Which Magic: The Gathering Color Are You?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- There are 32 color combinations in Magic The Gathering, and what you choose to play says everything about you! SO, let's talk about the MTG Color Pie and its philosophy.
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I was trying to figure out how/why you posted three videos in a single day but this explains it😂really awesome videos man! Watched all three in a row without realizing it. Earned a subscriber from me🫡
I definitely enjoyed the video and will be subscribing immediately. Hope to see more of your content
A Gruul deck to try is Ruric thar because it makes opponents lose life to cast non creature spells.
good video.
and i dont want to be mean but i wanted to mention that it bothered me that after you started with white you jumped to black instead of keeping the wubrg order, whyyyy...
anyway, sorry.
My mono white angel deck has a very unique win condition. When my life total reaches 2,000 my opponent usually quits. 😂
You are the reason for commander damage aha
@@OOMTG **slowly slides platinum angel onto the field until I can draw felidar sovereign**
@@ADancingRobotinfect: *exists*
@@RoninRose541 shhhhhh we don’t talk about infect….
Mill, "win the game" cards, infinite combos
Green: "oh just let me swing my 20/20 for game... on turn 3"
Blue: "NO"
White: "oh what a nice board you have there... mind you if i destroy it completely?"
Black: "war crimes baby!!!!"
Red: "Now you see your Lifes... now you don't "
LoL best simplification
This...I feel like I should disagree but I love this
@@dely9999 best part is, black usually war crimes itself haha
I just did my first MTG games yesterday as a complete fresh player.
Basically this sums up what I saw 😂 Got a black/green meta deck and only one once despite it being dominant? Anyways I had fun!!!
Blue is the kid on the playground back in the day who just says "nuh uh!" to anything anyone does against them during play.
The fact that people dip into Blue like it's a fuckin single level in War Cleric in Bauldur's Gate 3 for tourneys, tells you all you need to know about them. Only here for the braindead counterspells and card draw, so i can make sure i always have those counterspells...be a real shame if someone else got to do anything.
"Color"? the hell is that? -Some eldrazi titan
More like
"Color"? Some good fucking food -Some eldrazi titan
My friend's frist deck was a colorless artifact (Golem/Myr) back in Mirrodin block. It was so confusing because I used magic as a way to help me figure out new friend's personalities and she just went "Naw, guess."
Eldrazi should be its own color (opposed to green, tucked between blue and black)
@@Regunesno. Just no.
@@RegunesThis, Sir. Send Kozilek at him.
My opponents: “No you can’t just spam the board with dinosaurs!”
Me: “Ha ha Gishath go brrrrr”
Polyraptor go brrrrrrr
F y'all Gishath players, I have nightmares after each FNM
Get Vindicated lmao
Play Gishath. Proceed to vomit dinosaurs onto the field
"Green even has land destruction if youre a bad person" 😂
😇
it’s funny because there’s a green deck in pauper with land destruction that got a lot stronger with modern horizons 3 😂😂
TSUNAMI!!!❤
Land destruction is the one rule we have in my large pod of friends who play. Most anything goes but if you touch someone's lands it's all hands to slap ya down a few pegs lol
I wonder why I still love a game where I’m repeatedly told I’m a bad person for what I like. Mill, land destruction, eldrazi fun.
I love my green/black graveyard decks. Let's turn graveyards into playgrounds!
Bojuka Bog would like to know your location
@@MyDj56 Tell Bojuka Bog I'm away at the moment, and to please leave a message!
I like mine too until all of my friends start to tech my deck with grave exile 😢
Rest in Peace is my best friend
Say this to a public area with out context 💀
Forget horoscopes, what color you play?
Green
Dune
Green with wurms
@@Bruhmilk1987 Orzhov, Gruul, with some mono white and a bit of Jund.
started with boros.
then shifted to rakdos
later went for golgari.
now it's just mono-red aggro.
@20:17, "but most importantly, they have squirrels" 😂😂😂
It's very important
Squirrel commanders, ugh.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:13 White
5:11 Black
9:14 Blue
13:33 Red
18:01 Green
22:36 Colorless
24:41 White/Blue (Azorius)
25:23 White/Black (Orzhov)
26:48 Red/White (Boros)
28:00 Green/White (Selesnya)
28:54 Blue/Black (Dimir)
30:52 Green/Blue (Simic)
32:02 Blue/Red (Izzet)
33:09 Black/Green (Golgari)
34:01 Black/Red (Rakdos)
35:32 Red/Green (Gruul)
36:41 White/Blue/Black (Esper)
37:42 Blue/Black/Red (Grixis)
39:07 Black/Red/Green (Jund)
40:01 Red/Green/White (Naya)
40:40 Green/White/Blue (Bant)
41:23 White/Black/Green (Abzan)
42:15 Blue/Red/White (Jeskai)
43:06 Black/Green/Blue (Sultai)
44:06 Red/White/Black (Mardu)
45:19 Green/Blue/Red (Temur)
46:04 Four colors
47:11 Five colors
47:47 Outro
i like you
Yargle be like "Swing for face? No, swing for game."
I wanna make a cheap Yargle and Multani voltron deck so bad.
White's issue is that most of it's best unique mechanics have been removed from the game.
Protection is basically gone now and realistically, Ward should have replaced Protection instead of hexproof. Give them protection from a spell of a specific colour unless the caster pays extra mana instead of just generically letting them have protection from all spells.
Banding is gone and it was a really good, if confusing mechanic.
White is playing catch up with itself. The other colours are swapping the old mechanics so all colours can use them and the other 4 ae still getting new mechanics on top of it.
Let's also not forget that land destruction is primarily a white thing, and it's basically an unspoken rule to not use, even if it closes out games.
lol, banding was the worst fail of a mechanic they ever made.
i've always figured that black and white were both meant to mirror each other in some weird way in order to both oppose and compliment each other
"and why people hate you for playing blue"
*immediately skips forward to see how OP describes green*
The correct understanding of the color pie is that everyone CAN be a bastard. Green is just stealthy about it
Green is fun, blue annoys me (I play blue-red)
@@OOMTG That's why I play blue/green. So they winder if it's going to be quick or stealth 😂
*Skips to Dimir*
Should be glad I can only be Dimir via the deck.
My favorite Gruul commander is Thromok the Insatiable. The basic game plan is make a bunch of little guys early, then feed them to a big guy later and swing for game.
I am a big fan of Ruric Thar, the Unbowed. Force your Commander friends to participate in the creature/combat game or take quite a bit of Commander Damage.
@@Swatman170yo commander damage has to be combat damage
My favorite is to swing big, then Fling for a second helping of big. Gruul decks just made that more fun to pull off.
So remember kids, blue players don't hate fun, we just know that there's a limited amount of fun available per magic game. And that fun is ours :)
😂 you could say....we seize the fun by having as much interaction with the other players as possible. It just so happens to be when they have a clutch spell to fire off.
"fun" is a finite resource.
I honestly don't have that much trouble with blue players my red usually smashes them early
Many cool points added for the Hollow Knight music in the background.
i thought i would look down and see a good 10-15k subscribers. great video quality, keep it up :)
70 in one day is pretty good too aha thanks for the kind words!
Great video man. Clearly a lot of work went into this, and for your third video, I find it hard to believe that you are new to TH-cam! Very well done, and I can't wait to see what you upload next!!
New to this channel aha been on youtube for almost a decade overall :) I'm glad you enjoyed!
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Chapters: (U is Blue)
Intro: 0:00
White: 1:13
Black: 5:11
Blue: 9:14
Red: 13:32
Green: 18:01
Colorless: 22:36
Azorius (WU) 24:41
Orzhov (BW) 25:23
Boros (RW) 26:49
Selesnya (GW): 28:00
Dimir (BU): 28:55
Simic (GU): 30:52
Izzet (UR): 32:01
Golgari (BG): 33:09
Rakdos (BR): 34:01
Gruul (RG): 35:32
Esper (WUB): 36:41
Grixis (BUR): 37:42
Jund (RGB): 39:06
Bant (WGU): 40:40
Abzan (BWG): 41:23
Jeskai (RWU): 42:15
Saltai (GBU): 43:06
Mardu (WRB): 44:06
Temur (URG): 45:19
touched lightly on four color combinations and 5 color combinations later, reply with feedback for this =)
Thank you
Soulknight music?
Also Selesnya all the way
Sling out destruction while growing your fenced in garden and feeding the mana grown to your armies.
WHAT WHEN?
I just love Black cards' atmosphere and themes.
My favorite colour duo is Black-Green, for ultimate graveyard plays.
Other than that, I like white fine (Black-White is also a very cool combination). I never clicked with the two other colours though.
Just made a black green deck today! We test tomorrow :)
I was just looking for mtg lore channels and hearing your familiar voice is a pleasant surprise. Good stuff!
You say that red runs out of steam very quickly and I agree, but its speed also means that often, you are the only person on the board who can keep the truly heinous mana ramping from kicking off in green or partially green decks
27:05 counterpoint. You're falling into the trap a lot of players do when considering boros that you alone have to deal all the damage that will ever be dealt to all your opponents. Unless you're going up against three combo win decks, this just isn't ever going to be the case. Your opponents will be attacking each other during the game as well meaning every point of damage they do is a point of damage you don't have to do (basically, let them fight). The real struggle Boros has historically had is its lacking in both the ability to effectively ramp out more mana, which it usually does these days by relying on mana rocks and treasures, and drawing cards since they largely have to rely on either white's group hug style draw or red's impulse draw.
This is why you see the popularity of commanders like Feather who turn cantrips into repeatable sources of card draw. Though my favorite is the kind of pseudo card advantage of General Ferrous Rokiric who is a bit more unusual playstyle asking you to play as many multi color cards as possible and giving you a really solid payoff for doing so
Green has bite effects which are just asymmetric fight cards. They’re not as sure as say a doomblade, but with green you’ll probably have big creatures to make them work better.
Honestly, one of my favourite Selesnya commanders is Cadira, Caller of the Small.
Just make tokens. It doesn't matter what kinds of tokens. Then hit people with a buffed commander, and generate hundreds of rabbits. Always fun to play the bunny brigade 🐇
Man I thought I was the only one who liked playing Cadira! Lol So much fun with that deck
Appreciate the review of the numerous faction names, remembering when the wedge names arrived with Khans as that was when I was last heavily invested in MTG
This is the real personality yest
Love your content man, keep up the good work
For gruul: try Etali, Primal Conquerer. Just build a ton of quick mana/ramp early and have a bunch of broken top end stuff like the green praetor with the land thing and mana tripling tree guy
The Jeskai deck I run that people "love" is Zedru. He just wants to give people gifts.
Roxanne starfall savant is one of my favorite gruul commanders, the gameplan is just swinging her as many times as physically possible to generate mana and damage and if you can clone her even better
*whistles innocently in Sliver, Eldrazi and red blue dragon as I wonder what these will day about me*......well besides i'm an evil asshole
Rakdos has always been my go to, Idk i just love the hotrod decks :)
Currently using Rakdos, Patron of Chaos as my cmdr
I think blue has a very unfair reputation. I certainly wouldn't say blue is the color of other people not getting to play the game at all. I'd say if I had to name one, it'd probably be White in general because its board wipes often hit everyone, it exiles your best creature so you can never get it back for one mana and can do that like three times a game, and its stax and tax effects are many. On a grand scale though it really depends on the commander and the player. In theory, a blue player can stop people from using their best cards, but there's the whole thing of, they're one person with a limited number of resources, and sometimes they counterspell somebody else's Cyclonic Rift, which the whole board will thank you for except that one guy. They can't stop everyone from playing the game, but they tend to be incentivized to not allow somebody to break away from the pack, which isn't bad.
People who go "how dare you play blue" are usually just salty they didn't get to play their best card and immediately win. I see it as, would you rather someone use a counterspell or a board wipe? Blue only really has one good asymmetrical board wipe, and that's Cyclonic Rift, and that may be a great card, but it's also 7 mana worth of great card that you can't cheat, which is also vulnerable to a counterspell. Some of blue's better board clears are really good at stopping unstoppable players without annihilating everyone's board state, such as Filter Out bouncing all noncreature nonland permanents, which clears the treasure off the board and momentarily clears enchantments without taking them away forever, so it can be the least destructive color. Some of the most fun and creative commanders are at least partially blue.
Simic (Blue/Green) is another matter. But I won't get to that.
To blue's credit, blue is also the best color of evasive creatures that have flying or just straight up can't be blocked, and while they usually can't use strong creatures for that effect, it isn't off the table. Blue is a fun color even if you're not trying to ruin everybody's nice time. For a new player, the idea that you don't get to play your card this time might be frustrating, but once you get used to it, you start to admire the option to counter someone's spell before it becomes a problem rather than having to resort to a nuclear option that resets the board because we all had to just allow it to become a problem. Any color can become such a threat that they require that answer, and a savvy player knows how to construct a deck that has way more than one "oh shit it's that" card.
New players get really mad when you take away one card, experienced players understand they have 100 cards.
I almost entirely agree - my only caveat is that I think anyone complaining about any ONE color is usually just salty (unless a crazy meta is happening). In reality, every color can be just as bad as each other, but the way they make people feel bad just have different visibility.
@@OOMTG Yeah, I agree. :3c
Your under arrest for being the best magic player on this reality thank you so much you gave me tears of joy😭😭
If I had to compare it to another TCG, it’s like Runick in Yu-Gi-Oh. You use your cards strategically and generate a lot of value, but you’re not winning immediately. You have to fully play it out.
Hot take, I really would rather somebody board wipe. Instead of only making me suffer a little, it makes everyone suffer a lot. That's good for me because my opponents are no longer issues for a small duration. Asymmetric board wipes can be issues, but at least they say "destroy" instead of "exile" (because farewell almost never truly spares the caster; creatures are usually the issue).
If my board gets dumpstered, that's a bit sad, but there are more win conditions and, most likely, an arch-enemy. If my big move to win gets countered, I need to shift to a new win condition while everybody knows that I am in a wonderful position to take the game. At this point, threat assessment will lead to my downfall. If it's a bounce counter, then everyone knows what I will try to do next turn. At best, nobody has an answer and I win. At worst, I am immediately targeted and die. Assuming players use the 8-10 recommended interaction cards (averaged to 9 for the purposes of calculation) there is a 1/11 theoretical probability for a player to draw a piece of interaction. Estimated 3/11 chance when accounting for the 3 other players. While this doesn't account for the varying amounts of each card type, it is a safe estimation (I would personally have around 12).
TL;DR: I would rather have 2 of my opponents debilitated as well as myself than get exploded by the entire table. On a different note, I do dislike white more just because of the stax effects being annoying. I just think blue is more threatening due to good card draw, tempo-boosting/cheap counters, and powerful artifact synergies.
I like to play a game where I pick out magic players and try to guess their colors. I'm not always right, obvs, but I'm getting pretty good at guessing color mains as long as we are in person.
36:17 For Gruul commanders, I would recommend Samut, Vizier of Nazeem, and Grand Warlord Radha. Samut allows you to completely bypass Gruuls card draw problem, and Radha gives you so much mana it's insane. I would recommend playing both of them in the same deck, since they both support the other really well. Samut gives you something to spend Radha's mana on, and Radha allows you to play the cards you get with Samut earlier than normal.
Another card that synergizes really well with Samut and Radha is Chandra. Specifically Chandra, Acolyte of Flame. Chandra can summon two elemental fire spirits that have haste. This gives you a lot of card draw with Samut, and a lot of mana with Radha.
When playing with each commander, here is what I'd recommend. With Samut, you want some good hasted creatures, but more importantly you'd want enchantments or artefacts that give your creatures haste. This way, you can use cards like Krenko Mob Boss, which will allow you to draw nearly your entire deck before you know it. With Radha, while you will want to fill your deck with expensive creatures, you might want to try swarm cards and X cost spells. This way, you get a bunch of mana, then you could spend around 40 of it to blast someone to death with some instant or sorcery. I would also recommend running Tribute to the World Tree. TWT allows you to buff the smaller creatures in your Samut deck, or draw you cards in your Radha deck.
But still, I do think you should run both Samut and Radha in the same deck. I would recommend Samut as your commander, but that's just me.
Man...MTG has gotten pretty crazy since the last time I played (back in 2008). I watched this video assuming that it was a more...complete-novice focused overview. Which, don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed it, there were just a lot of terms and keywords that I was unfamiliar with. I think it might be cool to see a version of this concept for people who don’t actively play MTG but are maybe looking to get into it.
I will say, I was really impressed with the quality of your writing and editing/video production. Despite my lack of relevant knowledge, this was still a really fun watch.
Thank you for all the kind words! I hope you come back to the game some time, there's a lot more to love since 2008 :)
@@OOMTG It certainly seems that way! The last time I was into it, I mainly ran Slivers, which I remember thoroughly enjoying as a concept.
As far as getting back into it, I might do so someday when I have more disposable income, but at the moment I can only afford one major hobby, and I’m currently spending most of my spare cash on Gunpla. Still, I have fun checking in on the state of the game from time to time, if for no other reason than I love all the art and attendant lore. I’m definitely gonna check out that Eldrazi video later today; it looks super interesting!
Ruby, Daring Tracker is a Gruul mana dork in the command zone. There's a playstyle of turn 1 land, turn 2 land Ruby, turn 3 any 4-mana ramp sorcery, and you're off to the races. She even gets bigger once you swing with beaters.
I'll definitely check it out!
you mentioned "all of the colors and none of the colors"
im so happy :'D
You had me at "bonk things really hard"
37:41 Waited for you to talk about Oloro, since I would say having a Commandzone effect is an overpowered absurdity, but Hella fun
I've been really getting into Azban. Depending on your commander, it's a powerful Selesnya deck, or Golgari deck with the aid of Orzov. The graveyard is your utility, a second hand you just need to either fill or dig up. You can basically call Azban a Grave Digger deck. I love both Necrobloom and Kathril. Necrobloom is Selesnya with the dead, utilizing anthems, ramp and recursion, while Kathril is Golgari and Orzov, utilizing the dead by burying creatures alive then using their death's essence to aid in combat. In both cases, no one can stop the unrelenting hoard of Zombies, or bug with Trample, Flying, First Strike, Double Strike, Indestructible, Hexproof, Death Touch, and Vigilance!
Ive found the chromatic magics far moee interesting to the monochromes
Red, blue, and green make such fascinating combinations to me
Grixis
I've been playing this color combination ever since Ravnica Dissension, running cards like Vision Skeins, Hellhole Rats, and Jagged Poppet.
It's just a super fun color combination that also feeds my card draw itch, often bringing my opponents into draw/discard burn.
Sometimes it says I picked some stuff because I have no idea what you’re talking about. Haha interesting video. Interesting stuff.
Mentioning Jon Irenicus reminded me of the Shuffle Up and Play video with him as one of the commanders, maybe the funniest magic video I have ever watched.
I am and always will be a Gruul Girly, but it's interesting to see why others enjoy their colour/colour combos
That video was actually why I built him! Its SUCH a fun and chaotic deck
8:10 heyyy its the card the manga is named after
My three favorite color pairings are, in order, White/Green with Trostani, White/Black with like Ratadrabik and lifesteal/lifetax, and Blue/Green with Adrix and Nev. Again I really like tokens and lifegain.
I'm running a when you gain life, opponent loses life deck with Liesa as my commander. Some of my key cards are Kaya, ghost assassin, Astarion, the decadent, Nightshade Harvester, Ajani, Strength of the pride, Bastion of Remembrance, Athreos, God of Passage, Archangel of Thune, and Defiant Bloodlord. Those, along with many other, whenever you gain life get +1/+1, whenever you gain life, opponents lose life, and whenever a creature enters the battlefield, gain life. And I don't attach or block much with my creatures, so they sit there giving me life and leeching from my opponents. It's great :D
Also several of the token doublers affect Bootlegger's Stash, leading to insane mana pools.
I only played magic for one quick round at a friends birthday party a long time ago. All i remember from back then is a black spider xD
but based on this video i think i would like to start with green/white or green/blue, something more chill.
"Gruul Unga Bunga" you say as I bring out my Oathbreaker Wrenn and Six mutual land destruction :)
Red green white for token, menace, mana ramping, and heavy hitters out easily. My go too all day
lol, i'm an illegal Naya Players then. I'm playing Samut, Voice of Dissent as a Legend deck. Pretty much everything is legendary inside, and it's really efficient.
You get the pass for now, but you're on thin ice 👀
@@OOMTG 🤣. To be honest, I would gladly play Dinosaurs, but it would make 3 Dino players in my group so :/ I had to be inventive
Lmaoo more than fair
The Abzan deck I eventually wanna byild is Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant. I of course would make it a token and lifegain deck.
I mostly play part-white decks and barely use any control or boardwipes. I just really like the lifegain and token generation in it. Also Mommy Norn is a staple in my decks with white.
I have two commander decks to my name. A Dimir Mill deck and a Jund sacrifice deck. Love em both
For naya, I just started to get into commander with friends and my one friend is brand new to magic in general so I built a naya dino deck and built it around Huatli. At first I was afraid it was going to be shit, but he honestly had a really strong set of games and Huatli makes getting what you need done so easy. Crazy underrated
Xenagos, God of Revels is my favourite Gruul commander. You double a creatures health and power and give it haste every turn, which in green/red just amplifies the absurdity you can do. Add in the fact that its indestructible and becomes a powerful creature at 7 devotion and its ridiculous.
Ive ended multiplier games very quickly by dropping incredibly powerful monsters and knocking people out one at a time, very satisfying, like hitting people with a big stick and winning.
When I first started playing I thought I would enjoy Dimir a lot but after playing for a hot minute I've really come to love Jund.
As far as fun Gruul commanders I have a nasty Anzrag, the Quake Mole deck that's a little notorious for knocking out a player early, and then immediately gets ganged up on before it happens a second time.
I'll have to check that out!
Asorius wins the matches my completing victory condition, such as silly white sorcery for 7 mana, which you only need to play twice
Your videos are fantastic! Keep at it!
Gruul is the home of the Werewolf. One of the first decks i made was Tovolar werewolves. I still have it and its been updated many times, but its a really dope deck. Ive been able to pull off some nasty board states and combos with him at the forefront
Wait other players can cast spells and have fun?!? No problem 60 counters baral is here (violence is the only option)
for green and red, might i suggest Omnath, Locus of Rage? he has landfall that creates a 5/5 Elemental every time you bring a land onto your board. on top of that, whenever he or another elemental you control dies he deals 3 damage to either a player or creature of your choice
Ive been a Prismatic/5 color boi, but Boros is now a favorite of mine
I could tell you didn't play red much when you explained mono-red. Was really validating when you later confessed that.
No shade, of course. You do you
Yea it's deeeefinitely my least played color. Unfortunately you can only play so much magic right? Aha hopefully I did a passable job
Gurl is definitely my favorite and while new I have some options you could try. Atarka, world render solves green lack of flying with dragons and green solves dragons cost by being green, overall it's about getting out dragons, your commander and just punching people for massive damage. Then there's my second/third commander deck that I absolutely love and play the most and put the most money into (though because it's base is a precon it has a cheaper option) and that's chishiro the shattered blade. Chishiro is basically Voltron that makes your stuff even bigger, you either want an aura or equipment base (or both) so you can start handing out +1/+1 counters and make a bigger board state. I honestly go tall but it can just as easily go wide with spirit token spam. Finally anzrag (I don't know if I spelled it right) but it's the mole god. Friend plays it and basically make it indestructible and win, cuz blocking it allows it to attack again and not blocking it is at best 8 commander damage that can easily get stronger if it needs to
What I play says more about what luck I had drawing from the pack
This video would really benefit from having chapters named after the currently-discussed color or color combo, if only so I can remember the name of what the shards and wedges are called 5 seconds after you said it at the start of it's segment. XD
Awsome break down of the colors. I'm a sucker for vampires (pun 100% intended) so I am always running Mordu colors, and yes, I have an Edgar deck.
smh the forbidden suck man
I play red/green decks, only 2 of those right now, a wolf deck, and a dinosaur deck
Me before this video: I love Gruul, I wonder what he says?
Me after this video: OONGA BOONGA
Green, Blue and White has access to my favorite and first Commander when it originally started: Rafiq! And he just wants to deal Commander damage with evasiveness. Very narrow focused and one of the original Voltron style Commander decks. With the new inclusions of Swords for added target protection and the upcoming ability to now phase yourself by jumping into a Haystack he still gets some use with my playgroups after almost 15 years and is a pretty unique and fun commander style.
Some options which are more oppressive include destroying lands after you are done setting up on turn 4 or 5 for a more dominating playstyle to limit opponents options.
Pure evasive Voltron and stacking Exalted triggers adds up quickly for a "Put your eggs in one unbreakable basket and smack em!" style.
Blue has counter spells but we don't care because Dragonlord Dromoka stops players from casting on our turns. So if you're worried about your equipment missing or dying as it auras attach then try him out. (And he's uncounterable).
This color combo also loves auras so you could go a little slower and wider and make a small army of well defended units to beat down everyone as needed.
Also also, you can take extra turns and hit everyone in one big multi-turn beatdown chain and watch as they observe in horror.
My deck has evolved a lot since, and I still love seeing people try it out and seeing what they do while wielding it.
It's easily not the strongest deck ever but it was also never meant to be. It was just one of my more fun types of decks that worked great as a Commander since all you had to do was smack someone when Rafiq was at 11 power once rather than their life total (40). (You'll figure it out.)
Started playing MTG with Izzet (Niv-Mizzet), recently I upgraded to Yore (Breya Artifacts). Gotta say, I love doing combos, and Breya gives me tons of fairly budget options.
Choose one
●Single elimination.
●Double elimination.
●Triple elimination.
●Single round robin.
●Double round robin.
●Triple round robin.
●Swiss.
●Dutch.
●Monrad.
As far as Gruul goes I'm a big fan of Targ Nar, Demon-Fang Gnoll. Big numbers from green enchantments paired with cheap red instant buffs, keywords like trample, and even the occasional fight card for spot removal all while proc-ing his own ability makes Targ Nar a fast and violent Voltron
My queen, the hive, grows with each new sliver, let me teach them how to access the multiverse.
I like Rakdos and its very daredevil playstyle. Always had a liking for its style but for the commander format i never found a commander to use it with that I actually thought was fun as a play. And i entered the game late-ish so a lot of the rakdos cards i had available before finding out about singles was not really the best.
Then Thunder Junction came in and the weird rush i feel exiling 15 of my cards with a shadow of mortality sac to see if i can play anything in there is always fun lmao. And the "group slug" way is always fun, destroying your own boards with a good chance of taking out opponents as well lol
A fun little gruul deck i like to use is Omnath elemental tribal focusing on other creature with simular Landfall: "make a elemental" effect, swinging everything once i hit critical mass and blasphemous act to kill my own elementals to trigger omnath a million times
For Grull you should build decks with Bello, Bard of the Brambles.
It can turn into I really treat deck only problem is you usually high on man power on your turn but on your opponent's turn you are quite low on man power
I don't play commander, but I DO steamroll people with Izzet in standard. Love the Edgar Markov comment. 😂 I'm also a bit surprised you didn't add drawing for black. It has tons of draw cards and even the silly one that draws half your deck.
For the art alone, i would make a white, blue and green deck
I play Orzhov and when I saw deathgrip (on screen at 1:07 ) at my local game store I just had to torment my mono green friend w it lol
I own the kurdur comander and the necron commander deck and sometimes play them against eachother and more often the not his ability is what gets his creatures boardwiped
Agatha and her vile Cauldron is one of my most powerful decks. Being able to activate abilities for less can make the game very scary
When I play MTG I usually play a black blue white leaning more into the black and having the other two for alternate win blue to bounce monsters/mill,
black to exile/discard/plan ahead/punish for small hand/draw/reanimate
White to gain life and punish you for killing my minions and to plan ahead
A friend introduced me to Magic in 1995, he actually bought me my first packs so he would have someone to play with, from the very start I picked White and he picked black, as we opened packs we would trade our white and black rare to each other, even to this day I still play mainly white,
Everyone overlooks Megatron, he is AMAZING
I feel like he either goes absolutely insane or he does nothing at all. My perfect deck lmao
@@OOMTG As long as your table mates don’t attack you immediately you can build a boards presence very fast
I only play gruul. My favorite cmd is Etali, Primal Conqueror. But I love Xenagos, god of Revels, Ruric Thar and Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald. Recently I build 2 new gruul decks Kibo and Bello, both are awesome.There is my tribal werewolves It's a fun deck, I want that WotC to buff them but they only care about dragons and wizards.
Blue black. If you can get Lord of the Void and Consuming Aberration out, then use traumatize. Your opponents will hate you, I promise.
I’m pretty new to magic and only really played in this online app on my phone, one of the first things I remember doing was accidentally making a white deck that made me pretty much immortal with how much health I could gain which usually made people quit. Tbh I still know very little about the game but want to learn more.
My all time favorite deck was an old black/green/white shaman tree folk deck. Simple set up with some control, taking the slow path to ending the game on my terms when I was ready. Sigh, good times
kaalia, the vast. is my fav deck angles, dragons and demons >:D
Grixis Nekusar is just great.
I have always loved blue and hated red. Green is probably my second favorite color. I do love me some Simic wonderfulness. A little hexproof here, a little unblockable there, and my +1/+1 counters become extremely effective.
Counterspell just seems like natural thing to be included in the a game called Magic the Gathering. I don't understand why people consider it boring when every deck has a way or removing shit one way or another.
Because there's a big difference between:
"I summon my giant beast!"
"Oh, yeah? I summon my bigger giant beast!" Or "Oh? Well, I cast a massive lightning bolt to kill your giant beast!"
And
"I summon my giant beast!"
"No, you don't."
A lot of decks count on etbs and removal doesn't stop etbs as opposed ro counter
Ah so the issue is a lack of imagination of what counterspell is because if you look at the outcome of me anhilating a creature with lightning bolt or countering it, they are the same.
When wizards duel, I imagine them doing everything they can to stop their opponent. "I summon a big monster" "I zap your wand away, now what?"
Chishiro shattered blade is pretty fun gruul. Also love kardur doom scourge. So much fun!
there is nothing i love more than looking at my opponents and saying "Now fight each other for my amusement"
@OOMTG yeah! Have to hit them with the villainous laugh too!