The Most Powerful Commanders of Strixhaven | Power Tier List | C21 | Overpowered | EDH | MTG
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- The Commander's Quarters is your Magic the Gathering source that helps you Command Your Budget! Today Mitch goes over The Most Powerful Commanders of Strixhaven and C21 with the Ultimate Commander Power Tier List!
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I built a Codie deck just because my name is Kodie and it felt like the right thing to do
Codie brings that bde.
Wait so do you also make instants and/or sorceries cascade into each other?
@@ChronoBolt Just look at his Yt username. That says it all
I like this because of reasons
Codie is a fun janky card to use. If you can give him to an opponent playing a creature deck, you’re gonna enjoy watching them squirm.
I think this set is honestly the weirdest when it comes to card evaluation. I think a number of them are automatically dismissed for one reason or another or put into a very narrow box. It'll be interesting to see how people build around a lot of the undervalued members
I can't wait to get Osgir, there are so many cool ways to build him imo
Yes I think most cards a very good in a narrow box. There are a lot of cards that almost become MVPs in some of my decks but would be horrible in any other of similar colors.
I personally love Blex. I Iove black and green and building a deck of creepy critters sounds fun. I dont care if its strong but I'm gonna make it.
I mean isnt that the best part of commander? Build whatever you want! Give the weird, wacky, and forgotten commanders a try and you can have a lot of fun!
Do I play my Zada, Hedron Grinder deck because it's good? OF COURSE NOT I play it because its ridiculous and gives me an excuse to make ridiculous goblin noises while I fumble any attempt to combo off and win.
@@auroralee I want to play a game of commander where the only table talk at the table is in goblin voices.
@@rambler209what about zombie voices if I want to play black instead of red?
@@auroralee I gotta say tho, zada decks are pretty strong
@@rohanreddy7399 really depends on your opening hand tho lol it can be tricky...
I can see Lukka having crazy synergy with artifact creatures and lorehold spells such as "wake the past."
I'm just happy that Lukka is the backside, Since I run a 5 color creature only commander deck, with Umori as a partner, being able to run Lukka is possible since the front side is a creature.
there is A LOT synergy, you start with lukka and then swap to mila, it is fun
Perfect, this is exactly the insight I need to buy some new singles for commander right now.
Remy won't be happy that Mavinda was in d tear.
I thought the same thing when I saw his episode on Mavinda haha
I like how detailed Mavinda is because its an owl with arms and also wings. National Geographic has always overlooked this detail about owls.
I dont think owls have arms?
🤔
I seriously searched for that when i saw that mavinda had arms AND wings
I like the focus on politicking in silverquill commander cards. I *needs* them
I love stirring the pot and hoping it doesn't kill me
Well, I was building a Lorehold deck with the dragon and it's pretty strong, but it's not suited for Edh for the land destruction and neither Cedh, because it's slow. You have Restore Balance, Armageddon and Cataclysm, the fun white cards. For extra combats, I found:
Resurgence,Relentless Assault, Seize the Day, Savage Beating, World at war, Waves of Aggresion. The things is,I think you can cast very powerful things with overload, like Mizzix Mastery. I think it could be placed in B tier (sorry for my English haha)
Absolutely looking forward to building and playing Witherbloom. I love dragons, Golgari, and life gain.
The production value on your videos is always top notch. I really appreciate the fact that you planned the video out instead of just shooting from the hip like a lot of other tier lists.
oh boy, all the disclaimers. i feel you mitch. people take it so personally when you rank their favorite new commander too low. myself, i won't be doing it anymore. just a headache.
I liked your recent cmdr reviews, EDH Deckbuilding, especially your deck built around Felisa's second ability which it seems you are the only person that noticed it.
I made a awaken the blood avatar deck but the token for the avatar is the pillar men from jojo and i call the spell awaken my masters
Thanks a Lot Mitch! Keep up the good videos! Fans from Brazil!
Man right before the step where I pay for cumulative upkeep
Rionya's pretty crazy, being mono red is kind of an advantage for creating a wincon with damage and getting everything out for sure, and you can easily ramp her out before turn 5. And once she's out it's easy to already have a humble defector out and play a 1 mana draw spell and draw 5 the very next turn, or have precursor golem and draw 7, even moonveil dragon draws 3. The best creatures afaik are 5 cmc or less, so you can play goldspan dragon or rapacious dragon and ramp out 4 mana the turn after, that's almost double your mana, and since rionya is 2 red fanatic of mogis is even better and terror of the peaks is just wild. If you can manage to get 2-3 turns with her out and you manage to draw into more draw, which at least in my deck is a tiny bit inconsistent rn, she just pops off by setting up her next turn more and more. She's a super version of any mono red or colorless creature. I don't really know of any mono red commander that can ramp out and draw and do anything as much as she can from almost only her being out, and it's easy before turn 5. But no she's not really witherbloom lol.
Didn't know about Golem Precursor, thanks!
Huzzah! Let's see where Velomachus Lorehold falls on this list. I cracked him in a prerelease pack yesterday, and am already brewing a bit.
Also wouldn't mind hearing your rankings on some previous sets. Personally, I'd love a super list of all the Ravnica legendaries.
@bobby, hidden A tier I think in a storm build
Velomachus is a really nice commander when used properly
@@noobtuber10 I'm leaning towards a "relics" build. Lots of cheap artifacts to speed up the deck, along with some choice equipment so that I can cast game ending spells.
@@bigguy9154 I hope so. Going through my final draft of his build this weekend, going to run it on Friday with a play group.
I mean I feel like beledros should be bumped up to s tier simply because while prismari can just tap artifacts for instants and sorceries one good nuke on field and it's pretty much useless whereas when beledros dies you're in black/green so you know that you have ways to get her back for like dirt cheap where as red/blue really doesn't any artifact recursion. Idk that's just me😅
Adrix and Nev is absolutely an insane commander. I have built armies of dozens, sometimes even over 100, creatures from having almost nothing on the board in a matter of only a few turns. I don't even have a fully optimized Adrix and Nev deck, it's just so naturally powerful that I didn't need to overtune it for my play group's average power level.
Bought an extra Adrix and Nev to through into my Yarok deck. Can't wait to see the interactions.
Mavinda is 100% a Modern/Standard card. He’s okay in commander decks, but he’s really here to be used with Killian in a Silverquill Magecraft deck.
Just the right timing
I'm in the credits at 37:45. I'm currently $3.24 for my Commander 2014 printing on TCGPlayer.
Valentin and Lisette will be right at home in a Ghave deck in the 99. Each would synergize well, especially if you have a way to turn creatures into mana or life.
Gyome is a lot more interesting then he seems IMO. I specifically plan on building an artifact creature deck, taking advantage of the absurd number of food tokens you can produce and sac for value, either with cards like Bontu or KCI.
the boros ones are gonna be A and S, calling it right now
Signs point to no.
I’ve built a deck fro Rowan//Will from the new set and I’ve managed to get a crazy amount of wins both in standard and historic. Love the list yall!
Reading the comments. Mitch, you got your work cut out for you. Everyone loves your ranking system, so now you gotta go back and rank all Ravnica legends.
All Ravnica. Legends.
Put on a big pot of coffee and let's jump into it! 🤣
Don't forget War of the Spark counts as Ravnica too!
I'm so stupid excited. I got the r/u and g/u precons smashing them together and having the storm sire as my commander, added a rikku, jadzi, and eye of the storm. Going to have SO many shenanigans
LOL My spellslinger Rootha deck where I am copying insane ass spells off her trigger for infinite galore says you're wrong about Rootha.
I made a Velomachus deck where I just keep taking multiple combat steps! It's pretty neat and I have yet to actually lose a game with it! There's like a 20% chance that I just kill someone via commander the turn I play him and it makes him a ticking timebomb that no one I play with expects!
Liking the look of the izzit elder dragon. Was looking for a comander to build my "denying wind untill nothing your deck is worthwhile" deck around
I will end up swapping Beladros to the head of the precon and leaving the other commander in the deck. Was considering going for more ways to use my life as a resource but I am still working out the kinks
I bought the Witherbloom commander deck and the Prerelease kit and pulled Beledros in that. Thinking of doing the same....
I did the same thing.
That's a really good review of all the possibile commanders of Strixhaven , I really thought Beledros would have been S tier , but it makes sense given the mana value /cmc
Loved this episode! Would you possibly look at doing one of these for each set going forward? 🥺
i think gyome should be a tier because: beledros+gyome+ashnod's alter=fun
Also I understand if it makes it easier production wise to do them in order in the tier list but generally I prefer going through them alphabetically
I really love willow dusk! I've been able to just spiral out every lifelink creature. It's super satisfying when it works out.
It's funny because when I chose to get the Prismari commander precon deck, I thought since it was the cheapest by far that it would be the weakest. Plus, Zaffi wasn't doing it for me.
But now I have it rebuilt to synergize with Veyran and I've been cackling like a madman for weeks lmao
Mitch, I really liked this episode. It's always nice to hear what commanders are the dominating forces in a set, but please don't stop doing your Golden Toilet awards and Golden Pig awards either! This is just a nice new addition to the goodness that is the Golden Pig and Golden Toilet!
I've come to love Adrix and Nev more than I thought I would. I bought the Quandrix commander deck assuming I would build around Esix because it is interesting, but I was rather disappointed. After making a few upgrades and switching back to Adrix and Nev, my eyes have been opened to just how powerful they can be. All it takes is a 2 CMC spell in the form of Double Major, target Adrix and Nev, and now, you get 8 times the tokens! That's insane! S-tier is definitely fitting, and for the most part, I agree with the rest of the tier list
Blex and ezzaroot channeler with a sac outlet and a way to make a green on cast/death is infinite storm/etb/life gain/death. As a combo commander, I’d put Blex way higher than D tier.
One thig that forgot to mention about those dual commanders creature/sorcery is that you can choose never put it into the command zone again, there is a lot of cards that can bring it back from graveyard as creature so you can play it again as sorcery, ej. Tourtured existence, Malevolent Awakening, Oversold Cemetery, etc.
Definitely agree with the jadzi, I just started to make her for commander, she's really powerful and would definitely be better with less mana, I found that trying to make a storm deck with her is both fun and a pain just from the amount of triggers
Zaffai + infect is something I hadn't thought about. Sounds pretty evil!
Hoping for Osgir somewhere in A-B.
Once i realized you can copy blightsteel. I built osgir immediately lol.
@@chrisclark9371 Blightsteel colosossus? i dont think you can, you can activate osgirs second effect only as a sorcery
@@Northwraith Why would activating at sorcery speed stop them from copying Blightsteel?
@@chrisclark9371 I'm personally a fan of the minor jank of Isochron Scepter, Pull from Eternity, and Ugin's Nexus lmao
@@cobaltdeleon because blightsteel almost never actually goes to your graveyard. Have to jump through some hoops for it to happen
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not sure if anyone else saw this, but in zaffai's text it says "thunder collector" not "thunder conductor". i know that chances are it's a mistake and it's suppose to say thunder conductor and chances are that's gonna get errata'd. just figured i'd point that out
I Just built a quintorius deck and its very cool to have a boros gy EDH
I get that 7 mana seems like a lot in a vacume, but beledros is in green he's coming out maybe 1 turn after if not the same turn as galazeth and he'll be getting mana advantage going faster because he doesn't require much setup
I think Alibou is a bit more potent than initial estimates might indicate. The way it's worded, it looks like one could just use loads of mana rocks tap them for whatever other spells one is casting, and have a single thopter swing in to trigger the fireball, which is made massive by the amount of tapped mana rocks. Then, if one were to strap something like Grafted Exoskeleton to Alibou before triggering the damage, it would have infect applied to it and be more than capable of one-shotting someone. That seems more like a B-tier or possibly even A-tier to me.
Well, great video to start with. Lot of good takes. Now to counterpoint. First, I am a Simic/Quandrix Stan so I acknowledge my opinion is skewed. But I am really looking forward to using the new fractal and the twins in my Simic Commander deck. It is already based around creating a bunch of tokens, specifically mimics of other creatures. Esix and the Twins will add to my ability to do that. Additionally, I feel that this is the answer to the Blood Avatar. I will be able to go just as wide as that deck, if not wider and wait for my opening to take the kill with unblockable creatures, or Ruxa making all my bears (oozes and fractals mostly) hit as though they weren't blocked. So I think maybe you didn't give them as fair a shake as you should have, but I agree this is your opinion and you have the right to it, and to be wrong if you choose. Ha! 😄
YESSSS KEEP DOING CARDS IN THIS CHART
I think the boros dean is proper underrated here. Just having a 2 mana rummage effect in the command zone seems good in boros.
While Plargg isn't the best Augusta is the better half, which means all exert cards can do their ability every single time, which is incredibly powerful with glory bringer which kills a creature every time, or Combat Celebrant with infinite combat steps
people are really sleeping on the front side of Extus/blood avatar
Probably due to how much power Justin showed it had on Commander VS. I think the backside is stronger, but Extus himself is still really nice.
I feel like alibou should be higher at least a B. I built the deck and it can win on several different axis.
Honestly idk about awaken the blood avatar rating. For casual he's definitely gonna be strong and I pretty much have all the cards to build him except the Mana base, super excited for the mardu politics
Excited to build an esix based on the precon
If on a pure competitive level, Dina probably is the strongest. Part of a 2 card combo with exquisite blood, and can be a sacrifice outlet for protean hulk to otk the table. Fill out the rest of the deck with tutors and reanimators to get the hulk. Buuuut that is only under the assumption you want to open a mortgage to play Magic
90% of cedh players use proxies, but you’re right about Dina. She can be run similarly to to Meren and Hapatra
I still like Willowdusk a lot, but I feel like the nerf on her ability is gonna force her into the 99 instead of the CZ.
I'm gonna try Uvilda/Nassari in my Animar deck, because Nassari sounds pretty sweet in that case, especially with the mana reduction of Animar being factored in.
Losheel should get a little more love, if you get flash for your artifact creatures you can draw cards on other players turns as well, plus Mono White is finally giving us more options for card draw. Codie is a fun commander, would love to experiment with it.
One correction with Hofri is that he returns the exiled cards to the owner's graveyards, so builds that rely on theft will not work that well.
He still gives the hofri player a token of the stolen card though because it just needs to go "a graveyard." So mob rule for 4 things, swing at an opponent, sac em, get 4 token copies, get up to 4 etbs, pass still works and is veryyy powerful. Easily kill an opps creature(s) then get your own copy although they'll get the original card back in their graveyard.
Nice vidéo! I don't see how Rootha can be so low, while in a deck mixing cantrips and huge spell, the recursion in copying spell for 5 seems above Willowdusk
I pulled awaken a few days ago and im looking forward to building around it
I would bump Beledros up to S. Some of the combos are just insane, such as vilis to draw 10 cards when you trigger its second ability, and exsanguinate in 4 player games. Also, I would move Extus down as double sided cards aren’t great as commanders. Maybe switch beledros and Extus and that would be about it.
Willowdusk is so insane. You can pump a creature regularly by 4-10 each turn.
Also you can pay a lot of life and then pump a lifelink creature to get it all back. This is so good....
Gonna have to disagree w you Mitch in Kianne//Imbraham - Imbraham + infinite mana and thassa's oracle is a win. It's got the right colors to go infinite quite easily and is a low enough cmc commander to pull it off. Just my 2 cents. Keep doing what your doing boss. Love your content!!!
Extus's front side I feel like can make some fun decks that abuse the getting creatures to hand, although it might be in the more expensive and sweatier side, an example is with Extus, Worthy Cause and dockside extortionist netting 5-6 treasures ( you can just stack the triggers and loop it). There are also ways to use Birgi and other cheaper cards like Impulsive Pilferer to blast through your deck with low-cost red draw cards to storm off or have a lot of sacrifice triggers. Although it's a debate if it's better than the back which I'm not too sure is fun having to sack everyone's creatures all the time.
I honestly don't find the backside that impressive and even with the cost reduction not that great. To consistently play it for low mana you would've to sac 3 creatures the first time and another one for each aditional cast. Board wipes and counters say hello. Sure you play it in an aristocrates shell but even there it seems kinda meh.
If Tivash triggered whenever you gained life it would be super easy to break it with Ajani's Presence effects.
I love cheap but impactful commanders that aren’t powerful enough to get focused. I’m currently working on a Kylian list.
Veyran definitely a major player ut of this set. Already building a cedh deck around her. Should be GG pretty quickly! 😎
I’d have made Alibou a B. It’s got a lot of scry, direct damage, and accelerates artifact creatures. Enough to put it top tier? Not really, but solid enough to build an aggressive artifact deck around.
Anything over scry 3 is so good for making plans for future turns.
Blex doesn't benefit rats tho? So I'm confused why Relentless Rats was brought up.
At least we found out what happened to London from suite life she became a vampire and joined silverquill lol
I can't believe you put velomachus in C tier. I have a great commander deck with him.
Luka works well with Osgir. +1, discard an artifact, draw a card or two. Then pay the mana, tap Osgir, and get two copies of it instead of just 1
Love the list Mitch!
Maybe it'd be better for a future one if you review by color or name instead of by tier
"does Fain look like Loki to you?"
Yes! I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who saw that.
I think silverquil could be a tier because of how good it is with token putting a counter on all you creatures every turn! Plus the political value is great
I don’t think the mana cost should put Beledros in the A tier vs the S tier. It’s in Black/Green so you have rituals and ramp to easily get to 7 mana before turn 7.
Mila may not be the best commander but the Mila deck I built is probably one of my favorite decks I have
Most powerful Boros commander
:laughs in winota
I can't wait to see awaken the blood avatar deck list
Fain looks like he'd be good friends with Mairsil!
I think Killian is an A, reducing 2 for any aura, instant and sorcery that targets a creature is pretty good for a voltron deck
Nice to see Lorehold (not Boros) doing cool things that don’t involve combat. Having said that, Awaken the Blood Avatar and Codie are the most interesting commanders in this set for me and the ones I’m looking to build.
Oh, and Simic are as boring as always.
I think esix is an really interesting commander with an unique ability and for sure a bit of fresh air for simic. With the others i agree. Powerfull ofc but nothing new or even slightly exciting. Just more ramp and value.
To be fair, if Tivash gave you a demon right away, it'd go infinite with Soul Warden type effects. I don't think there's any of those effects in mono black, but it could be kinda broken in orzhov and golgari decks, idk.
I feel like you're slightly underrating Alibou honestly
Everyone seems to be downplaying that one. Looks pretty cool to me!
same with shadrix, shadrix is a politics deck, but its also either a sit and wait deck or a hyper agressive deck depending on your draws
Hofri will take over games in any red white deck. Just what red white needed tbh. A value generating boi
Good video, I am a bit confused with the Velomachus ranking though. Don’t the majority of extra combat spells cost 5 or less?
The majority of the extra combat cards can only work if you cast them in your main phase. If you cast them during combat off of velomachus that don't do anything.
I dont think i could put a single one of the cards from the S tier here into even the A tier realistically, maybe B from some of them and a couple C, but a good few of the ones from the A could easily be S, otherwise though i think the list is pretty alright
I think the last 2 Simic in A should be S, the reasoning for the high cost I think massively counters out with a huge factor, the colour green, ramp is so easy to pull off in green, Izzet... Not so much lol
Got alot of staples from mardu colors and built extus. It came out really nasty!
will you be making a tier list for 5 color commanders?
Now, I’m still unfamiliar with every card in the game. Are there any other cards that support the idea of a Gyome “meme” deck, that don’t specifically create Food tokens?
33:50 Yeah, I know. I got swept by such a Storm deck. Twice. All of my loathing.
Honestly for unless your commander isn't in green you really shouldn't worry as much about the casting cost especially when you're commander has green. 7 mana is practically nothing if anything it's just a small inconvenience now if you're commander doesn't have green then yeah you should worry a little more about the casting cost if it's high
Imma actually argue for Tvash, in the B tier. One the dies to removal maybe you get blow out argument is not as viable I think, you are not as blown out since you still get the life and invest no mana plus this is non-threatening enough to probably slip under the radar. Sure if they suddenly get a 20/20 then it is a problem but most of the time that just isn't gonna happen since you are rarely so far ahead. Take that with the fact it is not just big tokens but little incidental 1/1 and 2/2 that you can then feed into a sac engine for zulaport cut throat type effect and Tvash is stealthy more powerful than he seems.
I didn't realize how many legendary creatures was part of this cycle
Cycle? We just gonna ignore what cycle means?
@@gareththorn4356 so are you the Dean of the Meaning of Informal Phrases in MTG?
Tanazir doesn't make other creatures Base P/T equal to its Base P/T. It makes them equal to its P/T, which makes a huuuuuge difference.