The Top 15 Lands in Commander

[@thetogtube2]

"Creatures are the most common creature type" ... MIC DROP... 100% accurate.

[@NitpickingNerds]

NAILED IT!

[@illmaticfinatic1593]

Damn beat me to this lmao

[@Squee_666_9]

Omg they're right

[@iceicejay9569]

Cradle wasnt banned because mass creature removal is very common, artifacts are easiler to spam the field with due to 0 mana artifacts and how much rarer artifact removal is.

[@Squee_666_9]

@@iceicejay9569 Your statement is irrelevant to the conversation.

[@hwdsona]

I can’t believe you forgot sorrows path. I put it in ALL my edh decks.

[@draftmagicagain1000]

It's the real #1. I just figured they didn't include for accessibility.

[@250590317]

Bazaar is pretty good in reanimator and dredge decks. I had it in my Gitrog deck for a while and it was really really good. Is it worth it to just get and play in one deck? No. But if you happen to have one or your group allows you to use a proxy, it is an amazing card.

[@thomasjakobsen2260]

You can have a deck without creatures, just have a planeswalker as your commander

[@NitpickingNerds]

You've ruined everything

[@winden-3685]

I have never seen someone nitpicked to death.

[@Jonzin4BeatzNYC]

Great minds lol

[@benmccarthy6702]

and sure Land is the most played type? oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@dahoodlum1253]

@@winden-3685 not that much of a nitpick there is a PLANESWALKERS super friends deck out there and mono red darretti artifact deck its not that uncommon or hard to build

[@ajones0916]

Cherries is fighting with every fiber in his being not to say 'completely insane' in the episode where it is probably accurate to say for each card. Keep up the great content!

[@NitpickingNerds]

You can’t see it but he is actually sweating profusely the entire time

[@ryanwillie3586]

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[@reyanshtrey9361]

@Ryan Willie instablaster :)

[@simplyyunak3189]

This is the level of first hand info I am seeking in all youtube comment sections ;). Kepp up your good work

[@rancor4690]

Top 15 Artworks of Basics if you need inspiration for a Basic land video

[@NitpickingNerds]

“Top 10 basic lands” next short? 👀

[@ikahekathesnake4233]

@@NitpickingNerds you could do one for each land type if you really want to milk it

[@tab021]

20k subs this week? It's about to happen with all this incredible content! Yall are working like mad and it's very appreciated, the videos are great!!!

[@NitpickingNerds]

We can not and will not be stopped!

[@NitpickingNerds]

YES it's coming so soon! We are really excited our hard work is paying off

[@jamesgratz4771]

Tomb of the grave titan: taps for black. 4BB tap put a token called “grave titan” with death touch into play

[@NitpickingNerds]

That’s fake!

[@morgoth2425]

@@NitpickingNerds its the best land anyway

[@BozzLightyr]

Exotic Orchid is another good untapped land.

[@moreplease394]

Hmm yeah maybe if this was like Top 30 or something. There's better lands than a land that only produces mana

[@NitpickingNerds]

Yeah it's good though!

[@tylerrowe596]

A bit late to the party but Reflecting Pool surely has to be top 15 right?

[@NitpickingNerds]

@@tylerrowe596 it is very strong and was counted with the rainbow lands to start but we didn’t want to pair things that weren’t functionally the same

[@lunarlight3131]

damn joe cherries looking slick in that all black

[@mreher8792]

That’s what happens when he goes monochrome

[@maxmazza2987]

Yeah, Joe has some decent fashion sense.

[@NitpickingNerds]

I will tell him it's a good look for him

[@Ray-ws6rk]

Sitting down after class with food to watch a NN video is the best way to relax. Thanks for the awesome content you guys are great!

[@NitpickingNerds]

I totally know that feeling and I’m so glad our channel can be that for you!!!

[@sornlol1]

the best land in commander is swamp you can tap it and add 1 black to your mana pool

[@NitpickingNerds]

Synergy with Coffers

[@pauljimerson8218]

6 of them gets you to grave titan

[@revelmonger]

Forest is imo the best land. It opens up a TON of amazing turn 1 plays and Mana fixing. Outside of Llanowar, Fyndorn, and Mystic elves we also have access to alternative Mana dorks (avacyns/BoP). While people generally say islands are better since blue is the best color, but a turn 1 island is much less impactful than a turn 1 forest.

[@draftmagicagain1000]

Blue is the best 1vs1 color. Green is far and away the best Commander color.

[@revelmonger]

@@draftmagicagain1000 I'd argue red is far stronger for 1v1 with it's ability to sweep the floor out from under you.

[@EvanFarshadow]

*laughs in creature-less Windgrace not using Gaea's Cradle*

[@NitpickingNerds]

What a specific laugh lol

[@EvanFarshadow]

@@NitpickingNerds ikr! XD

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

Strip Mine for dayzzzz! Other lands I love Vesuva, Lake of the Dead, Dust Bowl, Planeshift Lairs, Modern Horizon ''Canopy'' Lands, Volrath Stronghold, Hall of Heliods Generosity, Deserted Temple, ''Pain'' lands, Winding Canyon :P

[@elipetrou9308]

2 cycles but yeah

[@weirdproq]

29:24 Fun Fact: You can actually play a deck with no creatures if you have one of the Planeswalkers that let's you play them as your Commander. (P.S. I'm not sure if anyone is doing that, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Will & Rowan, or Saheeli, spellslinger deck out there.)

[@DavyMcWavy]

You could always put planeswalkers that make creatures in the deck for board state.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Yeah we missed that one and deserve the nitpick :P

[@NitpickingNerds]

Yeah we missed that one and deserve the nitpick :P

[@Mightypoo007]

Bazaar of Bagdad has 'discard two' if you happen to have a Grave Titan.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Yet another scenario where GT is valuable

[@leobro6398]

Please do a half serious shorts about the top 6 basic lands

[@NitpickingNerds]

"Top 6 Basic Lands" Is that the most clickable title or the least clickable title ever?

[@pauljimerson8218]

Island is the entire top 6

[@jjs8426]

*11 including snow... If snow is basic I can't remember

[@elipetrou9308]

Well wastes and snow so top 11

[@zotmaster]

A fun little wrinkle with Tabernacle is that the creature is destroyed and not sacrificed, whereas the Magus says sacrifice. Ulamog laughs at your puny Tabernacle trigger.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Mwahahaha

[@andrevfox]

What about Vesuva, it can be any one of those.

[@NitpickingNerds]

It's a good land for sure, but it's not like Clone is one of the best creatures

[@pabis6817]

Sakashima of a thousand faces might be one of the best though. Vesuva can copy legendary lands ;)

[@yawgmoththranphysician139]

Command Tower doesn't deserve to get banned. Y'all call for too many bans especially the one wearing black

[@tefin420]

If you turn lands into creatures and attack with city of brass it becomes tapped and deals a damage so it would be the worst of the two

[@elipetrou9308]

And with urborg

[@Jackaroo.]

This episode was *completely insane*

[@NitpickingNerds]

All our episodes are!

[@canadianham]

Pickle! That is all.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Well said

[@kurtsloop2462]

Where would Tolarian Academy rank if it could be ranked?

[@NitpickingNerds]

#1, we think it’s a little bit better than Cradle

[@crawdaddy2004]

Yesterday I had Valakut on the field and then cast Genesis Wave for 31 hitting Ashaya AND Dryad of the Elysian Fields... That was amazing.

[@NitpickingNerds]

That’s a GG!

[@NitpickingNerds]

GG, opponents

[@Andreasws24]

Bazaar is busted, if you play a deck that wants things to hit the graveyard. Just put a Preator or Eldrazi in the yard turn 1, turn 2 reanimate.

[@xaveristunderrattet4663]

Idea for the next video: Best colorless lands (field of the dead!!!)

[@NitpickingNerds]

Best lands that make 2/2 zombies, coming in at number one we have DUNES OF THE DEAD

[@ygaudreault]

@@NitpickingNerds imagine if it made grave titans!

[@bobbylamb2136]

@@NitpickingNerds 9

[@jessicalundholm2773]

I've played Bazaar in cEDH Gitrog. Never seen it anywhere else but it's stupidly broken with the Gitfrog

[@James-fq3yz]

This video is completely insane

[@NitpickingNerds]

TELL ME ABOUT IT

[@BrodyTwice]

Few things warm my black mage heart more than hearing beezy cry about cabal coffers on a regular

[@NitpickingNerds]

I'll never stop!

[@BrodyTwice]

@@NitpickingNerds excellent, let the hate flow through you

[@crawdaddy2004]

There’s also Pendrell Mists, a 4-mana enchantment (also Reserved List, I believe).

[@eltronjohn]

True, a great card, but still - it's 4 mana and can be countered :)

[@crawdaddy2004]

@@eltronjohn Of course it’s worse than Tabernacle. But it’s better than the Magus.

[@eltronjohn]

@@crawdaddy2004 no doubt about it. And I still really like the card itself - some mad art there.

[@xdavid00]

Poor fetchlands cycle, not strong enough individually like the Serra's Sanctum/Gaea's Cradle/Phyrexian Tower cycle :P I'm actually kinda curious to see Mishra's Workshop in action, because at first glance it seems like the build-around cost is too high for just one extra mana than Ancient Tomb.

[@elipetrou9308]

If you’re an artifact deck then it’s too good

[@TheNickBasso]

Command Tower is also great because it's super budget and included (I think) in every pre-constructed Commander deck (along with Sol Ring and Arcane Signet). I mean banning it wouldn't be that big of deal for veteran players that have all the possible lands ever printed (although yeah it's the best land in every 3+ colors commander decks), but it would really hit the new players, but, again, I don't think it's ever going to be be bannes since it's been a stable presence in every pre-constructed decks since I think the 1st edition.

[@leifwalker4929]

Love your channel thanks for the great content. I would however put bazar in the main because of my friends proxy (yes we play with proxies) his bazar deck killed me us all in 2 turns.

[@moosesox]

20k giveaway idea - autographed grave titan that we can confidently keep on the shelf.

[@pabis6817]

Really surprised lake of the dead did not make into this list

[@richardaustin2470]

I’ve died to someone tapping my city of brass before....city of brass and mana confluence are NOT the same card

[@plasmawisp18]

I do find it funny how they say are basically the same, then mention urborg, which is one of the weird instances where they are different.

[@RedCometNurse]

Mystic Sanctuary is a house in my Elsha of the Infinite deck. I can rip that card off the top over and over again.

[@the_names_rob]

My friend plains urborg in a mono white deck to use the black hate cards in white

[@pauljimerson8218]

Karma

[@the_names_rob]

@@pauljimerson8218 yep that one i think

[@noahz42]

I use Magus of the Tabernacle as a replacement for Tabernacle of the Penrillvale in my mono white elesh norn stax and it puts in the work, and accidentally combos with my win con

[@wademiller2376]

Great video, I personally don't play any fetches in any deck unless I care about landfall, very specific. Never had a problem mana fixing without them but I understand why people love them

[@golgariguy]

Nice picks! Castle Garenbrig is another amazing land that basically just taps for 2 in the right deck. Also, yeee I guessed #1 right! :)

[@syn7h3ca73]

I use Bazaar of Baghdad in my Muldrotha deck. It's pretty good!

[@themilkman7921]

Hey, that’s pretty good!

[@NitpickingNerds]

Sweet! Plus it's fun to just use expensive old cards sometimes

[@syn7h3ca73]

@@NitpickingNerds yeah, its my bling deck, but not my most powerful one (to your point on power level vs real world value)

[@edwardcastro4276]

I don't get the vitriol for cabal coffers. Gaea's cradle, serra's sanctum and other are just as bad but don't get the same flack. Why this be?

[@NitpickingNerds]

I feel similarly about Cradle and Coffers. Sanctum is a bit different but still in the same vein. Don't like em at all :P

[@PaleoDrew]

Glacial Chasm is a good land in land decks too.

[@aaronmitchell3204]

Strip Mine/ Muldrotha, the Gravetide.....

[@DerpyLaron]

Weird for you to make a list of cards why I run Cleansing Wildfire in my decks. Also 28:45 yeah they never did that. Thank god they didn't can you imageine what modern would be like if they did that? The decks would cost you so much...

[@NitpickingNerds]

Cleansing Wildfire is a very good card! Also, nice XD

[@poptalgia9653]

Circle of dreams Druid is my budget gaea lol

[@aktivwurm]

"Puts you ahead in a landslide" you slide-og you

[@l.p.1641]

Pour one out for my land, City of Shadows

[@NitpickingNerds]

RIP

[@nickleewright]

Umm.. you said "no deck has 0 creatures in it. You have to have at least one" Not true... my mono black control has literally 0 creatures in it. :)

[@NitpickingNerds]

We missed the planeswalker commanders 😂 I accept this nitpick

[@nickleewright]

@@NitpickingNerds it also has 12 board wipes in it! You can see the decklist at tappedout.net/mtg-decks/no-creature-control-2/

[@adamugrinow1926]

Comment for the algorithm!!!

[@NitpickingNerds]

I can feel my powers growing...

[@kqawiyy]

Serra's Sanctum combos nicely with enchanted evening

[@NitpickingNerds]

I checked and you are RIGHT!!!!!

[@xaer0knight]

I will twiddle your city of brass. take one damage ;) I have won one game with that before

[@NitpickingNerds]

That's a power move!

[@DiabloTommaso]

My crusade against coffers in non mono black continues. Single target land destruction is getting more and more important and i always love to let people tutor for coffers in 3+ color decks to stripmine their urborg

[@alslayer18]

So with how much you guys hate on the reserve list would you guys ever consider making lists of strong cards without reserve list cards, or reserve list cards as honorable mentions, or maybe splitting the list in two, or naming more non-reserve list cards as honorable mentions (or something to this effect)?

[@NitpickingNerds]

Well the issue is that we have take the format as it is. Though we aren’t fans of certain thing doesn’t mean they aren’t part of the format.

[@alslayer18]

@@NitpickingNerds I guess? It's just that a large chunk of several mtg videos (not just you guys) is spent talking about cards most people don't play (and can't play). I think it makes a lot of videos a lot less helpful for a general audience. (Just food for thought).

[@nickwildschut5959]

Alternative title: Top 15 lands you can't afford

[@rileypowell5354]

You are pretty much right about bazaar. It's not that great in pretty much anything besides dredge but if you have a ton of dredgers in your deck you just draw like 14 cards each turn instead of 1

[@dino-wer-kuh3498]

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[@NitpickingNerds]

This guy gets it!

[@NitpickingNerds]

Best KZbin ad I've ever seen

[@tobiashaffling6906]

As always i feel that alot of edh players undervalues scavenger grounds. Now im not saying its top 15 but 16 yes sir, it fits in any nongraveyard deck, can be used more then once with a little build around at little to no cost. Bazaars a strong 17 tho

[@jordonpohl7393]

So sad I sold my old city of brass about 15 years ago when I was a kid and had no idea how good it was :P loved the original art too :(

[@michaelpoerio9926]

I have a Bazaar of Bagdad in my Karador dredge deck. It's pretty good, always happy to topdeck it, very combo heavy. 8-9 power level. Best card in deck? No, but rock solid. Especially with Reanimates, Animate deads... etc

[@spongemanicecone4440]

me: *sees that command tower is number 2* Me: wow! I have like 6 copies of that card! if its better than something like the Bazaar of Baghdad it must be worth something *checks Price* me: *Stoic*

[@NitpickingNerds]

They printed it into the dirt lol price isn't everything!

[@evanbond3337]

The boys not rocking with Glacial Chasm⁉️⁉️

[@Squee_666_9]

I mean it's a great land under certain circumstances but definitely not in the top 15.

[@Greg501-]

Mana confluence gets turned off by Yasharn so City of Brass is strictly better :)

[@NitpickingNerds]

There's plenty of nonsense that makes them both better, it's pretty funny

[@NitpickingNerds]

We love the “strictly better” discussion, we had worked in the past to make a magic card that was strictly better than Lightning Bolt and the card had like a thousand words on it lol

[@alexmendoza9645]

Ban Sol ring and then we can talk about banning cabal coffers. But I honestly think they're more egregious cards and blue and green. Leave mono black alone

[@manarager3413]

I would say Bazaar is exceptionally good in *any,* recursion deck. It's just cost prohibitive for most decks because it's like a 3000 dollar card

[@MintyMagicMTG]

Field of the Dead is a mistake

[@danikirk5774]

Ngl, Yavimaya and urborg are on the same level to me, cause one makes Swamps the other makes Forests.

[@CommanderBazaar]

What's amazing to me is that, despite running nearly all of the multi-mana lands, rituals and abusing Phyrexian mana, K'rrik manages to be just one of many solid Commander decks, rather than the juggernaut it looks like on paper. Still loooove it though!

[@madewithreal100beefcheese9]

Top 10-20 MUST include budget lands for budget decks. The best of the best in the .1-5$ range

[@dochurt7189]

Lake of the dead

[@dazbonez3109]

And in number 1 we have: Island!!

[@NitpickingNerds]

Somebody else said swamp you should fight them

[@hermodnitter3902]

Poor Library of Alexandria, it's banned, and still wouldn't make this list at all, actually just bordeline playable probably. Mishra's Workshop and Tabernacle laughing their ass off... RC totally random in their bannings.

[@daltonsmith9891]

Kinda sad Yavimaya, cradle of growth didn't even get a mention... I mean It's just a green version of Urborg but man I have seen it do some work especially if your playing with Timber Protector and Ashaya, soul of the wild. I've seen this thrown in an Omnath locus of creation deck along with tons of ways to tutor for creatures and lands to bring them out and always be hitting your landfall triggers.

[@seanbyrne5313]

I beat recently a Winter Orb with a Cabal Coffers and a Sol Ring. The Nitpicking Nerds would have melted watching this game.

[@nicolaslarranaga8721]

There's an argument for Vesuva being close to, or even in the list. At any time, it enters as the best land on the battlefield. There's a Gaea's cradle? You just got a Gaea's cradle.

[@elipetrou9308]

I was thinking the same thing, but at the same time if there isn’t something good it’s just a tap land

[@nicolaslarranaga8721]

still equal to the rest of the table, its never worse than whats available. It scales with power level which is even better.

[@NitpickingNerds]

It's pretty good, I could see it in contention for #15 but I wouldn't really put it higher than that

[@PaleoDrew]

Excellent video as always. I play Beezy's Karametra combo deck he posted at some point on Tapped Out, it's definitely my strongest deck (with some modern upgrades). These guys definitely know their stuff and I really only watch them and Command Zone for strategy videos now

[@hybridyd1305]

Watch "I Hate Your Deck". They pull off a lot of cool combos and the atmosphere of their show is realistic whereas Game Knights seems suspiciously scripted.

[@TheeKrix]

Who’s buying these expensive reserve list lands you ask? It’s the MTG whales that can afford anything they want. What is kind of funny is that these whales just keep buying these cards from each other raising the price for the next whale that comes along. 😂.

[@fenixiliusstrife1253]

Gaea's Cradle is only first because Tolarian Academy is banned. Tolarian Academy is the most broken land EVER printed.

[@Deathkeeper43]

Hot take: Workshop is really bad in 99% of decks, including artifact ones.

[@NitpickingNerds]

In a heavy artifact deck it is extremely good

[@Deathkeeper43]

@@NitpickingNerds Ive played it in artifact heavy decks and found it very meh. My buddy has one in his Daretti and its...fine, not broken. I wouldnt even run it in Sharuum or Breya. Its good in Bosh/Traxos (artifact commander decks) but what players who are playing those would ever get a workshop for them.

[@DiabloTommaso]

If they ever bann command tower and not sol ring i will just laugh so hard i ll die

[@somersetbassett4580]

I'm just here for the Cabal Coffers hate 😇

[@NitpickingNerds]

You will not be disappointed 🤣

[@NotoriousM16]

Mana Confluence might be slightly better than City of Brass because City of Brass will still do damage to you if tapped for black mana using Urborg’s ability

[@elipetrou9308]

That’s what I thought, also if someone uses a spell to tap it you take damage from city of brass

[@NitpickingNerds]

But if you're at a negative life total, you can't use Mana Confluence! I love these corner case scenarios

[@TheAgingAscetic]

There is also an enchantment version of tabernacle called pendrell mists that costs 3U. I play it in my oloro creature hate deck because I don’t have 5k Lying around

[@tomascl82]

Mana confluence is better than city of brass because city of brass hits you for just tapping. An opponent could tap and untap your land and kill you with that, while mana confluence doesn't have that. Even more if you have urborg or chromatic lantern you can use mana confluence without paying life.

[@robertmccaffrey9315]

I would argue that Cabal Coffers is better than Nyxthos because it allows for better recovery from things like board wipes because it only requires your lands to be on the field. Other than that great list guys. Thanks.

[@meatbyproducts]

Bazaar of Baghdad was trash back in the day. It was not till in the 2000s it became good. I had one for a while and it is cool but not my play style in commander. I sold it in 2018 for market price and a moat.

[@Facter-di3cm]

Gotta mishra's factory , Mana crypt into Mana vault , sol ring , mox opal , mix diamond , jeweled lotus draw chrome mox 😤 then 💁 only play lands and in a colorless deck

[@T4N7]

Wut?! How much is Gaia's Cradle? I bought a Spanish version for 70$ yrs ago n use it in my Rhys the Redeemed token edh

[@croppingchair5538]

I’m not disagreeing with the Bazaar of Baghdad placement but it is completely disgusting in vintage. If dredge is on the play turn 1 game 1 and play a Bazaar you basically lose on the spot

[@BozzLightyr]

Not to brag but I got a Magus of the Bazaar with Bazaar of Baghdad writing over the card. I might put it in my Gitrog at some point.

[@NitpickingNerds]

That’s a sexy proxy

[@biggiecheesehatescheese8600]

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[@gildedvibrations8927]

My Teferi chain veil deck had no creatures in it, just for the sake of being creature less. It's a bitch to fight against though. Creatures make things fun.

[@hansmelby5080]

Point of order: there are planeswalkers which can be your commander, so it is possible, but not likely to build a creatureless deck.

[@josephmcbride6033]

He said the land he's discussing after Cabal Coffers was the next best thing to cabal coffers. So that means he should have ranked it worse, not better..

[@jamiecruz4421]

Boseju is better than mana confluence/city of brass. There are plenty of ways to fix mana colors there is only 1 land that makes spells uncounterable. Think about the instants and sorceries in the format. coming in tapped and the life is a small price to pay and you can use it in a pinch to cast non instant and sorcery cards.

[@darylmcnaughton748]

so technically mana confluence is better than city of brass, with urborg or yavimaya or other ability like from chromatic lantern or world tree mana confluence wont deal damage to you but city of brass will because the damage is dealt with city of brass taps in general and not just from its mana ability

[@arthurvandenbergh1881]

Allright, let me get another crack at predicting this list (in no particular order): 1. Ancient Tomb 2. Gaea’s Cradle 3. Serra’s Sanctum 4. Strip Mine / Wasteland 5. Field of the Dead 6. Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx 7. Cabal Coffers and Urborg (got a hunch you guys will put these together, idk) 8. City of Brass/Mana Confluence 9. Bazaar of Baghdad 10. Command Tower 11. Myriad Landscape (real iffy about this one but it’s soooo good in lower powered decks) 12. The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale 13. Mishra’s Workshop 14. Prismatic Vista 15. Phyrexian Tower (probably too specific but I know you guys won’t put maze of ith here so I had to find a 15th card 😅) Let’s see how many I get right! :)

[@NitpickingNerds]

You seriously got like almost all of them! DANG

[@NitpickingNerds]

That was a really good list just nit in the right order

[@arthurvandenbergh1881]

@@NitpickingNerds yeah I didn’t feel like ranking them 😅. I’m actually quite surprised myself how many I got right lol