Top 10 Unanswered Commander Cards

[@brandyourfan9244]

You forgot Smothering Tithe. It suffers all the same issues as Rhystic, but rarely gets denied value because of the steep cost. When I can't remove Rhystic or Tithe, I quickly turn to player removal.

[@AvidHerpetologist]

I didnt forget it, it was my 11th choice 😭 i knew someone would mention it lol but i think because of the steeper cost associated with it and people being less wklling to pay as a result it IS more likely to draw removal. Its also not something you can ignore like Rhystic, like i can cut back my spells cast each turn but i cant just not draw a card when my turn starts 😅

[@brandyourfan9244]

@@AvidHerpetologist That's fair. But I've seen too many games won by an ignored Tithe.

[@aptiryp2682]

Just yesterday i played against "Mystic Remora". It was Played on Round 2 and was really quick on my ... "Omg it need to be removed!" This card generates so much value, especially in the commander multiplayer setting. Think we need a 2. Video with Card 10-20th :D.

[@godmarkos]

I love “pick your poison” to wipe turn 1 and 2 mana rocks for 1 mana. Really slept on common cards.

[@cartercorcoran6622]

Great video. I can't believe you don't have a huge channel

[@AvidHerpetologist]

Thank you 😊 i probably dont post often enough to break into the algorythm lol this is just a fun hobby i do on the side while working full time! Been slowly building my technique with each vid 🙂

[@ComicaPaloozaStudios]

How to deal with Non-basic Lands without land destruction: Play Blood Moon (or Magus of the Moon, aka Blood Moon on legs) - now all Non-basic Lands are Basic Mountains. (Bonus Points if you have or can give your creatures Mountainwalk - if everyone has Mountains, because everyone runs non-basic lands, then no one can block them!)

[@AvidHerpetologist]

Easy there Satan, i wana remove the Gaeas Cradle not my opponents will to live 😂😂😂 Real talk though, a great low-impqct stax card that helps against turbo lands AND resident storm players is Damping Sphere. Super underated card impo

[@zackkelley2940]

I'm thinking most would PREFER the land destruction... just stick with stuff that can only target non-basics.

[@firestormingfox4169]

Thieving Skydiver is the best removal for a sol ring. (My Sen's Triplets deck has a secret win-con called "I steal everyones Sol Ring"...While this doesn't win games; it does give me a giggle.)

[@AvidHerpetologist]

Ngl ive had a Thieving Skydiver in my binder forever and havent found a home i wanted to put it in yet, maybe ill give it a try!

[@zackkelley2940]

There is also Thada Adel if you want to do so preemptively.

[@zackkelley2940]

The biggest problem with removing a Gaea's Cradle ISN'T removing it.... it's making sure it STAYS removed. Green is VERY good at getting lands back from the grave. White is ALSO fairly good at this with Sun Titan and similar effects. 1 for 1 land removal works well for black, red, and blue but considerably less so for decks running green or white.

[@monomanamaniac]

My favorite commander is a future sight effect. Galea Kindler of Hope has the better effect where you look at the top instead of reveal, and you can cast only equipment and auras. Top deck manipulation is key in that deck, and cards like the reality chip are awesome.

[@AvidHerpetologist]

I use Chip in my Kenessos sea monsters deck. I love that its a jellyfish lol

[@monomanamaniac]

@@AvidHerpetologist Galea can cast it off the top and cheat the equip cost. You can even use stuff like scroll rack to put equipment back on top of the library and then cast them and get to cheat the equip cost that way. You can even use stuff like Sylvan library and choose not to put equipment into your hand so they go back on top of the library. Then you get a cost reducer into play, then the sensei's divining top, and finally when the aetherflux reservoir hits the table everyone realizes it's been a combo deck the whole time (Galea gets massive very fast). The reality chip is making me want to take the sword of fire and ice out of the deck, it's that important.

[@AvidHerpetologist]

@monomanamaniac one of my favorite things to do in EDH is what I call "card pack" effects. Effects that for instance check the top x cards and let you cheat things into play, A La cards like Mayael. But im a Temur player through-and-through so one of the decks ive had together a good long while is Ghidorah (illuna, but im also a Godzilla fan) with a ton of those effects. Things like See the Unwritten, Selvala's Stampede, the Temur Ultimatum, so on and so forth. Scroll Rack is perfect for those kinds decks 👍

[@benturtl9076]

A really good future sight like card is elven chorus

[@zackkelley2940]

Best answers to a Necropotence... Flash in a Karn's Sylex, Angel of Jubilation, or Yasharn.^^ Angel of Jubilation also prevents sacing creatures, while Yasharn stops players from sacing anything that isn't a land.

[@AvidHerpetologist]

All good, but you gotta getem in play before the Necro resolves or they just draw in response :3

[@zackkelley2940]

@@AvidHerpetologist True. Half the reason Necropotence is so busted is because it's REALLY hard to answer without them getting at least some value off of it.

[@oscarguzman3017]

Augur of Autumn deserved an appearance alongside Future Sight. It might be one of the best versions of this effect.

[@AvidHerpetologist]

It really is, ive been playing Augur in a lot of my decks recently. There were just too many to include 😭

[@oscarguzman3017]

@@AvidHerpetologist I play it in my play queue mono green explorer deck on arena 😎

[@MrCenturion13]

Not a bad listen. I think you dig a bit deeper into the reasons for leaving these alone. I like that. Of course, the 800lb gorilla in the room is the conspicuously poor amount of interaction - read 'removal' - that most casual decks begin with. After running too few lands, this is the second hardest lesson in casual Commander. I'm glad you chose this topic.

[@AvidHerpetologist]

Its def one ive discussed with playgroups a ton before. I strive to be the guy at the table who has responses no matter what im playing, its exhausting sitting in fresh casual pods and hearing people complain about pretty low-power stuff just because they don't want to be bothered to pack ways to out them 😅 but hey, sometimes theres just nothing to be done 🤷‍♂️

[@MrCenturion13]

@AvidHerpetologist : the issue, from those I've talked to, is mainly a reluctance to dedicate slots in the deck to removal. They don't see them as contributing towards the deck's wincon. At all. But if you can get them over the pons asinorum of seeing lands that way, you can talk them into dedicating 8-10 slots to removal or other interaction.

[@monomanamaniac]

I will say, it's a lot easier to justify dealing with cards like these if that player is actively messing with me

[@gilbertlloyd8691]

once on the board senseis is hard to deal with. unless you rnning plit second removal its not going anywhere,

[@MrDabrain75]

Man. Enablers are so tricky. Like. You know they're setting up something. Do you hit the thing they use to set it up, or wait for the threat? Very context sensitive.

[@AvidHerpetologist]

For real dude.... some are definately more egregious than others but theyre all a headache lol

[@ToxicAtom]

I can tell you've put a lot of work into improving your editing skills, but I do think that some of the additional motion and sounds when text appears on-screen is a bit much visually, and ironically makes your video look cheap. It's all about finding the right balance, and how much motion is too much and too little for your use case.

[@AvidHerpetologist]

Thank you for the feedback! So the goal i set for myself with each video is to pick up something new, whether its an editing technique to make my life easier or something new i can add to spice the videos up. I was actually really hoping id get a comment on the sound effects because while editing in the back of my mind was exactly what you said, I wanted to liven the video up a bit but I wanted to make sure I didnt go overboard and make it feel like a High-school powerpoint presentation. I tried to dial the effects down to make sure they weren't too intrusive but if they still came off that way ill definately dial things back more in my next run 😊

[@ToxicAtom]

@@AvidHerpetologist In my opinion, the text scrolling into place like it was being typed was a perfect amount of motion, but the typing sound was just a little too much. All the header text swooping into place certainly has that high school powerpoint look to it, though. You talk about a game I like, and your delivery is fairly tight, so you certainly earned a sub from me on those grounds. Looking forward to see you improve.

[@FloydianTheory87]

It's pronounced Div-Eye-Ning, not Div-In-Ing. That bothered me a lot more than it should have.

[@AvidHerpetologist]

I hear it both ways often but my most common playgroup has always done Di-vin-ing, so that was what i defaulted to 😅

[@solarupdraft]

@@AvidHerpetologist the pronunciation police are gonna get you for that one nice video! in my experience green card draw enchantments like guardian project fly under the radar too

[@AvidHerpetologist]

@solarupdraft oh 100%! Im a massive Timmy in edh so i can confirm 😂 (do people still know the player archetypes? Idk lol)

[@Pariahmary]

Reminds me of a guy in hs that pronounced drawing as "drawling". I feel your pain bro

[@PALIGames]

I played a barrier breach against an enchantment deck and they asked who plays that card

[@WeasyMTG]

Back to Nature is a good one. I started outing it in decks on arena specifcally cause of shrine decks lol

[@zackkelley2940]

I like Tranquil Grove if I'm not playing a lot of enchantments myself. It's REPEATABLE enchantment removal ON an enchantment.^^

[@gilbertlloyd8691]

the new versions of future sight is far better. having 3 opponents see what you are getting next is a major disadvantage with the power creep of the past 4 years. no one fears it

[@N4chtigall]

i still don't understand why Rhystic Study isn't banned. It's the combination of the worst, most annoying things in the game and whats the worst it affects almost every interaction for the rest of the game. My only guess is that they didn't banned it yet because they don't want to make players mad since it's super popular card...

[@AvidHerpetologist]

Idk, I dont think its THAT egregious. There are a list of cards id like to see gone long before Rhystic. Start with Thassa's Oracle and Dockside and we can go from there 😅

[@SlimiestSlime]

​@@AvidHerpetologist are you an avid cedh player? Those are 2 of the most pivotal important pieces to the format. Yes they are ridiculously strong but are curated for a certain power level. Don't play against scrubs that play them in "casual" that shit doesn't exist

[@AvidHerpetologist]

@MrMargiritaMan i am in fact an avid cedh player, and would happily see both cards gone lol I get theyre big in the format, doesnt make the cards balanced. I think both are far more egregious than Paradox Engine was, and much easier to win with. Paradox had its own set of issues and im not upset its gone, but i would be happy to see Thoracle go at the bare minimum. Card is boring and mind-numbingly easy to win with.

[@SlimiestSlime]

@@AvidHerpetologist eh chain of smog witherbloom is a 4 mana combo for example. If they ban something it should be demonic consult. Then thassas is a 4 mana win at minimum lol. There's nothing special about it. And dockside needs manipulation to be crazy not a win con. Paradox engine was much more of a defining cedh card in it's time. Every deck was paradox engine or 2 mana win flash hulk

[@SlimiestSlime]

@@AvidHerpetologist also I never said they were balanced. I just said they are important cards to the cedh format. I could care less if they are banned or not. Just saying they have a place. Spellseeker inalla also a 4 mana combo. Tons of 4 mana combos in cedh

[@kunopumpernikkel215]

Due to my dislike of Sol Ring (and thus never ever run it), I target it as often as I am able to do so.

[@MrCenturion13]

I used to feel that way. It fits in some decks and is a wasted slot in others. I play the prettiest ones I can get, but otherwise, it's just another tool.

[@kunopumpernikkel215]

@@MrCenturion13 I find it too strong for my taste and it just feels as if so many decks just become 98 cards + commander + Sol Ring

[@MrCenturion13]

@kunopumpernikkel215 : Folks who just drop it in every deck are wasting slots. I use it iin my Boros deck and in my Absurdly Large Creature deck. When I see folks playing it as 'ramp' for a deck that really doesn't need it, I just smile.

[@kunopumpernikkel215]

@@MrCenturion13 I guess it does have a spot in some places - particularly janky decks that need all the help they can get.

[@gilbertlloyd8691]

everyone responds to rhystic when they can. lol no one lets it sit when they dont have to.

[@gilbertlloyd8691]

i try to destroy ishai on sight. >:-/ i hate that card.

[@braydenc1791]

Bro is straight up playing battlecruiser, find a new playgroup