And here we are, with Duskmourn those memes are not memes anymore...

From my personal experience, Red counters may be a secondary win con with burning a deck out with mills but most of the time it helps with making my opponents mill their mana rocks, counters, etc.

Definitely enjoyed the deck tech. Sub earned!

I’m just finding this and love that Umbris deck. Thanks so much for the deck lists! Lifelong horror fan. The art selection for these cards is next level. I’d love to get this version of the deck proxied!

I'd pay good money to get that custom Shirei deck with the horror theme. Great job with the look of that deck. Very sick and I love it.

Nice game, but i think creating the 2 tokens upon casting bats doesn't make the opponent lose 2 life. The tokens enter before the bats enter because of the 'cast/play' trigger. The bats resolve last :)

oh no this is my first ever magic deck after spending the past month of magic fridays at a local game shop playing with others decks! maybe i should’ve picked something different after your intro. i just really love bunnies 😭

Love this. I have an Atris deck I like to call “The Piles.” My friend just gifted me Toymaker. I’m glad to see many of the cards in my deck are on your list. Awesome deck, thanks for sharing.

Tangletrove Kelp! I knew I was missing something from my build. I just turned my clues into flying 4/4s with Cyberdrive Awakener, but having another way to turn Clues into creatures is what the deck needs I think.

I bought myself a copy recently. I am theory crafting zombie token synergy. Things like crowded crypt and ghoulish precision, so my non tokens can serve the Legion after death. Calling it Caesar's Undead Legion.

I did a Tribal Tribal deck with Tazri, Beacon of Unity that focused moreso on dragons. It desperately needs tuned however. Hope this video helps.

Can you give the hexproof enchantments with those blue cards shown. Since they say target?

is this precon good for complete newbies

Sad I couldn’t make the live, but very happy to have the recording to watch! Congrats on the new gig. Looking forward to future content! One question: is Marvo still your special ‘one and only’ or has another deck been drawing your eye lately?

Obeka with Silent arbiter is broken (Only one creature can attack each combat & only one creature can block each combat) because Obeka has menace this just makes her unbreakable. I had my engine up and running and I played Silent Arbiter and my opponent just scooped right away.

*fangirl noises*

I agree with you. I dont think it is a fringe view point at all. I think all cards should be given points from 0-10 add them up in your deck and decks with near the same amount of points can play each other.

Tier systems means players will most likely build the strongest deck they can to that tier. But also the tier list will no doubt be a rough guide. Fast mana/tutors will no doubt be top tier but theres a big difference between stonehewer giant and steelshapers gift both tutor equipment but for very different costs. Which means no real change and also if there valuation of brawl cards is anything to go by well 😅

That mindskinner has definitely piqued my interest. Arabella is right up my alley, and my actual dog is named Kona so... I'm building some decks.

For everyone here who thinks WotC will be able to better manage edh. 3 of the 4 recently banned cards that even caused this shitshow, were designed by WotC specifically for EDH. That should tell you just what you need.

I really like the idea of the tier system, it sounds similar to Smogon tiers for Pokemon, I hope people give it a chance as I've already seen a lot of dissent around it.

"Will wizards prioritize profits over gameplay?" Oh yes. Ohhhh yes that absolutely will. And it seems they will prioritize short term profits over longterm health of the game as well imo.

Oh boy. This cannot be good for the format 😑

Awesome. I like Victor, but i haven't seen a deck i like, but that deck is sweet

All they need to do is sell products that are aimed at the "tiers" they defined, priced appropriately, and they win. They could make a "low power" precon line akin to the 2021 Starter decks at $20 for an entry level product. Then they can make a "high power" precon line for $200 and reprint all the Docksides and Rhystic Studies and One Rings that they want. The secondary market doesn't and shouldn't concern them.

honestly i play really budget and never saw any of the banned cards, but i think the bans are a very good thing from all the content i watch, the cards were all very negative, even when serving as crutches for "meme" decks. it seems like the reception for the banlist was mostly positive too, but there was a loud minority going ham abt it. i think the people who lost several hundred dollars were prolly buying cards as investment and they can take the loss, thats part of investing lol i also wonder how much of this was planned, it might feel a bit like a conspiracy but i think this was in discussion maybe even before Sheldon passed away. I dont mean this negatively i just mean the RC handing the curating of commander to wotc might have been coming for longer than we think. idk and lastly i absolutely 100% doubt that the power brackets thing WOTC is proposing as a guideline for rule 0 conversation will work. all decks are a 7 and basing them on which cards the card has only really works as a point system like how the canadian highlander format does it i guess... but also then you expect everyone to register their decklists online on some online tool that will spit out how many points their deck is worth, or smth....?

Hello! I know you don’t recommend this deck for beginners but my son (who is 28) suggested this deck as a personality fit for me. I’m new to this but played extensive D&D back in the day. I’d like to use your suggested upgrades but don’t see a place to easily buy an upgrade pack, or see a list of the suggested upgrade(swap outs)? Maybe I’m missing it? I already have the base deck purchased. Any guidance you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

Hey, dude. Love your content. I went to go click on that Valgavoth devotion deck and that link doesn't work. Seems to no longer be listed on your Archidekt page either?

The best strategy is probably +1/+1 counters. It only modifies P/T while base power still stays 2/2. So a creature with base 2/2 and 4 +1/+1 counters on it would still get the +3/+3 buff when it attacks. This helps immensely with the fact that we are only(or for the majority) running 2/2s. If Duskana is not around your strategy would fall apart. But by running a 1/1 counter strategy, your messily base 2/2s can still pack a punch without Duskana being around, adding more survivability overal!

Don't give extra mulligans, It just promotes greedier deckbuilding, for example, some of my decks need to balance having few land, since they have a lot of draw, and thus more lands muck up the late game, with having more lands, since you need to cast spells. Since you get one free mulligan even before we hand out extra's from it being a multiplayer game, It is mathematically correct to put in less land intentionally (assuming you get the draw engine online consistently and early, for example, a commander like sram). After all, if you hand out a free resource, would be a shame if it went unused.

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Love the idea that unlimited mulligans leads to lazy deck building. 100% agree here.

Im glad someone thought os this before me, Ive been leaning into artifact creatures with the cyberman squadren and a lot of modulers, havnt tried it yet though

I kind of agree with you here. One of my favorite games to date came from keeping a 6-land hand after three hands with 0--just because I didn't want to hold up the table any longer. (And it was a lands deck, too. 39 including mdfc's. I am responsible I swear.) I was mana-flooded the whole game, but that meant I was able to cast a lucky game-winning bolt bend. It was an epic rags to riches panic that lasted a full hour, and I loved it! I will say, a lot of the cards you mentioned are inherently swingy--even if they're used to prop up the jankiest of jank decks. I don't run sol ring in any of my casual decks for that very reason.

MTGO's rules for commander is the one I'll champion. Just one free full. If you're cheap on your manabase you should take a neg

What's ruining commander is the fact that power creep has become a power sprint Duskmourn and bloomburrow make mtg run like yugioh

I don't think it's casual mulliganing that is the problem, it's playing with untrustworthy players. Our gamestore is generally just grab the next seven until it's playable, just don't abuse it. That means don't take a hand that is four lands, Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Sensei's Divining Top. I can not speak for all my friends, but I would absolutely laugh as I pass that perfect hand away. I legitimately trust most of them to not take that hand either.

Awesome video! As a pod who are guilty of casual mulligans, it's definitely given me some food for thought 💭

The last playgroup I was in had the 7-7-6-6-5-5... rule (putting one back for each two mulligans instead of for each one) and it has worked pretty well

I just never mulligan, I roll with what I have

Personally just mulligan till it’s playable. Perfect hands are stupid.

This is just a copout for bad deck building. Nothing to do with sol ring, leylines, or anything. When you start giving out free mulligans, yeah, the dude with 20 lands in his deck will just show you every hand with 0 lands and go 'man im so unlucky, good thing for the free mulligans'. And that's why there exists a rule, a special rule for commander even, for mulligans.

I feel like this is a case of the player rather than the rule. There are some that will abuse any opportunity given to them but just as it's important to see how a bad hand feels, you need a few good/playable ones too to see if your payoffs are in the right direction or enough for the deck. True friends/those who care about their decks and the game will mulligan until they have a 2-3 land hand to keep most of the time rather then going 5-8 deep for the perfect opener like that where you can play 4+ cards on turn 1

No, Rule 0 is ruining the LGS experience. It's entirely based on the perceptions, interpretations, honesty and communications skills of 3 other people which is inherently non reliable.

Generally, my friend group allows for mulligans as long as it's reasonably aggreeable that your hand was just unplayable. Like if you draw 6 or 7 land and an expensive card that doesn't do much or you draw no land or 1 land with no card draw or cheap(below 4 mana) cards to play generally we all agree that that is an 'unplayable hand' and allow for a mulligan. I especially appreciate this rule as i am notoriously unlucky and will often draw dead hands over and over again no matter whose deck i play. I think my record for zero land hands in a row is a modest three but given the deck wasn't particularly low on mana that is still impressive I often will keep hands with only 2 lands or with 5 lands and sub-optimal cards just because i recognize that the point of mulligan friendly rules is to give you a fighting chance, it's not to give you a great hand. Ultimately, most commander games we play go very long and we don't want someone sitting there not playing the game. I don't think we've had an issue of people stacking their hands yet and if we play with strangers at the game shop we would ask about their mulligan preferences.

My playgroup allows 1 free mulligan then go down each time but no lower than 5. However, if you have a no land hand you can reveal it to the table and get an extra free Mulligan.

My playgroups have experimented with two alternative mulligan rules. The first is the same as the London, except you don't shuffle the mulled hands back in until you keep a hand. This saves on time shuffling and puts a risk that you know specific cards won't be able to be drawn in subsequent hands. The second option we've tried is to draw three opening hands (7, 7, 7) and pick one from the three to keep. Shuffle the others away and take no further mulligans.

I like using a rule where when you take your free mull using the London system you can show your hand. if its deemed by the other players to be unplayable (or at least nobody says anything against it) you get an additional mull. it functions like the "just mull till playable" but can be used with strangers you cannot trust to be honest with their mulls. it also means if someone wants to be risky and mull a hand that would be playable then they can but would have to face the risks of doing that with no casual rule.

normally we have a free first mulligan and after that we lose a card for each subsequent. if someone doesen´t get a good hand he can go for one last mulligan goin back to 7 cards but he has to show everyone what he has

The rules my friends and i go with is keep 7 forever but after your second mul if you want to keep sol ring or anything of the like you have to mul down to what number mul youre at or bottom the super fast mana and draw a new one