New Legends from Rivals of Ixalan | Game Knights #14 l Magic the Gathering Gameplay Commander / EDH

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favorite guest returning hey guys it's Mel I'm really excited to be back here on game nights today and one of the original cast members from the show hey guys I'm Craig it's been a long time but happy to be back on game nights Craig was on some of the original episodes of game nights and he caused quite the commotion when he brought infect the table and I loved seeing how everyone reacted so we're really happy to have him back Craig are you playing any in fact in your deck tonight a little bit on this show everybody built their decks around one of the new multicolored legendary creatures from rivals of exelon so my deck is built around azor the LA bringer so the goal of my deck is to draw some cards so I've got things like ristic study consecrated Sphinx and I need to make sure that I get rid of everyone else's small creatures and make sure that I can dominate the skies with this azor my deck is built around a Linda the dusk rose ultimately I want to be taking an advantage of creatures dying all over the battlefield putting counters onto a Linda and then sacking her at that opportune moment to create a million vampires swing for the wind so my commander is Zach AMA primal calamity the goal of my deck is to just start using his three abilities taking care of creatures artifacts enchantments gaining life if I'm too low overall this commander is super fun to build around and I think a lot of people are gonna be buildings Akama my deck today is kumain ax it's a merfolk travel down the goal of the deck is to generate a ton of value use a lot of tapping and untapping shenanigans and out value opponents and hopefully last in the long game and then attack with some unblockable creatures and seal the deal all right I'm really excited to see how my deck plays let's shuffle up and play some commander commander what what alright as usual we have play mats front Bravo zabbix Alonso I'm a dinosaur country over here me too I'm in command zone treachery wait a second so we realized something kind of weird Craig you've been on the show a lot maybe as much as anybody has fun you've never been officially night it I have it that's a travesty so we want Mel to go and please do the honors I understand you've brought a powerful three mana artifact a sort of fact the sort of 15 famine nice something it's sweet only my goodness so Craig by a chat so Craig welcome to game nights thank you owe me one may stands you guys ready I'm going to play a flute Delta I will crack it and then I will play The Enclave cryptologist as far as first turns go on clay cryptologist is one of the best ways to start out the game because it lets you use your mana early efficiently and then you start just drawing cards for free that's turn to you Josh alright strapping everybody because I'm about to have one of those turn ones that you dream about I don't go soul ring or drop signet it's gotten hot in here only has four cards left so yeah if anybody's counting that's four mana on the table turn one not bad we're gonna play a fortified village tapped and pastors center how far behind can you feel on turn one that's how far behind I feel I will play my flooded strand and I'm gonna go grab me and island okay let's play mean apple or school at Watchers it this card can untap my commander because I'm gonna be using a lot of tapping shenanigans in my deck as well as any other legendary permanence I have then tap - and play Crypt Allah thright is right actually works really good with the level up mechanic because I can tap my Enclave cryptologist for the mana it needs to level up now I have both things I need to get this game going which is card draw and Manorama okay I'm gonna play a myriad of landscape and I'm gonna tap for I'm gonna play what the doll kanuri this is one of my favorite cards in commander and getting it out very early is gonna allow me to be reactive for basically the entire game so now for the rest of the game Josh gets to do what he loves best which is waiting to respond at the ideal moment because all of his cards have flash and I will pass the turn I'm gonna play a wooded foothills crackit I'll grab a tiger with that I'll play a thorn scape familiar I want to get that ramp out because I want to be able to play my Dino as early as possible then I can use his extra abilities to start picking off other people's things all right I will play a Plains tap both and I will play as orient Cygnus nice so on flavor its ramp city all around look at this pasture okay I will play a certain line you know I'm going to tap to mana and then I will tap the unclaimed cryptologist with crypto that's right to level up twice so it's level 2 now level 2 and I'll pasture I did this like it start drawing cards as soon as possible I'm facing no pressure on the board and no pasture creek to lift right so good on tap draw play nicely to chapel there here you past that turn yep because I have a doll Kanuri I can just pass the turn alright so I'm gonna play a rugged Prairie I could have flashed this in but I'll just play an even line sensor now I see Josh's myriad landscape and I could even mine sensor later that allows him to do something with six men and his orrery so I think I'm gonna force an action from Josh here so that way he has to activate that land otherwise it's very likely that he won't get what he's looking for in response to the Haven mine sensor I'm gonna crack my mirror at landscape while I can still search and go find two swamps I don't like being forced to do things but I kind of got to get my value while and then I moved to a tack step and no that's once will buggies tick - dang I kind of attacked Mel because I never met her before so take two damage pastern I shall play a reliquary tower and I will play a propaganda oh yeah better prepare to pay up propaganda is gonna be awesome because it's one of those political tools where it really disincentivizes people from wanting to attack you and my hope is that they're gonna be like hey that that custom mana I'm not gonna go there we're playing with Cragen he loves to turn his creatures sideways so when Mel puts a propaganda on the board it essentially says Craig you can only attack two people now and that's me and Josh I don't like that also I'm a token deck eventually I want to attack with a lot of creatures so I'm gonna have to deal with it at some point that's right thanks I'm tan let's draw Oh my turn for I miss my land drop but fortunately I have a way to draw cards let's tap to to level up my cryptologist one more time and that won't tap it to draw a card oh I'm having flashbacks of old game next episodes if I don't draw a land here I'm gonna tell I'm gonna tell I won't play land for the turn oh yes things are going well and then I won't tap one two clay these contains divining top this card is always good in commander but it's even better in my deck because I have some awesome synergies to line up with it past the turn I'm tap draw because of Vidal kanuri I'm gonna be doing a lot of this which is nothing on my turn because I can do it whenever I want to during other people's turns so that's it there I'm gonna play cradle oh gosh this might be one of the best lands in the entire format it also means we're gonna probably see the dinosaur a lot earlier than we otherwise would I'm not real happy about it so I'm gonna tap for two casts solemn smoked room this is fantastic because with my guys cradle next turn guaranteed I'll have enough mana to plays a comma it'd be great if Jimmy would use that strip mine on the guy's cradle and then maybe the comma won't come out next turn I hope he does that I declare attacks one at gym one at Josh I declare a new blocks yep no box I take two dang and I will pester hun SAP drafter I would place my stats for for fire don't worry about it it's probably fine yeah so strimm guys to the cart that gets bigger and bigger the more carts that I have in my hand and I've got reliquary tower out that says my hand can be as big as it wants to be Mel's deck is all about drawing cards so that thing could become a huge pattern ok the end of your turn that I will activate my top ok I'll organize like that and then untap no drop turn and I'll play heralds horan naming the purple this card is really good in my deck because I already have the top out which means I can manipulate the top of my library to give me a much better chance at drawing a merfolk every single turn Jim seems to be setting up some sort of value engine that isn't there yet but it's starting to make me a little bit concerned I will tap to mana and cast koomina a tyrant of rasca nice so when I was checking out a lot of these commanders a lot of them are based around tribal themes and tribal cards get worse and worse the more types of those cards come out so I'm watching Jimmy he's got census divining top along with Harold's horns so he can keep looking for more and more merfolk and I'm wondering how many more they're gonna be and how bad this is gonna get and then that will pass the turn on your end step I'm going to tap 5 and play an ogre slumlord so this is gonna be really key to the strategy of my deck which wants to take advantage of creatures all over the board dying and generating value from that death touches something that kind of messes with my board a little bit it really makes it so that I can't attack him because my stuff doesn't have double strike it's just big awesome awesome card then I will untap and I will draw play a swamp yep pester so here we go the huge dinosaur is gonna come out I just really hope that Craig doesn't look in my direction how the turn I've been waiting for hello I've got enough he's coming out bro [Music] everyone sitting there counting up how many lands Craig has and how much mana he can generate and that is terrifying but also exciting because I love dinosaurs when this thing comes out stuffs gonna get real and I'm a little bit scared so I'm gonna tap out to bring in Zak come ah look how much texture is on this guy kill everything kill almost every creature Craig just gained some life yeah right oh my goodness he just basically cast it for 40 he also has a guy his cradle on the board so he's gaining mana out of this transaction so that means then I could have a follow-up play I'm going to play cod wreck lune Ark Marshall oh no oh no so now every single one of Craig's creatures is gonna have vigilance reach trample and flying hah then yeah the destroy artifacts and Champlin stuff right so now the fun starts there's a lot of targets on the board I'm pretty sure I know which one is gonna go after so activates a common civility I'm gonna destroy propaganda and I have enough mana to blow up one more thing and the next most important target look the other way Craig please please come on man my stuff's not very scary what can't do you don't have to kill my stuff I'm gonna use this ability a second time and I'm gonna destroy the Videl Canora ok I get it it was a scary card for Craig but it's gonna cost him in response I'm gonna tap six including two white and I'm gonna play austere command no I'm gonna destroy all creatures with CMC three or less or four greater so all creatures I'm so torn this this Sturm guys have such big plans oh okay I'm kind of glad this happened I'm kind of sad that just cast my commander but I'm more glad that this happened in response I will activate my Enclave cryptologist to draw a card that resolves results so in response he blows up all my creatures everybody else is too and that's gonna trigger over slumlords six times because six creatures died and I'll make six rat tokens okay jeez it's not the best I rather would have held that wrath for later but it's not the worst either I do have a decent board position still left with the rats and something to build upon and further my main strategy and I'll draw off my solemn and pasture all right I will tap a Plains and play latex land-tax is just like one of the most solid cards that you can play in commander it's only one mana it Nets you tons of lands so yeah that's all I got for right now pass the turn no untap on my upkeep I'm going to activate the top okay I will organize the top like that Harold's Horn is gonna trigger and I'm gonna reveal the top card my library it's there della quiz there it's a merfolk and I'm gonna put it in play in that's a pretty good little combo and then that would draw the card for the turn sweet this is exactly what my deck wants to do generate a ton of value and find some really high power level creatures okay I'm going to just cast kodamas reach and I'll find a forest on the battlefield and a forest into my hand all in all I'm feeling great the things that really worried me in this game were flyers and huge creatures that I couldn't deal with and that single board wipe took care of all of that and then I'll pass the journey okay I will untap draw so now that I've lost the Ori app to play things at sorcerer speed it feels bad I'm a top four I'm gonna bring out a lender the dusk rose something interesting about this commander is if you want the second ability to trigger where she makes vampire tokens if you actually have to let her go to the graveyard rather than the command zone so it's a tough decision when to do that because once the land is in the graveyard she's a lot harder to get back out to combat and of course I have to send a message Craig you blow up my stuff you're gonna take as much damage as I can give you Craig 6at you know okay I can't block it so I'm gonna take six oh I knew I was getting attacked at that point I knew I knew what I had done and then second main I'm gonna tap three and play astronauts halter free sacrifice outlets are so powerful in the format specifically they're very good with my commander and I'm pretty well set up here for an explosive turn coming up alright I will cast a sky shark plant so I'm gonna grab stomping ground and Savannah I'm just trying to get back into the coma as soon as possible and past iron so I'm gonna untap and since Craig so generously got himself some lands land tax is gonna trigger it so I'm gonna put three basics into my hand so if there's one thing that blue and white loves to do it's waste time and draw cards and I'm definitely gonna draw some cards here I reveal an island an island and a Plains and I will put those into my hands and I will draw a pattern and then I'm gonna tap six and I'm gonna play consecrated Sphinx this is one of those cards were if you don't get a rid of it pretty fast you're just gonna lose that game you're gonna get buried in card advantage at the year-end step I'm going to activate the top okay I'll put them back on like that and untap up peep Herald torrents gonna trigger I'm going to reveal Empress Galina who is in fact a merfolk and then I will put her into my hands I'll a drop your turn and I will trigger consecrate it's fix and draw - so Jones alright let's go ahead and play that gel and then I will play Empress Galina this card says legendary permanent that means I can steal Crick's guy is cradle it doesn't even have to be a creature plus with Galina out Craig has to be a little hesitant about playing his commander because I can steal it even if he targeted with damage it might seem like this is a scary card because Jimmy might be able to steal my commander but with astronauts alter out he really can't I can always just sacrifice any response so I'm not really worried about Galena and pesterin Oh on tap I will draw a card oh gosh and I will draw cards as well oh yeah you will so the one thing that's better than just drawing cards on your turn is drawing cards on other people's turns I know what I have to do here that contre greatest Fink's just has to get off the table as soon as possible alright I'm gonna start by playing flesh bag Marauder this card is an awesome answer to Mel's consecrate Sphinx and I couldn't be happier I do lose a creature in the process but honestly to get that thing off the board I'd pay a steeper price so I will sack a rat I was second thought I don't and I will sacrifice my cause cretins things so I kind of knew that consecrated sphinx is one of those where it hits the table and it instantly draws immediate hate so I didn't expect it to stay around for a while but I'm still real sad about it and that's going to trigger a Linda three times so she gets three counters so also is advancing my main game plan putting counters onto a Linda so I can eventually get a bunch of tokens on the board okay I'm gonna go to combat and Craig I'm gonna come at you with the Linda and for rats okay no blocks so--that's feet and four of that is commander damage because it's from a Linda and then because of likely call game for gonna 42 and they don't play Cathars crusade this is the reason I was really upset to lose my bed up in Horry this is the kind of card that I would like to sneak out on the instep before my turn before people have a chance to react to it playing in it sorcery speed is scary and I just hope that nobody's really paying attention Catherine's crusade this is a card that you always have to worry about in commander because it's really explosive and if you're not careful it could just end the game and I will pass the turn alright so I'm gonna play vizier of the menagerie I guess it's it's kind of card draw for me based on if I have a creature at the top of my library which is why I put it in and I'm gonna look at the top part of my library but top card my library is the land so doesn't do much for me right now and then I'm gonna play celeste my signature it seems as if Craig's been really set back by that board wipe that I played earlier he really hasn't done anything for a couple of turns so I don't want to take my eyes off him but it's it's nice that he's not really doing anything super scary right now and I passed her so during my upkeep my attacks is gonna trigger and I'm gonna grab planes of planes and an island so you've drawn six cards all index four cards off consequence pings good man so there's some problems out here on the board galina's messing me up because she can take any legend josh has got a million things over there on his board but I've really got nothing so at this point let's just clean everything up tap for rats of God I do lose one of my best creatures in my deck but I'm also staring down the tongue of tokens from Josh and his commander so it's not so bad honestly I'm fine with that that's cool I lose one creature I don't really care so my board is kind of the biggest at the moment and it would seem as if wrath of god is bad except okay hang on I have some responses I will sack all my rats and the flesh back Marauder to astronaut's altar and I will put five six counters onto a Linda so she's a 10 10 and then wrath of God resolves resolves so I let Linda go to the graveyard what I don't think of is what Josh has on the board when she dies that's gonna create 10 vampire tokens oh geez and then when they enter Cathars crusade will trigger so each of them's gonna get ten plus one plus one counters so now I've got ten eleven eleven that's 110 power oh my goodness I'm dead I have zero creatures I pissed him off earlier I'm dead Oh oh my god what have I done I'm dead I'm dead um so luckily I have one thing that can at least keep me around from one more turn I'm gonna put up my insurance policy crawlspace well that's a pretty good follow up late at the very least she's not gonna die from my tokens crashing in but Jimmy and cragger they're in real trouble that's my turn untap Herald torrents gonna trigger I will not reveal a card in an officer all right I will play a lance when you're in green blue you don't have too many ways to interact with the entire board especially at instant speed but there is one way that I know of and Josh knows it too five six seven eight mana look at that don't go back so I can't risk tapping any mana right now yes sir hmm so Jimmy has left up a very specific amount of mana coincidentally maybe the amount of mana that you would need to cast him I don't know cyclonic rift Jimmy would make this play whether he has cyclonic rift or not because if he's gonna die to the tokens and he doesn't have an answer to it he may as well leave up the threat of the answer to it cuz he knows I'm gonna see that he might have that card in which case I might be deterred from attacking him the real question is does Jimmy how cyclonic craft kill some people are risk losing it oh yeah that's the thing like well josh is a really interesting decision here so I can attack and get rid of Craig he's tapped out he can't do anything about it Mel I can hit her for a lot she's tapped out with crawl space the question is do I send the rest of the creatures at Jimmy so Josh doesn't attack Jimmy he's not gonna force Jimmy to use whatever effect he's got to get rid of all this stuff if he does have cyclonic rift then all my attacks are null because he can't just point it at the creatures attacking him he would basically bounce all the creatures in which case I do no damage to anyone that's pretty tough I'm hoping on two miracles here I'm hoping that Josh attacks Jimmy and I'm hoping that Jimmy has cyclonic rift the likelihood of this is not very good all right well hang on before you attack Josh I want to know what would you the audience member do in this situation go and leave a comment in the comment section below I want to see if you're right or not yeah would you attack Jimmy would you just go after Mel or Craig it is it's a head scratcher it's a tough one and is it tough fun while we have you here I want to give another shout out to card Kingdom dot-com slash command zone again if you use that affiliate link when you order your magic product you're really helping game Knights to stay on the air and the content to keep flowing and of course a big thank you to altra pro who is the other sponsor of the show you know ultra pro makes these awesome play mats for every single set of Magic the Gathering if you go to any LGS in the world you should be able to buy some wonderful products and you're also supporting the show hey who doesn't want to rock it out with a three-headed scum ax yeah this is a combo play matt is really sweet I want one of course we're giving this one away at the end of the episode so stick around for that oh and also I'm very curious were you correct or not did you make the right prediction what do you think is the right play can't wait to see your answers I feel like I'm stalling because I'm still trying to decide right now who I should attack and we'll find out what happens alright let's get back to the game all right we're gonna come back I'm really really hoping that Josh only attacks Mel and Craig and leaves me be Mel to it you come on Josh come on well I just attacked two when you could have all three of us Craig 3:8 you come on Josh attack everybody go get Jimmy go get Jimmy Jimmy are you sure say I'm 90% sure Jimmy has psychotic room that still gives me a 10% chance to basically win the game right now if he does have it I'm not sure I can beat it anyway so I decided to just go for it yeah Jimmy that leaves 5 coming at you yes now it's just up to Jim if he has it does he have it does he have it I mean I think he probably hasn't but there's a chance he doesn't have it oh I was really hoping it wouldn't attack me in response under the top spin the top are you serious does he not have it we're probably dead we're probably dead I will order it like this oh come on be bluffing be bluffing be bluffing he could totally be bluffing [Music] he wasn't bluffing of course I had it it's your boy he always hasn't of course of course he had it I didn't doubt it for a second I knew we had it okay say clank rift resolves everything goes to your hand it feels bad but i don't regret the decision because he had it no matter what so he's either gonna cast it now or on the instep before his turn all right place full ring I'm gonna play the Signet back out I'm gonna top 5 and I'm gonna play a character say another good thing about fortune to use that now is I'm actually able to replay some of my cards out on my turn whereas if he does on the instep then I wouldn't be able to sort of rebuild my board a little bit immediately unto Chara and then I'll play a celestial signet and then I'm gonna play irelia the war leader which has haste and allows me to have to attack steps the fact that she can start over an entire extra attack sequence just makes anything that Craig can put out on the board way scarier and then I declare attacks Mel on my face second attack I attack you again oh all right I take six and I pass turn so at this point nobody else really has a board state I'm actually feeling pretty good alright untap naviga Lina's gone I can play the card that I've been waiting to play I will play toughen at the mindful and I definitely have more than seven cards in my hand yeah since I have land-tax out my hands just been growing and growing yeah how many parties you have just you know of Cheers 1 2 3 4 9 10 11 12 cards to do well and I'm going to tap five and cast sigil of the empty throne so now I've got an awesome blocker in calf net I've got the first part of my big engine for making angels set up and I've got a couple of enchantments in my hand I'm feeling really good pester okay I'm gonna untap Herald torrents gonna trigger I will reveal the top coat of my library it's a surge spanner put into my hand and then he'll drop the trend no plate lands and then I'll play eléctricas bestiary this card is another value engine for me because it helps manipulate the top of my deck for Herald torn and also just lets me draw more cards and is the kind of thing that really gets a deck going in the mid to late game and then I will play search spanner yes I have kripp Duluth right out I can tap the search spanner for the mana to use its ability and then start bouncing permanence that's right not not only impermanence just straight permanence I'm going to trigger like crafters B Sierra and tap a green to draw card and then I'll pass turn I on tap draw C yeah I can draw cards too nice nice one card to turn their magic I'll play a schnoz altar I'm still not drawing anything here what I really need is something that's gonna draw me more cards I'm just kind of out of gas and I'm just crossing my fingers living off the top of my deck and hoping that I can get back into this thing okay I'm too sure oh okay Lauren clucks Warren clucks in my deck basically turns my general into a super general because now all my lands tap for doubles so now I can blow up twice as much stuff plus the oppression on my opponents it gets pretty bonkers you don't mess with another person's lands those are those are sacred that's for jerks I mean like who doesn't let other people play magic and like untap their lands this doesn't like common courtesy man okay like let me play Magic the Gathering all right okay OOP what's that in their deck all right then I'm gonna put out a somber old sage so next turn I'm gonna be able to activate the comma as much as I want I'm gonna blow up everything declare attacks just in myself I'm just warning you all right Jim okay I'll take three years second attack attack you again okay I'll take three more damage and then I passed her all right terrible I have a handful of a ton of really awesome stuff but because boring clacks is here I can't cast a bunch of them because I want to keep things up for the next turn oh this this card is the actual worst all right I'm gonna play land-tax and so that's gonna trigger a sigil of the empty throne I'm gonna get myself a 4/4 flying angel token and these are those sweet tokens from unstable that have the full art on the other side and then I'm going to play everybody's favorite it's rustic study okay so rustic study is gonna be extra good in this instance because of Warren clacks both Josh and Jimmy are not gonna want to tap that extra mana so they're gonna be more than willing to give me this extra card I'm hoping that's gonna trigger a sigil of the empty throat again and I'm going to get another angel token so this is what I was worried about that's two enchantments two angels it feels like Mel is starting to take command of the game here all right we're gonna put these lands to the side because Warren clacks is not gonna let them on top next turn I want to leave mana up so that's all I'm gonna do if pestered Craig at the end of your turn I'm going to activate strip mine love your guys cradle this is good for me if I'm ever gonna come back in this game I need the other players to kind of Whittle each other down while I slowly climb my way back up in my upkeep I'm gonna activate the top so four reflects that won't happen yes both of these are in the trigger life crap frisbee Asteria and Harold horn I will ascribe first bottom and then and I will Harold torn but not reveal and then that would draw the card for the turn I look over at Josh knowing that he has the most answers of all of us in his deck and I asked him so Josh what can you kill I can kill one thing born collects has this effect right where your opponents start talking with each other making deals trying to get it off the table and Jimmy and I are kind of making a deal for who's gonna get rid of what okay if I do it you're gonna get rid of the sage is that the him what are you get rid of both things I didn't click grace for though the two of them are chatting amongst themselves and it sounds like they've definitely got a plan going on I'm really excited about this I'm that case I'll pasture all right I'm going to shriek them off evoked target boring clips Josh's has done us all solid and killed probably one of my most hated cards of all time thanks man and stick study trigger I will pay the one extra and then shriek mah get sacrificed okay Jimmy okay okay that's good yeah and then I go to my instant on your end step I'm going to tap search spanner for blue that's gonna activate its ability so I'll use that one blue and one colorless to bounce some Lesage to your hand this is the power of that surged manner because Craig's basically set back an entire turn before he can cast a comma and I'm happy to see that all right first I'm gonna declare attacks Josh 3 no blocks I take three second attack I attack you we go take three all right then I'm gonna put out willow satyr which I'm kind of excited about because it just stops anybody from playing their commanders but overall the only thing right now I can take is Kevin at the mindful which does nothing for me I have one card a man and I will pay for ristic study then I'm gonna tap three more and play off my software won't say it again at this point my biggest problem is I don't have enough cards and so there aren't that many options I'm not in a great spot bastard all right I'm gonna be sad because I can't untuck these lands and play attacks doesn't even trigger I'm just gonna draw a card as normal and then I'm gonna go to combat and I'm going to swing at Craig with these two angels I'm not gonna block I'll take a great no I will cast as orient Cygnus and then I'll cast crawlspace so I've got eight power worth of angels on the board I've got an indestructible flyer I'm still at a pretty decent life total and I have a counter spell in my hand so I can make sure to protect my position I feel pretty good that's my turn at the end of your turn I don't like to be tough and then I'll tap the lands not affected by pouring collects live crap is beast area would trigger I will scry a card to the bottom and then Harold torn is gonna trigger and I'm gonna reveal Cure's follower and I'll put that in my hand and I will draw for the charge this is that cadence that we know when players go into the like I do this and then do that and it's a thing to do that anytime your opponent's doing that that's bad you're probably losing and I feel like I'm losing I'm gonna tap one for a mana vaults not paper ristic study so go ahead and draw I think it took the first card trauma 360 baby I will tap for mana for a path of discovery come on this is a new card from rivals of Vic salon and I'm really excited about it because now with the top I can start exploring every single turn then choosing whether or not I want to put the plus one plus one counter on them or if I want to draw a land so my deck is pretty much at full speed now with this card out you get a mystic study I will pay for the ristic study and then I'm going to tap 2 to play key Aras follower I will not pay for risk study and some things are gonna trigger he's just able to generate so much card advantage and little incremental value from every play that he does seems to Domino into other plays I'll tap a search man for green to activate life crafters bestiary they draw a card then they'll use a mana to top then the explore trigger will happen I will reveal attempt with discovery with path and discovery I'll put that in the graveyard and then I'm putting +1 + encounter on the cards follower everything is working out for me right now unless people can take care of all my artifacts and enchantments I feel like I'm moving into a very strong winning position in this game and then I will pass the chart it's either Jimmy or Mel that are in the lead here most got a bunch of angles she can maybe create Jimmy's got a bunch of like Oh crazy synergy stuff that he's doing I don't know who's winning but I just know it's not me but I just drew a card that can maybe even the playing field I'm really hoping this works out alright I'm going to pay five or six study trigger I will pay the one extra and I'm gonna play tragic arrogance oh speaking of artifact knee enchantment board wipes this is so bad for me because Josh gets to choose what I keep everybody else is gonna get way more effective than me right now I'm on board with this play this is exactly the occasion that I saved up this counter spell for remember remember how you are like oh man everyone's drawing cards I would love to draw cards you know what buddy I want you to draw a card to smile oh no no it gets countered I was painting so much hopes on that card resolving and now I don't know yes no oh you are my champion thank you so much I'm pretty happy with this at home I'm pretty likely to untap with my board intact I'm in a great position like this might be the the best position I've been in all game it would have been nice if that resolved but the upside is Mel's tapped out now all right so untap okay and then that's gonna trigger so we're gonna drop cards mouth and my draw step I'm gonna draw a card all right so who wants to make deals I can kill somebody not it I count as a deal what no but I don't want to be attacked Liz listen here's the deal I would make you it's stupid for you to use and I can kill somebody right now on me if you kill me instead of one of them then you mess up - here go ahead it's a get more power to you I'm not as scary and milk I'm just here to draw some cards man all right I am going to tap willow Seder to target Kevin at the mindful so I knew all this time that calf net was a pretty likely target I've been expecting this so now she has no blockers then I'm gonna cast triumph of the horn Oh giving all my creatures plus one plus one infect and trample and she has no blockers and I have to attack steps in fact are you serious this is one of those cards where it doesn't even matter that I have 31 life ah all right I see you're moving those cards in my direction so really sad about it two four five oh my god take five impact damage now I'll go to my second combat phase and I will attack again for five more in fact Mel this is our friend Craig this is what happens when you play commander with crank sometimes he just kills you with in fact out of nowhere probably should have warned Mel about that earlier though what what a way to go [Applause] and then second main I will cast aggravated assault so with my commander and a few other cards that I have in the deck aggravated assault allows me after I untap all those lands to tap them again to take extra attack steps it can get pretty broken alright i'll untap on my upkeep I will tap one green to activate census dividing top I will order it like this life cafes bestiary and herald tone will both trigger I will ascribe with life crevice BC area keep it on top and then that will reveal me re jury with Herald horn put into my hand and on my draw step I would choose not to untap man of all I own take a damage draw card alright my value engine is pretty much entirely set up I'm going to tap surge spanner for blue with crypto that's right that's gonna activate its ability and then I'll tap an additional land to bounce summer wall stage back to your hands with surge spanner I can keep all of Craig's permanence off the board I need everything to stay just the way it is and fortunately for me I have a card that's gonna make that happen and then I will play Glen Alandra Archmage and that's going to trigger the path of discovery ooh this is a great combo so with the explore trigger from path of discovery and sensei's divining top Jimmy can basically guarantee that Glen elendor gets a plus one plus one counter every time she comes into play which means it'll counteract the persist negative one counter long and short of it is Jimmy can kind of counter every non creature spell we cast for the rest of the game this is not good for anybody yeah that is not good when Glen is about field Patrick discovery will trigger I will reveal a non land card on the top of my library and I will keep seven library there and I'll put a cluster on plus one counter on Glen Alondra and go for it at this point I basically have the entire game on lockdown all right I'm gonna play friction arena okay we've got a little card draw online I might be too little too late but this is really one of the ways I might be able to get back into this game I'm gonna cast sombre wall sage then I'm gonna cast a new card trap jaw tyrant I'm really excited about this new card at least if I start dealing damage to him I can start exiling stomach jimmy stuff and then I declare attacks if I attack Jimmy for three with irelia the war leader I'll take 30 second attack attack you yeah I'll take aim lower and then I pastored okay I'm going to untap on my upkeep I will pay one two top put these three on top reveal the top car my level with Harold's horn it's kepala warden of waves that will put that into my hand and then scribe with live Memphis DC airing to be on top and draw too much value I will take one damage from the mana vaults I'll tap to play mirror wagering Explorer trigger sell the library again +1 + encounter on them so this car the with search spanner and curious follower means I can essentially bounce three permanent Saturn as long as I cast a merfolk spell I'm just putting extra layers of security onto my lock of this game I will tap the surge spanner for blue and extra mana and I'll bounce the willow satyr back to your hand crank and then play Kupala warden of waves trigger the path of discovery again several libraries on top mayor a jury is going to trigger an untapped siree spanner and then I will tap search spanner again for blue and have another blue and I will bounce your several its age so Jim is able to bounce at least two of my permanent Saturn at this point which means that I'm never going to catch up and then I'm just going to go ahead and pass the turn okay I'm tap draw for 4x arena take a damage I will draw for time I will play a mentor of the meat that's gonna trigger Cathars crusade and it gets into plus one plus one counter so it's actually a 3/3 wound so everybody get too excited now go ahead alright untap upkeep draw declare attacks okay James five and three okay I'm going to use here is follower to untap sword spanner let's have strange painter for blue and a glue and I'll bounce the trapjaw tyrant to your hands and then damage take three second attack I'll take three I have a couple of direct damage cards in my deck and so I'm really paying attention to people's life totals and they're getting kind of low I need to get rid of Glen Alondra so I can have a chance to top deck one of those spells and maybe steal this game out of nowhere it's possible second man I'm gonna cast aggravated assault and response I will plant a lender it then the Islanders gonna persist back on the battlefield with a minus one minus one counter on it and that's going to trigger the path of discovery okay in response to the Explorer trigger I'm gonna sore spot shares Glen windra okay so that will resolve she will get exiled now look into life so with Glen Alandra off the table I do have some out still to win the game debt to the deathless will probably do it exsanguinate will at least give me a shot to this is all given that Jimmy has no other counter spells in his hand which I really hoping he does it and then I'll play somber wold again and Pastor hang on I'm going to anguish on making four five paying the two extra target in a search spanner which is awesome at least this way my stuff stays on the battlefield so I'm feeling like we got a shot at this point I'm feeling like this might actually turn our way so search fans gonna get exiled and you lose three life okay untap I'll trigger Harold's horn on upkeep reveal drowner of secrets and I'll put into my hands a mill card then tap cures follower to untap my mana bolts you and I would draw for turn at seventeen Craig judges three cards in hand probably out removal at this point even with those two important cards gone I still have a lot of synergy on my board so I'm able to generate a ton of value this turn and I have a plan I'm going to play drowner of secrets trigger marry drink and I'm going to untap the Cure's follower the cash drink from white crafter theseare is going to trigger I will pay in green to draw card Pat the discovery is going to trigger revealing harvest season at the top I'll keep it on top okay plus one plus one counter on genre secrets I will now cast koomina tiring of rasca like craft is be Syria would trigger I would not draw from it I'll use Mira's trigger to tap down your irelia Craig mm-hmm okay then I will explore revealing harvest season again putting a postman plus encounter on kameena and then I will past triumph of the horns doing every one plus one plus one and trample I will go to combat Craig I'm swinging at you with the full team it's 18 trampled I believe and I died to infect so we've got two players knocked out to infect this is a Craig Blanchette game for sure it's actually not good that Craig was taken out here because he was buying me the time I needed to draw through my deck and maybe find a way to win all right with Craig gone it's just me and Josh I just need to attack steps and the thing I got the game in the bag I'll draw for phyrexian arena I'll take a damage I'll draw for turn okay I didn't draw one of my direct damage spells I'm gonna be taking a huge hit this next turn I'm maybe gonna have one more chance to draw those cards I need I play lamb go ahead okay Oh untap I will pay one to use the top to share one up I'll scribe with live traffic BC area for the on the bottom I will not reveal anything with Carol Turin I'll draw for the turn take a damage from the Amanar vault I will go to combat and Josh I will full swing out I have 0 blocks 18 all right tap 2 and then we'll play a sub in library I'll tap 3 and play harvest season oh my goodness and then I will put 5 basics in to play taps for pesterin alright here we go so I got a draw something that directly deals damage to Jimmy can I do it you got this bro mm-hmm I'll drop for Frankston arena take a damage I will draw for turn no no no we didn't drive go ahead Jimmy untap I'm just gonna do it forget all my triggers draw a card combat swing out I only have one blocker he's got way too much power and that's it I get punched in the face by a bunch of Murph Oh yes I didn't add rule ants I played cards I was a real magic player today it feels great [Music] I'm a happy camper two people died two in fact that's half the table that's cool I think it's a comma Mego in the books is one of the best knife manners of all time I actually want to build as a comic deck myself now Don't Tell Craig it's always awesome to have Craig back he's such a fun dynamic player and he always brings a new flavor to the table you know we've had a lot of awesome guests on the show and we love doing that but there is something very special about playing with the people that you get to play with a lot you really get to enjoy you know knowing what they're gonna do and laughing about like Craig is gonna play poison and in fact a Negro of course and that's what he always does but that's one of the reasons we love playing with I really just didn't see the infect coming I wish I would have saved my arcane denial but I think that's always the case in commander you just you just gotta go and you got to see what happens and that's what I love I love changing the meta up making people afraid of things that they weren't afraid of before and seeing how people react and play in those situations so thanks for coming back Craig and it's always good to have you but I gotta be real with you boring claps are you serious hey you made it to the end of the episode congratulations and you know what that means it's time for our giveaway thanks to ultra pro you know they give us all the product that we use during the show and also tons of extra stuff so that we can give it all away to you they've been an awesome sponsor and hey we've got a lot of really good stuff to give away this time we've got some sweet kumea sleeves deck boxes I think although honestly you just want these kameena sleeves it's the best commander I've ever played ever think that you've ever played ever I think I think the comma is the best commander of the bunch I don't know I think I won that game so that's all that matters to me score bow her anyway entering is super simple if you go to Facebook or Twitter you can enter twice on Facebook find our post on our page sharing this episode click the share button and make sure it shares your public profile if you're on Twitter just tweet out a link to this episode and use the hashtag game night and we'll be announcing the winners of this contest exactly one week from the release of this episode so what are you waiting for go enter you want to win the stuff go enter all right good luck everyone and thank you so much we're looking forward to an awesome 2018 thanks to your support see ya [Music]

Channel: The Command Zone

Views: 1,930,584

Rating: 4.8975015 out of 5

Keywords: video game high school, ted wong, vghs, wong, jfwong, jimmy, magic, the, gathering, mtg, magic the gathering, strategy, game, trading card game, deck, tactics, commander, general, elder, dragon, highlander, politics, josh, lee, kwai, cards, Card Game (Game Genre), negotiations, command, zone, podcast, the command zone, edh rules, mana, mana bases, Game Knights, GameKnights, gameplay, rivals of ixalan, zacama, elenda, kumena, azor, tribal

Id: 7BW5KSk0iEQ

Length: 47min 58sec (2878 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 17 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/BlaineTog]

Me every time Craig talks: "Who the hell is 'Jim'?"

[u/KaladinarLighteyes]

Jimmy's value engine was amazing.

[u/vgVeritas]

Guess we have to wait another month for the LRR special then...

(im just kidding i love these guys)

[u/RadicalTzar]

It's not a Game Knights episode with Mel Li without her using the word "swole". I love it. Great episode!!

[u/Destrok41]

What a great game. Would have liked to have seen Azor hit the field but it was entertaining from start to finish.

[u/Goliath89]

Mel's reaction to the green praetor hitting the field was the best. "Jerk card for jerks" is definitely going into my lexicon.

[u/Amracool]

OMG NEW GAME KNIGHTS AND THEYRE PLAYING EDH

[u/chaosof99]

"What? They play Commander on this show?"

[u/MountainManMagic]

I really like these commander episodes - such good content!