20 Cards You Should Put In Your Commander Decks 

ahhh this is the series that originally got me subbed to your channel! I’m sad to see it ending! thanks for showing me the cards aura flux and energy flux back in the day! all my friends hate it when i play those against them

Aww this series is solely responsible for my playgroups shouting "what the hell is that??!" when I turn a janky 20 year old card into my win condition. So many great choices in sets before the power creep began, going to miss seeing these pop up. Thanks for putting out so many old unused cards to be loved again ☺️

Sad to see this series end but I totally understand. Really appreciate the hard work you've put into finding these gems!

Glad to have been here for the ride. Thanks Demo I'll stick around to see what's next

I LOVE this list, and I took notes. I also want to say: I watch quite a few MTG/EDH channels on YT. Most of them are a "how do they speak in this video" type of thing, since I have profound hearing loss. You speak clearly, and your mic volume isn't insamely low/high, which means I can just turn on your videos. No need to fiddle with captions or volume

Dude, your series is like my EDH secret weapons arsenal, I was hooked to the series because I myself put some cards before you showcased here (Like Razia's Purification). Anyway you rule, mr EDH Deckbuilding

Dauthi Embrace is also great for politics, which as much as some people may not like it (MaRo) is a very important part of EDH. It says "target creature" and _not_ "you control", so you can give other players' creatures shadow to let them get through on another opponent or another planeswalker.

Why not do another episode a couple times a year for only underplayed cards from the newest sets?

Awesome series, I almost commented last time that I catalogued each episode and now I regret not doing so lol. Like others have said too this was my favourite feature of the channel and I'll miss it a lot. Thanks for pouring so much time and energy into your videos, I think you'll see it's definitely appreciated. Take care, Dalfort.

This has been a great series. I subbed to your channel because of it. Thank you.

A long time ago, me and some friends spent 45 mins - hour debating what Ice Cauldron actually does while tripping on magic mushrooms. Good times. :)

You were not kidding! I paused the video at Mooring Mirror and immediately got a foil for my Madness discard and draw deck! THANK YOU! You have earned this Like Sir!

Not going to lie, I've made most of my singles purchases based on EDH rec and you. I'm a big fan of "under the radar" quality utility cards that shine in certain scenarios and builds. I've won a hand full of games with them and my playground has asked me more than a few times, "hey what's the name of that card?" This series was so good and will be key for all kinds of players past, present, and future wanting to make unique decks. Awesome stuff man 🤙🏽

First vid of yours I've seen; I love it! Zany and older cards are what attract me as a newer player, so these vids are a dream :D Thank you for posting!

I loved this series, you helped me make my orvar deck better without spending too much. Last sunday i won a game with proteus staff and cryptoplasm and i got both of them after seeing your series here

thank you so much for this series, i run parallel thoughts and diplomatic immunity in most of my blue decks because of your videos, and im sure theres even more gems in here to find.

Hammer Mage is a 10 cent repeatable version of meltdown if you really want to keep those treasures off the table.

I knew about Dauthi Embrace and loved it back in the day, thanks for the reminder! My Mari, the Killing Quill deck needs a way to get creatures through on demand, and that seems perfect.

Love seeing the old cards in commander. I just built a premodern commander deck about a month ago, love me some old frames :)

I love credit voucher in my jhoira, weatherlight captain deck and now that you mention it imma add one to my scion of the Ur-dragon as well. I use it in jhoira mostly to shuffle away hands full of lands

Loved the series. Thank you as always!

i loved this series!, gave me so many cool commander ideas, and im very excited to see the new stuff, but i must know, what is the source for the the fantastic jazz intro?

The final episode?... Whoa guess you can only recommend so many cards haha loved this series. Can't wait for what's next.

I keep forgetting about ice cauldron and whenever I remember I try to find space in my ranar deck for it. Essentially reads "tap:fortell a nonland card from your hand" plus it comes with a spirit.

Credit Vulture really fun for Queza, Augur of Agonies. I'll definately try this card with that deck! Salamander and Basilisk Collar is such a good combination down right evil LOOOL

Loved the series, thank you.

Credit Voucher is nice in my Locust God deck. Also, the audio on your channel is really good lol

Pain's Reward is great in Nekusar as well. Most of the time, you can bid 0 life and draw 4 because your opponents don't want to bid life and take a bunch of damage.

Great content buddy, keep it up

Strands of Night is amazing in a Korlash deck. And Scalding Salamander fits right in with Tibor and Lumia, especially if you're running Archetype of Imagination and Basilisk Collar.

Not sure if it was from your channel or not but titanias song has become a personal favorite care for me. I built around it in a hatebears deck and it just slows down all artifact ramp

I love Shivan Harvest in my Yasova dragon claw deck. Nice to steal creatures and sac them for the extra value.

Dauthi embrace can be used defensively against creatures with lure abilities- you give them shadow and then only shadow creatures have to block them.

Great picks!

When I bought my 100 earnest fellowship copies for 11 cents each in 2017, everyone said I was nuts. Just waiting for the value to hit a few more bucks. Mana maze makes your 5 color creatures uncounterable. It is also amazing in flash-based or vedalken orrery decks.

Vanishing is also a quite fun card in line with the Vedalken Illusionist.

Pure Reflection: have a look at Spirit Mirror, an old azorius stax combo piece which literally says: "0: destroy target reflection" Gonna surprise ppl with mono white reflex stax :D

I run Dystopia in my Jund Shattergang deck. Since I want to sacrifice my own creatures, there really is no downside. And having a built-in way to rove it myself (by not paying the cumulative upkeep) means I am not stuck with it when it outlasts it's usefulness.

Your 10 cards videos are my favorite.

dauthi Embrace in a Kamyz deck is definitively good ! With some great trigger on combat damage apply, that can be awesome !

Scalding Salamander wins the cuteness award, too :)

I think people need to play Reduce to Dreams more often. Blue has some great creature boardwipes but what about enchantments? Well, thats where my named card comes into play and it costs about as much as an Overloaded cyclonic rift without the salt, River's Rebuke, Upheaval, etc but again with the unique feature of caring about enchantments in an enchantment heavy meta now. Backgrounds, enchantress and stax deck cower in it's presence!

"Credit voucher," or "how I learned to stop worrying, and love the instant-speed, localized wheels." Also, eye of singularity eats non-basic lands... Like shock lands...

This video is A++ thank you!

melt down is used in the side board of legacy decks

I love primal order in mono green or two color decks. Always does more work than anyone thinks it will.

I saw one of your videos where you showed a card that phases out your creatures until end of turn . I have 2 questions about that card . #1 what was that card name & #2 is it just until the end of my turn or is it until everyone that I'm playing against has a turn ? I think the card was 2 blue mana & 2 colorless or it was one blue & one colorless .

Regarding Eye of Singularity - there's a Leyline of Singularity that does the same thing in blue. But ALSO turns things legendary. which uh. wait. that legendary mardu planeswalker lady. nice. 4 colors. no problem!

Eye of Singularity is also useful for just clearing out staples. Sol ring, command tower, etc.

This was a truly fantastic series! Sad to see it end but hey, you run out of janky stuff eventually.

Credit Voucher im gonna test out in the polymorph tribal deck, need to get the big creatures out my hand back into the deck, thanks!

ok I have a Tibor and Lumia deck and scalding Salamander is a good alternative for my commender nice find

credit voucher is one of my favs It's even in my Izzet wheel theme deck

Curse of the lariatmage(sp?) Is one of my favorites.

Phyrexian Reclamation is also nice for constant recursion, however it's to hand and not to field.

I've considered playing Lifebane Zombie for similar reasons as Dystopia. But I do play 1v1 sometimes and it can be really useless there

my only question for the new series is will they be hidden gems or just assumed to be any way thank you sir for the series this is how i found you in the first place. i will probably give one of my own cards I'm highly considering even though it looks stinky its called Tidal Flats its a blue enchantment for a single blue its saids {U}{U} :For each attacking creature without flying, its controller may pay {1}. If that player doesn’t, creatures you control blocking that creature gain first strike until end of turn. this sparked my eye because its gonna make it ridiculously tough to attack you since your creatures can get first strike and kill their creatures before yours die especially if you creatures have death touch and usually ground attacks is what happens in commander games. second if they do pay it you can try again if you have another blue blue available you only usually have to worry about flying matters if its dragons or token maker commanders that them fly. and also wait a sec what about "indestructible" well creatures with Wither or infect can fix that and you could also have something like Shadow spear or Bonds of Mortality in play to remove it but what the spark really is is its mono blue doesn't not typically give first strike to creatures so this is defense in blue besides propaganda and actually makes any creature a phenomenal blocker

Two aspects of Dauthi Embrace which I think also needs to be said: 1. There’s an interesting political angle to it. “I will activate this at the end of the declare attackers step if you promise to attack someone else”, for example. 2. It should be noted that while creatures with Shadow can’t be blocked by other creatures without shadow it also works the other way around. Meaning, if you’re in a situation where you have more attackers than potential blockers, it might be more efficient to just give other people’s creatures shadow instead.

thanks to foretell keyword it became really easy to explain ice cauldron, you just say it just like I activate Ice Cauldron to give foretell to a card in my hand, but I show the card and is in instant speed.

I love how Red actually has Stack pieces in older expansions... and Yes, the salamander Is going into my Zagras deck

Credit voucher combos with niv mizzet curiosity loops. Draw your library to remove two opponents, then play and sac credit voucher to draw more, pinging the last

Pure reflection in a naya creatures deck with pandemonium. Chef's 💋

It was a great run

dystopia has always been a favorite of mine

keep up the great content

Meltdown is big mostly from popularity in red decks in cedh plus legacy sideboard

Mana Maze only checks the most recent spell cast during the turn. I use this to set up wins by casting this, then some small spell followed by Teferi. Your thought might be, “Why not just cast Teferi first, then?” Well, my friend, this is the bait.

You can also use Amoeboid Changeling and similar effects in tandem with An-Zerren Ruins to ensure you'll be able to lock down any creature

I've had Meltdown for 3 cast against my Ruhan of the Fomori Voltron deck and I was blasted back to the stone age, but at least it didn't hit Assault Suit (the heart of the deck, and why I'm running 7 tutors)

for the vodalian Illusionist what the rule for phasing back in end of turn, as it resolve or never the card is not clear on that part I could look it up but let say it video intraction edit: funny thing I was going trough my binder and found a vodalian Illusionist in it also the phase out come back at the start of your turn if some one is wondering

Credit Voucher with Alhammeret's Archive or Teferi's Ageless Insight would double your hand size

For Strands of Night, if there is an untapped Archelos, Lagoon Mystic and you have both Worlds Shaper and something like a Ravenous Chupacabra or Plaguecrafter, you can go infinite.

Woah!! Credit Voucher!? This card is amazing! Going in my Gerrard Weatherlight Captain combo deck for sure.

Earnest fellowship (giving creatures protection from their colors) can be pretty strong but it can also backfire very easily. Your Ur-Dragon for example can now only block colorless creatures.

Love Mana Maze in my Jodah deck

I acrually put seedborn muse in my tribal decks just in case of An-Zerrin ruins!

Mana Maze + Painter's Servant is pretty good prison tech. Only 1 spell can be cast each turn, sounds good to me... Especially if you've got a lot of mana sinks on the table.

Earmest fellowship doesn't see more play because it also affects all your opponents' creatures. So they all become unblockable, untargetable, etc. Horrible against synergy or combo decks that want specific creatures out.

Divine presence is fantastic, however I built my zur deck as a toolbox/voltron control deck so it wouldn't fit at all lol

Love the Illusionist, but I think Soul Sculptor edges it out for me. And I will never understand seeing a deck with white that wants to attack and doesn't have Reconnaissance..

Queza, Augur of Agonies, Peer into the Abyss and Credit Voucher

Long term plans lessgoo!!

Loved tempest.

Hurray! I’m happy to see the database.

May I add meltdown destroys artifact land for one red to cast and one of anything into a shadowspear

I'd personally love an evolved version of this series. Instead of 10 cards in general no one plays, why not 10 cards in tribal/storm/stax... decks no one plays!

Not me using An-Zerrin Ruins to hose my friends Sliver deck..

sadly he missed the Mana Maze/ Oracle problem. That after casting oracle, you still need to exile/remove/draw your lib. So you have to cast, most likely, a black spell to do so, which than opens up a blue spell again, which will be the counterspell to stop the black one.

Actually I would say that the biggest reason to run nonbasic land removal is Glacial Chasm.

Imagine running Pure Reflection alongside Conspiracy, naming Reflections. All creatures just die every time someone casts a creature spell. You could make yours indestructible or recur them or something to break tempo on it or whatever too lol

Here's my thought: Pure Reflection with Maskwood Nexus? 🤔

Finally someone else noticed An-Zerrin Ruins! Homelands isnt as bad of a set as people say. (Well, maybe not...)

Honestly I don't understand why more people don't run world enchantments. I run one in each of my decks. I mean, if you're putting money into a deck, shell out for some older cards. Some of them are really fun and interesting. Even if they're not optimal, it's fun to see them get some play.

moon ring mirror is great for self mill by draw. you get rid of more cards that way

Might try credit voucher in my Muldrotha deck

I really hate commander staples because it homogenized the format, but I appreciate the videos

Had an opponent basically start the game with 10 life with pains reward. They won the game

@24:33 Trench Wurm

Pure Reflection is busted with Divine Visitation. Everyone else is losing Reflections every turn while you create Angels.

I'm pretty sure the Meltdown price increase has nothing to do with your mentioning it. It's become a premiere Legacy sideboard card in the meantime so it's just natural that the price has shot up.