MTG Top 10: Grixis | The BEST Color Combination?

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  • @ElPanadero18
    @ElPanadero18 10 місяців тому +82

    Thank you for saying things like “That makes it the only card from the 2020 list to move up.” Those little stat tidbits are really fun.

    • @GonzoEDH
      @GonzoEDH 10 місяців тому +2

      fun & useful. You can really see what makes cards good or even somewhat powerkreep resistant

  • @lanychabot-laroche135
    @lanychabot-laroche135 10 місяців тому +23

    I love cards like Corpse Appraiser. It doesn't do anything broken, but it's just great value that helps you win.
    It doesn't make you go "Oh shit, I need to deal with this ASAP", but it still easily pulls its weight in a more subtle way.

    • @luisgutierrez8047
      @luisgutierrez8047 9 місяців тому +1

      Ye thats A LOT OF VALUE! load up graveyard, card selection/advantage, and adding to board

  • @christopherb501
    @christopherb501 10 місяців тому +18

    "It's beginning, to look a lot, like GRIX-is, 🎶..."

  • @fallacyinc2215
    @fallacyinc2215 10 місяців тому +8

    I started playing magic in college when Gatecrash came out, and spent like $700 (from my student loan refund, cus I was a fiscally responsible 19 year old) building what was at the time a dominant, top tier "Junk Rites" Abzan reanimator deck in standard. Had a ton of fun, placed highly in, and even won, a few FNMs, which felt great as a new player. Then my buddy built a much "lower tier" Grixis Control deck.
    Every single time I played him he would just go "Uhhh, Slaughter Games your Unburial Rites." *scoop*
    I've never stopped hating Grixis Control since.

  • @blacklancejeo6625
    @blacklancejeo6625 10 місяців тому +4

    Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God was such a beast in limited, one of my opponents just scoop up when when he sees the Planeswalker deployed

    • @EmperorNapoleon1815
      @EmperorNapoleon1815 10 місяців тому +4

      Crazily enough, he’s actually a beast elsewhere. The control list I run in Modern utilizes Bolas, and it is very rare I lose a game after he hits the board.

  • @arashabdullahdawudcharlton5548
    @arashabdullahdawudcharlton5548 9 місяців тому +2

    One of the absalute funnest channels to watch. I watch all your list just wanted to shout out "great job"

  • @SGTSALEM
    @SGTSALEM 10 місяців тому +13

    I love the 3 color combination videos but I would love to Abzan next but I know you are doing shards first, wedges got a decent amount of support in Ikoria and March of the machine

    • @DNGNDriver
      @DNGNDriver 10 місяців тому +2

      "Number 2: Siege Rhino"
      "Number 1: The Second Siege Rhino"

    • @SGTSALEM
      @SGTSALEM 10 місяців тому +1

      @DNGNDriver Siege Rhino is great it does work phenomenally with flicker effects and that 6 point life swing is no joke

  • @marsgreekgod
    @marsgreekgod 10 місяців тому +16

    Top ten sideboard?

    • @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor
      @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor 10 місяців тому +5

      Unironically one of the best suggestions I've ever seen!

    • @zenqqa
      @zenqqa 10 місяців тому +4

      I agree great suggestion.

  • @glubstubs
    @glubstubs 10 місяців тому +58

    God i love grixis. On another note, i hate grixis!

    • @spiderden666
      @spiderden666 10 місяців тому +2

      The duality of grixis

    • @Sandovian
      @Sandovian 10 місяців тому +1

      *chuckles*

    • @AArdW01f
      @AArdW01f 10 місяців тому

      That's the thing about loving grixis. It's like being a Mets fan.

  • @jdorffer
    @jdorffer 10 місяців тому +5

    Grixis is my favorite color combo, kess, dissident mage is my main commander

  • @omeletplayz2731
    @omeletplayz2731 10 місяців тому +5

    Theres nothing you can do to a grixis player that they haven't already done to themselves

  • @MagusFlorren
    @MagusFlorren 10 місяців тому +7

    I find it so amusing that nearly every card in this list is some unfathomable, god-like villain.
    But the #1 spot is an unassuming little 3/3 uncommon 😂

    • @omeletplayz2731
      @omeletplayz2731 10 місяців тому +1

      Corpse appraiser is just a nice card

  • @milesrinesmith141
    @milesrinesmith141 10 місяців тому +2

    Love Grixis I have 3 or more Grixis commander decks. And Grixis is my go to on arena.

  • @Michael-ft5bm
    @Michael-ft5bm 10 місяців тому +3

    Nicol Bolas, Dragon God is such a good card. I got my play set when it was up to $10 a piece (sad I know) because I knew it was going to be broken at some point. Then they brought phyrexia back, and with it the proliferate mechanic. What a mistake that was.

  • @tamarap13
    @tamarap13 10 місяців тому +3

    Crosis' design is... interesting. 🤭

  • @jackiespaceman
    @jackiespaceman 10 місяців тому +1

    Esper used to be my favorite shard but my grixis deck has been so good in standard for the past few years I’ve come around to it

  • @BobardeZanzibar
    @BobardeZanzibar 10 місяців тому +27

    Grixis control: when you want to work twice as hard to be 80% as good as UW control.

    • @littlegeek5159
      @littlegeek5159 10 місяців тому +9

      On the other hand, you get Thoughtseize to give said UW mages fits.

    • @mantissaPuc
      @mantissaPuc 10 місяців тому +10

      ... But you have triple the fun 😉

    • @SiegfriedDrachentoeter
      @SiegfriedDrachentoeter 10 місяців тому +4

      ​@@littlegeek5159At that point just play Esper. Imo the best control colors.

    • @EmperorNapoleon1815
      @EmperorNapoleon1815 10 місяців тому +7

      I play Grixis for Snappy/Kolaghan’s Command. Far too enjoyable.

    • @milesrinesmith141
      @milesrinesmith141 10 місяців тому +3

      ​@@SiegfriedDrachentoeterEsper is for people who want it on easy. Grixis challenges you.

  • @Ratchetfan321
    @Ratchetfan321 10 місяців тому +2

    Grixis or esper is my favorite shard perhaps my favorite 3 color combo in general.

  • @RibusPQR
    @RibusPQR 10 місяців тому

    Rise is like Unsummon plus Animate Dead, and Fall is like Hymm to Tourach. A real throwback

  • @ceulgai2817
    @ceulgai2817 10 місяців тому

    I appreciate this video for showing me my Bolas typal EDH deck won't be too expensive to nab in paper

  • @RibusPQR
    @RibusPQR 10 місяців тому +4

    I remember there was a way to equip Nicol Bolas to a Nicol Bolas, but I don't remember how.

    • @Valerie-nm1gr
      @Valerie-nm1gr 9 місяців тому +4

      Have a Bolas creature and Bolas planeswalker in play. Turn Bolas planeswalker into an artifact with Liquimetal Torque. Play Bludgeon Brawl. Bolas planeswalker artifact is now also an Equipment. So you can equip him to the Bolas creature.

    • @RibusPQR
      @RibusPQR 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Valerie-nm1grAh, thank you.

  • @manhattanblockade8544
    @manhattanblockade8544 10 місяців тому +2

    Crimm has entered chat

  • @bobfranklin2572
    @bobfranklin2572 10 місяців тому +1

    I dont think I've EVER seen a bladecoul serpent on arena

  • @wudgethenumbers
    @wudgethenumbers 10 місяців тому

    Grixis decks and therefore Appraiser took a big hit with the Fable ban, but it’s possible that the Cavern reprint could make a multicolor vampire deck that wants him for graveyard hate viable somewhere.

  • @Sanbaddy
    @Sanbaddy Місяць тому

    Grixis, the best color combo for winning the way your opponent can never predict, through chaos.

  • @darthparallax5207
    @darthparallax5207 10 місяців тому +2

    Cruel Ultimatum and Dragon-God are the two best. Not really close.

    • @superbaas8822
      @superbaas8822 10 місяців тому

      Except for all the cards that beat both. This list is based on objective performance, not opinion.
      Sorry to say it, both cards were heavily outperformed, including by an uncommon of all things.

  • @Yan-my7es
    @Yan-my7es 13 днів тому

    Hey what's the outro song? Most accurate I can find is Lars Günther - Silence, but I don't feel like it's it.

  • @discocrisco
    @discocrisco 10 місяців тому +2

    Top 10 shards?

  • @TheFallenA
    @TheFallenA 10 місяців тому

    Can you make a BUG (sultai) video? 🙏🏻💯

  • @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor
    @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor 10 місяців тому +3

    Ahhh Grixis, this is one of the few 3 colours I've played a lot of, thanks to my Sengir tribal which uses the Partner Sengir and that UR Partner, but mostly for my Nicol Bolas tribal, which, as I'm sure you can tell, is made up of every Nicol Bolas related card.

  • @robinwiemert8564
    @robinwiemert8564 10 місяців тому +1

    The best color combination is 5colour Simic!

  • @Polyphemus89
    @Polyphemus89 10 місяців тому

    Man I loved my old Nekusar deck, I had been tweaking it for years but somebody broke into my car and stole it, so that was a few grand down the drain… I might argue Esper is better at pure control but it’s close

  • @gigawarman12
    @gigawarman12 10 місяців тому +5

    seeing universes beyond cards be able to make these list is upsetting. I get there's no getting around empirical data, but WotC is really fucking around with something they shouldn't

    • @Reluxthelegend
      @Reluxthelegend 10 місяців тому +3

      expect a lot more of these, IP holders won't want to have their cards to be flops when making deals with WotC. UB being strong is intentional.

    • @stigmaoftherose
      @stigmaoftherose 10 місяців тому +1

      @Reluxthelegend the fact we nearly got more UB cards than actual magic cards this past year is the real issue.

  • @ApexZer0
    @ApexZer0 10 місяців тому

    Top ten bolas cards

  • @User_Fri3ndly
    @User_Fri3ndly 10 місяців тому +1

    Nicky B God variant won't get more points in pioneer in mono G devotion deck coz Karn bited the dust 😂

  • @michaelcollins4534
    @michaelcollins4534 10 місяців тому

    Bolas is so goated

  • @PokeBattlerJaze
    @PokeBattlerJaze 10 місяців тому +1

    Nicol Bolas, Dragon God?
    Edit:
    Huh, would have never guessed.

  • @markemmanuelquina3851
    @markemmanuelquina3851 9 місяців тому

    Esper is. Grixis has no uncounterable boardwipe and life gain.

    • @drainfafnir4465
      @drainfafnir4465 2 місяці тому

      I’ll rejoice when they print a Grixis supreme verdict.

  • @ItsDangerousGoAlone
    @ItsDangerousGoAlone 10 місяців тому +2

    Top cards are always mistake vintage cards, or something in the last two years. Power creep taking this game so bad.

    • @darthparallax5207
      @darthparallax5207 10 місяців тому +1

      Not really. Cruel Ultimatum and Corpse Appraiser make this list. Nizza's method of appraisal skews towards showing what Standard cards are mildly playable in Commander.
      The Vintage stuff coming out on top proves that power creep just can't hold back old cards.
      If he did two videos for each one video he did, comparing side by side "counting Commander" and "not counting Commander", then for example in this video Nekusar would be #1 and honestly probably Crosis would be very close to the top for being on colors and a Dragon.
      But Prince of Thralls, Sedris the Traitor King or Thraximundar would have shown up too, plus, outside of Shards of Alara, not Kess but that other Vampire in Grixis from same year as Nekusar.
      And the other Commanders in Grixis like Davros and Saruman.
      The power creep would not be the main explanation because the Commander being almost a separate deck would warp the stats outside the 99. You'd just see 10 legendary creatures because they allow the colors to be played.
      Oh and various Mishras which would benefit from popularity beyond their power level due to such deep cut on the Lore.
      I'm trying to remember what the Grixis deck had the year Lord Windgrace dropped.
      Top 10 Lists are never objective from anyone they just highlight focuses on subsets of cards people are ignoring.
      To get a feel of where the state of power creep actually is check which cards are banned from the most formats and get banned the quickest.
      Which cards were considered safe for Standard or Pioneer or Commander (beginner formats) so they saw print--- but tore up at least 2 eternal formats and were a mistake for the format they were intended to fit in.
      Skullclamp is a great example of power creep, more than anything simply because it is colorless instead of requiring commitment to Black which would have been less aggressive vs the previous precedent of years of design associating sac outlets with Black more often than not. (Altar of Dementia was I think a Tempest design, and Phyrexian Altar Invasion, and first set of block. So it was 2 full blocks before Mirrodin and 2/3 of Invasion block, almost 9 sets with no colorless sac outlet. And P Altar was a 3 cast Skullclamp was a 1 cast.)
      Corpse Appraiser makes Standard run but is 3 to cast not 2 like the Split card at the beginning of the video, and Crosis Charm is probably better in many situations but isn't legal in Standard for sure and I doubt it's legal in Pioneer or Modern to compete.
      So Crosis Charm isn't getting to show its full potential against the field anywhere except Commander.
      Cruel Ultimatum hasn't been powercrept by any Bolas Walker permanent--- but the Bolas Walkers started to do different things playing in the space of control of permanents more.
      Bolas 1.0 is power crept by now but this isn't an issue bc 1.0 was underpowered on release.
      Basically of all the cards in the whole color alignment, a randomly selected player that didn't tell you what they were building except color--- it would be a good guess to assume they may want Cruel Ultimatum.
      So it gets lots of reprints. But no bans.
      Siege Rhino made the world safe from Cruel Ultimatum.
      Thragtusk is Power Creep.
      Siege Rhino is Power Creep.
      Grixis never gets Power Creep on any of its good stuff without them thinking really hard about it.
      They let Cruel Ultimatum blow Crosis the Purger out of the water. That was the last time they were serious about Power Creeping Grixis.
      Sauron they wanted to relive Conflux and make a Boss Monster permanent card so they made sure it was format gatekept to places where Celestial Purge and Rest in Peace are almost not even good enough compared to Leyline Binding. Sauron is splashy but only as serious as Bolas 1.0 for the Modern connoisseurs of Dark Lords.
      Cruel Ultimatum is basically still where it's at, but Bolas Dragon-God is almost convenient for Planeswalkers.
      That's why they won't let Dark Ritual into Modern lol. Among other things. Even if they did Cruel Ultimatum + Ritual probably better than Dragon-God + Ritual.
      Cruel Ultimatum should get hall of famed to permanent Mythic Rarity.
      The non creature spells in these colors are always better, and usually the 3 Guilds separately play way better than the cards that are 3 colors.
      I say this as someone who keeps trying to force Bolas 1.0 and Sauron and I *always* lose to spot removal or counterspell or just about anything that costs 2 mana.
      Cavern of Souls is TRUE power creep. But that was 10 years ago. They're not creeping that.

  • @heath1948
    @heath1948 10 місяців тому

    I get Commander isn't a quote tournament format. But you should take it into account more than just mentioning how many Commander decks run said card

    • @NizzahonMagic
      @NizzahonMagic  10 місяців тому +2

      The problem is that most of my Top 10s are about the history of competitive Magic. I only provide the number of EDHRec decks as a little piece of extra information, just like the price. It has nothing to do with how this video is measured and it never will, unless it becomes a premier format.
      When people bring this up, I often say it is like going to a Chinese food restaurant and ordering lasagna.

  • @Sulmor85
    @Sulmor85 10 місяців тому

    Nico Bolas Dragon God is the card that made me quit the game

  • @jonbaird8835
    @jonbaird8835 10 місяців тому

    I honestly dont know why there are even 5 colors anymore. Green and white are soooooo bad compared