Ranking All My Commander Decks By How Often I Play Them | Magic: the Gathering 

I want to see Matt and Dana do the same list

Oh lord Joey, ranking your commander decks is like picking your favorite children. Love the content man.

This is the type of content the space needs more of. Anyone can talk about new cards or deck techs. But only Joey can talk about his deck collection and what he likes/ dislikes about them. Personal, unique, and a good exercise for each viewer to undertake.

Fantastic video Joey. Genuinely one of the best youve ever done. So enjoyable and made me want to do the same with my 31 decks. And Baba is also currently the deck I play EVERY gamenight without fail. So much fun. Edit: Ive now ordered my decks in playing time from the last 3 months... ...and its shocking how many of my "favourite" decks im not playing with. Need to review and work out why. However, it has made me start taking apart two decks as ive now realised that i just dont play them anymore. Thanks Joey!

Tinkering with decks all the time is so fun - I don't think a deck is every really "done", nor should it ever be "perfect". Great video!

Love all the opportunities to hear Joey talk about how much he loves his Baby Lasagna. Might have to brew my own soon.

gotta love commander commander and baba lysaga

Great inisights into all your decks and how they are put together. I really liked seeing the different categories for each one. Awesome stuff!

This was a dope video to watch. I appreciate how much detail you went into, when describing what you did and didn't like about each of your decks. I also liked the visual overview, as it helped me to follow along.

I love your love for all your decks.

I really enjoyed this tour through your decks ! Nice idea

I am rattled that you don't have a Henzie Torre deck. Graveyard synergy with Jund with turn creatures sideways, massive variance in deck construction and a scaling power level? He's just great.

This is my favorite EDH video. I love how you branched out from the middle, and it's super fun to see how and what you've built, and why you love or don't find yourself playing certain decks. I appreciate the time put into this.

Really nice concept for a video! And I like how you included 16 mini deck techs along the way 🙂

I am crushing hard on the titles of the various deck categories. 'The Cranberries' for Wilhelt may be my favourite. Thanks for sharing and much love from Canada.

Love videos like this! Thank you Joey for sharing these and explaining each one! Happy Holidays!

I enjoyed that a lot! I think the best decks are the one that that you have the most fun playing but also it’s important everyone else is having fun and it’s nice to see that!!

Gutted by the Greven switch cause I ADORE my Greven deck! But I also understand the reasoning behind the effect it causes, my group usually decides to use all of our Voltron decks to make it a Voltron match, we always have an amazing time that way.

I'm definitely at a point where I'm getting a lot of decks and I definitely change them out. I am a total Johnny and find the more variance, the more fun a deck is to play. For that reason, there are some commanders on this list I want to build as well! Great video!

awesome video! love insight into selecting decks

Loved the video, Joey! I could listen to you talk about commander all dat

Love this content! Made me think about my own decks!

00:44 ah yes, the Memento method of organization. Love to see it. Unrelated to the video, but I've built your Baby Lasagna deck (with a couple card difference due to card availability), and just gotta say it is my current favorite deck. All my other newer decks are jealous at the amount of attention Baby Lasagna is getting.

Awesome video! I really love your insights on your decks. I often try to analyze my decks in similar ways and understand what it is that I do/don’t like about them. There’s a lot of solid EDH wisdom in this video.

I love personal commander vlogs like this! These feel so much more unique than the usual commander podcast content (still love EDHRec tho

This was one of the most well-articulated videos of mtg content I’ve ever watched, focused more on play style and experience creation than most. Very good. You should try a Juri deck. Currently my favorite deck and fits the bill for aristocrats, funky and varied win cons, and a surprising amount of power.

Can I say I love that you think about other players’ fun. For someone who played against a very unpleasant voltron player in a group for a while, who would always target me then stall out - leaving me sitting around watching the game - it’s is nice to hear you consider such things!

Thanks for uploading!

I borrowed your baba lasaga list. It's a banger!! Appreciate you! ❤😊 I recently added Tyvarr in there

I've said as much on other EDHREC videos, but I was way wrong about Baba Lysaga and, since having jammed a generic list on MTGO several dozen times now, I can safely say that I will build her in paper. Unlike Joey, I don't like Golgari as a rule (my only Golgari deck is Skullbriar, and that's not, in my opinion, a typical Golgari commander), so that I'm this excited about sacrificing stuff speaks to how interesting Baba is to me. I love commanders that make underplayed cards playable and playable cards even more playable; Baba does this in spades. I've played many an enchantress deck, so stuff like Rancor and Sanctum Weaver are old pals of mine and, since I'm a MtG boomer, I've played plenty of MIshra's Factories, but I love how these old standards gain new utility in BL. Also, to Joey's point about Feather: I get that, too. I had a Light-Paws deck that was sooooo same-y each game. My solution with her was to build her on a $50 budget. This way, while the deck is still linear and same-y, you get to run a lot of cards people tend not to have seen. The result is a good "end of the night" deck that can still KO someone on turn four but that has a lot of "Wait; what does that do?" cards as well. Anyway, I was wrong about you Baby Zagnut, Joey. Happy to admit I was wrong and happy to be on Team Lasagna.

Great video! I Personally roll for what Deck to play every time. It kinda forces me to put fun cards into every Deck, and then tweak the themes if they get boring to play.

Such a cool idea Joey

I wonder if Joey likes green and black :3

absolutely loved this

Now this is how to do a list. Felt the brutal honesty recently from taking apart my Sidisi deck.

One of the best commander videos ever

I have a Lathril budget precon upgrade I don't really feel like playing often but keep around because I bring it as an extra deck to offer new people to try since it's simple to play and you never get mana screwed with it. I've also found referring it to Elf Deathball makes people more interested in trying it.

I’m about to look at that Reyhan/Ishai list for some +1/+1 Counter subthemes for my eventual land creatures deck

Only after building Feather and playing her for a week straight i can understand what you were feeling about playing her. Great video ❤

i hope you do more of this.

I've been looking for a lower power deck and for something to do with the Nurgle part of my chaos precon, so this is great. My favorite deck far and away is my Queen Marchesa deck, I have stop myself from playing it too much so the pod doesn't learn all of its tricks (some of which are suggestions from your video)

Ohhhh, I saw Baba in my cards while building a deck recently and was like... oh man, she's so cool I just wanna build around her but at first glance the three card types was too much to tackle (while building a different deck) so she stayed in the stacks. I'll have to pull her out and check out your video!!!

Once again Joey, thank you for letting us in and sharing your experiences. Your videos always seem vulnerable and honest, and it’s a huge standout as a content creator. Much love.

It's amazing how you could care so much about someone else's decks when they're such a nice and funny content creator

Oh, I am so tempted to build Virtus and Gorm now. I have been needing a deck that wants exquisite blood, but not sanguine bond. That infinite is a little over done and I think that deck is perfect for it!

As someone who doesn't get to play Commander nearly as much as I'd like to, Feather's consistent & repetitive nature feel very comfortable for me. Enjoyed the video and your insight on what makes you more likely to play a deck :D

I only have a couple commander decks because I got into magic about 3 years ago, but my favorite and best are definitely niv-mizzet and Edgar Markov. I play niv-mizzet with a bunch of low cost cantrippy spells which makes it a lot more consistent. It is harder to counter the strat when I play low-cost combo pieces and draw spam to get to 1 of my 3 infinite combo enchants with niv. The edgar deck is just super fast and reliable. A lot of low cost anthems with versatile removal.

I was waiting for this video

23:34 oh cool! I didn't know you had such deck I built mine with the friends forever creature to make it wubrg, it's really a funny deck with tons of random stuff and cool effects

Wow, great video. I gotta do this too 😄

Any chance of getting the Mortarion List? - love the video. Baby Lasagne sure sounds fun!

All I know is that of all the control decks I’ve run between zur, aminatou, and rograhk and thrasios, rograhk and thrasios is def the most cracked power level. I’m currently building a personalized Thrasios and Tivet. Gonna be a control oriented build.

This video is why commander is fun. I wouldn’t want to build basically any of these decks except maybe 1 or 2. But there’s always other players that want to brew different decks and get excited about interactions I personally don’t like. The variance is what makes the game so fun.

loved the video ❤ I too have a lot of decks (>30); I should also tried to ranked them the same way you did here. I also found myself struggling trying to keep them up to date, especially with the insane number of newly released products…. I would love if you could make a video about that topic in the future.

This is only tangentially related but I put a Virtus into my Kamiz deck. Giving them Double Strike is pretty fun. Had a game once where I couldn't decide if I should cast Virtus or another 3 drop on turn three so I chose randomly and got Virtus. Ended up kind of dominating that game because I even had recursion to follow up the inevitable board wipe.

oooh Titania is my favorite pet deck of all time! Baba is played by a buddy of mine so Grismold is my go to favorite golgari commander right now. End of turn plant phase: everyone gets a bulbasaur!

Just quick mention that in mimeoplasm you should change consecrated sphinx like cards to Primespeaker zegana and fathom mage to draw huuuge amount of cards with one go.

Same thing happened to me with Feather. I finally had to take it apart sadly when enough time went by I didn't reach for it.

Really love this video, Joey. The love mixed with the introspective/analytical is interesting - and yeah, now to rank my own dozen! Def dig the conclusion of most variable &/or "interactive" with the table (joy, not removal) makes for more replayability. Will be thinking of that as I brew this new year.

I’ve dismantled all of my commander decks (Kalamax, Kykar Spirits, Saskia Werewolf Stax, Cazur and Ukkima Mutant Ninjas) and consolidated and built three new decks recently and I’ve been having so much more fun. Sefris Dungeons, Henzie Blitz, and Magus Lucea Kane Tyranids. I’m working on Tetsuo and Hazezon now too, with my goal being each of the 3 color combinations

I have a Feather deck and I agree completely, I love it, but it's the same gameplan each time..sometimes you're in the mood for it, sometimes you're not!

My thrasios and Tivet deck is a painters servant + deck. I run lifeforce, deathgrip, and douse. It’s primarily a control deck that’s just gonna grind everyone out. Winter and static orb go right in even tho I lose a lot of ways to tap them in these colors. The whole idea of the deck is to get painters servant and any of the 3 counterspell enchantments into play. Proceed to politic the whole game. I call rograhk and thrasios IrMakeMana and I call thrasios and Tivet haha thanks. They pretty much do the same thing but with defined differences in how.

Joey - for your Baba Lysaga deck -- have you considered Frostwalk Bastion? it can be an artifact/creature/land in one card, you just need to run snow covered basic lands@!

It's very interesting to see how Joey's decks evolved over the process of the content, I remember in the past him talking about how much he actually enjoyed playing Feather in older podcasts and such, and a handful of decks that have disappeared that were mentioned (Shorikai stands out because I had the same deck and also deconstructed it). Agrus Kos (the new one, Eternal Soldier) has a chance at scratching a similar itch to Feather which is very nice.

LOL The alternate art cards in Kynaios and Tiro

I have baba lysaga, sounds like I need to give her a try! I just made a Thalisse deck, up next is making an ur dragon deck

My list: 1) Sheoldred - draw = kill… 2) Marneus Calgar - tokens galore 3) Ivy gleeful spell thief - auras 4) Imotekh - grave recursion 5) Strefan - vamps/bloodtokens I just got back into magic and these are my first cracks at commander

Your Konrad deck works very similar to my Search for Blex dredge deck, but unlike you, G allows me many options for non-creature recursion. How do you deal with having a noncreature card you that you want in hand getting milled in monoblack? Some cards to consider: Yawgmoth's Will, Increasing Ambition, Stinkweed Imp/Golgari Thug (Dredgers work great with Tortured Existance), Ill-Gotten Gains, Skirge Familiar, Tormod the Desecrator. Also, in your Titania (I also use this exact strategy in my Kynaios and Tiro "Egglands" deck), I didn't see Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant, Amulet of Vigor or Urza's Saga (that can fetch either of them or Zuran Orb). You need to add these ones as well. I would probably advise removing Scapeshift to not having a 1-card "I win" button that can make games unfun.

Loooove my Yenett mill deck! Its not great, actually much weaker than your avarage deck but something about ripping a traumatize of the top just makes me giggle everytime. Glad to see Yenett getting some love as she is the first commander i really truely GET! Im all about that card

Joey i feel the same way on grouphug, but i found out a way how to make it less controll everyone. This is by just hugging one player at time :) To give toys to just one player makes the game completely different. Just remind yourself how it feeled to play xyris in compare to temple bell. And cause of that you dont need to take everything everytime to controll the mess you made.

Sometimes it’s nice having a deck that’s built for when the mood strikes even though it isn’t super often

I know it a HUGE shift but ishai pairs SO well with jeska, allowing your two commanders to be the finishers means a hand with only ramp is a viable keep. I know swapping out two entire colors to replace with a third completely overhauls the deck but I truly find that deck to be so fun to pilot, albeit it becomes really repetitive and opponents just start to keep focus on ishai more and more, killing it frequently and not allowing it to swing. It requires a more political approach, making deals with players to kill it AFTER you take another opponent out, which ends up leaving you behind in resources and them with one less player to worry about. But still fun, for those that like ishai and dont want a four color option.

I'd like to know how you decide which decks to take to game night, I've been struggling to choose decks to play recently now that my collection has gotten over 10 decks

As someone who plays with you quite often, I 100% thought you took some of these decks apart based upon the last time I saw them.

Definitely sounds like you should take feather apart. I've been slowly doing what Dan S from commander sphere podcast recently spoke about.

I'm the same with my Feather deck. Too in love with the character to take it apart, but too bored with the play pattern to play it on the regular.

I'm also building a land saccing deck (hazezon shaper of sand), got any tips of good payoffs and enablers? He doesnt have many serious decklists so im a little lost on where to start short of including every card with "desert" in the oracle text

I love how every player has different interests. you talk about loving risking/self sacrifice to win. I HATE that. So I make decks that simply do what they do well. Favourite right now is an upgraded Kalimax precon where I set up a combo or two and while I wait I just cast boardwipe after boardwipe.

I’m also working on a group hug deck with Kynaios and Tiro, but I’ve included a bunch of “you win the game” effects as well as dice rolling and coin flipping for a gimmick

Joey needs a GOAT deck!

I have never seen the mayority of that list, that's what's fun about commander while theme may repeat the commander you choose can vary as much as there is legendary cards to pick from which is a LOT, each of them adding a flavor to it like two chefs cooking the same dish with their style. You don't get quite that feeling in Modern or standard.

I should do this with mine. I have 61 in total but 10 are unset decks. Also have 2 new ones on the way.

I must be some kind of robot. 3 of my most played and favorite decks are feather, gavi(cycling), and kadena(morph). I love knowing what my deck does and knowing it will do it, no question. The question is however, can I pilot it to beat whatever wild thing everyone else made

huge props to joey for finding a good way to make a video where he talks about his decks and have it not feel conceded or forced

Watching this as I'm about to gut my feather deck.

Would love a video of how to make casual EDH decks vs CEDH... seems like basically everyone just cuts out the zero mana rocks ? Tons of infinite combos and stax and counterspells so is that the only difference ? No 0 rocks

Feather is also one of my favorite decks and least played decks. I love commanders that take "trash" cards and makes them amazing but it is overly dependent on the commander. I have an Orvar deck that's basically the same thing. Then combining both of those decks together and add a little spice and I get my Hinata deck with both Orvar and Feather in the 99. All of these rely on the commander too much. When they go off, they go off hard. When they get shut down, you don't even get to play the game.

Silly question, what website is he using to build and show the decks?

Your T-Rex Boy pump me ! Look like so fun ! Do you have a copy of your scale 9 before you downgrade it sir ?

I have more than 50 EDH decks but atm they're all in last place since I don't get to play them anymore. My family life currently doesn't allow for any game nights and my attention span past the kids' bedtime isn't sufficient to pilot most of the decks at a 4 player table anyway.

How you feel about baba lysaga is how I feel about my beluna grandsqual deck it just does so many different things

I wish they would reprint Márton Stromgald, his only printing is so old nowm it's hard to get as good version of him. looking just now I can get an EX version for 7 €. I'm in the process of rebuilding my decks. I think I'm gonna make my Golgari deck into Baba lysaga, it looks very fun. my Azorius deck will be taken apart and I'll add black and make some Esper monstrosity, maybe an aristiocrats deck of some sort. right now, my waiting for the rest of my Winota cards. Winota is crazy powerful and fun to play. I think, the randomness of what humans I get on every attack makes it fun, although, I've turned it into my stax deck now >:)

Please I know you love edh, you should def try rograhk and thrasios. I feel like the power of my deck actually scales with the pod as long as nobody is playing like a really bad deck. The fact it scales with the pod means it performs better in competitive pods and performs slightly worse in less competitive based pods. I play 39 creatures 11 instants and sorcs combined. The rest of the deck is enchantments and mana rocks. I thjnk I’m at 31 or 32 lands. It’s been very difficult refining the deck because I know I can’t go lower than 31 lands no matter what. Statistically it would become way less efficient than it is. No matter what card I add. Even if the card is something like lotus petal :( jeweled lotus is also kinda trash in rograhk and thrasios :(. However the deck is truly insane. It is a winter orb and static orb deck, with no way to tutor either to my hand or field. I do run goblin engineer to put them in the yard tho. The fact I don’t always tutor for dockside off goblin matron is proof of the true power of goblin engineer and goblin welder. Those are my only 3 goblins. Goblin matron is still super effective. I built around turning creatures and artifacts into mana dorks. And just really high value that compliments a small control package. I play enchantments like douse and lifeforce.

I made my Wilhelt deck into an aristocrats theme. I love it, but I can't play it against people unless I want to see the light (joy) leaving my opponents eyes.

I actually built your baby lasagna deck. It's an incredibly well built deck, the synergies are amazing. And I enjoy playing it and figuring out the best strats. But everyone else definitely doesn't. There's times where I can combo into like a 15 min turn, and it's just not fair on the rest of the table. But yeah it's a very well made deck; it's popped every time I've played it. But I think I'm going to adjust it a bit so the turns aren't so long and there's a couple more quicker wincons; see what I can do without breaking it

Nice t-shirt

I'm currently at 41 decks... ...though some of those should go to new players as a gift. An LGS actually helped me sell a homebrew Ghalta (Primal Hunger) EDH deck to a local player in the community. I may very likely be going up to 43 decks soon, but some I have already are for teaching newer players. I would like to do a list like Joey's also, but I unfortunately don't play Magic enough. It also doesn't help when I haven't been paying close enough attention since about March of 2020. My deck list will hopefully never fall below 32, since such is the number of all the different color combinations (including colorless), with Grixis being the colors of my very first deck, Nekusar (2013, perhaps?).

Great video! I really should look and do a similar list of my decks.

I added cards like Magnetic Theft to my Feather deck to increase the variance and fun play patterns, and I flat out refuse to use tutors in any of my decks.

Let me guess Baba Lysaga is number 1 lol. Past that, this is a really cool idea and now I need to do this for my decks