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- A lot of commander decks are helmed by legendaries that have lots of colors, but it can be very fun to build mono colored decks focused around just one. Let's break down each color's most popular mono colored legends.
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Fynn is the commander of "i killed 1 player at the table and then got murderd"
Tergrid is "I showed up and got murdered" what a funny set kaldheim is
@@brendancagle203 never put her in command zone. Always res her from the grave on the turn you drop the board sac. I like All is Dust with an artifact or eldrazi shell for insurance that the rest of the deck can pull weight
Fynn is not good in free for all
@juter1122 people put her in the command zone knowing they can get her off and wheel. Usually it's the fastest way actually.
Fynn is the definition of not having enough wildcards in MTGA to make anything else
There were only 9000 Krenko decks, but then someone tapped him.
Well, it only took 3 turns 😂
Fynn is also the most budget-friendly. You can build a halfway decent deck for under $50. Maybe even under $30 if you really pinch your pennies
OK, but Goreclaw costs the same amount. You might have to pay an additional 25$ on a few 4-6$ Enchantments, but the deck’s really really easy to phase in upgrades 1-4$ at a time.
Sure, if you’re absolutely wedded to making a 20-30$ deck, I can understand Fynn, kinda, but honestly?
Mono Green just isn’t the Identity to be on if your goal is 20$ decks. It’s a wonderful Identity for 100$ budget decks, but if you want to build out of cheap commons/uncommons, w/ a couple dollar Commander, there are so many better options.
Heck, Mono Green can thrive in the 50-75$ range with prudent singles-shopping, but it’s not where I’d come in the 20-30$ range.
I love Green to death, but I’m not blind to the fact that what we don’t pay for in Instants/Sorceries, we do pay for in creatures and enchantments.
@@shawnpanzegraf5642 I’m not disputing that at all. Green is crazy and Goreclaw gets ridiculous fast. Not married to budgets but just wanted to point that out. It’s your deck spend what you want.
@@whydoesthisexistpod Oh, hey, I wasn’t trying to get combative or anything, compadre!
Was just trying to say I think it’d be a shame if someone stuck with Fynn *solely* out of budgetary concerns, when there are similar options.
@@shawnpanzegraf5642 Hard to read the context of text. Especially on the internet lol. No worries dude!
You have inspired me to make a Goreclaw deck btw.
@@shawnpanzegraf5642 Hey, new player here, what color identity would you recommend for a budget option then?
Fynn was a surprise at first, but on second thought it makes sense
Right?
I was like, "Vorinclex, monstrous raider ez" cause that all I see anymore
It made me puke to learn this bitch us the most popular
My guess was Ghalta
@@klashslash6919I was sure it was selvala lol, goes infinite with a large ham sandwich.
And I wasn't even right with the elfball commander of choice it's marwyn. Also ayula bears is the second most popular to finn lol! No room for elfball at the top.
Fynn is the only one that really suprised me. And here i thought i wouldnt have any of my own commanders on this list lol
What surprises me is casual players playing with poison counters despite their moaning and groaning about the mechanic existing
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktenaEh, I hear few complaints on Poison counters on their own, but rather Poison + Proliferate. Fynn has to earn his kills, Atraxa just needs to poke everyone once and then stall the game for a few turns.
@@Jaxelh Even without proliferate you will always be targeted first in a 4 player game despite not actually being able to win just because you had infect and the filthy casuals are having traumatic flashbacks from when they played 1v1's where Infect is good
I would have imagined that selvala is more popular than fynn tbh
Or Yeva. Making everything flash
@@travislindsey1507 Yeva is great ^^ really fun to play
Yeva is great, but “Just Flash” feels like a low ceiling to me, but I am one spoiled S.O.B, with the ability to burn the crumbs of my old collection for the likes of my boy Vorinclex, MR and Good Stuff like that glorious Henge.
I try not to be an entitled bastard. I get stuff for my friends and new kids who keep showing up at the LGS whenever some more cards head to Hong Kong, but it skews my sensibilities, I think. And hey, the cards to send off will run out soon, and my carriage will turn back into a pumpkin, so…
@@shawnpanzegraf5642 just dodges alot of green problem of getting blown out with one board wipe
It's probably the cost. Selvala alone is 20ish bucks whereas you can build a fynn for almost 20ish bucks lol. I'm exaggerating but he's to infect what Krenko is to go-wide
Definitely not surprised by these other than green. I have a Giada deck and a Krenko deck and they are both definitely popular for a reason.
All of these commanders have something in common. If they stick, the whole game becomes about taking that player out.
Definitely didn’t see Fynn coming
Have a build with him it’s pretty budget friendly just get every cheap green 1 drop with death touch and some evasion and it’s game over usually
Same i though it was going to be Ayula cause bear force one is a meme and cause bears are first cheap
I would had thought fynn was too obscure to be popular.
Time to make a fynn deck
I got White, Blue, and Red all right! Wasn't sure about black, the only mono colored black commander that even popped into my head was Razaketh, but when you popped up K'rrik, I thought "Yeah, that makes sense." As for green being Fynn, that was an absolute wild card. My guess was Freyalise or at least one of the elf commanders.
There's such a duality about mono red. Perhaps it is just the difference between playing irl or on arena, but I genuinely like the thought process of RDW working like a surgical knife trying to find the perfect sequence to get to lethal. I've seen Luca do it and I've done it as well! It's incredibly satisfying!
Thay being said, there are so many people who just net deck, i.e. people who juat want to win with that's the fastest or easiest, and you're more likely to face the net deckers who spam "your go" than the people who genuinely find the RDW experience exciting.
That being said, this deck is seriously well thought through to beat mono red! Awesome job as always Luca! 🔥🤘
Also game 4 absolutely reminded me of the old mentor prowess modern deck of old! Really cute to see older very powerful archetypes return but now in standard xD
"karnstruct", lovely
Green provides so much efficiency and consistency that just about any mono-green commander could work. So it's a matter of "why should I build around this green commander" versus "which commander works best?"
I love how Giada sounded like "Gyatta"
Fynn being the most popular destroys my faith in humanity
Right there with ya.
I prefer Marwyn Elves
It's almost like considering your oponents to have only 10 health is just broken.
Honestly I'm surprised it's not selvala
@@Unity-hk1bfsame
These are all based on EDHREC data, and I feel like there's some recency bias. Green for instance has only 5400 decks playing Omnath at this time, but during its prime I believe there were 10k or more.
So take these popular choices with a grain of salt.
I don't think it's recency bias.....entirely anyways....Green is just so powerful and consistent that just any Green commander can work.
@@randommindz6782 My point was that the amount of decks registered on EDHREC with Omnath as the Commander has reduced.
Omnath is the kind of Commander that you cannot really swap it out easily and retain the same style of deck. So I imagine if someone wanted to play a different Commander for their green deck they would make an entirely new deck for it.
It's not often that people actively go in to remove their old decks as it doesn't cost you anything to have an old disassembled deck on EDHREC, so if the numbers seemingly go down, but users are not the catalyst for it, I imagine EDHREC is somehow affecting the numbers. And to a degree it makes sense - like I said people rarely go in to remove their old decks, so keeping a large stack of decks from olden times that doesn't actually see play is in itself misleading.
@@randommindz6782 Funny thing is many cEDH players actually say green is the weakest color alone yes weaker than Mono White
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena as soon as you need to interact with opponents green gets a lot worse, yeah
@@zackestin1368 Still pretty fast and dangerous if playing a strategy like Mono green mazes end as the ramp is insane. I say Mono green as aside from the lands required for Mazes End and the commander every card in that deck is green. Funny thing is it would be considered one of the weakest Nine-Fingers Keene decks as she is BGU so you have two of the best color combinations in the game yet decide to run mono green with it lol
If played with the actual colors it would be a devastating deck as black you can search for any card or even draw for as many cards with blue you have infinite counter spells and green you could play more lands per turn meaning turning into a storm deck potentially
Yes there are enough unique gates to just run a Mazes End deck in BGU. Unless you utilize at least one of the other colors in the deck and not just green then it will just be a low tier competitive deck with the upside of not costing much because of mana and land ramp being high and low costing cards due to being abundant yes even for gates somewhat.
There is really not that much difference between good and bad competitive decks other than the consistency on how fast they could POTENTIALLY win. Yes that had to be caps as who knows what the other 3 people can do to stop you
When he said Krenko for red, i was not surprised and thought of the infinite damage combo with him. Krenko, Mob boss, Thornbite Staff, Goblin Bombardment.
I would have guessed Zada, but Krenko makes sense. Giada is so new though!!!
One of my favorite EDH memories was playing Changling Tribal against a Krenko deck and triggering a Coercive Recruiter everyturn to steal and tap Krenko. I had several times more goblins than him by the end. Nothing more satisfying than watching Krenko fall to his own minions.
Naban is a lot of fun as a wizard tribal commander. It's also only 2 mana so it's pretty fast for a draw deck. My mono black is K'rrik but that's because I just like Phyrexia in general, my mono green is Vorinclex monstrous raider elfball, my mono red is Birgi, mono white is Elesh Norn Grand Cenobite, and I have vilis mono black as well. 😆
My favorite mono green commander is Toski, Bearer of Secrets. Man I love value
My only mono color deck is Krenko. It’s not great yet but I just started working on it and haven’t devoted my time/effort/money yet. Plus everyone knows to target him since it can get so crazy so he usually gets blow up before my next turn.
Krenko is my current best deck, my recommendation would be to throw in a goblin chiggurn, you can sac a goblin to regenerate another goblin, that alongside some artifacts that provide hex proof/ward really help, top recommendations for those would be swiftfoot and lava spur boots, both of those are great since they also give haste which lets you start using kremlins ability sooner. Another reccomendation would be anything that untaps creatures, thorn bite staff is amazing for this and goes infinite but it is a 20-30$ card. Something like skirk prospector also helps , it gives you a red mana for sacrificing a goblin which is great because if you can get enough goblins and have a way to give krenko haste, even if he’s getting killed every turn if you have enough goblins you can continuously increase the number you have and just continue paying the commander tax(haste and a sacrifice outlet is another way to go infinite with him)
I know that feeling. Some games I don't even try to cast him until I've got all the parts of a combo ready to go infinite.
That’s so interesting! I really would have thought lower power commanders would have been higher on the most popular lists since I’m pretty sure most of these have some type of a salt score. Maybe less so for Gihada, and Krenko, but I digress.
Also I could see any of these decks comfortably competing in the same game.
I managed to guess urza, krenko and kyrrk surprisingly. I didn't get the angel I thought it might have been some token deck and I thought one of the kodamas or maybe one version of phyrexian praetor himself vorinclex
Giada is just the BEST small Angel available, providing what white heavy Angel decks (like my own ones) really need : mana
Edit: angels hage now access to card draw through combat triggers, especially in Boros
I did not expect that I had 2.5 of these and had just never finished the black one….
Mono black commander is actually pretty fun I like playing Tergrid and stealing everyone’s cards lol
@@ihave0hp you….. don’t have many friends do you…. 🥺
And theyre all extremely easy to build and require no thought to play. Perfect for beginner players who wanna get into the game and get some wins.
I wouldn’t say Krikk is super easy to play, you have to judge if losing life right now is worth it and gauge when you want to start storming off
@@kishibelunatik if you haven't put in any spells that give life link or gains you life in general then you built the deck wrong. There's tons of black cards that give the life back that you spent.
There is a super easy way to combo off with krik using villis broker of blood who causes you to draw card whenever you use life, if you just pay 2 life for phyrexian at any time you get more cards to play
@@kishibelunatik Get some extort into your deck, it's free anyway.
@@kishibelunatik even at his worst, he is often "spend 4 mana dump my hand" without any combos, in a game where people are trying to battlecruise to turn 6 this is going to be a problem for them.
lol 3 of the cards i got and said "hey this would be a fun commander!" and fynn being one is the only surprise. although i think thats simply due to Green being quite possibly the best mono color for commander so theres alot of good options
Green gotta be ashaya soul of the wild
Built decks in mtg website there are only about 2,000. Quite a few not nearly as much as some of the other mono green ones
Krrik isn’t just “generally good” he’s the reason mono black is a viable cedh color. Casting spells for free is busted and krrik is maybe the fastest deck in cedh, netting you shittons of turn one wins
Not fastest but pretty fast. But even if he is not the commander if you are running Mono Black i feel he is still a staple to include in the deck because he cuts the cost of all your black cards. And no Turn 1 wins don't happen often as odds are a opponent has a counter spell such as Force of Will so it is better to not act like a turbo deck and try to win turn 1 even if you could. Like you can delay it to turn 2 or 3 and be fairly safe about their counter spells and then win with certainty
K'rrik in of himself is a High Priority counter spell target so no matter what they would try to counter spell him unless there is another threat they had to use their counter spell on. So again it is tactically advantageous if you don't try to win turn 1 unless your god hand had a Conqueror's Flail as the important part reads "As long as Conqueror's Flail is attached to a creature, your opponents can't cast spells during your turn." so play a mook then try to cast that and if they counter it then you can still win with K'rrik turn 1
I have a mono green voltron deck with thrun breaker of silence that is pretty fun.
Giada is cool, but I like Sigada, Font of Blessing. The green ramp, Sigarda protecting your board and letting dig one card deeper , and a human sub theme really helps smooth out games
Hancock is actually a rather good choice for Zombie Anthem Decks IMHO. Ounce he ETBs, you can easily get him up to 10+ counters if you build the Deck right....
I’m surprised Gix isn’t the top or one of the top mono black commanders. It can be a really clutch win con late game as it was for me when I was nearly outmatched but I used his discard ability a few times and ended up turning the fight 180 and winning by using their strategy against them. He’s become one of my favorite commanders.
We need more Gargos, Vicious Watcher decks for mono green
I remember someone in arena making a video where they made like 16,000 goblin tokens using krenko using a combo. Needless to say, turns took a long time, and it crashed the game
Honestly in a free for all among these guys I’m going to guess it’s “dump your library onto the battlefield” Urza.
Krenko is so fun to play haha, I love goblins so much
Neheb the eternal is probably high up on the list as well for mono-red because of the ability to burn your opponents out so easily
You should do the second and third most popular too
TLDR: my friend created over a thousand goblins.
I went up against a Krenko with my Karador deck recently. Neither of us had an answer to the others play. His being goblin assassin my board into nothing and I would just keep casting Karador for his reduced 3 cost then cast spore frog from the graveyard. This went on for an hour until finally he won. But we had to start using coin flip generators for when his goblin assassin went off as he was creating hundreds of goblin tokens in our stalemate. By the end he won with 1150ish goblin token after having to sacrifice hundreds of them a turn each Krenko tap.
I have 3 of these built, K'rrik Krenko and Urza 😂 I own a deck of each color combo. My other mono decks include Heliod Ballista Cedh, and Ghalta draw 12 🎉
Prof is obviously jealous of Gavin’s awesome jacket
4/5 I thought Syvala instead of Fynn but he makes sense. I've never seen someone at a table with him though
Red has never changed since krenko dropped.
It's funny the fastest is also the most consistent
I had them all right except black, I thought Marrow-Gnawer was taking that one home
i would say giada, krenko, kriik, urza high artificer, not sure for green
Krenko is such a good cards even similar cards with minor set back like Marrow Gnawer which requires you to sac a rat first is insanely good. I think it helps that for both you can easily go infinite with Umbral mantel or staff of domination and any sac outlet for your creature's that gives mana
It's interesting that monogreen is so far below the others for it's most popular commander. The other 4 aren't surprising at all though. Giada had an entire secret lair deck built around her. The other 3 have insane combo potential and explosiveness. Krenko is the only one of these I've built, because I love Goblins. Usually I prefer more interesting unique builds though
Would never have guessed Fynn and cant believe I didn't get Krenko. Lol, I've seen so many of them.
3/5 is not bad. I missed on Fynn and Giada but hit all the other three.
Fynn is top in green probably because the generic green ramp value deck can basically use like any one of a hundred different commanders and play the same, so no one green ramp commander makes it to the top.
I have a Fynn deck, but only because it's actually a Dread Pirate Roberts deck. It's not something I would have made if it was just the regular version of the card.
My favorite mono red commander is Lovisa Coldeyes! She is so amazing, very low mid in power, but damn is it fun to bring her out.
Also que new art is cool, i just love that woman.
Me: "I don't waste my time with MTG anymore."
Also me: "Entering battlefield, must be the new Elesh Norn." :D
Insane its still Krenko after like over 10 years
I couldn't pause in time so i didn't have a chance to guess White before reveal but got 3/4 of others... Only real surprise is Fyn to mean.
I wouldve thought fynn would be a lot less popular, i expected mono green elf ball commander
I made a run of mono color commanders to prove to my friends that I don’t just play three color 😂
Oswald Fiddlebender artifact pod
Rhonas the indomitable (stompy deathtouch tramplers)
Kefnet God Eternal (instant and sorcery draw and clones and steals)
Birgi, Ragavan, and I forget other red were all fun.
I guess my Kriik deck was too meta out of my mono color run
I wanted to be original at one point with my mono red but my friend who I played some of my first matches with inherited me his Krenko before he moved away, so I HAD to craft it as a memento to him.
Love Selvala, HoW.
Marwyn, the Nurturer gets sadly overshadowed by Golgari Elfballs, which I think is a real shame.
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma is still the better Power 4 Matters Commander. Vaultborn Tyrant is stronger, sure, but VT’s strengths are capabilities your deck almost certainly already possesses…
Toski, Bearer of Secrets is such a fun deck to play. There are so many ways to build an effective Toski deck.
Hell, I don’t see this one often, but Old Gnawbone has so much potential. Dig in on mana doublers. Play other Treasure-makers and mana-adders like Tireless Provisioner and Lotus Cobra, while leaning into duping those guys. Such a great opportunity to play either really big spells, or Artifacts that aren’t normally feasible due to expense. (One of the only good Old Gnawbone decks I’ve seen was leveraging Helm of the Host and Unbound Flourishing to go nuts.)
Ghalta, Primal Hunger got a lot better recently with Railway Brawler. Seen some people do a Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant cheat-out sub-theme that seemed like it would be a ton of fun.
My boy, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, vanilla Vorinclex, and the #1 Legend that Vorinclex Secrets for, Kodama of the East Tree. All a blast if you stay out of Infect. Add Surrak and Goreclaw or even the good Nylea to this cluster of Commanders.
Hell, Aeve, Progenitor Ooze is a Ye Olden Days classic Commander.
*Fynn* ? FYNN is the majority of Mono Green players’ idea of the apex of Green Commander-dom?
No wonder no one respects us Green players. :(
All of these Commanders are great fun, and I missed so, so many!
Don’t cheat yourself. Fynn is the embodiment of the sweatiest, most no-fun-for-anyone-else thing that Mono Green does.
There’s better out there, I swear it.
Fynn is as toxic as you can get for mono green Commander. It is no fun to play against. It's about as bad as mass blue counterspells or mono black discard. Green is my favorite color and there's definitely a lot of good ones to choose from Surrak and Goreclaw are incredibly powerful giving your creatures that come in haste ❤
I guessed the alright except for Fynn. I don't know how he slipped my mind. MF is strong as hell.
Dang, I have all of these built except Urza - and I use +1/+1 Krenko
Only the Urza deck is actually fun to play more than a couple times (with, or against).
Kyrrk surprised me thought it would have been Yawgmoth
Here I was thinking Omnath was gonna be green’s choice.
2 right. Was thinking selvala krenko tegrid urza and sram
Green: Fynn White: idk light paws? black: krikk blue: urza(?) red:krenko
post-video: ok yeah giada makes sense, a bit embarrassed that i missed that.
I have Giada and my play group have the other Commanders in this short... we are sooo basic 😅.
I love poison, So much.
Damn, I have built all but one of these
I thought it was gonna be Selvala but Fynn is in my 99 for sure.
As a krenko player I agree
Should have also covered mono brown.
i imagine mono green has the most cmdrs with large numbers such as fynn.
My monogreen commander of choice is Radagast the Brown. I don't like building tribal, so antitribal was a lot of fun. For red, I use the god from new Ixalan. Voltron him up and use all the creatures that ping for 1 repeatedly >:3
Dang, I thought red would be Magda for sure
I was expecting one of the rats for black just because of rat colony decks.
My favorite colors red and black were the more predictable answers 😂
Hey give me my junji any day. He doesn't do much, but I like him.
Personally I prefer Krenko, tin street kingpin. Over mob boss. I've ran both, and i find with mob boss, I'm either going to win or lose by turn 4-5. All depending on if my commander gets killed right away. Where as with kingpin, I'm able to attack, and start making gobbos a whole turn earlier then if i was running mob boss. And I've had better odds of coming back from losing kingpin as well. Like MB can make loads more gobblins quickly. But KP can make you enough to win faster. And it doesn't matter if you have 10,000 if 10 is enough to win with.
Krenko goes brrrr
I was expecting warwyn tbh
White -Skrelv
Blue-Bruvac
Black-K'rrik
Red- Krenko, Mob Boss
Green- Gargos
For my decks
for blue im using kefnet for 4 mana its a really good card
the fact that the most popular mono-green commander is an uuncommander says something. I'm not sure exactly what it says, but it says something...
Thought mono green was gonna be an elf commander ngl
Zirilan of the Claw. Not that it's even near the top, just my favorite.
I built all the mono colored decks and have none of these. Lol (Imotekh, Donal, Karlach, Halvar, and Goreclaw.)😊
Although understandable, i think it is a little sad, that the most popular kinda is same as the strongest commander. Norin, the wary is such a funny commander. Hes basically flickering... In mono red! Or the mono blue braids. Its a blue deck that wins with huge creatures! In what other blue deck would that work? There is so much more to magic than just playing the strongest deck you can find online. My favourite commander at the moment is the four colored omnath. But my deck is not a landfall deck. Its flicker. And it is hilarious when i play omnath and keep flickering him only for the card draw xD
I dont think giada, krenko and fynn are the strongest of their color
@@steamh4mmer264 thats why i said kinda. It is hard to determine a strongest card anyway, but they all are definitely up there with the strongest commanders in their colors. At least i can tell you that a krenko deck is absurdly powerful even if its built by an inexperienced player...
For green it should have been the colossal dreadmaw
Not legendary otherwise I suspect it would be just because of the memes
@@arridueldes9843 The colossal dreadmaw is legendary
@@derAlphabet no, no its not, not in the sense of being a legendary creature in print at least, it's legendary enough they are making a nod to it in Modern Horizons 3 so that's something I suppose
So I swear I heard you say Urza makes a "Karnstruct", and now I refuse to call them anything else
I got them all wrong😂, I was thinking dragons and praetors and elf's and rats
Fynn surprised me ngl
i was expecting Green to be something like Ghalta, Azusa, or Selvala. you know, Mono Green rampy stompy stuff.
I got the rest right though, K'rrik is a no-brainer, Krenko is a no-brainer, and the only Mono blue commanders that are any kind of competitive other than Urza is Memnarch, but there's not much of a reason to choose Memnarch over Urza, they're the same deck which leaves Thassa, Deep-Dwelling.
I figured mono white could have also been something like Light-paws or Danitha, otherwise i would have assumed Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines. (Panhar-mommy-con)
With how long krenko has been around I'm surprised it's not the highest on the list.
Also hilarious that mono green doesn't come close to 10k
Totally thought Vorniclex would have taken Green.
Legit never heard or seen either the white or green commanders
Only ever done mono white and honestly it's probably one of my better decks. Danitha, Benalia's Hope
I woulda guessed OG Omnath, not pauper infect. Sounds like 7,700 play groups have too much patience