Game Knights #23 l New Ravnica Allegiance Commanders l Magic: the Gathering EDH Gameplay

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commands own podcast and I'm here today to play on game nights and I am super excited because today we're gonna be playing commander with decks built around the brand new legendary creatures from Ravnica Allegiance so my deck is a sacar log the game plan is to have as many death triggers as possible because taissa doubles them up I have a lot of value engines in this deck sacrificing creatures bringing them back again drawing cards I think that if this deck gets going it's gonna be pretty powerful the deck I'm playing today is lavinia azureus renegade there's a lot of scary stuff that can be done in commander and white blue is one of those color combinations that's known for stopping all of those shenanigans so my goal is to slow my opponent sound until I can build a good enough wind condition to take over the game so the commander I built today is in the Kia of the old waves so this card says I can't cast non creature spells so my deck is all creatures and it also doubles my mana so they're big big creatures which means I'm the smashing face and I'm really excited about it and I'm gonna be reveling in RAC dos with Judith the Scourge diva so this is what we call an aristocrat style deck it means that I'm gonna sacrifice my creatures over and over again for value and all of a sudden you've got some nice engines and loops going and the whole time Judith is dealing that one damage and that doesn't sound like a lot but I think it can add up alright it's been far too long let's play let's battle let's do this hey everybody welcome to the table Vinny it's great to have you back Jimmy good to have you back too and DJ first time you know what that means right whoo what does that mean DJ I dub thee sir jumbo arise sir DJ it's an honor all right as usual we have awesome new play mats from ultra pro nice all of our favorite guilds in one place all right welcome to game nights only one may send okay you guys ready yes do it drop return I'm gonna play a tap to bear and more and pass the turn to you Josh all right I'll draw and I am going to play a tapped bear and more hmm Wow we could be friends I like that actually what's it all pepper okay I'm play wiffle hills reckon I'll take one and find a tiger great that's right I will draw and then I'm gonna do one of the things I've always wanted to do a magic gathering play turn one plant X so we can agree to just not play lands right I don't think it works that way I've dreamt of this play I've never actually pulled it off myself but a turn one land-tax when you're not the first player I'm gonna be drawing a lot of basic lands out of my deck but it's not ramping and Blue has plenty of card draw anyways so I think that things will be okay untap draw I'm gonna play a tapped myriad landscape and I'm gonna play a skull clamp oh really this is one of my best cards in combination with my commander I'm gonna be able to drop four cards instead of two all I need is someone toughness creatures to be able to clamp away I really like my start this ah this might even be a better play that the land tax thing I'll pass the turn to you Josh okay untap draw I'm gonna play a blood-stained mire I'm gonna crack it take one and I'm gonna find a badlands and then I'm gonna tap two and play a blood gas so a really important part of my deck is having creatures that are gonna get themselves back onto the battlefield after they die because that means in concert with my commander I can get into some loops where I'm sacrificing things over and over and really pinging a lot of things down and I'll pass right okay draw for turn I'll play a tap stomping ground pass turn so I have nothing to play turn to which is really weird cuz I do have a lot of early drops in the stack it never feels good when other people have played something and you haven't all right i'll untap land-tax is gonna trigger stretch my library for three basically end cards is ancestral recall a good card I have no idea how long as land-tax is sticking around for but man I feel great I'm never missing a land drop for the rest of this game so I'm gonna get two planes and an island from land tax okay and then I will plane Islands tap 2 and play my commander Lavinia azureus renegade we can't cast spells non creature spells would convert the mana cost greater than the number of lands new control so right now everyone's fine well I don't care commander players love to ramp and use different ways to cheat out mana costs so if Lavinia even slows them down a little bit it's helping me out a lot and I will pass turn and move to discard and just go to place ok I'm tap draw and then I will play Timna the Weaver this card is one of my favorites it'll get me all of the card draw that I really need so I've seen DJ use this card before it is really good especially with how much attacking he likes to do and I'll pass the turn to you Josh okay I will untap draw then I'm gonna play Judas the scourge diva that's our Dave yeah okay so she's here my commander the deck is really built around sacrificing creatures over and over for value and then using jus this ability to sort of pinpoint remove troublesome creatures on the board and right now Timna lavinia there's a bunch of targets I just need to get this engine going and this is the start and then Vinnie since you have no blockers I will swing at you for three because the blood gas gets pumped by Judith take three I'll remember that Josh hits me for three but don't worry I'll get him back for this go ahead untap draw I will play a rootbound Craig and then I'll play mana Gorger hydro my cards real scary yeah I have a few regrets may be attacking Vinnie wasn't the greatest idea cuz this thing can get huge really fast and he's probably gonna hit me with it haha Josh wasn't so smart to attack me now right and pass the turn I'll untap and upkeep early attacks will trigger again I'll search for ullians and now put those in my hand and I'll drop return play spell and then I'm going to tap three and I'm going to transmute tool area west and I will find mana crypts this is great I already know I'm always gonna be drawing lanes into my hand so I can turn this land into something much more useful and to be honest paying three mana for Amanda crypt not a bad deal so I'll cast man crits that triggers mana gorgeou Hydra and it becomes the two - alright in the turn i would discard two islands no pass turn I think we got to look out for Jimmy and what he's gonna do down the line here because he's off to a really good start alright I'm to draw kind of want to attack swipe some choices here I have a Tim now I know I want to attack to get that trigger and I'm looking around the battlefield and everyone has a creature I think that Vinny's is the best it's super unlikely that he's gonna trade his mana Gorger Hydra that will soon be much bigger than Tim now for just two piddly damage coming through so I'm gonna go ahead and attack Vinny with Tim the believer I have no blocks I take - all right and I will gain two from the lifelink and because I did damage to one of my opponents with Tim to the Weaver I'm going to pay one life and draw one card then Playa caves of Kalos and then I'll play a core cartographer when it enters the battlefield I will search up a Plains and I'm gonna get a godless shrine alright it's very sweet says white Dex can't write I'm ramping better than everyone else at the field yeah man everybody's ramped except me come on oh yeah when you play the cartographer it'll trigger the Hydra it's now at three three okay I'm all done I'll pass the journey you're Josh okay I will untap draw okay I am going to go to combat so yeah that mana gorgeou Hydra it's looking pretty scary maybe I can talk of any out of using it against me all right Vinnie I feel like I should swing at the mana Gorger Hydra but like if you'll forgive my earlier swing I was going to this time well I get one hit then I know you give it or you take the hit now no no no I have to pay back somebody I can't just sit here and take it I guess I might as well just lean into it since he's obviously gonna attack me now okay then I'm gonna swing at you for three I have no block I think three and then I'm gonna play squeak goblin nabob Oh everyone's favorite this gives me some insight into how Josh's deck is probably gonna work and it's gonna have a lot of recursive value and pain stuff down and be very sinister so I'm worried but not super worried until he gets a sacrifice out light on the battlefield I got a trigger you get the trigger oh boy it becomes a 4/4 and I will pass the turn Oh No Josh missile and drop in commander if you miss land drops you're just gonna fall so far behind I really can't afford to miss any more so I hope I draw one soon I'm not feeling great about my position and for once I am NOT the player that is mana screwed so you wouldn't set me loose so I'll on top and I'll draw and then I'll play Far Haven oh I'll go to force in a play this card is great with my commander cuz once it's out it's gonna ramp me a lot and Hydra becomes a 5/5 where's that Hydra gonna go now it's time to settle some old scores coming at you Josh I didn't see Josh as a threat especially because he just missed the land drop but Vinny wants some retribution so I'm kind of excited about that yeah combat I will attack Josh with the Hydra so in the blood gassed verse man a Gorger Hydra showdown I'm not gonna win that I really need to make friends with Vinny here probably give me like a 12 12 next turn - I don't have to keep attacking you are we even effort yeah after this and we're even all right fair enough I will not block I'll take back oh and at 34 now my mana gorgeou hydras the biggest creature on board and now nobody can really attack me because they know what's gonna happen to them so I'm feeling good Custer I'll untap I have to up keep triggers so I'm gonna roll the dice for mana crypt odds takes damage oh I take three damage Lords of chaos do not like you having mana crypt is great losing life to it not so much but you know what everybody's been losing life except for me so thank you Manik rift you're both giving me more mana and also making a look like I'm kind of part of the whole scuffle that everyone else is in and then lane tax is gonna trigger find me two islands and the plains then they'll go to my hand and then I'll draw for the turn and that's a lot of upkeep triggers so I'm gonna put the dice up here so I don't forget hmm Jimmy has a million cards in his hand and he's never been attacked I'm just saying good point so I'm going to play tamio the moon sage hydro trigger it's a six six so I'm in a bit of a problem here there are a lot of threats building up on the board and I don't have many answers that are in my hand that I can play right now so my best bet is to just sort of lock down the biggest threat and hopefully that will give me enough goodwill amongst the rest of the table that I can keep that going this card is not something I'm super worried about unless it Ultimates because it's only single target removal and starting a real removal just is kind of annoying all right she comes in with for loyalty I'm gonna +1 her to tap down the manticore hydro we're not untapped area you're next on tap set penny that's a lockdown Hydra lockdown Hydra this feels mean this is great I'm not sure why Jimmy did that because it seems like the Hydra wasn't gonna come out him but hey thank you Thank You Jimmy Jimmy I wasn't gonna attack you why no no faster in punta draw and then I'll tap for for my commander Tasek Karloff she is nasty oh my god it's so good yeah I'm a big fan my commander turns on a lot of aspects of my decade it really opens up attacks and I don't care if my creature with skull clamp dies because the card draw is great all right Hydra triggers becomes a seven seven so I'm gonna pay one to equip the skull clamp to my core cartographer and then I'm gonna move to combat okay and I'm going to attack Josh with the core cartographer and Jimmy with Tim to the Weaver so DJ's put me in this situation where I don't really want to block and trade with this creature because if it dies he draws four cards and if they don't block I still get to draw with Timna so I'm getting card drawn no matter what I will not block I'm not gonna box I'm gonna take three right yep and I'll take two I go down to 31 I got down to 35 and I will go up to because Timna the Weaver has lifelink but then I'm going to pay two life because I had two different opponents and draw two cards from tune of The Weavers ability more than six cards I will pass the turn to you Josh okay I'm an untapped draw well I guess if I don't want to block and trade with DJ's creatures I might as well attack him all right I will go to combat yeah and I'm gonna swing at DJ with my three one so this looks like a weird attack because he's got a two for the thing is I'm hoping he'll forget when the blood gas dies Judith gets to do one damage to something that would be the fourth point of damage if he blocks come on block checking that is tricky no bars I take three I'll go down to 38 okay so he is a good commander player he saw that coming worth a shot and then I'm gonna play for Rex Ian arena which hopefully can help me find a land and Vinnie year ago Josh misses his land drop again and has to play for oxy an arena to dig himself out of it that doesn't even give him cards right now I think he's way out of the game this is what it feels like to be Jimmy does not feel good hydro trigger it's an 8a now can big still tap down though untap draw and Hydra won't untapped because of tamio with my Hydra lockdown I can't do very much so I'll set up for future turns and I'll play primordial sage hydro becomes a 99 man another really powerful card from Finny here mana gorgeou Hydra being locked down is one thing but vinnie drawing extra cards every single time he plays a creature in his creature deck that's the sort of thing that we've seen spiral of control before on the show and especially with his commander it could spell a lot of trouble if we don't do anything about it I don't feel great heading out of this turn but hopefully next time we better now that I can play my commander draw some cards I got a lot set up past the turn ok cool untap manic-trip will trigger a roll of dice no life loss main tax will trigger i'll find 3 basically intently library cards draws charity cards it's easy when your opponent's doing the same thing every turn to sort of get numb to it but jimmy has drawn like 9 or 12 cards from that land tax that is so many cards he's discarded a bunch but he just basically has 7 cards in hand at all times he's a lot scarier than he looks right now what is 1000 I get no maximum hand side whenever cards put into the graveyard from anywhere and they return to my hand what's the old debt 8 we had a little while it's real bad we can't let it get to 120 that's the second time you said we can't determine but then didn't do anything to him 100 us I got him you didn't hit 10 yellow yeah but I wanted a card oh there you go hey guys we can't let this happen but you guys stop it I will okay tamio so that she doesn't ultimate next turn and Jimmy knows that she there's no way she is she's at 5 she left was 6th in the 7:10 to an HSA aware of his tricks over here he's trying to get us to do stuff he's not willing to do twice now yeah DJ is very good at tricking - yeah why are you being so tricky over there in DJ man ago your Hydra just keeps on growing and it's kind of a shame if it doesn't swing at anyone you know I think it's important that all creatures get their time in the Sun as long as they're not swinging at me so let's get that thing going somewhere else how about this video I don't want to lock down man Gord you're Hydra anymore but I also don't like what it looks like I don't want to see its face around my city around my district wait Jimmy's trying to make a deal yeah anything to let my Hydra attack next turn anything Jimmy's politicking pretty hard right now and I think it's working well if there is a good part - missing - land drops it's that I'm not very scary so I don't think that man a Gorger Hydra is probably coming at me anymore Josh just so you know your vote does matter even if you don't have much power on the board I vote mana gorgeou hydro alright man gorgeo hair is coming back into action Tammy I was gonna go up to six and she will tap down your cartographer okay and this my friends is why you never politic with someone before they enter their second main phase and then I will tap six mana and I will cast planar bridge [Music] it lets him get any permanent from his deck and put it directly into play if I on tap with this card it would be huge for me so fingers crossed and none of the players around the table have any way of dealing with it did I make a deal with the devil I mean are you the are you the devil to me no I'm devilishly good at making deals that's how it goes here at game nights everybody yeah and speaking of deal we're gonna have to deal with that planer bridge like right now like really fast yeah and speaking of deals if you guys want to support the show go to car King & Lomb slash command zone where you can actually find tons of deals on cards like planar bridge if you wanna get one for yourself or paradox engine who knows but all I have to do is use our affiliate link card camula comm slash command zone and you immensely support the show yeah you're gonna buy magic cards anyway if you just use that affiliate link when you do you're helping all of our content specifically game nights stay on the air and continue to happen and another way to support the show is to support our other sponsor which is ultra pro you know if you get that player bridge especially like maybe a foil planar bridge then you're gonna want to protect it you're gonna want to put it into a sleeve in fact it was your deck you don't want to put it in a zoria sleeve correction I would first put it into a double inner sleeve and then these Aria sleeve sure you double sleeve it and then you're gonna want to put that card into Anna's aureus deck box correction I would first put the deck box inside another deck Fox and then the deck inside that one because the value is out of control your cards would be very protected absolutely that the double deck double deck box I've never heard of that sure sure that would really be supporting all our content if you want to buy two deck boxes for all of your don't do that yeah I mean well why not all right well okay we got to get back to the game now yes and hopefully we deal with that planer bridge like right now actually I hope you don't you'll be great yeah the world's your oyster Josh let's find out with that monster I think it's your oyster together our oyster I just want to draw a land all right hydro triggers to attend 10 soon-to-be untapping Hydra so I will go to n step discard two cards and passenger in the udj ok I will untap everything except for my core cartographer draw and then I'll play a midnight Reaper wow that's really good taste okay that's gonna trigger Hydra becomes a 11 Levin again this card is so good with DJ's commander anytime one of his creature dies now he's gonna draw two cards and if it has school clamp on it he's gonna draw 6 cards so much card draw I kind of want to attack tamio but Tim does trigger only works if I hit a player I'm also thinking that maybe if I don't go really heavy on attacking Jimmy some of his awesome resources from planar bridge will go at Josh or Vinny and I will attack Jimmy with a sacar low I will taste it and take 2 damage wait not Timmy wait yeah what are cards what'd you just say here's the thing I need to be able to draw more things to deal with the board and this guy's is fake that's all I could say as your next elected representative I can promise you tamio will never ultimate all right I'll take 2 damage from Tisa I will pay one to draw card with gymnast ability because I dealt damage to an opponent correct and I will pass the turn to Josh ok I will on tap then I have an upkeep trigger for EXCI and arena so I will lose a life and draw a card and then I will draw for turn alright I am going to attack tamio with blood gas for 3 she will take 3 damage he'll go to 3 ok tamio has honestly been around for way too long I didn't even expect her to live to this stage and the fact that she's kind of gaming me like by taking the aggression from Josh's card all a plus then I will play al and he did it we did it and Vinny your go ok punt at draw for turns I'm gonna cast Nakia of the old ways and hydra becomes a 1212 vini set up a sweet combo here he's basically made Zendikar resurgent with that primordial sage and his commander out anytime he taps the land he gets twice as much mana and if he's playing a creature he draws a card he can chain that into a huge combos next turn because I cast a creature primary Oh sage says I draw a card all right all right then Landro rogues passage oh man go ahead you're real nice and spicy now all right come back so I made a deal with Jimmy I wouldn't attack him so that leaves DJ and Johnny DJ is clearly the bigger threat and I still only from last time so I'll attack DJ with the Hydra so I have mana hilltop for an answer and I kind of want to point that at Jimmy but then he's coming at me with this huge creature and it's threatening like a third of my life I don't think I can take that hit okay since you attacked me I will cast utter end targeting your Hydra realized Oh what oh I can't help but notice that uh Turenne says non-land permanent on it that means it could take out the planar bridge I'm not sure that preventing the damage is worth letting Jimmy on tap with that thing we'll see how this goes but I don't like the threat assessment here yeah it sucks he took out my attack but I saw a lot of good creatures on the board and why didn't you use it on the plate or bridge what's going on here I'm thinking that Jimmy will get more pieces to walk down the board that feels what his deck is like and I'm okay with the game going long and Jimmy trying to lock out creature decks like Vinny's and with that DJ has tapped out Vinny's tapped out I'm feeling really good about on tapping with this card right now I have to upkeep triggers odds for mana crimp gives me damage odds I'll take three see that's how we're gonna kill him and then I would drop a turn and then I'm gonna plus Tamia should go to four I'm gonna tap down the core cartographer once again and past the turn there's no reason to use a planar bridge right now I can activate it at instant speed to do it in response to something and hopefully catch someone off-guard all I wanted was one use out of this thing and I've got it so let's see what happens okay I will untap everything except for the court cartographer because of that tamio and all dark art so if I attack anyone will they block and let me draw cards well you got to do what you got to do it looks like how about if it gets rid of the tin then you gotta do what you got to do I don't want to make anyone upset with the attack I just want to draw cars I'm so upset with you drawing so many cards so now asking for more cards it's like Santa Claus asking for toys okay I'm going to tap my mirrored landscape to move my skull clam over to Timna the Weaver and then I will go to combat and I will swing Timna at Jimmy I will not block I'll take three damage I will gain free life because of the life link and then I will pay one to draw card with Timmy's ability and then I will tap six mana for grave Titan and grave Titan will give me two zombies so they have like Lincoln Vigilant Oh My lordy so I decided to deploy grave Titan because it puts a bunch of bodies on the battlefield I'm a little bit worried about what Vinnie can do and I want a bunch of blockers I feel like I have a really strong board if it gets taken out in any way on drawing so many cards I'm gonna be able to replenish the board really quickly and I'll pass the turn you Josh okay I want app for Eckstein arena will trigger I'll take one and draw one and then I will draw for turn okay well I feel like I don't have a lot of choice here I got a search for an answer to that planer bridge hopefully find something that destroys an artifact Jimmy getting one activation from that thing we may live through it but - I feel like there's no way that's beatable I'm gonna tap four and I'm gonna play a disciple of boloss ooh and I'm gonna sacrifice my blood gas I will gain three life and draw three cards and that'll trigger Judith so I can put one damage on any target I guess I'll hit tamio for one okay tamio we'll go down to three and I will play a high market that will trigger blood gas will return to the battlefield I guess yeah I guess I'm just gonna have to move to discard and this is we're missing those earlier land drops really hurts me because after drawing cards I just don't have enough mana left to make another play and I'm just gonna be stuck watching Jimmy do whatever he's gonna do I hope we survive it okay go ahead babe alright on tap draw okay I tap four lads it's 8 mana because of Nakia and then I'm gonna cast scourge of care ridges and that's gonna trigger sage I draw a card normally if you have a board of really small creatures you'd be scared that Vinnie's gonna use this card to wipe the board of all the little stuff but all my stuff comes back so I guess it doesn't matter too much the downside of him doing that would be that DJ draws a million cards and it doesn't really hurt Jimmy at all so and then again because of Nakia I tapped three lands for six mana and I'll play the Xena goes got a rebels and because I've seen I draw a card holy crap I wasn't afraid of any second till now we can grant haste to his creatures and make them huge and to be honest to kind of know where that cards going okay ready move to combat okay XANA ghost triggers on scourge okay scourge becomes a 12 ball okay I attack Jimmy 1212 with haste 12 tall with haste alright well as a wise person once said if you don't have artifact removal maybe play removal will work in response I will tap 8 mana and activate cleaner bridge I mean what could he have that could block a 12 toll flier right running a campaign is not an easy thing to do you kind of need someone to be your running mate what better time then to lower the bridge search the deck and bring out my number one running mate my vice president and I'm gonna use planar bridge to find Emma cool the promised ends no no I originally wanted to put something else out but I needed the blocker and this is still a humongous threat on the table so may as well role within Emma cool is one bigger than Vinnie's creature but the bridge doesn't cast it so I don't get the trigger and then I will move Emma cool to block the scourge of carriages all right damn it how many cards are there that can block a 12 to a flyer like that why oh poor scourge of marriages pass attorney okay I will untap upkeep triggerman decrypts odds I'll take three and then I'm gonna find island island plains with land tax put it into my hands no drop returned once upon a time twice upon the time actually about five times in my magic career I've had this card cast on me and I've lost every single time so I've decided to finally use it myself I'm gonna tap nine and cast expropriating oh it's a good card when someone plays this card as the opponent my only thought is convince everybody else not to give any extra turns because that's the only chance you have this part ends games oh no no no we're giving it permanence right I'm going to vote for time which means I take an extra turn you can have one of my permanence money you're gonna have one of my profits honey you're gonna have more money you know what they say about the good campaign Mo Money Mo Money Mo Money financing makes it all happen thank you guys for the money now let's choose I'm going to take grave time from you DJ Josh from you I'm gonna steal Judith the Scourge diva and I will take Xena go scar the rebels from you Vinny thank you guys for your campaign donations you know we were already in a great position beforehand but now we're gonna secure our victory azureus for the win him taking my Xena ghost is really bad because now Emeril is gonna be a 26:26 flyer okay oh boy I'm going to plus one Tammy oh so four and I will tap down primordial stage you just tap I'll go to combat Vinny I was swing at you with grape Titan and DJ I'm swinging it was Emma cool the promised end Santa's gonna trigger on grave tine making it into a 1414 then great time with trigger gave me to black zombie creature tokens and now all of a sudden with the extra turn he's gonna get two swings he's got a lot of damage we're just gonna have to batten down the hatches weather the storm hope anybody survives some of us might die here but maybe one or two of us can live because of Judith they're all plus 1 plus Oh so that's 14 damage to you in the air and that's gonna be 14 to you on the ground for the Sena ghosts and grave Titan I have no blocks so I'll take 14 from Emmer cool I won't block and I'll take 14 and I'll go to 25 and I'll go to 17 all right I will untap for my extra turn because I've expropriate trigger man crypts take three damage and drop a turn I'm going to play a time warp yeah I think the game I have no fliers ever cool can kill me with one more swing the am about to die okay so another extra turn after this one our hope meter it's just going like this despair hope we're like in the negatives we're way down here I will +1 Tammy oh and I'll tap down your commander Vinnie no and then I will tap 5 and play precognitive perception I scribe to you then draw 3 cards yeah it's feeling like we're dead now I'm not sure it matters at all but again I'm the least threatening player so if any one player is gonna make it out of this and get one more turn it's gonna be me it feels like it doesn't matter what I draw in that case but you know maybe I'll go to combat hey Jimmy yes can I have second place well I will say josh has been the unlikeliest ally by doing nothing your wish shall be granted Josh I'll build a combat and we're cool the promisin is gonna trigger from zen that goes god of rebels plus 14 14 and i'll swing at you DJ in the air with that and the grave Tynan to zombie tokens are coming at you Vinnie and now create me two more zombie tokens I still have no fliers no blocks I block grape Titan I take six from the two tokens alright I die a horrible death to a Flying Spaghetti Monster tentacles this is your oscar-nominated death scene into a giant spaghetti monster and action I block but none of this feels like it matters because I'm just gonna die with extra turn and I take six yeah I'll go the end of my turn and I'll put two lands in the graveyard untapped for my extra turn a Rolodex romantic crypts take three more petite with romantic ribs if we can just get him to take six more turns he'll die damn and a grip Oh ignore the land texture girl I'll draw a car and good backup that's plan a what are you talking about I'll play an island for the turn and just to ice it out I will play time stretch two more turns yeah that means at a minimum I get to swing three more times with Emma cool with his n it goes out and the rest of my board any official I promise this will never happen again and I die by a flying spaghetti monster I don't feel like I lost to the Merkel I feel like I lost to the extra turns I lost the time stretch it's like he gets and I win thanks to your vote it's so wonderful to be back on the set of game nights after almost six months away from it it's a really magical experience getting to play with new cards I love playing with Josh and Jimmy and Vinnie my deck is very sweet I really wish I could have gotten more death triggers but sometimes commander games are fast I wish I drew a lot more of my ramp creatures but you know what I know they're in there I just need to give it another shot so rematch I missed some early land drops I didn't really get my deck going I felt behind most of the game but that's magic and you know it was still really fun to watch everybody else's deck kind of do its thing I wish I was doing a lot of the things that they were doing this is one of my absolute favorite things in the world to do sit around with some friends people that you know really well have some fun table banter and play a game that everyone loves New Zealand was beautiful it was an incredible country and I met people there that I consider my family but being back on game nights this feels like home what whenever your sappy alright you made it to the end of the episodes congratulation I am the devil true true back true I said true anyway big thanks as always this giveaway time ultra pro provides us with the playmat stack boxes sleeves and things that we use on the show and also a lot of prize packages that we get to send out to some lucky winners yeah all the play mats that you see on the episode they were signed by Jimmy and I deejay Vinny and we select ten winners four of them will get those signed play mats card Kingdom also throws their hat in the ring they give away a bunch of stuff we like to throw some booster packs in there you have a chance to win a ton of cool things Jimmy how do we enter it's real simple Josh so if you're on Twitter you're gonna want to use the hashtag game nights and then copy and paste the link to this episode and tweet anything about it if you are on Facebook you want to go over to our Facebook page and find the post that sharing this video and all I have to do is we share that post on your public profile so other people can see it and experience the joy of game nights and as always remember that you have one week from the release of this episode to enter and then we'll be announcing the winners on Twitter and on Facebook that's right and you'll be contacted by probably our friend Alfred who will be getting your contact information and you'll be seeing a prize package in the mail soon enough yeah I want to say real quick if you enter to win then you should pay attention when we after the release of the video so that when we contact you that you've won you can answer with your address because you do have only a one week period of time we don't hear back we have to choose a new winner because we gotta get these prizes out the door and to the people as fast as possible that's right the office is getting pretty cluttered these days yeah we don't want to just have play maps everywhere willy-nilly it'd be nuts alright everybody thanks for watching ll see you next time you oh my gosh what is that it's huge it's twice as huge because the trample mattered

Channel: The Command Zone

Views: 1,376,317

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, josh, lee, kwai, cards, Card Game (Game Genre), command, zone, podcast, the command zone, edh rules, mana, mana bases, Game Knights, GameKnights, gameplay, ravnica, allegiance, teysa, judith, lavinia, nikya, vannifar, simic, orzhov, gruul, rakdos, azorius, jumbo, dj, vinny, arena, mtgarena, politics, jlk

Id: 95_qDsC-C3c

Length: 35min 35sec (2135 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 25 2019

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[u/Slapdash12]

I couldn't believe it when Josh didn't sacrifice his Bloodghast to High Market to ping Emrakul for the last 1 point of damage to kill it! As soon as I saw Emrakul hit and it showed it blocking a 12/12 I thought, "hahaha surely Josh will now finish it off with Judith." When Vinny passed and it didn't happen I almost cried.

I get that these take a lot of time to create, I just wish they played more than 1 game and chose the best one. It is frustrating to wait a month for this big build up only to have the game be so...meh.

[u/Blackpoc]

That game was kinda disappointing. The Lavinia deck wasnt the strongest deck as some people said, but it benefited a LOT from DJ's missplays and JLK mana screw. And I don't like how Lavinia was irrelevant for the deck in general. But seeing DJ's missplays was the most torturing thing to me.

[u/Wraithslayer101]

Got real disappointed real fast

[u/DivinePotatoe]

Sad nobody played Vannifar, I wanted to see some pod shenanigans.

[u/kaiseresc]

they are gonna catch a lot of flak for this episode.
Honestly, Jimmy's deck was super good. Way to good compared to what the rest of the table showed - maybe except the Gruul Monsters deck.
I'd say that Zegana would most likely be a better pick. And honestly, they should've built around the theme of the guilds, it would make for a better game.

[u/BallzDeepMcGee]

Man this game was awful in my opinion. If I can vent and be critical (or negative if you want to look at it that way) I would like to share a few opinions on this game, as which while I watching I often went "wait what?" and "why?"

Jimmy's deck is clearly the best at the table, best commander, with a land tax on board, but DJ went first so theres two reasons for attacks on them, and JLK attacks...Vinny? The deck with 0 interaction and huge creatures? Which is a huge problem in of itself. Why is he playing ONLY creatures, just cause his commander says he cant cast noncreatue spells. HES THE ONLY GREEN PLAYER AT THE TABLE. I digress.

Jimmy plays Mana Crypt and passes...because reasons? Then the next turn takes 3 for it. Good thing nobody attacked him so that misplay didn't matter and went unpunished. He literally played 0 creatures for the first four turns. Jimmy finally gets attacked by DJ after Tamiyo hits the board. Then DJ continues to ignore Tamiyo and Tymna never attacks...why?

DJ kills the Hydra instead of just blocking...why not save it for the Bridge? Or perhaps Vinny shouldn't have played politics with the person who was winning the game, and then slapped down a planar bridge right after that. He should've let Tamiyo tap the Hydra in the first place. Or ya know...if he played interaction (I DIGRESS).

JLK is mana screwed and discards Mana Crypt (okay). I suppose at this point it didn't matter because Jimmy had the game on lock but still.

Pretty obvious if you don't get attacked, don't get punished for misplays or for greedy plays (Ie. playing a 6 mana artifact that does nothing when it comes in), and none of your cards get destroyed, yeah you win lmao go figure.

[u/thePolterheist]

They themselves have criticized extra turns as something magic players should never do in commander, then turn-around and make this episode’s climax about extra turns? Sorry for the circle jerking about extra turns, but it’s not fun to play against, and not fun to watch. It felt like an empty episode.

[u/Scrub_Lord94]

Know what I'm doing after work