I have a Nekusar too very similar. Lots of fun to play but a massive glass cannon and absolutely horrendous if opponents begin to steal your Nekusar et al!
@ 34:42 the Stonehewer Giant would indeed have been destroyed my Merieke. Look at how her ability's trigger is worded. As soon as she taps and hits a creature with her ability it is forever marked with the untap-destroy trigger.
This was a fantastic game. Great decks everyone. Now, I wonder if they're gonna play Elder Dragon Highlander or Elder Dinosaur Highlander next week O_O
Elder Dinosaur Highlander next week? I say that because they(Stephen) specifically said EDH. The only Commander VS episode that is/was labeled as EDH was when they played with the original Elder Dragons excluding Chromium(the WUB artifact dragon with rampage 2). Unless they are doing that one again, my guess is Elder Dinosaur Highlander.
34:34 When Justin untaps Merieke Ri Berit shouldn't Stonehewer Giant be destroyed since it was targeted by Merieke Ri Berit's ability (even though control was changed by Gilded Drake's ability)?
As soon as I saw that Jin and Rafiq of the Many were gonna be in this I thought "oh man, this episode is gonna be goood 😁" (Mostly because up until today I had never heard of Rafiq, so I thought "hey, a card i've never seen before. This should be interesting"). But then Merieke showed up as the fun police 😒. But the fact that you guys wound up trolling Justin with the Doge card was priceless. 😂
At 1:06:00, you had double strike on the beast token but only triggered the sword once and dealt damage once. Unless you missed the double-strike trigger for attacking alone.
I think Steven should do an impersonation of Frank Underwood in House of Cards at the end of the season because he got this grand scheme to collect all the points hahahaha
Hey guys love the show been playing magic since 2013 when I was 8 and yalls show has been so fun to watch over the years thank y'all and keep doing what y'all do
Next theme to plan for: decks that reflect what the players hate: Justin - RG Doge (with that commander) Steven - WUBR Breya deck (it's not Green) Jeremy - Some red deck that plays a lot of random spells (one of those cards will kill him) Jon - I don't know
At approx When Merieke goes to take control of Nekusar and Jeremy puts it into the command zone. You can only replace into CZ if it would go to graveyard, exile, hand or library right? So Justin should have taken control.
Yeah I just looked it up because this confused me as well. A creature going under someone else's control is NOT a zone change, so you do NOT get the option to put it in the CZ.
This videos a little old, but as a seasoned merieke player, they made quite a few oopsies in regards to her ability, most notably that, even if control of the creature is taken away from Merieke, the delayed destroy trigger still exists. So as soon as he untaps mereieke, Stephan would've lost the Stonehewer
I'm starting to convert from Team Parnell to Team Green just cause of the janky decks we get. Also, after last weeks come back who can't root for the people's champ?
I think there should be a royalty commander Vs, sliver Queen, Queen Marchesa, Oona queen of the fae, savra queen on the golgari or a choice of - King Macar, Brago king eternal, tymaret murder king, Sedris the traitor king, Darien king of Kjeldor, Brimaz kingof oreskos or something along these lines, this is where I'm told it's already happened
This Jeremys deck would be really sweet with some taxes cards on it. Its a great deck, but allows opponents to play the cards they draw. So... but gg. Really nice episode
Was Justin's Evil Twin a copy of Rafiq of the Many when his Beast token attacked Jon alone? So, Jon should have been at 7 less life ((5+1 exalted)*2 double strike = 12, instead of 5), which means that when Justin is deciding who to attack at 1:35:00, Jon should have been at 10, unable to block, with one Island untapped. I'm glad that Justin still won, but Jeremy might have been robbed of a point there.
No, because it returns the card under YOUR control: At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Umm... I've looked at the deck lists published and Jonathan's Rafiq deck only has 98 cards. Is this it's been published wrong or did he only have 98 cards?
I have not finished the intro, but just looking at the commanders, i feel another deck justin theeme comming on... one shotting jeremy >_> Rafiq is a beast
Why does Bloodchief Ascension include the clarification "(Damage causes loss of life)"??? Like... When or why would someone need to be reminded of, like, THE most fundamental idea in the game?
Then this magical man beguiling Justin’s fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of how he found himself in bind, “Though thine points are most uneven, loss, for you, I do believe in, Ghastly grim and ancient Stephen, reading from the text remind Tell me what thy lordly spell is to be cast perhaps entwined!” Quoth the Steven, “Nevermind.”
I jumped to the timestamp and saw the All is Dust and was both confused about when it jumped to 65 and excited that I might finally see a return on the box of MM2 I bought. But naturally, that wasn't the card so all is right in the world lol
justin wins with Jeremys cards, shows the utility of that deck style. id say add in a few more cards that get value from discarding too. theres a few. 2 damage per discard...juicy. seemed like just an unlucky game for Jeremy. that deck has some power
Everett Statz he quit randomly one night for a new job. Jeremy is everyones boss and on short notice he had to sub in when John left and then John had to come back when Wes left
EvilM0nkeyRules, ahh well that's fair enough. Tbh I had thought it would have been because everyone else would sometimes poke fun at him, but I'm glad it was because of a legit reason.
Ive been playing this deck for almost a year now and I love to see it featured on something so big. Thank you!!!
so i live in Georgia and yes i had a gym teacher who would call me MIKE JONES everyday. so thank you stephen 😂
Glad the joke wasn't lost on you... Matt Joooooooones
Matt Jones great deck indeed. Does it have taxes cards on it?
I have a Nekusar too very similar. Lots of fun to play but a massive glass cannon and absolutely horrendous if opponents begin to steal your Nekusar et al!
Kiora on ifunny
@ 34:42 the Stonehewer Giant would indeed have been destroyed my Merieke. Look at how her ability's trigger is worded. As soon as she taps and hits a creature with her ability it is forever marked with the untap-destroy trigger.
Last time I was this early Wes Wise was still casting cryptic command
This means nothing Wes is still casting cryptic. It’s a scientific law that keeps the universe from collapsing.
and it explains how black holes work.
Rogtilop - Casting cryptic is always a wise move
This was a fantastic game. Great decks everyone. Now, I wonder if they're gonna play Elder Dragon Highlander or Elder Dinosaur Highlander next week O_O
My
Elder Dinosaur Highlander next week?
I say that because they(Stephen) specifically said EDH. The only Commander VS episode that is/was labeled as EDH was when they played with the original Elder Dragons excluding Chromium(the WUB artifact dragon with rampage 2). Unless they are doing that one again, my guess is Elder Dinosaur Highlander.
harpoonjabi bruh, I wish
that sounds like a ROARIN' good time
that what he said a the open in philly
35:40 Thanks for that Jon, I burst out laughing! I really enjoyed that moment!
34:34 When Justin untaps Merieke Ri Berit shouldn't Stonehewer Giant be destroyed since it was targeted by Merieke Ri Berit's ability (even though control was changed by Gilded Drake's ability)?
The point-board photoshops are always so hilarious 😂
Jeremy wished to be first on commander versus every week, but he didn’t specify first place
This comment is super underrated, nice job Luke
As everyone rolls the rocks to throw in fields, portals open up into Oblivion and open up again when Jeremy pulls the next chance card.
I want that Doge commander now.
I want someone to look at me like Rafiq looks at john in the into
Me too thanks
"I out weigh you by like 60 lbs." I died laughing at work. Moments like that makes me glad I'm on TeamGreen.
We have too many Rafiq Michael Vincents in Quandrant 4.
I like the new animations for the intro to the game (intro I guess with the players and commanders) but I miss the old guitar
As soon as I saw that Jin and Rafiq of the Many were gonna be in this I thought "oh man, this episode is gonna be goood 😁" (Mostly because up until today I had never heard of Rafiq, so I thought "hey, a card i've never seen before. This should be interesting"). But then Merieke showed up as the fun police 😒. But the fact that you guys wound up trolling Justin with the Doge card was priceless. 😂
At 1:06:00, you had double strike on the beast token but only triggered the sword once and dealt damage once. Unless you missed the double-strike trigger for attacking alone.
keep up with the new intro!!
wish you guys featured the decklist like mtggoldfish tho
Great episode!!!! The game changer was when justin plucked rafiq before the one shot kill from john!!!
I think Steven should do an impersonation of Frank Underwood in House of Cards at the end of the season because he got this grand scheme to collect all the points hahahaha
I love the new presentation mode ;)
Hey guys love the show been playing magic since 2013 when I was 8 and yalls show has been so fun to watch over the years thank y'all and keep doing what y'all do
Merieke rules :D great match ^^
Next five color commanders like child of alara :P
Man. Jon looks kind of Rafiq in the intro lol. great game :)
Next theme to plan for: decks that reflect what the players hate:
Justin - RG Doge (with that commander)
Steven - WUBR Breya deck (it's not Green)
Jeremy - Some red deck that plays a lot of random spells (one of those cards will kill him)
Jon - I don't know
Nekusar is one of my favorite commanders! Nice to see someone else play him.
I use him competitively😛
JEREMY NOELL cheater?
the Reforge steals it 2nd and yet uses the miracle skill 1:40:20
At approx When Merieke goes to take control of Nekusar and Jeremy puts it into the command zone. You can only replace into CZ if it would go to graveyard, exile, hand or library right? So Justin should have taken control.
Yeah I just looked it up because this confused me as well. A creature going under someone else's control is NOT a zone change, so you do NOT get the option to put it in the CZ.
Justin immediately untapped Merieke which kills whatever she is in control of.
Oh I see. Is this just to avoid the card advantage? Why wouldn't you want to have the Nekusar on your side?
I imagine because underworld dreams was in play
Game Start:
13:52
This videos a little old, but as a seasoned merieke player, they made quite a few oopsies in regards to her ability, most notably that, even if control of the creature is taken away from Merieke, the delayed destroy trigger still exists. So as soon as he untaps mereieke, Stephan would've lost the Stonehewer
So glad my girl Merieke got a day in the sun. One of my all time favourite decks!
It's even funnier when you consider that Doge is a title of Italian nobility.
Amazing you guys did a shout out to the comments.
Where do we submit decklists. I got a spicy one that Suarez would enjoy
PERFECT EXAMPLE OF CREATING YOUR OWN COMMANDERS!! Make your own rules and be the first!
Justin, with Merieke you can untap her with Meriekes ability on the stack, so you can steal multiple creatures without them getting destroyed.
But, I want to destroy ALL the creatures
Justin Parnell Well yeah, you can still do that after you gained controll of ALL creatures!
+Justin Parnell The greed is real.
Did your merieke deck have intruder alarm?
Yeah, that is actually the most important part about her.
really digging the new intro for the game. now if only this video would load...
Whats the back store with the Doge hate??
1:13 a Team Green deck created by Ric Flair.
I'm starting to convert from Team Parnell to Team Green just cause of the janky decks we get. Also, after last weeks come back who can't root for the people's champ?
Rich Prendergast the peoples champ is dwayne the rock Johnson, Or david Hunt Aka GPD grandpoobear
Love the Chik-fil-A cup. ^~^
I am beyond excited to see Nekusar and Jin-Gitaxias my two favorite generals with my two favorite players.
why does Jeremy keep paying an extra mana for Nekusar? it's 5 mana...
I was gonna say this but i didnt know if a card raised it by one or something
(Jeremy) I honestly thought it was six.
Jeremy! Play my nekusar deck pleaseeee
I'm kinda sad Jon's deck doesn't have the Sublime Archangel and Infinite Reflections combo in it
I think there should be a royalty commander Vs, sliver Queen, Queen Marchesa, Oona queen of the fae, savra queen on the golgari or a choice of - King Macar, Brago king eternal, tymaret murder king, Sedris the traitor king, Darien king of Kjeldor, Brimaz kingof oreskos or something along these lines, this is where I'm told it's already happened
TYMARET! come on! @Stephen Green
This Jeremys deck would be really sweet with some taxes cards on it. Its a great deck, but allows opponents to play the cards they draw. So... but gg. Really nice episode
I really enjoyed the power of these decks. It proved powerful doesn’t necessarily mean non interactive.
How can you submit a deck list for the guys to play?
Was Justin's Evil Twin a copy of Rafiq of the Many when his Beast token attacked Jon alone?
So, Jon should have been at 7 less life ((5+1 exalted)*2 double strike = 12, instead of 5), which means that when Justin is deciding who to attack at 1:35:00, Jon should have been at 10, unable to block, with one Island untapped.
I'm glad that Justin still won, but Jeremy might have been robbed of a point there.
Awesome as always! What cameras do you guys use? Thanks!
When parnell blinked diluvian primordial, it should have returned under green's control right?
No, because it returns the card under YOUR control:
At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Mark Koster that's right! Thanks
Always happy to help ;)
Didn't Justin copy Rafiq when he attacked with the beast that was suited up? He should have hit for 10 and gotten two triggers.
yes i believe so
12 actually. You forgot the exalted.
Umm... I've looked at the deck lists published and Jonathan's Rafiq deck only has 98 cards. Is this it's been published wrong or did he only have 98 cards?
As soon as i saw rafiq i knew i had to watch this
Too bad he never got to attack.
Jin-Gitaxias now called 'Salad Fingers'
Did Parnell miss a Rafiq exalted trigger when he attacked John with his beast token after playing evil twin as a copy of Rafiq?
Yes.
I have not finished the intro, but just looking at the commanders, i feel another deck justin theeme comming on... one shotting jeremy >_>
Rafiq is a beast
Does anyone happen to have a link to the Rafiq deck played here?
All the lists will either be in the description or on the scg website
So if green uses Justin's turn to kill somebody else does that count as a point towards green or would it be Justin gets the point
Why does Bloodchief Ascension include the clarification "(Damage causes loss of life)"??? Like... When or why would someone need to be reminded of, like, THE most fundamental idea in the game?
It's not that fundamental, and not everybody knows that damage causes loss of life. I blame "you lose life" cards for not dealing damage instead :)
Then this magical man beguiling Justin’s fancy into smiling
By the grave and stern decorum of how he found himself in bind,
“Though thine points are most uneven, loss, for you, I do believe in,
Ghastly grim and ancient Stephen, reading from the text remind
Tell me what thy lordly spell is to be cast perhaps entwined!”
Quoth the Steven, “Nevermind.”
Oh my god this is the best commander vs thing I have ever seen.
It's my birthday and I get to watch done awesome commander!
(Jeremy) Happy Birthday!
Thanks Jeremy! Tell the rest of the crew to get on board!lol
We need a Sir Wilfred Von Doge II playmat, and Justin needs to sign all of them.
#kangaroomeat
Merieke!!!!! My girl! I love her so much! I am super excited for this vid.
Are the tide pod Oreos sleeves yet? Because I would so buy them things!!!
how do you submit a deck for play?
I thought the theme at first was commanders that have blue
are you guys going to post the list card?
@42:28 Justin tossing around $65 cards like they're 10 cent commons.
I jumped to the timestamp and saw the All is Dust and was both confused about when it jumped to 65 and excited that I might finally see a return on the box of MM2 I bought. But naturally, that wasn't the card so all is right in the world lol
Seems like Jon Suarez missed the damage for casting Sylvan scrying with his pain land.
How do i submite a deck to you guys play?
justin wins with Jeremys cards, shows the utility of that deck style. id say add in a few more cards that get value from discarding too. theres a few. 2 damage per discard...juicy. seemed like just an unlucky game for Jeremy. that deck has some power
It's really good to hear your voice.....
I mean my name is Jason and one of my buddy's (he helped me get into magic) his name is jace sooo that's a lot of shout out to us today
26:33 Now Jeremy, we were having a nice conversation and you're tryin to sneak a Bloodchief in there. Jeremy, you dog you. 🐩
Also, I said it last week but dammit i'ma keep suggesting/pushing for it. I really think you guys should play Chaos Decks for an episode.
Wrath of Justin: on the way of taking points back
@JUSTIN PARNELL please play a Ertai, the corrupted deck with myr tribal with all the things to sacrifice them to
The Merieke deck looks very much like my Dromar deck (ETB/Bounce/Flicker).
1:45:29 Sigarda's ability would've prevented that play, the arbiter should still be alive
Great game gentlemen
When did they sneak the Doge under Merieke?
Solid video. Also, Justin's Think Twice podcast is pretty good, you guys should check it out!
Thanks! I think so too.
(Jeremy) We all know this is your alternate account Justin.
Haven't watched yet, but I HOPE Jeremy gets to have some good old-fashioned Nekusar fun.
I believe Justin should run a 5 color legendary deck with Mirror Gallery and clone effects.
break me off a piece of that tide pod bar
Who's deck do I need to shuffle to get Justin to play Jalira, Master Polymorphist?
Koby Haigerty i played it for a while, with only one creature to get :D stormtide
I might make a jin gitaxias deck just so I can proxy him with the creepy fingers flavor text
Jeremy Noel drew the reforge the soul as the second card. Miracle only works if it's the first.
So who is playing elder dinosaur highlander?
Justin's deck just looks so unfun to play against
Cracky Sr I was thinking the same, they didn't even look particularly happy at the end of the game either
The combo orb-sword is obnoxious
If jeremy's deck had been built right it would have been a full prison deck
Andros Redwolf I play Merieke as a prison deck, and it is only fun for me.
Merieke is a lot of fun to play, but does have some salt potential. I love my Merieke deck but I make sure not to play her all the time
Halfway through the video before realizing Jeremy was wearing a white shirt with a black pocket.
.....I like your style, sir. Frustrating, but fresh.
They are really leaving us in the dark with this video.
Rooting for the princess. Love the ability on her.
Awesome video
Bloodchief should get a counter at each player's turn after it entered. He had Underworld dreams and howling mine. Everyone was losing 2 HP.
Aw, no Elder Dinosaur Highlander this week. Still excited :)
USUALLY team Parnell, but Jeremy is playing Grixis, so my hats in the ring for him this time!
That was a great win! #TeamParnell
Mu greatest triumph at 1:21:30
One last thing. What ever happened to Wes Wise?
Everett Statz he quit randomly one night for a new job. Jeremy is everyones boss and on short notice he had to sub in when John left and then John had to come back when Wes left
EvilM0nkeyRules, ahh well that's fair enough. Tbh I had thought it would have been because everyone else would sometimes poke fun at him, but I'm glad it was because of a legit reason.
Elder Dino Highlander comes to commander versus next week!!!