As someone with a Xyris deck, calling it “group hug” is far too generous. More like “Aggro with incentives”. Also if you run wheels, you may see wins but you will never see heaven
@@YourPalJamieEllis It is genuinely amazing. My favorite commander deck by far. The couple tweaks I have tho, is that I think you *should* included a single reliquary tower. Limiting yourself to a 7 card hand would only make sense if you're running against total jank decks, because it really hinders your ability to function as the table's arch nemesis, imo. The best part of it, imo, is that it makes the whole table have more fun. Your first couple swings will be at the weaker players on the table, and giving someone 3-6 more cards does a lot to fix mana screw and let them actually play the game. And, if your table lets you get those first couple swings, you transform into the BBEG of the table, with half your deck in hand, swinging for 20+ commander damage each combat and genuinely starting to worry about decking yourself. I even had one game where my opponents started throwing draw spells at me to try to run my deck out before they ran out of life. I absolutely love it.
@@lancesmith8298 add goblin bombardment to the mix and you also have a 2 mana enchantment with "fuck target player at instant speed" taped onto its text box
You forgot the inevitable impact tremors or perphoros. I can maybe out-juke a bunch of 1/1s but when they start killing me by existing I run out of life real fast.
@@Bagelberg Except Days Undoing also exiles all those triggers from the stack on resolution, including the snakes. It's an absolute nonbo with any draw triggers.
My boy Xyris finally getting roasted. I hate wheel, so I don't run it. But I do subscribe to the theory that there is such a thing as too many cards in hand. And we're going to find out what that number is together! Just ignore that cerebral vortex on the stack.
I prefer molten psyche as it does the same thing to everyone. Use a minds aglow first pumping with either snake mana with a cryptolyth rite or enduring vitality on the board and you got yourself 40 damage to everyone on the board in one shot
When I built my Xyris deck, I specifically avoided putting in any wheel effects so as not to make people miserable before killing them with snakes the size of some small nations.
when in doubt, you can always storm it out...underworld breach+frantic with tutors and get any wincon you want, wheels are for those with limited imagination...hell, i copied the kalamax+veyran decklists and just swapped with xyris
Kaseto goes in any xyris deck, but other snake lords like the ones from og kamigawa? And all the nagas that are now snakes? Now I just want to build this deck!
Mald, you forget: Windfall makes everyone draw as many as the biggest hand. I've made that number 29 before. Mald. That's 87 snakes. MALD, DON'T ASK WHAT KOMA IS DOING NEXT.
Look, I never said my Xyris deck was group hug, I built it for snake tribal and wheels for more snakes for the tribe. It's their fault that they ASSUMED it was group hug cause they got to draw cards. Though it will never take the place of my true love and true snake tribal deck, Kaseto
"Defending Student loans, Landlords, and giving people a tootsie roll before you stab them" Hey, what's wrong with Land Lords? What did Blossoming Tortoise ever do to you?
Mald out here absolutely killing it yet again. Although if you tried you probably would be a human spirit by the end of it. I humbly request you look at Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier and the wacky bullshit that is exclusive only to him.
@@marcoottina654 The difference is that those deal with spells, and he deals with abilities. The general feel is similar, but there's almost no crossover on the actual interactions
My whole play group has sent this to me already. She started as a group hug but everyone kept playing their best decks into me and I started taking it personally. Now it's Arche Enemy on sight.
That commander has won me more games than any other deck I own. Once it can attack, you just ask around the table “who wants to draw cards”, and usually, one person will happily volunteer. And eventually, you have win cons out and/protection.
Xyris combat tricks deck is probably one of my favourites. Though it does have a copy of windfall because occasionally it's a funny card to cast when you've got impact tremors on the table. And it helps when the person I wanna hit just happens to have too many flying blockers.
At MagicCon Chicago, I sat down at a pod where everyone did the "oh, this deck isn't too strong, so it'll be a nice, fun game." and Mr Xyris player won on turn two.
Day 18 is a very fresh entry of the commander roast wish list to make up for the lateness of last time. The Sen Triplets Skithiryx the Blight Dragon Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Thromok the Insatiable
The funniest way I have seen this played is Xyris Pump Spells. They are dropping all pretences of subtlety, and are actually being honest about their intentions.
I made one of these once. I completely forgot that wheels exist, so I just built Voltron. It was honest in what it wanted to do. Hit you, get us both cards, and then have a ton of snakes.
So, token multiplication, wheels of any kinds and "Imoact Tremors" / "Warstorm Surge" / "Goblin Bombardment" / "Where Ancients Thread" (if accompanied by "Coat of Arms"). Uh and the "Windfall on legs", which is "Jace's Archivist". That seems a funny game pattern. /S Uh did i mentioned counterspells, didn't I?
This is my favorite deck because everyone’s having fun drawing cards until I flip a switch and suddenly you’re getting burned for your entire life total
One of my friends has one. I agree with everything said here. Also, dont forget, ejecting falling snakes from outer space that hit the ground a mach ten, causing what amount to rods from god if that god was wadjet
Actually just made a deck with this and it's been a pretty fun one. I did build it as a casual budget one. Built around attacking and then using pump spells
My favorite turn 1 play in Xyris is to play a mountain, tap it, then play Winds of Change forcing my opponents to shuffle their hands into their library then draws a new hand of 7.
And then there’s Xyris’ speedy cousin: Sergeant John Benton. Greyhound Four, for those who know. Where Xyris has snakes within snakes, wheels within wheels, Benton has trample and haste and costs 3, so he’s often swinging on turn 2. Oh, sure, maybe he looks like commander-damage Necropotence, but like Xyris, he’s not “group hug.” He’s a burn deck where every point of damage you do draws you another card, so you never run out of gas for combat tricks and the ramp to cast them. What isn’t ramp and fuel is protection, and even if you can get through the hexproof, dude is cheap and has haste. Sure, the deck can only win by doing 63 damage the honest way, but Benton’s driving that UNIT truck. Can he get it? There’s a saying about the cost of a lift, but Sergeant John doesn’t smoke grass, and he’s already got a full tank of gas.
Teferi's Puzzle Box in this deck goes hog fucking wild, alongside, funnily enough Snake Basket as a payoff for the yes mana you get from shit like Growing Rites of Itlamoc and Ashnod's Altar. The danger noodles are real, folks.
I made him as a half voltron spellslinger half snake tribal (aka only snakes in my deck) typically I give out the deal: “I can buff him one more time and end you, or I can supercharge you with 18 cards and you become my right hand man” he’s truely a master of the political
I built a buff spells version of xyris, that was a fun deck. "Oh hey, wanna draw 3? Means I have to hit you but eh well" *draws 3 cards all, new buff spells* *buffs xyris out the ass for a one shot, or worser still draw xada hadron grinder and dump the buffs on him* (Side note, that deck idea wasn't mine, the xada part was, but the place I got the deck idea was in a video here on yt called "my best deck cost $20")
As a Xyris player... I am fine with going to hell, but you will go with my into that fiery hellstorm, burning alongside me as you draw your fresh seven and Purphoros rain down holy balls of fury. It's a good thing.
i once built a joke xyris deck. it was a polymorph deck, the lowest cmc creature in the deck costed 4. mass polymorph was classified as an extinction level event
I call my Xyris deck "Faustian Group Hug" to let people know what they're in for. Combine with Magnus, Jaheira, and a couple other cards that give my stuff glorified convoke.
My perfect Xyris kill has happened twice now. Step 1 - Get fifteen snakes (pretty easy even without wheels) Step 2 - Swing with only 1 snake at someone, and watch the confusion at the table. Step 3 - Cast Howl of the Horde Step 4 - Tap xyris and 14 other snakes and cast Burn at the Stake, copying it twice and nuking everyone for 45 damage. Step 5 - Make Burn at the Snake puns.
Group Hug is a trap, but Group Hug (Optional) w Wernog & Bjorna, where you blink Wernog and play artifact etb pingers to let people choose where damage generated by letting you make more clues goes is great and honest fun. (Also requesting Mald's take on Wernog & Bjorna. Or Urtet)
My buddy runs this as a wheels deck. Says he’s taking us to the casino whenever he plays it. Thankfully I run tons of recursion so he often ends up helping me.
Yeah this is actually one of my favorite personal commanders I've won many a game using that draw with impact tremors and having parallel lives out alongside essix fractal bloom to make copies of burning suns avatar, 1 blue player I was against decided to do windfall when another player had seven cards in hand so I got 21 snakes coming in as the first token I made that turn so I had them all enter as burning suns Avatar and because I had parallel lives out that made 42 so impact tremors does 42 to each opponent and then because I have 42 of the big red dinosaur coming out that's three damage of peace so that's 128 between 3 opponents which is another 42 damage and he was trying to use windfall to find an answer to my ezuris predation which was going to create 30 tokens because the dinosaur player had 15 creatures out the black white vampire had 10 and the blue player had five and even though the black white vampire player survived the windfall effect but did not survive the 60 beasts entering the battlefield and they fought all his creatures destroyed them and the 60 damaged from impact finished him off like this is all still main phase of turn 9
I have a friend with a Xyris deck, and the last time they played it they got Rakdos Charmed with like 50 snakes on the board. Now every time they even mention trying to play Xyris everybody busts their balls about it to the point they haven't played it since and probably never will. As it should be, thank you Rakdos Charm for saving us.
Putting in a polite request for The Reaper King, because we deserve to be roasted.
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Fun things you can do with this deck: Forced Fruition, using cards like Gush into Windfall to make everyone draw a fuckton of cards, and abusing Scroll Rack + Sensei's Top to make sure the cards you want to keep are on the top of your deck
Sergeant whatshisface from Doctor Who is this in Selesnya colors, and while he doesn't have Flying he does have Trample so really all he's missing are the snakes that fly out.
Building a Nekusar the Mind Razer deck with similar issues. Realized I could just make a Dimir zombie deck with card draw in the command zone and Red bullshit. Shared Animosity, Goblin Bombardment, Impact Tremors, etc. There is no group hug, my Zombies are just on some bullshut.
As someone that has a ninja player in there pod.... Blue can just say, ya you can't block that or oh that creature you played put it back into your hand, I want to see you do your last turn but remixed, I do grant you that with the colors you can go many different styles and I approve simply because of that
I actually played a game with a Xyris deck once where I killed the Sythis player in our group by milling him out. I had like 28 snakes and drew a card that made them all nonlegendary copies of Xyris (can’t remember its name). He had like 150 life or something and a Sythis all juiced on all the good auras so he felt pretty secure, but he only had one flying blocker. I swung all out, he managed to kill a few but like 24 got through and we each drew 72 cards. It was glorious 😂😂
I think this makes attempt #9 asking for Emry, Lurker in the Loch, and the horror of a commander tax made meaningless by Powerstones, graveyard recursion triggering ETB from Portal to Phyrexia and Meteor Golem, Synthesis Simlacrums you cannot get rid of, and all of this happening in monoblue =3
Maaaald..... don't you want to draw some cards?
I mean what I got from this is ya don need to ask permission. Mald? You are gonna draw some cards.
Based on his appearances on other channels, it's amazing what Mald will put up with if you attach "but you get to draw an extra card" to it.
@@Wolfman112 It's his addiction. He likes to touch ever increasin mouns o his cards.
Don't you want to draw some poor snake cards?
As someone with a Xyris deck, calling it “group hug” is far too generous. More like “Aggro with incentives”. Also if you run wheels, you may see wins but you will never see heaven
It's ok, I hear Hell has all the best music.
I tried to do the same with my shitty Kibo deck, but that didn't top them from removing it each time it got a little too big.
Does Teferi's Puzzle Box count?
I also run cards like Forced Fruition and Possibility Storm.
Wheels ?
@@jewelwright8328 Of Fortune
If you use it to crew a Smuggler's Copter you've got Snakes on a Plane.
You're welcome.
This mother fucker right here is why we play magic 😂
God bless the funny Snail for telling me about this beforehand. This is turbo bullshit and I love it
This doesn’t even get into Impact Tremors becoming bootleg Underworld Dreams
yesss
I built pump spell (i.e. wheel-less) Xyris after how hard he sold me on it. Haven't gotten to play it yet but I'm excited to.
@@YourPalJamieEllis It is genuinely amazing. My favorite commander deck by far. The couple tweaks I have tho, is that I think you *should* included a single reliquary tower. Limiting yourself to a 7 card hand would only make sense if you're running against total jank decks, because it really hinders your ability to function as the table's arch nemesis, imo.
The best part of it, imo, is that it makes the whole table have more fun. Your first couple swings will be at the weaker players on the table, and giving someone 3-6 more cards does a lot to fix mana screw and let them actually play the game. And, if your table lets you get those first couple swings, you transform into the BBEG of the table, with half your deck in hand, swinging for 20+ commander damage each combat and genuinely starting to worry about decking yourself. I even had one game where my opponents started throwing draw spells at me to try to run my deck out before they ran out of life. I absolutely love it.
@@lancesmith8298 add goblin bombardment to the mix and you also have a 2 mana enchantment with "fuck target player at instant speed" taped onto its text box
"would let hit because 20 cards is 20 cards"
You forgot the inevitable impact tremors or perphoros. I can maybe out-juke a bunch of 1/1s but when they start killing me by existing I run out of life real fast.
or an agate instigator w/ offspring into days undoing. Won't matter that the turn is ending if you do 42 damage to your opponents
@@Bagelberg Except Days Undoing also exiles all those triggers from the stack on resolution, including the snakes. It's an absolute nonbo with any draw triggers.
Impact Tremors. That's a yikes.
I play all the gods because when people burn the snakes something needs to survive.
Dont forget the Goblin Bombardment for when some pulls out a boardwipe
My boy Xyris finally getting roasted. I hate wheel, so I don't run it. But I do subscribe to the theory that there is such a thing as too many cards in hand. And we're going to find out what that number is together! Just ignore that cerebral vortex on the stack.
I prefer molten psyche as it does the same thing to everyone. Use a minds aglow first pumping with either snake mana with a cryptolyth rite or enduring vitality on the board and you got yourself 40 damage to everyone on the board in one shot
There's an easy answer to that question: 101.
Xyris fan here too. Run altar of the brood and unlock the mill potential of our boy Xyris
@@mastrShk25 I'll be sure to give it a look!
When I built my Xyris deck, I specifically avoided putting in any wheel effects so as not to make people miserable before killing them with snakes the size of some small nations.
when in doubt, you can always storm it out...underworld breach+frantic with tutors and get any wincon you want, wheels are for those with limited imagination...hell, i copied the kalamax+veyran decklists and just swapped with xyris
Ohhh that is some serious human spirit
Ok, but what about Xyris, but its actual Snake Tribal?
Snakes on a Plane?
Patchwork banner from bloomburrow. It's both a mana stone AND a lord effect for your snakes.
Kaseto goes in any xyris deck, but other snake lords like the ones from og kamigawa? And all the nagas that are now snakes?
Now I just want to build this deck!
You could also stuff in the few leviathans there are
I’ve never had more fun playing edh than with Xyris and Forced Fruition on the battlefield
I am requesting a roast of Karlach fury of avernus. If you do not, then just know you are making Mama K very sad. 😢
Seconded. My Karlach/Sword Coast Sailor deck is the first deck I've ever built that had commander damage as it's primary win-con.
I want to see him mention that her price doubled/tripled after Baldur's Gate 3 came out
Mald, you forget: Windfall makes everyone draw as many as the biggest hand. I've made that number 29 before. Mald. That's 87 snakes. MALD, DON'T ASK WHAT KOMA IS DOING NEXT.
Look, I never said my Xyris deck was group hug, I built it for snake tribal and wheels for more snakes for the tribe. It's their fault that they ASSUMED it was group hug cause they got to draw cards.
Though it will never take the place of my true love and true snake tribal deck, Kaseto
Love that he makes this while I'm in the process of making a Xyris polymorph deck
"Beatdown-Oriented Group Hug."
Once more I beseech the Lord of Roasts to take a crack at Eight-and-a-Half-Tails. He's my favorite commander
Oh man, that's a name that takes me back. To high school specifically.
After 10,000 years, I am free, and I beseech the Lord of Roasts to save Eight-and-a-Half-Tails for the very last!
My playgroup calls my Xyris Deck "Constrictor" that's the kinda hug he gives you
"Defending Student loans, Landlords, and giving people a tootsie roll before you stab them"
Hey, what's wrong with Land Lords? What did Blossoming Tortoise ever do to you?
Hehehe
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Mald out here absolutely killing it yet again. Although if you tried you probably would be a human spirit by the end of it.
I humbly request you look at Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier and the wacky bullshit that is exclusive only to him.
Not even an iteration of Feather (or a weird Goblin I forget about)?
@@marcoottina654 The difference is that those deal with spells, and he deals with abilities. The general feel is similar, but there's almost no crossover on the actual interactions
Xyrix is a hugs commander.
Just an *INTENSIVE* hug commander
I'm honestly surprised you didn't bring up the potential synergy of everyone's "favorite" simic snake. Koma
You are legally required to have the Aquabats song "Attacked By Snakes" playing while this card is on the field.
"Wheel. Wheel. Crafterhoof. Fuck all a y'all?" - Xyris player's winning turn
Not to mention it's in two of the best colors of "if it's resolved, it's already too late".
"And I might try. Some things are just about the indomitable power of the human spirit" 😂😂😂
If you sneak this into your Gay Kings deck, I'm legally obligated to steal something out of your house.
Lol I might as well leave my door unlocked then
Hahaha, impact tremors go brr . I call him my snake Gatling gun deck with goblin bombardment in it
We're really never beating those scaly accusations.
I love asking my table “so who wants to draw some cards?” Then on my next turn I win out of nowhere. It’s fantastic.
Hilarious as always! Would like to put a vote for the classic group slug commander the original Purphuros
Xyris, Leovold, now we need a Bant commander that does heinous things whenever an opponent tries to draw an extra card
The indomitable power of… ARCANIS! (Look at him… I would lol)
I love this happy little snek and all it's children. Gotta dig it out again for my playgroup.
"I would just block them."
*Gestures at all the cards in blue and green that make a creature actually or functionally unblockable.*
Day 358 Dealer's choice on Nashi.
Love this commander! I play wheels galore in a snake tribal package.
My whole play group has sent this to me already. She started as a group hug but everyone kept playing their best decks into me and I started taking it personally. Now it's Arche Enemy on sight.
That commander has won me more games than any other deck I own. Once it can attack, you just ask around the table “who wants to draw cards”, and usually, one person will happily volunteer. And eventually, you have win cons out and/protection.
"The all-inspiring thighs of the ancient water buffalo" is a new one.
I've always called it a "Bear Hug deck. Well both draw cards, I just have to hit you first."
Beautiful, best snake. Behold the King of the Skies and weep.
I can't stop laughing at "indomitable power of the human spirit".
Xyris combat tricks deck is probably one of my favourites.
Though it does have a copy of windfall because occasionally it's a funny card to cast when you've got impact tremors on the table. And it helps when the person I wanna hit just happens to have too many flying blockers.
At MagicCon Chicago, I sat down at a pod where everyone did the "oh, this deck isn't too strong, so it'll be a nice, fun game." and Mr Xyris player won on turn two.
Day 18 is a very fresh entry of the commander roast wish list to make up for the lateness of last time.
The Sen Triplets
Skithiryx the Blight Dragon
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
Thromok the Insatiable
The funniest way I have seen this played is Xyris Pump Spells.
They are dropping all pretences of subtlety, and are actually being honest about their intentions.
I made one of these once. I completely forgot that wheels exist, so I just built Voltron. It was honest in what it wanted to do. Hit you, get us both cards, and then have a ton of snakes.
So, token multiplication, wheels of any kinds and "Imoact Tremors" / "Warstorm Surge" / "Goblin Bombardment" / "Where Ancients Thread" (if accompanied by "Coat of Arms").
Uh and the "Windfall on legs", which is "Jace's Archivist".
That seems a funny game pattern. /S
Uh did i mentioned counterspells, didn't I?
terror of the peaks > where ancients tread
Gotta run niv mizzet and pump spells for abetter outcome
Never knew this guy existed but now I am making a commander deck around him asap😊
YESSS Xyris has been one of my fav. and best performing Commander decks i build on a budget
Don't forget, Razorkin Needlehead just came out, everyone hold onto your car seats
This is my favorite deck because everyone’s having fun drawing cards until I flip a switch and suddenly you’re getting burned for your entire life total
Xyris is legit one of my favorite commanders
Bold of you to be indominable against the giant flying snake
I have faced this deck before, and I can confirm that this is the most scared I've ever been while drawing cards.
The laws of god and nature when the indomitable human spirit walks in:
Xyris + combat buff spells = the most fun commander deck for *everyone* at the table. Change my mind.
One of my friends has one. I agree with everything said here.
Also, dont forget, ejecting falling snakes from outer space that hit the ground a mach ten, causing what amount to rods from god if that god was wadjet
Kona Rescue Beastie is the most wacky card I’ve seen in a long time
Beard game going strong Mald, respect.
Mom said it's my turn with the indomitable power of the human spirit.
Xyris is my best boy right now and I don’t describe it as a group hug, I describe it as a snake Gatling gun
Ah, one of my favorites. And no, it doesn’t identify as a group hug, it identifies as a fucking threat.
“Snakey-Pankey” took me out
You know? If i were to play "group hug: this is my choice
then theres me adding vehicles to my xyris deck so my snake tokens can recreate the hit movie snakes on a plane
My friend Sam runs this guy and its one of the grossest things I had ever seen.
Do Laughing Jasper Flint please!
Don't forget the ouchie wah wahs for battlefield entry that every xyris player runs i.e. impact tremors and purphoros god of the forge
God bless Mald for trying.
Also, friends convinced me to unquit Magic. Back to working on my $500+ Gyome deck.
Actually just made a deck with this and it's been a pretty fun one. I did build it as a casual budget one. Built around attacking and then using pump spells
"I'll be prepared for a 5 mana flyer" as a Brago, King Eternal player i can say players are never prepared for flying
My favorite turn 1 play in Xyris is to play a mountain, tap it, then play Winds of Change forcing my opponents to shuffle their hands into their library then draws a new hand of 7.
And then there’s Xyris’ speedy cousin: Sergeant John Benton. Greyhound Four, for those who know. Where Xyris has snakes within snakes, wheels within wheels, Benton has trample and haste and costs 3, so he’s often swinging on turn 2. Oh, sure, maybe he looks like commander-damage Necropotence, but like Xyris, he’s not “group hug.” He’s a burn deck where every point of damage you do draws you another card, so you never run out of gas for combat tricks and the ramp to cast them. What isn’t ramp and fuel is protection, and even if you can get through the hexproof, dude is cheap and has haste. Sure, the deck can only win by doing 63 damage the honest way, but Benton’s driving that UNIT truck. Can he get it? There’s a saying about the cost of a lift, but Sergeant John doesn’t smoke grass, and he’s already got a full tank of gas.
Ah yes, I love cards that break Intruder Alarm (goes infinite with Cephalid Looter/Broker, Reckless Scholar, or Red Death)
Teferi's Puzzle Box in this deck goes hog fucking wild, alongside, funnily enough Snake Basket as a payoff for the yes mana you get from shit like Growing Rites of Itlamoc and Ashnod's Altar. The danger noodles are real, folks.
There was a reason I called mine "snakes on a plane"
I made him as a half voltron spellslinger half snake tribal (aka only snakes in my deck) typically I give out the deal: “I can buff him one more time and end you, or I can supercharge you with 18 cards and you become my right hand man” he’s truely a master of the political
I built a buff spells version of xyris, that was a fun deck. "Oh hey, wanna draw 3? Means I have to hit you but eh well"
*draws 3 cards all, new buff spells*
*buffs xyris out the ass for a one shot, or worser still draw xada hadron grinder and dump the buffs on him*
(Side note, that deck idea wasn't mine, the xada part was, but the place I got the deck idea was in a video here on yt called "my best deck cost $20")
As a Xyris player... I am fine with going to hell, but you will go with my into that fiery hellstorm, burning alongside me as you draw your fresh seven and Purphoros rain down holy balls of fury. It's a good thing.
I built my Xyris deck around buff spells. Hey, you want to draw a few cards? No blocks? Great, we are just gonna bump that up to a draw 21 real quick.
i once built a joke xyris deck. it was a polymorph deck, the lowest cmc creature in the deck costed 4. mass polymorph was classified as an extinction level event
Freaking love Xyris. It was my first deck and its my baby.
I call my Xyris deck "Faustian Group Hug" to let people know what they're in for.
Combine with Magnus, Jaheira, and a couple other cards that give my stuff glorified convoke.
My perfect Xyris kill has happened twice now.
Step 1 - Get fifteen snakes (pretty easy even without wheels)
Step 2 - Swing with only 1 snake at someone, and watch the confusion at the table.
Step 3 - Cast Howl of the Horde
Step 4 - Tap xyris and 14 other snakes and cast Burn at the Stake, copying it twice and nuking everyone for 45 damage.
Step 5 - Make Burn at the Snake puns.
Group Hug is a trap, but Group Hug (Optional) w Wernog & Bjorna, where you blink Wernog and play artifact etb pingers to let people choose where damage generated by letting you make more clues goes is great and honest fun.
(Also requesting Mald's take on Wernog & Bjorna. Or Urtet)
Requesting Felix Five-Boots. Give the Ooze some Ninjas!
My buddy runs this as a wheels deck. Says he’s taking us to the casino whenever he plays it. Thankfully I run tons of recursion so he often ends up helping me.
Also forgot Coat of Arms in there. Make dem sneks BIG.
Yeah this is actually one of my favorite personal commanders I've won many a game using that draw with impact tremors and having parallel lives out alongside essix fractal bloom to make copies of burning suns avatar, 1 blue player I was against decided to do windfall when another player had seven cards in hand so I got 21 snakes coming in as the first token I made that turn so I had them all enter as burning suns Avatar and because I had parallel lives out that made 42 so impact tremors does 42 to each opponent and then because I have 42 of the big red dinosaur coming out that's three damage of peace so that's 128 between 3 opponents which is another 42 damage and he was trying to use windfall to find an answer to my ezuris predation which was going to create 30 tokens because the dinosaur player had 15 creatures out the black white vampire had 10 and the blue player had five and even though the black white vampire player survived the windfall effect but did not survive the 60 beasts entering the battlefield and they fought all his creatures destroyed them and the 60 damaged from impact finished him off like this is all still main phase of turn 9
Flying snakes???? Pretty sure Samuel L Jackson tried warning us about things like this.
I have a friend with a Xyris deck, and the last time they played it they got Rakdos Charmed with like 50 snakes on the board. Now every time they even mention trying to play Xyris everybody busts their balls about it to the point they haven't played it since and probably never will. As it should be, thank you Rakdos Charm for saving us.
Putting in a polite request for The Reaper King, because we deserve to be roasted.
Fun things you can do with this deck: Forced Fruition, using cards like Gush into Windfall to make everyone draw a fuckton of cards, and abusing Scroll Rack + Sensei's Top to make sure the cards you want to keep are on the top of your deck
Sergeant whatshisface from Doctor Who is this in Selesnya colors, and while he doesn't have Flying he does have Trample so really all he's missing are the snakes that fly out.
Building a Nekusar the Mind Razer deck with similar issues. Realized I could just make a Dimir zombie deck with card draw in the command zone and Red bullshit. Shared Animosity, Goblin Bombardment, Impact Tremors, etc.
There is no group hug, my Zombies are just on some bullshut.
enduring vitality sounds good in a xyris deck
As someone that has a ninja player in there pod.... Blue can just say, ya you can't block that or oh that creature you played put it back into your hand, I want to see you do your last turn but remixed, I do grant you that with the colors you can go many different styles and I approve simply because of that
I actually played a game with a Xyris deck once where I killed the Sythis player in our group by milling him out. I had like 28 snakes and drew a card that made them all nonlegendary copies of Xyris (can’t remember its name). He had like 150 life or something and a Sythis all juiced on all the good auras so he felt pretty secure, but he only had one flying blocker. I swung all out, he managed to kill a few but like 24 got through and we each drew 72 cards. It was glorious 😂😂
I think this makes attempt #9 asking for Emry, Lurker in the Loch, and the horror of a commander tax made meaningless by Powerstones, graveyard recursion triggering ETB from Portal to Phyrexia and Meteor Golem, Synthesis Simlacrums you cannot get rid of, and all of this happening in monoblue =3