I have Faerie Artisans in my Yarok deck, whats fun is that when a enemy plays a creature, faerie artisans gets doubble triggerd and makes me two creatures tokens, then, if that creature had a ETB effect, those get doubbled aswel, so i end up with 4 ETB effects from a single creature drop!
@@NitpickingNerds yea when i was putting my Yarok deck together, i suddenly realized that yarok doubbles the effects of cards that i own but my opoment triggerd, like Sire of Stagnation, my opoment plays a land, i draw 4 cards hihi
Couple notable cards you guys didn't mention. Retraced Image, 1 mana Ramp spell in blue. Fumble. Meta dependant, but great way to steal your opponent's SoF&F, skullclamp, etc. Paired with Arcane Lighthouse and you can steal lightning greaves, swiftfoot boots, whispersilk cloak, etc. Also can protect your own creature in voltron, while moving any equipment aura to another creature
Note that Infinite Reflection can target any creature, so if an opponent has a Grave Titan and you enchant it with this, only your creatures will be GT and not theirs, and only your creatures will ETB as GT and not theirs
Ertai's meddling is a great counterspell. it doesn't technically counter the spell, so it can hit uncounterable stuff. also, if it's hitting countermagic, the spell goes off during their upkeep with nothing to target, so they don't get it back. it stays exiled because they can't cast it. It's also not suspend, so if it counters a creature, it doesn't gain haste. It's a nice card to have when you're comboing off against a control player. They'd love to use counterflux or dovin's veto or overwhelming denial to uncounterably counter your combo. Ertai's meddling definitely.... meddles with that plan.
My hidden blue gem is See the Truth. It is very strong with a lot of good commanders (Kess, Taigam, Melek, Elsha etc.), I don't understand why it doesn't see more play.
Great video. I've been meaning yo get a Faerie Artisan for my Braids deck, but I hadn't thought about Flow of Ideas! Seems really nice. Another underplayed blue card that I really like is Insight: if at least two people in your pod are playing green, it can be even better than Rhystic Study.
I love Parallel Thoughts! I remember once I used it to draw out removal and thin out my combo deck. When I told people what it did they immediately assumed I'd be putting my combo pieces in there, when in reality it was seven lands. It got exiled next turn and put the other players at ease thinking they disabled my deck, giving me the time I needed to combo off.
My undervalued blue card from commander is Soratami Savant.. having mana leak on demand can absolutely paralyze your opponents and in my Tatyova deck where I always have an excess of lands the cost isn't that taxing
I'm surprised you guys picked so many 5 and 6 cmc spells. My pick for blue secret tech is Mirror Mockery and it can do everything from protect you from a Blightsteel attack, stealing a copy of an opponent's etb on attack, and my favorite, slap it on a Scourge of Fleets to clear the way for big boi on attack!
One card I enjoy but don't see often is Trickbind. I myself only run it in one deck currently but I'm thinking of picking up a few more after some good experiences. It may just be better in higher power level decks or could depend on the meta. I've just almost always found a use for it in my hand. You can stop Zur from finding junk, stop an Aetherflux Reservoir or you can find out what counterspells your friend's have when they forget what split second does.
Oh. My. God. I donate reflections goes insane in a volo deck. You have a ton of creatures with great eyes, you NEVER have to worry about the tribe thing and then you get a token which has the etb so you get the etb from the enchanted creature AND the one you just casted
Flow of ideas be going straight into Charrix. I usually have quite a few islands out for pumping charrix so definitely a powerhouse in that deck. Thanks for the recs!
Faerie artisan, if It works how I think it works, is amazing with Yorion, since blinking Faerie artisan creates a *new* instance of Faerie Artisan, and it hasn't created any tokens before, you can keep all previous created tokens.
Okay, this list has a lot of utility. Never seen most of these. Commandeer really seems like a powerhouse card and Keep Watch must be the ultimate budget draw power.
Keep watch has been one of my favourite gem cards for years. Found a huge pile of them in a charity shop and I've been giving them out like candy to my playgroup ever since
We going in the WUBRG order? Works for me. Question though regarding multi color cards, will this categories be getting multiple parts given how complex in size and scope they are, or will you be doing shards, and guilds for each multi color instead? Thanks for the work and keep it up!
Flow of ideas gets really good in decks that lowers its cost and infinite reflections is great in sonic landfall decks. Oh look at all my avenger of zendikars.
FWIW, I run Parallel thoughts in my Gavi Cycling deck and its a straight bomb; being able to cycle into the cards. Theres also a huge head game with it if you play with the same people alot. I usually pick 7 lands and then draw them when I need them. That way someone might waste a removal spell on 7 lands. Then, if people stop removing it becayse you always do 7 lands, you can put 7 bombs in and smash. Amazing card
I'd like to recommend my favorite secret tech, it's a 1 mana blue counterspell from Weatherlight, it's around 30 cents. It sees play in 1% of blue decks on edhrec. Abjure! -------------------------------------- Abjure U Instant As an additional cost to cast Abjure Sacrifice a Blue Permanent Counter Target Spell --------------------------------------- No one expects Abjure. I run it in almost every mono or dual color blue deck I have (Dimir has especially good symmetry with it) Recommended commanders for it Narfi, Betrayer King Breya Etherium Shaper (those thopters are blue bois) Keiga, The TIde Star (Oh the opponent looses a spell, AND a creature?) Deekah, Fractal Theorist (Similiar to Breya, though admittedly weaker) Ukkima, Stalking Shadow Toothy, Imaginary Friend Baral, Chief of Compliance Fun cards to combo with it: Hatching Plans Nevermaker Reality Acid Thalakos Seer Any blue permanent with a leaves the battlefield trigger.
Stolen Identity isn't a bad card, but it's a hilariously funny card in a Talrand deck. Imagine the look on your opponent's face when you make a copy of their big Eldrazi, add a Drake, then imprint the spell on Drake that can attack (which he probably can't block, since it's flying), then you maybe add another token or two from Metallurgical Summonings or Shark Typhoon, and THEN, then, you get a 2nd cast of the spell that turn when you hit someone with the imprinted Drake. Then another next turn, if nobody has removed your Drake in horror, realizing you're getting the best creature on the field every turn, and a Drake for giggles. I actually view it as a win con, because if it isn't actually answered, it will take over most games quickly, even if I wasn't doing very well usually. TBH, in Talrand or some spells-matter decks, imprint is a decent mechanic. Hidden Strings can untap your stuff (making it a free cast ffs, possibly better than free) with each cast, and Hands of Binding can tie up something you don't like quite nicely. You do need creatures, but if you can make flying ones, or have unblockable creatures, then at least some are worth considering I'd argue.
Congrats on the 11k!! . Keep up the good work!! Commandeer is super expensive right now, i used it a couple of times and it always end up with subpar results, waiting for the big spell to happen or using it on the wrong one. Faerie artisans is so good with Kels: copy, sac, draw.
Just want to throw out something on commandeer that you guys didn't mention, probably because it's so obvious, but still worth mentioning outright... the downside to commandeer is way less in blue when you are drawing lots of cards. I use it in my Eligeth/Krark deck where the win condition is literally based around car draw, and dumping two cards is nothing. It's a great card, and in the right deck it's absolute gravy.
Retraced image is my favourite blue ramp. I had four lands turn two last week thanks to retraced image and wayfarer's bauble. Its almost never bad, later in the game the mana you tap for it is just replaced.
Wouldn't Parallel Thoughts replace the second part of the Brainstorm effect? Like instead of putting two back, you would just draw all three from the exiled seven. So basically Ancestral Recall lmao.
You know what deck faerie artisans are hilarious in? Lazav, dimir mastermind. They cast a creature? You get one. A creature goes in their graveyard? You can turn Lazav into it. They're screwed either way.
Late to the party, as usual. But yeah just gonna point out how insane Faerie Artisans is in Adrix and Nev, since every time that it triggers you get two copies of that creature, and you only have to exile the one that was created specifically by Faerie Artisans if I’m understanding the rulings correctly. Not to mention using Esix Fractal Bloom to make each entering creature a copy of Faerie Artisans, and then I don’t think either of the tokens leave since technically Esix created the tokens instead
One of my favorite black cards is chains of mephistopheles. Don't know why it's not a more popular card. High price is too much for a large portion of the players.
I got Infinite Reflections for a budget win con in Muldrotha, but I'm thinking it will turn into a Scute Swarm type effect on Murmuring Mystic in Octavia cantrip tribal.
Question about Faerie Artisans. So, presumably when this triggers it doesn't exile all tokens made by OTHER Faerie Artisans. So as long as you FLICKER FA between triggers, you would get to keep all the tokens, right? Also Faerie Artisans + Yarok = when any opponent plays something with an ETB trigger you get 4x the trigger (double FA trigger=2 tokens, each token ALSO double ETB triggers). Skeet.
The reason some of the cards you feature don't see use in EDH yet are expensive, is that they're much more in demand in other competitive formats such as Legacy.
Great video!!! My vote goes for Vodalian Mage from Fallen Empires. Cool artwork and is only in 83 decks. It's a nice bluff card or can be used as a counter spell on a stick for 1 blue mana. "Will you pay the one?" LOL
If my Granddaughter has a Keep Watch in hand against my Goblins deck that attacks with like 20 goblins at a time. She should be able to have a response
Retracted Image is like another mitotic manipulation for 1 that puts the card into play from your hand instead of the top 7. Works as a 1 mana ramp spell that pays for itself
How can I build a “casual deck” I always built decks with infinite combos, low mana cost and a bunch of tutors. I built a naban wizard tribal deck with no tutors and no infinite combos. It’s kinda hard to dumb down a deck and know you’re dumbing it down.
We made a rule in our play group so we could only build decks using a 200 dollar budget as long as we didn't insert any cheap cEDH wincons (ie. consultation oracle, WGD, commanders being used exclusively as combo pieces, and pretty much any other combo which requires less than 8 mana to execute). Anything else was fair game: stax, extra turns, free counter magic, tutors, land destruction, etc. Honestly, it worked pretty well for our game group and I found a lot of cool cards I wouldn't have otherwise considered for my decks. One thing though is that we might consider lowering the budget, since a lot of "staples" have been reprinted lately, dropping their price and making it easy to jam some really powerful cards into our decks (primarily Cyclonic Rift and Toxic Deluge). I have actually taken some of the decks I built for our pod and started to gradually increase their power level, while trying to keep the base strategy intact, so you can play around and see what works for different playgroups.
"It's a 2 mana Rampant Growth "...uh, it's a double blue and one generic mana 3 costed Rampant Growth. Not a bad card, but in Commander, your inclusion of this was a bit of a stretch in all practical terms.
Overburden is ridiculous in an Urza, Lord High Artificer Deck because you get out so far ahead of your opponent anyways with all the artifact tap for mana you can do and to answer your steadly growing army of artifacts they have to play creatures and you just bounce their lands slowing them down even further LOL. Of course playing urza already makes you a target in group play given his strengths so be careful on drawing too much attention to yourself LOL
@@NitpickingNerds I'll also have to look into running mitotic manipulation. I love playing in mono-blue or blue white control and dont have much in the way of color ramp spells in either so finding out about this card is amazing!
These are the same guys that dubbed Zendikar Resurgent straight up unplayable. They labeled it as a card that should not be played in any decks, just for the record.
I have Faerie Artisans in my Yarok deck, whats fun is that when a enemy plays a creature, faerie artisans gets doubble triggerd and makes me two creatures tokens, then, if that creature had a ETB effect, those get doubbled aswel, so i end up with 4 ETB effects from a single creature drop!
That's so much value that the opponent should probably just not play their creatures lol
@@NitpickingNerds yea when i was putting my Yarok deck together, i suddenly realized that yarok doubbles the effects of cards that i own but my opoment triggerd, like Sire of Stagnation, my opoment plays a land, i draw 4 cards hihi
My god... You're right! That's a scary interaction
Same, I like this card on ita own but in Yarok it rocks
That was my first thought. Glad it's working out for you. Gonna have to find a slot for it.
Faerie Artisans doesn't just get ETB's, it also gets things like Spore Frog and Sakura Tribe Elder
True true, we could have gone even farther with praising it 😂
Spoon goood in brudiclad
pretty confident overburden price went up cuz Chulane works so well with it
Oh maybe, might have been some cedh price shenanigans
Infinite Reflections of meteorite golem looks like fun idea...
That’s even sweet on the budget
Couple notable cards you guys didn't mention.
Retraced Image, 1 mana Ramp spell in blue.
Fumble. Meta dependant, but great way to steal your opponent's SoF&F, skullclamp, etc. Paired with Arcane Lighthouse and you can steal lightning greaves, swiftfoot boots, whispersilk cloak, etc.
Also can protect your own creature in voltron, while moving any equipment aura to another creature
Note that Infinite Reflection can target any creature, so if an opponent has a Grave Titan and you enchant it with this, only your creatures will be GT and not theirs, and only your creatures will ETB as GT and not theirs
Its only been a few days and yall are cruising to 20k! The momentum! It's building! Love watching yall grow, keep up the awesomeness!
YES we are very excited to see the snowball start rolling!
Ertai's meddling is a great counterspell. it doesn't technically counter the spell, so it can hit uncounterable stuff.
also, if it's hitting countermagic, the spell goes off during their upkeep with nothing to target, so they don't get it back. it stays exiled because they can't cast it.
It's also not suspend, so if it counters a creature, it doesn't gain haste.
It's a nice card to have when you're comboing off against a control player. They'd love to use counterflux or dovin's veto or overwhelming denial to uncounterably counter your combo.
Ertai's meddling definitely.... meddles with that plan.
Shimmer dragon works well in most decks in blue without green bc you need mana rocks anyways and if you aren’t needing the mana it’s just draw.
Totally; card is super sweet
Is the Dragon banging the castle?!
@@hartspunken4830 nah just keeping its jewels safe 😏
My hidden blue gem is See the Truth. It is very strong with a lot of good commanders (Kess, Taigam, Melek, Elsha etc.), I don't understand why it doesn't see more play.
Yeah it's a nice one, and it's super budget too!
Currently building a Baral deck and this couldn't have come at a better time.
Looking forward to Project Banana Split!!!
Awesome to hear, which ones will you be trying out?
Great video. I've been meaning yo get a Faerie Artisan for my Braids deck, but I hadn't thought about Flow of Ideas! Seems really nice. Another underplayed blue card that I really like is Insight: if at least two people in your pod are playing green, it can be even better than Rhystic Study.
I love Parallel Thoughts! I remember once I used it to draw out removal and thin out my combo deck. When I told people what it did they immediately assumed I'd be putting my combo pieces in there, when in reality it was seven lands. It got exiled next turn and put the other players at ease thinking they disabled my deck, giving me the time I needed to combo off.
I love Beezy's commitment to the bit on not acknowledging Joe is the one his Faerie Artisans was hosing. Classic.
My undervalued blue card from commander is Soratami Savant.. having mana leak on demand can absolutely paralyze your opponents and in my Tatyova deck where I always have an excess of lands the cost isn't that taxing
I'm surprised you guys picked so many 5 and 6 cmc spells. My pick for blue secret tech is Mirror Mockery and it can do everything from protect you from a Blightsteel attack, stealing a copy of an opponent's etb on attack, and my favorite, slap it on a Scourge of Fleets to clear the way for big boi on attack!
Mana Maze is my secret tech. Opponents can't counter any spell on your turn. Slows the game way down. Very good for any stax type of deck.
Mind Spring can be Muddle the Mixtured and Spellseekered.
One card I enjoy but don't see often is Trickbind. I myself only run it in one deck currently but I'm thinking of picking up a few more after some good experiences. It may just be better in higher power level decks or could depend on the meta. I've just almost always found a use for it in my hand. You can stop Zur from finding junk, stop an Aetherflux Reservoir or you can find out what counterspells your friend's have when they forget what split second does.
I expressly watched this video to make sure you told everyone about Parallel Thoughts. Thank you.
Energy Flux is my favorite blue card
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Oh. My. God. I donate reflections goes insane in a volo deck. You have a ton of creatures with great eyes, you NEVER have to worry about the tribe thing and then you get a token which has the etb so you get the etb from the enchanted creature AND the one you just casted
It's a strange world when Faerie Artisans is a hidden gem.
Right? It feels like a recent release too
Flow of ideas be going straight into Charrix. I usually have quite a few islands out for pumping charrix so definitely a powerhouse in that deck. Thanks for the recs!
It will be SO good for you!
Faerie artisan, if It works how I think it works, is amazing with Yorion, since blinking Faerie artisan creates a *new* instance of Faerie Artisan, and it hasn't created any tokens before, you can keep all previous created tokens.
Okay, this list has a lot of utility. Never seen most of these. Commandeer really seems like a powerhouse card and Keep Watch must be the ultimate budget draw power.
Hey thanks, glad to be able to bring them to your attention :D
Keep watch has been one of my favourite gem cards for years. Found a huge pile of them in a charity shop and I've been giving them out like candy to my playgroup ever since
Hell yeah Arby's, I'll have a number one with a blue Powerade
We going in the WUBRG order? Works for me. Question though regarding multi color cards, will this categories be getting multiple parts given how complex in size and scope they are, or will you be doing shards, and guilds for each multi color instead? Thanks for the work and keep it up!
This is great I might throw a few of these in my mono blue buget deck
If you're mono blue and budget I 100% recommend the cheap ones from this list
@@NitpickingNerds yes indeed
Flow of ideas gets really good in decks that lowers its cost and infinite reflections is great in sonic landfall decks. Oh look at all my avenger of zendikars.
I'm so glad others besides me know of the epic and absolute wonderful Commandeer
That card is totally awesommmme!
FWIW, I run Parallel thoughts in my Gavi Cycling deck and its a straight bomb; being able to cycle into the cards.
Theres also a huge head game with it if you play with the same people alot. I usually pick 7 lands and then draw them when I need them. That way someone might waste a removal spell on 7 lands.
Then, if people stop removing it becayse you always do 7 lands, you can put 7 bombs in and smash. Amazing card
I play most of these, except the monoblue deck cards. Overburden and land equilibrium are great stax pieces which I run in nekusar.
That's an interesting stax commander, don't think I've seen that before
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I'd like to recommend my favorite secret tech, it's a 1 mana blue counterspell from Weatherlight, it's around 30 cents.
It sees play in 1% of blue decks on edhrec.
Abjure!
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Abjure U
Instant
As an additional cost to cast Abjure Sacrifice a Blue Permanent
Counter Target Spell
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No one expects Abjure.
I run it in almost every mono or dual color blue deck I have (Dimir has especially good symmetry with it)
Recommended commanders for it
Narfi, Betrayer King
Breya Etherium Shaper (those thopters are blue bois)
Keiga, The TIde Star (Oh the opponent looses a spell, AND a creature?)
Deekah, Fractal Theorist (Similiar to Breya, though admittedly weaker)
Ukkima, Stalking Shadow
Toothy, Imaginary Friend
Baral, Chief of Compliance
Fun cards to combo with it:
Hatching Plans
Nevermaker
Reality Acid
Thalakos Seer
Any blue permanent with a leaves the battlefield trigger.
Imagine the math after casting infinite reflections on a gisela, the broken blade
Just make sure you can survive the legend rule lol
Infinite reflections on a biovisionary is the chad play I always go for
I was literally just looking for new blue cards for my Talrand deck 😄
Nice! Find anything you might use?
Stolen Identity isn't a bad card, but it's a hilariously funny card in a Talrand deck. Imagine the look on your opponent's face when you make a copy of their big Eldrazi, add a Drake, then imprint the spell on Drake that can attack (which he probably can't block, since it's flying), then you maybe add another token or two from Metallurgical Summonings or Shark Typhoon, and THEN, then, you get a 2nd cast of the spell that turn when you hit someone with the imprinted Drake. Then another next turn, if nobody has removed your Drake in horror, realizing you're getting the best creature on the field every turn, and a Drake for giggles. I actually view it as a win con, because if it isn't actually answered, it will take over most games quickly, even if I wasn't doing very well usually.
TBH, in Talrand or some spells-matter decks, imprint is a decent mechanic. Hidden Strings can untap your stuff (making it a free cast ffs, possibly better than free) with each cast, and Hands of Binding can tie up something you don't like quite nicely. You do need creatures, but if you can make flying ones, or have unblockable creatures, then at least some are worth considering I'd argue.
@@NitpickingNerds Keep Watch is a budget gem for sure in Talrand.
My favorite mono blue card is Ugin’s Insight. I know it’s not very good, but I like it
Hey liking a card is one of the most important things!
Note: you can attach Infinite Reflection onto an opponent's creature. So at worse, it's a bad clone... and makes your whole team the same clone.
Yeah it could allow for some huge swings!
Congrats on the 11k!! . Keep up the good work!!
Commandeer is super expensive right now, i used it a couple of times and it always end up with subpar results, waiting for the big spell to happen or using it on the wrong one.
Faerie artisans is so good with Kels: copy, sac, draw.
Thank you! We have been impressed with Commandeer, mostly in heavy blue decks
A Grixis player once Cruel Ultimatum'd me, so I Commandeered it back at his face to show dominance.
Anything named Mitotic is going in my deck!
Oh wow what a bizarre standard 😂
I just want to win with Infinite Reflection and Biovisionary now
Just want to throw out something on commandeer that you guys didn't mention, probably because it's so obvious, but still worth mentioning outright... the downside to commandeer is way less in blue when you are drawing lots of cards. I use it in my Eligeth/Krark deck where the win condition is literally based around car draw, and dumping two cards is nothing. It's a great card, and in the right deck it's absolute gravy.
Retraced image is my favourite blue ramp. I had four lands turn two last week thanks to retraced image and wayfarer's bauble. Its almost never bad, later in the game the mana you tap for it is just replaced.
I have Overburden in my single-creature deck, Astaxa.
Wouldn't Parallel Thoughts replace the second part of the Brainstorm effect? Like instead of putting two back, you would just draw all three from the exiled seven.
So basically Ancestral Recall lmao.
Nah unfortunately you put two back wether you draw or not. Hullbreacher blew out brainstorms all the time when it was legal.
Holy cow they did it! Anakin I have the high ground !
YOU UNDERESTIMATE OUR POWER
You know what deck faerie artisans are hilarious in? Lazav, dimir mastermind. They cast a creature? You get one. A creature goes in their graveyard? You can turn Lazav into it. They're screwed either way.
Another great blue spell that doesn't get a lot of play is desertion. Just yoink their stuff on cast so they get no etb.
My secret tech is time stop. It's a counter, it's a fog, it's a time walk, it's incredible
Kind of like teferi's protection, for a turn
I have a overburden in my Tatsunari deck & Faerie artisans in my Arcum Dagsson deck.
Keep watch and flow of ideas do seem like a couple I might try out nice job guys
Especially Flow 😍
Late to the party, as usual. But yeah just gonna point out how insane Faerie Artisans is in Adrix and Nev, since every time that it triggers you get two copies of that creature, and you only have to exile the one that was created specifically by Faerie Artisans if I’m understanding the rulings correctly. Not to mention using Esix Fractal Bloom to make each entering creature a copy of Faerie Artisans, and then I don’t think either of the tokens leave since technically Esix created the tokens instead
Commandeer is neat because it can be silly endgame OR stop That Guy from comboing off turn one.
One of my favorite black cards is chains of mephistopheles. Don't know why it's not a more popular card. High price is too much for a large portion of the players.
I got Infinite Reflections for a budget win con in Muldrotha, but I'm thinking it will turn into a Scute Swarm type effect on Murmuring Mystic in Octavia cantrip tribal.
Question about Faerie Artisans. So, presumably when this triggers it doesn't exile all tokens made by OTHER Faerie Artisans. So as long as you FLICKER FA between triggers, you would get to keep all the tokens, right? Also Faerie Artisans + Yarok = when any opponent plays something with an ETB trigger you get 4x the trigger (double FA trigger=2 tokens, each token ALSO double ETB triggers).
Skeet.
Good point about flickering the Artisans to keep your precious tokens! And yeah Yarok brings that card to a whole different level
The reason some of the cards you feature don't see use in EDH yet are expensive, is that they're much more in demand in other competitive formats such as Legacy.
Great video!!! My vote goes for Vodalian Mage from Fallen Empires. Cool artwork and is only in 83 decks. It's a nice bluff card or can be used as a counter spell on a stick for 1 blue mana. "Will you pay the one?" LOL
Cephalid Coliseum used only at 3%, it's a better Island that you can sac to make a player Loot 3. It should be higher up in decks running blue.
A green item to consider: Nature's Chosen. So simple and flexible, so cheap.
Chulane plays overburden to great effect, which is possibly why it went up some.
What about Retraced Image as blue ramp? Also it's only 1 mana, so easy to cast early game or in your combo turn when High Tide is on.
I play a defensive Nakusar with a sub-mill theme: Propaganda has saved me countless times
Great video fellas! Love the content. Joe cherries rules!!!!
He says thanks!
Flow of ideas is good with effects like prismatic omen. Not sure if it’s worth the slot then but could be good in a lands deck like that.
That's kind of neat, wonder if there's a five color basics matter deck out there !
Overburden is a beast in chulane
If my Granddaughter has a Keep Watch in hand against my Goblins deck that attacks with like 20 goblins at a time. She should be able to have a response
I play keep watch in my talrand deck because my friend always plays my krenko deck because he doesnt have his own deck haha
metagaming at its finest 😂
I cannot believe Fairie Artisan is lowly played. 🙃
What a super awesome card!
What happens if you have Infinite Reflection on a Master of Waves and then clone the master?
Tainted aether is basically black overburden
Retracted Image is like another mitotic manipulation for 1 that puts the card into play from your hand instead of the top 7. Works as a 1 mana ramp spell that pays for itself
Appreciate the awesome content guys! Keep it up!
Thanks for taking the time to comment and we appreciate it!
Long Term Plans! It's a worse vampiric tutor that doesn't cost $100
Just draw some cards and you're ready to go!
@@NitpickingNerds probably some way to draw cards in blue, I'll look into it.
How can I build a “casual deck” I always built decks with infinite combos, low mana cost and a bunch of tutors. I built a naban wizard tribal deck with no tutors and no infinite combos. It’s kinda hard to dumb down a deck and know you’re dumbing it down.
We made a rule in our play group so we could only build decks using a 200 dollar budget as long as we didn't insert any cheap cEDH wincons (ie. consultation oracle, WGD, commanders being used exclusively as combo pieces, and pretty much any other combo which requires less than 8 mana to execute). Anything else was fair game: stax, extra turns, free counter magic, tutors, land destruction, etc. Honestly, it worked pretty well for our game group and I found a lot of cool cards I wouldn't have otherwise considered for my decks. One thing though is that we might consider lowering the budget, since a lot of "staples" have been reprinted lately, dropping their price and making it easy to jam some really powerful cards into our decks (primarily Cyclonic Rift and Toxic Deluge).
I have actually taken some of the decks I built for our pod and started to gradually increase their power level, while trying to keep the base strategy intact, so you can play around and see what works for different playgroups.
@@Orengi-kun this sounds sweet. Thanks for the help. I’ll bring this up to my play group
Rush of Knowledge seems arguably better than Flow of Ideas!
Another great video guys
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Blueberry beignet was so close. SO very very close.
Yeah Banana Split is way more powerful
Shimmer dragon plus treasure tokens and laugh your way to the bank.
What is the card in the thumbnail ?
I think that Theft of Dreams falls into the same level of playability as Keep Watch
Ehh being a sorcery is a little worse, but maybe
Keep watch is insane with locust god.
Ooo that's some nice synergy!
"It's a 2 mana Rampant Growth "...uh, it's a double blue and one generic mana 3 costed Rampant Growth. Not a bad card, but in Commander, your inclusion of this was a bit of a stretch in all practical terms.
Overburden is ridiculous in an Urza, Lord High Artificer Deck because you get out so far ahead of your opponent anyways with all the artifact tap for mana you can do and to answer your steadly growing army of artifacts they have to play creatures and you just bounce their lands slowing them down even further LOL. Of course playing urza already makes you a target in group play given his strengths so be careful on drawing too much attention to yourself LOL
Sometimes you just say screw it and become the archenemy lol
@@NitpickingNerds I'll also have to look into running mitotic manipulation. I love playing in mono-blue or blue white control and dont have much in the way of color ramp spells in either so finding out about this card is amazing!
Works great in Chulane also :p
Great Video!
Thank you :)
These are the same guys that dubbed Zendikar Resurgent straight up unplayable. They labeled it as a card that should not be played in any decks, just for the record.
What do you guys think of rootwater thief?
It seems a bit too pricey to get going for traditional powered edh
@@NitpickingNerds the thief has become my blue pet card. It goes in everything especially if it doesn’t fit lol
When ya gonna do Black? Huh? Huh?
You'll never guess
Anyone else think the guy on the left looks like a cousin of the guy from Its Always Sunny?
Infinite Reflection has....infinite value.... heh
I approve
Recently discovered Wash Out. 1% of decks.
Not a huge fan, but maybe its meta dependent
@@NitpickingNerds why not? 4 mana and I time walk multiple players. Wreck a mono player. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Land Equilibrium should've been white
Ok Beezy.
Whats up
uhm...texas!
Well said. Expert joke
Yea mitotic manipulation
It's a weird one
@@NitpickingNerds I use it in my mono blue thassa
I ran a play set back in the scars block
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