Commanders by Power Level [EDH Tier List]

Commander / EDH* thegigibeast

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Big changes incoming! —July 9, 2018

Hello everyone!

I am here to announce that some important changes are coming to this list.

I know that for a lot of people (even in cEDH), tier lists should not be a thing, because we can't gather enough datas about decks, so we end up ranking commanders based on preferences and personnal experiences mostly...

Things are going to change a lot. After seeing that many people here wanted some change, I reached for help on the cEDH subreddit and some people stood out to help. Some people that also wanted to help improving a great resource that could be way better.

Without further ado, I am here to introduce the new helpers, and new mods of the list: ShaperSavant, LabManiac_Sigi, tw0handt0uch, RattleAndHum (and of course me, thegigibeast)

We all have different visions on how we should approach cEDH, and we will all try our best to make this list a better resource.

This means there will be a lot of changes, from the formatting of the list, the division of the tiers, event a change in the philosophy of what we call tiers here!

For now, we are starting to Brainstorm about how we could make the list better. Stay tuned for some more updates!

Soren841 says... #1

thegigibeast I would be interested

July 6, 2018 3:32 p.m.

Kiyomei says... #2

I don't think you have the insight or knowledge for that and I would rather see this list removed, or have this "tier" list link to another list with multiple versions of the "cedh commanders" without a "tier" to represent this opinion list...

For example instead of zur on here linking to a specific list, let it link to another list where you can only find zur decks in the description with some small info about what it plans to do so you at least show all viable options instead of one that runs specific meta things like grim and power artifact because he suffers too stax a lot...

for example shimmer/doomsday/control/etc/etc... with all the top versions in it...

and have a link to all those lists with perhaps some weaker ones too but for a more casual audience or some "meme" versions whilst still promoting proper playable decks...

I'm working on a derevi list atm with a lot of good versions, so perhaps it's better to find specific people who would want to do this non-biased about their own deck not being on there...

July 7, 2018 12:08 a.m.

Polar2897 says... #3

Kiyomei I mean doesn't EDHrec kinda do all that for us? You can look at a certain card to see what decks its commonly played in, popular commanders, as well as deck lists and commonly played cards for that commander. People just want to see the new commanders listed on here and what tiers they were given. Doesn't matter what their given tier is, its not actually going to affect anything.

July 7, 2018 2:41 a.m.

Soren841 says... #4

Kiyomei the problem is yes there are different versions, but I'm sure some are better than others c:

July 7, 2018 3:11 a.m.

Kiyomei says... #5

Polar2897 sure it won't affect anything because a "tier" in this format is a joke and pretty biased anyway although some data is out there it is far from enough data compared to other formats... But yeah I can understand some just want to see where it is placed at for whatever weird reason and i'm okay with that...

I just think it would be 100% better instead of adding one deck on here to just link to another list for example with multiple versions of the commanders decks and what not; like zur was one example but you can take thrasi and tymna as well and yes you have the all round fastest sigi list, but that doesn't mean it is the best list as other version might be slower but packed with more control and protection or have a completely different playstyle...

(meaning this list can take it slower and have other people working on separate lists for specific commanders that are then linked here!)

Goldfished games are one thing but a table of 4 has shown us enough that it only takes one to stop the fastest at the table.


and Soren841 how can you tell the difference between the power of any of those zur list, I don't play zur my self but I did some research here and there for myself and the list on here plays super heavy meta dependant stuff compared to the others and I even asked him the reason for those specific cards that were in that version and not the other ones and it was just meta stuff as I thought so were does the power really come from if it can play equally well with an adaptation or another version...

July 7, 2018 11:28 a.m.

merrowMania says... #6

@thegigibeast - I would be willing to help keep the list up to date, but since I don't play cEDH outside of my playgroup, I don't know how well I could help make the list reflect the "true cEDH meta".

July 7, 2018 11:49 a.m.

Polar2897 says... #7

thegigibeast I would love to help get the list going again! If you interested in working together let me know. Glad to see your back! Message me or something if theres any questions or anything.

July 7, 2018 2:54 p.m.

apoliceman says... #8

The Locust God should be 2.0 tier deck. Here is my deck for an example: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/signs-of-the-swarm-1/

July 8, 2018 7:38 a.m.

enpc says... #9

apoliceman: your deck looks like you smooshed a competitive and a casual deck together. I'm so confused. Also, if you're going to just say a commander should be at a particular tier, it's worth posting some reasoning behind the comment.

July 8, 2018 9:58 a.m.

Kiyomei says... #10

xD, A really biased opinion and nothing more than that? but it is fine where it is placed at now so don't worry about it.

July 8, 2018 9:58 a.m.

Momir should be moved to tier 1.5 and my list should be replaced with a hackball list like this one. It is really really fast and pretty consistent at that.

July 8, 2018 11:54 a.m.