The end was the single messiest turn I have ever seen in my life. It exuded "They can't guess your plan if you don't have one" in the best way possible.
Well it wasn't the easiest of turns to get through. Multiple players talking through her turn, making her not able to completely focus (other players had the best intentions, but still a lot of noise). Playing in front of that incredible crowd on stage. You would've done way better of course, from your chair at home. Just be happy for her. She got there in the end and it was an incredible match. Absolutely happy for Kathleen and you could see it meant a lot to her.
I'm thrilled that Kathleen De Vere won the championship, she got so emotional, what a moment! She deserved it. It was such an epic victory, I couldn't help but applaud her for a minute afterwards, even though I was in my room watching this lol
To those saying there was a missed pyrohemia damage, you’re right. But it’s not Kathleen (Rachel corrected it later but also gave her damage early which created the impression that it was later missed). It was actually Jimmy. I spent too long breaking it down, so here you go. Start of the turn: Jimmy 9 | Rachel 28 | Josh 13 | Kathleen 15 3 Devil tokens Protection racket trigger resolves in upkeep with Jimmy paying 0 and Rachel paying 4 life: Jimmy 9 | Rachel 24 | Josh 13 | Kathleen 15 3 Devil tokens Kathleen casts Jeska’s will, targeting Rachel. This triggers Talion which resolves. Kathleen loses 2 and Josh draws his first card of the turn which triggers Zurzoth. Josh then counters Jeska’s will with fierce guardianship. Zurzoth’s trigger resolves, and devil token is created, triggering impact tremors which also resolves: Jimmy 8 | Rachel 23 | Josh 12 | Kathleen 13 4 Devil tokens In Kathleen’s combat phase, Rankle and Torbran attacks Rachel. She does not block. Damage step occurs: Jimmy 8 | Rachel 20 | Josh 12 | Kathleen 13 4 Devil tokens With the damage, Rankle and Torbran trigger. Kathleen chooses all modes. Each player makes a treasure token. Then, everyone sacrifices a creature (in order, a Devil token, Sphinx of enlightenment, Asmor…, and a spirit token). Then R&T has an affect for all damage to players (and battles) for the rest of the turn. The Devil token has a death trigger which targets Rachel, and Akim triggers since Rachel made her first token of the turn. Rachel makes a bird and takes 1+2 damage: Jimmy 8 | Rachel 17 | Josh 12 | Kathleen 13 3 Devil tokens Note that Kathleen has 2 mountains, Ramunap ruins, foreboding ruins, and 1 treasure token as sources of red mana for pyrohemia. Kathleen taps foreboding ruins to activate pyrohemia once. Each player takes 3 damage, and all creatures take 1 damage. This kills 3 devil tokens, triggering their death effects. Long discussion, and Kathleen accidentally taps lands early, but it was corrected later. Kathleen sends 2 triggers to Rachel and 1 to Jimmy: Jimmy 2 | Rachel 8 | Josh 9 | Kathleen 10 0 Devil tokens Kathleen taps a mountain to target to cast spikefield hazard, targeting Rachel: Jimmy 2 | Rachel 5 | Josh 9 | Kathleen 10 0 Devil tokens Kathleen uses her treasure and last mountain to float 2 red mana, threatening pyrohemia twice. In response (which I’m not sure you can respond to mana abilities, but she can also do this in response to the first activation; doing it like this makes the stack easier), Rachel uses her clue token. It resolves, and she draws her first card of the turn which triggers Zurzoth. That resolves and gives Kathleen a Devil token which triggers impact tremors. In response, Jimmy uses 1 of his 2 food tokens to gain 3 life. Everything resolves. This is the board state at 2:11:21 and is accurate: Jimmy 2 | Rachel 2 | Josh 6 | Kathleen 10 1 Devil token Kathleen activates pyrohemia once, bolting all players and pinging all creatures. In response, Jimmy uses his last food token to gain 3 life. Also in response, Rachel uses currency converter to draw a card. Pyrohemia resolves, devil death triggers and targets Jimmy as Rachel is knocked out: Jimmy 2 | Rachel 0 | Josh 3 | Kathleen 7 0 Devil tokens, but 1 death trigger on the stack. **Note that this is where the confusion and mistakes come in. They begin talking about the devil trigger, but both Jimmy and Kathleen were not properly damaged by pyrohemia. When Jimmy goes to take the damage from the Devil token, he is really correcting himself. ** I’m going to continue playing it out how it should have gone. In response to the Devil token trigger (which he did in response to the next pyrohemia), Jimmy activates underworld cookbook, discarding from under the floorboards. The cookbook gives him a food token, and he casts from under the floorboards for its madness cost where X=3. He gains 3 life and creates 3 zombie tokens. The Devil trigger resolves: Jimmy 2 | Rachel 0 | Josh 3 | Kathleen 7 0 Devil tokens Kathleen uses her 2nd (and last) floating mana to activate pyrohemia again. (Note that Rachel, upon this activation, correctly says that Kathleen missed the last pyrohemia damage. She says that Kathleen is at 4, which is correct once this pyrohemia resolves. Since her damage from this activation was done sooner than others’, that gives the impression that it was later missed.) In response, Jimmy uses his last food token (which he did in response to vicious rumors) to effectively negate the damage. Pyrohemia resolves for a 3rd time, knocking out Josh and killing Zurgoth: Jimmy 2 | Rachel 0 | Josh 0 | Kathleen 4 0 Devil tokens Kathleen casts vicious rumors, targeting Jimmy. (Just like how he had nothing in response to the 4th pyrohemia, he would have no response to this.) The spell resolves, dealing damage, healing Kathleen, and putting cards into the graveyard: Jimmy 0 | Rachel 0 | Josh 0 | Kathleen 5 0 Devil tokens Kathleen wins 1 ability sooner.
Absolutely brilliant! Without a doubt an amazing show, set, intros, costumes, a/v quality, and a game for the ages. Congrats to the new Game Knights Live Champion, long may you reign! One of if not the best commander games I’ve ever sat and watched, I think Sheldon would be proud. Thank you all for the incredible effort that goes into the preparation and execution of a production like this.
Spoilers: I can't believe Kathleen misplay with spike field hazard led to Rachel drawing cards to ensure Josh's death which then led to the death of every player, what a turn of events.
i didnt run the numbers, but im pretty sure if she just casted vicious rumors at that point instead of the spike field hazard, rachels play wouldnt have been necessary to kill everyone
@@xDarthix I ran the numbers and you're right. Rachel did gain a life instead of losing one at 1:53:30 though so the whole thing could have been way easier with her at 12 life in the first place. Happy it didn't skew the outcome of the game her ways in the end.
Jimmy missed a Pyrohemia damage at 2:12:07, which would have made it a lot simpler. Kathleen missed that damage too, but Josh fixed it for her later (2:13:26).
I Just have too say. I Love watching MTG in camera publications like this. The in game with the pressure of the clock is amazing. It also looks so much fun The playing and acting is amazing. We have an amazing Community!
While the game is great, I’ve rewatched that ending multiple times. The emotions from Kathleen are incredible, and everyone praising her is what we want to see in the community. Even if Wizards keeps trying to prevent it, they will never stop Magic from being about The Gathering.
Lol yeah, they deliberately staged it to have him appear. You can look closely and notice that he has a Guest badge Fun fact: After the trivia game, WotC reps brought him backstage and gave him a special "1 of 1" shirt that had a big gold printing of the "001/001" on it
@@TehFoamyI thought it was an act. That’s concerning 🤣 He’s never gonna live down the fact he won the trivia segment, probably boosted his iq another 5 points lol
What a game knight ending. Everything burning brightly like blazing candles, but in the end, only one flame could keep burning, for as always, ONLY ONE MAY STAND!!!
What a great show they put on now that's value! I wonder if more mtg content creators are going to be trying to get onto the gameknights live shows having a chance to get into the finals looked very exciting and rewarding to be a part of. I also like how there are no tutors, and no cheezy infinite combo's being played in these decks, making it all about casual commander and not CEDH nonsense that ends in the first three turns every game. And huge shout out to Victoria, BC girl Kathleen from LRR for taking down our favorite commander podcast team.
I got all confused with Josh being able to cast Deadly Rollick after the Kindly Lord died. That cards warps games so much I forgot that he wasn't Josh's commander.
1:36:54 Oh hey, this was me! I wasn't sure if I should have taken out Rachel's Ethereal Investigator with 2 damage and hit the Skycat Sovereign with the third damage, but I figured that Chainer would have gotten Jimmy a lot of value if it had stuck around. But then again, all it takes is two Pyrohemia activations to get rid of it, so idk 😅 Plus if I had distributed the damage differently, then maybe we wouldn't have gotten such a dramatic finish haha
Hindsight is 20/20 but given the circumstances I think Chainer definitely needed to go. When a card's downside becomes an upside---as I like to say, when "I have to" becomes "I get to"---it becomes infinitely more threatening, and Jimmy's deck was absolutely built around being able to discard at will. Chainer was a discard outlet, a reanimation enabler, and a haste enabler all in one. Plus Kathleen won in the end so you shouldn't doubt the choice too much.
@@HakureiIllusion Lol yeah, when I sat back down several people came over and told me that I definitely made the right call by going for Chainer, so that reassured me even further
Love that time because I like playing counter spells and other weird color breaks in my black deck. I got extra turns, counters, take control of other peoples creature, take their turns, exile hand for a turn, discard their hand and hand pick their new one, all of the random shit haha.
I dont think she did as shes been playing magic for longer than most of us, having 4-5 people in your face questioning plays on a stage in front of a massive audience would be hard.
Not only that, judging from her facial expression both Kathleen and Rachel had a mini-anxiety attack during play. I have had those when playing in my LGS, no wonder they had issues when playing for 300 live people.
I was just watching GKL Minneapolis last night and wishing that there was another new episode lol. Here we go! Only one may stand (or stay seated at the end of the thing) 😂
@commandcast I would LOVE to see games like this, costumes and full-on entertainment, but in sit-stand stools. That would free up body movement, allow for standing to be more relevant and entertaining, AND show off the costumes better, which all of this and then some would add another layer to the game in the entertainment aspect. I love this set up so much and I hope we get more Magic content like this is the future!
Seeing Kathleen win was the most warm and fuzzy I've ever felt watching a win on Game Knights. To get to win playing your very good friends in a big stage like that was amazing.
Kinda confused as to why everyone guessed under 250 Knights… when the previous question mentioned that there are 338 Birds. There’s no way anyone could think there were fewer Knights than Birds. 😂
Loved seeing the game and it looked really great from start to finish. I have hopes that in the near future I can catch you guys at a MagicCon or get to meet you in person. I really much love the content you guys put out and I can't wait to see what's next in line. I am super excited. 😁
Really good game, fun to watch. If I have one suggestion while having live commentary from gavin and CGB was cool it does kind of talk over the players a lot when they are trying to do stuff. especially at the end of the game there when everyone was trying to do the math the commentary was quite distracting.
Holy Kathleen's final calculations and lines were incredible. She saw things even I missed while watching, and was able to expertly navigate the TKO. Congrats on the amazing victory, and everyone played very well! Always love Game Knights, and this was no exception!
A sweet deal would have been for Jimmy and Rachel to use their artifact draw effects on not their turn to trigger zurzoth, in order to make an additional 2 devils (3 total). That way they would need fewer activations of pyrohemia, leaving them all at healthier life totals.
No. Rachel noticed that she missed the 2nd pyrohemia damage. Rachel then gave her the damage for both 2 and 3 at that time, before Jimmy responded. So when Jimmy and Josh took damage at the correct time, but Kathleen already was hurt. She was at 15 at the start, took 2 from Talion and went to 13, activated pyrohemia 3 times and went to 4, cast vicious rumors and went to 5, then final activation would have sent her to 1 as she killed Jimmy. But actually Jimmy was the one who missed the damage. He didn’t take the second pyrohemia damage. He and Rachel were at 2, Kathleen activated it a 2nd time, Jimmy eats food and goes to 5, and Rachel fails to find an answer. After her death, Jimmy was still at 5 instead of dropping to 2 again. Then they resolved the Devil token death trigger, but he should have done his madness play *then* to not die. So really Kathleen should have won with the rumors.
@@alexhanson3648Kathleen’s total was accurate at the end. Rachel caught that she missed the 2nd pyrohemia damage and gave it plus the 3rd’s at the same time, earlier than Josh and Jimmy’s damage. 15-2-3-3-3=4. Then rumors and Ramunap and pyrohemia would leave her at 1. Jimmy was the one that missed pyrohemia damage.
Ah yes, the four timeless archetypes of Magic the Gathering
aggro
control
madness
B I R D S
Man Josh went full "I give zero flips about how you think of me" villain mode when he defied the cube. Takes balls. I respect it
What a great game
It’s quite cute that Graham was just following Kathleen with the amulet like look at this thing. Isn’t this neat?
I love the bear hat too 😂
Graham is just walking behind Kathleen with a pendant, bear hat, and near-complete stoicism it's so funny 🤣
It took me nearly the entire intro to realize that was Graham, it was so great!
Math was the true archenemy of this game.
The end was the single messiest turn I have ever seen in my life. It exuded "They can't guess your plan if you don't have one" in the best way possible.
It was almost painful watching Kathleen try and figure out her line but she got there eventually!
She completely botched her last turn and still won smh
I wanted to turn it off for the last 10 minutes of the game, frustrating as fuck!!
Well it wasn't the easiest of turns to get through. Multiple players talking through her turn, making her not able to completely focus (other players had the best intentions, but still a lot of noise).
Playing in front of that incredible crowd on stage.
You would've done way better of course, from your chair at home.
Just be happy for her. She got there in the end and it was an incredible match.
Absolutely happy for Kathleen and you could see it meant a lot to her.
@@risturbeat8197 you'd do better minding your own business and not talking about me.
Jimmy ate that intro UP🔥🔥
haha fr fr
Straight Joaquin Phoenix vibes without all the depression 😅
put those acting chops to good use, he sold it!
Josh bringing out the cube and ignoring it was hilarious 😂
Jimmy called it out, not josh
@@evilanimegenious watch the whole video before commenting.
@@GbMissile I thought you were referring to the first turn he played that fairy thing
Watch the video, understand the video.
I don't think I've ever been so happy watching a game of Magic in my life.
I'm thrilled that Kathleen De Vere won the championship, she got so emotional, what a moment! She deserved it. It was such an epic victory, I couldn't help but applaud her for a minute afterwards, even though I was in my room watching this lol
I loved Kathleen's "this is literally my worst nightmare." 2:12:29
Josh ignoring the cube is one moment that is going to go down in legend. So funny.
"Stop sucking up to Carl!"
God I love seeing Kathleen in these!
This was so much fun being there live! We flew there from Germany and it was so much worth it!
Cant wait for MagicCon in Europe next year 🎉🥰
To those saying there was a missed pyrohemia damage, you’re right. But it’s not Kathleen (Rachel corrected it later but also gave her damage early which created the impression that it was later missed). It was actually Jimmy. I spent too long breaking it down, so here you go.
Start of the turn:
Jimmy 9 | Rachel 28 | Josh 13 | Kathleen 15
3 Devil tokens
Protection racket trigger resolves in upkeep with Jimmy paying 0 and Rachel paying 4 life:
Jimmy 9 | Rachel 24 | Josh 13 | Kathleen 15
3 Devil tokens
Kathleen casts Jeska’s will, targeting Rachel. This triggers Talion which resolves. Kathleen loses 2 and Josh draws his first card of the turn which triggers Zurzoth. Josh then counters Jeska’s will with fierce guardianship. Zurzoth’s trigger resolves, and devil token is created, triggering impact tremors which also resolves:
Jimmy 8 | Rachel 23 | Josh 12 | Kathleen 13
4 Devil tokens
In Kathleen’s combat phase, Rankle and Torbran attacks Rachel. She does not block. Damage step occurs:
Jimmy 8 | Rachel 20 | Josh 12 | Kathleen 13
4 Devil tokens
With the damage, Rankle and Torbran trigger. Kathleen chooses all modes. Each player makes a treasure token. Then, everyone sacrifices a creature (in order, a Devil token, Sphinx of enlightenment, Asmor…, and a spirit token). Then R&T has an affect for all damage to players (and battles) for the rest of the turn. The Devil token has a death trigger which targets Rachel, and Akim triggers since Rachel made her first token of the turn. Rachel makes a bird and takes 1+2 damage:
Jimmy 8 | Rachel 17 | Josh 12 | Kathleen 13
3 Devil tokens
Note that Kathleen has 2 mountains, Ramunap ruins, foreboding ruins, and 1 treasure token as sources of red mana for pyrohemia.
Kathleen taps foreboding ruins to activate pyrohemia once. Each player takes 3 damage, and all creatures take 1 damage. This kills 3 devil tokens, triggering their death effects. Long discussion, and Kathleen accidentally taps lands early, but it was corrected later. Kathleen sends 2 triggers to Rachel and 1 to Jimmy:
Jimmy 2 | Rachel 8 | Josh 9 | Kathleen 10
0 Devil tokens
Kathleen taps a mountain to target to cast spikefield hazard, targeting Rachel:
Jimmy 2 | Rachel 5 | Josh 9 | Kathleen 10
0 Devil tokens
Kathleen uses her treasure and last mountain to float 2 red mana, threatening pyrohemia twice. In response (which I’m not sure you can respond to mana abilities, but she can also do this in response to the first activation; doing it like this makes the stack easier), Rachel uses her clue token. It resolves, and she draws her first card of the turn which triggers Zurzoth. That resolves and gives Kathleen a Devil token which triggers impact tremors. In response, Jimmy uses 1 of his 2 food tokens to gain 3 life. Everything resolves. This is the board state at 2:11:21 and is accurate:
Jimmy 2 | Rachel 2 | Josh 6 | Kathleen 10
1 Devil token
Kathleen activates pyrohemia once, bolting all players and pinging all creatures. In response, Jimmy uses his last food token to gain 3 life. Also in response, Rachel uses currency converter to draw a card. Pyrohemia resolves, devil death triggers and targets Jimmy as Rachel is knocked out:
Jimmy 2 | Rachel 0 | Josh 3 | Kathleen 7
0 Devil tokens, but 1 death trigger on the stack.
**Note that this is where the confusion and mistakes come in. They begin talking about the devil trigger, but both Jimmy and Kathleen were not properly damaged by pyrohemia. When Jimmy goes to take the damage from the Devil token, he is really correcting himself.
** I’m going to continue playing it out how it should have gone.
In response to the Devil token trigger (which he did in response to the next pyrohemia), Jimmy activates underworld cookbook, discarding from under the floorboards. The cookbook gives him a food token, and he casts from under the floorboards for its madness cost where X=3. He gains 3 life and creates 3 zombie tokens. The Devil trigger resolves:
Jimmy 2 | Rachel 0 | Josh 3 | Kathleen 7
0 Devil tokens
Kathleen uses her 2nd (and last) floating mana to activate pyrohemia again. (Note that Rachel, upon this activation, correctly says that Kathleen missed the last pyrohemia damage. She says that Kathleen is at 4, which is correct once this pyrohemia resolves. Since her damage from this activation was done sooner than others’, that gives the impression that it was later missed.) In response, Jimmy uses his last food token (which he did in response to vicious rumors) to effectively negate the damage. Pyrohemia resolves for a 3rd time, knocking out Josh and killing Zurgoth:
Jimmy 2 | Rachel 0 | Josh 0 | Kathleen 4
0 Devil tokens
Kathleen casts vicious rumors, targeting Jimmy. (Just like how he had nothing in response to the 4th pyrohemia, he would have no response to this.) The spell resolves, dealing damage, healing Kathleen, and putting cards into the graveyard:
Jimmy 0 | Rachel 0 | Josh 0 | Kathleen 5
0 Devil tokens
Kathleen wins 1 ability sooner.
Thanks for clearing it up because they confused me when they got confused
glad to know my impressions were correct: it was very messy but jimmy did miss damage
But after all this was for entertaining. And they delivers that! 🎉
I thought Jimmy missed some, I'm glad it didn't affect the outcome of the game
I’m not reading all that but I’m happy for you or sorry that happened
CGB is killing it! He’s like a game show host.
CGB is nice, but I hate the intro to his Commander-Rounds 😠
@@SuperAmatonare you talking about his historic brawl videos or covertgocrew?
@@Schnaqer Worst Possible Commander Show on Covertgocrew, its the only thing I watch since I almost exclusively play Commander.
5:43 I love that you've written the Game Knights motto in Latin on your banner. Only one may stand!
Absolutely brilliant! Without a doubt an amazing show, set, intros, costumes, a/v quality, and a game for the ages. Congrats to the new Game Knights Live Champion, long may you reign! One of if not the best commander games I’ve ever sat and watched, I think Sheldon would be proud. Thank you all for the incredible effort that goes into the preparation and execution of a production like this.
WHOEVER WROTE THESE SPEECHES IS THE TRUE CHAD
Isn’t “Chad” usually used as a pejorative?
not in this context XD
But I agree the speeches were brilliant
@@crawdaddy1234no?
No quite, Josh's intro didn't include "and make you pay the 1"
I love how kind they are to eachother... while trying to claw their faces off.
Spoilers:
I can't believe Kathleen misplay with spike field hazard led to Rachel drawing cards to ensure Josh's death which then led to the death of every player, what a turn of events.
i didnt run the numbers, but im pretty sure if she just casted vicious rumors at that point instead of the spike field hazard, rachels play wouldnt have been necessary to kill everyone
@@xDarthix I ran the numbers and you're right. Rachel did gain a life instead of losing one at 1:53:30 though so the whole thing could have been way easier with her at 12 life in the first place. Happy it didn't skew the outcome of the game her ways in the end.
@@xDarthix the thing is josh repeatedly had told her the card drained life (it didnt obv.) So she didnt think it was worth it
Let’s be real. It was miserable to watch Kathleen pilot her own deck and ask the audience to help her threat assess.
Jimmy missed a Pyrohemia damage at 2:12:07, which would have made it a lot simpler. Kathleen missed that damage too, but Josh fixed it for her later (2:13:26).
I have NEVER Seen Kathleen Aggro and I AM LOVING IT!
Wow seeing Kathleen go through it after she won almost made me tear up! Awesome game straight MADNESS at the end
I Just have too say. I Love watching MTG in camera publications like this. The in game with the pressure of the clock is amazing. It also looks so much fun The playing and acting is amazing. We have an amazing Community!
Some real Geoffrey Chaucer by way of A Knight's Tale energy with those intros.
Fantastic 😂
Wow! I had no idea Sheldon had died 😞. It was nice that everyone took a moment to thank and remember him!
Okay Rachel had the coolest entrance, I have a soft spot for Bird tribal lmao. My first deck was making bird tribal with Kangee *cries a little*
love how when kathleen comes in we have the bear hat in her parade
Those walk ins were amazing. I was there in person, made it that much better. Love Kathleen's intro
While the game is great, I’ve rewatched that ending multiple times. The emotions from Kathleen are incredible, and everyone praising her is what we want to see in the community. Even if Wizards keeps trying to prevent it, they will never stop Magic from being about The Gathering.
I always say I love commander because I love watching cool and crazy things happen. This was such a delightfully weeks ride. Congratulations Kathleen!
The hatred behind Josh's eyes when the cube came out, hahahahaha so worth it.
"Go Birds" becoming a Game Knights staple makes my Philadelphian heart so happy.
Sincerely, the loudest guy at MC Philly
As a die hard Eagles fan I hope that it never dies.
Sincerely, the loudest guy at MC Vegas
8:43 Something tells me CGB didn't know he was talking to the person that pulled the One of One Ring 😅
😂
Someone didn't watch the rest of the vid haha
It’s crazy, Brooke is the guy that pulled the one ring 😂
It was so much fun to be there! I got to carry JLK's trophy as he came on stage! They even made me an awesome 001/001 shirt!! 😂
Congratulations bro
Lol yeah, they deliberately staged it to have him appear. You can look closely and notice that he has a Guest badge
Fun fact: After the trivia game, WotC reps brought him backstage and gave him a special "1 of 1" shirt that had a big gold printing of the "001/001" on it
Bro house madness guy had me nervous the whole time. Something about him felt scary lmao
The host reaction to the bird question killed me. I talk to my kids the same way lmao
Oh, I definitely know a few people like him from LGSs. Though tbf, he was probably nervous being on stage and wasn't thinking right.
Guy was in full tism mode up there 😂
@@Dracinard Oh no, I know him in several Discord communities. He's like that all the time.
@@TehFoamyI thought it was an act. That’s concerning 🤣 He’s never gonna live down the fact he won the trivia segment, probably boosted his iq another 5 points lol
What a game knight ending. Everything burning brightly like blazing candles, but in the end, only one flame could keep burning, for as always, ONLY ONE MAY STAND!!!
What a great show they put on now that's value! I wonder if more mtg content creators are going to be trying to get onto the gameknights live shows having a chance to get into the finals looked very exciting and rewarding to be a part of. I also like how there are no tutors, and no cheezy infinite combo's being played in these decks, making it all about casual commander and not CEDH nonsense that ends in the first three turns every game. And huge shout out to Victoria, BC girl Kathleen from LRR for taking down our favorite commander podcast team.
Wow that ending!!! What a combo filled back and forth!!!
I got all confused with Josh being able to cast Deadly Rollick after the Kindly Lord died. That cards warps games so much I forgot that he wasn't Josh's commander.
House Control, absolutely killin it with the Cube of Consequence save(rigging)
29:17 may be the funniest thing I've ever experienced on TH-cam. I almost passed out I was laughing so hard.
CovertGoBlue is an INCREDIBLE stage presence
2:03:06 I was freaking out that you guys were going to rule incorrectly on this. Luckily you caught it just as I started my comment rant. lol
First time watching gameknights live. Loving it
1:36:54 Oh hey, this was me!
I wasn't sure if I should have taken out Rachel's Ethereal Investigator with 2 damage and hit the Skycat Sovereign with the third damage, but I figured that Chainer would have gotten Jimmy a lot of value if it had stuck around. But then again, all it takes is two Pyrohemia activations to get rid of it, so idk 😅
Plus if I had distributed the damage differently, then maybe we wouldn't have gotten such a dramatic finish haha
Hindsight is 20/20 but given the circumstances I think Chainer definitely needed to go. When a card's downside becomes an upside---as I like to say, when "I have to" becomes "I get to"---it becomes infinitely more threatening, and Jimmy's deck was absolutely built around being able to discard at will. Chainer was a discard outlet, a reanimation enabler, and a haste enabler all in one.
Plus Kathleen won in the end so you shouldn't doubt the choice too much.
@@HakureiIllusion Lol yeah, when I sat back down several people came over and told me that I definitely made the right call by going for Chainer, so that reassured me even further
I loved being there and watching you guys, was crazy seeing Josh walk literally right behind me, sad I didn't get to meet you guys
Kathleen and Graham are my favorite guests y’all have, so happy!
This was super fun and exactly what MTG needs!!!
Ten years in, his is a truly inspiring thing to behold.
That last turn was AMAZING! Great job Kathleen!
06:23 Sh1t! CGB is great in front of a crowd! 😃
Vicious Rumors was printed during that weird time when WotC wanted black to deal damage rather than cause loss of life
Love that time because I like playing counter spells and other weird color breaks in my black deck. I got extra turns, counters, take control of other peoples creature, take their turns, exile hand for a turn, discard their hand and hand pick their new one, all of the random shit haha.
I feel like Kathleen kinda panicked and forgot how to play magic for some reason😂
It was sweet there in the end. He hands were shaking placing the cards.
What a rush that must have been. Imagine lasting 3 turns as the obvious threat against these 3 heavyweights. Wow
I dont think she did as shes been playing magic for longer than most of us, having 4-5 people in your face questioning plays on a stage in front of a massive audience would be hard.
Not only that, judging from her facial expression both Kathleen and Rachel had a mini-anxiety attack during play. I have had those when playing in my LGS, no wonder they had issues when playing for 300 live people.
Some reason = asking the audience's opinion.
Rachel may have made an error at the end. 😅
"Vicious rumors" win is the reason why commander is so much fun !
Great show! Came here from CovertGoBlue's dojo -- amazing to see him on a stage like this! Watched it all start to finish. 10/10 👍
I was just watching GKL Minneapolis last night and wishing that there was another new episode lol. Here we go! Only one may stand (or stay seated at the end of the thing) 😂
@commandcast I would LOVE to see games like this, costumes and full-on entertainment, but in sit-stand stools. That would free up body movement, allow for standing to be more relevant and entertaining, AND show off the costumes better, which all of this and then some would add another layer to the game in the entertainment aspect. I love this set up so much and I hope we get more Magic content like this is the future!
I love how much theyre incorporating the audience
It's good to see Voxy still hanging with Jimmy after he assaulted her in the crowd
Wooo! Glad to see it here after going to Magicon!
This was an amazing finish, some of the best magic games end like this. Dope
Forcing the cube on joshs creature was a dick move. It's his creature, he decides what happens with it's trigger
Really happy for Brook such a life changing thing to happen
Thank you 💙 it was so much fun!!! 😊
@@brooktrafton5842 And now you even have a cool 1 of 1 shirt to show off too!
Showmanship has REALLY Grown on this panel
Gavin my GOAT all of us at the camp crew miss you.
Gavin in red. CGB in blue.
Perfection.
Seeing Kathleen win was the most warm and fuzzy I've ever felt watching a win on Game Knights. To get to win playing your very good friends in a big stage like that was amazing.
JLK embracing the villain role was golden
Thank u Sheldon. We love u! 🙇♂️🙇♀️🙇
i can feel Kathleens pain through the screen! the panic was real
Loved CGB in this, he looks like he is having so much fun :)
Hell yeah! Finally! Been waiting for this.
I was there!! It was awesome. Go birds 😂🎉
Kinda confused as to why everyone guessed under 250 Knights… when the previous question mentioned that there are 338 Birds. There’s no way anyone could think there were fewer Knights than Birds. 😂
I know right? And the guy representing agro said 56?! Dah fuk? Over 300 birds I instantly told myself there had to be AT LEAST 500 knights.
Team Rachel 120%! But Kathleen seems like such an amazing person and player, can’t help but be happy for her!
Nice job you all! Watching this was so much fun!
For the Godfather! Rest and play in peace, Sheldon!
Loved seeing the game and it looked really great from start to finish. I have hopes that in the near future I can catch you guys at a MagicCon or get to meet you in person. I really much love the content you guys put out and I can't wait to see what's next in line. I am super excited. 😁
Was a really great championship
😊😊🎉🎉🎉
Aww Kat did so great, emotional ending!
This game reminded me why I hate free spells. So annoying. But I do love some good RB enchantment stuff!
43:20 Jimmy was definitely COOKING
SO much fun!!! Love the intros! This is awesome!
Welcome to GameKnights where Josh does whatever he wants!
What a game. Crazy. Was rooting for birds , but it was outclassed unfortunately. Pyrohemia, wow !!!
Really good game, fun to watch. If I have one suggestion while having live commentary from gavin and CGB was cool it does kind of talk over the players a lot when they are trying to do stuff. especially at the end of the game there when everyone was trying to do the math the commentary was quite distracting.
1:35 damn Thoralf got some sick calves
That was cool. Enjoyed very much.
Gameplay at 39:19
Legend
Hi. What's your name?
...Doug.
Hilarious, I'm rooting for Doug!
I never got to watch this so I’m ready for this
This was a fun game and very entertaining
Holy Kathleen's final calculations and lines were incredible. She saw things even I missed while watching, and was able to expertly navigate the TKO. Congrats on the amazing victory, and everyone played very well! Always love Game Knights, and this was no exception!
As the reigning champ of Philly’s event, Rachel really leaned into the “Go Birbs” sentiment. As a philadelphian I fully support this.
A sweet deal would have been for Jimmy and Rachel to use their artifact draw effects on not their turn to trigger zurzoth, in order to make an additional 2 devils (3 total). That way they would need fewer activations of pyrohemia, leaving them all at healthier life totals.
shouldnt kathleen been at 1? i think they missed counting her own damage to pyro at 2:14:10. she should have been at 1 so still would have been a draw
This!! They pretty much held her hand telling her exactly how to win and she STILL messed it all up with spikefield hazard just painful to watch.
No. Rachel noticed that she missed the 2nd pyrohemia damage. Rachel then gave her the damage for both 2 and 3 at that time, before Jimmy responded. So when Jimmy and Josh took damage at the correct time, but Kathleen already was hurt. She was at 15 at the start, took 2 from Talion and went to 13, activated pyrohemia 3 times and went to 4, cast vicious rumors and went to 5, then final activation would have sent her to 1 as she killed Jimmy.
But actually Jimmy was the one who missed the damage. He didn’t take the second pyrohemia damage. He and Rachel were at 2, Kathleen activated it a 2nd time, Jimmy eats food and goes to 5, and Rachel fails to find an answer. After her death, Jimmy was still at 5 instead of dropping to 2 again. Then they resolved the Devil token death trigger, but he should have done his madness play *then* to not die. So really Kathleen should have won with the rumors.
@@alexhanson3648Kathleen’s total was accurate at the end. Rachel caught that she missed the 2nd pyrohemia damage and gave it plus the 3rd’s at the same time, earlier than Josh and Jimmy’s damage. 15-2-3-3-3=4. Then rumors and Ramunap and pyrohemia would leave her at 1.
Jimmy was the one that missed pyrohemia damage.
this game for sheldon !!! may he rest peacefully
This is the first magic event i legit want to go to