The Most Powerful Commanders of Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate | Power Tier List | EDH 

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Would love to see a most powerful commander/background combos tier list

The Council of Four can conceivably draw you 4 cards and make you 4 2/2 Knights per turn cycle without giving your opponents any benefits, because they want to be drawing cards and playing more than a single spell on their turn anyway! Mitch instantly thought Howling Mine effects and then disregarded this card. Slotting Council of Four into my Raffine deck, because drawing cards is the best part of Magic and the incidental 2/2 tokens will give me more Connive triggers 👌🏻

Got to participate on the Pre-release yesterday, and the player next to me had Rilsa as his commander. Dude SPEEDRAN the dungeon and was swinging wildly, while the other players had only gotten into the Undercity.

Very poor assessment of Raggadragga. They'll consistently go under your opponents and can start chaining off huge spells before midgame. Easy s tier.

Coming back to this video after playing Baldur’s Gate 3 to see who I recognize. Definitely gonna make that Astarion deck 😅

You should do a year in review to see how your rankings held up against the meta/EDH rankings for each set, it would make for an interesting video to see how you under/overestimated certain cards.

I built my wife a Tasha deck. I made more of a "What's your's is mine" deck. Cards like Thief of Sanity, Xanathar, etc. She still gets the "When you cast a spell you don't own" trigger for her Demon tokens. Plus a steal/mill sub-theme makes it easier to take people's instants & sorceries out of their graveyards with Tasha, among other things with other cards. Then plenty of token generators and several Walls to help defend Tasha helps out a bunch. A few permanent bounce spells to save Tasha, or even slow her opponents have been beneficial. She loves the deck, but obviously everyone is entitled to their opinion. I was just happy with how the deck runs because it's done pretty well so far. Could use some improvements, but I'd say it's roughly about a 7 in power where it's at.

@20:37 Correction for Raphael: he read "...when a creature CARD was put into the graveyeard..." -- That does not include tokens, tokens are not considered cards, so tokens dont replace themselves when sacrificed. 111.6 A token is subject to anything that affects permanents in general or that affects the token’s card type or subtype. A token isn’t a card (even if represented by a card that has a Magic back or that came from a Magic booster pack).

Have to say, Faldorn is going to "flood the board" with wolves much quicker and easier than Cadira can generate bunnies. Can trigger more than once per turn, during any player's turn vs. possibly once on your combat step. The bun bun token is super cute though, maybe worth b-tier...

N’Gathrod pulls some of the most insane shit ever - I can’t believe you’ve only got him in C tier

Firkraag is my favorite from this set. Super unique, goad games be wild 👀

Already see plenty of potential this set, look forward to seeing what you’ve got lined up here

Since Raphiel make's 1/1 devils when a creature card enters your graveyard, using creatures with cycling works wonders. Also since the tokens are devils they end up being 2/2 when he's on the field that can trade with most 3 toughness creatures while giving you life as chump blockers. In B/R there are so many creatures (devils that do damage upon death come to mind) that synergize with him by having death triggers and cards that have sacrificing as part of the cost.

Raggadragga also brings to the table Land Animation and other forms of mana abilities, such as that of a treasure creature or even something like an Eldrazi Scion (outside of CLB but still). Also enables a couple of cheeky Buyback infinites, which I have actually managed to pull off in a game by infinitely casting Wurmcalling for 7.

Where would you place Karlach, Fury of Avernus? Don't think I saw her on this list.

Would love to see Miirym, sentinel wyrm built budget. Found them along with some ancient dragons in a sealed draft would be great to see you build them :)

Its so funny thag the card this youtuber ranked jn c and d is now more pkwerful than most a and b decks

I absolutely agree with your assessment of neera. that being said im head over heels for her anyway and i know im gonna have SO much fun tinkering and optimizing my list to make up for her shortcomings.

I know this is old news but I wanted to bring something up about Commander Liara Portyr. Extra combats allow you to stack cost reduction and not just the cards you exile with her effect.

When you talked about Raphael, fiendish Savior, you mention that you could sac a token to create another one. However, the text says "... if a creature card was put int your graveyard..." A token is not a creature card, right?

Damnit, Eddie! Tasha is probably at least a B tier, her plus is primarily for card advantage, the rest of the deck is dedicated to stealing cards from your opponents in other ways. Edit 2: I saw Minthara when she was first spoiled, but got to play with her in a prerelease last night and ooooh man. Oh man. She is so strong, it's not even funny. A persistent anthem effect that turns even your little cantrip creatures into massive beaters is huge game.

Wayfarer's Bauble was definitely a mythic common at my LGS this prerelease. I opened two boxes and two kits and didn't pull a single one. Across the 15 boxes and numerous kits, only three copies were opened at the store.

ive built a deck around Rilsa and its more powerful than it seems when using copy spells and stuff like conjurers closet to get initiative over and over again

Eliminster for me is a bit confusing, his first block of text tells me he wants to cheat on the cost of big spells like Alrund's Epiphany or Apex of Power and scrying spells to enable that. But his -3 exiles those big spells with no way of casting them or getting them back and turns them into basically useless 1/1 birds. He doesn't seem to have a coherent strategy that he pushes the player toward.

that list did age like old cheese XD

Korlessa and Lozhan are not commanders themselves, but are more support for a dragon commander, especially Myriim. I had to play against a Myriim deck in a BLD league. Both of those were in there as support, and it was a tough deck to play against. EDIT: Also Lozhan can't target commanders, but it can target PLAYERS. And player removal is the best form of commander removal.

Why no second video with background commanders? Or am I just not seeing it when I look for it?

Eddie it is ALL YOUR fault!! I don't know why but I'm a sheep and this sounded like fun

Council of Four seems like a solid card draw engine even without making it like a group hug deck. It's a good blocker and probably won't get removed right away.

I feel like c and d level commanders are better in the 99 then on their own

Soooo, are we gonna ignore how he skipped over the captain's full name but no one else? Lol

I have to respectfully disagree with Kagha being a D tier; she won me my prerelease...

Let's not forget the Miirym is bonkers in the 99. Want to clone the Ur-Dragon or Skittles? Well you can! This guy is easily going to go above budget. Like $20 at least.

No episode on the Commanders with backgrounds?

Bhaal is exactly where I like my commanders. Middle of the road power wise with a weird ability for everyone to keep in the back of their minds. I love that the ability really blows up a political “do nice things for everyone” player by just making him swing over and over again.

Miirym with Orvar in the 99 and a bunch of blink and clone instants and sorceries!!!! (With supporting worldly tutor effects of course!) They’ll trigger twice since you’ll have a SECOND Orvar!!!!

I think you're on point with your list except for Jan Jansen. Treasure as a theme is extremely prevalent right now, especially when you have access to white. Having haste, ramping, and comboing off 4 CMC cards make him as fast as a deck can be before reaching a competitive level. Although most people are building him artifact tribal, IMO that's his worst version. He generates far too much value in aristocrats, and can even go for land destruction if you don't mind the grief. I'd put him on high A or even S tier. Don't sleep on him!

I bought a prerelease pack from my local card shop today, and pulled Miirym, and immediately put together a deck around him today. For now he's not close to his fill potential yet since I don't have congress and blink spells yet, but his token copies are great!

council of four only benefits you. Im fine with D tier, but i had to write this. Also... the elder Dragons cannot be commanders? I thought they are legendary? Need to look at them again.

Playing Minthara at prerelease, she is so incredible strong. Myriad synergieses so well with her

A lot of new commanders up here. I really like Raphael as a fiendish tribal commander but the Legendary that I want yo play with the is Firkraag. Dragon goad with a politics style looks like a fun deck. Thanks for the content, Mitch.

Love what you do. Many thanks for amazing content

Really interested to see the top spots!!

Raphael's creature token trigger requires a creature *CARD* be put in to your graveyard. You can't sac a token to create a token with it because tokens aren't cards.

Lozhan with flash and a bunch of high cost etb dragons equals destroy most targets, control your opponents, and make everything that can stop your flying scaledogs not an issue, throw in crimson dragon orb, and suddenly with enough mana you are dishing out lethal flying damage with just 2 spell casts

Raphael fiendish savior shouldnt Trigger on creature Tokens. Because the Trigger checks after a creature card Hits the graveyard. In the case of Tokens it shouldnt have a legal target to Trigger off.

Baba Lysaga looks like it would go good in the one Strixhaven precon

MAHADI HAS WARES IF U HAVE COIN

I randomly bought a single set booster from this set a month or so ago and got zevlor etched foil, alaundo showcase art and myrkul all in a single pack.

The council of four gives you a card advantage even on your own turn smh and even with this I believe if this is your commander you are still get that second spell even after using a one mana during your turn.

I actually have a pretty nuts Gluntch dexk where I just try and buff him up as much as possible. It is hilariously stupid.

Council of four its no group hug its a Taxing Commander; it slows your opponents

I don't fully understand your argument for putting The Council of Four in the D-tier. In most commander games I play, players often times draw more than 1 card or play more than 1 spell in a turn without any (active) help from me anyway - and the card includes yourself aswell. So anything that only draws you a card automatically adds an additional card draw if you play it during your turn, anytime any other player casts something like a Deadly Dispute, you draw a card. Opponent ignored 2 Rhystic Study triggers from another opponent - you feel less bad because you also draw a card. And that is not to mention spell-slinger decks that routinely play 2+ spells a turn, which happens regularly in the late game anyway for other decks - that can make you quite a lot of knights.

I’m basically brand new to magic and even newer to commander having just played my first game of it 3 days ago and I pulled minthara and Astarion as well as 3 wayfarers bauble which people keep telling me is super good but I don’t quite understand why. Also it seemed like you forgot a commander? The game I played where I pulled those cards I actually pulled another card “shadowheart, dark justicar” which is definitely a commander as it says to choose a background but I didn’t see that card on the tier list even though it’s a commander and it’s the one I used in my deck. Just wondering if I’m missing something here or??

The thing about Nine Fingers Keen is that I doubt that we will get new gates outside of commander sets. It would not be hard to modify amulett titan into a mazes end modern Deck with the new gates, but I think they printed these in a commander set on purpose.

Mitch, I’ll show you how terrifying Gluntch can be. Ever played against a good Shadrix player before? Gluntch is the next level.

Thrakkus into Atarka, World Render. Ouch. World Render is already a finisher in any dragon deck. With Just these two attacking, that is 36 Trample damage at one player, 18 of it at first strike speed. Its pretty much a second Atarka at normal combat speed.

One thing I think a lot of people are overlooking: Myrkul is in the colors for Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, Primal Vigor, AND Anointed Procession. That means token copies can be made to the 4th power. Not only that, but Myrkul says that they lose all other card types. "Legendary" is a card type. You can have 16 copies of a legendary creature, as a token enchantment.

Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher is the one I'm looking most forward to. I'm thinking an Azorius Levelup/Equipment deck w/ Fortell support and a few mana filters to get around the not from hand drawback of the potentially obscene amount of mana I'll produce

baba is probably the most underrated commander in this list, not only can you get tremedous value but also works amazingly with an aristocrat subtheme reanimaton and cards like thorn bite staff and illusionist bracers can drain your opponents to death and not to mention because of all that card draw your hand will always be full and you will almost always have an answer to anything

Well I got at least 2 A tier commanders from my prerelease kit. Cant wat to see what Mitch thinks about the one with backgrounds

The only one I disagree with is the horror tribal precon I think that deck has a lot of potential

I played Korlessa in draft yesterday and I gotta say, she absolutely stomps. I'm kind of curious as to how she can do in constructed Commander.

I don't understand why some of the cards for the golden pig are some we seen for the golden toilet? Did someone else make the list?

This is one of my favorite draft set. If I can find this set for a discount I immediately grab it if I can

When can we expect the video ranking the background commanders?

You are forgetting the adventure spells that are all cast from exile

Firckrag at A but N'Gathrod at C?...na. Lol. Otherwise I like this list

Dammit Eddie.

Does zevlor works with Angelos casualty ability?? To copy it once more?

I pulled miirym my first pack of my first prerelease and he has been my favorite of the set since

I pulled Miirym as my Promo and had a pretty powerful board most of the prerelease commander game after casting her on turn 4.

quite some neat cards in this set but none that im going to build around as a commander but some needs to be in the 99s of my decks

Play EDH at all levels. Astarion is B tier. Excuse me? Nalia is better because a party of hate bears is more problematic than cute lifegain commander. If you think a A Naya voltron commander and Goad dragon is A tier, sorry but it’s a no. Many commanders you put in C and B tier are possibly A or S tier because they scale well to fringe CEDH or even CEDH. So, this list is misleading and it’s better to do your research first.

#blameeddierightnow

21:37 if I had a penny everytime a 3 elements shaman is mana hungry I would have 3 pennies

I love Kagha in my Karador deck, but her as a commander is not that great.

Glunch is D tier? Didn't you just say it was one of the top 10 commnaders from Baldur's gate like 4 videos ago?

From my experience, the party precon commander is insane. It doesn't sound powerful on paper, but it gets wild easily

Karlach, Fury of Avernus? She went to Face-Stomp Central in my prerelease, combined with some of the dragons and the Phoenix and Descent into Avernus just for pure rollicking pain. I’m Bad At Draft™️ and not great at commander or Magic in general despite decades of play and she sailed me to victory.

Let'S Gooooooo!

6:30 - I have a sneaking suspicion you can abuse those effects by YOU being the player who draws their second card or cast their second spell....I mean building a cherrios deck? single mana cards that scry 1? Probably C tier though....

I want the horror pirate & then mill half of someone's deck

The commanders ive been having most fun with are Bane, Lord of Darkness, Mazzy, Trueswords paladin, Jan Jensen, very fun commanders

What about Ellyn Harbreeze, Busybody?!?

Are these all only from the new decks coming out?

after doing about 10 drafts this weekend it's kind of hilarious how wrong you are on some of these, that being said it was only draft

Lozhan should be higher, I run it in my Ganax+Feywild deck and it is a "kill on sight" card that can get out of hand very fast for slinging damage at faces or other problem creatures. The fact it can't hit commanders is almost inconsequential.

Savagely underestimating dynaheir imo. Shes begging to be a powerhouse of an artifact-focused commander. Osgir, Goblin Welder, muzzio, all tapping as soon as they enter, whereas they dont normally have pseudo-haste. Osgir making 4 Thran dynamos(or many more if you have illusionists bracers/battlemages bracers, magewriggt stine, thousand year elixer, etc) is a huge difference in the result of abilities costing 4 mana. All the cycling due to the red/blue color pairings creates a deck that empties itself into your hand/graveyard unbelievably fast. Pairing with the boros additions to artifacts in Strixhaven creates a dynamic where those artifacts in the grave create huge value. This commander should NOT be slept on. She is overwhelming on turn 7-8. Not to mention, using WanderWand and getting 4-8 sorceries/instants from my opponents libraries is going to be so damn funny.

6:49, you need to pay attention to how it says whenever A PLAYER, this doesn’t limit too much when you have stuff like Teferi’s ageless insight or any other card draw doubling permanents, along with howling mine, you can have yourself draw up to 12 cards per turn which would go great with wincons like Thassa’s Oracle

Great video! I think people are sleeping on Kagha. If you setup like Oriq loremage or like Entomb to mill good cards directly from the deck, Angel of suffering, cemetery tampering, carrion grub, gorging vulture, dread summons some good self mill support instant/sorcery enchantments or like price of fame,!perpetual timepiece ect. I think this card is like potentially A tier. Im just listing a few ideas! Im thinking of it as kind of a mini Meren clan of nel toth maybe? That can also ramp and Golgari is really good at these type of things imo.

cant wait to see what i pull

Nooo Gluntch! :( Omg Miirym is insane what the actual heck. And Zevlor like WHAAAATTT. This set has some incredibly powerful commanders

Wait where's Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward?

These S-Tier commanders are insane. Already thinking Zevlor + Electrodominance + something else crazy in the mid-late game.

Hi Eddie, im missing Karlach - something Avernus (I only have the alternatie art and cant read it ) ;)

I have an excelent Klauth deck, nut I had to do this Miirym deck... this commander is insane and I also have Parallel Lives and Panharmonicon. I will test this deck tomorrow in a Magic Store.

Im triggered Capt. Davy Jones is really spicy, he takes the exile and play your opponents cards to a whole another level

i wish you would just go alphabetical through all commanders and then assign them to a tierlevel.. would be so much more exciting