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We’ve had a premonition! The future holds… a stronger commander deck! This episode we take a look at the Kaldheim “Phantom Premonition” precon deck, and give you our 10-card budget upgrade recommendations to make sure you get the most out of this ghost for $25 or less.
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I would love to see an episode (maybe Extra turns?) where you play these Precons that were upgraded for 25 bucks.
Yes!
Hell yes!!
That’s a phenomenal idea
This would be a lot of fun actually!!
YESSS I AGREE. Especially after having just purchased the cards to upgrade my deck
This deck unaltered is actually really fun for someone like me who never played azorious before. Excited to see what you guys did here.
@@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai Ya Vega will be the better commander down the line it creates a awesome platform for a bunch of different options. Rebound Flashback Jumpstart Retrace Cipher. There are some finally
Jimmy just ignored the draw part of the Ethereal Valkyrie. That thing is pure card advantage with an included mana reduction. It doesn't make your hand smaller.
thank you for this. the cantrip is huge, AND it hits every attack, AND you can blink it, AND you get spirit tokens if Ranar is on the board? one of the best top ends you could play in this deck IMO
Came to say this. When I played this it dominated.
Yeah very clearly missed the part of the card that says 'draw a card'.
The thing is is a house, especially if you're playing it in this deck.
He likely saw it costs 6 mana and doesn't win the game then assumed it was bad.
I think they totally read this deck wrong. For telling itself with the commander is a value engine. What I do not like is the token creation on Renar. It makes you think the deck could go towards tokens. Clunks up the deck IMO
Cards to add:
Cosmos Charger
Glorious Protector
Depart The Realm
Doomskar
Alrund's Epiphany
Shepherd of the Cosmos
Starnheim Unleashed
Mystic Reflection
Amphin Mutineer
Archaeomancer
Peregrine Drake
Lavinia of the Tenth
Eldrazi Displacer
Cosima, God of the Voyage
Reconnaissance Mission
Skullclamp
Ephara, God of the Polis
(Btw some of the cards on there are extra so you do not have to add them. These are all recommendations.)
Cards to take out:
Surtland Elementalist
Day of the Dragons
Storm Herd
Evangel of Heliod
Iron Verdict
Replicating Ring
Arcane Artisan
Mist Raven
Migratory Route
(I only found nine if you see the tenth one tell me in the comments and I will change it)
:D
Same, I was wondering when they didn't mention the last card.
Thank for verifying they only mention 9. I thought I was going crazy. I would cut or kor cartographer.
@@toddkrause197 Or Meteor Golem its 7 Mana for a removal spell and Amphin Mutineer fills in better. Cloudgoat Ranger is a easy cut. It only makes 1/1 Kithkin Soldiers and takes too many resources to get any real use out of it. Even better cut all three add in some of the other suggestions and/or Path to Exile or any other instant speed white exile or blue bounce / counter spells.
I think Josh meant to take out Cloudgoat Ranger, cuz that’s more non-flying tokens that don’t do a ton (and he mentioned taking out more Giants)
I think the tenth card to take out is Hero of Bretagard (that's what I see whith Day of the Dragons when I look at the miniature of the video) ^^ They were not really excited when they talked about it in the new cards section.
@1:05:00 Little do Jimmy and Josh know the lurking chill emanating behind the Replicating Ring and its eight copies.
"And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of men, who, above all else, desire power."
You don't "run out" of cards with Ethereal Valkyrie, it cantrips on ETB and attack into exile. I've found this card to be a value train in my games since most players are as oblivious to it's effects as you guys are and tend to let it stick around for several rounds.
Yea I was thinking the same thing it draws so how can you run out of cards if its helping you draw and foretell
Shh... let's just keep it between us. Lol.
Ive fortelled so many cards because of this card. Its an amazing card especially flickering it with thassa and conjurers closet.
@@rhainex5952 i agree is an amazing card. i tried on my first play of the deck, I was drawing cards and ramping at the same time
It's easily the most powerful card in the deck, it's a one-card engine!
'Rolling over in his grave'. You know Andrew Lloyd-Webber is still alive right?
This is actually something that strikes me so often as weird. I know he's alive, but these musicals feel like they were written in the 1800's. Dissonance, right!
I thought the same thing 😂 funny enough I just watch Phantom of the opera last week.
Still writing too!
I vote that Josh and Jimmy send a public apology to him on TikTok.
When I was in high school (2008 approx), I went into my local record store and saw a poster for a Bob Dylan concert a few months from then in Indianapolis. When the store owner confirmed that Bob Dylan was, in fact, not dead, I felt like Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber when he finds out we landed on the moon.
You're going to get copyright striked with accurate renditions like that
They did arguably better then Emmy Rossum at least.
Azor's gateway, a chef kiss of an addition.
Rest In Peace gets really crazy with this deck.
@Christian Kelly
"When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead."
So Ranar will trigger.
@@lukeisstrange1533 so does that mean that for each card exiled, Ranar creates a +1+1 creature with flying? Or just a single creature every turn when a new card is exiled? Basically I’m wondering if this triggers as a group of cards are exiled or rather on a “per exiled card” basis?
@@_GandalfTheGrey_ It triggers only once for each group of exiled cards bc ranar says "one or more"
So if someone boardwipes while you have ranar and rip out you only get 1 flier
But the cool thing is, that with rip and ranar out you could sac a token infinite times (each instance of saccing triggers ranar seperatly) bc after saccing the token, it instead gets exiled which triggers ranar.
@@lukeisstrange1533 Oh very interesting! And where do the infinite tokens come from?
@@_GandalfTheGrey_
You sac the token to any outlet
Before it stops existing it would still go to the yard but Rest in Peace replaces that with the Exile
Ranar triggers bc we exiled something from our battlefield and makes a 1/1 again
-Repeat-
inb4 next episode when Josh and Jimmy apologize for saying Andrew Loyd Webber is dead 🤣
I was going to say, im pretty sure he is very much alive lol
Ethereal Valkyrie brings the cost of eldrazi down to a reasonable value and adds more of the element of surprise to your foretell pile. If you're looking for dollar rare upgrades, I highly recommend adding Mystifying Maze and Reveillark. Azor the Lawbringer is a great control mechanism as well, preventing your opponents from casting a lot of spells, drawing you cards, and dealing good combat damage. Clever Impersonator will also always be the best permanent on the battlefield with your ability to blink it over and over. Imagine blinking it into various Planeswalkers and getting to use all of their abilities each turn. I'm also surprised you said nothing about karmic guide or deadeye navigator, which are more expensive but below $10 and help give the deck resiliency against board wipes.
I actually turned my Ephara flash/flicker deck into this, so I was happy to see how many suggestions for the deck overlapped with what I was already planning to do. One janky card I really enjoyed in Ephara is Saltskitter though. Free exile and etb triggers (for cards like Ephara and Cathar’s Crusade) basically guaranteed every turn.
5 months late as I only picked this deck up now, but thanks for the mention of Saltskitter! Never heard of it afore, but it's such a curious wee creature that absolutely sings in this deck! One of my favourite aspects of Commander is when somebody drops a real niche card from 14 years ago that nobody recognises!
You guys didnt even notice the "draw a card" part of Ethereal Valkyrie. That card can get nuts, also the ability to just make boardwipes cheaper is insane.
Amphin mutaneer also gives you the option to exile a spirit and get another spirit as well as a 4/3
I am not sure if you want to trade a flyer for a grounded 4/3 but still an option
@@dariocampanella7992 you are not trading since exiling the token gives you a new Flyer you are basically paying 4 for a 3/3 and a 4/3 if you blink the mutaneer you can make 4/3s with the etb without losing flyers
its cool that sage of the beyond reduces some commander taxes also
Wow I didn’t even consider that!
Sage of the Beyond is bonkers in Haldan/Pako
Reduces the cost of both commanders by two, then reduces the cost of the things you cast from exile, as well.
I think the most important card you omitted is Rest in Peace. With Ranar on the battlefield any creature dying will net you a token. Also, with Ashnod's Altar you can go infinite mana by sacing your own tokens which get exiled which triggers Ranar to get more tokens. Rest in Peace is 3 Euro in Europe so it fits the budget quite nicely. Great video as usual.
I might be wrong here, so fact check me, but I think with Archaeomancer and peregrine drake on the battlefield you can get infinite mana with ghostly flicker, which is already in the precon. Pay 3 to flicker both, get it back in hand and 5 mana untapped. Float it all and spend 3 to do it again, infinite mana.
If foretell becomes a commen mechanic like flashback then this commander will become amazing in the future
I hope it does. I've really enjoyed how foretell smooths out early turns. It would be nice if they made a foretell card that searches out a couple lands!
And ethereal Valkyrie will be a powerhouse
I would argue though even with the low print value I would personally say these are the strongest of the mini precons we’ve seen so far out of the box
Aesi can do some very, very silly things out of the box.
Yorion, sky nomad for the fliker part of this deck
What 😲 am doing
literally bought this pre-con last night, wonderful timing!
I also just bought it yesterday, I always wanted to play Azorious without being stax or pure control.
I guess everyone woke up yesterday and decided to buy it because I went and bought it too 😂
I just bought it last week!
This was my very first magic deck, I got it on Saturday. I absolutely love this deck and I’m loving this game
it is indeed fun even though it can get pricey at some times. also how the foretell deck going for you?
They should have reprinted Deadeye Navigator in this deck. Surprised it wasn’t mentioned when they were talking about Eldrazi Displacer as well
Time to learn which cards will get bought out next!
Used this as the base for a Vega the Watcher deck.
Vega should lean more into casting from the graveyard, top of your library ect. Vega goes good in Ranar but Ranar doesn't go well in vega!
@@Bstone410 i mean. I swapped vega out because how nany cards are you expecting to play in foretell with vega out. best 3 or 4. I thought that keep watching cost the same and you have a bunch of flyers so you get maybe the same amount of cards but in one go.
While I don't totally disagree. I have Echo of Eons, Sevinne's Reclamation and Mass Diminish in there along with effects like Precognition Field and God-Eternal Kefnet. A lot of the other cards that cast from graveyard in Azorius felt pretty lackluster, or on the same level as their Foretell counter parts. I get the added benefit of not getting blown out by graveyard hate such as WAR Ashiok or Tormod's.
Been waiting SO LONG for this one, bought it as soon as I could to get pieces for my monowhite deck, but the thing itself deserves to be made into a deck. It's so fun to just go off with it.
Definitely underrated ethereal Valkyrie here. Ive done some work with this card and its an engine on its own. I feel like josh and jimmy did not give enough a credit.
Hey Command Zone. This was the first ever Precon I've ever purchased. I'm new to the magic world and I actually switched Ranar to Brago as my commander which helps the spirit token engine as well. And I haven't switched too man cards.
Wonderful precon I definitely recommend it. I built it, and I'll say for my first Azorius, it's very fun. Primordial Mists is an amazing interaction.
I thought at Ranar as a spirit token generator (with Flicker/Foretell sinergies), so I made a pretty interesting Flicker/Foretell-based Spirit Tribal deck with some strange flying sinergies and it has become one of my all-time favorites! So versatile and quippy!
What did you add if you don’t mind me asking?
@@cautiousowl Well, I changed quite a substantial amount of the cards.
I made a "Spirit Lord package" to make the tokens substantially bigger, with cards like Supreme Phantom, Empyrean Eagle, Rally the Ranks, Drogskol Captain and Rattlechains alongside some other spirit token generator alongside Ranar, like Custodi Soulbinders, Clarion Spirit and Court of Grace; a "Spirit matter" package, with March of Souls, Shacklegeist and generally good spirits like Bygone Byshop, then a "Flicker enablers" package with cards like Ephemerate, Essence Flux, Soulherder, Brago, Deadeye Navigator and Spectral Shepherd alongside a "Flicker payoff" package like Forbidding Spirit, Topplegeist, Spell Queller, Karmic Guide, Nebelgast Herald and Hanged Executioner. A "Foretell package" is just a plus to activate alongside Ranar, specially Etyhereal Valkyrie, Cosmos Charger, Cosmic Intervention, Depart the Realm.
Now, the cards on EDHREC aren't actually 1 on 1 on how I built it myself, but they are looking pretty darn similar.
@@Alessandro-vv2fh yo this was so helpful thank u!
If you add some more foretell cards and some fliers this deck is a force to be reckoned with. Nice thing is foretell cards are mostly cheap
I rock the local game store with this deck. Upgraded of course, stp-Isocronic Scepter-manifold key early wins every time with ranar, brago, soulherder, hero of bretgard. Added teferi's prot. Bonded Fetch, palace jailer and cloudshift.
I got a scroll rack from a booster pack and thought that card would be crazy in this deck. I’m a little bummed that it won’t make multiple tokens, but I’m grateful you guys explained that before I bought the deck. I still might get this precon, just because it looks fun to play.
I just found out about Angelic Ascension, which is which is an 18-cent uncommon from the last coreset. It exiles a creature or planeswalker for 1W and the controller creates a Serra Angel token. Optimally it is a surgical removal tool for whenever you're about to lose the game and just need to remove something and you don't care what happens after it (ala, a win the game planeswalker went down in a Super Friends deck and is about to ultimate because of doubling season) and ot hits planeswalkers which is rare. Most of the time. It's never dead in your hand though because if your commander is out you can target your own Spirit and it reads 'create a 4/4 Angel for 1W' which is an amazing rate.
Sage of Beyond reduces cost for the Commander from the command zone or flashback cost aswell , i think this is worth mentioning 😋
Actually, Doesn't it go really well into Izzet+ decks with Impulsive draw type 'exile X cards you may play them before your next endstep'? draw and mana reduction?
When it comes to Flicker/Token Generation, if You add Felidar Guardian and combo it with Restoration Angel, you could almost have an infinite spirit token engine by having them blink each other constantly, then go in for the win with an army of spirit tokens.
I find running one Wastes as one of your basic lands is often enough for Eldrazi displacer because you can use cards that fetch basic lands to find it. And if you're in a 3-4 color beck the panoramas can often fill the colorless slot too.
Anointed Procession and Divine Visitation would be great in this deck
cathar's crusade is more better and cheap i think
Cathar's Crusade adds +1/+1 counters...I was talking using Anointed for doubling tokens and divine to make them all 4/4 Angels
Evangel Of Heliod is part of the reason I usually win games with this deck. I blink it and get a bunch of tokens and use them for blockers and have get a +1/+1 everytime I play a creature. So, I make the token massive and then swing everything
When I was showing my build of this, my friend really liked my addition of mirror mockery! This is a cheap rare 1U Enchantment Aura that says:
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you may create a token that's a copy of that creature. Exile that token at end of combat.
I also think the way this deck plays well is by drawing as much as possible. Reconnaissance mission, bident of Thessa, ancestral vision, azor's gateway, and Kumena's awakening are all great inclusions in my opinion. So many foretell answers feel like you don't need to worry about max hand size because you always have card advantage in this deck. A above average focus on draw really seems to put this deck at an advantage while you're utilizing exile triggers every turn to generate blockers or pressure very effectively.
Another fun way to capitalize on your spirits is by thinking tribal! Not too much, but enough to make yourself scary when your board is just full of intimidating trap card looking face down cards. Drogskoll captain, skyclave apparition, supreme phantom, intangible virtue, ruin ghost and hanged executioner fit very well also. I cut nearly everything thats over 4 CMC if I remember correctly because you win by having one really long turn. The Drake is a must have here for certain. Most expensive card i added is deadeye navigator!
Already enjoying this video with the pro level acapella intro! 😂
I built this deck and it is awesome. Leaned into flicker and added Orvar, who is insane! Added a couple of Mass Polymorph cards as finishers 👍🏻
I would love to see you guys have a show pitting the "mini" precons against each other!!!
They have. Check there oldest Game Knights videos
@@DUES_EX I have watched every video they have lol. I'm talking more specifically about the most recent set decks. I would love to see them played against each other
Was really bumed that dream devourer wasn't in this decks colors or that this deck didn't include black to have you be able to foretell all your cards.
I really like faerie artisan in the deck every new token exiles the old so you make a tone of spirits.
Thanks for another great deck tech of a newly released pre-con deck. I already have the deck and also most if not all of the extra foretell cards from the new set to put in here. Divine Visitation is absolutely going in my deck too....my buddies will soon all be getting wrecked from spirits/angels/removal/wipes!!!
Etheareal Valkyrie is an awesome card .. its basically a 4 Mana 4/4 flyer with card draw, because it reduces the mana cost of something else right when you play it.. and.. you reduce your handsize which is important for the card you just talked before.. Tales of Anchestors.
Also .. those cards remain foretold even when Valkyrie gets removed. And! .. you can foretell every card .. so it synergizes well with cards from old format.
It´s just awesome .. I use this cards in every white/blue deck from now on
True story, playing one one one against the Elven Empire deck, I went to magical christmas land by foretelling Storm Herd and spamming out 40 1/1 pegasuses. It was glorious. And so janky. But glorious!
I played a game where my buddy cast it n got 26 . I made him draw 26 cards n take 26 life with black card in elves deck on my turn. He went from happy to sad pretty fast.
A card which became pretty expensive but feels like a really good include for the deck would be Rest in Peace
Now with RIP you could sac your tokens or block with them and you get a new flier back instantly. Think about Skullclamp for example. And there are many graveyard decks out there, not only do you support your own strategy but you stop many other strategies at the same time with just one card
Both of new U Gods are amazing in this deck. Feeling that I'll build this as exile/spirit tribal.
Just an idea, Arcane Artisan can be used as a bargaining chip to allow another player to use something from their hand. You then effectively have that creature hostage since you can flicker your Artisan pretty reliably. Not strong and pretty niche, I know, but since I'm in a casual playgroup I like these little politics interations that enable cool plays.
Watching Josh gradually lose his British accent in every ad is the highlight of my week
Sage of the beyond also helps cast your commander!
Suspend triggers Ranar's ability. Riftwing Cloudskate is a nice addition. Also Reflector Mage as a flicker target.
You know what I find great to watch during the pandemic? This podcast. Yeah we all know it but damn, just wanna say that some quality content that keeps coming back for more, its even more appreciated now days. This is actually good. Thanks for all the hard work.
Some cards I added to the deck right away where Alrund, God of the Cosmos, and Promise of Tomorrow. Alrund cares about your cards in hand and in foretell and promise of tomorrow is a great way to turn dieing creatures into 1/1 flying creatures not always the best but can come in handy.
So I haven't been into commander for a bit (like a year and 1/2)
I was looking into these the other night and in a moment of madness, ordered all the commander decks from 2020-2021 (except commander legends I think?)
Gonna host a mini tournament with them all with a couple friends, cant wait!
20 years ago ultra pro were great ... Now its all in dragon shield mate
They where crap then 2. But we did not know any beter. Know dragon shield is king.
Spectral deluge is super powerful in this deck. It has won me games and I have cast it for both its foretell cost and the 6 mana. It is really strong in so many situations. A card that I slammed into this deck was mystic sanctuary as it just gets so many key spells back.
Drogskol captain, angel of invention and Sephara, sky's blade are also awesome additions. Specially angel of invention, pump your flying tokens while having an ETB effect. Loved the content btw :)
Great add-ons friends!!!
I’ve used this upgraded deck a couple times and it’s great (I won!). Nice that it’s a bit cheaper than Elvish Empire due to the demand for elves...gives you a few extra bucks for add-ons. Card Kingdom delivered the cards in a couple of days!
It’s funny you mentioned other retailers and lost shipments - I happened to order a few cards for the elf deck elsewhere and the Seedborn Muse never made it 😭.
Watching in 2024, just got this precon. It's crazy knowing how Ha$bro took printings to hear you guys talk about the precon values going down.
The one that exiles at the end of turn has been clutch in my games. And been used to draw thirty cards and create 50 tokens in the two games I've played with it.
The version that I took mine and was basically Spirit tribal flicker where soul herder is the secret Commander because he's basically everything the stack wants and needs
Azor’s Gateway is a cool card. Cheap card selection, make a few spirit tokens, maaaaybe flip it and have arguably the best land in the format. not saying the card is better than cradle or even close (at all) but sanctum of the sun itself might be. and it’s all upside in this deck!
Ranar was born to hold Godsend. Flying. Vigilance. Exile. It’s kind of pricy to equip, but it’s so cool.
Ancestral Vision is good here, and this is the only deck in which I would ever consider playing Mox Tantalite.
Misdirection. Droskgol Captain. Both cheap and both excellent here.
then if budget isn’t a concern: forces of will and negation, scroll rack, city of shadows, martyr’s cry for the lulz, and t3feri for the opposite of lulz
If you can’t tell, I love this deck, and this commander - kind of a sleeper in an unpopular guild and standing next to GOLGARI ELVES of all things but it has won me good number of games so far.
Obligatory: Jimmy didn’t read Ethereal Valkyrie, it’s one of the best cards in the deck, etc. Otherwise great video as always and a great place to start. Thanks for all your hard work CommandZone team!
swiftfoot boots also seems to be a possible new auto include in the precons now
I think the ethereal valkyrie is actually really good with Ranar as it does help you both draw, reduce costs of spells and make flying tokens. Its an excellent blink target and if you have the instant flicker spells you can attack and flicker at the same time getting double the effect.
Even though this deck doesn't have much $$ value, I think this is actually one of the more innovative and useful precons in awhile.
I actually bought the precon and really leaned into the combo aspect of it, adding more of the combo pieces (alter of dementia, blasting station, Rest In Peace, etc) and lots of card draw/Windfall-like effects in the deck to make it a lot faster. I absolutely love the new cosmic intervention card as well since it adds another piece for the potential combo. I also added a subtle spirit tribal undertone to the deck as there are some pretty cool synergies with all of the spirits Ranar makes. Settle the Wreckage is another great card in the deck as well since normally you can make a lot of spirit tokens which you can target with its ability to land ramp in an azorious deck which is quite nice.
Do you have decklist
Rest In Peace and a sac outlet is infinite ETBs with Ranar if you find a way to take advantage of that with maybe Altar Of The Brood or even if that sac outlet is Altar Of Dementia.
Samurai of pale curtain also works in the place of Rest In Peace for this combo
works fine with Blasting Station,.. blow 'em out :D
I found out that cosmic intervention also works for this combo :)
Fellas, I think you missed ethereal Valkyrie draws a card whenever it does its thing. You never run out of cards, and it reduces the cost of all the cards it exiles by 2. I think that’s pretty solid, close to sun titan territory.
i want to argue that is far better than sun titan since has evasion and kinda ramp you as well
I just don't get what they didn't think it was sun titan but haven't ng both in deck is deece
I played this out the box tonight and it did well. I won. It was a long game tho. So many board wipes were played but this deck kept bouncing back.
I recently picked it up and pulled 2 wins and 1 lose with it. But I enjoy the playstlye. Commander is the way to go
You can shotgun the then statements of the deck but need to laser the if, particularly when you have a then on the commander.
Tales of the Ancestors works with emptying your hand with foretell, then refill
I really wanted to make Storm Herd work... the sadness I felt removing it was palpable.
It's better that way - I just felt the sadness of having it countered.
Ranar / Wrath of God / Cosmic Intervention:
You would get 1 spirit for the wrath (and the spirit stays, because it's exiled INSTEAD of going to the grace, so WOG has to resolve for Cosmic Intervention to exile anything).
I don’t know if anyone mentioned these or if they did, but infinite tokens and mana is easy by adding deadeye navigator and peregrine drake. Plus, adding a foretell card in Starnheim unleashed, you give the infinite mana a place to go.
Storm herd is a card I love since a friend cast it and made 35 tokens.
I had a rakdos charm.
I’m surprised they didn’t mention Displace
“Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner’s control”
It fits perfectly with this deck!
I've added Crafty Cutpurse to mine. It fits in the blink target section and is mainly for stealing treasures, but can also steal creatures, and synergises with Mystic Reflection. Divine Visitation is strong when your commander is a token generator, so that seemed like a shoe-in as well.
This is also a nice, fair spot to put Isochron Sceptre in. I also added Cloudshift, Essence Flux and Teferi's Time Twist (as well as Counterspell and Swords to Plowshares), which all sit well under the sceptre.
Plenty of generic goodstuff definitely fits... I put Leyline of Anticipation, Smothering Tithe, Keeper of the Accord in as well.
i added sidisi faithful and silumgar scorcerer. they have exploit and they can be blinked to create a token that you can exploit
@@dariocampanella7992 Nice, I thought Exploit wouldn't work, but it does! I also forgot to mention Skullclamp under generic goodstuff, but it's important to have ways to make use of the tokens you create.
Great Video Guys!
I loved to alter this precon, removing all this flying tribe cards, token creators and payoffs, adding hard control, Samurai of the Pale Curtain and Rest in Peace to blow up opponents with blasting station.
I'm a little bit dissapointed that they didn't mention Yorion, but anyways these were good suggestions.
But i didn't get why Cosmic Charger isn't in the precon from the beginning xD
Just got this deck ans even 2 years later in holds up! Beat 2 dr who decks with it and had a ton of fun doing it!!!
Did you add these upgrades? Sleeving mine up tonight. Excited to try it out.
@chrisschneider2393 ya I added these upgrades plus a few more and its a super fun deck to play! Enjoy!
What other cards did you add? Im assuming doomskar and epiphany? @@Ginger0616
This is where having blocks still would be nice so that Foretell would get more support throughout 2-3 sets instead of just 1.
One thing I noticed josh and Jimmy have mentioned a few times about Mystic reflections on using board wipes and how it isn't good... check the errata it states that if the creature Mystic reflections is using is removed .. the next time a a creature would enter you would use the "printed" creature as it last existed. So if you board wipe butnjust prior copied lets say a blight steel, your next creature to come out would be a blight steel. Am I wrong on that?
So Ranar says ''whenever you exile one OR MORE cards'' which means any card or ability that flickers multiple stuff in one go (cosmic intervention) only triggers Ranar once. You don't get a token for everyhting you exiled with cosmic intervention (or brago for example).
On Sage the Beyond and Ethereal Valkyrie, I had the same opinion as you guys at first.
But then realized Sage the Beyond was a dead card in most games and was only useful as foretell fodder
But attacking and mostly flickering Ethereal Valkyrie became really useful.
Question? If you have Raner out on the Field don’t you get 1/1 token for each time you foretell? Is foretell technically exiling temporarily until you cast it on your next coming turns?
Correct. Paying the initial foretell cost exiles the card until you pay the remainder of it's foretell cost to bring it into play.
As of right now I'm actually running Replicating Ring in my Mondrak, Glory Dominus deck, but I haven't drawn into it yet-- it might end up getting cut later.
As unlikely as cracking it with my commander out is, the distant potential of 16 mana rocks at once is too much to pass up.
I think Sephara Sky's Blade would be a great addition to this deck. It's still under $3 but with all the flyers this deck creates it'll be easy to pay her alternate costs. Also, indestructible on all those 1/1s is no joke, especially with a well timed doomskar.
Not sure if this is mentioned anywhere but orvar is actually silly in the deck. I cracked one and slotted it in. When you target your creatures with blinks you get tokens of them kinda like a panhamonicon
This deck is pretty powerful as is. I really want to add a Yorion. I thought about taking out the 10 cmc pegasus spell, but I was able to foretell it with Ethereal Valkyrie (I think you guys don't appreciate that card for what it is) and it was a game winner. I know that won't always happen, but I'm thinking twice about taking it out. Surtland Elementalist though--OUT!
Mystic Reflection doesn't specify YOUR creatures. How often do you think your opponents will be able to steal you spell by flashing in their own creature after this resolves, but before your creature hits the battlefield?
Making white an equalizer would be a neat direction to see the color move towards.
The card I will be adding is scroll rack because it exiles cards from hand before putting on top of library
Used some of the blink effects on muldriffter. Almost drew my deck 😂😅
I think the changes I made to my Ranar deck a week ago were almost completely identical to this. A few exceptions, of course, but VERY similar!
Timely reinforcements fits the white catch up mechanic narrative.
Would you consider doing a series like ultra 101 on cards... meaning showing exactly how to play some of these cards... i am a total newbie and it is so hard to understand some of these cards and how to use them... i think it would greatly help those just starting out .. i watch many of your videos and not easy to figure it out.. I haven’t seen anyone do this well enough to follow...