Looking forward to izzet because it's the only guild that I'm having trouble finding a fun commander in. Every deck I've built seemed to be either too strong or too weak. Loving this series! Partners/backgrounds could be interesting as well :)
Firja is a fun deck building challenge and kind of is a pet deck for me. Built it with a combination of angels, cheap spells, graveyard recursion, and a couple of pieces that help you cheat out cheap cards for free. Been loving tinkering with it. Keep up the fun lists!
awesome video! Eriette, the charmed apple is one of my 3 orzhov commanders :) I decided recently to replace my lifegain/cleric themed deck commander, Liesa, with Astarion, because Liesa is just sort of boring (although good), making everyone lose 2 life every time they cast. It's been effective because i gain enough life to be okay through it, while greedy other players must suffer, but Astarion might feel a bit more fair :)
I run Orah, Skyclave Hierophant with almost only clerics as my creatures. Divinity of Pride is the only non-cleric in it. It’s a lot of fun to run because of how resilient it is, but can be oppressive if using cards similar to Demon’s Disciple in a low removal pod. I have been considering throwing the old Teysa Karlov into the 99.
Selenia, dark angel is a life swap commander, drop your life to one swap with opponent and win there are various cards that do this. As for Teysa, orzhov scion is a combo deck, play effects that make your creatures black and a sac outlet to go infinite.
Teysa Karlov is also a combo deck, with the advantage of constant lifelink+vigilance on the way-too-many tokens the deck generates... My friend's deck devolves into solitaire consistently, good fun to watch pop off every once in a while
Interesting that you ranked Colonel Autumn quite highly but Aron quite low, even though they are quite similar. Colonel is more abuseable and maybe thus you saw more potential there. Thanks for the video.
Hey! Glad you liked the video. You're exactly right for why Autumn was higher than Aron. They are pretty close but Autumn leads to a few more decision points and more game actions IMO.
Colonel Autumn is very fun, especially because Orzhov is very good at consistent token generation. Mine's a midrange aristocrats/beatdown deck, hoping to average one legendary drop a turn and exploit every one of them, hitting hard with those while aristocrat drain slowly ensures life advantage. Denethor also has a place in this deck! Not a great/fun commander yeah, but very playable in the 99 for consistency. Same with Edgar, Charmed Groom. Sac him to exploit, then get more explotation fuel. It's great!
Hey! I'd love to see your list. I def want to pick some of these new cards up for Ratadrabik or make a legend pile with him. I didn't realize how many freaking sweet Orzhov legendary matters commander there were
my friend owns a General Kudro deck, and it slaps face often unfortunately. he's VERY powerful and hard to deal with if you don't have constant removal.
Nope! MDFCs are confusing. He is BW because his planeswalker side is BW. You can tell by little color circle on the left hand side next to the type. That indicates the cards color identity. But if he didn’t have a back side then yes, he would just be mono black.
Greasefang is really compelling, but I'm unreasonably turned off by the existence of Parhelion II. It's *such* an auto-include and *so* busted if you're able to cheat it out early. I know you could always just...not run it...and maybe that's what I should do, actually! It's just so obviously a house in this deck, I wish I could ignore it.
You could always make a pile of vehicles you shuffle in at random each game! That way it isn’t always in the deck but when you do hit it, it’s fun! My buddy does that with Atla Pilani and creatures. And they once hit Kiki-jiki and zealous conscripts randomly. The salt disappears when it’s RNG like that.
I love the idea of the video but unfortunately can't really get through it. I think I understand the vibe you're going for is like those people that rank whatever in rankmaker on twitch with their live chat bouncing off ideas and doing some back and forth, and in that context, going for the whole one-take, live reading totally works. Mistakes happen ofc but you get the live take and some discussion as to why it's that ranked and all that, so the live format just works. But here there's no chat, the fumbling, the fast reading, the editorial mistakes of bits repeating... It all just comes off as ''didn't want to bother editing, this was just for fun'' which, granted, I totally understand. It's just not for me and I thought I might mention it just in case that'd be a marker for improvement if it happens for others too. I sincerely hope you continue producing stuff and can't wait to see how your channel evolves! Cheers!
Hey! I really appreciate the feedback on this and I agree 100% with you. When I started the series with Dr. Who, I never expected it to pick up. Then it kept doing well each time, despite me thinking the time before as purely a fluke. I was talking to another creator this morning about dialing in a lot of the aspects of this and even talked about writing my thoughts out for each card ahead of time so it is a little less rambly. And I'm still on the fence about reading out what the card does. I think that stays but with more takes, I can make it A LOT better quality. I've always been a fast talker, but it isn't live content, so I can adjust for that, like I do in some of my normal videos. These videos are 100% kinda thrown together in an afternoon, but that was the original purpose of them. But I think with a little extra work, they can become much better quality and I really hope you stay around and check out when the next one comes out to see those improvements. It will either be Gruul or the Duskmourn commanders. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave feedback on this video. I do this because I really love Magic, and when people give productive criticism I really try to take it to heart.
Looking forward to izzet because it's the only guild that I'm having trouble finding a fun commander in. Every deck I've built seemed to be either too strong or too weak. Loving this series! Partners/backgrounds could be interesting as well :)
Firja is a fun deck building challenge and kind of is a pet deck for me. Built it with a combination of angels, cheap spells, graveyard recursion, and a couple of pieces that help you cheat out cheap cards for free. Been loving tinkering with it. Keep up the fun lists!
awesome video! Eriette, the charmed apple is one of my 3 orzhov commanders :) I decided recently to replace my lifegain/cleric themed deck commander, Liesa, with Astarion, because Liesa is just sort of boring (although good), making everyone lose 2 life every time they cast. It's been effective because i gain enough life to be okay through it, while greedy other players must suffer, but Astarion might feel a bit more fair :)
my 3rd orzhov commander is Teysa Orlov, and there's a reason she's so popular on EDHREC too, she's extremely good and powerful :).
eriette is the best deck i've build, it's all i love about commander
I run Orah, Skyclave Hierophant with almost only clerics as my creatures. Divinity of Pride is the only non-cleric in it. It’s a lot of fun to run because of how resilient it is, but can be oppressive if using cards similar to Demon’s Disciple in a low removal pod. I have been considering throwing the old Teysa Karlov into the 99.
Orah has been on my mind since release, just never really sat down to build it. I'd love to see your list :)
Yeahh man shilgengar is a grand ol time. Great list!!
Thanks! If you haven't, you should def check out my video on Shilgengar.
Selenia, dark angel is a life swap commander, drop your life to one swap with opponent and win there are various cards that do this.
As for Teysa, orzhov scion is a combo deck, play effects that make your creatures black and a sac outlet to go infinite.
Teysa Karlov is also a combo deck, with the advantage of constant lifelink+vigilance on the way-too-many tokens the deck generates... My friend's deck devolves into solitaire consistently, good fun to watch pop off every once in a while
Oh life swapping for Selena! That makes a lot of sense and oh that's cute! Never thought about changing colors in Orzhov.
@@sindra77 Yeah! Teysa Karlov is an insane combo commander, which is why I don't want to build her. I love her in the 99 of a lot of decks tho!
Interesting that you ranked Colonel Autumn quite highly but Aron quite low, even though they are quite similar. Colonel is more abuseable and maybe thus you saw more potential there. Thanks for the video.
Hey! Glad you liked the video. You're exactly right for why Autumn was higher than Aron. They are pretty close but Autumn leads to a few more decision points and more game actions IMO.
Colonel Autumn is very fun, especially because Orzhov is very good at consistent token generation. Mine's a midrange aristocrats/beatdown deck, hoping to average one legendary drop a turn and exploit every one of them, hitting hard with those while aristocrat drain slowly ensures life advantage.
Denethor also has a place in this deck! Not a great/fun commander yeah, but very playable in the 99 for consistency. Same with Edgar, Charmed Groom. Sac him to exploit, then get more explotation fuel. It's great!
Hey! I'd love to see your list. I def want to pick some of these new cards up for Ratadrabik or make a legend pile with him. I didn't realize how many freaking sweet Orzhov legendary matters commander there were
The clue/spirit teysa is a lot of fun
She seems like it! A bit lower powered maybe, but def cool!
@@BRBMTGwell, with Mirkwood bats, marionette master or persuasive interrogater i can close the game pretty easy with some small set up
@@BRBMTGalso the new kambal from thunder junktion is incredible since every single investigate trigger his second ability
@@BRBMTGbenny bracks is a super good draw engine
@@BRBMTGas sac outlets we have bartolomé, krark clan ironworks for example
my friend owns a General Kudro deck, and it slaps face often unfortunately. he's VERY powerful and hard to deal with if you don't have constant removal.
Simic next? I have a shockland waiting for a home
I was going to be doing Gruul next but I can jump to Simic after! ;)
@@BRBMTG I will watch both then 😀
Wouldnt Sorin be mono-black technically? Since the orzhov is in reminder text only ans that gets ignored for color identity.
Nope! MDFCs are confusing. He is BW because his planeswalker side is BW. You can tell by little color circle on the left hand side next to the type. That indicates the cards color identity.
But if he didn’t have a back side then yes, he would just be mono black.
Greasefang is really compelling, but I'm unreasonably turned off by the existence of Parhelion II. It's *such* an auto-include and *so* busted if you're able to cheat it out early. I know you could always just...not run it...and maybe that's what I should do, actually! It's just so obviously a house in this deck, I wish I could ignore it.
You could always make a pile of vehicles you shuffle in at random each game! That way it isn’t always in the deck but when you do hit it, it’s fun!
My buddy does that with Atla Pilani and creatures. And they once hit Kiki-jiki and zealous conscripts randomly. The salt disappears when it’s RNG like that.
Gruul next!
It was actually next on the list! Just wanted to finish up the Black X pairs :)
I love the idea of the video but unfortunately can't really get through it. I think I understand the vibe you're going for is like those people that rank whatever in rankmaker on twitch with their live chat bouncing off ideas and doing some back and forth, and in that context, going for the whole one-take, live reading totally works. Mistakes happen ofc but you get the live take and some discussion as to why it's that ranked and all that, so the live format just works. But here there's no chat, the fumbling, the fast reading, the editorial mistakes of bits repeating... It all just comes off as ''didn't want to bother editing, this was just for fun'' which, granted, I totally understand. It's just not for me and I thought I might mention it just in case that'd be a marker for improvement if it happens for others too. I sincerely hope you continue producing stuff and can't wait to see how your channel evolves! Cheers!
Hey! I really appreciate the feedback on this and I agree 100% with you. When I started the series with Dr. Who, I never expected it to pick up. Then it kept doing well each time, despite me thinking the time before as purely a fluke.
I was talking to another creator this morning about dialing in a lot of the aspects of this and even talked about writing my thoughts out for each card ahead of time so it is a little less rambly. And I'm still on the fence about reading out what the card does. I think that stays but with more takes, I can make it A LOT better quality. I've always been a fast talker, but it isn't live content, so I can adjust for that, like I do in some of my normal videos.
These videos are 100% kinda thrown together in an afternoon, but that was the original purpose of them. But I think with a little extra work, they can become much better quality and I really hope you stay around and check out when the next one comes out to see those improvements. It will either be Gruul or the Duskmourn commanders.
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave feedback on this video. I do this because I really love Magic, and when people give productive criticism I really try to take it to heart.