Commander Legends l Game Knights #40 l Magic: The Gathering Gameplay EDH

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brand new player who's never been on gaming hi everybody i'm rachel weeks i'm a comedian and a podcaster i have a podcast called the commander spear i also play on a live dungeons and dragons campaign called better than heroes and i'm so excited to be here for my first episode on game nights today we are battling it out with the new cards from commander legends there are over 70 new legendary creatures and that includes 40 new partners i mean the possibilities with this set are out of this world so my deck is built around the partner pairing of rogue rock and akroma so the thing about having a zero cost commander is you can play all the cards that care about having your commander on the battlefield and then i filled the rest of the deck with creatures that have tons of keywords so a chroma can buff them up and i can swing in for tons of damage alright so i built a deck around kamal and jessica the goal of my deck is to put out a bunch of creatures use kamal's ability to pump him up but also have some really huge monsters so i can use jessica's ability to get that extra punch so i can really knock out my opponents so my deck is kodama and tago so when i saw this card i knew i had to build a deck all about rock tokens the first step is to make a ton of them the second step is to find interesting ways to use them and the third step is to unsurprisingly throw them at my opponents i mean let's be real if i can kill somebody by throwing a rock at them then i will consider myself to have won this game no matter what else happens ouch oh and kodama is also pretty cool but mostly he's just there because i wanted green and i'll be playing sakushima and tavisha so this is a clone deck whatever the best thing on the board is i want to have a copy of it then i have a bunch of tricky ways to change my clones up anytime i want and then i'll use the combination of my most powerful creatures and my opponents to gain a ton of value and win the game okay let's battle let's do this y'all giddy up partner let's play let's rock you come on you know i was gonna say that i have no choice i have to say that welcome everyone to the table as is game nights tradition we have brand new playmats from ultra pro featuring commander legends nice and rachel it is your first time on the show so we all know what that means joe would you like to do the honors definitely rachel weeks iw sir rachel thank you all right hey thanks for having me i'm so excited welcome to game nights only one day stands all right you guys ready yes i will draw and first turn i'm going to play an ancient tune yikes and then i will play a gruel signet wow i'll take two damage and go to 38. now i know it's a landfall deck but don't sleep on grill cigna i mean i have four mana on my turn too if i drop another land so this is a great start and i will pass the turn okay i will draw for turn i will play a swamp and pass turn you rachel okay i will drop return and before we do anything else let's get my commander in here wow my favorite thing about rogue rock is you can play him without any lands i know this card may not look like much but he's gonna pack a punch later on with the deck i've built and then i'll play arid mesa as my land return and i will pass to you josh all right i will draw that was pretty cool actually that was pretty cool all right i will play a mountain and then i will pass the turn all right untap draw i'll play a command tower for my turn and then i'm gonna play at wood elves i'll search my library and find a stomping ground and put it onto the battlefield tapped sure oh that's not good next turn i'm gonna have six mana i am doing exactly what the deck wants to do it is ramping up how it should these early turns are the perfect time to do nothing but ramp and joe's deck is doing that magnificently he's gonna have six mana on turn three and that's far ahead of everyone else and i tap ancient tune to do that so i'll take two damage and i'll go to 36 and i will pass the turn okay i'll let's draw for turn i will play an island now tap two and cast arcane cigna coco this is kind of becoming the classic commander start turn two play a ramp spell and set you up for the later turns i'm doing my best to keep up with joe here obviously a little bit worse in comparison but still pretty good for a turn two play i'll pass turn to you on your end step i'm gonna crack my arid mesa i will find a sacred foundry and put it into play tapped i will go to 39. okay i will untap and drop return i will play a planes as my land for turn and use those to cast a legions initiative nice that puts my commander to a11 i like this card because early in the game it makes my stuff a little bit bigger but later in the game it protects my big board if there were to be a boardway okay joe that start warrants it i am sending my 1-1 first strike menace trample commander your way i have no blocks because i don't have two creatures so i gotta take it ouch go to 35 and that is commander damage first blood technically you first blended your shot i did the first blood myself yeah you're right you're right you write it all right i will draw okay i'm gonna play an arid mesa nice i'm gonna crack the air in mesa go to 39 and i will find a tiger which will enter the battlefield untapped and i'm gonna tap two and i'm going to play a rampant growth sure and i will find a forest and put it into the battlefield taps this is just a super standard start for our landfall deck or just any deck with green in it but joe got off to this amazing start and i don't think i'm gonna be able to keep up and then i'll pass a turn right on tap upkeep draw we'll play a mountain for my land for turn i will tap the ancient tomb and the gruel signal and i will go to 33 i will play a root weaver druid cool this is a new car from commander legends and the reason why i love this is because it's attempt who could turn down free lands i mean come on this is gonna accelerate this game in my favor typically with cards like this you just say no to the offer because the person playing it is gonna get more than the rest of you but looking around i mean my deck's not great at ramping and neither is rachel so this is a very tempting offer the first thing that i think i want to do is talk to the other players make sure that we're on the same page because what you don't want to have happen is some players take the lands and some don't i think either we all want to do it or none of us want to do it i feel like we need to consult here we'd all get two and he'd get one so that's like six lands against three so we got oh okay so he'll get three we all get we all get two into play no no no no you don't talk about it with each other just just make your decision on your own you y'all grown also there's no landfall triggers on board right now so it's not the worst time to do it yeah and we can all agree i think we can use our extra mana to keep him in check if he starts going crazy yeah so we're all gonna take all three it's amazing feeling tempted yeah so at the end they kind of take all the lands but they agree to use them against me hurts my feelings okay i am tempted i will go find three basics i found three islands joe you're gonna get one of them and i'll get two i found two planes and a mountain joe you're gonna get a plane and i found two forests and a mountain and joe you can have one of the forests and i'll get the other two this game just got supercharged that's a cool little card yeah i like it in the grand scheme of things joe having one more mana than the rest of us probably isn't the best but i do get to kind of make friends with jimmy and rachel here and i think my deck's a little on the slow side so already just being friendly with two of the other players it helps keep the spotlight off of me so that hopefully i can last until the later game and then i will tap three and i'll play a commander sphere very good and i can't do anything else so i will pass the turn so i'm gonna have 10 mana on my next turn i feel like my opponents have already made an alliance against me but i think i'm still pretty far ahead of everybody else by at least a couple of turns all right i will untap and i'll drop return all right i'll tap three and pay forexia and mana to cast fraxian metamorph and i'll go to 38 and that will copy my arcane signal and then i will tap the remainder of my mana to play a solemn simulacrum now go search my library for a basic land card i will find a swamp and put it onto the battlefield tapped even though joe is off to an amazing start i'm feeling pretty good about my position i've got a lot of mana on the board so i'm ready to start making some moves past turn all right i will untap draw for turn and i will also play a new card i will cast keeper of the accord [Music] nice that's right so this card is new from commander legends and it's one of the ones that i am the most excited about ignore that text about making the one one soldier token i mean that's fine but it's not why i'm excited the fact that it can put extra lands into play this is just an ability that white needs so so bad at commander and i'm really happy to see it this card is one of my favorite new cards from commander legends it triggers on each opponent's end step this could get me three lands into play by my next turn this card is sweet and jimmy you've ramped i will attack you for one rogue rock damage yes i cannot block so i'll go to 37 and one of that is commander damage and then i will pass the turn to you josh okay i will untap draw all right i'm going to begin by casting my commander toggle goblin weaponsmith nice so here he is my commander let's be honest he rocks this whole deck is built around the fact that he makes these rock equipment and i know it doesn't look like much but trust me if i can get some of the synergies going i think these rocks are going to do some work hopefully i can live that long i'm going to play my land for turn and that will trigger toggle and i will make a rock nice and then i'm gonna do two things at once just to save time so i'm gonna tap two and i'm gonna play three visits okay and at the same time i'm searching for that i'm gonna crack my fabled passage so fabled passage will find a forest and three visits we'll find a cinderglade and because i have more than four lands both of those are going to be untapped when they come in they will also trigger my commander twice and i'll make two more rocks guys all right and then i'm going to pay two and i'm going to equip toggle with two rocks one in each hand dual wheels rocks yeah okay one thing to note here is that it's not super useful to have a creature that has two rocks equipped because they can't use both they have to tap when they use them but i don't care taco just looks cool holding two rocks and that's all i can do so joe it is your turn at the beginning of your n-step keeper of the accord is going to trigger and because you control more lands than i do i can search my deck for a basic planes and put it onto the battlefield tapped nice okay joe yeah enter all right i'll untap drop a turn let's see let's tap four five six i'll take two damage from agent two i will play a mana reflection [Music] this card is going to send me way over the top i mean i've been on a good ramp pace but now i get to double my mana double demander double the fun mana reflection [Laughter] well those three extra lands we gave joe they're looking pretty bad now maybe it wasn't a good idea to give the ramp deck more ramp i shouldn't have let jimmy and josh talk me into that oh why why did we give him those extra lands we should have known better he's gonna have so much mana now uh why did i let josh talk me into that that was that was a bad call on my part now he just gets to double those land yeah that was bad and then i'll play nissa seer cool and i'll search my library for a forest that goes into my hand but i'm gonna play it for my length return and because i have seven or more lands that is going to cause nissa to flip and she becomes nissa sage animist oh come on so nissa is a card draw engine and that's pretty bad because one of the things you can hope for when somebody ramps as hard as joe is they don't have any gas in hand but now this is gonna help him draw more cards so definitely going to be able to continuously use all that mana he's got this is getting bad i'm going to immediately plus her and i'm going to reveal the top card in my library it's rada heart of killed oh which is not a land so that will go into my hand and then i'm gonna play defense of the heart [Applause] okay all my deck wants to do is put creatures onto the board and now if i have three joe gets to search his deck and put two threats into play i don't know how i'm supposed to avoid having three creatures on the board this is gonna make it really hard oh this is one of the last things you want to see in a deck that has a ton of the scariest creatures known to magic if defense of the heart triggers we might just lose on the spot all right and then i'll cast rider heart of kelp oh that's a big yikes okay so this is pretty scary because don't forget rada can be activated multiple times in a turn and one of joe's commanders gives trample and the other one triples damage on something that could mean somebody's dead from rada like next turn i mean luckily i don't think i look very scary i have a goblin that's holding two rocks and that's it so hopefully joe goes after one of the others and then i can look at the top power of my library anytime so i will is it awesome it is awesome oh my gosh terrifying i was hoping you'd say what sucks so rather lets me look at the top crowd in my library anytime so just assume i'm always doing that even if you don't see it i have one man of floating and i have nothing to do with it so i'm gonna pass turn before you pass the turn to jimmy i have two triggers on keeper of the accord you control more creatures than i do so i make a one one white soldier creature token and because you have more lands than i do i will put a basic planes onto the battlefield tapped keeper of the accord doing work doing work ramp well it looks like my hands are tied because my keeper of the accord just keeps giving me soldiers i could accidentally trigger this defense of the heart i will untap no draw for turn okay i will tap three mana and i'm gonna cast mirage mirror that is bad my deck is all about clone effects and i love mirage mirror because it can also copy enchantments and there's a really good looking enchantment that i've got my eyes on then i'm going to tap another two mana and i'm going to make my mirage mirror turn into mana reflection okay okay looks like two of my opponents have doubled mana that lands deal is looking worse and worse all the time a blue deck with double mana this is a problem you stay in your lane jimmy i want everybody else having double mana just me so now i have eight mana available i'm going to tap all eight mana and i will cast fossa deep dwelling oh yeah so i've got some really strong enter the battlefield effects in my deck because of all the clones and this is a card that is able to blink and reuse them over and over again and it will also cast sakashima of a thousand faces uh-oh so jimmy's commander is here pretty cool and particularly synergizes well with fossa because jimmy can just change whatever sakushima is copying on his end stop any turn if something better gets put on the battlefield so yeah this is pretty good synergy in jimmy's deck no surprise and sakashima is going to enter the battlefield copying solemn simulacrum so i will go look for a basic land i'll find a basic island and put it onto the battlefield tapped not bad and then when i go to my end step faucet is going to trigger so what i will do is flicker my solemn simulacrum and have come back to the battlefield [Music] and do the same thing and look through my light before you basically land card i will find a swamp and put that onto the battlefield tapped and then i will pass the turn wow all right so jimmy is really putting that value engine together and i am starting to get worried over here his next turn after in taps is probably gonna be real spicy luckily my next turn will come first so maybe i can do something about it on your end step i have a keeper of the accord trigger because you control more lanes than i do i will search my deck for a basic plane and put it into the battlefield tapped nice i will untap and drop a turn my priority this turn is not triggering joe's defense of the heart so i have to figure out a way to get rid of some of my creatures i guess well i think what i have to do is go to combat and in order to not trigger joe's defense of the heart i will make a valiant sacrifice and i will send josh at josh and i will send rogue rock at jimmy and to their dooms okay well i will block myself with tago and i will block rogue rock with my solemn and my sakushima which is a copy of solomon the soldier token of me dies rogue rock will go back to the command zone rachel's jumping through a lot of hoops to make sure my defense of the heart doesn't go off which is smart cause you definitely don't want that thing going off but also annoying then i will cast a chroma vision of exidor so rachel's second commander is here it is a big flying angel and it can make her creatures huge this would normally be really really scary however joe and jimmy both are just obviously bigger threats than me so i'm fine with it let's just have all of them go at each other and i'm just gonna build up a little castle of rocks over here and eventually hopefully do something with it hopefully that's all i got your go josh all right i will untap i will draw i'm gonna play one of the new choice lands i'm gonna play timber crown pathway that's going to trigger toggle i'll make a rock and then i'm gonna play aspiring statuary oh no oh so now you can tap your rocks for mana aha those rocks they look a lot better when they're tapping for mana which is basically what this card allows me to do and just like that i feel like i'm virtually caught up with jimmy and joe and how much mana they have access to every single turn i mean i would be caught up if it wasn't for that mana reflection so uh let's see what i can do about that all right and then i'm going to cast calming verse oh gosh destroy all enchantments correct oh no oh this is huge for all of us because this is going to completely take out joe's plans here i'm a little sad because i don't get to copy a mana reflection anymore but honestly i would take that over the alternative any day it happens yeah all right i can't do anything nice jeez so mana reflection defense of the heart and legion's initiative down i feel very calm now wow okay i took the wind out of my sails a little bit so ryder will not be doing as much damage as i thought she would be doing that hurt yes i may lose my legion's initiative in this trade but if it gets mana reflection and defense of the heart off the board i'm okay with that all right then i'm gonna tap two green and two rocks again because of the improvise and i'm gonna play court of bounty which makes me the monarch hey congrats the king of rocks yeah not a rock not a problem that's like any number of other people king of rocks though rocks is open all right and before we continue very important nice so this is a new card from commander legends it puts the monarch mechanic into the game which is one of my favorite mechanics in multiplayer magic king of the castle king in the castle i am the king in the castle the monarch has entered the game however looking around the board i don't really think that my deck does too well against gruel creatures and angels so i'm never gonna be able to hold on to this thing still i can't wait to see the other players hitting each other and passing that crown around okay then i'll pass the turn at your end step how many lanes do you have josh i have eight okay so that is fewer than i have so keeper of the chord doesn't trigger wait i have less lands than you yeah boros wins what's the heck i'm a landfall deck give her the crown josh speaking of which monarch will trigger on my unstep as well i'll draw a card nice nice all right go ahead all right let's untap here and i'll draw my car for the turn so because of rider i can look at the top card in my library oh that's spicy okay oh no so let's uptick nessa okay i'll go ahead and reveal the top card oh so spicy kamal's wheel oh no wow this card is particularly terrifying because of joe's commander when you combine those two together it turns all of his lands into four four trample vigilance indestructible haste creatures i don't know the exact math but if he can resolve this spell and have his commander out we might all just die or be at such a low life total that there's nothing we can do to stop him and then i'll play kamal part of krosa oh scary start okay my commander is a beast on my combat all my creatures get plus three plus three and trample if i can play that kamal's wheel next turn i think i can win this game the buff is scary on kamal but honestly the trample scares me more especially with rada on the board because she can punch through for a lot of damage it looks like my chump blockers are just too small all right now tap three tanking two from ancient tunes the cast jessica thrice reborn this is probably gonna hurt she comes in with two loyalty counters since this is the second time i've cast a commander wow so jessica's here that ability to make something deal triple damage against players it's pretty scary i definitely don't want rada to hit me this turn unfortunately i've kind of made myself the target for some reason so i will use her zero ability to target rada part of keld to give her triple damage well that's bad uh oh go to combat okay so all your creatures are getting plus three plus three and trampoline yeah yes until in the turn so you got a four four five four and a six six all with trample it's bad but he has a number of creatures maybe he can attack me with one of the smaller ones so josh i'm sending what else at you jimmy i'm saying in the review at you and rachel i'm sending right at you i declare no blocks so the root weaver will hit me and i'll take five and go to 32 and then i will not block okay and i will take four and go to 35. all right so only the damage to me is tripled right that's correct of course job attacks me with the biggest creature he's got that deals triple damage i have to put something in front of that otherwise i'm taking 18 here i will put my keeper of the cord in front of brada my keeper of the accord will die to first strike damage then i will take six damage because it is tripled going to 33. and i've become the monarch yep cool i get the crown i get the crown i get the crown doesn't really fit but i get the crown so i will go to my instep and i will draw a card from my arc i will untap and drop return so i will start things off by tapping 5 mana and i'll cast tevesat doom of fools this is scary looking this is my second commander and it is just packed with value so with something like this on the battlefield i could get so many cards in my hand that they won't be able to stop me so jimmy's second commander is on the table that ultimate is pretty splashy steal all the commanders from everywhere but you know i'm not worried about it there's a lot of things that have to happen before he's got ten loyalty so i'm gonna plus one him and i'll sacrifice sakashima of a thousand faces which is currently a solemn simulacrum and since that's my commander i'll draw an extra card and because it's a solemn i'll draw another card so i'll draw four cards value sweet that's very sweet yeah okay i will tap for one two three four and i'll play yagmoth thran physician cool nice okay so i'm a little worried here because the minus one counters can pick off a lot of my board it'll draw him cards and he can proliferate his tevish shot we could be in a lot of trouble here if jimmy put something together and then i'm gonna tap two mana and i will cast a talisman of dominance okay all right joe is threatening to take us all out on his next turn i can't do anything about the kamal as well in his hand but i can at least slow him down a bit i will tap another two mana and turn my mirage mirror into a kamal heart of krosa nice at the beginning of combat on my turn all my creatures get plus three plus three and trample that's pretty good i will go to combat and joe i will swing at jessica with my kamal which is now an 8 8 and my solemn simulacrum at yornissa which is now a five five no blocks all right so nissa will die and jessica will go back to the command zone [Music] sweet killing my plans walkers that's a pretty harsh blow but as long as i have my commander and kamal's will i think i still got this one in the bag and then on my end step faso will trigger and i will flicker the solemn simulacrum and have come back to the battlefield finding a basic swap putting it on the battlefield tapped nice and then i'll pass a turn to you rachel okay i will untap and i will draw my card for turn all right and then i'll cast bastion protector me that's sweet so a chroma is now an 8 8. yikes i have a 7 mana white commander so i do not want her to die because she's going to be very difficult for me to recast so i love this card in the deck because it buffs her a little bit and adds keywords which a chroma cares about all right i will spend four mana and i will cast angelic field marshall oh another one so she gets plus two plus two because i control the commander and creatures i control have vigilance so she's now a five five yep okay rachel's got a lot of power in the air right now and a chroma can make all that stuff bigger getting a little worried then before combat i'll activate slayer stronghold and i will give angelic field marshall plus two plus o haste and vigilance it is a seven five i will go to combat and a chroma will trigger which buffs my creatures for each keyword that they have my angelic field marshall is now a 10 8. geez and joe you sent a little damage my way last turn i'm going to send acroma and angelic field marshall at you they're all flying yes sir yeah no blocks i'll take 18 and go to 11. yikes wow oh she's still gonna have those flyers next turn i don't have a lot of flyers i'm in trouble 11 life is not very much and i have two big flyers i could knock joe out at any moment but the best part about this is i'm the monarch now so i will pass the turn but on my end step i will drop because i'm wearing the crown nice okay well we know that next turn if he plays that kamal's will then all the lands are turning into four fours not to mention it pumps all the creatures that he's already got and uh that's a lot of damage so it's all up to me here we go all right i will untap and then my court of bounty is going to trigger unfortunately i have no land in hand so i can't put one out ah nice then i'm going to draw for turn that's sweet okay i'm going to begin by tapping a green and then three rocks because of the inspiring statuary and the improvised mechanic will give me three mana oh nice and then i'm gonna play splendid reclamation oh okay get some lands back yeah i only have two they are arid mesa and fabled passage okay so when i build the deck i'm envisioning this card being played and i have six seven ten lands in my graveyard and they all come into play but i only get two and they come in tap so yeah it's a little disappointing and that will trigger toggle and i'll make two rocks so that happened so my main worry at this moment is joe and that kamal's will that we know he has in his hand i gotta do what i can to take that plan off the table i don't know if this is gonna be good or bad but i'm going to tap three and play wheel of fortune no he gets the landing card out of his mind i knew i got that part of his hand which i was thinking about but i'm gonna give him he's only got three cards i'm gonna give him seven yeah yeah uh wheel of fortune i have to discard my hand which means i gotta get rid of my camaras wheel i like the card advantage but that was my win con oh i don't love seeing this because i did have more cards than the rest of the players and now we're all equal but it kind of saves us all from dying i guess i'll take it all right so everybody draws seven new cards nice everyone's reloaded cool there's some downsides to playing this card here right it refills my opponent's hands gives rachel and joe both more gas i don't think it helps jimmy much because he already had a lot of cards but hopefully it saves us from dying next turn also the thing about drawing seven new cards is you draw really cool stuff and then you get to play it and then i'm gonna tap two using my rock and make a dockside extortionist so how many yeah how many artifacts does everybody have two over here five over here zero for me okay so that's seven treasure i'm gonna make [Music] oh wow normally you have to sacrifice treasures to make mana but in this case josh can just tap them for mana with inspiring statuary so it's almost like he put seven mana rocks onto the table i definitely didn't see that coming then i'm gonna tap three of the treasure for improvise and then i'll tap two red and i'll play nesting dragon oh no so now every time i play a land i get a rock and a dragon egg the good thing here is i can actually throw my own rocks have my own dragon eggs to create two-two flyers which i think is gonna prove to be important because of rachel's flyers she just proved she can do a ton of damage out of nowhere so i'm definitely gonna want some blockers so i'm a little more worried about the nesting dragon because i thought i was the only one in the flyers game and if he gets enough of those eggs cracked i may not be able to get my big angels through then i'm going to tap two more of the treasure and the three forests and i will play ashaya ah come on so there are a lot of creatures in my deck and ashai is in there because she makes all of those creatures trigger landfall so now every time i drop a land or play a creature i get a rock i get a dragon egg you can see where this is going the value is starting to come together i'm feeling pretty happy about it now ashaya is a land so she will trigger nesting dragon and tago get a rock and a dragon a dragon egg and then i will play a forest so that will make another rock and another dragon egg you know out of all that all i'm going to do now is pass the turn but look you're so many i did stuff you have a board you built a little wall so i'm passing the turn here and i feel really really good i was able to stop joe's plan and really explode on my battlefield i got a ton of permanence in play i am poised to take over this game on my next turn so the thing is 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joe gets to attack again in the first combat that's gonna be plus three plus three by the second combat that's plus six plus six by the third combat that's plus nine plus nine forget about the fourth combat we're already dead the best we can hope for is that he doesn't have a lot of lands to play this turn all right uh so landfall extra combat steps oh my all right i'll play a spire garden which triggers morocc that's bad so you haven't seen no combat two combats so now joe's gonna get two combat steps this turn um looking at his creatures he has quite a few and if they're all plus six plus six and trample oh boy somebody's probably dead and then i'm gonna tap two to explore oh crap oh no i'll draw a card and then i get to play an additional land and i'll play tyga which triggers maraud so i have two additional combat phases oh my yikes now we know joe's gonna have three combats and i just hit him for 18 damage i don't know who's gonna die here but it might be all of us okay that is not good let's go to combat so now i have three combat steps and i can activate rada to make her huge i'm pretty sure this is enough to win the game right here oh we're all gonna die we're all gonna die we're just we're all gonna die this is no longer oh somebody's dead this is we're all dead i can't let this happen okay before combat oh i'm going to sacrifice a treasure tap two rocks for improvise and i'm gonna chaos warp oh oh no targeting kamal all right kamal will die all right let's send him back to my command zone not bad this is a huge swing here because i don't think joe has any good attacks anymore joe still gets all of his combats but he doesn't get the plus pump effect from his commander we're gonna live we're gonna live oh thank god that that sucked well maybe i'll get something cool off the couch warp but i'll still get the shuffle and reveal the top card right right okay can't wait all right josh pick your poison oh boy so if the top card is a really bad permanent this could go even worse okay uh-oh let's see what it is what pornography for the table [Laughter] wow horn of greed is amazing for me right now because i'm a landfall deck too talk about the world's best chaos warp saves us all from dying and now it's flipped over a card draw engine for me oh i'm really happy about this so this went from i'm winning the game to i'm probably just dead to angels because i'm at 11 life so now i have figured out a way to block those flyers okay because of rada i can look at the top card of my library oh are we out i'm fine he's fine oh he found a fire i am going to stack the commanders through here and i will draw okay i'm just gonna pay six and play an ancient green warden that's pretty good wow so i'm sure joe put this card in his deck because it doubles all of his landfall triggers but in this case he's playing it because it has reach which means it will be able to block rachel's flyers is it possible that this card actually makes it so joe survives and gets another untapped step i guess we'll find out i've got on to nine because of ancient tombs i will live to fight another day maybe there's still just one removal spill away but yeah that's a good play we have three combat phases now not bad so now without the buff from kamal joe's attacks aren't looking very good and i have an indestructible blocker i'm actually doing okay so now i'll go to my first combat yep there we go and the only logical play is swinging jimmy with my rada four three first strike yeah okay well i'll block with my solemn simulacrum and then before damage is dealt i'm going to sack the solemn with yagmas pay one life targeting your bastion protector so it's gonna get a minus one minus one counter and then i'm going to draw two cards from yogmoth as well as solemn dying nice then i will go to my second combat i will swing you jimmy for five first strike oh morig pumps it for each time it's attacked this turn that's cool okay i won't block this i'll go to 26. and i'll get a third combat and jimmy i'll swing you again for six or jimmy geez okay getting wailed upon i'll take six damage and go from 26 to 20. and i believe that is all she wrote past the turn all right so i take a little bit of damage here but it is much better than being dead this turn could have gone so much worse so i'm glad to just be alive at the end of the day okay let's go ahead and untap and we'll draw a card for turns okay what should i do here that morag was really scary but now that it's my turn i think that actually might provide me with an avenue to victory i'm going to start things off i'm going to tap one mana and play a wayfarers bobble okay all right and then i will tap two blue mana and turn mirage mirror into morag fury of a comb yikes yep sure okay this is a little bit weird because morog doesn't appear to be very good with what jimmy has on the board right now he doesn't have the same setup as joe he doesn't have kamal and he doesn't have a lot of creatures and he's in blue black so it's unlikely he's going to be able to give everything haste i'm just not sure what jimmy's doing here um and then i would play a cabal coffers from my hands that's going to trigger horn of greed and my morag so again extra combat stuff and i'll draw a card scary yup i don't know what jimmy plans to do with this maraud but he seems really excited about it which makes me terrified okay i'm gonna tap cabal coffers for four black mana and i'm gonna tap i'm just gonna float all the mana now so tap the rest of my swamp so that's gonna be 10 total black mana i'm going to use yag moth five times discard five cards to proliferate five times on two tevesha duma fools oh no that's bad so all of these proliferate triggers are going to bring teveshat to 10 loyalty which is the magic number tabishot steals all the commanders from the battlefield and the command zone so it looks like what was gonna happen on joe's turn is just gonna happen on jim easter we all might be dead oh no i'm gonna steal all the commanders and they're gonna be all mine under my control [Laughter] oh we're dead yep yep we're dead i'm like frantically looking around my battlefield being like okay do i have any little tricks i can play and then oh yeah of course i do so tev shot is going to go to 10 loyalty yep uh in response i was going to steal everything [Music] a rock it all came apart because of what rock i just like how teresa is like phenomenal cosmic power i am unstoppable and then taco just comes along and he's like rock that really hurt i guess i won't take over the world now like honestly after the meteor that killed the dinosaurs that rock might be the most important rock in history all right so temperature is now at eight yeah so you still proliferate dude yeah you can still do it okay i'm gonna proliferate the minus one minus from counters on your bastion protector so it will die okay well that ruins everything so my two i basically just wasted my whole turn now so i don't really know what to do so that's two damage to teveshot which puts him at eight loyalty and i cannot activate his ultimate at eight loyalty the worst part is i've discarded five cards and those extra combats well they don't matter i just have to end my turn i can't minus 10 tevish anymore but i will plus 2m so i'll create two zero one black throw creature tokens and that is sadly it i'll pass turn okay so to recap on joe's turn we almost died on jimmy's turn we almost died now i'm untapping with a chroma i'm still the monarch i feel surprisingly okay i think i will start this turn by casting the loyalist boy rogue rock son of roca cool joe i think has proven that he is too scary to let live he thinks he might be safe behind his five seven reach but he's not after casting rugrat i'll cast eros god of victory giving all of my creatures mess yep the only thing that matters to me here is that all her creatures get menace i only have one blocker and now i can't block it off i'm in danger then i will play a mox amber and then i'll play command beacon as my land for turn that will trigger horn of greed and i will draw a card nice see if you guys kill me you won't get horn green anymore so before combat i will pay red and white to activate my slayer's stronghold targeting angelic field marshall so how big is it now uh it is a seven five okay and then i will go to combat which triggers a chroma and a chroma's gonna buff my creatures and then i will attack joe with angelic field marshall and i will attack tevish with akroma well i have a reach creature but because of menace i cannot block so i have to take the damage i did and then i got killed by an angel it hurts but she looks so beautiful doing it all right i cannot block as well because of menace so tavis will take six damage and go to four okay all right so now we're down to three players and josh looks to be in the best position with his huge board state but i'm still not out of it yet and rachel's flyers are really scary this could be anyone's game and then in my second main phase i will pay two to cast sword of the animist nice so at this point josh jimmy and i all have threats on the board but josh has a terrifying board state i can't count how many permanents he has i don't know what my chances of winning this game are but it's going to be an uphill battle i will pass the turn to you josh uh and because i am the monarch we'll draw a card oh i forgot about that me too and then uh you're good josh okay i will untap all this stuff and i will draw a lot of man available it better be good a lot of mana with inspiring statuary all the rocks and the treasures tons of lands i have as much mana as i need my only worry is i don't have very many cards in my hand so i'm hoping that i can solve that problem okay i'm gonna start off by tapping seven and casting zendikar resurgent oh very good alderman wow now if there is a way for josh to quickly rebuild his hand this is it we've seen this card just go off and win games on the spot before so i wouldn't be surprised if josh has a huge turn here then i'm going to tap three and play azusa lost but seeking she's a creature and a land because of ashaya that will trigger zandakari surgeon i'll get a rock because of tago and a dragon egg because of nesting dragon awesome yeah yeah everyone followed that right nice then i'm gonna tap six and i'm gonna cast my second commander kodama of the east tree cool so kodama's here my second commander i didn't really build the deck around this at all and unfortunately i don't even have any permanents in my hand so for the near future he's not really gonna do much he's just another way to get a landfall trigger and draw a cart trigger trigger same thing as before so i'll make another rock another dragon egg and i'll draw a card from xenocar resurgent jeez i'm gonna play pteromorphic expanse make a rock make a dragon egg crack the terramorphic expanse [Music] for a mountain so two rocks two dragon eggs yeah so another rock another dragon egg wow holy cow wow josh is going off so much that he has taken over my playmat as well that's insane i think he got this and as i play all this stuff it's triggering kodama but i don't have anything in my hands to take advantage of it so that just doesn't matter we're gonna ignore it for now so i've got one two three four five creatures i can equip rocks too wow so i'm gonna pay five mana and equip five rocks to my five creatures that don't have summoning sickness [Music] geez you might think it's funny that josh just has a bunch of creatures equipped with a bunch of rocks but i'm at 20 life if he wants to i'm basically dead to him in two turns because he just throws a bunch of rocks at me untaps and does it again so i'm pretty scared here then i'm gonna crack my arid mesa and my fabled passage i'll find a mountain in a forest they both come into play untapped i'll take one going to 34. that'll make two more dragon eggs two more rocks yeah so i've still got the one floating i'll add two green and i'll play gear per ether grid yikes oh no this enchantment is one of the best cards in the deck it now allows me to turn all of my rocks into damage even if i don't throw them at people using their ability so i'm sitting here with quite a bit of direct damage that i can point at instant speed at anybody who looks at me funny or creatures or planeswalkers actually planeswalker i gotta take care of that type of shot and then using the ether grid i'm gonna tap 678 using rocks and treasures and deal four damage directly to tevish shot [Music] come on wow without even going to combat josh gets rid of my commander i was really hoping to maybe pull off the same stunt i did last turn now i'm in a position where i have to figure out something otherwise i'm pretty much dead down to one card this is a weird attrition game i will pass the turn jimmy go ahead okay i'm not gonna do anything i'm just going to untap i will drop return okay first things first i will pay two mana and turn my mirage mirror into a zendikar resurgent mirage mirror is putting in work it can be the scariest enchantment on the battlefield it can be the scariest creature on the battlefield right now it means two of my opponents have doubled mana and a card draw engine and then i'll tap four mana and i'll cast clever impersonator and because i cast a creature spell i would draw a card and i'm going to have it become a copy of zendakara surgeon she have doubles in the car research doubles and a car resurgence nice wow okay so jimmy's got triple mana now and draws two cards every time he casts a creature why is he doing what i'm doing but better oh yeah he's the sakushima deck that's what he's gonna yeah of course of course yeah sorry for asking okay uh i'm going to use yogmoth sacrifice a thrall pay a life and i'll put a minus one minus one counter on a chroma and then i will draw a card i'm going to sacrifice another throw pay a life and give a chrome another minus i'll draw a card awesome okay so jimmy's putting minus one counters on my acroma while josh is using two play mats for his port state what gives i'll tap one two three four and cast a draw the silencer oh so we'll draw two cards now thanks to the doubles and the card resurgence wow i put the triad in the deck because she's really really sweet if you can clone her and actually kill someone that way but at this point i'm just playing her to draw more cards and stay alive i will cast scholar of the lost trove i will draw two cards for the two zenith card resurgence and then i will play the dolphin aurora for free from my graveyard pretty good jealous so jimmy's doing a lot here and yes i'm jealous of that vidalkinori but it's a lot of value-based stuff and i don't think any of that's gonna end up mattering if he's knocked out which is what i'm hoping that i'm gonna be able to do i will tap for one mana and play a soaring cool and then i'll tap the soaring and i'll play a4stone all the rocks all the rocks uh and i you know i'm so terrified of everything else i'm just not gonna do anything and i will pass the turn to you at the end step i cool flicker scholar of the lost trove i have come back to the battlefield and i'm going to cast the solemn simulacrum from my graveyard and then i will find a basic land put on the battlefield tapped uh and i'm gonna draw two more cards because of these in the card resurgent and then i will go to discard and i will discard a land and then i will pass the turn to you so i did a lot this turn and i have a full grip but i know for a fact that both josh and rachel are gonna be gunning for me with all of those rocks on the battlefield i still feel really vulnerable i'm just trying to stay alive i will untap and draw okay are you gonna be able to hit him i can get one through then i can kill him in response well these both have menace i have two flyers he can make two flyers so he can block one that's probably your move right so at this point i know i can't take josh out but maybe i can take jimmy out with the help of some of those rocks i will pay two mana to equip sort of the animus to a chroma chromosome 80. she's a five five she's two minus one counters on her oh right i will pay a red and white to activate my slayer's stronghold give angelic field marshall plus two so haste and vigilance and then i will go to combat which triggers a chroma and will buff my angelic field marshall [Music] and jimmy i think both these angels are coming your way okay so you're swinging at me with both angels yes so i have a trigger on the sword of the animus i will search my deck for a basic mountain and put it into the battlefield tapped so this is bad i can't let rachel do any damage to me here because josh can then just finish me off with all of his rocks but if you've been paying attention you'll notice that i'm in blue and i lift a conspicuous amount of mana open all right i will tap cabal coffers and add six man to my mana pool i will add one more with an island and i will overload the acyclic rift oh no okay so josh is gonna throw all of his rocks at me ouch but if my math is right i'm not gonna die from that and the cyclonic rift is gonna bounce all of their stuff back to their hands which means that they're not gonna really be able to rebuild and kill me in time before i get another turn and that's all i need i think this is gonna win the game for me okay so this is not great because the angel won't get through for the damage which means i can't quite take jimmy out of the game but i can still hurt him for a lot i really don't have a choice i'm just gonna do as much damage to jimmy as i can right now so it's on the stack yep oh i'm going to tap one two three four five and one of the treasures uh using europe or ether grid to do three damage to you jimmy okay i'll go to 15. and then i'm going to tap four sacrifice two treasures or two more mana so six total and i'm going to throw all the rocks at you how much is that 12 damage oh my gosh wow okay then i go to three i just like this idea that i've got these six creatures and they're all like buddy the elf don't mess with me do you think we get cg in like like the the rocks coming out of my hand here did we do that i don't know okay just in case we don't have the budget for it just everybody out there in the audience imagine just a machine gun of rocks it's pretty sweet right okay and then that is all that i can do so cycrif will resolve will resolve important to note here that ashaya makes my non-token creatures into lands so they are not bounced by cyclonic rift oh no so something really interesting happens here because cyclonic rift only bounces non-land permanence but because of asshaia a lot of my creatures are lands and so they're not gonna get bounced this is huge because it's gonna allow me to play a land next turn make a rock equip it to a creature and throw it at jimmy this might be just enough to guarantee that i can knock him out of the game my dragon eggs and stuff are not lands they won't swore my rocks so cycrift will resolve i can't believe your creatures don't bounce you got rid of all the dragon eggs i made a really big mistake i think oh no this is bad my plan only works if josh doesn't have anything because now on his turn he just plays another land makes a rock and chucks it at me to kill me that's another moment that i thought i was gonna win the game and now it looks like i'm gonna lose okay second main i mean at this point i feel miles behind in this game josh keeps a ton of his board and jimmy keeps all of his permanence suddenly i'm the only one with nothing luckily i have something to say about their boards okay staring down these two huge board states i have no choice i am going to cast a steer command and i am going to choose destroy all creatures with converted mana class 4 or greater and artifacts really so i don't want to kill all the creatures because i still want jimmy to die before his next turn so i try and leave josh just enough to kill jimmy and then i have lots of time to rebuild my board okay well uh i have no response because i'm tap down in response i will tap castle lock swing for two and i'll turn my mirage mirror into cabal coffers okay steer command resolves sounds good okay uh so all big creatures and artifacts are destroyed look at my board what the heck jeez can i put kodama in the command zone okay i mean it sucks to lose all my big creatures but at least i keep the little ones around so i can still equip the rock to something and then throw it at jimmy to finish him off it does mean when i face off against rachel 1v1 though i'm not in a great position okay solemn similaricum died so i'll draw a card off that hold up one sec this may sound weird but i think that austere command may have just saved my life i'll show you why in just a second after that i will pay my two remaining mana to cast tome of legends which enters battlefield with a page counter on it then i will follow it up by my commander rogue rock son of roga broken it's zero it puts a page counter on my tome of legends sweet value i will recast max amber and while we're doing zero cost of things i will also cast a paradise mantle yeah not bad so i can actually rebuild pretty well after these board wipes i got a card draw engine and i still have a land that gives stuff haste which means maybe i can swing with a big angel next turn after all that's actually impressive with what you had left after that yeah i feel okay about it i feel okay about it uh and then i will pass the turn to you josh on your end step oh crap i'm going to tap the mirage mirrors cabal coffers and then with that six mana i'm going to cast thrilling encore oh crap oh no nice this is what i was talking about cyclone corrupt puts a bunch of stuff in your hand so i wouldn't get anything but a board wipe kills creatures and now i get them all on my side of the battlefield this is truly a thrilling encore okay so this is uh really bad he's gonna have a whole lot of creatures i don't know how we're gonna come back from this okay so when that resolves i will get yogmoth etrada scholar of the lost trove nesting dragon ashaya phrexian metamorph and solemn similacum onto the battlefield wow pretty good i'm gonna have the forex and metamorph enter the battlefield as a mox amber and because of asshai they're all lambs and so i will get six triggers off the nesting dragon so i'll get six dragon eggs [Music] i'll find a land with solemn put on the battlefield and now give me another egg because of nesting dragon jeez oh holy cow that is a lot of stuff oh that austere command coming back to haunt me big time look at his board it's insane and then when scholar of the lost trove enters the battlefield i will target cyclonic rift in my graveyard and i will bounce the asusa back to your hand josh that is bad so talk about a big swing i now have all of this power on my side of the battlefield and now all i have to do is just get rid of josh's creatures and i don't think he can kill me anymore still maintaining priority i'm going to pay a life with the ogmoth and i'm going to sacrifice the solemn putting minus one minus encounter on toggle yep i'm going to draw two cards from yagmath as well as solomon dying and then i will do that again with yagmoth i will pay life and this time sacrifice one of the eggs and give a minus one minus one counter to the dark side extortionist yep and when i sacrifice one of the eggs i'll make a 2-2 dragon token with fire breathing draw a card wow and then i will tap the phryxian metamorph for black mana on top of the other black i have floating and i'm going to discard a land and i'm going to proliferate okay so that'll kill both the creatures yes oh no remember how huge my board was just two seconds ago ugh this austere command turned out to be the worst so now jimmy has this huge board and he's picking off josh's creatures which he was gonna use to kill jimmy next turn i think jimmy might just win now i think that's all i can do wow you wouldn't know it but i am still the monarch so i will draw a card go ahead josh okay i will untap all i have is lands now i'll draw for turn okay he's at one he's at one so here's the thing tago doesn't have haste so even if i play a land here that makes a rock i equip it to toggle i still can't throw it so i need to put two lands into play so that i can tap those two rocks through gear per ether grid and deal the one damage to jimmy luckily i have exactly the card that lets me do that i always have five because that's how much toggle costs now okay uh and then i'm gonna pay three and i'm going to replay gear per aether grid sweet okay i'm at one life so ether grid is really scary here but josh will need to have two artifacts if he wants to use it so unless he has a fetchland or something i think i'm safe and then i'm gonna tap three wait why why why why are you typing three then i'm going to play roiling regrowth yeah so i'll sacrifice a mountain that'll put a forest and a mountain into play but more importantly that will trigger toggle twice and i will make two rocks no oh it's not a fetch line but it gets him two lands into play that's two rocks and that means i'm gonna die and then i'm gonna tap the two rocks what if you didn't i will activate gear per ether grid and deal one damage to you jimmy oh i got zapped by a bunch of rocks i was so close i was ow so jimmy's dead and it's down to me and josh one on one and honestly i like my chances josh has one creature on the board and it doesn't fly and i can give my stuff haste i'm scared here now because she's gonna get to repopulate her board before i do i had to waste a lot of time killing jimmy luckily my life total is pretty high so i hopefully have a little bit of time okay uh before i end my turn i'm going to tap one and i'm going to equip a rock to toggle it's tap though yeah nice nice nice give that man a rock all right it's your turn rachel well on your end step i will tap my tome of legends and remove a page counter and draw a card oh boy card advantage at this point okay i will untap and draw for turn my first main i will pay seven mana for my second commander akroma vision of ixadore nice that cast trigger puts another page counter on my tome of legends sweet pretty cool and then i will pay four for angelic field marshall before combat i will pay a red and white once again give angelic field marshall vigilance haste and plus two plus o okay and then i will go to combat which will once again trigger a chroma right bluffs my guys so right now rogue rock is a five six an angelic field marshall is a 10-8 and josh you are the last remaining fighter are you sure you don't want to attack joe or jimmy i think i think this is politics everyone we're here we're here master of politics i will send the angelic field marshall and rogue rock son of broga at your face wow that's a lot of damage so i am going to take 15 ouch and go to 19. now that josh is down to 19 i'm pretty sure i can build a board big enough to kill him next turn i just have to hang on one more turn and because i attacked with rogue rock who's my commander i put another counter on my tome of legends wow i love the deck building here and that's all i got so i will draw for the monarch so we're in the crown wow why did i give her the monarch for this whole game i probably should have done that wow that slayer's stronghold just so so good this game if she didn't have haste to give to her creatures i would probably get an additional turn but it looks like she's gonna be able to take me out on the next turn the problem is all of her stuff is flying and i don't have a lot of ways to deal with flyers so i'm really hoping that i can draw some kind of removal or some kind of answer to get rid of some of these flyers again to buy myself a little bit more time and get back on my feet here all right i will untap and i will draw all right i'm gonna pay seven okay i'm gonna start with zendikar resurgent yep then i'm going to tap eight and i'm gonna play kodama for the second time here he is that will trigger xenocar insurgent draw that's pretty good then i'm going to play azusa last but seeking okay that's going to be two triggers so there's a trigger on zendikar surgeon i'll draw my card but there's a trigger on kodama as well with the kodama trigger i can put out a permanent of equal or lesser cmc i'm going to put out inspiring statuary nice cool i'm actually feeling a little bit better josh is just rebuilding his board from before and if that's all he has i've got this game in the back i'm going to play a wooded foothills oh i'll make a rock i will crack the wooded foothills i'll put a forest into play that will make another rock okay sure go to 18. and then so i have one red floating i'll add two green to it and three more because of improvise and i'll cast philath world sculptor plant city there you go so i'll draw a center car resurgent and then we'll make 11 plant tokens because i have 11 basic lands [Music] geez wow that is a lot of plant tokens josh but none of this stops my flying angels the more josh puts on his board the more confident i'm feeling uh and that's also going to trigger kodama so i can put a 60mc or less permanent out i'll put back out the court of bounty oh you become the monarch nice oh yeah yeah that's what i'm talking about i'm gonna hit you again admittedly i may be behind then things do seem dire but there is one upside the king is back king in the castle yeah and then that's all i can do so go ahead on your end step uh i will do the same thing i did before i'm gonna pay one i'll tap the tome of legends to draw a card and then because i'm the monarch i will draw a card go ahead i will untap and i will draw a card for turn okay um i think there's nothing left to do but cast eros got a victory i hope he brings you to victory this fine day feels like it's going to so now with the menace josh can't block my two angels but i'm still a little damaged short of killing him luckily i have another flyer in hand and then because i just need a couple more flyers uh i'll put hellkite courser into play oh then before combat i will pay red and white to give hellkite coarser haste vigilance and plus two plus zero wow when i go to combat akroma bust my team once more and i will attack with my vigilance flying guys and they all have minutes because of eros yes and they're massive yeah i have one reached creature and i can't even block because of the menace so i will and then i die to a bunch of flyers well rachel a very very good game to you that's a very good game and then my flyers swoop in and win the game you know i think this was a perfect game of commander everybody was the king of the hill at one moment joe almost won the game jimmy a couple of times almost won the game i really went off through a bunch of rocks at people i love games like that where the stakes are super high and if one person missteps it's all over for everyone else looking through for the commander legends cards has me so excited for this set draft commander i've never even heard about that but i am super excited to do it there are a ton of amazing reprints stuff that people have been asking for for a long long time 70 new legends for players to choose as commanders 40 of them are partners that you can mix and match and make awesome new pairings with i love the way that they're balancing each color out i mean that keeper of the chord i'm throwing in every single white deck i ever played from here on out ramping and making creatures get out of here i had so much fun playing on game nights and i was happy to set a couple of records too the first boros victory on game nights and also i got the earliest commander on the battlefield too congrats rachel you rock wait josh rocks you rock rock all right you made it to the end of the episode wow what a game what a game and it was really great to see just the variation of decks from those partner commanders that was really cool yeah and all the players every single player had a moment where i was like oh they're about to win the game yep yeah pretty cool really swingy hope you enjoyed it i want to give a big shout out and thank you to ultra pro as always who provides the playmats the sleeves the deck boxes that we highlight on the show they've got all the commander legends themed stuff so if you're buying cards from that set and who isn't if you want the play mats on the sleeves that go along with the cards that you're buying ultra pro has all that stuff and it's the highest quality as well and they give us stuff to give away to you including the playmats we played on the show signed by all of us here's how you enter we now have three ways to win first up you can head to twitter and on twitter send a tweet using the hashtag game nights that's nights with ak and just link to this video and say 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go we want to talk again about the new game nights themed sleeves that we are running a kickstarter for right now we have two really really cool and distinct designs we do however have a limited supply of these sleeves we had to pre-order our inventory so once we're sold out that's all we have for now so if you go to the kickstarter that's where you're going to be able to order in fact we can't guarantee even at this moment if there are any available rights hope there still are some my advice would be go down to that more info box click on the link place your order if you're interested in the sleeves and hopefully get a hold of some there's probably only a few left at this moment yep they're ultra pro they're really high quality with the chroma fusion eclipse technology they shuffle great they have the full art backing and it's definitely something that you don't want to miss out on it could also make for a great gift as well yeah all right everybody really appreciate you tuning in to game nights uh hope everybody has a great holiday season yes and of course extra turns as well very very much coming up coming soon sooner than you probably think plus we have a ton of coverage still to go for commander legends so yeah i hope you're not sick of us yeah just hit the subscribe button so that you're definitely going to know when everything happens and then maybe you'll get sick of this don't get sick thanks everyone peace

Channel: The Command Zone

Views: 1,172,430

Rating: 4.9176784 out of 5

Keywords: video game high school, ted wong, vghs, wong, jfwong, jimmy, magic, gathering, mtg, magic the gathering, strategy, game, trading card game, deck, tactics, commander, general, elder, dragon, highlander, josh, lee, kwai, cards, Card Game (Game Genre), command, zone, the command zone, edh rules, mana, mana bases, Game Knights, GameKnights, gameplay, arena, brawl, oathbreaker, wizards, coast, wotc, cmr, legends, zendikar, rising, toggo, kodama, rograkh, akroma, tevesh, szat, sakashima, jeska, kamahl, joe, johnson, rachel, weeks, znr

Id: latDzZF5yFE

Length: 78min 50sec (4730 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 18 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/shamaiqbal]

Okay, Tevesh Szat being hit by a rock was hilarious. Keeper of the Accord was really good, too, probably single-handedly helped her stay in the game with all the extra lands she got. Great match all around, can't wait for the Extra Turns, too.

[u/MagisterSieran]

rocks are no joke.

[u/WoodmanCDub]

This game was super fun to watch! I legitimately had no idea who was going to win.

[u/Krotash]

Moraug doesn't work the way they intended.

On Joe's turn he plays 2 lands on MP1 and then goes to combat.

The order is Bonus Combat 1, Bonus Combat 2, then Original Combat phase. Because of the ordering, he shouldn't be able to untap his creatures for the 3rd combat. The lands need to be played in MP2 for Moraug to work effectively.

Edit - It looks like they addressed this in the Youtube comments. This misplay probably does have an impact on the outcome and winner of the game.

[u/Exorrt]

This game is Exhibit A of why Rootweaver Druid is a trap and you shouldn't play it. Just play 3 mana ramp that doesn't give your opponents what they need to catch up and stop whatever you're going to do. Though in this instance it made the game more fun to watch so good choice from Joe.

[u/Senparos]

There's so many interesting commanders in this set that I kind of wish that there were two episodes of game knights this time around. At the very least, it would have been nice to see at least 1 or 2 of the non-partners featured.

[u/nsolarz]

Did josh and joe both drop Alpha/Beta Taigas during this game? Definitely two black bordered duals on the battlefield...

[u/LesserGargadon]

I was surprised to see Rachel from Commander Sphere on there. They are relatively small/new I think. It's an awesome podcast for anyone who might be into that kind of thing!

[u/Knallkasten]

Personally my favorite episode of all time.