These Tribes Need Commanders! | Powerful Custom Commanders | EDH | Commander | Magic the Gathering

[@WayfarersBauble]

My lowest TCGPlayer market price is currently $2.38 for my The List printing. Bauble tribal someday?

[@DaveyDAKFAE]

Technically I think Korvold is a Bauble Tribal commander. Multicolor, encourages running basics, encourages ramp, pays you off for sacrificing a bauble

[@christiancornier9357]

Your cards are super cool and innovative, but they're missing a certain phrases including "Activate only as a Sorcery" or "This ability only triggers once per turn"

[@zackerymorris8268]

Yeah the pinnacles of modern magic design

[@mattbutler4953]

Gotta up the CMC if you do that

[@Tacklepig]

This isn't how commanders for tribes work. They're supposed to encourage tribal synergies, and 2 at best out of these would do so.

[@WolfShadowmancer]

Looking at the egg and the leech ... do you not like your friends, Mitch? This is how you lose friends, Mitch.

[@tatsuhirosatou5513]

Lose friends? That egg is how you get jumped behind the LGS

[@AspelShuyin]

Curse of the Cosmos sounds fun and all, but not for the other person who has essentially already lost the game simply by having 10 of everything. You being able to use their resources on your turn or something would be better. Why would you not simply concede immediately?

[@tatsuhirosatou5513]

@@durarada it has indestructible not many cards that see play can deal with it and it's soo unfun it will literally cause fist fights.

[@astuteanansi4935]

Theoretically, if someone kills you, your enslaved player is freed.

[@mattmaccay2351]

My problem with the egg is that has absolutely nothing to do with eggs it just doesn't feel like a commander imo. It's a cool concept but I just don't see it as any kind of egg support. I think a egg commander should give your eggs shroud or hex proof maybe have it make egg tokens that you pay x mana to cascade until you hit a creature with mana value equal to the amount of mana spent( not less I'd be pissed if I pay 8 mana and get a soul warden) and put it into play

[@level2noob317]

The best tribe that needs the most help. Aetherborn. Come on. Help a guy out.

[@taddyboy613]

When a Legendary Phoenix dodges a "These Tribes Need Commanders" Video as well.

[@isawamoose]

Please wizards I want fiery chicken commander pls

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

I believe I highlighted a Phoenix in a previous episode like this one!

[@michaelgreen8851]

This

[@AKitchell]

@@isawamoose You've now got one: Syrix, Carrier of the Flame.

[@liamlyda2116]

The egg commander would likely get banned. It doesn't make sense to me that someone who constantly asks for Tergrid to get banned for sucking the fun out of magic to create a commander that is literally a perpetual mind slaver.

[@mathieubakker947]

Blame Eddie

[@tatsuhirosatou5513]

I would fist fight someone playing that card.

[@championsoftheparish241]

Another tribe commander that we need is a KAVU commander!!!

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

I believe I highlighted a Kavu in a previous episode like this one!

[@championsoftheparish241]

@@TheCommandersQuarters I know but we still need one lol both are great videos BTW.

[@atree4627]

Legit went to the comments to see if there was anyone else, even tho it was in another vid, my babies need a leader :P

[@heraldofv3379]

This aged perfectly well 👌

[@PanicBlade757]

One thing there Mitch: you can’t use Fractured Identity on Ashaya, since she makes herself a Forest land and Fractured Identity can only target a nonland permanent. Sweet video though! Love me some Commander’s Quarters.

[@woody72691]

Blame eddie

[@miceinattic]

OMG!! I need The Three Lionhearted Pigs!!! This is a card I would ask my play group if I can make a deck around.

[@therealcheezzz3991]

XINQUX THE STARFISH LORD NEEDS TO BE A REAL CARD.

[@andrewrockwell1282]

Ogmeok is a prime example of why you run removal. They cast it, you swords it, they cry.

[@joelhatterini6392]

not a tribe but energy counters need a dedicated commander, preferably 5C so that you can play all the fun energy cards.

[@nikachu_i_choose5233]

A really cool bonus for the star fish would be to reduce its mana cost by 1 colourless for each starfish you control. That way it won't be too punishing early game.

[@AspelShuyin]

Most of these aren't really tribal, they're just creatures of an uncommon type that don't benefit from playing in specific ways.

[@christiancornier9357]

Dammit Eddie! Stop helping make these videos so good!

[@xF3arl]

I'd love to see a Bant Kithkin commander. I know that excludes Figure of Destiny, but maybe that's for the best.

[@BurnByMoonlight]

Wouldn’t Fractured Identity not work on Ashaya as they make themselves a land, and FI specifies nonland?

[@zkull777]

Definitely wanting a dauthi commander I have been wanting one of these for a long time!

[@kiritokaguya9180]

I love "the three lionhearted pigs"! 😄 would make a deck around them!

[@FloTaishou]

The Starfish commander should be dimir instead of izzet to include all existing Starfish.

[@123darkdeal]

While Spirits have lots of options for commanders, I really wish there was an Esper Spirit commander. Espers commanders in general seem pretty lacking.

[@clinthenderson2016]

what lol Esper commanders are good, especially because they are in Esper colors.

[@123darkdeal]

​@@clinthenderson2016 Disregarding partner commanders as those can make any combination and be okay, Esper has one, MAYBE two decent commanders to build around. Alela is the most built around Esper commander by a lot and that doesn't fit the build I want to make. I just default to that because it somewhat works with flying buffing. I also don't care what the 99 are in power level as if you are just going to play "good stuff" you may as well play a 5-color commander. I want a commander that is integral to the theme I am building. Esper is severely lacking in commander theme diversity. It's almost as bad as Boros was before when all it did was turn sideways.

[@Eramiserasmus]

Bring forth the new tribal commanders!

[@citizen5272]

I love the comsic egg except I think the flip side is just way too powerful and unfun. If it loses the "you control enchanted player" title and possibly have the activation be done by any player that could be more interesting.

[@JohnFerrerAkaEric]

A custom commander game would be fun to watch on your channel!

[@HexproofAnarchist]

Thanks for the GOAT, Eddie!

[@venkelos6996]

Every once in a while, we get a tribe that doesn't have a LC for Commander. Watching this made me think of one. No idea on a name, but it's a Wall, with Defender. Basically, an old wizard died in his tower; maybe naturally, maybe someone buried him in the wall, and his essence infused the location. Now, it sort of works like a powerful mana-dork; he can't fight, or cast spells, but he can channel mana for other uses, and maybe produce the stray things a wizard might have in his tower, such as spells (instants and sorceries), objects (artifacts), etc.

[@virgilhoward9071]

Where can I order The GOAT commander. I have a Aries friend that loves goats.

[@jessicaclark4544]

Is the starfish a reference to suicide squad? It was a trippy movie

[@Kenku178]

Yeah it's a reference to Starro, which had been a villain at times in DCU

[@leobrouard3344]

I want to humbly disagree with the design of most of those cards: "The three lionhearted pigs" is less of a pig tribal and more of a Temur tribal. I like that it fosters unusual deckbuilding, but I'm afraid it would lead to too commander-centric lines of play. When you don't have your commander, playing your cards feels bad because you are missing tons of value from your commander. When your commander is out, it's a very immediate death threat that needs quick answer from your opponents. You may end-up spending the whole game replaying your commander without casting your spells. My suggestion would be to replace the ability by "Tap, exile a card from your graveyard: create a 1/1 green pig if it's green. Pigs you control get flying until end of turn if it's blue. Pigs you control get +2/+0 until end of turn if it's red.". That way, it's okay to play your cards when your commander is not out. You have plenty to explore with self mill and, Temur cards, haste and untap effects. Your commander feels like less of a threat and may manage to spend a turn on the table. Cosmic Egg leads to the exact same issue as Iona: it says "target player can't participate anymore" in a format that's all about social and having fun together. My suggestion: The back could become an enchantment that says: "When an effect you control causes a player to draw one or more cards, create a clue token. When an effect you control causes a land an opponent controls to tap for additional mana, create a treasure token. When an effect you control causes a player to gain life, create a food token." It may not perfectly translate your intent, but still makes group hug interesting while providing synergies with cards like Reckless Fireweaver, Mayhem Devil, Xorn, Academy Manufactor, Inspiring Statuary and many more. I like how Xinqux reminds me of the starfish overlord in Suicide Squad 2. The card seems okay, but mind control is quite a hated mechanics that many people don't want to see more though. It's also quite un-practical when playing online. May I suggest a super death ray approach? The second ability could instead be "when a spell or ability you control should deal damage to a target, it deals one more damage for each starfish you control and you draw a card". It would lead to interesting situations to avoid dealing too much damage to Xinqux and regularly dealing tons of damage to the table. A big brain counter burn. Ogmeok may frequently lead to this situation: you reach 5 mana, you play it, you lose everything, it gets killed first thing by the next player, you scoop. How about: "You can only use mana from treasures to cast spells from your hand. When an opponent casts a spell, that opponent loses 1 life. Create a treasure token." It's less threatening so it may stick on the board, it still really changes your gameplay, it makes you want to play cards like Kenrith to have ways to spend your mana other than casting spells so it has an impact on your deckbuilding. The GOAT leads to a situation where other players have to constantly wrath your board or keep mana to deal with your commander at instant speed. If they don't, they lose. Even if they do, maybe you have vines of vastwoods and they still lose instantly. But the game is maybe far from over, so they will wait for the table to finish the game for long. This will give the whole table the feeling that when you play that deck they just can't play theirs. Your deck may feel very stifling. Also, there is 0 incentive to play goats with this commander, so it's not really a tribal. When I look at what other goats do in MtG, something funny may be: "The GOAT, 3/3 Tap: create a 0/1 white goat. Tap: goats you control get +2/+2. Tap, tap X goats you control: get control of X target creatures until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn." This way, you have means to make goats, it's worth it to have goats generators, you can go for big swing, you can create cool synergies with sac effects, creatures from other players or untap / haste effects. It enables creative deckbuilding in a non smothering way.

[@justinanderson2631]

I'd like to see some of these custom commanders on an episode of Close Quarters!

[@milksandwich5751]

The GOAT is probably the best design i've ever seen. It might be a bit broken but seem so fun to play

[@marioortizveliz5221]

I need that commander in my life !!!!!!

[@lokidragon8725]

That dauthi commander could do with running the enchantment Dauthi embrace: two black give target creature shadow... "But my creatures already have shadow? Why would you run that?" Because you can use it to give your opponents creatures shadow and block them! Also it's fun to help opponents swing at each other!

[@themangledking1016]

Personally I would like to see a chimera or Drake commander, but a better gorgon matters commander would be nice to

[@TeaHauss]

Cosmic Egg is actually genius! People ramping too fast, drawing too many cards, and gaining too much life? Get egged.

[@snipey8623]

Its a horrible idea as it just takes 1 player out for the rest of the game and gives you more chances of winning for such low requirements

[@spencerschmidt-rundell1612]

Is there a way I could submit custom cards somewhere? The discord that you mentioned in another video seemed to have specific stuff happening at certain times and I typically just design stuff for fun when I have an idea.

[@nicman3110]

Cosmic egg looks super cool on the frontside. In my opinion is the backside too strong and not fun. What about the backside is shrouded and indestructible but it has the effects "Whenever enchanted player puts a land into play the owner of this card may put up to one land into play." and " Whenever enchanted player plays a spell from their hand enchanted player and the owner of this card may copy that spell (permanent spells become tokens)". In my opinion more fun for the table and reason people would want to risk reaching the requirement on the egg. Nonetheless very cool ideas and super cool video! Would love to see more of these videos!!!

[@Magikarp_king]

I was really hoping spirits would get an esper commander. I love spirits but I also want to play black for a few cards.

[@tomscut7820]

Hey, Mitch. Is there a way to participate in your custom commanders contests? Where can I reach you to submit my creations? Cheers.

[@DawsonVonDarkcastle]

They already came out with a commander for all of the other tribes that didn't get a tribal commander and it's called Morophon, The Boundless. Mark Rosewater actually said he was sick of everybody saying that "this tribe needs commander or this tribe needs a commander", so he made a creature that could be used for any tribal commander deck.

[@MrThetruthhurts]

Dauthi!!! Such a great card idea.

[@maximleone4658]

Could we get these images so we could make some proxies of them?

[@michaelberger9229]

I would love to see a Crocodile commander.

[@DeadDollKada]

I've never watched one of your custom commander videos; clearly I've been missing out. These cards are so interesting; and WOTC really need to step up the tribal love.

[@philippophantastisch2310]

great designs! u really had some original ideas with these commanders! ;p

[@johnpozorski5026]

I love the idea for the egg, except the life total requirement. As soon as somebody has that card as their commander, all the other players will agree to ping each other down to around 30 or less life to essentially negate this card

[@apiarygod5571]

But wait, if they actually do something like the three lionhearted pigs, and turn it into a revisit of "Imminence", would actually be a really good commander!

[@TheSawtoothNomad]

As someone who lives in Arkansas, where our football team is known as the razorbacks, I can sympathize with wanting a pig/boar tribal commander. :( Also, love the Phelddagrif reference material used.

[@rustyhobson8497]

I blame Eddie for this episode. I love it

[@FloTaishou]

Tribes that still need Commanders: Fish Antelope Jackal Ox

[@akivaroschy1220]

just wondering where you get your arts from, they're sick!

[@lirabaseball01595]

Please tell me where i can the three lionhearted pigs card want one need one asap !!!!! 🙏

[@pre-usedphantom7397]

Xinqux is a cool reference to the suicide squad movie but I think the on theme design for a starfish commander aught to have a tap ability that influences cards in your library as that’s what the rest of the starfish creatures do, or have some way to play with untapping creatures.

[@whaleofdarkness]

You should do an EDH-gameplay episode in which you play the commanders in this video. Don't know if Wizards would block you forever but if not that would be amazing.

[@federicorodriguez451]

Now everyone knows about fail to find.

[@TeaHauss]

Ok, GOAT is the Goat tho, fantastic design

[@spencerschmidt-rundell1612]

What movie is being referenced with the starfish? (Warning: potential spoilers for an unspecified movie below)

[@warl54961]

Wall of shards would work very well for the cosmic egg. Defending you from agro you might pull while making sure someone meets the life requirement. Good for politics and it's nearly budget too.

[@Fire-Fire-Go]

Just spit balling but is there a wubrg elemental commander?

[@PsionicMonk]

The Goatest of All Time

[@tatsuhirosatou5513]

That egg with start fist fights at the table.

[@metaphics]

Cosmic Egg is hilarious! I don’t see the egg synergies much, but who needs them?

[@alexthefae]

I think wizards needs to do dark souls crossover commander decks

[@hanschristopherson8056]

The GOAT is awesome lol

[@Syncopiia]

People laughed at my piggy deck. So I poured everything into it. Now they all fear the aporkalypse.

[@MegaGenguy]

Man, I'm just waiting for a proper 5c Myr commander. Brudiclad is good, but UR really limits what you can do with the tribe.

[@user-vg6sg7kh1q]

The secretary-general of the united planes for the advisor tribe. A 5 color advisor that would succeed to make all those advisor work together. there is a lot of good card but there are going in all direction

[@god_father_abe6229]

I think it would be hilarious if for a close quarters episode you guys made these commanders and played with them. Obviously the other 99 would be real cards but your commanders are these.

[@zemratsu]

I'd want a Gorilla commander that gives out the Rampage, mechanic. Rampage gives the creature +X/+X where X is the number of creatures blocking after the first. Haven't seen this mechanic in a very long time.

[@kwakerjak]

The egg commander has a really obvious problem; as soon as it transforms, the target player will almost certainly scoop in response, so you get NO mindslaver turns.

[@d.robinson6262]

Salty af to start the game knowing you're just gonna quit if you get targeted. It's part of the fun. "I own you now buddy, target this guy and hold nothing back."

[@maryanning5675]

@@d.robinson6262 "salty af" I sat down expecting to play magic, not have someone else play my deck with me sitting there. You hit me with that egg and I will give you my chair and expect you to come over here and play my deck while I go grab lunch.

[@myramedchan4775]

The cosmic egg would be kinda cool with cards that make copies of permanents when they enter

[@alexfurler9606]

1. I blame Eddie... Thank you Eddie. 2. I'm making the GOAT! 3. WE NEED "EYE" TRIBAL!

[@andrewbradshaw3510]

I think I would put the Cosmic Egg with Kenrith, the Returned King. Being 5c there are ways to get around the max hand size issue.

[@MrJoakyfran]

To make it a leech commander it should say "non leech creatures" Also, most Dauthi creatures already gave shadow, so it would be better if it said something like "creatures with shadow can block as thought they didn't have shadow" Edit: and with that goat at the end... Yeah, this wasn't a tribal episode, just custom commander episode.

[@whaleofdarkness]

Xinqux is incredibly strong with Meishin the Mind Cage. Depending on your hand size you can gain of all creatures on the battlefield because you can just sacrifice 0 starfish to gain control of a creature with power 0 or less. Maybe it should be sacrifice "X+1 starfish"? Because gaining control of all 0 powered creatures without cost can be incredibly busted.

[@docterfantazmo]

Okay, GOAT is actually awesome, I'd play the shizz outta that.

[@unboundjackal]

Technically each tribe does have a commander, it's called morophon since he's every creature type🤷🏾‍♂️🤣

[@rickandhews2690]

in command fest chicago i played eddie and he stole my mana doubler and cast the biggest finaly of revelation ive ever seen so i def BLAME EDDIE!

[@Oopsall]

That egg commander does not sound fun to play against at all. Once it flips you just lose the game, so there's not point in not just conceding right then and there. Its cheap initial cost combined with those effects is just kind of annoying.

[@Kirbybass93]

Can i get a bant turtle tribe or a jeskai viking tribal would be super fun to build

[@markomalmi7989]

Looking for a pig king? I raise you Technoblade

[@mrpinguimninja]

Zakottts is the commander I've been looking for for my shadow tribal idea

[@starmanda88]

Absolutely LOVE the starfish!

[@marcuswillbrandt5901]

What kind of commander are we talking about? Just a good legendary creature to build around or one with true tribal synergies? Demons and Horrors for instance lack a commander with tribal synergies as far as I know despite having loads of cards. Anyway, my favourites would be Phoenix, Myr and Nightmare, something uniting the Eldrazi or Phyrexia would be nice, too.

[@drpibisback7680]

Morophon seems to have been WOTC'S "stop asking us to make commanders for obscure tribes" haymaker, that's arguably the ultimate tribal commander if all you want is a support card for your underrepresented tribe that also gets pumped by tribal anthems. As for Demons, I feel like the lack of "demons matter" synergies between extant demons and the fact that they're pretty much all giant finishers makes the ideal deck and commander for them a Shadowborn Apostles deck. If you go Mono-Black, Taborax or whatever his name is would be both a Demon and synergistic with that deck's plan to cast lots of Shadowborn Apostles and sacrifice them to get big demons. With Morophon around, tribal commanders really need to both be decent legends from their tribe and have synergy with the existing cards in those tribes.

[@LicensedGrapppler]

I’m still waiting for crab tribal. I need it.

[@AspelShuyin]

Why is a Leech WUBRG?

[@Hammythepig93]

Starfish is not blue/black? the only starfish printed are blue/black :(

[@RichJMoneyTV]

Blue feels weird for pigs. Red/Green fit right in, and I know you want flying pigs, but you can just make a tribal enchantment that makes them dragon pigs and gain flying.

[@RichJMoneyTV]

Goats should automatically attack each turn because they are "Goated"

[@markusberwald1196]

Nice

[@TitusX17]

And now it's time for the Golden Pig of the deck... Golden Pig. Golden Pig is 2/2 Pig Artifact Creature for (4) and has whenever a Pig enters the Battlefield under your control, create a Gold Token. But that's not all, because we can also pay (2) and (tap) to sacrifice a Gold Token and draw a card

[@Troopergreen818]

Assault formation, or Arcades, the Strategist and cosmic egg sounds kinda nasty tbh. Boosting an egg to be able to attack and be nearly impossible to remove.

[@10freekie2]

I LOVE that egg card!!

[@whaleofdarkness]

Takots is the perfect commander for Stronghold Overseer. It's a pity that Stronghold Overseer isn't legendary itself because it would be a great commander as well.

[@wollacola9926]

Xinqux, the Starfish Lord should be grixis so you can have sinister starfish in the deck.

[@loorky2126]

id probably try to ritual out Ogmeok because no matter what your gonna have to sac your stuff anyway so you don't care about the card disadvantage :D

[@marioortizveliz5221]

As a Naya exclusive commander player, I may say that I fell in love with that Goat commander, I need that commander in my life , wat a g8 idea, I need that mtg spy satellite that record every single idea in the globe , check this commander , ohh man .... I'll b thinking in the cards combos combinations, maybe voltron+ stacks ..... did I mention that I loved it and I need it ? thxs for this video ... (imagine an animation of this commander and every single creature in the deck cheering up to THE GOAT ) ahhahaha

[@christ9808]

i love the idea of a Shadow commander but it should be UBW. And Phyerxian Splicer can help the deck

[@dyjost]

dauthi overlord goes into the 99. it becomes a combat trick similar to overrun but in black. what's this? you have blockers for my army of infect/voltron commander/horde of zombies whatever, well, now they all have shadow, good luck blocking your doom

[@gabrij12]

the egg isnt centered about the tribe tho

[@southernxsouth4729]

Shouldn’t Curse of the Cosmos be gold?