Evaluating Commanders (What makes a commander "viable"?)

In this video we are going to discuss the factors and attributes that make a commander viable and even, potentially, broken. After watching this video you'll be able to easily look at a commander and know if it is only a casual commander or if it could be built as a competitive commander. There are pretty simple metrics you can use to quickly determine how competitively viable a legendary creature might be. If it doesn't check one of the five boxes we discuss here it probably just doesn't get there. If it checks more than one of the boxes it's a virtual guarantee that there is a way to build it at high power, budget competive, or cEdh. Then I open up the cedh ddb and see compare actual cEdh commanders to my check list. At the end we take a look at the most popular commanders from the last couple months and decide which of those commanders could make the jump from casual to competitive.