EDH Archetype Tier List | What are the Best Archetypes in Commander?

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Which EDH archetypes are the best and most fun, and which ones fall short? We rank every deck style we could fit and threw them all in a tier list!
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We are back with another tier list, and this one is ranking the archetypes of commander; all the different decks you can play, whether it be artifacts, life gain, chaos, infect, or tribal and everything in between! This also doubles as a nice resource for people looking for a list of edh archetypes.
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  • @evanshaner991
    @evanshaner9913 жыл бұрын

    I have a friend that uses a group hug deck that actually tries to win and I respect it. His whole deck is built around giving everyone a ton of resources, but giving himself more. His commander let's everyone either draw a card or play a land at the end of his turned, but he does both. It's a lot of effects like that. He makes it difficult for his board state to be threatening enough to justify policing him so we all just attack eachother, and then he uses his insane amount of resource advantage to suddenly stomp us faster than we can react. It's not the most powerful deck ever, but it's fun to play and play against as well as not seeming pointless.

  • @alancastro8418

    @alancastro8418

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you know the name of his commander, it's sounds so fun

  • @jamesespinosa690

    @jamesespinosa690

    6 ай бұрын

    @@alancastro8418 Its Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis!!! I'm literally building and playtesting him now, while listening to this in the background. Casually reading the comments. @evanshaner991s explanation of this commander is perfect! It's only 'group hug' as a camouflage!

  • @orgazmo686971
    @orgazmo6869713 жыл бұрын

    Mill is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

  • @trentonreeves996

    @trentonreeves996

    3 жыл бұрын

    Honestly its not bad as a sub theme like my lazav dimir master mind deck can mill out people but is not primarily a mill deck its not hard to mill 1 or 2 players and kill a 3rd it is hard to mill 3 if your only milling

  • @mitrimind1027

    @mitrimind1027

    3 жыл бұрын

    Especially if you're playing something like Muldrotha.

  • @boedacious

    @boedacious

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fair enough

  • @jjs8426

    @jjs8426

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow wow wow wow youtube references are tight!

  • @kingginger3335

    @kingginger3335

    3 жыл бұрын

    Secret monster holes are tight

  • @maxelliott5568
    @maxelliott55683 жыл бұрын

    You've forgotten Aristocrats, Spellslinger, and Groupslug.

  • @milohobo9186

    @milohobo9186

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aristocrats were mentioned at 0:17:00 as part of graveyard archetypes.

  • @Ironic_daemonic

    @Ironic_daemonic

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure I understand groupslug. I honestly only ever hear about it when people bring up group hug.

  • @timeskip16

    @timeskip16

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ironic_daemonic Group Slug are kinda like stax decks, but group slug is more concerned with damage -- particularly repeatable effects that deal damage to every opponent. Mogis, God of Slaughter is a classic group slug commander as he provides one of those "lose life or something bad happens" effects that group slug loves.

  • @brendansmith4182

    @brendansmith4182

    2 жыл бұрын

    And stealing

  • @joeldykman7591

    @joeldykman7591

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@timeskip16 so like group grief cards like preators or painful quandry?

  • @mattatlas8895
    @mattatlas88953 жыл бұрын

    The list is a good idea, but I disagree with 90% of yalls placements

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Matt Atlas which ones 🙂

  • @ZERO-jb8so

    @ZERO-jb8so

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same these guys are crazy slivers and vampires alone get s tier Edgar was banned 1v1 4 a reason

  • @mattatlas8895

    @mattatlas8895

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NitpickingNerds just starting from the top, artifacts I would put at a C. Yeah it's fun, but it gets so stagnant, plus they are all pretty much the same. Lands C. Big mana A. Good idea again, I just respectfully disagree

  • @Y0kAiS

    @Y0kAiS

    3 жыл бұрын

    seemed more of like a "is it fun to play against" or "play" tier list lol

  • @mthlay15

    @mthlay15

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Y0kAiS yeah, they said that in the opening.

  • @mehatestuesdays
    @mehatestuesdays3 жыл бұрын

    Kind of missing Storm/Spellslinger from this list, maybe this falls under Combo, but I think the archetype is more about critical mass than most combo decks.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    mehatestuesdays they are both very close combo

  • @moonlitwolf08

    @moonlitwolf08

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NitpickingNerds very late i know just found this vid looking for a vid with list of archtypes for a friend but storm and combo are very different, combo decks are more of two cards interacting with each other to win wheras storm decks tend to be more of an engine than a hard combo where your trying to reduce the cost of things with enough drawing to get fuel for the storm count then doing somethinh with the storm count. storm decks can have combos but a typical combo deck will not see a storm count.

  • @turnugin5645
    @turnugin56453 жыл бұрын

    Joe you broke my heart when you said +1/+1 counter cards are poop. My favorite deck is my all foiled out Reyhan and Tymna deck and it wins games 😥

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Turn 2 Ugin my goal isn’t to break hearts but to give my honest opinion no matter how many hearts it breaks lol

  • @Metherel

    @Metherel

    3 жыл бұрын

    My Reyhan + Ishai deck absolutely slaps!

  • @mrclean7164

    @mrclean7164

    2 жыл бұрын

    Love Reyhan

  • @jamesoakley9333

    @jamesoakley9333

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm a ghave player -all I do is make tokens and +1/+1 counters

  • @bradycurtis668
    @bradycurtis6683 жыл бұрын

    Tribe Teir list

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    That could be another way to go, delve into it since that’s such a huge pool of decks

  • @gamesourceinc
    @gamesourceinc3 жыл бұрын

    One of my favorites Mimic / Copy / Beat you with your own cards type deck should be on your next ranking.

  • @enriquesoul5370
    @enriquesoul53703 жыл бұрын

    I love these tier lists. People have different criteria, but so far, many I have read are well thought and their positions well defended with logical reasoning.

  • @Lucy-ym4dv
    @Lucy-ym4dv3 жыл бұрын

    I remember when kedena came out in 2019 and I built a fairly powerful and fun morph deck, there are a fair amount more niche hidden morph cards and support than people think. I think, at least since kedena came out, morph should mid to high D tier.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Quin that’s a fair argument

  • @blaze556922
    @blaze5569223 жыл бұрын

    Great vid guys! I'd swap tokens and lands on this list. Lands matter is more fun than effective and tokens are so much more broad.

  • @unryzen3083
    @unryzen30833 жыл бұрын

    Remember Gitrog is a lands matter commander and has plenty of wincons like desert to ping for infinite damage. Its also a great cedh cmdr. Chainveil teferi is also a very strong deck.

  • @crovax1375
    @crovax13753 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to say that Shrines has helped to give the Enchantments theme a good win con. As for lands I'm suprised you guys did mention Ob Nixilis as a win con.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    crovax 13 yeah ob is another solid way to get there on lands

  • @anttilappalainen6636

    @anttilappalainen6636

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thoughtrender Lamia, Doomwake Giant and Agent of Erebos have won me many a game.

  • @asbjrnscholerjensen5069
    @asbjrnscholerjensen50692 жыл бұрын

    I agree wholeheartedly on most of this, especially chaos and group hug. The one i disagree most on is morph, Ive had a very fun slinking sorcerer morph deck.

  • @DemandsASongofFarts
    @DemandsASongofFarts3 жыл бұрын

    tier lists are fun with y'all ; your talents in articulating organized thinking gives your viewers an easier time by shewing them digestable cognitive tools >nomnomnom< for when they wanna think about commander times

  • @christiansmith49
    @christiansmith493 жыл бұрын

    I agree with almost all of these but knowing that my friends list is basically this flipped I've learned that everyone kind of just hates everything

  • @InternetHumanMan
    @InternetHumanMan3 жыл бұрын

    I didnt know I wanted this video until it landed in my sub box, excellent topic!

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    We knew you wanted it

  • @blaze556922
    @blaze5569223 жыл бұрын

    Nath of the Gilt Leaf would beg to differ about discard. It's hard to win in multiplayer but one on one, it shines.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah discard is way better 1v1 we are just talking about four player in this video

  • @Lucy-ym4dv
    @Lucy-ym4dv3 жыл бұрын

    Flicker isn't only creatures, look at brago or the new blue white companion, those flicker any nonland perminents.

  • @MrBunksauce

    @MrBunksauce

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or Aminatou, the fateshifter. It paired with Oath of Teferi and you can blink your whole board infinitely.

  • @jeffreyknapper408
    @jeffreyknapper4083 жыл бұрын

    Land decks do have a win con. It is called Maze's end. I have it in my only land matters deck and golos is my commander for it. There are more lands matters cards in other colors that aren't green and most land commanders can't play them because they focus on green mostly. Zendikar rising gave us alot of cool land matters options that aren't just for green decks and it really made my golos deck so much stronger overall.

  • @notequalto5179
    @notequalto51792 жыл бұрын

    I have a Kami of the Crescent Moon deck that has many win conditions all about "drawing matters". Lots of no maximum hand size cards. Lots of options, super fun to see drawing effects stack and do insane effects for having big hands.

  • @ufoturtle08
    @ufoturtle084 ай бұрын

    With the crazy cards released in the last year, now would be a good time to remake this video.

  • @nolifeSnorlax
    @nolifeSnorlax3 жыл бұрын

    Lands matter is insane :) A or even S Tier. Let me educate you on wincons :D Also let's assume that a lands matter deck spews out lands ;) Creature based: Avenger, Multani Yavimaya's Avatar , Titania Protector of Argoth. Wincons that are insane in lands: Genesis Wave, Villainous Wealth, Finale of Devastation and other X Spells are most abusable in lands. Lands lands wincons: Rude Awakening , Field of the Dead , Dark Depths . The amount of INSANE synergy cards in lands is only matched by artifacts and I think if we're talking pure synergy lands wins out by a landslide. Tatyova is one of the strongest lands commanders ever. Lands payoffs: Oracle of Mul Daya , Lotus Cobra , Tireless Tracker , Sylvan Safekeeper , Scapeshift, Splendid Reclamation , Life from the Loam , Crucible of Worlds . Fetchlands as combo enablers for Korvold lands. The Gitrog Monster or Tatyova combo cEDH Decks. All the extra land drop cards like Exploration & Azusa, Landfall cards and big beefy boys like Nyxbloom Ancient, Craterhoof Behemoth & Ulvenwald Hydra. Lands has a insane toolbox with easy tutors for Bojuka Bog , Strip Mine / Wasteland, Urborg / Cabal Coffers, Thespian's Stage , Glacial Chasm , Maze of Ith , Kessig Wolf Run & Volrath's Stronghold ! All this is lands matter. All this is pure gold

  • @cylonsteve2511

    @cylonsteve2511

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm playing more mass land destruction is needed to combat these land decks 😝 They don't feel fun to play against.

  • @cylonsteve2511

    @cylonsteve2511

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Sam Smith Nice shout out 😊

  • @mrclean7164

    @mrclean7164

    2 жыл бұрын

    They’re not that fun to play against. But I love playing them. Zendikar rising was a big boost to lands matter

  • @1989Batman1
    @1989Batman13 жыл бұрын

    To play the devil's advocate for control, the one control deck I absolutely love playing is a spin off Curiosity Control which utilizes Thrasios and Vial Smasher to turn all of your counters/removal pieces into cantrips with curiosity/keen sense on vial or by activating Thrasios. My list doesn't run any infinite combos, but it's big finish is either a copied Villainous Wealth for 30+ or something crazy or the Vesuva + Valakut combo with a Scapeshift that may or may not be copied. So, I can definitely see if the deck would fall more-so under a slow combo, land matter, or big mana deck in terms of you guys' rankings. I can also see why it wouldn't be fun for people to play, but I love playing removal and drawing so it's perfect for me. Also, my friends seem to enjoy playing against it since when they ask "do you have something for what they are doing" or "can I swing at you with my xyris," the answer is usually yes lol. Overall love you guys and the video and the concept tho! Keep up the great work!

  • @1989Batman1

    @1989Batman1

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Volrath Yeah that's why I generally use the terms proactive, adaptive, and disruptive to describe decks since I feel they are better descriptors than combo and control. I only said it cld be considered slow combo because in the video they said that control had no win con if you are just removing other ppl's pieces, so I thought that maybe they didnt consider decks that had a slower combo wincon that needs control to back it up as control. I still consider it control, but I cld also see both sides. I feel like the waters get kinda murky since nowadays we have compact wincons like consult/oracle which allow more slots for removal/interaction.

  • @BaronCappuccino
    @BaronCappuccino Жыл бұрын

    I'm running Baeloth Berrityl//Raised by Giants, voltron supported by goad. Having both the voltron target and the voltron buff in the command zone feels totally different than any sort of traditional Sram-style shenanigans. Global goad seems better used to prevent blocks than as a win-con in itself anyway. The deck's meat and potatoes get to be "Big Mana", because there's no risk of a blow-out. Definitely worth looking into for someone interested in Voltron's ease while mitigating some of the weaknesses. Ramp and recast as necessary with a 10/10+ that never goes away.

  • @Twineandribbon
    @Twineandribbon3 жыл бұрын

    This video was suspiciously free of tears. No one was crying at all!

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    You never saw us behind the scenes...

  • @suntitan4419
    @suntitan44193 жыл бұрын

    I actually really think you guys did a good job on this list you didn’t mention goblins though when you were talking tribal krenko can be a pretty strong deck nice video guys

  • @Mach2style

    @Mach2style

    7 ай бұрын

    would fall under tribal

  • @comicsans6138
    @comicsans61383 жыл бұрын

    Tier list of edh player stereotypes 😂

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow that’s a good one. Any recommendations?

  • @beans_n_egg9177

    @beans_n_egg9177

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Just gonna throw a dice don't wanna make any enemies" for the whole of the game

  • @turnugin5645

    @turnugin5645

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NitpickingNerds people who play distracted

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Those might be shoe-ins for poop tier right there

  • @beans_n_egg9177

    @beans_n_egg9177

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NitpickingNerds it is midnight and I am very tired

  • @DavidGreeneMtgJudge
    @DavidGreeneMtgJudge3 жыл бұрын

    Top 10 video: "Atraxa is the 5th best commander ever." This video: "counters are poop tier."

  • @108petey
    @108petey Жыл бұрын

    You guys kind of touched on it, but Arcades decks can be so insane if he sticks. Sure walls are 'bad' without him but so many of them are overstatted and have nice etb effects to make up for their lack of power. Once you don't have to worry about them all having 0 power they become big beefy creatures with some pretty great effects.

  • @patrickbaillargeon7568
    @patrickbaillargeon75682 жыл бұрын

    I definitely think aristocrats should have been it's own item, BUT I loved this

  • @viceverse11
    @viceverse113 жыл бұрын

    I like the tiered approach more than the 1-10 model that has been most popularized. I win a lot with my lifegain Ayli deck. I am currently building Ezuri Infect Counters and I think it will be a solid deck for my meta.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    boynoshoes like we said any of these decks can be cool and fun just a look at the average one

  • @Beltorra1
    @Beltorra13 жыл бұрын

    I enjoy Poison, Half of my deck puts poison counters and the other half proliferates them since War of the Spark gave us a LOT of options to do that and I usally do it so fast that people can't kill me in time so I've won a fair share of games. Finally, I'm playing Atraxa so not only my commander adds more poison but she is also a Phyrexian so I get the flavour win. Thanks for placing my favourite deck last on the Poop tier =3

  • @lucastostes2491
    @lucastostes24913 жыл бұрын

    It's a nice video, congratulations. But I think you forget the stomp archetype, what you think about him? (like Ruric Thar Commander)

  • @tomfisher6422
    @tomfisher6422 Жыл бұрын

    You've pointed out something that I tend to struggle with. Finding a cool engine for the decks but needing to find multiple ways to pay them off. I will sometimes borrow from multiple archetypes to find a clear path to victory. Tokens are free assets for aristocrats. Life gain is constantly restocks your ammo if you can use your life as a weapon. You want tokens to die (assuming that you're ready) they are easily destroyed or scarified--just make sure you hve death triggers in place,,,

  • @user-yy1nb2iu7z
    @user-yy1nb2iu7z3 жыл бұрын

    Something that would be cool would be the best basic land art, like one for each type to make it easier to watch and record?

  • @robmayer9141
    @robmayer91412 жыл бұрын

    Can you tier the color combinations?

  • @arloking4138
    @arloking41382 жыл бұрын

    Not sure if this was out yet when this video was made but I think the Ozolith and Sluurk have made counter decks way more viable. Just spamming proliferates can make it super easy to kill someone with a menace/flying commander through commander damage alone, and you don't have to worry as much about your big creature being sniped coz the Ozolith can just transfer their counters, and Sluurk gets to throw an extra counter on things anyway. A bit more of an aristocrat-y way of playing it

  • @zealous944
    @zealous9443 жыл бұрын

    i think aristocrats should have been its own category, storm already mentioned, weenies, cycle, clones, theft. I also think enchantment shouldn't be that low but that is just my opinion.

  • @forrestcarlson4391
    @forrestcarlson43913 жыл бұрын

    I really like the tier list videos!!

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! More positive feedback like this will keep them coming!

  • @tomfisher6422
    @tomfisher6422 Жыл бұрын

    Infect got a major injection of options with one of the newer sets. Adding a toxic mechanic made a huge impact. Adding proliferate makes it easier pay it off.

  • @williamirvine4322
    @williamirvine43223 жыл бұрын

    with lands matter you can usually just use your large amount of mana to win. examples such as exsanguinage and torment of hailfire. If you don’t have friends you can do something with jakulhaups and world shaper remove everyone except you from the game

  • @monomanamaniac
    @monomanamaniac3 жыл бұрын

    My poop tier deck is avacyn, angel of hope. It's a control deck/ board wipe tribal that also features Armageddon. It's the deck I pull out if someone pulls out a stax deck

  • @andrebarnhill
    @andrebarnhill Жыл бұрын

    @34:36 begins one of the funniest interactions between them I’ve seen. I’ve watched this like 15 times😂😂

  • @dallasgoodman7635
    @dallasgoodman76352 жыл бұрын

    love these guys once theyre old itll feel like that old radio show car talk

  • @brianhook3861
    @brianhook38613 жыл бұрын

    I’ve seen some very strong wall decks any board wipe can reck any creature deck normally.

  • @zizthesin
    @zizthesin2 жыл бұрын

    Volrath shapestealer infect can be fun if your table is cool with it

  • @alexbufmack852
    @alexbufmack852 Жыл бұрын

    “Infect is the most difficult thing to reprint ever” and “infect I would describe as completely TOXIC” are sounding real funny now that ONE prerelease is next weekend 😂

  • @droggelbecher874
    @droggelbecher8743 жыл бұрын

    Great video! I only miss Theft and Group Slug as archetypes, like Lazav, Mogis or Torbran.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Does group slug kind of fit into stax?

  • @droggelbecher874

    @droggelbecher874

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NitpickingNerds When you play stax, you won't let your opponents do anything. They won't be able to untap their lands or even search their libraries. You try to slow the game down long enough until you found your combo pieces. Group slug on the other hand doesn't deny your opponents any ressources. Instead, you deal damage to every player (including yourself) to speed up the game while trying not to die by your own triggers. Therefore i wouldn't count group slug as stax, although I'm not a fan of either. Maybe you could make a list of decks/archetypes which are the most fun to play against? I'm actually more interested in having a good time while playing EDH than just trying to win the game ;)

  • @kingginger3335
    @kingginger33353 жыл бұрын

    With the printings off Tergrid and Tinybone's, Discard has become a much more powerful archetype

  • @joebaumgart1146
    @joebaumgart11469 ай бұрын

    I personally play Mono Colorless Stax/Affinity or a Serra Avatar/Chandra's Ignition combo. My commander doesn't actually matter in either deck so it changes. Instead of building a deck around a commander I build a commander around the deck.

  • @djbisson9819
    @djbisson98193 жыл бұрын

    Im a fan of the tier lists even if we have differing opinions on some things. Also Kirby is awesome like the new set piece.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kirby is a cute universe eating guy!

  • @andrewp979
    @andrewp9796 ай бұрын

    Watching this is 2023 and hearing you guys talking about how infect won't recieve more support and how infect is toxic is quite humerous! Hahaha

  • @leonfriedemann9151
    @leonfriedemann91513 жыл бұрын

    I think you should have made two lists one for the fun Part and one for the strengt out of your view.

  • @NightravenNevermore
    @NightravenNevermore3 жыл бұрын

    Make a tier list for the best ramp cards in each color!

  • @orgazmo686971

    @orgazmo686971

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can tell you the green ones...

  • @ThunderstruckElectronix
    @ThunderstruckElectronix2 жыл бұрын

    Do you need to focus on just one archetype to have a strong deck? I play chishiro and I'm currently running a lot of equipment and enchantments. Should I double down on one of em?

  • @cameronschmitt649
    @cameronschmitt6493 жыл бұрын

    is that an Elspeth Conquers Death scroll in the background? that looks pretty boss.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is, exactly that 🙂

  • @sephyrias883
    @sephyrias8833 жыл бұрын

    07:40 I'm not sure if I agree on combo in A. If we're talking power-level, then it is an easy S+ tier. If we're also talking fun however, then I would dump it into C or D-tier. 25:20 The First Sliver is incredibly powerful, probably the strongest tribe deck. However that doesn't mean it is more fun. Tribal tends to become incredibly linear in both gameplay and deckbuilding.

  • @vkp11220
    @vkp112203 жыл бұрын

    Nice video! I’m having a hard time right now picking a new commander. I would like to invest in a deck that can win any given game but is also fun to play, any ideas? 😀

  • @thetogtube2
    @thetogtube23 жыл бұрын

    I would Morph up one tier... the interaction element can be fun and powerful. I always draw cards and have mana. Animar or Kadena are two fun builds of this (as you know)... but I am partial bc the Kadena precon was my first EDH deck and I have made a fair amount of adjustments. FLASH is crucial.

  • @thetogtube2

    @thetogtube2

    3 жыл бұрын

    otherwise i agree with the rest of the list... and dig tier lists.... NEXT UP TRIBES TIER LIST PLEASE :)

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    guru khalsa thanks for the feed back 🙂

  • @fenixiliusstrife1253
    @fenixiliusstrife12532 жыл бұрын

    Hey Catapult Fodder I guess solved your Toughness problem, it can sacrifice a creature to make an opponent lose life equal to its toughness. It + Tree of Perdition/Tree of Redemption can kill a player now. Doran specifically has specifically gained quite a few good creatures without defender later(i.e. Unhallowed Phalanx a 1/13(13/13), that only downside is entering tapped) as well as a couple other Doran effects so you don't have to rely on him as much, such as Ancient Lumberknot and soon E. Honda. Shadrix is also a card worth mentioning, card draw on a 2/5(5/5) double strike beater.

  • @Agumon2509
    @Agumon25093 жыл бұрын

    I was expecting storm hahah but I guess that falls under combo 🤔

  • @l33_generic37
    @l33_generic372 жыл бұрын

    The only "mill" deck i have is my 5 color gods/enchantments. And mill is only like, a side win con. I run psychic Corrosion because synergy (enchantments) and with the amount of enchantresses it mills for a good amount. Then i run Phenax, because gods, and he can pull off a surprise win with like, the world tree or something. But at that point im not too scared of a titan or a nexus of fate just because i have so many effects on board that my opponent is gonna slowly die anyway.

  • @richardpitt8177
    @richardpitt81773 жыл бұрын

    Great list but disagree with counters...when in Simic. Good commander options like Zegana (Prime Speaker),Vorel, Ezuri etc Then there’s the good hydras (Mana, Kalonian, Primordial etc), Doubling season/Branching Evolution, Mana dorks like Incubation Druid/Rishkar etc who pump out a lot of mana, lots of specific spells/creatures to bolster/protect things with counters like Herald of Secret Streams and Inspiring Call. It can get out of hand quickly. It’s certainly not S tier but I’d put it in high C maybe B. Golgari handle the -1 counters reasonably too.

  • @corhydrae3238

    @corhydrae3238

    3 жыл бұрын

    Whoever says that counters are not good or fun never stringed Ramos into an Animar with Master Biomancer on the board and then won with Simic Ascendency on their Sage-of-Hours-extra-turn.

  • @p.fish_63
    @p.fish_63 Жыл бұрын

    Playing Artifacts usually ends up playing very toolboxy its fun if thats what your looking for, and their fun, my main EDH is a glissa the traitor artifact deck. My back up is Naya enchantments/tokens/counters deck, rn im working on building a mardu vampire aristocrats deck.

  • @jeremyhayes1163
    @jeremyhayes11633 жыл бұрын

    My Estrid enbantment deck is one of my strongest decks. You don't have rocks? fine, Carpet of Fowers, Burgeoning, exploration. combos? Solemnity/Decree of Silence, Humility/opalescence, Opalescence/Parallax wave, Enchanted evening/Opalescence, Academy Rector/Omniscience, Omniscience/Molting Skin or Broken Fall/Any Encantress/Physic corrosion. Also Walkers is the f-ing Best.

  • @beans_n_egg9177
    @beans_n_egg91773 жыл бұрын

    TIER LIST YES PLEASE BOYS BRING ME ALL THE HAPPINESS

  • @EDHCards
    @EDHCards3 жыл бұрын

    Lands matter win con Have 3 islands on the battlefield with mystic sanctuary or a fetch land that finds islands Have lotus cobra and tatyova or aesi on the battlefield. Cast ghostly flicker targeting one land and mystic sanctuary, if this resolves put the ghostly flicker on the top of your library then draw it from a land entering the battlefield. Lotus cobra will make you 2 mana, tap both of the lands flickered to create 4 cast ghostly flicker, repeating the process till you have your win con in hand Have fun 🤩

  • @EDHCards

    @EDHCards

    3 жыл бұрын

    This will also give a lot of landfall triggers Having alchemists refuge gives you the ability to win on someone else’s turn in response to their win

  • @Malice_Lonewolf
    @Malice_Lonewolf Жыл бұрын

    Where would you place Mogis? Group slug is that chaos? Its not stax but it punishes for doing certain things ie take dmg if you do x.

  • @fearofdamoon
    @fearofdamoon2 жыл бұрын

    My roommate has a brutal milling deck, how many he makes you mill doubles each turn. It took him three turns to mill me out once he started the milling process. Before that he had just been building things that were minor things I wasn't worried about I was winning until he pulled out his commander. Suddenly my deck is disappearing going from milling 14 to 24, to 48. Any card I could use to fix the problem is going into my graveyard.

  • @imprisonedmike
    @imprisonedmike3 жыл бұрын

    I love how "counters" is in D tier, but it's actually middle of the pack. There are 12 archetypes that are better and 12 archetypes that are worse. - context. I like counters decks.

  • @Marocax

    @Marocax

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have a marath counters deck, let me say that my friends can't give me to much space otherwise i win the game by turn 7 or 8 with no combos

  • @echowolf4230
    @echowolf42302 жыл бұрын

    I've built a mill deck because I thought it is fun. Funnily enough it has a 100% win rate in 1vs 1 games, but also won games with 4 players (not that often but you can make it work). I think you have to stop thinking that deck out is your win con. Take cards like Konrad the Grim who damage the opponent for every creature that gets put in their graveyard, play maddening cacophony to mill half their library and for every creature card in that half every opponent takes damage. If you play against a creature heavy deck than can be 20 points of damage for each opponent. Or play cards that let you steal from their (now full) graveyard like rise of the dark realms.

  • @wanderingwatcher3981

    @wanderingwatcher3981

    2 жыл бұрын

    I agree, thinking outside the box like this is how you make a strong deck, finding non-obvious connections that are indirectly related to the deck's main theme is often the best way to find powerful synergies, you can overdo it by adding things that are too unlikely to happen, but for the most part I think it's how you find hidden potential. For example, in the deck I'm currently building; "Jaheira, Friend of the Forest" // "Clan Crafter", I don't want to destroy all artifacts as my food, treasure and clues are effectively lands in play for me, but "Rampage of the Clans" is an exception, it's instant speed interaction that not only preserves my artifact tokens, but it upgrades them to 3/3s! so I will most likely have the biggest army after and I can still tap the tokens for mana on my next turn if I want, the spell costing only 4 green is also easy to hold up when my commander is out and I have a few tokens, all in all, great (mostly) one-sided boardwipe. The "build your own commander" cards that came with Battle for Baldur's Gate is imo genius and a lot fun, both in limited and constructed, I think lots of players will want the cards, for cubes, as commanders in constructed, and even just as regular cards in some other decks, the backgrounds applying in any commander deck is one reason, the other is that some of the commanders are just good cards, I mean, cards like "Karlach, Fury of Avernus" is not going to stay 3 dollars, she's just too powerful in an attacking deck; instant effect when she comes out, extra combat step, all creatures gain first strike, effect triggers each turn and she is a good attacker herself for only 5 mana?! - perfect midrange value card, mythic rare guaranties it's going up

  • @AbsolutDog
    @AbsolutDog Жыл бұрын

    have you revisited this topic recently?? mill got some good cards, and infect got HUGE upgrades in ONE

  • @marshallt94
    @marshallt943 жыл бұрын

    I understand aggro isn't very effective or used that much in commander but myself and two friends have been getting regularly clapped by our 4th friends' Winota, Joiner of Forces deck. What archetype would she fall under? Tribal/stax?

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Marshall she is tough to categorize

  • @NoNo-qt4ov
    @NoNo-qt4ov2 жыл бұрын

    Anyone have a reccomendation for spellslinging red/blue deck for commander? Am new to the format and it seems like fun but am not sure of a commander for it. Was thinking between Veyran, Vadrik, or Mizzix

  • @CmdrUD87
    @CmdrUD873 жыл бұрын

    What about D&T? Or is that just a soft control/stax variant?

  • @mth4456
    @mth44563 жыл бұрын

    I'm a diehard control player in 1v1. I fully agree with the poop tier in commander

  • @devyncleghorn477
    @devyncleghorn4773 жыл бұрын

    for mill, just use a rest in peace, and something like grand abolisher, tidal barracuda, silence, etc. or just make it hexproof then mill away, idk, I just think its more viable.

  • @planetpoog
    @planetpoog3 жыл бұрын

    my slimefoot, the stowaway counter deck begs to differ

  • @Jodor--
    @Jodor--2 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure you can't scapeshift into field plus vesuva you need the field already in play right?

  • @Iranex1
    @Iranex1 Жыл бұрын

    Allow me to speak up for Mill for just a quick second, so in low power groups mil is actually kinda cool, the reason is synergy. You don't want to try to mill 300 cards, that's just nuts. You want to mill just enough to where nighthowler, consuming aberration, sewer nemesis, umbris, jaces phantasm, mortivore, etc..., all get buffed enough to be big dumb threats. Then with aqueous form, rogues passage etc you close out the game. And you want to avoid just casting a 1 off spell that mills x cards, you want etb mill and attack mill like mirko vosk or balustrade spy so you can run a mini graveyard recursion theme with like sheoldred and animate dead and reanimation. And throw in a couple fun spells on the mill theme that are just bombastic like traumatize and Jace memory adept. And maybe make your commander phenax, God of deception so you always have a way to close out the game theoretically. And you're in blue so counterspells, one with the multiverse, whatever else you wanna throw in there is good too. And black is obviously a boon too for spot removal, gray merchant, maybe a powerful enchant or 2 and damnation. Ultimately I think you're basically doing half a blue black good stuff deck and half a mill deck. Now obviously this is still a mill deck so the main weaknesses are still there, mainly the fact that you're kinda playing your own little game and not interacting with other players as much as you should be. But in a low power game where you're unlikely to get combo'd and wasting a turn or two focusing on mill is significantly less likely to lose you the game outright, it's not too bad. I would put it at the bottom of D lol

  • @jameskelly2559
    @jameskelly25593 жыл бұрын

    Enchantments is a little underrrated here. I’ve won a lot more games than Ive lost play8ng Selesnya Enchantress deck run by Karametra. Other than that it is a great video fella; very informative

  • @AndrewWoodford

    @AndrewWoodford

    3 жыл бұрын

    James Kelly Same here! They are a lot more resilient than Artifacts and Creatures and if you put some money into it you can win very quickly if that is your goal.

  • @natureboy95
    @natureboy953 жыл бұрын

    My initial guesses is that the emoji would be Wasitora or one of the legendary Ikoria beasts like Nethroi

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    natureboy95 wrong lol

  • @zombinekiller

    @zombinekiller

    3 жыл бұрын

    The emoji, it’s lord windgrace.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    R3-D000 nailed it

  • @Ccaapp1996
    @Ccaapp19963 жыл бұрын

    Does Turbo fog count as control? My O kagachi turbo fog deck is undefeated. 20-0 baybee. All i had to do was add The Wanderer and some minor grave recurrance like regrowth. It basically forces the forging of allies at little risk to me AND has the added bonus of wearing my opponent's mental state down. There are ways to out its main loops, but, combat damage means nothing to me. Which is nice.

  • @mark1A100
    @mark1A1002 жыл бұрын

    Im a bit confused. What is the artifact win con? Or rather what is artifacts as an archetype. Artifacts do everything same with enchantments

  • @MikKingify
    @MikKingify Жыл бұрын

    Updated version of this tier list? :)

  • @fluffybug229
    @fluffybug2293 жыл бұрын

    Y’all Combo is so fun

  • @ardavio5921
    @ardavio59213 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps a set mechanic tier list? Mentor, vehicles, energy etc

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Might be a decent way to go. Maybe best keywords for edh or something

  • @MrGinger333
    @MrGinger3333 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't Tool Box be at archetype and what type of archetype would Yarok be. Key word or like Value good Stuff?

  • @pieguydudeman8618
    @pieguydudeman86183 жыл бұрын

    Could "Battle Cruiser" / Good-Stuffs be an archetype?

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    PieGuyDudeMan they both could

  • @nateschermerhorn1177
    @nateschermerhorn11773 жыл бұрын

    What about Aggro/Tempo and Spellslinger?

  • @nickgizzi5891
    @nickgizzi58912 жыл бұрын

    “Was there more to your sentence?” “Nope.” Lololol

  • @jjs8426
    @jjs84263 жыл бұрын

    How about sacrifice for pt. 2 list?

  • @djbisson9819
    @djbisson98193 жыл бұрын

    Joe has anyone ever told you that you resemble Chase from good mythical morning. I do believe you two are doppelgängers of one another.

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    3 жыл бұрын

    Woah collab incoming!

  • @RedzicMuharem
    @RedzicMuharem2 жыл бұрын

    I am not sure about S Artifacts, although it's very powerful you can get blown out by Artifact sweepers

  • @NitpickingNerds

    @NitpickingNerds

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is true but still pretty dam fun and strong

  • @blairlarsen1056
    @blairlarsen10563 жыл бұрын

    Id like a sliver tier list

  • @doublebrass
    @doublebrass Жыл бұрын

    what i learned from this video is that the nitpicking nerds don't like commander. in fact it kind of seems like people don't like losing to any type of deck. crazy how that works

  • @nickdistefano6311
    @nickdistefano63113 жыл бұрын

    Great vid

  • @thedarudecactus3179
    @thedarudecactus31793 жыл бұрын

    Mill Can be viable. I think people hate on it far far too much. I refuse to believe that it's not viable. Self mill is amazing.

  • @devanhughes2544
    @devanhughes25442 жыл бұрын

    skullbriar voltron solves the removal problem

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