Aaron brought the HEAT in this Commander game! | Ob Nixilis VS Assemble VS Hamza VS Etali

[@loganator326]

There's a reason Ob is a CEDH deck right now, commander is insane. He might be the new best Rakdos legend for pure value surpassing Prosper. A super interesting deck, but objectively very powerful

[@HeirophantCarneus]

Ob is so nasty, but I think the new Rowan is even better? Tough to say. Ob generates his own card advantage but Rowan just closes the game out so quickly.

[@thomasbdugan]

im putting rowan in Ob lol maximize self harm effects like roiling vortex and phyrexian arena etc @@HeirophantCarneus

[@ap3x74]

i played him last night in our cedh tournament and game 1, i won turn 2 lol it was insanely explosive

[@Shawn-f3x]

Yeah, Ob is on a very short list of Commanders at my LGS where everyone is like, “Only against the strongest (non-cEDH) stuff we play.” Even when someone *doesn’t* try to power him through the roof, it’s just too fast for actual 7s/8s. That is literally the first time I’ve seen a certain Commander pull down the W in a content creator game. Love that Commander, but I finally and regretfully concluded I couldn’t make him fast enough or resilient enough to a removal-heavy environment to run with my crowd. He’s got an honored place in several of my decks of that sorts 99, but yeah. Really fun game to watch, thanks guys!

[@semicolon_cancer1243]

Ob is so fun. He really does move things along, love what he brings to the table, even when i dont win I have fun.

[@brandonberger9952]

“Respect that Eliot knows the collector number” “Yea that’s some psycho stuff” 😂😂😂

[@AlzahraniSammy]

Like the way Aaron built Ob. Very easy for that to cross into the territory of unfun for opponents and that was a great game. Thanks for the video!

[@yggdrasilraphael4815]

Crazy game, crazy decks, crazy good spirits from all of you when your opponents go off. You’re such an awesome team ! (Also now I want to build an Ob Nixilis “casual” deck too 🔥)

[@soxfan9551]

This is gonna be a fun one, love the Spikes content!

[@tapoutologist]

2:55 ….it was at that moment, Alex’s mom comes down the stairs and yells “ELIOT!!! What did you say about me boy!?” And proceeds to chase him around the table trying to strike him with a rolled up news paper/magazine, a random shoe, or possibly a frying pan…. 😂 this is what I pictured was coming..,, 😂😂😂 RIP Eliot

[@tapoutologist]

Btw, love you guys and all the content!!! Keep it coming!! 🤘🏻👍🏻✌🏻

[@MrDorianV]

little misplay @17:05, i believe cards exiled by Etali stay in exile

[@koba163]

Nah. Cards cast by Etali go to the graveyard unless casting them causes them to be exiled. Cards you choose to not cast or cannot cast (lands) stay exiled.

[@MrDorianV]

@@koba163 i was saying if the etali player doesnt cast them they stay into exile.

[@jacobbono]

Great game as always! 17:55 Very minor nitpick, but if you aren't going to utilize the effects of a non-permanent exiled with Etali, you should probably leave it in exile so that it cannot be flashed back or something similar. Especially if it is a ritual taken from a storm deck.

[@SamErvin]

Love Assemble the Legion. There's joy in simplicity.

[@PirateNori]

Y'all always have the best rule 0 commanders

[@coreyburton8]

Nice fast turns. Good fun. Great group of guys

[@alexdozier6531]

I think Aaron should of died when Alex attacked him. He didn't pay mana for the Gut Shot thus triggering the Roiling Vortex hitting him for 5. His life total was wrong if it works the way I think it does. Super fun game to watch!

[@srod9752]

One thing I think happened though is that they misread a card. They were saying that some of the creatures were 3/3s, but I thought I read 1/1. I could be wrong though

[@alexdozier6531]

@@srod9752Alex’s creatures being 3/3’s is due to the anthem effects he has on board, if that is what you’re referring too.

[@EDZ1LLA]

Ooooohhh, that's a good point

[@synxsnacks1552]

looked like he paid for gut shot with the red black dual on the far right

[@MrUppmas]

@@synxsnacks1552 Notice life total changing. He paid it with his life total.

[@santajose]

Crazy match, ob is such a wild commander

[@Gleebusaz]

I’m glad to see etali getting more love it’s an absolute monster in the command zone and definitely should always be countered.

[@TimmytheSorcerer]

Sweet to see you actually cast Spike Feeders

[@arthurventreschi2465]

I see etali I click like

[@Z3RO458]

BRO SAME currently making this just missing 5-7 more cards so excited

[@andrewwhite2123]

I see Spike Feeders I click like

[@Halinn]

I would like to point out that Aaron should have been issued a game loss for each time he failed to call it Mob Nixilis

[@MyNarsa]

Aaron should have taken 5 damage from roiling vortex to cast gut shot, no??

[@beyondvirgo]

18:25 Aaron forgot to tap a land for his rakdos signet to cast fate unraveler. Tiny thing, but it just caught my eye.

[@Akiren_Nevara]

Bontu's Monument makes Black creatures cost 1 less, so Unraveler cost 2B instead of 3B

[@beyondvirgo]

@Akiren_Nevara Ahhh. You're right on that. Completely missed it.

[@TheMikestaaaaa]

Etali exiles until nonland then leaves the lands and not played cards in exile. Every card's a New York Times best seller these days.

[@andrewgamlin7371]

I wonder when this was recorded since there's a really good enchantment from woe that exiles a card whenever you do non combat damage that would let ob dig even deeper

[@TheSpikeFeeders]

We're currently airing episodes filmed in early July. -Alex

[@morimillionaire]

For anyone reading this and wondering which card it is: Virtue of courage I can confirm that it is really good, I am using it in my Prosper deck that also damages people through pinging

[@TheMeditatingRaven]

Cool to see Hamza on your playtable. In most forums I see, Selesnya gets badmouthed to heck and back.

[@ingolf82]

thre is a reason for that, Selesnya isn't very powerful, you play stax or you lose. I have a very casual Kyler deck, I'm considering taking it apart and just adding a colour to make a Naya deck or something instead

[@TheMeditatingRaven]

@@ingolf82 While I would agree it is not as busted as Bant, Simic, or Naya, calling it weak unless you play stax seems a bit of a stretch. With Rhys the Redeemed, Hamza, Guardian of Arashin, Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn, and Torens, Fist of Angels, you have plenty of powerful commanders, just requires protection effects to keep the snowball tumbling. I know I play Torens on Arena frequently, and my opponent commonly concedes when I snowball to hard. I am not saying you do not have a point, but I believe you erred in making a hasty generalization.

[@NicJohnson]

Ob is wild. It's a hard deck to not make powerful.

[@LeojPies]

Motion to rename Spiteful Visions to "OW'-ling Mine

[@jakemaxwell3810]

Aaron! It's the Spike Feeders World Headquarters^tm. Come on, do you even feed spikes?

[@Taphosthewarlock]

RIP headphones users for that ad at the start, christ that was loud.

[@Jjdude101]

Explosive game!🙀🙀 need me an Ob deck now shyt lol

[@greenbrooms]

eliot my guy how are you running cradle but NOT elephant graveyard ??

[@schrodingersowl8774]

Cool decks all around ob seemed a little higher power than the rest of the table but hanma winning was fun it seems similar to my slurk all ingesting nadier agent of dusknell partner deck in that it wants to go wide with +1 +1 counters

[@srod9752]

At 14:25, release the dogs were supposed to create 1/1 dogs when they counted them as 3/3 dogs instead, unless im missing something. Still loved the video though

[@alexmcgregor8658]

Both spear of Heliod and Leyline of the meek are giving them +1/+1 for a total of 3/3

[@srod9752]

@alexmcgregor8658 ahh, I missed that, thank you

[@TheGirthiestSausage]

Aaron cheated a little on the floating mana he had 4 black used to to cast talisman so 2 black floating cast rite of flame giving him 2 red so in total 4 mana floating so at the end he would of needed to chose between flame jab and Swiftfoot boots equip

[@kylecarson3318]

You couldn’t have blocked the other tokens Eliot?

[@TausHerper]

the lands stay exiled from etali's ETB.

[@JoeRyuKen]

The rest of the cards off of Etali stay exiled.

[@danieldaus]

I. Love. That. Shirt!

[@ingolf82]

I don't think you can build a casual Ob Nixilis deck, that is the reason I'm staying away from it. if you build around it, it becomes silly right away, even if you don't mean to be

[@Deer_God]

Ob Nix is not a casual commander

[@ajaydassani9931]

Etali would exile the lands

[@ElDocBruh]

Eliot you monster.

[@TheGirthiestSausage]

Etali cards stay exiled they don’t go on the bottom or back in library they gone forever

[@Giga-lemesh]

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[@AdianAntilles]

Yeah, "casual". 😀

[@nCedric1]

So you decided to basically play Otharri with the upside of only being removed by stuff that removes enchantments...

[@alexmcgregor8658]

For folks who complain, I offer to play it as a 3/3 soldier.

[@zackkelley2940]

@@alexmcgregor8658 Not a complaint I think, but it does beg the question of why. What does Assemble the Legion actually do that differentiates it from just running Othari? Why not something like Rise of the Hobgoblins? Boros goblins would be at least somewhat different and there isn't really a commander for that.

[@alexmcgregor8658]

@zackkelley2940 because Assemble is my favorite card from forever, and I built it before otharri was released.

[@zackkelley2940]

@@alexmcgregor8658 Makes sense. It occurs to me... it uses counters and white has enough proliferate support now that you could quite reasonably proliferate the heck out of those muster counters and make absolutely crazy numbers of soldiers with it.^^

[@Barturito]

Great episode, super fun to watch. I gotta say tho, the boomer magic habit of everyone tracking life on notepads separately surely takes up a few minutes across the whole episode. I know its good to keep life totals accurate and track if you've taken damage but its a lil annoying tbh.

[@TheSpikeFeeders]

We learned after our first 15 or so episodes that if we don't all track everyone's life total, there's about a 0% chance they're correct by the end of the game.

[@jakemaxwell3810]

It's less a boomer habit and more a LGS player habit imo. If you've played any Modern FNMs, you will be a paper pad player.