The 7 Most Fun Commanders (And Their Decks) Part 2 

Since there was no timestamp guy, allow me to be him 1:33 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 8:05 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 13:16 Lonis, Cryptozoologist 18:05 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 22:53 Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter 26:49 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 31:01 Mr. House, President and CEO

The image of Atla Palani just chucking eggs at enemies is hilarious, thank you for that.

Having a pool of big breatures to randomly choose from for every game is a genious idea. I will steal that for my Kykar polymorph deck!

Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin deserves more love honestly. the way that the deck plays is so unique, and Ob is such a strong payoff for pinging your opponents.

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU TWO WERE CASUALLY IN DGD's NEW VIDEO!! (Yes that needed to be in all caps.)

Ratadrabik. Sooooo many legends!!!!!! A consolation for three straight years of WotC falling asleep on the “legendary” key on the Magic Keyboard.

I've been playing Lonis for a long time now, and it is one of my favorite decks. It makes every pod more fun when I pull it out. The Antiquities War and Mechanized Production are the only real "Win Conditions" in the deck.

Asinine Antics with Bruidiclad is insane because all of those roles are tokens you control

I made an ancient copper dragon token with mirror march, made all my treasures into ancient copper dragons with brudiclad. I'm my obeka, brute chronologist deck. Everyone liked that.

Atla Palani is one of my favorites because it’s so easy to tune up into terrifying (few creatures in it which are all Eldrazi or super powerful creatures) or tune down by adding more creatures with fun effects to make it more random

Atla Palani and Lonis mentioned! Two of my favorite commanders ever! My Atla deck is very similar to the one you mentioned, it has a 70-card base and a stack of 100 creatures that I take 30 of at random to shuffle into the deck. It’s so much fun!

I have a Twelfth Doctor theft deck that I like quite a bit. People get mad at theft, but demonstrating their cards and giving them to someone else is too funny.

I geeked out so hard seeing you guys in the new DGD music video!!

I think it's really hard to pick the most fun commander because Magic the Gathering is fun in general. There are so many great options for fun like Ghalta and her big creatures, Aragorn the uniter/optimus prime for those who love recognizable characters, and who could forget Krenko, Mob Boss with his unenending horde of 1/1 goblin tokens? With the joy of commander, there's fun for everyone!

If i were to build antla paloni, maskwood nexus would be crazy in it cuz itd turn your entire board into eggs making opponents board wipes useless or maybe even playing every single creature if you have a infinite way of making creature tokens to then sacrifice

Mr House is the commander of my deck "Dice Dice, Baby." All the D&D jank, a few artifact support cards from 40k & Dr Who, toss in an Unfinity Attractions supplemental deck, and we got us a killer casino experience to bring to the pod. I can even look or play the part for added surrealism.

Straight out of a Therapy session and right into a NN video? LETS GOOOOO

What i really like about my own Kynaios and Tiro deck is that it's really liberating to play. You always get under the radar, you play your group hug pieces, and people like to have you around. What i also love to do is that towards the end of the game, when it's just me and another opponent (It happens often due to the fact that people leave me alone, and underestimate the face i can't win with this deck), i evaluate them : If they were a good sport to me throughout the game, i let him win, and if they were rude to me or other players i use my reins of power, or my approach of the second sun to win. It really spices up my games, and it's also very relaxing to not have to actually think about winning too much.

You guys in the new dance Gavin dance video was a pleasant surprise!!! Are you two fans of dgd, or was it just a gig?

Pantlaza is by far my most favorite Deck. Its the most timmy deck i have but sometimes timmy runs some pretty good cards that leads him to outrageous victories

Svella is one of my favorite fun commanders

So I have a fairly high power atla deck and one of the best things to tutor for with congregation at dawn is Avacyn angel of hope and apex altasaur with your choice of another creature. When Apex enters it fights another creature which deals damage to it and enrages it. Since it's indestructible it then fights every other creature on your enemies board. It's a 1 sided board wipe

Care about Passionate Archeologist with Tibalt side, Backgrounds give abilities to commander creatures only, not planswalkers

Lonis is very fun to play as generally, so long as your opponents aren't continually wrathing, is able to remain under the radar quite well until you are able to pull some wacky plays as well as winning out out nowhere. Though often when going infinite you end up finding a wincon out of your opponents deck and playing it against them by using lonis's ability to play all permanents from their decks.

Yooo. dGd cameo was legit.

pantlaza, when given the ability to give creatures flash, and cards that flash toughness like stoneskin, you can get a lot of value with the dino

I've have a lot of fun building my second doctor "grouphug" deck. I feel like he also somewhat meets the criteria of me benefitting the most. Right now I'm focusing on a Ryan Sinclair version as I didn't want to combo win with Donna Noble. It's all about monarch(thinking of adding initiative), pillowfort, and amassing power in a faceup way. I want it to be like a kingdom slowly getting ready for war. The Leela version is pretty consistent if you add more forced draw cards but definitely is a bit weak as the politics just dont work out. The vislor deck seems like it could be a blast but honestly probably better off doing something like the 12th doctor and giving the last copy away through another card. I might just go the 9th doctor/clara direction eventually. I'l love to see yall tackle a doctor who deck!

I like the idea of Lonis, to be honest. I play in a more cedh environment, but Shrieking Drake, Lonis, Intruder Alarm, and Aluren, if unchecked, you get to put all nonland permanents from all your opponents' decks into play lol. Might be a fun thing to do at some point. Throw in a sac outlet for funsies.

Hi, just fyi a modified Atla Palani + Mirror Entity can turn through your whole deck and with an old Eldrazi Titan go pseudo infinit. Because of that possibility she has become a kos commander in every pod i've seen her.

25:57 - Does Passionate Archeologist work with Tibalt? It specifies commander creatures and that "this creature deals damage", so I thought it wouldn't work once you've casted him as a planeswalker.

Pantlaza is fun, can confirm.

Just played in a two headed giant game at the scg con in Richmond. We were one turn off winning with commander damage from the new Gitrog (We had rogues passage). The Atla Player went infinite w a maskwood nexus and goblin bombardment. He kept sacking eggs and small creatures until he had the big dinos he wanted. Now I hate this commander and Naya lol.

Passionate Archeologist doesn't work with Tibalt. It sais commander creatures. Tibalt isn't a creature

I recommend The Peregrine Dynamo. It’s colorless and fairly open-ended as a commander :) another one that went under the radar is Tawnos, Solemn Survivor. Difficult to build, but it rewards you with a unique gameplay

I love running all 3 versions of ghalta in my pantlaza deck :3

Atla palanti is kill on sight for me at this point , it’s busted in so many ways and so hard to stop once it goes. Our group had to focus it so much the owner of the deck ended up taking it apart

pantlaza is super fun, can confirm

Always excited for an NN vid

Everyone and their mom made a mr house deck kinda killed it for me

My friend has a funny atla palani deck where its a wurms only deck so the eggs crack into wurms. He calls it his itchy bum deck

I have so much fun with lonis Also brudiclad is so enjoyable in a janky sort of way for doing cloning shenanigans. I really like to combo him with esix to make a bajillion clones of whatever creature I want. I have both brudiclad and esix in the 99 of my Rashmi and Ragavan deck and I usually just use them to make a bunch of treasure tokens with her ability. Lonis is also in the 99 of that deck too because brudiclad can also get me a bunch of clue tokens

Just saw you cameo at Dance Gavin Dance new video!

YOOOO y'all met DGD!?!? I just got into mtg and mtg yt channels and felt the simulation line up watching the new music video. You have good taste, Mia.

YESSSS my girl Atla Palani gettin some love!! I wanted to mention that I find Mirror Entity to be kinda disappointing to flip into since killing my own fatties is not what I want to be doing. However, Shields of Velis Vel can't be flipped off the top and serves to crack a whole new set of monsters if that's the route you want to go. Personally, I like Eerie Interlude and friends to just dodge board wipes completely :)

i have all these mana rocks that produce green that never gets used so why would i pass over the opportunity to jam them into atla palani? I still prefer ramp spells over rocks and dorks but if I need a little more ramp, I would rather do that than hatch a dork.

I feel like people sleep on Grand Unifier as a Phyrexian Kindred Commander. She is an INCREDIBLE advantage engine. Way more fun if you’re not abusing Blink.

Casting an ancient Stone idol only to then pongify it yourself just for the 6/12 trample token and a 3/3 token in a Brudiclad deck 🤣

I've been killed on turn 5 by a delina deck. They had a lightning greaves on 2, gadrick crown scourge on 3 and delina on 4, equipped the graves and then summoned 8 Gadrick tokens and I died

Amazing video, this format is way better. The past video was not easy to follow

I would like to add Dino tribal with Hans Eriksson and Saffi Eriksdotter as partner commanders to this list. (I know its illegal but its fun and flavourful).

Are there any decklists for this?

Lonis & Shrieking Drake goes infinite with a ham sandwich.

Brudiclad with Jace, Mirror Mage is awesome This is the comment from a man who mains Valki-Tibalt

I wish we had more dice rolling cards from the fallout set for mr house

Wow I usually hate anything blue or green cause OP but that izzet artificer is dope af

I honestly wouldn't find any of these commanders fun to play, but that's just me. I enjoy weird win conditions that aren't necessarily good, but are really fun to try and pull off and catch your opponents by surprise.

You can use the izzet insect god with bruidclaw

I normally like playing my Be’lakor demon tribal that’s very mean and full of combos, but the deck I have a 100% win rate with is my “I made this expecting it to be ultra casual” $130 Gishath deck lol. No combos, barely any protection, barely any removal, just 40 creatures and lots of ramp.

Just here to hear "real money tax dollars"

Fantastic recommendations

I don’t really see a ton of distinction between Atla Palani and just going Scary Bodies w/ some Cascade setup, though. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a neat concept, but it’s not really anymore “earned” than cheating out an Apex Devastator and going “Weeeeee!” That reminds me of one of the guys at my LGS who kept sacrificing Apex to a Phyrexian Altar, playing another big cascader, and then reanimating Apex. Only worked the one game, but sooooooo gross! Sorry, Golgari flashback.

I still think Cascade and Discover just extends the game too long, and monopolizes the game time to that person.

I love Atlana Palani, always funny but can get out of control with Sting or, even worse, Maskwoodnexus + Worldspine Wurm so hard. Grab something to sacrifice like Altar of Dementia and the sh*tshow is complete.

Hey I don’t see Tasha the Witch Queen on this list Also if you’re interested in the Lonis they discuss in this video, I have a cedh Lonis deck tech on my channel :)

I love Nitpicking Nerds!

I dislike playing against Pantlaza, it's always ramp then waves of discover. Because it's ETB, killing it just gives it back to them to discover again without needing another dinosaur. So many similar builds of it on arena brawl that I've started just immediately conceding and finding a new match.

Annie Joins Up 😮

Bruidclaw i like it in the 99 with atla palani

"Worst nest tender ever"

Doesn't Avacyn go against Atla's gameplan to want to murder as many eggs as quickly as possible?

Brudiclad is super fun in Mishra, Eminent One

I got a fun commander that should be on the list Tergrid, God of Fright i love him it’s funny to laugh at people because they can’t play the game 😊

I miss my Kwain deck, people loved the card draw until I resolved tithe and won the game with Approach. :)

Where is part one?

My atla palani deck has serra avatar.thats all

Only one I find fun (and I have a deck of) here is Valki. The joy of opinions and what one finds "fun". For me, pooping out creature tokens, stompy, anything combat focused isn't interesting for me. Spellslinger isn't interesting for me either. Taking people's shit, mass discard, milling people out, controlling the board/hand/graveyard, that's more my speed.

22:15

Gay Kings? It’s Gay Dads

Yikes

These decks are all fun to play but miserable to play against