As someone who takes weeks just to get a functional deck to play with (not including moding stages after play testing, I greatly appreciate this video.
Love the content that you put out and the commander games recorded - I recently got back into MTG and took my baby steps into EDH a few months back so this is really timely. (Also, I got like 3 more or else done decks and have another 2 in progress so I am well on my way to cardboard hell once again)
This was such a great video. Thank you for sharing your brewing process, Esmond! I do have a suggestion with the protection aspect of the deck: maybe you'd want to include something like a Swiftfoot Boots or a Champion's Helm? Or if you wanted to get some value out of enchantment-based synergies, I might suggest a Diplomatic Immunity.
This was a great watch! If you're doing interviews I definitely want Paul to be first and Yang Ling second, those two guys always bring really interesting decks to the match. Also, kudos on your impressive Scryfall skills; when I brew I have to go to advanced search every 15 seconds like a pleb -_-0
Cool video! Always fun to see someone else's perspective and thought process when building decks! Would love to see Matt explain his process when building mono-red decks! 😄
Could run Mother of Runes/Giver of Runes to try to keep Zur safe, Spellskite for additional protection and cut out a bit of the enchantments to do so; all in all, great video - love the process and the "behind the scenes" look at how you build a deck
It’s impressive how efficiently you use scryfall. Can you not do all that in moxfield since it’s powered by scryfall? It would have taken me 10+ hours to do all that 😅
Its interesting to see how a deck can get constructed and be functional immediately. I usually get a commander, look in my trunk of spares and just throw anything and everything in the deck. Then slowly over time ill improve it. My gitrog deck used to be just all my green and black cards but slowly its built really good synergy and keeps up with all the players who can afford to play and buy cards more regularly than me
Righteous Aura would be a good one to protect you from the always attacking Matthew 😂 Alseid of Life's Bounty to protect your commander and Solitary Confinement is a funny one too(specially in a tight game!) Quintessential MTG become my favorite channel! Love from Brazil 💛
Hey Esmond, On moxfield you can search with the scryfall syntax. Just 1 click and the card ist in the deck ;) Nice to see your "uncut" deck building processes and hear your thoughts and desicions. Very insightful :) Keep up the great content!
i really like the video. can you maybe explain more how you guys get such a similar power level. thats what I like the most about you videos. it is so balanced, which makes it so cool, and oyu gyus obviously
Robe of the archmagi would be a fun card for card draw if you’re going for combat. Also for extra protection plus enchantment I always love kayas ghostform. One mana and protects from exile too. Awesome video man. Would love to see the same with a budget in mind. Like 200 or something.
If you're leaning into the lifegain aspect I really think Daxos would be a good include. Plus the token creating enchantments are just so much extra value for you just for playing the theme of the deck. Personal opinion though.
Good video! Do you consider your mana curve relative to your commander when deckbuilding? Frank Karsten put out an article earlier this year about mana curve in edh, and while it is a guideline he more or less says 'if your commander is X CMC then you should avoid putting in any other X CMC cards if possible' (so in this case it would be to avoid all 3 drops if possible). It also suggests that for 3 drop commanders that you might not want to run any mana rocks and that youre running waaaayyy too few lands (for a 3CMC commander he says the math says to run 42 lands and Sol Ring as the only mana rock). It's a guideline, but im going to try to follow it where possible.
The only thing im worried about is board wipes, since your enchantments dont have indestructible. So many different ways to build zur. I wanna use enchanted evening to turn some planeswalkers and strong non enchantment creatures into enchantment creatures including sphere of safety so they cant attack my pw's.
Also, do you not consider budget when building for a certain powerlevel? You said you didnt want to put generically powerful cards in unless they worked with the theme, but then you put in mana drain, which is just a generically powerful card, as well as generous gift instead of Leyline Binding (which sort of does the same thing as generous gift, for the same cost, but doesnt give them a 3/3 and is also a 6CMC card for Zur to animate)... I figure go one way or the other, go all in on your commander and make it budget, or just go non budget and put all the overpowered staples in (esper sentinel, rystic studies, mana drain, smothering tithe etc. etc. ) and if some of them synergise then thats even better.
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Disclaimer: there are actually an infinite number of steps because deck-building is a never-ending process 😂
As someone who takes weeks just to get a functional deck to play with (not including moding stages after play testing, I greatly appreciate this video.
Yes it takes more than a couple of hours for me too!
This is awesome, thank you Esmond :)
Everyone usually "only" shows the finished list, but this right here, is a powermove in my book!
Thanks! That's the plan. I'm hoping to do a few more; hopefully I can make them a bit shorter than this first attempt haha
@@QMTG to be honest, i liked the length. It also gave me some more insight for the scryfall syntax, haha.
Thanks for that :)
Loving it man to see what's behind the scenes when everyone shares their ideas on deckbuilding and reasons behind it ☺️
Excited when I saw this post - I appreciated hearing your perspectives and I excited for the new direction of this channel. :)
Yay! Thank you!
Love learning how folks build their decks!
Great deck. Love yall. Been really enjoying all of your videos. Keep up all of the great/hard work! 🤘❤️🤘
Love the content that you put out and the commander games recorded - I recently got back into MTG and took my baby steps into EDH a few months back so this is really timely. (Also, I got like 3 more or else done decks and have another 2 in progress so I am well on my way to cardboard hell once again)
Awesome!
This was really fun thank you! Love watching people deckbuild, always an informative process :) keep up the fun videos
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was such a great video. Thank you for sharing your brewing process, Esmond!
I do have a suggestion with the protection aspect of the deck: maybe you'd want to include something like a Swiftfoot Boots or a Champion's Helm? Or if you wanted to get some value out of enchantment-based synergies, I might suggest a Diplomatic Immunity.
Thanks!
This was a great watch! If you're doing interviews I definitely want Paul to be first and Yang Ling second, those two guys always bring really interesting decks to the match.
Also, kudos on your impressive Scryfall skills; when I brew I have to go to advanced search every 15 seconds like a pleb -_-0
Hahahaha ok sure!
Really like this video, and yeah, get all the regulars in for deckbuilding interviews! They all bring such unique styles.
Will do!
Cool video! Always fun to see someone else's perspective and thought process when building decks! Would love to see Matt explain his process when building mono-red decks! 😄
Interesting to learn how other people build their decks. Nice content!
Glad you enjoyed!
Could run Mother of Runes/Giver of Runes to try to keep Zur safe, Spellskite for additional protection and cut out a bit of the enchantments to do so; all in all, great video - love the process and the "behind the scenes" look at how you build a deck
It’s impressive how efficiently you use scryfall. Can you not do all that in moxfield since it’s powered by scryfall?
It would have taken me 10+ hours to do all that 😅
Yeah it works on Moxfield as well but then I won't be able to see the deck as I build it
Its interesting to see how a deck can get constructed and be functional immediately.
I usually get a commander, look in my trunk of spares and just throw anything and everything in the deck. Then slowly over time ill improve it. My gitrog deck used to be just all my green and black cards but slowly its built really good synergy and keeps up with all the players who can afford to play and buy cards more regularly than me
Nice! Decks are always changing
Righteous Aura would be a good one to protect you from the always attacking Matthew 😂
Alseid of Life's Bounty to protect your commander and Solitary Confinement is a funny one too(specially in a tight game!)
Quintessential MTG become my favorite channel! Love from Brazil 💛
Nice! Thanks!!
Clearly you need to interview The Chosen One and The Faceless One.
Definitely
Hey Esmond,
On moxfield you can search with the scryfall syntax.
Just 1 click and the card ist in the deck ;)
Nice to see your "uncut" deck building processes and hear your thoughts and desicions. Very insightful :)
Keep up the great content!
Thanks! Yeah I know it's possible but the I wouldn't be able to see the deck at the same time
i really like the video. can you maybe explain more how you guys get such a similar power level. thats what I like the most about you videos. it is so balanced, which makes it so cool, and oyu gyus obviously
Okay great suggestion! Thanks :)
Robe of the archmagi would be a fun card for card draw if you’re going for combat. Also for extra protection plus enchantment I always love kayas ghostform. One mana and protects from exile too. Awesome video man. Would love to see the same with a budget in mind. Like 200 or something.
I don’t know if anyone has said anything about it yet, but getting better lighting on your face should fix the frame rate issue on your webcam
If you're leaning into the lifegain aspect I really think Daxos would be a good include. Plus the token creating enchantments are just so much extra value for you just for playing the theme of the deck. Personal opinion though.
Yeah actually this deck became more of a keyword-ability-matters. It also made me want to build an Alela esper enchantment tokens deck
Great video!
Thanks!
Good video! Do you consider your mana curve relative to your commander when deckbuilding? Frank Karsten put out an article earlier this year about mana curve in edh, and while it is a guideline he more or less says 'if your commander is X CMC then you should avoid putting in any other X CMC cards if possible' (so in this case it would be to avoid all 3 drops if possible). It also suggests that for 3 drop commanders that you might not want to run any mana rocks and that youre running waaaayyy too few lands (for a 3CMC commander he says the math says to run 42 lands and Sol Ring as the only mana rock). It's a guideline, but im going to try to follow it where possible.
Let's do a budget deck building next time
I'm sorry I have to ask. I'm like 2 minutes into the video, do you not use dark mode on Moxfield?? Or did you just not use dark mode for this video?
Lol I actually didn't realize. Sometimes it's on dark mode, sometimes it isn't
This was cool - thanks.
Thanks :)
The only thing im worried about is board wipes, since your enchantments dont have indestructible. So many different ways to build zur. I wanna use enchanted evening to turn some planeswalkers and strong non enchantment creatures into enchantment creatures including sphere of safety so they cant attack my pw's.
Will you play this commander in one of the upcoming games?
Yes
What about Teferis Ageless insight as a card draw?
Also, do you not consider budget when building for a certain powerlevel? You said you didnt want to put generically powerful cards in unless they worked with the theme, but then you put in mana drain, which is just a generically powerful card, as well as generous gift instead of Leyline Binding (which sort of does the same thing as generous gift, for the same cost, but doesnt give them a 3/3 and is also a 6CMC card for Zur to animate)... I figure go one way or the other, go all in on your commander and make it budget, or just go non budget and put all the overpowered staples in (esper sentinel, rystic studies, mana drain, smothering tithe etc. etc. ) and if some of them synergise then thats even better.
i need to learn how to use scryfall
Yes it is so useful lol
Must be nice when you dont have a budget D:
I’ll do budget options next time
@@QMTG thank you very much! I enjoy your 100$ commander upgrade games a lot haha