Omg omg omg omg. Sorry I wasnt first on this one but omg. Thank you guys so so so much!! I am gonna watch this with my friends later when they wake up but I wanted to comment here!
Tamiyos Journal could be a good addition to this deck as it makes a Clue at your upkeep and you can sacrifice three clues with it to tutor for any card
I'm late to this party but Tamiyos journal plus Briarbridge Patrol. Sack three clues tutor amazing creature move to end step slam big creature for free!
@@jajahatman8842 even better if you have some way to untap your journal. Briarbridge patrol let’s you slam a creature on ANY end step! Not just your own!
just wanted to thank you guys again, every since I started watching you guys I can see an obvious improvement in my deck building. Other channels might recommend good cards to put in a specific deck but you guys explain yourselves so well I can take the ideas you talk about and apply them every time I am building a new deck or tuning an old one!
Love this. I’ve been wanting to build a Lonis clue deck but when I went to try and build it, it just turned into a UG blink deck and that’s not what I wanted, so I kinda gave up. I’ll definitely be taking cues from this list. Also, finalllllyyy someone else is on the Resculpt train. I’ve been trying to tell people I think it’s better than Reality Shift, but I’ve felt kind of alone in that. Thank you! Lol
Great video, I really love my Lonis deck. Mine is a bit different, trying to have fun with Karn-Struct type creatures. I was def sleeping on that investigating spirit creating flyer though. Thanks for the tip :)
Heroic intervention could be a big tempo swing. Countering a boardwipe also saves 2 of your opponents board states. Where as Heroic intervention only saves yourself and makes everyone else play catch up. Plus if there is a second boardwipe to take you down, that's the one you can counter
just want to add quickling is an awesome spot protection spell in this deck, it triggers Lonis' ability and can then return him to your hand (which isn't a problem because he's only 2cmc
Beautifully done boys 👌 Love this been playing Lonis practically sense he came out but definitely adding some cards. Thank you fellow nerds for showing this to the community
Heroic intervention is so you don't have to counter the board wipe, you let it resolve and you keep your board while everyone else loses it. If they counter it then you use your Mana Drain and fierce. Depending on the circumstances it can be a win-con, you have a crazy board, and others have a decent board state, but they are willing to sacrifice their board to get rid of yours but instead u keep it and they lose theirs. Well, now imma scoop lol.
The comments on the beginning of Misc cuts reminded me of my friend in my playgroup. He has a Wilhelt "Zombie tribal" deck that only has 12 zombies in it :D Just last game he was wondering why it didn't do anything.
Wanted to thank you guys for hyping up Vadrik in an earlier video. Ended up making a deck with big dumb x spells, pump spells and timewalks with some equipment. Just a total blast
The old Peregrine Drake + Deadeye Navigator combo is broken with Lonis together with Thousand-Year Elixir and Clock of Omens. Get all your opponents' permanents!
I think a wincon missing is shrieking drake + academy rector + fleeting memories. It allows you to go infinite with casts, make infinite clues, and mill your opponents out one by one. It also just lets you get infinite mana if you have parallel lives or any clue doubler. Its not the easiest to pull off, but its very fun and synergistic. Same goes for intruder alarm * mana dork for blue and shrieking drake.
My own personal Lonis deck is… frog tribal. Yeah, Grolnok came out and I know, that’s a frog commander. But Lonis is just so good and so on curve! If each of the frogs you play gives you a clue that’s just fantastic value. Plus, his stealing ability nicely reflects the Peer Pressure strategy of the frogs!
I highly recommend Ashaya as another win condition with Quirion Ranger if your playgroup is ok with infinites. Ashaya let's you tap creatures as forests, Quirion Ranger bounces itself to untap any creature that's not sick, use the mana to recast Quirion, rinse and repeat. With Lonis and academy manufactory or tireless provisioner that'll get you infinite tokens. Ashaya is also just a good value creature, and having all creatures trigger your tireless pair is sweet!
One thing I really miss is Shrieking Drake. Combine it with academy manufactor/Urza and you have infinite clues, add something like Kinnan/token doubler and you can literally cast your whole deck. Another thing I kinda miss in upgraded decklist is Rampage of the Clans.
I don't think Druid of Purification can see CEDH play because the Turbo player can take out the Root Maze or Rule of Law that is stopping them from winning the game. The mana cost isn't what's stopping it, as having a body attached to a very efficient removal spell is exactly what slow and grindy stax decks (which a lot of are green) want. What they don't want is to give a chance for a combo deck to go off when a key stax piece is removed.
Ulvenwald mysteries seems okay. Not for the clue generation but for the tokens. Sacking clues on lonis gets you 1/1s and so even getting 10 clues to go in on lonis gives you 10 1/1s. I feel like it's an alternative wincon.
Great video as always! I do have a point of disagreement: I think Gilded Goose is absolutely worth an include. It’s worse than BoP in the first couple of turns but after that the potential synergies make it way better imo. It’s another token interaction for Academy Manufactor or the token doublers, another artifact to use with Urza or Shimmer Drake (or the Clock of Omens in my build), another artifact to sac to KCI, etc. Or, in the words of the nerds: what is the floor/what is the ceiling? I think if you compare you’d end up wanting the goose in more situations than the other one drop mana dorks. Edit: Fixed Clock of Omens (not Unwinding Clock)
ADD - Shrieking Drake: (u) When Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, return "A" creature you control to its owner's hand. Such an easy card to go infinite in that deck. And if you don't play combos you can still make as many clues as blue mana you have each turn by casting it and investigating and the bouncing it back to your hand.
I built this deck with academy Manufactor and thassa deep dwelling and other self blink cards to speed up clue generation. And then graf mole to sack clues to gain a crap ton of life, and then play cards that increase card advantage with creatures and change my millions of clues into creatures to swing for damage.
My thoughts as i am work on a lonis deck. I want to go the aluren, glen elendra pranksters, and coiling oracle and the like 3 casting cost or less with etb to abuse
I found one of the best cards to mess decks like this up yesterday. it's called "Hum of the Radix" it's 2GG for an enchantment that says artifacts cost 1 extra for each arifact you have on the table. so if you mass produce clues, guess how expensive that sol ring you cast on turn 5 is gonna be? Lonis is one of the few decks I would play dorks over enchantment and spell ramp, Seton is another. I put homeward path in decks where my commander is very important + there are alot of players that play expropriate, so I just pick money and they lose all their stuff again, but in decks that want to steal stuff, of course not.
I was very excited for lonis, and I wanted to user her ability so badly but my deck kept ending up in some simic infinite value loop instant wins just because ininfite artifacts is so busted. I had to make a spreadsheet to calculate clue counts with doublers + academy manufactor
8 per lonis so 16 total per creature entering the field! I got a lonis deck with some copies in the deck and honestly its not the first time that i do this kind of maths xd
I’m gonna have to try this. I made a Lonis deck but didn’t really put any wincons in it so I just ended up stealing everyone’s creatures which pissed everyone off and they’d take me out 😂
What is the name of this Commander precon? I cannot find it. Either way, I’m building a “Cryptid Investigation” deck and appreciate the recommendations in this video!
Hard disagree on Ulvenwald mysteries. I gives token bodies whenever you sac a clue for any reason. That includes Lonis. You can also post wrath crack a bunch of clues to fill your board with an instant speed army of tokens. And it even has synergy with the other token producing effects. It's one of the best token payoffs and if you expect anyone to be playing wraths or removal it's 110% worth the slot.
The trick is utilizing the clues for extra value to get ahead. Having lonis in the command zone always ensures that you've got the resource you need (clues). I think I put lonis in a yarok deck. Could even build with a clue subtheme. Marionette master in a lonis deck sounds awesome.
ok so, before i watch the entire episode here are my suggestions: avenger of zendikar, scute swarm, zendikar's roil, howl of the night pack, second harvest, panharmonicon..........easy sources for tons of free creatures 2/2 or less
You cut rite of replication!? Target the academy manufactur with it kicked and you basically just win. Making one clue will net you 243 clues, treasures and food tokens. If adrix and nev are out, it's 118,098. You can't tell me the clue deck doesn't want 118,098 clues...
Calling midnight Mass one of the best shows in the last few years but also complaining about.. monolouges? lmao. I love you guys but sometimes you are too much for me. xD
Omg omg omg omg. Sorry I wasnt first on this one but omg. Thank you guys so so so much!! I am gonna watch this with my friends later when they wake up but I wanted to comment here!
Enjoy the deck, it looks nuts!
Enjoy and happy birthday!!
@@NitpickingNerds Thank you!
Getting doughnut
Sooooooooooo... I get Commander's Plate for Kirk now because they cut it from Lonis right?
Tamiyos Journal could be a good addition to this deck as it makes a Clue at your upkeep and you can sacrifice three clues with it to tutor for any card
It's already in the updated decklist?
@@tmakalpha1 oh is it, I didn’t know
I'm late to this party but Tamiyos journal plus Briarbridge Patrol. Sack three clues tutor amazing creature move to end step slam big creature for free!
@@nelsonmeredith9224 oooh you’re right, great synergy there
@@jajahatman8842 even better if you have some way to untap your journal. Briarbridge patrol let’s you slam a creature on ANY end step! Not just your own!
just wanted to thank you guys again, every since I started watching you guys I can see an obvious improvement in my deck building. Other channels might recommend good cards to put in a specific deck but you guys explain yourselves so well I can take the ideas you talk about and apply them every time I am building a new deck or tuning an old one!
Love this. I’ve been wanting to build a Lonis clue deck but when I went to try and build it, it just turned into a UG blink deck and that’s not what I wanted, so I kinda gave up. I’ll definitely be taking cues from this list. Also, finalllllyyy someone else is on the Resculpt train. I’ve been trying to tell people I think it’s better than Reality Shift, but I’ve felt kind of alone in that. Thank you! Lol
Great video, I really love my Lonis deck. Mine is a bit different, trying to have fun with Karn-Struct type creatures. I was def sleeping on that investigating spirit creating flyer though. Thanks for the tip :)
"We hope to please every day...in a non weird way!" 😅😂😂 Gotta love these guys!
Heroic intervention could be a big tempo swing. Countering a boardwipe also saves 2 of your opponents board states. Where as Heroic intervention only saves yourself and makes everyone else play catch up. Plus if there is a second boardwipe to take you down, that's the one you can counter
just want to add quickling is an awesome spot protection spell in this deck, it triggers Lonis' ability and can then return him to your hand (which isn't a problem because he's only 2cmc
Whoo! Lonis is so much fun! Can't wait to see if there are some tweaks I could make to mine.
Beautifully done boys 👌 Love this been playing Lonis practically sense he came out but definitely adding some cards. Thank you fellow nerds for showing this to the community
Heroic intervention is so you don't have to counter the board wipe, you let it resolve and you keep your board while everyone else loses it. If they counter it then you use your Mana Drain and fierce. Depending on the circumstances it can be a win-con, you have a crazy board, and others have a decent board state, but they are willing to sacrifice their board to get rid of yours but instead u keep it and they lose theirs. Well, now imma scoop lol.
The comments on the beginning of Misc cuts reminded me of my friend in my playgroup. He has a Wilhelt "Zombie tribal" deck that only has 12 zombies in it :D Just last game he was wondering why it didn't do anything.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! Awesome vid ma guys, love the channel!!!
Why is Ulvenwald Mysteries not good? When the deck gets going it produces like at least 4 tokens a turn...
Wanted to thank you guys for hyping up Vadrik in an earlier video. Ended up making a deck with big dumb x spells, pump spells and timewalks with some equipment. Just a total blast
The old Peregrine Drake + Deadeye Navigator combo is broken with Lonis together with Thousand-Year Elixir and Clock of Omens. Get all your opponents' permanents!
I think a wincon missing is shrieking drake + academy rector + fleeting memories. It allows you to go infinite with casts, make infinite clues, and mill your opponents out one by one. It also just lets you get infinite mana if you have parallel lives or any clue doubler. Its not the easiest to pull off, but its very fun and synergistic. Same goes for intruder alarm * mana dork for blue and shrieking drake.
Daily uploads and I still crave more nerds! Keep up the fantastic work guys!
Rise and shine would also be a great addition to the deck
Rampage of the clans too
This was this my first deck I every built and I LOVE IT SO MUCH keep up the good work 👍🏻
That is not how regenerate works at all, unfortunately. Regeneration does not mean that the creatures die and then come back
My own personal Lonis deck is… frog tribal. Yeah, Grolnok came out and I know, that’s a frog commander. But Lonis is just so good and so on curve! If each of the frogs you play gives you a clue that’s just fantastic value. Plus, his stealing ability nicely reflects the Peer Pressure strategy of the frogs!
Lonis is reptilian
This deck looks awesome, I might just have to build a Lonis deck now
Love seeing these kinds of videos! I wanted to make a lonis deck when mh2 came out!
I highly recommend Ashaya as another win condition with Quirion Ranger if your playgroup is ok with infinites. Ashaya let's you tap creatures as forests, Quirion Ranger bounces itself to untap any creature that's not sick, use the mana to recast Quirion, rinse and repeat. With Lonis and academy manufactory or tireless provisioner that'll get you infinite tokens. Ashaya is also just a good value creature, and having all creatures trigger your tireless pair is sweet!
This is sweet, nice deck and tune up!
This seems like a really cool deck. I played a kicker blue green deck the other night, that was fun.
One thing I really miss is Shrieking Drake. Combine it with academy manufactor/Urza and you have infinite clues, add something like Kinnan/token doubler and you can literally cast your whole deck. Another thing I kinda miss in upgraded decklist is Rampage of the Clans.
I don't think Druid of Purification can see CEDH play because the Turbo player can take out the Root Maze or Rule of Law that is stopping them from winning the game. The mana cost isn't what's stopping it, as having a body attached to a very efficient removal spell is exactly what slow and grindy stax decks (which a lot of are green) want. What they don't want is to give a chance for a combo deck to go off when a key stax piece is removed.
A like for you, because Joe said hell! Get those ratings up!
Ulvenwald mysteries seems okay. Not for the clue generation but for the tokens. Sacking clues on lonis gets you 1/1s and so even getting 10 clues to go in on lonis gives you 10 1/1s. I feel like it's an alternative wincon.
Urza is actually 2 clues to draw one, not 3. Seeing as clues do not tap to activate you can sac one of the 2 you tapped for mana to draw.
Druid of purification is a truck. It gets around hexproof
I don’t know how practical it is but if you cast The Great Aurora in this deck you’re probably almost guaranteed to come out ahead
Clues dont need to tap to sacrifice them. So ursa makes every 2 clues a free draw.
Memory Lapse and Submerge are great cards in Lonis, allowing you to steal opponents’ creatures!!
Rise and shine is also a good surprise alt win con whenever you have oodles of clues (and treasures and food)
Great video as always!
I do have a point of disagreement: I think Gilded Goose is absolutely worth an include. It’s worse than BoP in the first couple of turns but after that the potential synergies make it way better imo. It’s another token interaction for Academy Manufactor or the token doublers, another artifact to use with Urza or Shimmer Drake (or the Clock of Omens in my build), another artifact to sac to KCI, etc.
Or, in the words of the nerds: what is the floor/what is the ceiling? I think if you compare you’d end up wanting the goose in more situations than the other one drop mana dorks.
Edit: Fixed Clock of Omens (not Unwinding Clock)
ADD - Shrieking Drake: (u) When Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, return "A" creature you control to its owner's hand.
Such an easy card to go infinite in that deck. And if you don't play combos you can still make as many clues as blue mana you have each turn by casting it and investigating and the bouncing it back to your hand.
Maybe I should have mentioned, but I basically left it out for exactly that reason haha
And w urza you just go straight infinite but with tapped clues
I built this deck with academy Manufactor and thassa deep dwelling and other self blink cards to speed up clue generation. And then graf mole to sack clues to gain a crap ton of life, and then play cards that increase card advantage with creatures and change my millions of clues into creatures to swing for damage.
Doesnt Squal Line deal the damage to you as well? It says, "each player"?
My thoughts as i am work on a lonis deck. I want to go the aluren, glen elendra pranksters, and coiling oracle and the like 3 casting cost or less with etb to abuse
I found one of the best cards to mess decks like this up yesterday. it's called "Hum of the Radix" it's 2GG for an enchantment that says artifacts cost 1 extra for each arifact you have on the table. so if you mass produce clues, guess how expensive that sol ring you cast on turn 5 is gonna be?
Lonis is one of the few decks I would play dorks over enchantment and spell ramp, Seton is another.
I put homeward path in decks where my commander is very important + there are alot of players that play expropriate, so I just pick money and they lose all their stuff again, but in decks that want to steal stuff, of course not.
I watched midnight mass with my parents and I LOVED it
I was very excited for lonis, and I wanted to user her ability so badly but my deck kept ending up in some simic infinite value loop instant wins just because ininfite artifacts is so busted.
I had to make a spreadsheet to calculate clue counts with doublers + academy manufactor
8 per lonis so 16 total per creature entering the field! I got a lonis deck with some copies in the deck and honestly its not the first time that i do this kind of maths xd
ulvenvold mysteries seems like a bad cut because when you tap you commander and pop lets say 5 clues you get 5 1/1s which is just value
Surprised not to see Rise and Shine as an alt wincon
I’m actually super excited with the upgrades and the cuts and it’s making want to lonis now
I’m gonna have to try this. I made a Lonis deck but didn’t really put any wincons in it so I just ended up stealing everyone’s creatures which pissed everyone off and they’d take me out 😂
What is the name of this Commander precon? I cannot find it. Either way, I’m building a “Cryptid Investigation” deck and appreciate the recommendations in this video!
Ngl I read that as Loins and I was like wait wtf
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Is... Is there a place where we can find pictures of Amber?
What about rise and shine?
Hard disagree on Ulvenwald mysteries.
I gives token bodies whenever you sac a clue for any reason. That includes Lonis.
You can also post wrath crack a bunch of clues to fill your board with an instant speed army of tokens.
And it even has synergy with the other token producing effects.
It's one of the best token payoffs and if you expect anyone to be playing wraths or removal it's 110% worth the slot.
I’m still deciding on a yarok or lonis clue deck. I’m still not sure which to choose
The trick is utilizing the clues for extra value to get ahead. Having lonis in the command zone always ensures that you've got the resource you need (clues). I think I put lonis in a yarok deck. Could even build with a clue subtheme. Marionette master in a lonis deck sounds awesome.
I'm a little delayed here sorry. I'm currently watching Midnight Mass, can I watch the tidbit without spoilers???
i own a deck with lonis, and it's my favourite commander deck :)
I'm a simple nerd. I see Amber, I like.
this deck looks fun!
This deck requires some serious cash!
ok so, before i watch the entire episode here are my suggestions:
avenger of zendikar, scute swarm, zendikar's roil, howl of the night pack, second harvest, panharmonicon..........easy sources for tons of free creatures 2/2 or less
My list uses Shrieking Drake + Urza + Grinding Station as an alternative win 😈
That is pretty solid
it also goes inifinte with Academy Manufactor
I never notice breezy hands are kinda big
Thank you 😂
With Urza every 2* clues is a card to draw since you can sac a tapped clue because clues don't need to be tapped to activate. What CAN'T Urza do?
He does it ALL
Die without giving you value? Can't do that!
Lets see if I can make a Googolplex of Clues.
Too bad Eloise and Lonis can't be partners for Sultai Clues :P
One cool tech with lonis is Aetherworks Marvel,
You cut rite of replication!? Target the academy manufactur with it kicked and you basically just win. Making one clue will net you 243 clues, treasures and food tokens. If adrix and nev are out, it's 118,098. You can't tell me the clue deck doesn't want 118,098 clues...
I wish Lonis was not simic, so I could include chupacabra, lochmere serpent and yetis for flavor.
Well there is Eloise :P
@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 but she’s not a “cryptozoologist”!
Got a typo in your moxfield link. it's USERS with an S
Not sure what you mean, is the link not working?
@@NitpickingNerds No, the User needs an S for the link to work.
Nice.
My cat could eat your cat but won't because she is also sweeter too jk see looks like a sweetheart too
Amber is best host. Sorry Joe.
No silly puns? Think you guys are pretty clueless about this one 🤔?
I'll leave now.
Amber > Joe Cherries
Someone had to say it
First.
Calling midnight Mass one of the best shows in the last few years but also complaining about.. monolouges? lmao. I love you guys but sometimes you are too much for me. xD