WHO'S THE BEST ONE COLOR COMMANDER IN cEDH ROUND 2 - Play to Win

We've tried to find the best one color commander in cEDH before, but we were inconclusive. Strap in for a LONG match.
WE HAVE
Heliod - A creature focused stax deck that attempts to maximize interaction and finish with a few one card combos. www.moxfield.com/decks/qTHHbx...
Naru Meha - This draw-go control deck looks to control the board until it can find a win involving ghostly flicker.
www.moxfield.com/decks/Xcz5m6...
Yawgmoth -A Control/Combo deck that looks to clear the board of creature's for it's draw engine, until it can turn that into an infinite loop.
tappedout.net/mtg-decks/yawgs...
Selvala - This is a fast, storm deck, that looks to achieve infinite mana, ending on some kind of recursion loop, or a big finale of devastation
www.moxfield.com/decks/PQPz_K...
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[@enderalex300]

This is a good format for EDH. I like playingwithpower and mtgmuddstah, but it's nice to hear everyone interacting with each other. While still being edited down so there isn't long gaps where people are just shuffling or thinking through lines and there isn't much happening. Plus, having the occasional cut-in to talk about misplays or what their intended move was, etc. is also nice too since it helps add context to decisions y'all are making. Subbed.

[@natebeal18]

It's the same format, but I get what you are saying

[@loganmoses9981]

@@natebeal18 I think he meant video format, not format like edh, modern, etc

[@zer0cx110]

Well duhh.. it’s edited to so that we do t have to watch them make decisions lol..

[@FalloutFan011]

I say DAYUM my guy! I truly couldn't have said it better myself! These guys rock!

[@Arosium]

said what we were all thinking

[@PlayingWithPowerMTG]

Fantastic as always! Loved the video and the music. I definitely felt that first song. It felt like Yawgmoths anthem.

[@xavier.mauricio]

It took me so long to understand how he was able to cast so many creatures in response to the Ambience. Emergence Zone goes brrr

[@BackyardRonin]

I love how fast paced this is but it also has time for the occasional “this is what I was going to do” or the “this is how I fucked up”. Really enjoyable to hear everyone’s thoughts in a compact method. You earned yourself a sub

[@NewSchoolPOKERstrat]

Isn’t it crazy to think that only a couple years ago anticipate was a reasonable card to play in low color..,well, realistically one color cedh decks? Even dark confidant sees almost no play these days and snap caster mage is generally not good enough. Crazy to think of all the powerhouse cards that aren’t good enough today and that anticipate was in a decklist just two years ago. I don’t even know if impulse sees play in any deck these days.. prob not right? But anticipate! Wow The power creep is real

[@franciscojose6512]

don't fret about the missplays, I think that one of the main appeals of this channel is how casual it feels

[@richardanderson9092]

Commentary was great this week. Super high energy while also adding to understanding of the game. Well done guys.

[@jebrooks]

The Game Knights of cEDH

[@orsettomorbido]

But actual PROPER commentary instead of buffoonery.

[@mgarratt101]

@@orsettomorbido Jimmy "I play an island on turn 1, this is great because my deck is blue and it allows me to fix my mana right away, I'm off to a great start" jokes aside, it's what turned me off their channel.

[@Summoningz]

Michael Garratt that’s a great way to explain for super new players/players who’ve never heard about magic to kinda keep up with the game and the player’s logic.

[@mgarratt101]

@@Summoningz it is, but their earlier videos never did that, over time its increased in the amount of talking they do, it'll get to the point where there is a cutscene after every single play, it becomes quite annoying for players who know what's going on.

[@vitorzelao]

@@mgarratt101 i've stopped watching them after i saw josh play at a starcity event on twitch. he was winnig pretty hard and got focused because otherwise he would have killed the one by one he tried to use his politcs but he failed because he was winning and he got very salty towards the table making unnecessary comments about it was unfair that he got focused. so after that i never watched a video from them again.

[@aagameac]

29:14 magical force of will being cast on gary when nobody could cast non-creature spells that turn (ranger captain of eos)

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

...ive been robbed...

[@aagameac]

@@PlaytoWinMTG ive had a yawgmoth deck since he basically came out. it hurt me irl seeing it. wife called the ambulance. they said it was a severe case of archenemy. if you play the deck focusing more on -1/-1 counter control (dusk urchins, necroskitter, black sun zenith) and add in some burn (bloodchief ascension, ayara, kokopuffs/kokosho) -- you would smash the other decks on the table lol

[@_OldWorldCharm_]

Do you have your yawgmoth list to share?

[@vitorzelao]

@@aagameac monoblack always gets focused, even if our board state is not great

[@JohnDoe-df7bl]

@@vitorzelao I thought that was mono blue.

[@Fudgefox]

Dylan looks like James Franco. Keep up the good work.

[@conversations1250]

Dylan looks like a lot of people.

[@alexanderkoval1481]

Great content as usual, guys; these matches were amazing! All the colors really got to do what they do best. These matches felt like, as Cam said: "How Magic was designed to be played." And a shout out to my favorite card, Intuition! It requires so much thought to use correctly and forces the opponent to really consider the lines that are available given the three cards that are tutored up. Game 2 showed so well that sometimes there isn't really a "right" choice, and that the choice itself comes down to...intuition.

[@gxantor]

Doesn't Necropotence exile discarded cards? Also love emergence zone.

[@d9_1056]

It exiles. Big yikes when I saw him lay them out in the graveyard.

[@franciscop631]

It does, dylan just doesnt like the exile zone so he dont exile things

[@alexgillard7886]

Never mattered anyway. BROSTORM

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Oh yesssss I even mentioned that off camera and then just like completely forgot? In my brain I exiled them

[@d9_1056]

@@PlaytoWinMTG shit happens

[@byrdmanak4630]

Recently stumbled across you guys within the last couple days. Easily my favorite EDH channel since the Laboratory Maniacs ghosted.

[@louiecrios]

My favorite cEDH content yet, just spent the second half of my road trip binging on your videos. Makes me wanna cash out the equity on my house and step up from casual to winning

[@WHITEKNIGHT95]

Been looking to get into cedh and i like that yall play multiple games so i can see how the interactions work. You got a sub from me

[@RenderGolem]

I've always been a commander 'purist' and maintained that it should be casual, but these videos have really opened up my eyes. I guess I was just mad about people not having the Rule 0 conversation about power levels. Either way, I love these videos and the personalities that shine through. Great work on the decks and making CEDH something that's accessible even to players who used to treat it as a dirty word. Thanks guys

[@Ubermunki3]

Heliod cheating that whole second game. Also give him spellseeker so he has to pay 2 for the etb

[@nicholas8739]

He wouldn't have needed to pay 2 on ETB. He had enough mana to cast it that turn and he already paid for Leonin Arbiter which lasts the entire turn

[@Hitzel]

19:04 I'm pretty sure a land wasn't played for turn here, so the forest sent back to hand could be played to acquire that additional 1 green mana needed to go infinite?

[@willzang3000]

you guys frickin rock love ur energie love tyler love the editing and etc etc been binging all the vids x

[@allenamatuccio463]

It's not just mono decks, I use emergence zone in my gitrog which allows me to go off at instant speed no matter what.

[@hooliganking2659]

allen amatuccio same one Korvold Food Chain

[@geoffreygarfein9169]

This looked like a blast to be a part of! Great vid my Bois!

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Thanks!!

[@Haustinj]

Got my tokens today. They’re awesome. Thank you guys for supporting a great cause!

[@mattdennis6845]

Not seeing my boy godo :( I'd argue he's better than heliod stacks as everyone has to hold interaction for his turn every time or risk losing at early as turn 2.

[@Yoyoswagster24]

Love seeing my boy The YawgFather get some shine. Great games!🤙🏻

[@rich8156]

Love the channel. Can’t get enough of the great content.

[@NukTheBabies]

I've been waiting patiently to see Yawgmoth on an episode. You guys never disappoint

[@kellyperry5009]

Another great video, I love the variety of decks!

[@istarilight]

On the first game, Force of Despair did not actually stop the win. He could bounce all his creatures back to his hand with Sabertooth, re-cast them, and re-cycle Finale to give them haste and still win so.. That was a solid Selvala win.

[@ergon1798]

He could force of despair in combat.

[@noahmurtha4036]

I do love emergence zone. This showcased the card perfectly. I play it in a lot of decks tbh

[@oddball_covers]

Dude cam has the most contagious laugher.

[@safertobeanonymous2224]

Heliod’s hatebear deck had the most influence but never felt like it was ever close to going off.

[@FrancisSalois]

Really love your videos ! Please continue (small remark, adding name to people section could be usefull to follow some stack interaction)

[@thane240]

Deck techs, more cedh and in depth cedh alts in a more affordable fashion would be awesome. I love the content and enjoy the gameplay. Inclusive of all the misplays as well 😅 I look forward to all the videos

[@tyranozaur_flex9933]

Thank you for the long video, this is what I want to see here. xD

[@TacticsTom54]

I learned alot from this video guys . Thanks .

[@Wiggly-T]

Love the video, fun to see a bit of mix of decks from the usual 4c-piles. Just one note, necropotence exiles the cards that you discard, not that it's a big deal, but it could be.

[@drachir7146]

A 2021 look at the best mono colored lists would be spicy especially with Ashaya being a super nice mono green deck with an absurd amount of combos

[@austin874]

You guys are awesome, I love your content. I run a selvala deck as well so it’s fun to see.

[@justinclark8238]

I live for the finger guns man haha! Great video guys

[@alexchowin]

i love yawgmoth!!! thanks for recording, editing and commentating this awesome match!

[@orgazmo686971]

Without watching it yet, I'm pretty sure the answer will always be the green one. Autumn Willow could take down any of those scrub colors.

[@calebhall5927]

For a visit to two color decks again I would really like to see a Winota stacks deck since there are so many good human targets like Thalia, magus of the moon, drannith magistrate, etc. A good hard lock could be Uba mask/possibility storm+drannith magistrate which as an added bonus you can dig for with winota. The main issue is the opening hand has to be pretty specific with wanting to play a stacks piece on turns one and two while also playing non-humans to trigger winota on hopefully turns 3-4.

[@chachi_arcola]

That Yawgmoth deck has a massive amount of moving parts...I can't imagine it being very enjoyable to play or to play against. Hats off to you for keeping track of it as well as you did

[@andrevpedro]

I play Yawgmoth and never played against it. So i can only talk about my end. Honestly? The deck is a blast to play. It can be a bit frustrating if you get too many hate pieces against you, but since is a deck with no garanteed "i win" since you pretty much need 3 to 4 pieces in the board that can be interacted with. Aside from that most tables i go as Yawgmoth it's almost a Archenemy because people know that your life is your most valuable resource, and that if not interacted you have many tutors and draw, so you will grind the way to victory.

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Definitely seems like a deck that’s rewarding to play the more you pilot it

[@elvisleong6358]

I very recently built selvy simply cus I pulled her from a jmp pack and boy, what an absolutely wild deck. This deck is actually hilarious to watch.

[@jeffreysmall1087]

Watched this again. I think they are super fun and you should revisit this.

[@CommanderMechanic]

That intuition pick is a tricky one. That might have been a moment where I'd ask the rest of the table about available interaction, since you're in a choose-and-lose scenario.

[@wilfulbuckle13]

I feel intuition and the like should be at least discussed.

[@denniskehl9820]

love your content. keep it up boyz. just one note: cards you discard, while controling necropotence actually are getting exiled. love you

[@snappopboombag]

Dylan low key looking like a snack. There I said it.

[@THEmicflurry]

Thank y’all so much for that! We had Richies birthday party yesterday. This meant a lot from all his friends.

[@categorygrp]

I’m pretty sure there was a misplay somewhere in this video. Still my favorite channel ❤️

[@GamerdevilPro]

Pretty fun games even though there were quite a bunch of small mistakes like the leonin arbiter one (idk if any other mistake had an actual impact). Emergence zone looked really good in that one game. 15:24 Spellseeker doesn't get exiled there because Samurai of the Pale Curtain says "permanent". Spellseeker never was a permanent since it wasn't on the battlefield. (The same mistake happened around minute 18:00). Samurai of the Pale Curtain isn't bad for a Kamigawa card but it ain't a Rest in Peace :D

[@landonhohgrefe3807]

Great video guys! I do wish that the life totals were a little bit more visible though.

[@darlucian7467]

Yawgmoth didn't exile to Necro! Drove me insane when I seen it

[@aeolus7762]

8 months later, still the video I will always come back to, for both shenanigans, and watching Dylan try and try to make that combo hurry the hell up!

[@esrohm6460]

A stax deck helps a draw go deck who would off guessed. And rule of law counterspells is just soooo good to the point that the stax deck probably has to consider even playing it and leaving itself up to getting countered every spell of relevance without being able to fight back.

[@ufcknockouts07]

You guys are good at magic. I like.

[@RoomateNSNL]

Great video. I think I give spell seeker, cause it is the most mana investment of the cards. I liked the decks, who would be the mono red commander, goto or someone else?

[@AnExercisInThought]

I think Godo, Urza, and Yisan weren't included for a few reasons. A deck with a huge reaction package would be required to keep that table in check in the 4th slot. Trying to keep to different colors in each slot leaves W or Bl. I'm thinking Yisan's win favor goes up with Heliod stacks due to being able to play through a chunk of stacks pieces and Yawgmoth tips scales away from Yisan, a little towards Godo, and Heavily towards Urza. I think if you are playing to win and want a comparable win rate, you can't include those decks.

[@godtiermtg]

Great video, but don’t forget to exile your day’s undoing when you cast it on your own turn. (It’s in the reminder text)

[@Facebreaker500]

I know this is an old video, but early in the game, when the person with nerco discard his card he was suppose to exile them as well

[@Highwang]

13:52 as a dedicated Yawg player myself, I understand the exquisite pain of The House > Swamp on Top after land drop.

[@johnnygardner4509]

i'm only to the 10 minute mark and i found cheatcount 2 on cam. G1 didn't pay thalia tax on carpet. which allowed him to follow up with a mana dork, G2 activated his castle for 6 mana, 1 was used to activate selvala which is allowed, the other 5 shouldn't of been allowed to filter into tooth and nail and pay tax. I tried slowing that down I could be wrong but it's what it looks like

[@mella4376]

Bit of a bummer to see Naru Meha submarine her way to a win twice in a row by mostly sitting back and tutoring combo pieces but I guess that's what you get when Selvala threatens to go off every other turn and the other two focus her down for her sins. That said, great video as usual!

[@VzDeath]

During the first game Dylan also didn't exile the cards he discarded the turn he played necro

[@kevinsimmons5343]

Naru!!! Love it, great video

[@darbymckilkannoncaid3279]

I find the dissolve effect on tutored cards to be a really nice touch

[@modernpostsoul]

Putrid imp, wingrattle scarecrow, lesser manticore, and metallic mimic naming one of those. Mindslicer to get everyone to top-deck mode since youll be drawing cards.

[@PiroMunkie]

Maybe I'm just being a bit of a pedantic purist, but while I understand why some would call Selvala a "storm" deck, it pretty much relies on setting up infinite mana loop and you can literally do whatever you want once you have infinite mana. It plays a lot like storm up until the loop, but once the loop is in place your opponents can basically just scoop. To me storm traditionally is using finite resources to sort of rube-goldberg your way through many different spells and activations before landing on your win-condition. There should always be a chance you might fizzle even without disruption.

[@thestrugglingchef30]

What's a guy gotta do to get a playlist of all the background music, probably my favorite chill time music.

[@jokersjacket3174]

The amount of sadness placed on the stack when he nature's claimed the Grim monolith lol

[@danwilson9522]

As much as I want Mono-White to be viable, I think it sadly isn't though Heliod does have it come close. Curious if Godo over it would've led to so more interesting games but these were still great. Keep up the great work guys.

[@thetimebinder]

Teshar and Oswald

[@Hawkland]

It didnt end up mattering but when you discarded the cards to necro they should be exiled. Great series

[@fuckthis7508]

Any chance I could get the name for the song that starts at 14:30?

[@TripleDotZ]

Great content as always! Play K'rrik as commander next please =D

[@nathanwallenstein8512]

Is the background song after plaguecrafter the code lyoko xana attack theme?

[@jonasfischer7403]

One mistake by Yawgmoth: When you target a creature with the -1/-1 ability and that creature is removed before the ability resolved it will fisel and you don't draw a card

[@aleksandarmarkovic7190]

17:40 should the selvala player discard 3? Isn't Alms collector a replacement effect?

[@coldadept]

Great content as always guys! However, I found a misplay. At second game, Turn 6, Cameron tried to play Eldritch Evolution, leaving 2 green floating. In response, there was a Path of Exile on Temur Sabertooth. Cameron paid to search for a land for Path with the 2 green floating, so he didn't have mana left to pay to search for Eldritch Evolution. I would have been better to use Castle to cast Temur Sabretooth and have more mana open with Selvala.

[@solarraine4902]

You only have to pay 2 to ignore the leonin arbiter for the rest of the turn. Not per search.

[@coldadept]

@@solarraine4902 You are right! My bad

[@ferventalchemist]

The QUEEN!

[@mordamen]

Hi there! I'd love to hear from you what you think the best mono-blue deck is! I was looking into it, and built Kefnet Turns but this Naru Meha deck looks super super cool!

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Who’s to say? Most would probably say urza. Depends on your play style

[@MekanikKommandoh88]

I think the consensus is Urza, but there are plenty of good Blue commanders. It’s such a strong color. Urza likely wins out because he solves the color’s biggest issue - ramp - while still retaining its control and card advantage.

[@greyaye8565]

17:43 I see that you say the discarded cards should be put into exile, but AFAIK Samurai of the Pale Curtain only puts permanents from the battlefield into exile as a replacement effect. It doesn't affect permanent cards, only permanents.

[@ravensenvy7422]

Can I ask why spellseeker was exiled off the intuition search on game 2? Also, super hard picks with that btw, I don’t see a good choice but I think the counter was the best against the combo pieces, you can always expect him to be able to draw counter magic anyway so might as well get rid of the more valued combo piece.

[@borislibaque1558]

Can you play Life's Legacy, a sorcery spell on the stack like that? Pretty sure only instants can be played while the stack is resolving, and that doesn't change just because its your turn. Any judges in the house?

[@comfortlord4070]

@10:18 I think he used garenberg to tooth and nail, even tho he did mention that last game he won that he wasn’t using it for no creature then

[@bjproduction100]

Should have a dryad arbor in selvala, you can green sun for it for only one mana

[@trveheimer6360]

i dont know way too much ressources on selvala in game two while blue has rhystic :D what a shocker he won

[@kakashihatakesan17]

necropotence doesen't allow those discarded cards to hit the graveyard, they are exiled, right?

[@anthonymarciano6050]

I like this alot

[@anthonymarciano6050]

Wish i knew people to play with

[@henryr5905]

You guys should do atraxa infect as an aggro deck because I think it would be easier to get to 10 infect than 0 life

[@LLBB1021]

Kozilek, The great distortion is best mono commander. =)

[@antoninjanku3358]

Is it possible to build naru meha on budget? She is probably the only blue commander I would be interested in

[@Kevmane_the_bird]

Reaaaaly late but for Samurai of the Pale Curtain, cards are only considered "Permanents" on the battlefield and when leaving the battlefield, in all other zones they're "Permanent *Cards*." (Or permanent spells if they're on the stack.) It's a small difference but an important one. As much as I wished it did for my Penny Dreadful sideboards, Samurai does not exile permanent cards when they are put into the graveyard from anywhere but the battlefield: so Permanent Cards that are discarded or entombed to make it to the graveyard. It's an anti eggs/ creature loop card, not universal graveyard hate for Permanents. That or MTGO is bugged, but it made sense when it was explained to me.

[@freya002YT]

Castle Garenbrig can only be used to cast creatures unless I missed something when he was casting sylvan library

[@kdnguyen80]

Was wondering if you guys will ever do a "Whose the best tribal commander in cEDH"?

[@partythenwork]

monogreen with selvala should be a lot more powerful now since they created ashaya which basically allows you to quickly go infinite with either quirion ranger and/or scryb ranger. just tooth or use survival of the fittest to fetch either and go infinite green mana with selvala in play.

[@hendrikf6137]

Samurai of the pale curtain exiles permanents (permanent cards from the battlefield) that would be put into a graveyard and not cards which would be put into the graveyard like RiP does.

[@TheJereBear]

wait, Lightning greaves cant be used to allow 2 creatures to attack with haste in the same turn though? Am I missing something? 16:28

[@MegaTrain]

Had to check the Oracle text to be sure, but in game 3 at 24:00 Invigorate only gives ONE opponent 3 life, not all opponents. Hard to say, but might have changed some of the math at the very end.

[@LookAtThatBrick]

Jam Citadel, rip a swamp off the top. Classic 💀

[@Disturbedelv121]

im not fully paying attention and to lazy to retrace, but during your long drawn out turn dillan when you did all the neg counters, wasn't the Naru Meha player silenced so your grey merchant shouldn't of been able to get forced?

[@yscg-4277]

It doesn’t affect much but isn’t land tax and leonin arbiter a non-bo?