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Lesser Known 1 Mana Commander Cards in Black: ruclips.net/video/QSdHmFe8sWk/видео.html
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"I've been spending a lot of time by myself recently" Haven't we all, Prof, haven't we all.
Clever way of making a joke about the situation without dating the video, really.
Sadly I've also given up paper magic for the duration of the current situation.
God i am dying to play edh but everyhting is shut down i wanna cry
lazyfigninja Indeed.
N A Yeah it's kind of pants. I thought I could get my friends to play EDH online over Cockatrice, but two of them hate Cockatrice so bad they'd rather film their actual decks with a webcam, and the last one doesn't have a physical deck.
@@veggiedragon1000 I found one that ain't too bad called untap.in, haven't done much on it but seems deece
Rebuff the Wicked is a 1-cost counterspell in white that protects your permanents. It's a few dollars, in the same camp as Reconnaissance, but you don't see it very often.
Came to post Rebuff too, it's a great counter for MonoW.
"Emerge Unscathed" is my favorite, it's essentially the same thing except for creatures only (protection from color of your choice, which is basically a counterspell), BUT it's got rebound also, which gives you double the value. You can "counter" your opponent's removal spell on their turn, then when it's your turn again, it gets recast, allowing you to choose the color of their blockers and get a free swing in! It's also more flexible in that you can chump block attacks that would normally kill your creature, keep it alive, and swing in the next turn. LOTS of combat shinanigans with Emerge Unscathed.
But... Reconnaissance is like, 10 bucks or so.
Yea the one mana protection spells essentially do this a little better, still good though
@@ferdithetank7535 It's 6 at starcity so less elsewhere
Spirit Link - "Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life." Sure, getting double lifelink ain't too shabby, but I prefer giving this to an opponent's creature to essentially negate it's attacks on you whilst healing you by attacking anyone else, delicious.
In my meta, I run across an izzet Niv combo deck, I loooove putting that on the Niv and foiling their plan
Good on Crypt Rats as well
You stole my idea. I love this card
the opponent would gain the life, not a good idea helping them like that.
@@dungeonmasterforhire3817 not true. It says you. Not owner of the creature
Wait. Scapegoat doesn’t put four goat tokens on the field? 🤓
Do the baa baa baa, ba ba baaa
What is this yugioh lol
POT OF GREED!? WHAT DOES THAT DO?!
No, that would be 'Icatian Town' (no, seriously that is what the card does)
If you're playing commander you can run just as many scapegoats as you can in yugioh right now
Gryff's Boon is a solid card, using it on opponents stuff is a great idea
add a green flying hate to make that boon a curse
you can also use [pull from eternity] to take out adventuring cards from opponents exile
opponent exiled cards go into opponents graveyard.
@@dungeonmasterforhire3817 right, you can't recast w/ adventure if it's in graveyard instead of exile (that's the whole point)
wow that's a bizare, but awesome idea!
“*pun* PLEASE DONT TURN OFF THE VIDEO” had me cackling.
There’s a card no one has heard of called “land tax”. I know you don’t know this card but it is good trust me
Everyone knows this card ever since it's been reprinted in Battlebond tho. But yeah it's pretty good, although I prefer Weathered Wayfarer because it can tutor any land, not just plains.
@@Isolanporzellator Land tax can search for lands other than plains too, as long as they are basic lands ;) And it seaches for up to 3 cards, so while Wayfarer is nice for finding your combo pieces, land tax is great at thining out your library.
Another similar card that usually is underrated is weathered pathfinder a 1/1 that paying white and tapping let you to search for a land (any land) and put it on your hand if you control fewer lands than a opponent.
@@Isolanporzellator I just read your comment :P
lol ;)
Great video. I hope this is the beginning of a cycle of new videos. I would love to see your take on the other colors, especially black!
Yep! Going to cover all the colors!
Was really expecting to see Flickering Ward. The ability to give a creature protection then return it to your hand for whatever creature needs it next is very useful.
The fact that so many people are bringing up Flickering Ward tells me that it's not unknown or underplayed enough to make the list.
What I used to abuse flickering ward with was enchantresses so I was paying WW to draw X cards where X was the number of enchantress effects I controlled.
I'll admit I'm only here because RUclips cuts off the title before the part where it says it's about white.
Same
Omg the exact same
Yeah
More importantly than any of those commanders, Festival stops Annihilator triggers on Eldrazi, one of the most devastating and difficult to deal with mechanics in the game.
Chris Fellows Moment of Silence is good redundancy but only stops the next combat step, not all of them like Festival.
Words can not express how much I despise annihilator..might throw this card in a deck or two lol
Flickering Ward is basically like Benevolent Bodyguard but at sorcery speed. It has the benefits of being reusable if another color is more important, and can be salvaged by returning itself to your hand for cheap.
Flickering ward is even better in an enchantress build
"First off, we have wayfarer bauble"
That's not white, but still a good card :)
@@GamingBear_Q_E_D I mean, Artifact cards look white and white cards look yellow so.. :p
hello everyone and welcome to the commanders quarters my name is mitch glad to have you here
Go home Mitch, you're drunk!
@@GamingBear_Q_E_D True, though white is very good at retrieving little artifacts/eggs. :3
One of my favorite white instants ever....
Faith's Shield
Well I don't know if it's played a lot (have been out of the game for some time) but I've never seen it until i stumbled upon it when making a no creature deck, it's Inheritance, if a creature is put into the graveyard from play you may pay 3 to draw a card, its a n enchantment that costs 1 white and I have really been enjoying it during the play testing as fairly reliable card draw, people tend to leave it on the board for some reason there's always something more intimidating
It is underplayed. I stumbled upon this card a few months ago and run it in my mono-w angels tribal. I think there are just so many better card draws in other colors that you're hard pressed to put Inheritance in.
@@josephberger699 yeah and paying 3 mana is hard on a white deck unless you're playing green for ramp, but at that point you already have green for far better carddraw.
skullclamp is cheaper cmc and twice the effect.
In all of the years I have played commander, I have literally never ONCE seen anyone ever cast an "Ashes to Ashes" besides me. This card is absolutely incredible value in commander, and the downside, while undeniably still significant, is at least somewhat mitigated by the higher life totals in commander. I'm not claiming it is anywhere close to an auto include, especially at sorcery speed, but its certainly good enough that it doesn't deserve to literally never be cast by anyone I've ever met.
I love Ashes to Ashes. It's a swell.
I play ashes tô ashes!
I play pauper commander. Ashes to Ashes is in every PEDH black deck I've ever touched (Common in The Dark)
Nice, that's going in my wishlist for my Marchesa, the Black Rose deck for sure! Also, that 5th edition art is awesome.
Thank You for this. This card is guud. Will purchase.
Another of my favorite one mana white cards is Flickering Ward, definitely gives good color protection and being able to return it to your hand to save it or change the color is a good way to spend any extra mana lying around
Cool list! I'd only ever seen Reconnaissance and Gryff's Boon, the latter is in my Sram deck.
Try remove enchantments in Sram! It’s nuts
Great video edit with the stars, drawing the attention to the important text. Thank you for that.
I really like this video. With the exception of Reconnaissance, each card is unique and quite inexpensive. It draws new attention to things out there that hopefully keeps up deck diversity, play patterns, (hopefully) while not leading to crazy price spikes. Nice!
Not sure how popular it is but one of my favorite one white casts is Legion’s Landing. Got it in my Edgar deck. Great to get out an early token for damage/life/skullclamp
It is kind of a white ramp spell, I dig that card but still trying to figure out in wich deck I could fit it
I think a lot of people overlook that it is ramp for 1 mana in white. It’s the closest thing to a llanowar elf in white and has other things going on too. I ran it as a wincon in estrid the masked (infinite lifelink vampires and the fact that it is an enchantment doesn’t hurt).
A lesser known trick with reconnaissance involves first strike/double strike. When there's a creature with first strike or double strike in combat, the combat dmg steps basically is doubled so you deal the first strike dmg, then you get priority BEFORE the regular damage.
That means you get to do your first strike damage and remove it from combat before the opponents non-first strike creature gets to fight back. There are plenty of ways to abuse this. (I had a casual knight deck based around that, it gets a bit insane)
Can't wait for green to see how I can turn my Gargos deck into something that isn't trash with 32 hydras. :D
As if you would have trouble making green good in EDH, blue and green are by far the strongest colours :P
@@Yuzuki1337 ughh black says hello
Also to the main comment. Garcia shouldn't be built around hydras. Run instance that offer him protection and control the board with his fighting
Here's my $50 Gargos list for suggestions. I run a small number of Hydras and primarily focus on Gargos' triggered ability with lots of auras and cheap combat tricks. This deck has done a great job hanging with (and beating) much more expensive EDH decks. It contains lots of card draw, and the commander makes almost every instant spell a removal.
archidekt.com/decks/273747#Gargos,_$50_EDH
Also, here is the source article I used for a lot of my ideas. Tomer at MTGGoldfish put together an excellent Gargos deck tech. www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/budget-commander-gargos-vicious-watcher-25-50-100
@@ashra8281 please don't tell people how commanders "should" be built. Commander needs to keep being the format that admires creativity and encourage diversity.
Gargos makes 1 mana pumpspells really good, because he turns them into removal. Try Blossoming Defense, Ranger's Guile, Vines of Vastwood, Rancor, Spider Umbra, Snake Umbra, Primal Bellow, Invigorate, Berserk, Withstand Death and Viridescent Wisps (Choose 7-12 spells that you like, more is probably overkill). Elvish Fury is particularly nice because it's a pumpspell with buyback, which gives it great lategame value with Gargos. Whip Silk is an aura that can bounce itself, which can also be used to trigger Gargos multiple times. Hunter's Insight, Rishkar's Expertise and Soul's Majesty are great for card draw. Veil of Summer, Heroic Intervention, Nature's Claim, Krosan Grip, Beast Within and Song of the Dryads are good green disruption cards. Asceticism can regenerate Gargos and also gives your board blanket hexproof.
Get some equipments to protect Gargos like Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Magebane Armor (fight damage is noncombat damage) and Darksteel Plate (Since the pumpspells are a lot worse without him, it's important that Gargos sticks on the battlefield). Equipments that give lifelink like Loxodon Warhammer, Shadowspear and Basilisk Collar are great because they give you 8 life everytime Gargos fights. Grafted Exoskeleton is particularly nasty because it allows Gargos to oneshot players with 10 infect damage.
Other than that, the only thing Gargos really needs is a ton of ramp. Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, Fyndhorn Elves, Arbor Elf, Sol Ring, Wild Growth, Utopia Sprawl, Gaea's Touch, Extraplanar Lens, Caged Sun, The Great Henge; Nissa, Who Shakes the World; Selvala, Heart of the Wild; Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Nature's Lore and Skyshroud Claim are good examples. Gargos needs a lot of ramp, so save at least 10, probably closer to 15 card slots total for that.
For lands include Castle Garenbrig, Rogue's Passage; Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx; Arcane Lighthouse, Yavimaya Hollow, Ancient Tomb, Cavern of Souls and Gaea's Cradle, depending on your budget (Cavern and Cradle probably aren't worth it for most people, but Yavimaya Hollow would be fantastic because it synergizes so well with Gargos fighting trigger). Fill with forests until you have 36-39 lands (depending on how much ramp you run).
The decks main win condition would be commander damage or infect, maybe put in a handful of the best hydras, but no more than 10. If there are any card slots left, fill them with card draw like Sylvan Library or Harmonize, or with tutors like Green Sun's Zenith and Finale of Devastation.
Planar Guide. The poor man's creature only Teferi's Protection.
yeah, sad to see it didn't make the list, he's such a great card against combat deck/tokens and when playing blink
This card was one of the first to elicit the, "wait, what is that?" I ever played in commander. Solid card.
8:50 "lighting fast VCR repair" (Laughs in Mr. Plinkett)
My favourite EDH that I have built is a Rhys, the Redeemed that is entirely one mana spells. I am always impressed with what you can do with just one drops in a multiplayer game!
Great content! Addresses the constant struggle between cards that are good both early and late game. Looking forward to a cycle of these videos.
That opening "Whoah" was basically what my friends did to my mono White deck
@@cryosen Everytime
Very Nice Professor! I will look forward to the post of the other colors.
Thank you! Cheers!
My favourite interaction with Pull From Eternity is Imprint, smack their combo with Mimic Vat away, or perhaps my favourite, shutting down Extraplanar Lense ramp.
My favorite underplayed white one drop is Kami of False Hope.
It's a colour shifted Spore Frog!
It's really good in any reanimator deck that includes white, like a Teysa reanimator build, and Karador decks that try to lock their opponents out with Spore Frog can have another copy in their deck.
I found the card Equinox in my collection that be a good match with the other land enchantment card. Very strange old card that enchants a land and counters land destruction spells.
I was gonna type Mana Tithe but the Professor's mind reading has improved.
Prof on point. Love where the picks start. Great card!!
Thank you Prof. Seeing hidden gems that are off the main-stream are good to see occasionally. It encourages diversity in decks and gameplay.
Also, Change of Heart is a one mana card that is underplayed in commander.
I seriously thought this was a YuGiOh reference until I looked it up.
@@CrayonShed "LEGEND OF HEART"
Thats the good stuff Prof, how bout making this a series and going up the ladder in mana cost?
And here are some cards that fit the bill and I rarely see on play.
Claim the Firstborn is pretty nasty stuff, taking a Tymna or Thrasios for yourself (recent, but should be more widespread)
Burnt offering is something I don't see nearly enough
Clout of the Dominus is too specific but its pretty great for some URx commanders as it provides good protection for cheap.
Crack the Earth is just some nasty stuff and I love to recur it with the Eternal Witness loop (Dockside combo)
Despotic Scepter is pretty good stuff to get rid of plenty of problem Permanents? Can't flicker a demonic pact? To the grave it goes!
Storm World is pretty evil, and global, but too bad its in the reserved list.
Flickering Ward provides good protection and even repeated constellation triggers, or other kinds of casting triggers due to low cost and the possiblity of returning to your own hand
Hex Parasite simply messes with anything involving counters
Instill Energy is an amazing enchantment that provides haste and allows you to untap your creature one extra time during your turn, double priest of titania mana, or worse!
Library of Leng permits cards that you would discard (as effect, not cost) to be placed on top of your deck, and also sets a limitless hand size.
Limited Resources is pretty good for people to hate you!
Multani's Presence is a good way to refill if your control friends are causing too much trouble (although I'd recomend running other cards, this is somewhat cheap)
Need for Speed grants haste and is a good sac outlet for lands
One with nature grants ramp as combat damage is dealt (basic lands only)
Orochi leafcaller is a great mana filter, allows for some infinite combos as well
Crab umbra provides totem armor and untaps your creature as many times as you can pay
Thran turbine provides mana that cant be used to cast spells but can be filtered into abilities
Love these videos! Thousands of cards out there I would probably never hear about and now I can just add them to a favourites list - thanks prof!
Great list! Half of these need to go in my Alesha deck (which already includes pull from eternity.) Looking forward to completing the cycle.
Wait, was that the Professor wearing a Lightning Fast VCR shirt? Is this the crossover I never knew I wanted?
That image has confused me to no end....
I was wondering if I was the only one that noticed or cared!
IT BROKE NEW GROUND
THANK YOU!
We always knew the professor was a HackFraud (tm)
The cards I thought the prof was gonna say were: Orim’s Chant, Tithe, Steelshapers Gift, and that white instant that taps a creature but exiles it if you have metalcraft.
So I was wrong on all of those and got called out for thinking mana tithe. But I got worthy cause right.
Dispatch is the one you're thinking of
Freaky Jiki Thanks. I saw it later but yeah that cards pretty damn strong if you can consistently have metalcraft.
Thanks for the tips Prof!
I will definitely put a Pull from Eternity in my Sevinne deck.
As soon as I knew the topic I knew Reconnaissance was gonna be mentioned, it such a great card.
One that never quite makes my cut, but has a lot of potential, is Defensive Formation.
For one White: Rather than the attacking player, you assign the combat damage of each creature attacking you. You can divide that creature’s combat damage as you choose among any of the creatures blocking it.
In other words, sick of Craterhoof trampling over your board? Now YOU get to decide how the Trample damage is dealt. :P
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Glad you like them!
@@TolarianCommunityCollege btw my favorite 1 mana white card is Launch the Fleet. It reads, "This spell costs 1 more to cast for each target beyond the first. Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each gain "Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token that's tapped and attacking"
it's a game ender if you cast it for a final swing of the hammer. Thanks for replying Prof. Stay fresh homie 😆
I'd like to spotlight two cards that I quite fond of.
The first it Martyred Rusalka: it's a 1 mana, 1/1 spirit, that says- "W: Sacrifice a creature: Target creature can’t attack this turn." This has done work for me in my God-Eternal Oketra deck, and even saved some of my key creatures when my board was goaded one game (the rest of my board were tokens or had flying).
The second card is Dauntless Bodyguard: it's a 1 mana, 2/1 Human Knight, that says- "As Dauntless Bodyguard enters the battlefield, choose another creature you control.
Sacrifice Dauntless Bodyguard: The chosen creature gains indestructible until end of turn." This is great for protecting one of your key creatures, and as you've said in the video, white's many ways to bring back small creatures. (This one's in my Alesha, Who Smiles at Death deck)
I loved this video. I started playing around Lorwyn and don't often dig back through time for old cards so these we're very helpful. I would like to see under played UBRG and artifacts please :)
Thanks Professor, these days I feel like I be going crazy. It's good to see enjoyable content and honest plugs 😉
Fun fact (based on the second card on the list): there was a group of playtest basic lands that were consecrated versions of the basic land (“consecrated mountain,” “consecrated swamp,” etc.) that had the same effect as lands enchanted by consecrate land. They could not be enchanted or destroyed.
Thank you for continuing to put out content even though the world is on fire. I'm an essential worker so I personally have to get out but it's nice to return home to some much needed distraction. For my white one mana cards I'm going to say, "Rebuff the Wicked", "Porphyry Nodes", and "Silence".
A favorite of mine, espescially in sunforger decks, is Tithe, it can be found with sunforger and tutor up a mistveil plains, which can then be activated to put silver bullet sunforger targets back into the library for reuse.
I got 3, actually: Abu Ja'far, Alaborn Zealot, and Royal Sentry. These are cheap and amazing early game drops to deter players wanting to attack you since you can easily trade these or whatever fatty they're sending your way.
These cards are pretty bad... Would you play 1 mana deathtouch creatures in EDH? No, these are strict downgrades to something you wouldn't play beforehand. Outside of early game these cards do little to nothing against any well built/resilient deck, hence they are dead. < AKA BAD
8:10 Moment of Silence does the same thing here, if you want to double up.
The pleasure of finding underused gems. I felt that way about my mono green spike deck, back in the day. Pretty traditional spike deck that ran land heavy but I had a little more land destruction than you might expect, running 4 creeping molds, 4 wastelands and 4 winter's grasps. =)
Reconnaissance was one my favorite gems I discovered a while back. Bought four of them a while back, just for the playset, and put one in my Zur, the Enchanter deck.
oh man all those tempest era cards take me back to high school classics
Oh my my my, someone seems to be prone to show off again that the "Tolarian Community College" effect does exist in the secondary market and could swing strong.
Alessandro
So the alternative is...?
Content creators avoid talking about any card?
Anyway, this effect is even less prevalent during a global pandemic when people are hard up on cash. Go look at mtggoldfish, many cards are stagnating/tanking.
Lol these cards wont get expensive
@@congruity It's not a critique, don't take me wrong.
I just found funny that the Professor said proudly in one of the last few video that he was able to swing the market once or twice, and here we are with a TOP 10 commander underplayed card list.
Kami of False Hope! It's a colorshifted Spore Frog that can save you in a pinch and easily be reanimated in white.
8:00 i prefere "moment of silence".
Same effect but can be placed at anytime. Found it in lgs's foil binder for $0.50
“But it also gives you wings pleasedontturnthevideooff-“ you got me prof, that there did me a funny, by law I must thumbs up the video now
I see that the prof is still hip with the kids
I can connect to your starting words so much. Just happened to me yesterday.
Couldn't love you more right now, Prof!
Exceptional video! I really hope you'll do a video for the other colors 😃
Dude, this was great! Can't wait for green and black!
I feel like Inheritance is a notable card that should have been included, but lots of fun cards here! Thanks for the video, Prof.
Thanks for watching!
3 mana draw a card is already a terrible rate, add on another white pip, and a limitation/requirement on when it can be used... Pretty bad tbh
@@Jonathan-qk5ed see, but 3 mana to draw a card really builds in white, and especially in a color with so many answers, card draw is key.
Reconnaissance also pairs beautifully with Nessian Boar from Theros Beyond Death. It reads "All creatures able to block Nessian Boar must do so" getting the rest of your attackers past, it also reads "Whenever Nessian Boar becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller draws a card." So your opponent will be drawing cards, but you could potentially make them draw their backs out. Then before damage is dealt, remove it from combat.
One of my favorite 1 White Mana Instant: Valor Made Real. "Target creature can block any number of creatures this turn." Bonus points for great flavor text as well.
Oh wow, i'm actuall genuinely surprised. Most of these cards are unkown to me and I literally live on edhrec.com and have over 40 decks.
Congratulations, professor, a quality video indeed.
need to spend more time on scryfall ;). I'd come across like four of them researching a mono-white deck over the past few days
I'm quite sad I didnt see flickering ward on this list one of the best enchantment cards I've ever seen for 1 mana and a good way to abuse heroic triggers
Decent card, but abusing Heroic triggers is completely out of the picture since Heroic has little to no good cards...
Thanks for the list! Some cool cards for sure.
Could you make more videos on playing pauper, too? Trying to build a white pauper knight deck while this whole virus thing is going on.
Defensive Formation one white enchantment, "Instead of the attacking player, you choose how creatures attacking you deal combat damage.", great for Super Friends decks!
Defensive Formation offers no substantial benefit for a Superfriends strategy. Your opponent chooses which creatures attack which planeswalkers, and if they go unblocked, they'll deal their damage to planeswalkers they've attacked, with no opportunity for Defensive Formation to do anything. If you have a bunch of blockers, Defensive Formation could help somewhat, but then you've got a bunch of creatures AND a bunch of planeswalkers, which means you were winning anyway.
The main applications of Defensive Formation are...
1. Hosing trample. Note the rules behind trample. Defensive Formation effectively lets you pile all would-be trample damage onto your blocking creature.
2. Blocking with multiple creatures and spreading the damage so that the attacking creature can't kill them. For instance, I attack with a 4/4. You block with a 3/3 and a 1/3. You split the damage so each of your blockers takes 2 damage and survives. My attacker dies and I gain nothing.
3. Blocking with multiple creatures and piling all of the damage onto one of them so that only it dies. For instance, I attack with a 20/20. You block with a 1/1 and a 2/2 that has deathtouch. You'd like to keep your deathtouch creature, so you assign all 20 damage to your 1/1. 2/2 lives, and I just traded a 20/20 for a 1/1.
Of course, if your opponents are familiar with the card, they will avoid attacking into it until they can find some way to work around your defensive advantage.
Prof: im sure we've all experienced having our commanders Darksteel Mutationed
Also Prof: flashbacks to early game knights episode
Literally had to put a ninja trick to get It out XD
Healer's Hawk.
No, really.
Legit though
I know right? Storm Crow go home. Any aggro equipment deck needs this.
Great vid prof! I love these commander 1 drops!
I have one request. Can you make some of your videos feel more like I’m watching Tolarian Community College? Like I love the feel of Tolarian tutor or office hours or all that stuff. I want to feel like I just got to a lecture and you’re teaching a community college as opposed to just talking in your office. I don’t know how to do that though.
I was surprised Flickeringward isn’t on this list. I often see people across the table look at the card like fifty times whenever I bring it back to my hand too.
Love the Animal Crossing callout!
Just a heads up raycons are just overpriced and you can get very similar headphones for half the price.
I have recently returned to MTG. I played back when 4th edition came out. Your youtube page is one of the best sources for MTG hands down. I listen to this while walking the dogs because of how well presented it is. Its so fucking unique, I cant wait for the you next videos to come out. I hope you are doing well and cant wait to see your videos on the new set coming out here soon.
Gryff`s Boon is great!
Love giving my dog "Isamaru, Hound of Konda" wings.
If i remember correctly, there are one or two Totem Armor "aura`s" that only cost a single white mana as well!
Good Stuff :)
first?
I got the Raycons for my dad for christmas and he LOVES them! Great sponsorship prof, and great videos! Stay safe!
I really liked this list the creatures work so well with the knights from eos and that rebirth card from mystery boosters
The first thing that came to mind when I heard underplayed 1cmc white cards was Benevolent Bodyguard. Was not disappointed!
Great video! Thanks for the great tips and strategy ideas!
I don't know any spells that are rarely used, but I did find this video very informative since I'm making a new commander deck revolving around a creature coming out in Ikoria
Reconnaissance is an amazing card. Vigilance is often underrated in EDH and reconnaissance is basically upgraded Vigilance. I love it for just attack trigger attacks (like in Alesha to bring back Dark Confidant who you don't really want to attack with)
Good video prof!
Flickering Ward is honestly one of the best white cards ever. I run it in Sram, Senior Edificer for edh and play thingks like Sigil of the Empty Throne and Archon of Sun's Grace for tons of etbs with this card. Plus you can run things like Sigarda's Aid with this to get instant speed protection from color of your choice if a creature you care about would die. It is my favorite white card of all time. Highly underated.
Loving the Professor's Commander videos!
"Defensive formation" is a really good one that I don't see a lot of people running. It makes blocking a real headache
I’ve been enjoying Loyal Sentry in my white decks since its got pseudo death touch when blocking. But for some fun tricks, his ability to destroy the blocked creature resolves even if he leaves play without assigning combat damage. So if you play him in a deck like Chulane, you can use your general’s ability to bounce the sentry back to your hand before it takes damage, and then cast it again for that sweet draw and ramp.
Was looking through my cards for some of these, and found out I have a playset of Festival for some reason. Found some good alternatives for it though as well, Kami of False Hope and Moment of Silence.
I'm a big fan of Flickering Ward. One mana gives protection from any color, but more importantly, one mana returns it to your hand. This can save you from the card disadvantage inherent in auras by saving it from certain doom, and it can also be used to repeatedly trigger enchantress effects. I love tapping Serra's Sanctum for 7 and then playing Flickering Ward four times.
Whipsilk is a similar card in green, when you get to that list.
I know it costs 2 mana and not one, but Brave the Sands is a good white enchantment for any tribal deck. It gives all your creatures vigilance and allows them to block an additional creature each combat.
benevolent bodyguard is a perfect include in my aristocrats deck! thanks prof!
thanks for the ideas prof.
Reconnaissance is absolutely a card I know about and abuse the hell out of. I use it in tons of combat-oriented decks, particularly in ones that need attack triggers.
Dauntless Bodyguard and Student of Warfare do good work in my Knights tribal deck; I've used the former to help my commander dodge my own board wipes, which helps when you have a commander like Aryel. The latter is always a fun first-turn drop that you can invest into later to get something tougher.
Plz Prof.; make series for each color!
Also, thanks for that tip on the 2nd unofficial copy of *Teferi's Protection* called *Pull from Eternity* . That "Win at Life" deck just got a little bit closer....
I love the Raycon headphones I got by the way. Great recommendation. You never realize how annoying cords are until you get rid of them.