These Are The Most Built Commanders From Lost Caverns of Ixalan!
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2023
- I took a dive into Lost Caverns of Ixalan and found the three most popular commanders from the set. I break down why each is so popular and the coolest aspects of each. The big question is, what deck from Ixalan are you building? Is it focused around one of the creature types from our first visit to Ixalan or is it focused on a new theme introduced with the Lost Caverns?
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Fun fact! With Indominus Rex as your commander, you can't give it a double-strike counter!
What? Why?
@@bantxc5616because the only cards that give double strike counters are red and white.
Wait what? That’s actually really cool
All creatures in Sultai that get double strike get it through an ability that checks SBAs and requires met conditions, or exiles cards from graveyards to get keywords.
It literally says on the card that you can. Am I missing something? Or is it a joke I'm not getting.
Built an Historic Brawl deck on Arena with Ojer Axonil as Commander. I like it
I wish we could get ranked Historic Brawl on Arena
Indominus rex seems like it would be good for a reanimator sub theme.
Ojer Axonil was definitely my favorite Legend in the set and i was surprised to see at number1!
Me too since he is trash compared to Solphim or Torbran
@@DUxMORTEM 3 different types of decks going on that can work alongside one another.
Torbran simply adds 2 additional damage across the board, no matter the damage type. On average, Torbran decks will do less direct damage, and instead simply care about doing damage period to anything. Cards like Stuffy Doll and Brash Taunter really do work in these types of decks. Deal X+2 damage to either creature, reflect it back to an opponent with another +2 added on. (More based around a single opponent getting damaged hard while the others get less done to them simultaneously.)
Solphim doubles non-combat damage and doesn't care about the color of the damage source. These types of decks have to worry about multiple instances of doubling/tripling and the opponent getting to choose how damage is doubled. On average, the damage done to each opponent at the same time is less, and more concentrating on taking 1 opponent out at a time in a swift manner. (More overall damage to one opponent, but less to each than Axonil.)
Axonil specifically cares about non-combat damage from red sources and is more combined with things that deal a small amount of damage to every player or more often every opponent compared to the other 2 Commanders which put less stress on "Each Player/Every Opponent" type effects than Axonil does. The deck also finds ways to pump Axonil's power, which is something neither of the other decks care as much about.
Ojer Axonil might be trash to you, but it's a different deck than the other 2 Mono Red Burn Commanders you mentioned. Torbran is damage period, via combat or non-combat. Solphim only doubles non-combat damage and will do less damage on average to each opponent, while doing more to a single target than Axonil.
@@SmaugUKA the issue axonili cannot use any other damage amplifiers as your opponents choose in what order they apply and if the modifier is higher than 4 power than axon does nothing where both torbran and solophim still care and thus he will be outpaced by other decks very quickly. Then their is the matter of his lack of protection that solophim does.
Basically your getting plus 1 damage from each source over torbran for a commander who then forfeits any other damage or you can run solophim for any damage of 2 or greater and get the same results with a commander who actually has built in protection
As a person who plays a motored CEDH deck with both of those two I can tell you from experience axon is good in casual and that's absolutely all he does is be the more casual version of the other 2
@@DUxMORTEM I've seen plenty of Axonil cEDH decks and game play showing the deck is easily cEDH viable and able to win. I do agree however that Axonil is more fun at Casual to above Casual than it is cEDH.
I'm building an Owen and Blue deck now. It's been a lot of fun searching for whatever weird counters I can find in Magics history.
I'm just glad no one in my pod plays Slug decks
I've been making Uchbenbak Skeleton Tribal, before they release a GOOD skeleton tribal commander.
Indominis is rad as all hell, I NEED to make a deck off of it. Pantlaza is probably only popular because it came in a precon, but it's also very fun. My favorite commander, though, is Ian Malcolm, Chaotician. Very wild, very fun.
Nice to know that my Soverign Okinec Ahau deck isn’t one of the most popular commanders, I’m less likely to run into it thankfully
Pantlaza vs War Doctor in Commander is flip of a coin who kills who the fastest.
Been upgrading the Pantlaza pre-con with some good stuff. Off the top, added the new Ghalta, Gishath, and the new green god. It’s gonna be nutty.
I helped a friend build an Ojer Axonil deck. Probably the strongest deck I've built.
INDORAPTOR!
Pantlaza has shifted our entire meta for my pod. Back to the times of excessive board wipes and stax pieces to keep it in check.
I love having brawl matches where it's just Pants Deck va Pants deck and we both have collectively one brain cell.
I keep getting targeted on my pods, and I just restarted playing MTG and pantlaza is just amazing lol
I was lucky enough to grab a Veloci-ramp-tor precon and have been upgrading it. It kicked sooo much ass sooo fast! ❤
If you build pantlaza just remember that you can basically cast every 4 or less drop in your deck with just emiel and mana echoes
Me scrolling through YT shorts while building an mtg deck... With Ojer Axonil as the commander.
I feel really called out...
Built a indominus deck, he’s ridiculous and and a great voltron style with control elements
Axonil, Mayhem, Drakuseth deck looking mad sexy rn
Someone in my playgroup was playing the velociramptor deck and didn’t fully read the card, so they missed the fact it only triggers once each turn. And I didn’t realize until after he filled his board with stuff
My poor boy Mycotyrant got demoted to chatterfang and ghave support
I’m pretty sure ojer axonil and indominous Rex alpha are up here because they were revealed before spoiler season
Ghala stampede tyrant is my fav commander from this set
Obligatory Dino joke
"Time to get Jurassic-ed"😃
Currently building a deck around Pantlaza.
Kind of surprising to see the god with that many decks. We have seen a new four mana burn commander almost every single set this year, and the archetype feels more and more like boros equipment with each commander being only slightly different. But they’re all fun and I’ll never complain when I play against them
I have ojer Axonil in my NIV mizzet parun deck comboing with ophidian eye or curiosity
Indominus Rex is a LCI commander
I LOVE Pantlaza
I’ve been slapping my group around with the Dino precon and they aren’t having fun and start playing heavy counters to my deck now 😅
I made the indominus rex making ojer now just trying to figure out which version to run
If people like indominus rex, alpha i suggest you also check out kathril, aspect warper from the ikoria commander decks
Bag of holding may help improve indominus rex
Rule zero’d a 5 color mutate indominus and it’s been hella fun.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen more Ojer Taq decks. Mine is wrecking the place.
I wish the jurassic world crossover would be in MTGA, I'm too broke for the actual cards😢, but pantlaza is still super fun
Quick question. If I want the face commander from a precon why do I have to choose from the thick card or the alternate art? Why can't I just get the original face commander that comes with each deck?
The panlaza dinosaur.
im gonna be using etali cause using other peoples cards is so good!
those half-blue pips on Indominus Rex stop him from going in my Skullbriar and it makes me sad.
I love how you actually try to pronounce the names on these cards.
This card gets +1/+1 for each name with "tl" soft "x" or soft "j" that appears in a name. If there is only one vowel double that many tokens.
Can’t decide between Gishalth or Pantlaza as my Dino commander
Use gishath in the 99, if it plays out right you can pick up ghalta and plant a bunch more dinos on the board. Works well in tandem with bonehead dracosaur. I'll upgrade mine with quintorious kand and ojer taq to take advantage of token creation. Then just need to grab invasion of moag or ozolith, the shattered spire to beef them up.
Indominus is basically a discard version of Kathril. Imagine running Indominus as your commander to discard keywords, then draw into Kathril to copy the keywords in your graveyard for a double play
Edit: forgot he’s blue so it would require a 4 color deck or a consistent way to cast mana of any color
I want to do jeff goldblum deck
I feel like people are missing the mark on Malcolm as I think he's gonna end up as one of the top tier new commanders from this set.
So no Xolotoyac, the smiling flood???
Pantlaza isn’t once per turn if you have roaming the throne. Once you get RT out you’ve basically won.
No but I built Mycotyrant, if he isn't popular yet, he's going to be.
Oh cool they basically made soulflayer a commander
Still believe in Torbran superiority
Other Axonili is the best burn commander we ever seen?
My man forgot Solphim and Torbran exist, both of which also work with any damage doublers because Axon doesn't.
Lmao this is a dinosaur rayami first of the fallen!! (Rex alpha)
Kutzil
Uhhh, what about gishath suns a avatar? 7/6 vigilance trample hast. When it does damage look at the top x card of your library where x is the damage done. Any dinos you draw you can play instantly for free. I go gishath into my ghalta stampede tyrant. Gisath gets dinos from deck to board and when it hits ghalta and gets played. All the creature in your hand get played for free too
I was thinking the same thing. I actually played against a commander deck with the pantlaza as the commander and found it way easier to beat than gishath. He's just more explosive and forces you to deal with him
Lol failed with kathril then made indominus😂
Not sure where you get the info from, but its incorrect lol. Hakbal is higher than the crappy red god
Owen Grady and blue in the corner all sad
I still prefer imodane than ojer
Ojer is good but not Torbran good.
No saproling tribal decks 😢
Talks about a standard set...then uses a crossover set... What?
You did miss something with Pantlaza is that it's Discover ability only triggers once each turn
He said its once per turn.
Unless you blink/bounce it. Then you can get multiple triggers :D
@@LobstaLegs then you're using precious slots in your deck for blink effects when that could be used for other cards like Chain Reaction, Blasphemous Act, Natural Order, Worldy Tutor, or interactions, you might as well turn the deck into a blink deck, not a dinosaur tribal deck
Pantlaza is so boring to play against. It's such an autopilot deck that always does the same thing. Incredibly consistent, I guess, but also incredibly lame.
I put…axonil in my goblin deck…with city on fire and Leyline of combustion…
Although still a good combo, just be aware that for damage modifications, the enemy affected gets to pick the order that it applies.
Assuming no other modifications, it might go like this::
So Leyline procs (2 damage), the opponent can decide to have city of fire activate first (2x3=6 damage) and then axonil (6>4 so 6 damage).
This would mean Axonil's effect wouldnt actually do anything since the damage you're dealing with just leyline and city of fire is 6 and Axonil's base power is 4.
Leyline and City on fire still work great to allow Axonil to transform back from a land after he dies but just be aware of this in case you were expecting to get away with 12 damage instead of 6
(Ps. No one actually remembers this rule anyway and often just dont care so you probably could actually still get away with the 12)
@@ancientpiguardian7462 it does have impact tremors too