@@xaxscratchxax926 If you play Reliquary Tower, and THEN play Necrodominance, Necrodominance overrides Reliquary Tower, and you still have a max hand size of 5.
@@xaxscratchxax926 both apply continuous effects modifying hand size. With two identical effects, we apply them in order, that order being when they entered the battle field. Necro would set your hand size to 5, then the tower would set it to unlimited.
But the wording is: you have no maximum hand size. In my head that would supersede having a maximum hand size of 5. It just negates. I may very well be wrong.
Great episode! These are my favorite of each new set. I have an idea for content: what if after you finished the upgrade guides for each precon deck, you then did an extra turns episode where you play the upgraded precons against each other? Keep up the awesome work!
To your question which commander wants 20 or more creatures with Power 4 or more, my Runadi Behemoth Caller deck runs 26 creatures with power 4 or greater 😁
Yeah there are plenty of deck that run 20+ big boys. My Mayael had over 30 but she got scrapped for Atla and now I only play ~10. And win most games instead of lose them all 😅
Flare of duplication is the best flare of the cycle imo. Its very flexible unlike flare of denial it furthers your gameplan. necrodominance is 10/10 for cedh, necrodominance has already sloted in. Necro combo is very hot now. necro + borne and final fortune.
As a predominantly Naya player, I take offense to your assessment of Flare of cultivation. I promise you, Voja loves this card. Ward makes it so that board wipes are almost always lurking somewhere. As a green player if you rely too much on your mana dorks you get severely punished with a board wipe. This ensures that you can change your mana dork into permanent ramp as early as turn 1. You guarantee WRG on turn 2 so that turn 3 Voja is likely out and ready to play.
I guess I'm not good enough with the rules to understand that interaction, but I know I have been waiting to cast it until I have an emrakul in exile to my ugins labyrinth. 20/20, annihilator 13!
Because of the text "enters with", it sees itself in exile. 400.6.If an object would move from one zone to another, determine what event is moving the object. If the object is moving to a public zone and its owner will be able to look at it in that zone, its owner looks at it to see if it has any abilities that would affect the move. If the object is moving to the battlefield, each other player who will be able to look at it in that zone does so. Then any appropriate replacement effects, whether they come from that object or from elsewhere, are applied to that event. If any effects or rules try to do two or more contradictory or mutually exclusive things to a particular object, that object’s controller-or its owner if it has no controller-chooses which effect to apply, and what that effect does. (Note that multiple instances of the same thing may be mutually exclusive; for example, two simultaneous “destroy” effects.) Then the event moves the object.
Everyone out here thirsty for that tricky terrain precon upgrade... I included Bilbo's Ring in my upgrade. Lets you get in free attacks with Omo and equips for one. It's also a perfect turn 4 followup to Omo.
Love the beginning section where you guys cover strong and simple cards that you don't have to go too in depth with. Would like to see this kind of thing for cards that are good in specific decks like zombies, elves, etc in regular sets. It's quick, easy, and informative.
Since Chthonian Nightmare says "Return target creature", the target needs to be legal when you announce the activation of the ability. If there is no target, you can't activate the ability. Same as how a spell needs you to specify targets before costs are paid. So unfortunately doesn't go infinite with dockside and such without additional help.
About the final act, it is Particularly good against specifically the doctor who deck with all the time counters because it removes all the suspension counters on cheated out creatures. But that is the only specific scenario i can think of where this is better
With Ulamog it counts the number of +1 counters for its Annihilatior, so if you can increase this with prolifrate/ doubling season/divergent Evolution suddenly they need to sac alot of permanents
The Talon Gates of Madara are part of how Bolas escaped the Mending during Time Spiral. So it's abilities are super weird in isolation, but it kind of does exactly what it did in the lore. Which is cool.
The thing about emrakul having that 6 colorless madness. Remember that colorless nana is far more common as a secondary source than colored mana. Soul ring is 2. Mana crypt is 2. +2 pain lands and boom you have 6 colorless. If you don’t want mana crypt you can use worn powerstone
Just run Elder Spell for planswalker removal, it's BB for destroy any number of planeswalkers and add a loyalty counter to up to one target planeswalker you control for each planeswalker destroyed this way
I opted to put Flare of Malice and Flare of Fortitude in my Teysa deck because, not only am I *never* paying for those spells, I'm getting *a double payoff* instead. And yes, Kokusho could be one of those payoffs.
As for Volatile Stormdrake: the hexproof was as much for commander as modern. Commander has more than just Capsize, it has stuff like Tradewind Rider, Waterfront Bouncer, and Sidisi's faithful. Even without those un-fun patterns you can do cool things when giving away a creature like Homeward Path (assuming you sacrificed the creature you stole) and Profaner of the Dead to get the drake back in hand.
I think you could have cut a lot of talk concerning the Flare-Cycle and add Vexing Bauble into the mix. Such a good card. 1 general Mana Artifact which automatically counters all spells which have not been paid with Mana for. WITHOUT AN ADDITIONAL COST.
I got swing with anilator 19 in one game. I was prepared to scupe but I had a Raziketh in play so I got all my best cards from my deck and still was in the game even tho I lost all my permanents even my lands
anyone else notice how many obvious synergies with new cards they have been missing out on? like missing out on pain lands tapping for colorless. Its starting to feel intentional.
Agreed on the second one being called 'Twolamog', I feel like the first one should be 'Unelamog' and the third one should be 'Newlamog' at least until we see the next one.
If only people would stop calling for bans every time a set releases, then I think Commander would be a whole lot nicer to play. I agree with Josh here. It's fine if you and/or your playgroup don't wanna mess with certain cards. That's well within your right, but it's not right to dictate to other players what they should consider what is and isn't fun to do. I understand that there may come a hypothetical time where a game with a stranger at an LGS may turn sour, but that's normally due to miscommunication rather than any inherent wrongdoing. If someone does something that you don't like, or there's a situation that felt off, just say so or do the other sensible option of scooping and walking away. It's not that hard.
I haven't gotten fully threw the Ulamog coverage tbh just started. There's so much talk about other things in exile , what if we just think about our own things in exile via like "Imprint" etc. not that hard to have this consistently coming in as a ridiculous threat cast or not. Was debating running this in my Henzie "Toolbox" Torre list where I already have Deathbloom Rituralist , Alena Kessig Trapper and Naturally commander cost reduction and rocks yada yada , tho i'll prob avoid it just because my brew is more of a combo deck then a swing face build. Point being personally i don't think this Ulamog is ban worthy but it's very easy to consistently make this huge and not hard to cast if you're in green / mana rocks in general.
I think people are out of their mind on Stormdrake. It's good, no doubt, but this thing is not Gilded Drake. It is not going to become a format boogeyman, you don't need to run homeward path out of fear of it. If they sac your guy they basically just sorcery speed pongified it. Someone will go all in on recurring it but generally speaking this is gonna grab a 3 drop in exchange for a 3/2 flier and sometimes it'll be beast within. The corner cases will be memorable, but they'll be just that - corner cases.
"What is the deck that wants 20 4 power or more creatures that it, itself is not 4 power or more". my selvala, Heart of the wilds, Wurm deck. But honestly more correct is probably any selvala deck.
Something has to give. Dockside is by all definitions a worse offender than Primeval Titan. Seriously, they need to either ban Dockside or unban the green titan because the inconsistency is just getting more and more apparent.
The flexibility of these new cards is scary. They almost always clearly beat simular cards of the older days. I´m not a huge fan of the powerlevel wizards tends to print these days!
I love blue and I’m starting to really enjoy being more of a control player and having stack interaction, but I do not like free counterspells. I enjoy finding cheap counterspells and making them work (like stubborn denial), but when your opponent sees that you are tapped out and they cast a huge spell, just for you to counter it for free, it sucks. There is no counter play to free counterspells like there is to other counterspells (even if they could be as cheap as U). So, WotC, please stop printing free counterspells
I always enjoy watching these videos, but it always makes me laugh at the juxtaposition of people claiming Commander is a casual format for jank cards but every video talking about cards feels like they casually assume you run multitudes of 30 dollar cards.
Inverse Polarity has a few downsides most people are missing. If you are trying to counter a board wipe, or any other spell that isnt really target or permanent, you might win the flip and just take control of something and it wil still resolve normally. Not that it makes the card bad, but not as busted as most content creators are saying.
While the 6 colorless (Madness) mana of Emrakul, the World Anew is definitely an issue it's not as bad as they make it out to be. It would make it much easier to pay for in a Colorless deck that's for sure but it doesn't HAVE to be. How many Mana Rocks or just lands in general CAN be used to add one colorless mana? A lot. Hell, in this set alone there are several lands that you can just tap for one colorless if you wanted to not to mention Temple of the False God, the Tron Lands (Urza), Ancient Tomb as well as the copy/clone lands like Vesuva and Thespian's Stage. I mean there are more then 60 lands (most of which are good/great to use/have) that, in one way shape or form, add colorless mana so..this isn't as big of a hill to climb as you/they seem to think it is.
I’ve got a mill heavy lands deck so seeing I could flare of cultivation my world shaper when my graveyard was nice and full really made my heart happy.
Regarding 3lamog, played him as my commander in a paper game last weekend. Exiled over 150 cards, annihilated 36 permanents, 24 of which was with one swing. I asked for feedback from the table (regular playgroup) and they were all fine with it, it's not a deck I play regularly, only high power games, we were all having a laugh. It also made me want therapy as I enjoyed making someone sacrifice 24 permanents with one attack trigger far too much.
I did kind of the same thing, except it was the Forsaken Monument Basalt Monolith combo with Echoes of Eternity and Ulalek on the table so I just kept paying the Ulalek/Echoes Trigger and exiled everybody's libraries lol
Also Some Blink Effect allow Ulamog give itself 10 Counters since it sees itself in exile because the wording is "Enters with" not "When this enters the battlefield"
@@brandondavis6952his ability is a replacement effect. Ulamog is still in exile before it hits the field once blinked and it sees itself in exile so it gets 10 +1/+1 counters
@@brandondavis6952Its 3rd ability is a replacement effect so if Defiler gets blinked it sees itself in exile before it hits the battlefield therefore is the highest cmc spell in exile before it ETBs
One note on the card Final Act. Because you resolve modes in order, you can boardwipe and then exile graveyards which does result in everything you killed getting exiled. (as long as they weren't indestructible)
They really think Flare of Cultivation is bad? JLK: "Why sac a creature when you can just cast your cultivation?". I mean...you could say this about any alternative cost spell...why do you think they're good? You can use your mana dork to cast a ramp spell, then get another free ramp with Flare of Cultivation. Now you're a turn ahead. You're welcome.
I think folks are really missing the idea sacrifice target for Flare of Cultivation - your own commander that's been hit by Kenrith's Transformation. Especially since they just printed another version in MH3. I don't think that really changes the evaluation of the card, it's still a corner case, but that's the real upside to it.
Dreamtide Whale is absolutely amazing, I got it in my prerelease, and even though I played Abzan modified, I splashed blue exclusively for the whale (easier due to the landscapes) and it won multiple games for me. 7/5 for 3 is just insane
I have never seen the Whale die to vanishing in five games it got played, either getting targeted for removal or swept up in a wipe. It might as well not have vanishing.
Surprised to see no mention of Spymaster's Vault on here. Its the black land in the same cycle as Shifting Woodlands that has (Black)(tap): Target creature connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. I think this straight up replaces Castle Locthwain in black decks, since most of your turns youre probably killing or sacrificing something. I activated it after a board wipe last friday and it was the single best activation i made that game
Black utility lands have to work harder to be good because simply playing more swamps to power up coffers in mono-black decks is already attractive. I'd still play Spymaster's Vault with an indestructible commander because of destruction/damage board wipes and commander damage turning the land on. For sacrifice-themed decks it's just OK unless you play the voltron/scarifice where it's excellent. Kresh the Bloodbraided and Prossh just got their new best friend.
There's honestly no better feeling than using amphibian downpour on your opponent's psychic frogs. I turned my opponents frogs into frogs! Also Final Act specifically ends the Meren player.
The whale is insane engine, since it can be triggered by all players per turn. So potential 4 triggers per round. In poison deck it is extremely powerful
Cthonian Nightmare I can see having so many enablers, doesn't even have to be infinite mana with dock side. Just re-occurring something like E.Witness its all fun and games til the board is being spammed with farewell every turn.
Stole my opponents 2 cost commander and paid the energy, bounced it back to my hand with sink into stupor that i drew the following turn then stole another 3 cost commander and paid to keep it. They weren’t too happy 😅
From what I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks of CEDH at my Local game store, the cards that make the most impact have been the “Flares” specifically the green and blue ones, and that Drake that acts like a gilded drake but can be seen as removal if you can’t pay the Energy.
What creatures are the saccing to the green flare? That’s what I think holds it back, typically green has dorks on the field and I wouldn’t want to sacrifice those lol
@@Chucklepuffs Unless you're doing Elfball things or need it to chump, I would happily cash in any Llanowar Elf for two lands. The ideal creatures though are Elvish Pioneer and Aboreal Grazer.
@@Chucklepuffs Why not? Use the dork to play a spell, sacrifice the dork for getting an extra land drop that turn and getting a land for next turn. It's what I've been doing and it's real good.
@@dom6637 I get that but idk, I’d rather casts Cultivate on turn 2 and keep my dork around. I think it’s gonna come down to personal preference? I just don’t know that man 1 and 2 drops that i would want to sacrifice to this 🤔
@@Chucklepuffs It sounds not that amazing but give it a go you might surprise yourself. At the end of the day, the dorks are just there to help us curve, by getting value from them, they're just vulnerable lands. Keep in mind, I'm not talking about casting the dork then instantly saccing it, although you can do that if you want to I guess. I'm saying, play the dork, next turn play a land, play a 3 drop turn 2 (which could be your standard cultivate if you want btw) then get rid of the now used dork for the free cultivate. You've now ramped super hard, guaranteed yourself a land drop which can't be understated since commander players typically undervalue consistent land drops vs ramping and you're now playing 6 drops by turn 3 while still actually being able to commit something useful on the board. It's quite nice tempo.
It'd be interesting to see a podcast where you put cards into the "tier" or power level you feel like it belongs. For instance, jeweled lotus, the one ring, mana crypt at 9 or 10, etc.
Yeah which is why people play it even more... Which is why it's the most played on edh rec... Which is why people play it even more... Risen and repeat. People don't know why they play what the play.
I think the funniest thing to do with the new Emrakul is to Aven Interrupter your own. You get the cast trigger and then you also don’t have to worry about the leaves the battlefield trigger. Also, you then have a plotted Emrakul.
Agreed. A lot of channels do it and it's probably some dumb algorithm thing, but I really don't like it. It's like a spoiler for the episode that ruins the moment as it happens in context later in the video.
Remember kids, play Reliquary Tower AFTER Necrodominance.
Why after? Wouldn't it work beforehand?
@@xaxscratchxax926 If you play Reliquary Tower, and THEN play Necrodominance, Necrodominance overrides Reliquary Tower, and you still have a max hand size of 5.
@@jdgarrison9913 so why doesn't it work that way after? I didn't realize the order mattered for something like that.
@@xaxscratchxax926 both apply continuous effects modifying hand size.
With two identical effects, we apply them in order, that order being when they entered the battle field.
Necro would set your hand size to 5, then the tower would set it to unlimited.
But the wording is: you have no maximum hand size. In my head that would supersede having a maximum hand size of 5. It just negates.
I may very well be wrong.
COMMAND ZONEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! DROP THE TRICKY TERRAIN PRECON UPGRADE GUIDE, AND MY LIFE IS YOURSSSS.
Was just going to ask what is going on with that!
On goddddd
at this point i don’t think it’s coming, there are other videos on upgrading the deck on youtube with good suggestions
@@LordKazake443not from any of the people I watch
For real! I've been waiting for that episode. Really curious to see what direction they lean into.
Great episode! These are my favorite of each new set. I have an idea for content: what if after you finished the upgrade guides for each precon deck, you then did an extra turns episode where you play the upgraded precons against each other? Keep up the awesome work!
To your question which commander wants 20 or more creatures with Power 4 or more, my Runadi Behemoth Caller deck runs 26 creatures with power 4 or greater 😁
Yeah there are plenty of deck that run 20+ big boys. My Mayael had over 30 but she got scrapped for Atla and now I only play ~10. And win most games instead of lose them all 😅
flare of cultivation is good with scute swarm, once you start swarming up. you just kill the main scute and just make more scutes.
Flare of duplication is the best flare of the cycle imo. Its very flexible unlike flare of denial it furthers your gameplan.
necrodominance is 10/10 for cedh, necrodominance has already sloted in. Necro combo is very hot now. necro + borne and final fortune.
As a predominantly Naya player, I take offense to your assessment of Flare of cultivation. I promise you, Voja loves this card. Ward makes it so that board wipes are almost always lurking somewhere. As a green player if you rely too much on your mana dorks you get severely punished with a board wipe. This ensures that you can change your mana dork into permanent ramp as early as turn 1. You guarantee WRG on turn 2 so that turn 3 Voja is likely out and ready to play.
If you blink Ulamog, it comesback with 10 counters.
I guess I'm not good enough with the rules to understand that interaction, but I know I have been waiting to cast it until I have an emrakul in exile to my ugins labyrinth. 20/20, annihilator 13!
Ulamog sees itself as the highest mana value in exile (unless you have a higher costed spell in exile) then it would enter with 10. Very cool
How? It's not in exile while it ETBs. It can't be on the battlefield and in exile at the same time.
Because of the text "enters with", it sees itself in exile.
400.6.If an object would move from one zone to another, determine what event is moving the object. If the object is moving to a public zone and its owner will be able to look at it in that zone, its owner looks at it to see if it has any abilities that would affect the move. If the object is moving to the battlefield, each other player who will be able to look at it in that zone does so. Then any appropriate replacement effects, whether they come from that object or from elsewhere, are applied to that event. If any effects or rules try to do two or more contradictory or mutually exclusive things to a particular object, that object’s controller-or its owner if it has no controller-chooses which effect to apply, and what that effect does. (Note that multiple instances of the same thing may be mutually exclusive; for example, two simultaneous “destroy” effects.) Then the event moves the object.
Or Minic Vat him, hasty Ulamog's that always come in with 10.
Everyone out here thirsty for that tricky terrain precon upgrade...
I included Bilbo's Ring in my upgrade. Lets you get in free attacks with Omo and equips for one. It's also a perfect turn 4 followup to Omo.
Love the beginning section where you guys cover strong and simple cards that you don't have to go too in depth with. Would like to see this kind of thing for cards that are good in specific decks like zombies, elves, etc in regular sets. It's quick, easy, and informative.
One two and three lamog is an insanely funny naming imma steal that and Midlamog 😂
One of my favourites right now is Springheart Nantuko
Since Chthonian Nightmare says "Return target creature", the target needs to be legal when you announce the activation of the ability. If there is no target, you can't activate the ability. Same as how a spell needs you to specify targets before costs are paid. So unfortunately doesn't go infinite with dockside and such without additional help.
About the final act, it is Particularly good against specifically the doctor who deck with all the time counters because it removes all the suspension counters on cheated out creatures. But that is the only specific scenario i can think of where this is better
With Ulamog it counts the number of +1 counters for its Annihilatior, so if you can increase this with prolifrate/ doubling season/divergent Evolution suddenly they need to sac alot of permanents
The Talon Gates of Madara are part of how Bolas escaped the Mending during Time Spiral. So it's abilities are super weird in isolation, but it kind of does exactly what it did in the lore. Which is cool.
The thing about emrakul having that 6 colorless madness. Remember that colorless nana is far more common as a secondary source than colored mana. Soul ring is 2. Mana crypt is 2. +2 pain lands and boom you have 6 colorless. If you don’t want mana crypt you can use worn powerstone
Just run Elder Spell for planswalker removal, it's BB for destroy any number of planeswalkers and add a loyalty counter to up to one target planeswalker you control for each planeswalker destroyed this way
I’m definitely running Ripples of Undeath in some decks but the black Hideaway card from New Capenna is also great, Cemetary Tampering i think?
Whoops, paused to comment the moment Ripples showed up 😂
The talk of recurring nightmare made we want a Command Zone episode of no-ban commander so badly!
I opted to put Flare of Malice and Flare of Fortitude in my Teysa deck because, not only am I *never* paying for those spells, I'm getting *a double payoff* instead. And yes, Kokusho could be one of those payoffs.
As for Volatile Stormdrake: the hexproof was as much for commander as modern. Commander has more than just Capsize, it has stuff like Tradewind Rider, Waterfront Bouncer, and Sidisi's faithful. Even without those un-fun patterns you can do cool things when giving away a creature like Homeward Path (assuming you sacrificed the creature you stole) and Profaner of the Dead to get the drake back in hand.
They going thru my whole inner dialogue on those flare spells. Spooky
41:13 well zaxara will for sure have 4+ power creatures and can definitely use the extra mana, while not being 4+ power itself
I think you could have cut a lot of talk concerning the Flare-Cycle and add Vexing Bauble into the mix. Such a good card. 1 general Mana Artifact which automatically counters all spells which have not been paid with Mana for. WITHOUT AN ADDITIONAL COST.
I got swing with anilator 19 in one game. I was prepared to scupe but I had a Raziketh in play so I got all my best cards from my deck and still was in the game even tho I lost all my permanents even my lands
I do love arboreal grazer and flare of cultivation.
Have played against Final Act, and exiling Graveyards really does matter a lot, as the recipient against the Final Act lol
Your editing / video ides are truly top notch stuff
What about charitable levy? Rampant growth in white that draws a card is good!
anyone else notice how many obvious synergies with new cards they have been missing out on? like missing out on pain lands tapping for colorless. Its starting to feel intentional.
Fanatic of Rhonas is such a perfect card for Runadi.
I love using Abjure to sac Yuriko and catch someone off guard. Now I get to do it again, for FREE.
Agreed on the second one being called 'Twolamog', I feel like the first one should be 'Unelamog' and the third one should be 'Newlamog' at least until we see the next one.
If only people would stop calling for bans every time a set releases, then I think Commander would be a whole lot nicer to play. I agree with Josh here. It's fine if you and/or your playgroup don't wanna mess with certain cards. That's well within your right, but it's not right to dictate to other players what they should consider what is and isn't fun to do.
I understand that there may come a hypothetical time where a game with a stranger at an LGS may turn sour, but that's normally due to miscommunication rather than any inherent wrongdoing. If someone does something that you don't like, or there's a situation that felt off, just say so or do the other sensible option of scooping and walking away. It's not that hard.
I haven't gotten fully threw the Ulamog coverage tbh just started. There's so much talk about other things in exile , what if we just think about our own things in exile via like "Imprint" etc. not that hard to have this consistently coming in as a ridiculous threat cast or not. Was debating running this in my Henzie "Toolbox" Torre list where I already have Deathbloom Rituralist , Alena Kessig Trapper and Naturally commander cost reduction and rocks yada yada , tho i'll prob avoid it just because my brew is more of a combo deck then a swing face build. Point being personally i don't think this Ulamog is ban worthy but it's very easy to consistently make this huge and not hard to cast if you're in green / mana rocks in general.
I think people are out of their mind on Stormdrake. It's good, no doubt, but this thing is not Gilded Drake. It is not going to become a format boogeyman, you don't need to run homeward path out of fear of it. If they sac your guy they basically just sorcery speed pongified it. Someone will go all in on recurring it but generally speaking this is gonna grab a 3 drop in exchange for a 3/2 flier and sometimes it'll be beast within. The corner cases will be memorable, but they'll be just that - corner cases.
"What is the deck that wants 20 4 power or more creatures that it, itself is not 4 power or more". my selvala, Heart of the wilds, Wurm deck.
But honestly more correct is probably any selvala deck.
Drinking game. A shot every time Josh says "interesting" lol
JLK: "Every time I get targeted by rIver's rebuke, I get targeted by river's rebuke."
Something has to give. Dockside is by all definitions a worse offender than Primeval Titan. Seriously, they need to either ban Dockside or unban the green titan because the inconsistency is just getting more and more apparent.
Sac fanatic for flare & then reanimate. Good quick mama
For the ulamog discussion the answer is easy, we call it the playable one 😂
Sacrifice a fanatic of rhonas to flare of cultivation, then being fanatic back online tapping for 4 mana.
Ulamog
Twolamog
Newlamog
The flexibility of these new cards is scary. They almost always clearly beat simular cards of the older days. I´m not a huge fan of the powerlevel wizards tends to print these days!
Force of Will is awesome! There. One person.😁
Emrakul banned but Thassa combo is fine. Good job!!!
Jumping on the train here but no omo tech? I have my group meeting tomorrow and was hoping to upgrade before then 😭😭
Flare of Denial is also disgusting in Yuriko.
What's the commander that wants 20 creatures with power 4 or greater that is not itself power 4 you ask? Let me introduce you to Mayael, the Anima.
The non 4 power commander that would run 20+ creatures with power 4 or greater? Answer: Mayael the Anima
Where is the Tricky Terrain upgrade list?
I love blue and I’m starting to really enjoy being more of a control player and having stack interaction, but I do not like free counterspells. I enjoy finding cheap counterspells and making them work (like stubborn denial), but when your opponent sees that you are tapped out and they cast a huge spell, just for you to counter it for free, it sucks. There is no counter play to free counterspells like there is to other counterspells (even if they could be as cheap as U). So, WotC, please stop printing free counterspells
I put Chthonian Nightmare in Yarok.
What's the new ulamog is fresh to def defiler.
Does Final Act exile the destroyed creatures in the graveyard?
It does! The modes resolve in order so the destroyed creatures are in the graveyard when the exile resolves.
Ulamog is not fun to face tbh...
Played against it last night and milled 44 cards to exile and it came in with 11 counters...
I always enjoy watching these videos, but it always makes me laugh at the juxtaposition of people claiming Commander is a casual format for jank cards but every video talking about cards feels like they casually assume you run multitudes of 30 dollar cards.
Flare of cultivation is just bad. It'd be good if they made it instant like the rest of the cycle
Tricky Terrain
Open your own channel and do it yourself instead of demanding things from people you don't even pay.
@@pascalsimioli6777 I think this might be the dumbest reply I’ve ever seen 😂
Inverse Polarity has a few downsides most people are missing. If you are trying to counter a board wipe, or any other spell that isnt really target or permanent, you might win the flip and just take control of something and it wil still resolve normally. Not that it makes the card bad, but not as busted as most content creators are saying.
They literally said that
Ulamog, Twolamog and Newlamog
While the 6 colorless (Madness) mana of Emrakul, the World Anew is definitely an issue it's not as bad as they make it out to be. It would make it much easier to pay for in a Colorless deck that's for sure but it doesn't HAVE to be. How many Mana Rocks or just lands in general CAN be used to add one colorless mana? A lot. Hell, in this set alone there are several lands that you can just tap for one colorless if you wanted to not to mention Temple of the False God, the Tron Lands (Urza), Ancient Tomb as well as the copy/clone lands like Vesuva and Thespian's Stage. I mean there are more then 60 lands (most of which are good/great to use/have) that, in one way shape or form, add colorless mana so..this isn't as big of a hill to climb as you/they seem to think it is.
The flavour of Emrakul 3 still dying to me saccing 12 squirrels to Chatterfang makes me feel real fuzzy inside.
Squirrel Girl can't be beaten.
@@styfen Super excited to get to combine chatterfang with the new squirrel commander in Bloomburrow.
The Emrakul player is definitely taking all your squirrels. How are you removing Emrakul?
Where is ocelot pride? Best white creature in mh3
Flare of Cultivation is really silly if you sac a creature that had an etb effect that gives you an extra land. Very quick and protected ramp.
Elvish Pioneer and Arboreal Grazer are 1 drops that super accelerate you with the green flare. Turn 2 and you have 4 mana.
And it is so well protected mana ramp…it could be brutal
@@CKarasu13 shame it's not an instant like the others. But I prefer the 1 drop that on death gives everyone 2 lands.
I’ve got a mill heavy lands deck so seeing I could flare of cultivation my world shaper when my graveyard was nice and full really made my heart happy.
Or Veteran Explorer @@CKarasu13
Regarding 3lamog, played him as my commander in a paper game last weekend. Exiled over 150 cards, annihilated 36 permanents, 24 of which was with one swing. I asked for feedback from the table (regular playgroup) and they were all fine with it, it's not a deck I play regularly, only high power games, we were all having a laugh. It also made me want therapy as I enjoyed making someone sacrifice 24 permanents with one attack trigger far too much.
I did kind of the same thing, except it was the Forsaken Monument Basalt Monolith combo with Echoes of Eternity and Ulalek on the table so I just kept paying the Ulalek/Echoes Trigger and exiled everybody's libraries lol
How do you play with him as your commander if he technically doesn't have colorless pip in his mana cost?
Also Some Blink Effect allow Ulamog give itself 10 Counters since it sees itself in exile because the wording is "Enters with" not "When this enters the battlefield"
Not just some, every single blink effect does this ("blink" means exile and return)
how can ulamog see itself on the board and in exile at the same time?
@@brandondavis6952his ability is a replacement effect. Ulamog is still in exile before it hits the field once blinked and it sees itself in exile so it gets 10 +1/+1 counters
@@brandondavis6952Its 3rd ability is a replacement effect so if Defiler gets blinked it sees itself in exile before it hits the battlefield therefore is the highest cmc spell in exile before it ETBs
One note on the card Final Act. Because you resolve modes in order, you can boardwipe and then exile graveyards which does result in everything you killed getting exiled. (as long as they weren't indestructible)
Although unlike Farewell, every death triggers will activate.
Also you aren’t forced to exile the graveyard if you want to load it up. Seems better than they’re giving it credit for
@@taylort643 they know its good, but they don't want the price to go up lol. If they say it's bad then people wont want it, making the price drop.
@@lovedead710 yep that makes total sense. Especially since they called other cards good. They must be ok with price hikes only on those specifically.
@@taylort643 prob because they pulled more of those cards and want the price to go up on them lol
They really think Flare of Cultivation is bad? JLK: "Why sac a creature when you can just cast your cultivation?". I mean...you could say this about any alternative cost spell...why do you think they're good? You can use your mana dork to cast a ramp spell, then get another free ramp with Flare of Cultivation. Now you're a turn ahead. You're welcome.
If you sacrifice a mana dork to cultivate, you're still net even on your mana production.
i know right, “why pay 0 mana when i can pay 3?” is absolutely not an argument i expected to hear from somebody i presume to be a decent player
I think folks are really missing the idea sacrifice target for Flare of Cultivation - your own commander that's been hit by Kenrith's Transformation. Especially since they just printed another version in MH3. I don't think that really changes the evaluation of the card, it's still a corner case, but that's the real upside to it.
drop land play arboreal grazer drop another land flare cultivation 4 land turn 2
Dreamtide Whale is absolutely amazing, I got it in my prerelease, and even though I played Abzan modified, I splashed blue exclusively for the whale (easier due to the landscapes) and it won multiple games for me. 7/5 for 3 is just insane
I have never seen the Whale die to vanishing in five games it got played, either getting targeted for removal or swept up in a wipe. It might as well not have vanishing.
Surprised to see no mention of Spymaster's Vault on here. Its the black land in the same cycle as Shifting Woodlands that has (Black)(tap): Target creature connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. I think this straight up replaces Castle Locthwain in black decks, since most of your turns youre probably killing or sacrificing something. I activated it after a board wipe last friday and it was the single best activation i made that game
Black utility lands have to work harder to be good because simply playing more swamps to power up coffers in mono-black decks is already attractive. I'd still play Spymaster's Vault with an indestructible commander because of destruction/damage board wipes and commander damage turning the land on. For sacrifice-themed decks it's just OK unless you play the voltron/scarifice where it's excellent. Kresh the Bloodbraided and Prossh just got their new best friend.
1-lamog
2-lamog
red-lamog
blue-lamog
RUclips had a "Translate to English" option on this comment. Apparently "lamog" is "soft" in tagalog.
@@sahjhan1that’s fantastic
Y'all are way too low on the green flair and way too high on the red one imo
There's honestly no better feeling than using amphibian downpour on your opponent's psychic frogs. I turned my opponents frogs into frogs!
Also Final Act specifically ends the Meren player.
The whale is insane engine, since it can be triggered by all players per turn. So potential 4 triggers per round. In poison deck it is extremely powerful
One-lamog, Two-lamog, Half-lamog, based on the cast trigger one and two targets and half the deck
French has the answer for us!
1. Un-lamog
2. Deux-lamog
3. Trois-lamog
(Or just say “New-lamog” for the newest one to keep the oo sound going)
Old-lamog
New-lamog
Newer-lamog
Oldlamog, twolamog and Newlamog
Ulamog, 2-lamog, Newlamog
@@locus0fmana saying twah-lamog would make me feel like I was about to be beaten with a baguette.
Arena of Glory went right into my Kaalia deck :)
Thank you 🎉
You guys are wild, for saying Kodama’s Reach and Cultivate aren’t cutting it anymore. They are still super reliable ramp.
Cthonian Nightmare I can see having so many enablers, doesn't even have to be infinite mana with dock side. Just re-occurring something like E.Witness its all fun and games til the board is being spammed with farewell every turn.
Someone used an invert polarity against me in a game on arena and I damn near lost my mind. Totally underrated this card but it’s powerful for sure.
The Goodlamog, the badlamug, and the uglyamog.
Good one!!! XD
Except they are all ugly 😄
uglamog?
Stole my opponents 2 cost commander and paid the energy, bounced it back to my hand with sink into stupor that i drew the following turn then stole another 3 cost commander and paid to keep it. They weren’t too happy 😅
Necrodominance also calls back to Necrologia, and instant that can *only* be played in your step and lets you draw x cards and lose x life.
adding the whale with the someone who can clone the whale. So you can double proliferate every turn or more.
From what I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks of CEDH at my Local game store, the cards that make the most impact have been the “Flares” specifically the green and blue ones, and that Drake that acts like a gilded drake but can be seen as removal if you can’t pay the Energy.
What creatures are the saccing to the green flare? That’s what I think holds it back, typically green has dorks on the field and I wouldn’t want to sacrifice those lol
@@Chucklepuffs Unless you're doing Elfball things or need it to chump, I would happily cash in any Llanowar Elf for two lands. The ideal creatures though are Elvish Pioneer and Aboreal Grazer.
@@Chucklepuffs Why not? Use the dork to play a spell, sacrifice the dork for getting an extra land drop that turn and getting a land for next turn.
It's what I've been doing and it's real good.
@@dom6637 I get that but idk, I’d rather casts Cultivate on turn 2 and keep my dork around. I think it’s gonna come down to personal preference? I just don’t know that man 1 and 2 drops that i would want to sacrifice to this 🤔
@@Chucklepuffs It sounds not that amazing but give it a go you might surprise yourself. At the end of the day, the dorks are just there to help us curve, by getting value from them, they're just vulnerable lands.
Keep in mind, I'm not talking about casting the dork then instantly saccing it, although you can do that if you want to I guess. I'm saying, play the dork, next turn play a land, play a 3 drop turn 2 (which could be your standard cultivate if you want btw) then get rid of the now used dork for the free cultivate.
You've now ramped super hard, guaranteed yourself a land drop which can't be understated since commander players typically undervalue consistent land drops vs ramping and you're now playing 6 drops by turn 3 while still actually being able to commit something useful on the board.
It's quite nice tempo.
It'd be interesting to see a podcast where you put cards into the "tier" or power level you feel like it belongs. For instance, jeweled lotus, the one ring, mana crypt at 9 or 10, etc.
I will say that, at least on EDHRec, Cultivate is still the most used Green card.
Yeah which is why people play it even more... Which is why it's the most played on edh rec... Which is why people play it even more... Risen and repeat.
People don't know why they play what the play.
@@pascalsimioli6777 "everyone is stupid except me"
You should play commander with the odd1sout.
Hey, what if I fork a removal spell....could it kill Emrakul? It wasn't "cast" that turn....hmmmm
Dewey-lamog
Malcolm-lamog
Reese-lamog
I think the funniest thing to do with the new Emrakul is to Aven Interrupter your own. You get the cast trigger and then you also don’t have to worry about the leaves the battlefield trigger. Also, you then have a plotted Emrakul.
😮 we did it boys! For 15 mana we have completed the full circlejurk
@@juicedupjunkie2324 I mean, you really gotta cheat, but yes.
First thought that came to mind for Arena of Glory was putting it in my Obeka, Splitter of Seconds deck.
New Emrakul looses to a simple land: Homeward Path
Suspiciously not included in the MH3 Commander decks but likely coming to a secret lair just as demand creeps that price up.
Emrakul can actually be really good in mono blue as well considering all the artifacts in decks like urza!
I love this channel but will they please give up on the bizarre flash forward at the start! We clicked on the episode, we don't need the trailer!
Agreed. A lot of channels do it and it's probably some dumb algorithm thing, but I really don't like it. It's like a spoiler for the episode that ruins the moment as it happens in context later in the video.
Amphibian downpour is the new all star in my Tatsunari deck. Everybody frogs!