Brawl Stars: I HATE THIS BIRD - Nadu, Winged Wisdom Historic Brawl

Bird is the word. The word is "annoying". It''s so annoying, that almost half of my opponents conceded before the game even started. Well, at least Shuko isn't in Arena (yet).
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[@Amazonian]

If you want to see the funniest game, skip to 1:03:45 - it is not the most representative gameplay, but it's very silly

[@rhettk6263]

Absolutely hilarious! Pin this so everyone can see Cuz omg i haven't stopped coughing and wheezing for several minutes

[@OldmanSerious]

I was laughing as much as you were, coughing my head off. There should be a warning on these videos!

[@smoolz7818]

that was a great match, honestly disappointed in your opponent for not going all in in the same way.

[@haggleboggle]

IDK I think the funniest (and most representative of the opinion of Nadu among people not playing him) was the series of instant scoops. "Nah I'm not playing with that"

[@Teurger]

That was the single greatest thing I saw in Brawl. When your brains think alike...)))

[@SurlyDuff814]

The lands entering untapped is a grave sin, but no one seems to talk about the card's greatest crime. How am I supposed to bolt the bird if it has 4 toughness WotC?!?!?

[@Amazonian]

And good luck lava coiling it

[@ausiidnd]

Me when I try to Scorching Shot Nadu, triggering Nadu to put a Forest on the battlefield untapped, which then allows my opponent to cast Tamiyo's Safekeeping and protect Nadu. Yeah, I'm over this bird already

[@TheFrigidMidget]

Man, when I first read Nadu I thought he was bustedly powerful. And that was me assuming the land entered tapped, because every other spell/ability seems to do that. Then I re-read Nadu and did a spit take.

[@matheuscruz8574]

@@ausiidnd Other colors got all sorts of OP cards, but when Simic gets one, people want it banned. Simic just can't have any fun

[@kylarsalazar5711]

A few months ago, at WotC... "Alright, guys, I was thinking... what about a Simic creature?" "Oh, okay, what are we thinking, like a value engine like Uro? Or maybe a value engine like Tatyova? Or even a value engine like Imoti?" "Yes. But what if it was harder to remove and easier to trigger?" "Brilliant!"

[@Amazonian]

It would have been designed 1.5 years ago or so

[@kylarsalazar5711]

@@Amazonian Even more egregious.

[@LaBarofSoap]

​@@Amazonian Just think of the horrors being designed now as we speak!😢

[@DerekS-kq3zh]

I didn't realize we didn't have any 0-mana equipment on Arena. It's crazy how broken he seems even without having that.

[@tonysmith9905]

We have a total of ONE! But it's limited to equipping once a turn.

[@justinwendt3472]

@@tonysmith9905 there's the hand of vecna i think its called. Equip cost is lose life per card in hand.

[@sosukelele]

@@justinwendt3472 I think there's also a few that equip by discarding a card

[@TheWorldsStage]

I think people concede to Nadu not so much because of the power level but because of how long each turn takes waiting for the Nadu player to target every creature, every turn and storming off to create more creatures to target and so on

[@DABATTLESUIT]

Part of that is on WOTC. There is a lot they can do to speed things up such as suggesting targets and improving the fetch land experience. Like just target the only available target and ask if it's okay. It turns moving and clicking into space bar presses.

[@davidragg2160]

I concede to Nadu because I play for fun, and there's really nothing fun about a commander that ramps as hard as this and is generally impossible to interact with.

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

You know what would have helped that a lot? “Whenever a creature you control is targeted do the thing” and not being something granted to all your creatures

[@Jawzah]

@@davidragg2160 No impossible to interact with -- you just get punished for trying to.. Well - perhaps going for non-targeting removal would work. Liliana of the Veil as the commander - maybe.. But there's the pairing system that cares about the commander and cards in the deck - not sure if you'd met Nadu playing Liliana or not -- probably some tho -- AFAIK it also cares about your general performance - not just the deck..

[@davidragg2160]

@@Jawzah sure, it's deck weight that's important and I specifically run suboptimal cards to put me lower in the queue so I can just sit back and enjoy playing a fun game of magic. However since Nadu is a new commander, he and his cards have no deck weight and are thus put against decks of much lower power. His main combo pieces, Unctus and Shuko are very low weight and I can't remember more but I don't really care. He should be banned. Try boardwiping or casting Lilli against a Nadu, go on. I wonder what will happen in Simic colours 🙂

[@MythrilShotgun]

"I'm rooting against you." Amy: "That is correct."

[@inflatablefish921]

I'm completely sure this card never saw the desk of a playtester

[@Explodingcube]

Lol, you were able to disallow a Chandra, torch of defiance. What a lore win!

[@Amazonian]

Baral would be proud. Chandra, maybe a bit less

[@vumasster]

Kiran Nalaar rolling in his grave

[@Arzheu]

I see nadu at the other side of the table, I concede before mulligan, not worth my time. that bird is broken

[@Silentpoppy]

sameeee especially with the whole run into him every other game going on right now

[@dragoknighte48]

@@Silentpoppy Today I opened up Arena and the first three consecutive matches were Nadu. I decided I'd just not touch the game for the rest of the day

[@AutkastKain]

"Nice Poq" -Shadow to Sonic

[@Amazonian]

Oh no did that make it into the video

[@draco4569]

@@Amazonian Yes it did, and it's hilarious!

[@chiefsymeris]

That Tale's End on the fetch was pure evil lmao

[@Captain-Slog]

To everyone who keeps whining about Alchemy cards being pushed/busted, I present to you... This nonsense right here.

[@JediMB]

Modern Horizons is basically Alchemy.

[@Zevox144]

I just don't like there being cards that don't have paper equivalents. I only have like three cards that I've used from alchemy, most notably bank job because it just pairs too damn good with Prosper. But also fuck heist.

[@Jawzah]

I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or relieved that MH3 is not legal for alchemy format.. Bit of both I guess. Could be fun to go nonsense vs nonsense.. I like the alchemy fromat being bit less deep than standard with the shorter rotation and I also like most of the alchemy rebalances and LotR set too.. Could we have Alchemy without alchemy cards.. (Like the comic Garfield without Garfield... About the lasagna loving orange feline beast - with the cat removed - not about Richard Garfield..)

[@Thickolas]

I hate that all new commanders, the extremely pushed and the just-a-bit-pushed alike, start off at the baseline queue. Every new set my janky old commanders have to face this stuff and I just turn into one of those auto-conceders for a bit

[@FlamingBehar]

The Sylvan Safekeeper ditto was absolutely the highlight of the video

[@Amazonian]

What a bro to echo the land sacrifice

[@not_simon6983]

Great video. I build this deck, especially against the mirror matchup (Confounding Conundrum is great), it feels like arena has a new hellque that's just nadu vs nadu.

[@starmanda88]

I got the MH3 decks for commander yesterday in the mail. Inside the bonus sample packs they come with I pulled the alt art Nadu and a full art Springheart nantucko. Now I simply must build him in paper. He’ll catch a ban maybe but oh well he was “free” 😅

[@Amazonian]

Dang, you have a great start to a Landfall deck

[@xlLAGtasticlx]

I had no idea Unctus could get around Kenrith's Transformation, that's a cool interaction!

[@AkodoNoEyes]

The straight up honest “nah, dude.” Had me 💀 😂

[@Amazonian]

It sounds like Nadu!

[@AkodoNoEyes]

@@Amazonian I know. It was great opening. :)

[@dracosfire7247]

Ah, so this is what Nadu does. Naduhodo

[@Hudson316]

I believe you mean “Nadu that hoodoo that you do so well”

[@TheFrigidMidget]

With that comedy of errors game (what every Nadu game should be called), I wasn't sure if Amy's maniacal laughter was due to her losing her mind (because of Nadu), or due to her losing her mind (because of sickness).

[@Colossus1921]

I think your opponent popping the Nadu at the very end was a mercy killing.

[@entropyad]

Nadu... the reason Im ONLY running Teferi, Who Slows the The Birdshit till its banned.

[@DamienLavizzo]

LOL if they didn't ban Rusko they ain't banning this birb.

[@larrysellers9204]

This was funny to watch live, and still funny when watching it again

[@quietninjariot]

Imagine scooping this quickly in paper commander every time they sit against an opponent running a commander they don't like.

[@TheAssOfEternity]

I used to run Tetsuko Fugitive in a Pramikon deck back when I was still new-ish to Commander. The amount of times I could get this wall tribal pile to be able to swing for wins was funny every single time.

[@butdoesitscrub3457]

You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the bird, not join them! Bring balance to the arena,not leave it in darkness!

[@wmdragonj]

When I play Nadu it’s a toss up on whether I win or not. I’m either going to combo off hard or you are going to dab on the bird so hard that the deck falls apart. Almost all games I’ve played get into long drawn out staring match’s as we both hope to draw a removal spell.

[@FretboardToAsh]

Wuffstadt's reaction is exactly what I do these days when I run into ANOTHER nadu. It's extremely boring to play against, and worse when the player doesn't know how to use it and turns take even longer.

[@andymion]

Nadu? Nahh, don't. Also the amount of concessions tells me even if you don't own the cards needed you could just craft Nadu. Throw any other 99 together and get your daily wins off ppl conceding from just seeing Nadu. Honestly Nadu (and say Voja) are things they could easily fix if they still did the Arena only power balances a la Minsc and Boo, Meathook Massacre etc. No need to ban, just lower Voja's ward to 2 or 1, and make Nadu twice or once per turn total or something, or have the lands enter tapped.

[@smoolz7818]

leather armor equips for 0! but only once per turn :(

[@UnstableCommanders]

I just got done building cEDH Nadu Simic Naus. I’m about to be the most hated person in the LGS haha.

[@Amazonian]

At least in CEDH, everyone is a brat

[@RG-wv3gt]

Casual for sure, but hopefully not so hated if it's cedh

[@UnstableCommanders]

@@Amazonian which I love haha.

[@UnstableCommanders]

@@RG-wv3gt I don’t really play casual anymore. I’m at the age where I’d rather play 4 games in 1 hour than 1 game that hopefully ends in an hour lol. My last casual game that made me puke because of how long it took to end was 2+ hours long.

[@RG-wv3gt]

@@UnstableCommanders play in the sort of games you want to play in, more power to ya

[@TheRicardobtc]

What baffles me is how this thing hasn't been sent into Hell Queue yet. Sure, some Commanders are "kill on sight", but few (if any) give you so much value for being a target. Worst case scenario, you go down a card while the opponent goes even. The "triggers _only_ *twice* per turn" line sounds like a mock and may as well not be there.

[@duelcommanderph]

awesome games! :) Nadu is also broken in Duel Commander.. and probably getting banned XD

[@Amazonian]

Oh I would absolutely ban him in Dual commander. I expect it

[@tasteoftacos]

Tomorrow will be the first time ive gone to my LGS in a long while. Im ready for this dumb bird to crush me.. 😅

[@vladplasmius2854]

Best of luck!

[@mmmhhhwaffles4785]

Just had hernia surgery and i was laughing way to much at the 1:07 gameplay a bunch of pain but totally worth it. Thanks!

[@Amazonian]

Laughter is the best medicine, but don't pull any stitches!

[@cameerex6630]

"You where supposed to destroy the darkside not join them"

[@NineCarpals]

That bird token’s confused expression perfectly sums up how your game was going

[@Jjdude101]

The amount of auto concedes was so funny lol

[@diogonascimento9437]

I loved your last game. It's why I love your content so much

[@ArchivistEnAstra]

I pulled a Nadu in my pre-release (alongside the cards I actually wanted, Tamiyo and Genku). He definitely won me a few games in pre-release, but I'm not doing anything broken with him in Commander- just slotting him in to my Ivy combat tricks/mutate deck. Will he catch some removal spells? I sure hope so! Ivy could use someone to take the heat off her back and a value engine scares people more than a Big Stompy Fairy

[@Amazonian]

he's fantastic with Ivy! I love the two together

[@CosmicAnthem]

I think its easier to rantban on nadu, but its about time this game need a really good challenge on harder mode.

[@destinyhero]

This is the most egregious card since Oko. Not sure what R&D was thinking.

[@palladexcasual7648]

amazing intro, I have played against so many of these decks recently, and its either annoying as hell or the quit straight away, worse it got was with a poq and a bristling bill. It seems fun to play but can be miserable to play against 😂

[@vinnychase7352]

You should see the combo shell with all the tutor game end turn 4 LOL

[@Amazonian]

oh nooo

[@kukaracha262]

25:11 i feel this ulalek... we're all tired

[@roshandala]

IMO Nadu should be rebalanced in brawl. There were so many ways this card could have been more balanced. - make it a 2/2 rather than a 3/4 - make the ability trigger once per turn -make the ability only work for Nadu rather than all creatures -make the land come in untapped -make land come into play once per turn. There are so many ways to make this card okay and they just didn't

[@MattFishx]

Can we get an Ajani, nacatl pariah deck soon?

[@Zuzar-]

Love the matches! But the music is souldestroying 😂

[@NathanielSimpson1481]

If they had just moved that double quote a the end to before the 'This' it would all have been fine (very good ) but fine

[@Amazonian]

Twice a turn total would have been FINE

[@davidragg2160]

I'm going to assume you were being sarcastic about Nadu not needing a ban or a rework because holy hell this card is insane. Theres no way to interact with him outside of counterspells or boardwipes and simic has every answer under the sun for those kinds of spells. Hell if youre playing blue and they search out a cavern of souls its just over. Play white and they search out plaza of heroes. The only counterplay I've found is playing teferi, time raveler to stop them playing on my turn so I can swords the bird, but even by then they've ramped to the moon and can do it all again.

[@silentguy123]

Watching you cough throughout made me think of "That Mitchell and Webb Look - Film Director". 😂

[@Amazonian]

I don't know what that is, but I assume someone is very sick

[@silentguy123]

@@Amazonian You should look it up if you have time, it's on youtube under that name. "That Mitchell and Webb Look" is a British sketch comedy and that's a sketch about a director that brakes with film traditions in shorts like "Sometimes fires just go out" and "Sometimes a cough is just a cough" 😂

[@DonovanPresents]

I want to build Tamiyo with clues around the theme and might add some dampen effects similarly to her +2

[@sanjayamin7122]

The Historic Brawl queue is entirely this bird right now hah. In my unofficial analysis I think this is the most egregious commander ever printed on Arena. I'm including everything from Rusko, Oko, Ragavan, Atraxa, Grenzo, to everything in between. I really don't understand Wizards obsession with destroying this format / rant over..

[@EntropicUsername]

I would love to see Cayth, Famed Mechanist.

[@TimeWalk936]

Mystical Dispute main deck

[@displacegamer1379]

I main a "blow everything up on the board" deck. You can try and use the ability, but you only have until my turn to do it. That card is going to be costing you a ton of mana come end game.

[@KarmicMishap]

Nadu? Nah, dude XD

[@jeffm2222]

Stifling the Fetch!? Rude.

[@kjart]

Simic was really missing nonsense....Anyways, they aren't doing MH3 alchemy, are they.... 😬

[@nooby900]

i love planeswalkers

[@sil3nt5am]

the darkside of simic

[@DylanB-ch3yj]

I'm playing a sealed 1k that costs $96. My round 1 opponent played that goddamn bird both games on curve. My round 2 opponent played it game 1 on curve, missed his 3rd drop and played it turn 4 game 2, played it game 3 on curve. Fuck that bird. Me and that bird ain't dogs.

[@TheDevonshireMint]

So far only one person at my lgs has built this commander. I guess most people expect to be targeted out of games.

[@negiy0410]

Lol top notch opening, thanks for the vid!

[@profvictorcelso229]

hi there! Im new here! Where can i get your music playlist? Is awesome!

[@guizao2604]

It's ONLY twice 😂

[@bradleysippers6334]

I built Coram the Undertaker day one of arena release and can't even tell if he's any good because most of my games are against this dumb commander. Nothing more satisfying than trying to hit him with a removal spell only for him to pull an untapped land to cast safekeeping/shore up etc. Good job wizards.

[@hardcoreeconomist1089]

Nadu is banned in duel commander.. idk how it would be fine here

[@Amazonian]

That was fast! Brawl sadly doesn't follow the Duel Commander ban list at all

[@hardcoreeconomist1089]

@@Amazonian unfortunately WotC doesn’t care about our format that much 😢 I just would’ve thought they could emergency ban. The win rates on Nadu are insane though in EDH formats. I forget the DC one but in the last major cEDH format it won and was 3/4 in the top 4

[@Xorthis]

Seriously though, did they print this card just to make quick money before banning it? It's like they literally sat down and decided to make the most obnoxious card in the game. The fact it doesn't even draw and can't get punished for drawing is the icing on the cake.

[@notanobviouschoice]

Oh this is going to be Amy having an abject nervo the entire time isn’t it😂😂

[@Amazonian]

I don't know what that means, but I'm going crazy

[@notanobviouschoice]

Yeah the third whiff broke you a bit didn’t it?

[@jonatascesar7096]

Waiting for Ajani , Nice vídeo.

[@shiguno]

Girl I'm begging you, please make a Breya deck 😭 I'm so desperate to see your insights on her. 😂❤

[@Amazonian]

I'm so bad at artifacts, but I can try

[@OMNIDC13]

Thoth is a pretty good card lol.

[@haggleboggle]

Kaalia is probably hellQ because turn 3 haste dork turn 4 kaalia swing avacyn

[@scholarshoob]

brawl is an absolute mess right now

[@DarthChewdup]

me when there's gayme actions o7

[@Amazonian]

happy pride

[@rolandschulz9799]

dont give in to the dark side :P

[@caljam82]

I’m pretty sure one colorless, one green, and one blue is the most broken mana cost in the game. Nadu, oko, uro etc

[@snakeman830]

Phyrexian blue. 100% of cards printed with that mana cost are banned in Modern and Legacy.

[@caljam82]

@@snakeman830 you got me there

[@petitpois22]

i have start to concede against nadu if i can't have fun then no nadu player can

[@RG-wv3gt]

Give 'em the turn one rope and concede

[@TheyCallMeDio]

Sick Amy scares me sometimes lol

[@Amazonian]

Sorry :(

[@ExaDat]

love the videos dude, but that pun at the start almost made me close the video

[@Amazonian]

I'm the worst of the best

[@DamienLavizzo]

Doesn't Leather Armor equip for 0?

[@Amazonian]

Only once a turn

[@dylanmayabb6594]

Decklist?

[@thatcorpse]

Indeed I had fun watching 👍

[@VisibleNoises]

I'm hoping for some Alchemy nerfs for Nadu!

[@Shsusisn]

My god this deck is so disgusting lmfaoooo 🤣🤣 literally had 1 life and opponent had 48 and just decided to quit because of the never ending triggers, mana, and a billion food tokens 🤣

[@PhosPhryne]

This card has pretty much ruined brawl. Well it and mana drain and reanimate. Sigh.

[@Mealayn]

Thanks! I hate it!

[@tessgreymane122]

I love you so much

[@InsomniacDream88]

AMY you shouldn't have posted the decklist

[@Amazonian]

It should have just gone to a page that says "please don't"

[@Duarte_GB]

Me too Amy, me too

[@PretendPassing]

simic is so boring....😢

[@bruinfan05]

Algo

[@crazytail11]

first! wahoo!

[@Amazonian]

🥇

[@Craznar]

nah dude.

[@bryanholdren9043]

Hot Take: Nadu and Oko did nothing wrong. Brawl is full of removal Nadu kinda answers that. It's easy to "ban-wagon" on a card. I've seen worse. (like arena only cards)

[@super_ninja9375]

for real deck has a roughly 60% + win rate atraxa and etali sat around 80% but this bird needs to be banned??? ppl just hate simic

[@vladplasmius2854]

Blazing hot. And wrong.

[@ender4101]

I played against Nadu 3 times and lost only once, and I still feel like he is full of bs. Saying his ability is "anti-removal" really undersells it when the strategy is to target your own creatures as much as you can to just drown your opponent in value. Of course, it is anti-removal AS WELL, since it turns any non-edict/boardwipe into a 2-for-1, AND you could get an uptapped land so you can counter the same removal that triggered the ability. The fact he is a a draw and ramp engine, bringing lands untapped, putting cards in hand instead of drawing (can't be affected by Smothering Tithe effects), triggers off your spells, your opponent's spells, as well as easily repeatable abilities, spreads the ability to all creatures (even tokens), can trigger each turn per creature TWICE, is supported by very good cards is those colors, and is STILL a 3 mana 3/4 with flying that can kick ass in its own. I'm not saying it should get banned at all, but as it is now, this card is not okay.

[@JadamH]

Yeah, especially since we have alchemy cards. Grenzo anyone? Super feels bad when each turn your opponent grabs your powerful stuff and plays it against you for free

[@ashtheswan705]

@@JadamHjust run removal lol