Commander Cards MOST Worth Buying | Cards That Are 100% Worth Their Prices (Part 5) March 2022
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- It's time to talk about the cards we feel are most worth buying for Commander this month! Which cards will rise to the top??
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Hey guys, love the video! One thing I request is that you put the names of the mentioned cards in the description so it makes it easier to buy the cards using your affiliate link!
Write the card down while watching .. or if watching on a smart phone take a pic … simple
@@chrisdomingo9143 I do but that takes time and it seems others want this too
@@chrisdomingo9143 not helpful!!!!!!! It’s just as easy for nitpicking to put in the extra work!!!
If they put the cards in the description people aren't going to watch the video which is counter productive. Just screen shot it.
Then they won't make money from people watching the video
Me: well I've spent more than I wanted to this month on magic, but I got a lot of stuff. I will just not buy things for a while and enjoy what I have.
The Nitpicking Nerds: or.... You could buy these..
Me: well there goes another $44.
Literally me 😆😆 couldn’t resist
We are sorry :) lol
One thing to mention for Chaos Warp is also that it is so much fun. I love the chaos factor it adds to the game, makes every match memorable when they get something crazy.
That is 100% true the 1% of the time it hits a crazy thing it makes them pop off
I’ve had a creature of mine get chaos warped into my dance of the dead. Mind you, I’m running Yarok as my commander. Used dance of the dead on dockside extortionist from opponents graveyard. Also had their rebel in riches from my agent of treachery. Produced 26 treasures and won on my next turn. Will never happen again. It was outstanding.
When Embercleave rotated out of standard last year, I picked up a copy for my Tana the Bloodsower/Kamahl deck. It has made me so many saprolings.
Tana loves Embercleave
HIT ME WITH THAT DECKLIST
Me too! But I grabbed a few for my commander voltron decks haha
Just yesterday I moved 3 copies of Embercleave from my bulk rares box into my staples binder.
hell yea, staple indeed
Phyrexian Reclimation is a fantastic pick up at under $4. The card is always so much better than my opponents expect both for unexpected combo potential and outright insane value.
More equipment synergy in white decks: Equip Colossus Hammer to a creature with a Luminous Broodmoth flying counter on it to make your creature lose flying
I like that spicy combo a lot!
colossus hammer, sigarda's aid, luminious broodmoth, and a sac outlet for a janky 4 card combo.
@@ryanburris8590 The flying counter is irrelevant for Broodmoths ability. It ony cares about flying. How it got flying or how flying was removed doesn't matter. It still works.
I play Defense of the Heart in Tiamat and almost ALWAYS go into Morophon & Jodah. The card DEMANDS an answer.
Oh geez that's powerful as HECK
Another Tiamat deck with Morophon and Jodah! I'll definitely look into Defense of the Heart, thanks!
How have I never seen this card it’s insane! Thanks for the tip.
Yeah it's great, I run it in Selvala, Heart of the Wilds Eldrazi, typically get Nyxbloom and then whatever Eldrazi is the most relevent to the current boardstate.
Emiel and Eternal Witness is particularly hilarious.
Back n hand... replay.
Get two more creatures with Defense of the Heart... blink Witness.
Back in hand... replay.
Repeat ad nauseum^^
The List version of Aura Shards is actually more like $4 which is like insanely cheap for how powerful it is. Now it is a slam dunk in any deck including budget
I reallllllly wish I had bought several copies of Phyrexian Altar when I got my first one for ~30. Same goes for Ashnod's Altar when it was like $5, but $10 is still worth it. Sweet combo with Slimefoot as a commander plus a token doubler!
Ayyyyy better to call it the altar of slimefoot
For real. Got a Phyrexian for $5 years ago - wish I had bought many more.
I love Embercleave. Once, a friend of mine was playing my Xenagos deck and attacked another guy with a 12/12 hasty Etali. He flipped Embercleave from the top, making Etali a 13/13 haste trample double strike and killing the poor guy ^^
One of my favorite parts of chaos warp is the fact that the owner shuffles it into their library and they put a card on the battlefield. Meaning when an opponent steals something of mine and tries to pull nonsense, I can chaos warp my guy back into my deck and I’m the one who gets to play the top of my deck. Very niche, but soooooo satisfying when it happens!
Oh, guys, I didn't know Reiterate is so low and reprinted too?! Omg, my Wort needs this :) thank you very much
Happy to help!!
Pulled a foil Nezahal out a booster box, gorgeous how it looks like actual sunlight goin through dark water.
* one more argument for chaos warp is: If the opponent gets something bigger, the whole table has this "oh no" moment and creates unforgettable memories!
* I once had a game where I played seedborn muse in my tasigur deck and the table was like "does anyone have a removal?" and they didn't, so they decided to just scoop up and play the next game haha.
* beezy: "...unti the day that I die" cherries: super sad face... lovely. keep up the good work!
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Loving all this content guys! Always been a fan but lately at work I’ve been hooked to watching/listening! U guys thinking of doing more podcasts?? I also enjoyed those
Thanks for watching and commenting, it means a lot! We are tossing the idea around, but can't say for sure yet
@@NitpickingNerds nice! Whatever you guys do I’m definitely pumped to see you guys keep growing! You both and the professor are currently my favorites lol you all seem like you’d fit in my playgroup so good 😆
Another 2 cards at always worth buying are Feldon of the third path (old border is required) and brash taunter. Two of the best red cards in commander
Man, Feldon always seems sweet but I always end up cutting him.
@@RecoveringSpartan make him the commander and he becomes the most fun mono red commander, especially if you can end your own turn
@@yeetboi2392 I've never built him as the commander but that does sound fun, or in a sneak attack style deck to reuse fatties in the bin but then reanimator just seems better
@@RecoveringSpartan Sundial of the Infinite makes those tokens stick around perminantly
@@yeetboi2392 I agree as a commander it makes sense and seems fun. But it's hard for me to see it being good in the 99 since it requires such a unique combination of cards to really shine
Here again like I am every day! Hiiiiii! Love everything you guys do and I’m so proud of how much you’re growing! ❤️
Interesting note for Cabal Stronghold that people often miss. If you have Urborg out, and you are running any other basic land, they still count as basic swamps. So a mountain when Urborg is out, is a basic mountain/swamp which counts for Cabal Stronghold.
It is such a strange interaction
Oh that’s some sick tech
I am sad. Yesterday was my birthday and I unfortunately did not get a Happy Birthday from the Nitpicking Nerds. Today's episode was pretty quality though.
I love Broodmoth so much, that I got a bit sad when I realized it's not a good idea in my Alela fairie tribal deck.
So glad other people are hip to how awesome Nezahual is
Seedborn Muse was reprinted in a precon before. The only copy I have is from the Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer precon. Buuuut, I still don't forsee that happening often and $10 still feels super fair for that card to me. Also, thanks for reminding me about Reiterate. I definitely gotta get one for only $2.50.
It is and Nether Traitor dipped so low with Timespiral Remastered
@@NitpickingNerds indeed! I did pull a Nether Traitor from my box. But Reiterate is one of the cards I was most happy to see reprinted and still haven’t picked one up. Thanks again for the the reminder!
O-ring can't even get rid of Grave Titan without leaving 2 2/2s on the board!
I bought a bunch of Mystic Remoras after the last time you guys pointed it out as a surprisingly inexpensive card. Really odd that such a powerful, popular old card with a single printing is at that price.
We have had about 20 of them for a long time and everytime i see it's price I just say well dang that is low for a commander staple
It's partly because it's a Common
@@njensen218 True, but the same is true for Rhystic Study, and Force of Will was an uncommon, so commons/uncommons from old sets can absolutely demand very high prices.
The good thing about maze of ith is there is a brief window where the creature has already dealt damage and is still considered attacking, and you can then tap your maze of ith to untap your creature to hold up as a blocker. So it can be pretty useful outside of stopping your opponents stuff.
I have a Nezahal voltron deck that is a blast to play. Turns out casting a bunch of one sided board wipes and turning a one card draw engine into a one shot is pretty decent
This is better than your normal videos by far.
Full art borderless gold stamped signed black and white art card lands are gonna be hot cards. They only come in Crimson vow and midnight hunt set boxes and both of those are basically done. Double feature means neither set will get a reprint before going OOP. Double feature was the reprint for both midnight hunt and crimson vow. Filling a 360 card binder takes a little over $1,000,000 in sealed being opened and all the art card stamped lands going directly onto the market.
chaos warp your own Zada with a board full of goblin tokens... fun times
AH HA!!!! Fond something for my Mono green, using the East Tree, which I totally overlooked and forgot, while using Halana, Kessig Ranger, which is my Commander and works well. East Tree will help it a lot, but the reason I overlooked it was that I thought it was for creatures only, not just permanents. WOW!
such a great series, always excited to see what cards the nerds are super high on
Ophiomancer and [[Atrition]] - destroy an opponents creature every upkeep for the low low cost of B. It's like having an unrestricted Fatal Push every upkeep.
Ophiomancer and [[Contamination]] Everyone's mana is black until Contamination is dealt with. Seeing as opponents only have black mana that's going to be a little harder to get rid of, seeing as black has only ONE card to deal with enchantments.
Thank you guys for the B-Day shout out! 25 has been awesome so far 🙌
Kodama is so good I found an accidental infinite mana combo with it in my Koma deck 😂😂
I literally bought Kaya's Guile three weeks ago and was surprised how good the card is at almost every stage of the game. Great video as always, NN. 😄
Nether Traitor is my $2 favorite Monarch, Coveted Jewel and Planeswalkers sniper and perfect with all equipments and damage triggers. Just a perfect card all around in tons of decks.
A good seedborn muse "trick" (not the best by far just good/fun) is in conjunction with Sprout Swarm
Important to note that Maze of Ith can untap your own creature, either for an attack trigger on a creature you can't lose or for psuedo vigilance
I run generous gift in every white deck. Mono or splash
But honestly
I’ve never seen someone else use
I play defense of the heart in my gruul dragon deck and it so fun. If you wan to win on the spot Klauth and hellkite charger both have haste and make infinite combat steps. Other wise just take 2 dragons with nice utility in that moment, like furnace dragon (I have 3 artifacts in the whole deck. Yeii for green ramp)
How would you be able to activate the chargers ability? Kaluth mana can only be used to cast spells
I'm happy that there are quite a few cards mentioned which I bought recently.
After the errata on Ranar, I wasn't sure for quite a while where to go with this deck now. Full blink would suit Brago better, there is too little foretell.
I went with a hybrid blink/exile/token (mainly to draw cards with Trident, recon mission) or later to have tokens be 4/4 angels).
Lion Sash is such an awesome card for ranar. For 1 mana you can remove key pieces your opponent might need, buff the sash and get a 1/1 flyer!
Don't worry, I've done the mana geyser, reiterate, and fevered suspicion combo. I thought it up myself, you played every card in your opponents deck and leave them with only lands... How are they going to win?
Edit: it's in my Prosper play my opponents deck, deck.
Cabal Stronghold is good in two color decks if you can get an Urborg. Basic Islands, for example, would contribute to the extra mana since they would be BASIC swamps.
I wouldn't play it past 2 colors personally
Also I don't think you mentioned it but another benefit of Chaos Warp is that if you want, you can use it on your own like, Token and potentially get something nuts
Typically only if there's like, nothing else you'd want to use it on, but it's still a potential upside!
Chaos warping your own stuff is so fun, but I can't imagine a scenario where it increases your winrate to cast it on your own stuff. It's value in hand as a future removal spell seems like it would always outweigh the potential value. Maybe feather the redeemed if you have spare mana but even then I'd rather cast a cantrip I think
@@RecoveringSpartan never said it would win you the game, just that it *is* a thing you could do
Even if you never do it, the fact you can is still an upside!
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Research Thief from the kamigawa precons is extremely underrated. Although not a staple for any deck with blue in it, an artifact deck that has essentially an instant speed Toski can get such massive value that I'm surprised it's only a quarter.
Seedborn muse wrecks face in my Koma cosmos serpent deck. When I start tapping down lands you should be worried.
It is my birthday! You guys are too kind.
Also the versatility of maze this is really up there definitely give it a try play attention to the Combat step phases
TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY AND I GOT A BANGER VIDEO
Happy Birthday and glad you enjoyed!
Here's some super budget cards at all time lows that could make your next list: Hostage Taker, Karmic Guide, Timeless Wittnes, Etali, Primal Storm and I like Spectral Deluge at 75 cents over Evacuation.
That "yass yass" for song dryad is Joe giving us a sneak peak on his sassy side
I think the thing that maeks me shy away from cabal stronghold is that I need 5 other swamps (so at least 6 lands on the field) for it to be better than a swamp, and I often cast cards like Dark Prophecy and Sign in Blood, which are so heavy on the pips that sometimes I need 95% of my mana base to be able to tap for black
Shoutout to the nerds on Call the Coppercoats and Perplexing Test. The rise has begun and I’m glad I’m sitting on a dozen of each. Commander legends duals up a couple bucks too.
You hit the nail on head with Embercleave boys. People shit razorblades when you drop it on anything north of 4 power.
Janky combo of the day: Defense of the Heart, search for Terror of the Peaks and Scute Swarm, then cast scapeshift
Nice curated list! I want to point out that (17:30) is not Gambler's Fallacy; it is in fact the opposite.
Gambler's Fallacy would be "I got screwed over 5 times in a row by Chaos Warp, my next 50 times should be good".
Either one is the gamblers fallacy. :)
I pulled Defense of the Heart in a List slot last month. It’s in my Tuvasa deck, usually to find Nylea’s Colossus and Archetype of Imagination. Hard not to kill someone.
I think in the same way chaos warp is good, Tibalts Trickery is also really good. It comes out pretty cheap too and can offer different forms of interaction for red decks that normally wouldn't have any interaction other than say deflecting swat
Funny thing about Chaos Warp is that you will never know if you shuffled a killer card off the top and buried it in the library. Also, Maze of Ith works great with Yavimaya in play.
Defense of the Heart is a bane on my Elementals deck. Nobody wants to play creatures because they know that one of choices is Maelstrom Wanderer.
Aura shards is one of the best cards in the game, is so insanely good lol
HATE that card.
Mystic Remora is a great hint of yours. In a lot of situations I consider it even better than Rhystic Study.
I really like chaos warp. I would love to see other colors break the pie as long as there’s potential risk the cards.
One time someone in my playgroup chaos warped an opponents card and the permanent off the top of the library was omniscience lmao
Kaya's Guile really depends on the meta you are playing in. The best mode is the graveyard hate, but I've seen it be a dead card before because my opponents were simply playing decks that were not using their graveyards much. Having your opponents all sac a creature is a 3 for 1 but I personally dislike sac effects that my opponents have control over. The last 2 modes are totally not worth it in my opinion. But yeah in a meta where your opponents are using their graveyard as a second hand it's an amazing card.
*sees chaos warp*
*flashbacks to when someone got the same permanent back when they flip the card*
37:37 I love rolling my opponents into pretzels with Ashnond’s Altar.
I'm at 6 minutes, i dont know if you present it in this video or in a previous one but command the dreadhorde at 0.50$ is a worth buying card imo + nice budget option. One printing + It is an all star on my RB reanimator deck (win me a lot of games which one is today lol) and its super cheap!
My guy cherries 🍒 has the same Walmart Mario shirt i have . I actually own two of them because they are so comfortable lol
As it is actually my birthday today (turning 27) thank you.
Yarok, the Desecrated loves Kodama of the East Tree long time.
Good list. My picks would be sneak attack, ozolith, godo(not necessarily for the helm but just an equipment tutor plus) tezzeret betrayer of flesh (good planeswalker especially in artifact decks that cheats mana and enables infinite combos) sword of hearth and home, the class cards from AFR and wound reflection.
The Ozilith is a card I love but I think ti is a little pricy
@@NitpickingNerds i suspect minsc and boo and the broker’s ascendancy synergy will push this card to a point its not attainable at all. This is more endure the pain now or get ready to proxy because if this card remains under 20 for long id be surprised.
Defense of the Heart is one of the most disgusting cards I've ever played. Basically everyone looks at it the first time and they're like, "Eh, it's not THAT good." They're not thinking of it as a 4-mana Entwined Tooth and Nail, but it is. Even the people who've seen it get tired of playing around it or they just forget after a while... and it will cost them the game. It's even awesome when they already have those three creatures out and you jam Defense as a must-answer threat. Suddenly they have one turn to find enchantment or player removal (or they can kill off their own creatures, which is also a win). If they fail to find an answer, you can get anything from Felidar Guardian + Kiki Jiki to Viscera Seer + Protean Hulk depending on the deck. My favorite thing to get with it? Praetor time! Elesh Norn + Sheoldred. If you want to be REALLY cheeky, you can find Thassa's Oracle + Leveler in your favorite Simic deck.
Defense of the Heart even does disgusting things in mono-green dude decks like Marwyn. Go find Temur Sabertooth + Wirewood Symbiote and you just make infinite mana if your Marwyn is already 4+ power and you had a one mana elf in play. Just tap Marwyn for 4, bounce the 1-drop elf to untap her with the Symbiote, bounce the Symbiote with Sabertooth, and recast both. Your Marwyn grows from the elf to making 5 mana, and now you're *gaining* an increasing amount of mana on every loop.
But the problem is, if you play a Defense of the Heart at an experienced table, the table immediately knows what you're about. You are enemy number 1. Is that a problem? Only if you're not expecting it and you aren't prepared.
I'm loving Mothra. It's a staple in many of my decks. Pair with the oozolith!!!
whant to have fun(only you of course) cast evacuation with warped devotion and megrim in play.the token player will cry a lot.ok sunder too.all gonna cry at once
Also i love Embercleave for it was the bane of standard for a certain amount of time.
Video so nice, I watched it twice.
In a two color deck, Urborg makes all of your non Swamp basics into Swamps for Cabal Stronghold 🤔
Such a strange but real interaction
Every single card in this video is a Solid pick, thanks for all the amazing content
Thank you so much for the kind words! :)
@@NitpickingNerds Btw, I have a question/suggestion for an episode of Shuffle Scuffle ... have U guys considered Playing with decks from Ur fanbase?, you could request some patreons to submit deck lists, and proxy decks U guys liked to play with in the show, maybe even a portion at the end lf the episodes for suggestions or so...
Just an idea ✌🏻
Seeing y'all argue about maze makes me want a video on cards you two disagree on. Maybe there aren't enough to make a whole video but it could be fun
Honestly happy late birthday to anyone’s birthday that happened before 3/28/22. Happy early birthday to anyone’s birthday that happens after 3/28/22. Also happy birthday to everyone who has a birthday on 3/28/22.
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Love the shirt Joe, i have that same shirt, its a walmart classic.
hope you're right about lion sash, cause i got a pre-release version.
Seedborn muse does so much work in my Kinnan deck - insane.
I love this kind of videos thx guys
Maze of ith is absolute fire in Jorn, god of winter.
Joe Cherries: the etched foils don't curl
Me: *ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?*
I've personally never experienced curling on etched foils, I'm actually surprised to hear you have
@@cherrylime9540 yeah I bought the collector's packs and the lots of the foil etched and curled
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i play chaos warp in my krark sakashima copy critical mass combo deck and even thou I might cast chaos warp like 2-6 times a game I pretty much never hit something bad whit it so yes in all decks that have red its in the deck
I do run o ring in a deck but only cuz my deck care about enchantments (alela)
When you talk about powerlevel from Commander Legends, you need to take the different metas into account. Oppo Agent wins off of an intuition and is a serious stax piece in cEDH. I do not think Kodama is a staple at all, since that card needs to be built around.
We tend not to speak for cEDH because we do not play it often :)
Normal survival of the fittest: too expensive for its effect
Judge promo survival: easiest snap purchase I've ever seen.
Money to power might be worth it :)
Wait, you guys sleep at different times?
Next you're going to tell me you have separate beds!
I'm going to keep picturing you sleeping top and tail in the same bed, wearing matching dressing gowns and caps.
With my luck whatever I Chaos Warp would get shuffled to the top.
NOOOO!!!!
Nether triaiter is awesome for mutate decks!
Best part of song of dryad's, following it up with vesuva.
I love that little combo so much!
Cabal Stronghold is actually significantly worse than Coffers because it doesn't work with Urborg. Cabal Coffers + Urborg + Copy of Coffers + 3 Swamps is 12 mana as opposed to 6 with Stronghold.