Important thing with kylox’s voltstrider is you don’t get to cast the spell for free like you mentioned. You still have to pay for the spell
@thetrinketmage2 ай бұрын
Oh yea oops I might be illiterate I’ll pin this comment to help people
@casketbase77502 ай бұрын
MKM is actually a well made Standard set. Collect Evidence synergizes with Descend from the Ixalan set immediately before. As for EDH, sleepers, Wispdrinker Vampire gives WB Aristocrats another drain effect while her second ability allows you to make an aggro play with creatures you'd normally use for sacc fodder. Offbeat and interesting.
@mave66022 ай бұрын
People forget one big part of stun counters regarding lost in the maze. . . Proliferating Stun counters each turn will lock specific creatures out of the game as attackers and blockers.
@traviswest86442 ай бұрын
MKM is one of my favorite sets that've came out recently. solid cycle of duals, 3 mana land tutor in green that also can exile artifact/enchantment, a ton of Clue token support in the main set and the supplementary sets making clues open enough to do interesting things with now that aren't just lonis. if we're including the Clue supplemental product the Room Lands are great budget utility lands. 1 for every guild with 4 (t) : Investigate. Genuinely I don't understand why everyone was so not hype for MKM and I still don't understand the lack of interest in the set as a whole
@thetrinketmage2 ай бұрын
I love that they made all 10 of the duals! And yea idk why nobody seemed to like the set. After seeing the cards I was hyped
@carbide44582 ай бұрын
MKM gave me my first dose of keyword/mechanic bloat. Cloaking cards is a great example: between morphs, foretell, manifests... did we really need another mechanic to flip cards down?
@thetrinketmage2 ай бұрын
Agreed cloak is pretty lame. That’s why none of the cloak cards made the list
@ZaxploitationFilms2 ай бұрын
Unsure how Cloaking is comparable to foretell. Its a buffed version of Morph, thats all
@rosros72112 ай бұрын
Voltstrider actually doesn't let you cast the spell for free, it says that you can cast it, but you still have to pay for it. It's still pretty nice tbf And as always, great video
@spacecanary87862 ай бұрын
Lost in the Maze is especially powerful for Zaxara and Magus Lucea Kane - it's an X spell that almost guarantees your commander will be hexproof!
@Xoderfla2 ай бұрын
Lost in the maze in azami, lady of scroll feels actually illegal
@thetrinketmage2 ай бұрын
I did not even think about Azami but you are right that’s a crazy good synergy
@yoyoguy1st2 ай бұрын
My favorite card from MKM is definitely Proft's Eidetic Memory. I’ve been having a bunch of fun with it in standard with ingenious prodigy, ledger shredder and steamcore scholar. I’d love to build something in commander around it unfortunately kinda difficult in commander.
@jcstaff10072 ай бұрын
Hey perfect timing! I was looking for more scry/draw effects for my Lathril Voltron list and “Snarling Gorehound” is a perfect fit. Almost as good as “Season of Growth” but better than “Sylvan Anthem” that just barely misses the cut. (Im play a very budget list and low to the ground so 2 green is usually gonna be used for another elf or my commander). 😊
@jlaw1319852 ай бұрын
MKM is definitely a sleeper. There’s so many cards in it that are bonkers good. Insidious Roots was one I don’t think you hadn’t mentioned, but it’s a somewhat more limited Jaheira as an enchantment, which could do so many combos. And it’s an uncommon! There’s so much great stuff.
@SwedeRacerDC2 ай бұрын
Thanks for reminding me to pick up a crime novelist lol. That's a card I wanted. The forensic gadgeteer is great. I have him in my Vhal, Clan Crafter deck. Dang is it helpful. Doppelgang is cool too. I'm sure the other ones will be solid here. Love the video
@pipdog99292 ай бұрын
Currently building Imskir who's coming out soon and crime novelist is actually crazy good for him, thanks for the recommendation!
@terb3ar2 ай бұрын
Consider playing the Voltstrider in a UR big spells deck as you described but with River Song as the commander so you can constantly recur the same spell.
@thetrinketmage2 ай бұрын
That’s spicy!
@Kaishen0212 ай бұрын
Lost in the Maze was an auto-include in my first and (extremely biased) favorite deck. Phenax, God of Deception - I am already tapping a lot of my creatures to do mill stuff and Lost basically is just two blue to give some of my cornerstones immunity to anything aside from boardwipes.
@40Kfrog2 ай бұрын
11:20 The plural of opus is opuses or opera (like the music)
@michaeltodd343Ай бұрын
This limited format was so much fun!!! It was a flavor flop but it was a ton of fun to play at the prerelease and drafts.
@ElmntFire2 ай бұрын
This matches my experience with MKM. The detectives and the theming seemed all over the place and really off putting at first, but the singles coming out of this set have been some of the more interesting commander designs of late. My only hope for the set is that the team responsible for making commander precons really latches onto the surveil lands like they did with the temples and bi-cycling lands as fetchable enters tapped lands.
@SolvableMattB2 ай бұрын
deadly cover up is a card i run in my high power marchesa deck where i want more boardwipes then normal and its graveyard hate and it allows me to look at an opponents hand and it will let me hit decks that run slime against humanity or dragons approach or the others and if im against a self mill deck i run get rid of a fair amount of basic lands.
@sayntfuuАй бұрын
Forensic Gadgeteer is awesome with Academy Manufactor and World Walker Helm.
@BouillestfuАй бұрын
Deadly Cover Up is fantastic vs thrumming stone decks or any deck that plays shadowborn apostles, rat colonies, etc. Which I play a few myself 😅
@SomewhereInMiddleEarth2 ай бұрын
Voltstrider would be sooo broken if it did what you said it would do. Thank god it doesn't work like that! 😅
@TheCatHerder2 ай бұрын
So I understand that being fetchable is a huge pro for the surveil lands, but how much better are they than temples for decks that don't have graveyard synergies?
@thetrinketmage2 ай бұрын
Without fetch lands and without graveyard synergies it’s mostly the same. But I’m willing to bet almost every deck you have has some form or graveyard synergy
@SylvainSoliman2 ай бұрын
The plural of opus is actually opera!
@sozen32122 ай бұрын
Mkm was my first pre release event and at the time i don't think I realized just how much good shit I got out of that.
@medisshehi93352 ай бұрын
Cool seeing doppelgang and lost in the maze, I use them in a recently builded zaxara budget deck and I'm having tons of fun, if you manage to cast doppelgang more than once in a game its almost always gg (playing casual)
@thetrinketmage2 ай бұрын
Lost in the maze seems really good in Zaxara!
@paperwatt2 ай бұрын
I don't know how much Locked hothouse and Undergrowth recon are, but they are doing serious work.
@chaosredefined38342 ай бұрын
You mentioned that you are replacing Cultivate/Kodama's Reach with Archdruid's Charm in your green-heavy decks. You should try out Nissa's Pilgrimage as well. Strictly better in a mono-green deck.
@thetrinketmage2 ай бұрын
I like Nissa’s pilgrimage as well it’s very good
@chaosredefined38342 ай бұрын
@@thetrinketmage In that case... I dunno if I really want all three of Cultivate/Kodama's Reach + Pilgrimage in mono-green, unless I am specifically running a 5mv commander. (Or a cheaper commander with an ability that I want to activate straight away, such that casting and activating is a total of 5 mana).
@El_Chico_des_Galos2 ай бұрын
Honestly if they just said that the setting was New Capena instead of Ravniva, this set would have flown off the shelves
@noradi1232 ай бұрын
Hot take: a return to ravnica w/o guild could be a good concept, mkm just didnt do that well
@f.a.m16032 ай бұрын
Honestly, if the set is worth buying bc the cards are playable in commander then it is just those cards (singles) that are worth buying. The set itself is not worth buying, still.
@LinksCow12 ай бұрын
Very underrated set.
@brendans19832 ай бұрын
I'm still not sold on the Surveil lands. I wasn't a fan when they were spoiled, and i couldnt believe how quickly their value increased. Then cedh KZbinr's started praising them and their effectiveness. Which HALF made sense. So i caved and got one for one of my decks. I am yet to draw it in a game, but i have been devastated EVERY time i have drawn it whilst goldfishing! Turbo Naus Ob Nix needs that 1 mana too much i think 🤣🍻
@sayntfuuАй бұрын
Magmas Opus, like Attorneys General...
@Raghetiel2 ай бұрын
It is nice, but lost caverns of Ixalan is much better in my opinion
@ScyllaCephalopod2 ай бұрын
Apparently the plural is "magnum opera" ...or "magnum opuses" but that's less fun. tbh i was hoping it was "magnums opus"