Red mages! What’s your favorite thing about playing red? Did we miss any of the color’s pitfalls? What’s your favorite red tech to shore up those weaknesses and pilot your reddest decks to victory?
Thank you Jimmy and Rachel for this! This was so much fun to watch. Def going to pick up some of the cards y'all mentioned. Some of my favorite Mono Red cards that y'all didn't mention, but def need love Red Removal: Aftershock - Gets rid of a creature, artifact or land; Blood Frenzy makes combat fun and you can get rid of a problem creature Red Counter Spell: Mages' Contest - who doesn't want to bid life and counter a spell xD Red "Board Wipe": Mogg Infestation - One sided, but the only way to get rid of problematic creatures for red Honorable Mention/Cheat: Introduction to Annihilation - Only way for red to exile a nonland Ugin the Ineffable
I'm Gruul... more a green player than anything but I've noticed red has started getting free advantage by exiting top card and being able to play it for free like etali primal storm.
Godo and Hoarding dragon are very playable tutors in red. There's an entire archetype of sorts around squee and phoenixes in red if you want to play very resilient cards.
@@amvoriginaltry torbran for example. Its basically you against the table from turn 4 onwards. Either you kill them or they take you apart early enough
There is only one way to play red. Be the one standing triumphant in the middle of a smoldering crater or be scattered all over the place amidst a smoldering crater.
I think of it as a caveman standing in the crater made after sacing every land and throwing every card and the kitchen sink at my opponent while yelling ooga booga. Great times
Jimmy you are the reason I started playing magic. With my first Deck being Gishath Suns avatar and then seeing you play in on Game Knights I knew this game was going to be fun. You signed my Gishath Playmat during Magic Con but funny enough I wasnt the one holding it I wouldve been late Gavin mystery event if I stayed in line, but an awesome stranger who was already waiting in line said he'd get ut signed for me. I wish could've seen you and shook your hand. Keep being awesome and let the games always be aggressive
I have a spell duping spellslinger deck with Zevlor and realized I could make 40 mana with Jeska's Will and did it immediately before realizing I didn't have a single red cost card to use afterwards. I was too struck by the idea that I could do it, that I didn't stop to think if I should. The red player in me won that day, but I had lost.
@@fluffernugget1556 I actually saw 15 because I had two Twinning Staves, but none of those were red either, although I do believe I had a couple of artifacts, but nothing crazy. Unlucky. Maybe need to put more red in that deck, but it's also my first draft of it.
I rarely win games when playing decks that are mono-red or heavily skew red, but generally I have more fun playing them. In the past five-ish years, I've spent way more time playing Rakdos, Izzet, and Jeskai decks just because my focus has shifted from wanting to win the game more to wanting to enjoy the game. This could be a fantastic monthly series, by the way. I love the idea.
Yeah they fail at some triggers as well and they give the most wikipedia explanation and if you want, Josh in the all is one video was actually disturbed by elesh norn and the game was not fun and hes straining so hard not to say that they are not having fun recording XD
Brand new MTG player here, as in started this past week because of yall! Went to Dreamhack and played with some people there and had an absolute blast. Thank you for the good information! I would love to see other colors : )
As a MTG noob, which also likes red a lot, this video is so good and entertaining. Really appreciate all advice given in a humorous manner. I play in a pod with very experienced players (15 years of mtg), and this type of video opens my eyes to things they have already figured out. Gonna get em this next time
Red and blue also have a unice way to "boardwipe". Cause with blue you can bounce cards and with red you wheel them away. Both normally also are good at 1v1 trades but thats the main way they do a 2vx and refill the hand :)
Loving the new content! After you do mono-colours, will you go through the colour-pairs and three-colour groupings? That would be awesome! (I also liked the Fact or Fiction episode, but this was better!)
Last year it dawned on me that I had a mono color commander deck for each color but red: Urza for Blue, Thalia for White, Kodama for Green, and Yawgmoth for Black. But I never had a red deck. And the obvious choices came up: Torbran, Krenko, Lathliss. But I defied them. I said, “I want a commander that when you play against, he’s innately red, but not who you immediately think of when you think of Red.” Streets of New Capenna brought me that commander with the Heretic Praetor himself, Urabrask. Now just a note, he’s not the best version of himself, not by a long shot, but he was unique enough that people go “huh” when I play him as Commander. The deck has evolved into something strong and powerful, and when I play Urabrask, you either bring it, or you watch the world burn. Either way is fine by me.
"Put mountains in your deck" cracked me up ^.^ thanks for this awesome episode!! When I first got into magic I didn't think I liked red very much, but I love it so much now!!
One of my favorite Red cards the card Arcane Bombardment. It is almost always impactful every time it enters play. Get free casts of spells, what's not to like??
Red is also the only mono color CEDH color that stays in the top 15 list with Godo, Bandit Warlord. It is fast, explosive, and hard to stop when it gets to a certain point but getting there is always the trick or waiting for the right time. That is why I find it one of the best paired colors, it enhances all other colors paired with it but it itself struggles with the three big parts of playing magic (ramp, draw, and control/interaction) but because of that its just a good color at all times. Love the series, cannot wait to see more of this, possibly even going through EDH power levels in a similar way to help players design and decide what power rankings and commanders fit those rankings as well. Would be an interesting series with a LOT to talk about.
This series has a lot of potential to go even further. I feel players mostly know archetypes, but advice on how to play them correctly would be awesome.
I have Red in every one of my decks, but it's the secondary or tertiary color in each. In each case, I'm using it for it's game ending ability, either with Chandra's Ignition for Gruul, or extra combats for Boris equipment. So even if it makes up a third or less if the deck, it's usually the best part.
A good summary of a lot of what red does is just looking at the mono-red sagas from NEO. First, you have the two you regularly see play in various formats. You have fable, which you already mentioned, and you have Kumano: direct damage, play creatures and pump them a little, attack quickly w/ haste, destroy things so badly they are exiled. There's also Shattered States Era, which is "take their stuff and hit them with it before giving it back," pump the damage a creature does (but, not it's ability to survive), then attack (again with haste). Between the three, you make 2 goblins, a shaman, and a samurai. if one of them became a Dragon, it would be as close to a perfect summary of red's basics.
On the Mana Geyser + Fiery Emancipation + Chandra's Ignition in one surprising, explosive turn - I once pulled this off with my Inferno of the Star Mounts deck and it was sweet! Used all the leftover red mana to pump the commander and threw a cheeky "double power until end of turn" card in there to one-shot the entire table!
Only have one red deck, but it is hands down my favorite commander deck I own. Gotta love spending one red mana to draw 15ish cards with Zada, Hedron Grinder
Great episode. I love how explosive and aggressive Red can be. I’ve been playing Slicer, Hired Muscle a lot lately and every time he connects I can hear Jimmy say “take ah damage”.
I would really love to see more of these, they seem like a great resource for players who have gotten the basics of the game and are looking for more information to help them with deckbuilding basics
Feldon is my favourite commander. He lets me lean back and react or step forward and accelerate, whatever suits the situation. The deck has some amound of resilience as long as I have my graveyard and I have answeres for every kind of threat. I love Combustible Gearhulk.
So a fun little combo I discovered a while ago might be useful for those who want infinite mana in your red deck. You can use Rift Elemental to eat away the time counters from Rousing Refrain, and as long as you can net more than 6 red mana off of Rousing Refrain you can repeat the process as many times as you want due to Rousing Refrain putting itself back in suspend after each cast. Personally I'll slot it in in a Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival deck I've been thinking about building, but it's also really good for Prosper.
A fun trick for spells like Deflecting Swat is using them as pseudo-counterspells against normal counterspells. 1. You cast something. 2. Blue player responds by targeting your spell with a counterspell. 3. You respond by casting Deflecting Swat, targeting the counterspell. 4. When Deflecting Swat resolves, you choose to change the target of the counterspell to... Deflecting Swat, which is still a legal target until it has finished resolving and leaves the stack. 5. The blue player's counterspell has its target changed to Deflecting Swat. Deflecting Swat leaves the stack and goes to the graveyard, and then the counterspell automatically fizzles out because its target is no longer on the stack.
I'd definitely like to see vidoes like this featuring each color or potentially other large archtypes. Info like this really helps new players see what strategies they could be interested in.
Great idea. As a newbie to MTG, this type of show will really help me understand the bigger picture of what each colour (note correct English spelling!!!) does. I look forward to the other shows coming up.
Definitely missed out on mentioning Delayed Blast Fireball. It's asymmetrical, hits opponent's and their creatures, and is incredible if cast it from Exile with an impulse draw or the Knollspine land/Prosper. I like Red because pairs very well with medium-large creatures, which I love. I actually find that it's great at creating asymmetrical advantage, i.e. a lot of its strong creatures fly so Earthquake effects are great, or doubling damage from only your things. Most of all, red is great at taking advantage of openings or creating them to just end players. Boards get clogged and a well timed gruul charm, seismic elemental or terror of mount velus can cause player KOs quick.
Pretty sure you listed off like half of my staple red deck during this video. It's got me pumped to go rework it and see what more shenanigans can happen now that I'm not so focused on JUST RED
I love color breakdowns like this! Make more videos like this! You guys should should do videos for dual, tri, quad, and rainbow colors after you finish each solo color. 💪🏼
36:00 All will be one is another example of red translating things into damage. It turns playing planeswalkers, or battles, or putting counters on things into damage
This is my favorite video they've done in a long time. I know that channel is have to cover new product and news to stay relevant, but I miss just good old-fashioned here's some philosophies on commander type stuff
As a red mage, I approve. Gruul Mage for two color Jund mage for three color. Would definitely love to see all colors and color combination guides and maybe deck archetypes too
Everything that has been talked about in this video is pretty much why Purphoros Bronze blooded is my favorite mono red commander. Turning every big creature into: 3 mana, discard and draw 7, 3 mana destroy target permanent, 3 mana don't lose the game, 3 mana deal 20 damage, 3 mana tutor artifact to hand. And everything has haste. Imo one of the best mono red commanders 😂
❤ I started with a Red Green Planeswalker Precon Chandra deck from Dominaria and ever since I fell in love with Red. So much that I have a Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh Commander Deck that I'm currently upgrading. I love tinkering with the Red burn and replaying cards from the Graveyard and Exile. I also love Dragons from playing Yu-Gi-Oh and the Battle Step. Maybe a bit simplistic, but that's precisely why I love this colour
my favorite red card in my Ovika token deck is Lightning Volley. "until end of turn, creatures you control gain 'tap: this creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player.' " Mostly bc of something someone once said. "I can't beleive we lost to the football equivilant of taking a knee"
When it comes to Red Decks, my favorite has to be my friend’s Norin the Runaway commander deck. All it cares about is ETB triggers and chaos for the board, which almost always lead to some wild and memorable moment
I have been playing red a lot recently and I figured out how to draw cards. The best way to draw cards in red is thrill of possiblity effects and a fork of some kind or a double vision.
There's a card in red called enchanter's bane and it's one of the better removal spells for red that Target enchantments and it's actually really good in some cases plus it's decently cheap to cast.
Hard disagree on chaos warp. I don’t want to be using my removal unless the target will knock me out/ let my opponent win. A three mana hit anything at instant speed is perfect for that. Plus the mini-game attached is always fun.
I just threw Dance with Calamity into Laelia, where if I want I can just exile half my library, make my commander massive, and then swing for the win. High risk, high reward, very red!
red is very good at removing small creatures and good at removing medium creatures. its also good at making temporary token copies. goblin sharpshooter is very good when you have 2 or 3 of them btw
This is an awesome series, I really enjoyed both RED&WHITE and I for one, hope you do the other 3 colors. Very informative and u definitely sub'd thanks guys!!
For the decade and a half I've been playing this game, I've had an irrational fear of red for some reason (occasionally I would splash it in Modern UW control for bolt--that's the extent of it). Thanks for the great content and helping me get over my fear!
I carried around a very unfair disdain for red for YEARS. And then a buddy of mine played a very aggressive, chaotic Rakdos deck. He didn't win, but he was having an ABSOLUTE BLAST. The stupid grin on his face and the maniacal giggling during these explosive crackhead turns was infectious. I borrowed the deck and played it a few times. Out of six games, I finished second in one game and got absolutely trounced the other five, and had this absolutely amazing time. I play red in most of my decks now, because ultimately I'm not playing to win games, I'm playing to have fun.
Just built my very first mono red deck. I got Zada from a prize support pack of CMM on Friday and I built the entire deck from what I already had. I put the cards into mana box and the total low market value of the deck is $49. It wins on turn 4/5 lmao. So fun. I have realized that if I don’t win on turn 4/7 I am just dead in the water lol
Possibility storm functions as a quasi board protection, if you have a solid board dominance, possibility storm works to effectively protect your board state, as it makes it difficult to cast board wipes and impossible to overload cyclonic rift.
Red just recently became a fun color for me as mono red. Ive been running a spell slinging Urubrask deck from March of the Machine n it's just been fun to hit quick n repeat.
Wyll reversal is great alternatief for deflecting swat Chain reaction is still a great boardwipe. Into the fire is great if you like valakut awakening. There are rituels other then mana geyser to help you like seeting song. What new in red is casting from exile too deal a lot of damage. For defends cards like brash taunters are also helpfull.
Hey gang, I don't know if this has been stated anywhere, but as a somewhat new player now (only have been playing since about February I believe) and someone who loves the format of your show, would you all consider doing a "How to play Blue" or "How to Play White"?. Thanks!
I feel like the Kernith, the returned king being a good source for the color pie is just bad information. Red isn't really about trample. White is MUCH better at giving +1/+1 counters than green. I'm not sure white actually is better at gaining life than green is. This feels like a lot of misses to me for supposed quick and easy reference. Also, how could an explanation of red not deal with direct damage?
Mirror March... 🤣 I only ever, like ever, had this be a seven mana do nothing enchantment... when my buddies play it, it's 6 mana win the game🤣. This is a huge part of red!
I'd so love to see this for every color and a 5 player commander game with a player representing each color. my mono white angel lifegain commander deck is a menace in my playgroup even though its just mono white.
RED Squee (the Immortal) is pretty nice when it comes to surviving your opponents, just don't forget to pack a Brash Taunter, Stuffy Doll, Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, Reverberate, Dualcaster Mage, and more stuff of the like. One of my oldest decks it is, made vastly better by having a diehard commander who can dodge commander tax, even when exiled. Valduk voltron, Anax devotion, and Zurzoth devils are pretty okay, but my current biggest project is mono-red pirates, featuring Dargo with Breeches as his partner. Zada (Hedron Grinder) is cool and all, but Ardoz and Auntie Blyte have my interest currently, when it comes to mono-red at least. Speaking of red as support? - Popular Entertainer ...is the background I chose for a Volo (Itinerant Scholar) goad brew I hope to gift or sell to somebody someday. - Guild Artisan ...is the background I chose for a Safana (Calimport Cutthroat) dungeons and treasures brew... which I'm so dang stoked to finally put sleeves on. - Tavern Brawler ...is the background I chose for an Alora (Merry Thief) adventures brew, which turned out to be my top favorite of 2022, and one of the most fulfilling successes in happy deckbuilding I've had since getting into Magic the Gathering.
There’s probably some card names you’d probably seen at a table quite a bit now~~~ Me in my head & Jimmy at the same time: Jessica’s will. But literally I’ve never seen this card in person yet lmaooo I’ve only seen it at your tables
A couple of Instant pat for more mana is Vessel of Volatility and Seething song. A small form of protecting red is defence grid, Repercussion creature damage equally controller dammage.damage. and a huge board whipe red had is 4rr and it's jokulhaupus - destroy all including land except enchantments and cannot be regenerated
Collision of realms is my favorite red board wipe because the reanimation decks can’t get their stuff back lol. plus it gets around all the problems that you mentioned with indestructible and protection
Around 1 hour and 2 min in, you guys were talking about red tutoring cards, you didnt mention Hoarding Dragon which is great and it is a staple on Feldon, of the third path decks. Gamble is not a great card compared to the tutors on the other colors but it is also excelent in this deck because you want creatures and artifacts in the graveyard so you can do Feldon's ability or the Goblin welder/engineer shenanigans with artifacts. That's all i had to add, otherwise great work covering red! I liked this topic, very interesting, you guys should do the other colors too.
at least red is fair hitting everyone at the same time. I've come to appreciate the red in my decks and even chose Delina as my Mono Red Commander because CHAOS
Red mages! What’s your favorite thing about playing red? Did we miss any of the color’s pitfalls? What’s your favorite red tech to shore up those weaknesses and pilot your reddest decks to victory?
DIRECT DAMAGE!
Thank you Jimmy and Rachel for this! This was so much fun to watch. Def going to pick up some of the cards y'all mentioned.
Some of my favorite Mono Red cards that y'all didn't mention, but def need love
Red Removal: Aftershock - Gets rid of a creature, artifact or land; Blood Frenzy makes combat fun and you can get rid of a problem creature
Red Counter Spell: Mages' Contest - who doesn't want to bid life and counter a spell xD
Red "Board Wipe": Mogg Infestation - One sided, but the only way to get rid of problematic creatures for red
Honorable Mention/Cheat: Introduction to Annihilation - Only way for red to exile a nonland
Ugin the Ineffable
I'm Gruul... more a green player than anything but I've noticed red has started getting free advantage by exiting top card and being able to play it for free like etali primal storm.
Magic players don't understand Kenrith's reanimation ability, it goes to the owner of the creature
Godo and Hoarding dragon are very playable tutors in red. There's an entire archetype of sorts around squee and phoenixes in red if you want to play very resilient cards.
Live fast, die hard, miss land drops, die to your own mana crypt.
Lol I don’t play red but that sounds edgy and hilarious
@@amvoriginal The joke is that Jimmy Wong often misses land drops AND has died to his own crypt lol
@@amvoriginaltry torbran for example. Its basically you against the table from turn 4 onwards. Either you kill them or they take you apart early enough
Aged poorly 😅
not anymore LUL
This is a cool series idea! Would love to see this with deck archetypes as well as commanders.
We've done one about Infect and hope to do more!
@@commandcast *gets ready to host one about Graveyard decks*
.. and when "how to play blue" !? ;)
@@commandcast you guys should do blue. if you want help 90% of my decks are blue so i know some real deep cuts
There is only one way to play red. Be the one standing triumphant in the middle of a smoldering crater or be scattered all over the place amidst a smoldering crater.
I think of it as a caveman standing in the crater made after sacing every land and throwing every card and the kitchen sink at my opponent while yelling ooga booga. Great times
Or like sages of old say : "JUST FIREBALL !"
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That's two ways of playing red.
That's 2 ways...
Jimmy you are the reason I started playing magic. With my first Deck being Gishath Suns avatar and then seeing you play in on Game Knights I knew this game was going to be fun.
You signed my Gishath Playmat during Magic Con but funny enough I wasnt the one holding it I wouldve been late Gavin mystery event if I stayed in line, but an awesome stranger who was already waiting in line said he'd get ut signed for me.
I wish could've seen you and shook your hand. Keep being awesome and let the games always be aggressive
I have a spell duping spellslinger deck with Zevlor and realized I could make 40 mana with Jeska's Will and did it immediately before realizing I didn't have a single red cost card to use afterwards. I was too struck by the idea that I could do it, that I didn't stop to think if I should. The red player in me won that day, but I had lost.
But you would see 9 cards?
@@fluffernugget1556 I actually saw 15 because I had two Twinning Staves, but none of those were red either, although I do believe I had a couple of artifacts, but nothing crazy. Unlucky. Maybe need to put more red in that deck, but it's also my first draft of it.
I rarely win games when playing decks that are mono-red or heavily skew red, but generally I have more fun playing them. In the past five-ish years, I've spent way more time playing Rakdos, Izzet, and Jeskai decks just because my focus has shifted from wanting to win the game more to wanting to enjoy the game.
This could be a fantastic monthly series, by the way. I love the idea.
Really hope to see more episodes like this since all the colors have so many different archetypes
Now everyone, remember: he knows his shit.
Except for mana. Don't listen to half an advice Jimmy has on mana, we've all seen his exploits.
Jeska's Will or bust, right? :-P
Don't hire Jimmy to guide me through the mountains, noted.
Yeah they fail at some triggers as well and they give the most wikipedia explanation and if you want, Josh in the all is one video was actually disturbed by elesh norn and the game was not fun and hes straining so hard not to say that they are not having fun recording XD
Brand new MTG player here, as in started this past week because of yall! Went to Dreamhack and played with some people there and had an absolute blast. Thank you for the good information! I would love to see other colors : )
As a MTG noob, which also likes red a lot, this video is so good and entertaining. Really appreciate all advice given in a humorous manner. I play in a pod with very experienced players (15 years of mtg), and this type of video opens my eyes to things they have already figured out. Gonna get em this next time
Red and blue also have a unice way to "boardwipe". Cause with blue you can bounce cards and with red you wheel them away. Both normally also are good at 1v1 trades but thats the main way they do a 2vx and refill the hand :)
As an English professor, I laud Rachel's understanding of nouns and her use of "ephemeral." :)
Loving the new content!
After you do mono-colours, will you go through the colour-pairs and three-colour groupings?
That would be awesome!
(I also liked the Fact or Fiction episode, but this was better!)
Finally I’ve always wanted to see Jimmy talk about playing red lol
Last year it dawned on me that I had a mono color commander deck for each color but red: Urza for Blue, Thalia for White, Kodama for Green, and Yawgmoth for Black. But I never had a red deck. And the obvious choices came up: Torbran, Krenko, Lathliss. But I defied them. I said, “I want a commander that when you play against, he’s innately red, but not who you immediately think of when you think of Red.” Streets of New Capenna brought me that commander with the Heretic Praetor himself, Urabrask. Now just a note, he’s not the best version of himself, not by a long shot, but he was unique enough that people go “huh” when I play him as Commander. The deck has evolved into something strong and powerful, and when I play Urabrask, you either bring it, or you watch the world burn. Either way is fine by me.
"Put mountains in your deck" cracked me up ^.^ thanks for this awesome episode!! When I first got into magic I didn't think I liked red very much, but I love it so much now!!
One of my favorite Red cards the card Arcane Bombardment. It is almost always impactful every time it enters play. Get free casts of spells, what's not to like??
Red is also the only mono color CEDH color that stays in the top 15 list with Godo, Bandit Warlord. It is fast, explosive, and hard to stop when it gets to a certain point but getting there is always the trick or waiting for the right time. That is why I find it one of the best paired colors, it enhances all other colors paired with it but it itself struggles with the three big parts of playing magic (ramp, draw, and control/interaction) but because of that its just a good color at all times.
Love the series, cannot wait to see more of this, possibly even going through EDH power levels in a similar way to help players design and decide what power rankings and commanders fit those rankings as well. Would be an interesting series with a LOT to talk about.
This series has a lot of potential to go even further. I feel players mostly know archetypes, but advice on how to play them correctly would be awesome.
It'd be great if they could grab Ashlynn for a video on colorless commanders.
I have Red in every one of my decks, but it's the secondary or tertiary color in each. In each case, I'm using it for it's game ending ability, either with Chandra's Ignition for Gruul, or extra combats for Boris equipment. So even if it makes up a third or less if the deck, it's usually the best part.
A good summary of a lot of what red does is just looking at the mono-red sagas from NEO. First, you have the two you regularly see play in various formats. You have fable, which you already mentioned, and you have Kumano: direct damage, play creatures and pump them a little, attack quickly w/ haste, destroy things so badly they are exiled. There's also Shattered States Era, which is "take their stuff and hit them with it before giving it back," pump the damage a creature does (but, not it's ability to survive), then attack (again with haste). Between the three, you make 2 goblins, a shaman, and a samurai. if one of them became a Dragon, it would be as close to a perfect summary of red's basics.
On the Mana Geyser + Fiery Emancipation + Chandra's Ignition in one surprising, explosive turn - I once pulled this off with my Inferno of the Star Mounts deck and it was sweet! Used all the leftover red mana to pump the commander and threw a cheeky "double power until end of turn" card in there to one-shot the entire table!
Only have one red deck, but it is hands down my favorite commander deck I own. Gotta love spending one red mana to draw 15ish cards with Zada, Hedron Grinder
Great episode. I love how explosive and aggressive Red can be. I’ve been playing Slicer, Hired Muscle a lot lately and every time he connects I can hear Jimmy say “take ah damage”.
I would really love to see more of these, they seem like a great resource for players who have gotten the basics of the game and are looking for more information to help them with deckbuilding basics
Amazing episode! Both helpful for new and old players. Again great job. ❤
Another awesome video. I hope the team can follow up with more content that goes over the the other colors.
Feldon is my favourite commander. He lets me lean back and react or step forward and accelerate, whatever suits the situation. The deck has some amound of resilience as long as I have my graveyard and I have answeres for every kind of threat. I love Combustible Gearhulk.
So a fun little combo I discovered a while ago might be useful for those who want infinite mana in your red deck. You can use Rift Elemental to eat away the time counters from Rousing Refrain, and as long as you can net more than 6 red mana off of Rousing Refrain you can repeat the process as many times as you want due to Rousing Refrain putting itself back in suspend after each cast. Personally I'll slot it in in a Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival deck I've been thinking about building, but it's also really good for Prosper.
Been searching for these types of videos. Looking forward to this series.
I absolutely NEED a video like this for mill. I know mill is frowned upon in Commander which makes it all the more why I need more.
A fun trick for spells like Deflecting Swat is using them as pseudo-counterspells against normal counterspells.
1. You cast something.
2. Blue player responds by targeting your spell with a counterspell.
3. You respond by casting Deflecting Swat, targeting the counterspell.
4. When Deflecting Swat resolves, you choose to change the target of the counterspell to... Deflecting Swat, which is still a legal target until it has finished resolving and leaves the stack.
5. The blue player's counterspell has its target changed to Deflecting Swat. Deflecting Swat leaves the stack and goes to the graveyard, and then the counterspell automatically fizzles out because its target is no longer on the stack.
You can also just redirect the counterspell to itself.
@@jeffe2267 you cannot
@@PrimeEnLightenedShadow Oh, right, I misread.
Really liked this episode I hope you all make episodes for the other colors!
I'd definitely like to see vidoes like this featuring each color or potentially other large archtypes. Info like this really helps new players see what strategies they could be interested in.
Great idea. As a newbie to MTG, this type of show will really help me understand the bigger picture of what each colour (note correct English spelling!!!) does. I look forward to the other shows coming up.
Definitely missed out on mentioning Delayed Blast Fireball. It's asymmetrical, hits opponent's and their creatures, and is incredible if cast it from Exile with an impulse draw or the Knollspine land/Prosper.
I like Red because pairs very well with medium-large creatures, which I love. I actually find that it's great at creating asymmetrical advantage, i.e. a lot of its strong creatures fly so Earthquake effects are great, or doubling damage from only your things.
Most of all, red is great at taking advantage of openings or creating them to just end players. Boards get clogged and a well timed gruul charm, seismic elemental or terror of mount velus can cause player KOs quick.
Pretty sure you listed off like half of my staple red deck during this video. It's got me pumped to go rework it and see what more shenanigans can happen now that I'm not so focused on JUST RED
I love color breakdowns like this! Make more videos like this! You guys should should do videos for dual, tri, quad, and rainbow colors after you finish each solo color. 💪🏼
I would love to see a game knights or an extra turn episode with mono color decks.
36:00 All will be one is another example of red translating things into damage. It turns playing planeswalkers, or battles, or putting counters on things into damage
This is my favorite video they've done in a long time. I know that channel is have to cover new product and news to stay relevant, but I miss just good old-fashioned here's some philosophies on commander type stuff
As a red mage, I approve.
Gruul Mage for two color
Jund mage for three color.
Would definitely love to see all colors and color combination guides and maybe deck archetypes too
Everything that has been talked about in this video is pretty much why Purphoros Bronze blooded is my favorite mono red commander. Turning every big creature into: 3 mana, discard and draw 7, 3 mana destroy target permanent, 3 mana don't lose the game, 3 mana deal 20 damage, 3 mana tutor artifact to hand. And everything has haste. Imo one of the best mono red commanders 😂
❤ I started with a Red Green Planeswalker Precon Chandra deck from Dominaria and ever since I fell in love with Red. So much that I have a Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh Commander Deck that I'm currently upgrading. I love tinkering with the Red burn and replaying cards from the Graveyard and Exile. I also love Dragons from playing Yu-Gi-Oh and the Battle Step. Maybe a bit simplistic, but that's precisely why I love this colour
Love this type of content! I would be very interested in a break down of the other colors.
my favorite red card in my Ovika token deck is Lightning Volley. "until end of turn, creatures you control gain 'tap: this creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player.' "
Mostly bc of something someone once said. "I can't beleive we lost to the football equivilant of taking a knee"
All kinds of new types of content, good to see!
When it comes to Red Decks, my favorite has to be my friend’s Norin the Runaway commander deck. All it cares about is ETB triggers and chaos for the board, which almost always lead to some wild and memorable moment
Oh man I looove that we get an hour and a half of this! Let's see mooorrrre
I have been playing red a lot recently and I figured out how to draw cards. The best way to draw cards in red is thrill of possiblity effects and a fork of some kind or a double vision.
Blue with JLK, White with Rachel, Green with Murph, and Black with Ladee Danger
I would associate JLK with Azorius, Rachel as Izzet, Ladee as Golgari… Murph always seemed Eclectic.
good predictions!! maybe they can have Ashlen in to do colorless too ^.^
@@quelanathecrow good idea
You were pretty close!
There's a card in red called enchanter's bane and it's one of the better removal spells for red that Target enchantments and it's actually really good in some cases plus it's decently cheap to cast.
I like how the descriptions of most of these cards doesn’t really have many adjectives involved, but is simply “it just is Red”
Omg! I love this! This is fantastic! Please do ALL the colors. I wait with baited breath to eat it all up with my mouth ears!
Excellent video. Please, please do the rest of the colors, and the various combinations too!
This is awesome. I started playing magic like a year ago, plz do more of these color videos!
Hard disagree on chaos warp. I don’t want to be using my removal unless the target will knock me out/ let my opponent win. A three mana hit anything at instant speed is perfect for that. Plus the mini-game attached is always fun.
Love this episode!! Cant wait to see vids of the other colors.
I just threw Dance with Calamity into Laelia, where if I want I can just exile half my library, make my commander massive, and then swing for the win. High risk, high reward, very red!
Loved this episode! I hope we see the other colours soon
Commenting before the video starts, for Jimmy's red, you can play however you want, as long as a jeska's will is involved
4:00 considering how often Jimmy misses his land drops this is really funny to hear from him
red is very good at removing small creatures and good at removing medium creatures. its also good at making temporary token copies. goblin sharpshooter is very good when you have 2 or 3 of them btw
This was dope. Hope to see more!
This is an awesome series, I really enjoyed both RED&WHITE and I for one, hope you do the other 3 colors. Very informative and u definitely sub'd thanks guys!!
For the decade and a half I've been playing this game, I've had an irrational fear of red for some reason (occasionally I would splash it in Modern UW control for bolt--that's the extent of it). Thanks for the great content and helping me get over my fear!
I carried around a very unfair disdain for red for YEARS. And then a buddy of mine played a very aggressive, chaotic Rakdos deck. He didn't win, but he was having an ABSOLUTE BLAST. The stupid grin on his face and the maniacal giggling during these explosive crackhead turns was infectious.
I borrowed the deck and played it a few times. Out of six games, I finished second in one game and got absolutely trounced the other five, and had this absolutely amazing time. I play red in most of my decks now, because ultimately I'm not playing to win games, I'm playing to have fun.
I’m liking the bottle of red hot sauce in the background 😅
One of my favorite red cards oils Dictate of the Twin Gods
I’d like to see more of this series
Can't wait to see what you have for the best color in Magic, Green!
Just built my very first mono red deck. I got Zada from a prize support pack of CMM on Friday and I built the entire deck from what I already had. I put the cards into mana box and the total low market value of the deck is $49. It wins on turn 4/5 lmao. So fun. I have realized that if I don’t win on turn 4/7 I am just dead in the water lol
I’m trying to build a Mogis deck right now and I’m glad I found this video
Play spells, make treasure, cast comet storm kicked twice...stand menacing as the flames are roaring behind you.😎🔥🔥🔥
“Not my circus, not my monkeys” what a quote 😂😂😂
I wonder if we will see Josh and jimmy in the starting intro again.. seems like Rachel is our new host.
No complaints here
I am enjoying her. I just also like Josh. They're both wonderful hosts.
@@derekgraskewicz2104: oh not at all but the chemistry that they have was the best. Cmon! They sing together haha!
Loved this one! Please do more of those :)
Possibility storm functions as a quasi board protection, if you have a solid board dominance, possibility storm works to effectively protect your board state, as it makes it difficult to cast board wipes and impossible to overload cyclonic rift.
Chaos warp is a fun tech to mess with tutoring on top of the library.
Red just recently became a fun color for me as mono red. Ive been running a spell slinging Urubrask deck from March of the Machine n it's just been fun to hit quick n repeat.
Awesome vid, would love to see the other colors as well :-)
Wyll reversal is great alternatief for deflecting swat Chain reaction is still a great boardwipe.
Into the fire is great if you like valakut awakening.
There are rituels other then mana geyser to help you like seeting song.
What new in red is casting from exile too deal a lot of damage.
For defends cards like brash taunters are also helpfull.
“Sometimes a pair of untapped mountains is scarier than its island counterparts” -Rystic Studies
My favorite Mainly red deck is my One Creature Prismatic Bridge deck that only gets Brash Taunter and then red boardwipes galore!
No talk of Blood Moon? It's so good!
Hey gang, I don't know if this has been stated anywhere, but as a somewhat new player now (only have been playing since about February I believe) and someone who loves the format of your show, would you all consider doing a "How to play Blue" or "How to Play White"?. Thanks!
I feel like the Kernith, the returned king being a good source for the color pie is just bad information. Red isn't really about trample. White is MUCH better at giving +1/+1 counters than green. I'm not sure white actually is better at gaining life than green is. This feels like a lot of misses to me for supposed quick and easy reference.
Also, how could an explanation of red not deal with direct damage?
Mirror March... 🤣
I only ever, like ever, had this be a seven mana do nothing enchantment... when my buddies play it, it's 6 mana win the game🤣. This is a huge part of red!
Dance With Calamity + some effect that reveals the top card of your deck (like say, Field of Dreams) sounds hilarious.
Red gives us Thunderscape Familiar, because even Red knows it's the third wheel in Jund. Red is a really good friend.
One of the most violently red things I've seen recently is Geosurge, I love playing it, turn 4 red pips into 7 red pips!
I'd so love to see this for every color and a 5 player commander game with a player representing each color. my mono white angel lifegain commander deck is a menace in my playgroup even though its just mono white.
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Squee (the Immortal) is pretty nice when it comes to surviving your opponents, just don't forget to pack a Brash Taunter, Stuffy Doll, Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, Reverberate, Dualcaster Mage, and more stuff of the like. One of my oldest decks it is, made vastly better by having a diehard commander who can dodge commander tax, even when exiled.
Valduk voltron, Anax devotion, and Zurzoth devils are pretty okay, but my current biggest project is mono-red pirates, featuring Dargo with Breeches as his partner.
Zada (Hedron Grinder) is cool and all, but Ardoz and Auntie Blyte have my interest currently, when it comes to mono-red at least.
Speaking of red as support?
- Popular Entertainer
...is the background I chose for a Volo (Itinerant Scholar) goad brew I hope to gift or sell to somebody someday.
- Guild Artisan
...is the background I chose for a Safana (Calimport Cutthroat) dungeons and treasures brew... which I'm so dang stoked to finally put sleeves on.
- Tavern Brawler
...is the background I chose for an Alora (Merry Thief) adventures brew, which turned out to be my top favorite of 2022, and one of the most fulfilling successes in happy deckbuilding I've had since getting into Magic the Gathering.
There’s probably some card names you’d probably seen at a table quite a bit now~~~
Me in my head & Jimmy at the same time: Jessica’s will.
But literally I’ve never seen this card in person yet lmaooo
I’ve only seen it at your tables
For sure do an episode on each color!
Red the "Easy" button of magic.
A couple of Instant pat for more mana is Vessel of Volatility and Seething song. A small form of protecting red is defence grid, Repercussion creature damage equally controller dammage.damage. and a huge board whipe red had is 4rr and it's jokulhaupus - destroy all including land except enchantments and cannot be regenerated
I forgot Thoughts of rain, each player sacs a land for each card in your hand.
Collision of realms is my favorite red board wipe because the reanimation decks can’t get their stuff back lol. plus it gets around all the problems that you mentioned with indestructible and protection
Around 1 hour and 2 min in, you guys were talking about red tutoring cards, you didnt mention Hoarding Dragon which is great and it is a staple on Feldon, of the third path decks. Gamble is not a great card compared to the tutors on the other colors but it is also excelent in this deck because you want creatures and artifacts in the graveyard so you can do Feldon's ability or the Goblin welder/engineer shenanigans with artifacts. That's all i had to add, otherwise great work covering red! I liked this topic, very interesting, you guys should do the other colors too.
I am looking forward to all the other colors and colorless analysis!
at least red is fair hitting everyone at the same time. I've come to appreciate the red in my decks and even chose Delina as my Mono Red Commander because CHAOS