@@brettvandermeer5297 I get hella sus when that happens, cause I know ain’t know way in hell are my 3 opponents not holding some damn ass shit like 4 counter spells or flash waiting to use my power level 2 deck to springboard their power level 9 decks to the finish 🤣🤣🤣 (I actually still enjoy playing with them cause they’re cool and sometimes I can pop off if they leave me alone for just long enough and use a card that just says I win lol)
Player 1: " Hey, so I brought a precon so that we can see how it runs." Players 2 and 3: "Hey, no problem. We'll slow down our plays a little for this game since we're just having fun." Player 4: *draws a fantastic starting hand* _"I'm sorry, little one."_
Not just any hand... it's always THE Hand. The one you built the whole fucking deck around, The OTK Hand. The turn one Omniscience with Enter the Infinite, the Karn Mycosynth Lock, the Gitrog Dakmoor Salvage, the Isochron Sundial Final Fortune combo. And you know you'll never get it again (until the next time you're not supoosed to) so you just gotta do it.
@@EssaysInTheCommentsSection That's kinda why I've been having so much fun with my Prismatic Bridge tribal deck; it requires at least 3 turns to even _start_ doing what it's supposed to do, which is perfect for casual CMDR nights.
to be fair depending on the commander he could be kind of dead in the water dude is in top deck mode on turn one hes got mana sure but he's got no cards to spend it on
See I'll say that. I don't mean it sucks for me. I just feel bad when I play stuff like this. I run mana vault and lotus in most decks. Almost always lose bc I don't like hitting people.
To be fair this isn't too bad. He has like no cards in hand and will likely just drop Ruric Thar next turn. Turn this into arch enemy for a bit and bring him back down to earth as long as one of y'all runs any sort of removal. 🌞
I hate people that specifically "try to bring a man back down to earth." Relax Festus, it's a card game. Sometimes the deck gives you a good hand--and we should be punished for that? If you dont have those cards in your deck, you need to punish yourself lol do better, something.
I just love how in these magic skits after a convo it’s always “ you can still win” or “it’s not that bad”. While in yugioh skits father a combo it’s “game”.
Yep same for me. First game of EDH. With Gavi precon (ikoria). I sat at a table, they all said "yeah precon sure". It was against Tinybones stax, Urza stax and Najeela Tempo. Contamination was dropped turn 3. And i just watched them for 45min...
I just got into commander after swearing I would never play it (for no particular reason) first game using the new peace offering deck was against a wheels deck and a thrasios/vial smasher glacial chasm deck... yeah
Gotta love that, even with the bonkers starting hand, he didn't even think of slow playing it. Dude could have just land passed, or even just turn one sol ring. He saw the play and tilted fully into it.
When a player puts more spells on table its good to get that exposure especially for new players. I lost 100 games before I won my first and I owe it all to the experienced players who didn't hold back.
@@nCedric1 no your idea of a 7 is just too low A 10 is cedh A 7 would be closer to that than to jank battlecruiser Stop trying to weight power levels higher than theu deserve
@@jayrob3 price really doesnt matter that much but sure it sucks, you can make expensive deccks that are still around 4-7 or make boarderline cedh decks for like 200 bucks
@@jayrob3 no you can just throw in 1 expensive dual land and increase your price by a huge amount without actually making the deck much better, price isnt everything, you can easily make a really strong deck for under 100 bucks but you can also make really bad decks for a lot of money. at some point you need money to get the last bit of optimisation etc but you can get a long way with a low budget
@@austinpilgrim9691 Three Visits lets you search for any forest, including nonbasics. It's a really good card to pull triomes and such out. If he's running mono green, he's not maximizing utility, but he certainly is in a good spot for the next few turns.
It really isn't too bad, he only has one card left in his hand after all that and let's pray to the MTG gods that it's a land and the next card he draws is also a land. 🙏
Commander is Ruric Thar, so no card draw there, single card in hand, unless it's a really strong crad draw effect, indeed nothing too bad happening there.
Reminds me of an event my local card shop runs where you get a randomly assigned commander and have to make a deck from their bulk commons and uncommons. I drew literally every ramp tool in my entire deck able to combo about 4 things turn 2... I had literally zero follow up to capitalize on that, but they all got scared. I was dead shortly after.
I think the rocks would be fine if it were just a colorless deck. That's basically a green player on turn four and it takes a miracle to have a crypt, ring, and signet in the opening hand. He just needs Burnished Hart and Myriad Landscape
Two of my friends and I decided to try some precons at our local LGS. A guy offered to fill the open seat. He played a Nekusar infinite turns cEDH deck. We do not play at that LGS anymore.
@@dragneelfire3341 he played two forests through explore + normal landrop and used them to pay three visits but instead he could just played one forest and ancient tomb
That happened to my gf and I, we both are super new playing precons. Two people ask if they can play with us, we are like sure that's fine. (We forgot to tell them we were extremely new, but it was still fairly obvious with our questions and missplays.) Within 5 turns they were pretty much playing by themselves with us just playing a land or something since we couldn't keep anything on the board due to their board strength. We had absolutely zero idea of what was happening on their side other than their combos were popping off
Not that this isn't true for you, but it's certainly not for most people. The cards left behind must be worth more than the precon price for it to be cost efficient and that is usually not the case based on online lists.
@@IBreakGamez no whats cost efficient is having the cards in the precon you continue to use be worth more than what the precon is worth. Even if every card you swap in is cheap if the value of what was from the original precon is less than the purchase price you've lost money
I would recommend checking single prices on a precon before buying especially if you just want to try the newly printed cards. It sucks to buy a precon when 15-20 of the cards aren't on theme or are easily acquired elsewhere. It would be better if Wizards would reprint cards in precons that people actually want like shocklands, triomes, and fetches. Also, are websites like EDHREC good for deck ideas, or homogenizing and bad?
Happened to me tonight. I was playing jank. Go turn one remora and guy strip mines me after playing a turn 1 4/4… i just scooped and left because he played competitive decks all night and i just wanted some jank times
I just did this to my buddy today. I played Karn Silver Golem. Turn one was a warped landscape, turn two was a waste, sol ring. Turn three ugin the inneffable playing my hand for free to do a turn 3 infinite combo with access to draw.
Why do y’all want to play a new game so fast? Like you just shuffled for a game and now 5 minutes later it’s time for a new game. Sounds terrible. How is that fun? If all you care about is winning and not having a good time then maybe.
@@stevendefeo8424 yeah, that's why I've built ten different decks. 5 for fun and 3 for throwing a consistent dicking to spice games up if we're running a full pod or just obliterate a deck in single, 1 for a consistent table sweep into hell unless my opponents are running nothing but removal, and 1 that can barely walk but occasionally let's someone know that their deck was in fact not good and was indeed a tier 0.
@@stevendefeo8424 my friend and I like to play faster paced solo games because we often play in between shifts and can't play for long. So we just run out like 5 to 3 games on some weekends. Then if we get an actual day off we head out somewhere for some casual or just play a game or two of our slowest decks or swig up a different game.
@@stevendefeo8424 we play more magic in those 5 minutes than most yall do in an hour Unlike you guys we have fun INTERACTING, you know, 6 card stack wars turn 2 type shit
At lgs i go to the owner like me to have play people with precon decks against my koma stax/land destruction and tokens deck in archenemy commander deck style so i can help them learn play use team work and any other stuff like that. But i am very much like player 4 when play mtg. Cool video.
Reminds me when I started. Made a deck out of scraps ( Believe it was Sheshra from Forgotten Realms )….. Opponent plays entomb->reanimate on Ulamog T1 and just runs away
Everyone in my group loves precons. We also love building decks. So we have a *very* strict homerule. There are precon games and nonprecon games. *And never the twain shall meet.* Much funner games this way honestly. We also have "testing new deck" games where we each grab something we think is on the same level but ee haven't played yet. Listen ik it sounds like a lot of rules but since we've implemented these different tier of games this kind of shit does not happen anymore. No one feels stilted bc they're 30 upgrade to a precon is going up against someone else's $1000 baby that they've been crafting for two years now.
My favorite edh memory is going to the shop to buy cards, spotting 3 man pod and asking to join "Were cedh are u sure" Like turn 3 went infinite with memnarch then left 😂
"don't worry, I'll play this deck, I don't have any combo on it, it's very weak" the commander was kuldotha, he played gilded drake on the commander of my friend (Ivy voltron) and voidwalker (I played osgir reanimator)
The Battle cards kind of feel like optional objectives to me. First you start by getting a sorcery cast that has varying degrees of effectiveness, and then the opportunity to leverage that into extra board advantage. Personally I'd try to at least chump block any battle given to me just to give my opponents something to aim at instead of my life total, and to deny them something they want so they're more likely to waste resources
This what how my first commander game went except it was me and another player with precons and the other two guys playing like the last guy. We didn’t get to see turn 6 either game.
Was in a game once where player 3 dropped like 4 rocks and an enchantment after myself and the first guy did "Land, pass" player 4 asked 3 if he was sure he wanted to do that. Gave him a couple of chances to take back some rocks. When he didn't, player 4 dropped 2 rituals, simian spirit guide, and overloaded a vandal blast. Legit thought player 3 was going to cry he was just staring at the table haha
As a completly new magic player ive js bought and sleeved draconic destruction. Im excited to head up to the shop to play im gonna buy a booster box and try and build one myself using the precon as a template
Its very possible. If player two was able to dump his whole hand on turn two with rocks, lands, and ramp, it probably means his deck is still stacked from the previous game. He'll be top decking lands for the next 8 turns, especially if hes green.
This happens to me every time at my LGS. All I want to do is play my upgraded Precons and every table has at least one or two players packing a super Competitive level deck that wins before I can even get started. My first ever game of Commander at my LGS was with a newly purchased Faerie Precon from Wilds of Eldraine, and the player right next to me was playing The Ur-Dragon. And Mana Crypt is absolutely not a Casual EDH card at all. It’s way too expensive on top of being way too good of an opener. If anything I don’t think Mana Crypt is should not be allowed in any deck that has Green. Green has enough good ramp even at the Common and Uncommon rarities.
I always remember that one guy that played mono blue deck against me when I was playing a precon right out of the deck. It was a three pod but he singlehandedly countered and/or bounced all my stuff while the other player, who wasn't playing a precon btw, did whatever he wanted to do.
He has a lot of fuel, but no engine to burn it in. So it's not that bad until he draws the haymakers, which could take a while as most green card draw is based on having a lot of creatures or having high power ones enter.
Some people have this insane need to win. I went to a commander event. Dude holding the event came in the room an yelled who has a deck that wins turn one? No one said anything. He asked who has a deck that wins by turn 7? Again no one said anything. Got in a pod and dude literally killed all 3 of us turn 7. It would’ve been turn 6, but someone countered part of his win con. He was salty as all hell to. Like oh big deal my guy you were delayed a whole turn. Dudes that do this are the same ones that will flip a table, call you a cheater or yell about how “if they just got that one card.” What’s even better is he was even angrier cause instead of scooping I made him play out the whole thing and sacrifice a permanent for every point of damage. Did you win? Yes. Did I make you sit there and be a salty winner? Also yes.
Ive recently started playing magic, and ive ONLY gotten to play with people like #4. 2 new precons i wanted to play, didnt even get past turn 4 before games were over.
He's ramped a lot and had a good draw but the only very powerful non sol ring card is crypt which is iffy at best since sol ring is fine. He has 1-2 cards left and without a followup it's still a game
Last Saturday I had a game where I played an upgraded Leynora precon and the whole table of decks that were much more powerful focused me the entire game because all I did for the first four turns was just ramping lands
I've been trying to test my new LOTR knights precon for two straight weeks and I keep getting obliterated because "they don't want to risk my deck's mechanic" 🤦♂️😔 Not complaining but damn! It's fucking annoying! 🔥 Video btw, bro! Funny AF every time! 😂
Pre-cons used to be able to hold their own. That was the best part of commander. Now every commander deck is the same pile of the same value cards with minor differences.
I mean depends on what the one card in hand is, the essence warden isn't a crazy threat. He has a bunch of mana and nothing to cast if he proceeds to whiff the mana crypt can kill him slowly
Buddy ran the MoM knights precon last night just to run it before tearing it down, us three other players had bad lawn draws, his precon's running at 100% and he whupped us. It hurts losing to a stock precon. :(
"Playing some good christian magic over here" that kills me lmao
Yeah then he plays a swamp.. fucking heathen :)
i died
I say that every time there is a full turn of land drops only. Some good clean wholesome God fearing Christian magic
@@brettvandermeer5297 I get hella sus when that happens, cause I know ain’t know way in hell are my 3 opponents not holding some damn ass shit like 4 counter spells or flash waiting to use my power level 2 deck to springboard their power level 9 decks to the finish 🤣🤣🤣 (I actually still enjoy playing with them cause they’re cool and sometimes I can pop off if they leave me alone for just long enough and use a card that just says I win lol)
When he played the swamp I thought he was going to cast demonic tutor
Player 1: " Hey, so I brought a precon so that we can see how it runs."
Players 2 and 3: "Hey, no problem. We'll slow down our plays a little for this game since we're just having fun."
Player 4: *draws a fantastic starting hand* _"I'm sorry, little one."_
Not just any hand... it's always THE Hand. The one you built the whole fucking deck around, The OTK Hand. The turn one Omniscience with Enter the Infinite, the Karn Mycosynth Lock, the Gitrog Dakmoor Salvage, the Isochron Sundial Final Fortune combo. And you know you'll never get it again (until the next time you're not supoosed to) so you just gotta do it.
I mean I didnt go that hard, plus even with the mana rock ramp I didnt see a creature till I was at 12 life and they all had boards. It was funny.
@@EssaysInTheCommentsSection That's kinda why I've been having so much fun with my Prismatic Bridge tribal deck; it requires at least 3 turns to even _start_ doing what it's supposed to do, which is perfect for casual CMDR nights.
I was going to like your comment. But it’s on 666 likes. I will leave at that
Lol this is me except I'm the one with a modified precon the looks I get from my friends when I pop off 😂
9 mana turn 2 "you can come back, its not that bad"
Same energy as
"Hey fuck you, buddy"
Lmao 😂
"Mastercard diff buddy."
It's really not, there was no card draw engine and he's got 1 card left, he could easily brick and get lands for 3 turns in a row
@@noniclenonsense8433 we found him
@@noniclenonsense8433 I mean he can by all likelihood cast his commander more than once with that mana, 3 lands in a row ain't that bad.
My favorite is when they start their turn saying "oh man this hand kinda sucks" and then proceed to do this
Pro tip if they keep the hand it's not that bad
to be fair depending on the commander he could be kind of dead in the water dude is in top deck mode on turn one hes got mana sure but he's got no cards to spend it on
"You just made 7 mana for turn 2"
"Yeah but I have nothing left in hand! Anyway, play Narset, attach lightning greaves gg"
See I'll say that. I don't mean it sucks for me. I just feel bad when I play stuff like this. I run mana vault and lotus in most decks. Almost always lose bc I don't like hitting people.
Bro really went through all that for essence warden pass.
Down to no cards in hands n shit 😂
And like 7 mana turn one
Bro has 1 card left xd
Don’t worry, guys, he’s got a Craterhoof top-decked next turn.
@@AsuraBoss Yaa it would be great - he would do like 9 dmg. ;P
To be fair this isn't too bad. He has like no cards in hand and will likely just drop Ruric Thar next turn. Turn this into arch enemy for a bit and bring him back down to earth as long as one of y'all runs any sort of removal. 🌞
He even played all budget cards except for a crypt, sometimes you just get that wonder starting hand.
But he's playing muldrotha so no red
Or he could genesis wave or some variant and run away with the game
Or he drops a vornclex
I hate people that specifically "try to bring a man back down to earth." Relax Festus, it's a card game. Sometimes the deck gives you a good hand--and we should be punished for that? If you dont have those cards in your deck, you need to punish yourself lol do better, something.
Well at least he only has 1 card left in his hand
Not for long with the essence warden lol
@@nosrenda1014 how does essence warden draw him cards in this position?
@@Steamboat2016 if he dropped an esper sentinel on the other hand
@@alexhayden507 even better, mystic fish
Calling it right now, the last card is a wheel for a fresh 7.
I just love how in these magic skits after a convo it’s always “ you can still win” or “it’s not that bad”.
While in yugioh skits father a combo it’s “game”.
Yes your opponent has 12 mana on turn 3, but with only 2 cards in hand and a puny creature he better have the heart of the cards with him
"it's not too bad" lmao 🤣 made me remember that first game i played just after opening (and sleeving) my first precon
Yep same for me. First game of EDH. With Gavi precon (ikoria). I sat at a table, they all said "yeah precon sure". It was against Tinybones stax, Urza stax and Najeela Tempo. Contamination was dropped turn 3. And i just watched them for 45min...
Same here ! 😂
I just got into commander after swearing I would never play it (for no particular reason) first game using the new peace offering deck was against a wheels deck and a thrasios/vial smasher glacial chasm deck... yeah
"I was testing a precon!" Lol the pain of betrayal as he said that
It’s amazing how many versions of this one joke Luke can do and it’s still funny every time
Fun fact this was my first ever mtg skit
@@kinglukemtg Literally never gets old
@@kinglukemtg It's a certified classic
Gotta love that, even with the bonkers starting hand, he didn't even think of slow playing it. Dude could have just land passed, or even just turn one sol ring. He saw the play and tilted fully into it.
I just found your channel and it is gold. I'm showing this to my group
Thank you man. I'm trying. Lol. More content coming.
When a player puts more spells on table its good to get that exposure especially for new players. I lost 100 games before I won my first and I owe it all to the experienced players who didn't hold back.
Cockatrice's community in a nutshell. "Maelstrom Wanderer is a 7", proceeds to ramp to 8 mana on turn 3
Turn 3?
Yeah thats about a 7
Any higher and it should be hitting 8 mana by turn 2 with cards left in hand
@@V2ULTRAKill that is not a 7 and you know it. This community is ruined...
@@nCedric1 no your idea of a 7 is just too low
A 10 is cedh
A 7 would be closer to that than to jank battlecruiser
Stop trying to weight power levels higher than theu deserve
@@V2ULTRAKill what are power levels and how do they work? This is new to me and I didn't hear of it till I started seeing this dude's shorts.
Maelstrom Wanderer is a 7. The last time I felt threatened by that commander was almost 10 years ago.@@nCedric1
Most of his short videos show a crazy first hand with the perfect combo of cards almost every time. I wish I had that luck every time. LOL. 😂
Fun fact, this was my first video.
Played a pre con in commander last week. The whole table had power 9.
Interesting that they’re allowing banned cards in their decks but to each their own.
@@MrYoyo200 sorry phrased wrong. Their decks each had a "power level of 9" each deck was over $1k. Mine, 40 bucks lol
@@jayrob3 price really doesnt matter that much but sure it sucks, you can make expensive deccks that are still around 4-7 or make boarderline cedh decks for like 200 bucks
@@lassehoffmann625 a fresh out of the box precon would get smoked any day vs 3 decks valued over 1k lol. Price matters in this context.
@@jayrob3 no you can just throw in 1 expensive dual land and increase your price by a huge amount without actually making the deck much better, price isnt everything, you can easily make a really strong deck for under 100 bucks but you can also make really bad decks for a lot of money.
at some point you need money to get the last bit of optimisation etc but you can get a long way with a low budget
The sheer rarity of having an opening hand like that is one in a million. LOL. 😂 Love these ideal perfect game openers.
"Good Christian Magic..." 🤣
Unless that other player draws some card draw, he's out of gas. Extra points if his commander has card draw built in
Love the content, mate. Looking forward to serving more 👍
This feels like that seat on the beach from saving private Ryan
"you can come back not that bad" famous last words
"Oh... You. You can come back. It's not that bad. It's like... It's not too bad." -words from the evil player about to go infinite next turn 😂
I love that he tutored for a basic forest and not something even more stupid
When did he tutor? He played a draw spell and a search for forest.
@@austinpilgrim9691 you said it yourself, he searched for a forest.
@DrSheriff I mean I guess you're right? I've just never thought of searching for a specific land card as tutoring lmao 😂
@@austinpilgrim9691 any deck search is tutoring
@@austinpilgrim9691 Three Visits lets you search for any forest, including nonbasics. It's a really good card to pull triomes and such out. If he's running mono green, he's not maximizing utility, but he certainly is in a good spot for the next few turns.
I lol'd when he said "You can come back, it's not that bad."
This is why I always ask what people brought for the casual games. Communicate communicate communicate, everyone has more fun when you communicate.
This remind me so many games... It's accurate, i hate it, you're so right i hate it😂
It really isn't too bad, he only has one card left in his hand after all that and let's pray to the MTG gods that it's a land and the next card he draws is also a land. 🙏
That has happened to me 😅. Great start, proceeds to flood.
Commander is Ruric Thar, so no card draw there, single card in hand, unless it's a really strong crad draw effect, indeed nothing too bad happening there.
Ohhh man i hate when that happens, only lands coming right after....#&€*#
This got my like and sub definitely enjoy the content keep it up 🥳
I just started playing magic. And this is how it goes in my local card shop when I go play with my precon 😂
hot take: he deserves to enjoy his insanely lucky hand that will never happen again
Another hot take, he plays this hand every game constantly even with other players shuffling his deck
Reminds me of an event my local card shop runs where you get a randomly assigned commander and have to make a deck from their bulk commons and uncommons. I drew literally every ramp tool in my entire deck able to combo about 4 things turn 2... I had literally zero follow up to capitalize on that, but they all got scared. I was dead shortly after.
That's when the game becomes a 3 player round and Mr. Mana Crypt over there can play with himself in the corner.
I think the rocks would be fine if it were just a colorless deck. That's basically a green player on turn four and it takes a miracle to have a crypt, ring, and signet in the opening hand. He just needs Burnished Hart and Myriad Landscape
Kozilek the Great distortion would like a word. Rofl
"Good Christian magi-"
>dumps entire hand
Two of my friends and I decided to try some precons at our local LGS. A guy offered to fill the open seat. He played a Nekusar infinite turns cEDH deck. We do not play at that LGS anymore.
Instead of the second forest he should have played an ancient tomb
Lol
@@dragneelfire3341 he played two forests through explore + normal landrop and used them to pay three visits but instead he could just played one forest and ancient tomb
"You can come back, it's not that bad" 😂
That happened to my gf and I, we both are super new playing precons. Two people ask if they can play with us, we are like sure that's fine. (We forgot to tell them we were extremely new, but it was still fairly obvious with our questions and missplays.)
Within 5 turns they were pretty much playing by themselves with us just playing a land or something since we couldn't keep anything on the board due to their board strength. We had absolutely zero idea of what was happening on their side other than their combos were popping off
Your channel just Makes my point that cube is the best way to play magic
We actively discourage this at my card shops. We make fun of the mana crypt people. "Where's the lotus Big Chief?"
I would discourage it too if I was poor
Um lotus is banned in commander
@@brisingr1467 Jeweled Lotus
@@azraelxiii9290 Big talk from someone who uses their moms credit card. Stop streaming and get a job boyo.
Which is less expensive than crypt so how is that shaming them?
"It's not that bad." Looks at the ruicthar that's bouta hit the field on turn two.... "we cam come back"
Nothing wrong with precons, I think having a theme to start with and upgrade is really fun and cost efficient!
Not that this isn't true for you, but it's certainly not for most people. The cards left behind must be worth more than the precon price for it to be cost efficient and that is usually not the case based on online lists.
@armoredduck having a solid starting ground compared to spending 60 dollars for 2 cards is what's cost efficient... lol
@@IBreakGamez no whats cost efficient is having the cards in the precon you continue to use be worth more than what the precon is worth. Even if every card you swap in is cheap if the value of what was from the original precon is less than the purchase price you've lost money
I would recommend checking single prices on a precon before buying especially if you just want to try the newly printed cards. It sucks to buy a precon when 15-20 of the cards aren't on theme or are easily acquired elsewhere. It would be better if Wizards would reprint cards in precons that people actually want like shocklands, triomes, and fetches. Also, are websites like EDHREC good for deck ideas, or homogenizing and bad?
I would agree. It allows new players to have a general idea of how a deck is built rather than barring them from trying out this style of play.
I don't know shit about magic, but I know the vibe from other games, this guys vids are hilarious.
Happened to me tonight. I was playing jank. Go turn one remora and guy strip mines me after playing a turn 1 4/4… i just scooped and left because he played competitive decks all night and i just wanted some jank times
I’m happy with a turn one sol ring, then extra happy when I can follow uo with an arcane signet or a pair of really fast boots
Turn 2, Gishath, Sun's Avatar as commander lol. YEAH! Fun game!
I just did this to my buddy today. I played Karn Silver Golem. Turn one was a warped landscape, turn two was a waste, sol ring. Turn three ugin the inneffable playing my hand for free to do a turn 3 infinite combo with access to draw.
Why do y’all want to play a new game so fast? Like you just shuffled for a game and now 5 minutes later it’s time for a new game. Sounds terrible. How is that fun? If all you care about is winning and not having a good time then maybe.
@@stevendefeo8424 yeah, that's why I've built ten different decks. 5 for fun and 3 for throwing a consistent dicking to spice games up if we're running a full pod or just obliterate a deck in single, 1 for a consistent table sweep into hell unless my opponents are running nothing but removal, and 1 that can barely walk but occasionally let's someone know that their deck was in fact not good and was indeed a tier 0.
@@stevendefeo8424 my friend and I like to play faster paced solo games because we often play in between shifts and can't play for long. So we just run out like 5 to 3 games on some weekends. Then if we get an actual day off we head out somewhere for some casual or just play a game or two of our slowest decks or swig up a different game.
@@stevendefeo8424 we play more magic in those 5 minutes than most yall do in an hour
Unlike you guys we have fun INTERACTING, you know, 6 card stack wars turn 2 type shit
At lgs i go to the owner like me to have play people with precon decks against my koma stax/land destruction and tokens deck in archenemy commander deck style so i can help them learn play use team work and any other stuff like that. But i am very much like player 4 when play mtg. Cool video.
Reminds me when I started. Made a deck out of scraps ( Believe it was Sheshra from Forgotten Realms )….. Opponent plays entomb->reanimate on Ulamog T1 and just runs away
Everyone in my group loves precons. We also love building decks. So we have a *very* strict homerule. There are precon games and nonprecon games.
*And never the twain shall meet.*
Much funner games this way honestly. We also have "testing new deck" games where we each grab something we think is on the same level but ee haven't played yet. Listen ik it sounds like a lot of rules but since we've implemented these different tier of games this kind of shit does not happen anymore. No one feels stilted bc they're 30 upgrade to a precon is going up against someone else's $1000 baby that they've been crafting for two years now.
I haven’t played MTG in 20 years, love your content. Keeps me laughing.
My favorite edh memory is going to the shop to buy cards, spotting 3 man pod and asking to join
"Were cedh are u sure"
Like turn 3 went infinite with memnarch then left 😂
"don't worry, I'll play this deck, I don't have any combo on it, it's very weak"
the commander was kuldotha, he played gilded drake on the commander of my friend (Ivy voltron) and voidwalker (I played osgir reanimator)
The Battle cards kind of feel like optional objectives to me. First you start by getting a sorcery cast that has varying degrees of effectiveness, and then the opportunity to leverage that into extra board advantage. Personally I'd try to at least chump block any battle given to me just to give my opponents something to aim at instead of my life total, and to deny them something they want so they're more likely to waste resources
This what how my first commander game went except it was me and another player with precons and the other two guys playing like the last guy. We didn’t get to see turn 6 either game.
Legitimately could've:
T1 forest soul ring
T2 forest explore 3visits land
T3 mana crypt and go
“its like…” *waves his solitary card left in hand after turn one* “… its like, not thaat bad…”
Was in a game once where player 3 dropped like 4 rocks and an enchantment after myself and the first guy did "Land, pass" player 4 asked 3 if he was sure he wanted to do that. Gave him a couple of chances to take back some rocks. When he didn't, player 4 dropped 2 rituals, simian spirit guide, and overloaded a vandal blast. Legit thought player 3 was going to cry he was just staring at the table haha
I support this decision
As a completly new magic player ive js bought and sleeved draconic destruction. Im excited to head up to the shop to play im gonna buy a booster box and try and build one myself using the precon as a template
This is why vandalblast effects should be in every precon
Doctor who release party. Was told by a random, oh dont worry, its only slightly modified. Everyone got slapped around by "slightly modified "
Its very possible. If player two was able to dump his whole hand on turn two with rocks, lands, and ramp, it probably means his deck is still stacked from the previous game. He'll be top decking lands for the next 8 turns, especially if hes green.
This happens to me every time at my LGS. All I want to do is play my upgraded Precons and every table has at least one or two players packing a super Competitive level deck that wins before I can even get started. My first ever game of Commander at my LGS was with a newly purchased Faerie Precon from Wilds of Eldraine, and the player right next to me was playing The Ur-Dragon.
And Mana Crypt is absolutely not a Casual EDH card at all. It’s way too expensive on top of being way too good of an opener. If anything I don’t think Mana Crypt is should not be allowed in any deck that has Green. Green has enough good ramp even at the Common and Uncommon rarities.
lmaoooo "you can come back" is so classic
This is where commander ends and archenemy begins
I just started playing magic like 2 weeks ago yeap I remember something like this happening to me I was so happy to play my little precon deck
I honestly teared up from how absolutely fucking brutal that was
I always remember that one guy that played mono blue deck against me when I was playing a precon right out of the deck. It was a three pod but he singlehandedly countered and/or bounced all my stuff while the other player, who wasn't playing a precon btw, did whatever he wanted to do.
Yeah theses were ALL of my friends. Thats why i built a deck around winter orb. Have fun untapping one card per turn
'It's not that bad...' LOL. I have said and heard this so many times over the years and no, you are not catching up.
I actually did play a precon with my CMC 5 commander on T2...
T1 Sol Ring Talisman into T 2 Marneus....
This is literally a perfect example of how my first game with Painbow went🤦🏼♂️
In fairness, I've watched something similar happen at a table. I may have lost first, but they were the second the lose after having to draw 66 cards.
Yeah, 8 mana turn one, that looked like me playing colourless Eldrazi EDH and hard cast my commander on turn 3. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre 👌👌
When you have a crypt for your colorless deck but you run the wrong titan as commander. Everyone, may I present a magic player.
This is just more reasons why every precon should have fast Mana and proper untapped dual lands (like the battle bond lands)
Literally can't upvote this enough.
He has a lot of fuel, but no engine to burn it in. So it's not that bad until he draws the haymakers, which could take a while as most green card draw is based on having a lot of creatures or having high power ones enter.
For all you know hid last card in hand is WoF though
He is playing thar
Some people have this insane need to win. I went to a commander event. Dude holding the event came in the room an yelled who has a deck that wins turn one? No one said anything. He asked who has a deck that wins by turn 7? Again no one said anything. Got in a pod and dude literally killed all 3 of us turn 7. It would’ve been turn 6, but someone countered part of his win con. He was salty as all hell to. Like oh big deal my guy you were delayed a whole turn. Dudes that do this are the same ones that will flip a table, call you a cheater or yell about how “if they just got that one card.” What’s even better is he was even angrier cause instead of scooping I made him play out the whole thing and sacrifice a permanent for every point of damage. Did you win? Yes. Did I make you sit there and be a salty winner? Also yes.
Me, the new guy at magic with my edited pre-cons at my group lol
"Christen magic" is wild.
Ive recently started playing magic, and ive ONLY gotten to play with people like #4. 2 new precons i wanted to play, didnt even get past turn 4 before games were over.
That's just dirty what the green player did. Excellent play when running comp. But that was dirty.
The art of green. Pillow fort.
In a way it reminds me of sacrificing Steve four turns in a row with my Muldrotha deck.
He's ramped a lot and had a good draw but the only very powerful non sol ring card is crypt which is iffy at best since sol ring is fine. He has 1-2 cards left and without a followup it's still a game
Last Saturday I had a game where I played an upgraded Leynora precon and the whole table of decks that were much more powerful focused me the entire game because all I did for the first four turns was just ramping lands
The fact that none of the cards match the edited cards on screen is dedication
Shit like this is why I always run Stranglehold in anything that has red.
I did that once, on turn 2 because my deck can't do it on turn one but still... Then I mana flooded like I fucking deserved 😂
I've been trying to test my new LOTR knights precon for two straight weeks and I keep getting obliterated because "they don't want to risk my deck's mechanic" 🤦♂️😔
Not complaining but damn! It's fucking annoying! 🔥 Video btw, bro! Funny AF every time! 😂
There are some pre cons that make that opening look like light work after a couple of turns.
Pre-cons used to be able to hold their own. That was the best part of commander. Now every commander deck is the same pile of the same value cards with minor differences.
Me building a brand new deck and trying to work the kinks out and that one guy just stomping the shit out of me.
Tbf, if that person is in your playgroup, it helps you learn where the kinks are.
Me trying to figure out my bant precons with my friend who built an Ardenn/Rograkh deck and doesn't understand the concept of "slow down".
Cheese and rice, that ramp.
I mean depends on what the one card in hand is, the essence warden isn't a crazy threat. He has a bunch of mana and nothing to cast if he proceeds to whiff the mana crypt can kill him slowly
Literally happened to me at the fallout release. Dude played $500 in 2 turns
Buddy ran the MoM knights precon last night just to run it before tearing it down, us three other players had bad lawn draws, his precon's running at 100% and he whupped us. It hurts losing to a stock precon. :(
Some precons are just disgusting tho and already hit power 7 or 8 like look at the 40k precons
Hit em with the land destruction