2022 Commander Precons: Worst to Best | Which Commander Decks Are Most Worth Buying?

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It's time for the 2022 precon wrap-up, so we're ranking EVERY precon that came out this year from worst to best!
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@frost3461 Год назад

24. Draconic Dissent 23. Painbow 22. Chaos Incarnate 21. Upgrades Unleashed 20. Maestros Massacre 19. Mind Flayarrrs 18. Riveteers Rampage 17. Buckle Up 16. Bedecked Brokers 15. Legends Legacy 14. Mishra's Burnished Banner 13. Draconic Destruction 12. First Flight 11. Tyranid Swarm 10. Caberetti Cacophony 9. Forces of the Imperium 8. Token triumph 7. Urza's Iron Alliance 6. Ruinous Powers 5. Grave Danger 4. Obscura Operation 3. Party Time 2. Necron Dynasty 1. Exit From Exile

@zulkhaireesulaiman8575 Год назад

thank you!!

@mandadays1439 11 месяцев назад

You are a saint for doing this.

@FallenGamerNica 11 месяцев назад

Looking foward for an updated list

@IIAndersII 10 месяцев назад

Not all heroes wear capes

@scottreed6766 Год назад

No other content creators have done anything like this. This video really does offer me a place to steer new players into purchasing the right precon to play commander. Great work and I hope to see more content like this in 2023.

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

We do all the content!!!

@brunogauthier9469 Год назад

@@malakimphoros2164 Well we can't know for sure if their gonna like it since they are new players.

@teknyte-1 Год назад

@guysthatmagic did this 2 weeks ago

@caligo7918 Год назад

The Professor from the Tolarian Community College grades all the precons when they come out.

@billysmith8319 Год назад

Guys that Magic do this content as well, I'm happy that lots of people do as everyone's perspective gives different info which is great

@Lamos01 Год назад

Guys! U should really do a tierlist with all the precons so far (period). That would be cool. Just make them fit in S,A,B,C,D (or any shorter/longer combination tbh) tiers so that would be easier to figure them out.

@user-fl7zn2tn9q Год назад

Surprised even that this video wasn't done like that

@spark1128 Год назад

I was thinking Necron was going to be first except for the price because it’s definitively one of the craziest decks this year.

@EDZ1LLA Год назад

I bought the Party Time deck to get the black market connections to put in another deck I was building. Played a few games with the unaltered precon and had so much fun that I didn't end up changing it. And I didn't even make the deck I was going to put the black market connections in anyway! Love that deck, especially with Burakos as the commander.

@jonathanblaqk Год назад

The deck is top notch and Burakos is a lot of fun as a Commander.

@darkmagicianfan3423 Год назад

Yea I really love the party theme idea. Picked up some upgrades for the deck like divining top. Putting death touch on a card like Sigrid is awesome.

@lupash Год назад

more than all I'm glad to see I'm not the only one buying precons just for a few cards for other decks

@tjhove7855 Год назад

This is exceptional content. Kudos to you two for all the work that obviously went into it.

@drewmares145 Год назад

Absolutely honored to have this as my birthday video! Great info and a good summary of all the decks

@JohnMendiolaJWDM Год назад

Just wanted to say that I really appreciated the idea behind this video as well as the insights throughout. Awesome recap!

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Appreciate you too!

@JuancitoMarVel Год назад

I started Magic again back in July, and my friends got me a Faldorn deck as my first precon. Absolutely love to see how you guys rated that deck, it really got me back into loving the game again!

@jaredhammonds8255 Год назад

Bought it for my daughter knowing nothing about it and she absolutely destroyed me

@jamesrenegade1010 Год назад

Such a great deck

@soulstaygray Год назад

When I realized Exit From Exile was number one, I was SHOOK bc I started playing Magic/Commander this year and that was my first precon. Love Green, love the ramp, loved this deck while I was rocking. Great video

@magicth Год назад

Great video! And I love seeing some decks I didn’t know existed mainly the starter commander decks. Cool that they are actually pretty solid for that price. Thank you for the thorough breakdown 🙏🏻

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Happy to do it!

@gerardoramos3179 Год назад

The amount of work that probably went into this video is insane! Thank you so much for all the content ❤️ Also to answer at the end, exit from exile is number 1 😬

@Phanda92 Год назад

Love the content. Paused for naming the #1 deck which of course is Exit from Exile. The 4 D&D commander precons was my first baby step into commander and those decks has thoroughly hooked me in.

@mitchthegreat Год назад

Hey! I lost my father to cancer Christmas eve. I had a lot of down time handling things and not working. Your videos kept my mind elsewhere. Thanks for the great content

@ericsanchz Год назад

Excited for more shuffle scuffle and whatever new video ideas you have for next year! Keep it up guys

@connorjennings4203 Год назад

I’ve been blown out by the Golden Throne a few times. On the surface it doesn’t look great but it lets you get some mana in a pinch but most important it lets you swing out completely and not worry about crackback.

@imarinobr Год назад

Awesome vid and format! Very helpful! Please keep making this type of material. Thanks!

@damdaley8092 Год назад

i started playing magic this year so seeing all of these precons ranked against each other makes me happy

@owa1985 Год назад

I have the Imperium deck and I played it with Greyfax with exactly your attittude towards her. At first. It turns out that having a tapper that also kinda anthems the overmana costed (vanilla rule-wise) confused guys in the deck is hilarious value. She's way better than I initially thought. So much so that I now cannot decide if Marney's a better commander or not. As an added bonus, she typically flies under the radar unlike the Ultramarines' number 2.

@brettdawson7236 Год назад

you guys are my fav channel. love both your personalities. super fun channel and interaction on social media yall are awesome.

@Red-Yo Год назад

actually useful content to a new player like me. i will actually start playing by the weekend and i have put it off for so long because all the info can be much. you guys made it so easy ! thank you !

@kkplx Год назад

Very high quality content. Well done.

@johnpaulchua3920 Год назад

I could have sworn Necron Dynasties is the best of the bunch. But great review as always! Want to have more videos like this.

@infinitedaryl2267 Год назад

Great content as always. I’ve been debating about what Precon I want. You’ve sold me on Party Time!

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Have fun!

@austinturgoose Год назад

Honestly I love the new Mishra deck! Its synergies with Brudiclad have been one of the most fun parts to explore. Can’t wait to upgrade it and attack with a whole bunch of reaver titans

@lachlanspeedy2692 Год назад

Same! I love mishra plus brudiclad and machine gods effigy

@TuttifruttiNinja Год назад

Somehow I have never drawn into brudiclad and I've played it 8 times or so. It still works really well though! Portal to phyrexia is nasty in that deck (upgraded).

@AidyJames Год назад

Same here, too. Since I upgraded it, it's become one of the most potent decks in my rather high-power central London play group. All it really took was some key additions like Hoard Hauler (which is nuts with Brudiclad), Gonti's Aether Heart, and Portal to Phyrexia. Vehicles in particular have overperformed, too - I love Imposter Mech and Weatherlight generates so much consistency and value.

@AidyJames Год назад

@@lachlanspeedy2692 Machine God's Effigy is insane.

@TuttifruttiNinja Год назад

@@AidyJames Do you think you could somehow share the decklist maybe? Do you know a good site where you can find curated decklist of well designed commander decks? I like edhrec but the volume of available Decks is overwhelming sometimes and a good few of them are really bad

@grumpyinbrooklyn6347 Год назад

I actually LOVE Painbow but as a base for other 5c decks. I've turned it into a modular deck, sort of 4/5 in one. One version with Jared, one with Jenson and working on two more modules

@fhgwdads05 Год назад

Same. Hell, Painbow actually is semi-functional if your gameplan is "wipe the board and hit folks with big tramplers". The nerds are a bit hard on it for low-power tables, I think. Any place with enough removal to keep Jared or key pieces off the board is going to steamroll it, but I've won with Mana Cannons, Jared's Kavu & +1/+1 generation, and Knight of New Alara. Selvala, Explorer Returned is just weak enough to often ignore direct attention but can generate you an absolute metric ton of green mana. I've literally won with this deck by going under the radar when my fellow players at the table ignored me because I was "only playing a precon". It's certainly far from amazing but I think it's important recognize there's a lot more variance among deck power in the community than youtube might indicate.

@LightYagami25 Год назад

I’ve actually won quite a few games with my Painbow deck with 4 players total. It’s not a bad precon at all. Hellkite and Okagami are 2 creatures I use a lot, Maelstrom is a great board wipe, and that Primeval Spawn is a hilarious trick to pop up. There’s a lot of other cards that have contributed to me winning matches such as the mutate and bestow cards and the Chromanticore is awesome.

@grumpyinbrooklyn6347 Год назад

@LightYagami25 I agree that it's not bad at all out of the box but it requires the player to think "out of the box" more than most (not necessarily a bad thing either). But I wanted to abuse the 5c part with Jenson too, so turning it into a "transformer" modular was too tempting let it pass! I even thought about getting a second one to leave as is!

@MrZer093 Год назад

Same. I just took it apart for the cheap 5c mana base. Dihada is the cooler commander anyways

@duckyleehazards7737 Год назад

I also love painbow. Don't know why they say there is not win condition. Win condition is pretty simple, cast some beat sticks, pump beat sticks win game. Infinity combos don't always have to be the win conditions.

@yuen4817 Год назад

This is a much needed list for people like me lol thank you and happy new years/happy birthday to the nitpicking nerds!

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

You too!

@sammartin8746 Год назад

The tyranids get very large pools of mana with extremely little effort so the over paying for the ravenous isn't an issue, also when you copy a spell all instances of X are copied so with Lucea Kane it essentially also gives you a bonus card for whichever spell you copy (I've played many times my very lightly modified version of the deck and by turn 6 onwards I've found I've had easy access to 12+ mana) the modifications were basically just defiler of vigour, the neon dynasty channel lands, spinal parasite (because I like the card), iridescent hornbeetle, and maybe one or two other cards (Unbound flourishing is in there too and things certainly get amusing if it comes into play)

@xx_swag_dinkster_xx2724 Год назад

Chaos incarnate is actually really good against the other starter decks but that’s about it 😂

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

#Metagame!

@swampyswamperton6536 Год назад

i mean tbh all the starter decks are only good vs the starter decks lol

@frostyshen689 Год назад

@@swampyswamperton6536 idk man the tyrannid deck has stomped a couple of our games outside of the precon decks

@protein5207 Год назад

@@frostyshen689 they're talking specifically about the precons labeled as "starters".

@crimsonbrotherhood Год назад

My first time playing it I went against 3 non precons. I knocked out 2 players but lost to the last player one turn before I had him beat. Everyone playing couldn't believe how good it was playing.

@samuelemonaci Год назад

I bought exit from exile to get some cards for decks I already had, but after playing it once I couldnt take it apart it was so much fun, really a home run of a precon

@zetsugami00 Год назад

Thank you for making this video!

@WolfmanXD Год назад

I bought the firk deck, modified it a little bit, but changed my commander to will and Rowan, and it's actually fairly fun. But right now I'm working on making it something completely different. I actually really like carthalion. It's definitely built to drop 5 color creatures and pump them up to swing wide. It's funny you say o-kagachi is a dud, since every time I drop o-kagachi I seem to become public enemy number one.

@mikebutler9356 Год назад

This was great! Thanks both 😊👍

@StateofMindJscj Год назад

Super interesting seeing your take as high power players. We have a precon league we do and dihada is def top tier. Ashling pilgrim works amazing with your commander plus 2. Even if she only has 3 counters, with lifelink thats going to gain you a ton of life. Mageslayer has also gotten people a ton of wins. Being able to deal the damage even though everyone has blockers can be insanely strong

@matthewcartermusic Год назад

I ended up combining the Painbow and Legends Legacy decks and then using Jodah as the commander. It is super powerful with a little bit of work, plus Keri-Zev is really good in it.

@Dulcimer.MP3 Год назад

As soon as you revealed the number 2 deck, I knew Exit from exile would be number one! Im new to Magic and got Exit from Exile this year because Im a big D&D fan so the D&D decks caught my eye. Needless to say I was curious to see where you would rank it, and didn't expect it to be the top entry! I lucked into that buy haha

@JetNAmplify Год назад

Oh yeah!! I had had to sit here and think about it for a moment but it's definantly exit from exile. I've been playing that deck for a month or two and it's sick. I love it so much. I'm going all In on making as many wolves as possible and doing big overrun things. Love that deck so much.

@outlawmajor1618 Год назад

Got the Party Time Deck for Birthday and the Necron Dynastie Deck on Christmas from my roommate. I'm still happy about her presents. Love both of this Decks. So good in the strategy and the synergy

@kirururik Год назад

this is super helpful thank you

@poutinemcflurry3544 Год назад

I put a few upgrades into the riveteers rampage precon, took out the cards that just plain suck, put in some cards like Lilliana dreadhorde general, a few more blitz creatures, living death, and now it’s so good! I’ve beaten some decks that an upgraded precon should have no business beating, and it felt so good! I’m definitely going to upgrade it more, cause it’s just my favourite deck to play.

@TSOWizard Год назад

Gonna do a bit of a nitpick myself: Mageslayer does WORK in my Wulfgar deck. I've won games with it before (along with other synergistic cards in play, admittedly). But still, can be good in the right deck.

@MrHoneuma Год назад

I got Buckle Up for I think $20. Recently started playing and upgrading it more for a pretty decent amount of success. Vehicles tend to be on the cheaper end of cards, so pretty easy to get ahold of them. I know Shorikai is technically the better commander, but I've enjoyed running it with Kotori and a bunch of artifact creatures.

@wakefieldwade4019 Год назад

I have been waiting for this one.. a favorite of my favorites annual NN vids

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Yeah this one is awesome! Took us SIX HOURS to export for some reason tho

@victoryarc8128 Год назад

Happy new year guys. 🎉

@chrishartman5200 Год назад

Just got back into magic after a 7 year hiatus. Hadn’t ever played EDH and my local game store pretty much only played EDH. So, I purchased Painbow because I had a five color bringer deck, and merged them. I enjoy playing it. Now to see what pre cons to pick up!

@jonathandoherty9082 Год назад

Draconic Dissent was such a good deck. One of my favorites.

@joeyshuffles Год назад

just picked it up yesterday for $32. Super excited to try it out!

@caseyspark2019 Год назад

I built Dihada and really like her as a reanimation deck. That -3 really fills the yard and the +2 does alright as well.

@jameshanrahan5763 Год назад

Seeing someone complain about Nighthawk in a precon feels weird

@hjskillman Год назад

I transformed Exit from Exile into a Minsc and Boo deck and really liked the few games I played with it out of the box!

@sufifi Год назад

I bought the Chaos Incarnate as a Christmas gift for my nephew and I was actually surprised at how well it performed, basically you want to maintain some form of balance of power, use your removals if something really threatening hits the board, then watch your opponents kill one another. Fun deck to play but I'll admit that drawing cards like Breath of Malfegor doens't make you feel too good ^^ Also the deck could be improved for cheap with cards like Malakir Rebirth or Supernatural Stamina which allow you to trigger your Commander multiple times. Very fun deck to play, definitely give it a shot :)

@robfelton5120 Год назад

Literally used chaos against a greensleeves deck and a vehicle deck and it has another creature in the deck that goads whenever a land enters battlefield you can make goad each turn until u really need to play kardur and i made them damage each other whilst i set up tonnes of utility in enchantments and creatures tohat effected them

@ShteebVS Год назад

Buckle Up is one of my favorites. Slightly upgraded mine (mechtitan ofc + others) and often times no one can clear my board. Sometimes I feel bad for using it until the morph decks come out

@spkru Год назад

Awesome recap guys👏👏👏

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Thanks!

@sicknor3230 Год назад

The Reaver Cleaver gives you treasures for the damage done to a player + trample and +1/+1. In your example it would create 7 treasures. that card is amazing. Loving Legends Legacy. Great Video Guys

@dyldragon1 Год назад

I personally loved Bedecked Brokers. I know most people say Perrie is a crappy commander, but I think he's so dope

@collinblazer Год назад

The upgrade unleashed chishiro precon is so good. You give your big guy a mage slayer like Taurean mauler or Ascendant acolyte and you can quickly destroy planeswalkers and usually get A LOT of free damage. Orochi is really really good when you play a grumgully then a huge smoke spirit aid to get alot of 2/2 menace spirits that can tap for 2 green each. The smoke spirit's aid is a really good card once you realize that with the commander it creates a spirit for every extra mana you put into it.

@the_salty_pudding355 Год назад

See I'm glad I'm not the only one who realizes that too! The nitpicking nerds are always sleeping on the fun and cool cards

@quickaswink Год назад

I love this deck. Its a cheap pick-up and for like 10-15 bucks you got a pretty great deck. I love picking it up and just have a blaat with huge creatures

@brigaderr Год назад

Is it possible to see the Joe's upgraded Exit From Exile decklist? Great video, awesome work!

@ak2298 Год назад

Captain Ngathrod?!?? That is one of the best synergistic fun precon decks I have seen (and I’m not the one in my playgroup who plays it), to add: Horrors have gotten pretty bonkers…super strong and super nasty! This deck works almost every time I have seen it and does just so many things!…cannot believe this rating here

@jamesrenegade1010 Год назад

Eh take it with a grain of salt. 🙃😊

@farbenluxus1972 Год назад

THought nearly the same. I play with this deck and it is sooo much fun to remove all the big dragons and stuff directly into the graveyard and get at least one of them joining my party. Ofc it has its weaknesses but in my opinion this is way underrated. :D

@craigandrews7544 Год назад

Fave horrors to add?

@davestier6247 Год назад

Before watching this video I was just running Faldorn in my cascade pile, now I kinda want to just build her. Great content.

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Thank you!

@randymotter51 Год назад

The Swarmlord really ought to sit down and have a nice long conversation with Animar. My boy loves Ravenous something fierce.

@DBanner16 Год назад

I'm just here to say that Colossal Plow has pulled a lot of weight for me in multiple games with Shorikai. Only takes 2 pilots to crew and I usually end up getting 9 mana and 9 life from it

@chungusamongus3141 Год назад

Luxior, Giada's Gift makes Painbow completely fine, commander that prints tokens, buffs 2 creatures including himself every few turns, etc. Hes a good stompy boy.

@dorsalfin22 Год назад

For upgrades unleashed, to make it unique from other aura/equipment decks, but also to reduce the feels bads of drawing the wrong half of your deck, I made almost all of the cards in the deck able to fit BOTH roles. So they can be the creature OR the modifier. This includes Reconfigure, Living Weapon, and of course Licids. Just added some For Mirrodin! cards too. It plays differently than the typical aura or equipment deck because it incentivizes you to spread them out and not put them all on one creature, which I really like. Really good commander design but the deck out of the box was definitely unfocused

@Falconi510 Год назад

I actually like the pain bow deck overall for a 5 color Precon I was expecting it to be way worse. Although not very powerful it is very fun and with a few upgrades I could see it doing some work

@elephantguy0790 Год назад

Mind Flayers is really strong, if it works. I once got almost all the manarocks in the deck out and I played my commander turn 3 but once board wipes and artifact kills came out I basically got steamrolled

@RvBnerd618 Год назад

As someone that eventually got back into Commander thanks to the 40k collab, I'm happy that even the "weak" precon deck Tyranid Swarm is still good enough by precon standards. Bought that one at a local shop with a great owner that liked Age of Sigmar Champions like I did, if not for the Universe Beyond set I'd probably not play Magic of any type. $60 was a fair price point. Hopefully I'll be able to stick around much longer now that I'm back into this game. Great tier list overall as it helps highlight each new decks pros and cons.

@prew123 Год назад

I was very lucky that I started playing last year. I picked Exit from Exile because I thought, awesome a wolfpack. All my friends were amazed by how good this deck was.

@jeremiahchamberlain4179 Год назад

Thanks so much. Great video.

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Appreciate it!

@skarsik Год назад

My upgraded Lucea Kane deck goes so crazy. Double devour triggers giving two cards for one is great while also producing pairs of giant hydras and tyranids goes bonkers. A few X noncreature spells like immolating inferno, commanders insight, expansion/explosion, green sun zenith to find things like anger.

@mraidandm Год назад

I JUST GOT MINE!!!! this is probably the best box I’ve ever owned. I play competitive stax which is very meta dependent so having a box that holds my 100 double hard sleeved deck, along with the extra cards per meta, and dice/tokens needed in just one box. Phenomenal. A+.

@gustavgans403 Год назад

Pause ist set! The number 1 deck of course is exit from exile, which I bought after seeing your review of the D&D precons. I replaced about 10 -15 cards and now it's one of my favorite decks.

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Glad to hear it!

@chrisgallo2236 Год назад

Another cool card to throw in the Exit deck is Ruxa. All your wolves get +1/+1 and can assign damage as though they were unblocked. Pretty good.

@David_Odie Год назад

My birthday was the day this video released..... Thanks!

@jessesandburg Год назад

Your patreon is blowing up! Proud of your guys success. Been watching for quite some time now.

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Appreciate the kind words!

@codelicious6590 Год назад

Yay! I love Wolf tokens and I had never even HEARD of the top deck before this vid!!!

@AM-ip2ey Год назад

Exit from Exile + Legends' Legacies + Ruinous powers brought home-runners for Jodah the Unifier (more than the usual commanders that could have synergy); got them to build a Jodah. Reaver Cleaver feels like a card optimized specifically with this deck build; and Faldorn and Abaddon pop-off here even more. Add Prosper Tome-bound and Klauth from previous year to add insult to injury.

@teferitoots8043 Год назад

The line that always comes to my head when you discuss deck tech is the Joe Cherries "Ya Basic!" line. Lol 🤣

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

LOL

@Captdimitri Год назад

That Gruul DnD Deck, just because y'all didn't mention it yet, it came with Jeskas Will, DBFB, and Three Visits. Wild stuff. Fantastic content, you two. My patreon money is damn well spent. Edit: I was right! Exit from Exile! Tell me I cheated.

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Nice job! Also YOU CHEATED

@Breviparopus Год назад

The best upgrades for budget for token triumph are to take out all the ramp and add creatures with: tap tap an untaped creature you control, add one manna of any colour to your manna pool as well as survivors encampment and shamanic revelation

@andrewrockwell1282 Год назад

So I want to pick up the intro decks to have them to teach people. But with your comments I want to probably trade out like 5 cards from each for something else budget. Could you guys give recommendations? Something to make them well balanced?

@ix8750 Год назад

I bought the party time deck and I switched from Nalia to Buruko and folk hero background and I put the black market connections in my card hungry Skullbriar deck. :)

@RenzZlax Год назад

I love the modified deck purely just cuz grull go big. Ive been trying to upgrade it but I see now without the commander the deck doesn’t glue the 3 ideas together super well

@wadelee05903 Год назад

Whoa, Indomitable archangel is a great card. For any equipment or vehicle deck it's a must own. How could you not want your equipment to be protected from targeted spell abilities?

@GrizzneyGames Год назад

I'm sad to see painbow so low, but I agree. I had bought it and legends legacy, combined the two, and buffed it. Then, I put Jodah, the Unifier as the commander. That is my favorite deck I own, and it practically plays itself.

@nathanstruble8587 Год назад

Very surprised y’all are so low on Next of Kin from the Henzie deck. You’re so right the precon is a real struggle, but it moves at an excellent 6/10 pace with even a few swaps I found. When you improve the creatures across the board a little Next of Kin becomes significantly better imo. On a mod cmc creature with an instant speed sac outlet you can really threaten the table with a variety of creature based response. Very toolbox like in that regard

@Iranex1 Год назад

I bought painbow and noticed the exact problems you outlined here, my commander was doing all the heavy lifting and there wasnt much else going on. I ended up sinking another 50 into it and turned it into a Jodah Archmage Eternal deck with strong win conditions. Still waiting on the new cards to ship to me but I imagine its going to be a huge improvement. So Painbow is a decent base for making a better 5 color deck like ramos or jodah

@Slo-Mode Год назад

I knew exit from Exile was going to be number 1 from the start. I have a friend that has it in it's base form, and it's really pops off even against "real" decks 5 times it's cost or more

@Vespin123 Год назад

So I’m new to magic and want to play commander so I found this video right, that start of this video had me DYING. Someone at a card shop told me to get dragons dissent and I was like “mmm na” and this gentleman in the video hits it hard “coming in at DEAD LAST”, I spit my soda all over the floor thanks!!!!

@nosniboR_naI Год назад

Caberetti catcophony was one of the strongest precon’s I’ve played although the face comander is bad the much better one is phabeen which is a whole package, card draw, token maker, and the lord, all wrapped into one. If you get a few upgrades, it makes it the deck really strong, fast.

@counterclockwisepup5237 Год назад

Faldorn is also my pet commander for this year, but Dihada is actually a very close runner up for me! I've been tweaking and tuning her constantly, spinning a few planswalkers and synergies for them in her and I'm really enjoying it. I LOVED Ashling in there before upgrading. Using Dihada's + to give her lifelink and indestructible then resolving her ability the final time is INSANE. I fell out laughing at the life total swing the first time I did it lmao And yeah, even when I have token copies of Dihada and three Chain Veil triggers on a turn I have never been interested in her final ability. She's strictly great beats or digging

@pacman6111 Год назад

I've turned my Dihada deck into a self mill, treasure, recursion deck and It makes the -3 absolutely insane.

@andrewsutherland1909 Год назад

I got Token Triumph for xmas and man it surprised me when I played it. Unless someone has a boardwipe ready I'm already going wide with 10+ creatures a few turns after the commander comes out.

@juts89 Год назад

I like the idea of painbow. You can bring it to a solid 6/10 with some small swaps and a revamp of the mana base. I've had some blowouts with it with, especially with Luxior, Giada's Gift. Usually i've got 1 or 2 all color creatures by the time I play jared, then its 2 ~10/10's, some with evasion. Also, mana cannons is amazing.

@kiddbrm Год назад

I’ve played the Jared pre on maybe 8 times and I won all besides maybe 1 game so I’m surprised it’s so low on the list lol

@claramonti3889 Год назад

switch it to Jodah, change some stuff, kick ass

@trilja6665 Год назад

@@claramonti3889 if you switch your commander from Jared to jodah. It's nowhere near the same deck...

@alexandermessenheimer467 Год назад

You're right about most of this. The Anhelo precon didn't perform well out of box, but I just wanted to point out that after about one hundred dollars in upgrades it's become my favorite deck. I copied maddening cacophony thrice the other day and everyone scooped. Definitely needs Jadar and I finally got a snapcaster now that he's 18 bucks.

@paultruman369 Год назад

Is there a video of a budget tune up or a normal tune up of the Exit from Exile deck? Thank you for the amazing detailed content. I stopped playing magic back in 95. So trying to get up to speed LOL

@bububu__ Год назад

little trivia - 34:30 Thundermaw Hellkite is worth some money because it saw fringe play in Jeskai Control lists in modern a long time ago, for example, Shahar Shenhar had 2 of them in his sideboard on his 2013 World Champion winning deck

@kevinohara8529 Год назад

I played maybe a dozen games with unmodified Painbow against folks with built decks, and I'd say it's pretty good! Ramp, remove things, and make big creatures to swing out with. It even has a bit of recursion. Of course, now I'm waiting for the rest of my triomes, bond lands, and a bunch of other cards to arrive... I'll use the land base for slivers, then maybe will swap around to do things like dinosaurs, hydras, and maybe something like a Temur-focused 5 color deck.

@timbombadil4046 Год назад

Only knew it was Faldorn because I built it too. Great commander product, only precon I grabbed this year.

@codelicious6590 Год назад

Holy Crap! Let me explain, I am amazed that these guys put out a vid every day and this one- a One Day serving looks to have like a week's worth of research and evaluating put into it! Do the Nitpicking Nerds have access to some sort of Teferiesque time magic??

@kellysereda4961 Год назад

Great vid! TBH, I saw a lot of cards I hadn't noticed until this. I had a higher opinion of some of the new "duds" - Mezzio fits in my Prosper build, Aboleth Spawn is a flash reverse Panharmonicon with legs.

@NitpickingNerds Год назад

Glad this was helpful to you!!

@broveku Год назад

Mishra and Brudiclad plus idol of oblivion is mad fun, going from nothing to swinging with 3 10/10 eldrazi is hilarious

@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 Год назад

I completely dissected Dihada Binder of Wills deck when I got it although, LOL, I did leave Ashling the Pilgrim in since you can make it Indestructible, Lifelink, Vigilance to do small board wipes and gain a bunch of life :p