I don’t have as many extra eldrazi as you but I have dragon throne of tarkir to slap on my skittering cicada to super buff my mobs after I cascade a million times and overrun my opponents that way
Just wanted to say, what you can do with Basalt Monolith combo you can turn mirage mirror into a mystic forge if you need to exile a card and untap it by turning it into a monolith again to untap it and turn it back into the forge. Rinse and repeat. Great game though ❤
Oof, that's pretty backbreaking, would've pretty much been GG on the spot instead of having to rely on luck, nice one! Edit: Thinking about it more don't you need to be able to cast stuff from the top at flash speed or you're otherwise limited to "just" exiling until you hit something you want to cast since you need the mirage mirror activations on the stack? You'd have to let the stack clear otherwise right?
Yeah the terror of the peaks play was greedy as hell to begin with , he missed 1 land drop so his head was in the pace of these treasures are land drops , but he had enough treasure to essentially save his board on any players turn(s) but played terror. Everyone makes mistakes but man tht whole interaction was just weird.
that cgb turn is really just such a solid example of why cards like sunfall and farewell are actually very normal and cool and should be in your decks lmao
Great deck cgb, I would recommend umbilicus, blood clock, and or erratic portal. So that you can pop eldrazi with big cast triggers back to your hand. And also get more cascade triggers.
I love the upgrades to the decks the last 2 weeks. Seeing a big uptick in power but not stepping into cedh combos is a lot of fun to see, and makes for massive swings
Great videos guys, love the rapport between the team. Been playing edh 10+ years and good to see some quality high power content- cedh is ok to watch but inaccessible to most, and over too quickly- so a lot of us play high power instead. Great idea upgrading the precons, I think a lot of us would like to see what they can do when optimised
Your videos are always in my recommended because I watch them all the time. Seeing this was a new one made my weekend! Thanks for everything you guys do!
As someone who owns Sylvan Library and uses it in a very complex draw deck, I just wanted to say that it doesn't actually work that way. You can't refuse the draw. It actually works more like a Brainstorm. You draw extra cards every turn and then put an amount of them back. The amount you put back is proportionate to the life you pay. I didn't count how much life that would amount to, I don't think Ben wouldn't be dead, I don't think, but he'd be a lot lower.
12:46 feel like this is a mistake in how a lot of people play multiplayer formats. I would not cast something as devastating as terror of the peaks into a board with treasures if I could just do the same thing next turn and also have other plays. No reason to expose it to a board wipe or sorcery speed removal. But the real play was to not be “nice” and allow people to block on the original attack. Send everything at the person with no blockers, get enough treasures to play the terror and buyback and recast wanderer. You will probably get enough etb triggers to kill the other terror and zhulodok anyways.
Should have activated temur sabertooth with the 2 remaining treasure tokens to make it indestructible and bounce the old gnaw bone upon casting blasphemous act. Could have saved 2 creatures hehe..
CGB turning full villain and obviously likes it more than anything. I’m glad he didn’t try to fake compassion :D great game at least for one deck, but again I’m here wondering: why didn’t Blake just save the Wanderer? And why did absolutely nobody play artifact hate, despite the fact that mana rocks play a big role in EVERY game in this pod? And most of all: Why did nobody assess the threat of a colorless eldrazi deck? With mana? But fun it was.
Wouldn't surprise me if Jhoira's Familiar and Foundry Inspector both are in there, but in this setup he didn't need either of them anymore, just a sensei's.
I absolute lost it at "Cascade, cascade will return..." youtube might not like it but I would like to hear some cascada songs from CBG. 'Cause every time we touch, I get this feeling and every time we kiss I swear I could fly.
@@Ragnaroc90 I think this is the right of it. What's his plan look like if he bounces? He has a 4/3 do nothing in play, he's on six mana. He rips a land he can slam Gnawbone and he's immediately the table's problem again, and it likely just gets answered. Versus being on eight mana, giving himself more room to draw threats with immediate board impact or just draw more mana to get his commander down.
Man, game was fun till it stopped being a multiplayer game... Thankfully I can just concede when I'm playing... But hey, at least my boy Nekusar appeared :D
Zhulodok is one of those cards that is JUST bad enough to not be CEDH playable, but has NO place anywhere near a casual to mid-power pod. God that was digusting.
Only if you pack absolutely no interaction for sth like a vanilla dude from the command zone and the forsaken monument. The other 3 decks were absolutely greedy and Blake swung at too many different players when he had the gnawbone. Just swing to the only dude who cannot block. These games are made for content.
Didn't really matter because greaves equip for free and he could've done it before or after re-equipping. The bigger issue for me was cascading of Kozilek, since Zhulodok only triggers from spells cast *from hand* .
@Flupse99 hi thanks, sorry for another question but how did he get the mana for all of it? I wish they would show the cards or explain it more for noobies
It's the basalt monolith and forsaken monolith combo. 1. Tap basalt monolith for 3 mana plus an extra 1 from forsaken monument 2. Pay 3 to untap basalt monolith. You have one floating mana 3. Repeat steps one and two to create infinite mana Hope that helps!
Can i join a pod where my artifacts last more than one turn?!?! Lols every deck ive ever played against always has at least one answer ready and waiting.
33:17 missed lethal, with infinite mana you can turn mirage mirror into planar bridge and tutor then turn it into basalt to untap it. Planar bridge can get all permanents from library including endbringer which the mirror can copy to ping infinitely by alternating between it and basalt.
@@ch4Ron23Yes, you are right. To get around this you can put all of the activations in the stack (bridge, basalt, bridge, etc.) before any of them resolve and still tutor whole library. I believe you can also use mirror’s ability targeting itself initially at the bottom of the stack so that afterwards it turns into a copy of itself and you can do it all again with whatever you tutored.
Probably the tenth EDH game I've seen on youtube where the colorless deck just kills it. The synergy of colorless makes up for the over-costed payoffs. Even when Blake was looking the strongest the group should have been teaming up to get rid of CGB
Their ramp is also just often better to pay for those things too. Cards like Thran Dynamo and the Hedrons have downside in colored decks that makes them not always see play, because pretty often you need black or green mana, not colorless mana. But here Thran Dynamo covers your 'colored' requirement too. Granted, this was a game where the colorless deck got to keep a Forsaken Monument. That card is by a mile the best card they can play, and while it got slowed down it was never stopped. A cheaper Mana Reflections that also buffs the team and gives life to stave off the aggressive decks is, as it turns out, completely broken when your deck enables it for free.
And can I just say, I can't believe CGB's personal friends here have never called him by his real name by mistake. Always calling him 'CGB.' Imagine if your good friends all started calling you by a three-letter acronym, and did it fairly consistently, if not all the time. Can anyone recall a time someone called him some legit male name, whatever it might be? am I wrong? call me out.
I just have a hard time believing that in his normal everyday life they call him C.G.B. like if they were out at a coffee shop together. They might, but I feel it'd be weird. @@therealax6
Your show is the best and i love it! But when CGB plays aggressively like in this episode and goes combo , it’s quite annoying because shea blake and ben can’t play and enjoy this match and you can see this in their expressions.
8:55 Just a heads up: Ben here has to draw the three, as per sylvan library, then put two back. So Ben would be taking 6 or paying 6 mana each draw step. Hot tip: DON’T play sylvan library against a Nekusar player!
Why? It's not like there are no broken things in EDH. And it's a casual format. EDH is exactly the format for cards like Forsaken Monument, since it's absolutely up to the playgroup whether they accept cards like this or not.
@@latinojackson9694 the writers of this show. They are amazing! The choices for the actors seem spot on for nerdy nerdsters. Ben's a little too good looking though.
Yes, and I suppose you're in perfect control of your mannerisms and words. Don't troll people for being who they are. At least he's not living a fake life that just leads to being miserable.
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Cascade cascade cascade cascade cascade cascade cascade
FATALITY
Nice game! It was fun watching you destroy everyone else using everyone else 😂 lol
Now we need a cascade song by cgb
That was cascade nonsense at its best
I don’t have as many extra eldrazi as you but I have dragon throne of tarkir to slap on my skittering cicada to super buff my mobs after I cascade a million times and overrun my opponents that way
That was absolutely the most evil CGB has ever been on this show!
I like Ben more and more. He is under the radar savage :D He makes me laugh every episode :D
Ben is one of those people I think is so funny and cool I wish I got to hang out with him 😂
Holy crap!! "Nasty"!!!! That was SUCH a CGB kind of game, and with a non blue deck. That was HORRIFICALLY AWESOME!!
Just wanted to say, what you can do with Basalt Monolith combo you can turn mirage mirror into a mystic forge if you need to exile a card and untap it by turning it into a monolith again to untap it and turn it back into the forge. Rinse and repeat.
Great game though ❤
Oof, that's pretty backbreaking, would've pretty much been GG on the spot instead of having to rely on luck, nice one!
Edit: Thinking about it more don't you need to be able to cast stuff from the top at flash speed or you're otherwise limited to "just" exiling until you hit something you want to cast since you need the mirage mirror activations on the stack? You'd have to let the stack clear otherwise right?
Yet again proving the old adage: it's always okay to bully the Eldrazi player.
Haha this is so true
I love this group so much, always a fun game even when its a blowout! Huge props to the gang for not being salty lol
This is exactly it! They all play the game like a game, which keeps it playful and fun to watch. My favorite weekly commander show on YT.
At 14:40 Blake could have saved his Old Gnawbone and Temur by using Temurs ability with the 2 treasures he had... missed opportunity...
Yeah the terror of the peaks play was greedy as hell to begin with , he missed 1 land drop so his head was in the pace of these treasures are land drops , but he had enough treasure to essentially save his board on any players turn(s) but played terror. Everyone makes mistakes but man tht whole interaction was just weird.
Yeah i was shocked too but maybe he just doesn’t use sabertooth as much and forgot. Could happen to anybody 😅
that cgb turn is really just such a solid example of why cards like sunfall and farewell are actually very normal and cool and should be in your decks lmao
Ah, CGB and the classic divert tactics "look the threat over there, we need to stop it" while popping off afterwards.
This is my favorite live mtg show. All of you are so unique and enjoyable to listen to!
Great deck cgb, I would recommend umbilicus, blood clock, and or erratic portal. So that you can pop eldrazi with big cast triggers back to your hand. And also get more cascade triggers.
The post credits was hilarious as always! Wonderful game to watch. Great vibes all round. 🌸🌺
I love the upgrades to the decks the last 2 weeks. Seeing a big uptick in power but not stepping into cedh combos is a lot of fun to see, and makes for massive swings
I love Blenke (Blake & Ben) - seems like a good friendship! :) Sweet at 15:28 when Blake complimented Ben's "glory". LOL Fun guys!😊
totaly tashed two, by anihilating them and there Board.. , oh, and drove one into suicede on the road. This was one of the most epic wins ever.
Great videos guys, love the rapport between the team. Been playing edh 10+ years and good to see some quality high power content- cedh is ok to watch but inaccessible to most, and over too quickly- so a lot of us play high power instead. Great idea upgrading the precons, I think a lot of us would like to see what they can do when optimised
So with the Tyranny and Libraries. You always draw the three. You have to pay 4 life to keep them. So Ben shouldve been taking 6 everytime. Not 2.
Library is a may; you're allowed to just not use it.
Your videos are always in my recommended because I watch them all the time. Seeing this was a new one made my weekend! Thanks for everything you guys do!
That wasn't even a game of magic! Haha
Love this group. Your show is unique in the ocean on commander shows ❤️🌊😎
as much as i love the meme ben forgets everyline intros I have to give credit where credit is due Blake killed the intro.
gotta say, Ben and Shea with the crispy haircuts look like the man and maid of honor who just got back from a wedding
That was an eldrazi overrun. Insane!
As someone who owns Sylvan Library and uses it in a very complex draw deck, I just wanted to say that it doesn't actually work that way. You can't refuse the draw. It actually works more like a Brainstorm. You draw extra cards every turn and then put an amount of them back. The amount you put back is proportionate to the life you pay. I didn't count how much life that would amount to, I don't think Ben wouldn't be dead, I don't think, but he'd be a lot lower.
I just checked the oracle text and it says 'you may draw two additional cards'. Is thier something I'm missing?
12:46 feel like this is a mistake in how a lot of people play multiplayer formats. I would not cast something as devastating as terror of the peaks into a board with treasures if I could just do the same thing next turn and also have other plays. No reason to expose it to a board wipe or sorcery speed removal.
But the real play was to not be “nice” and allow people to block on the original attack. Send everything at the person with no blockers, get enough treasures to play the terror and buyback and recast wanderer. You will probably get enough etb triggers to kill the other terror and zhulodok anyways.
Yea man he had a softcombo on board but the attack was so bad😅
Should have activated temur sabertooth with the 2 remaining treasure tokens to make it indestructible and bounce the old gnaw bone upon casting blasphemous act. Could have saved 2 creatures hehe..
CGB turning full villain and obviously likes it more than anything. I’m glad he didn’t try to fake compassion :D great game at least for one deck, but again I’m here wondering: why didn’t Blake just save the Wanderer? And why did absolutely nobody play artifact hate, despite the fact that mana rocks play a big role in EVERY game in this pod? And most of all: Why did nobody assess the threat of a colorless eldrazi deck? With mana? But fun it was.
you need sensei's diving top +Foundry inspector + Mystic Forge so you can use your infinite mana to cast your library
Wouldn't surprise me if Jhoira's Familiar and Foundry Inspector both are in there, but in this setup he didn't need either of them anymore, just a sensei's.
The post-credits sequence was great 🤣
My favorite types of decks are chaos decks and the colorless cascade precon made me so happy
When he casted rise of the eldrazi he had enough to cast his eldrazi as well
Yessss 🎉 thank you editor for letting us witness CGB’s otter shuffle! 😂 🦦 ❤
I have missed the otter shuffle
The most glorious CGC victory yet.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown! GG's guys!
When Shae said nekusar my finger auto click the like button somehow...
Dice throne was made by someone in my home town of spokane wa . Its actually a very fun game
Turns out, the words on Zurgo and Ojutai are worth ready, who knew?
Turns out colorless decks are very good
I absolute lost it at "Cascade, cascade will return..." youtube might not like it but I would like to hear some cascada songs from CBG. 'Cause every time we touch,
I get this feeling and every time we kiss I swear I could fly.
Great Game 😊 but you can't pay life, to go down to 0 or less, this mistake happens a lot in different shows, but I don't know why 😮
Might need to build a colorless deck😂
Anyone know why Blake didn't save his sabertooth and bounce his Old Gnawbone in response to the Blasphemous act? He had two treasure to pay for it...
Wihout haste that old gnawbone would have been cast 1 thing and do nothing and pass, propably losing it to annihilator as well.
I just assumed he would rather save the treasures to cast his commander again
@@Ragnaroc90 I think this is the right of it. What's his plan look like if he bounces? He has a 4/3 do nothing in play, he's on six mana. He rips a land he can slam Gnawbone and he's immediately the table's problem again, and it likely just gets answered. Versus being on eight mana, giving himself more room to draw threats with immediate board impact or just draw more mana to get his commander down.
Because.
Man, game was fun till it stopped being a multiplayer game... Thankfully I can just concede when I'm playing...
But hey, at least my boy Nekusar appeared :D
Zhulodok is one of those cards that is JUST bad enough to not be CEDH playable, but has NO place anywhere near a casual to mid-power pod. God that was digusting.
Only if you pack absolutely no interaction for sth like a vanilla dude from the command zone and the forsaken monument. The other 3 decks were absolutely greedy and Blake swung at too many different players when he had the gnawbone. Just swing to the only dude who cannot block. These games are made for content.
So the lesson is to take a $50 precon and upgrade it with $500 in cards not including dual lands, those are just a bonus. Gotcha
Now this is EDH!
69,420 mana...I like were you're minds at cgb 😂
Great game as always. Not that it matters much, but the mirage mirror shouldn't be a copy of It that betrays because of the shroud from the greaves
Didn't really matter because greaves equip for free and he could've done it before or after re-equipping.
The bigger issue for me was cascading of Kozilek, since Zhulodok only triggers from spells cast *from hand* .
I love seeing nekusar. I'm gonna have to build a deck soon. What life counter app are they using?
I feel like everyone except cgb forgot to bring their level seven deck!!
Thanks for making my day
The king of cascade has been dethroned!
I'm new to the game and building eldrazi. How did he cast all the cards from the top of the deck?
Mystic Forge allows him to cast artifacts and colorless spells from the top.
@Flupse99 hi thanks, sorry for another question but how did he get the mana for all of it?
I wish they would show the cards or explain it more for noobies
It's the basalt monolith and forsaken monolith combo.
1. Tap basalt monolith for 3 mana plus an extra 1 from forsaken monument
2. Pay 3 to untap basalt monolith. You have one floating mana
3. Repeat steps one and two to create infinite mana
Hope that helps!
How was cgb able to cast spells from the top of his library?
Mystic Forge.
Shea is playing nekusar which means she's now my favorite (I don't make the rules I'm just a nekubro).
Can i join a pod where my artifacts last more than one turn?!?! Lols every deck ive ever played against always has at least one answer ready and waiting.
Seems like balanced decks.
I have to imagine Nekusar has to be CGB least favorite magic card. It punishes him for doing his favorite thing.
First time I saw someone dying to a breeding pool :D
Ok, that was beautifully gross. Lol
CGB could have played paradox engine 😂
and no one would ever face his deck again. Problem with deck power level balance but otherwise still fun.
That was a massacre
33:17 missed lethal, with infinite mana you can turn mirage mirror into planar bridge and tutor then turn it into basalt to untap it. Planar bridge can get all permanents from library including endbringer which the mirror can copy to ping infinitely by alternating between it and basalt.
Once Mirage Mirror's ability resolves, it no longer has that ability.
@@ch4Ron23Yes, you are right. To get around this you can put all of the activations in the stack (bridge, basalt, bridge, etc.) before any of them resolve and still tutor whole library. I believe you can also use mirror’s ability targeting itself initially at the bottom of the stack so that afterwards it turns into a copy of itself and you can do it all again with whatever you tutored.
He even targeted a creature with shroud. So another misplay added doesn’t hurt.
Probably the tenth EDH game I've seen on youtube where the colorless deck just kills it. The synergy of colorless makes up for the over-costed payoffs. Even when Blake was looking the strongest the group should have been teaming up to get rid of CGB
Their ramp is also just often better to pay for those things too. Cards like Thran Dynamo and the Hedrons have downside in colored decks that makes them not always see play, because pretty often you need black or green mana, not colorless mana. But here Thran Dynamo covers your 'colored' requirement too.
Granted, this was a game where the colorless deck got to keep a Forsaken Monument. That card is by a mile the best card they can play, and while it got slowed down it was never stopped. A cheaper Mana Reflections that also buffs the team and gives life to stave off the aggressive decks is, as it turns out, completely broken when your deck enables it for free.
And can I just say, I can't believe CGB's personal friends here have never called him by his real name by mistake. Always calling him 'CGB.' Imagine if your good friends all started calling you by a three-letter acronym, and did it fairly consistently, if not all the time. Can anyone recall a time someone called him some legit male name, whatever it might be? am I wrong? call me out.
Not that I'm aware of, but also there could be some level of editing that even if they did slip it was just gracefully cut out.
I have many friends who have absolutely never called me by my given name, even though they've always known it.
I just have a hard time believing that in his normal everyday life they call him C.G.B. like if they were out at a coffee shop together. They might, but I feel it'd be weird. @@therealax6
So much cascade!
Kick some ass cbg
why did ben draw twice off ojutai
SOOOO, this was what? turn 5 or 6?
Ooh first ! Love the content !!
I keep telling people that colorless is the best color.
All that talk of stripping made me think of the Worst Possible Only Fans Page. Yikes. Good news though, Ben is secretly a muscle beast.
Be sure to stay to the very end (just like a marvel movie)
Your show is the best and i love it! But when CGB plays aggressively like in this episode and goes combo , it’s quite annoying because shea blake and ben can’t play and enjoy this match and you can see this in their expressions.
Love old gnawbone
cgb is evil man 😂
Was I haate your deck filmed her?
Covert go Colourless?
This game did not seem fun at all to play in.
is editor on vacations?
This might be my favorite game of magic ever.
Yes! ❤😂🎉 infinite manas!!
Man after he got infinite mana with mystic forge why didn't you guys just say GG. LOL WHAT IS THIS
Who likes solitaire?!?! 😅
8:55 Just a heads up: Ben here has to draw the three, as per sylvan library, then put two back. So Ben would be taking 6 or paying 6 mana each draw step. Hot tip: DON’T play sylvan library against a Nekusar player!
“May”
@@covertgoblueI stand corrected, sir. I apologize for spreading misinformation. Nekusar still scary, tho.
I had to do a quick check on sylvan library too but they got it right 👍
These overkill matches are a little bit boring to me...
Yesss! Finally done with Lord of the Rings torture! I missed me some real Magic the Gathering commanders!
colorless winningest because of boring Forsaken Monument blah...imagine that
Do you guys stack your decks for the purposes of making an interesting episode?
I think this game highlights just how broken colourless mana generation can be. Perhaps it's time Eldrazi Monument was culled from commander!
Why? It's not like there are no broken things in EDH. And it's a casual format. EDH is exactly the format for cards like Forsaken Monument, since it's absolutely up to the playgroup whether they accept cards like this or not.
Another triumph! Kudos to the writers, this game was a little unrealistic, but they made it seem plausible.
What
@@latinojackson9694 the writers of this show. They are amazing! The choices for the actors seem spot on for nerdy nerdsters. Ben's a little too good looking though.
I have almost the same upgrades as CGB in my Precon and had almost the same board state with the deck last week... So what are you talking about?
@@luzifer960 i said it was plausible
Game was boring.
Cgb is cringe. Good magic player, smart mind. But mannerisms and spoken words. Cringe.
Nah colorless is cringe 😬
Yes, and I suppose you're in perfect control of your mannerisms and words. Don't troll people for being who they are. At least he's not living a fake life that just leads to being miserable.
Boring
the music is bad
Person that started with fast mana wins. What a shocker
Yeah people saying colorless is bad so bull
It doesn’t need help
@@Dark-Pikachu1 it´s far from bad but having like 7 mana on turn 3 surely helps.
Flood of Tears restart game lols.