Blue's Brews: Hippo Party (Volo + Keruga)

[@hexbox2182]

My personal thought with keruga that it works well with the march of machines partnering of esik and igna. Mostly cause 3 is the magic number to draw a card with the creature. Kergua is more of a back up hand filler if you run out of cards.

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@hexbox2182 I saw that commander and considered it but it didn't seem interesting enough for a video. Maybe I'll revisit it some day

[@remiboros1163]

Very chill vibes! Also: you can “circumvent” keruga restrictions with adventures and cycling! Just something to keep in mind if you ever revisit this deck.

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@remiboros1163 oh yeah, for sure! I took advantage of Adventures a lot with Umori when I played a Sidisi creatures deck (and I still play that deck regularly because it was so much fun, I've even improved it from what I played on video!) I might try Keruga again some day with a different commander, a Sultai deck might be better with the restriction. The curve is just so... Non-existent with Keruga to say the least With Lurrus, you can play a bunch of cheap things early and late so it's always good. With Obosh, you can go 1 into double 1 or a tap land into 3 mana ramp into 5 so the curve works. With Gyruda, same thing but the opposite, 2 drop into put Gyruda in hand or ramp on 2, 4drop on t3, 2drop + Gyruda to hand on t4. There's always a curve with the others, but Keruga just throws that out the window 😂

[@RoyalBanana-c2y]

I really tried to make a blink deck with keruga work but most of the blink cards are two or less mana sadly

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@RoyalBanana-c2y yeah, I feel Keruga would work really well in the 99 of a bant blink deck but I'd have to fidget with it too get it right

[@DoctorJango]

Your content is way above someone with your sub count, very good video!

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@DoctorJango thanks, I appreciate that! I'm definitely working hard to improve my content! I've only been at this a few months ago I'm not surprised by the low subscriber numbers, but we'll get there eventually!

[@reaperart7963]

Love your work man

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@reaperart7963 thanks, I appreciate the support! When I started this I genuinely didn't expect much out of myself but I'm really proud with how well everything is coming together, albeit slowly. I've got great plans for Explore and Timeless over the next few weeks so stay tuned for that!

[@btria03]

great video man, also great work on the deck, it may not perform as the others but it was fun to watch at least! keep it up!

[@TheDamianMichaels]

I greatly appreciate the support! Every time I get a comment from someone watching my videos, it always puts a smile on my face. I constantly feel like I'm doing all this work to make these videos for nothing and these comments truly do make a difference in my mood! I'm excited to be done with the companions though. One day I'll do Yorion as the commander, but I think I'm gonna play some Explore or Timeless these next few weeks

[@btria03]

​@@TheDamianMichaels happy to support man, not every viewer is willing to give their time to comment etc. am sure they are enjoying as much as I do. great commenting and editing, keep the good stuff up! and whatchu think about drafts and are you good with them?

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@btria03 I used to be THE BEST at draft and sealed. In high school, I would go to every midnight pre release and I almost always got top 4 if I didn't get first. I wasn't as good at draft over sealed but I still usually did pretty good These days however, I don't play a lot of limited because I have too many responsibilities to take the time to go out and play paper magic and I have no impulse control to save my gold for limited on Arena Maybe one of these days I'll do a draft video. I actually recorded footage for a Chromatic cube a while back, but I had no idea how to structure the video so I abandoned it. It was when I first started doing all this so I might return to it later

[@AUNEDJ]

It is great to see a content creator showing a deck working and later saying that is does not work and it is not worth building. Thanks!

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@AUNEDJ the deck CAN win, but it took me so many games to get it to do it's thing for the video that I genuinely wouldn't recommend building it. You can if you want, but it's probably better to do better, cooler things with Keruga or Volo separately That's just my opinion, but more power to you if you do want to build it 😂😅

[@lt7388]

Morph, manifest also gets around cast restriction, but that's not in arena

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@lt7388 yeah, I looked for those but you're right, not on Arena. I included some Foretell cards but not many were actually playable in my opinion. Just Ravenform for removal and the extra turn one I think is all I included Edit: nvm, I added a couple green ones too but I don't remember those card names, lol

[@davestier6247]

I'm not picking on your content at all, but are you narrating every play for the benefit of the blind? Some might find it a bit offputting

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@davestier6247 I'm personally one of those people that like to listen and not necessarily pay attention to what I'm watching, so I narrate everything for the benefit of those similar to myself in that regard. In some situations I don't, I uploaded a video today where I just kinda described what was happening in a general sense because it was a storm-style combo deck and it definitely would've been tedious to describe each time I untapped with Paradox Engine and activated One Ring, but in general I like to explain every action to make sure nobody gets lost I can understand why it would be annoying to some viewers and I apologize about that, it's just my personal style. It probably has to do with the Autism and ADHD driving this meat suit I call a body, lol

[@davestier6247]

@TheDamianMichaels no worries my dude, like I said I am not hating on your content. The keruga companion with Volo was fun to watch!I liked and subbed

[@TheDamianMichaels]

@@davestier6247 appreciate the support! I'm glad to see this particular video get so much attention, definitely my most popular video to this point!