I need an April Fool's Day episode where they just recommend terrible, expensive, and ridiculous cards. Stuff like every deck needs to run a Black Lotus, Smokestack, Ashnod's Coupon, etc. Lol
Fun thing with Spell Queller, as well, is that if you use it to counter an overloaded spell or any spell with an alternate casting mode, they can't cast it as if it was overloaded. So if you counter Cyclonic Rift (when overloaded it's still a 2 CMC card), if they ever get rid of Queller they only get to bounce one thing.
Yep, pretty rad. One thing to remember is that it has to be an ALTERNATE cost, not an ADDITIONAL cost. For example, they can still kick their Fight with Fire, or replicate their Gigadrowse.
@@peewee130946 If you came to Counterspell vs this, then yeah, run Counterspell. But this is great in addition to other counters and can have other synergies that Counterspell doesn't. For example, this would be great in a blink deck, spirits deck, azorius stax, or other decks where the body is relevant.
@@peewee130946 There's sometimes you can't counter it. Spells like they can't cast non creature spells, or if they used mana from Boseiju, Who Shelters All and it can't be counted traditionally
@@peewee130946 Yup. I know about those. Funny thing is, I actually mentioned those kind of spells in a different comment where somebody was talking about one of the good non countering counterspells. OH! I just remembered another one, Venser. He bounces it back to hand, but still stops it for a second and wastes the mana
I believe they're just giving other options to do similar effects. Why not run both turn avacyn into the Moon and turn another creatures of theirs into a tree
I tried it, but problem with Boompile and Nev Disk is how slow they are. With disk you will 100% need to wait a turn and with Boompile it is a 50/50. All your opponent needs to do is play a reclamation sage and you are done. I ussually play Oblivion Stone over it. If anything Perilious Vault is a card more people should consider. It isn't as fast but it can deal with anything! Soul of New Phyrexia, Avacyn, Darksteel Forge or a simple Heroic Intervention. All of those are cards people often play to dodge board wipes and Vault gives you a colloress way to bypass them all. Only card that it is weak against is Teferi's Protection. It is also great against all graveyard based generals such as Athreos, Muldrotha, Daretti, Meren. Just play Perilous Vault and your mono green has both a great board clear and graveyard hate!
@@MarvelOfRain those are some good points. I still like Boompile for the option of a 4 generic mana Hour of Revelation it offers at such a low mana investment. Sure, half the time it won't work the first time, and 1/4 of the times you play it, it won't work in either of the first two activations, but the fact that it gives an out to every deck when facing all sorts of problematic situation (and is an artifact, something much more easily tutorable than other types of cards) really makes it shine imo :D
@@MagicalHackerMTG If it works for you then why not. I also put it in some decks. It can also be great against cards like Heroic Intervention and even Teferi's Protection since your opponents do not know if you will kill the board or not when they need to play them.
Verity Circle - I absolutely love this brand new card from RNA in practice, and in commander, where everyone is tapping a lot more creatures to use activated abilities, it could draw you so many cards. For those who don't know, Verity Circle is an enchantment for 2 and 1 blue that allows you to draw a card whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped and it isn't attacking. For 4 and 1 blue you can also use its ability to tap a creature without flying. Would recommend in any blue deck if you want early card draw on a permanent.
I love how it becomes Archenemy whenever I cast [[perplexing chimera]] in my Roon deck. Not only do I stop my opponnent's plans, but with Roon I get to steal Chimera back. So much fun for me
Yeah so much fun stopping your friends having fun and playing their deck, you know... the reason everyone is playing. People who get pleasure out of stopping their friends playing a game are just naturally pretty toxic, i don't care what anyone says, anyone who defends this sort of behaviour are the people who like to do it themselves and don't like people criticising their toxic playstyle. You're not sitting down with your friends and thinking "hey, wouldn't it be nice for me and my buddies to have some fun playing Magic?", you're just a sad person who's sole intention is to tell your friends they're not allowed to play the game they've all sat down to. And of course you're proud of it. This community is just full of toxic pricks who don't understand how to make friends.
There are many very broken things with aminatou. Stuff like, say, reality acid, get out of hand reaaallly quick (blue land destruction who would have said lmao)
List of cards, from the comment section as well Act on impulse chain of vapors rule of law arcane labratory verity circle spell queller hostage taker sudden spoiling tireless tracker dire fleet daredevil hostage taker spelltwine gonti, lord of luxury necrologia stolen strategy outpost siege (removal) reality shift declaration in stone berserk tainted strike hatred lignify song of the dryads darksteel mutation imprisoned in the moon (can this stop already? ) death match spreading plague perplexing chimera rule of law constant mists hallowed burial terminus river's rebuke fumigate fell the mighty retribution of the meek cleansing nova paraselene cleansing meditation calming verse (if it's supported) victory chimes phyrexian revoker nevermore toshiro umezawa wayfarer's bauble
Kambal, Consul of Allocation is so underrated with a lot of decks playing non-creature spells and in a multi-player game, it is a large drain of life every round. Also Pious Evangel is underrated if played correctly.
Had him as my commander for my Orzhov extort deck for a while. Ended up switching him out because playing him on turn three makes me the immediate target. Ended up losing most games because everybody would team up against me. It's not even all that good, but it draws so much hate.
My playgroup has banned me from playing the Kambal deck (we were doing Tiny Leaders, which is Commander with of the deck size and 3cmc maximum). I get him out, keep him alive, gain life, flip Chalice of Life/Death, and just attrition everyone into the ground.
I find that when I turn 1 Authority of the Consuls my red opponents are really annoyed about all their now useless haste strategies. I have Kambal in the same deck and Authority into Kambal means that no matter what my opponents cast, I gain life.
I'm always very surprised to not see one of my favorite cards never show up on lists like these, especially when you had a dedicated removal section. Curse of the Swine! It's a sorcery for 2B and X, and it exiles X target creatures, their controllers put a 2/2 boar token for each creature exiled this way. It's essentially reality shift, with none of the downside risk (Which was already honestly minimal, at it's worst it drew them a card, they still had to pay full cost for the manifested creature if they wanted to play it), but with the massive upside of exiled a ton of stuff at once! Frankly, this is commonly a one sided, exiling board wipe. Sure, it's at sorcery speed, and that's significant, but goddamn, is it worth it!
I agree, Curse of Swine is ridiculous and I love it. I run it in my Naban Deck and it's just so good. It can be used as a 3 cost exile any creature, or as a pretty effective board wipe except it exiles in blue. It's not as great against token/sacrifice decks but it's amazing against tribal. I completely shut down an Arabo deck using it. And it's so cheap, it's like 50 cents to a dollar. I think too many people look at the 2/2 body it gives them and shies away from it but it's like "I will gladly give you a 2/2 pig in exchange for Ulamog and the certainty that he is not coming back."
I mean how useful is lightning bolt in decks that aren't based on spell slinging? I get it's one mana for 3 damage to any target, but it feels useless compared to the spot another card could take in your deck. Plus. a lot of the time it'll be a dead card in your hand late game. Like what're you going to do? Use it to finish off a creature that's been dealt damage that turn? It just seems like an impractical, low-impact cantrip. At the same time though, i'm speaking through experience in my playgroup so yours may be different. Have a nice day and thanks for reading
@@ElucidYT Most of the powerful commanders and enablers have less than 3 toughness. Abrade is fine too especially when no one is using Necropotence or Ad Nauseum.
I want to like this comment so many more times. People act like spot removal is bad in this format, yet lose to 3 cmc commanders, Mana Crypt, and creature-based infinite combos. If your presupposition repeatedly fails you, perhaps it is time to adapt. Flame Slash, Oust, Red Elemental Blast, Pyroblast, Rapid Hybridization, Pongify are all nearly criminally underplayed. Slash and Oust tending more towards decks that look to deal combat damage (Tymna/x, et al), but the instant speed options are almost universal.
One of my favorite cards to play in Red that I have never seen anyone use is Illicit Auction. You bid life to gain control of a creature permanently. It's good fun and makes people think about how much their "win" creature is worth.
7:11 Another thing to note is that with Sensei's Divining Top is that you can draw cards for 1 colorless mana basicly with Experimental Frenzy. You tap SDT draw a card it goes on top you play it for 1 colorless. Rinse and repeat.
I really like Vitalize - it's awesome for swinging with your board and baiting attacks from creatures your opponent wouldn't normally attack with if you had blockers up.
1 day late to the party and with 1050 comments I haven't read but the word Jimmy was looking (3:56) for was Scour(ed). Great collection of cards made for some interesting ideas, I have limited resources for expensive cards so obscure or little used choices I may just have already. Thanks, take care.
Agree. He’s just another hardened scales-I play him in my Vorosh the Hunter deck. Edit: oh oops you said pir’s whim... sorry I haven’t watched the video yet lol.
Another card that Stolen Strategy reminds me of is Thief of Sanity. In 4 player, you’re getting an automatic 3 cards to choose from unlike Thief and having sort of 3 extra cards to cast each turn is so powerful! Great episode guys as always.
You do have a point though. Do people play enough basics in their decks? And whose fault is it if a deck is shut down by a Blood Moon when it could easily be built to not be as vulnerable?
An underappreciated card I really like is Harrow. Yes, it sacrifices a land. You get to look for any 2 basic lands so it colour fixes, and they're untapped so you can play a 2 drop or have mana open for interaction
Constant mists already sees play in a lot of decks. Rule of law already sees lots of play. Stolen strategy combos with a few red decks but hasnt spiked yet. Only one that will likely spike in price if everyone goes and buys them is Constant Mists, its only one printing run through Stronghold, I just bought one for $7 because someone was playing it in lord windgrace.
Evolution Charm is a fantastically versatile card. 1G - Choose one - Search your library for a basic land card and put it into your hand; return target Creature card from your graveyard to your hand; target Creature gains flying until end of turn. It's ramp when you need it, almost a regrowth when you need it, and a Jump when you need it. In my playgroup there's not very many flying creatures usually so Evolution Charm can threaten player's life totals pretty handily, if there are no kill spells lying in wait.
Champion of Rhonas definitely! CMC is 3 colorless and one green Effect of card: You may exert Champion of Rhonas as it attacks. When you do, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.) Me and my friends have been talking about this card a lot. This has so much potential. Amazing card
Lens of Clarity is a card that people tend to overlook a lot. It's a 1 mana artifact that let's you look at the top of your library whenever you want and gains a bonus if an opponent happens to be playing a morph or manafest deck. Plus, because it's an artifact, it can go into any combo deck and most people don't nuke it because a lot of the time they underestimate the power of information.
Phoenix Ashes rule of Law is literally $3. If you’re poor enough to not have an extra $1.50 for the better version of a card, why not play budget pauper instead.
Unfulfilled Desires is a card that I love to use. Card filtering is always nice in my U/B decks, but I think it really shines in Muldrotha and Mimeoplasm.
My number 1 hidden gem is warping wail. It is such a flexible card for only 2 mana at instant speed. Trust me no one sees a counter spell to a board wipe coming from a mono green deck lol.
@@GlenNorth just remember it has colorless in the mana cost, so you have to have access to colorless mana via artifacts or non basic lands. That's really the only stipulation. Honestly I have used every single mode for that card at one point or another and glad I could help.
A personal favorite of mine is Angel's Trumpet. It's an old card but every time I play it it gets some insane results (even winning games on its own) + It's a 3 mana colourless artifact!
Sudden Spoiling is a great, counterspell-proof spell that I put in every black deck I run. Really ruins the day of creature based strategies. Oddly enough I've only seen one other person using it, and that's because I introduced him to it. Edhrec shows as it being in about 8500 decks, but that still feels low for how good it is. I think this deserves mention in a future episode!
And for reference for other people, Sudden Spoiling and all other split-second spells can be responded to with a morph because it is a special action, so Kheru Spellsnatcher is an answer to any split second card. It feels like not enough people remember this
My new favorite card in Alesha is "Gift of Immortality". The deck runs a lot of etb effects, and with a sac outlet like Viscera Seer, Gift guarantees triggers not only on my turn, but each of my opponent's turns. I also find it useful as just something to protect a creature I care about. I think you'd need a deck that wants to recur creatures already for it to be good. But that's a card that's been sitting in my rare binder for years, and I'm happy to be finally using it.
Experimental Frenzy might be the favorite card you talked about in this episode. I run it in my Purphoros deck, and it really does work. Always scary to think about being land flooded after you play this, though...
An underrated card that I basically have in all of my decks is thaumatic compass. It draws lands if I'm missing land drops and if I have seven lands in play, I can turn it into the spires of orazca! It's basically a budget maze of ith that also puts lands in my hand if I don't have any
@@PocoSalvaje no . they will phase at the end of combat so they will take damage from blockers. It does make it so that during your opponent's turns they can't board wipe you since your creatures are phased out. I actually forgot to put that in my Sun Quan creature deck. Thanks for the reminder. It's pretty great.
I feel like Recurring Insight is underplayed. Maybe just in my playgroup? In regards to the end step; I started going to the gym in January. I've been going at least 4 times a week. Today was cardio day. Walked 4 miles while listening to this episode. It's truly rejuvenating.
My Beckess Brass deck punches above its weight in my playgroup. The individual cards have really strong effects. And I'm satisfied if I manage to get one Brass trigger.
Loved that Hostage taker include! i have it in my Atraxa blink deck and its one of my favorite additions of black blink spells to my roon+black blink deck
In tone with Fell the Mighty and Retribution of the Meek, I would also like to mention Dusk//Dawn as it also has a later use for bringing back your little ones
I recently started using Supreme Will. This card is pretty versatile because it can counter a spell or help you dig deeper for some cards you need. Highly recommend for any blue deck.
I have 2 personal favorite cards, one of which is Rishkar's Expertise that you've talked about a lot. The other favorite is Aetherspouts. Its a 5-mana instant that tucks all attacking creatures target player controls. Its something out of left field and has saved me more than once. :D
Spell Queller functions the same as Fiend Hunter (2 separate clauses) which means if you do something to it (eg. return it to hand) in response to its own ETB trigger, it just exiles the spell forever. Makes for very nice combos with a card like Temur Sabre Tooth to counter spells without actually using any cards.
from my personal experience Ghoulcaller Gisa Demon cards in general (save rune scarred demon) the use of landfall... anything Slivers (just made a sliver deck, it's amazing)
This video came just at the right time for me cause I just built a Toshiro Umezawa deck and there are so many cards that are featured in this video. Wayfarer Bauble, tainted strike, hatred, victory chimes, solemn simulacrum, burnished hart... This video came just at the right time for me. Great episode as always.
I put forward my "nobody plays it but everyone should" card - Abundance. As long as you have it, you _will not_ get mana flooded or screwed. You can choose to get a land or nonland for each card you would've drawn. Additionally, it is card draw _replacement_ which means you can avoid triggering Consecrated Sphinx or even avoid losing the game to drawing from an empty library. It's also quite cheap, at 50 cents for the two pre-con printings and $2 for the Urza's or Tenth. (Though be warned if you're gunning for bling, as the only foil printing is in Tenth and is $33) Another big point I love about stealing cards from your opponents (Dire Fleet Daredevil, Etali, Stolen Strategy, Gonti, Praetor's Grasp, Thada Adel, etc) is not only do you gain value in the form of new cards, but also that your opponents are losing potentially valuable parts of their decks or combos. And for the "play more lands more easily in colors other than Green" I'd say Gem of Becoming is really good, even if you're only in two of the three colors it tutors. It'll pull up even nonbasics to your hand, so you can ensure you won't miss land drops while pulling lands out of your deck for later.
@@NotYourAverageNothing Aristocrats refers to you sacrificing your own things. Just like you can sacrifice the False Prophet, you could sacrifice your own things so they wouldn't get exiled unlike your opponents' creatures.
I've got this Toshiro Umezawa deck and it's one of the most fun things I've ever played. It wins by recurring a Gray Merchant over and over. Which isn't the most creative way to do it, but the way it continually sacs and recurs the gray merchant is 100% through casting instants. Like Costly Plunder and Altar's Reap to sac it, and then getting it back with things like Makeshift Mannequin. There's also so many fun black instants that people just don't see coming, but countering a spell with Imp's Misschief is amazing, especially when you can do it twice.
They can also just chain cards off the top and win though that’s how the enchantments works you could just be handling over an obscene amount of card advantage
Just thought about it, I'm actually building a zedruu deck and looking around for ideas. If you give experimental Frenzy to a blue control deck or actually anything not red. Makes their hand size effectively one card but gives each spell "draw a card". I would say it will be a bad deal for the control player most of the time. They usually have draw spells anways.
I feel so validated seeing so many of my pet cards on here. A note on Spelltwine: if your deck cares about cast triggers, Spelltwine is a 3 for one. In my Noyan Dar deck, I get three animate triggers, pumping up my land +9/+9, plus the effects of two spells. It can be a beating. Been playing Wayfarer’s Bauble in all my non green decks for quite a while now. And Reality Shift has been in all my blue decks for years. It has never manifested anything of worth. Not once.
Ironically, I was working on adding Calming Verse into several of my decks while I put this video on. I have several times in the past said "I wish there was a vandalblast for enchantments" and then discovered the card while scrolling through my old cards and decided I'm going to try it in like 8 of my decks to see how I like it (I have 35 atm so I usually make a change in several to see how I like something)
Lol. I was going through my cards as I am listening to this video, and came across wayfarer's bauble few minutes before you brought it up in the video and I placed in in to my "maybe I should use this in my commander" pile of cards. What a funny little coincidence.
Angelo Rosales if wedge didn't speak like that sponge Bob meme i could take him more seriously....bUT i CaNt UNdERstAnD whY HAs To TAlk LiKE hEs HavINg a sTroKE.
Grant Schuler I really don’t think he’s that bad. I don’t really like the way he always seems to talk but he’s a classic mtg youtuber so I still enjoy him. I’ve known him for so long I can’t really dislike him.
Angelo Rosales it wasn't always talking that way tho.. but lately he's cranked it up to 11.... the last video he did for example was torture, it makes him feel super fake. its like he moved the period of every sentence to the middle of the next sentence... there were parts i had to rewatch cause the way he structured (restructured) the sentences made it sound like half run on sentences. where he used all the wrong punctuation. like this... tainted strike a black...[read at double speed] card that rEAds TaRGet CReaTUre gets...+1/!.. +0 and infect until?..[read in slow motion] EnD oF TUrn oh boy ThE power there... see my issue with him now?
Ooooo boy. Meddling mage effects are sick as heck. I run an Isperia deck and she lets me constantly see my opponents hands. Being able to stop people's games and key cards is incredibly powerful when you know your opponents game plan.
Gift of Estates should be in pretty much every deck that runs a lot of plains (unless you already run land ramp with green). It's gonna need a reprint soon though. Treasure Map is also amazing. I'd even run it in some mono blue decks. Alms Collector is a white Notion Thief. Citanul Flute is very mana hungry, but a repeatable and colorless tutor for any creature. Mask of Memory and Rogue's Gloves can draw a lot of cards, if your deck plays small creatures with evasion, like in an Edric, Oona or Yuriko deck.
The best play I've had with gonti was after my opponent tutored cyclonic rift to the top of his deck with the liliana plainswalker, using someone else's rift against them was the best moment I've ever had in magic. Another underrated hidden aspect of gonti is putting peoples lands on the bottom of their library and then watching them miss land drops.
If I had to pick one card it would be forgotten creation. I almost never see this card played but I love it. Even if your deck is not a graveyard deck, sometimes you just have a hand full of duds. Forgotten creation lets you also dig through your deck faster for answers
15:14 I just couldn't believe that Gonti, Lord of Luxury would be in less than a thousand decks, then I looked it up and he is actually in over 6000 decks. I agree with you in that he's an underplayed card, but not quite as much as you think. Great episode as always!
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I watched the first episode. It's too similar to Game Knights IMO. I'm not a fan of cutting to edits of you talking about the game. As I said, just my opinion. Otherwise pretty amazing for a first go around.
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If you want to be taken seriously, don’t end every sentence with an exclamation point. They make you sound too earnest and unprofessional. Good luck with your channel.
Let’s talk about Spell Queller. If I’m in blue and white, why would I run this over Render Silent or just plain old Counterspell? Spell Queller seems narrowly useful. It can only hit
This has been my favourite episode in a long time. I also really enjoyed the end step, feeling motivated to get exercising. Also, my vote for an unknown card you should try (super cheap and new common) is Vicious Rumors. It's perfect for my new Haunt of Hightower deck.
For decks that use their graveyard a lot, Bottomless Pit (each player discards randomly each upkeep) and Null Brooch (2,t,discard your hand to counter noncreature spell) are good defense vs control/combo opponents.
OOOoooOOOOooooOOOOOHHHHHHH BURN! but actually white is better because noone expects a -spanish- white Inquisition. our chief weapon is suprise... and fear our two weapons are fear and suprise... and ruthless efficiency our three weapons are fear and suprise and ruthless efficiency... and an olmost fanatical devotion to -the pope- something pope related in mtg our four are fear and suprise and ruthless efficiency and an olmost fanatical devotion to -the pope- something pope related in mtg... and these nice red-white cards
Also one thing that makes Phyrexian Revoker so powerful is that it can target mana abilities as well. So you can target mana rocks or commanders that add mana for something.
Spell Queller is garbage in commander. Cancel is more flexible, actually deals with things and has the same cmc, and we all know how terrible cancel is.
Not entirely true. A lot of it depends on exactly what you are getting rid of. For example, nailing an opposing counterspell is effectively getting a free 2/3 flyer on your Cancel. Exiling a Toxic Deluge is even worse for the caster than an outright counter, as additional costs have to be paid each time. For that matter, exiling a board wipe will effectively be total counter much of the time; what's the point of board wiping right after one has already resolved?
snakeman830 True that there are situations where a queller is basically free value but you still can't counter some of the most impactful stuff in the format. No extra turn spells or board wipes bigger than 4 is still a pretty big drawback. Additionally this turns all your opponents kill spells into counter magic. Imagine playing this to get kid of that crucial wrath of god and then watching them swords you queller right as you'r about to attack
I play it in Ephara. As long as Ephara is in play it cancels the spell and I draw a card the next upkeep. Plus it can usually get one or two swings in before it gets removed.
Exactly what I thought. Unless you have some major synergies with spirits, ETB-triggers or creatures in general (which most decks don't), most normal counterspells are a lot better. Cancel might not be better, but Counterspell, Mana Leak, Condescend, every Cancel with Upside, Cryptic Command and many more definitely are.
Victory chimes is an underrated pet card of mine. I have it in my Ayli deck, where often times i need to keep open exactly one mana for each of my opponent's turn. Instead of losing three colored mana for my turn, i can just have victory chimes which untaps itself
57:00 I did this with my Minotaur deck recently. I just put like random stuff in what I think would be cool and there are some cards in there where I say "they are really good. I let them in." and the other stuff I experiment with. Some slots are just flexible cards and I think in the beginning where I didn't know where I was going it was like 13 flex slots and now they are like around 7.
Legitimately just ordered a list of cards from this video I haven't been using. Also, fun interaction I've found in my Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice deck with Phyrexian Revoker: Revoker's etb trigger can be copied with Tawnos, letting you name 2 cards to lock down. It's an unexpected way to lock down 2 commanders until they can remove the Revoker!
Sometimes I have tried a card in a deck and it didnt work. But I dont just rule it out as a bad card. I try it in another deck. Perplexing chimera is one of those cards. Found a great home in estrid. I love blinking it back into play under my control.
The best part about reality Shift is that if you didn't hit another creature on the manifest and you they have no way to blink it. You just relived 2 cards for 2 mana and 1 card. If they can't blink it they're gonna have to jump through skem hoops to get it back assuming they even have recursion in their deck. I love reality Shift esp in my morph deck, it's in theme lol
so you guys know the best aspect of your episodes is anytime you further the sense of discovery by covering less common and less popular cards, tactics, play styles, etc. This I think is more in the spirit of the format than the uber efficient popular combo decks ruling the roost today.
A few thoughts: Hostage Taker: It's great in sac decks, too. Steal someone's flyer or unblockable or other annoying creature, then sac it for your benefit. Phyrexian Revoker: cast it and name Chromatic Lantern or Sol Ring or Phyrexian Altar... See how fast your opponents kill your Revoker.... Toshiro Umezawa: It's into the graveyard from anywhere, so great if someone is playing a self-mill deck
Fumigate is awesome! I won two games because of it this weekend. Once against a krenko deck with 300 goblins, and once when I was at 4 life, bringing me to a respectable 24 life in time to finish off the competition. Also hallowed burial because everyone in my group runs grave decks, including me. XD
mimic vat! Ive found that this card has so much potential. So many people try to replay cars that die and go to your graveyard. You can instead exile it and then play it for yourself as many times as you want at least until the artifact is gone and you only have to pay 3
First time seeing this video, I've played all these recommendations. I agree with you, they are definitely underrated and very niche choices. Some require building around but on resolution are absolutely brutal. No one sees them coming.
Wayfarer's Bauble:
Commander's Quarters shouts "I told you so" from the distance.
Anytime I hear something along the lines of, "I told you" I think of Puffin Forest
----- Value -----
5:00 Experimental Frenzy
8:08 Tireless Tracker
9:18 Dire Fleet Daredevil
10:40 Hostage Taker
12:40 Spelltwine
14:00 Spell Queller
15:28 Gonti, Lord Of Luxury
17:03 Necrologia
18:44 Stolen Strategy
------ Removal -----
20:24 Reality Shift
21:32 Declaration In Stone
22:49 Berserk
24:17 Tainted Strike
26:00 Hatred
27:18 Lignify
----- Can This Stop Already -----
29:07 Death Match
30:37 Spreading Plague
31:43 Perplexing Chimera
34:18 Rule Of Law
36:35 Constant Mists
----- Board Wipes -----
37:37 Hallowed Burial
39:39 River's Rebuke
41:15 Fumigate
42:03 Fell Of The Mighty & Retribution Of The Meek
43:13 Cleansing Nova
44:30 Paraselene & Cleansing Meditation & Calming Verse
----- If It's Supported -----
46:10 Victory Chimes
47:36 Phyrexian Revoker
49:00 Toshiro Umezawa
51:20 Wayfarer's Bauble
----- Take A Second Look -----
53:00 Siege Cycle (Frontier Siege / Citadel Siege / Monastery Siege / Outpost Siege / Palace Siege)
54:18 Dragon Commands (Dromoka's Command / Atarka's Command / Silumgar's Command / Kolaghan's Command / Ojutai's Command)
55:30 Original Commands (Profane Command / Incendiary Command / Primal Command)
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Thanks mate.
“If you need to do a shi- crap ton of damage...”
Nice save, Jimothy.
I think it was edited now that I'm rewatching it lol
I need an April Fool's Day episode where they just recommend terrible, expensive, and ridiculous cards. Stuff like every deck needs to run a Black Lotus, Smokestack, Ashnod's Coupon, etc. Lol
Smokestack is amazing
Every deck needs Chains of Mephistopheles
Smokestack is inexpensive and amazing when built around...was going to mention Chains but it seems someone beat me to it lol
"Just do a sh- a crap ton of damage"
Lol nice save there Jimmy
Wyatt Wieber were is that?! lol!
Where is it?
@@p0kem0nlvl1 It's when they're talking about Hatred
Wyatt Wieber actually they were talking about berserk. 23:53
@@comradecameron3726 Oh yeah, thanks, my bad
51:19 Welcome to The Commander's Quarters baby!!
i demand renaming this mitch´s bauble
Fun thing with Spell Queller, as well, is that if you use it to counter an overloaded spell or any spell with an alternate casting mode, they can't cast it as if it was overloaded. So if you counter Cyclonic Rift (when overloaded it's still a 2 CMC card), if they ever get rid of Queller they only get to bounce one thing.
I had exactly that situation :)
Yep, pretty rad. One thing to remember is that it has to be an ALTERNATE cost, not an ADDITIONAL cost. For example, they can still kick their Fight with Fire, or replicate their Gigadrowse.
@@peewee130946 If you came to Counterspell vs this, then yeah, run Counterspell. But this is great in addition to other counters and can have other synergies that Counterspell doesn't. For example, this would be great in a blink deck, spirits deck, azorius stax, or other decks where the body is relevant.
@@peewee130946 There's sometimes you can't counter it. Spells like they can't cast non creature spells, or if they used mana from Boseiju, Who Shelters All and it can't be counted traditionally
@@peewee130946 Yup. I know about those. Funny thing is, I actually mentioned those kind of spells in a different comment where somebody was talking about one of the good non countering counterspells. OH! I just remembered another one, Venser. He bounces it back to hand, but still stops it for a second and wastes the mana
“The best cards you should be playing!”
First fifteen minutes: a list of ways to play your opponent’s cards.
Imprisoned in the Moon is more fun to play than Lignify though. What sounds better, "I turn Avacyn into a tree" or "I turn Avacyn into *THE MOON!!*"
A tree
I believe they're just giving other options to do similar effects. Why not run both turn avacyn into the Moon and turn another creatures of theirs into a tree
BANG ZOOM STRAIGHT TO THE MOON
How about a tree moon
That Wizard went to the moon
Curse of the Swine is underrated. Bonus: one of the best tokens in the game.
Curse of the Swine + Sudden Demise makes you fun at parties
Jesus Christ why is this card so good
My pick is Boompile, the *only* colorless card that has the ability to destroy all nonlands as soon as T4.
Also, topic starts at 3:28
I tried it, but problem with Boompile and Nev Disk is how slow they are. With disk you will 100% need to wait a turn and with Boompile it is a 50/50. All your opponent needs to do is play a reclamation sage and you are done. I ussually play Oblivion Stone over it. If anything Perilious Vault is a card more people should consider. It isn't as fast but it can deal with anything! Soul of New Phyrexia, Avacyn, Darksteel Forge or a simple Heroic Intervention. All of those are cards people often play to dodge board wipes and Vault gives you a colloress way to bypass them all. Only card that it is weak against is Teferi's Protection. It is also great against all graveyard based generals such as Athreos, Muldrotha, Daretti, Meren. Just play Perilous Vault and your mono green has both a great board clear and graveyard hate!
It's expensive, in mana and money wise, but there's one called, "All is Dust", where all players sacrifice all colored permanents
Hour of Revelation is the best "destroy everything" boardwipe and I barely ever see it played
@@MarvelOfRain those are some good points. I still like Boompile for the option of a 4 generic mana Hour of Revelation it offers at such a low mana investment. Sure, half the time it won't work the first time, and 1/4 of the times you play it, it won't work in either of the first two activations, but the fact that it gives an out to every deck when facing all sorts of problematic situation (and is an artifact, something much more easily tutorable than other types of cards) really makes it shine imo :D
@@MagicalHackerMTG If it works for you then why not. I also put it in some decks. It can also be great against cards like Heroic Intervention and even Teferi's Protection since your opponents do not know if you will kill the board or not when they need to play them.
Verity Circle - I absolutely love this brand new card from RNA in practice, and in commander, where everyone is tapping a lot more creatures to use activated abilities, it could draw you so many cards. For those who don't know, Verity Circle is an enchantment for 2 and 1 blue that allows you to draw a card whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped and it isn't attacking. For 4 and 1 blue you can also use its ability to tap a creature without flying. Would recommend in any blue deck if you want early card draw on a permanent.
Early card draw doesn't cost 3-8 Mana depending on the turn you play it, and is a do nothing enchantment.
I love how it becomes Archenemy whenever I cast [[perplexing chimera]] in my Roon deck. Not only do I stop my opponnent's plans, but with Roon I get to steal Chimera back. So much fun for me
Yeah so much fun stopping your friends having fun and playing their deck, you know... the reason everyone is playing. People who get pleasure out of stopping their friends playing a game are just naturally pretty toxic, i don't care what anyone says, anyone who defends this sort of behaviour are the people who like to do it themselves and don't like people criticising their toxic playstyle. You're not sitting down with your friends and thinking "hey, wouldn't it be nice for me and my buddies to have some fun playing Magic?", you're just a sad person who's sole intention is to tell your friends they're not allowed to play the game they've all sat down to. And of course you're proud of it. This community is just full of toxic pricks who don't understand how to make friends.
Long-Term Plans is an amazing budget tutor. It's the only universal tutor that blue gets.
and works well with some of the "top card of library" effects, things like Miracle, etc :)
Hostage Taker is a BEAST in my Aminatou deck... steal it, cast it, blink....lather, rinse, repeat. Same goes for Gonti.
the perplexing chimera is stupid powerful in aminatou as well. You can blink it after you lose control of it to get it back.
There are many very broken things with aminatou. Stuff like, say, reality acid, get out of hand reaaallly quick (blue land destruction who would have said lmao)
@@gregoryyeager4675, I think I'm in love. :P
Also, if you want everyone to hate you forever, parallax wave is just absolutely oppressive in aminatou.
Used hostage taker to steal a Oracle of mul daya yesterday felt great!
List of cards, from the comment section as well
Act on impulse
chain of vapors
rule of law
arcane labratory
verity circle
spell queller
hostage taker
sudden spoiling
tireless tracker
dire fleet daredevil
hostage taker
spelltwine
gonti, lord of luxury
necrologia
stolen strategy
outpost siege
(removal)
reality shift
declaration in stone
berserk
tainted strike
hatred
lignify
song of the dryads
darksteel mutation
imprisoned in the moon
(can this stop already? )
death match
spreading plague
perplexing chimera
rule of law
constant mists
hallowed burial
terminus
river's rebuke
fumigate
fell the mighty
retribution of the meek
cleansing nova
paraselene
cleansing meditation
calming verse
(if it's supported)
victory chimes
phyrexian revoker
nevermore
toshiro umezawa
wayfarer's bauble
Kambal, Consul of Allocation is so underrated with a lot of decks playing non-creature spells and in a multi-player game, it is a large drain of life every round. Also Pious Evangel is underrated if played correctly.
lol i have a Kambal commander deck for that reason, and just damage shenanigans in general
My friends and I always joke that Kambal runs the best soup kitchen in town:p
Had him as my commander for my Orzhov extort deck for a while. Ended up switching him out because playing him on turn three makes me the immediate target. Ended up losing most games because everybody would team up against me. It's not even all that good, but it draws so much hate.
My playgroup has banned me from playing the Kambal deck (we were doing Tiny Leaders, which is Commander with of the deck size and 3cmc maximum). I get him out, keep him alive, gain life, flip Chalice of Life/Death, and just attrition everyone into the ground.
I find that when I turn 1 Authority of the Consuls my red opponents are really annoyed about all their now useless haste strategies. I have Kambal in the same deck and Authority into Kambal means that no matter what my opponents cast, I gain life.
I'm always very surprised to not see one of my favorite cards never show up on lists like these, especially when you had a dedicated removal section. Curse of the Swine! It's a sorcery for 2B and X, and it exiles X target creatures, their controllers put a 2/2 boar token for each creature exiled this way. It's essentially reality shift, with none of the downside risk (Which was already honestly minimal, at it's worst it drew them a card, they still had to pay full cost for the manifested creature if they wanted to play it), but with the massive upside of exiled a ton of stuff at once! Frankly, this is commonly a one sided, exiling board wipe. Sure, it's at sorcery speed, and that's significant, but goddamn, is it worth it!
I agree, Curse of Swine is ridiculous and I love it. I run it in my Naban Deck and it's just so good. It can be used as a 3 cost exile any creature, or as a pretty effective board wipe except it exiles in blue. It's not as great against token/sacrifice decks but it's amazing against tribal. I completely shut down an Arabo deck using it. And it's so cheap, it's like 50 cents to a dollar. I think too many people look at the 2/2 body it gives them and shies away from it but it's like "I will gladly give you a 2/2 pig in exchange for Ulamog and the certainty that he is not coming back."
Nature's Claim/Fragmentize, Chain of Vapors, Lightning Bolt (or Abrade). Play cheap interaction, y'all.
Seriously, there is a reason the only counter spells I play in commander are 2 cmc or less.
I mean how useful is lightning bolt in decks that aren't based on spell slinging? I get it's one mana for 3 damage to any target, but it feels useless compared to the spot another card could take in your deck. Plus. a lot of the time it'll be a dead card in your hand late game. Like what're you going to do? Use it to finish off a creature that's been dealt damage that turn? It just seems like an impractical, low-impact cantrip. At the same time though, i'm speaking through experience in my playgroup so yours may be different. Have a nice day and thanks for reading
@@ElucidYT Most of the powerful commanders and enablers have less than 3 toughness. Abrade is fine too especially when no one is using Necropotence or Ad Nauseum.
I want to like this comment so many more times. People act like spot removal is bad in this format, yet lose to 3 cmc commanders, Mana Crypt, and creature-based infinite combos. If your presupposition repeatedly fails you, perhaps it is time to adapt.
Flame Slash, Oust, Red Elemental Blast, Pyroblast, Rapid Hybridization, Pongify are all nearly criminally underplayed. Slash and Oust tending more towards decks that look to deal combat damage (Tymna/x, et al), but the instant speed options are almost universal.
The only way I managed to beat an optimized Animar deck or had a chance to kill someone that ad nauseumed was with lighting bolt
One of my favorite cards to play in Red that I have never seen anyone use is Illicit Auction. You bid life to gain control of a creature permanently. It's good fun and makes people think about how much their "win" creature is worth.
Red Elemental Blast
YES! Not enough people appreciate the blaster. Include more when you see lots of the dreaded color
Include its functional reprint, Pyroblast
Matt Lynn Nothing better than countering a counterspell while playing mono red
Also 2 bullets to use for that eventual turn 7 Cyclonic Rift.
Yeah, people forget that a.) it's a removal spell as well as a counter, and b.) lots of people play blue, whether it's mono or multicolored blue.
7:11 Another thing to note is that with Sensei's Divining Top is that you can draw cards for 1 colorless mana basicly with Experimental Frenzy.
You tap SDT draw a card it goes on top you play it for 1 colorless. Rinse and repeat.
I really like Vitalize - it's awesome for swinging with your board and baiting attacks from creatures your opponent wouldn't normally attack with if you had blockers up.
1 day late to the party and with 1050 comments I haven't read but the word Jimmy was looking (3:56) for was Scour(ed).
Great collection of cards made for some interesting ideas, I have limited resources for expensive cards so obscure or little used choices I may just have already. Thanks, take care.
Pir's whim way better than people think.
Agreed
I say that every time I play it.
All of these "Friendenemy" cards are soo good. Play Politics, make allegiances, and punish the enemies..
Agree. He’s just another hardened scales-I play him in my Vorosh the Hunter deck.
Edit: oh oops you said pir’s whim... sorry I haven’t watched the video yet lol.
@@Nrdyco sounds like it fits in a Gahiji deck
Another card that Stolen Strategy reminds me of is Thief of Sanity. In 4 player, you’re getting an automatic 3 cards to choose from unlike Thief and having sort of 3 extra cards to cast each turn is so powerful! Great episode guys as always.
Everyone should be playing a Forest.
"Who's your commander?"
"Basic Land - Forest"
"... What?"
You do have a point though. Do people play enough basics in their decks? And whose fault is it if a deck is shut down by a Blood Moon when it could easily be built to not be as vulnerable?
Strange way to spell Swamp.
But, what if Breya is my commander?
@@MagicalHackerMTG well put, I put blood moon in a few of my decks because until recently I couldn't play many non basics
An underappreciated card I really like is Harrow. Yes, it sacrifices a land. You get to look for any 2 basic lands so it colour fixes, and they're untapped so you can play a 2 drop or have mana open for interaction
Can't wait for all of these to spike in value😂
Constant mists already sees play in a lot of decks. Rule of law already sees lots of play. Stolen strategy combos with a few red decks but hasnt spiked yet. Only one that will likely spike in price if everyone goes and buys them is Constant Mists, its only one printing run through Stronghold, I just bought one for $7 because someone was playing it in lord windgrace.
I already own most of these, so I hope they do lmao
@@coffeecaesar1443 Good for trading yea. Some of these are not the best cards for certain things.
Killed Commander's Quarters with baubles mention
@@Cryonicity Dang hell no
Evolution Charm is a fantastically versatile card. 1G - Choose one - Search your library for a basic land card and put it into your hand; return target Creature card from your graveyard to your hand; target Creature gains flying until end of turn. It's ramp when you need it, almost a regrowth when you need it, and a Jump when you need it. In my playgroup there's not very many flying creatures usually so Evolution Charm can threaten player's life totals pretty handily, if there are no kill spells lying in wait.
I use Victory chimes just to tap it at each players end step and say "ding dong ding dong"
Champion of Rhonas definitely! CMC is 3 colorless and one green Effect of card: You may exert Champion of Rhonas as it attacks. When you do, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.) Me and my friends have been talking about this card a lot. This has so much potential. Amazing card
or play elvish piper and equip lightning greeves onto it :)
Also with experimental frenzy you really want a way to use your hand without playing cards. Like a discard outlet that generates value.
Lens of Clarity is a card that people tend to overlook a lot. It's a 1 mana artifact that let's you look at the top of your library whenever you want and gains a bonus if an opponent happens to be playing a morph or manafest deck. Plus, because it's an artifact, it can go into any combo deck and most people don't nuke it because a lot of the time they underestimate the power of information.
Eilodon of the rhetoric is a budget option for rule of law
Isn't it actually more expensive?
theyre both under $2
dalmacietis you’re right just remembered it as a cool uncommon from the nyx set
Phoenix Ashes rule of Law is literally $3. If you’re poor enough to not have an extra $1.50 for the better version of a card, why not play budget pauper instead.
Speetlebeetle Ha! You’re right. I said this before looking at the prices, just remembering a cool uncommon from theros block, as I said above
Unfulfilled Desires is a card that I love to use. Card filtering is always nice in my U/B decks, but I think it really shines in Muldrotha and Mimeoplasm.
My number 1 hidden gem is warping wail. It is such a flexible card for only 2 mana at instant speed. Trust me no one sees a counter spell to a board wipe coming from a mono green deck lol.
Ooooooh what a great idea! I've been looking for good board wipe protection for my Titania deck! Thank you!
@@GlenNorth just remember it has colorless in the mana cost, so you have to have access to colorless mana via artifacts or non basic lands. That's really the only stipulation. Honestly I have used every single mode for that card at one point or another and glad I could help.
A personal favorite of mine is Angel's Trumpet. It's an old card but every time I play it it gets some insane results (even winning games on its own) + It's a 3 mana colourless artifact!
Sudden Spoiling is a great, counterspell-proof spell that I put in every black deck I run. Really ruins the day of creature based strategies. Oddly enough I've only seen one other person using it, and that's because I introduced him to it. Edhrec shows as it being in about 8500 decks, but that still feels low for how good it is. I think this deserves mention in a future episode!
And for reference for other people, Sudden Spoiling and all other split-second spells can be responded to with a morph because it is a special action, so Kheru Spellsnatcher is an answer to any split second card. It feels like not enough people remember this
@@tommylanders1997 true, and an effect that is triggered by its casting could disrupt it. So not counterspell-proof...just extremely resistant
My new favorite card in Alesha is "Gift of Immortality". The deck runs a lot of etb effects, and with a sac outlet like Viscera Seer, Gift guarantees triggers not only on my turn, but each of my opponent's turns. I also find it useful as just something to protect a creature I care about.
I think you'd need a deck that wants to recur creatures already for it to be good. But that's a card that's been sitting in my rare binder for years, and I'm happy to be finally using it.
Price of fame, a card from Guilds of Ravnica is a pretty decee commander removal that I haven't seen anywhere
It's honestly only good in decks that can utilize the surveil mechanic/graveyards in general. But otherwise, it's a bit meh.
its not amazing against sakashima but otherwise ur right
Experimental Frenzy might be the favorite card you talked about in this episode. I run it in my Purphoros deck, and it really does work. Always scary to think about being land flooded after you play this, though...
Mirage mirror has saved my life literally every game ive cast it
An underrated card that I basically have in all of my decks is thaumatic compass. It draws lands if I'm missing land drops and if I have seven lands in play, I can turn it into the spires of orazca! It's basically a budget maze of ith that also puts lands in my hand if I don't have any
Teferi’s veil is a fantastic card that any blue creature strategy deck should use
Freddie Patton YES!
Does it allow you to declare blockers then phase them out to avoid the damage?
@@PocoSalvaje no . they will phase at the end of combat so they will take damage from blockers.
It does make it so that during your opponent's turns they can't board wipe you since your creatures are phased out.
I actually forgot to put that in my Sun Quan creature deck. Thanks for the reminder. It's pretty great.
I feel like Recurring Insight is underplayed. Maybe just in my playgroup?
In regards to the end step; I started going to the gym in January. I've been going at least 4 times a week. Today was cardio day. Walked 4 miles while listening to this episode. It's truly rejuvenating.
so what yours saying is that the pirates are underrated cards. My Admiral Beckett Brass deck is looking real nice
i seriously doubt that
@@willemboele2079 You.
Key pirates work. Pirate tribal hasn't faired so well in my playgroup.
My Beckess Brass deck punches above its weight in my playgroup. The individual cards have really strong effects. And I'm satisfied if I manage to get one Brass trigger.
@@danielh4295 for me its a snowball effect if i can manage to get a trigger out of her once it becomes a race to remove her
Loved that Hostage taker include! i have it in my Atraxa blink deck and its one of my favorite additions of black blink spells to my roon+black blink deck
“No one plays these two pirates”
Me looking at my grixis pirates: “About that...”
In tone with Fell the Mighty and Retribution of the Meek, I would also like to mention Dusk//Dawn as it also has a later use for bringing back your little ones
Hunting Grounds is an insane card that I've never seen in someone else's deck
I recently started using Supreme Will. This card is pretty versatile because it can counter a spell or help you dig deeper for some cards you need. Highly recommend for any blue deck.
Victory chimes is such a BS in Kruphix
oh that is hillarious
Haha yep, was playing a large pod on Friday, and Victory Chimes was netting me 7 mana per round of the table!
how about seedborn muse in kruphix. just too powerful
I have 2 personal favorite cards, one of which is Rishkar's Expertise that you've talked about a lot. The other favorite is Aetherspouts. Its a 5-mana instant that tucks all attacking creatures target player controls. Its something out of left field and has saved me more than once. :D
Pir's Whim is very underrated imo.
Spell Queller functions the same as Fiend Hunter (2 separate clauses) which means if you do something to it (eg. return it to hand) in response to its own ETB trigger, it just exiles the spell forever. Makes for very nice combos with a card like Temur Sabre Tooth to counter spells without actually using any cards.
from my personal experience
Ghoulcaller Gisa
Demon cards in general (save rune scarred demon)
the use of landfall... anything
Slivers (just made a sliver deck, it's amazing)
This video came just at the right time for me cause I just built a Toshiro Umezawa deck and there are so many cards that are featured in this video. Wayfarer Bauble, tainted strike, hatred, victory chimes, solemn simulacrum, burnished hart... This video came just at the right time for me. Great episode as always.
I just want a playlist of them singing so I can sleep at night
Yes.
Try out th-cam.com/users/jimmy - I posted music there for years! - jimmy
The Command Zone you know I’m subscribed already!
I put forward my "nobody plays it but everyone should" card - Abundance. As long as you have it, you _will not_ get mana flooded or screwed. You can choose to get a land or nonland for each card you would've drawn. Additionally, it is card draw _replacement_ which means you can avoid triggering Consecrated Sphinx or even avoid losing the game to drawing from an empty library. It's also quite cheap, at 50 cents for the two pre-con printings and $2 for the Urza's or Tenth. (Though be warned if you're gunning for bling, as the only foil printing is in Tenth and is $33)
Another big point I love about stealing cards from your opponents (Dire Fleet Daredevil, Etali, Stolen Strategy, Gonti, Praetor's Grasp, Thada Adel, etc) is not only do you gain value in the form of new cards, but also that your opponents are losing potentially valuable parts of their decks or combos.
And for the "play more lands more easily in colors other than Green" I'd say Gem of Becoming is really good, even if you're only in two of the three colors it tutors. It'll pull up even nonbasics to your hand, so you can ensure you won't miss land drops while pulling lands out of your deck for later.
False Prophet - Exile all creatures on LTB. Play it in a reanimator/aristocrats deck so your stuff never gets exiled.
Lexi That makes no sense. Exiling stuff to prevent them from being exiled?
@@NotYourAverageNothing Aristocrats refers to you sacrificing your own things. Just like you can sacrifice the False Prophet, you could sacrifice your own things so they wouldn't get exiled unlike your opponents' creatures.
Probably one of the best creature in Karador. Exile all your opponents creatures on will again and again and again. So much value for 4 cmc creature.
I've got this Toshiro Umezawa deck and it's one of the most fun things I've ever played. It wins by recurring a Gray Merchant over and over. Which isn't the most creative way to do it, but the way it continually sacs and recurs the gray merchant is 100% through casting instants. Like Costly Plunder and Altar's Reap to sac it, and then getting it back with things like Makeshift Mannequin. There's also so many fun black instants that people just don't see coming, but countering a spell with Imp's Misschief is amazing, especially when you can do it twice.
Play Experimental Frenzy in Zedruu and give it to the player not playing red.
🤣🤣🤣
They can also just chain cards off the top and win though that’s how the enchantments works you could just be handling over an obscene amount of card advantage
No nuts no glory. I would gladly test it against my meta.
Just thought about it, I'm actually building a zedruu deck and looking around for ideas. If you give experimental Frenzy to a blue control deck or actually anything not red. Makes their hand size effectively one card but gives each spell "draw a card". I would say it will be a bad deal for the control player most of the time. They usually have draw spells anways.
I feel so validated seeing so many of my pet cards on here.
A note on Spelltwine: if your deck cares about cast triggers, Spelltwine is a 3 for one. In my Noyan Dar deck, I get three animate triggers, pumping up my land +9/+9, plus the effects of two spells. It can be a beating.
Been playing Wayfarer’s Bauble in all my non green decks for quite a while now. And Reality Shift has been in all my blue decks for years. It has never manifested anything of worth. Not once.
Price of fame is good commander removal
All basic landcycling cards from c16
And while not really underplayed, literally every card that says "draw x"
Ironically, I was working on adding Calming Verse into several of my decks while I put this video on. I have several times in the past said "I wish there was a vandalblast for enchantments" and then discovered the card while scrolling through my old cards and decided I'm going to try it in like 8 of my decks to see how I like it (I have 35 atm so I usually make a change in several to see how I like something)
No shoutouts to Contamination?! This enchantment is back breaking!
Lol. I was going through my cards as I am listening to this video, and came across wayfarer's bauble few minutes before you brought it up in the video and I placed in in to my "maybe I should use this in my commander" pile of cards. What a funny little coincidence.
That’s very interesting. Wedge just made a “commanders you should be playing” video.
Angelo Rosales if wedge didn't speak like that sponge Bob meme i could take him more seriously....bUT i CaNt UNdERstAnD whY HAs To TAlk LiKE hEs HavINg a sTroKE.
Angelo Rosales wedge is a joke. I’m surprised people still watch and support him...
Grant Schuler I really don’t think he’s that bad. I don’t really like the way he always seems to talk but he’s a classic mtg youtuber so I still enjoy him. I’ve known him for so long I can’t really dislike him.
Angelo Rosales it wasn't always talking that way tho.. but lately he's cranked it up to 11.... the last video he did for example was torture, it makes him feel super fake.
its like he moved the period of every sentence to the middle of the next sentence... there were parts i had to rewatch cause the way he structured (restructured) the sentences made it sound like half run on sentences. where he used all the wrong punctuation.
like this...
tainted strike a black...[read at double speed]
card that rEAds TaRGet CReaTUre gets...+1/!..
+0 and infect until?..[read in slow motion]
EnD oF TUrn oh boy ThE power there...
see my issue with him now?
@@omegablast2002 lol. Wedge produces content despite health problems and you mock him for it. Your opinion has lost all relevance and respect.
Ooooo boy. Meddling mage effects are sick as heck. I run an Isperia deck and she lets me constantly see my opponents hands. Being able to stop people's games and key cards is incredibly powerful when you know your opponents game plan.
Manglehorn & Back to Nature!
Manglehorn is awesome, it deserves more play
Gift of Estates should be in pretty much every deck that runs a lot of plains (unless you already run land ramp with green). It's gonna need a reprint soon though.
Treasure Map is also amazing. I'd even run it in some mono blue decks.
Alms Collector is a white Notion Thief.
Citanul Flute is very mana hungry, but a repeatable and colorless tutor for any creature.
Mask of Memory and Rogue's Gloves can draw a lot of cards, if your deck plays small creatures with evasion, like in an Edric, Oona or Yuriko deck.
hey guys one card i think should be on this list is slaughter the strong
Seriously under rated card right here. Edict effect, gets around indestructible, hex proof, ect.
The best play I've had with gonti was after my opponent tutored cyclonic rift to the top of his deck with the liliana plainswalker, using someone else's rift against them was the best moment I've ever had in magic. Another underrated hidden aspect of gonti is putting peoples lands on the bottom of their library and then watching them miss land drops.
Boros that's the most underrated card
If I had to pick one card it would be forgotten creation. I almost never see this card played but I love it. Even if your deck is not a graveyard deck, sometimes you just have a hand full of duds. Forgotten creation lets you also dig through your deck faster for answers
perplexing chimera and homeward path gg
myles Weidman and seedborn muse
This was a trip to go back and watch after 3 years
Stubborn denial is great and only $1
15:14 I just couldn't believe that Gonti, Lord of Luxury would be in less than a thousand decks, then I looked it up and he is actually in over 6000 decks. I agree with you in that he's an underplayed card, but not quite as much as you think. Great episode as always!
Love Josh and Jimmy!!! They were the inspiration behind our channel! Love all their content but mostly game knights! We love commander gameplay! Follow our progress and let us know what you think!!
I watched the first episode. It's too similar to Game Knights IMO. I'm not a fan of cutting to edits of you talking about the game. As I said, just my opinion. Otherwise pretty amazing for a first go around.
Much appreciated feedback! We all really enjoy game knights and wanted to just make more content so people can simply watch more content! Also thank you for taking the time to watch!
i love yall’s channel! i thought it was very well put together given that you all are beginners in the film area. definitely gonna keep watching!
If you want to be taken seriously, don’t end every sentence with an exclamation point. They make you sound too earnest and unprofessional. Good luck with your channel.
Let’s talk about Spell Queller. If I’m in blue and white, why would I run this over Render Silent or just plain old Counterspell? Spell Queller seems narrowly useful. It can only hit
Why doesn’t anyone talk about [ Unspeakable Symbol ] and [ Siren Stormtamer ]
Unspeakable Symbol is auto-include for a Marchesa deck.
I used the symbol in my Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon deck, that and Hatred
This has been my favourite episode in a long time. I also really enjoyed the end step, feeling motivated to get exercising.
Also, my vote for an unknown card you should try (super cheap and new common) is Vicious Rumors. It's perfect for my new Haunt of Hightower deck.
So why not do the show with DJ also? I feel the chemistry between the 3 of you, would be great.
DJ has his own channel that he's responsible for.
They'll probably have him on as a guest in future episodes
For decks that use their graveyard a lot, Bottomless Pit (each player discards randomly each upkeep) and Null Brooch (2,t,discard your hand to counter noncreature spell) are good defense vs control/combo opponents.
The reason why red is better than white is because it actually has good commanders
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but actually white is better because noone expects a -spanish- white Inquisition.
our chief weapon is suprise... and fear
our two weapons are fear and suprise... and ruthless efficiency
our three weapons are fear and suprise and ruthless efficiency... and an olmost fanatical devotion to -the pope- something pope related in mtg
our four are fear and suprise and ruthless efficiency and an olmost fanatical devotion to -the pope- something pope related in mtg... and these nice red-white cards
Also one thing that makes Phyrexian Revoker so powerful is that it can target mana abilities as well. So you can target mana rocks or commanders that add mana for something.
Spell Queller is garbage in commander. Cancel is more flexible, actually deals with things and has the same cmc, and we all know how terrible cancel is.
Not entirely true. A lot of it depends on exactly what you are getting rid of. For example, nailing an opposing counterspell is effectively getting a free 2/3 flyer on your Cancel. Exiling a Toxic Deluge is even worse for the caster than an outright counter, as additional costs have to be paid each time. For that matter, exiling a board wipe will effectively be total counter much of the time; what's the point of board wiping right after one has already resolved?
snakeman830 True that there are situations where a queller is basically free value but you still can't counter some of the most impactful stuff in the format. No extra turn spells or board wipes bigger than 4 is still a pretty big drawback. Additionally this turns all your opponents kill spells into counter magic. Imagine playing this to get kid of that crucial wrath of god and then watching them swords you queller right as you'r about to attack
I play it in Ephara. As long as Ephara is in play it cancels the spell and I draw a card the next upkeep. Plus it can usually get one or two swings in before it gets removed.
Exactly what I thought. Unless you have some major synergies with spirits, ETB-triggers or creatures in general (which most decks don't), most normal counterspells are a lot better. Cancel might not be better, but Counterspell, Mana Leak, Condescend, every Cancel with Upside, Cryptic Command and many more definitely are.
Question- does Spell Queller get around “can’t be countered?” I mean- it says exile, not counter
Victory chimes is an underrated pet card of mine. I have it in my Ayli deck, where often times i need to keep open exactly one mana for each of my opponent's turn. Instead of losing three colored mana for my turn, i can just have victory chimes which untaps itself
Keto diet and calisthenics. Once you understand it, it's basically effortless.
57:00 I did this with my Minotaur deck recently. I just put like random stuff in what I think would be cool and there are some cards in there where I say "they are really good. I let them in." and the other stuff I experiment with. Some slots are just flexible cards and I think in the beginning where I didn't know where I was going it was like 13 flex slots and now they are like around 7.
Legitimately just ordered a list of cards from this video I haven't been using.
Also, fun interaction I've found in my Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice deck with Phyrexian Revoker: Revoker's etb trigger can be copied with Tawnos, letting you name 2 cards to lock down. It's an unexpected way to lock down 2 commanders until they can remove the Revoker!
Sometimes I have tried a card in a deck and it didnt work. But I dont just rule it out as a bad card. I try it in another deck. Perplexing chimera is one of those cards. Found a great home in estrid. I love blinking it back into play under my control.
The best part about reality Shift is that if you didn't hit another creature on the manifest and you they have no way to blink it. You just relived 2 cards for 2 mana and 1 card. If they can't blink it they're gonna have to jump through skem hoops to get it back assuming they even have recursion in their deck. I love reality Shift esp in my morph deck, it's in theme lol
so you guys know the best aspect of your episodes is anytime you further the sense of discovery by covering less common and less popular cards, tactics, play styles, etc. This I think is more in the spirit of the format than the uber efficient popular combo decks ruling the roost today.
A few thoughts:
Hostage Taker: It's great in sac decks, too. Steal someone's flyer or unblockable or other annoying creature, then sac it for your benefit.
Phyrexian Revoker: cast it and name Chromatic Lantern or Sol Ring or Phyrexian Altar... See how fast your opponents kill your Revoker....
Toshiro Umezawa: It's into the graveyard from anywhere, so great if someone is playing a self-mill deck
Fumigate is awesome! I won two games because of it this weekend. Once against a krenko deck with 300 goblins, and once when I was at 4 life, bringing me to a respectable 24 life in time to finish off the competition. Also hallowed burial because everyone in my group runs grave decks, including me. XD
mimic vat! Ive found that this card has so much potential. So many people try to replay cars that die and go to your graveyard. You can instead exile it and then play it for yourself as many times as you want at least until the artifact is gone and you only have to pay 3
First time seeing this video, I've played all these recommendations. I agree with you, they are definitely underrated and very niche choices. Some require building around but on resolution are absolutely brutal. No one sees them coming.