I like to imagine that between recordings Richard is just sitting on his sofa chair. Motionlessly. Just waiting for another game. Playing different scenarios in his head. Just sitting, scheming and waiting.
Slivers are each just a small tiny piece of the whole so the name makes sense for a hive of monsters. I also LOVE how excited Phil gets for Seth's value.
Or more pecisely, they were in their original design. They were each a piece of a shattered cosmic entity (or something like that) and shared abilities not because of a hive mind, but because the one entity was becoming more whole as you played more of them.
Remasuri is also actually a word in German, although it is super uncommen and I never heard it before seeing it on a Magic card. It roughly translates into mess, or clutter, or tangle. It is a similar idea to the sliver term. Sliver describes the relation of the individual to the collective while Remasuri just desribes the collective.
I appreciate Tomer always honoring his word, even when it’s super detrimental to him. I also love Seth’s “surprise” that Tomer would do that when Tomer, many times, said he would. I love Tomer/Seth interactions.
Threats like that are just a bad idea in the first place though, we've seen time and time again where Tomer threatens hellfire on people, cornering himself into game-losing plays every time.
I might have missed something, but instead of targeting the Ayara at the end, could he not have exiled his own knight to get a chump blocker? Truly a man of principle if that was the case :)
@@rmanzero You just need to make them more carefully. If following through on a threat is more damaging to you than your opponent, or if not listening to the threat is more beneficial than fearing it, you should never make threats, unless you can succeed in a bluff. But if you can make properly coercive threats, you can control a game without using any resources. EDH is politics.
Seth: Are you really going to deny me the Coveted Jewel? Tomer: Yes. Richard: What did it cost? Tomer: Everything Spoiler for Next Week Crim: Clash On!
Slivers are called "fragmentados" in Spanish wich translates into "fragmenteds". I've always thought the spanish translation makes a lot of sense since slivers are not really good unless you put some of them together like fragments of a whole
I personally put Grave Pact at an A on the salty scale. My play group usually avoids it because any deck that can use it just ends up locking people out of the game very easily. It's really unfun to play with it and play against it because the game suddenly shifts to trying to remove it.
@@nCedric1 Yeah it definitely ranks pretty hight on the salt scale. It's just that Jadar get's a pass (from me) to play this because it's just too sweet with him xD
If Priest of Forgotten Gods didn't target, it would be a mana ability which can't be responded to. That might be too good at 2 mana, even for Commander.
Moonsilver Key is legit, but especially shines in decks that can recur it. It's the sort of card that scales with your card pool and intentions. It gets your Sol Ring, Arcane Signet or Land as a baseline. But also: the aforementioned Forsaken Monument, Indestructible Artifact Duals, LED for Breach Combo, Monoliths for Rings combo, KCI, Altars, Henge, etc. And if you're lucky enough to play Vintage, it grabs Lotus and Moxen.
At the beginning Seth mentioned that he likes to play more recent commanders for anything goes week, and honestly I love that. That could be a great idea for game themes if you guys are ever running out of theme ideas: Anything goes from the past 2 years, or Standard Anything Goes, or something. Gives us more chances to possibly see commanders from recent sets that may not have been picked for their week's episode, or even just see different takes on it. Clash On!
Dictionary and Merriam-Webster define sliver as "a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter." and "a long slender piece cut or torn off : splinter." So, they're basically synonyms. Any distinction between organic or non-organic is rubbish.
Priest of Forgotten Gods targets so the ability isn't a mana ability. If it didn't target, it would be a mana ability which draws you a card, which creates really weird issues online (since you can ctrl-Z a mana ability but then you'd have seen the card, etc.). "Abilities that have to choose targets aren't mana abilities" is a rule that exists just to handle cases like this.
When Sliver Queen was printed, City of Brass, Undiscovered Paradise, and Mox Diamond were all standard, then called Type 2, legal at the time. That's not including pain lands from 5th edition that were admittedly only allied-colored but were still pretty good. I don't think people really understood the power of Sliver Queen and/or Mox Diamond at the time they came out, but it was totally possible to get Sliver Queen out by turn 5. I think one of the reasons they didn't was because Wasteland came out in Tempest and was really, really good.
Eldrane has a lot of tropes from Arthurian legend and Celtic mythology too, not only Grimm's fairytales. So yeah, names like Locthwain are supposed to look vaguely Celtic/Gaelic
Tomer is just waiting every morning in front of the LGS to see if Seth is driving by to hire some guests for the day. The tough life of a Canadian migrant. At least the plants get to eat today.
I got a Grave Pact for my birthday recently and Jadar looks like the perfect home for it. Im contemplating what deck to build around it, but Jadar just shot up the list alongside Lyzolda and either of the Marchesas.
I have an upgrade for Phils deck that makes it more interesting. Alter of the brood, alter of dimentia and heart stone added with Queen makes for an instant mill combo
Phil, remasuri kommt von den ösis und heißt so viel wie durcheinander es ist nicht bedeutungslos oder eine Wortneuschöpfung. Hatte das auch irgendwann mal geprüft weil, mir der Begriff nichts sagte.
FYI command tax only increases when you CAST your commander, so other methods of getting it out of your command zone like Hellkite Courser does not increment the tax
Tomer, GOOD NEWS! Kaldra Compleat might even be viable (well, enough to have fun with) in Legacy or Vintage. In Vintage, if you combine Kataki, Stony Silence and maybe Energy Flux, you have a brutal hate package vs artifacts, possibly mono-W, and Kaldra can survive that hate by being indestructible/having no activated abilities. It's worth a try, it's not super-hard to hate on lands via your own lands, especially if you're mono-coloured. I feel like nobody will see it coming, and if you want you can still run the fast mana and just let it die when it stops mattering, so you might get out an early Archon of Emeria, or Thalia GoT, either of which is brutal in older formats which like to cast multiple spells, and grind to a halt if these get out. That Sliver shenanigan over working with other player's Slivers was a big deal briefly, and IIRC that's why new cards often aren't symmetrical. Eldraine had a subtheme of 'Matter of Britain' I think, in the knight tribal that didn't actually matter enough apparently. While there have been many henges, the most famous one is in the UK. Lochthwaine sounds like a British Isles inspired place name, as do some other ones. YMMV? I'm starting to warm up on Coveted Jewel, it seems like a fun card in certain decks. At the very least my OG Multani deck should take a look at it. It's like a much bigger, beefier Monarch for people to shoot for, and if you don't actually care about it (or if you can always get it via Shadows), it just looks like a bunch of fun to play it out. 6 mana is a bunch, but 6 mana to draw 3 is pretty reasonable in most colours. If you can protect it, then you've got ramp and some cards, which seems good for 6 mana.
I don’t play grave pact or dictate because it’s a bit too effective in locking out creatures strategies, and besides, it’s usually those sneaky spellslinger decks you gotta pressure 😋
On the new look the slivers got in M14 etc. my theory is, that they changed the look up because of the magic storyline . i guess the original slivers we have seen are not the same kind as the newer ones. the new ones do have phyrexian influences in the art. so it might be related to the story in new phyrexia and that they where more half-brood slivers or made up again in a laboratory, thats only my speculations on it.
Maybe my favorite commander clash ever and I’ve been watching since Tom ⬅️(❤️) Phil (which means love) adds such great interaction with Tomer also ❤️ Seth, Seth Also Known As Saffron Budda That We All Need Right Now, please give Bear an extra scritch on the ear for me tonight Richard, so much respect for the big brain plays and opinions 🙏 Thanks for enabling the best of the internet Much love to you from a slightly tipsy fan from Missoula, Montana
I like to imagine that between recordings Richard is just sitting on his sofa chair. Motionlessly. Just waiting for another game. Playing different scenarios in his head. Just sitting, scheming and waiting.
I like that scenario
He is damn good but it's mainly due to his ability to control his mouth, not always his play patterns. 🧐
I really like the trailers at the beginning of the videos. Brings so much hype before Richard wins :D
The prediction before it even happened!
That subtle flip of Tomer's cam to make him point in the right direction at 10:15. The Editor should get a raise.
Dude, he's great about that all the time! Very conscientious and detail-oriented.
Tomer is doing a terrible job of being fired.
He deserves to get fired from being fired
Slivers are each just a small tiny piece of the whole so the name makes sense for a hive of monsters. I also LOVE how excited Phil gets for Seth's value.
Or more pecisely, they were in their original design. They were each a piece of a shattered cosmic entity (or something like that) and shared abilities not because of a hive mind, but because the one entity was becoming more whole as you played more of them.
Remasuri is also actually a word in German, although it is super uncommen and I never heard it before seeing it on a Magic card. It roughly translates into mess, or clutter, or tangle. It is a similar idea to the sliver term. Sliver describes the relation of the individual to the collective while Remasuri just desribes the collective.
@@petrsevcik5044 "a small, thin piece of something cut or split off a larger piece", so probably a sharp piece. Knife hands lol
I appreciate Tomer always honoring his word, even when it’s super detrimental to him. I also love Seth’s “surprise” that Tomer would do that when Tomer, many times, said he would. I love Tomer/Seth interactions.
Yeah for sure, if you dont stick to your threats they will mean nothing next time. Granted Seth never takes them seriously anyway lol
I agree, it's a shame that Tomer got fired
Threats like that are just a bad idea in the first place though, we've seen time and time again where Tomer threatens hellfire on people, cornering himself into game-losing plays every time.
I might have missed something, but instead of targeting the Ayara at the end, could he not have exiled his own knight to get a chump blocker?
Truly a man of principle if that was the case :)
@@rmanzero You just need to make them more carefully. If following through on a threat is more damaging to you than your opponent, or if not listening to the threat is more beneficial than fearing it, you should never make threats, unless you can succeed in a bluff. But if you can make properly coercive threats, you can control a game without using any resources. EDH is politics.
This is the BEST crew this season. I love that there were so many fun, janky, casual friendly decks in an "anything goes" episode!
It's not 3+ hours so I doubt there's more than one janky deck
Seth: Are you really going to deny me the Coveted Jewel?
Tomer: Yes.
Richard: What did it cost?
Tomer: Everything
Spoiler for Next Week
Crim: Clash On!
This whole channel and everyone I’ve ever seen on it is super wholesome. The positivity never feels forced. ❤️
Slivers are called "fragmentados" in Spanish wich translates into "fragmenteds". I've always thought the spanish translation makes a lot of sense since slivers are not really good unless you put some of them together like fragments of a whole
Lore wise that also makes sense
Aminatou is my favorite commander. So many funs ways to play. I was so glad you showed her off with my favorite coveted jewel
Very lovely to play even as a Janky deck
I'm glad Phil provided the word splinter. I was almost dead.
Tomer: "Metalwork Colossus is pointing down, that's why he doesn't have reach."
My brain: "Metalwork Colossus doesn't have reach. He has bend."
Richard understands the power of saying no to deals. His unwillingness to make the deal spikes the ball back into Tomer's court.
Sliver kind of makes sense if they are all a piece of one whole. A sliver of the hivemind etc.
Thats a sweet point but then they should be "splinters" right? Because they are organic?
@@Y0utube5ucks that adds up. I'm guessing the creator didn't make that through line. I'd love to find out the trivia to the names.
@@nickjoeb Agreed. When I was a half dyslexic kid I always just called them silvers lol.
Ok but that Smash intro was legit
I personally put Grave Pact at an A on the salty scale. My play group usually avoids it because any deck that can use it just ends up locking people out of the game very easily. It's really unfun to play with it and play against it because the game suddenly shifts to trying to remove it.
Yeah, an enchantment that locks the table until it is removed is pretty much Stasis, so it DESERVES to be an A. I hope the crew reads this comment.
@@nCedric1 Yeah it definitely ranks pretty hight on the salt scale. It's just that Jadar get's a pass (from me) to play this because it's just too sweet with him xD
It never effects my decks because I run very few creatures but seeing the pain in my timmy opponents eyes makes me not want it to be played ever.
That intro is Fantastic! The Brawl music always takes me back. One of my favourites.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!! That opening hits me square in the nostalgia
Do you know the oppwning music name?
@@TheSleeperAgent It's the main them of Super Smash Bros Brawl
18:50
Upstate new yorker here, sliver and splinter are interchangeable... could be an us thing, kinda like gank is an upstate thing
If Priest of Forgotten Gods didn't target, it would be a mana ability which can't be responded to. That might be too good at 2 mana, even for Commander.
"The best didn't happen, so I just died"
mood
Kind of sad Tomer missed Crib Swapping his Haakon to block with the changeling token and not die that turn
No regrets
@@MTGGoldfishCommander I respect that🙏
Not grabbing a Swamp off Fabled Passage changed the course of this game entirely.
*prismatic vista
As soon as I saw that Prismatic Vista and Phil's hand, I thought, "Oh, he'll fetch for a swamp."
Moonsilver Key is legit, but especially shines in decks that can recur it. It's the sort of card that scales with your card pool and intentions. It gets your Sol Ring, Arcane Signet or Land as a baseline. But also: the aforementioned Forsaken Monument, Indestructible Artifact Duals, LED for Breach Combo, Monoliths for Rings combo, KCI, Altars, Henge, etc. And if you're lucky enough to play Vintage, it grabs Lotus and Moxen.
That was such a sick intro. Brawl music will never not be hype as hell
We need a 'Clash On' playmat with like the C.C. crew ready to duke it out.
OOOOOHHHHHH BOY CLASH ON
WHAT A TRAILER!!
At the beginning Seth mentioned that he likes to play more recent commanders for anything goes week, and honestly I love that. That could be a great idea for game themes if you guys are ever running out of theme ideas: Anything goes from the past 2 years, or Standard Anything Goes, or something. Gives us more chances to possibly see commanders from recent sets that may not have been picked for their week's episode, or even just see different takes on it. Clash On!
Dictionary and Merriam-Webster define sliver as "a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter." and "a long slender piece cut or torn off : splinter." So, they're basically synonyms. Any distinction between organic or non-organic is rubbish.
I want Tomer excitedly yelling clash on to be my text msg sound
Priest of Forgotten Gods targets so the ability isn't a mana ability. If it didn't target, it would be a mana ability which draws you a card, which creates really weird issues online (since you can ctrl-Z a mana ability but then you'd have seen the card, etc.). "Abilities that have to choose targets aren't mana abilities" is a rule that exists just to handle cases like this.
When Sliver Queen was printed, City of Brass, Undiscovered Paradise, and Mox Diamond were all standard, then called Type 2, legal at the time. That's not including pain lands from 5th edition that were admittedly only allied-colored but were still pretty good. I don't think people really understood the power of Sliver Queen and/or Mox Diamond at the time they came out, but it was totally possible to get Sliver Queen out by turn 5. I think one of the reasons they didn't was because Wasteland came out in Tempest and was really, really good.
Eldrane has a lot of tropes from Arthurian legend and Celtic mythology too, not only Grimm's fairytales. So yeah, names like Locthwain are supposed to look vaguely Celtic/Gaelic
Tomer is just waiting every morning in front of the LGS to see if Seth is driving by to hire some guests for the day. The tough life of a Canadian migrant. At least the plants get to eat today.
I know this is five months old but this made me laugh out loud. Too funny!
Also, Brewer's Kitchen's plants are awesome 🪴 What is the huge leaf????
I got a Grave Pact for my birthday recently and Jadar looks like the perfect home for it. Im contemplating what deck to build around it, but Jadar just shot up the list alongside Lyzolda and either of the Marchesas.
I have an upgrade for Phils deck that makes it more interesting. Alter of the brood, alter of dimentia and heart stone added with Queen makes for an instant mill combo
Actually "remasuri" is a real word. It's used in Austria and means something like big mess. :D
01:19:35 Richard's Evil Laugh cracks me up!!!
In the US, sliver and splinter are pretty much interchangeable.
I love how tomer says clash on like wobbafett coming out of his pokeball
Great episode.
Tomer dying to just to deny seth the jewel was hilarous, but inadvisable.
it's so great to see Tomer this happy😭😭
we really stan you king👑 clash on!💪
Phil, remasuri kommt von den ösis und heißt so viel wie durcheinander es ist nicht bedeutungslos oder eine Wortneuschöpfung. Hatte das auch irgendwann mal geprüft weil, mir der Begriff nichts sagte.
I like the new Clash On! Intro transition. HOWEVER, I'd love to is in outro transition screen that says Clash Off!
1:19:00
Tomer could have exiled his own creature to generate an untapped 1/1 for chumping, or am I mistaken?
17:48 A single sliver is a minor annoyance, but if you were to have 20+ slivers, that would be pretty painful
Hazezon Tamar loves Shields of Velis Vale to spite exile opponents' boards when they remove him. :)
Seems entirely reasonable
FYI command tax only increases when you CAST your commander, so other methods of getting it out of your command zone like Hellkite Courser does not increment the tax
Okay I only watched like 30 seconds and I already have to comment to say I loved the special intro. Made me smile.
CLASH ON
SUPER CLASH BROTHERS!
With that intro Nintendo will be trying to take you down!
Tomer in smash when
Tomer, GOOD NEWS! Kaldra Compleat might even be viable (well, enough to have fun with) in Legacy or Vintage. In Vintage, if you combine Kataki, Stony Silence and maybe Energy Flux, you have a brutal hate package vs artifacts, possibly mono-W, and Kaldra can survive that hate by being indestructible/having no activated abilities. It's worth a try, it's not super-hard to hate on lands via your own lands, especially if you're mono-coloured. I feel like nobody will see it coming, and if you want you can still run the fast mana and just let it die when it stops mattering, so you might get out an early Archon of Emeria, or Thalia GoT, either of which is brutal in older formats which like to cast multiple spells, and grind to a halt if these get out.
That Sliver shenanigan over working with other player's Slivers was a big deal briefly, and IIRC that's why new cards often aren't symmetrical.
Eldraine had a subtheme of 'Matter of Britain' I think, in the knight tribal that didn't actually matter enough apparently. While there have been many henges, the most famous one is in the UK. Lochthwaine sounds like a British Isles inspired place name, as do some other ones. YMMV?
I'm starting to warm up on Coveted Jewel, it seems like a fun card in certain decks. At the very least my OG Multani deck should take a look at it. It's like a much bigger, beefier Monarch for people to shoot for, and if you don't actually care about it (or if you can always get it via Shadows), it just looks like a bunch of fun to play it out. 6 mana is a bunch, but 6 mana to draw 3 is pretty reasonable in most colours. If you can protect it, then you've got ramp and some cards, which seems good for 6 mana.
I wish you did a adventures in the forgotten world precon commander upgrade guide your guides are so useful
Tomer at the end describing his deck made it sound like Smash Up. Ninjas and werewolves and...
Maybe an idea for a new name for it?
53:40 how did Hakoon get in toner's graveyard?
He entomb him on turn 1
Dude the intros are so cool!!
Feels like Phil edited the beginning 😂
(Just started the video so idk the rest😅)
Omg, I love the soundtrack you picked for the intro. What is it???
What program are they using to play?
Phil getting the kindred discovery hit in that board wipe killed any recourse he may have had
Wow, first time I see the new intro and I love it!
Whoaaa love the new intro. Clash on!!
Tomer should just say "Clash Out" when he ends his vods. Different and still cool 😎
Literally my favorite deck is 5C Changelings also. I play it with Tiamat but Tomer has good taste
I always figured they were called Slivers because they were but a small piece of the greater Hive. A "sliver of the Hive" if you will....
Jadar destroyed me on Tomer's stream last week, lets see how it will perform today (I love sac decks and loved Phil's version of Jadar)
I see you with that subtle plant flex Phil
Does the contraat look different to anyone this week?
I don’t play grave pact or dictate because it’s a bit too effective in locking out creatures strategies, and besides, it’s usually those sneaky spellslinger decks you gotta pressure 😋
What do they use to play?
hahahaha that music tho on start up~! Just Great
That intro was awesome lol
He is back, back again, with Tribal-Tribal as a friend, should he win or should he lose, he’ll all know he is spelled Tomer and not Ooze.
On the new look the slivers got in M14 etc. my theory is, that they changed the look up because of the magic storyline . i guess the original slivers we have seen are not the same kind as the newer ones. the new ones do have phyrexian influences in the art. so it might be related to the story in new phyrexia and that they where more half-brood slivers or made up again in a laboratory, thats only my speculations on it.
MVP of this game: Coveted Jewel! One of my favorite cards.
Tomer's tribal tribal is temporarily protected from sliver overlord. Due to ward sliver on the Field
Does anyone know when Esix will come to MTGO?
33:00 technically the wordingmakes it so you can target yourself as well i think
Yo now that they are doing Universes beyond correctly what if they did a Sliver Secret Lair with classic/new Slivers reimagined as Predators
I love using Haakon and Nameless Inversion. It is a delightful combination in a zombie deck.
The Brawl into music.
Richard's face with two full board wipes in hand
I'm digging that new into...
CLASH ON!
Phil is a great add!
I have the reach issue with Ulamog why does an Eldrazi TITAN not have reach
Who does the art for the thumbnail?
Adriano Kitani! He was on the show for an episode last season
THAT INTRO THOUGH!!!
The reason slivers are called slivers is because they are slivers of an old god
the editing on this is great. Phil?
Maybe my favorite commander clash ever and I’ve been watching since Tom ⬅️(❤️)
Phil (which means love) adds such great interaction with Tomer also ❤️
Seth, Seth Also Known As Saffron Budda That We All Need Right Now, please give Bear an extra scritch on the ear for me tonight
Richard, so much respect for the big brain plays and opinions 🙏 Thanks for enabling the best of the internet
Much love to you from a slightly tipsy fan from Missoula, Montana
"Richard Didn't come to mess around" ..."alright...Moonsilver key" haha
Damn, that intro was 🔥
One day Tomer will get to pop off with Tribal Tribal.
Sees Tomer's and Phil's decks. Looks at the total episode time. Wonders if it's bad to metagame a match that's under 3 hours?
Great intro this week
They’re called slivers because they are all like little slivers of a card, and come together
Phill has his channel or...?