I liked and subscribed, keep the unpopular commander theme, If you run out of ideas make a video each time how you would build/decklist of that particular commander. You are doing something not many other channels do, you found your niche my friend.😀
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it! I’m glad you enjoyed the video and the theme. It’s super fun highlighting unpopular commanders, I think it’s something I’ll continue to focus on moving forward 🙌
Love your stuff. Don’t put too much pressure on your content so you don’t burnout cuz you’ve become my “go to guy” for unique commanders after I saw your deck idea for Doc Aurlock. I want to keep seeing your other thoughts on under appreciated commanders for a long time! Everyone is here because we align with your love of unpopular commanders and strategies and unique ideas. Also your tips/ideas throughout the video are super helpful too. Keep it coming!!!
Thanks for the kind words, it means a lot! I’ve always loved unpopular commanders and strategies, so I’m glad that it can resonate with others. I’m excited to keep sharing content and ideas that I love!
Love the unpopular commander videos! Would love to see more Also, I am a proud owner of one of the 96 Jem Lightfoote decks and it's a very fun control/draw synergy set up, it's a bit stax heavy though so doesn't sound like your cup of tea
Love to hear it, thank you! And while I don’t necessarily play stax myself, I do respect it when I see one successfully executed, and Jem seems like a good commander for it! Do you have any top performers in the deck?
@Unpopularmtg the deck plays a few rule of law effects and breaks parity though playing a spell on each opponents turn, I only pull it out in sweaty/consenting high powered pods as it hoses a lot of common value engines
That does seem perfect for rule of law effects. And its refreshing in my opinion to hear an unpopular and uncommon commander being used mostly in high power settings. A lot of comments mention how their decks built around unpopular commanders are usually lower powered
Unpopular commanders are definitely my bread and butter so this type of content is refreshing. That being said, I cannot justify, under any circumstance, any reason to build Niabmi 😅
@Unpopularmtg Hakim, Loreweaver would probably take that honor. He's very unassuming but idk how many commanders can equip themselves with Eldrazi Conscription the turn after they come in 😅
I really like the unpopular commander videos, im new to magic the gathering and wanna kinda challenge myself to see if I can make unique but viable decks so your videos have been a great place for me to scout for fun/unique commanders and cards.
That’s awesome to hear, welcome to the MTG community and the channel! I think the challenge makes deck building for unpopular commanders so much more fun. I have mono color in the works, but I’ll be doing three color commanders after that!
I really appreciate those who take time to build around obscure commanders.. I recently finished a Zirilan of the Claw & Hakim Loreweaver decks that are really unique & unsuspecting builds -keep doing this work -subbed
I liked when you said "let's keep it a secret" for the sphinx while telling everyone. That might be a fun little quip to throw into future videos. I like your unpopular commander content a lot. Keep up the good work!
I know right? Fallout and AC had so many new legendaries that I didn’t keep up with, so I was surprised to see Arthur actually have a great ability and so few decks. If you do build him and have a deck list available, I’d love to see it!
@@Unpopularmtg He would make a perfect Templar Knighs commander, but that kind of deck right now is kinda expensive for $3 per knight and $20 for the necessary Thrummingstone
Thank you! Yeah there are so many assassins creed, fallout and lord of the rings commanders on this list, probably because there are a disproportionate number of legendary creatures released in those sets!
@Unpopularmtg eomer, Marshall of Rohan. It use to be extremely unpopular but I submitted it to a contest for annoying commander's and now it is more pop. Also my Sixth Dr. / Leela is super fun.
Made it to your check point. I’d highly recommend spacing these out into 10 min vids for the algorithm, also having ones that specifically you think can be taken in an interesting or novel way might be helpful rather than just saying hey this guy doesn’t have commanders.
@@Unpopularmtg10m long is one of the main advertising thresholds which is why big channels always release 10-15m videos. Also, viewers with rotted brains may avoid a video much longer. This is a great video man, second I've seen of yours. Really kinda reminds me of some other bigger channels. And you can see the demand from the comments. Def recommend trying splitting them up - wouldn't even hate it or be mad if you re-release this vid in three parts.
Well, you set out to inspire new deck ideas, and you succeeded. Counter of Kills Partner deck! I've been on a huge Rule Zero Commander kick lately, and I think partnering Legolas and Gimli together, literally slapping two opposing 50 card decks into one, would be an amazingly fun time. I could actually set dice on the table to count their kills! No other creatures but their six, three of each. A ton of axes and bows. Scry to support Legolas, and... attack... stuff for Gimli? Whatever, I'll figure him out as I go. Excited. Thank you much, not that I needed new deck ideas, I've got about 40 or 50 deck lists waiting to see the light of day...
On that note, actually, Ith, High Arcanist... Is totally a Rule Zero Commander. "Hey guys, cool if I Suspend him from Command Zone?" "Sure, that's cool. I don't care."
That sounds like an epic deck, please do share a deck list if you end up making it! And I agree, I’ve noticed that people are so much more chill about rule 0 and unconventional decks or ideas than people give credit for!
I think this is a pretty neat video and would absolutely love to see this in mono color. EDIT: Having finished the video I'd had an eye on Elder Lyons for a while now so maybe I should get around to making a deck.
This inspired me to dig around the bottom and I ended up finding colonel autumn, an a kinda cool orzhov legends matters commander all the way down, even bellow desdamona
Here's my memey way to build Niambi that I just came up with, in 8 easy steps: 1. Teferi Timebender is actually in the deck (yea I know, goes against the rules, but bear with me). 2. Run any number of discard outlets. My personal favourite would be Sage of the Falls (or Niambi Esteemed Speaker for flavor). 3. Tutor up On Wings of Gold, the new enchantment from the upcoming aetherdrift esper precon. 4. Run any number of efficient blink effects. 5. Cast Niambi, tutor up Teferi, then discard him. 6. Blink Niambi, return Teferi from the graveyard to your hand. This triggers On Wings of Gold, creating you a zombie. 7. Discard Teferi again, then repeat. 8. Win with an army of flying Zombies, without ever casting Teferi at all.
Haha I love it, I hadn’t seen that card yet, I really enjoy leave the graveyard effects. Do you know if more of those exist in Azorius? And if zombies is the way to go, Geralf the Fleshwright and Poppet Stircher could contribute to the growing army!
@@Unpopularmtg Sadly I only found this one on scryfall. There are a few more that trigger off of creature cards specifically but those obviously would be useless here. I also looked for "cards goes into graveyard" effects and discard payoffs, but not much luck there either.
Love this content! I’ve got an elder arthur maxson deck and it does really well for me. Use a go wide token strat and buff them with attacks and if someone tries to remove arthur then give him indestructible (if appliable). Then once you get a drain effect online like bastion of remembrance or marionette apprentice you have a loaded gun and wait for the right time to pull it while still attacking and lowering life the whole time.
I didn't notice in the short, but Idris could be a decent vehicle voltron commander. She copies abilities, but not the vehicles type, so she doesn't need to be crewed. Copy the Knight Paladin, blink her, return the Knigt and copy it again and you get 12 damage kn each opponent for 6 mana (commander + ghostly flicker or other blinks). I hope your channel can grow more, I appreciate these unpopular videos. They shown some nice cards I would have never seen. 👍🏻
That’s a good point! She doesn’t copy the card itself and thus inherit the subtype, but rather copies the activated and triggered abilities which are usually ETB, attack, or damage triggers for vehicles. Thank you, I appreciate the support and am glad that you’ve been enjoying the videos!
when i saw the ghost council of orzhova recently it clicked in my head that i wanted to build it as a sort of control aristocrats deck that ran boardwipes that made tokens or reanimated creatures. The idea was that id sac them to activate its ability, but also activate the ability before playing a wipe. I havent finished it but its a cool fusion of the two.
I started to brainstorm Idris, Soul of the TARDIS after watching this video, as I completely had missed the card when it released. Unfortunately you don't get the ETB effects from the things you clone, because Idris exiles stuff as an ETB effect and not as replacement effect like clones do, but you get to reuse the ETBs of things you exile. One of the more fun interactions I realized was through Cybership, you "manifest" cards from opponent's deck, but they're artifact creatures, so you can exile them with Idris, and when it leaves the battlefield, the cards return to your control frontside up as long as they're permanent cards, non-permanents just remain in exile.
Fair point, thanks for looking into that more! I was thinking of ideas off the top of my head, but didn’t dig into the legality of it. But the interaction you mentioned seems super fun and gives more ideas into things you can do with Idris!
I saw an article for the archidekt deck building contest , and one of the three featured ecks was a balrog, flame of udun deck with transmogrify effects along with aspiring champion as the only other target. Seems cool way to build
I have a Jem Lightfoote deck, and just making everyone else's turn your turn also is a very fun way to play. For me, anyway; my opponents seem to get tired of hearing "in response..."
@Unpopularmtg there are a lot that make the deck play well and consistently (mana discounts and being able to play off the top of the library) but my favorite splashy swingy fun card to play is for sure Smirking Spelljacker
would u mind doing this in monocolor? im trying to make a monocolor deck for all the colors and im down to just white and green now but i really do not like the popular commanders and i cant figure out what i want to do for those colors.
One I've never seen anyone else use is Runadi, Behemoth caller. Its a great commander and had quite a few synergistic cards. Best part is it gives all your 7 mana+ creatures haste. Very fun!
Here's MY mono color commanders so far just as some suggestions EDIT: I just noticed you said you were down to green and white, lol. I agree those ones are way less interesting. I'm still gonna leave this here but I now know this doesn't really apply to you specifically. I shouldve read more closely. 1. Mono Blue: The Watcher In The Water. This one is fun, love draw-go as a playstyle. You're honestly spoiled for choice with mono blue, it's probably my favorite color combination. Blue + blue is hard to NOT be fun. I also recommend Kaho, Minamo Historian, and if you want something a bit more mainstream, Eluge is really fun. 2. Mono Black: Trazyn the Infinite. Fast combo decks aren't for everyone by any means, but I like how Trazyn has neat utility activated abilities that can regenerate him, make him invincible, or deal ONE damage to a creature, which kills them because Trazyn has deathtouch. Really neat commander. I also recommend Asmodeus, the Archfiend. Pay 4 black mana, draw 7 cards, take 7-8 damage. It's kind of a generic effect but I'm sure there's cool ways you could build it. Maybe a mono-black storm deck. 3. Mono Red: Magda, the Hoardemaster. Not the mainstream, CeDH Magda, mind you. The crime one from Thunder Junction. Making that many treasures is just BUSTED. The idea is to get a 1 mana artifact that can tap to do a crime on turn one, like Scrabbling Claws or Codex Shredder, and Magda on turn 2. Boom. Profit. I can get an Ulamog the Defiler on the field on like, turn 4 on a good day. Mono Red also has Purphoros, Bronze Blooded, Toralf, God of Fury, and Ashling, the Pilgrim, which are all super neat. For mono green, I've been working on a Lumra, Below of the Woods deck that sacrifices lands for a billion landfall triggers. I can't find a single mono white commander I like tho, really really stuck on that one.
One of the Dragonlord Kolaghan decks is mine. It's a dragon saboteur deck built around haste, I don't want to wait a whole turn cycle for Balefire Dragon and Drakuseth to get removed before they actually do something. The second ability is basically flavor text.
I agree, that’s the main issue I have with playing big dragons is they usually need a turn before you can use the effect, and turn yourself into the enemy in the turn cycle before it happens. But with haste, you can usually get through because 1/3 opponents is likely to not have a flying blocker. Are there any top performers in the deck?
I'm workshopping a Storrev deck, edict creatures are a removal engine. Removes blockers for storrev to get em back, I also like a few combat tricks like Cankerous Thirst and Consume Strength for when folks block with a 7/7, which normally seems like a good block. Fun deck focused on creature control
EDHREC is always boring because of the infinite loop buildup: People use EDHREC to find cards for their decks, then upload those decks to Moxfield/Arcidekt, then EDHREC uses those decks to update their lists. Basically, EDHREC is a terrible source for finding out how to build your deck because it's your 'average deck' list. It won't include cool, niche cards for decks because it only shows popular cards. For new players, it's a good starting point. But if you're more experienced only use it for finding niche commanders or getting basic ideas for your new deck. Nothing more. I don't use it at all anymore.
It’s true, I don’t like to use EDHREC because it makes my decks the same as every other deck for that commander. It’s an infinite loop that makes decks generic good stuff that plays well with the commanders but isn’t necessarily fun to play.
Hard disagree! Try using the search filters, then you’ll only see the ‘averages’ of decks that include or exclude the cards you filter for. I’ve had a lot of success starting unique brews this way
I have Dragonlord Kolaghan in my Storm's Fury's 99 as a flavor piece, she's a solid body but I'm sure if any of my friends ever build something like Rats, Apostles, or Hares they'll explode upon seeing her touch the board
Super cool, are there any favorite cards you have in that deck? And yeah if someone says they’re playing a Baylen the Haymaker Hare Apparent deck, that’s when you secretly switch the commanders and not say anything haha
I haven’t personally ever seen one played, but I think it would be a fun commander! If I personally made one, I’d add the obvious options like the mana dorks, horse shoe crab, and Arcanis the omnipotent. I’d also run fun abilities like Beguiler of Wills and Alaundo the Seer. People are often hesitant to run it, but I’d play intruder alarm to untap all my creatures any time a creature enters, so you can tap cards galore. With so many mana dorks and untapping, I’d find outlets to spend that mana with overrun affects, finales, or copy spells (Doppelgang). I haven’t actually looked into the commander, but that’s what comes to my mind if I were to build a deck on the spot! Do you have a deck for Experiment Kraj?
@Unpopularmtg Yes! Exactly, as many untap outlets as possible, mana, etc! And, as a sidenote, Experiment Kraj applies to opponents' creatures' abilities as well :3 I did! It was my favorite deck for the longest time but at some point it went missing, and I never figured out what happened to it
@Unpopularmtg Pretty good honestly. The deck is designed to cycle creatures and return them back to hand to abuse 'leaves the graveyard' effects like Desecrated Tomb. Honestly it's surprisingly effective!
Hey, I also have a Malcolm the eyes deck, he was my attempt to do a fair spellslinger deck. I failed, he's still busted af. I run a lot of stuff that uses my artifacts as well, as well as things that make creatures on spell casts. So my win cons are generally using either noncreature artifacts and rise and shine, or creatures from young pyro and the like and pyretic charge. Add to that the crazy mana I can make with things like galizeth and storm the vault, and it is a crazy strong deck, that can sometimes almost be hard to pinpoint why you lost to it.
That’s awesome, I love hearing when other people play unpopular commanders and make it work. If you have a decklist available, I’d love to take a look!
@@Unpopularmtg Of course! I'm not sure what the best way to share a deck link over youtube is, so I'll do a follow up comment with my archidekt link. I had just briefly talked to you on another one of your comment threads about unpopular cards, and one that I left out, which I feel deserves special mention because of the fact that I run it in about 90% of my decks, is thaumatic compass. Possibly one of the most underrated cards of all time imo, it wins games for me regularly, and people are almost never actually familiar with the card these days.
@13:15 i Had the similar idea with a Tom bombadil Deck that Runs 0 Sagas. Played it Like a Storydeck. Telling the table that Toms Just chills in His Home and grow His Garden. The Deck was basicly Mono Green all Ramp spells, draw and fog Like effects. Wincon: hew the entwood into amulet of vigor, chromatic lantern and door to nothingness. The Problem for the meme niambi Deck Is the colur. The powerfull and Most consistent wincons whould Be a heavy Stacks/Control/ approach of the Second sun Type of Deck. But that Kills the meme
Nice! Did you ever make the Tom deck / have a decklist for it? I love unique takes on commanders. And yeah unfortunately Azorius isn’t the best colors for non-control wins. Maybe you could do a Thassa’s oracle line or a life gain theme with the multiple win on upkeep cards for life above 40/50 and use control to protect them or a Teferi’s protection to guarantee the Felidar Sovereign ability will go on the stack
@@Unpopularmtg Yes. I did. but its hard to play and cant be played again vs the same frends. I like deckbuilding challanges. I brewed a deck with the First doctor. the whole deck is constructed to always casscade into approach of the Second sun. Or a heliod, the raidant Dawn deck without a single instant speed spell. (5 mana combo: windfall+ prosperity (x=21)+ facination (x=84)+ laboratory maniac) a child of alara deck thats only board and land wipes. (runs all indestructable lands) but most of them are 1 use only. they need the element of suprise.
I tried figuring out how to make Kolaghan's second ability work in commander, but... seems borderline impossible tbh. Can't put your own cards in opponent's graveyards, can't change the name of cards in graveyards or spells on the stack, and the only card that allows you to cast a copy of a creature card in a graveyard without exiling it first is from Unfinity.
The other problem that Kolaghan faces is that Garna, the Bloodflame also exists as a legendary Rakdos haste giver but a bit cheaper and with more going for her, and she herself is also terribly unpopular. Got a friend who runs her and she absolutely does some of the things you mentioned in the video.
my favorite obscure commander (that is not that obscure) but has a very strange gameplay is Hogaak, The Arisen Necropolis. Everybody is confused on why your commander is a vanilla 8/8 trampler that cant use mana to cast until you hit somebody for 24 commander damage, then proceeds to draw 20 cards and create 21 tokens killing you commander over and over on the same turn. Fun stuff.
I love baron Bertram gray water. He's a super easy and safe command zone deck for any WB vampire deck. A lot of the normal commanders in those colors for vampires are very aggressive or very value oriented throughout the game like multiple triggers per turn or growing over time. My two favorite exceptions to this are Edgar, Charmed groom and Bertram. Both create tokens repeatedly, which is kinda more on the difficult side in those colors as for specifically vampire tokens. Then the deck will be filled with loads of vampires that are way scarier than Edgar or Bertram that will need to be dealt with like Carmen, Elena's hierophant, bloodthirsty conqueror(or any of the generic combo piece vampire creatures I know there are a few) , or the guy that forces others to sacrifice. Bert and Ed fall under the radar when those monsters are floating around. Even better, there are a few creatures that love sacrificing one vampire to protect themselves from board wipes, or the entire board like the persist guy. If you have an intangible virtue or something he's pretty nasty. Let alone an ETB put a +1/+1 counter of some sort. Bert comes with draw, and conditional token making but a smothering tithe absolutely rakes in vampire creatures tokens with Bert. Edgar is the safest by far being an anthem and a token maker.
Love the analysis, thanks for sharing! What I do love about Bertram is that he’s not that big of a removal magnet because the limit of one per turn. If there were multiple triggers each turn, it might draw eyes, but adding one little guy to your board at a time can go unnoticed to the other card that created a token in the first place. You can also hold up interaction and dump unused mana into card draw. I haven’t built a deck yet, but want to! Do you have a deck for Bertram built?
Good video, I do think doing 50 was too much for one video though. Id rather see you tackle like 10 and maybe find some more cards that could go with the commander rather than just the commander and two cards with a quick blurb about the theme
One of my favorite two color commanders falls into this range of commanders Kazarov, Sengir Pureblood. He's not particularly strong but he's the most fun I've ever had on a Rakdos deck.
Wow I’ve never seen this commander before, seems like a strong Voltron commander that goes well with all the “deal 1 damage to each creature your opponents control” cards!
@@Unpopularmtg As long as you stay in the game long enough to cast him he can do a lot of work. Which isn't too hard as 1 damage spells are a pretty well supported theme
Funny enough i've built one of them recently. Marcus with Slime Against Humanity and i have considered old man willow as an color upgrade for my greensleeves landfall deck, i lose the tokens but would gain a color.
I was thinking about using Storrev as my Wurm commander instead of Baru Wurmspeaker. I'd like to have one or two more colors in the deck AND she has a wurm in her artwork. Also i have been getting into altering cards so i could make a full art version out of it... hmmmmmmmmmmm
1:30 Legoland would have way more potential without the once per turn clause. Would be better if he was cheaper.. He could have been a good mana dork but alas.
Yeah they’ve been slapping on the once each turn clause more often. Granted, you could scry multiple times each turn, but the once clause for Legolas does limit untap synergy strategies you could build for him
I built a illegal deck that has Storrev and Marcus as partner commanders, but I have Felix Five Boots as a replacement commander in case players have issues with the illegality of the deck. Too bad that the deck is more focused on Felix rather than Storrev or Marcus, but I have been thinking of splitting the deck into two as those two as separate commanders. I just think that they're both cool.
@Unpopularmtg I haven't actually been denied a single time, but I got the additional commander just in case, and it's in the 99, so at least it's easy to set up, just shuffle the non commanders in the deck. I probably should make a small pile of cards that I would swap in in case I can't play with the two and actually focus on them instead as a get go. I play at a LGS, which is why I am this cautious. I guess it helps, because it's not really a powerful deck.
That’s good, I was going to say, I’d be surprised if people were denying you a lot! I have a few of those decks where I rotate what commander I play with it and switch out a few cards depending on who I play with it that time
@Unpopularmtg I think that it's more likely to be denied if you play against complete strangers or you're unpopular person to play with, as when you're friendly with people, they tend to be more accomodating. Also, few places in the internet probably give way too negative perception of the thing.
Two has been my sweet spot for sure. I have a few 3 mana decks but don’t venture much into 4 and 5 color except for a Codie deck, but Codie does its own mana fixing
Nice list! I'd love to see the bottom of Universes within stuff because I really dislike a lot of universes beyond and unfinity stuff so I'd love to see the options I'm missing that I would ever even consider playing
Like half of that (or more) is universe beyond cards, which makes me instantly uninterested. Honestly, it's generally not surprising why some commanders are unpopular. Can you build a deck with them? Yes. Throw in some of the best cards in 99 and good synergies and you don't even need the commander. But can this card be a build-around of some sort? That's more important question. Some cards just don't do enough if you build your deck around them. You'll literally have better winrate if you just throw some good-supported archetype. There were some cards that you can build around, but they are just overshadowed by sheer power of other cards that are more popular WITHIN the same synergy package. Like, Baron Bertram Graywater loses competition to every Teysa aristocrats, while it would be played just like another aristocrats deck (give or take a few cards). Same thing with Niv-Mizzet. I have Kess around the same synergy package you've discussed, and Kess gives access to black and she gives ability to replay Jeska's Will type of cards from the graveyard same turn you play em, which overshadows whatever carddraw you would have - and it costs 2 mana less, and technically does something once she hits the board (you can cast spell right after she enters the board as you have a priority). Outliers exist, I guess, like Malcolm.
You’re not wrong, there is a disproportionate amount of UB cards on here. For me, I didn’t even know half of them existed because I wasn’t in the market for fallout and AC so I didnt see all the new cards as they were spoiled, then I was behind. And in terms of power, I also agree, most can be tied to a more powerful commander that is also more popular. I usually choose unpopular commanders because of the challenge in deck building and the personal limitation of trying to play less used cards. It feels more rewarding when I’m able to win with cards that don’t see play in every other deck
I met a guy once who had a Stangg deck where every card had to just be one word. He flipped through cards like "fork", "fog", and "earthquake". I had a good laugh lol
I’d add Lord of the Rings to that list and would say its pretty accurate. LoTR isn’t necessarily hated, but it had 125 new Legendary creatures which is wild
I didn’t even know that was an option to hide, UA-cam shorts show dislikes by default, which is the content I’m more familiar with. I googled how to switch it and turned the dislike visibility on
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I liked and subscribed, keep the unpopular commander theme, If you run out of ideas make a video each time how you would build/decklist of that particular commander. You are doing something not many other channels do, you found your niche my friend.😀
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it! I’m glad you enjoyed the video and the theme. It’s super fun highlighting unpopular commanders, I think it’s something I’ll continue to focus on moving forward 🙌
Same, good stuff 👍🏻
I like this format. That was quite insightful and I feel the need to go through the collection to see what I have for these. Thank you!
I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it, thanks for sharing and for being here!
Love your stuff. Don’t put too much pressure on your content so you don’t burnout cuz you’ve become my “go to guy” for unique commanders after I saw your deck idea for Doc Aurlock. I want to keep seeing your other thoughts on under appreciated commanders for a long time! Everyone is here because we align with your love of unpopular commanders and strategies and unique ideas. Also your tips/ideas throughout the video are super helpful too. Keep it coming!!!
Thanks for the kind words, it means a lot! I’ve always loved unpopular commanders and strategies, so I’m glad that it can resonate with others. I’m excited to keep sharing content and ideas that I love!
Love the unpopular commander videos! Would love to see more
Also, I am a proud owner of one of the 96 Jem Lightfoote decks and it's a very fun control/draw synergy set up, it's a bit stax heavy though so doesn't sound like your cup of tea
Love to hear it, thank you! And while I don’t necessarily play stax myself, I do respect it when I see one successfully executed, and Jem seems like a good commander for it! Do you have any top performers in the deck?
@Unpopularmtg the deck plays a few rule of law effects and breaks parity though playing a spell on each opponents turn, I only pull it out in sweaty/consenting high powered pods as it hoses a lot of common value engines
That does seem perfect for rule of law effects. And its refreshing in my opinion to hear an unpopular and uncommon commander being used mostly in high power settings. A lot of comments mention how their decks built around unpopular commanders are usually lower powered
Unpopular commanders are definitely my bread and butter so this type of content is refreshing.
That being said, I cannot justify, under any circumstance, any reason to build Niabmi 😅
That’s awesome to hear (minus the Niambi part haha)! Do you have a favorite unpopular commander deck that you own?
@Unpopularmtg Hakim, Loreweaver would probably take that honor. He's very unassuming but idk how many commanders can equip themselves with Eldrazi Conscription the turn after they come in 😅
Woah super cool, I haven’t seen that commander before, so if I were playing against you, I’d definitely have no idea what to expect ahaha!
I really like the unpopular commander videos, im new to magic the gathering and wanna kinda challenge myself to see if I can make unique but viable decks so your videos have been a great place for me to scout for fun/unique commanders and cards.
Also, personally I would love to see three mana commanders next!
That’s awesome to hear, welcome to the MTG community and the channel! I think the challenge makes deck building for unpopular commanders so much more fun. I have mono color in the works, but I’ll be doing three color commanders after that!
I really appreciate those who take time to build around obscure commanders.. I recently finished a Zirilan of the Claw & Hakim Loreweaver decks that are really unique & unsuspecting builds -keep doing this work -subbed
That’s awesome to hear! What’s the game plan for your Hakim deck?
@@Unpopularmtg I'd be happy to share the deck list if you want
I liked when you said "let's keep it a secret" for the sphinx while telling everyone. That might be a fun little quip to throw into future videos. I like your unpopular commander content a lot. Keep up the good work!
Haha I may need to revisit that in the future, thank you for the support, it means a lot!
Elder Arthur Maxson actually looks insane, a free sac outlet in the command zone? Easy indestructible? 3 cost anthem? I'm building a deck with him
But Fallout?...
I know right? Fallout and AC had so many new legendaries that I didn’t keep up with, so I was surprised to see Arthur actually have a great ability and so few decks. If you do build him and have a deck list available, I’d love to see it!
@@Unpopularmtg He would make a perfect Templar Knighs commander, but that kind of deck right now is kinda expensive for $3 per knight and $20 for the necessary Thrummingstone
Great video. Interesting to see how many of these are universes beyond.
Thank you! Yeah there are so many assassins creed, fallout and lord of the rings commanders on this list, probably because there are a disproportionate number of legendary creatures released in those sets!
Love looking at and building unpopular commanders and even unpopular cards in the 99. Would love to see more like this.
I’ll be doing more like this, thanks for being here!
I play either super unpopular commander's or universe's beyond. This kind of content is up my ally.
Awesome to hear! Any favorite unpopular commanders you’ve been playing lately?
@Unpopularmtg eomer, Marshall of Rohan. It use to be extremely unpopular but I submitted it to a contest for annoying commander's and now it is more pop. Also my Sixth Dr. / Leela is super fun.
Made it to your check point. I’d highly recommend spacing these out into 10 min vids for the algorithm, also having ones that specifically you think can be taken in an interesting or novel way might be helpful rather than just saying hey this guy doesn’t have commanders.
Makes sense, thanks for the feedback! And I’m pretty new to UA-cam, do you know if 10 min vids are better for the algorithm?
@ from what i’ve heard, yes. It might have changed in the last 2 years tho
@@Unpopularmtg10m long is one of the main advertising thresholds which is why big channels always release 10-15m videos. Also, viewers with rotted brains may avoid a video much longer.
This is a great video man, second I've seen of yours. Really kinda reminds me of some other bigger channels. And you can see the demand from the comments.
Def recommend trying splitting them up - wouldn't even hate it or be mad if you re-release this vid in three parts.
Well, you set out to inspire new deck ideas, and you succeeded.
Counter of Kills Partner deck!
I've been on a huge Rule Zero Commander kick lately, and I think partnering Legolas and Gimli together, literally slapping two opposing 50 card decks into one, would be an amazingly fun time.
I could actually set dice on the table to count their kills! No other creatures but their six, three of each. A ton of axes and bows. Scry to support Legolas, and... attack... stuff for Gimli? Whatever, I'll figure him out as I go.
Excited. Thank you much, not that I needed new deck ideas, I've got about 40 or 50 deck lists waiting to see the light of day...
On that note, actually, Ith, High Arcanist...
Is totally a Rule Zero Commander.
"Hey guys, cool if I Suspend him from Command Zone?"
"Sure, that's cool. I don't care."
That sounds like an epic deck, please do share a deck list if you end up making it! And I agree, I’ve noticed that people are so much more chill about rule 0 and unconventional decks or ideas than people give credit for!
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Thank you, I appreciate you being here!
Amazing video, keep up the awesome work!!
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
I think this is a pretty neat video and would absolutely love to see this in mono color.
EDIT: Having finished the video I'd had an eye on Elder Lyons for a while now so maybe I should get around to making a deck.
Awesome, yes I’ll be doing one for mono commanders too! And if you do build an elder Lyons deck, I’d love to hear if you make a decklist!
This inspired me to dig around the bottom and I ended up finding colonel autumn, an a kinda cool orzhov legends matters commander all the way down, even bellow desdamona
Ooh I haven’t seen that commander before, but that looks like a fun deck to build! Would love to hear if you end up building one!
My guess is (and I am on the same page) that he is unpopular because he is a Fallout card, not because he is bad as a commander.
Yeah Fallout had an absurd amount of new legendary creatures. Other than the face commanders, I didn’t really keep up with any of them
I like the unpopular commander theme. Great content. thank you!
Super happy to hear it, thank you!
Here's my memey way to build Niambi that I just came up with, in 8 easy steps:
1. Teferi Timebender is actually in the deck (yea I know, goes against the rules, but bear with me).
2. Run any number of discard outlets. My personal favourite would be Sage of the Falls (or Niambi Esteemed Speaker for flavor).
3. Tutor up On Wings of Gold, the new enchantment from the upcoming aetherdrift esper precon.
4. Run any number of efficient blink effects.
5. Cast Niambi, tutor up Teferi, then discard him.
6. Blink Niambi, return Teferi from the graveyard to your hand. This triggers On Wings of Gold, creating you a zombie.
7. Discard Teferi again, then repeat.
8. Win with an army of flying Zombies, without ever casting Teferi at all.
Haha I love it, I hadn’t seen that card yet, I really enjoy leave the graveyard effects. Do you know if more of those exist in Azorius? And if zombies is the way to go, Geralf the Fleshwright and Poppet Stircher could contribute to the growing army!
@@Unpopularmtg Sadly I only found this one on scryfall. There are a few more that trigger off of creature cards specifically but those obviously would be useless here. I also looked for "cards goes into graveyard" effects and discard payoffs, but not much luck there either.
@@Unpopularmtg good news, they just revealed a new discard payoff to make this deck even stronger!
Love this content! I’ve got an elder arthur maxson deck and it does really well for me. Use a go wide token strat and buff them with attacks and if someone tries to remove arthur then give him indestructible (if appliable). Then once you get a drain effect online like bastion of remembrance or marionette apprentice you have a loaded gun and wait for the right time to pull it while still attacking and lowering life the whole time.
Thank you! Yeah elder maxson seems awesome and I love commanders that have instant speed sacrifice for that loaded gun situation you mentioned
I didn't notice in the short, but Idris could be a decent vehicle voltron commander.
She copies abilities, but not the vehicles type, so she doesn't need to be crewed.
Copy the Knight Paladin, blink her, return the Knigt and copy it again and you get 12 damage kn each opponent for 6 mana (commander + ghostly flicker or other blinks).
I hope your channel can grow more, I appreciate these unpopular videos.
They shown some nice cards I would have never seen. 👍🏻
That’s a good point! She doesn’t copy the card itself and thus inherit the subtype, but rather copies the activated and triggered abilities which are usually ETB, attack, or damage triggers for vehicles.
Thank you, I appreciate the support and am glad that you’ve been enjoying the videos!
Very cool. Definitely going to build an Idris deck, and vehicles never crossed my mind.
when i saw the ghost council of orzhova recently it clicked in my head that i wanted to build it as a sort of control aristocrats deck that ran boardwipes that made tokens or reanimated creatures. The idea was that id sac them to activate its ability, but also activate the ability before playing a wipe. I havent finished it but its a cool fusion of the two.
I love the idea, would love to hear when it’s completed and how it turns out!
Enjoyed this a lot, considering challenging my friends to make some decks based around some of these guys
That would be awesome, a commander game with all creatures sub 1000 or 500 decks would be awesome
I started to brainstorm Idris, Soul of the TARDIS after watching this video, as I completely had missed the card when it released. Unfortunately you don't get the ETB effects from the things you clone, because Idris exiles stuff as an ETB effect and not as replacement effect like clones do, but you get to reuse the ETBs of things you exile. One of the more fun interactions I realized was through Cybership, you "manifest" cards from opponent's deck, but they're artifact creatures, so you can exile them with Idris, and when it leaves the battlefield, the cards return to your control frontside up as long as they're permanent cards, non-permanents just remain in exile.
Fair point, thanks for looking into that more! I was thinking of ideas off the top of my head, but didn’t dig into the legality of it. But the interaction you mentioned seems super fun and gives more ideas into things you can do with Idris!
I saw an article for the archidekt deck building contest , and one of the three featured ecks was a balrog, flame of udun deck with transmogrify effects along with aspiring champion as the only other target. Seems cool way to build
That does sound cool, I’ll have to see if I can find the article!
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I play a lot of different card games. I know, follow, and sometimes play the meta in each one. But I always love off-meta stuff in each game.
That’s awesome to hear! What other card games do you enjoy at the moment?
I have a Jem Lightfoote deck, and just making everyone else's turn your turn also is a very fun way to play. For me, anyway; my opponents seem to get tired of hearing "in response..."
We love to hear it! Are there any top performing cards that you’ve seen in the deck??
@Unpopularmtg there are a lot that make the deck play well and consistently (mana discounts and being able to play off the top of the library) but my favorite splashy swingy fun card to play is for sure Smirking Spelljacker
I never read that card when it got printed in the OTJ precon. I like it a lot, may have to try it in some of my decks!
Cool video, please do one for each color combination!
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, I’ll try to do the same for 1, 3, 4, and 5 mana commanders!
would u mind doing this in monocolor? im trying to make a monocolor deck for all the colors and im down to just white and green now but i really do not like the popular commanders and i cant figure out what i want to do for those colors.
Yes, mono color is the next one I’m planning! I hope it can be helpful!
build harold and bob best mono g commander
If you want a random recommendation, Ghalta primal hunger can be a fun time, yisan is also a fun time if you want a more toolbox deck
One I've never seen anyone else use is Runadi, Behemoth caller. Its a great commander and had quite a few synergistic cards. Best part is it gives all your 7 mana+ creatures haste. Very fun!
Here's MY mono color commanders so far just as some suggestions
EDIT: I just noticed you said you were down to green and white, lol. I agree those ones are way less interesting. I'm still gonna leave this here but I now know this doesn't really apply to you specifically. I shouldve read more closely.
1. Mono Blue: The Watcher In The Water. This one is fun, love draw-go as a playstyle. You're honestly spoiled for choice with mono blue, it's probably my favorite color combination. Blue + blue is hard to NOT be fun. I also recommend Kaho, Minamo Historian, and if you want something a bit more mainstream, Eluge is really fun.
2. Mono Black: Trazyn the Infinite. Fast combo decks aren't for everyone by any means, but I like how Trazyn has neat utility activated abilities that can regenerate him, make him invincible, or deal ONE damage to a creature, which kills them because Trazyn has deathtouch. Really neat commander.
I also recommend Asmodeus, the Archfiend. Pay 4 black mana, draw 7 cards, take 7-8 damage. It's kind of a generic effect but I'm sure there's cool ways you could build it. Maybe a mono-black storm deck.
3. Mono Red: Magda, the Hoardemaster. Not the mainstream, CeDH Magda, mind you. The crime one from Thunder Junction. Making that many treasures is just BUSTED. The idea is to get a 1 mana artifact that can tap to do a crime on turn one, like Scrabbling Claws or Codex Shredder, and Magda on turn 2. Boom. Profit. I can get an Ulamog the Defiler on the field on like, turn 4 on a good day.
Mono Red also has Purphoros, Bronze Blooded, Toralf, God of Fury, and Ashling, the Pilgrim, which are all super neat.
For mono green, I've been working on a Lumra, Below of the Woods deck that sacrifices lands for a billion landfall triggers.
I can't find a single mono white commander I like tho, really really stuck on that one.
One of the Dragonlord Kolaghan decks is mine. It's a dragon saboteur deck built around haste, I don't want to wait a whole turn cycle for Balefire Dragon and Drakuseth to get removed before they actually do something. The second ability is basically flavor text.
I agree, that’s the main issue I have with playing big dragons is they usually need a turn before you can use the effect, and turn yourself into the enemy in the turn cycle before it happens. But with haste, you can usually get through because 1/3 opponents is likely to not have a flying blocker. Are there any top performers in the deck?
Love this type of content
Love to hear it, thanks for being here!
Dragonlord Kolaghan am become death, destroyer of "Your deck may contain any number of"
No kidding, pick Kolaghan when someone says they’re playing one of those kinds of decks 😏
@@Unpopularmtg Shadowborn Apostle players cry in the corner, they didn't deserve it
Yeah maybe the Shadowborn Apostles didn’t deserve it, but I don’t have any remorse for the Persistent Petitioners
I'm workshopping a Storrev deck, edict creatures are a removal engine. Removes blockers for storrev to get em back, I also like a few combat tricks like Cankerous Thirst and Consume Strength for when folks block with a 7/7, which normally seems like a good block. Fun deck focused on creature control
Sounds fun! If you end up with a decklist online, I’d definitely love to check it out!
I was also working on a list but I was focused more on cycling synergy (gempalm creatures, krosan tucker etc.)
Please do this for THREE color generals. Thanks!
I’ll plan on it, thanks!
Suggestion: chapters/timestamps for each color combination!
Good recommendation, since the colors are not in sections, I may create chapters for each commander in the future!
EDHREC is always boring because of the infinite loop buildup: People use EDHREC to find cards for their decks, then upload those decks to Moxfield/Arcidekt, then EDHREC uses those decks to update their lists. Basically, EDHREC is a terrible source for finding out how to build your deck because it's your 'average deck' list. It won't include cool, niche cards for decks because it only shows popular cards. For new players, it's a good starting point. But if you're more experienced only use it for finding niche commanders or getting basic ideas for your new deck. Nothing more. I don't use it at all anymore.
It’s true, I don’t like to use EDHREC because it makes my decks the same as every other deck for that commander. It’s an infinite loop that makes decks generic good stuff that plays well with the commanders but isn’t necessarily fun to play.
iirc there's a bit of math done in their algorithm to partially offset the feedback loop a bit
Hard disagree! Try using the search filters, then you’ll only see the ‘averages’ of decks that include or exclude the cards you filter for. I’ve had a lot of success starting unique brews this way
The title is misleading these cards aren't two mana if they were two mana theyd only cost two mana to cast, you should say two color commanders
You’re absolutely right, thanks, I just changed it!
Do you own any of these commanders? If so, I’d love to hear how they perform!
Love the videos man keep it up 👍
I have Dragonlord Kolaghan in my Storm's Fury's 99 as a flavor piece, she's a solid body but I'm sure if any of my friends ever build something like Rats, Apostles, or Hares they'll explode upon seeing her touch the board
Thank you, I appreciate it @nikayscue
Super cool, are there any favorite cards you have in that deck? And yeah if someone says they’re playing a Baylen the Haymaker Hare Apparent deck, that’s when you secretly switch the commanders and not say anything haha
@ Gotta be Sarkhan the Mad, good drawpower in normal formats, sneaky kill card in Dragon Tribal for EDH
I'd love to hear your thoughts on an Experiment Kraj deck!
I haven’t personally ever seen one played, but I think it would be a fun commander! If I personally made one, I’d add the obvious options like the mana dorks, horse shoe crab, and Arcanis the omnipotent. I’d also run fun abilities like Beguiler of Wills and Alaundo the Seer. People are often hesitant to run it, but I’d play intruder alarm to untap all my creatures any time a creature enters, so you can tap cards galore. With so many mana dorks and untapping, I’d find outlets to spend that mana with overrun affects, finales, or copy spells (Doppelgang). I haven’t actually looked into the commander, but that’s what comes to my mind if I were to build a deck on the spot!
Do you have a deck for Experiment Kraj?
@Unpopularmtg Yes! Exactly, as many untap outlets as possible, mana, etc! And, as a sidenote, Experiment Kraj applies to opponents' creatures' abilities as well :3
I did! It was my favorite deck for the longest time but at some point it went missing, and I never figured out what happened to it
amazing content
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
I have a Balrog of Moria deck and it's lots of fun! It's Rakdos cycling themed.
That’s awesome, you’re part of an exclusive group playing that commander! How does the deck usually perform?
@Unpopularmtg Pretty good honestly. The deck is designed to cycle creatures and return them back to hand to abuse 'leaves the graveyard' effects like Desecrated Tomb. Honestly it's surprisingly effective!
Sounds like a super cool deck, and the leave the graveyard makes sense for an ability like cycling that can fill the bin!
I’m saving this cos an Elder Maxsom deck sounds fun as hell
Right?? He’s one of the commanders I was most interested in in this list, I’m surprised he has so few decks!
Hey, I also have a Malcolm the eyes deck, he was my attempt to do a fair spellslinger deck. I failed, he's still busted af. I run a lot of stuff that uses my artifacts as well, as well as things that make creatures on spell casts. So my win cons are generally using either noncreature artifacts and rise and shine, or creatures from young pyro and the like and pyretic charge. Add to that the crazy mana I can make with things like galizeth and storm the vault, and it is a crazy strong deck, that can sometimes almost be hard to pinpoint why you lost to it.
That’s awesome, I love hearing when other people play unpopular commanders and make it work. If you have a decklist available, I’d love to take a look!
@@Unpopularmtg Of course! I'm not sure what the best way to share a deck link over youtube is, so I'll do a follow up comment with my archidekt link. I had just briefly talked to you on another one of your comment threads about unpopular cards, and one that I left out, which I feel deserves special mention because of the fact that I run it in about 90% of my decks, is thaumatic compass. Possibly one of the most underrated cards of all time imo, it wins games for me regularly, and people are almost never actually familiar with the card these days.
@13:15 i Had the similar idea with a Tom bombadil Deck that Runs 0 Sagas.
Played it Like a Storydeck. Telling the table that Toms Just chills in His Home and grow His Garden.
The Deck was basicly Mono Green all Ramp spells, draw and fog Like effects.
Wincon: hew the entwood into amulet of vigor, chromatic lantern and door to nothingness.
The Problem for the meme niambi Deck Is the colur.
The powerfull and Most consistent wincons whould Be a heavy Stacks/Control/ approach of the Second sun Type of Deck. But that Kills the meme
Nice! Did you ever make the Tom deck / have a decklist for it? I love unique takes on commanders.
And yeah unfortunately Azorius isn’t the best colors for non-control wins. Maybe you could do a Thassa’s oracle line or a life gain theme with the multiple win on upkeep cards for life above 40/50 and use control to protect them or a Teferi’s protection to guarantee the Felidar Sovereign ability will go on the stack
@@Unpopularmtg Yes. I did. but its hard to play and cant be played again vs the same frends.
I like deckbuilding challanges.
I brewed a deck with the First doctor. the whole deck is constructed to always casscade into approach of the Second sun.
Or a heliod, the raidant Dawn deck without a single instant speed spell. (5 mana combo: windfall+ prosperity (x=21)+ facination (x=84)+ laboratory maniac)
a child of alara deck thats only board and land wipes. (runs all indestructable lands)
but most of them are 1 use only. they need the element of suprise.
I tried figuring out how to make Kolaghan's second ability work in commander, but... seems borderline impossible tbh. Can't put your own cards in opponent's graveyards, can't change the name of cards in graveyards or spells on the stack, and the only card that allows you to cast a copy of a creature card in a graveyard without exiling it first is from Unfinity.
That’s a bummer, sounds like a cool avenue to explore if it worked, but I like your line of thinking!
The other problem that Kolaghan faces is that Garna, the Bloodflame also exists as a legendary Rakdos haste giver but a bit cheaper and with more going for her, and she herself is also terribly unpopular. Got a friend who runs her and she absolutely does some of the things you mentioned in the video.
my favorite obscure commander (that is not that obscure) but has a very strange gameplay is Hogaak, The Arisen Necropolis. Everybody is confused on why your commander is a vanilla 8/8 trampler that cant use mana to cast until you hit somebody for 24 commander damage, then proceeds to draw 20 cards and create 21 tokens killing you commander over and over on the same turn. Fun stuff.
I love baron Bertram gray water. He's a super easy and safe command zone deck for any WB vampire deck. A lot of the normal commanders in those colors for vampires are very aggressive or very value oriented throughout the game like multiple triggers per turn or growing over time. My two favorite exceptions to this are Edgar, Charmed groom and Bertram. Both create tokens repeatedly, which is kinda more on the difficult side in those colors as for specifically vampire tokens. Then the deck will be filled with loads of vampires that are way scarier than Edgar or Bertram that will need to be dealt with like Carmen, Elena's hierophant, bloodthirsty conqueror(or any of the generic combo piece vampire creatures I know there are a few) , or the guy that forces others to sacrifice. Bert and Ed fall under the radar when those monsters are floating around. Even better, there are a few creatures that love sacrificing one vampire to protect themselves from board wipes, or the entire board like the persist guy. If you have an intangible virtue or something he's pretty nasty. Let alone an ETB put a +1/+1 counter of some sort.
Bert comes with draw, and conditional token making but a smothering tithe absolutely rakes in vampire creatures tokens with Bert. Edgar is the safest by far being an anthem and a token maker.
Love the analysis, thanks for sharing! What I do love about Bertram is that he’s not that big of a removal magnet because the limit of one per turn. If there were multiple triggers each turn, it might draw eyes, but adding one little guy to your board at a time can go unnoticed to the other card that created a token in the first place. You can also hold up interaction and dump unused mana into card draw. I haven’t built a deck yet, but want to! Do you have a deck for Bertram built?
Good video, I do think doing 50 was too much for one video though. Id rather see you tackle like 10 and maybe find some more cards that could go with the commander rather than just the commander and two cards with a quick blurb about the theme
That’s a fair point, 50 was a lot to make too, I’ll likely go a different route for the other color combinations
One of my favorite two color commanders falls into this range of commanders Kazarov, Sengir Pureblood. He's not particularly strong but he's the most fun I've ever had on a Rakdos deck.
Wow I’ve never seen this commander before, seems like a strong Voltron commander that goes well with all the “deal 1 damage to each creature your opponents control” cards!
@@Unpopularmtg As long as you stay in the game long enough to cast him he can do a lot of work. Which isn't too hard as 1 damage spells are a pretty well supported theme
Great video!!
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Funny enough i've built one of them recently. Marcus with Slime Against Humanity and i have considered old man willow as an color upgrade for my greensleeves landfall deck, i lose the tokens but would gain a color.
I thought about making a Marcus deck! How do you like it?
I am one of those 220 Old Man Willow decks he’s a fun time
Love to hear it! Are there any top performing cards you have seen in the deck?
@ Entish Restoration does well in the deck. I kinda went for more of a treefolk deck
I dig this, more of this is cool with me
Love to hear it, I’ll be doing more of this moving forward!
I was thinking about using Storrev as my Wurm commander instead of Baru Wurmspeaker. I'd like to have one or two more colors in the deck AND she has a wurm in her artwork. Also i have been getting into altering cards so i could make a full art version out of it... hmmmmmmmmmmm
Im all for it, would love to hear if you make the deck! And super cool to hear about your altering cards, that’s a skill that is awesome to see!
1:30 Legoland would have way more potential without the once per turn clause. Would be better if he was cheaper.. He could have been a good mana dork but alas.
Yeah they’ve been slapping on the once each turn clause more often. Granted, you could scry multiple times each turn, but the once clause for Legolas does limit untap synergy strategies you could build for him
I built a illegal deck that has Storrev and Marcus as partner commanders, but I have Felix Five Boots as a replacement commander in case players have issues with the illegality of the deck. Too bad that the deck is more focused on Felix rather than Storrev or Marcus, but I have been thinking of splitting the deck into two as those two as separate commanders. I just think that they're both cool.
That sounds super fun! Curious how often people say no to that? Is it more common that they let you play them as commanders, or that people say no?
@Unpopularmtg I haven't actually been denied a single time, but I got the additional commander just in case, and it's in the 99, so at least it's easy to set up, just shuffle the non commanders in the deck. I probably should make a small pile of cards that I would swap in in case I can't play with the two and actually focus on them instead as a get go.
I play at a LGS, which is why I am this cautious. I guess it helps, because it's not really a powerful deck.
That’s good, I was going to say, I’d be surprised if people were denying you a lot! I have a few of those decks where I rotate what commander I play with it and switch out a few cards depending on who I play with it that time
@Unpopularmtg I think that it's more likely to be denied if you play against complete strangers or you're unpopular person to play with, as when you're friendly with people, they tend to be more accomodating. Also, few places in the internet probably give way too negative perception of the thing.
nooo don’t ruin Timebender’s 100% playrate
Haha I personally won’t be, but would be funny if someone did!
Two is the ideal number of colors imo. Any more and your deck's color identity basically disappears.
Two has been my sweet spot for sure. I have a few 3 mana decks but don’t venture much into 4 and 5 color except for a Codie deck, but Codie does its own mana fixing
I love the idea of playing an unpopular commander but I don’t have anyone to play with :(
Sorry to hear that, would love to build a community for playing eventually!
Ith, High Arcanist and Ioreth of the Healing House make an infinite combo. He still isn't good, but the combo potential is funny at least
Know of any good payoffs for that infinite combo haha? Sounds hilarious
It’s just unfortunate that Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius is power crept by the new Niv-Mizzet from Foundations 5:05
Yeah when you have seven versions, you’re bound to start cannibalizing your previous versions sooner than later
Nice list! I'd love to see the bottom of Universes within stuff because I really dislike a lot of universes beyond and unfinity stuff so I'd love to see the options I'm missing that I would ever even consider playing
That’s a good suggestion, I may look into that for future videos!
Like half of that (or more) is universe beyond cards, which makes me instantly uninterested.
Honestly, it's generally not surprising why some commanders are unpopular.
Can you build a deck with them? Yes. Throw in some of the best cards in 99 and good synergies and you don't even need the commander.
But can this card be a build-around of some sort? That's more important question.
Some cards just don't do enough if you build your deck around them. You'll literally have better winrate if you just throw some good-supported archetype.
There were some cards that you can build around, but they are just overshadowed by sheer power of other cards that are more popular WITHIN the same synergy package.
Like, Baron Bertram Graywater loses competition to every Teysa aristocrats, while it would be played just like another aristocrats deck (give or take a few cards).
Same thing with Niv-Mizzet. I have Kess around the same synergy package you've discussed, and Kess gives access to black and she gives ability to replay Jeska's Will type of cards from the graveyard same turn you play em, which overshadows whatever carddraw you would have - and it costs 2 mana less, and technically does something once she hits the board (you can cast spell right after she enters the board as you have a priority).
Outliers exist, I guess, like Malcolm.
You’re not wrong, there is a disproportionate amount of UB cards on here. For me, I didn’t even know half of them existed because I wasn’t in the market for fallout and AC so I didnt see all the new cards as they were spoiled, then I was behind.
And in terms of power, I also agree, most can be tied to a more powerful commander that is also more popular. I usually choose unpopular commanders because of the challenge in deck building and the personal limitation of trying to play less used cards. It feels more rewarding when I’m able to win with cards that don’t see play in every other deck
I have strax deck, actually its so fun and hillarious to fight your own creature 😂😂
Haha love it, Strax is one of those decks that you can’t hate on it if you lose to it - he’s not targeting YOU it’s just random 😂
@@Unpopularmtg he's just doing his best hahahaha. But actually i want to upgrade his deck to be playable as casual as possible
Kolaghan is unfortunate. She's nearly unplayable in commander, sadly.
The second ability is hardly relevant for EDH, but I may be interested in building a deck revolving around the haste for Rakdos
@Unpopularmtg but there's so many red haste enablers. I rather play a gpod rakdos commander abd just entomb anger to my grave or something.
I met a guy once who had a Stangg deck where every card had to just be one word. He flipped through cards like "fork", "fog", and "earthquake". I had a good laugh lol
That’s amazing, I had no idea there were that many one worded cards in Gruul. Was the deck viable at all??
This is a list of "Assassins Creed, Fallout and Unfinity are the most hated Sets for Commander"
I’d add Lord of the Rings to that list and would say its pretty accurate. LoTR isn’t necessarily hated, but it had 125 new Legendary creatures which is wild
video seems okayish, but disabling dislikes is so childish- UA-cam already makes it hard enough. Grow some thicker skin, my boy.
I didn’t even know that was an option to hide, UA-cam shorts show dislikes by default, which is the content I’m more familiar with. I googled how to switch it and turned the dislike visibility on
@@Unpopularmtg Alright, fair enough. Transparency is important, especially nowadays. I wish you (and your channel) all the best.
Thanks appreciate it and the feedback!