I think people assume that since it says 3 colored mana symbols and gives up to 3 mana of those colors that the cards just have to be 3-colored. I actually kinda wanna build some strange 5 color "3 mana pip tribal". Only downside is if I dont have my commander out, the strain on my mana base is gonna be brutal.
@@primykins106 yeah I built a deck with ratadrabik and djeru and hazoret and needed another way aside from relic of legends to ramp. I realized if I managed to get omnath onto the field with hazoret or just normally, I could essentially play whatever I wanted the turns after. Assuming of course, I didn't end up playing my and my opponents entire deck with etali triggers lol
What's interesting about Omnath is that despite how the card reads I think you just need 3 pips in the spells mana cost; not necessarily three different coloured pips.
Small bonus for Omnath, he has a pretty nice extra use for Historic Brawl in arena, because he is a 5 color phyrexian in a format where Morphon does not exist. So if you want to do some tribal, having a commander that pretty much has the text of "Draw 1 more card per turn." is pretty nice! Also, the mana keeping can be pretty helpful in that kind of deck when you want to cast things like the 9 mana "Portal to Phyrexia" and expensive preators.
Another thing that you should know about the new Etali is that tokens are allowed to transform now. That means that with Helm of the Host, you’re able to get multiple copies of its backside at a time. Super cool
Were tokens not always able to transform? I would think the only hiccups are when you have a token copy of a Kamigawa saga that exiles and then poofs, because token.
@@PolarBear0 they’d be stuck on the same side. Like if you make a token copy of a werewolf on its back side and it turned to day the token would stay the same. Rule on it barely changed a bit ago
Dude I love how well that blooper reel comes across. It's really nice to see you're still humble and can laugh at yourself and just keep things moving as usual.
the new heliod is already proving to be super super powerful in CEDH so far, usually can win the turn it flips and brings a new strategy of UW manual storm which is cool
I kind of agree with the Yargle/Multani ranking. There are so many incentives to run a creature with 18 power, even if it is vanilla. And the addition of green makes it so much better and adds so much more power. I definitely wanna explore building something around them.
I really like Thalia and the Gitrog Monster. This one seems to be really powerful, but you do have to keep in mind that people don't like their stuff coming into play tapped.
@@daverichards9141 Not that bad. 🙂 It was annoying to them at first. To be honest, the biggest part of the strategy is go get fetch lands into your graveyard so you can use some of the affects that allow you to play them out of your graveyard. That with multiple land drops per turn and all of the fun scute swarm type affects for land drops. It isn't hard to ramp out really quick. Just make sure you get enough card draw to survive.
I’m a big fan of the new Quintorius. He seems super interesting and is the first Boris commander that’s ever caught my eye enough for me to want to build it.
can also go with cards like fear or cover of darkness to give fear. Flathis for deathtouch + menace. Got rogue's passage, and prowler's helm for unblockable. Got glaring spotlight for hexproof + unblockable (plus can target hexproof for your black removal until you wanna use it). So many good options for yargle and multani shenanigans lol probably a pretty fun and cheap commander deck to throw together and bash people with.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with this set, it made me think of making theme decks like all my cards have to have the word creature on it for my new etali primal conqueror deck, thanks for doing this fun video!
Honesty Heliod, radiant dawn sounds like a fun commander. Playing your strategy at a permanent discount of at least 1 on your opponents turn, at instant speed? Table wheeling discounting your spells by 21? Who needs omniscience at that rate? Or heck, play it or One with the Multiverse off the huge discount for huge value!
Yargle is one of my favorite decks for the fun, so when this version came out, I had to alter mine into a golgari as soon as this set came out. I agree with prof here. Such a great pick!
The ultimate flavor win this set is Goro-Goro and Satoru. Not only is it super fun to say, it is also the perfect blend between Goblin aggression and Ninja tactics. I built a deck around them with the sole purpose of summoning a bunch of hasted goblins to overwhelm others defenses, summoning dragons, and then using that overwhelming army to use ninjitsu, summoning dragons, and letting me swap between tribals at my leisure in one deck so smoothly. I also realized you can use extra combats to make the dragon spirits you create help you create more dragon spirits. So many ways to build them.
From prerelease and 1 collector booster (normally buy singles, but I won an award and wanted to treat myself), I already have 3 of your top 5! Very excited to try them out in games :)
Thank you Prof, thank you so much. I've been defending Yargletani as one of the most fun legends to build around. I would have mentioned Indomitable Might as well that allows you to one-shot anyone with the Frog. I look forward to seeing your budget build!
Hey Prof, Yargle seems really fun, just imagining the face of my friends when I cast a 18 power commander at turn 3 or 4 and wandering who among them will the one picked to be demolished by him brings a smile to my face! 😄
There are four new commanders that in my opinion, stand over the rest and in fact will be played even in cEDH: Thalia and Gitrog, Kroxa and Kunoros, Shalai and Hallar, and Rona, herald of invasion. The first one is an excellent stax commander and perfect for a Protean Hulk wincon, and the other three have good one card combos and are in great color combinations. Anyway, there are so many new great commanders any top 5 list has a really good point. Nice video prof!
Hey prof, yes I do keep a bunch of cards to move between decks, but I go a step further. I'm a sucker for commanders that have the word "token" on them, and I tended to make GX decks with about 20-30 slots never really changing. How many doubling seasons should I own, right? Anyway, my solution was to build 4 different GX decks with different plans but similar techs. I have a stack of common (core) cards, then 4 piles (Trostani, Adrix & Nev, omnath and Beledros) with just their respective identities. Changing decks is simple: remove all monogreen and colorless spells, as well as the lands (forests, utilities with monogreen costs, command tower etc) and shuffle them into a different stack. The 4 piles plus core pile fit in a fat pack. All were sleeved the same too
Loved the intro 😂 I have a love for Borborygmos and Fblthp. Borborygmos showed me that I will always enjoy gruul when i first saw him when I started back in gatecrash. Boi has two eyes and a new friend now, unstoppable hahaha
Yargtani is absolutely nuts. I brewed a version that focused just on the free 18 power and getting value out of that, and the sheer value you get is crazy. I played against a friend that had a similar brew and he just ran away with the game once he got it out. I only won because of some nonsense I happened to draw into. However, I'm most excited about making this Omnath Lucky Charms deck, it sounds like a ton of fun! I'm gonna brew that today!
Absolutely agree with number 1. I was initially building a Yargle deck as a meme deck when Yargle/Multani got spoiled. Between the flavor of their combination, the power, and I get to splash green to a supposedly Mono Black deck, my heart was immediately set in building this. Green giving access to things that can give Multani/Yargle trample, hexproof and double power makes it incredibly potent. Add in the ramp and the fact that I can mutate it too, my deck performs surprisingly well in a balanced mid power table. Being able to play him with Jarad and Ruxa are just sweet add-ons to how the deck can kill players. Adding in a Hardy Outlander+targeting another creature with Soul's Might means you can give another creature the same player killing potential as Yargle too. It's really fun and absolutely fits my playstyle in EDH: The best removal is player removal
While it’s almost certainly not the best, Rashmi and Ragavan has my pick for the commander I’d like to try out the most. It seems like a great value card that brings in a lot of treasure, and the bonus of stealing cards off the top of your opponent’s deck. And it does it in a newer way - not the Ragavan way, but the Rashmi and Ragavan way. You bet I’m gonna build around it.
Love the new Heliod. Play diminishing returns, find prosperity, play prosperity with x=21, draw 21 cards and have a 84 mana discount. Maybe even at opponents beginning of discard step?
Fun fact about Urabrask and The Great Work, act 3 of the Saga is casting from ANY graveyard. And was a spicy addition in my Quintorius, Loremaster deck ;) .
I built an Etali historic brawl deck on Arena yesterday and it's been performing really well. I don't know if this is a solved strategy or what but the way I've built it is with a lot of lands, ramp spells, and bombs. The idea is that the high land count (49) keeps our mana consistent while diminishing the number of spell slots that would otherwise be cheap good- stuff type cards (faithless looting, Mishra's Bauble, Once Upon a Time, etc) that we don't want to hit off Etali. If Etali comes down we want him to give us either a bomb (eldrazi, portal to Phyrexia, that kind of thing) or ramp to play those bombs/flip Etali/replay Etali, because you can bet killing him is a high priority for the opponent lest he flip and infect them out in a single swing. Basically our game plan is get to Etali ASAP and make sure every hit is good, if we can do both of those we're golden, and if you build it right you can more often than not.
Fun fact about making tokens of Etali (and other flip cards) they are now able to transform just like their regular version. wotc changed the rules with this set to accommodate incubate tokens. Basically the way it works is if the token comes in as a copy a double faced card then it too is a double faced card. This means if you Kiki Jiki for example a non-legendary werewolf it can transform to its front or backside. This new rule does not work with clones though as the clone is physically a one sided card. It also doesn't work with the embalm half of Vizier of Many Faces because ironically enough the embalm is a copy of the Vizier itself who in fact only has one face. Likewise if you use that clone sword from ONE to turn your rebel token into a transformable card you wont be able to because the token was already a front only card. It's kind of confusing but basically if a token is created AS a double faced card then it is a double faced card There is another trick with that blue sword I mentioned and transformable cards but mtggoldfish made a short video explaining it so go watch that
My friends and I do a budget commander game for each new set and I claimed Yargle and Multani so fast you have no idea. Not only do I love voltron, but i've named the deck "aura bomb" because the idea of pumping up this already giant creature and throwing it quite literally at people was hilarious. A surprisingly versatile build for a vanilla creature. I'm planning on keeping it in my regular deck rotation with maybe some upgrades, but frankly it doesn't need a lot of fancy expensive stuff to be good!
At first I thought you would say either Slimefoot/Squee or Thalia/Gitrog would be the number one, but when you mentioned Yargle/Multani.....I just knew you were 100% correct. Remember folks, Commander is an artistic format and whats more artistic than memes? thats right, Pepe the Spirit frog swinging for 18 minimum.....or more?
It's an important note that Omnath doesn't say it has to be different colors of mana. You could hypotetically reveal a mono or 2 color spell with a lot of pips and get the mana from Omnath.
Yargle and Multani is headed straight into the 99 of my Tatsunari, Toad Rider. Though I do have to wonder what Multani is contributing (aside from helping Yargle digest all the glistening oil he ate).
Professor, I believe you got it right. Yargle and Multani is one of the best Voltron commanders available. I went artifact heavy. Yargle and Multani had a Colossal Hammer, a Sword of Feast and Famine, a Sword of Forge and Frontier, a Sword of Hearth and Home, a Sword of Once and Future, and Lightning Greaves while swinging for lethal. Good times.
Fun little card a lot of people miss from Shadowmoor for the Yarg-tani deck: Rite of Consumption. It's Fling in Black! Plus, it trades instant speed for pseudo lifelink.
I've been brewing yargle and multani. The goldfish play testing is INSANE. For very little work you can swing wide for over 80 trample damage. You can draw 40 cards in a turn. You can buff the commander to 42 power and fling it with Jarad.
Love what you do I just have to say it: I found funny that just starting the video you changed urabrask and Vorinclex positions when they turned to their sagas sides Keep on making lots of videos with such great content as you do~
Professor, your videos are the best at keeping me caught up with the newest Magic since I don’t have time to buy and research myself since becoming a father . You’re fantastic!
A lot of good picks; #1 and #3 especially seem like really fun options. Zimone and Dina were the commander I was looking forward to the most after your #1 pick. This set does have a lot of fun commanders, but also some really nutty power creep. Thankfully I only play Kitchen table so I don't have much to worry about.
One thing people seem to keep missing about new Omnath is it doesn't have to be three different colours on the revealed card to proc the ability. Just three pips.
I kinda love, that you laid out your Etali-section to be pretty much the deck I've already written up. Named "Gruul Blink" with a backup win-con of infecting people out of the game, I can't wait to get all the cards & start playing around with it!
I've been seeing a lot of brews the last few weeks and the commander that seems to have the most potential is Shalai and Hallar. Yes it is from the commander precons but it has so much versatility with being 3 colors and is a one card combo out of the command zone with several other cards. With a single well timed Eladamri's Call/Worldly Tutor in the end step you can find The Red Terror or Heliod, Sun-Crowned and win the game on your next turn. Don't sleep on this commander and keep interaction up if it is in your pod. If you don't you'll regret it.
Nah Prof, I’m right there with you in terms of being excited for Yargle and Multani. You bet your ass I’m now exceedingly hyped to see your budget deck tech on them.
Something not really relevant to the Professor’s analysis but good to know: Kroxa and Kunoros have a 1 card combo that can easily translate into a game win, and are even cEDH viable. I made a cEDH deck of them the moment someone told me about the combo and I am so happy I did
I would say that Yargle and Multani is a meme, but I have played with someone who runs that deck and it is one of the most fun decks to play against, I just have no idea what this guy will do and its always a delight to see him run that deck.
My favorite thing to do with Etali is Food Chain. Fill your deck with creatures that you can exile to help pay commander tax, then exile and cast Etali over and over again to nigh-on cast your opponents' entire decks.
slimefoot and squee is now my favorite commander. I have fallen deeply in love with this commander because of how easy and fun it is to combo with them! Like I have found at LEAST 6 combos with those commander and the first game I played with friends(we all agreeded to play average edhrec lists of commanders) I accidentally comboed out and one the game! It's just fun graveyard shenanigans that is very simmular to a goblin combo you can find in pauper, which you can also play a more consistent version of it in this deck!!!!
I actually did expect Yargle as a likely possibility. It's such a crazy and unique commander. I don't know that it's actually the best from the set, but if you exclude cEDH completely, this will be a scary commander and you highlight a lot of good reasons why
I agree with you on Yargle and Multani. My reasoning was that it's possibly one of the best "new to commander" commanders available. Not only is it not complicated for new players, but it also is quite viable for a win - which is very encouraging for new players. It also won't be prohibitively expensive, so that really makes it a ton of value.
I feel like the praetors are actually in their base forms with the new set, and the Sagas are them going to their more elevated forms we've seen previously. I feel their versions in All Will Be One are the pinnacle of their powers, both from a flavor and gameplay perspective. So many fun commander cards though, for sure. Omnath, Inga & Esika, both will be great for new and interesting decks. My personal favorite.... it'd be Drana & Linvala for sure, with Rona, Herald of Invasion being a close 2nd place.
Recently got some March of the Machine draft boxes with my bro-n-law and I pulled a new art illustration for Niv-Mizzet. Love me some dragons and finally getting a 5 color legend like that, considering making him a new Commander for myself 🤓
My Top 5 Commanders, along with 5 Honorable Mentions in March of the Machines set: Top 5 1. Elenda and Azor 2. Thalia and the Gitrog Monster 3. Shalai and Hallar 4. Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis 5. Zimone and Dina Honorable Mentions (5) - Rashmi and Ragavan - Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings - Saint Thraft and Rem Karolus - Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse - Errant and Giada
Collector and Commander Player. I need two of each of the new Praetors to go with the others. Displaying both sides in the binder with the other "named" variants is going to be awesome.
