Once one of my opponents played a hall of gemstones thinking he was gonna be all cool and stax us in green, until he realized we were all playing mono color. It was glorious
Demo, at this point, try to get an affiliate link for CardMarket for us EU spellslingers. Just for this vid, just bought Peacekeeper & Hall of Gemstone (for my Scythis; Serra Sanctum the other day as well), Hanna's Custody (for my Boros generals).
Word, all mtg youtubers have links for the US Market, I have yet to see one who covers Europe. And since they are not in direct competition, they should be able to promote one affiliate link each.
there is no cardmarket affiliated link not like for us traders. you receive boni for introducing new people to the website but not for someone buying a card. and that would be fucking stupid anyways because cardmarket does not sell cards themselves. they just provide the platform, they have no say in prices or anything. they take 5% of the selling price and that's it. think, for once, before you type
I used to have a Legacy Temur Slivers deck that ran this. The only non-creature/non-land cards were Fire // Ice and Assault // Battery. It was quite fun!
Hall of Gemstones is FINALLY on this series lol. I have played that card on so many 4/5 color decks that they just start crying in mono-colors when it hits the table with my playgroup. Thing I do like to note about hall of gemstones that you didnt mentioned is that players could play cards without the mana restriction in response to the trigger, forcing spell slinger decks to plan their turns during players upkeep.
Hand to Hand and Guild Feud have been two of my long time favorites as a person who plays red in almost All of his decks(only 3 non red decks out of 20+). Guild Feud in particular does justice beyond repair in my Olivia deck tribal I can bully someone with dangerous creatures, WITH THEIR CREATURES
Guild Feud is funny in Xenagos, any deck that plays lots of big creatures. Hall of gemstone is on the reserved list Hatred is also on the reserved list, it is rather amazing how long it took to start going up in price. I love using it in Willowdusk despite sorcery clause on their ability and Hatred being an Instant but can quickly close out games with a simple little Vampire Nighthawk.
What I particularily love about combat tricks like hatred in commander is that it doesn't always need to buff your own guy. There are a ton of commanders that just want you to swing, so why not have your opponents oneshot each other.
This reminds me of something that happened in one of my first ever commander games. I was playing a friend's Karlov deck, and all 4 players were playing modified versions of C15 starter decks (Meren, Kalemne, Karlov and Ezuri). Ezuri player started getting out a HUGE board, but all small creatures. Kalemne player's turn, gets a counter for her, so he attacks Ezuri player with 4/4 double-striker. Ezuri player didn't want to chump block, said "yeah I'll take 8, that's fine". Me, trying to work out what you are and aren't allowed to do in EDH: "errr, can I cast a spell now? Yeah? Ok, I cast Tainted Strike on Kalemne" Shocked silence, Kalemne and Meren players burst out laughing at the look of abject horror on the Ezuri player's face.
I play Hammer Mage in my Mairsil deck. Just two days ago, I dropped it turn 2 and activated it turn 3, taking out a Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and a guild Signet. It slowed my opponents a ton and dropped a card in graveyard that I caged the next turn anyway.
Thanks for Guild Feud! I have one Ur-Dragon dragon tribal deck and i really like this type of effects here. Once upon a time i stack Kodama of the East Tree, Maelstrom Nexus and Sunbird's Invocation under haste and Kindred Discovery... Dreams.. :)
Guild Feud is really fun in any deck that wants to reanimate or cheat out big creatures. I run it in my Feldon deck and it is a blast. Very unreliable, but it mills you and you can politic to let people take a spin to get ETBs or big creatures of their own.
Guild Feud would actually be interesting in a deck like Osgir. Boros doesn't have a whole lot of mill and this would just be one way to get artifacts in the graveyard with the getting creatures onto the battlefield is just a plus
I’m attempting to build a budget Vavaecdtis Asmadi deck, and cards like Guildhall Feud work stupendously. Trying to build the whole deck on a budget, however...
dang, i remember when the command zone first talked about Hatred briefly in one of their older podcast episodes, and i was like "pay at most 20 life, and now any commander with black can insta-kill with commander damage? I'm sold" So at the time I bought one for around $10. It's crazy how this card has quadrupled in price.
now hammer mage i never actually thought of that for the treasure but it may not need to be a discarrd theme you could also put it in a deck that you can easily get the card back in hand or straight into play for example kenrith the returned king if you discard a creature just simply use the black ability on kenrith to get it in play
I've never heard about Hall of Gemstones and I'm buying one right away. You mentioned that it indirectly makes all your spells during your turn uncounterable, but it's more than that. It does not only "hurt" multicolor decks, they can't even play their multicolor spells!! That shuts down everyone commander except the ones playing monocolor!!
I play guided passage on my omnath, locust of creation deck, and it always is a good card, even in the worst case scenario i get something that sinergizes
I owned one as a kid and it felt like cheating. We have the same life total, I hit you with a flyer and 5 mana up, game is just over. Wish I could still find the copy, it would be perfect in my Liesa life gain deck.
@@Wojtek36762 yeah, I bought one recently, and after dropping $50+ I had an immediate regret thinking it was too good and that I probably bought a banned card spur of the moment!
Hand to Hand would be great in any mono red, Boro deck, except you HAVE to play it during your main phase and therefore players can respond to it by destroying the threat preemptively instead of waiting until the last second. Although it does stop a lot of fog effects but I’ve never seen anyone run any type of fog effects other than a cantrip or two.
I have a soft spot for Haazda Shield Mate. He won me a very important chaos draft once with a Revised Underground Sea as the prize. Also, Hatred is well know for having one of the best (if not THE best) flavor text in all magic.
Oooooh, I just thought of how good guided passage would be in a Primal surge meme deck. Having Primal surge as the only nocreature nonland in the deck could be actually pretty strong
I used to run hatred in a Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter. However, that deck was taken from me, I bought the card for like 15$ before it got expensive, like most cards that never get reprints.
Hall of gemstones, no cap, won me a game today. Literally forced my opponents to play sub standard turns rather than kill me (which they absolutely could have done) during the turn rotation.
For Hatred I’d have to be running a rakdos deck with chandra’s ignition and my commander in play. Pull out hatred and with the game with commander damage.
I put Hall of Gemstone in a deck of mine and after playing it once, I took it out. It's a pretty hard Stax piece akin to Contamination, Blood Moon, or other things of that sort. It doesn't just hose counterspells, it prevents players from casting ANY multicolor spells unless they have sufficient mana rocks. It's definitely not a "fun effect." It totally ruined the game I played with it. I'd say it's not as bad as Contamination but less offensive than Blood Moon because two color decks with basics can still function pretty well under Blood Moon while that's not so with Hall out there.
Damn, now Im hoping Guardian Beast gets a reprint in a commander pre-con or something for the sake of lowering his price. He's one of those expensive cards that isn't busted enough to remain over 800 bucks. He's neat, but he shouldn't be that expensive.
Guardian beast would only be good if it gave artifacts hexproof and make them non-sacrifice-able. As well as be indestructible and with hexproof itself. Thats the only time I’d run a black do nothing creature for almost $1000. For once a terrible idea. (Edit: as you yourself put it every video, board wipes in commander are ALWAYS being thrown around.)
Gutter Grime is pretty bad as well, if it didn’t specify “non-token creature dies” or “you control” this card would be playable in non-golgari decks. Seems like a do nothing card unless you’re playing aristocrats in green/black. Even then you need the set up in the form of other creatures with etb/death triggers and a sacrifice outlet. For 5 mana and too many restrictions I’d have a hard time not just playing some type of zombie or squirrel generating enchantments/effects.
it's more of a quality over quantity enchantment. It won't be crazy the first turn it comes out, but it only gets better the longer it sticks around. The thing that makes it great is that it doesn't pump out a 1/1, then a 2/2, etc etc. It buffs all the previous tokens, so it gets exponentially more powerful. As in, the amount of power it puts out per counter goes from 1, to 4, to 9, to 16, 25, 36, etc. It's like a faster more controllable Assemble the legion in green. I'd think of it more as a way to win the game and push damage then another token generator card, which at 5 mana, makes more sense then another value engine.
Hall of Gemstone always get a bad reptutation of being a stax card, it isn't much of a card many players like to play against. Sure it's similar to Blood Moon, but again it's just one of those "staxy" cards everyone hates. Some of the other cards were really fun to see, and some I would add, but I've always gotten a bad reaction with a "Hall of Gemstone" I wouldn't recommend playing it in a deck, it just drastically slows down the game if it stays too long and usually only benefits one person most of the time. I'm sure someone gonna say otherwise it's fine!
Once one of my opponents played a hall of gemstones thinking he was gonna be all cool and stax us in green, until he realized we were all playing mono color. It was glorious
That is beauty in of itself
Demo, at this point, try to get an affiliate link for CardMarket for us EU spellslingers. Just for this vid, just bought Peacekeeper & Hall of Gemstone (for my Scythis; Serra Sanctum the other day as well), Hanna's Custody (for my Boros generals).
Seconded :)
Word, all mtg youtubers have links for the US Market, I have yet to see one who covers Europe. And since they are not in direct competition, they should be able to promote one affiliate link each.
I'm about to start buying all cards at $5 and below on his videos. Been loving the videos, keep it up!
Cardtrader link would also be appreciated.
there is no cardmarket affiliated link not like for us traders. you receive boni for introducing new people to the website but not for someone buying a card. and that would be fucking stupid anyways because cardmarket does not sell cards themselves.
they just provide the platform, they have no say in prices or anything. they take 5% of the selling price and that's it.
think, for once, before you type
Guided passage is my Favourite card! It goes in all of my decks with Temur!
I started using it in my old Animar deck and people was amazed that it was so good
I used to have a Legacy Temur Slivers deck that ran this. The only non-creature/non-land cards were Fire // Ice and Assault // Battery. It was quite fun!
Hall of Gemstones is FINALLY on this series lol. I have played that card on so many 4/5 color decks that they just start crying in mono-colors when it hits the table with my playgroup. Thing I do like to note about hall of gemstones that you didnt mentioned is that players could play cards without the mana restriction in response to the trigger, forcing spell slinger decks to plan their turns during players upkeep.
Hand to Hand and Guild Feud have been two of my long time favorites as a person who plays red in almost All of his decks(only 3 non red decks out of 20+).
Guild Feud in particular does justice beyond repair in my Olivia deck tribal
I can bully someone with dangerous creatures, WITH THEIR CREATURES
Guild Feud is funny in Xenagos, any deck that plays lots of big creatures.
Hall of gemstone is on the reserved list
Hatred is also on the reserved list, it is rather amazing how long it took to start going up in price. I love using it in Willowdusk despite sorcery clause on their ability and Hatred being an Instant but can quickly close out games with a simple little Vampire Nighthawk.
What I particularily love about combat tricks like hatred in commander is that it doesn't always need to buff your own guy. There are a ton of commanders that just want you to swing, so why not have your opponents oneshot each other.
This reminds me of something that happened in one of my first ever commander games.
I was playing a friend's Karlov deck, and all 4 players were playing modified versions of C15 starter decks (Meren, Kalemne, Karlov and Ezuri).
Ezuri player started getting out a HUGE board, but all small creatures.
Kalemne player's turn, gets a counter for her, so he attacks Ezuri player with 4/4 double-striker. Ezuri player didn't want to chump block, said "yeah I'll take 8, that's fine".
Me, trying to work out what you are and aren't allowed to do in EDH: "errr, can I cast a spell now? Yeah? Ok, I cast Tainted Strike on Kalemne"
Shocked silence, Kalemne and Meren players burst out laughing at the look of abject horror on the Ezuri player's face.
I play Hammer Mage in my Mairsil deck. Just two days ago, I dropped it turn 2 and activated it turn 3, taking out a Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and a guild Signet. It slowed my opponents a ton and dropped a card in graveyard that I caged the next turn anyway.
Thanks for Guild Feud! I have one Ur-Dragon dragon tribal deck and i really like this type of effects here. Once upon a time i stack Kodama of the East Tree, Maelstrom Nexus and Sunbird's Invocation under haste and Kindred Discovery... Dreams.. :)
An entire episode just talking about all the world enchantments would be really sweet, hope to see that in the future
i just might do that
Love these! I actually just picked up Hall of Gemstone during the TCG money back days. Great card!
Another card that I love for my mono green elf deck. Makes you a target, but usually buys a lil bit of time before it's removed.
Similar to Hammer Mage, Meltdown is probably my favorite artifact removal. I haven't seen anyone else play it yet.
I love my proxy Guardian beast! Im glad it found its way on your list, because its so unique and in black of All colors.
Hatred and Greven go hand in hand. I mean it's even written there on the flavor text!
And art!
Guild Feud is really fun in any deck that wants to reanimate or cheat out big creatures. I run it in my Feldon deck and it is a blast. Very unreliable, but it mills you and you can politic to let people take a spin to get ETBs or big creatures of their own.
Guild Feud works great in my Mayael deck. Basically getting her ability for free each upkeep and get to mill an opponent at the same time.
Guild Feud would actually be interesting in a deck like Osgir. Boros doesn't have a whole lot of mill and this would just be one way to get artifacts in the graveyard with the getting creatures onto the battlefield is just a plus
I’m attempting to build a budget Vavaecdtis Asmadi deck, and cards like Guildhall Feud work stupendously. Trying to build the whole deck on a budget, however...
Spectral guardian is also a budget version of guardian beast
I ran Guild Feud in standard (RtR-Theros blocks) and had a blast with it!
dang, i remember when the command zone first talked about Hatred briefly in one of their older podcast episodes, and i was like "pay at most 20 life, and now any commander with black can insta-kill with commander damage? I'm sold"
So at the time I bought one for around $10. It's crazy how this card has quadrupled in price.
Another great video, Demo. I thought I was the only person who knew Hammer Mage existed.
Always great vids bud I am going through as many a I can it's been a journey
I've been using guided passage for a while,it surprises me how few people use it considering how good it is
Guided passage is amazing I've ran it since I started playing edh in every deck In it's colours
now hammer mage i never actually thought of that for the treasure
but it may not need to be a discarrd theme you could also put it in a deck that you can easily get the card back in hand or straight into play for example kenrith the returned king if you discard a creature just simply use the black ability on kenrith to get it in play
Guided Passage was and still is a card I wanted to add to add to my Haldan // Pako top-deck shenanigans brew.
I've never heard about Hall of Gemstones and I'm buying one right away. You mentioned that it indirectly makes all your spells during your turn uncounterable, but it's more than that. It does not only "hurt" multicolor decks, they can't even play their multicolor spells!! That shuts down everyone commander except the ones playing monocolor!!
Guild Feud really makes me want to make a Kaalia of the Vast deck, tbh
You hate treasure because of Smothering Tithe, Dockside Extortionist, and the recent release of Prosper Tome Bound. That deck is so fun.
#4 Gutter Grime is already in my Slogurk ooze tribal deck. I have not won with that deck yet but it's a lot of fun!
I'm building one as we speak!
I play guided passage on my omnath, locust of creation deck, and it always is a good card, even in the worst case scenario i get something that sinergizes
Hatred is amazing! The one-shot kill is the best (especially with a lifelink commander). It might seem cruel, but that’s Hatred for you!
Staple in my Elenda deck! No blockers? Ok, I'll lose 21 life, you're dead, I gain 21 life!
I owned one as a kid and it felt like cheating. We have the same life total, I hit you with a flyer and 5 mana up, game is just over. Wish I could still find the copy, it would be perfect in my Liesa life gain deck.
@@Wojtek36762 yeah, I bought one recently, and after dropping $50+ I had an immediate regret thinking it was too good and that I probably bought a banned card spur of the moment!
Hatred + Skithiryx ☣☣☣😎
Hand to Hand would be great in any mono red, Boro deck, except you HAVE to play it during your main phase and therefore players can respond to it by destroying the threat preemptively instead of waiting until the last second. Although it does stop a lot of fog effects but I’ve never seen anyone run any type of fog effects other than a cantrip or two.
You should def check out Penance!
I have a soft spot for Haazda Shield Mate. He won me a very important chaos draft once with a Revised Underground Sea as the prize.
Also, Hatred is well know for having one of the best (if not THE best) flavor text in all magic.
Oooooh, I just thought of how good guided passage would be in a Primal surge meme deck. Having Primal surge as the only nocreature nonland in the deck could be actually pretty strong
I used to run Guided Passage in Riku.. Copy it and get 6 cards for 5 mana, and I had almost nothing but pure value.
I love playing Hatred in my Lathril deck, it is so effective.
I played Egon in a burn deck. It was very good.
It's worth noting that Haazda ignores hexproof/shroud because it doesn't target
Guild Feud is a great enchantment for a Kaalia deck.
I used to run hatred in a Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter. However, that deck was taken from me, I bought the card for like 15$ before it got expensive, like most cards that never get reprints.
Yesssss Guttergrime is one of my favorite cards! Very stronk
“Hall of Gemstone” is a great color hoser / non-mono colored hoser
Hammer Mage sounds great for my Toggo/Ich-Tekik deck, which is all about destroying low-mana-value artifacts (whether they're mine or my opponents').
Don't worry, I've been on Ooze tribal since the storm Ooze, looking to be fun
Guided passage in a set play group is so perfect, they ALREADY know your deck. Then they just give you 3 cards? Cool. My deck doesn't suck.
Interesting how many reserve list cards are in the G and H section huh? Is Heat Stroke next? Or have you already mentioned that one... :?
hatred is really good in my infect deck. drawing it is never guaranteed obviously, but when i do, it practically reads 'kill target player.'
Sounds like you were bumping your mic a lot this episode, but great video as always
Hall of gemstones, no cap, won me a game today. Literally forced my opponents to play sub standard turns rather than kill me (which they absolutely could have done) during the turn rotation.
i have hatred in my krikk deck, does absolute work
Gutter grime would be great in my chatter fang squirrel general edh deck.
I wonder if righteous aura will be on one of these
This was a nice card list, although I do not agree with every choice. Thanks for sharing.
For Hatred I’d have to be running a rakdos deck with chandra’s ignition and my commander in play. Pull out hatred and with the game with commander damage.
Sadly commander damage is for combat only.
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The angel from mirrodin gives artifacts shroud arch angel
I like Guild Feud in my reanimator decks
I adore Guild Feud but it's 6 and has a lot of hoops to jump through. I'd be all about it if it was 4, but it has too much competition.
I put Hall of Gemstone in a deck of mine and after playing it once, I took it out. It's a pretty hard Stax piece akin to Contamination, Blood Moon, or other things of that sort. It doesn't just hose counterspells, it prevents players from casting ANY multicolor spells unless they have sufficient mana rocks. It's definitely not a "fun effect." It totally ruined the game I played with it. I'd say it's not as bad as Contamination but less offensive than Blood Moon because two color decks with basics can still function pretty well under Blood Moon while that's not so with Hall out there.
How would guild feud interact with an opponent that has hexproof?
You have to target an opponent if you can, and if you can't, the ability won't do anything at all.
@@tzarl thanks for the clarification!
Damn, now Im hoping Guardian Beast gets a reprint in a commander pre-con or something for the sake of lowering his price. He's one of those expensive cards that isn't busted enough to remain over 800 bucks. He's neat, but he shouldn't be that expensive.
Unfortunately, Guardian Beast is on the Reserved List. Talk to your group about playing proxies.
@@davidcardoso3525 Daaaamn, that's actually disappointing.
I would honestly love to see a series on cheap janky combos in commander
There’s no reason not to proxy shit cards that go without prints like guardian beast
Damn I wish I had a deck for Hall of Gemstones
Love Guided Passage
Lol make a Yedora deck with death triggers. Gutter grime would be crazy in it.
I have and it is!
"OK I'm done buying cards for a while."
(Sees this video)
"....okay just one or two of these."
Guided Passage reads fun, until you realize it takes 10 minutes to resolve
"cards you should be putting in your decks"
>names a bunch of RL cards
Yeah, so?
A bunch of them are NOT expensive, or not that expensive.
The rest are proxies in our decks, lmao.
@@orsettomorbido Guardian Beast is $400 lol
Guided passage is horrible. It's especially bad if you picked someone who needs to read every card in your deck. Could take a few minutes to resolve.
i just bought hatred for my Liesa, shroud of dusk deck
Guardian beast would only be good if it gave artifacts hexproof and make them non-sacrifice-able. As well as be indestructible and with hexproof itself. Thats the only time I’d run a black do nothing creature for almost $1000. For once a terrible idea. (Edit: as you yourself put it every video, board wipes in commander are ALWAYS being thrown around.)
Love “Guided Passage” … great political card.
Hatred on Elenda has won me SOOOO many games
So sweeeeeet
i hate guided passage always takes so long to resolve.
Gutter Grime is pretty bad as well, if it didn’t specify “non-token creature dies” or “you control” this card would be playable in non-golgari decks. Seems like a do nothing card unless you’re playing aristocrats in green/black. Even then you need the set up in the form of other creatures with etb/death triggers and a sacrifice outlet. For 5 mana and too many restrictions I’d have a hard time not just playing some type of zombie or squirrel generating enchantments/effects.
it's more of a quality over quantity enchantment. It won't be crazy the first turn it comes out, but it only gets better the longer it sticks around.
The thing that makes it great is that it doesn't pump out a 1/1, then a 2/2, etc etc. It buffs all the previous tokens, so it gets exponentially more powerful. As in, the amount of power it puts out per counter goes from 1, to 4, to 9, to 16, 25, 36, etc. It's like a faster more controllable Assemble the legion in green. I'd think of it more as a way to win the game and push damage then another token generator card, which at 5 mana, makes more sense then another value engine.
Play it with a bunch of little creatures and a board wipe.
@@classymofo1059 but what makes it worse is that if the enchantment dies, so do the tokens.
Hall of gemstones why have I naught though to put that in my toski deck
Hall of Gemstone always get a bad reptutation of being a stax card, it isn't much of a card many players like to play against. Sure it's similar to Blood Moon, but again it's just one of those "staxy" cards everyone hates.
Some of the other cards were really fun to see, and some I would add, but I've always gotten a bad reaction with a "Hall of Gemstone" I wouldn't recommend playing it in a deck, it just drastically slows down the game if it stays too long and usually only benefits one person most of the time.
I'm sure someone gonna say otherwise it's fine!
Thats the same reaction I've gotten from it at my LGS
I love being the first to see these
You win this time! But I'll be back!
Honestly i dont think ill run any of these