Top 10 Most Disappointing Commander Options of 2022
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- čas přidán 18. 12. 2022
- 2022 has given us plenty of commander options to choose from which means that we are inevitably going to have plenty to consider disappointing.
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Wanna know the most ironic thing hidetsugu is the most expensive card of 2022, in it’s alt art red form at about just shy of $14k
Now I wish I bought one when I saw it online for about $400 😢
I just searched that card, and no it does not cost $14k. I've seen him for less than a dollar. But I've also seen him cost a few hundred dollars as well.
Pulled mine in the packs they gave us from being late with the heads I win Tails you lose commander.
@@Coyote_Bongwater69 look up the foil neon red varient
Squee wasn't designed for commander, it's very balanced/tuned for 1v1 play and sees play in various amounts across standard, pioneer, modern, and legacy
Urabrask's ability not having a polarizing negative actually goes with his character. Urabrask values freedom above everything else and is, in fact, at heads with his brothers and sisters. Exiling a card to play only on that turn is worse than drawing it for sure but it still affords the player the choice to play that card that turn. A very interesting way to express Urabrask's personality and virtues through how he affects the game.
The comedy here is that if you try to restrain his power with Drannith Magistrate, Urabrask becomes immediately nasty. And both can nest in an already obnoxious Winota framework.
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This depends as it hurts alot of CEDH decks but not as the commander of course
he forces topdecking which could rarely end in a discard ish effect :)
I like that flavorwise he clashes with sheoldred too :D
I should have been cheaper. If it were 4 or 3 cmc it would have been closer to the same power as the other praetors.
oskar isnt that bad. His big deal is that his effect supercedes timing rules. Opponent drops a huge board with haste? discard a damnation to your merfolk looter then nuke the board. There's lots of counter-intuitive cheese potential with it.
One I would say is in the middle of not great but not awful would be Hazezon, Shaped of Sand. It’s has some landfall synergy along with some token strategy: however theirs not enough deserts in the game (16 in total) so in order to make it worth you have to run all the deserts available in Naya. So I’m hoping we get more deserts lands or a card like Urborg or yavimaya that gives your lands a desert subtype in addition to its other types
Squee is a bad commander but a pretty cool card for the 99 I already have put it into several decks
I came here to say the same thing. Underwhelming as a commander but pretty good in the 99
What makes him so good? I think the recursion is just too bad to really function well and the token generation is just a worse legion warboss
What I was most disappointed by Urabrask’s new iteration is that the opponent’s half is such an infrequent effect. While Vorinclex and Sheoldred are affecting the opponent at any given opportunity, Jin Gitaxas “only” counters one (and specific) card a turn; though instant, and sorceries tend to be the most common forms of removal so that’s still incredibly good. In a format where card draw is so prolific that Nekusar is still a scary threat, one card per turn cycle per opponent that can still be played on that turn is not strong enough.
Easiest solution would’ve been to slap Uba Mask’s ability onto Urabrask and make it only affect your opponents instead. Probably not gonna change enough, but at least gives the card purpose
Infrequent? Urabrask’s effect happens every turn. It forces your opponent to make suboptimal plays by forcing them to either play the card they drew or lose it.
@@ComstarAgent the problem is is that's nothing compared to new Jin Gitaxis (countering removal and utility/ramp artifacts and doubling the first artifact/sorcery/instant) great inevitability and lifegain with sheoldred a super counter doubler in new vorinclex and new Elesh norn is torpor orb + panharmonicon. Every other preator has massive immediate impacts and big plays. New Urabrask is just a worse uba mask stapled to a worse Phyrexian arena. Like if his effects affected each draw (whenever you draw a card exile an additional card you may play that card until your next end step.) And stax effect for the opponents was just uba mask he'd be a significantly more praetor feeling card.
@@jmanwild87 jin costs 7, Urabrask costs 5. Im sure if Urabrask also cost 7 it would be much more punishing. Yes Sheoldred costs 4 and is nuts but i dont. Know why
@@liv9520 I'm saying I'm shocked new elesh norn doesn't cost like 7
Oskar is already CEDH level. The discard and cast effect gives all your cards flash, essentially, and there are plenty of ways to generate mana off of that. He's just very complicated to play, and kinda requires a similar playstyle to the Gitrog Monster. It's arguably too complex to play well.
As a broke, burnt out college student I relate to these commanders.
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I’m surprised the new Feldon didn’t make the list.
Also, I played Dynaheir as my first commander for Baldur's Gate prerelease. It was interesting.
It says something about the state of MtG when I only recognized two of the commanders you mentioned on this list.
imo hidetsugu is a great card. ive had him in the command zone of a big mana artifact deck and ripping big cmc cards off the top then casting them for an even bigger impact has done wonders. this card is even more insane in decks like rakdos lord of riots, kaervak the merciless, and vial smasher the fierce.
Curious as to how you would fix Urabrask to be closer in level to the other praetors? All cards your opponent draws are exiled and playable until end of turn? Opponent skips draw step? Cards are exiled and not playable? Or would you go with a different theme from impulse draw all together?
my opinion first effect is each time you would draw a card exile an additional card you may play that card until your next end step.
Whenever your opponents would draw a card(s) instead they exile that many cards from the top of their library they may play those cards until the next end step.
As a long-time Mizzix player, one commander I was truly disappointed with this year was Mizzix, Replica Rider.
So bane lord of darkness is very open ended yeah, but what if one were to use walls and such for low cast high toughness and use them as sacrificial fodder to activate bane to play large creatures or generate card value in draw power?
Squee definitely was a dubious include in my goblin deck, after a couple games I realized, mmm I’d much rather have a Legion Warboss instead of this guy.
That’s not how I viewed hidetsugu at all. I just view him as a repeatable draw to exile effect that will allow me to get treasure with prosper. Something I can do even if I had no card draw in hand left. And it’s free burn with it while I did it. Sure 1-3 damage on a single target burn isn’t amazing but it all adds up eventually.
"...well, you're an outlier." Dude, that was the funniest, most unexpected one-liners I've heard all year.
I know a guy with a zevlor deck, it is very fun
I can assure you, Kaima is not dissapointing. We have the deck in my pod, and it absolutely shreds people.
Y'all must not be that good.
I have to disagree with urabrask. I’ve won quite a few games with it in the command zone. It garnered me quite an advantage and caused others at the table to make bad decisions so they didn’t lose out on their impulse card draw.
Yeah squees recursion ability was severely downgraded, most times I would say paying the commander cost (most of the time) is more worth it than trying to cast it from the graveyard
I like Dynaheir, but yeah, not the strongest options out there. I build as something of an artifact deck with 4+ mana activated abilities.
Oskar has potential to be instantspeed loot/rummage commander. "Oh damn I don't have a counterspell in my hand, well let's do thirst for knowledge, draw 3 discard 2.. pog that's a negate I'm discarding alonside opt, I'll cast both, your thing is countered, I'll proceed to resolve opt."
Edit: NOTABLY Oskar does not make you exile those cards like these sorts of effects usually do.
You can do some heinous stuff with Oskar. Like a Thassa's Oracle with Consultation before your turn comes around.
I don't know. Squee seems nice.
Hidetsugu?? I really like the first ability in itself
Idk these cards are still good in the 99 of commander. Never really thought to even run these as the commanders.
As a commander Urabrask isn't great, however he is still a very good included to hard screw over control builds and alot of CEDH decks.
Oskar literally allows you to use Sorcery at instant speed but sure.
I'm not 100% sure how urabrask screws with cedh decks. It only replaces one instance of drawing a card with an exile. Short of sniping a single card, it doesn't do a ton.
@@CKarasu13 vampiric tutor, imperial seal. Mystical tutor all get screwed by urabrask and if that card on the top of their library is a counter spell or similar control card such as mindbreak trap or swirl of mists. They need to use it now or never get it back.
@@DUxMORTEM I don't think it's that impactful. Usually tutoring is done during an endstep, so they'd see you play Urabrask and just tutor after their draw instead.
@@CKarasu13 which is still a win as thats one less mana they have to play with during that turn. And still shuts off that draw
I know you mentioned that you would leave out the universes beyond ones but man...
Take a look at what they have done with Szarekh...
Easily the most underwhelming I own the deck and even though it's quite powerful for a precon you can see in every card how afraid they were to break out and let loose an new weird mono black artifacts archetype. 👁️👄👁️
Yeah, the new Squee sucks.
Dynaheir NOT being 5 colors was the biggest mistake.
She's a throwback to the invokers. The invokers come in all 5 colors. you can't even run all of them in that deck unless you rule 0.
I feel like its quite a hard task to balance these kind of niche commanders.
Take Satsuki, The Living Lore for example. Real fun and out of the box Commander, heavily limited by being just selesnia. If you make her 5 colors, she would just become go-shintai 2: good stuff boogaloo
so basically every interesting commander?
I didn't really catch why Perrie was so disappointing, it seems he ended up on a positive note with you
I wanted to replace my experiment kraj +1/+1 deck with Perrie, but I felt like the price/power ratio was way too much on the expensive side for a very janky counter-tribal
Could Urabrask have been better? Yes, but I'm glad it's a sleeper. An early game Urabrask doesn't feel like the target until they're empty handed, and you've ripped through half your deck.
Or, simply lock them out of the draw phase with Drannith Magistrate.
@@satansamael666 not in the command zone though.
@@lezned3000 doesn’t have to if the commander can fix it for you. Winota is perfect for this because Magistrate happens to be a human and Urabrask not.
Urabrask completely ruins combo and control players plans
Not really. Urabrask only replaces their first draw for the turn, so they can still draw tons of cards after. So, short of exiling their win condition on a turn they can't cast it(and it has to be their first draw for turn) it doesn't stop them at all.
5:28 I feel like “whenever you discard a card, you may return that card to your hand” works better
It's a worse effect, though. Oskar lets you cheat timing restrictions, which is a huge draw. All discarded spells essentially have flash.
im glad squeee isnt focused on commander everything is for commander these days and its to much
Not all legendary creatures need to be decent commanders. Who Cares?
Perri is busted af. ive seen it in action and its an impossible deck to beat. seriously
What's the problem? Remove perrie and all thats left are useless nothing counters
Urabrask is really bad.
In my Laelia he's doing fine