2023's Most Popular Commanders | Powerful Commanders | EDH | MTG | Magic: the Gathering

For what it's worth, Frodo is Sam's employer/landlord.

Mitch, how do you feel about Oloro, the original eminence commander from before eminence was even conceived?

I made a Sauron deck. I need to keep working on it to make it better

Hot Take but I don't really like a lot of these commanders and they aren't interesting designs they are just multi color Swiss army knife decks that just put in the best cards and combos of each color without much thought for strategy. A lot of them sound disgustingly unfun to play against, I get made arch enemy if I drop in a normal Thalia never mind this monstrosity, people really leaning on rule zero as a crutch for pushed card design.

My Omnath locus of all deck has 33+ three mana pip cards so the deck is my version of playing slots in a magic the gathering game and when i hit the jackpot i cast the most uncastable cards in magic theres not a better feeling

Always a amazing great go to channel to find great magic content and deck tips I appreciate all the work you put into these I hope one day to make a channel doing stuff similiar with openings too, you help me love my hobby thank you.

For the love of God please stop talking so fast.

Eminence would be an ok ability if there were drawbacks, but if its all benefit, i agree, kinda a dumb ability

One of my favorite decks is Sauron. My army never gets that big, but my damage goes brrrr.

Pantlaza, called 'Pant Laser, Sun Flavored' by my friends is my pick of the year.

EDHREC is slightly flawed when it comes to precon commanders.
More obtuse commanders usually get really cool and interesting synergistic cards that you wouldn't think to try showing as their includes while precon ones are so bloated with copy and paste decks that nothing new or inspiring shows up.

Changling is NOT a creature type. It is an ability. Shapeshifter IS a creature type, but not ALL shapeshifters have the changling ability.

Yay for me I didn't have a commander on this list, like the other sheep muahahah

Dont play any of those Commander's and in a way that makes me happy, cuz I dont like playing Commander's everyone else . But I for sure thought Axonil would be on that list. He is a beast

When I saw compleated omnath an realmbreaker in March of the machines I knew I had to do 5 color preator deck

Love all your takes

My friend has had a Myr commander deck for at least a decade. And it was good, but then I bought Urtet for him since he didn't know about it. Holy shit did it send his deck into the stratosphere, such a sweet deck build. I love seeing decks that have been around and upgraded for years an years

I will enjoy now sitting down at tables with my Edgar deck and stating "I get free value, hahaha"

Omnath, Locus of All is so much fun. Big funny X spells are so much fun with the Mana bank, and Doubling Cube got a reprint so you get absurd numbers.

Dude are you edging up on burn out? I feel like I hear you say the same thing over and over. Its all great, I love your content... but there is no way you are having fun saying the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.....

I also think Eminence is a big mistake, both mechanic-wise and flavour-wise, and they could have made it work. Mechanic wise, they could have made it so that the player would have to pay mana or other resources to get the value instead of totally free, or they could have implemented means for other players to at least interact with it. And for flavour or designing wise, they should have only put this type of ability on commanders that are strategist type or "the guy behind the curtain" type, who typically don't directly go on the battlefield. A commander should not be great both on the frontline and on backstage. (I do realise such type of war commanders existed in real life in history, but in a competitive game ,it should no exist for balancing reason)

“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them; In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.”

Sauron, the Dark Lord, all the way

Shalai and Hallar is really good and easy to combo with but what's your opinion on running it without the OP combo pieces like Heliod, Red Terror, War Elemental, etc?

Where is The King of the Oathbreakers?

My Personal commander this year is hylda ... love to play her

Shalai and Hallar is powerful, but you can also shut down the ENTIRE DECK with a 1/1 insect, soooooooo......

Wait Aragon the uniter had 2 spot in this list I’m confused

Lots of the Nazgul 😤

Urtet and little dood turbo was my favourite of this year.

I've been having a great time with Calix, Guided by Fate. It can bring the heat as a volltron or aura heavy. It's also fun to have an enchantress deck that is not Sythis.

My #1 was Ojer Axonil. I built around it right away, and any game that deck plays Ojer is instant target from all the other players. They learnt after 1 game that oh hey, maybe taking a bunch of "1 damage" ping isn't such a great idea.

Good timing, I've got a 30 minute drive to work now

Saw Sauron in the thumbnail and already insta liked

Hey, hope everyone has a good day! Also great video as always!