How to Make Your Commander Decks STAND OUT
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2023
- Make your Commander decks MEMORABLE to play with and to play against! Leave people walking away going "WOW, that was cool!"
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Man, this Beyazé guy sure knows how to build a cool deck
Gotta love bizy’s decks what a guy
that sounds fancy
I thought his name was Zybee
It's BC actually
Beazy is such a tremendous deck builder.
I bought a 13,000 card collection of mostly bulk. I took out all the worst and most convoluted cards and built a deck out of them and play it unsleeved. I keep the commander in plastic wrap with “my commander” written on it. It’s hilariously to play because everyone has to read every card I play because no one has ever seen them before.
A deck of all foil cards is also a way to stand out. You'll be the only one with a deck that doesn't lay flat on the table. Bonus points if you get a Pringles sponsorship.
Mia is such a great new host. Loved cherries but I she synergizes so well with Bjeze I am glad they found each other
what happened with joe?
@@Celadil ruclips.net/video/2f3bCDbdKwA/видео.html the explanation is here, tl;dr creative differences, beezy and joe are still best buds
@@Celadil they left to pursue other content creation, they made a video about it a few weeks ago on here!
Loving this new format. The videos really flow well and the comedy doesn’t seem forced. 👍
Glad you're enjoying!
Just on the first point of budget, a friend in my pod is known for playing high power commanders with just jank in 99s. Their xenagos deck has the most unheard-of two and three beaters.
The first time they played this deck most of their turn just the rest of the table going "a who now?" and they still kick everyones butt with xenagos and without.
Gotta love when people ask to read your cards because they're so obscure!
One of my favorite decks I’ve built is Ovika, Enigma Goliath with the restriction that all cards in my deck are noncreatures, so no matter what I cast once Ovika is on the field, I’ll get hasty Goblins!
This is a deck that people don’t take as a threat until it’s too late. Truly makes an impression!
That's cool, I just put Ovika in our commander cube recently!
I built this too. I went with value artifacts and enchantments rather than spell slinger. One of my favorite decks
Ovika + impact tremors/purphorous/city on fire is the way I went with it. It's fun if I can survive until the late game.
built the same, but with one creature, I wanted to find through a polymorph effect. super Fun :)
One restriction I particularly enjoy is playing a well-known archetype in different colors. For example: green/red aristocrats, blue/red human tribal blink, mono white reanimator, etc. Forces you to find cards people have never seen before.
Abzan merfolk be like:
Random fun thing I like to do is try to eliminate players with lightning bolt. So I pack it in almost every red deck as generic removal but occasionally when the game is very tight someone goes to three or less and then goes for the win and I can steal it from them with a bolt.
That's a good minigame!
That's a good minigame!
That's a good minigame!
That's a good minigame!
That’s a good minigame!
I am a relatively new player. My first and favorite deck is still malcolm keen eyed Navigator. I realize now he is a cedh commander and just tutors for an infinite combo on turn 3. But I was unaware of that when I started. I just made a pirate voltron deck with kediss as his little Lizard partner who sits on his shoulder!
Lots of equipment/weapons and lots of treasure. Lots of fun to play!
As someone who interestingly enough has a full blown Malcolm smasher cEDH deck, this still resonates bc I started a decade ago when I couldn’t even afford decent nonbasics so my only deck was mono green elfball (forests and elves)
It slowly became optimized over the years and tho it can now present really quick wins (usually T5 lethal table and sometimes infinite), it still has a ton of nostalgia for me.
This is one of my favorite topics. As I’ve built more decks over the years, making them stand out has become my main focus.
My most recent deck that turns heads at the table has been my Death Korps of Krieg deck. When they printed a 1/1 soldier art of a Kriegmen from Warhammer in those precons I knew I needed to make a deck around them. The main thing is every card in the deck needs to create a 1/1 soldier. My favorite thing is slamming down my stack of 50 tokens of the same art on the table. Some stupid cards in the deck has led to amazing moments
I like taking a decent commander and focusing on a fun theme. Like I have a tovalar deck that’s pure ww but wanted a “wolf” deck. So I made a halan and A wolf tribal. Def not optimal for gruul but just playing and beating face with all wolves is super fun. Ppl remember a 15/15 young wolf :)
My personal favorite to surprise people is with my 85 land Tasigur Worm Harvest deck. I love when it confuses people why I'm playing so few spells the whole game until I cast a worm harvest and get 40+ worms out of it!
This is a great topic, I always struggle with this because I do tend to like making my decks strong which means lots of staples… I’ll give a couple of my decks a rework focusing on restriction and synergy over sheer power. Thanks Mia and Beese!
Loving the content Mia and Busy!
LOL
I'm wishing for a 4 color or 5 color commander related with food in new eldraine so i could use properly asmo, rocco and gyome in the same deck. (i'm trying so hard to do a chef deck)
My personal favorite deck was Hinata reanimator. I ditched all the mean control and instead ran reanimation in white that costs less because of hinata. I also ran loot spells that specifically targets me to make that also cost less, then ran big splashy creatures that cost like 8 to 11 mana each such as sphinx of the final word and Magmatic Force
I like the host upgrade
A simple way to make your deck more interesting is to put time into your basic lands. Look for interesting styles and artwork, then make sure they're all different. It turns your play field into an art exhibit, and it's a unique and interesting feeling to fetch for a basic land and actually care about which basic island you're getting, just for aesthetics. Once I started doing this, I couldn't go back to not caring about basics anymore.
Is it for you personally? Because I’ll be honest, I don’t really look at my opponent’s basic lands. Also, having them all different art is sometimes bad when it gives your opponent unnecessary information.
@@derrickpaulson3093 It's for me. If anyone else were to notice, that'd be fine, but I enjoy it. As far as unnecessary information goes, 99.9% of the time I don't believe it'll matter. I'd rather enjoy my artwork than care about that, but that's just my preference.
See I love adding just straight synergy into my deck. I recently built Goreclaw after I pulled his new art from MOM, and I’ve built it with the restriction that every single creature (I have 46) is 4+ power. Deck is honestly a house and I’ve had a ton of memorable games with it myself
Wooo it’s my birthday! 🎉 love the nit picking nerds and watch their videos daily!! Thanks for the content guys! No other content creator has wished me a happy birthday! Y’all are the best!
I hope you have the happiest birthday, tysm for watching! 💖 -Mia
I think in London they used to have (or maybe still have) a charity tournament around Christmas with all kinds of wacky formats, one of them being a format where Door to Nothingness was the only allowed wincon.
When I built Urtet as my first 5-color commander, I don't have big mana base things. I grabbed what two-color lands I had, and a lot of them were gates. Then I learned about Maze's End.
And then I went off the rails. The obvious win is make all Myr buff. But the fun win is make a ton of Myr and go for Strixhaven Statium or that Maze's End madness. Makes sure games don't become super grindy on-board if they drag out too, which is a win for all.
Themes also REALLY help with budget manabases. Artifact lands can replace some duals for artifact decks, legendary lands and their payoffs from lotr for legendary themes, creature type lands, all go to replacing shocks and fetches for me.
One of the things that i like to do is play background commanders. But in order to make them stand out i pick combinations that are not that popular and my decks are all budget decks. Every game that i play with one of my background decks is a blast, so much that i went 6 months without winning while still having a blast playing.
I've got a Sivriss, Feywild visitor reanimato deck, a Volo, popular entretainer goad/control deck and a Gut, Agent of the iron throne(this is a quite popular combination, but still a blast to play).
My roommate made a Niv mizzet Reborn deck that is entirely made out of draft signpost uncommons. And its surprisingly not awful!
That is so cool
One of my and my playgroup's favorite decks I made was a Volo deck with no overlapping creature types and had a $100 budget. They still stay they miss it after I take it apart
Now THAT'S memorable!
So I had this foreign skeletal wurm I wanted to use in a deck, but there was never really a good place for it. Once I saw the magic 2021 full art for massacre wurm I knew that I wanted to make a wurm tribal deck. So I made Baron and Halana’s wurm reservation. As much as I could, I made the non-wurm spells go with the theme of wurms or caretaking for big creatures. I do not run elves, but I do run Humble Naturalist (an employee at the reservation, of course). No murder, but Feed the Serpent, while not vorthos accurate, is really how you’d expect an instant kill from a large serpentine creature to go.
Creating a deck off of this little fanfic style premise was really fun, and the deck actually works surprisingly well. When all the cards in your deck are hand-picked to do what you wanted to get out of the deck, even if it’s not winning, then it still feels like a victory when you’re playing the deck, whether you actually win or lose because you got to tell that story, or do the thing that you set out to do.
My favorite decks are the ones that I put some goofy restriction on building it. So satisfying when you describe your deck to your opponents at the start of the game, they go "LOL, wut?!", and then you proceed to beat them senseless with it.
I do this a lot. My Eldrazi deck doesn't have any non-eldrazi creatures, outside of Morophon the commander, which doesn't really count because he's still a shapeshifter. This helps balance the deck because Eldrazi are very strong, but the restriction tones down the power level.
Most Yarok decks I see are almost exclusively landfall decks. I built mine creature based. The elf that is a harrow on a stick, wood elves, the strix that draws a card, but the real combo to win was dead eye navigator flickering god eternal rhonas, to double everythings power 10+ times to swing for millions of damage with a small handful of creatures. That deck was fun. Took it apart ages ago.
I built a $20 Yarok deck and it takes the initiative a lot. It's super fun! -Mia
I have a bounce tribal deck with the new version of Barren, I threw every efficient way to bounce things to my hand and oponents hands, my two main win cons revolve around me bouncing things most the time, and my restriction is no counter spells, just venser and subtlety. It's really fun, and I did not build it with winning in mind, just synergy.
I had a BW hat deck. Every card (besides land and some artifacts) all had hats in the artwork. Deck was fun to play for like 2 months.
A lot of the new Un-cards care about hats… most of them ARE black and white too. I feel like this deck wants to be remade
@@emilysmith2965 that’s when I made the deck unfortunately. Brims Barone was the commander.
I also saw someone do this. The old school similar building restriction is “Ladies Looking Left” deck. Also cool.
Beegees, you guys are consistently crushing it
Staying alive!
I have a Lovecraftian themed Eloise deck where I just jam in Horrors and scary/unknown cards with haunting flavor text. Thing in the Ice is my favourite.
Beezi has some solid advice! Thanks for the video.
😭
I think my favorite deck I put together was enchantress Grismold.
It's just fun playing cards like Daxos' Torment and Doomwake Giant. The deck functioned quite well.
Also, shoutout to Hum of the Radix 😅
One of my favorite decks I’ve made is a phenax god of deception deck. It may not be the best but milling out an opponent is such a fun way to win.
Best way that I've found to build fun decks is to come up with ideas for decks before building the decks. That's how I built my GW enchantress deck that wins through overwhelming numbers of tokens, without running any token doublers, my GW Elf/Angel dual tribal deck, and my newest deck that I never could figure out how to make work for 5 years, but I just found a video making the idea work
Kenrith deck based around helping others and keeping yourself safe so the win con is "Happily Ever After". It's a deck I use and it's always been fun to play with and play against, and the first time it happens to win people don't expect it.
Another idea is to make the theme make sense. Use a single set or block. Don't use Jeska's Will in a dragon deck just because it's good. Craterhoof behemoth doesn't fit in the deck around bears just because it's green. And dockside extortionist shouldn't be in the prismari deck.
My favorite thing to do is pick a commander that isnt super popular and make a deck that does what they want to do. Then judge the power level after its made and see how it does.
Companions, backgrounds, and partners are also fun to mess around with in making these kinds of decks and abnormal colorpies.
Wilson/Shadow Theives is such a fun mini game deck, where i just make my opponents fight to be the lowest life to avoid the next bear swing.
sry to spoil it folks, moxfield ad is at 8:47 :(
My first ever commander game win was using my Walls/Defender deck. Commander is a wall, creatures are walls or defenders, Rolling Stones, Fortified Area, Animate Wall, some walls can make themselves attack, cards that deal damage with toughness instead of power, countermagic and some bounce to be a spell wall, ghostly prison and propaganda so I have a pillow wall. It makes people smile when I play it as soon as they see my commander is a wall. I could build a better version with a different commander (like the dragon who lets creatures hit with toughness) but where's the fun in that?
I'm using two of these concepts combined. I have a Niv-Mizzet Reborn deck with Jegantha as a companion, and as near perfect splits on each guild as I can with every card as a two-colour card.
Looks like Beauzueyy forgot to bring the third nerd.
10/10 spelling
Yes, where is Amber?
I love making decks with restrictions, like my generous ferrous deck which has only gold cards and colorless artifacts. Its just a shame it feels like every random pod I come up to is loaded with tithes, docksides, studies, several tutors, and basically every other commander staple known to man.
I actually built by first deck with an “Every card is ‘blank’” idea. I have an Ultra Magnus transformer deck that is all robots/myr/constructs/golems so everything is robotic. I have maybe two or three humans or demigods but that was my theme/flavor. I have both all of the r/w/g transformers secret lair cards in it just to have in it.
Keep up the good work! What do you two have against lyres? perfectly acceptable instrument imo
We hate lyres here! 😂 -Mia
You released this video just before im about to unveil my Horse tribal deck 😂
Know a really fun budget way to play edh with an interesting restriction? Pauper edh! Try building a deck or checking out some gameplay and then play it with your friends or in the various discord communities!
We are addicted to $20 and $50 decks at the moment!
Agreed upon budgets is kind of... awkward. Especially for people with older collections, where even mediocre cards will be worth more just because of age.
That and I don't want to constantly price check my deck to make sure that it's allowed - Cavalier of Dawn recently quintupled in price, would I then be obligated to take it out, even though I put it in when it was under $3?
If you want to stand out, do something really, really, stupid. Like have Haakon as your commander - It always elicits questions
With the handicap of mono-black knights without an easy way to get the commander, you get a reasonable excuse to run those tutors just for the an extra chance at that netherborn alter or command beacon
Thanks for the video Bisy
I never though it would come to this
now that Krenko guy's a pretty standout commander if I do say so myself.
For my Kibo deck I hand out banana runts for the banana tokens. People are often excited to play against it.
I did it once in a casual nonedh game like over a decade ago....and I have to admit..showing someone the door was an absolute moment.
Showing someone the door always feels amazing! I love it too because no one gets salty since it is really funny and takes so much setup 😂 -Mia
I am building a "Vanilla/French Vanilla" deck with Jasmine Boreal of the Seven as the Commander. It is definitely a $20 budget. Got my nephew doing the same.
Mia... ❤❤! 😁😁
Thanks for the great video, Mia and Beegee!
Re: Restrictions
I built an Athreos, Shroud-Veiled deck but the list is entirely themed around the concept of "Life and Undeath in the Lands Between," ie an Elden Ring deck. Unironically some of the most fun I've had building a deck and it does some silly stuff sometimes, like constantly recurring a Clone Shell. Themed decks are very much some of the most fun you can have building a commander deck
And, re Stick To Your Theme, last year I found the Prima strategy guide for Magic Online and it has this to say if you're building a Zombie deck: "Don't clutter a zombie deck with creature elimination when you can add more zombies."
final edit: Similar to the Door to Nothingness deck, I'm currently working on a Hidetsugu Tribal deck where the primary goal is to wipe out everyone with Hidetsugu's Second Rite, through a convoluted process of proc'ing Torgaar's etb, followed by tapping Hidetsugu himself, and ending with one of numerous ways to triplecast Second Rite. I just wish Hidetsugu and Kairi was grixis so it could've been the commander instead of like, Be'Lakor.
Im a big Ravnica fan and I love the guilds. I usually play counters but I sometimes get bored so I play Simiv counters. Not Simic counters, but "Simic Combine counters" and only play cards involved with the guild or ravnica. It's tons of fun and isnt overpowered (tho Vorel can get out of hand)
Here's a deck I have that no one has ever guessed. OG Atraxa sticker deck and proliferating tickets since there are so few usable ticket cards
This video is actually super topical as i was actually in the process of building an Atla Palani fling deck with Brion Stoutarm anf Serra Avatar being the only two creatures in the deck. Its not good in the slightest, just think itd be funny to lethal people out of no where.
Wow Beezy! Wow Mia! This is the best advice ever, AND you remembered my birthday! (Seriously great video)
I play igna and esika deck for commander and it's so much fun to cast creatures with creature cards lol 🤣
I don't use EDHREC, I use Scryfall only to build my decks. Makes your decks unique because you have no one else's build influencing you. Also I have a few pet cards I always put in.
I just love brewing bad Kenrith decks that do a thing. Like I’ve played around with a goad one that just starts shit and then gives things haste and trample. I’ve done a bad reanimator version that tries to reanimate other people’s stuff but then steal it. I’ve done a lifegain one that just spams his white ability and sees what happens
I like the sound of Mia's Yarok budget deck. Do you have the list online anywhere so that I can look at it?
Yes! 💖
www.moxfield.com/decks/ZQTW1Ti9ik2QFhjGeuuihA
-Mia
I didn't understand beezys comments about dual lands in niv mizzet. Arent all lands colorless? so any lands niv mizzet hits need to to to the bottom of the library?
I have ten decks and what I did is said I can only have one of each card in my decks so I only have one smothering tithe and one dockside extortionist, and one rhystic study great hedge demonic tutor etc
Great vid Mia and eezeB!
One thing... the volume of Mia is at least 3 times louder than Beezy
That Yarok deck list would be great to see. 2:35
www.moxfield.com/decks/ZQTW1Ti9ik2QFhjGeuuihA
Check it out! -Mia
If you play a tribe, play only cards of that tribe! My Krenko deck has a Goblin bomb and its great fun.
I built Yennett Cryptic sovereign with only odd cards in there. Test yourself and express yourself
The show has leveled up considerably with the new host pairing. The background tension is gone, and the two hosts work so well off of one another. I love and miss Cherries, but this is a better show now. That’s as much a credit to him as it is to you all for recognizing it and shaking things up. Great stuff…
Built a rilsa rael initiative deck for 20 dollars. Played it last night and beat up on multiple hundred dollar decks. Was a super fun game and everyone was really impressed.
Initiative decks can really get things done!
Mia! I also love Ramos/Door to Nothingness. One thing I like to do for extra fun/risk is to roll a 1D4 I put myself on the chopping block because the Door don't care. 😅
LOL okay that's a great idea, the Door deck is my favorite to talk about because it's so wacky and that might be what I do at conventions 😂 -Mia
@NitpickingNerds I love it, what're you using for Door recursion? I've currently got Eternal Witness, natures spiral, and noxious revival but I feel they're inconsistent.
@@12jacobmar bala Ged, noxious revival, eternal witness, brought back, Naya charm but also I have a lot of ways to make copies of the door and copy the trigger itself -Mia
I worked on a deck for a while that was 100% gold bordered cards. Never finished it but it looked pretty sweet.
Sounds neat, gold sleeves too?
@@NitpickingNerds I never fully finished building it so I never got sleeves for it but 100% it would have gotten gold sleeves if I finished it.
Dragon Shields, of course
Never used any other brand 😄
@@NitpickingNerds as one does.
Cherry's was a great co-host but I really like the choice in Mia. Change of perspective is always a good way to keep a channel fresh. And I'm watching more of your content lately bc of it.
playing yarok since it came out, I finally took it apart last month. But you can do enchantress, energy, landfall, and now initiative!? incredible.
This Daisy guy makes some great content
Should I just have a different name every time?
@@NitpickingNerds yes then it will always be the NNs
The thing is, building a budget deck unless you've been playing for a very long time and have a huge collection of cards also isn't really that easy for a low cost like $20-30. I live in Europe so the main place for me to buy cards is Card Market. Even trying to build a budget deck with really low cost cards can become expensive when factoring in individual shipping costs. This is even more elevated to be honest when trying to build cool budget strategies because often you're trying to find cheaper cards that are pretty unpopular so not a lot of people have them for sale and to buy these few cards you need then need to add another £2-3 postage for those and shipping. I've also tried using popular shops websites for deck building and buying budget cards to try and minimise shipments but even then the biggest retailers over here still only tend to have 20-30% of the cards I need and each individual shop then still incurs a £4-5 shipping fee per shop and then we're back to spending an extra £20+ just to get the cards shipped. I totalled up a budget liesa deck just yesterday on cardmarket where the total value of all the cards individually was £23 however it would cost me £54 to have them all delivered, using multiple options such as lowest cost and lowest amount of shipments didn't really change that much.
In our budget commander pods at my LGS we just proxy most of our cards we can't easily find online or already have. The cards aren't worth anything anyway (around 5-50 ct each card), so why worry? It's not like you're trying to win a tournament with them. I recommend checking in with your friends/playgroup if they are okay with proxies if you don't want to spend 50 pounds on a budget deck. Makes it easier to test out your decks, too.
@@MenardiChan That's a good point. I'm not a fan of people proxying expensive cards for the sake of it but proxying cheap cards for convenience seems like a good option
Miya and BZ in the house! Ugh I remember buying Fervor for what was at least a dollar a few years ago, ugh. 4:55
I once build a niv mizzet with 6 cards from each guil with jagantha companion and forty lands
same!
I guess the Moxfield ad will be at 6:48.
Budget is an amazing way to have a variety of decks. My group’s favorite cut off is $50, just enough to play relatively good cards but excludes nearly every cEDH boring card.
$50 is SO good, we each have like five $50 decks lol
Would Grave Titan make my deck stand out, since the card has generally fallen out of favor in past years?
Me : I'm not gonna play rustic study.
You : why?
Me : my decks not blue.
Make a Tergrid discard deck. It will make you stand out. And also your opponents veins will stand out.
Cool video Mia and BZ!
Glad you liked it!!
Why’d you do by boy yarok like that beezy?
This IBS guy knows a lot about magic bro
You know how to make a comment NOT stand out? Guessing the Moxfield ad being at 16:44 for the 20th day in a row.
Some day you'll get it, but I'll never put it there on purpose. No freebies!
SpamRamp is my favorite mtg band 😂Im gonna guess 11:37? Baezy should have a restriction to not play field of the dead. Mia is an awesome addition to the show & has an easily spelled name, unlike Beasy. But we still love you Beecee
My lathril deck has ramp and ther are only 2 none elfs
My Most stand Out Deck would be Grazilaxx since IT does Not Play any instand Speed spells and somehow is a Budget deck
ah another banger from buzi and knee
My favorite duo
Moxfield ad at 12:12
Thanks for the vid Mia and Beezee
No problem!
What card do you use to cheat the auras into play?
Anything that puts them directly into the battlefield from your library, graveyard, or hand! Things like Kodama of the East Tree, Replenish, and Wargate
I have a simple rule in any single Commander deck.
I dont care who'se the commander or colors i play with,it needs to have at least one eldrazi.
my brother you are going to love the new commander masters precons
Speaking of off the wall decks, I actually built a Ramos deck attempting to win with Barren Glory. Hilarious part? One game I actually would have won if I played my final turn just slightly differently, and realized as soon as I passed. Lmao
That's still impressive though
@@NitpickingNerds that deck even made use of one with nothing 🤣🤣🤣
@@NitpickingNerds Not my only off the wall deck though. Also got a Kynaios and Tiros deck built around helm of the host. THAT deck can do some absolutely stupid crap. Like making 2000+ copies of Jetmir
Okay I need to know, is the Shadow conglomerate that stole Whispy Woods' shelf going to infinitely grow each episode?
Are the episodes, a couple of months from now, going to be muffled voices coming out of an ocean of Shadow plushies?