The Most Hated Commanders of All Time: 2023 Update | Saltiest Commanders | EDH | Magic the Gathering

The fact that 8 of these are Phyrexians and 7 are Praetors really says something about the Phyrexians.

IMO the thing that has vorinclex salty for me is the ability to have planeswalkers enter with double loyalty and immediately use their ultimate ability. Especially if you find out by watching it happen.

I remember one of the first commander decks I ever built was a tergrid deck. Idk why I was drawn to one of the most evil decks right away but I think part of it was that I had a bunch of bad discard and sacrifice cards already that I could just easily slot in and it would still be powerful. However now even though I’ve upgraded her to have fast mana and some other stax sprinkled in I still rarely play her, she usually just gets immediately removed or stolen with a gilded drake or cloned or something so it’s hard for her to do her thing, but boy oh boy do I love resolving a death cloud for X=7 with her on the board. No hands, no lands, no creatures (except for me, I have all of them).

Grand Arbiter is nice and all, but Hinata is on a whole different level (can’t believe she didn’t make it on the list). Playing X Spells and target everything on the board but paying just one mana for it in many cases is one of the most disgusting things I‘ve ever did :D

I pulled my own Elesh Norn, mother of machines in a card ship at a Pre-release event, my pre-release box came with the phyrexian white dice, so I took it as a sign and made her a Commander, she is my strongest deck, So much so I retire her and only play her when requested.

I had a discard deck for years that was at some point headed by Tergrid. I took it apart when I realized how truly hated that card is. 😂 That being said....I DO have a Toxrill proliferate deck.

I've played against Tergrid and its completely miserable. It cannot be on the battlefield for even a moment or you will likely lose the game. Everyone else has to hold onto every bit of instant speed countermagic or instant removal. Even the removal might not be fast enough if Swiftfoot Boots are already out. When Tergrid comes out, the person usually is already holding some kind of instant discard or sacrifice play in hand. They trade one card, and get 3 back. It only takes this happening a scant few times and they are so far ahead, you basically need a board wipe to get back in the game. Toxrill is almost as bad- if the turn goes around one time, that is practically a one-sided board wipe. Anything left will be so weak they will be almost useless for combat. The only upside is Toxrill is slow to get out and you have time to find something to keep it off the board. A few hits of commander tax can make it really hard to get out.

I built a Toxrill deck because I pulled three in two weeks of drafting VOW. It was a sign from the gaming gods that it had to be done. And now, two years later I know when I pull that deck out, before the first card is played that I am the arch-enemy. EVERYONE will be coming after me. And when the deck works well, It's still fun. But goes back away after only a game or two.

I refuse to play against Etali, Primal Conqueror. Low power versions of the deck are okay but when you ramp into Etali the first couple turns and start blinking every turn to steal the top 10 cards of every players deck it gets ridiculous and is horrible to play against.

i dont have a "winter orb" in my Urza deck but I DO have a "storm cauldron" which when a land is tapped it is returned to your hand but players can interact with it so its not too salty but yeah you will want a glass of water when playing against this deck

Dam. I'v eaither got a few of these or had them. Got a Yuriko Ninja deck, a Vorinclex (monsterous raider) focused on +1/+1 counters, Atraxa Supper Friends *yet to be played as still working out mana curve) and Dismantled my Toxtril deck (Never won a single game as i got targeted everytime before he even hit the board.

Pretty accurate list Personnaly think that the 10 mana Gin is pretty ok, you see it coming and there's not a lot of option to cheat him in mono-blue (and no ward effect, so killable easily) My problem would be Sheoldredd the apocalypse : a friend built it, and played jeweled lotus into Sheoldredd turn 1 The first thing you do IN THE GAME is to lose 2 lifes because of her xD You can't even interact with what she is doing, draw is obligatory. Elesh Norn Grand Cenobite--> decks that don't run a lot of creatures are fine. Gin from Neon Dynasty : decks that don't run a lot of instant/sorcery are fine But Sheoldredd hurts you in the most sadistic way :)

Honestly I was expecting my boy Jodah, Unifier was gonna be in here. He is really good at shaking peoples hands and I get why one might resent that.

So funny story....awhile back I was in a three player commander game, and one of my opponents was playing Toxrill as his commander, while I was playing zombies (I don't remember what the other guy was playing). I had my commander Wilhelt the rotcleaver which died, but without going into too much detail, I had other zombies out, and basically was drawing cards for every zombie in play that Toxrill killed, and though I was losing life, I just kept drawing cards whenever one of my zombies died. (this was a long time ago, so I can't remember all the details).

On the topic of opponents not liking it when you take their turns, I have a Zevlor deck that I enjoy playing, but there have been several cards that I've taken out of it over time, one being Worst Fears. I thought that it would be fine because its an expensive move to play it, then copy it with Zevlor. I figured that it would get countered if i even tried it. But no, turns out that it was not that hard to get through, and resolving a copied Worst Fears even once made me feel like a jackass. Like I just took everybody's toys away and used them while they had to sit there and watch. I still have some evil things in the deck, but no "steal your turn" stuff.

Sen Triplets is one the first commanders I bought but still have not built because I know it will be unliked. I guess I can build it and play in some pods as long as I make it lower powered and let players know ahead what is in the deck.

It's crazy how many of these can be stalled or stopped completely by Solemnity

Vorinclex, a jerk card for jerks.

Surprised Feather isnt on the list, card gets outta control fast and pretty much makes it so that you always have cantrips ready for hex proof or to buff a already pretty strong commander.

I've got a point of criticism: it's getting harder and harder to ignore his "because, well" addiction. He says it a lot. Also seems to sprinkle "well" into sentences for extra flavor.