Blasphemous Act is The Most Overplayed Card in Commander

[@adriano7444]

"stop playing your 1 mana board wipe with combo potential" What an odd thing to say.

[@Knuffeldraak]

Because blasphemous act allows you to immediately build up your own board (-again) because it costs so little to cast.

[@batcow5148]

It’s crazy that you said why would you play blas act in white and then immediately pointed out why it is great in white. “It doesn’t kill creatures with protection” yeah so YOU can play it in the color that gives protection, if you’re playing a deck that is running cards like mom and giver and the swords then blasphemous act has a ton of upside which is much more likely than your opponent’s who might not even be playing white getting value out of it. It is very rare for cards to be strictly better than others which you pointed out later, that it is all about synergy and circumstance. So it’s just confusing that you also spent like half the video saying all these other cards are better than blas act in boros? Like what was the point

[@gozol9646]

I highly doubt that all, or even most boros decks that run Blasphemous Act take advantage of that situation.

[@batcow5148]

@ So what if they are, I think you missed the point. It was that this guy was like why would anyone play this in a boros deck and ignored the many upsides of a very cheap damage based wipe, then went on a (very correct) tangent about how cards aren’t really strictly better and you should put in the card that has synergy with the deck, they even justified hour of reckoning! The main thing is that you can’t say that a boros deck shouldn’t be running act or any other card if you don’t know their list or their commander especially since as I said in my comment any boros deck running mom or giver or the swords, or rem carlosus, firesong, tajic, hakkon, reckoner effects, or any deck that can really take advantage of the fact that it is usually one mana will probably be justified in running it. Which makes this video pretty pointless, just saying a lot of people run act, some of them could be right and some could be wrong, who knows? Like even if they make the point that cards like act are overplayed, a big part of that is that boardwipes in general are overplayed, some decks realistically shouldn’t want to run too many board wipes but some cards are considered staples so they put them in everything and that I could understand. but it isn’t just act its also things like austere command that are overplayed in this way.

[@ofrund]

Bait used to be believable

[@Spirited_skiing]

1 mana is a good rate for a sweeper lol. Plus white gives protection better than other colors so it’s usually assymetrical

[@CatManThree]

Theres also card which benefit from you dealing damage.

[@ninjanoodle2674]

Mogg Maniac, Boros Reckoner, Spitemare, Screaming Nemesis, Brash Taunter, Phyrexian Vindicator, Truefire Captain, Ill-Tempered Loner, Wrathful Raptors, Repercussion, Stuffy Doll, and Pariah would all like to discuss this synergy thing with you and why Blasphemous Act belongs in tons of white decks...

[@colinbrown74]

I feel like this video misses the fact that its also absurdly mana efficient. 1 mana is hard to compete with.

[@jonbrewer297]

It's 1 mana.

[@albertarvadottosen3512]

The biggest thing Blasphemous Act offers imo is being 1 mana. If you are behind on board and cast Austere Command to fix this, and don't have excess mana to keep casting spells, you will likely be in a similar position when the turn comes back to you since every other player can spend their turn rebuilding. Meanwhile if you cast Blasphemous Act as your first spell, you have the ability to play out your commander or some other card that puts you back in the game. Similarly being 1 mana means you can use cards that dig for it when you need it. If you only want to spend one slot on a board wipe, being able to Tutor for it, or cast big draw spells like Wheel of Fortune becomes much more attractive when the answers you are digging for are cheap. This also lets your board wipe be more "Flexible" since you only need to spend one slot and the rest can be dedicated to tutors, cantrips etc that lets you find whatever you need. For those reasons I actually think this card deserves the high praise it gets. Fully agree on the synergy argument though. Most decks have options that tie into the decks themes better, either mechanically or flavorwise, than their generic equivalent. Also strictly speaking not every deck wants a board wipe. If you are playing mono red goblins you could just play another goblin. If your deck can't find your one copy of Chaos Warp when you want to remove a scary Thousand Year Storm, maybe just stick to player removal instead.

[@meta02]

At the time you would want to cast a blasphemous act or a vanquish the horde, there will be 8+ creatures on the field. In this position, blasphemous achieves effectively the same thing as vanquish the horde for half of the price. You'll miss creatures with large stat lines and protection yes, but white is the color most likely to have protection, so you're most likely to miss your own creatures. You can run both for redundancy either way.

[@TROLOLOLOLO007]

L take. If you need a boardwipe, its the card to go to.

[@yummines]

Sorry but I don't think you really put enough thought into this one. Besides the obvious benefits of it being 1 mana, dealing damage is one of the best synergistic parts of the card. You can make it one-sided by having ways of preventing noncombat damage or giving your own creatures protection from red, such as The Wanderer or the swords you yourself mentioned. There are commanders that have red that synergize with sorceries that deal damage, such as Firesong and Sunspeaker or Judith, Carnage Connoisseur. You can even use it as a wincon, by combining it with cards that buff your own creatures like Craterhoof or Overwhelming Stampede. Honestly, I can't think of a single reason why you wouldn't run it along with the other white boardwipes if you have boros colors.

[@dustinsanity85]

You: "This comes up more often than you might think." Me: "No, no it does not."

[@hackettjamesanthonyhacketj4113]

I love how the pictures you chose to represent synergy just kill you

[@nagsorinaste5658]

As someone esle mentioned, the real reason act and vanquish are so good and played so much is just the mana aspect. Austere commande might hit more things, but is also a lot more expensive and you can't rebuild as quickly as with the others, maybe you should run both, or a few more targeted hits all solutions like stroke of midnight or smt.

[@Vampirengel]

Damn, that blue-green sword looks amazing. Two wolves and milling ten? Goes straight into all of my decks for sure. I definetly need those wolves and mills no matter what I play.

[@bobwilson679]

"Amazing, every word of what you just said... was wrong."

[@webbc99]

The reasons you're listing that Blas Act is bad is actually why it's so good, especially in Boros. It's so easy to make it one sided when you have white to prevent the damage to your creatures, and protection from red. In Boros Karlach voltron for example, I will always have pro-red on Karlach so I can wipe every blocker for 1 red. In other white decks you can run Rune-Tail Kitsune Ascendant type effects to prevent damage to your creatures, makes it another 1 sided wipe for 1 mana.

[@sebanimates5664]

I feel like people r sleeping on mass goading cards as an asymmetrical semi board wide either A. Leaving opponents open to swinging and B. leaving opponents in lower health

[@mofomiko]

Disrupted decorum is such a clutch card, especially if you a going 4th. Likewise, Kardur doomsourge always absolutely rustles the entire tables jimmes

[@sebanimates5664]

@ theres another card, which the name escaped me, but it gives every creature double strike and goad and i cant wait til i can see how truly awful that card can be lol

[@sebanimates5664]

@ i also like take the bait but i can never find the space to squeeze it in to use it right, also holding up 4 mana is boros is hard

[@surfinggarchomp2820]

@@sebanimates5664 taunt from the ramparts?

[@solidwater4175]

Kardur Doomscourge is a favorite of mine. Great as a board clear and fun to loop with Teleportation Circle.

[@mikotagayuna8494]

I love content that tells me what I should or should not do with the cards I paid for.

[@xenocross6597]

Or I can play a good card that functions well with nearly any red deck and gives Izzet or Rakdos decks another option that doesn’t cost twenty dollars (I’m not paying that for Damnation, and you KNOW how much Cyc rift costs) Generically good cards are generically good for a reason. They’re auto-includes because they provide something to a deck that’s hard to get (whether pricewise or colorwise). You play hour of reckoning in every white token deck because it’s a wipe that you can make cheap and leaves a good portion of your board alone. You put frantic search in every blue deck because it’s card selection that untaps your lands. You put the medallions in every mono color deck rather than another mana rock because they make everything cheaper Unless your deck is already just doing the thing the generically good card does (e.g. Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot, where everything is a blas act), there’s no reason not to include the card (other than perhaps budget, which is part of why I included no board wipes in my Prossh deck) and several reasons to just do it

[@CatManThree]

Everything already said here in the comments sums up things quite well, but a factor I dont see brought up at all is how much a boros deck leans into red or white. If youre already playing more red cards, your mountain to plains ratio will lean more towards mountains dual lands asside. Running a red boardwipe in this case would be more reliable, not to mention how the best white board wipes typically have two white pips.

[@CatManThree]

Temple of the false god is in so many decks because it comes in so many precons.

[@SwedeRacerDC]

You make good points. Blasphemous Act is still better in decks that don't have great mans production, even if it has white. You can use Vanquish the Horde and Blasphemous Act in both! But yes, your final point about using more synergistic board wipes is really important. For instance, I have a Jund Planeswalker deck, but I also use Vigor so a couple mono red board wipes can just straight up win me the game, because even if people have surviving creatures left, I spend one mana and all of my plant tokens and utility creatures that are left get 13 or more +1/+1 counters depending on the wipe and can easily obliterate my opponent. This is why sometimes I prefer using red board wipes as much as or more than white ones or even black ones when I have a way to abuse that damage. Also redirecting it is really fun. But yeah, the more Blasphemous Act is just jammed in decks and put on a Deckbuilding website, the more it becomes the be facto net deck option when there's really better options available.

[@MasouShizuka]

I'll put in my reasoning in my personal signature deck which is a very simple boros voltron deck. I have indestructible equipment and ways to give indestructible but I do not always have that capability. It's easier to get my big dude to 14/14 and casting Blasphemous Act makes it a logical include. "Destroy" is good but sometimes I don't want to blow up my big dude if they can survive a Blasphemous Act. White's boardwipe is usually quite destructive. Red's less efficient but more predictable boardwipes suits it nicely. Afterall, casting a Starfall for 5 at instant speed leaving just my big dude alive is better than casting Wrath of God. Austere Command is a pretty good example of a flexible White board wipe and arguably I think better than most White's boardwipes. Farewell is good but again, highly destructive in my opinion. I do use it in my deck but at best I only exile graveyards and enchantments, never creatures. Artifacts are handled by spells like Vandalblast which is far better than any white artifact wraths. Not to mention Blasphemous Act is 1 mana...I don't know about anyone else but in Boros where ramp is tough, that 1 mana is good value.

[@JS-fz8iu]

Jokes on you, I’m playing Avacyn board wipe tribal.

[@MonsterMasher137]

I use Star of Extinction for my Gishath deck. If having Wrathful Raptors out on the battlefield when I cast it doesn’t end the game, then that Maze of Ith is at least getting destroyed!!

[@Kydrou]

Sounds like you had to make an entire video to complain about your playgroup. And i understand your position COMPLETELY.

[@uptain2473]

Good video 🎉

[@xandar1156]

Personally I just color in my Cyclonic rift red and jam it into my red decks

[@loganparry2676]

I run both horde and act in my mr house deck. I also understand that my playgroup doesn’t run cedh decks and while sometimes we have big creatures we usually have lots of tokens and both help me live to do my combos

[@mateuszsikora6380]

Bro, stop this nonsense, buy yourself a Blasphemous Act and go play some Magic.

[@pe-ka1844]

bro broke to the algorythm with this one. I wanna see more hot takes, honestly

[@TheNewMaxico]

Vanquish the horde is better than farewell because it costs 4 less mana. Blasphemous act is better than vanquish the horde because it costs 1 less mana. I'm not gonna argue for running it over hour of reckoning in a boros token deck, but a deck can have more than 1 board wipe

[@RatedManatee]

Vanquish the Horde is actually mad underplayed imo, not having to pay 5 mana is huge. The point of the video is decent, but I'd argue the other colors most played cards are way more overplayed. Creature decks should probably look towards Wood Elves and Sakura Tribe Elder more often.

[@irou95]

Do the math on temple of false god, it's actually underplayed. People should run more lands and you only need 38 lands for temple to be good.

[@Cookie_Magika]

I use vanquish in my bridge super friends deck because I only have 4 creatures. My commander is an enchantment 99% of the time

[@JumboNotes]

Can I have the deck list? This sounds super interesting.

[@bobwilson679]

You've clearly never played Wrathful Red Dragon or Wrathful Raptors

[@moonlight2870]

I don't think I will. 13 damage goes brr

[@linkorotop]

its more avbout what boardwipe is lying around at home then what would slot in the best im not going to buy one if i have a boardwipe at home maybe for my absolut pet deck but most decks are going to be changed all few month

[@surfinggarchomp2820]

honestly you're getting a lot of hate for this in the comments but I agree, and I feel like you did a really good job articulating your points.

[@majinvegeta6364]

L

[@dwpetrak]

Nope. I run Blas Act all over the place. Even decks with white care about how much damage you do (Piru the Volatile enters the chat with all his piñatas)

[@Vario69]

I'll stop playing BA when you stop playing Sol Ring

[@CSDragon]

I understand the point you're trying to make but 1 mana wrath just too good.

[@brutalkingofdoom2]

...not sol ring?

[@Pachitaro]

I apologize. I was not familiar with your game 😢 White has such good boardwipes and I'm probs taking out VtH for Single Combat bc I don't want my Feather dead even if I can just play her again 🫡

[@kusheater86]

Never

[@atmaximum]

Wait, I don't get the core point of the video, is the card bad or it too good?

[@vaepuer2290]

I run this in my Ojer Axonil deck and I dont really know why, I have 6 other boardwipes that dont even affect my board.

[@Garl_Vinland]

Red doesn’t even need boardwipes. Just focus on out damaging your opponent

[@MrCenturion13]

You only know how to play dragon tribal.

[@Zerozeroveintidos]

Haha no lol

[@Azeria]

okay… _but_ what if I have a Screaming Nemesis out? you do have a point though, I ran into a similar thing in my Bria, Riptide Rogue deck when I found myself including impulse draw. I'm in blue… I can just actually draw.