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I'm the Krenko player. I'm the problem. There's so many cool red Commanders, but I love goblins.

He is a brave man to wear such a nice sweatshirt to hotpot, I always end up getting the soup all over 😂

I know a pothead when I see one. I’m mean hotpot 😅

Or just put him in a Mycotyrant deck.

I'm legitimately interested in Fblthp, Lost on the Range deck list. I'm curious the route you went.

will try runadi in my dragon deck :) thank you for the video

Just noticed that Disorienting Choice gets around hexproof and shroud too! 😮 That’s great value for 4 mana

Shifting Grift kicks ass! Love taking a sol ring and a protection enchantment in one swoop. Fleeting Reflection, from the same set, has become one of my top protection spells. 1U to Hexproof your creature and turn it into any other creature on the board until end of turn. Makes for some really cool unexpected plays

I want hotpot now

Why are you pronouncing her name as "Firia"? Just curious. I'm fascinated by all the pronunciations of card names that magic players come up with.

Lol, Magus of the (insert reference to another good card here) always tend to go hard on creatures, so glad the algo sent me this one today, not only did I pick up that banger, but just for fun I checked the price of mana vault because there was never any chance I'd ever get one at a good price, right? Lo and behold I got one at under 40 dollars, which after the spike in price after the big bans, that was a miracle. Needless to say, I have liked and subscribed, and ordered my Library on a creature, and my lucky mana vault pricing lol

It’s not the most optimal choice but I love putting Magus of the Vineyard into decks. It’s like a Sol Ring but your opponents won’t target you for playing it early and gets games going.

Nice video

Scrapgorger and Magus of the library are all great picks but I particularly like Exuberant Firestroker! I recommend Sunseed Nurturer from the same cycle which is great in lifegain decks with big commanders, like Heliod

Gotta include Intrepid Paleontologist!

I will consider all of these for my first commander deck lol

Commander is the home for bulk rares. Let them breath. I don't really play a single red deck that doesn't have a sunbird's invocation in it. :D My favorite pet card is Extractor Demon. Super duper slept on.

It's a castable Saproling. Of course, this is going to be my Saproling deck (no Aristocrats allowed) to just flood the enemy (since my very first deck, Slimefood, turned out to be a better aristocrat in the end)

Volrath's Shapeshifter. It's always funny. I know, ordering graveyards is a pain, but way less so when you really only care about the top card. And the kind of nonsense that strange card has enabled is top tier.

Really refreshing take on commander content. It’s all too easy to optimise the fun out of what is a causal format - looking forward to trying out shifting grift in a deck. Liked and subbed :)

I have pet cards that have saved my game, it feels ao good when it happens.

Without flash enables, Shifting grift is just too slow for any pod I've played with in the past year, however I will have to watch your video where you talked about it to get more context surely. Guess I'll be back lol

The red copy spells I thought were cool because they can copy a counter spell against your stuff as well as doubling something like a burn spell. Very versatile.

This is the greatest sin of EDHREC. When you show all players what the staples are that the best decks are playing, the whole meta begins migrating in that direction. I’m in the camp that EDHREC is a net negative on the format.

I love theft effects, and one pet card I love to shove in every blue deck is [[Domineering Will]]

I once made a Mannichi the Fevered Dream deck but god, it was awful

[[Yusri, fortune's flame]] is a card I add in to every single izzet deck I make, and more often than not it's just really high health cost, inconsistent draw. But every time I actually get the 1/32 chance of basically getting a turn of omniscience, I'm reminded why I added it in the first place.

Personally I don't see (most of) these examples as "filler"; what they ACTUALLY are, are either generic value that don't need to synergize with anything and thus are more consistent than synergy-pieces that are dead when you opponents are willing to interact; that, or they are interaction with opponents.

Crazy to see someone mention red castle games, especially with the time frame you mentioned cause I was playing there around the same time too! I wish you the best dude!

My least used commander of mine is Akiri Fearless Voyager (#888). Akiri tends to find herself in any voltron equipment deck with Boros, so I put her at the head and all those other commanders in the 99. I like her a lot more than some of the other Boros equipment commanders with more name recognition.

I run Mystic Reflection in my Yorion deck - usually it's commander removal, but occasionally it's "All my creatures reenter as Agent of Treachery." very satisfying because it is so situational

I just played against the card in the thumbnail, got comboed to death with bolas' citadel and flare of fortitude

I HAVE A GREEN BLACK DECK SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED AROUND SAPORLINGS I NEED IT

It's honestly refreshing to hear an EDH youtuber NOT vouch for playing synergy and efficiency. Filler and pet cards make the format feel so much more artful and unique compared to standard/pioneer/modern.

This video's great! I think the biggest shame is how difficult it is to find these cards, at least in my experience. I usually brew bottom up, in that I very slowly choose a category -> look for ~8 of those cards -> move to another category. Usually I'm going through "removal that compliments this deck's play patern" "draw that compliments what my deck wants to do" "direct synergy piles" and then I always have a "goodstuff" section, which isn't actually goodstuff because all that stuff is usually outside my deckbuilding budgets. It's a very gobbled up and undefined category that adds a stretch of diversity for the deck. I think the subject of this video actually is that category for the most part. Generic stuff that expand my options and available toolbox. They fill out my deck's last slots that I struggle to fill because 90 cards is often a bottleneck that stagnates my progress. I'm currently brewing simic flash tribal and a card like Mystic Reflection blows me away at how applicable and diversely it fits into my plan, but it required me to sit and think about what a real game with this card in my hand would look like. A solid 10-minute activity. I have various 1-2 drops that can be cast at any time so I have the option to on an end step select a powerful drop and flash in a silly Spectral Sailor or my many other 1-2 drops that aren't exactly threatening but progress my board presence at a cheap and consistently spared cost. Or yeah, it's a counterspell of sorts in the vein of Strix Serenade. Its diversity is stellar and I really appreciate cards like that when I struggle to fill out this category that often times becomes the same 8ish cards per colour id.

Yeah as someone who got into the game recently how the heck am I supposed to find the funny jank cards ? I'm definetly not going to start buying boosters with the price they cost, and as much as I like scryfall there's no easy search arg for "funny jank". Thankfully there's a bunch of people like you online who make great videos about weird synergies and niche applications of cards.

When I built my first Commander deck in 2013, it was a RG goblin deck with Wort the Raidmother as the commander. It included Krenko, and people would ask me repeatedly why *he* wasn't the commander, and my answer was always "every other goblin deck here is a Krenko deck, and that's boring!" That deck was not very good (even if I got a good board state, when combat rolled around there was far too much counting of +1s), but I still play it occasionally out of nostalgia and sometimes improve it if I find a good new goblin card.

Love this!

6:10 I've never seen a Tempt get less then 4 lands for it's controller

I have a rigidly colorless Legacy deck for reasons of flavor as much as anything. There's no (one) eldrazi (titan) in it. I named it 'Karn's Legacy', and it's focused on using old mirodin artifact stuff for the most part, along with some Urza stuff, including THOSE lands and several very memorable darksteels. It's grindy and can produce asinine amounts of mana, and can, if not crushed reasonably quickly, become very nasty to fight. Now, as a 'how is this game still going' button, I ran something pretty janky. Ring of Ma'ruf. In conjunction with decent draw and a couple other cards, I condensed several options for emergencies and late-game win cons into a single card slot with that ring. It's a shame I can't use any colored mana in the deck, otherwise I'd just run 4x Mastermind's Acquisition and make it wildly more consistent while performing RoM'R's job for less than half the mana cost (10 vs 2BB). Other highlights include Planar Portal, Pariah Shield + Darksteel Myr, and Energy Chamber + Lux Cannon I try to keep the mythics to a minimum and in general at least pretend to have restraint on the deck's design beyond simply adhering to the style criteria, so I COULD make it much nastier by including things like Sol Ring and Palladium Myr to ramp out faster. Running those I frequently hit a 5 mana base turn 1. It was not okay.

Really wish the best of luck for this channel since the comment section is too good compared to other mtg channels

Oh Agitator ant, I hoped you'd do good. I wanted to goad things, including my own with something that had a body, especially for when Assault Gear came around. But too easy for an opponent to stockpile counters on something that didn't need to attack and then have something problematically buff later. Probably going to the goading Blade next time I edit that deck. Likewise I'd say Shifting Grift has a commitment factor. Even if my main goal is open ended, I'm not running it without having stray artifacts, creatures, and enchantments so I can shift to maximize my benefit. Having random artifact creature tokens is trivial. But I do have to make sure I have some Omen of the Sea, Grasp of Fate, etc, so some of the time I'm swapping for my opponent's scary Mind's Dilation or Primordial Bounty.

If you have an artifact sac outlet, magus of the unseen is hilarious, Repeatable temporary artifact theft for cheap, it even untaps and gives haste. Then to make it even worse, you can sac the thing so you don't need to give it back

I'm confused, you are suggesting to use filler and jank cards, but all of these still look like good and effective cards to me. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean when using those descriptors? Or maybe my mono green player brain has low standards. 😅

Good luck taking that deck into random pods

When I was a youngster it wasn’t just that you couldn’t use resources on the internet it was also seen as dishonorable and “net decking” if you did use the internet.

Ok but where is that art from tho?

I am glad people are talking about grift more. The card is pure jank, and pure fun.

aaaaand it’s almost EIGHT FREAKIN DOLLARS

Yoooooo red castle? Hell yeah man. I still use my dice from there. We should play a game sometime soon man! I play at CCGhouse mostly these days