Top 10 Three Color Commanders
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- While Commander is undeniably one of the most, if not the most popular way to play Magic the Gathering in the current day, it’s also the one with the most options for decks to play. Three color decks in commander often find success in the format given their access to a wide variety of colors without getting as greedy on mana fixing as four and five color decks. Given the lack of a structured meta and the wide variety of options for what your commander is, it’s subjective to say just what commanders are the “best” in the format. In this case we’re looking both at statistics of how many decklists for these commanders exist as well as their success at more competitive tables to determine what three color commanders are the best in the format.
Script by Uncrowned Jules
Editing by Pumkinswift
├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10. Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer: (0:25)
9. Hinata, Dawn-Crowned: (2:12)
8. Nekusar, the Mindrazer: (4:50)
7. Thalia and the Gitrog Monster: (7:02)
6. Isshin, Two Heavens as One: (9:20)
5. Tasigur, the Golden Fang: (11:14)
4. Tivit, Seller of Secrets: (13:31)
3. Chulane, Teller of Tales: (15:47)
2. Korvold, Fae Cursed King: (17:43)
1. Animar, Soul of Elements: (19:33)
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(Just a note, we have people who actually know the game very well making the scripts for this channel. As the owner of the channel (Theduellogs/hirumaredx) is a total newbie to the game.)
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I'd suggest a series on nicknames in the game. You've done well sprinkling terms like milling or mana rock throughout, but i'd be cool to que up you explaining where the multicolour nicknames came from. Learning that the names of guilds of Ravnica were where the two colour nicknames my friends used came from helped catch me up on years of setting and meta i'd missed after years away from the game.
The three color pairs come from the shards of the plane Alara, which was when they created identities for the first five color trios, and the tribes of tarkir when they did it for the last 5
AmmiO2 has a rather good video about that specifically if you want one now
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Top 10 Three Color Commanders
No Edgar Markov
trust me the 3/3 samurai that relies on attack triggers being present is better
Right?!?! Where's the King of Vampires?!?!
Very happy to see Tivit!
People underrate him in casual but he is a fucking house, One of the strongest commanders in the format for sure
I think the video title should specify that you're listing one Commander for each 3-color combination, because the sheer number of busted Sultai commanders could fill a top 10 list nearly on their own.
@XCodes oh absolutely, Tivit and Inalla are BUSTED to hell. I took my Obscura precon and turned it into a Tivit deck, with overhauls being done recently. Love me some Tivit Pillow Fort
@@XCodes Absolutely not, if we're going simply by strongest than Muldrotha, Yarok, Edgar, and Windgrace clear pretty much everything on this list other than Chulane/Korvold.
@@XCodes Tell me you've never played Commander before without telling me you've never played Commander before.
Edgar is banned in some Commander variants because he's too oppressively good, and he's the poster child for why Eminence was a terrible design choice. Windgrace and Yarok decks thrive off landfall and ramp, as does Muldrotha to a lesser degree; they come down early, can easily be re-cast if removed, and generate insane amounts of value.
@HakureiIllusion If you're talking casual then sure Edgar can be very oppressive, but for cEDH which this video is about, Edgar is going to get completely shitstomped lol
wrong as tivit is objectively the strongest commander ever printed
Not sure if this is a EDH or an cEDH, if cEDH The cEDH grixis commander is surelly wrong Inalla, cormela and Kess are surelly more used (excluding partners ofc)
Also, if you conseider the number of decks in edhrec, you must remember age of the commanders. for exemple, Sauron Dark Lord already have almost 5k and only have around 1 month
As a huge fan of boondock saints... it's "Rock-o" not "Roocoo" 😢😂
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I really enjoy commander top 10 because that is the format im most interested in :)
Great video that I was hoping to see Saruman of many colors :)
It would be interesting to see a video on ten commanders with the most interesting abilities for their color combos (i.e. Ratadrabik of Urborg)
Maybe you forget about Derevi. One of the early precon and still one of the best bant commander. You can go many ways with her.
My favorite three coloured commander is "Kalamax, the Stormsinger". I don't know what it is, but that spellcopying dinosaur caught my closest attention the moment I came across his existence. His power can even go up to infinity, which is really fun to play. And the amount of value he can get you is impressive with the right card combinations.
Kalamax is so underrated! There's nothing like sweeping the whole game by repeatedly copying the same instants!
14:56 Notably for Tivit, his trigger only goes on the stack for combat damage instead of just attacks. Not a huge difference but can be even more tricky if an opponent has any fliers whatsoever (preventing an even spread of commander damage)
It does make it more difficult, but you will certainly find a way to produce enough artifacts or find enough removal after taking so many turns
Nekusar still kicking around and holding strong 10 years later. A true lich!
When i got into magic in college Nekusar was my first commander!
Amazing!!!!🎉🎉🎉
What was the bame of the riku of two reflections precon?
Can you do one about universe beyond cards like necons or the walking dead
Man I want to see a video on the 5 color commanders now
My two current deck builds revolve around Korvold and Riku. The Riku deck uses cards from Prismari and Quandrix, as well as Arcane Bombardment, Double Vision, and Niv-Mizzet to cast endless free spells. I'm trying to find a right balance for it and Storm, since the Storm mechanic relies on spells being cast, and copied spells are added to the stack, but not cast.
The Korvold deck uses Gyome, Hoarding Giant, Tireless Tracker, and Academy Manufactor to essentially let me cast him for free, as well as search through my deck, and stack my graveyard, and gain life as a bunch of free sacrifice outlets for him to grow. He's a very hungry dragon.
The reason why I did this was because I wanted to expand my style away from just Dimir and Orzhov, so challenged myself to build a deck in every color identity. So I made 32 drafts and am build them as I go.
It’s a little wonky what the criteria for strongest or top is in this context. In terms of deck performance Innala is way more powerful of a deck than Nekusar. At the high end of EDH power level you definitely don’t want your opponents getting free cards every turn for only the cost of one life. Elsha of the Infinite is also conspicuously absent here.
Elsha of the Infinite isn't a busted Jeskai commander like the Narsets are imo
@@jayredharpstudios9672 I agree in a vacuum that Narset is more busted. That said, of the two, Elsha had genuine success as a cEDH deck for a period of time because of how it easily breaks Sensei’s Top. Narset wasn’t really in the meta to my knowledge
Surprised you didn’t cover Oloro
I have this idea for an Isshin deck and its not infinite attacks. The idea was to do a lot of Hissing Miasma and Lightmine Field type effects with some other effects like Gideon Jirua where he forces people to attack him/me. It would be like a Goad deck but I want to be attacked.
Goad Isshin sounds pretty neat. I haven't made it myself but Exalted Isshin could also be pretty neat as you attack with one monstrous guy since the exalted abilities double.
Gotta be real I was hopin for my fave commander Miirym
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another benefit of tasigur is that he's 6 mana without delve, meaning you can use him as neoform fodder into hullbreaker horror, protean hulk, or razaketh, three of the best win enablers in the format.
how is tasigur a 3-color commander? rofl
@@illiji915 I thought Black, Green and blue was Tasigur's colour identity whilst playing as a commander. But what do I know?
@@jamesheyworth4370 are the rules different? I haven't played in a while and the tasigur he was showing is mono black so he would be a mono black commander?
@@illiji915 Another example is:"Golos, Tireless Pilgrim" Is a 5 colour commander because Golos uses all 5 colours in an activation cost making Golos' "idenity" 5 colours.
@@jamesheyworth4370 but tasigur doesn't use anything but black? I can understand the ruling for Golos but not tasigur
was wondering if my favorite commander would be here, Miriiym!
I remember putting an infinite damage combo in my animar deck that required ancestral statue and terror of the peaks to deal 3 damage infinitely. I wish I hadn't taken him apart.
Battlefield Thamaturg did the same thing for Curse of the Swine back when they were in standard. But it saw little play. I pissed a lot of people off at the table with that combo 😂😂😂
your list is interesting, there are other commander options i would had thought were "top tier" and while i feel like "Play to win" did not cover certain commander options like Aminatou i feel like your list is more based on EDHREC's "Most popular" list than it is "top tier" list. The Luminous Enigma for example is seemingly dominating Cedh right now thanks to Endurance.
I can not see her being a dominant force in Cedh
@jayredharpstudios9672 Tayam is easily the best abzan commander, it's taken down several cEDH tournaments at this point.
@@BLHJ I still disagree on that even if she has done well in tournaments, I had a deck with her as the commander and it was far too slow and clunky even in edh
@@jayredharpstudios9672she is statistically the best abzan commander - it’s a consistent, resilient combo deck that can easily pivot into a more midrange/stax plan
Kinda surprised to see no Zur the Enchanter on this list
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15:10 white gives Anointed Procession, black gives Disciple of the Vault, others ETB/LTB artifact effects may let you win in other ways
Other than "part N" of your videos, I would like to see the "top commander, or cards, that are very strong but need heavy build around", like Magistrate's Scepter
As a mardu main, Isshin is disgusting. Combos super well with my favorite card in Magic, Brutal Hoardchief for an 80 life point swing before damage.
How do Isshin and Brutal Hordechief do that much damage without a whole bunch of creatures? You need a pretty healthy board for it to get that out of hand.
Just about to play my Animar deck at game night, I'm sure everyone at the table will agree they belong at number 1 😈
That said, I love how versatile Animar is. My deck uses them as a Mutate Voltron commander, I've seen tons of deck techs centering on the Morph mechanic, etc. They can be used to swarm the board with free artifact creatures and Eldrazi and do some infinite combos, but those are far from the only things Animar can do. I love that you never know exactly what you're getting with an Animar in the command zone.
I might not put Animar at #1, but definitely at the top. #2 at worst. I've lost to this pesky commander too many times, but now, it only happens when I cannot draw my removal of when other players don't follow suit and try to instantly remove it. For me, based on games lost against the following commanders, or games won if I was playing them, I would likely say Chulane is #1, Animar #2, and Korvold #3, and Iishin #4.
Love my Hydra tribal with Animar in the command zone. So fun to just cruise until Animar has 4-5 counters and then puke a bunch huge hydras on the field at once.
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Jetmir is sad he didn't make the list.
Rocco is amazing the best toolbox commander
So sad for Edgar
When did Duel logs get into Magic
Sitting here with 5 colour omnath....i shall play all the three colours
Ghave, Guru of Spores is one of the strongest. You can build a deck that has a ridiculous amount of options for infinite combos.
Not necessarily fun, but very strong.
Sharuum is another powerful combo commander, with artifact shenanigans (which are very easy to pull off, and keep getting stronger) to boot.
And if they meant cEDH, they should have specified; it's practically an entirely different format.
Playing Nekuzar just tells the other players on the table "Take me out first or die!" :P
My Nekusar deck is group bear hug with no wheels.
Nekusar nice
I played against Nekusar deck while i was playing Liesa, Shroud of Dusk. I've never been pinged for 1 damage when doing anything as much as i was that game. Draw a card? Lose some life, cast a spell? Lose more life.
So, hold on - did you actually hit the best Commander from each 3-color combination? Because the only thing better than a Top 10 list, is one with maximum diversity. 💥😎💥
Man i for sure thought number 1 was going to be leovold. People don’t remember how ridiculous he was before being banned.
Nekusar, the Mindrazer's effect doesn't matter if you have Queza, Argur of Agonies on the battlefield
I think Rocco is pronounced rock-o
Came here to say the same thing. Roe-co really irked me for some reason.
Over the years I have played some of these guys but Surrak Dragonclaw has been my favorite three color commander, Oops all Creatures so no countering my stuff.
I haven't seen a lot of them in a while either.
What about Planeswalker, like Dihada? 😎✌️
Only legendary creatures can be commanders
@@burner555 nope...
@@burner555certain Planeswalkers are legal commanders, Dihada is one of them.
Tivit + Mondrak + Anointed Procession + Academy Manufactor + Time Sieve + Tamiyo’s Journal + Illusion of Choice + Expropriate + Mechanized Production/Azor's Elocutors = GROTESQUE shenanigans.
If your table lets you get all of that out, they deserve whatever is about to happen to them.
Edgar Markov?
Very surprised to not see Muldrotha on here. Absolutely nuts card.
Muldrotha is Meren of Clan Nel Toth on steroids.
No Zur?
Me when I get 16 basic lands in one turn off of sword of the animist in my isshin deck
No Edgar?
Wow, Boros would be so good if it had
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7:14 deathstrike hmm
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No one mentions how isshen is the ultimate goad deck 😈
No kess? No cormela? Feel sad
Honestly, for this kind of video I'd just either pick the most used or make it a straight CEDH top 10. You can't just translate CEDH success to standard EDH viability due to the different playstyle. CEDH decks might be strong, but they are still up against three (or more) opponents. And bringing those decks to a more relaxed table means becoming the archenemy, and you either can outplay all of them or end up last.
I'd say you probably missed yarok the desecrated, it's better than tasigur and better than isshin whom you specifically mentioned for his doubled triggers
I can't think of a single sultai commander minus partners that would be better than Tasigur. Possibly 1 mana commander that reuses resources at instant speed? Yeah no, sorry, but Yarok is a joke in comparison.
I play both. You're wrong. Yarok is too slow and doesn't do anything alone. Meanwhile, Tasigur is a value engine alone that you can cheat price on. Tasigur is much stronger.
@@davidrosenberg9615 both have obvious weaknesses. Tasigur dies to graveyard hate and becomes useless, plus it's political which is never a good thing. there are specific cards that can hinder Yarok's strategy.
@kennellfrederick4367 That isn't at all how Tasigur works. Tasigur is an infinite mana outlet in the 3 best colors that allows you to pick up your deck. It also cheats on mana cost and can get past commander tax.
No partners? Also Rocco has tournament results, most others on this list do not. I genuinely don't understand these rankings. Nekusar isn't even in the top like 20 for Grixis.
i feel like kess should of been on this list considering her popularity in cedh
This should have been either just casual or just cEDH. Combining them is very awkward
There’s no Edgar Markov? How?
Did he just say “roko” lmfao
Narset? Zur? Both much more viable cEDH commanders than Isshin
I have a feeling that they were going for one commander for each color combo so that likely explains the lack of Narsets
I have a feeling that they were going for one commander for each color combo so that likely explains the lack of Narsets
The Narsets shouldn't be below Hinata. Hinata is an interesting design to be sure, but it's not nearly explosive enough.
The Narsets rely on attacking while Hinata doesn't
where my bro zur the enchanter at
was this list intentionally formatted to only be one entry for each wedge/shard, or was that a fluke. i feel a couple coulor combo's are more stacked than others, so having the even spread did catch me off guard.
also, to new players:while all of these are fun builds, dont feel limited to any of these. build what you want. dont focus on being the most competitive or anything. focus on having fun. if you end up getting into CEDH at a later time, and enjoy that level of play, great. cause that level of play can be super fun. But focus on where you are having fun first and formost
THere should be one shard for each, each color combination is powerful and none are better than the other.
@@kennellfrederick4367They're not perfectly balanced, though. There are some *very* powerful options missing, like Kess, Zur, and Derevi. Meanwhile, Hinata has no business being top 10.
@@davidrosenberg9615 while I think there are obviously multiple powerful ones in each color combo and some are therefore missing. Each color does have a broken commander in each. I don't buy that certain color combos are stronger than others. You can find a broken commander for each wedge shard and it would be legitimate.
Top Ten Three Colour Comanders? You meant The Top *ONE* Naya, Bant, Jund, Grixis, Esper, Mardu, Abzan, Sultai, Jeskai and Temur Commander. The top one of its colour identity:
*Cough* Kaalia *Cough*.
Tayam should have been in this list. He has been winning a ton of tournaments
Huh? How does that work? I don't see anything busted about the card, does it just flip hatebears into play?
Was sad to see Kaalia of the Vast didn’t make it. Guess she isn’t cEDH good though. I’m one of those filthy casual players and she was my first commander ever
She sees more cEDH play than several of the decks listed here
@@markscruggs8346 lmao no she doesn't
@tonysmith9905 Kaalia won Mox Masters February this year lmao
I thought it was pronounced like “Rocko” and not like “Oko”
Zur the enchanter in the right deck can be very op. Free enchantment with mana 3 or less every time you attack can snowball. I think my best run I had every card I own have hexproof. I had hexproof. Non combat damage was negated and I gained any life I would have lost. Make the other players commanders unplayable and no player could attack me unless they payed 24mana per card attacking (sphere of safety with copy enchantment). Then u add slow instant win card and make everyone hate you.
Tivit has overtaken Zur in CEDH recently. They’re both incredibly powerful, though.
Sounds like a weak Zur deck then. If you're not immediately grabbing Necropotence then the deck is most likely not cedh ready.
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thoguh
and animar is still cheap money wise which is weird to me
No Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm?
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm?
The disrespect to Kaalia 😮
This voice... I know i have heard it somewhere else.
You know I started to notice a double-edged sword effect with videos like this. New players or inexperienced ones will see videos like this draw attention to the most popular legendary creatures in the format and use that as justification to build them and bring it to their next casual Commander night. Even including the busted combos that they content creator mentioned and blaming them for its inclusion. Obviously that's not the fault of the person who made the video but it's overdone seen people repeat the same list of popular legendary creatures you can run as a commander
Okay, but a new player isn't going to drop 4k$ on a CEDH Tivit deck. At least I hope not xD And some one that's been playing for a while should already know the difference between casual and competitive.
I expected Miirym and Kaalia of the Vast
Neither are strong enough to hang in CEDH
Kess is ABSURDLY better than Nekusar. He is just more popular.
Kess and Jeleva are the same. They are both the same storm deck. That's the problem with adding cedh decks. They don't really build around the commander. I can't tell, but it seems like this list focuses on decks that build around the commander.
I don't think that's how you pronounce Rocco..
He does it on purpose to engagement farm people like you and people like me who respond to you
Actually, Tivit uses they/them
No zur the enchanter is odd IMO. He is one of the two reasons esper is hated so much.
Putting Hinata only on 9th place shows either not enough plays against her, or intended displacement so less people will run her as Commander.
Not having mirym is kinda an L definitely stronger then some of these commanders just by the sheer amount of dragons and effects that could be produced from it
I feel like it's one representative from each color combination and based on popularity. So the most popular commander from each color.
Zur? Inalla? Kess? Kaalia? Tayam? Bruh
Prossh>korvold
Prossh is so freaking fun
Cater hoof? cmon man read the cards properly lol
Isshin is way too strong for its cmc. They made wulfgar like what a year earlier almost the same stats and oh boy he has melee but is 2 cmc higher
Instantly mad you think his name isnt “Rock-o”, you clearly are not Italian 😂