Top 5 Most Underrated Commanders From 2023 

Anim Pakal has sneaked to becoming one of my favorite decks. Happy to see her get some light in this video, go gnomes!

Gylwain is one of my favorite commander this year, with synergy to enchantment, aura, and tokens.

Glad to see your boy Inti on the list. Gylwain, howewer, is easily my favorite commander of the year. You did him justice in the video; here are two more dope things you can do with him: -Composer of Spring and Kodama of the East Tree (big kodama) can pop off if you have Setessan Champion or similar in play. -Jaheira lets you tap role tokens for mana. Great video as always!

Tomer we need a Moira and Teshar budget brew!! A Gylwain brew would be awesome to see as well!

Glad to see Anim Pakal on the list. I've been brewing a deck with her for a little while and got to test it over the weekend. My pod didn't realize how powerful she was until they got their faces smashed by my gnome hoard. It can go big (Anim will get lots of +1/+1 counters), it can go wide (lots of gnomes) and it can burn (impact tremors, goblin bombardment). It is really fun to play!

Inti was literally the first EDH deck I built, so I’ve been refining it, and boy it’s fun. Gamble is broken in it with containment construct, conspiracy theorist, or library of leng Cast Ragavan, Inti, and Jeska’s will on curve and have fun trying to beat that start. Jeskas will, wheel, and underworld breach is the most fun wincon

I still can't believe how few Inti decks are on edhrec, not to mention that so many decks also want him in the 99. Here are some of my favorite underrated commanders from this year. Danitha, New Benalia's light - equipment and aura reanimator in unique colors for self mill. Radagast the Brown - kinda like guardian project in the command zone with a fun deck building challenge Arni Metalbrow - another criminally underrated mono-red commander Bill the Pony - he's a very good boy. And he comes with snacks.

Great, Tomer. I wasn't looking at Moira and Teshar for my Orzhov rep but now I MIGHT

I have a Legolas, Master Archer enchantress deck, his is a cast trigger; so the bite or fight spell will resolve AFTER his initial "arrow shot" ! And yeah, I agree he is soooo underrated. He is kinda strong, removal on a body. :)

Worth running Shimmer Myr and/or Urza's BattlThopter to the Teshar deck. Flash is just so good, which is why I keep telling my friend to play instants as instants and not sorceries. Reanimating big artifacts at insant speed by throwing down a mana rock is so satisfying. The Myr and thopter fit right in that 3 cmc creature Teshar zone.

Those last 2 are great mentions! Its crazy how so many commanders get overlooked. But there’s an excess nowadays, so it does make sense.

Great Picks! I built a Legolas deck. I usually play at higher power tables and it does win, but not more than its share. It is always fun to play and very interactive. You are doing lots of stuff every game. Play more ramp than you might expect, as you will likely be casting Legolas from the command zone 2-3 times per game even with a decent protection plan.

Moira & Tesshar synergy really well with abdel adrian to blink all of them, then you can blink abdel if you want to countinue using him. I usually play Moira & Tesshar as combo deck that only cast them when you ready to go infinite.

Dang, Moira and Teshar is sweet! Thanks for finding some hidden gems 💎

My favorite commander of 2023 has been Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink. Can create explosive turns that end the game out of nowhere with a haste enabler and no one really respects his ability compared to most other commanders you’ll run into. Plus I love that the deck just plays all my favorite etb creatures and doesn’t rely exclusively on Orthion, the commander just serves as an accelerant.

Ioreth of the Healing House has less than 90 decks on EDHrec. Turns out that untapping 2 legendary creatures from the command zone can be pretty busted... Also, Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar. Having immunity from spells on your turn leads to wins out of nowhere. Plus, drawing up 3 cards extra per turn is a extra bonus in Selesnya.

A nice tech I have for anim is dragon throne of Tarkir.

The Legolas idea sounds super cool. Is this a deck that you built and have a list for?

I have both an Anim and Inti deck. Both are super powerful. I actually put Inti into all my decks with red in them. He just does it all. Card advantage and gives a bump in power and trample. Beautiful.

Cool video. I enjoyed it.

Gylwain is very strong if built correctly, it supports both the go wide and voltron separately or together, Anim Pakal was by far my favorite deck to built in 2023. it is very fun.

My main is Edgar Markov, so I DEFINITELY know something about underrated commanders... (But actually, my back-up is Pirate tribal Pirate Ship haha)

Treebeard and Legolas are my two favorite decks now!

Gylwain is quite surprising considering he was the secondary commander of a pretty strong precon. So strong most of the recomendations already come in the deck

I literally made my Inti deck yesterday! You can’t just give away my janky budget commanders like this!

I’m a huge fan of jerren, corrupted bishop. It’s not super great, but if you flip it the coolness factor to my Johnny brain is almost better than winning

Anim Pakal is the commander of my Brawl deck on Arena. The deck goes fast and is great for a one on one format. I can see it drawing a lot of hate in a multiplayer game though.

The first time I played gylwain I told my opponents that I thought it was pretty strong, one of my opponents pulls out an un upgraded precon, I guess he wasn’t listening, after I won that player was like oh that commander is pretty busted, and I was like I told you it was lol

Would love to see your take on gylwain

Plargg and Nassari is an underrated commander because people see the drawback and say it's too much. However, you can play spells that benefit a single player slightly like demonstrate cards or humble defector to bargain/politic with a player to let you choose which spells you get to cast for free. OG Etali relies on combat and can whiff on lands and hard to have other mana up for trigger copying effects but with plargg and nassari you can play your lithoform engine or strionic resonator before playing your commander and you will have mana to activate them when P&N triggers.

Gylwain has been an all star in the 99 in my Yoshimaru legends deck. Giving every creature ward 1 off the royal role may not seem like much, but its just so annoying for everyone at the table that often my creatures get away with it.

I generally underestimate most Aura commanders unless I expect a combo. The exception being Eriette because she doesn’t have the standard weakness where opponents can use one removal spell to address two or more of your spells. I do not consider a Commander like Light Paws to be relevant to this type of discussion either as those Tutor/Aura Commanders only do one thing… they play like Krenko. There is no overestimating or underestimating because they do precisely what you expect them to do.

Anim has been showing up at tables at every shop I’ve gone too

Inti is mono red greatness

11:55 Isn't Gandalf the White an ETB trigger doubler, while Moira triggers on casts so you don't get double reanimation?

(says he won't say what happened in the Commander Clash with Inti) (immediately shows some certain cards that may have had an impact in said Commander Clash) Haha in any case it was a great showcase for Inti. All of these seem fun, except for playing Legolas like that (still fun for you, depends how the other players are able to handle it)

I put extruder in my anim deck. Sac all the gnomes and if she's unblocked theyll be taking some big damage

I personally love totentanz as an aristocrats commander. So much Rakdos ping. Or it could be built with a much heavier focus on rats.

Tomer, what kit is that?

The problem with Moira and Tesharnis that you exile what you reanimate compared to Henzie who just sacrifices

Only one I've built is a Duggin maro tribal. Just play 4 mana 7/7s that get bigger as you draw more and more cards.

Sick frame.

list for that Gargos deck??

You said anim pakal so i gave the like 😎

Everyone gets annoyed with Moira and Teshar because everything just refuses to die. I know this because I am often told this when I play them 😅

As a fellow Kaldra enthusiastic. In which commander deck would you add the shield, sword and helmet?

These are great, thanks Tomer. Worth mentioning that 4/5 of these commanders were released in the second half-closer to the end of it- of 2023, so that probably plays a role but some definitely got extremely overshadowed by some of the other commanders released in their respective sets. 1-Legolas-I fully hear you on the Gargos comparison. I wanted to buld a Gargos deck but wasn't sure about it. The fact that Legolas goes tall rather than wide is also interesting. 2-Gylwain-Definitely sounds like a fun Selesnya creatures matter deck. Mine atm is Hamza with +1/+1 counters but have to look into this one as well since auras can be more flexible. 3-Anim Pakal-Gives me similar vibes to my Otharri deck atm, but definitely can be more explosive but a bit less resillient at the same time. Will give it a crack though so I can have a list for it. 4-Teshar and Moira-I've thought about building this duo since I don't own an Orzhov deck atm, and while my Gandalf the White deck scratches my historic itch, this one also being a reanimator deck is exciting. I saw a gameplay video on Muddstah's channel and it ABUSED Archon of Cruelty like no other... 5-Inti-Seems too glass cannon-y for me. One that goes off if it can spin the wheels, but also might end up sitting there in topdeck mode doing not much tbh so I might stay away from this one. Great in the 99 of some decks though!

The baulrog during s bane . Sooo underated!and I absolutely hate rakdos colour!!!I build it with zero staples so no ring no signet chaos warp eccetra. Of course I did put sacrifice staples all removals and ramps are very unconventional and it s still kicking ass! The baulrog people!

Gylwain is soooooo good I love him so much. Way better than people give him credit for

great picks, but I don't love that all of these are in the "my deck does nothing if my commander isn't on the field" category

Tomer don’t miss, he don’t miss.

Love me an understate l underrated commander

Commander Neyali; Anim Pakal + Anduril = More, and more powerfull tokens.

I run Inti in the 99 of my Laelia for the exile and for the giving trample/evasion for Laelia. Make her bigger and getting thru easier

If you ever run sundial have fun abusing land etbs. I love playing a bounce land with no costs, other than playing the land at end of turn.

Correction: Moira and Teshar were released in March of the Machine Commander, not All Will Be One

Anim Pakal might be the most underrated card of 2023.

Is it truly the most underrated commander video if the comment suggesting it is the highest rated one?

Anim Pakal is just bad Otharri which is actually the most underrated commander of the year

My favorite is Alela, Cunning Conquerer

I was the 397th like, so close...

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This guy sounds like kermit the frog

I love watching Tomer talk about magic ✨🥰✨ He has such a cute mouth 👄

Legolas and his play patterns are awful. One mana fight spells, one mana protection spells. Nobody has a board and you just sit there. Absolutely miserable