Not at all surprised to see Rachel with the super interesting wacky synergy that I've never see anyone try before! Very cool deck from an awesome brewer.
The text shows up more often than expected, cards like Aerial Extortionist have it like an afterthought when it’s often the better line of text. Pilferer has the big upside of coming down the earliest of these.
That's just the floor. There are lots of cards that get cast from zones other than the hand. Foretell, suspend, cascade, playing spells from top deck, jump-start, lots of red card advantage exiles cards to let you cast them, etc.
It was impecably well timed, everyone was tapped out, no responses, and on top of it being a great play she also stole it from someone else! It goes into the Ashleen hall of fame, next to the time she played Kozilek and won countering spells with it like a genius.
I loved the video edits and theme of the retro nostalgic vibe, but I also know how much of a pain it had to be to do this. Mad respect. Really good episode! It was really easy to follow and keep up with card effects and actions.
I was surprised to see Rachel in the mono-blue game playing something other than her Octavia deck, but credit to her for not coasting and brewing a new design for this episode. As a big Octavia stan myself though I'm bummed it did not get some burn in this episode.
This was actually one of the craziest and coolest games of magic I’ve ever watched. No infinite combos or any crap like that, just super cool plays and people’s decks doing their cool things
A few general notes: At 41:15, Jimmy would actually get two Merchant triggers here, not one. With the Artisan, we make the new token first, then we get rid of the old token. Naban is still under Jimmy's control when the Merchant enters, so the Merchant's ability trigger twice (and then Jimmy loses the token Naban, but those two triggers still go on the stack). At 43:22, Jimmy's Artisan would trigger here and he would get a token Chasm Skulker as well. Due to how the game turned out, this ended up not being relevant, but it was something that was missed.
@@jakman999 Ward is still relevant there because all of those spells are being cast with Lier on the stack (so spells can still be countered). That stack begins at 52:17 with Rachel saying she's casting her spell with Lier still on the stack.
As far as the end of the episode talking about gift giving. I like to gift my friends land staples for holidays. Something they will always use when building a deck that you might not be excited to buy yourself. Fetches, coffers, yavimaya, urborg, nykthos
Super dope game, everyone's decks were awesome but Rachel's unique deck really shows how strong and great of a player she is. You'd really need to be a master of the game to pilot that properly! 🎉
One could say this is a Mono-blue man group Also I meet a guy that also has a Hakim commander deck. Terrifying and he usually wins since it have EVERY type of protection on it, but still fun to see
please do more of this! i love this idea. and not just mono colors, all color combos. do an all simic battle, gruul, temur, mardu, whatever. its fun to see how people take a specific color identity in different directions.
I have only been watching for a short time, but that seemed like the most fun game. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did. Thanks for the great videos
As a fellow blue player this was like an injection of dopamine straight into my brain. Amazing. I’m currently scorned any time I play mono blue as my friends try to warn players new to playing me to watch me, they do not. Oh how fun it is to play mono blue.
I highly recommend Naban to anyone thinking of trying him. He was a commander of mine for a good while, turns out Wizard beats is not a difficult hoop to jump through. Tons of fun to play, low to the ground, and is pretty versatile with how it can win games (lab man, combos, or as we just saw with Daddys deck just have the wizards hit the gym!).
Can't wait to see the monored rumble. I'm at my 6th monored deck so I'm really curious as to what everyone will be playing! (Monored decks I have: Human shenanigans, Self-discard, ETB-copies, energy, Aggro-drawback, Rosnakht aura-voltron)
People don’t realize how versatile mono blue is. People think it’s all counter spells but I have a set up where I have 15 mono blue decks and they all do completely different things.
@ the way I do it is have a 65 card shell with lands and good staples. And then I have the commanders with their own 34 card decks that I just shuffle in when I want to change the deck.
Naban would actually see the merchant of secrets as there was a point in time where they were both on the field. Faerie artisans says create a token. Then exile all other tokens. If it were worded "create token copy and exile other tokens that Faerie artisans made" then you'd be correct
it would even see it in the example you gave as spells and abilities are resolved in order of what's written on the card. "Create a token and exile all other tokens" is functionally the same as "Create a token, then exile all other tokens" . It would need to be worded "exile all tokens made with Faerie Artisans, then create a token copy of the that creature" for it not see it.
Yep. When resolving spells and abilities you follow the instructions on the card in the order its printed. The token enters before he sacs the other token, so it will trigger that creature he will sacrifice.
I wasn't going to miss another kickstarter and I still haven't gotten myself the christmas gift I always do for myself. Had to get something from Command Zone
This was soooooo good! I don’t mean to throw shade, but this was SO much more unique than the usual fan decks. More of this, if you all enjoyed doing it as much as I enjoyed watching!
Lier makes spells encounterable. Ward counters unless you pay... which is invalidated by Lier. Therefore, people no longer have to pay for ward while lier was on the battlefield
I have NEVER before seen an ad spot that i could relate to personally so hard than that Factor AD. That has seriously happened to me on a turn to where, hey blood sugar dropped need food, homies turn was taking forever so I got permission to make me some food. I had time to cook a meal, eat it, come back, and it wasnt my turn yet because there were 2 people before it got to me and I couldn't do anything anyways. We still joke about the dreaded 40 min turn.
I'd love to see a similar game with other mono colors in the future. Red, white, black, and green should all get their due!)
Yeah!!!!!!!
Since Josh wasn’t in this one, will the red one lack Jimmy?
White would have to lack Rachel
Mono black is going to be such a miserable game
Mono black should be either missing lady or craig
Josh at the door be like: "LET ME IN! LE ME IIIIIN!"
the episode for red is gonna happen with josh instead of jimmy for the purposes of revenge
bringing Lier to an all blue pod is hilarious
It's kinda genius honestly
I’m just going to set this dub down right here for you.
Lier is my mono-blue commander deck and i am shocked ashlen didn't win
edit: ohhhh... she built it voltron.... yeah that's not how to do lier.
There is almost no point in running it as a voltron commander, sorry to say that but she built a terrible deck
@@paolo97ism maybe, but its funny
I love how even though it's mono blue, Jimmy's still playing a red strategy with goad lol
Rachel's deck was amazing. Really fun to see. I love seeing some of the weirder things Blue can do!
>Plays Mono Blue Pod
>Plays Lier as commander
>spells can't be countered
LMFAOOOOOOOOOO THATS DIABOLICAL
I think playing Narset, Parter of Veils would of been worse xD
@@RM_3D Can't play Parter of Veils as your commander though.
Everyone is playing blue what did they expect?!
Mono Blue episode without Josh feels pretty sacrilegious ngl 😂
Yeah that’s crazy lol
Now they've got to do a monored episode without Jimmy...
And without CGB.
@@KerrxLaeda Where everyone is mana screwed.
Now we need mono red without Jimmy and mono Green without Greg.
Not at all surprised to see Rachel with the super interesting wacky synergy that I've never see anyone try before! Very cool deck from an awesome brewer.
💢definitely need more of these all mono color battles! A green, a black, a white, hell even colorless!!! Loved this episode!!!
Just a note, information dealer looks at ALL of the wizards on the field, not just yours. This was a wonderful game!
God I look forward to mono-coloured videos - I am working on building mono-coloured decks atm so this is perfect!
Hope you enjoy it! They are so much fun!
@@commandcastplease continue with the the other 4 colors and maybe colorless 😅
Lets go im doing the same im working on the single named praetors
@@commandcastyes please do all
the other four!
Rachel nonchalantly saying "I've declared war against the daddies" is WILD haha
Yeah was a great gag from Rachel. She is so fun to play with. And a really amenable person at the pod. Was an absolute pleasure playing with her.
TIL that Ghostly Pilferer will just draw you a card for each opponent playing their commander if you manage to play it early.
It's so good!
The text shows up more often than expected, cards like Aerial Extortionist have it like an afterthought when it’s often the better line of text. Pilferer has the big upside of coming down the earliest of these.
That's just the floor. There are lots of cards that get cast from zones other than the hand. Foretell, suspend, cascade, playing spells from top deck, jump-start, lots of red card advantage exiles cards to let you cast them, etc.
Fun drinking game: Take a shot everytime they say "draw a card"
Be dead half way through the video
@@SlongestKongest You must have some beastly alcohol tolerance
That's not a drinking game. That's a *dying* game.
that’s not a drinking game. That’s a suicide speed run any%
I'll do that when they do mono-white maybe...
this was probably the best commander game I've seen on youtube, great gameplay with these complicated stacks
That Narsets Reversal play I'm gonna call play of the year. Like Sheeesshh
It was impecably well timed, everyone was tapped out, no responses, and on top of it being a great play she also stole it from someone else! It goes into the Ashleen hall of fame, next to the time she played Kozilek and won countering spells with it like a genius.
"Jimmy you blue it!"
"I guess you could say I blue myself!"
They all blue it, it would seem)
Jimmy hitting his land drops in mono blue is a nice change
I loved the video edits and theme of the retro nostalgic vibe, but I also know how much of a pain it had to be to do this. Mad respect. Really good episode! It was really easy to follow and keep up with card effects and actions.
I was surprised to see Rachel in the mono-blue game playing something other than her Octavia deck, but credit to her for not coasting and brewing a new design for this episode. As a big Octavia stan myself though I'm bummed it did not get some burn in this episode.
I was kind of hoping she’d bust out her old Orvar deck.
This was actually one of the craziest and coolest games of magic I’ve ever watched. No infinite combos or any crap like that, just super cool plays and people’s decks doing their cool things
"The email bounced" was such a good line, though😂
The necklace is the main reason I upvoted but not the only one! Love the vids, please continue to bring happiness to my afternoons!
Like the idea. Looking forward to mono white, 3h video caus of all the stax and board wipes xD
Eh, if it was like that, this one should've been 3 hours long due to all the counterspells!
Josh not being in an all mono-blue pod is just straight up rude. He got counterspelled😂
A few general notes:
At 41:15, Jimmy would actually get two Merchant triggers here, not one. With the Artisan, we make the new token first, then we get rid of the old token. Naban is still under Jimmy's control when the Merchant enters, so the Merchant's ability trigger twice (and then Jimmy loses the token Naban, but those two triggers still go on the stack).
At 43:22, Jimmy's Artisan would trigger here and he would get a token Chasm Skulker as well. Due to how the game turned out, this ended up not being relevant, but it was something that was missed.
Yeah I immediately thought "hmm I'm pretty sure he still gets the additional trigger" and was going to ask on a judge page. Thanks for confirming!
also at 53:20 ward doesn't work as spells can't be countered
Thanks for your good work as always Nate.
@@jakman999 Ward is still relevant there because all of those spells are being cast with Lier on the stack (so spells can still be countered). That stack begins at 52:17 with Rachel saying she's casting her spell with Lier still on the stack.
@@Natedogg2 thx because i was jumping back when i wrote it i failed to go far enough back to see that and just saw lier sitting on the field.
Meanwhile Josh sadly scratching at the back door like a dog locked out of a house party
Dayum, this episode was super whacky and super fun
Badass game. I hope we get this type of theme for "all" the colors. Including 2, 3, 4, and 5
Might be one of the most entertaining games I've seen from extra turns, great jobs guys.
omg I have wanted to see mono-coloured battles forever, what a fantastic surprise :)
Wanted to say whoever did the thumbnail for this video did a phenomenal job! It caught my eye right away.
As far as the end of the episode talking about gift giving. I like to gift my friends land staples for holidays. Something they will always use when building a deck that you might not be excited to buy yourself. Fetches, coffers, yavimaya, urborg, nykthos
Loving the show of versatility of tokens and beaters among the counterspells and bounces. Blue has the closers a well as the answers
Super dope game, everyone's decks were awesome but Rachel's unique deck really shows how strong and great of a player she is. You'd really need to be a master of the game to pilot that properly! 🎉
seeing that false demise made my heart warm, thats honest fair and hilarious magic right there and a woman of class.
Mono and colorless Edh is a really cool way to see how many different directions different colors can go
Watching Ashlen play Blue is a delight. And Seth is a great energy at the table. Glad you filmed a second episode with him.
I love Ashlyn’s basic Island setup. Simple yet visually attractive! ❤
One could say this is a Mono-blue man group
Also I meet a guy that also has a Hakim commander deck. Terrifying and he usually wins since it have EVERY type of protection on it, but still fun to see
i love that this video comes to my feed as im building my own mono blue deck
please do more of this! i love this idea. and not just mono colors, all color combos. do an all simic battle, gruul, temur, mardu, whatever. its fun to see how people take a specific color identity in different directions.
I have only been watching for a short time, but that seemed like the most fun game. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did. Thanks for the great videos
perfect game of magic. no mana screw or flood, plenty of draw and interaction, and plenty of cool stuff. blue is the best color confirmed
There's a delightful perverse joy in using mana drain mana to cast something that stops all counterspells.
with this i finally watched every game knights and extra turn from start to finish. im proud of my achievement
This is amazing! I would love to see more extra turns like this but with the other colors.
Looking an awful lot like a basketball game with the amount of bounce in this pod.
Big love for Hakim Lore Dude!❤
“the email bounced” oh my god Jimmy 😂
Giving all new meaning to extra turns... I wonder why this episode seemed so much longer than most of the others 🤔
I've missed Ash... good to see her again! 😊
As a fellow blue player this was like an injection of dopamine straight into my brain. Amazing.
I’m currently scorned any time I play mono blue as my friends try to warn players new to playing me to watch me, they do not. Oh how fun it is to play mono blue.
Legend says Josh is still waiting to join the Pod 😂
I highly recommend Naban to anyone thinking of trying him. He was a commander of mine for a good while, turns out Wizard beats is not a difficult hoop to jump through. Tons of fun to play, low to the ground, and is pretty versatile with how it can win games (lab man, combos, or as we just saw with Daddys deck just have the wizards hit the gym!).
Four Mono-Blues?
Y'all are insane!!
The very Fabric of Reality itself cannot handle the possibility of a 4-way Counterspell infinite Staking!!
The editor of todays episode gained 40 years of work experience while making this video.
last thing i want in my maeve deck is midnight clock😂 fun to see a way different strategy than mine!
Faerie artisant is such a good card! I don't see it very often, and i LOVE THAT CARD!
Heh, I'm impressed how you managed to get an all blue pod with zero of the commanders I would have expected.
Oh yeah, also a bit surprised how an all-mono-blue pod had so little interaction relatively speaking.
Did you watch the video or are you just talking to yourself? 🙃
@@maxbodifee3263 Heh, that is the "Oh yeah, I thought of something to add, but didn't think of editing the original post"
That's a great game! Live that mono blue!
Amazing game! Really fun cards in blue
Those hand sizes are insane 🤣
Rachel's deck looks so ridiculously sweet!
Made a mono blue spellslinger infect deck inspired by this episode.
Can't wait to see the monored rumble. I'm at my 6th monored deck so I'm really curious as to what everyone will be playing! (Monored decks I have: Human shenanigans, Self-discard, ETB-copies, energy, Aggro-drawback, Rosnakht aura-voltron)
Monocolor pod rocks! That was an awsome game! Please, do it with ALL colours!
This was a blast to watch!! Please do one for the rest of the colors!!!! :D
Not sure if it would have changed anything but Information Dealer looks at all Wizards in play, not just under your control.
People don’t realize how versatile mono blue is. People think it’s all counter spells but I have a set up where I have 15 mono blue decks and they all do completely different things.
I've considered doing similar because I have a ton of fun playing mono-U
@ the way I do it is have a 65 card shell with lands and good staples. And then I have the commanders with their own 34 card decks that I just shuffle in when I want to change the deck.
Zzzzz
@peewee0224 can touch name a few. I have trouble finding a mono blue deck that ISNT drawing cards or artifacts
Naban would actually see the merchant of secrets as there was a point in time where they were both on the field. Faerie artisans says create a token. Then exile all other tokens. If it were worded "create token copy and exile other tokens that Faerie artisans made" then you'd be correct
it would even see it in the example you gave as spells and abilities are resolved in order of what's written on the card. "Create a token and exile all other tokens" is functionally the same as "Create a token, then exile all other tokens" . It would need to be worded "exile all tokens made with Faerie Artisans, then create a token copy of the that creature" for it not see it.
Agreed.
Yep. When resolving spells and abilities you follow the instructions on the card in the order its printed. The token enters before he sacs the other token, so it will trigger that creature he will sacrifice.
I never knew you could activate abilities on your upkeep phase until now. Thanks Information Dealer
Definitely needs to be an episode for each color!
That stack is wilder than the stock market 😵💫
Mono blue pod: the only game where you sneeze, and realize that there’s suddenly 13 extra spells on the stack
If Josh can't be in the Blue episode, Jimmy has to sit out on Red night. 😅
I wasn't going to miss another kickstarter and I still haven't gotten myself the christmas gift I always do for myself. Had to get something from Command Zone
There should be a Extra Turns game for each of the mono colours
"JIMMY YOU BLUE IT," me: doing the leonardo dicarpio pointing meme
Ashlen using the best island art ever printed and we love to see it
I had never considered using Tolaria West as a ramp piece, thank you Rachel
This was soooooo good! I don’t mean to throw shade, but this was SO much more unique than the usual fan decks. More of this, if you all enjoyed doing it as much as I enjoyed watching!
this would be my worst nightmare. also big fan keep up the great work.
Fun, hope that one comes out for each mono color!
Richard Garfield is smiling somewhere out there, I know it 💙
He certainly did. I showed him the episode :)
The most non-blue mono blue pod I've ever seen in my entire life, All of these decks are doing non-mono blue things LOL
Damn, a rare Cartouche sighting!
This went even slightly crazier than i expected. (In response LMAO!)
Amazing!!!
I like all the old school pixel game music and sounds effects
Incredible how powerful this game was. And fun to watch too. Maybe you could do that for the other colors too?
Jimmy fighting for his life in the intro
It doesn't change events, however, Information Dealer counts ALL Wizards on the battlefield. Not just the Wizards that you control.
Lier makes spells encounterable. Ward counters unless you pay... which is invalidated by Lier. Therefore, people no longer have to pay for ward while lier was on the battlefield
Lier was on the stack when the creature with ward for targeted.
41:00 - the copy of Naban WILL see the copy of Merchant entering and will make it trigger an additional time.
That was super fan to watch!
Video starts at 4:47
I have NEVER before seen an ad spot that i could relate to personally so hard than that Factor AD. That has seriously happened to me on a turn to where, hey blood sugar dropped need food, homies turn was taking forever so I got permission to make me some food. I had time to cook a meal, eat it, come back, and it wasnt my turn yet because there were 2 people before it got to me and I couldn't do anything anyways. We still joke about the dreaded 40 min turn.
Gotta say, that Factor ad break was pretty well done.
Can't wait for the mono red game where Jimmy gets snubbed. It's only fair!
the factor ad was actually pretty great 🤷♂