The Top 8 Must Have Red Commander Cards for your Magic: The Gathering Collection 

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I don't know if Prof is serious about all these picks. He didnt say "They're coolio and I'm not foolin yo." after each one.

There's a strange catharsis to be found in the torment of a professor and I'm not entirely sure why.

I could see Prof being Izzet. Curiosity and an appreciation of knowledge, contained in a passionate heart.

That promo alone will make me buy a Raycon. Cooolio I'm not foolin...YO

2:11 While he'd quit his job as an English teacher, I didn't expect he'd speak such fire.

I’d argue that torbran is close to a must run in mono red now. He just makes almost every red card better

When Prof kept saying "warp" for Chaos Warp I hoped so badly he was going to say Warp World.

I haven't been to your channel in so long, the last time I was here you had long hair.

We hit levels of cringe that hasn’t been seen since Pleasant Kenobi uploaded his last Milk meme. All that aside professor keep up what you do. Your content is the best bar none.

Did Prof sign a “demonic pact” with Raycon and now we get to catch him suffer for his financial backing?

My personal favorite red spell is Volcanic Offering, nothing is more fun than a four for one that could potentially make you go "I didn't destroy your creature/land, they did. Go after them, not me" and it works sometimes. Plus if you happen to copy it with Dualcaster Mage it gets even more fun.

The Professor's hair is starting to go rogue.

Professor during Sponsor: *End Me...* Professor during rest of video: *Happiness*

The professor knows what's "hip" with the kids: what with all their Tok Taks and Instachats.

I'm going to need #relatable prof to do the sleeve reviews from now on.

I just love how the prof just embraces himself. The raycon ad was freaking brilliant.

"Shattering Spree" has a bit advantage over "By Force": while being color intense, Blue players hate it! It's a lot harder to counter "Shattering Spree" as opposed to "By Force". That said, I think you miss a few MUST RUN cards in red decks: - "Etali, Primal Storm" is a very much must run in any red deck, this cards give you a massive card advantage. He doesn't even have to his his target to benefits from his insane trigger! His only downside is that you cannot play land with it. :( - "Faithless Looting": Not really a card advantage, but a really good and cheap filter effect for any red deck. - "Mana Geyser": BEST red ramp spell for an explosive turn. And I guess this following one is more restricted and yet insanely good: - Underworld Breach: NOW we're talking card advantage; this card is an win-con for many decks; and a fantastic mid/late top deck card.

16:00 Prof "that card is not gonna warp your wallets, but, it's going to warp any problems away and it..." Me " * WARP WORLD* " Prof "Chaos warp!" Me "oh..... right"

Sunbird's Invocation is one of my favorite red cards for Commander. Once you get it out it just keeps giving you extra value, plus it has some fun favorable interactions with cards like Melek and the Expertise cycle.

Excellent list, really happy to see Extortionist and Opulence. I think there’s 3 other cards that could be considered for this list: first, Wheel of Fortune. It’s a bit pricey, but it’s easily the best card advantage and wheel effect in the color (and even compared to other colors). Second, I think that Chandra, Torch of Defiance is an excellent new addition to red’s arsenal. It’s very flexible, isn’t overcosted, and has immediate effects when it enters. Lastly, I think Treasure Nabber is an excellent piece of disruption for red. While not quite Extorionist or Tyrant, it costs only 2R and can have a large impact on the board. It seems to be a happy medium between those two cards and I love watching my opponents struggle to keep themselves from tapping their rocks.

Nothing like using a Blasphemous Act and Repercussion combo to pull out a left field win.

Your intro poem was a good demonstration of why poems need to be read out loud to get the full effect. (I studied Eng. Lit. as well).

"to break from red's usual roll of tilting creatures sideways and bolting domes." BUT THAT'S WHY I PLAY RED!

That was the best ad segment I've seen in a long time.

The way he says “Siege” is hella on fleek, fam. But this list doesn’t have Sunbird’s Invocation so 😒.

Treasonous Ogre is a must-run in red. It’s great never having to worry about being a mana or two short or enabling a big turn where you go off out of nowhere.

Quoting the ferengi rules of acquisition, love it

I like star of extinction. It's a boardwipe for creatures AND planeswalkers, it also destroys an opponents land. (And fun with stuffy doll too)

Blasphemous Act has become my best Mystical Tutor target in my Izzet Deck. Sure, a good draw spell to get what I need or a piece of my game plan would be better for me, but Blasphemous Act has made sure I live to play them later instead of dying with them in hand before my next turn.

I know it's expensive but Wheel of Fortune has to be one of the best red cards in commander. It probably isn't a must run tho because of price.

Vandalblast and Mycosynth Lattice go really well together.

Two of my favorite mono-red cards are a bit expensive (mana wise), but can both be explosive - especially when on the field together. Sunbird's Invocation and Possibility Storm form a wild combo that essentially casts 3 cards for the price of one, especially in Commander. My Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain has both along with Etherium Horn Sorcerer and it gets crazy, since EHS has cascade.

Treasure Nabber is becoming one of my favorite cards in red. You only get to keep the artifact until the end of your next turn but people don't realize how often they tap artifacts for mana until that little goblin is out on the field

Another Great Video Brother! 🔥🔥🔥 And I'm Not Fooling Yo!!

Torbran for his ability to turn chip damage serious.

Braid of Fire is amazing ramp for any deck that has a good number of activated abilities or instants they can cash in on (things like Feather, Bosh, Purphoros, Xantcha)

Adding Outpost Siege to my Starke deck took it to the next level, thanks Prof!

These ad reads just keep getting better and better! Way cool, Prof dude!

I don't know who that guest was at the beginning prof, but he was definitely relatable to my demographic and would like to encourage their return.

No love for Etali, Primal Storm? That's turned into a game winning value engine in every red deck I've built since I got a copy!

An excellent list to be sure but I would add the following: Stranglehold 3R enchantment Your opponents cant search libraries Or take extra turns. Card is so freaking good! Magus of the Wheel: 2R Creature version of Wheel of Fortune. Cheaper than his big bro and excellent at punishing tutors and consecrated sphinx or Rhystic Study players. Lastly: Fault Line is RR and x for an instant that deals x damage to each creature without flying and each player! Clear boards, end games (with Syr Kara or Neheb the Eternal) And Word of Siezing: 3RR instant split second (nothing else can be on the stack until this resolves) gain control of target permanent until e o t: untap it gains haste

A card I love with a similar restrictive effect to Wars Toll. "Price of Glory"( 2R, Enchantment, "Whenever a player taps a land for mana during another players turn, destroy that land."). Especially good when your opponents plan to all play with their pesky Vedalken Orrery out.

I love the song that came on with dockside extortionist

I'll add: Red Elemental Blast and Pyroblast. And, of course, Wheel of Fortune

I JUST finished putting together the rough draft for my Grenzo, Havoc Raiser. This video could not be timed more perfectly.

Blasphemous Act, Stuffy Doll and Brash Taunter make for such good value. Fiery Emancipation would also be very nice, but I have a feeling you'll get hated off the board before you can do anything.

Good to see that the prof is well versed in the rules of acquisition

For lazy people like me who wanted a quick reference, here's what he recommends: Honorable Mention: War's Toll Curse of Opulence Outpost Siege Blasphemous Act Gamble Dockside Extortionist Hellkite Tyrant Vandalblast Chaos Warp

Just gonna say it, this is absolutely the best advertising raycon will ever get😂

Shout out to Radiate; it is very likely that one of the four players will be running instants and sorceries; and this turns things like spot removal in wraths and targetted draw power into cards for everyone!

I was watching the video to see if there were any "must have" cards I was missing from my mono red Jaya combo + chandra tribal. Good choice of backdrop at the end.

Mana Geyser! 5 mana to get 1 red for each tapped land opponents control, for often a 10 mana profit!Also not really a red card but bag of holding is awesome in red since you often discard your own cards.

Love the information in this video professor, I am still new and learning all about the different cards

OMGul... the earbud ad made me laugh. I am a guy who is hard wired to hate adds. I go so far as to make up my own dialog/lyrics as commercials plays to make fun or just plain remind myself that advertisers will boldly lie straight faced if it will sell a product. Mostly I just avoid them any chance I get. I abandoned network television when Netflix was still only doing DVDs by mail and block busters was still in business by subscribing to both services and basically only watching movies. When I heard Google might break Add Block I looked into running all my network traffic through a Raspberry Pie to strip all adds that way. Believe me I could go on. I've heard it said "kill all lawyers" and I would add marketers to that, but I do recognize they are both necessary evils. Why say all this?.... well cause your delivery of the advertisement for these ear buds was SOOO FREAKING HILARIOUS, that I am actually going to look into these damn earbuds. I've been considering the Senheiser ones as I already have a set of their wired ones and they are great, but spending $200 for something I will only occasionally use before I inevitably leave them somewhere isn't thrilling. Keep up the good work Prof! Oh and DAMN you man.

When you need everything turned up to 11, that's when you need Mana Flare.

I really like Insurrection. It's expensive at 5RRR, but the effect is "Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn." It can be an absolute blowout - and if you have a sacrifice outlet like Ashnod's Altar or any number of Aristocrats-style builds, your opponents won't be getting their creatures back either. Assuming they survived the coup. But that is a little bit more situational, so Blasphemous Act might still be a better general pick for any deck in red.

You know something I think would be great is a montage of all the Professors hair styles throughout this RU-vid career. Because they seem to change like the wind. There has just got to be a mtg card reference somewhere. Professor please know that I’m not trying to throw any negative feedback at you because I think you and your channel is awesome and love what you bring to the MTG community. Thank You!

I've been hit by a chaos warp and received Ulamog before. It was great.

Some of my favourite red staples are Ritual cards. I'm talking about Pyretic Ritual, Desperate Ritual, and Infernal Plunge. And while it's not a red card, Burnt Offering is also a good card that can also add a good amount of black and/or red when you you might need it.

My favorite card in red is by far Mob Rule 4RR : Choose one - • Gain control of all creatures with power 4 or greater until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn. • Gain control of all creatures with power 3 or less until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

Mob Rule will always be my favourite red commander card. Turns the tide of a game so quick

I enjoyed the back track used during dockside extortionist!

The Raycon hello fellow kids skit reminded me of the skits we used to have on my High School morning announcements.

I once chaos warped an opponent's Vorinclex into their Avacyn, angel of hope and then they wiped the board with an indestructible apex altisaur. Good times with chaos

This series should get revised for mono colored decks after the release of Commander Collection Green

I would have included Sunbird's Invocation on the list. 5 and a red enchantment, and its effect is "Whenever you cast a spell from you hand, reveal the top X cards of you library where X is that spell's converted Mana cost. You may cast a card revealed this way with a converted Mana cost X or less without paying it's Mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order." Absolute must run. It can turn a huge play to a double trouble for your opponent.

Wheel of fortune is basically power, probably not worth mentioning for budget reasons but reforge the soul is close. Stranglehold is stax like War’s toll but scales with the power level of your playgroup

Repercussion It makes any spell that damages a creature also hit face. A great pairing wit Blasphemous Act can win games. Bolt goes 3 to a creature and 3 to the face. Perfect.

Red is my favorite color in Magic and I love these videos. I've been waiting for this one for so long. Well done once again, Prof!

Someone should build a 5-color commander deck including every single card on these lists and see how it plays.

That 2nd ad read has me dead 😂

I personally love Meltdown for mass artifact destruction XR sorcery, destroy all artifacts with cmc X or less Soooo good

the ad roll is just so genius

Here's my take on the list: 1 - Dockside Extortionist (It's honestly just OP, but it's fine because red needs it.) 2 - Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker (Probably the most infamous red combo card. This cards ends games.) 3 - Wheel of Fortune (Whoever said red doesn't draw cards well hasn't seen this before. Unfortunately expensive due to reserved list.) 4 - Gamble (Demonic Tutor for Red? Yes plz.) 5 - Pyroblast / Red Elemental Blast (There's almost always someone playing blue. And if there is, these are great cards.) 6 - Blasphemous Act (A boardwipe for 1 mana is something most decks would at least consider playing. This is often exactly that, at least in creature heavy environments.) 7 - Faithless Looting (There's a reason it was banned in Modern. It's great in Commander, too. Especially if you can use your graveyard.) 8 - Chaos Warp (Universal red removal, just something most decks would want to consider) Honorable Mentions: 9 - Insurrection (The closest thing red has to an "I win the game"-button in one card. More of a casual card due to the mana cost, but very satisfying if you get to play it.) 10 - Goblin Welder (This one mana goblin can not only restore your dead artifacts at the cost of a measly treasure token, but also disrupt opponents by making them sacrifice their best artifacts for crappy artifacts in their graveyard) 11 - Underworld Breach (Great combo card and even ok if just used for value. While this is more niche in it's application, it's extremely powerful when used right.) 12 - Aggravated Assault (Great card in a lot of decks, most notably Najeela. Easy to go infinite with.) My favorite red card is Zealous Conscripts. Few things in life are as satisfying as taking your opponents Planeswalker, ulting it to get the emblem and returning the dead walker to their yard with a chef's kiss. It's also just a really good card in most other scenarios and happens to combo with Kiki-Jiki to end the game. I've only seen Hellkite Tyrant trigger successfully once in all my years of playing commander. It just seems to get blown up or countered every single time. Unless you can give it haste reliably, I don't think it's worth running. War's Toll and Curse of Opulence are a lot less effective if your opponents know what they're doing, so I also wouldn't really consider them to be top tier red cards (especially in a format where most games end either via infinite combo or with a single big swing rather than classic creature combat).

When I grow up I can only hope to obtain a fraction of Prof’s “Coolness” during those Raycon ads.

The professor channeled Steve Buscemi,during the relatable section of the raycon ad. Keep up the good work Prof!

When I saw the notification I expected to see Blasphemous Act... I wasn't dissappointed at all.

Red card advantage can be a tough nut to crack. In addition to Outpost Siege here are some of my other favorites: Etali, Primal Storm Experimental Frenzy Light Up the Stage Commune with Lava Stolen Strategy (though it does miss lands) Sunbird's Invocation My red decks also tend to run some number of artifact card draw, but they're not red...unless we're referring to Chandra's Regulator, but that's not card advantage (only filtering) and only run in my Chandra tribal deck because it's Chandra themed and the trigger is bananas. Note that it's fine for card filtering to make up a portion of your card draw slots (at least in my opinion), but it can't be all of it. You need some number of your card draw slots to be actual card advantage. For red mana ramp I must admit I lean heavily on artifact sources, but in addition to Dockside Extortionist I do also like: Fires of Invention Treasure Nabber Brass's Bounty Mana Geyser is not ramp, it's combo. And if we're going to talk about red creature board wipes, while Blasphemous Act may be the best, I feel like we would be remiss to not mention the close runner up: Chain Reaction.

I really enjoyed the touch on the add at the start hahaha. Keep 'em coming.

Your sponsorship skits are always on point 😂😂

I've gotten a lot of mileage from Winds of Change. Literally a 1-drop wheel with the difference of shuffling hands into the library rather than discarding

My mono-red EDH deck is my fave deck. Honorable mention for Chain Reaction (one of the better red sweepers) and my personal favorite red card ever, Possibility Storm. It's one of the most fun and random ways to completely shake up a board, and it makes it way harder for combo decks to pop off. If you're trying to get a copy of the expensive Dockside Extortionist, I might recommend just getting the Commander '19 Mystic Intellect deck; the Extortionist is 40 of the decks present [3/10/21} $50 price tag, so you effectively also get 99 other cards for just ten bucks. Plus it's pretty much a guaranteed mint quality :P

My favorite red cards are Mana Geyser, Bonus Round, Apex of Power, Finale of Promise, Seething Song, Repeated Reverberation, Reiterate and Brass Bounty. No I'm not playing storm at all. I don't know that your are talking about

I LOVE reiterate and other i/s copy effects 3 mana for a copy effect can costly, but in many, many scenarios it ends up netting you a ton of advantage, protecting your spells from counterspells, kill the player casting a massive torment, tutor, go infinite with cards like rewind, or even just serving as a big mana sink for massive value you never see in red!

Red isn't my most played color, but I do love the cards and flavor. Last night I played a small chaos draft at my LGS and went mono-red, and got 1st place. 😎

Ive found great success just running basic lightning bolt and abrade the three damage kills most utility creatures and more than a few commanders plus being able to bolt face late game has quite a bit of value pressing life totals. It's never a dead card at least.

I’d buy the ear buds just to keep Prof making the ads. Too funny

Your add brought me to tears. Thank you sir, it's been a rough day

I don't have time to watch but Red Elemental Blast better be on here, no one ever expects the red counterspell to stop combos.

As a 19 year old watching this with raycons in, the ad was absolutely beautiful XD

Love your videos, Professor! Could you make some videos on building knight, soldier pauper decks and other pauper decks and some videos on you playing pauper against opponents?

you should update this video every year...great job!!

hey prof. my girlfriend broke up with me yesterday - and believe it or not your video made me thinking not about her for 19 minutes. thank you so much

I know it came out after this video but I would add jeska’s will, it’s card advantage and ramp in red and performs well in any color combination also

Red elemental blast is a functional reprint of pyroblast. So you can have both in an EDH deck.

Comet Storm deserves a spot for it's flexibility and power. I can serve as spot removal for a handful of large creatures, a one sided wrath if your opponents don't go super tall or wide, or a finisher after getting infinite mana (or at least insane amounts.) Easily an auto include in all my decks that include red.

Another honorable mention is Malignus. Three generic and two red for a creature whose power and toughness is equal to half the highest life total among opponents and can't have its damage prevented.

I'm basic, and I play spellslinger decks most of the time, so my favorite red card is still Lightning Bolt. One red for 3 damage at instant speed is versatile enough. Need to kill an otherwise week creature that'll grow out of hand? Got it. Need to finish off a big creature after combat? Got it. Have the option to copy it a stupid amount of times and kill an opponent? Got it. The lost goes on. It's not super powerful, but I always like having it in my hand.

Wheel of Fortune? Live by the draw 7, die by the draw 7. Red dumps their hand so quick that you might not even ditch a card to the Wheel, and if you do ditch a full grip Red is pretty good at using those dead cards as fuel for effects. Most recent being Underworld Breach or Ox of Agonas, but I have a fondness for Grim Lavamancer myself.