Ranking Every Duskmourn Commander 

11:33 “turning card draw into an actual win condition” No one show this card to Phil and Seth 😂

One thing I just realized is Toby is a blink commander. If you can blink him like 4 times a turn then you have the option to make a board state that's scary in moments

Valgagoth harrower of souls at last getting the respect he deserves as a commander. There are so many RU-vidrs that dont realize that if u build him right your netting 3 cards every rotation and getting him super buff for attacks really fast

I just love that Arabella has spawned the biggest hype from Duskmourn... a freaking uncommon. And yes. I will play her in Pakal and maybe Zinnia... thinking about a pauper Arabella list too

The Jolly Balloon Man does go infinite with Sparring Mummy, Zealous Conscripts, & Village Bell-Ringer. As long as you have an Ashnod's Alter or a Phyrexian Alter in play to first make the infinite mana. It can also go infinite with Aurelia, the Warleader or Combant Celebrant. Provided you either have a mana dork to pay for The Jolly Balloon Man's ability or cost reduction for the ability.

Marvin combos in colorless: Thing that adds 2 mana (Palladium Myr, Kozilek's Channeler) + Untap for 2 mana with some bonus (Farmstead Gleaner, Pili-Pala) Arbitrary number of counters (Cryptic Trilobite + Farmstead Gleaner, Phyrexian Devourer) + remove counters for stuff (Triskelion, Walking Ballista) And then there's lots of stuff with Metalworker, a number of options if you can animate artifacts (Staff of Domination lines mainly, animate with Karn Silver Golem, Karn the Great Creator, or Toymaker)

0:34 Explanation of Categories 1:23 Sponsor 1:08:11 Overview of Final Rankings 1:35 Altanak, the Thrice-Called 4:23 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 7:37 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 10:50 Kianne, Corrupted Memory 14:34 Kona, Rescue Beastie 17:27 Marina Vendrell 20:59 Marvin, Murderous Mimic 22:43 Nashi, Searcher in the Dark 24:54 Niko, Light of Hope 26:48 Norin, Swift Survivalist 28:31 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 31:29 Rip, Spawn Hunter 34:12 The Jolly Balloon Man 36:01 The Lord of Pain 37:23 The Master of Keys 39:49 The Mindskinner 42:32 The Swarmweaver 44:09 The Wandering Rescuer 46:17 Toby, Beastie Befriender 47:19 Tyvar, the Pummeler 49:53 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 53:13 Valgavoth, Terror Eater 56:19 Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal 58:28 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 1:01:34 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 1:04:11 Zimone, All-Questioning 1:05:37 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler Timestamper's Verdict: I'll pick up The Jolly Balloon Man since there are so few Boros commanders I like, but probably nothing else. Overall, I had really high hopes for this set but it's been a huge creative let down for me, making this a 0/4 year for standard sets ending on a low note. I'll keep my fingers crossed for next year. Happy hauntings to those enjoying Duskmourn

There is a room that wins you the game on your upkeeping if you have eight unlocked rooms. That's more than likely going to be what Marina decks are that are playing around rooms.

That ghost thumbnail 😂

Marvin has all the same combos as Necrotic Ooze more or less. If it's your commander, then probably Pili-Pala + Palladium Myr or Phyrexian Devourer + Walking Ballista/Triskelion. In the 99, there are thousands of combinations 😄

I think Norin can do great with small haste creatures / ETB’s and cast from exile effects. As soon as they become blocked they can then be recast for value. Stuff like Ruby medallion & Hazoret’s monument will put it the work! Very aggro 🙌🏻

Rendmaw is definitely my favorite commander of the set. Golgari aggro! Basically. Play a bunch of artifact creatures, make birds to force people to beat each other to death! He seems super fun for casual play, and I already have a budget deck planned out for him.

Excited for Arabella ! 😁

Of course Tomer puts the Kiki combo commander in the favs spot, it's the thing he loves the most after all.

39:00 - Casting Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead, Necromancy, and Chthonian Nightmare from grave seems cool

My favourite is Marina, I love enchantress decks. Though I did test her out in TTS with some friends and I have to say that she is both very powerful and leads to long ass turns.

I found out Norin is actually great in a offspring deck, so he is going to be great in my Zinnia deck, as I can recast them and make additional offsprings. That deck also runs the original Norin.

There's at least one other infinite combo in a precon, which is the jeskai energy precon from MM3 with the face commander, Satya, and Lightning Runner.

'You have to force blocks with Norin..." Do you mean like repeatedly pressuring life totals by attacking? His gameplan is to make your opponents choose between letting you get in damage or letting you get on-attack/cast/etb/from-exile triggers turn after turn

Rip feels like a cool variation of Wylie Duke. Wylie is better if you can tap and untap him over and over, but Rip pays you off way more if you tap her once in a turn. Imo you basically take out all the untap cards from your Wylie deck and replace them with ways to buff Rip, and there you go.

I've been playing Boros blink for a long time. Right now it's Alena and Livio. The Jolly Balloon Man is what I've been waiting for out of a commander for a long time. Not the perfect Commander for Boros blink, but man the archetype is in a great place

i hope this thumbnail is clickbait and you don’t actually think that the precon valgavoth is good and that jolly balloon man is mid

Richard is always like "you can't play that everyone is just gonna kill you" and also "you shouldn't really play anything until the turn you can win" So how are people gonna kill you then :D I don't think 0/2 plants are enough

I think with the right creatures norrin could put opponents in a sortof "damned if you do, damned if you dont" position on blocking

The Mindskinner finally makes Mind Bomb good!!!! This is huge news!!!

Show me on the doll where the enchantment decks hurt you. The last time they did an enchantress precon was Wilds of Eldraine and it was aura based. The only other time that I can remember was Commander Masters and it was constellation / enchantment creatures. Bello is technically an enchantment deck, but I would argue it's doing something very different. This is the first precon that is a fairly normal enchantress deck and can use all enchantments rather than specific types of enchantments or set-specific enchantment archetypes.

The Mindskinner looks awesome, but is so easy to keep off of the field 😭

Swarmweaver seems like a good commander because it combines two somewhat anemic tribes and makes a super tribal deck!

There's an infinite in the Hakbal precon: Deeproot Pilgrimage + Reflections of Littjara to copy Kiora's Follower = infinite merfolk tokens

Happy to see an opinion on Winter that isn’t so doom and gloom. I’m super excited to build him, getting to reanimate a Portal to Phyrexia is going to feel crazy.

I am soooooooo excited for Arabella. I really like commanders that reward you for playing small utility creatures. Plus, she is like a mini-Alibou which is neat. Also excited for precon-Zimone, I just wish she was Sultai. I've been wanting to build a deck for a while that cheats one-shot creatures into play face down (like Phage and Blightsteel) and then make my opponents guess which random 2/2 they should block. I can still add Zimone to the 99 of a Kadeena list I have brewing, but she would've been the perfect commander for that strategy.

Finally an accurate assessment of Harrower. I see so many people saying he's bad. Insane

Tomer is a fellow Arabella enjoyer. I approve (I saw her and instantly wanted to build a cheap token go wide deck with her)

I wish Nashi had the text of Basim from Assassin's creed

Loreth of the healing house+Marvin+the new 5 color commander gives infinite lock/unlocks like u were speaking of

Kona is one of the reasons I'm not ashamed to keep my lightning bolts in all red decks.

There is also some old red enchantments that decides attacks and blocks for Norin so should be possible to do something. Like Invasion plans. Could be a fun deck to put together honestly.

Will be building Rendmaw & Marvin for sure! Two very different styles nether of which I have in my deck rotation, GOAD & combos respectively 🤙🏻

I loop my reanimations all the time so yes finality and anything else that exiles is the worst for my yard decks xD I'll bring the same thing back like 20 times in a game because it is funny.

Great list, but the one I would change is Marina Vendrell from C -> A (Great in the Commander Zone) I think you focused too much on the tap ability with the rooms & not enough on her ETB effect (When she ETB's look at the top 7 cards, put Enchantments into your hand & the bottom the rest). Focus on making her a Engine piece, cast her search top 7, then blink her & search another top 7 rinse & repeat. The tap ability isn't important (but decent if you play a few rooms in your deck).

Aminatou also has a loop in the precon. If you have secret arcade on the field and you play ondu spiritdancer you can copy ondu ininitely. Then you can pair this with several constellations effects as payoff. One of those effects ping you opponents for 1

I get that you are bored with enchantress Tomer but I think that it is a good thing that popular archetypes get precons semi often. Precons usually are only available for 1-2 years at a reasonable price so getting new precons maintains the ability for new players to start with particular archetype and maintain archetype staple cards at a reasonable price. Also with at least 4 precons per every set we can afford some repetition in theme.

I completely agree with you on aminatou, was really looking forward to new miracle Commander but i dont want to do another enchantment matters deck.

Arabella is being made immediately. One of the many uncommons

my friejds and i did some proxy testing and think the jolly baloon man is alot stronger than he looks, he made some really sick plays possible

Seeing prime numbers referenced in Magic makes this math teacher very, very happy 😁 not a good card, but I will be building that deck

I think it would be fun to build Rendmaw in several narrow but specific archetypes. Like going golgari enchantress and playing as many enchantment creatures as possible or the one I think would be fun to force, some sort of Golgari affinity deck with as many artifact creatures as possible. He seems actually so open ended.

Seen a lot of pays to play Jolly Balloon Man (JBM) already. Even seen someone show a full modular deck so copy a modular out, let it die and move the +1+1 counters to another creature and keep doing that till you got a massive creature. Not only that but most modulars are a 0/0 so making them a 1/1 flier is actually a plus and can be useful with an ozalith or other similar counter buffing effects.

Sad to see Toby in the trash! I might try building him with a bunch of sacrifice outlets and Sun Titan effects.

The jolly balloon man goes infinite with aurelia the warleader and a mana dork or without the dork it's combats equal to the amount of mana you have

I'm going to make a Kianne SorceryFlash deck, and maybe a Marina Grixis Enchantress deck, only using those colors for spells and some blink to draw the cards. And as a side note Gen is a graveyard enchantress in Mardu colors too 💫

Sans-green enchantress! Woah there! Risking playing a deck that makes a decision! The 5c room commander is probably the most boring thing they could have printed. Frame 1, they print a "room commander" and just hand the build to you. This era of design is half interesting stuff they finally have the confidence to print and half "do x to do y, do enough y and z happens." Snoozefest. The hate for exile and finality counters is being forced to make a decision. Having to think ahead about what the game is actually going to look like and reanimating specific threats, rather than just recurring the biggest idiot you can every turn, turn after turn, 40 times in a row.

Arabella is def hype I have a Zurzoth cavalcade deck that never really took off and I'm thinking of rebuilding it with Arabella. Also looking forward to the golgari precon with winter and rendmaw

Self mill from dealing combat damage has been on the rise since MH3 with cards like barrowghoyf

if you give Arabella lifelink it's even spookier because you gain 4X life instead of just X life, assuming you have 3 opponents still alive!

Rendmaw is my 1st golgari deck. Feels both unique for that combinarion while also having a cool gameplan (summon the swarm for everyone to peck each other to death) to make it worth building, rather than the typical aristocrats/yard nonsense.

I've been messing around with the precon Zimone and while she's a good combo commander she makes an excellent sneak attack commander by using top deck manipulation and any type of fetch lands to drop haymakers turn after turn

The super powerful ones like kona and lord of pain are SOOOOO boring and the play patterns are gonna be lame and yawn inducing like the first game you play them. Way prefer stuff like arabella. Mindskinner is the coolest commander in the entire set BY FAR. So unique with how it does what it does

The Mindskinner will be my new voltron commander

Spirit of the Night was the first of the ritual summon creatures.

Suprised you didn't put norin as great in the 99. He's great in any deck based around attack triggers. You don't have to do any crazy combos, he just let's you attack without dying basically.

Narci isn't really a graveyard enchantress at all, if anything she's more of a weird Aristocrat Enchantress

I'm torn, I've never built an enchantress deck, so a Miracle twist on it could be fun. Easy commander would be valgavoth but fun.

Hear me out: Norin + every red 1 drop. Just start jamming

Behind you on the enchantress thing. I can hardly play mono-red in the recent years due to the amount of must remove enchantment decks and red still having no reliable enchantment removal.

Altanak is indeed great in reanimator style! But he can be a great budget mono green beatdown commander, 7mana 9/9 trample is very nice. I thought you were the budget master but i guess you didnt see the vision this time. Rather see someone play this than another thrun

Norin gunna be a house in my Yoshi Rograkh legends deck :)))

Toby is not trash at all you can play mono white blink with him and run token doublers etc. You did not see the vision at all here

I could see Norin maaaaybe going in faldorn

Norin doesn't look that weak to me. What if you just fill your deck with cheap creatures that ETB for value. Like the ones that create a treasure token. If people block, you get value, if they don't they take damage. I bet many people would rather take 2-3 damage than give you value, but you would need some finisher for when they actually start blocking for their life. Also isn't Tyvar just a scuffed Zopandrel? I guess if you go wide and have one really tall creature he's better but.. Zopandrel

This is the first set in a while that none of the legends really do anything for me, both aesthetically and mechanically, and I'm a big horror guy as well. I don't want to be too negative, but imo, this set is such a disappointment.

1:07:47 actually they have infinites in a couple recent precons. There are infinite combos in the precons energy matters MH3 precon as well in the most recent Bello animate trash precon

30:00 I see the pun there

Tomer: “they have made to many enchantress deck. They done it like 4 time” Also tomer: “a love this new boron equipment/aura commander it is only the 100th they have made” lol they have only made 3 enchantress deck and all of them have been in the last year lol but I’m going to making aumanuto

Replacing Daxos the Returned with Victor. Daxos has just done nothing for me for so long that i would rather have surveil 2 in the command zone instead.

I really dont see what is interesting all that much about Nashi. We got Legendary matters in dimir recently with commander from ACR that are just better value than Nashi

Dude use a dark filter extension for your browser its really painful to watch this white scryfall lol

I'm putting Nashi in a jon irenicus deck 😂

Slamming tyvar in my abomination of llanowar deck

Marvin actually breaks the game...if you have him and Sakashima the imposter it causes a situation that has no answer currently in Magic.

how does the "winter, misanthropic guide" hand size effect stack w no hand size effects opponent's may have? i assume their effect overwrites it so this is jus bad at any table playing reliquary tower

I'm also so tired with enchantress... always so boring and exactly the same game each time

You did Marina dirty, you put ALL enchantments in the 7 into your hand and not just 1... So at worst you dig deep for a bunch of enchantments.

17:33 I really don't understand Marina. At all. Rooms matter? I get that's it's kinda the 2nd option but it became the 2nd option because Rooms are brand new + there really isn't a huge quantity of them

Nashi is awfu as a commander imol youre not doing that much damage unless you're voltron and if youre doing that why even bother with mill?

26:46 Just as a reminder, Niko's Pronouns are they/them. :)

FIRST

Am I alone absolutely hating that word "commander" has taken over "legendary creature" in parlance when talking about a category?

Arrogant ugh bad video

Ward is lazy card design.

Saying Winter is not the best face commander of this set is a crazy take. Winter is nuts.