Commander Legends - New Card Analysis (Part 1) | The Command Zone 369 | Magic: The Gathering EDH

[@StretchyPlays]

Profane Transfusion seems insane in a K'rrik, not that he needed anything to be insane. Keep dropping your life all game, then it only costs 6 colorless to swap life with someone.

[@nik700]

Plus, you'd pay the cost with phyrexian mana before it resolves. I like it

[@StretchyPlays]

@@nik700 exactly, you lower your life total even more before the swap.

[@brendonford3838]

Came down here to see who was smart I found you! Also a black deck abusing bolas’ citadel could pay life to fast transfusion and then swap for a bigger life point swing.

[@michaelearthur93]

Is this a super expensive deck? Also, is it fun?

[@nik700]

@@michaelearthur93 K'rikk itself is kinda pricey, but the deck can be just "black cards I like", so you can save money in the 99. But is also a scary commander, if you like to feel like the archenemy of the table, go for it

[@Dataloss484]

Just saying: triumphant reckoning can bring back artifact-CREATURES and enchantment-CREATURES aswell

[@Dannymiles1987]

The entire Urza factory can be brought back. In case your infinite mana gets disrupted

[@AndJDrake]

When you have an estrid enchantress deck that has a great line of play with chain veil, triumphant reckoning is an absolute monster.

[@samuelirwin4880]

@@Dannymiles1987 are you referring to urza's mine, urza's tower, and urza's powerplant? Or something else?

[@Dannymiles1987]

@@samuelirwin4880 all of them. Land destruction isn’t out of the question in my group. So this card can bring all your pieces back. Personally I’ll destroy every permanent on the board if need be.

[@samuelirwin4880]

@@Dannymiles1987 triumphant reckoning doesn't bring lands back 😕

[@carter1450]

I can't believe they never mentioned krrik with profane transfusion. Literally mono black deck that pays life to ramp or mentioned other monoblack effects like wound reflection that would one shot ppl with it.

[@kk_33]

Its really the most obvious inclusion. 6 mana, lower your life even further to get someone really low, get a big beater and get yourself back to a comfortable life total. Really can't imagine how they missed that one

[@vladplasmius2854]

Six mana is too much for the Command Zone.

[@carter1450]

@@vladplasmius2854 u litterally use ur life to ramp, krrik only converts pips but in a average kriirk deck you'll be able to pay generic costs in life with effects like blood celebrant. You can pay the whole thing in life by turn 2 and swap with someone at 40 life creating a 30 power monster in the process. Not to mention the power to swap life totals to continue paying life costs is very powerful in that deck, much stronger than many of the cards or interactions they featured in the episode with it.

[@carter1450]

@@kk_33 very true , you could even pay the generic costs in life with blood celebrant effects for a even bigger swing earlier

[@vladplasmius2854]

@@carter1450 throwaway comments aren't looking for paragraphs in response.

[@jernmon]

1:48:25 They'll be able to see it coming, at least at the time they have to choose a number, since you have to cast Martyrdom before resolving Wheel of Misfortune. Waiting until after choosing a number would be too late, since it would be in the middle of resolving the Wheel

[@ichik]

In regards to “red version of Concordant Crossroads”: it already exists (Mass Hysteria).

[@BloodyScythe666]

I went into the comments just to search if someone already said this. well played, sir.

[@Quapper]

But the difference between those is that Concordant Crossroads (and Frenzied Saddlebrute) is that these don't give haste PER SE. It allows everything to attack your opponents "as though it had haste", it doesn't allow them to activate abilities or attack you, like Mass Hysteria would.

[@ichik]

@@Quapper that is not true. Concordant Crossroads does give creatures haste. This is literally what the oracle text of the card says: “All creatures have haste.” Allowing activated abilities is even mentioned on the card in the printed text.

[@kennethmurray9003]

Fervor gives it to only your creatures. I think it is worth the extra 2

[@abstergouser1772]

Thank you to everyone from the Command Zone. Happy Holidays from a newly made U.S. Sailor who's in love with Magic cards😌

[@rockandrolljew89]

I feel like the hate on equipment decks is kind of outdated, since a chunk of the newer equipment decks aren't paying that equip cost (Ardenn, Syr Gwyn), and the ones that do have card draw (sram, wyleth)

[@okgut2033]

Well equipment decks doesnt work good. Esp if you dont have the dual prot swords, the anime sword, the land sword, the tutor your teferis protection hammer, the indistructable equipments and something to do the damage on each player and hope noone interacts with artefacts xD. But at the same time you kill everyone with infect 3times, you combo 4-5times or you just play red goblin tribal (or zada or wort) and have a good chance to be ingame. I dont think its hated, its more a challange to win with equipdecks esp cause it feels like everything is better then that.

[@Nergal123]

Problem with equipment decks is that they usually suffer from commander dependency. Ofc most commander decks rely on their commander but atleast in my opinion the good ones can win without their commanders at all or their commanders are ridiculously hard to remove or cheat commander tax somehow. So if your sram gets removed just incidentally from boardwipes a couple times it becomes difficult to come back from that, and this point is even more crucial on higher cmc commanders. Also if someone is playing with Constant Mists, Glacial Chasm, Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, Elephant Grass, etc then it’s going to be difficult to win. I will say equipment decks are typically better than full voltron decks because they atleast don’t put all their eggs in one basket, but they still run into some problems. Aggro decks in general can be difficult because there are so many ways to stop aggro if your playing against a white, blue, or green player. Especially if they play control, since atleast the Propaganda type cards can be dealt with removal, but instant and sorcery type stuff that bounces everything or Reins of power type stuff is difficult to deal with in white and also red. Boros pretty much has lapse of certainty, Pyroblast, and red elemental blast to deal with that. It has become a lot better recently, but I would argue that the other strategies that already had a leg up on equipment decks have also become a lot stronger, some more than others(Landfall), so the gap hasn’t rally gotten any smaller. If anything it’s become even more difficult for a equipment deck to beat the more “meta” strategies. Ofc it depends on playgroup.

[@NewOldEBM]

Quiet you, how dare you stop them beating a dead horse. Don't you realize that's where 30% of their content comes from?

[@joshuarichards9725]

Isn't the problem more so that that's all of what boros is getting.

[@mrtrex1869]

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[@-RTC-]

I love the subtle hint about 4/4 angels ending games sometimes haha

[@sindoray2094]

When the 3 other players work together to suicide, 4/4 angels (and probably anything else) ends games!

[@-RTC-]

@@sindoray2094 hahah true true

[@tsuki7064]

30:30 scute swarm will not make a thousand copiec because even though 10 lands entered the battlefield, only 1 scute saw them coming into play. So you would end up with 11. But it would be cool

[@meyeneetuks4680]

Right. That wut i thot too. 11 1/1 scute swarms aint really enough to instant win. And they dont hav haste either

[@jonathonmenth3901]

No, after 6 lands Scute swarm doubles itself for each land that comes into play so it’d be 1024 Scute Swarms.

[@therealax6]

@@jonathonmenth3901 The lands enter the battlefield all at once, so 10 triggers go on the stack at once. And thus you get 10 copies. If you somehow put 10 lands onto the battlefield one at a time (I don't even know how you could possibly do this, but let's imagine), assuming you already had at least 5, the first land would trigger Scute Swarm once, then second land would trigger both of them (the old one and the new one) once, the third land would trigger all four of them once, and so on - at each stage you get one trigger for each copy you have on the battlefield, and thus they double. But when several lands enter the battlefield at once, each land will only trigger the Scute Swarms currently on the battlefield, and you don't get a double for each land. Much more realistic example: you have a Scute Swarm and three token copies on the battlefield (so 4 total) and you crack a Myriad Landscape, bringing in two lands at once. You get 2 triggers for each Scute Swarm currently on the battlefield and create 2 × 4 = 8 token copies, ending up with 12 total. You don't end up with 16 Scute Swarms in that scenario.

[@cameronbyers7335]

4:10 Is when it starts

[@PrimeEnLightenedShadow]

These comments never get enough love.

[@Foxpawed]

and 58:19 for when the ads end.

[@marvin42thg34]

The courts work well in a Ghen-deck , as he ensures that you get the enhanced monarch triggers

[@patrickoverstreet2372]

love how they talk about the "Christmas land" scenario with Jeska's Will, I played a game with an Ad Nauseum deck and my opponent got 53 mana off of me with that card XD

[@NT-ys3oh]

I’m shocked y’all didn’t mention Krrik and profane transfusion! Insanely good together.

[@bahamutzero75]

That's what I was thinking as soon as I saw it

[@cesarpiedra9165]

Came to say exactly this! It’s basically a 6 cmc spell in that deck and having been on the receiving end of that, it is brutal

[@maidenless_tarnished]

That does sound busted

[@bloodbathnbeyond]

I already put it in my Krrik deck haven’t been able to cast it yet tho

[@Dubi264]

Or selenia! She's the go to life swap commander to my knowledge

[@andrewhoffman1087]

Serious question, for WotC in particular. Why does "green" get to have the most "cheat creatures into play" effects when they already have the strongest ramp? Doesn't that seem like a BIT of a mistake, from a play design standpoint?

[@th5174]

Totally. A lot of WotC’s decisions seem like design mistakes.

[@ammonaustin9081]

Lol they arent even done with digesting Commander Legends and the community is already on the Kaldhiem hypetrain. WotC needs to calm the hell down with all this product

[@ecos889]

To be fair C legends was meant to be released a month before and kaldeheim is a standard set and thus was always due to release in January like every January for standard.

[@jacobjensen7704]

To be fair, they've had so much commander legends content to put out, they started this like a month ago.

[@ammonaustin9081]

@@ecos889 True, I forgot the CL got delayed by a month. Still, I really wish WotC would slow down on these sets cause we barely get any time to buy the cards we want to update our decks or just generally digest how these new cards affect the multiple formats. I still got cards to buy from Double Masters but now that Kaldhiem spoilers are being released, I had to buy a bunch of mono-red/artifact good stuff & old school dwarf foils before price spikes cause I want to make Magda by the time the set releases. This is totally a 1st world problem but I know I cant be the only one getting their wallet beat up so bad that they can hardly keep up at this point.

[@ecos889]

@@ammonaustin9081 It's commander ask your friends if it's ok if you can start proxying cards. It's a fun hobby sure but a hobby should not have to give you anxiety issues. I know some people just use glue and a colour printer to make them and overs use mpcautofill for professionally printed cards. But nonetheless something to consider. :)

[@olivierdebilde4292]

I made a Kenrith deck "Monarch" style with all courts. Still have to try him out. Surely not the best deck ever. However with his ability to bring back creatures with ETB's that gives you the monarch back at instant speed (ie before your turn), it sounds fun.

[@alexanderforbes1452]

Been wanting to build a very similar deck, make it a very flavorful deck with all kinds of cards that reference royalty, castles, kingdoms etc in some way.

[@olivierdebilde4292]

@@alexanderforbes1452 I went for all the kings, queens, princes and princessess too. With Oubliette, Council's Judgment etc for the flavor. Sounds fun on paper, at least. (and I can't wait to get back monarchy by attacking with a Beloved Princess hahaha)

[@ADudeWhoExperiences1393]

I have a janky Kenrith deck that's similar too, plays all courts and all the sirs with the queen and oko too

[@Fighting_irish493]

Whenever you become the monarch you have to take a shot of crown royal

[@danacoleman4007]

alternatively..... become the monarch by taking a shot of crown Royal?!?!

[@dreadshot0139]

When they talked about the red cards, for almost every card I thought "Oh this is sick in Dargo," and they didn't mention Dargo once and now I'm sad.

[@benmeaige4306]

I guess you didn’t stay until 1:52:40.

[@samuel137]

You would not actually get 1024 scute swarms, since all the lands etb at the same time, you get 11*however many you started with (each scute swarm triggers 10 times)

[@bachus9852]

To Hellkite Courser and Obeka are also a sweet combo. Cast Hellkite, bring in Obeka and at the end of the turn say: "MY TURN IS OVER! YOUR TURN NOW!" - "Don't you need to put Obeka ba.." - "DID I STUTTER?"

[@jacobjensen7704]

Man, I love how much Wheel of Misfortune encourages smart play. So far I've seen: 1) I refill my hand and two opponents take 20 damage. 2) One opponent dies to it. If you want to play with fire, everyone pick a number greater than 40.

[@EnclaveOfObsidian]

Fun fact, Court of Grace becomes a win condition in a stax deck. :D

[@zoopdoop_games]

*technically* every spell you cast off cascade is cast at instant speed

[@czaknorris7823]

Put wheel of misfortune in Sunspeaker. Just do it.

[@jacobjensen7704]

Sunspeaker really needs it. It has trouble drawing cards since it can't use equipment to draw cards, and impulsive draw isn't the greatest in Sunspeaker where you have big spells you want to cast.

[@RAGClanStudios]

Wheel of Misfortune is busted

[@channelworldfire263]

Card analysis starts at 10:55

[@vladplasmius2854]

Seriously?! What the hell are they doing for more than ten minutes?

[@ciderman13576]

Holy shit lol

[@chibichanga1849]

34:25 I think the use case I'm most excited about for this card is as part of a janky combo with Arcbond. With just two creatures on the battlefield, Akroma's Will, Arcbond and a way to copy Arcbond, you can kill the table. Both Akroma's Will and Arcbond are tutorable with Sunforger. With just your commander and one other creature in play with a Sunforger on it, attacking you becomes really scary.

[@groovelord_nito]

i just recently found this channel and have binged so much of the content, thanks josh and jimmy for keeping me company during this pandemic

[@treyden]

Hellkite Courser gives permanent haste so your commander can block a Gingerbrute

[@kamakazi339]

Part 1..... 2 hours long...... I am...... SO HYPED

[@rhainex5952]

I like using the term "Booping your intellectual minds" when asking questions generally lol.

[@krevin543]

I think court of grace is being severely underrated here. Few cards reward you so nicely for having the monarch AND provide tools to get back the monarchy every turn regardless. Considering how much white needs car draw these days Court of Grace feels like a staple of mono white angel decks to me.

[@Tymbaroth]

100% agree, this is usable card draw in white, which is also probably the best colour at keeping the monarch.

[@jamesclare1858]

@@Tymbaroth I want to love this card. When I run through scenario's in my head I see that it's actually easy to lose the monarch in white when you want to be the monarch. Ideally when do you want to be the monarch. Likely turn 3-4 if possible with Court. The problem is the sequencing to a turn 3 court does not set you up well to protect yourself. It's turn 2 mana rock into court. If you have a 1 drop creature that's great. People are already attacking by turn 3. A turn 1 creature is needed to defend the monarch If you lose the monarch the turn you play the card, your opponents will get two draws before you can get it back with the token the court created. For mid to late this card becomes underwhelming for what you want it to do. Games end by turn 9. On turn 6 this card won't do much for you unless your already at parity of ahead. It just feels to unreliable for me. The card has homes but I don't think it's good card draw (unless you play skullclamp)

[@Tymbaroth]

@@jamesclare1858 With tons of playable cheap creatures, flyers, vigilance and pillowfort enchantments, white has probably the easiest time keeping the monarch, and it's the colour that needs card draw the most. I understand that this card is not fantastic, but it is still far from unplayable or janky. I wish Monarch will become primarily white, as it has the most synergy with it. I will be surprised it this card doesn't see play in Mono-W.

[@jamesclare1858]

@@Tymbaroth True white has all these things. What turn (s) would you want to ideally/hopefully play this card? Its where this card fits into sequencing that I find it falls short in.

[@Tymbaroth]

@@jamesclare1858 Turn 4 maybe ? It depends on the deck but in white, you should be able to have one or two creatures in play by that time.

[@Nergal123]

Jeska’s will is going to be absolutely nuts in my Thousand year storm deck!

[@sunstrid3r44]

"For dedicated mill decks this sucks cause you're not playing creatures to get the monarchy back" Szadek and Lazav: hold my bumbat, child.

[@mareksison]

lol also Standard Rogues

[@leonk9074]

The jeskai courts could be interesting in a pamrikon deck where you’re restricting everyone’s attack so that you’re likely to keep the monarch. Then u have blue for control and to help stop nonsense

[@OhNoTheFace]

Dunno about you but my group targets the shit out of the blue control player. Lose the "no fun allowed" player as quickly as possible :P

[@leonk9074]

@@OhNoTheFace id feel the same way if it was a hardcore mono blue player. I feel like pamrikon would be a little more unique and chaotic aa opposed to intense and controlling

[@Antare5]

haven't gotten a change to try it myself yet but Court of Ambition does look pretty good for Liesa. If people are getting shocked for every spell they cast that 3 damage looks a little more worrying.

[@rubyseverinwhitworth9066]

I am still going to use the Black court in my Queen Marchesa, I am already forting up to keep the crown and it is another tool to slowly stop the opponent's ability to stop me

[@PaulGaither]

Triumphant Reckoning: 1. Yes, you are correct that it is not very good. 2. I think it is meant to be played in Bant and Atraxa (Dark Bant). Green obviously gives you Doubling Season and blue gives you looting effects. Green also gives you regrowth effects, and blue can do the same for instant and sorcery spells. That way you can loot it away early, but can also bring it back when the time is right. Oh, and green also helps you ramp to the 9 Mana needed.

[@amphetamean66X]

White needs more land tax type of cards. Enchantments that say "In your upkeep If an opponent has more creatures than you go through your library and search for three creatures with cmc 5 or less." or "If an opponent has more permanents than you go through your library and search for three permanents with cmc 3 or less."

[@rileyselman1312]

Thanks for the great coverage all year! Happy holidays!

[@noahsmith3034]

I actually do have a life swap deck on MTGO and I slapped profane transfusion right in there because a lot of life swap effects have to happen at the upkeep, so it really helps the deck to allow you to choose when you want to swap life totals

[@DylanHilliard1]

@30:30 How would it make 1024 when the lands come in at the same time? My understanding is when lands are put in to play, they don't come in one at a time.

[@therealax6]

Yeah, it only makes 10 copies for each one you have on the battlefield.

[@zachevans2220]

Here's a thought for White's development: if effects that help you maintain your board presence (like Promise of Tomorrow) become good enough, then card draw in White becomes most important when you're behind, which means they could continue to lean into White's traditional pattern of bringing all players closer to parity.

[@RoastedPheasant]

Soulfire Eruption is the best card in the Bell Borca deck, and actually runs a lot smoother than you'd think.

[@KeyserSoze-1995]

Interesting note on the Wheel. If everyone chooses 0 if you are running a burn damage ramp deck like Torbran with sulfuric vapors that would increase the damage from zero to 3 and with Angraths Marauders, dictate of the twin gods, fiery emancipation etc. then the damage can really get up there

[@patmacrotch5611]

With Obeka do you get to keep tokens that you encore in??

[@finminder2928]

I’m excited to see what additions can be built around these new cards

[@jacobdancey145]

10:29 in the vid, if you draw a card of 7 hands, I do that to a lot lol.

[@jacobdancey145]

The subliminal messaging on some of the commercials that Josh and Jimmy did is amazing and a genius, LOL.

[@owenzheng8357]

Fun fact about coercive recruiter and kiki jiki is that the token copy of coercive recruiter will trigger the first and so on, so you can take control of all creatures. Or toss in a pinger and watch it untap a million time.

[@700718756]

Regarding the Command the Dreadhorde + Archon of Coronation "combo", it only works if you're *already* the monarch when you cast it. If you try resurrecting the Archon with the Command when you're not the monarch, you'll take the damage before the "become the monarch" trigger has a chance to resolve (since the triggered ability can't be put onto the stack and resolve while the current spell is mid-resolution)

[@natebrewster9708]

Awesome episode! Thanks, and Merry Christmas!

[@EthanKTufts]

They mentioned how holding the monarch is the hardest part and biggest hinderence. I think the best way around it is through blink. When the courts enter, you become the monarch. You dont have to worry about combat if you just blink it the endstep before your turn. Like they said "monarch and mill dont work well". But lots of mill decks have blink effects, so if you are blink heavy, it is amazing because u just do it every endstep before your turn

[@AgonalRhythm]

I'm surprised they didn't talk about Coastline Marauders in the red card section. Port Razer is obviously good, but Coastline Marauders does a great job threatening all those green land-based ramp decks and it has encore. The trigger +1/+0 per land trigger also stacks with extra combat steps, so the aforementioned Port Razer synergizes very well. Bonus points for being able to attack from behind an Ensaring Bridge as well (a niche use case, but still a thing)

[@sea81793]

The candle in the background is trying to tell me something.

[@jamesfry6493]

Way to go continuing to up the quality and creativity of both the partner ads and the show overall!

[@seanchandler5249]

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[@toyaoren772]

You know shock is a 1 time affect and exploration stays on board when th courts both stay on the board, if there was a card for 1 mana gives you a sock every turn ot would be comparable

[@jamesclare1858]

I'm with you. A lot of problematic creatures have 2 toughness. This card can just take care of issues. If you have the monarch 7 damage to a target it nuts.

[@xanderf9234]

That mini song at the start is always the highlight of my day

[@mischaangst]

I personally would put Mnemonic deluge over Reshape... actually even clearly, just discard reshape or for example a cruel ultimatum. copy it 3 times... there are many splashy spells worth to copy 3 times, not a problem in a loot heavy deck.

[@fluffbot3000]

My only issue with Keeper of the Accord is that its on a creature, which means if the next player to go has single target removal and is feeling petty, you get nothing for your 4 mana. It really should either be on all end steps, or do its thing once when it comes into play.

[@kk_33]

Court of Grace is a staple white card. Paired with Skullclamp, which is also a staple in white, you're drawing 3 cards a turn.

[@romeldeleon1693]

That soul of eternity combo sounds delightfully jank

[@brendonford3838]

Just realized how good promise of tomorrow is in my merieke ri berit deck

[@1235q]

Seraphic Greatsword is worse than you described it. If you're the agressive equipment voltron deck, most likely you're going to be the one with the most life. EVEN IF this made an angel without the HP restriction, it's still bad, it's that trash.

[@supereece1337]

flamkin herald with dargo and a sac outlet was gross in my deck when i played it, i played my whole deck the second my phyrexian altar came out

[@PetrusCaex]

Ari Nieh and MaRo already said openly that White is allowed to bring any permanent from the graveyard to the battlefield, so Triumphant Reckoning was another example of how a less conservative/less "safe" approach for White designs could have delivered even more jewels in COmmander Legends. The main example was the previous designs for Seraphic Greatsword presented by Gavin Verhey

[@DAsrada]

Mnemonic Deluge, Time Stretch, and Rise of the Dark Realms just wins you the game in Golos.

If you put out 10 lands in a single action, from 1 scute swarm, you will get only 10 scute swarms. It does not create a copy in between each land that enters, That triggers happens after the action resolves.

[@dancros9387]

I am going to play all the courts in the shrine deck just annoy people with all the upkeep triggers

[@Nergal123]

And then that one stax player plays an eon hub, rip.

[@sesamestreettv]

Triumphant reckoning is actually really amazing in an Esper Nevinral deck, I was in a game where oppo sacrificed Nevinral, payed the 1 to wipe the board and then resolved triumphant reckoning and was the first the rebuild. He dominated from there!

[@DonovanPresents]

1:22:20 Trostani's Populated token will also stay with that Encore!

[@aaronpyrez1573]

Everyone: Green is already stupidly strong! It doesn’t need anything else to help it! Wizards of the Coast: Hmmmm... Let’s give White and Red some of the worst cards in the cycles, but give Green the best cards overall

[@gunararayhanramadhan2304]

White definitely, not necessarily Red.

[@maahes2783]

Yes, and black and blue too

[@helios566]

I'm putting Szat's Will in my aristocrats deck, that's a lot of sack targets.

[@aarong2606]

Unless you are against 3 control decks lol

[@helios566]

@@aarong2606 well then fuck their plans of snapcstering anything.

[@matheuscastello6554]

its unfortunate that the strongest cards in this set weren't the most fun to play against, namely jeweled lotus, hullbreacher, and opposition agent, but still very fun set aside from those three!!

[@ecos889]

Depends on the format and power level opp agent is amazing in cEDH groups as it's an active deterrent from using the most brocken tutors of all times without having a counter spell or instant speed removal, the lotus makes for memorable games in general and the breacher is another way to punish card draw wish these two cards are white as white is the hatebear colour but oh well.

[@matheuscastello6554]

@@ecos889 yeah these are fair ways to look at all three of these of course, im just personally not a fan of any of them but im happy you and other people enjoyed them :) i do agree opposition agent probably could have been white yeh

[@darkdestiny9106]

At 48:00 you mention playing Kamahl's Will in response to Armageddon, but won't the 1/1 lands still get destroyed? It does say that "They're still lands" on Kamahl's Will.

[@jacobjensen7704]

They gain indestructible my dude.

[@buddatello]

I feel like you guys don't know about delaying shield it does wonders in my queen marchesa and keeping that monarchy around

[@timothybowers5517]

Fun combo with the courts. Play Livio and Kodama partners, play any other creature that grants monarch on ETB and just bounce it before your turn. Guarantied plus side of the courts

[@matthewjennings7645]

Really wish that Promise of Tomorrow either had flash or had a sacrifice effect built into itself. "Sacrifice a creature: Promise of Tomorrow gains hexproof until end of turn" would make it feel very reliable Or "Sacrifice a creature: Exile target card in a graveyard" would've been really solid interaction to deny opponents' card advantage.

[@austinvonjohnson9307]

Soulfire Eruption doesn’t exile itself. Magical Christmas land Mnemonic Deluge into it!

[@brandonbernard1570]

I actually got that to happen in a game a few weeks ago. It was absolutely insane.

[@Nergal123]

@@brandonbernard1570 Resolving that must’ve taken an eternity lol.

[@austinvonjohnson9307]

@@brandonbernard1570 It was a Christmas Miracle! 🤣

[@MTGTrader]

Nice to see one of my spec targets (Omnispell Adept) mentioned as a sleeper! I dig the card, and think it has a lot of potential in the right deck. Thanks guys!

[@sheahon1179]

The Legendary episode i have been waiting for! ;)

[@atingley0913]

I feel so wonderfully validated by JLK today. I saw his Toggodama deck and it was wonderfully silly and made me want to play it. So I set about building it with some changes to make it my own flair. Those changes including Fathom Fleet Swordjack. Hearing JLK say it was a card he should have put in made my day as I usually see my deck building skills as pretty weak 😂 Thank you for the Christmas Eve morning mood boost Josh Lee Kwai! 💜

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I've probably put in 10 orders on card kingdom over the last few months and they are actually the slowest way I've gotten cards. Ebay sellers are far quicker at getting you your cards. They don't take 2-3 day processing time to even get your cards out the door.

[@Kaiserland111]

Soulfire Eruption is definitely going in my Kess deck...it often has tons of mana because I recast mana-generating spells, so the ability to cast the exiled spells until end of next turn is legendary. Also, if Wizards wanted to keep white doing what it has done with card draw and mana ramp (catch-up mechanic) you could increase the power of their catch-up cards to let them vault ahead. For example, if you have less creatures in play, or cards in hand, or lands in play, you could get multiple of the thing you lack. Cartographer's Hawk could be 2 mana for a 1/1 flying that gives you 2 plains into play if it hits an opponent with more lands than you. So although this effect will trigger less often, you are going to vault ahead of your opponents by a little bit. Repeat this ability on other cards that deal with enemy creatures, permanents in general, enchantments, etc. and that would be a cool mechanic.

[@aizo111]

Listening to show on youtube while gaming. Pausing game to watch the commercials. Fun stuff.

[@puffin-onehandedgamer1164]

16:40 you wont have expropreate in your graveyard because it will be exiled, unless you milled it of course. Akroma's will is insane. White really got it good with this cycle. Winota will love this one. By the way, I think "Commander Replay" brought it up in one of his videos. if you want someone on a Game knights episode that knows how to build a good Boros deck, you should invite him. I watch some of his stuff and he looks like a guy that knows what he'ds talking about when it comes to boros. + you get to knight someone new if you do that, last episode you didn't get to.

[@VeznansDeadbeatDad]

It’s weird to me that Jimmy and Josh are already brewing around the Kaldheim commanders fir the GN.

[@MunchKING]

If Triumphant Reckoning could hit creatures, Rise of the Dark Realms would suddenly be quite useless in comparison. The difference between Akroma's Will and the Memorial is TRAMPLE. which could be a big one if your opponent has flying colorless creatures to block you. 1:05:40 Yes, if you have those in your hand. On the other hand if all you have is a Fyndlhorn elf, well then you're going to think 7 damage would have been a lot better.

[@johnwilliamson8327]

New goal: cast Reshape the earth by turn 4 or 5, then target it with Mnemonic Deluge the next turn

[@CeeBeMac]

That Story Circle reference for how many great white cards we're NOT getting had my sides hurting. Hilarious and sometimes feels kinda true lol

[@amarmehta01]

Court of Cunning is good in a Persistent Petitioners deck.

[@briarjones919]

How dare you run anything in a Persistent Petitioner deck that isn't a Persistent Petitioner.

[@maidenless_tarnished]

Wheel of Misfortune would have been better written as something like this: Each player secretly choses a number from 0-5, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest number revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number, they then discard their hand, then draw seven cards.

[@EGH9701]

When commander legends 2 comes out, because you all know they are gonna do it, you guys should do a game knights draft with the limited resources folks

[@brianpraamsma2607]

I love the Flamekin herald as something of a combo piece for Dargo. Pretty much the only deck I could see it in but I think it's worth the slot for that alone.

[@bloodbathnbeyond]

Will Jeska’s will work with Norin, since he runs a reaction to the cast trigger?

[@sammather8295]

To give white card draw it seems like one could make a couple 3 mana draw 2, or a 5 mana draw 3, slap some white flavor stuff on it, and call it a day.

[@TheCrimsonYoshi]

Don't talk about Galvanoth and Omnispell Adept! I'm trying to get those for my cube!

[@chrismarlow9585]

Glad to hear you love wheel of misfortune. I completely agree with what you said about it. It's a better wheel of fortune for commander, much more fun for the table. As for white missing the mark while the design team think they're hitting the mark. I think it's a mixture of both the command zone team not seeing how good the tools are that white is being and the design teams not knowing what people want. White won't get a draw card sorcery but they're getting lots of recursion, board protection and card advantage/tutoring for the aura/equipment archetype. I'm looking forward to cards that support other common white archetypes too, we'll have to see. And slightly contrary to what I just wrote... white did get Mangara which is an excellent card draw engine. It's a massive standout this year that I reckon will become a staple and with the creature protection/recursion it should be reliable. White won't get better than it.

[@ImBeeDo]

I’m surprised they didn’t mention krikk for szats will

[@rangabharadwaj5730]

New drinking game: take a shot every time triumphant reckoning is talked about negatively