Which commanders do you think are the most powerful Commanders in the set? Did we miss any? Are you planning on building any of the Commanders we talked about today? What are the hot pieces of tech that we missed?
I was going to build a Ojer deepest might spellslinger deck, but then I reaslized that Gyrson Starn, kelermorph, was a deck I had already made and he was just better than ojer and more fun as well.
For the Wayta (enrage) Commander, blazing sunsteel is a pure improvement over the fiendlash suggestion. Blazing sunsteel can send the damage at any target instead of only an opponent. This includes itself. Result: Infinite enrage triggers if you grant indestructibility.
With Tetzin, Gnome Champion, surprised Rachel and Josh didn't mention the Transformers cards from Brother's War. Being able to transform them at your pace seems pretty good, no?
I was surprised as well, my first thought was he’s perfect for a transformers deck. Granted I made an optimus prime deck when they came out (that I recently made changes to with Tetzin) so it’s likely fresher in my mind than others.
Tetzin looks nuts, especially if you try turning non artifacts into artifacts that have double sides with Liquimetal Coating/Torque and flip things like Westvale Abbey.
@58:40 or so, you mention that Flame Fusillade would allow your lands and artifacts to tap and deal 4 damage, but I don't believe that would work for the same reason Valakut doesn't. The permanent tapping is still the source of the damage, thus colorless cards like lands and artifacts shouldn't do more than 1 damage.
Watched the winners before the review. Congrats to Saul and Alie. Cannot wait for your episode because Joe and Violet were such a blast last time. You both will inspire me to audition next time.
"There are not gonna be enough double sided artifacts to really trigger this milling thing" Huh? There are like, 46 double sided artifact cards you can run in his colors, not including cards like Chrome Host Seedshark that consistently make double-sided artifact tokens (incubate tokens). I built a deck using all that I could, and it is surprisingly solid (and it's not like people are going to target Tetzin with removal, he isn't super threatening when you first read him)
They did Tetzin, mentioned the transforming artifacts, but didn't mention Transformers. I get rushing him, because he's weird. All the Transformers are double-sided artifacts.
58:23 The damage from lands and treasures won't increase because they're colorless and Flame Fusillade grants them the ability and isn't itself the source.
Please tell me we get to see Rachel bringing Chaos Theory to Game Knights or Extra Turns!!! This is too good! BTW, for Xavier, Trenzalore Clocktower and The Sixth Doctor take the deck up towards super saiyan levels.
Am I the only one who was waiting for a mention of Transformers during the discussion of Tetzin? It's not like a game-breaking moment to *convert* Living Metal... but still?
Great episode. Lots of neat ideas! Really enjoy the chemistry all the host combinations seem to have. I genuinely laughed along with you both during several moments.
Don Andres works well with the Villains Doctor Who stuff. Alot of the cyberman cards are turning your opponents stuff into face down cyberman. Kinda like the thieving amalgam stuff.
Yall inspired me to build Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon. I cant wait to play it and make an army of gnomes to trample my friends >:) (I loved the podcast was super interesting and wondeful for listening to at work) I am from NZ and love u guys
Shout out to team mom and dad. Sometimes they are sweet, sometimes they are sour, but they love us all equally. Rachel has been an incredible edition to the team.
1:41:05 Some fun things I thought of when looking at this one. Karn, the great creator lets you buyback any exiled artifacts Saheeli, sublime artificer gives you an extra artifact for every artifact you cast Shark typhoon! Make them artifacts into sharky boys to beat down with!
Anim Pakal is cool. Very boros in design, for sure. I can see Reconnaissance being a solid include as well so you can manipulate combat a lot more. Fun, simple design that seems easy to build and fun to play.
1:25:48 Interesting synergy with the Crystalline Crawler, if you use treasure or a mana dork that taps for any color of mana, it can technically come in as a 6/6.
Yep, if something scales up to the number of colors of something else, there's absolutely no way to make it go above 5, because there are only 5 colors.
I made a first draft of a Tetzin deck the moment I saw him and I disagree with the comments that you won't have many double-faced artifacts to be able to use and transform with his ability. The current incarnation of my deck has 26 double faced artifacts, with some heavy hitters being the new Dowsing Device, Brass's Tunnel Grinder, Thousand-Moons Smithy, and Matzalantli (like you mentioned) as they all have pretty good backsides and trigger Tetzin's ability when they enter. Not sure you considered all the other new, potentially good double-faced artifacts coming within LCI.
For Indominus Rex - they may have double strike on there to leave it open for future creatures like you suggested. It also could just be on there for people putting it in the 99 of a 4/5 color deck or people playing a different format. Also - Xolatoyac is so close to being an anagram for axolotl
I switched my Selesnya 1/1 counters deck to a Sovereign deck and I’m absolutely loving it! So much fun to play and actually stayed pretty budget too which is awesome!
What's great about Indominus is that it counts any counter when it draws, which means cards that make your creatures enter with counters(like Master Chef or Long List of Ents) are amazing here
Kellan, Daring Traveller I think might be the most overlooked commander in this set. Produces a lot of currency on differently axies and really efficiently. Kind of crazy when you consider all they do.
Tetzin is such a goof big little guy I'm obsessed with him. I have a deck drafted with him in Archidekt rn and its actually so fun to churn through your deck and get value from the double faced artifacts. I just wish we had a bigger selection because a lot of them are kinda rough. Also, there's definitely a route you can take him where instead of needing to invest heavily in self mill to craft him you can use token creators like Third Path Iconoclast, Mirrodin Besieged, Sai Master Thopterist, Chrome Host Seedshark, etc. It also lets you go a more aggressive artifact creature route as a payoff for the mana from Sanctum of the Sun and The Core with Alibou, Illustrtious Wanderglyph, Thousand Moon Smithy. Brudiclad is also always nice obviously, being able to turn all your little dorks including the 2 1/1 gnomes into */*s with power and toughness equal to the number of artifacts you have you can make with cards like Thousand Moons Smithy and its backside feels great
Flame fusillade wouldn’t change the color of the source that you’re tapping to do the one damage. So it would only be good with red permanents tapping for that ping.
You mentioned in the podcast that there are no cards with the "double strike" counter, but there actually is: Goring Ceratops Creature - Dinosaur which would of course synergize well.
Thanks for this guys! I'm building Don Andres and Mycotyrant so this was very useful! Also planning on building something with the Blood Rites precon, but I'm thinking about Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz instead of Clavileño or Carmen. Still interesting to see all those suggestions for sac outlets :)
I hadn't considered Malcolm before watching this... its interesting. One sort of spell you didn't mention that are "the essence of chaos" in my mind are wheel effects (the ones that effect everyone). They don't care who cast them and they fill your hand with cards AND they instantly dump at least 3 cards into Malcolm's spell pool. Thought of this as soon as you mentioned Commit // Memory. The discard ones are even better than the shuffle ones because they fill the graveyard with your flashback/retrace cards. Wheel of fate is actually interesting for a change since it can't be suspended from Malcolm's pool... not sure on that one though. Teferi's puzzle box is super chaos - no planning ahead allowed, plus it fulfills the draw 2 every turn. One reason I'm liking this deck idea is it basically forces you to not play the cards you always play because they are too good to give away. No way I put Rhystic in this deck. That's crazy. Fast mana, no way. I do think one way to go is to have a mass of topdeck control cards so you can choose what you put in the pool. Old Jace, top, and scroll rack all do work. Unfortunately, they do work for opponents as well. Finally, bouncing Ian is killer in this deck. You can shut off everyone's access to the spell pool if it gets too scary by just putting him back in your hand or blinking him. When you cast him again (or he returns to the battlefield), it is a new instance, almost like he's in another damn sequel movie, so it doesn't remember the cards previously exiled. Very simple way to keep a little control of the chaos.
@@lucoolio8573 Pestilence. Other Bringer Cards are Florian, Solphim, Neheb, Tor Wauki, Some Tutors and for the extra Evilness Pain Magnification , Rest is Card Draw, Stuff to make the Approaches Cheap, some Dragons and light Interaction, Deck will be super sweet and I imagine hard to stop.
Wish indoraptor would've been in the episode, but it was already three hours long so I totally see if you can't fit it in. I'll probably play it as my enrage commander, as I can use both Pyrohemia and Pestilence.
i’ve been running Ojer Axonil for a little bit now and some MVPs in the 99 are Neheb, The Eternal and Chandra, Flame of Kaladesh (magic origins transform planeswalker). Neheb generates SO much mana and Flipping chandra is so easy with the commander on the field.
Xavier Sal is going to be AMAZING in my ishai/Reyhan deck. It's a birthing pod/Agatha's soul cauldron deck built around creating a boatload of tokens by sacrificing cards like Elenda the Dusk Rose, getting counters on them, then doing busted stuff from there
@zealance2110 yeah, I keep getting confused when people are getting hyped over the dinosaurs in this set. Last ixalan was dinos and pirates. This one is Aztecs; just gods, caves, and artifacts.
Mana barbs is amazing for flipping Axonil - just float 4, you’ve taken 4, and now you can flip back using the mana you just floated to take the damage!
Interesting to see you equipment take on Sovereign, I'm doing mostly +1/+1 with a little bit of anthems sprinkled in. Will be interested to see which is better, I've elected to have zero artifacts in mine so that tutoring up a collector Ouphe can be quite effective. edit: not to say that better is what a deck should be decided on. Ultimately it's what you enjoy most
I built Indominus Rex when she was first revealed with a clone/copy subtheme, absolute monster of a deck. Use keywords to draw into a copy effect, copy Indominus, use keywords to draw into copy effect, etc. (Obviously be wary of the legend rule) Eventually you have a board of hastened, indestructible, hexproof, vigilant 10/10 clones ready to end the game.
Alil disappointed thallids weren't talked about with Xavier but I get it lol also a good card for Ian Malcom is shared fate for those interested it basically says everybody draws from an opponents deck but it doesn't fix mana coats.
37:00 I think is interesting cause the edict effects end the game quickly anyway since Carmen gets huge, but otherwise valid argument. No one much likes that kind of style on the opponent's board. However Carmen should really only take 2-3 turns to knock out each player with her in that scenario.
I think in Tetzin you run a lot of double faced cards and ways to turn them into artifacts, right? If I liquimetal torque a battle or a werewolf it gets to flip right?
Last time you guys made sleeves, they did not have the space to accommodate inner sleeves for double sleeving, will these sleeves have that problem fixed?
Painter's Servant and artifact-based damage could be fun in Ojer, but probably not worth running unless you are also going to play Grindstone. You can burn out a player, mill another, etc.
Another good card to sac the gnomes for mana with Anim Pakal would be Thermopod. It's 5 mana but it can give itself haste if you need to swing to get your proc and it's a very good sac outlet because it gives you red.
I don't think Flame Fusillade changes the color of the source, so your lands and colorless artifacts will only do 1 damage still, but your red enchantments and creatures and such will be changed by Ojer Axonil.
I like Xavier Sal more than Atraxa for superfriends because you can untap him to proliferate multiple times, and later you can pivot into copying your big tokens as a good wincon to finish out the game. However I admit proliferate on a commander on its face kind of encourages infect which I'm not a fan of so hopefully people don't do that
Flame Fusillade importantly won't buff your lands damage with Ojer Axonil because the lands aren't red sources. Don't know how you missed that when you mentioned Valakut not 2 minutes prior lmao
I'm surprised they didn't mention transforming non-artifacts usuing tetzin by turning them into artifacts with things like liquemetal torque and coating
Had one thing wrong about indominus rex, if you discard two cards with trample thats two trample counters on him. creatures can have more than counter of a keyword.
I know Rachel enjoys a good pun, but missed an opportunity to point out that Howling Mine on the battlefield with Ian Malcom will have everyone howling “Mine!” as they cast others’ cards.
Which commanders do you think are the most powerful Commanders in the set? Did we miss any? Are you planning on building any of the Commanders we talked about today? What are the hot pieces of tech that we missed?
I was going to build a Ojer deepest might spellslinger deck, but then I reaslized that Gyrson Starn, kelermorph, was a deck I had already made and he was just better than ojer and more fun as well.
For the Wayta (enrage) Commander, blazing sunsteel is a pure improvement over the fiendlash suggestion. Blazing sunsteel can send the damage at any target instead of only an opponent. This includes itself. Result: Infinite enrage triggers if you grant indestructibility.
The new Beckett Brass is heavily slept on, you can literally entomb cards like glint horn or Malcolm and bring them back and combo off.
@@CaptainZone1337 Pirates are a seriously powerful creature type!
Zatalpa is my favorite dinosaur deck
A 3 hour podcast... A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
Great comment. We shall be watching your career with great interest
*insert Captain America "I understood that reference" meme*
Saul is one of my best friends in the entire world and I’m SO excited for him to be on the show!! Congrats to both saul and Allie :D
Putting Living Weapons in Ahau seems really fun! The germs get bigger each turn, and eventually you can equip it all onto Ahau for a big swing
This is a sweet idea!
For Ojer Axonill, I love Commanders Plate. Buffs the power to 7 and protects from 4 colors
rachel finding a word she likes is hands down the highlight of each episode rejection counter, juggernaut, etc
With Tetzin, Gnome Champion, surprised Rachel and Josh didn't mention the Transformers cards from Brother's War. Being able to transform them at your pace seems pretty good, no?
Get Oliva in here with her duct tape equipment deck! This is the commander that she was looking for.
I was surprised as well, my first thought was he’s perfect for a transformers deck. Granted I made an optimus prime deck when they came out (that I recently made changes to with Tetzin) so it’s likely fresher in my mind than others.
I have a Morophon Robots deck, Tetzin was an instant change once I pulled him
There really is only one way that they can redeem themselves from this which is a 30 minute Transformers Tetzin build video
Xavier can also get rid of finality counters if they become a thing across sets
As far as I can tell from what they've said, they will!
Tetzin looks nuts, especially if you try turning non artifacts into artifacts that have double sides with Liquimetal Coating/Torque and flip things like Westvale Abbey.
56:33 Great callback, Josh! 😃 I can still see Sprankle's face mouthing "finally" when that thing ultimately died.
@58:40 or so, you mention that Flame Fusillade would allow your lands and artifacts to tap and deal 4 damage, but I don't believe that would work for the same reason Valakut doesn't. The permanent tapping is still the source of the damage, thus colorless cards like lands and artifacts shouldn't do more than 1 damage.
You are right! It’s good if you’re going the token route, but otherwise you’re likely not playing Flame Fusilade
Watched the winners before the review. Congrats to Saul and Alie. Cannot wait for your episode because Joe and Violet were such a blast last time. You both will inspire me to audition next time.
I love long content like this. Makes work suck so much less. Thanks team!
"There are not gonna be enough double sided artifacts to really trigger this milling thing" Huh? There are like, 46 double sided artifact cards you can run in his colors, not including cards like Chrome Host Seedshark that consistently make double-sided artifact tokens (incubate tokens). I built a deck using all that I could, and it is surprisingly solid (and it's not like people are going to target Tetzin with removal, he isn't super threatening when you first read him)
They did Tetzin, mentioned the transforming artifacts, but didn't mention Transformers. I get rushing him, because he's weird. All the Transformers are double-sided artifacts.
Xolatoyac says put a counter on target land, meaning you could give even your non-blue opponents islands and then hit them with islandwalk creatures.
Pairs very well with Quicksilver Fountain and The Flood of Mars.
58:23 The damage from lands and treasures won't increase because they're colorless and Flame Fusillade grants them the ability and isn't itself the source.
56:30 "take a damage" is a thing that my brain quotes regularly, and i'm happy you mentioned it again
Don't forget that Transformers are double sided artifacts as well for Tetzin. Lol
Please tell me we get to see Rachel bringing Chaos Theory to Game Knights or Extra Turns!!! This is too good! BTW, for Xavier, Trenzalore Clocktower and The Sixth Doctor take the deck up towards super saiyan levels.
Flame Fusillade does NOT let your lands ping for 4, unless you can somehow make them red.
Am I the only one who was waiting for a mention of Transformers during the discussion of Tetzin? It's not like a game-breaking moment to *convert* Living Metal... but still?
Great episode. Lots of neat ideas! Really enjoy the chemistry all the host combinations seem to have. I genuinely laughed along with you both during several moments.
Don Andres works well with the Villains Doctor Who stuff. Alot of the cyberman cards are turning your opponents stuff into face down cyberman. Kinda like the thieving amalgam stuff.
Yall inspired me to build Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon. I cant wait to play it and make an army of gnomes to trample my friends >:) (I loved the podcast was super interesting and wondeful for listening to at work) I am from NZ and love u guys
Also while brewing deck i found that rosie, cotton of south lane is really good card in this deck
Shout out to team mom and dad. Sometimes they are sweet, sometimes they are sour, but they love us all equally.
Rachel has been an incredible edition to the team.
Congrats Saul and Allie! Can’t wait to see you on game knights!!!
1:41:05
Some fun things I thought of when looking at this one.
Karn, the great creator lets you buyback any exiled artifacts
Saheeli, sublime artificer gives you an extra artifact for every artifact you cast
Shark typhoon! Make them artifacts into sharky boys to beat down with!
Anim Pakal is cool. Very boros in design, for sure. I can see Reconnaissance being a solid include as well so you can manipulate combat a lot more. Fun, simple design that seems easy to build and fun to play.
1:25:48
Interesting synergy with the Crystalline Crawler, if you use treasure or a mana dork that taps for any color of mana, it can technically come in as a 6/6.
Edit: It can only be a 5/5, my bad
Yep, if something scales up to the number of colors of something else, there's absolutely no way to make it go above 5, because there are only 5 colors.
I made a first draft of a Tetzin deck the moment I saw him and I disagree with the comments that you won't have many double-faced artifacts to be able to use and transform with his ability. The current incarnation of my deck has 26 double faced artifacts, with some heavy hitters being the new Dowsing Device, Brass's Tunnel Grinder, Thousand-Moons Smithy, and Matzalantli (like you mentioned) as they all have pretty good backsides and trigger Tetzin's ability when they enter. Not sure you considered all the other new, potentially good double-faced artifacts coming within LCI.
Awesome video. Congrats to the two winners can’t wait to see your episode!
Was hoping to see the Indoraptor :/ always like to hear your takes
One of my favorite episodes for sure
Surprised they didnt talk about chrome host seedshark for Tetzin.
For Indominus Rex - they may have double strike on there to leave it open for future creatures like you suggested. It also could just be on there for people putting it in the 99 of a 4/5 color deck or people playing a different format.
Also - Xolatoyac is so close to being an anagram for axolotl
I think they just write down all the evergreen keywords when they make that kind of ability.
I switched my Selesnya 1/1 counters deck to a Sovereign deck and I’m absolutely loving it! So much fun to play and actually stayed pretty budget too which is awesome!
So Tetzin flips Elbrus, the binding blade Hmm... interesting
I may not have won, but I can still TECHNICALLY say I appeared in an episode of the command zone. (I was one if the many faces in the movie reel)😂
What's great about Indominus is that it counts any counter when it draws, which means cards that make your creatures enter with counters(like Master Chef or Long List of Ents) are amazing here
So excited for Wayta! Just started with magic/commander and the enrage playstyle looks really fun
Kellan, Daring Traveller I think might be the most overlooked commander in this set. Produces a lot of currency on differently axies and really efficiently. Kind of crazy when you consider all they do.
Cool video I always enjoy seeing what cards are going to be powerful before I draft. First set I might try and make a proxy cube.
I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned, Ahua is a great Hydra commander.
For the Gnome Champion, would Eibrus not be great?
Tetzin is such a goof big little guy I'm obsessed with him. I have a deck drafted with him in Archidekt rn and its actually so fun to churn through your deck and get value from the double faced artifacts. I just wish we had a bigger selection because a lot of them are kinda rough. Also, there's definitely a route you can take him where instead of needing to invest heavily in self mill to craft him you can use token creators like Third Path Iconoclast, Mirrodin Besieged, Sai Master Thopterist, Chrome Host Seedshark, etc. It also lets you go a more aggressive artifact creature route as a payoff for the mana from Sanctum of the Sun and The Core with Alibou, Illustrtious Wanderglyph, Thousand Moon Smithy. Brudiclad is also always nice obviously, being able to turn all your little dorks including the 2 1/1 gnomes into */*s with power and toughness equal to the number of artifacts you have you can make with cards like Thousand Moons Smithy and its backside feels great
Ian Malcolm is my favorite commander ever. The card feels like it was designed for me. I’m so happy with him.
Tetzin seems like the perfect transformers commander. Double sided artifacts, robots in disguise
Flame fusillade wouldn’t change the color of the source that you’re tapping to do the one damage. So it would only be good with red permanents tapping for that ping.
I'm kinda surprised that the Ancient One and Kutzil are not on here.
I love Shared Animosity for Anim Pakal
You mentioned in the podcast that there are no cards with the "double strike" counter, but there actually is: Goring Ceratops Creature - Dinosaur which would of course synergize well.
There's always next year for me to try again, I am not too mad about it.
Thanks for this guys! I'm building Don Andres and Mycotyrant so this was very useful! Also planning on building something with the Blood Rites precon, but I'm thinking about Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz instead of Clavileño or Carmen. Still interesting to see all those suggestions for sac outlets :)
Unless I’m misunderstanding Flame Fusilade won’t make your lands deal more than 1 dmg when they tap cuz they’re not red and they do the damage.
All of the transformer cards are also double-sided artifact cards that Tetzin can transform if they have the proper color identity with Tetzin.
I feel like I had to scroll too far to find this. I was so surprised they didn't even mention them. I mean, transform is literally in the name!
Does this work? The Transformers cards don't transform, they convert.
@@JasonOshinko yes, it works. They are still considered transformations.
@@JasonOshinko and they are "two sided artifact cards."
I hadn't considered Malcolm before watching this... its interesting. One sort of spell you didn't mention that are "the essence of chaos" in my mind are wheel effects (the ones that effect everyone). They don't care who cast them and they fill your hand with cards AND they instantly dump at least 3 cards into Malcolm's spell pool. Thought of this as soon as you mentioned Commit // Memory. The discard ones are even better than the shuffle ones because they fill the graveyard with your flashback/retrace cards. Wheel of fate is actually interesting for a change since it can't be suspended from Malcolm's pool... not sure on that one though. Teferi's puzzle box is super chaos - no planning ahead allowed, plus it fulfills the draw 2 every turn.
One reason I'm liking this deck idea is it basically forces you to not play the cards you always play because they are too good to give away. No way I put Rhystic in this deck. That's crazy. Fast mana, no way. I do think one way to go is to have a mass of topdeck control cards so you can choose what you put in the pool. Old Jace, top, and scroll rack all do work. Unfortunately, they do work for opponents as well.
Finally, bouncing Ian is killer in this deck. You can shut off everyone's access to the spell pool if it gets too scary by just putting him back in your hand or blinking him. When you cast him again (or he returns to the battlefield), it is a new instance, almost like he's in another damn sequel movie, so it doesn't remember the cards previously exiled. Very simple way to keep a little control of the chaos.
The Indoraptor with Dragon's Approach looks insane in theory. Only issue is, you have to cast a few of those to make the Indoraptor powerful.
Have allready clicked that together on Moxfield. Super hyped for that one. Keypiece in that deck was seen two times this commend zone - Pyrohemia
@@jestgtgong7254 I have that in my build as well along with the black version of it (keep forgetting it's name)
@@lucoolio8573 Pestilence. Other Bringer Cards are Florian, Solphim, Neheb, Tor Wauki, Some Tutors and for the extra Evilness Pain Magnification ,
Rest is Card Draw, Stuff to make the Approaches Cheap, some Dragons and light Interaction, Deck will be super sweet and I imagine hard to stop.
Nice impersonation of Ian Malcolm describing chaos Josh!
My favourite idea with xoloyotac is using old bad islandwalk cards, since you can turn other people’s stuff into islands
Wish indoraptor would've been in the episode, but it was already three hours long so I totally see if you can't fit it in. I'll probably play it as my enrage commander, as I can use both Pyrohemia and Pestilence.
Any of the swords that give protection from red also really help in the Ojer Axonill deck too if you’re going the pyrohemia route
I am very excited for some Chaos, good ol' Ian!!!!!
It was at 3:42 that Rachel realized Josh is analyzing her as a player with the TurnTalk footage.
Hearing you guys pronouncing Ojer Axonil using pre-Columbian syllabics made my day
I actually didn't realise that was the way it was supposed to be pronounced until they said it! It makes sense in retrospective, but I didn't know.
58:44 , as you previously said, it doesn't count for lands, treasures or other artifacts
THAT’S MY BROTHER!!!!! GO SAUL!!!!!!!!!
i’ve been running Ojer Axonil for a little bit now and some MVPs in the 99 are Neheb, The Eternal and Chandra, Flame of Kaladesh (magic origins transform planeswalker). Neheb generates SO much mana and Flipping chandra is so easy with the commander on the field.
Xavier Sal is going to be AMAZING in my ishai/Reyhan deck. It's a birthing pod/Agatha's soul cauldron deck built around creating a boatload of tokens by sacrificing cards like Elenda the Dusk Rose, getting counters on them, then doing busted stuff from there
1:29:07 Y'all are forgetting about The Transformers cards with their "More Than Meets The Eye" abilities 😅
quicksilver fountain also puts in work with Xolatoyac, the smiling flood :)
I love tribal decks, and Don Andreas really make me want to make a "You are a Pirate", steal all the creatures deck...
SO. MUCH. DINO.
lol when you realize only 1 dino commander was showcased here… still excited about the set tho but js
@zealance2110 yeah, I keep getting confused when people are getting hyped over the dinosaurs in this set. Last ixalan was dinos and pirates. This one is Aztecs; just gods, caves, and artifacts.
Mana barbs is amazing for flipping Axonil - just float 4, you’ve taken 4, and now you can flip back using the mana you just floated to take the damage!
The Mimeoplasm would be great in Indominus Rex (or vice versa) as a way to reanimate your commander, avoiding the tax, and drawing even more cards!
Josh plays wow?
That's awesome!
Interesting to see you equipment take on Sovereign, I'm doing mostly +1/+1 with a little bit of anthems sprinkled in. Will be interested to see which is better, I've elected to have zero artifacts in mine so that tutoring up a collector Ouphe can be quite effective.
edit: not to say that better is what a deck should be decided on. Ultimately it's what you enjoy most
I built Indominus Rex when she was first revealed with a clone/copy subtheme, absolute monster of a deck. Use keywords to draw into a copy effect, copy Indominus, use keywords to draw into copy effect, etc. (Obviously be wary of the legend rule) Eventually you have a board of hastened, indestructible, hexproof, vigilant 10/10 clones ready to end the game.
Ojer Axonil is soo flavored, it perfectly match the mono red color pipe.
Ring of valkas for +1 and caste and ring of Thune for vigilance and +1counters each upkeep on Anim Pakal.
Alil disappointed thallids weren't talked about with Xavier but I get it lol also a good card for Ian Malcom is shared fate for those interested it basically says everybody draws from an opponents deck but it doesn't fix mana coats.
37:00 I think is interesting cause the edict effects end the game quickly anyway since Carmen gets huge, but otherwise valid argument. No one much likes that kind of style on the opponent's board. However Carmen should really only take 2-3 turns to knock out each player with her in that scenario.
I gueds you can also cast Kaldheim gods in their artifact form and then transform them back when you need them with Tetzin.
I think in Tetzin you run a lot of double faced cards and ways to turn them into artifacts, right? If I liquimetal torque a battle or a werewolf it gets to flip right?
Last time you guys made sleeves, they did not have the space to accommodate inner sleeves for double sleeving, will these sleeves have that problem fixed?
Painter's Servant and artifact-based damage could be fun in Ojer, but probably not worth running unless you are also going to play Grindstone. You can burn out a player, mill another, etc.
If you like flame fusillade Rachel, you’re going to love lightning volley!
Excited for Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher!!!
Another good card to sac the gnomes for mana with Anim Pakal would be Thermopod. It's 5 mana but it can give itself haste if you need to swing to get your proc and it's a very good sac outlet because it gives you red.
I don't think Flame Fusillade changes the color of the source, so your lands and colorless artifacts will only do 1 damage still, but your red enchantments and creatures and such will be changed by Ojer Axonil.
I like Xavier Sal more than Atraxa for superfriends because you can untap him to proliferate multiple times, and later you can pivot into copying your big tokens as a good wincon to finish out the game. However I admit proliferate on a commander on its face kind of encourages infect which I'm not a fan of so hopefully people don't do that
Flame Fusillade importantly won't buff your lands damage with Ojer Axonil because the lands aren't red sources. Don't know how you missed that when you mentioned Valakut not 2 minutes prior lmao
For Tetzin, you could also put a bunch of Transformers in?
Am I the only one who wants to build Carmen just so I can make a Carmen Sandiego reference when I play her?
1:50:23 Just a quick correction. Jarad hurts ALL oponents, not just one
I'm surprised they didn't mention transforming non-artifacts usuing tetzin by turning them into artifacts with things like liquemetal torque and coating
Another great card for Don Andres is Missy from Doctor Who. Who wouldn’t want 4/4 Cybermen Pirates
Had one thing wrong about indominus rex, if you discard two cards with trample thats two trample counters on him. creatures can have more than counter of a keyword.
Sovereign Okinec Ahau is going straight into my Jodah, the Unifer deck. "Oh, my board is +5/+5? How about +10/+10?"
I know Rachel enjoys a good pun, but missed an opportunity to point out that Howling Mine on the battlefield with Ian Malcom will have everyone howling “Mine!” as they cast others’ cards.
LETS GOOOO IM SO HYPED WAS WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE!!!!
Indominus Rex doesn't have to be the Commander. It could just be a creature in a four or five color deck and get double-strike that way.
Came here to say this
How do not add Thousand Moons Smithy to the Tetzin, Gnome Champion deck!? Getting lots of high power gnomes in an artifact every turn? I think yes!