Crazy Decks Throughout The Top 4 And Top 16 Of This cEDH Tournament!!! | Top 16 Breakdown

[@Ragnarok633]

I run a similar Hidetsugo deck and yes, the way state based effects work, nothing goes 'on the stack' until state based effects are resolved, so the legend rule kills your copy/original then you put the Brainstorm Enters, and Dies Flip triggers on the stack in your preferred order. So you can chain clone spells until you hit your pay offs.

[@spinningtrain9091]

Reanimate spells are great here too

[@shuiro3148]

Hey there, Glarb player here. This list was a TON of fun to play at the tournament. If anyone has any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

[@yesimchar]

hulk glarb is the best version 💯

[@TheMormonatorChannel]

How many of your games were hulk wins versus Thoracle wins?

[@shuiro3148]

@@TheMormonatorChannel The two wins I had were both Hulk wins. Notably, one was a win on turn 4 through Aethersworn, the other was a bit more of a grindy win in a 2x mono red pod.

[@ComedIanMTG]

Thanks for the comment and congrats on a SWEET list :D

[@shuiro3148]

@@ComedIanMTG Thanks for the coverage, brother!

[@heyoclan8217]

I took Atraxa to this tournament, not the top 16 entry. I'm so impressed to see these wild builds making top 16. Good job to all these players.

[@icarryaknife8933]

Every time I see a series of results like these, and the success of that 40 creature Yawgmoth deck that hit the top 16 of Tough Mulligans 500 the angrier I get at everyone on the cEDH subreddit who downvote my dumb ideas and tell me to just stick to the meta.

[@JacksonX94]

Completely agree with this statement. I run Gev, Kona, and Ukkima FC and they all do just fine

[@heyoclan8217]

@@JacksonX94 I've been kicking around with Kona, super fun to see someone else who's an appreciator of Kona.

[@JacksonX94]

​@heyoclan8217 Kona by far I think is the most fun I've had with a deck in a long while :D

[@FlyboyEz3]

Preach

[@heyoclan8217]

@@JacksonX94 it's a ton of fun. I was in the server for it brewing for a while but I kinda lost interest after it had 0 performance results in my local meta

[@PsychicSenechal]

I'm not the pilot of the Malcolm-Vial, but the curiousity is for Glinthorn in case there aren't enough opponents to continue the combo. Get to max hand size, move to discard triggering to draw 3 cards from Curious Glint then discard again, etc

[@Temzilla2]

All I needed was this thumbnail to start building Heliod as my cEDH deck tbh, thanks Ian.

[@TurningPointMeta]

I liked more lands in the kinnan deck. Altrasaur was super spicy and I wanted to play it but I didn’t want to rely on my opponents doing something to make my card be more than a 3/3. Sphinx is spicy but still testing. Thanks for covering our tournament. Was good fun.

[@Thoughtmage100]

I really like that H&K list. It's pretty unique. It's also powerful in the 99 of my Marvo list.

[@coreyheisel7922]

I’d be very curious to see your version of Hide & Kairi. I threw that list together and just played about 20ish games out and it just feels so clunky. Zero disrespect to the player at all bc the deck is so cool it feels so inconsistent in paper. I wanted a sensei’s top soooooo badly. Maybe cut a couple of the sorcery clones for more consistency cards or maybe blinking? Also really wanted a p-morph.

[@levibradley1487]

You're so right. The list was super clunky. This was my first cedh tournament haha. The list has been modified to oblivion. Hmu if u want to see it

[@only1sn1not1taken]

There's an old judge example of Sad Robot and Elish Norn. ETB does not actually go onto the stack until after state based actions are resolved. Once all state based actions are resolved and there are no more that are created, then all effects that are waiting to go onto the stack are put onto the stack at the same time and you get to choose the order. Loving the decklist. When the card first came out I was looking at making a psuedo Gyruda deck with it but never did put it together. This is giving me new inspiration to do so.

[@adamfisher7099]

Really love your breakdowns and love seeing all these cool decks! It would be really rad if these videos had timestamps for each deck as well. Thanks for the content!

[@jbs6614]

that Hidetsugu and Kairi list packs things I'd find in a casual Yuriko Turns llst. so cool.

[@levibradley1487]

Oh it was definitely made to be casual lol. I just entered the tournament for fun. I ended up doing much better than I expected. Adjusting the decklist a lot.

[@boikman]

Stop trying to tempt me to play Hidetsugu I can't do it I wont! Lol sweet video as usual man. You should check out the lists from the MBG 5K that happened this past weekend on the 16th, I ran Godo to 20th but the top 16 was craaaaaaaazy. 2 Master of Keys lists, a Marwen deck that this dude Nick plays like a MONSTER, and B-Rad from Highland Gaming came out and played his Jolly Balloon Man list to 9th which was fuckin awesome to see.

[@levibradley1487]

Build hidetsugu I dare you!

[@TripsAhoy]

Wow that top 16 was very diverse! Cool. ❤❤❤

[@MaxwellSwann]

My theory on Malcolm decks doing well is simply that i) treasures are good, ii) dockside being gone means that other treasure generators go up in value, and iii) the format slowing down gives more time for Malcom hits to generate value.

[@UUbro140]

I just watched the salt city final. The zur player only played a land and passed turns 1-4, while two of his opponents played the one ring turn 2. Turn 5 he tutored for and played a rhystic study. Drew 15 cards during a counter war, then played smothering tithe turn 6. The next round he created 35 treasures and drew 8 more cards. Turn 7 won through some weird combo. No commanders were played.

[@levibradley1487]

One commander was played, but it wasn't relevant

[@munsulight721]

That Hidetsugu list is so spicy but I love that spicy decks still have some chance if they have the good interaction package and the "easy" Thoracle win with some of the good draw engines.

[@levibradley1487]

Thank you!

[@BudgetPubStomper-lr7nh]

Hey bud.. you maybe wanna take a look at the SCG Columbus event. My buddy won the thing (undefeated) with Etali Stax! lol. He beat Sam Black on Rog Thrass in the finals. Also that big ass landfall bear was in the top 4! Doesn’t get much spicier than that!

[@sorensinsanity4411]

😂😂😂 I love everything about this.

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@BudgetPubStomper-lr7nh yeah absolutely, unfortunately there are about 4 other tournaments on the docket that also need to be covered so I’m working a bit extra these next couple weeks

[@BudgetPubStomper-lr7nh]

@@ComedIanMTG oh for sure. Understandable

[@caioalp5106]

The Blue Farm deck that was running the infinite mana line with Retraction Helix has 2 outlets in the 99, The One Ring can be bounced and recast to draw the entire deck and if it does colored mana Bowmasters is also a kill condition.

[@harrycannon2661]

Hyped for the Plagon deck tech

[@arrivtuber]

42:05 Curiosity can also combo with Glint horn when you have 8 or more cards in hand in your endstap

[@Snamify]

Hulk piles in the top 16? SWEET!

[@sheldonadams2847]

Birgi in Alexios seems to be there to help w equip costs

[@jakecallen9164]

The atraxa list makes sense. Get enough mana to cast it once and you're bound to find a combo in the top 10 lol

[@DCode504]

At what point can we call the bans a success? Genuine question. I know it's still relatively early, but when can we reasonably say "if there was a gigantic issue with the bans, it would be known, by now"? So far, I have seen much added diversity (which is awesome), and most decks proclaimed to be dead be very much alive (e.g., all those folks saying without lotus and crypt we'd never see a 5+ CMC commander again, or that red is basically dead without dockside were clearly wrong).

[@isaiahwright1963]

Curiosity plus Glint horn in end step

[@voidprism_studios666]

Talion, kambal and bloodchiefs are pretty cool adds to zur. The correlation between life and cards in zur is not to be understated. Hidetsugu and kairi has always been cool. I might build a casual version though

[@WeirdPhilosophy]

Not me here building a alexios list during the last couple weeks and having 90% of the cards aquired and finding out this way how the damage assignment actually works 😵‍💫

[@GoldSabertooth]

Thanks Ian!!! Appreciate you

[@ComedIanMTG]

You're the best dude happy to shout you out :D

[@randysmith8744]

Man I wanted a plagon deck tech this week. Starfish go brrr

[@charyou3167]

So uh, what’s that song in your outro??????

[@Snamify]

When you see a top 16 like this you want to bring your fringiest fringe decks to tournaments now.

[@Mamba604]

Are you going to cover The King of the North up in Canada in a future episode? Give your Canadian viewers some love. Thank you

[@abrahamdrinkin2534]

And the Boil 2. The biggest cEDH tournament to date

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@abrahamdrinkin2534 I believe I have made it clear why that particular entry will not be covered here

[@ComedIanMTG]

This week I am recording several tournaments and am already working with having a few that I have missed internationally. It is a priority but there are only so many videos I can drop in a single week

[@Mamba604]

@ thank you Ian! Take care and thank you for promoting this great format and game.

[@abrahamdrinkin2534]

@@ComedIanMTGDude that was 3 months ago with the Zain drama. And he’s gone. I just don’t see the point in continuing to die on whatever hill you think is important when Boil 2 is the last Topdeck event. Bury the hatchet and move on

[@Limkmc]

I can’t believe no one decided to play TnT with only one white card! I mean, I know Dranith and esper sentinel and range captain and silence and lotho and smothering tithe and like 10 other cards are some of the best of the format, but still. It’s an extra demonic consultation!

[@TheCodingle]

I have a Malcolm Tevesh list that goes the hardest with the broodlord lines, more often than not i never go for peer anymore. I will reanimate the hoarding broodlord, go get saw in half. saw the b lord, get sacrifice and final parting. cast sacrifice 8 black in the pool. convoke the other broolord cast final parting, 4 black in the pool. put scholar of the ages in the yard and persist to hand. persist the scholar, 2 black left in the pool, scholar etb return sacrifice persist to hand. present a loop of casting sacrifice putting scholar in the yard. 7 black in the pool, then casting persist returning scholar to play returning sacrifice persist back to hand. Infintite black mana infinite storm, end the loop returning persist and final parting to hand. find either tendrils of agony or brain freeze. gg. or at that point you could return the broodlord to play for peer and have infinite black mana to go through other lines. i like it cause its far less weak to deflecting swat and bow masters, and is less deterministic, if im not interacted with its a guranteed win

[@Crustgg]

15 seconds ago? A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@cEDHgaming]

Zurs Back On The Menu?! 🤘

[@Gunpauder_Gaming]

I’m at a magic club watching magic lol

[@jakubpetras6386]

Shoutout yeatvae

[@jackcarsen6247]

idk why i havent asked this yet. but can some1 plz confirm that the dif versions of cards depicted in this video are because those are the ones that each respective player owns

[@ComedIanMTG]

It's just the individual deck builders Moxfield preferences which can be default or customized

[@jackcarsen6247]

@ComedIanMTG ok yeah that's kinda what I figured when I thought about it

[@BookSmartLiving]

Can someone tell me why people play lorien revealed? It just seems like a bad card draw spell to me

[@levibradley1487]

Heliod plays it because it's cost becomes reduced by three if your opponents have drawn at least three cards

[@TheUrDragon25]

Wow. This is the jankirst stuff ive ever seen😂