The 7 Most Fun Commanders (And Their Decks) Part 2
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- čas přidán 7. 05. 2024
- We go over some of the MOST fun commanders in the entire format!
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The image of Atla Palani just chucking eggs at enemies is hilarious, thank you for that.
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin deserves more love honestly. the way that the deck plays is so unique, and Ob is such a strong payoff for pinging your opponents.
Honestly one of my favorite decks I run right now.
So busted with All Will Be One
@@Hagrites yeah i run it as a last resort but smashing face with a massive demon is much more fun imo
My pod calls him Ob Noxious.
It goes infinite very easily
Having a pool of big breatures to randomly choose from for every game is a genious idea. I will steal that for my Kykar polymorph deck!
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU TWO WERE CASUALLY IN DGD's NEW VIDEO!! (Yes that needed to be in all caps.)
IT WAS SO AMAZING! DGD is one of my (Mia's) favorite bands so we were so happy to be able to be in their new video!
Ratadrabik. Sooooo many legends!!!!!! A consolation for three straight years of WotC falling asleep on the “legendary” key on the Magic Keyboard.
The Ring mechanic makes him sooo broken too lol
Straight out of a Therapy session and right into a NN video? LETS GOOOOO
I've been playing Lonis for a long time now, and it is one of my favorite decks. It makes every pod more fun when I pull it out. The Antiquities War and Mechanized Production are the only real "Win Conditions" in the deck.
Atla Palani and Lonis mentioned! Two of my favorite commanders ever! My Atla deck is very similar to the one you mentioned, it has a 70-card base and a stack of 100 creatures that I take 30 of at random to shuffle into the deck. It’s so much fun!
I made an ancient copper dragon token with mirror march, made all my treasures into ancient copper dragons with brudiclad. I'm my obeka, brute chronologist deck. Everyone liked that.
I wish I could have seen that play. That’s just incredible. 🤯
Do it with Smaug tokens also!
@@xaxscratchxax926 😈
If i were to build antla paloni, maskwood nexus would be crazy in it cuz itd turn your entire board into eggs making opponents board wipes useless or maybe even playing every single creature if you have a infinite way of making creature tokens to then sacrifice
Asinine Antics with Bruidiclad is insane because all of those roles are tokens you control
Atla Palani is one of my favorites because it’s so easy to tune up into terrifying (few creatures in it which are all Eldrazi or super powerful creatures) or tune down by adding more creatures with fun effects to make it more random
Mr House is the commander of my deck "Dice Dice, Baby." All the D&D jank, a few artifact support cards from 40k & Dr Who, toss in an Unfinity Attractions supplemental deck, and we got us a killer casino experience to bring to the pod. I can even look or play the part for added surrealism.
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@@NitpickingNerdsy’all gotta come out with a video on how that came to be haha, so cool.
Pantlaza is by far my most favorite Deck. Its the most timmy deck i have but sometimes timmy runs some pretty good cards that leads him to outrageous victories
Plus, he’s a Dinosaur. Awesome by default. 😊
I love my pantlaza deck! It's not the most original, but it is still fun to discover
Fantastic recommendations
Always excited for an NN vid
Amazing video, this format is way better. The past video was not easy to follow
pantlaza, when given the ability to give creatures flash, and cards that flash toughness like stoneskin, you can get a lot of value with the dino
I've have a lot of fun building my second doctor "grouphug" deck. I feel like he also somewhat meets the criteria of me benefitting the most. Right now I'm focusing on a Ryan Sinclair version as I didn't want to combo win with Donna Noble. It's all about monarch(thinking of adding initiative), pillowfort, and amassing power in a faceup way. I want it to be like a kingdom slowly getting ready for war.
The Leela version is pretty consistent if you add more forced draw cards but definitely is a bit weak as the politics just dont work out.
The vislor deck seems like it could be a blast but honestly probably better off doing something like the 12th doctor and giving the last copy away through another card.
I might just go the 9th doctor/clara direction eventually.
I'l love to see yall tackle a doctor who deck!
Svella is one of my favorite fun commanders
I recommend The Peregrine Dynamo. It’s colorless and fairly open-ended as a commander :) another one that went under the radar is Tawnos, Solemn Survivor. Difficult to build, but it rewards you with a unique gameplay
You guys in the new dance Gavin dance video was a pleasant surprise!!! Are you two fans of dgd, or was it just a gig?
DGD is one of my (Mia) favorite bands!
@@NitpickingNerds that's dope!!! Love the new songs. Excited for a new era!
25:57 - Does Passionate Archeologist work with Tibalt? It specifies commander creatures and that "this creature deals damage", so I thought it wouldn't work once you've casted him as a planeswalker.
Hi, just fyi a modified Atla Palani + Mirror Entity can turn through your whole deck and with an old Eldrazi Titan go pseudo infinit. Because of that possibility she has become a kos commander in every pod i've seen her.
I have so much fun with lonis
Also brudiclad is so enjoyable in a janky sort of way for doing cloning shenanigans. I really like to combo him with esix to make a bajillion clones of whatever creature I want. I have both brudiclad and esix in the 99 of my Rashmi and Ragavan deck and I usually just use them to make a bunch of treasure tokens with her ability. Lonis is also in the 99 of that deck too because brudiclad can also get me a bunch of clue tokens
Pantlaza is fun, can confirm.
Lonis is very fun to play as generally, so long as your opponents aren't continually wrathing, is able to remain under the radar quite well until you are able to pull some wacky plays as well as winning out out nowhere. Though often when going infinite you end up finding a wincon out of your opponents deck and playing it against them by using lonis's ability to play all permanents from their decks.
I like the idea of Lonis, to be honest. I play in a more cedh environment, but Shrieking Drake, Lonis, Intruder Alarm, and Aluren, if unchecked, you get to put all nonland permanents from all your opponents' decks into play lol. Might be a fun thing to do at some point. Throw in a sac outlet for funsies.
Care about Passionate Archeologist with Tibalt side, Backgrounds give abilities to commander creatures only, not planswalkers
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Just played in a two headed giant game at the scg con in Richmond. We were one turn off winning with commander damage from the new Gitrog (We had rogues passage). The Atla Player went infinite w a maskwood nexus and goblin bombardment. He kept sacking eggs and small creatures until he had the big dinos he wanted. Now I hate this commander and Naya lol.
I love running all 3 versions of ghalta in my pantlaza deck :3
3?
@@Davidovar34The OG Primal Hunger, Mavren and Ghalta and the LCI Ghalta.
My friend has a funny atla palani deck where its a wurms only deck so the eggs crack into wurms. He calls it his itchy bum deck
I would like to add Dino tribal with Hans Eriksson and Saffi Eriksdotter as partner commanders to this list. (I know its illegal but its fun and flavourful).
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Wow I usually hate anything blue or green cause OP but that izzet artificer is dope af
Yooo. dGd cameo was legit.
Atla palanti is kill on sight for me at this point , it’s busted in so many ways and so hard to stop once it goes. Our group had to focus it so much the owner of the deck ended up taking it apart
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What i really like about my own Kynaios and Tiro deck is that it's really liberating to play. You always get under the radar, you play your group hug pieces, and people like to have you around. What i also love to do is that towards the end of the game, when it's just me and another opponent (It happens often due to the fact that people leave me alone, and underestimate the face i can't win with this deck), i evaluate them : If they were a good sport to me throughout the game, i let him win, and if they were rude to me or other players i use my reins of power, or my approach of the second sun to win. It really spices up my games, and it's also very relaxing to not have to actually think about winning too much.
It's very nice to be able to switch off and have a kick back and relax deck haha
I wish we had more dice rolling cards from the fallout set for mr house
You can use the izzet insect god with bruidclaw
I think it's really hard to pick the most fun commander because Magic the Gathering is fun in general. There are so many great options for fun like Ghalta and her big creatures, Aragorn the uniter/optimus prime for those who love recognizable characters, and who could forget Krenko, Mob Boss with his unenending horde of 1/1 goblin tokens? With the joy of commander, there's fun for everyone!
Are there any decklists for this?
YESSSS my girl Atla Palani gettin some love!!
I wanted to mention that I find Mirror Entity to be kinda disappointing to flip into since killing my own fatties is not what I want to be doing. However, Shields of Velis Vel can't be flipped off the top and serves to crack a whole new set of monsters if that's the route you want to go. Personally, I like Eerie Interlude and friends to just dodge board wipes completely :)
Everyone and their mom made a mr house deck kinda killed it for me
I've been killed on turn 5 by a delina deck. They had a lightning greaves on 2, gadrick crown scourge on 3 and delina on 4, equipped the graves and then summoned 8 Gadrick tokens and I died
Casting an ancient Stone idol only to then pongify it yourself just for the 6/12 trample token and a 3/3 token in a Brudiclad deck 🤣
Passionate Archeologist doesn't work with Tibalt. It sais commander creatures. Tibalt isn't a creature
i have all these mana rocks that produce green that never gets used so why would i pass over the opportunity to jam them into atla palani? I still prefer ramp spells over rocks and dorks but if I need a little more ramp, I would rather do that than hatch a dork.
Brudiclad is super fun in Mishra, Eminent One
Just saw you cameo at Dance Gavin Dance new video!
I feel like people sleep on Grand Unifier as a Phyrexian Kindred Commander. She is an INCREDIBLE advantage engine. Way more fun if you’re not abusing Blink.
Brudiclad with Jace, Mirror Mage is awesome
This is the comment from a man who mains Valki-Tibalt
Bruidclaw i like it in the 99 with atla palani
I played that in jodah
Hey I don’t see Tasha the Witch Queen on this list
Also if you’re interested in the Lonis they discuss in this video, I have a cedh Lonis deck tech on my channel :)
I miss my Kwain deck, people loved the card draw until I resolved tithe and won the game with Approach. :)
By Tithe, you probably mean Smothering Tithe and not Tithe
@mrjey3434 who plays tithe in edh? I mean, it's the color identity, but how would that win me the game? Shorthand is a casual way to talk, you know?
You can choose not to draw with Kwain‘s ability tho. Or do you have your deck full of cards like Howling Mine. For that gameplan I think the double sided Heliod as commander is pretty fun (but janky).
@@CandelaNudel less flavor. Lol
@@superstarichibandid you just say this do you not play Ristic study?
Lonis & Shrieking Drake goes infinite with a ham sandwich.
Where is part one?
I honestly wouldn't find any of these commanders fun to play, but that's just me. I enjoy weird win conditions that aren't necessarily good, but are really fun to try and pull off and catch your opponents by surprise.
I normally like playing my Be’lakor demon tribal that’s very mean and full of combos, but the deck I have a 100% win rate with is my “I made this expecting it to be ultra casual” $130 Gishath deck lol. No combos, barely any protection, barely any removal, just 40 creatures and lots of ramp.
I love Atlana Palani, always funny but can get out of control with Sting or, even worse, Maskwoodnexus + Worldspine Wurm so hard. Grab something to sacrifice like Altar of Dementia and the sh*tshow is complete.
I dislike playing against Pantlaza, it's always ramp then waves of discover. Because it's ETB, killing it just gives it back to them to discover again without needing another dinosaur. So many similar builds of it on arena brawl that I've started just immediately conceding and finding a new match.
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Just here to hear "real money tax dollars"
I don’t really see a ton of distinction between Atla Palani and just going Scary Bodies w/ some Cascade setup, though.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a neat concept, but it’s not really anymore “earned” than cheating out an Apex Devastator and going “Weeeeee!”
That reminds me of one of the guys at my LGS who kept sacrificing Apex to a Phyrexian Altar, playing another big cascader, and then reanimating Apex. Only worked the one game, but sooooooo gross!
Sorry, Golgari flashback.
I still think Cascade and Discover just extends the game too long, and monopolizes the game time to that person.
Like everything in the game? Pretty normal that playing stuff makes games longer. Discover and cascade aren't that long to resolve either.
Like do you suck at making decisions? It takes me like 10 seconds tops to discover into my next card. Flip till I can cast one, cast it or keep it and put the rest on the bottom. It’s not like fetching where you always have to wait for me to shuffle my deck
@@markdziamski4859 @michaelprior1966
Okay, but you have to understand, Cascade and Discover decks tend to want to use the mechanics/trigger the commander TONS of times.
I am speaking from direct experience with piloting Yidris since it came out. People hate seeing a player cascade into 6 spells per turn to maybe just win right then. It CAN be miserable to play against such giant turns so consistently. Jodah comes to mind too...
Gotta agree with Vexy. I made a Abbadon deck where I can consistently get half a dozen cascade triggers each turn. It slows my turn down a lot and turns my turns into a show and tell session until Farewells or scoops.
I don't think so at all. It's a single action and it takes less than 10 seconds to resolve each trigger.
Doesn't Avacyn go against Atla's gameplan to want to murder as many eggs as quickly as possible?
Indestructible doesn't protect from sacrifice effects, so their example of using Goblin Bombardment still works
@@callumarcher8111 I forgot about sacrifice
I got a fun commander that should be on the list Tergrid, God of Fright i love him it’s funny to laugh at people because they can’t play the game 😊
Evil, but as a fellow tergrid player I agree
My atla palani deck has serra avatar.thats all
"Worst nest tender ever"
22:15
Only one I find fun (and I have a deck of) here is Valki. The joy of opinions and what one finds "fun". For me, pooping out creature tokens, stompy, anything combat focused isn't interesting for me. Spellslinger isn't interesting for me either. Taking people's shit, mass discard, milling people out, controlling the board/hand/graveyard, that's more my speed.
Gay Kings? It’s Gay Dads
Yikes
These decks are all fun to play but miserable to play against
lol why is pantlaza miserable? It's just big creatures
@@snek8421 Yeah, it's not like discover is a fantastic keyword and dinosaurs are some of the more powerful creatures in recent prints.
You're either the Pantz player or you haven't had the misfortune of playing against it, that precon was easily one of the best to come out in the last year.
@@callumarcher8111 It has the same weaknesses as any midrange tribal deck. It simply runs out of steam after a couple of board wipes or removal. It also has trouble facing "go wide strategies." This is my experience having borrowed my friend's precon and playing against it.
also the stock mana base is pretty lackluster, leading to pretty inconsistent rollouts for a deck that wants to ramp hard
@@snek8421 Ah so it's the latter then. There's a reason it's become one of the most popular decks so quickly, when they're well made and well run, Pantz can very quickly run away with the game if you don't answer it quickly enough.