Build this, about a month before this video, and was about bteak it up, untill my friend linked this video. Updatet it, to almost the same, and won games in row last night. Great job.
Another way to weaponize life gain is through symmetrical effects that attack life totals (more than just our commander who will inevitably have a target on their head) Ankh of mishra, Dingus Staff, Liability etc. Helps the prevent the life gain-durdle problem!
Worth mentioning, bolas citadel + necropotence + reservoir also works if you aren't super unlucky. Even just necropotence + bolas citadel normally gets me there in my Karlov deck. Also, I eventually ended up removing felidar sovereign in favor of test of endurance. Test of endurance comes out faster and is harder to remove. I cast felidar sovereign maybe 30 times when I played it in my karlov deck. It only went off twice, so for me at least it was super ineffective.
I have a Vona gain/drain style deck that has a lot of the same cards in it and I've considered swapping in Liesa as the commander so this was very insightful. I would suggest Tainted Remedy as a more budget option to Erebos. Sunscorch Regent and Vizkopa Guildmage are also very nice fits with this theme. A well timed Tainted Sigil can also be surprisingly powerful. Great tech. Concise and to the point.
Tainted Remedy is even more useful than Erebos in my opinion because it weaponises Congregate, Swords to Plowshares, Beacon of Immortality and Heliod's Intervention. Plus, pair up Tainted Remedy with Heliod and you have a pretty strong political tool - "Ok, you want to attack me? Here's lifelink on your strongest attacker and if you go through with your attack, you'll lose the amount of life equal to your creature's power."
Might I also recommend bloodchief ascension? With Liesa out you stack counters on it really quickly, often turning it on in a single turn cycle. You can even toss in mindcrank for another infinite.
Oh noes! Joe Cherries how could you?! Beezy are you alright? (Love the deck tech btw, I have a friend who was very excited to build this deck, and there are a ton of great ideas in here)
Nice! I had already gotten 70% of the cards you mention and you gave me some good ideas. Only I refuse to leave the merchant out... merchants gotta merch
I used to buy precons back in the day, and I had the BW Pestilence pre con from Urzas block. I upgraded it and was one of my fav childhood decks. So I made Liesa into a casual pestilence deck with loads of tutors and enchantment recursion, lifelink to keep me ahead in a pinch. It's pretty shit even though it's fully blinged out with cabal coffers and replenish and anything else I could think of - but at least my IQ
Loved hearing some ideas for Liesa! She’s my newest deck and I do have to say 1v1 is hard when your deck is more or less built upon the idea of doing damage to everyone equally at a table. Any ideas on what could help a 1v1 situation? I was thinking something like peer into the abyss and wound reflection in place of exsanguinate and debt to the deathless.
I'd priorize draining opponents over gaining life. It's just as mana efficient in EDH, but more effective at actually win the game. Liesa usually pays for herself due to the lifelink. You'll never have to cast her more than 3 or 4 times, since she drains opponents so quickly. Meaning high cmc lifegain like Rhox Faithmender (2:13) and Sangromancer (1:57) would definitely get the axe in my list. 8:00 I'm not sure if I'd go for a Storm combo, since Liesa is anti-synergistic with it until you find the Reservoir. I'd rather go with one of the many tap-untap or sacrifice combos, like with Midnight Guard/Famished Paladin or Sun Titan/Karmic Guide, since they don't trigger Liesa.
It s also nice to put some equipments on Liesa , Swift boot , swords... Erebos can be copied or picked up by ur opponents..be careful. Nice video Thanks !
I play a similar deck with Krav and Regna at the helm. I've been debating replacing them with her... if I do, I only need to swap out like 5 cards to truly make the deck shift.
@@NitpickingNerds It'll be out somewhat soon. I've had the video ready to record for a while but I've struggled finding motivation, even after my last video got 2.5 times the amount of views that any other video I've posted has. Hopefully I release it sometime this week though.
I didn't watch it all the way through and you mention that at the end. It looks good. I noticed lots of little things like the smoke background, highlighting text and the outline of what the video is about. I think it makes it a lot more digestible (and you know I know lot about digesting)
I love Liesa because the only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes! Also, you guys just have a problem with black creatures with names starting with G. Or maybe it’s the color gray?
Beezy had a very nice tone and register when doing voice over. I always enjoy it
I need to do more voice-overs!
This is probably your best edited video ever made, so far.
Good job, new editor :D
Wow high praise! I’ll make sure he reads this comment!
Thank you! 💜🐒
One of the best! Nice editing, smooth Beezy voice, and Cherries ending in the top. A gourmet bagel deck tech for sure!
Very glad to hear that!
Thank you very much! 💜🐒
More deck techs please! Would you consider doing a series of 'Best-Of' pairings with Companions?
Love this deck tech format, great work guys.
Glad you liked it
Build this, about a month before this video, and was about bteak it up, untill my friend linked this video. Updatet it, to almost the same, and won games in row last night. Great job.
Nice solo vid! One of our fav new commanders.
Thanks dudes!
I just started putting a Liesa decklist together over the weekend. This video was perfect timing for me!
THANK YOU! I’m working on this deck atm and this helps a lot
Glad to hear it! You have no idea how much we were dying to put out commander legends deck techs!
Was wondering where Joe Cherries was haha that surprise at the end.
I’m always lurking just off camera!
Whoaaaa, what an amazing deck tech! Cannot wait to watch ON REPEAT!
Yeah our mystery editor really did a good job
Really like this deck. Removing the infinite combos and felidar sovereign though as my group frowns upon that kind of stuff.
Great quality. Great content. Keep it up.
There will be more of these in the future!
Cherries popping in at the end for the peace out tribe scout about mage me pee my self. Haha
We thought it was pretty good too
You guys, right when I was looking to build this, awesome!!!
We have the best timing don't we?
I just made this deck, slightly different obviously, but I put in Painful Quandry and it was amazing in the deck.
As always, Quality vid. It's a sin to have such a low subscriber count.
TH-cam is a grind
Another way to weaponize life gain is through symmetrical effects that attack life totals (more than just our commander who will inevitably have a target on their head) Ankh of mishra, Dingus Staff, Liability etc. Helps the prevent the life gain-durdle problem!
Worth mentioning, bolas citadel + necropotence + reservoir also works if you aren't super unlucky. Even just necropotence + bolas citadel normally gets me there in my Karlov deck. Also, I eventually ended up removing felidar sovereign in favor of test of endurance. Test of endurance comes out faster and is harder to remove. I cast felidar sovereign maybe 30 times when I played it in my karlov deck. It only went off twice, so for me at least it was super ineffective.
I have a Vona gain/drain style deck that has a lot of the same cards in it and I've considered swapping in Liesa as the commander so this was very insightful. I would suggest Tainted Remedy as a more budget option to Erebos. Sunscorch Regent and Vizkopa Guildmage are also very nice fits with this theme. A well timed Tainted Sigil can also be surprisingly powerful. Great tech. Concise and to the point.
Tainted Remedy is even more useful than Erebos in my opinion because it weaponises Congregate, Swords to Plowshares, Beacon of Immortality and Heliod's Intervention. Plus, pair up Tainted Remedy with Heliod and you have a pretty strong political tool - "Ok, you want to attack me? Here's lifelink on your strongest attacker and if you go through with your attack, you'll lose the amount of life equal to your creature's power."
Your videos are super helpful!Good job guys!I'm waiting for others techs soon!
We can't wait to do more of these
I have a Liesa deck too and it has many similarities and differences. Good video!
What cards are you playing that are different
Awesome tech! Now i know what to be on the look out for when i go up against Liesa decks! LOL
Yes beware the combos, and kill Liesa if you’re trying to cast a lot of spells!
Great video but the full decklist in the link is missing 6 cards sadly enough.
Great video guys! Editing was well done with being too over done!
Thank you 💜🐒
Might I also recommend bloodchief ascension? With Liesa out you stack counters on it really quickly, often turning it on in a single turn cycle. You can even toss in mindcrank for another infinite.
I like that!
really well made and informative. looking forward to more similar content for other interesting commanders :)
Oh noes! Joe Cherries how could you?! Beezy are you alright?
(Love the deck tech btw, I have a friend who was very excited to build this deck, and there are a ton of great ideas in here)
Nicely done, congrats to chimpey for editing
He killed it
Thank you! 💜🐒
Solid deck! I'm looking to build this on MGTO,
Nice! I had already gotten 70% of the cards you mention and you gave me some good ideas. Only I refuse to leave the merchant out... merchants gotta merch
You do you!
I used to buy precons back in the day, and I had the BW Pestilence pre con from Urzas block. I upgraded it and was one of my fav childhood decks.
So I made Liesa into a casual pestilence deck with loads of tutors and enchantment recursion, lifelink to keep me ahead in a pinch.
It's pretty shit even though it's fully blinged out with cabal coffers and replenish and anything else I could think of - but at least my IQ
Similarities to my ayli deck, which runs liesa. So fun to play.
I was looking forward to this! Haha I built a deck with her after pulling a copy.. It’s a mean one. And I think Liesa is pronounced the same as Lisa.
Lol 😂 just lisa
Might just buy this deck. Any 2022 swaps you'd make?
Loved hearing some ideas for Liesa! She’s my newest deck and I do have to say 1v1 is hard when your deck is more or less built upon the idea of doing damage to everyone equally at a table. Any ideas on what could help a 1v1 situation? I was thinking something like peer into the abyss and wound reflection in place of exsanguinate and debt to the deathless.
Not bad replacements at all
Nice Deck Tech!
Hey thank you!
Can we get a deck tech on Yeva, Nature's Herald?
I'd priorize draining opponents over gaining life. It's just as mana efficient in EDH, but more effective at actually win the game. Liesa usually pays for herself due to the lifelink. You'll never have to cast her more than 3 or 4 times, since she drains opponents so quickly. Meaning high cmc lifegain like Rhox Faithmender (2:13) and Sangromancer (1:57) would definitely get the axe in my list.
8:00 I'm not sure if I'd go for a Storm combo, since Liesa is anti-synergistic with it until you find the Reservoir. I'd rather go with one of the many tap-untap or sacrifice combos, like with Midnight Guard/Famished Paladin or Sun Titan/Karmic Guide, since they don't trigger Liesa.
This is my favorite type of deck.
It s also nice to put some equipments on Liesa , Swift boot , swords...
Erebos can be copied or picked up by ur opponents..be careful.
Nice video Thanks !
I play a similar deck with Krav and Regna at the helm. I've been debating replacing them with her... if I do, I only need to swap out like 5 cards to truly make the deck shift.
What kind of power level would you guys rate this deck at? I absolutely love this!
It's probably a 6-7, having played against it a few times now it can really tax and you need to watch out for combos
@@NitpickingNerds and if you added Gary?
Beezy beat me to the punch here, I'm in the process of making a video deck tech on Liesa too. Sigh, foiled again lol
When will it be out?
@@NitpickingNerds It'll be out somewhat soon. I've had the video ready to record for a while but I've struggled finding motivation, even after my last video got 2.5 times the amount of views that any other video I've posted has. Hopefully I release it sometime this week though.
awesome video
Glad you liked it!
What is the chance you know which cards are missing on the decklist?
Great deck tech! Now I only need to make the list like 100 dollars so my poor ass can afford it lol
With Kaldheim coming out soon, are you going to be editing the deck with any new cards from the set?
Based, I was hoping y’all would do a deck tech on Leisa!
Wish granted!
I think a good card to add is court of ambition
RIP my Vito deck!
deck list somewhere ??
Thank you!!!!
You’re welcome!
Iiiiii dunno about Felidar Sovreign. I hear it's kind of a trap that sits in your hand.
Welcome to Orzhov's Empire : Tax !
Is it intentional that the Tcgplayer list is only 94 cards?
It was, but I can't even remember why now. There was some bug with TCGplayer that wasn't recognizing certain cards. Might have been MDFC's
YES YES YES
YES
Bahahahaha love that ending
Glad you liked it!
BZ exclusive?
Smartest decision ever, right? We should do all our videos like this
Is this a test for your new editor?
Yes, and I think he pretty much nailed it
I didn't watch it all the way through and you mention that at the end. It looks good. I noticed lots of little things like the smoke background, highlighting text and the outline of what the video is about.
I think it makes it a lot more digestible (and you know I know lot about digesting)
I love Liesa because the only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes!
Also, you guys just have a problem with black creatures with names starting with G. Or maybe it’s the color gray?
No pain, no gain... Well, I gain while you are in pain lol
Yes the pain is not universal :P
RIP to my Heliod Deck.
What happened to it?
@@NitpickingNerds Liesa happening to it... time to switch it up maybe ... hmmmm?
She will do good work... and you get black cards!
It's more professional, but has less character; the banter is half the fun.
I suppose I do have more free time to listen than most, though.
Don't worry, these types of deck techs if and when we do more are going to be BONUS videos, allowing us to make four videos a week instead of three
Emperal storm, really punish players for making you cast your commander again and again.
NO, GARY
14th!
Just missed the podium 😂
Why is this so expensive 😭😭😭
welcome to commander