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Around 2015 i ran a Nahiri infect equipment deck. Dopping a 1/1 myr with infect and watching the hate fly towards it made me laugh everytime

Xengos is seriously such a house. Incredibly fun and powerful as a commander. I just want to say that the big weakness for a lot of muldrotha decks is their graveyard being dealt with. Using urborg lhurgoyf as a 1 big dude doubles down into that weakness. Same with splinterfright. Maybe something like lord of extinction or consuming aberration. Especially lord of extinction since it counts your own graveyard.

Ball Lightning is good in Xenagos and Mr Orfeo, but it’s GREAT in Ziatora. Cast it, sacrifice it to deal damage, make three treasures. Don’t forget about its half siblings Lightning Skelemental and Groundbreaker too!

Me the Immortal is a great commander for get big as the game goes along. She keeps her counters wherever she goes so continues to scale with the game.

My Brallin and shabraz cycling deck is definitely a one big guy deck. Slam the shark early and use the steady supply of lifegain and counters to clock opponents with a growing threat while hitting land drops. Game goes late enough, drop the brallin either to trample over fliers or to cycle a bunch of cards and burn out the final points of damage. Locust god, nezahal, and a few other big control finishers with card draw attached to them for extra threats. Very fun deck to play

My Syr Gwyn deck remembers me of that, only equipments that increase significantly the size of the creatures, mostly knights but also some other creatures that equip themselves for free, then spells that make them come back from death like Kaya's Ghostform. Equip, attack, fling, repeat

I remember learning that Muldrotha was considered a grindy control commander with no clear wincons, and being completely BAFFLED because I'd built a Muldrotha deck immediately after I pulled her in my Dominaria prerelease pack and it punched HARD. The reason it hit so hard was because I built her exactly the way you point out here: fill up the graveyard with creature cards, and play beaters which got bigger for each creature in there (along with cards that pumped those guys further, like Bonehoard and Nighthowler, which themselves doubled as beaters in their own right!) Sure, it had the standard control package appropriate for Muldrotha, but I never found myself wondering how to close out games. I also run Jarad, Altar of Dementia, and Korozda Guildmage to convert big-power creatures into direct life loss, mill, and tokens to go wide with (respectively) in case the "one big guy" strategy doesn't work for some reason.

humans with Jirina Kudro. They aren't as big, but there're a lot of them

I'm not sure if this exactly fits your archetype but seeing Triton Shorestalker makes me think it might be. Esper has long been my favorite shard and I was looking recently for a different way to play it besides stax/control or enchantment focused. Like you, I came across an opponent at casual commander who was running someone I'd not taken a look at before: Raffine, Scheming Seer. A 1/4 Demon Sphinx with Flying, Ward 1 and "whenever you attack, target attacking creature Connives X, where X is the number of attacking creatures." I immediately began to think of all the cheap creatures in blue, black, and white that could not be blocked, could fly, or had otherwise extremely weird evasion like Shadow. Inivisble Stalker became an absolute all-star for this, coming in with Hexproof and Cannot be blocked, and potentially growing huge after only a couple of turns. Then after noting that I am going to be both drawing and discarding a decent chunk of cards each turn, effects that generated value from that became the foundation of the deck: Clinquant Skymage, Queza, Augur of Agonies, Elenda and Azor, Terferi, Temporal Pilgrim, Feast of Sanity, Knowledge is Power, and Archfiend of Ifnir. It essentially ended up as a Connive/Reanimator deck with a number of potential unblockable Big Guy threats that keep attacking over and over, backed up with token generators to protect my own board. I've only gotten to play it twice so far but I've had a ton of fun with it in both games. Everyone has been surprised to run up against a weenie aggro deck in Esper.

So basically Voltron decks lol

a brew I m proud is my korvold fae cursed king but with a devour theme. I make guys (mostly goblins and saprolings), they get eaten and boom now I have a full hand and 2 big guys ! The deck is very shaky because the game plan is oh so very slow, but I have fun whatever happen in the game. I made it functional without korvold, I can bait removal with korvold, the two timing threat makes it very hard to answer efficacely and my green/black colors gives me juice.

My karlov and lurrus deck is the definition of one big guy 😂

You and i had the saem realization this past year. Selesnya has become my favorite color combo becuase it runs lots of interaction and its crestures can easily pump themselves

This is literally both of my decks 💀 Mr. Orfeo was my first, since I got into Commander through PDH, but Xenagos has been my pet deck for well over a year.

The ultimate one big guy commander to me is arahbo. Basically every cat is a 2 mana 5/5 but only one at a time. Once that gets removed bring out your next and suit him up with your equipment that cats also support as a sub archetype.

Cait cage brawler is super fun

Running removal is surprisingly the most contentious thing I encountered in EDH. Way too many people lose to a decent deck with they often accuse of CEDH when they let it do its thing uncontested. Please my friends, thats not a high power or cedh deck, you just dont have interaction. "But if I run interaction thats even less space for the 1001 wincons that I have." Then run more card draw and digging spells, 15 minimum if your Commander isnt a digging engine. Do people LIKE topdecking in a game w 4 people? Run more interaction and card draw. I get it's hard to make cuts on all the rando combos you just discovered in Edhrec but it has to be done

Great video. Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord can be fun here too. He can be your big guy, you can use and reanimate other big guys including goyfs, and he can fling repeatedly (hitting all opps at once) if the board is clogged.

My favorite deck that I made has to be an Octavia, Living Thesis deck, a mono-blue 8/8 that basically turns every other creature I control into an 8/8 as well. It is full of utility creatures that are Not supposed to hit that hard.

Bait and switch on the Ball Lightning deck lol.

I play this exact same kind of power doubling deck but with Ziatora at the helm so I can throw all that damage at someone's face, since I have to sacrifice them anyway.

So would it count to get Rielle The everwise and big guys that get bigger with handsize for example then amass handcards. When alrund dies I can just play a body of knowledge and so on.

Im loving decks that are really relisient right now! Graveyard or stuff with protection! Using my mana to keep myself safe more than hurt my opponents and being ok being the scary guy at the table since they know this deck just keeps swinging

Inkshield was won me many games that I had no business winning. Such a good card

I was building a Ball Lightning deck myself recently! I was in jund colors to start, but ended up going with rakdos colors with Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats as the commander, and putting the damage doublers into my 99. Now opponents can't block with their Eldrazi or other big dumb creatures, and I love it. Good video Deck Driver! *edit* Obviously, the above can also be done in jund colors, but I had some decision paralysis when cutting cards, so I just cut an entire color to help me through that.

A good card for 1 big guy deck I thought of immediately was Sigil of Valor. An artifact equipment that gives solo attacking creature +1/+1 for every other creature you control.

I actually have a Marchesa deck with that vibe as well! Goad everyone a bunch and hit them with those extra fogs that redirect damage!

OMG, you’re so smart. Who would have thought playing creatures to deal damage instead of a graveyard combo was possible!

Ive wanted to get spark trooper into a deck, this is perfect!

Then they get removed.

I built a like similar to this concept at the start of the year. Using Tuya Bearclaw as a commander, the deck is more like a 2-3 big guys deck. People underestimate a 3 mana 2/2 uncommon and that is their last mistake

Strategy going forward into 2025: - Crush your enemies - To see them driven before you - To hear the lamentations of your opponents LOL I been doing this style of deck building for a long time. First deck I really focused on was Xenagos. My recent decks: - Mimeoplasm, follows this idea since it is more a landfall, mill/rad everyone, play big creatures, they kill them? Bring them back or Mimeoplasm them. On average my Mimeoplasm tends to fly/trample for 12. You can be really silly with a simple Wise Mothman/Haunt of hightower and a Traumatize/Cut your Losses win out of no where. - Cayth Famed Mechanists ''Constructs'', make tokens specifically Constructs or clone creatures that P/T is equal to all the artifacts you control. I am surprised how often this deck can swing with big tokens ;p

I personally own a big guys matters deck focused around Jared carthalion, the goal: make a few 3/3 5 colour token using +1, and then have a counter doubler and next thing you know use the -3 ability for a 13/13 trample, cards like arna kenurud let these attack and turn into 23/23’s reaaaally quick

Hey could you add the Ball Lightning and Ezuri decklists? I am pretty interested in either of those. :)

We really went back to battlecruiser decks.

a "big guy" deck that I just started working on is Rafiq of the Many. I like the colors and the abilities, is really stright forward, besides, the creature attacking doesn't have to be your commander, it just needs to attack alone

Commander TH-cam really hit the point where they're saying "Hey, you should play win conditions"

Yannik/nikara - blink/reanimator, unpredictable and resilient big guy deck. Blinking Yannik at instant speed to change which creature is the big guy, keeps the whole table on its toes, while nikara generates value. and Abzan colors makes the deck very hard to shut down. Extremely fun deck to play

Melek Reforged Researcher. Huge Commander, gets huge so quick, sit back with a grip full of control with overcosted, but now way undercosted draw spells, counter spells and removal.

I guess Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful and Keleth, Sunmane Familiar are my big guy decks!

My favorite big guy command is Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma. It helps you cast big green stompy creature. They always have trample so I'm getting in damage. Once they deal with the first one, I just bring another one out. Green has a lot of artifact and enchantment hate, fight, do damage equal to power so it's easy to remove things to get my attacks through. Always fun to play.

I have a Neyith fight club deck who functions primarily as a big guy deck with a backup plan of brash-taunting my way out of a tight spot

Doood wheres the ball lightning deck? No link and its not listed on your moxfield.

He out here Chillmaxing 😮

"one big guy" decks have been my comfort zone for years. Xenagod was one of my first commanders 12ish years ago; just swing for dozens of damage every turn, and if they can't deal with it, you win. It used to win a lot more, but the recent commander boom in the last few years has brought a lot more decks that can handle it, but it's still fun to get the whole table in panic mode after chunking someone for 24. Boros equipment decks fit the "one big guy" mold as well, with a difference being that your power is not all contained in your creatures. Most people think Voltron commander damage with equipment decks, and a lot of the time it is, but they're more than capable of taking down a table with traditional 40 damage as well.

Love the video!! Thats one reason i built a Flathis + Jeska and Obosh Companion Deck recently and love it!! Looking forward to get the cards soon!

Skullbriar, the perfect one big guy

Looking at orfeo, i kinda wanna make a voltron deck with him

Just made a Bria, Riptide Rogue deck. Half spellslinger, half beatdown with prowess creatures, this is a ton of fun

Nighthowler