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This is a perfectly reasonable (ish) way to win quick with approach, and other people have pointed out faster ones, but here's one without infinites requiring almost exactly perfect cards. Commander needs to be Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh and anyone including white. We'll say yoshimaru because cute dog. You need 16 mana to approach, reprieve, approach, to get it we will do the following 1. Play Rograkh, Ancient Tomb/City of Traitors, Exile simian spirit guide from your hand to cast jeska's will with both modes. You'll have 7 red mana floating and after playing your initial 2 cards out of your 8 card hand, you'll have 9 cards available to you. 2. Play the following cards in roughly any order. Seething Song (-3+5 = 9), Lotus Petal (+1 = 10), Mox Diamond discarding any land/Chrome Mox imprinting any white card (+1 = 11), Mox Opal (+1 = 12), Mana Vault (-1+3 = 14), and Infernal Plunge, sacrificing Rograkh as the additional cost (-1+3=16). 3. Mox Diamond/Chrome Mox, Mox Opal, and Lotus Petal are your three white mana. Importantly you'll be missing one of the cards until after you Reprieve the first cast of Approach. So, for example, Lotus Petal would be on top of your library and you would draw it off of reprieve with 6 red mana floating to be able to cast approach again. Ancient Tomb, Land, Spirit Guide, Jeska's Will, Seething Song, Mox Diamond, Mox Opal, Mana Vault, Infernal Plunge, Approach of the Second Sun, Reprieve, Lotus Petal is 12 cards, 7 + draw step + 3 from jeska's will + 1 from reprieve is 12. If you uh, for some reason wanted to actually play this, you could either add blue for remand or green for elvish spirit guide/manamorphose. EDIT: Realizing how fucked up this is to read, will maybe reformat it later.

think I figured out a turn 1 win with approach of the Second Sun. Commander: Anyone what that is blue and white. Opening Hand (opening 7: Approach of the Second Sun, Dramatic Reversal, Reprieve, Isochron Scepter, Mox Opal, Sol Ring, Ancient Tomb. Turn 1 draw doesn't matter. 1. Play Mox Opal and Ancient Tomb. 2. Tap Ancient Tomb for two colorless. 3. Play Sol Ring, tleaving 1 colorless floating. 4. Tap Sol Ring to play Isochron Scepter, imprinting Dramatic Reversal, and still leaving 1 colorless floating. 5, Tap Mox Opal (you should have three artifacts (Isochron Scepter, Sol Ring and Mox Opal)) for 1 mana of any color. Use that manat and the 1 floating mana to tap Isochron Scepter, casting Dramatic Reversal, causing you to untap Sol Ring, Mox Opal and Isochron Scepter. 6. Tap Mox Opal for 1 white. Tap Sol Ring for 2 colorless. Use the 2 mana from sol ring to tap Isochron Scepter, casting Dramatic Reversal, causing you to untap Sol Ring, Mox Opal and Isochron Scepter, leaving you with 1 white floating. 7. Repeat step 6 until you have 16 white mana floating. 8, Cast Approach of the Second Sun, respond by casting Reprieve, causing it to return to your hand. The draw from Reprieve does not matter. 9. Cast Approach of the Second Sun again, winning the game.

You can respond to the first Approach of the Second Sun with Reprieve to bounce it to your hand and then recast it next turn to skip needing to draw through your deck. It doesn't check if the first one resolved, just if it was cast. Also since you only need 1 white mana for Approach (and a second if you use Reprieve), couldn't you use an ancient tomb for more mana instead of the first plains? It gives you mana more each turn and also allows you to play another 2 mana card on turn 1. Due to arcane signet it could even be a colored card.

This can be done turn 1 Mountain + rite of flame + sol ring + rograkh (commander) + jeska's will + treasonous ogre + chromatic orrery in that order leaves you with 16 mana assuming at least 1 player plays a land and passes Wedding ring + smothering tithes + approach of the second sun will be exiled with jeska's, 7 mana used to cast wedding ring and smothering tithes leaving 8 mana Jace's ingenuity draws 3 cards and makes us 3 treasures bringing us to 6 mana Windfall can now be played. each player draws 10 cards since the player with the wedding ring should have had 7 cards in hand at start of turn and 3 more from jace's ingenuity. we have 43 mana since the wedding player draws another 10 cards cast approach of the second sun, case file auditor (cheers @SteelCityBrad), cycle akroma's blessing then recast approach of the second sun commander rograkh + ishai, (red white blue) starting hand: mountain, rite of flame, sol ring, jeska's will, treasonous ogre, chromatic orrery, Jace's ingenuity Top deck: Wedding ring, Smothering tithes, Approach of the second sun, Windfall, akroma's blessing

There might be a world where you could use something like Case File Auditor or Lupinflower Village just put six cards from the top of your library on the bottom, leaving Approach on top. Not sure if that can shave a turn off or not, but it could be helpful.

This is the kind of EDH content we need more of.

Two very fun games! Loved the wizard battle in game 1!

You just gave me the perfect idea for what to do with my house's built-in wine rack over the built-in dry bar. Why did houses made in the 80s have so many built-in bars? 🤔

Let me add "ruin ghost" and a single Plain: You'll have a secure landfall trigger each and every turn :D for free! (because the Plain re-enters untapped .... usually! Unless you are trying to recycle "Idyllic Grange" ability to put +1/+1 counters or "Mistveil Plains" with an "Amulet of Vigor" already on the battlefield, or "Sejiri Steppe" to provide protection to someone) EDIT: you can recour ANY lands re-entering! Not just Plains! Just think about flickering "bounce lands" with a "Retreate to Coralhelm", a Plain and a "Murata Rootgrazer"! Infinite triggers :D

Pretty good list. Wish there was more stuff I could put in red. 😭

One I really like is Dreamtide Whale. I mean, in the deck I run it in, the proliferation is just a bonus… but if you (or an opponent) is playing anything low to the ground, it’s pretty sick. Even if you’re not very counter-focused, a 7/5 flier for 3 is nothing to sneeze at. I like sneaking it in under a manifest.

My 5 color planeswalker deck has almost all of these and more Good video you got another subscriber

Tekuthal, inquiry dominus. Doesn't itself proliferate but doubles all your proliferate triggers.

I was wondering if you were going to mention Inexorable Tide. At least in Commander I think that's an amazing card to include in a proliferate collection, what do you think?

Woot woot!!!

Aetherflux Reservoir is a TERRIFYING card. If it sticks around for too long, it's hard to overcome. It's also really cool how consistent your gates deck is. You've got a pretty good list there, friend.

what about Distinguished Conjurer rather than the GREEN "Essence Warden" at 1:30? Also, we can't forget: -) Vona, Butcher of Magan: let's weaponize the life you gained! -) Rodolf Duskbringer : reanimates, gains life and puts pressure by attacking b .. a swiss knife! -) lastly, a synergy: "Serra Avatar" or "Soul of Eternity" + "Surestrike Trident" + some way of giving Lifelink -> myltiplies your life!

Does sword of the squeak trigger valiant?

Man, powering out something scary super early feels SO GOOD. It also feels pretty bad to get it immediately removed. Over the weekend I got a turn 4 Valgavoth and it was great. I even got to keep him around for a few turns. Also, I forget how good Abundance can be. I should seriously consider putting it into a deck or two...

This looks like a super fun deck! Elenda and Azor definitely caught my eye during spoiler season and I think you've found a really cool way to maximize their mechanics. I look forward to seeing it in action!

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Wow! This was the first time i have seen a Maze's End win! The idea of running Dina as a lifegain/infect deck is a really fun one. I think that sets that build apart from other Dina builds

If you're looking for card draw effects to synergize with +1/+1 counters, I would recommend Fathom Mage and Danny Pink. You could also go with effects that let you draw cards equal to the power of a creature you control like Rishkar's Expertise or Soul's Majesty.

How could you forget Celestial Mantle? "Double your life total if enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player."

Atraxa is in my 99 for my Jodah Archmage Eternal Superfriends deck I need to get both Magistrate Scepter and Contagion engine I love the busted emblems that my Planeswalkers have

It’s not strictly Life-Gain, but Charismatic Conqueror in a deck that includes a bunch of Soul Warden gain-1-for-every-creature-that-enters effects has been an absolute super-performer for me. People never want to tap down their mana rocks, and later on their 4-drops and higher, so you’re constantly generating 1/1 Lifelink Vampires you can either throw away in combat for life, or your board-wide counter-adders like Archangel of Thune or Cathar’s Crusade will go nuts w/ them. The Vigilance is surprisingly useful early, too.

I just made a sorin of house markov deck recently. it uses a lot of these cards though it also runs some other lifegain wincons like angel of destiny and I have Delney streetwise lookout just because it feels like most of the good lifegain stuff is 2 power or less

Cleric class, Blind obedience, and Authority of the Consuls are great cheap (mana wise) enchantments. Blind obedience and Authority do double duty with helping with lifegain strategy while also slowing down your opponents.

for all those wondering some fun combos for life gain. i gift you this: purity/cleric class/aetherflux reservoir. purity makes dmg you receive heal you instead cleric class is one example of "gain that much plus 1" effect. aetherflux is in the vid so read it. shoot yourself for 50, gain 51, repeat till you have 3 trillion life. shoot your opps for 3 billion each. you're welcome.

Another good life gain doubler is Rhox Faithmender. It's on a creature so it's a little more fragile, but it does cost 1 less mana to cast! Also, you could consider Children of Korlis and Tainted Sigil for quick bursts of life gain, especially when someone deals a lot of damage to you

I enjoy an Oloro deck that uses Strength of Endurance and Aetherflix Reservoir as win cons. I love using Beacon of Immortality to double my life total.

So, Changeling gives all creature types (which are subtypes) to the creature it's on. Artifact is a card type, not a creature type. So, while Taurean Mauler is a Dalek (and a construct, a golem, a thopter, a myr, etc) and Daleks do tend to be artifact creatures, simply having the creature type "Dalek" doesn't automatically mean that Taurean Mauler is an artifact. You would need some other effect to turn it into an artifact. I've recently really started liking it when the big, stompy commander wins the game. I feel like tables have a tendency to unite against that player so the few times that player can overcome and take the game are refreshing. Congrats!

That was such a great opening to your counters deck. Stinks you didn't get much white.

Just a couple of things: 1.) Dalek is pronounced like DAH-lek not DAY-lek (source: am a Brit) 2.) @7:57 - The dragon can choose to sacrifice a creature thanks to CR 701.53b. "While facing a villainous choice, a player may choose an option that is illegal or impossible. In that case, they perform as much of the action as is possible. This is an exception to rule 608.2d." Other than that, a fun little thing that you are doing.

I really like the design of The Dalek Emperor. To me, it feels like a fixed Toxril. It's still a big-mana commander that makes an immediate impact on the game when it lands, but it's not like I have to remove it on sight or I'm out of the game. Additionally, it's Affinity ability means you're not totally hosed if/when I do remove it.

I really like Imodane, but i think ive rebuilt it to a place that i dont play it much. Its really explosive at the moment, its capable of winning on Turn 5, and many times it wins from out of nowhere. Originally it was more of a spellslinger build but i found people would just remove Imodane, so now i try to cast Imodane and win either that turn out the next. I think i need to find a balance, but the deck is 100% reliant on Imodane.

cards like wild guess and sieze the spoils arent card draw, they're card neutral. They replace itself and filters a card in your hand for a new one, if you need to refill your hand these cards dont do that (unless you have a card that can copy these spells). You gotta run impulse draw instead if you need card draw

What a 🔥 pod and a 🔥 pair of games! Wild what starting with 2 mana can do to a game of EDH. 😂 Sorry you didnt get to play, Reversal!

100%, the best games!

Completely agree

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You're right!

Is this why you never invite me to play 👀

I somehow missed Vivien's Stampede. Love that it gives vigilance and let's you draw cards too

I like Garruk's Uprising for card draw with big stompy creatures that also gives them trample. Colorless has things like Shadowspear and Rhonas's Monument as ways for boons and trample.

One of the best pairings with trample is deathtouch. Enabling that isn't too difficult - and now you're cooking with gas as all enemy creatures take 1 damage and their controller takes the rest. Shout out to Quartzwood Crasher for its big Timmy energy. Seeing it go off is worth the two times it doesn't.

A great enhancement to trample is cards to prevent gang-blocking, like the green enchantment Familiar Ground.

Nothing like dying to your own Descent into Avernus. 😂 I tend to prioritize cracking Myriad Landscape when I have it. Really, the only time I don't sac it as soon as I can is if I desperately need to play another card. I think taking a turn off in the early game is generally worth the advantage you get from the ramp in the mid/late game.

I've never thought of Elesh Norn as a landfall payoff. Thats hilarious. 😂