the flavor text at me when he slammed it. not only was it a bullshit effect, it was a misplay and i wouldn't have died, but he was the more popular guy so we has able to lobby the room better than i was at the time. what should have happened was deflection changes the target of Drain Life, but since i'm still the caster I will still gain whatever life is drained from myself. Before 6th edition there was a status check for 0 life at the end of a phase, so players didn't die the instant they hit zero life. that's right, Norbert Wong, you cheated in that magic game we played in 6th grade. It was only a Koma EDH deck that pulled me out of the boycott. i said "well, maybe i'll just use it for tokens and i wont use the control part of it" 2 months later i was playing Yuriko. isn't there a saying about if you survive long enough you eventually become what you hate? it's true.

[@representativejoints1188]

Blue is neat

[@brandonguffey5959]

Unsubstantiate has the same ability as venser.

[@bonidc6732]

Force of will #1

[@golgariguy]

Thoracle, Consultation and Reanimate is not a really good intuition pile. Actually, I'd say it doesn't do anything.

[@Woke-CardBoard]

Only one problem. Reprint the reserve list!!! Hear hear!!!

[@Fausto_4841]

you can print as many as you like, this is EDH nobody cares.

[@skullruss]

Top 100 Black when?

[@That1powergamer]

If I sub and like will mono black be possibly in the near future?

[@NitpickingNerds]

Yes, actually!

[@That1powergamer]

​@@NitpickingNerds Done! 👍

[@wakefieldwade4019]

All right let's go!

[@hepic2874]

Im looking forward to this, although i do have a few predictions/ suggestions. Propaganda- are you going to pay the 2? Seriously, play this card, and its similar cards (ghostly prison, revenge of the ravens, archangel of absolution, the new elesh norn, etc) Emry, lurker of the loch. Very fun artifact commander, combos well with other legendaries like sai, master thopterist and would probably be great in the 99 of urza, high lord artificer.

[@frankmagyar5532]

Nerds have historically not recommended Propaganda in high powered meta

[@hepic2874]

@Frank Magyar yes, but it's very good in low power. CEDH decks usually don't even have to attack people to kill them, do it is useless there and noncreature spells are very good but in low power it shines.

[@Fausto_4841]

for some unexplainable reason they've always crapped on propaganda effects, even tho they say they play low-mid power where attacking is the majority win-con. They've had a few other head-scratcher takes like this, almost so bad you wonder how much they know what they're talking about. i know NN do, ijs it's so inconsistent with everything else they say.

[@frankmagyar5532]

@@Fausto_4841 They have been pretty upfront about changing their meta over time to be more fun, from 8-9 power level to more combat focused, and have commented that Propaganda is much better in a combat meta

[@Vanitycraft]

you should keep cards on screen longer..

[@vaporeon344]

Not gonna lie, a little disappointed to not see Long-Term Plans here. It has become my blue tutor of choices and is very good with blue’s quantity of card draw.

[@saygejohnson8094]

Where was cherries? I was hoping for their voice. Hope cherries is ok!

[@Fausto_4841]

usually Beezy does the voice-over stuff, like for their shorts. i think bc this wasn't a video with them going into their thoughts about each card and it's mostly just reading and explaining the card like 100 shorts put together it was just easier to use one voice. having them switch off each number would make editing a more technically difficult and time consuming process.

[@saygejohnson8094]

@@AdaWongMistress nope. Cherries goes by they/them. It's shown within the first 2 seconds of the video.

[@saygejohnson8094]

@@AdaWongMistress if you don't care then whyd you attempt to correct me?

[@NitpickingNerds]

Thanks for using my preferred pronouns. I very much appreciate you! :)Screw the haters!

[@andresperez7476]

Unsummon 🐞🐌🐙and opt

[@ApexZer0]

Thieving skydiver is way too low on the list the thing is bonkers

[@scottcoey8472]

Interesting no Orvar

[@HeWhoisHim.]

If douse isn’t on this list I reject every opinion made and question if you are even nerds

[@SkinnyDudeHS]

Dang I can't wait for them to make the top 100 worst blue cards.

[@BstFrmThEst]

Not gonna lie, I was kinda expecting Storm Crow to be #1. Super disappointed.

[@metricarea7546]

Blue🥰

[@mjhenkel1984]

i don't think #99 is fair play!

[@AnnaJaneMTG]

Damn white only got one video. Even the Nerds hate mono white. 😂😂

[@ronniebauhaus]

JOE CHERRIES!!

[@derHexenhammer]

Want a Grave titan? He's a bad magic card. 😂😂😂😂

[@ldgarius]

Spoiler guys: he put force of will as number 1. Obviously has no idea how to rank cards.

[@danielgoldberg2129]

Just started watching. If Islands isn’t #1 I will be sad.😊

[@wchenful]

Islands aren't blue, they're colourless.

[@spagandhi]

​@@wchenful 🤓

[@mod.3x]

hello, can someone pls confirm that i exist? thx in advance

[@insertname5195]

it's not possible, you could be a bot for all I know

[@mod.3x]

@@insertname5195 pls try

[@Fausto_4841]

@@mod.3x you don't exist.

[@hanschristopherson8056]

Gitixan probe feels like it’s on here because it’s a beezy pet card lol

[@overtstayred]

#1. Ancestral recall

[@leobro6398]

25:03 wrong pronouns for joe cherries? Tststs

[@Fausto_4841]

oh ffs. Joe wasn't always they, even at the start of this channel, so they were still he back when mercadian masques came out. calm your titties, BZ is one of Joe's best friends, it's an honest mistake.

[@NitpickingNerds]

This was record before I changed my preferred pronouns :)

[@leobro6398]

@@NitpickingNerds ohhh okay. Thanks for clarifying!