The Most Powerful Commanders of 2023 | Power Tier Rankings List | EDH | Magic the Gathering 

Strongly disagree with Will being C. If Rowin is S then Will is easily A, edging up on S. Everyone gets so focused on Rowin being able to make her spells 200 cheaper, and how it's harder for Will to do the same, the problem with that logic is you don't need to do that. turning a 7 cost game winning bomb into 2 mana after casting a 1 mana heal is just as powerful as reducing the cost by 50, and it still cost 2 mana.

Coming from 15 years of competitive yugioh - I can’t tell you how clean and not messy the text is here. “Wordy” to you guys is like flavor text for yugioh haha

Would love to see a Ixalan precon commander tier list!

I think you maybe underrated Ellivere a bit. Even in non-stax she pops off if you run a bunch of strong combat oriented creatures. Ghalta is incredibly easy to slot into the deck and it can become a 30/30 trample in no time. You also get to run evasion auras and blink synergies to get Ellivere's ability over and over, and you get enchantress effects too

Feels like Oner Axonil is oppressive in casual and terrible in competitive. Weird space to be in. He just does so much damage and comes back pretty easily in games that go long

"Let's make every deck Stax" - Eddie

Talion as "B" Commander is a crime. Nothing less than "A"

Sad to see my favorite commander from this year, Kellan, the Fae-Blooded, not on this list. One of my favorite Boros commanders to come out in years and I'm able to run all the other Boros equipment/aura commanders in the deck. 1v1 the deck is a monster, always being able to grab an enchantment like Darksteel Mutation or Swift Reconfiguration to turn off a commander early game is usually GG.

For cards like Kutzil, I think keywording that word salad as "Pumped" would work. WoTC already keworded "mill", so there's a precedent to using player shorthand phrases. So then Kutzil would be worded "Whenever one or more pumped creatures you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card"

I have a question regarding some cards I have in my dinosaur deck. Say I have Wayta, Trainer Prodigy on the field as well as a Marauding Raptor. If another dinosaur enters the battlefield and the raptor damages it, would that trigger marauding raptor an additional time? I don't think it would trigger the first part of the last ability since that was caused by an etb not damage but would it give my raptor +4/+0 rather than +2/+0? I'm very confused by the wording here.

Elesh Norn doubling your ETB and cancelling other ETB should be way higher then C tier. Considering ETB being a heavily favoured trigger ability in EDH.

How would you rate smeagol a helpful guide and sovereign okinec halaul for a "non-infinite" playgroup?

Shoutout to one of my favorite commanders not mentioned in this list. Rocco, Street Chef, From the MOM: Aftermath set. Incredibly fun and strong deck.

Unctus consistently wins me games turns 2 through 5. It's broken and search in blue is a lot easier for wizards than you would think. So many infinite combos. 😊

Imodane not even on the tier list???, she is easily the best burn commander in the format.

The power creep is insane when a card like norn with tons of other cards stapled to it in the command zone is only c

Zimone and Dina is actually really powerful early game with untap cards and zombie recursion like gravewalker for example she’s way more powerful the more you look into her builds

Hey I know we got a billion Magic products this year, and I may have missed it, or it might have just not been covered, but did TCQ do a tier list for the Doctor Who product?

I'm new to Magic and I'd like to know which of the preconstructed commander decks you recommend to start with. No related videos found. I see that many MTG offers prebuilt and I have not seen any comparison. My budget is up to 50 dollars/euros.

I can't believe Talion is at B-Tier. I don't even play him but obviously you guys need to be more exposed to playing against him bc the card draw engine is absolutely absurd. With the most competitive colors in edh, you guys need to rereview. Also, Will at C-tier? I just can't 😂😂😂

hidetsugu and kairi goes infinite with mass reanimate spells, creatures that return spells from graveyard to hand and sac outlets. all of those are plenty available in dimir. graveyard hate artifacts also make sure that opponents do not get anything out of their graveyard when going infinite with mass reanimate and also draw you card to assamble the combo. also any normal reanimate spell works as life insurance for you until you draw the combo. thus the renimate build is much more consistant than the copy one. my 50$ budget deck wins frequently against much more expensive decks and its my favorite deck until now.

Bartolome is a sack outlet in the zone, idk id give him b but mid b imo

Sad not seeing Hylda of the Icy Crown on here :(

Kutzil is pretty good with Arahbo as your commander. Free +3/+3 every turn. (Same with Sovereign Okinec Ahau)

Love shalai and hallar, I run hydras for the lols

They really underestimate the power of tom bombadil at LEAST B tier imo

Why is it that once the commander is not going to stack route its automatic to low tier?😢

No Francisco??? Talion not being S is also WILD

Rowan is the definition of a glass cannon but the idea of like a turn 3 or 4 exsanguinate for x=30 is kinda funny.

Slimefoot and Squee wasn't even mentioned. Casual indeed.

Audio is a little on the low end mic's would be ideal.

Haven’t watched the whole thing , only on third commander but Hylda and Ellevier need to be A tier. Those decks go HAM and are both fairly budget friendly

Where would y'all rate Hylda?

Should have zoomed in on the final result and posted a link to it.

no urtet makes me sad ;-;

My take (all Commanders not listed I agree with). These are my oppinions and NOT law (though they totally should be =) Ehhhh... Farmer cotton is at best a B, perhaps even a C for me. A commander shouldn't be a one time trigger, but something that is still usefull 2-3 turns later. While definitly weaker than Rowan, Will is still good because he won't make you die to a lightning strike to the face and there are several cards in both blue and white or even artifacts that you can feed all that nice extra mana into. I'd put him into a high B or even a low A, but definitly below Rowan. Offff, HARD disagree. Elesh Norn is at least an upper C, more likely even a middeling B. White has everything really so not even her colour limits her much and with Norn's Annex and Ghostly Prison you can build up an Army without your enemies being able to compete since they have to pay a lot to even get a hit in at you. Eleviere will slow down the game a lot so you have to be prepared to need longer than an hour with her (and you should keep count of all enchantments with a dice or notepad). But she is deceptively strong. When I played her the first time (not knowing how good she was) I suddenly had her as an 16/16 on turn 4. With the unmodified Precon-Deck! At least B, if not A. For Heliod, yes, some settup is needed. But both a discount on mana-cost and playing at Flash-Speed? That's a Rank B guranteed, perhaps even Rank A Wow, you reallly don't like White. Well, I already made my argument again. The only downside I see with Mondrak is that he can't activate his own effect, but there are a lot of White Token Generators. And he can protect himself by becoming indestructible. So at least a C. Red I actually agree has some problems, especially carddraw. I still think D is too harsh, but I can see it. Tom Bombadil. In D. (sounds of a door opening, sounds of steps towards it, SLAM SLAM SLAM). Yeah, freak no. Rank A, with potential for S. I can understand if you refuse to play against Discard. But refusing to play a game because its long is laughable. Ojer Taq is a Rank B. I won't repeat my argument for white. Overall your placements are largely good, but I really can't understand your dislike of Tom Bombadil.

8:38 now do you take the Rona with lime lol

It seems every commander is compared to cEDH in regards to combos and power level. Made this tier list super wonky and annoying to watch.

My will deck slaps. I will Stan that deck all day. I think rowan is so easy to snipe or watch herself kill herself

Talion is busted because you can clone him!! Spark Double + Sakashima and a few others allows you to get past it being a legendary!!!

I think you guys forgot to talk about Jin Gitaxias // The Great synthesis. Absolutely devastating mono blue commander.

I think just due to cEDH trends regardless of how you think, Atraxa and Lotho probably pretty much undeniably have to go to S tier. They are quite literally in that realm of strongest commanders without partner ever printed period.

Why was the best typal commander of 2023 not on this list the great Urtet Reminant of Memnarch?

How is Grand Unifier not an instant S tier ?? Seven mana is not that much in edh especially in green, not even talking about the reanimate strategy, and once she's out you can abuse that etb to instantly win or just use the impressive stats and keywords to take over the game, in cedh, this was the most busted commander released this year easily.

33:07 Heliod is so incredibly busted. The only downside is the flip at sorcery speed. (This keeps it just out of cedh top tier) Heliod+smothering tithe+folio of fancies=go to town! Mine is mono white pillow forte group hug, win con is Approach of the Second Sun. Opponents know of it's inevitability. (Every body lives needs to go in it).

Minnesota RU-vid!?! :D See the Brrr shirt! Awesome haha

The lack of Imodane the Pyrohammer makes me angry!

I love your vids and you've earned a sub. Only criticism would be that I would prefer a 3 hour long vid and have you guys spend more time on each card by showing some cards that combo off of each, an extra 15 seconds on each wouldn't hurt. Sometimes you're going too fast for me to fully process everything you're saying. Obviously your own time is limited and I understand you simply may not have time to record, watch, and edit before posting but just saying it would really move your tier list from an A to an S tier.

Holy fuck Grand Uinifer was this year?!

Love the list. My one hang-up is Elesh Norn D tier. I have an Elesh Norn commander deck that I unlocked after I realized one thing: the Ardent Etchings combined with Proliferate is a lethal combination. If you proliferate the saga from 2 to 3 counters, then you wipe the board and have 40 damage with your 5 incubated Phyrexians. The deck can easily win by turn 7 or 8 after wiping all your opponents out with damage. While Elesh Norn as a creature is good, you really play her to get the saga going.

Heliod is a Beast. We got destroyed a few weeks back. If hes flipped and rdy to go you better have some counters up your sleeve. Hes A at least.

Amalia feels pretty strong too

the fact that when you were talking about Tom Bombadil... and said' "he's a hardy fellow"... and didn't immediately follow with "and his boots are yellow" is a huge flavor fail... and should move him up a rank

surprised zhulodok didnt make the list

No Imodane, the Pyrohammer??

Lot of these commanders are stronger than listed, heliod for sure is one

What about Frodo and Sam partners, cry.... I can live the Food dream!

I think Galadriel, Light of Valinor deserves to be an A. If you have a Koma type effect and you build it primarily with with flash creatures as I have. You are consistently able to respond to anything the table throws at you with how much you are scrying and drawing

How in the world is a free sack outlet in the command zone not least an A

Is zhulodok there?

I may be too ego driven here but I feel i could convince you otherwise about ojer axonil if I sent you my list.

No Eriette?

his buddy is a little bias on mono colored decks but i bet he loses to mono blue everyday

Doing my girl Hylda dirty and not even adding her to this list haha

Where is Orvika at?

Bartholome but no clavileno?

No eriette of the charmed??

Eriette of the Charmed Apple, where?

- "white is the weakest color" - Elesh norn, Mother of Machine almost got banned before its release

no Carmen ?

wherrr Sam & Frodo???

Galadriel is oppressive asf, I built her and she has never lost. Galadriel would eat you alive

Edgar Markov where?

I didn't like how often you "bumped down" VERY POWERFUL commanders just because the most powerful way to build them has stax / hatebear aspects. Stax/MLD is NOT even a viable strategy in cEDH.

What about the jurassic park comanders

Where is Saheeli? She is like...really good? You guys are missing out on an A rank commander.

Was this streamed? Why do we need a comment about going on a break so many times? Just put the midrolls in and cut back to the content

No doctor who? 😭

Not a bad episode, but I will say yah talked over your guest quite a bit.

Elesh norn mom is definitely s tier.

So we’re ignoring Eriette of the Charmed Apple?

Where's Clavileño??

How are you going to call Ojer Taq an Omega level commander in one video and then rank him D-tier in this video? Make up your damn mind, dude.

Come on guys where is jodah? Did you never play against a Jodah the unifier deck?

Slimefoot & Squee better than 1/3 of the commanders in S tier. :/ Justice for the FUNgi's

2023 and you guys didnt have mishra claimed by gix on here? Blasphemous act! That dude is the villain every game! Ask me how i know!!

SHELOB CHILD OF UNGOLIANT SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST AND SHOULD BE AN A

I strongly disagree with your oath breaker take as somebody who runs him as a commander I win about 75% of my games. The evasion is alot better then you think and unless you build to beat him it's not that easy I more likely then not end up with 20 spirits on the board and even if you have a board wipe ill phase them out.

I disagree with Ojer Axonil. That commander just slaps and one-shots players.

Where's anikthea???

Joduh should be in this list

😢 ellivere at c

Strongly disagree with Ojer Axonil Tier D!!!! I just made a deck that won against very powerful commanders.. Very cheap cost to bring it back to table, and you have plenty of cheap spells and creatures that gives damage 1-2 to each opponent that can easily become 4-10 damage each

Tom Bombadil as a D... how cute... Seriously... Its one of the most powerful decks I have.

Wtf… how can u just drop kutzil to a C after thinking it’s an A just because you want a casual version. The card in itself is good so just let it be and rate it what u think initially don’t look for reasons to down play the card for a lower rank.

Lotho is a Playable cedh Commander, ye lets Put him in B Tier I guess

Ellivere C ... Oh boy 🤣🤣 I like when a commander is underrated, it allows me to kick the asses of those who never played it.

My boy zhulodok did not even make the list…

Heliod is easilly A tier. If no one has any counterspells it is in respose, I win the game.

Farmer