Top 10 Most Powerful Commanders 2024

[@Nathanael_Forlorn]

01:53​ #10 Kona, Rescue Beastie 05:42​ #9 Helga, Skittish Seer 10:49​ #8 Voja, Jaws of the Conclave 17:10​ #7 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary 21:37​ #6 Volgavoth, Harrower of Souls 25:28​ #5 Plagon, Lord of the Beach 31:32​ #4 The Necrobloom 36:09​ #3 Gitrog, Ravenous Ride 40:15​ #2 Stella Lee, Wild Card 43:18​ Honorable Mentions: 43:36 Bello, Bard of Brambles 43:53 Ygra, Eater of All 44:08 Ironman, Titan of Innovation 44:21 Melek, Reforged Researcher 44:42 Arna Kennerud, Skycaptain 45:09 Jolly Balloon Man 45:42 Leonardo da Vinci 46:10 Wise Mothman 46:30 Imskir Iron-Eater 46:49​ #1 Storm, Force of Nature

[@ragefultheunbreakabl]

this would be a fun commander clash! Top 4 vs each other

[@NezeruGaming]

Shoutout to Roxanne, Starfall Savant. Its such an elegantly designed commander that could be built in so many ways with ramp, burn, combo, artifacts, clones, etc.

[@davidrosenberg9615]

How clones? It's not in blue, so it's hard to clone.

[@SirGrimLockSmithVIII]

​​@@davidrosenberg9615 Red has temporary clones that sac themselves at the end of the turn.

[@AxillaryPower2]

I expected Baylen the Haymaker in the honerable mentions. Having mana, draw, and a wincon in the command zone is pretty nuts.

[@tomerabramovici32]

I might be underselling it. But like outside of Smothering Tithe I feel like it requires too much setup.

[@AxillaryPower2]

@tomerabramovici32 I was gold fishing a brew with Hare Apparent and was pretty easily winning before turn 6. That may be saying more about Hare Apparent than Baylen, but their combination is something that for sure needs to be responded to.

[@Zonalsteve]

@@AxillaryPower2folds easily to sweepers. Played against this deck to many times. They vomit their hands with rabbits couple of 3 mana sweeps and its over

[@AxillaryPower2]

​@@Zonalsteve Sure, but so do almost half the commanders in this top 10. And at least the build I was testing used 3 or 4 mass reanimation effects, since the hares and Baylen does everything else.

[@IamJoshEast]

@@tomerabramovici32to spit out tokens in naya? Low mana value creatures just spit out tokens incidentally these days. Seems like its actually really easy to set up, don’t even need your commander, its just pure power and value in the command zone

[@adambick9837]

Da Vinci is kinda cracked. The ability to cheat stuff into play while it keeping its mana value does some nutty stuff

[@caleblee3362]

Honestly really surprised to see no Zimone Mystery Unraveller, yeah she's from a precon but she does what Kona does while also giving you access to the Simic value engine

[@Dank_Meekzy]

Literally was about to say this myself. Upgraded the precon with 15-20 cards and it’s a steam roller. Just play hard into landfall and use the manifest to cheat massive creatures onto the battlefield. With ancient green warden and oko (trickster) you can triple landfall triggers and with cards like bristly bill, and mossborn hydra you can create million/million creatures in the span of a turn, especially if you use Azusa and aesi

[@rancidrance875]

Glad to see my boy Rakdos the Muscle make it on the honorable mentions, but you really don't want to be stealing your opponents stuff with it imo. It's far more powerful to target your own deck and dig for rituals and mana neutral or positive stuff that let's you dig even further, so you can go off and win with a combo or your insane value.

[@RunninOnYT]

Helga with mutate is pretty interesting. Migratory Greathorn just itself pumps her by one with the cast, them mutate on top to have her become 3/4 base so she's a 4/5 just like that. Should probably not make that the main way to buff her but a handful if them could be very interesting.

[@BloodMoonGo]

No Arabella?? That card is wrecking my entire meta

[@tomerabramovici32]

I've seen it pretty often but it never seems that oppressive? Worth mentioning though, it's quite popular

[@IamJoshEast]

@@tomerabramovici32was the criteria oppression? Its fast and the win is in the command zone

[@Fpl8646]

Huge skill issue if thats the case

[@Fpl8646]

He literally spoke about the commander’s weakness to removal as a factor

[@IamJoshEast]

@@Fpl8646thats almost every commanders issue

[@NattaNerNutta]

I expected Baylan and Cruelclaw on the list somewhere. Cruelclaw as an Eldrazi commander is crazy good

[@peeporiot9948]

Got lucky enough to get non-foil storm and built a deck based off Crim's mill deck. It's insane how much one swing and hit from her fundamentally changes the game

[@Lazydino59]

Yeah no matter how you build her she’s a high-power combo commander. Doesn’t matter you have a meme win con storm is storm

[@Dragon_Fyre]

CGB had a game to show what the new Marvel commanders could do on his channel and it wasn’t much of a showcase. Storm attacked and that was the game.

[@Vyse86]

Yeah it was so powerful I depowered all my other decks lmao. You know it's super powerful just reading it, but after playing just a couple games people realize it's completely cracked.

[@itsallenwow]

2018 Tomer: Dies to removal isn’t a real argument against a commander 2024 Tomer: Voja is inconsistent because dies to board wipe

[@PandaKnight-FightingDwagon]

Richard has corrupted him. But also, any commander who's dependent on you having a wide board state "loses" to a board wipe without even being on the field.

[@maguszanin5296]

I think it's less that it dies to a boardwipe and more that it demands a boardwipe. It's one thing to have a creature that someone may or may not feel the need to remove depending on how threatening it looks at the time. It's a totally different thing to have a commander that everyone absolutely wants to wipe it and every creature you have off the board every time it comes down.

[@tomerabramovici32]

@@maguszanin5296 that's exactly correct

[@imaginarymatter]

It's a 5 drop that requires an attack trigger and a board state.

[@bernabes8424]

The Elves and Wolves would die too. Almost like board wipes are the best answer to most things 🤔

[@patricklynch4074]

The problem with imskir is that its never as easy to cast for 2 as you think, it never draws quite as much as you think, and doesn't do as much damage as you think Just a bit below average across the board

[@Thoughtmage100]

My personal favorite Commander is Marvo, Deep Operative. Thank you MKM for giving me my clashing octopus boi.

[@ComanderNyan]

This year gave me a commander that let me fill that dredge shaped hole in my heart, while still giving me that landfall value engine. Necrobloom my beloved

[@PalPlays]

I built Abzan Séance with Kodama and Ravos. Junk Gang!

[@billdeng4770]

Rakdos the muscle is a broken commander. It basically says if I untap I win the game. It’s also seeing cedh play so I think it should be in the top10

[@itsafish8726]

Nadu not being an honorable mention... even if its banned and zimone with infinite combo built into precon

[@Shartinstyle]

The more vehicles come out the higher bello’s ceiling climbs, I expect aetherdrift to have some interesting additions, especially if they have add any vehicle buffs on enchantments

[@hamishbeadle4778]

One honourable mention you missed as I think it’s being massively slept on is Ozox he’s a not far off gravecrawler in the command zone. He’s absurd in the 99 especially Teysa Karlov, Honest Rustien and Ratadrabik. He’s such absurd value and can combo win very quickly

[@WiLDRAGE777]

I know Assasin's Creed was a bit of a meme set, but The Capitoline Triad is actually a pretty good colorless commander. It's an artifact shell with a bunch of looting, surveil and draw/sac artifacts. You only ever need to cast it once and, barring graveyard hate, every token maker in your deck will spew out 9/9s for the rest of the game. Back it up with manlands like Mishra's Factory, Mutavault, Inkmoth and Blinkmoth Nexus and it gets really hard to stop. Plus, it makes Threefold Thunderhulk a monster and who doesn't like Gnome armies.

[@Cnushba]

they're the first colorless edh deck I've built, colorless has gotten some really solid interaction the last few years, so it doesn't even feel like it's missing a ton from the other colors

[@coopster1630]

Plagon is actually insane for card draw, definitely cEDH worthy and has seen some top 16’s already I believe

[@covfefe5842]

When Crim wrecks y’all’s world on clash with Taii Wakeen, I hope you come back and edit her into this video.

[@RG-wv3gt]

Is that an upcoming episode? I'd be down to see taii on clash

[@covfefe5842]

@ I hope so, and Crim has been all about the prison-type cards lately, so I am projecting my dream. Taii is the dopest Boros commander in forever. The sniper headshot thing feels like a very Boros take on the burn archetype (more about military precision than indiscriminate destruction due to the influence of white). Wakeen is unbounded card draw in the command zone for just two mana while also being a game-winning outlet for tons of mana. Her ability doesn’t require the creature to die, so you can really go ham with something like Pyrohemia + a way to make a 1 toughness creature indestructible.

[@Alico_Reborn]

Necrobloom combos with any of the colorless or black cycle lands and Bonemiser. You can then win with Takenuma by grabbing back Walking Ballista. It is actually scarily consistent, and one of my favorite cEDH decks. It even is able to run the original Gitrog Monster and his package! You can also use other utility lands over and over again, especially the channel ones. Also, it is one of the few cEDH decks where you want to run more basics, as keeping from getting 7 different lands lets you use a built in skullclamp package for card draw to keep the deck going.

[@emiliorod6979]

Storm is very fun. So far my winning record with her is 4 out of 5. The best thing about her is the green getting her out faster than Narset.

[@marc-andregirard1728]

Alania, divergent storm is also very underrated. Having 3 copies per turn can cause massive havoc

[@erniem8862]

I expected Alexios from brotherhood to make the list. I got him out turn one and everyone died by turn 3. He very consistence too unless your friends run a ton of cheap removal

[@Forbiddenviper347]

The fact that jolly ballon man is even mentioned I’m happy

[@SterileSauce]

If you play a tuned Storm deck just play while I go to the bathroom and when I get back switch decks

[@calebreazin6385]

19:24 I feel like I never hear anyone say he also goes infinite with niv mizzet the firemind

[@justinmaynard8305]

Hmmm i played against storm many times and runs mostly dead cards so if the table agress to remove it a couple times it falls pretty flat as its just spinning its wheels and does nothing so yeah in casual its great in anything where ppl are playing with interaction hard to get past attack phase. She needs haste at least.

[@Synced_OW]

Love the list! It could be fun to have some more animations and maybe a break for some silence. It's like you're going 200mph the entire time...there aren't any breaks in the video. Hope for some more list like this!

[@brenomanali4350]

great video Tomer! just sad cause my little frog Flubs didnt make the cut :( people dont see his full potential

[@robbiestacks6386]

My votes would be for Niko and Vren. Niko is sneaky busted, once you have 6 shards there are so many way to just kill the table on the spot including Skyhunter Strike Force, Hero of Bladehold, Angel of Destiny, Silverwing Squadron, and combo off with Timestream Navigator. Sit back control and flicker Niko and you win out of nowhere. Vren just plays all the removal and quickly amasses a board of massive rat tokens. It also subtlety hates on any death triggers, aristocrat, and blink decks, because by executing your gameplay you just feed the Vren machine.

[@tomerabramovici32]

Vren is actually quite lethal yeah. Niko is scary but it requires a ton of setup, I've seen it get shut down too often.

[@robbiestacks6386]

@ I’m not sure what Niko builds you’re playing against but I have 6 shards by turn 5 all the time, or turn 4 if I have a rock. With early bounce creatures like Soulherder or Phelia, token doubler like Naban, and a ton of cheap flicker spells it’s quite common to play Niko and have 4 shards that turn, untap with a counter spell and blink spell so I’m totally protected, and I’m presenting lethal attack turn 5 or 6. Sure this is an ideal opening, but it has plenty of redundancy and happens quite frequently. Also the counters and blink make it quite difficult for opponents to disrupt.

[@AprilsMoon92]

I love playing Imskir, it’s one of my favorite decks. One of my other favorite decks is Storm, that deck is so fun and even one of my friends liked how ai built that deck and she doesn’t really care for the marvel cards

[@cody98533]

Glad leonardo is getting some attention love him!

[@stephenbradford8524]

Expecting this list to help me know which commanders to avoid. My more recent deck building philosophy is to avoid curbstomping. I’m… not doing well so far.

[@victormanjarinsala2253]

It's not just you. Imskir is amazing and I have a blast every time I play it. Quite underplayed imho.

[@PALIGames]

The "Git-Recked" Monster was one of my favorite go tos when everyone is playing spicy decks. It stomps and stomps hard.

[@vincentcoo2244]

Muerra, Trash Tactician is very underrated. It's one of my favorite deck.

[@karsten3brian]

Great video T!! You’re great

[@andyspendlove1019]

Geez, never realized how easy it is to go infinite with Stella and any spell that untap a her. That definitely seems like a whoopsie design on WotC’s part, where if they had restricted the tap ability to once each turn, she’d be a totally normal value commander.

[@liamw.1313]

The Necrobloom is actually a really good combo commander. It combos really well with a few different things such às og gitrog and a dißcard outlet, or cyçling lands and a wày to cyçle for free.

[@v1lly-GG]

I expected The Master of Keys to be on this list. Big cEDH contender that semi consistently wins on turn 4. It's not dead in the water if the game goes on for more turns either.

[@WkSplacc]

Ppl sleep on Niko

[@timothywynn1574]

How does the infinite ping with sellea work? I’m new and I’m not sure how copies work in it, but I thought you still have to pay the many cost to cast each copy?

[@maxeverblack]

Valgavoth is absolutely insane. I took it apart because it just wasn't fun, the table was growing in misery each turn cycle, & I play for fun not just to win.

[@Zoey587]

My favorite from this year was definitely Edward Kenway, I love pirate tribal and I love how it really pushes the theme of ships and treasures.

[@commiecommandermtg]

Commie Commander here, Fantastic list Tomer! I have a storm force of nature group hug deck and I don't mean group hugging the sense of like I'm actually trying to win or I just want to King make somebody no I made the deck specifically with single targeted spells that do things to help people but I have control over where they go so I get to make the decision or make the deal as to whether or not I want to give it to somebody. The deck itself could win a game from I suppose attacking but most of the spells are all focused around doing things like target player ramps there's not very many spells that do that but there are some there's also spells that I have that are like target player or any number of target players gain whatever life just a nice way to possibly keep somebody back in the game. I also have cards that are like I do this but the opponent gets to choose what happens or the opponent chooses something and then I pick one of their choices so I can politic based on what they do The entire deck is based around just existing whether I win or lose is irrelevant to me. One of the other spells that I love in there are the types that will be like target player looks at the top whatever cards of their library and put some back in any order or I can do it for me and an opponent chooses normally those would not be good cards but in this it makes exactly what I wanted to do If we need to solve a problem I'm basically the resource to bring parity back to the table. It's fun because it gives me a use for some of a jankiest instance and sorceries that the game has ever seen in a way that most people don't think to use it. In one of my first few games that I played with it I stormed off so hard that I ran my deck out of land That's how crazy it is it's ridiculous.

[@narvuntien]

Definately underratung Voja and overrating Niv. I think it is way easier to build a bad Niv deck than a bad Voja deck and that has all to do with how hard it is to ramp in UR. I think the Goldfish meta just has way too many boardwipes compared to the normal meta

[@StoicheiaSage]

I think Iron Man definitely deserved to be in here in a spot beyond an Honorable Mention. Artifacts are just broken, and giving them tutors and Treasures always breaks them. This is no exception.

[@pretty_fly_for_a_jeskai]

Ah, Voja. Tbh my hatred for absurd ward in general has me jamming the new Nowhere to Run from Duskmourn into as many decks as I can justify, but for Voja its just have the wrath.

[@discoviolenza1984]

That art on Plagon is cursed

[@TippettRugby]

Plagon in the top 5 and not even mentioning Arabella is wild

[@amiLli257]

Not sure why stella lee is so underrated. Not many ppl play her, but she can easily win turn 3, she's nuts

[@moosecampbell]

I just noticed Tomer down there 12 minutes in

[@nickatwork]

I was not expecting Plagon on this list

[@Zonalsteve]

Card draw is pretty insane makes sense

[@darylmcnaughton748]

lol i built a dragon's approach niv mizzet deck, havent gotten to play it yet

[@twhite9615]

Turn 2 Kona activation into Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant has never been beat.

[@JulioDRai]

Idk about giving new Niv an A rating for power floor, a commander that costs 6 mana and doesnt anything when played is pretty bad nowadays and also both Arabella and Baylen are way stronger than new Niv imo so I think they would have been much better 7th spot for this list.

[@aidenmajor8800]

In 1v1 on Arena’s Brawl Helga is definitely oppressive.

[@justinbeck2899]

Helga is my personal favorite!

[@abstractsymmetricity]

Roxanne Star Savant rinses a lot of these tbh. Valgavoth over Voja doesn't seem right.

[@Flyboy245]

There’s no way storm is a newer better narset. Otherwise cool list

[@IamJoshEast]

Smh at some of these ratings. 11 points for Voja is madness. This thing pops off all the time. One of the most consistent decks ive ever played against

[@DayOfCasual]

Turn 1 Kona in mono green with cards left in hand? Gemstone Cavern (-2), Chrome Mox (-2) and Mox Diamond (-2) and Forest (-1) IS LIKE A SINGLE CARD LEFT IN YOUR HAND. You can have Elvish Spirit Guide instead but that's like Magic Christmass land extreme, this is not an argument Tomer I am sorry.

[@michaelbrandmaier2336]

Niko is destroying everything in our playgroup. I think she is easy in top 10 of 2024.

[@onefightone]

surprised balloon man got a mention instead of arabella

[@IamJoshEast]

Voja losing to Niv is madness.

[@itsSmiv]

I feel like Zimone mystery unraveler is just a way better version of koma

[@ReiHost]

No Master of Keys or The Master, Transcendent? They're fringe cEDH right now but cEDH none the less.

[@Mubban]

Tomer you don't realise the explosiveness of necrobloom. There are many combos with the dredge 2, but the funniest is cultivator colossus since you can dredge lands back on the draw trigger, meaning you can put most of the deck into the graveyard and put most lands into play.

[@moosekage3858]

You took a massive L on the voja deck. And honestly even the Helga deck. There's SO many ways to protect from board wipes and in green, to ramp up to get "consistency" with your drops. And voja gives you effortless draw card. Plus elves are naturally extremely consistent as is. He's easily an S lol

[@FreeOfFantasy]

I think your power scale for this video needs a bit of work. If your B is mid tier in a top ten basically everything is A or S. It should be scaled such as that a honourable mention has at least one attribute at D.

[@Tyabann]

people are really sleeping on Bumbleflower

[@giovannishepard653]

Not even a shoutout for Zimone, Mystery Unraveler? She's a landfall deck in better colors than Necrobloom or Gitrog, she cheats in better permanents (Omniscience vs big beaters) more easily than Kona (play lands vs tapping and making it to second main), her ability works on every turn not just her own. Just feels like she's strictly better than at least 3 members of this list when comparing only apples to apples, not even saying whether her archetype is better than burn or whatever.

[@Nr4747]

I don't know if Voja is really all that powerful, he didn't even make the top 10 list of most powerful commanders of Murders at Karlov Manor in the Command Zone video.

[@lVideoWatcherl]

Frog Monster represent!

[@Kararch]

Is Kona, kaalia in green?

[@CouchtrollPodcastDS]

Stella, Loot and Master of keys were the 3 decks I made this year. Crim blew my mind on Clash and showed the potential of Loot. He definitely deserved to be at least mentioned

[@cedarsapling]

Storm featured but not Glarb? what is this?

[@ghostkill221]

For me? Altair is number 1. Zimone is number 2.

[@EDZ1LLA]

Nice to see the new Niv-Mizzet! I have a budget Ghyrson Starn ping/burn deck list which now has a whopping 4 Niv-Mizzets in it! Including a Sliv-Mizzet!

[@RonJohn551]

how do people wake up in the morning look themselves in the mirror and make the conscious decision to play spellslinger?

[@AJANI97]

I built Gitrog as a budget deck for under 100 Dollars but man when it goes off it’s easily Running Away with the game!

[@omnom673]

Do you have a list?

[@jackalvonstone250]

Guess we not talking about Nadu, due to the ban I guess

[@tomerabramovici32]

Yeah if it wasn't banned it would put it probably at #1 spot I think

[@RoachDoggggJR]

I mean, yeah, he's talking about commanders. Nadu can't be one

[@chillnerd3143]

Def shocked to not see Baylen and the Pride of Hull Clade mentioned at all. Good list.. Love the gitrog commander.

[@DAsrada]

Honestly, I played the Necrobloom in a 4 player game and everybody tried to gang up on me. I still came out on top due to Glacial Chasm. Basically, I could keep it up in their turns and dispose of it in mine. Before long I knocked one player after another out of the game.

[@fabianjackson8622]

I feel like black panther is B, B, S

[@BingbongRecto]

No Nadu?

[@vojtechvanek1686]

No Flubs? :D

[@tomerabramovici32]

Flubs is awful when unoptimized probably a D. Optimized it's strong, sees fringe cedh play maybe an A or S consistency very low too like a C. Not the best overall.

[@vojtechvanek1686]

@@tomerabramovici32 tru

[@MrGaiakid]

I refuse to believe Valgavoth belongs on this list, I have never won with nor seen anyone else on youtube win with him, the cards that make him work just makes everyone else at the table mad and makes you a target and dont protect you in any way

[@shanekelly9311]

No obeka, splitter of seconds, huh

[@olivierdebilde4292]

No simic commander hurray 🎉

[@GlaceonBM]

honestly bleak. the year of "kill my commander or lose instantly"

[@pierredupont1096]

Not really vibing with this podcast, but I appreciate Tomer's effort. EDH.rec isn't really helpful overall to EDH play, and neither is this constant need/FOMO for optimization. To the contrary, cranking down a deck's power level, making it a bit more clunky and fun is the vibe around here and we certainly would not be playing with someone with a turn 1 Koma or whatnot. Turns 15-20 with minimal interaction (Fogs are the tops, bsaically ) is the vibe. It would be nice if some form of Goldfish focused on casual, non-optimized play. I know Seth does and I'm grateful for that, with his Against th eOdds.

[@Zonalsteve]

Not lot of people care about low power jank. The majority care about mid. High power. Its the reason popular content creators focus on that in their videos primarily to get views

[@nolifeSnorlax]

Kona is just SO much worse than Lumra huh? #justiceforbears

[@ParfaxGaming]

Bro i can't sit through an hour of this

[@VinegarAndSaltedFries]

Tomer…please help Upgrade the 20 ways to win deck.

[@electromancer2645]

Everyone is still sleeping on Zimone, Paradox Sculptor I see

[@RowinMarkov]

Valgavoth better than Voja 😂? No way. Voja without the commander is still elfballing, Valgavoth without the commander is just a bunch of weak pingers and its way 3 easier to pay 2 life ward than it is for 3 mana. And ramping back into voja is... its elf ball, elves always got the mana.