Had a friend playing a Nissa planeswalker as commander. Another person said "Oh, you have Ghalta in there, you should make him your commander, your deck would do much better." *friend listens and does nothing else to alter deck.* The person "OMFG YOUR DECK IS BROKEN STOP PLAYING IT ASDFASDFASDFASDF."

@NitpickingNerds

7 ай бұрын

Unstoppable! 😂

@doomofthedestiny8065

7 ай бұрын

Used to have a ghalta deck but it was too simple even for green stompy... Edit: the real MVPs for that deck before I parted it out were the multiple cards that generated +1/+1 counters whenever anyone casted or casted green spells. And there were plenty of ways to dump those counters on Ghalta if it isn't one of the ones with a built in way.

@saintkupo7164

7 ай бұрын

@@doomofthedestiny8065 Old One Eye Trample Tribal. Try it today!

@zacharybecker8228

7 ай бұрын

it do be hard to beat mono green stompy sometimes

@doomofthedestiny8065

7 ай бұрын

@zacharybecker8228 mono green is deceptively good at recovery and going both voltron and wide in the same board state. So you can usually kill two players in one shot if not all three. And that gives a small window for the last player to avenge the fallen (unless you do something truly evil like Vitalize, a one mana spell to untap all your creatures.)

The friend who got me into Commander bought the Ur-Dragon precon when it was $40. For fun, I looked up on Amazon the price for that precon today. $500. Wild times we live in.

So glad you've mentioned Liesa, she's amazing. Some cards I run alongside those you've mentioned are: Sheoldred the Apocalypse, Ankh of Mishra, Isolation Cell, Mana Web, Bloodchief Ascension and Wound Reflection. Death by a thousand cuts or better said - taxes and so satisfying to play.

We need more simple videos like this! Love the fact that you talk about old commanders too from a 2023 perspective.

Surprised Sauron made the cut over Yuriko and Edgar Markov. Great list overall.

@douglasluiz2225

7 ай бұрын

Oh they are great but they are great in specificaly commanders,but in their decks? Awfull😅

@altromonte15

7 ай бұрын

Yuriko is one of the least interactable commanders there are, you don't want to kill her because that just helps her I'm surprised she wasn't #1

I've been watching this channel for often the past few weeks. Can't really put my finger on why

I like this kind of video. I already had a ghalta deck because of an offhand comment from the Nerds about how good it wss as a commader, and they're totally right. Unless you boardwipe, it cones right back, and if you have vehicles, it even comes back then.

@EDZ1LLA

7 ай бұрын

Nothing more satisfying than having it countered, then just recasting it again immediately for 2G.

Wow, this was a big beautiful episode. 😮

@DeeJy33

7 ай бұрын

yeah those two are great together

@stigmurder99

7 ай бұрын

Best nerds episode yet for sure!

I have watched this video a few times. Great content. Thanks!

Important to consider with Ringsight that you don't need a legendary creature on the field to use it because the ring tempting you makes a creature legendary

I’m digging these longer vids from the Nerds! Keep ‘em coming! Great content 😁 I need to make a Liesa deck now lol 👀

@natelagrassa9337

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I saw her and was like ima swap her for my teysa… just way more potential there then just exiling everyone’s board… it gets old and takes forever to build up.

there are a couple of reasons I love this episode

Feather is wicked, but there's a green enchantment that says spells can't target creatures - lol, but normally feather kills - my build includes stormkiln artist - so good, cast my hand in response to a wheel.

This definitely gives me ideas for new commander deck.

I faced Sauron at pre release, it just put the game to a halt the second he hit the table. Felt like actually Sauron on the battlefield, it was cool. Tempted to make it as a commander deck.

These are some really cool cards. I like some of the White / Black cards. Thank you for the video Nitpicking Nerds.

I think my most unstoppable commander is either Anikthea or Josu Vess. Anikthea is amazing at building back from a board wipe because all of my ramp is enchantment based like utopia sprawl and the deck has tons of recursion so nothing stays gone. Josu Vess, on the other hand, is hard to stop because spot removal does very little against him; I mostly care about his etb, and I run so much ramp that I can usually recast him easily, even with the kicker cost. Plus, he has a field of the dead package too to make him extra unstoppable.

MIA'S LOOK ateeeeee!😎

@marcoottina654

7 ай бұрын

I couldn't contain a smile while spotting where the string"coolstuff" were placed (actually, in a very normal location, to be honest). Probably my sense of humor AND my priorities / maturity level needs to be revised a bit Anyway, what does "atee" means?

@jarrodalbers6127

7 ай бұрын

I had to rewind cause I missed it the first time 😂😂😂

@seantheelite

7 ай бұрын

@@marcoottina654haha “ate” is a term meaning she basically looks amazing! The hair, the look and her overall energy. In this situation, she ate because she killed it!

@DocHudson420

7 ай бұрын

@@seantheeliteyall hype up nothing it’s weird

@seantheelite

7 ай бұрын

@@DocHudson420 you definitely didn’t eat 🥹. Go do that

I guess people aren't realizing this is for mid-power casual EDH, not high power or cEDH. These decks can be hard to stop for the power level they'd be played at, like who's playing Grist at an 8/9 table? Great video y'all, highly enjoyed

@keetakitten

7 ай бұрын

Yeah he's talking about a 4 power level 5 color koala tribal with 0 interaction

@blues6304

7 ай бұрын

Grist is played in cedh, either as a commander or in the 99 to generate a fodder for Protean Hulk while being able to removal a creature/walker like narset in a pinch

@warthog948

7 ай бұрын

Grist 12 entomb exists to turbo hulk lol

Loved the video!

I can't believe Muldrotha didn't get a segment here... Between Command Beacon, Kaya's Ghost Form, siren stormtamer and glen elendra, I've gotten my muldrotha deck to the point where people don't even bother removing her anymore. I once replayed her 7 times in a single game, never once did I pay the tax. Now people just save their removal to exile my OTHER key pieces.

Gentlemen of culture, we meet again.

In Feather, the Redeemed, I like Zada, Hedron Grinder. Target Zada, with Feather out, and make a copy of the spell targeting Zada for each creature you control. And it goes back to your hand.

@thatguyintherain3168

7 ай бұрын

Yeah this comment is making me build feather.

@natelagrassa9337

7 ай бұрын

@@thatguyintherain3168yeah me too. Lol. I have 23 decks, 5 of which I just build. So brews to build. 🤣🤣

I would have mentioned Sunforger for Feather. It’s pretty insane in my Feather deck

Funny that Feather follows Liesa in this list considering how the former punishes the latter. Great episode.

Not even the commander of that section but MAN Soul’s Attendant/Soul Warden/Essence Warden are so good. I run Soul Warden in my Adeline and Essence Warden in my Selvala (monoG). They’re not even life based decks so it’s just to keep me alive but Jesus do they keep me up. And it’s so fun going “I gain a life” when opponents play creatures

Continuously, the best MTG channel ever

@hermodnitter3902

7 ай бұрын

It's good for commander. Honorable mention: LSV's new channel, great draft videos.

Liesa is nice with Famished Paladin + Resplendent mentor, which goes infinite in gaining life, and Firja's Retribution + Sigarda's SUmmon & Archangel of Thune / Maskwood Nexus + lots of token generation in order to clean the board (Thrull Parasite helps keeping the Saga alive and extorts, like Pontiff of BLight)

Big brains episode 👌

She has some weights

26:30 everyone loves/hates Spore Frog but nobody remembers Kami of False Hope whitch does the same thing at the same cost but is white instead of green

1st Deck - 1:05 2nd Deck- 7:00 3rd Deck - 12:40 4th Deck - 18:13 5th Deck - 23:20 6th Deck - 29:00 7th Deck - 35:08

@MasonSheffield

7 ай бұрын

The real MVP

@stigmurder99

7 ай бұрын

Nice.

I like the playtest, I just think it needs some homebrews. Pub variant as a basic facility, some use for the basic ones (bedroom needed for long rest, kitchen makes better rests etc) I really wanna give my players this feeling of "guys, if we aquire x this allows us to build y wich gives us z" this has so much Potential with just a few changes and could be really fun

Watching this while brewing a Goose Mother deck :)

So i do have have birds tribal Derevi deck, and one nasty thing i found was playing Dismiss into Dreams and suddenly making Derevi into a removal engine. Its so mean but man is it effective.

Its crazy that with sauron you can destroy your opponents legendary creature in response and watch their kill spell go to the dumpster along with their morale.

@TheLastTinMan

7 ай бұрын

flavour win for that card

The only decks in this video im not building or planning to build are karador (i play muldrotha already) and derevi This vid has so many tips for my decks XD

Honestly I’m impressed the comments are tame, unexpected but a pleasant surprise

You signed my playmat at Commandfest Orlando!

@NitpickingNerds

7 ай бұрын

It was great to see everyone, we had a lot of fun!

Shadow shelf belongs in the background. Universes beyond has no limits /s

@NitpickingNerds

7 ай бұрын

Shadow secret lair incoming

@jacobbrown9894

7 ай бұрын

@@NitpickingNerdsplease no. If they ever crossover with Sonic it is actually a threat on my debit card’s life

Slimefoot and Squee feels unstoppable at times. The key is to take away the sac outlet or kill the saproling tokens and leave them stranded in the yard.

my katilda deck reaches that tipping point faster than any of my other decks and my favoritw wincon is halo fountain so once i'm setup NO ONE sees it coming. i make tons of human tokens and can pump them up with katilda. with drumbellower or seedborn muse i can throw three =1 counters by the time my turn comes around so people assume i'm gonna attack with a dozen 6/6 humans and i can absolutely dome people but it's easier to play grand abolisher then halo fountain and just tap my humans pay to activate and win on the spot if i get my soul warden/attendant on early and gain life i can just squall line/hurricane, especially with a leyline of abundance + vitalize/to arms!

Another commander that can go on this list is orvar the all form, because they’re running all these bad spells the he makes good and so in response they just target the thing you try to remove and make a new one and if you remove orvar they have no issues recasting it bc they made plenty of lands with orvar too

Ghalta: I've had this commander for so long, its good to see others play it and make it wreck everything lol.

The thrist for mia in the comments is real , stay strong brothers xD

@grist836

7 ай бұрын

Fr it’s insane and cringe

@DocHudson420

7 ай бұрын

@@grist836 they gotta be sooo desperate 😂

@TheLionking0569

7 ай бұрын

Magic and Squish..... the real companions

@mastershake42019

7 ай бұрын

I was on the fence with Mia. But a recent pair of developments has "Tipped" me over the edge. 😅😮

@mastershake42019

7 ай бұрын

Also she knows exactly what she is doing. Engagement is a thing

Thoughts on Treebeard? The Ward 2 is great and there are tons of low cost instants that gain a lot of life. Voltron Treebeard is fast.

Sauron is such an evil deck but I love to play it like an all lord of the rings evil creatures theme. See I also play LotR warhammer and the know me as the Witch Kim of Barna, so of course I'm playing him and a Lord of the Nazgul Ringwraiths deck!

Dimir Signet is great...but Relic of Sauron is next level with Sauron

I have a Liesa deck and villis is absolutely insane in it. Once he resolves he just constantly gives you cards for the rest of the game as he essentially just turns liesas ability into “whenever you cast a spell, lose 2 life and draw 2 cards”. Plus rug of smothering is another super oppressive piece as it’s basically a reverse aetherflux.

@anthonymoreno6156

7 ай бұрын

Who is villis?

@natelagrassa9337

7 ай бұрын

@@anthonymoreno6156 vilis, broker of blood. Yes that is insane. Throw him in the grave in the first couple turns… reanimate him a turn after you cast your commander… watch the heads roll! 🤣🤣

Prossh fits into a unique category, similar to the rest of the commanders here. If you kill him, sure, they have to pay 2 more, but you're just causing an ever larger pile of kobolds.

I prefer Tiamat over Ur Dragon. The 1-mana discount is nice, but you already ramp hard in dragons and I much prefer the 5 (FIVE) card tutor.

@Dtoszi

7 ай бұрын

@@rawritstayl0r866 I know, but I still love beeg dragons :p Search into Miirym, Lathlis, and Ganax then 2 other tech dragons.

@klaiken989

5 ай бұрын

​@@rawritstayl0r866He/she isn't talking about what is boring or not. They are saying in terms of power and consistency. Tiamat is the better commander over Ur-Dragon

@JushakF

Ай бұрын

Yeah, Tiamat is consistent and boring. I have a Tiamat deck in my usual playgroup and it's the deck I like the least from that player. I played a game with it myself at one point and was flabbergasted by how few actually good dragons it had when I cast Tiamat, because literally every game the guy plays with it, it does the same thing with the same handful of dragons. Power level wise I guess you can make pretty powerful deck with her, but as commander deck I find her to be a failure. Doing the exact same thing every game is literally the antithesis of the format.

yeah... i put all my fast mana into my sauron deck.. that is the only part that is optimized... also threw in my only copy of dockside... which i know you guys hate... i took my ringsight out though to keep the deck casual still... i just want sauron on the board... i have only one counterspell commit/memory

@echoesvayne9790

7 ай бұрын

sauron.. 9 nazgul... I'm still tweaking the deck, but I am thinking I might test nazgul tribal and play alll the mimics... I do have to thank you for your cards we would ban list... I couldn't think of expropriate... I wanted a small suite of outnof nowhere wins like insurrection, breach the multiverse, and I couldn't think of the right name for it... I legit don't feel bad about them in Sauron because... it's sauron... and it's thematic to win out of nowhere (see Numenor 😂).... like the deck is... ramp... sauron.... durdle.... hope to get an epic spell to maybe insta win... sounds on point for him in LotR... is the necromancer really sauron...... let's take our time finding out.... O NO!!!

Mia looks fire haha She kept me watching the video Great content as always !

All I really got from this video is that I NEED to buy Hylda of the Icy Crown and make a deck for her. Easy to make it thematic since there's a ton of ice-themed stuff out there like Icy Manipulator that does exactly what this deck wants and needs.

Mia your hair looks amazing! Anyways, great video! A friend of mine even built the galta deck you guys recommended and it has been a blast!

For that life drain stacking effect (which is itself a fine name) I used to have a yugioh deck I called princess drain that worked similarly by using a bunch of princess cards to burn and gain life. Though I don't see "Princess Drain" catching on as a term, the idea amuses me.

@schwertunddonner3953

7 ай бұрын

With princess pikeru and kuran? I like that idea but sadly there is not much support for them I belive

@doomofthedestiny8065

7 ай бұрын

@@schwertunddonner3953 also fire princess and a few other spells and traps that do regular intervals of either damaging my opponent or gaining me life. And I built that deck before any of their support cards had been printed. Also used to use this trap card, think it was wall of light or revealing light, spend life monsters can't attack you unless they're bigger than that. And a trio of spear cretins that could indefinitely fetch each other out of the graveyard. There were at the time, less than a dozen ways to deal with any of it, but now, none of it is the least bit playable.

Good episode, but damn those hair readjustment cuts were not very subtle 😅

Got damn!!!!!

Chandra's Ignition for Sauron is also great

I'm surprised Henzie wasn't on here considering the more you kill him, the more powerful he becomes

What about Edgar Markov, Beantown bullies, neckusar

I'd add momir vig to this list. I played it the other night at my LGS. It got killed twice, and I still won.

Hoped to see Dragonlord Dromoka

My unstoppable commander is Marath, Will of the Wild. You want to kill it sure NP in response I'll make some token/ +1/+1 counter and/or do some damage to something and recast and get an even bigger Marath in a turn or 2. All I need is mana, aka Cryptic Trilobite, Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, and so many cards can cause Marath to go infinite token,+1/+1, damage. 😂

I built a Karador deck for my budget league. When it pops off, it feels great.

@NitpickingNerds

7 ай бұрын

What's the deck's budget?

Gyrson starn is a menace, and if you play spellslinger your pingers become brutal, just one pinger hitting your opponent’s for 3 is obnoxiously strong.

I love Grist in Karador because my Karador build is also an Umori companion brew, and Grist doesn't break the companion restriction. So cool that it does that

@NitpickingNerds

7 ай бұрын

Nice! Grist is just amazing all around 🙌🏻

For me #1 is and probably always will be korvold. I have stopped playing him more than once each week. He generates so much value, Is so easy to protect and half the time and the deck Is absurdly consistent with all the tutors green and black have.

I like how every video about the Ur dragon I hear is “you don’t even have to play him” my Ur list is all about playing commander and getting broken permanents like Omniscience on the board.

I built an Oloro deck with every extort card I could, the life gain was insane.

My favourite tech for stranding commanders in the battlefield is mystic reflection on a manland

Coolstuff wont let me stack discounts 😢, right now I get 12.5% off singles and it wont let me get the extra 5%

Dem mana barbs 😍🤤👌 subscribed 😎

my friend had a feather deck that it was pretty much impossible to kill her he had like a 95% winrate so he took it apart after a few months

Inferno the star mounts deserved a mention imo

It was so powerful, it’s in our cube and I won A GAME with it!!” 😂🤟

The new unstoppable commander that simply wrecks every game they join? Anikthea, Hand of Erebos. It's gotten to the point of people just not wanting to sit across from her at my local game store.

@ghost_tickler1575

7 ай бұрын

Soooo glad I built her.

@mikeyp266

7 ай бұрын

The look on people's faces when they see her make three blind mice a token enchantment, that starts snowballing copies of itself is awesome

@keetakitten

7 ай бұрын

Is your LGS full of toxic casuals that play 5 color koala tribal with zero interaction

@zonimi

7 ай бұрын

@@keetakitten My LGS is full of people who's main goal is to have fun and be social (for the most part). Sometimes a new person will show up with a pub-stompy deck, and the next week will usually come back with something reasonable. Recently a few Anikthea decks have been making the rounds and we are coming to realize how lopsided the deck really is.

@keetakitten

7 ай бұрын

@@zonimi so y'all play to fill up board states and run 0 removal so everyone can sit there with stalled board states? Anikthea is ok in a 5 power level situation, calling Anikthea pub-stomp is really whack to me

Day 55 of guessing the Moxfield ad at 16:44. Clearly the most OP ad time guess

I have to thow out chiss-gorea the forge tyrant affinity to artifacts she just never stays dead pluse she drops more on an attack trigger it gets dumb fast

All I'm seeing is someone hasn't ever played against Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. With the crazy colorless ramp you can usually get him out by turn 4. He exiles two permanents on cast. (this can include lands which can cripple a player early) He is indestructible so you have to exile him or pacify. Even if you counter his cast, the exile still happens since it's a cast trigger. When he attacks you have to exile 20, whether he hits you or not. I hate playing against him, he's hard to beat.

An amazing episode, I love hearing about commanders people hate like this, it validates my feelings that stax and land destruction is the most fun

How about that Darien, King of Kjeldor ey? If you manage to protect him you're basically unstoppable and you can make infinite soldier tokens and gain infinite life 😁

Finally it’s my birthday video 😁

@NitpickingNerds

7 ай бұрын

Happy birthday!

Void rend is the best spell to kill ward. I run it in every deck I can and I also run more board wipes now because of ward. I think single removal or spot removal is just garbage. I think wotc did this because of some other channel that was saying spot removal better than board wipes. Only want to remove threats that target you, thus ward! Board wipes greater than spot removal. Use to run 5 to 7 wipes with 10 or so spot now I runs 2 to 5 spot 10 plus wipes!

With amass an orc I thought u could only make 1 army at a time unless you had changelings. Instead of making a 2/2 orc army can I make 2 1/1s?

@alexabney7913

5 ай бұрын

I’ve been wondering about that too.

@alexabney7913

5 ай бұрын

Orc armies count as goblins??

@EPICJ0HN

5 ай бұрын

@@alexabney7913 no orcs are separate but Saruman the white hand has ward for both

I had no clue Mia was stacked like that goddamn girl

Suprised not to see yuriko

Before watching the video I am thinking of Yuriko

Really, Ghalta? Where is Korvold.

Bobs.

I just realized Railway Brawler is going to come out of Plot-Exile just ahead of Ghalta shaking off his most recent bout of summoning sickness in the worst-case-scenario of no available Haste, to give the big Dino 12 +1/+1s and facilitate the 1-hit Commander K.O.

9:43 Miirym my favorite dragon commander

The comander i run that the hardest to stop is bruvac or first sliver buy time someone has response its too late 😅

When are you two going to play with the guys from the Command Zone?

Grist is my go-to. Things get chaotic quick. Insect hivemind for the win. Narratively cool and horrifying.

HOLY mia is BUSSIN

@stigmurder99

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Ghalta's best friend? Primalcrux!

Ghalta player here, look at the card "mold adder"

@stigmurder99

7 ай бұрын

👀 dude that is sweet

15:56 my least favorite way to knock someone out of the game is through extort. It feels icky but it’s nice to have because it’s hard to interact with.

@draco4569

3 ай бұрын

I've done that in my Sliver tribal deck via Blind Obedience.

As someone who plays Ur-Dragon and gets stopped very frequently I don't think its unstoppable, just strong.

@MasonSheffield

7 ай бұрын

Same 😞. Counter spell literally stops it in its tracks.

@sabomusicllc8165

7 ай бұрын

Same lol it always get targeted

@tharengore7215

6 ай бұрын

My Angel tends to counter Ur-Dragon fairly well also.