Commander 2018 w/ Kyle Hill and Cassius Marsh l Game Knights #20 l Magic the Gathering EDH Gameplay

how's it everybody welcome to the latest episode of game nights huge thanks as always to Wizards of the coast for sponsoring this show now I got to admit it's a little bit weird to be here alone without Jimmy if you haven't heard he's gonna be absent for a few months he's got a really big project that he's working on unfortunately we're not allowed to reveal anything about it yet but we'll give you updates when we are luckily in the meantime we've been able to secure some really awesome guests to cover him while he's gone in fact we've got a newcomer to game nights Kyle Hill from the because science YouTube channel and we've got returning fan favorites Mel Lee and cassius Marsh now you may have guessed we're gonna be battling it out with the brand new commander 2018 product if you see any cards or decks that strike your fancy we'd like you to consider going over to card Kingdom dot-com slash command zone if you use that affiliate link when you order your magic singles your products a 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about science on TV and the Internet and I host the YouTube science show because science and this is my first time on game nights and you've got some returning guests hi I'm capsules Mars of the San Francisco 49ers hey guys it's Mel we're here today to play commander 2018 we are playing with the brand-new pre-con decks straight out of the box we've got some brand new Planeswalkers and making V your commanders we're pretty excited and I'm playing Astrid the mast so the goal is to play a lot of creatures that basically give you benefits for playing enchantments enchantments that give you benefits for playing in Sheamus so just get all kinds of value from enchantments it's it's a fun day I will be playing Lord Wind grace as my commander what this deck seems to want to do is get a lot of lands into play and interact with lands in the graveyard quite a bit so my game plan is to get my commander out and then start that value train a-rollin or a turning or however trains move so the deck I'm going to be playing today is the healing of a gifted sosa hughley's a really exciting commander because her first ability is going to let you make a really large board of artifacts and her second ability is going to allow you to cast some really huge spells and what's more commander than that so the deck I'm gonna be playing today is Amy not to the bait shifter so this is a really interesting card and it's hard to determine what the deck wants to do just by looking at the text there's some top deck manipulation probably gonna blink some creatures and that ultimate is really really perplexing I'm gonna be excited to see how to take advantage of it alright let's play what's battle let's do it welcome everyone it's a little strange I gotta admit to not have Jimmy here so thank you for filling in as usual we have the commander 2018 themed play match from ultra pro nice I see and Kyle this is your first time ever on the show very excited longtime listener longtime viewer so this is perfect I'm amped well it's good to have a fan on the show and we're a fan of yours as well but it means you need to be knighted Kyle Hill I dub thee game night yes I am ready arise sir Kyle hey welcome to game nights alright everyone ready let's do it all right I am in a draw and I'm going to play Kazan do Refuge and when an entrance been failing game on life and I'll pass my turn draw plays he said sit a little tapped and that's my channel let's say that card three times faster so serious accessible I'll play an island and then tap to play us all right I know I know so I'm pretty excited about getting this silvering turn one it is a pre con though so I don't have a huge follow-up but it's a really nice foundation for all these other sweet cards in my hand in an artifact deck especially with her commander it can mean a world of trouble coming at you really fast so it's simply something to keep an eye on relax there's no sickness don't say but I'll draw and I will play a demure gilt gate tapped bastard okay I'm going to play grim backwoods as my land for the turn then I'm gonna tap to mana and colorless and one green for Kolani heart expedition so being able to get those lands into play later and accelerate is exactly what you want to do so I'm happy with this play maybe try to get back on pace with Mel I will pass my turn after that awesome good job so at this point everybody's ramping a little bit turn to but I've got a ton of ramp in my hand I've got a bunch of tap lands and stuff so I have to do it the right way to make sure that I get the most out of my place so that's good fair magic not you turn to the gifted I don't not your tracker [ __ ] that's happening oh no come on you gotta have a better for drop bomb it's an unwinding clock so one of the things I'm hoping for is to get this mana engine started an unwinding clock is awesome for just getting extra mana out of all the mana rocks that I've gotten my deck and also as soon as I get some creatures out it's gonna be kind of like a pseudo vigilant so I can attack and then get them untapped afterwards past my turn okay I will untap and I too will untap yeah I'll play a Island and I was have to for and or jobs Signet just like everybody else and every commander Jack ever I want to do the same thing which is just ramp just get to my more powerful things or be able to play multiple spells in a turn and the way to do that is have more mana so it's good to have a turn to play like this and then I'm not as cool as Mel so go ahead all right all draw Z I will play a cumin refuge enters battlefield I'll gain one life and playing that refuge triggers Kalani Hart expedition one quest counter with that has my turn Joseph on my tab to and play fertile grounds targeting seaside signal yes my commanders got a great way to take advantage of enchantment and land acceleration by and tapping all my permit so it kind of gives me almost like a seaborne Muse effect so then I'll play this allez Nia's sanctuary and I will bounce a Plains biome in pattern come on tap drop return all right I'm gonna play an island I will tap for two clay its Healy the gifted brand shiny new commander and then I will +1 her to create a one one colorless servo token all right first one the planeswalker out in the field and I think this is really nice too for sahih Lee because she's got a lot of like get your artifact board together kind of synergy so having her out on the board and having her help me get even more artifacts is awesome she's kind of snowballing in there's not really any way right now on the table nobody's got creatures to put any pressure on that planeswalker so she's gonna be in command of the board for a little bit here I just hope we can kind of get control of sahih Lee before that ultimate comes out because that is scary and then and my turn okay I won tap yes excellent okay I'm gonna play a new Bunnell yeah that's gonna scry I will keep that on top and then I'm gonna tap a white a black and a blue and play coming out to the fate shifter and then a plus er so I'll draw card and then put a card from my hand on top of my library so here she is the scary little girl I mean not to that first ability on her it feels like you're drawing a card but you actually don't gain card advantage because you have to put another card from your hand back on top of the library so in the end you still have the same amount of cards in your hand that you did before and you might be thinking like what's the use of that and for now I'll just say wait until next turn I'm a powerful fast the turn untap draw I'm going to play in balding wilds and then that will raise the quest counters on cloning Hart expedition up one nice usually evolving wilds is just great for mana fixing but in my case with the colony Hart expedition out I get to put two additional lands into play so right now even though I don't have any permanence on the battlefield aside from lands I'm feeling like I'm gonna start doing stuff real quick pass the turn on top right wrong I'm tougher for and play Don's reflection turning my island so this card sets me up really nicely it gives me two extra mana for my land and it also sets me up along with my other enchantment with my commander because I'll be able to on top those two lands it'll be almost as if the plains Walker was free and then I'll cast crew fixes in sight so I'll reveal the top six and then what happens you I get to take three enchantments in there there are three Oh convenient I will draw three curves man this is quite the turn for Cassius so not only does he have a lot of really sweet fixing on all his lands he's also got to draw three cards for three mana I mean that ain't bad I'm feeling good about where I'm at right now next turn I should be able to start getting going and putting some enchantment down Sally it was a three manage all three value days untap trough return I will play a seat of the sign odd which is an artifact land oh sweet so this is really cool because not only is it a land but it also amps up the Healy's ability to make all my cards cheaper because it counts as an artifact so you look for advice right now if you reduce nearly 3/4 correct so for mana for free mana what signaling is witnessing which more freemen Oh sort and she's like at ten minutes alright so I'm just gonna +1 her and make another serve out token and then a little tap for three to make a chief of the foundry to two servos down yes so these are now two two servos I'm not gonna mass but I think two is more than one that's that's not great especially since she can start attacking my planeswalker and she just has a bunch of servos it's gonna be hard for me to block all that stuff chief of the boundaries is really good in that deck and not something I want to see and then I'll tack you Kyle this fearsome servo but I'm the new one exactly okay no blockers so I'll go down to put me back down to 40 okay servo to the face back down to 40 still nothing to deal with all the board presence that all the other players have feel like I'm gonna take some damage and I shall generously that's my turn alright I will untap I too will untap realizing that I should have tapped see to the sign on instead of that eyelid but that's fine go ahead if you're one man is short it's gonna be a huge bun so remember how I put a card from my hand back on top of my library last turn I'm about to draw that card and it is oh my gosh it's a miracle card oh wow okay right I'm starting to see how this first ability comes into play miracles huh that's pretty cool that's pretty cool so I'll pay two white and two and make two angels so eight power in the air Flyers are really good at attacking planeswalkers so these are even better than they would be in a normal game of commander because everyone has a planeswalker as commander so the ability to fly in and just take those things out whenever I want I'm feeling like I'm in a really good position I think we're in trouble this is toto so I'm actually going to - I'm gonna - three target my or job Signet so it's gonna become exiled and then return to the battlefield untapped and then I will make two mana and play a notorious signet oh dang I'm not super happy about the Angels they're definitely gonna slow me down a little bit I don't want to play my planeswalker which comes into the battlefield even if I plus it up to it only go to seven and then Josh would just be able to kill it next go-around on the spot so now there's a lot of calculating and I have to do just to establish my own board because everyone's already has so much going on so uh before the end of your turn I will sacrifice involving wild putting a swamp into play but since that's also gonna trigger the heart expedition I'll go search for those other lands while I'm at it that's okay with the table yep you see game three lands oh yeah and then I will untap draw Flyers on the board look bad for planeswalkers to me so he leaves and lets six already if you let the Angels live I will try and at least I got a pretty bad play here for you I'm saying I'm gonna help us take care of Sookie me who's almost ultimate just do your bad Paterno's think I also might be able to deal with the hawk okay so there's been some big words flying around in this last round people will be talking about board wipes that sounds pretty scary people are plotting against me so I'm not sure what's going on but I know there's some some bad vibes going around on that side of the table okay so now I sort of know why Kyle hasn't put anything out on the board it seems like he's got some kind of rap here I'm hoping with politics I can at least get to use my angels a couple of times before he rats all the creatures off the board okay I will play channel board worm in a game like this that's necessarily going to have four Planeswalkers out a lot you start thinking about what cards can deal damage to specific targets Planeswalkers it's kind of a different calculus than I'm used to okay this is good so kyle is receptive I'm able to at least stop him from using the board wipe for now so that's good I'm gonna be able to use my angels a little bit and maybe maybe I can even find an answer to a board way with that then I will pass the term all right untuck all Joe and then I'll cast Esther the mast it's not a great board state for planeswalker but luckily with the ability I'm able to untap and get some more mana I'm going to float to white mana and the blue and +2 district and then I will untap my incentive planets so you got three mana float and three minutes floating and I'll use that mana plus two more to play sigil the empty doom okay so now cash is going to get a four for flying angel for every time he plays an enchantment well that's probably not a problem unless his deck head you know thirty enchantments in it I will tap for three and I will play ever watching threshold so that's gonna trigger sizzle and I'll get a angel I'm feeling great at this point I've got my mana bases going I've got my commander out I've got some creatures to protect my planeswalker I feel good about where I'm at all right I will pass my turn okay on top drop return I'm going to play a foundry of the council's so I know because josh has pretty much told me that he's gonna come after my ceiling with his angels this is some bad news so I can make two little flying factors that can chump block those big ol angels and make sure that's a healing won't die for now interesting situations so we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 artifacts I'm going to plus ones the helium yeah so your next spell costs 6 left next spell costs 6 less also you can ultimate next ring oh my goodness yeah Oh 7 Wow are we there already oh my goodness so here's where securely starting to shine alright so then I'm going to cast for free these duplicates no it was a nice nice looking creature I'm gonna target your channel horde worms so my duplicate is now a 6 6 duplicates a pretty cool card because it can take stuff out but the one thing that I wish it would do is just retain some of the abilities of the card when the duplicate gets the power toughness it doesn't also get the trample so it's like my opponents have a 6 6 with trample and now my opponents just have a 6 6 which is way better oh yeah yeah no that's pretty sweet yeah yeah yeah that's great I love the space here I really like the art so this is fine no come on I only had one thing and you took it away from me now I'm gonna take everything away from you he's a hundred percent keeping the board no by the way and then Kyle I'm going to come at you for six all right well as you can see I am tapped out with nothing on the board so I will be taking 6 to the food and I will pass my turn ok I will untap oh I will draw so Kyle and I made a deal so I'm gonna live up to my side of the bargain even though I know Mel's just gonna chump block with the two doctors off that boundary of the consoles but you know it's important to uphold your end of the deals that you make so here we go well I've made a deal with Kyle so I am going to attack this Akili with two four four flyers give me no choice forcing it I'm gonna sacrifice my foundry in order to get to [ __ ] ups and these factors will heroically for themselves in front of those two angels okay both authors will die but so he will take no damage heroic doctors doctors all right so Healy you're safe for now and then I'm gonna play pilgrims I and that's gonna allow me to go search for our land out of my deck but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna - I'm a not to to blink the pilgrims eyes so I'm just gonna go find too late okay so I will find a Plains and a swamp so this card allows me to get some value right away and I don't really care if I lose it and then I will play the moon I'll play the flames I'm just I'm scared to play stuff I feel like you're gonna do something in perhaps you should be yeah so I need you're gonna go right I need to do something else I'm just saying should I shouldn't play stuff is that what you're just saying yes okay losing the Angels is gonna suck with the board wipe you know if it just hits creatures it's gonna be fine it's not my favorite but I'll still have an active planeswalker so I'm just gonna pass the turn and not playing anything else here just so I don't lose it for nothing in light of the hats yeah that's the turn all right so if you look at the board right now it would be easy to tell who is doing the worst I only have lands nothing on the battlefield but I think I have maybe the only card in this deck that can bring me back from the brink and I have to use it right now or else that's it so I'll play days of granite for five it's a lot see most bored wipes are creature based this one hits all non-land permanent this is awful okay yes my whole boards down [Music] oh she keeps her six-six it's all the mana I have most importantly I actually lose my mana rocks and so all of a sudden I'm down to weigh less mana than I had before I lost my soul ring I lost an unwinding clock when those commander cards that everybody just loves oh I love it so much it's probably one of my favorite cards sorry don't speak - and pass attorney and just though I've seen game nights with cash he's bigger than I thought he'd be I'll play my commander +2 which does nothing that's the truth hey buddy how's that planeswalker I'm sorry hunter try all right Kyle hope you enjoyed that hope you enjoy this - first yeah you know where this is going yes I do attack you with this six six duplicate all right I'm tapped out I don't have any blockers so I will take the six damage wow this is fun I will end my turn and pass you Josh okay all right on your end set Mel I'm gonna play expert charm with the mode draw to hers so one two when your opponent five four one's you you have to start getting some cards back in your hand so you know I wish it was more cards but I'll take two right now we just got to start rebuilding the hand and then hopefully rebuilding the board then I will untap and I will draw so I'm gonna tap a white in a black and I'm gonna play high priest of penance oh man I love high priest of penance this is just one of those really fun politicking cards where you can be like listen buddy we gotta take somebody out you're gonna block this guy and you can be like yeah buddy we're in we're in then I'm gonna tap for and I'm play Conundrum stinks how can I figure out what's on top of my back this is a really interesting card with a lot of text but basically with my commander and able to know exactly what the top card of my deck is this is just a value engine so the board wipe hurt but at least I can recover the cards lost and I can get back into this game that's all I can do good job untap drawing and then I'll play Avengers in a car so you get eight plants yes yeah that happens do you know feels really good after playing a big spell it makes a big difference playing another big spell that makes a big difference I get to put a lot of power out of the board and maybe stop the hate coming my way or maybe make it worse the bad news for all of us is that Kyle still hasn't played his land yet this term then I'll play a lane for the turn yeah so I'll put plus one plus one counters on all of these plant tokens so they're all ones twos yes yep that's a lot of power on the board it's not just the fact that Avengers here and making a bunch of brand new plants it's the fact that these plants are just gonna get bigger and bigger the more lands that he puts out on the board and because of his commander you know that's gonna happen it's its commander you know that's just how it is like the game is constantly flipping somebody's salty somebody's happy I can get back at Mel now for taking my life down do about anyone else's life being taken it is I haven't been able to do this up until this point but I think next turn is gonna be awesome for me until draw all the winds of wrath nice ok with this turnabout's Fair Play that is not awesome for me yes yes I'll time for one white play soul snare and then I'm going to plus Estridge she will go to seven and that brings her up the ultimate was what's the ultimate I can't help notice we have no creatures so it's looking good for me I've got my planeswalkers at seven which is its old number and I clear the board of all creatures so I'm hoping that I can old and kind of get back what I lost earlier in the game cash just has a lot of enchantments in his graveyard and the moment he gets to alt his planeswalker this is gonna be pretty nuts I'm looking at my hand I don't know how much to do about it guys that's my answer I got nothing on top because of last turn I'm sorry you suffer for this I don't know why he's bad so much man alright I'm gonna tap all six of my mana that's bad well just to grab my commander back in play and my commander will +1 itself to put out a servo okay so we're just gonna take some time to breathe rebuild and hope that somebody has something to deal with Astrid oh and my turn no passive Josh okay Oh on tap Oh drop I'm gonna play I mean not to and then I am going to plus her she'll go to four and I will draw Kart and then put a card from my hand on top of my library and again I'm just trying to get some kind of value train running so that I can get enough card advantage to get back in this game and then I will play a tranquil Cove and game align and pass the turn so no one else has done anything about Esther again we're getting closer to cache misses turn it's looking great for me and my planeswalkers about to old so I got to make it through Kyle's turn as long as he doesn't have anything hasty I'm good untap drawing okay so they didn't deal with the planeswalker I will play seer sundial no this card does not I mean it's gonna drop some cards eventually who cares it doesn't deal with the planeswalker we got to stop caches planeswalker come on Kyle I have a way to deal with his planeswalker listen if you have any answer for a planeswalker that's about to ultimate then you're allowed to do it which means I have to do this I'm playing ruinous pass targeting estrin you told them to do it you encouraged it you encouraged it every time do you buddy it is like the best political feeling cuz you're like yeah that guy was a jerk huh like a really big jerk wasn't he that's true I'm really sorry about that man you know Oh Cass older woods son okay so cash is a little salty but actually this card is kind of sneaky good it has lifelink and it's gonna be cheaper to enchant and there's so many attainments and cash this deck I would keep an eye on this card it can really do some work in this game all right I'm gonna tap draw I'll play bar child but Trey you're out killed or so I love cards like this that let you politic with people and also that let you sort of secretly pull the strings from behind the scenes and then I'm gonna plus two Healy put out a servo and then with my other servo I'm gonna come swing at the guy who has no blockers makes sense of no blockers epidemic 27 and I will pass my turn all right I will untap I will draw my card per turn which is another miracle card I guess I am going to cast devastation tie for his miracle costs while all these bored wipes are annoying given how much my deck is putting lands into play and accelerating devastation tide right now isn't devastating to me nailed it yes then I'm gonna play mortuary Meyer we're just gonna put a creature card from my graveyard on top of my library I'm gonna put conundrum Sphinx then I'm gonna play ah but not to and I'm gonna plus her I'm gonna draw a card and put a card from my hand on top of my library no faster okay untap and draw for the turn all right with the board cleared I don't think there's any more board wipes coming now is the time to play my commander and I will cast Lord wind grace row I'm excited playing a planeswalker into an empty board with no creatures out I think I can start getting a real land draw engine going then I will cast cultivate smart it'll land in your hand then wonder what you can do with it oh man so I will put a swamp on the battlefield tapped a forest into my hand and then I will +2 Lord wind grace discard a card a forest and they'll draw two as any seasoned commander player knows card advantage is huge especially when you get towards the mid to later game I'm looking at Lord wind grace and I'm not very happy about it I'll pass attorney yeah I feel a little discouraged I feel like I'm a little too far behind I've missed some land drops I don't have really any mana acceleration time for 7:00 a.m. I Canada and then play a soul snare and then I'm going to plus s trade and past me I'm tap trough return I will play a Huey and then I will grab myself a servo and I'll recast my friend of our child here's all the stuff you slide before it never really feels good to be replaying cards that you've already played but sometimes just got to do it past my turn so it's coming back to my turn Kash and Mel really just replayed stuff that they'd already played and they're in the same position I'm in which is they don't have a value engine going and it just feels like Kyle is gonna slowly pull ahead in this game and there's no way to get as commander right now so value engine is really my number one priority here I need to start drawing some cards well I guess the responsible thing to do is to plus I'm gonna to draw a card and then put a card from my hand on top of my library then I will pay five for a mole drifter thank you so I will draw three cards so this card is always awesome but in this situation combined with AMI nachos - ability I now have an engine setup where I can draw cards every single turn this is exactly what the doctor ordered and then I'm gonna play conundrums Fink's again so at the end of this turn I'm feeling pretty good I got an engine set up I have the ability to affect the other Planeswalkers with my flyers I just need no more board wipe staff if you've had enough for life so let's just let's let some stuff stick on the table and then I think I'll be feeling even better next turn and pass the training pool okay untapping trying a current for the turn and then go up on Lord win grace to nine discard a card it'll be a land card and then I'll draw two so good then I will play flame blast dragon wow it is a fire ball on a stick it can deal ex to any target even planeswalkers and knowing how important planeswalkers are to all of these decks this is gonna be my form of control in these colors and then I will pass the turn okay okay so we're good now right yeah well it looks like Kyle is having a rough time of it here politically on his very first episode I guess we're gonna have to wait and see if he can get back into cashes good graces now if you want to get into our good graces it's a lot more simple all you got to do is go to card Kingdom comm slash command zone they've got the commander 2018 product 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by supporting our sponsors you really are supporting us and the content you enjoy okay let's get back to the game and we'll see if Cassius and Kyle can mend some fences although from my perspective I'd rather they didn't all right I'm just gonna type of blue green and two more mana and I will play Eric's mythos I think it's so cool I think this card I saw that I'm a fan so early on the game when you need the mana it's great and then later on the game if you want it to be a creature it's a twelve twelve and it also can still tap from a nap and I'll play older woods Sion so that'll take a slumber counter off of a Rex mythos and then I will plus Esther at the mask I'll have anything on tap with it it's just gonna push the little two to seven so I'm at the point here where I've got a decent board state if I can avoid somebody coming and messing it up for a turn then I can possibly get back in the game that's a no untap draw all right I'm going to oh here's what you do exactly the bar child I'll let it through and then with the survivors I'll swing it Lord winged grace yeah so this is one of the reasons that I like cards like this so much you can really strike a deal with your neighbor all right coming at you I will not block so I'll take three and I get three survivors all right so this is great I get a bunch of free attackers that I can send in and just keep Lord win grace under control and I will play a mine stone and then I'm going to +1 say healy so one two and three artifacts is going to discount from my 7 mana mere battle sphere so that's gonna make for mere tokens alright here's what I've been waiting for so when it attacks it can also do some direct damage to stuff which means that I can start threatening other people's Planeswalkers too and then sec my mine stone to draw card seems like a lot it's a big board yeah and I will pass my turn okay I will untap draw for turn okay then I'm gonna - Amba Natsu - go to 4 and I will blink the mole drifter draw two cards when it enters the battlefield again ah is there any better feeling in the world that blinking your own mole drifter no the answer is no there's no better feeling it's the best then I'm going to go to combat we're gonna swing three survivors at Lord wind grace and one flying for for a test ride so trigger the contenders Fink's and we all need a card I will name swamp all safe forests of course mountain all right let's play now that's a weird effect that is so weird effects a conundrum okay so now you've got three survivors coming out Lord win grayscale okay I will block one of the survivors BAM was something that a survivor cannot handle survive this survive this the survivor is not going to survive and then I'll let the other two through so Lord reyne grace will take to going down to seven and then Ezard will take the four damage planeswalker management seriously feels like constantly in this game we've been going oh that planeswalker is about to ultimate we got to do something about it oh that other planeswalker is about to ultimate we got to do something about it but they can't ultimate otherwise we're just gonna lose all right then I'm gonna play dusk mantle seer and then I'll tap five and I'll play gin of wishes that's all bad big Flyers are always scary especially if you're playing with Planeswalkers and what's even scarier to me right now on Josh's board is the gin of wishes knowing that I'm and not to can put it card from his hand on top of his library and then Jim can cheat that out for four instead of eight or whatever he may have in his hand that definitely scares me and then I will pass the turn all right on Tim drop return so I'm going to plus two Lord wind grace and I'm gonna discard a mountain and draw two cards you have now seven G's um I will play fantasy the war Weaver Wow this card is gonna be pretty annoying because the fact that everybody has to attack with everything every turn it's gonna keep people from kind of protecting their own planeswalker so it'll make the game a little bit more interesting and then I am going to cast stitch together I have well over seven cards so I'm gonna return Avengers send a car to the battlefields crap how many lands do right now 11 I thought that problem was dealt with here we go even more plant tokens than last time and then on top of all of that I'm gonna play a mountain for the tourney putting a plus one plus one counter on all Atlanta oh my lord Avenger of zendikar in the Lord when grey stack is just a crazy combination put together those guys are so freaking strong oh I still have to go to combat Oh true you have to attack with flame blast dragon I'm going to attack mil and then for the flame blast dragon trigger imma tap 3 and hit mold drifter for 2 [Music] no I have no Flyers I'm going to take five damage and then I will pass the turn right now I have a lot more defenses than everyone else and my spider will grow if they attack me so I'm gonna let all the damage be done sit back spin my wind well tougher three so I'll play it articles on bro targeting I'll do it saying nice so it's great I'm gonna be able to swing get some life out of it deal some damage that I'll play wrecking Winston sage targeting mere battle sphere so if Kyle's creatures got everybody swinging and I just need blockers to protect my planeswalker whoa that was pretty messed up I like didn't even do anything to you this innocent sphere of mirrors just got caught in the crossfire it's it's the mirror hugging sphere Josh like like they're all just in one big hug I cast a spell so I take to slumber counters off the aisle so to mourn it's at just an active 12th okay yeah good to know and tougher three on player where Evan is nine this cart kind of scares me because I just got one of the best cards in my deck out of my graveyard I know there's other reanimation cards in my deck and I don't want that kind of stuff to stop uh no I'm sorry I got it I got a turn sideways achieve that will trigger the Umbra and our wolves have fantasy so I taught down Kyle's creatures and I'm hoping that this opens it up for Josh to swing in and keep his planeswalker from ultimate no blocks from me I'm going down eight and then I'll gain height like between a dragon in the elemental this has been a pretty rough turn for me and suddenly my life total has just tanked and then I'll close a street then on tap LT would sound bad what's Umbra it's doing a lot more work than I would think and pressing all right untap draw a play a prismatic lens so giant fire spider I don't like that guy I do not want to have to attack with everybody but here goes I'm gonna go to combat and because of fantasy day tack with everything so it's going to be I think I'm just gonna have to come at you with all my guys hashes steer it for you I will block one of them with my elder wood and game eight and seven so I'll gain life and when the server dies ravenous live triggers it suppose one plus one yeah because of our child cash is gonna get three survivor tokens so despite all this stuff that's going on fire spiders planeswalkers a biggest problem is that so he Lee doesn't have a lot of card draw built into her and then I'm just running out of cards I'm just gonna plan is it signet and then plus once a Huey to make a serve-out token and then it's all you man all right funds ability okay it's getting closer all I have to do is survive Josh's turn and then turn on the pain the thing that sucks here is is coming to my turn and nobody has dealt with anything on Kyle's board I'm gonna have to get really lucky with my card draw because we really need a board wipe and I don't have one in hand right now so dust Mantle's here will trigger so we all flip the top card so I take 305 any two so an interesting thing about the wording on dusk mantle seer is that it doesn't say draw the card it says put it into your hand so that doesn't count as drawing it which means I can't miracle off of it which is annoying because I drew a miracle card or I put a miracle card into my hand that is very much sadness can't miracle off that then I will drop return well now I'm glad that the dusk mantle seer is worded the way that it is because okay so my card off the top is no we found an answer to all those plan tokens so I am going to cast terminus I [Music] thought that if it was able to get back to me I probably had this game in the bag or I was getting very close to it I'm gonna plus I'm a not - and I'm gonna draw one and put fire back on top of its owner's library give you a guess over with that card Yuma B then it will play Sara avatar it's at 35 35 it's a big creature absolutely you've got a count for it but it's just big there's a million cards to get rid of it you can block it with anything I'm not so stressed and then I assume my 35:35 will last until my next turn so go ahead alright untap draw seeing how quickly my deck can bounce back from board wipes I am positive Sara avatar is coming at right here so I am required to get something out to block or else I think I'm dead I'm gonna go up to 11 I'm gonna discard a card I don't have a LAN so I'll just discourtesy or something perfect then but loyal apprentice into play Sara avatar doesn't have any other evasion so playing this card right now is actually great because it gives me two blockers to jump with if I need to this is good stabilized and then I'll tap six and I will cast emissary of grudges so I love this you get to secretly choose an opponent but who do I choose this is a really interesting card it's like you immediately are trying to figure out who's the most likely player that Kyle would name so I will now shoes I feel like since the early game I haven't been much of a threat I also don't have a bunch of targeting effects I don't think it's me I can choose anybody anybody that would want to mess with me I'm thinking that he's either gonna choose me or Josh because he knows that I'm just like helping on killing him I absolutely do not want him to win but the smart pick in my head is Josh I figured that he would go with Josh but if you win with me I wouldn't be surprised all right I'm keeping a secret and also safe it's probably not Mel because she hasn't shown the ability to interact a lot so I feel it's kind of 50/50 between Cassius and I you know which name Kyle wrote down and then I will go to combat and then I will get a helicopter a hasty one everything is haste so I'll send one of the top turns and so he'll II got nothing in the air no choice but to have her kick 1 damage yes Sakhi lee's ultimate is pretty interesting because it really wants me to have a full board before I play it because I get to double everything I don't really have much right now though so it's not a really big deal that they hit her for just one or two and then that will end my turn ok unto that right wrong nobody's deck is really taking off because everybody's deck depends on their commander holding I'm good plus yesterday so at this point I'm just trying to get to the ultimate I feel that's the only way to bring me back that's my turn ok draw I'm going to +1 don't you move sir I'm actually gonna use her otherwise I'm gonna get me a discount what do you have that you need more mana than you uh I will play tidings I will draw four cards for the small cost of two blue mana pretty good this is gonna give me a chance to get those cards that I needed to get me back into the game no more card problems to do with his plans marker that's gonna hold yes so I'm looking over at Lord Gwyn Grace and he's pretty close I also have a pretty good hunch that I'm probably not the name on that emissary of grudges let's see if that's true I'm gonna cast into the Royal I'm gonna target Lord Wynn grace and I've kicked it so I will draw a card looks like Mel's getting back into the game and balancing my planeswalker to my hand it's not terrible because I won't have to pay commander tax but it's not it's definitely not fitting with my plan now I am just on the defensive back to the handle that's what royal sound like returns oh and also it kind of gave the rest of the table information as to who I secretly chose so Mel was not chosen that's not the secret name that Kyle wrote down so it's still either Cassius or I and I could still go either way it's just something I have to keep in my mind in the future all right I'm going to end my turn okay I will untap and draw my card for turn it is a miracle card and treat the dead I'm gonna pay black black and three and I'll get Mulder pilgrims eye and high priests of penance out these miracle cards in combination with my planeswalker are really coming through I wish I had more things in my graveyard but I'm still able to get that value engine back and rolling mulch after will trigger which I draw two and then I will put them to our lands put it into my hands and then I'm gonna comment I'm gonna swing with Sara avatar at Cal 4:35 well I guess I will declare loyal apprentice a blocker all right no effects okay that loyal apprentice took 35 damage so I have to jump block but I saw this coming hopefully I can get more creatures out so I don't have to keep doing this okay then I'm gonna - I'm gonna - before and I will blink the mole drifter to draw two cards when it enters the battlefield again value value city have a type a - I'll play a mine stone I don't think I've ever been ahead in this game but it feels like I'm crawling my way towards there now and finally I'm just gonna play treasure hunt alright so there's a LAN I get conundrums Fink's are old friends okay and then it will tap for and I will play the conundrum face chase so this was a really good turn for me get a bunch of creatures on the board get that value engine rolling again draw a couple of additional spells get some things in the air I feel like I'm set up maybe we have a chance here maybe I can get back into this game go ahead well house a lot of stuff alright untapping trying a current for the turn right now on this turn I'm feeling very uncomfortable I'm okay but if anything major shakes up my board probably not gonna make it and then I'm playing Lord wind grace again big surprise I will go up to 7 on Lord wind grace discard a card in the draw card but it's a land so I'm gonna draw two cards and sin so Tydings was nice but that was a one-time thing I'm looking over and I'm seeing Josh's mult drifter engine and Kyle's Lord win grace engine and those are looking really strong cuz they're consistent there every turn I gotta find a way to do that for me otherwise I'm just gonna fall behind cuz I just don't have enough cards I'm a tip for then I'll play blood tracker this turn feels like crunch time to me it feels like if I make any play that is incorrect I will die - Sara avatar so although cash has ultimate on board and we want to manage that I just can't afford to do so okay and then I will pass a turn someone tapping here I've got seven I've got enough to olds but with this deck there's a ton of value with the enchantment so I'm gonna play a couple of things before I play journey's chosen that will trigger the I'll and I'll review the last counter so the photo is active yep and then I will so now every time an enchantment comes onto the battlefield he's gonna get a cat he's gonna gain Life This Is It this term right now could be game-winning if he gets that bolt off maybe I should have dealt with the planeswalker this is this is really bad this is really bad Mel it's time I'm gonna tap three and play a chaos warp targeting Esther yes Mel I didn't have to be the one to draw his large iron because work I'm like okay so Esther is going to go back to the command zone and then he puts the top card it is a sorcery so that just stays on top whew Thank You Mel sorry that he's gonna attack you with the 1212 now I'm going to so we have Mel port will definitely no blocks here that's taking one for the team I'm not gonna say I didn't expect that or deserve it but that was a lot of damage to my face oh she was definitely old this 12 damage all right untap try okay so that was a lot of damage but at least it doesn't fly we can get some defenses online and see Healy is at her ultimate point and I've got a plan to make that count okay I'm gonna play a buried rune and then pay to sacrifice it take back mere battlesphere from the graveyard oh that's a lot of mirror and then I'm going to cast the mirror battlesphere so it's first gonna come into play make a bunch of mirrors and then with the ultimate it's going to make even more mirrors and all these things are gonna have haste so I can go in swing with a giant sphere and also get it to direct damage to something else this is gonna be awesome so it looks like I have to deal with her paddle spear right now because considering my life total I cannot deal with two of those especially if one has haste yeah so in response I'm going to cast consigned to dust so I will do one and target near battlesphere [Music] oh this is that's brutal ok so the mere battle spirit dies but I'm still gonna get these four mere tokens not nearly as useful as I was hoping so I kind of really wanted to be the first person the ultimate my planeswalker but it's really not that good of an option right now I'm just gonna make a bunch of tiny mirror tokens that just go away at the end of the turn not really helping me that much I'm going to +1 so healing to basically just get seven colorless mana and then I'll play hide your inner thighs it's rare to see planeswalker have an alt available and not get used it just tells you how situational sahih Lee's ultimate is I feels bad for Mel here and then I'll tap this guy's to play treasure Napper treasure neighbors not that great of a play but it can try to make sure that Cassius doesn't knock me out next turn and pass okay okay I will untap drop so one of the fun things about high priests dependence is that it's a really fun political card you know you could do is run that priest at me and I'll kill him for you and you can target something oh that's smart I like you thinking so this is gonna be great I'm gonna swing in and just throw the high priest of penance at Mel and off that trigger I'm gonna be able to get rid of Lord win grace let's go to combat so cash is six in the air pile of 35:35 Mel a 1/1 high priest of penance so trigger the contenders Fink's and we all name a card I will name island forest island spirits and rebirth right cuz you know your card okay so we put not a forest so he gets rebirth okay so that's the attacks are still going on here I will block the 35 a block this priest with my goblin okay I'm gonna sacrifice ol snare and exhaust if it will trigger a drifter world if it gets exiled so we'll go to damage cache we take for softer dyes yes and then the high priest of penance dies but it takes damage so that's a trigger and with that trigger I will destroy lord wind grace this exchange is really good for Josh he would be able to take out my lord wind grace with that effect I say would in response oh crap so now is the time for the big reveal oh I said not to forget about the name thing he chose me I will redirect the ability of the priest to I guess I'll target the cemetery nah good well this worked out very bad for you what I have a huge board all I did was attack I thought was a pretty cool play personally all right I'm gonna plus I'm a Natsu and I'm a draw card and they would have card from my hand back on top of the library that just couldn't have gone worse so I was feeling like I was getting back into this and now at the end of this turn now which is a bad turn of events that was probably a bad attack and now I'm really on the back foot and I don't think I'm in a very good position anymore that was that was a big swing good job okay untap draw I'll go up to 9 on Lord win grace discard mountain-valley and draw two because I'm just guarding al and cheese and then I will grapple with the past okay put the top three cards of my library into my graveyard the neck can return a creature at will and card from the graveyard to Maya I have one creature in my graveyard oh the only one yes so I'll return the loyal apprentice to my hand okay then I will cast my loyal apprentice again then I'm gonna go to combat combat trigger but I won one doctor and to play with flying and haste and emissary of grudges and sahih Leo thing and cash I'll turn blood tracker at you / - Oh take the tooth I can't block Sosa Healey is gonna go down in six and then the last thing I will do I will cast whim harvest how many lambs you over there so I ate lands in my graveyard and that's gonna make eight worms so this card is just ridiculous he can replay it as long as he's got a land in hand and lands are not a problem for him in this deck I thought the Avengers zendikar was bad this card is even worse even board wipes don't solve this situation because he just cast it again and then cast it again if the game goes very much longer Kyle will win with this card it's very very bad and then after that I will end my turn all right on to draw okay I'll play archetype of imagination that old trigger of Johnny's chosen and hero Pantheon I'll gain one life and I'll get it - too late cat but more importantly all your stuff that's flying now and none of our stuff that's fine yeah so now I've got a hum and unblockable 12:12 and and there's no one else who's taking this damage mal I will move to combat 12 it now and we're gonna go five yeah Kyle I don't have any flyers yeah I cannot have flying so I have no response and a flying Island huh things I would not have expected yeah how do you guys feel flying island huh Island so heavy so Mel goes down to negative 1 negative giving all of Cash's creatures flying and removing flying from everyone else's creatures is really bad for me my entire game plan right now is to overwhelm the board with worm tokens now it doesn't matter because I can't block and I have very low life I could be dead really quickly okay on your end step I'm gonna activate mind stone to sacrifice it and draw a card and then I will it's pretty funny was it American fur no no what a sucked that untap and draw it's not good that Mel went down there because she was one of my allies against these two juggernauts who I feel I'm behind to both of them right now okay I'm gonna plus Amin a two and draw cart and then put a card from my hand on top then I'm going to go to combat cache I'm gonna swing at you with a 4/4 that does not have flying anymore that's gonna trigger the Sphinx and we're all gonna name a card I'm gonna name Sara avatar already it's already been I will name swamp forest okay look Sara avatar I'll put it into my hands yeah I'll just block with the two to get okay yes the cash and then I'm gonna play a Boreas charger this card's really interesting and I like the design unfortunately right now I have the same amount of lands as Kyle so it's not gonna get me any value that way and it doesn't even have flying because of that archetype of imagination I can't do anything else past the turn alright this is not the time of the game that you want to be having lackluster turns luckily I have a bunch of answers and things in my hand and it's so scary out there that I'm just gonna have to like hold a bunch of man up and hope that I can survive for a few turns and formulate some kind of plan I will go up to eleven on Lord win grace and discard a card from my hand which is a forest card and then I will draw two right now cash is still who I'm worried about because his creatures are effectively unblockable and the only thing of Josh's that I have to deal with is the planeswalker which is an ultimate range so it's back to planeswalker management for a bit so I will go to combat I'll make a second copy with haste and then I'm gonna swing these creatures at you cache and then I will send three of these worms at Amana - and the rest at you Josh I will take ten go to 29 interesting okay no blocks so I will take seven mm-hmm and I'm an actor we'll go down to three loyalty yeah that's what she sounds like now that I know that Josh can't alt with his commander I have to get rid of the archetype that is destroying ahold of my defense then I will deal two damage to each creature interesting see this is how powerful worm harvest is Kyle is actually wiping the board away killing his own worms because he knows he can just cast it again and now without Cassius there as a foil to Kyle I'm pretty scared we're just gonna get overrun by worms which is gross I don't want to die that way I'd rather it was little baby turtles and I'll pay one black and k2 life to activate the ability of blood tracker to put a plus one plus one counter on it so it survives this habit survives then I'll discard rack dose car nerium to retrace worm harvest now I got 10 lambs of that yes you're correct these exchanges are really good for me preventing an alt dealing with the thing that will kill me and putting a lot more power back on my board I'm feeling great pass turn right on tough John I will cast creepin Renaissance I'll choose enchantments this is really good I've kept this card in my hand for quite a while I wanted to leave the entertainment sin my graveyard so possibly old but at this point my commander cost so much it's not worth it so so how many eight sure cash gets eight cards back which is great but the only one I'm really worried about is that archetype of imagination I can't believe you got it back so quick I'm just gonna tap for four and plague Don's reflection trigger a Johnny's chosen and I'll get a 2/2 tat and then I will tougher - and I'll play a fertile ground that will trigger a Johnny's chosen and I will get another cat value trained you guys both have it so I really don't have to worry about the worms I don't have to account for them because I'm just flying over the top so I'm feeling a good about where I'm at at this point so right now Cassius has 19 power on the board next turn if he plays the archetype all of it will have flying and kyle's at 18 catches could kill Kyle this is a huge development yes ok untap and I will draw like Josh's just somehow always has something up his sleeve it drives me crazy like he's got a full hand I will plus I'm a not to draw card put a card on top of my library and then I'm playing loud form that's gonna manifest the top card of my library and then enchanted so I have a Manifesta card with flying in expert okay so captures and Kyle are concentrating on each other if they ignore me over here I might feel to steal this game and this cloud form manifest creature is a big piece of the puzzle if you've been paying attention I bet you can guess what it is and then I'm going to think I have to swing at Lord wind grace for for in the air and that's gonna trigger contender of Sphinx and I will name if it's anything but a land card yeah I'm gonna name island swamp alright so we flip yeah I have no flyer so wind grace will take for putting him down to seven I can't do anything else so go ahead okay untapping drawing cash has 19 power on the board and I can't block once the archetype is out so I have to find two life from somewhere I will go back to 9 unload wind grace discard a land card so then I will draw two instead of one so what do I do I do what are you he really needs an answer to that archetype he has to kill one of Cash's creatures or he has to get his life total above 19 so I will tap 1 2 3 and I will play retreat to hangar Oh retreat to Hagrid this card is perfect it allows Kyle to gain just enough life he might live through Cash's attack and then I will play Pachuca bog for the turn targeting your graveyard retreat to Hagrid triggers I'll choose each opponent loses one life and a game one life and he has exactly 19 power that easy to have in the air so yes so I'm gonna activate the warp landscape now I'll put a swamp in a play and I'll have retreat to hag row each opponent will lose one life and I would gain one life okay push you out of range of immediate death okay okay I found the two life hanging on by a thread it's a lot of dancing a lot of dances babies stay alive okay go to comment cache I'm gonna send these 10:1 ones of you Oh block three of them okay so damage goes through I'm gonna lose three of these you know to sue them second main gonna discard a land card we chase worm harvest so I'm making 13 worms in any other situation getting 13 more 1 ones would be awesome but I am still one point away from dying I'm not feeling very good about this okay I am done after that one time Kyle's got to be getting rid of because he's got the worms every turn he's got a huge engine with the worms it's just becoming more every turn and so he's definitely the target to just to get rid of we gotta get rid of him now or we never will so first a sigil of empty throne and then archetype of imagination so I will get to cat triggers from a Johnny's chosen and then one engine one angel to Ken this is pretty interesting normally I could fly in and finish Kyle off but because of the archetype of imagination I don't have flying anymore and he has a million worms to block them I just got to cross my fingers and hope things play out the way I'm hoping they will cash is doing a lot but it looks like my calculation is still correct I don't see any additional points of damage being dealt so I think I might live on top one to play soul snare I will get one more cats and and one more injury okay you know you're doing well when you're into the other players play mat that's why you had to take me out first chair is the territory yeah so I'm just gonna swing everything Kyle okay I have no Flyers by definition it is exactly nineteen damage good one oh man big swing so I'm feeling like I'm in a decent spot like I didn't think I could come back into this game but you know I've come back I've got a good board state I'm thinking that I have at least one on top one more turn to try and come out with this victory I end my turn so both of them are really scary both of their boards are better than mine I think I have a route to victory here though and it doesn't feel like it's gonna get any better for me I'm gonna go for it on your end stuff I'm gonna top seven and I'm gonna flip over my manifest card which is Sara avatar which has hex proof we're not flying because of the archetype uh it's back I think I should have seen it because it was revealed but you know how these things go I forgot and now it's back and it's gonna kill me isn't it and I'm gonna mortify on my program no on an angel token I know what you're thinking why don't you kill the archetype then you're Sara avatar will have flying I'm gonna I'm gonna admit it straight up confuses me when he does something like that I already know that he has an answer for the archetype so I knew I know at this point Josh in his head he had me dead I'm gonna untap so the last few turns all have been drawing is removal spells but in this case that's actually gonna go in my favor then I'm going to tap for I'm gonna return to dust and it's my main phase so I'm gonna exile the archetype and the sigil this is the moment I've been planning for I've been sequencing for I've been getting ready and then banishing stroke to the last angel oh so I get rid of all of caches blockers and now my creatures have flying and because the Sara avatar so huge in Kyle's life total is so low I'm gonna go to combat I'm gonna swing for at Kyle and 26 at Cassius I've gotta no flyers it's bigger than my life total is over for me I'm dead I thought that Josh had won the game at this point but he forgot something - then I realize [Music] he gets flying back when the archetype is gone Josh's creatures get flying again which was what he was counting on to end the game but my creatures get flying back - he can block he can block but before blocks I do have the conundrums Fink's trigger that's true so I need to name a spell that could kill the emissary of grudges before can block and you'd have to put in your hand and play it right it would happen castable with what I've got I'm gonna say Cribs swamp I'm gonna say Mountain Basilica that doesn't get it done okay I will lock sure pretty sure I want to do that okay yeah conundrum Sphinx gets blocked yeah that was a bad miscalculation on my part I thought I had it I thought I had it I mean I only hope it's a top deck something here so I'm gonna plus I'm gonna to draw a card and put the same card back yeah half the turn tile man I think it's just academic at this point I have more than enough damage to kill him so that's what I'm gonna do I'm going to send the team out of curiosity how many worms is it that is 20 worms well I only have one thing to say that good game cop oh thank you so much and then I got overrun by hmm I win my favorite time of year in magic every single year is when the commander pre cons come out the synergy and the decks are awesome and I think that it could be great for beginner players because you get to see a lot of different cards it's a really easy product just as pick up and hand to a friend and just start battling I think it's awesome when we can get cards that excite us not just that we play with but ones we want to make our own and have our own our own stories around and I'm really looking forward to pulling out all the pieces and all the new cards and new commanders that are in these and building brand new decks around them this is the best time of year this is commander Christmas oh yeah I'm excited too of the commanders I'm definitely gonna have to build the deck around plank commander with primarily Planeswalkers was really interesting like having the Planeswalkers there made the pacing of the game a lot different so that was a lot of fun to just like had that tension there behind the game the whole time it was awesome to play with everyone it's the best possible experience but you know no matter what happened I know it's easy to say that when you win but no matter what happened I feel like we all played a really good game with magic a lot of back and forth so it was great I hope to do it again alright you made it to the end of the episode congratulations huge thanks to ultra pro for sponsoring this show for such a long time they've been a great sponsor for us you know if you're gonna build one of these new commander 2018 decks around one of these new Planeswalkers and who am i kidding we're all gonna be doing that right well you're gonna want to stand out from the crowd and one of the ways is to get the matching deck boxes the matching play mats the matching sleeves how cool are you gonna be if you roll up with your deck all matching like that in fact this episode we are giving away a ton of that stuff and I was about to announce how you enter the contest but actually I'm feeling a little weird that Jimmy hasn't been present at all for this show so I'm gonna let his disembodied voice do that it's actually very simple to enter go to our Facebook page facebook.com slash command cast click share to your public profile on that post and you'll be entered if you're on Twitter tweet a link to this video use the hash tag game nights and that's gonna enter you as well thank you Jimmy's voice and remember you have exactly one week from the release of this episode winter and then we're gonna be announcing the winners on Facebook and Twitter so get out there get to hash tagging and sharing and all of that good luck I hope you win thanks for watching we'll see you next time peace [Music] during this episode I will be salty you will see the salt on my face you might be able to smell it through the lenses through your computer screens well these computers will on that salty

Channel: The Command Zone

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Keywords: video game high school, ted wong, vghs, wong, jfwong, jimmy, magic, the, gathering, mtg, magic the gathering, strategy, game, trading card game, deck, tactics, commander, general, elder, dragon, highlander, politics, josh, lee, kwai, cards, Card Game (Game Genre), command, zone, the command zone, edh rules, mana, Game Knights, GameKnights, gameplay, kyle, hill, because, science, cassius, marsh, mel, li, 49ers, nfl, commander2018, c18, aminatou, estrid, windgrace, saheeli, jund, wizards, coast, wotc

Id: 7QsXbFidcv8

Length: 71min 36sec (4296 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 08 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Call911FTW]

Lol episode is dope. Key takeaways:

I would never trust JLK in a commander game

Cassius' size and demeanor are a solid enough political tool

Mel is a wildcard with her off the wall threat assessment but it made the game interesting

And the other dude is pretty neat and I felt bad about how hard he got whooped on in the beginning

Oh and the decks seem to be slow but interactive and fun. PW commanders drag stuff out pretty hard, I think JLK's stance on them extending games is spot on especially after seeing this.

[u/JimHarbor]

Mel playing the artifact deck and being called Master Artificer is sweet when you remember she is a Doctor of Electrical engineering whose developed actual power armor she has used in cosplay

https://www.pinterest.com/smelissali/costumes-and-other-things-ive-made/

[u/Slayer_Of_Anubis]

Cassius is back! Love seeing him in stuff

[u/molagdrn]

Felt bad for Cassius, he looked so uncomfortable piloting the Enchantress deck. Don't think it was a good match for his fiery and combative personality. He looked so much happier last year with Kaalia. Would love to see him back with a deck of his own, letting that competitive side out and going beast mode.

Think he missed out on serious value choosing not to use her -1 for Masks with the totem armor

[u/Deathstrok]

Wow.

Jimmy is lookin good in that thumbnail.

[u/logos123]

Kyle missed a great opportunity when he killed the My Battlesphere before Saheeli could ult. Had he waited for Mel to pull the trigger and then destroyed the Battlesphere with the ult on the stack, Mel would've only gotten 4 myr tokens, and not been able to plus Saheeli instead.

[u/wby]

I liked how Kyle said the Windgrace deck "seems" to be about playing lands. Subtle dig?

[u/Meshu]

again? Man Cassius really loves playing commander hahaha

[u/Lion_Paw_808]

Closed Caption Translation: Amy Not To The Bait Shifter (Aminatou, the Fate Shifter).....Dont be shifting my bait, Amy!