Wow- that turn 4 was insane. No spoilers but I'm surprised at how efficiently Pyro's deck can protect itself, despite not having access to most of the best interaction in the format.
This is one of my favorite recent games! Between Mike and Pyro’s interaction war, Ryan just saying “screw it” and dumping all of his dice on Ishai, and Cal FINALLY making his gameplay debut, I couldn’t stop smiling as I watched every play!
This is HANDS DOWN one of the most entertaining, interesting and enjoyable games I have seen lately! Ishai is SUCH a beast and clearly changes the dynamic of the game...those Sentinels did WORK this game... Hellkite Tyrant is a spicy include...and finally those sweeeeeet Dockside/Witness lines! Man.. I could go on and on and on! What a blast!
The elking of ishai was definitely questionable when the Rashmi player was probably the least threatening person up to that point. Korvold can just win games from nothing just like this game showed.
This channel is easily one of the most well kempt and groomed channels on this app. Clean edits, witty jargon, enthusiastic voice overs, exceptional explanations, you lot certainly have my vote as the king of the edh table.
Games like this showcase two things to me: One is how you perfectly explain though a visual aid on why Ad nauseam is considered cedh. I never thought of the card for edh at all until I saw just how many cards it draws. Two is I am super glad only blue has a lab maniac win line that wants an empty library.
Question for Cal (as someone who recently built Rashmi, myself): When I saw the opening hand, my expected sequencing was t1 Vault, t2 Rashmi, t3 Carpet and draw. Now that does allow for interaction on turns one or two, but the opening draw contained no interaction, anyway. Can you explain why you sequenced Carpet first, which does not allow for a t2 Rashmi, and still does not allow for t2 interaction?
My thought here, though, is that the sequencing I had in mind nets you an extra card, and makes your tap out turn earlier, both of which seem like wins in my mind, but I have, like 2-3 total Rashmi games under my belt, so I am not assuming I am right and you are wrong, I just want to know why I am wrong.
Hey! Honestly, I just completely misplayed. As far as I remember, that was my original plan with that (horrible) keep, and then I just... didn't do it. It 100% should have been played how you described it.
There's never a point where you let someone just win for having some answers, this is cEDH! Everyone is playing to win equally and I think it's just as impressive that Mike found all the ways to work around Pyro's answers. That's why Mike deserves the win and not Pyro
This is so cool. I’m a relatively new and pretty terrible commander player, and I never watch gameplay because it’s so hard for me to keep track of all that’s going on, what with creators just assuming you know what the cards do. Yet even at this level of gameplay, you took the time and effort to show triggers, the stack, and each play in a clear way. I’ve always been so intimidated by cEDH because it seems so intimidating to a newer player, but this was the only mtg gameplay video I’ve ever truly understood. Thank you so much. That korvold deck is sick and once i’ve got the piloting skills, I’ll assemble it myself :)
I was just thinking about how people should really keep hands with more mana sources, especially when playing control. Really like Cal's opener for this one
I honestly think it's a pretty bad hand, but that's just because there's like... one too many mana sources. If there had even been a cantrip or some kind of interaction in there, I think its a very defensible keep, but its a bit of a rough one as is. - Cal
That was incredible 👏, I play korvold as well and have fizzled because I couldn't see the lines at times, don't think I would have found that one ! Congrats on an awesome video!!
Just a nitpick... "fizzle" isn't the correct term when "can't be countered" effects are taken into account: Force of Will still resolves, it just doesn't do anything. This would be relevant if, for example, instead of Force of Will, that was a Pact of Negation: the spell isn't countered, but the player will still have to pay for Pact in their next upkeep.
@@TheSpiritombsableye Fizzle isn't an official term since the 6th edition rule change, so technically you can use it however you want. But prior to said rule change it was the official term for a spell/abillity not resolving because the target was missing/illegal, and it's still used like that in the community today. So it's a bit confusing if you use it any other way (like in the video)
@@TheSpiritombsableye The point is, that "fizzling" has a very defined meaning for most players that differs from the use in this video. What happened in the video is NOT a spell "fizzling" under pre 6th edition rules. What was your point with "mill"?
I play against a friend’s Rashmi deck a lot. We play High Power-cEDH level, and he literally has bore them all out as a win con. Basically just grinding value and countering others wincons. Depending on the table, no one has enough aggro to just kill them and we just FF once a game goes past an hour mark. He enjoys it and we accept it as it’ll basically win over time with a Nexus Loop anyways.
Holy shit. "I have infinite mana." "Okay, but you can't kill me." "Okay, I'll blow up all your permanents." "Actually, you can't do that either." "Sigh. Okay, guess I'll just exile ALL your libraries, attack all of you for infinity, then pass the turn to MYSELF (with Final Fortune) so that you don't die by draw step, you die because *I* killed you with a Deathrite activation." "Yup, that'll kill ya. Gg." No food chain, no Thassa. This might be my favorite game of all time.
well, I guess that is what you would call *thoroughly* winning the game there by Mike... that's what, three or four different ways he won at the same time?
I watched this video and thought "DAMN! I need Corpse Dance in my Korvold deck!" So naturally I went to cardmarket and spend my money on a Demonic Tutor, a Worldly Tutor and a City of Brass... God damn xD
Looks like Mike cast a Nature's Claim @10:27 on the Rhystic Study. Regardless this Korvold deck is sweet, I play a list based closely to this and Braden's list with a Chain of Smog package. Love the content 👌
What did I miss? @4:50 mark Ryan - Mystical Tutor ephemerate to top of lib. Ryan - In upkeep, pass priority Pyro - Silence How does Ryan cast ephemerate from the top of his library??
What about an episode where you create a cedh deck on a budget of $100 to play commander nights events? There is alot of opportunity for new brews every week. I think alot of people would love to watch videos about it.
No Thorracle and no hullbreacher. Is it xmas? This was the best game BY FAR. No idea what was going to happen next and everyone masterfully piloted their decks. Bravo gentlemen
Slight error at 12:50 Even though the Land does not go to the graveyard, Assassins trophy still "destroys" it so Pyro should have a basic land out untapped
Welcome Cal to his first gameplay episode! His nerves were so bad, he kept what was easily the worst 7 of his life and then misplayed it!
Yes, but Cal is cool as hell, so it doesn't matter if his debut game isn't perfect.
He drew from Rashmi the turn he played her of that preordain,. wich is not the first spell for the turn sins he casted Rashmi,...
Poor Cal. Better luck next time!
@@simonpark6889 But did he? It looked to me like he simply scried 2 and drew from the Preordain. No Rashmi trigger was indicated or shown.
Good playing all around. Looking forward to seeing Cal and Pyro in future episodes 🌶🌶🌶
I love when Ryan just put all of his dice on ishai when mike was just trying to win😂😂
Yeah lol😂
The real winner of this game was Cal's hand motions whenever something spicy was happening
Cal is obviously short for Calzone. An obvious Italian name for an obvious Italian man
Wow- that turn 4 was insane. No spoilers but I'm surprised at how efficiently Pyro's deck can protect itself, despite not having access to most of the best interaction in the format.
This is one of my favorite recent games! Between Mike and Pyro’s interaction war, Ryan just saying “screw it” and dumping all of his dice on Ishai, and Cal FINALLY making his gameplay debut, I couldn’t stop smiling as I watched every play!
really impressive corpse dance lines. i’m taking notes for playing my korvold deck
Amazing game. I love Pyro's plays the last few games I've seen him. He is quickly becoming my favourite behind Folger.
Our games with Pyro are always crazy!
I love this Kaalia deck! 2 of the most entertaining games have been this one and the last time Pyro brought Kaalia. Chalked full of answers, so good!
This is HANDS DOWN one of the most entertaining, interesting and enjoyable games I have seen lately!
Ishai is SUCH a beast and clearly changes the dynamic of the game...those Sentinels did WORK this game... Hellkite Tyrant is a spicy include...and finally those sweeeeeet Dockside/Witness lines!
Man.. I could go on and on and on!
What a blast!
I'm glad that Ryan, even after dumping out his dice collection into his creature, continued to tick the die up.
The elking of ishai was definitely questionable when the Rashmi player was probably the least threatening person up to that point. Korvold can just win games from nothing just like this game showed.
This channel is easily one of the most well kempt and groomed channels on this app. Clean edits, witty jargon, enthusiastic voice overs, exceptional explanations, you lot certainly have my vote as the king of the edh table.
Games like this showcase two things to me:
One is how you perfectly explain though a visual aid on why Ad nauseam is considered cedh. I never thought of the card for edh at all until I saw just how many cards it draws.
Two is I am super glad only blue has a lab maniac win line that wants an empty library.
WOW WHAT AN INCREDIBLE GAME! Holy cow, that winning line was amazing, that deck is really something else
About 12:54
Ryan probably put all dice on earth on his commander. Hilarious move.
Pyro always have all the answers, notice, always he participates the games go nuts
Question for Cal (as someone who recently built Rashmi, myself): When I saw the opening hand, my expected sequencing was t1 Vault, t2 Rashmi, t3 Carpet and draw. Now that does allow for interaction on turns one or two, but the opening draw contained no interaction, anyway. Can you explain why you sequenced Carpet first, which does not allow for a t2 Rashmi, and still does not allow for t2 interaction?
My thought here, though, is that the sequencing I had in mind nets you an extra card, and makes your tap out turn earlier, both of which seem like wins in my mind, but I have, like 2-3 total Rashmi games under my belt, so I am not assuming I am right and you are wrong, I just want to know why I am wrong.
Hey! Honestly, I just completely misplayed. As far as I remember, that was my original plan with that (horrible) keep, and then I just... didn't do it. It 100% should have been played how you described it.
@@PlayingWithPowerMTG Thanks for the reply! All good, we all have those moments. Glad to finally see you on a gameplay episode!
C'mon, Mike... there comes a point where you let Pyro win for having just about every answer. Pyro didn't deserve all that!
There's never a point where you let someone just win for having some answers, this is cEDH! Everyone is playing to win equally and I think it's just as impressive that Mike found all the ways to work around Pyro's answers. That's why Mike deserves the win and not Pyro
I love how Ryan got to the point where it’s like screw it bird is all dice
Pyros fight in the end, I loved that ^_^ well played everyone
Wow what an amazing game! Pyro really hung in there and did everything possible to get another turn. What a crazy ending. Love the interaction.
Wow finally got to see Kaalia showdown again, Pyro deck always seems so hot, he always have the answer to interact 🤣 Love the content!
This is so cool. I’m a relatively new and pretty terrible commander player, and I never watch gameplay because it’s so hard for me to keep track of all that’s going on, what with creators just assuming you know what the cards do. Yet even at this level of gameplay, you took the time and effort to show triggers, the stack, and each play in a clear way. I’ve always been so intimidated by cEDH because it seems so intimidating to a newer player, but this was the only mtg gameplay video I’ve ever truly understood. Thank you so much. That korvold deck is sick and once i’ve got the piloting skills, I’ll assemble it myself :)
Thanks! That’s so great to hear. Best of luck!
I have never seen someone on this channel fight so hard to win. Especially against someone who seemed to have an answer for everything.
Me watching the Korvold turn: oh we’re only at 10 min and there’s 6 min left. Maybe he fizzles. 5 min later NVM lol
I was just thinking about how people should really keep hands with more mana sources, especially when playing control. Really like Cal's opener for this one
I honestly think it's a pretty bad hand, but that's just because there's like... one too many mana sources. If there had even been a cantrip or some kind of interaction in there, I think its a very defensible keep, but its a bit of a rough one as is. - Cal
@@PlayingWithPowerMTG Cal this is not how you change the narrative on this >:(
That was incredible 👏, I play korvold as well and have fizzled because I couldn't see the lines at times, don't think I would have found that one ! Congrats on an awesome video!!
Epic! I thought for sure Pyro would get another turn there
Hell of a game! All those dice on Ishai made me lol
Pyro playing 4D chess in a wormhole. What a freakin game. Also I love treasure strom. Definitely next deck I'm making
Best was the subtle kajillion dice on ishai. If only fling was in hand lmao 😂
12:52 = the 10/10 moment I built Ishai for!
Just a nitpick... "fizzle" isn't the correct term when "can't be countered" effects are taken into account: Force of Will still resolves, it just doesn't do anything.
This would be relevant if, for example, instead of Force of Will, that was a Pact of Negation: the spell isn't countered, but the player will still have to pay for Pact in their next upkeep.
Happened to me the last time we played. The feeling of paying for a pact that did absolutely nothing is not great, not gonna lie :D
The spell doesn't fizzle but the spells effect does fizzle. The terminology is correct.
@@TheSpiritombsableye Fizzle isn't an official term since the 6th edition rule change, so technically you can use it however you want. But prior to said rule change it was the official term for a spell/abillity not resolving because the target was missing/illegal, and it's still used like that in the community today. So it's a bit confusing if you use it any other way (like in the video)
@@TomGalonska, and mill wasn't an official term for over 20 years. What's your point?
@@TheSpiritombsableye The point is, that "fizzling" has a very defined meaning for most players that differs from the use in this video. What happened in the video is NOT a spell "fizzling" under pre 6th edition rules. What was your point with "mill"?
I love Final Fortune so much, it was so satisfying to see it finish off the game against that Angel's Grace!
Love seeing a Korvold win! Awesome game for sure🏆😄
That Oko elk decision probably should always be the Korvold player. Great game.
I play against a friend’s Rashmi deck a lot. We play High Power-cEDH level, and he literally has bore them all out as a win con. Basically just grinding value and countering others wincons. Depending on the table, no one has enough aggro to just kill them and we just FF once a game goes past an hour mark. He enjoys it and we accept it as it’ll basically win over time with a Nexus Loop anyways.
3 players cant chip away one Rashmi player? Time to put some.. idk Tarmogoyfs in your deck or something cause this sounds ridiculous xD
Doesn't sound that cedh to me.
I love pile of dice dumped on Ishai at the end lol
dude, I keep liking kaliaa more with the absurd hatecards she brings that no one plays around xD
That was the best game of EDH I’ve seen in a long time.
Yaaaaay, Korvold winning the game. I have him also built. I also run the Dualcaster Mage/Twin Flame combo
Welcome to PWP, Cal!
What a crazy ending! Loved it!
That was awesome! Loved seeing Korvy pop off like that
I like Mike's korvold build. I have a similar plan with mine. But I might swap out some of my wincons with some cards he uses.
12:52 -lmao Ryan is hilarious
That was a sick storm turn by mike
The Ishai dice count at the end made me laugh so hard.
whoa what a sick win. love the content fellas, keep em coming
Wow the spicy Korvold combos are just mmmmm scrumptious
Until the summary I didn't even realize it was only turn FOUR!
Holy shit.
"I have infinite mana."
"Okay, but you can't kill me."
"Okay, I'll blow up all your permanents."
"Actually, you can't do that either."
"Sigh. Okay, guess I'll just exile ALL your libraries, attack all of you for infinity, then pass the turn to MYSELF (with Final Fortune) so that you don't die by draw step, you die because *I* killed you with a Deathrite activation."
"Yup, that'll kill ya. Gg."
No food chain, no Thassa. This might be my favorite game of all time.
13:14 the counters on ishai are hilarious
Lmao I died when all the dice went on ishai 😂
Damn that was a crazy game. SOOO much interaction
The hermit Druid is typing😂
That was some mad pivoting on the last step to keep the win
Love the ishai counters at the end lol
Incredible game, so many loops and responses make cEDH
I am awestruck at that last turn
The pile of dice on Ishai was pretty funny
Absolutely love korvold. That is my cedh deck I play. Been messing around with treasure storm or food chain list.
Even amongst my beloved Jund, Korvold is king
Yes. Been waiting for Jeskishai
well, I guess that is what you would call *thoroughly* winning the game there by Mike... that's what, three or four different ways he won at the same time?
I tried! 😂
Bitter ordeal could be a pretty good alternative wincon in Mike's Korvold build 🤷♂️ Like the deck alot as is though!!
Probably my favourite win ever!
A Korvold list without Food Chain? Count me in!
Swords could have exiled dockside before the treasures got created, which would have prevented most of the shenanigans.
I watched this video and thought "DAMN! I need Corpse Dance in my Korvold deck!"
So naturally I went to cardmarket and spend my money on a Demonic Tutor, a Worldly Tutor and a City of Brass... God damn xD
Mike also could've cast all of the opponents cards. In an online game, that's not that fun, but in paper i would've done that, for sure :D
I 100% would’ve done it in paper!
Amazing video! I was curious what card Mike cut for Ancient Stirrings in the Korvold deck vs the one linked.
Nature’s claim
Looks like Mike cast a Nature's Claim @10:27 on the Rhystic Study. Regardless this Korvold deck is sweet, I play a list based closely to this and Braden's list with a Chain of Smog package. Love the content 👌
It was a natures claim, just misspoke there.
Ah! No worries, I just got excited there for a second about the potential of testing a new card 😅
It’s like Pyro is throwing his cards down in disgust 😂
Man, that was a helluva win
love the alliteration on this one
Oh man that opening hand. Atleast it’ll be hard to miss a land drop?
Man this was a crazy one!
OMG Cal
I wish I could get that many lands in hand 🤌
when Angel's Grace and Boros charm can't get you one more untap step you know its a good game
Mike is a MONSTER of a pilot. Really well played!
Wow! What an amazing game! Bravo to everyone
so besides white and blue, what does Ishai provide?
1st congrats to Mike, nice game handling.
2nd did Kaalia ever have won a cEDH round? 😅
Great game, thanks for sharing 👍🏻
13:15 ishai lmao
The dice had me rolling
Did I miss something? Why did the Swords fizzle? All his permanents are only protected by Veil, which doesn't protect against white spells.
Dockside was sacrificed to Culling the Weak, and since the target is no longer on board Swords fizzles
What did I miss? @4:50 mark
Ryan - Mystical Tutor ephemerate to top of lib.
Ryan - In upkeep, pass priority
Pyro - Silence
How does Ryan cast ephemerate from the top of his library??
I cast Silence, and didn't pay for his Esper Sentinel trigger, which allowed him to draw a card.
@@pyro1581 ah ok thanks! 🙏
What about an episode where you create a cedh deck on a budget of $100 to play commander nights events?
There is alot of opportunity for new brews every week. I think alot of people would love to watch videos about it.
No Thorracle and no hullbreacher. Is it xmas? This was the best game BY FAR. No idea what was going to happen next and everyone masterfully piloted their decks. Bravo gentlemen
That was 4 turns? it felt like 7 with seeing all those lands out
Can I use Misdirection on Villainous Wealth in 1v1 ?
tfw when you have 247 +1/+1 counters on you commander and still lose
whew! over an hour and only 4 turns!
Pyro is a man after my own heart
Why did Pyro not cast the sword with the Dockside trigger on the stack, to deny the cards and mana with Dockside still on the field?
Wouldn’t the trigger still resolve?
All those counters on Mike's Ishai...
Oko the bird! Always
Slight error at 12:50
Even though the Land does not go to the graveyard, Assassins trophy still "destroys" it so Pyro should have a basic land out untapped
How could u play the ephemerate during the upkeep if mystical tutor puts it on top of the library?
Drew it through esper sentinel
@@PlayingWithPowerMTG ah. I can see how I missed that. Thanks for the clarification
Pyro bringing the heat!