Commander at Home #20 - Rowan vs Thalisse vs Hazezon vs Anikthea with Rachel Weeks and Joe Johnson

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Decklists
Rowan: infinite.tcgpl...
Thalisse: infinite.tcgpl...
Anikthea: infinite.tcgpl...
Hazezon: infinite.tcgpl...
Hosts: Brian Kibler and Olivia Gobert-Hicks
Guests: Rachel Weeks and Joe Johnson
Producers: Brian Kibler and Joshua Ryan Dietz
Director: Kris Boruff
Director of Photography: Pierce Cook
Editor: Eilidh Lonie
Sound Mixer: Drew O'Donnell
Music By: Harris Heller
Graphics & Logos by: RottingJackal

[@therachelweeks]

Yeeeeees! This episode was so fun! Thanks for having me!

[@thewanderingmind3327]

You rock, Rachel!

[@JohnDoe-mt2sy]

We love goddess Rachel

[@therachelweeks]

Can't BELIEVE we missed that Starfield of Nyx doesn't animate itself! That would've changed everything! Brian had it right!

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

​@@therachelweeksit happens. Made the same mistake like 3 times. Lol

[@sirKonradical]

In a game with you and Olivia, it's hard to tell who is gonna be the problem, lmao

[@ALTR_no_EGO]

Brian saying "OW!" Every time he hurts himself, interspersed with his infectious laughter is everything.

[@KawsMeCal]

I wish Olivia was playing Will, Scion of Peace for the whole "She will basically never attack and I will always attack." bit with Brian.

[@SporeTres]

Combine that with Commander Quarters' "Just tap Will and draw your library" deck.

[@medicatedbear]

😂lol Rachel "I just want to be a little card raccoon" me too tho

[@insainraven9875]

Definitely me too

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

This is my life. Lol

[@Joshbobjovi]

We aren't falling for it.

[@WiLDRAGE777]

Rachel is such a great guest and player. I always love every show she appears in.

[@DaxRaider]

i dont know why but rachel is one of these players i can watch every time again when they play commander :) same as the prof just a blast to watch them

[@jeffreysmall1087]

Agreed. Fun to watch great card knowledge and likely the best at the game of all the streamers if she does not hold back.

[@Alternative-Works]

Rachel is a top tier deck builder, player, and content creator. Only positive things to say, she's the best!

[@MrSauron]

I see Rachel in the thumbnail - I click the video. I am a simple person

[@abovetheaverage9962]

The Rowan turn at 22:53 was amazing. Nice job Brian!

[@nicholasrolo886]

Rachel building all the commanders we want to build, but cant figure out how to make good. A true brewer

[@msarsur]

Two brief comments: 1. From a viewer that's been watching Commander @ Home since day 1, the show production quality has increased a lot. The same great content, way more attention to set and lighting and audio. Congrats! 2. I think it's great to see the MTG community supporting one another. Kudos on having Rachel on, and on using Sam's shirt. That's the way to grow everyone's viewership!

[@HaydenSkinnerFine]

I just wish they wouldn't highlight controversial figures like Joe. We have other players in the community that deserve to have a platform.

[@msarsur]

@@HaydenSkinnerFine Can't disagree with you there.

[@Gimpocalypse]

Haven't even gotten one second into the episode but just have to say YEEESSSS! I love Thalisse. Massively under appreciated token spam commander.

[@boneyeah23]

Love the show! That being said a major error that could have easily changed the outcome of the game was Rachel’s boardwipe at 59:24 would’ve taken out all the enchantments on Joe’s board because of Starfield of Nyx.

[@adamballin3062]

Joe sacrificed starfield to protect his greater auramancy from Kibler's removal spell around 56:10, so it wasn't on the field when rachel used her board wipe

[@adamballin3062]

But, now that I thiink about it, starfield doesnt make itself an enchantment so he wouldn't have been able to sacrifice it to evolutionary leap to begin with

[@Knives4540]

I get that you should give people the chance to show they've improved and that mistakes sometimes happen, but when the three biggest "mistakes" just so happen to be around Joe's cards and benefit him immensely, it really starts getting fishy. Sure, Brian caught that he was playing Karmic Justice absolutely wrong, and no one questioned Parallel Lives shouldn't have made that copy, but those were still interpretations Joe made when HE should be the one who knows his deck. And if he had played Starfield of Nyx right, he wouldn't have any way of protecting his board. Not saying it was on purpose. Again, mistakes happen. But Joe's background of being a bully and a salty loser really leaves a sour taste in my mouth when he only won because he played his cards wrong.

[@dietdrshredder]

His deck is also $3k, second highest out of this pod is in the $600s. Looked at the decklists before hitting play and I just knew Joe was going to be playing the Anikthea, Hand of Erebo$ deck.

[@Slagomancer]

I gave it a chance after the I Hate Your Deck nonsense happened, but it seems like Joe's "oopsies" have carried over and it's real annoying tbh

[@Salemoche]

What happened at IHYD?

[@HJOTech]

A lot of these shows let players free mulligan until they get a playable hand provided they have fast mana in it, makes me wonder how many times joe mulliganed to have that leyline in his hand

[@Chpow01]

@dietdrshredder To be fair, some of us simply have a lot of older cards... it costs me $0 to have 4 full UBR dual 5 color deck, I have 3 Serra's Sanctums, 4 Cradles, 4 City of Traitors, 4 OG Doubling Seasons, 2 new ones, so on and so forth. Sure, I hated the play mistakes this game, but just because people have an "expensive deck" it does not mean they are cheesing their way through things on their credit cards. Unless someone wants to toss me an obscene pile of cash, if I have the cards I am gonna play them... except stuff like Alpha Tutors, Library of Alexandria ect... as they are bad, or simply Tutors, which are not fun in EDH.

[@NateFinch]

I really love commander at home. It's my favorite "actual play" channel. You all seem to have so much fun. I even made a deck based off seeing how much fun Brian was having with Ghired. I really appreciate the attention to detail with the editing and camera angles so we can see the cards and know what is going on. And whoever did the music and video for the opener is a genius and I hope you paid them extremely well. It's by far the best opener of any KZbin channel I've seen on any topic.

[@Wildheart800]

Longtime fan of Brian, EDHijinks, and The Command Zone. I've always avoided Joe's channel and his guest spots based on the screenshots and behavior, but decided to give this one a try. Seeing the game warped his way just leaves a really bad watch feeling. EDHijinks it's easy to focus more on the conversation than the play and have it feel like a podcast, but actual play shows like this one it is really fun to get wrapped up in the game and the story it tells. In the future, if you could add a disclaimer in the video itself (The Professor is great at catching these and throwing them in), it might be a big help! Or as the channel keeps growing, it might be worth it to have a judge linger around (every gameplay show could use a Serge Yager

[@rG1vZ]

what screenshots and behavior? lol

[@8nykspree]

​@@rG1vZhis unsavory antics have been documented in length. I'm sure someone could point you to one of the several reddit threads created in his honor.

[@oscarperezcame]

For sure... I've never liked Joe's saltyness... those kind of players damage any play groups they're in

[@KyleWalters126]

What exactly are you talking about when you say “unsavory antics”? I’ve never seen Joe be anything but goofy

[@andrewgamlin7371]

I watch his channel a lot he's just as great, silly and fun as anyone else on the table and the only salt I've ever seen in one of his episodes was from cashes scooping because his commander got countered

[@Silverhand264]

Rachel's final play was stone cold. Who cares who won when you can so confidently lose a game like that?

[@jantheflyingdutchman]

Really fun episode. Brian's chaos was awesome early in the game. The oversight of the boardwipe and it's effect on Joe's board is painful. I understand we miss things and mistakes are made, but besides Nyx, all enchantments were creatures and should've been blown up, I believe. Rachel could've pinged him to death with Goblin Bombardment, prior to the Nyx bringing back Leyline. After Brian's upkeep and the lifeloss, Rachel could've sacced the remainder of her tokens and finished the game. That's a big oversight. I believe Joe should've caught that.

[@parlangua89]

the type of player joe is he would never do that. this is a heart felt show we all love and he has a before game action like bro wtf. also if you look up everybodys decks his deck is literally 3/4x more than anyone else's kinda sickening. can't stand the guy.

[@veme2857]

Love all the commanders you played, thanks for the episode ! Lovely guests too ^^

[@MrMac873]

Win-Win. Awesome guests and awesome commander choices! Loved this ep!

[@rhyskrazmaniac511]

Shouldn't Joe's Leyline have been animated by starfield therefore it would have died to the boardwipe ?

[@KingRorix]

Joe sacrificed the Starfield to Evolutionary Leap (56:14) in response to Brian targeting Greater Auramancy with Drain Life; it was gone before the board wipe - this is why some of the other enchantments are still around. However, that in and of itself was a misplay since Starfield doesn't turn itself into a creature and, thus, couldn't have been sacrificed.

[@NehNehPwn]

I don't see any other comments on it, but Rowan's Grim Search allows you to put *all 4 cards* into the grave if you want to. If all 4 are bad, throw em out and get 2 random ones!

[@commanderathome]

Well that would have been good to know! :p

[@SirForcEdge]

Olivia gets so salty when shes thwarted, its hilarious

[@murlocmasher3368]

1:05:19 “put your stupid face away!!” Im laughing just as hard as Brian. Please never change ❤

[@chrisreynolds4343]

Another episode of my favorite show Time to snuggle in and enjoy thank you for always making my day so much better

[@paulmiller6431]

Yay for more commander at home! ^_^

[@sheahon1179]

Oh man! With all the product lately I completely missed the “Court of” cycle. Those are immediately awesome includes to a bunch of my decks! Thanks for turning me onto them!

[@KawsMeCal]

Is something else turning Starfield of Nyx into a creature because it by itself doesn't turn itself into a creature.

[@Mattycake5]

Another banger episode! Top tier laughter and another great game. Im sad I missed you guys in Portland.

[@northraptor]

Great to see Rachel Weeks on

[@blaze556922]

Haven't been able to watch the last several episodes but I have them saved to my later list. Life is just too busy to watch long content rn but I always like and support when I see a video drop. Love you lot!

[@Flyboy245]

Glad to see Rachel playing hazezon. Heard her talking about it before, but never got to see it in action. Also “thalisse FOR SEVEN” was hilarious 😂

[@joshualewis5214]

I started playing magic again only about 6 months ago and my little brother gave me an enduring enchantments deck not long after the commander masters precons came out. It's been the deck I've spent the most time and money on and I love seeing the different ways other people build it.

[@jacobbrown9894]

The Teysa + Saw in Half with Elas math was off. When Tesya dies she does double triggers from her death so that's two Elas triggers. Then two come in and one is immediately sent to grave but since two were out at the time it is three more Elas triggers for 5 life. 4 kept being said.

[@jamesperez988]

Rowan! My cards are coming in now for her deck. I'm so excited to play her, and cards like Toxic Deluge & Torment of Hailfire. :D

[@xCythex]

I love how they all were like "Oh Karmic Justice doesn't work off damage." and needed to go look up martyr's bond.....and alllll glazed over the "noncreature" part (on both cards) when it was creatures that were dying.

[@TheMonsterClips]

Yeah that part kinda irked me. Of course its more obvious when the card is enlarged on screen, but I'm surprised Joe played it wrong

[@Daruwuin]

this is such a comfort show. i wish there's a weekly low production version

[@Mithrandork]

-great gameplay -great banter -great folks -dog 10/10 channel

[@crankthatrebecca12]

so excited for this! i love you guys!

[@TylerH229garage]

Awesome start to the morning!

[@RatzahHarvex]

I've always wanted to see someone play Hazezon!

[@harrygoz]

Love the new intro! Just starting the ep now but super excited 😎, thanks for the content guys!

[@patrickmckee9040]

I LOVE THE NEW PLAYMATS

[@Schooch1991]

As a new player This show is just so great and fun to watch . So Glad its on my list of shows

[@andrewblack1406]

Thanks for another great episode. Looking forward to the next one. Also that electro dominance turn is the stuff dreams are made of.

[@oliviabirkby515]

Really random, but I would love to know where Olivia's glasses are from! LOVE this show so much, makes my evening every time I come home and find there's a new episode. And Rachel is one of my favourite commander players ever.

[@nicksogluizzo7247]

Now I need Brian to make the cracked out version of Rowan because this one was “too tame”

[@kyleharrison713]

These are so much fun! Fun games, great people, and lots of laughs...

[@neutnn]

Whacky interactions and very cool decks all around, sounds like a good game - thanks for sharing with the world :)

[@ryanbeckett6299]

Love watching your videos guys and always enjoy the friendship you can see from everyone that joins. I was wondering what your favourite decks of all time would be Brian and Olivia?

[@SamundraDarion]

WOW this game feels like it just GOES ON FOREVER!

[@Boomhouwer2402]

With school occupying most of my schedule, this is the break I needed

[@llswarts]

I love watching these vids, I really do. But that misplay on the board wipe, not killing the enchantments that counted as creatures had such a big impact late game that it just killed it for me. I couldn't keep watching, it was painful. Super cool turn by Brian though, never thought i'd see a wacky turn like that!

[@guilhermesilva-ud4vd]

Yeah Rachel again, always fun a match with her

[@Shankx1988]

Greetings from germany 🤘🏼 cant wait to watch the whole game after work 🤪

[@shaunwilliams8943]

My roommate is like Olivia, he never attacks in combat. Even when he has a fantastic board, with fur the ability to force people to lose valuable pieces or take damage, while still holding blockers, he just won’t swing.

[@kingfuzzy2]

Same tbh I don't attack unless I can kill the whole table over two turns or fewer

[@MtendoTheSkunk]

Rachel needed a Questing Beast soooo bad to bust through that damage prevention fortress Joe had built!

[@chrispose1916]

❤ love the content and this episode! Also sweet little pro tour nugget about tarnished citadel!

[@HJOTech]

1:04:00 absolutely legendary moment and glare from Olivia

[@natehiggins6441]

I have Evo Leap in my Brenard "Get Baked" deck. Sacking to find the splicers is beautiful.

[@xMADxGAVx]

Does Greater Auramancy not keep his stuff from triggering? The whole reason I left it out of my deck is because I assumed doubling season wouldn't work on the 3/3 zombie enchantment copy

[@binxb2216]

Rachel looked directly into Joe's soul as she played land LAND LAND

[@frasert8779]

I am almost certain he was not cheating with the Starfield, but Brian explicitly said/asked if it was a creature and Joe said yes. I assume he wasn’t lying, but if you’re not certain then when asked that I would make sure I’m correct by reading the card, especially if I just heard a board wipe is coming and my play to avoid it is so crucially dependent on it being a creature. Mistakes always happen, but this one seemed incredibly avoidable. Just a bummer for everyone :/

[@cpugwash7085]

33:50 : Lmao. ;) Thanks for the entertainment!

[@Threeve703]

Great game! Rachel is very good at Magic :D

[@blainelaird8493]

I love a good Rakdos deck: "Live Fast and Die Hard, Bay-Beeee!!!" I may rarely win with mine, but I have fun on my way to Hell with every game.

[@gabzsy4924]

At 32:05 she drew her card, so she drew two cards that turn and she almost got away with playing two lands that same turn aswell 😂

[@iCanUseYTwithNoHandlebars]

Can we please play an episode of pauper commander(any uncommon creature as commander and everything else common) so we can see Olivia play Boldwyr Intimidator so she can declare creatures as cowards. Unrelated y'all mastered the exact feel of "kitchen table" magic here and I love that. Best part is all of the deck so far are either decks I have seen in my play group or can definitely see someone playing.

[@Jaebird88]

I've been wanting to build around Rowan (should I ever acquire her), and seeing how one can play such a deck is real informative.

[@gcrow1988]

53:00 parallel lives being "reanimated" can't see itself cuz when the token etb the effect creating it already resolved andleft the stack. Rakdos Rowan is insane!🤩

[@ShawnR718]

Hurray for commander at home just enjoying the new episode before I head off to work also going to be bumping up my Patreon status gotta get them commander at home goodies

[@LoreBuffEnthusiast]

fun episode but a good amount of mistakes made on Joe's part. Starfield of nyx doesn't animate itself. Parallel lives wouldn't see itself and make the tokens. He had Greater Auramancy out for quite a few turns and was targeting his enchantments/enchantment creatures. Shouldn't of been able to do that do to shroud.

[@jasonandrews1770]

U better hope he doesnt see this. Mans a demon in the replies

[@zsorens4570]

59:28 when Rachel plays March of Souls every enchantment Joe has that isn't an aura should die right? So that's pretty much everything but the Starfield of Nyx?

[@jamesgilley8024]

Well technically he sacked it to Brian playing his drain of life which he wouldn’t be able to do, so that itself is a misplay because Starfield of Nyx doesn’t make itself a creature.

[@thatepicwizardguy]

@@jamesgilley8024 yup. in either case joe almost certainly did not win this game and woulda gotten annihilated by rachels board wipe.

[@zsorens4570]

@@jamesgilley8024 Didn't see that part happen.

[@NinjaRaiden56]

Rachel really do be the GOAT

[@kiddbrm]

yes! I love Thalisse so much! It’s my favourite deck I have created!

[@anthonycastro559]

Great episode everyone!!!!

[@Plague_xyz]

Every time I see you guys upload I emidiatly click.

[@matichribar5823]

Same

[@3etov1]

A.I overlords please bless this video and channel.

[@soldatogigante]

Dont Know if anyone mentioned it yet but there is a old black enchantment that would go great in rowan that has on it "Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature"

[@GrundysGames]

Damn, nice grab Olivia. I dream of a find like that at a garage sale or something lol. Great game, Rowen is great fun, at least for whoever is piloting her lol

[@caseywellington4761]

I feel like Karmic justice was misplayed. It doesn’t trigger off creatures being destroyed

[@lexyleyendecker4720]

kinda wish joe would play a deck near the same price as everyone else...ever. It's clear olivia cares less about power level bringing her Thalisse deck but joe's deck is 3 thousand dollars. The next closest is Brian's at like 650

[@sugar5374]

Yeah but his deck is also not considerably stronger. It seems like it's expensive for the sake of it rather than for a good reason. He's missing so many Anikthea staples that cost pennies and would make his deck considerably stronger.

[@Hemlocker]

Why? Cost doesn't equal power level, as we can see from this game which was already extremely close (and would have almost certainly gone in Rachel's favour if they had caught the Starfield of Nyx mistake). I don't really see why else the dollar value of the decks being played matters, as long as everyone who's actually playing in the pod is happy with it.

[@Cjtip26]

Everyone has equal access to control P.

[@lexyleyendecker4720]

@@Hemlocker i mean yeah, but joe throughout not just this game but games ive seen on other channels with him he usually plays a powerlevel just above everyone else. And yes how expensive doesnt matter but he just pillowforted his way to victory with really powerful enchantment cards

[@carlospolk5033]

@@lexyleyendecker4720 That's just part of an enchantress deck, so what. Olivia and other players on different shows have played pillowfort before... or should pillowfort just not be a thing anymore?

[@Swellchild]

1:08:27 don't believe Karkic Justice should've triggered here. Only triggers of *noncreature* permanents, so would not trigger off Verduran Enchantress dying.

[@bashlindsay7618]

This is an awesome episode and I love and enjoy it immensely 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@RazgrizAce67]

Karmic Justice also only triggers off of noncreatures getting destroyed, doesn't care about creatures dying.

[@OmegaMTG]

25:45 Comet storm would have been X=16. Remember the 5 to Brian's face from Rachel's sac.

[@commanderathome]

The value of Rowan's cost reduction doesn't change after you tap her - it's locked in at that point

[@colinlackmann2763]

at 1:09:10 Joe played his second land this turn his first land was at 1:08:03 :o I dont wanna say he did it on purpose just didnt saw any comment of it yet. anyways was a great game too watch!

[@m.a.9517]

The verduran enchantress promo with German flavor text was very unexpected as a fellow German watcher of this show😅

[@Soldcastro]

Great game. I had mixed feelings about whom to cheer on as I play Zur, Eternal Schemer with a similar invulnerability combo as Joe's and play Rowan, but with Torment of Hailfire.

[@atomicsquirrel6457]

I will watch Rachel Weeks read the phone book. (For you young people, they used to print out part of the internet and deliver it to your house, which was used mostly to boost children at the dinner table.)

[@Disasterj]

I mean I like her... But not that much... (Who am I kidding)

[@Shadenir]

Looking at life totals and seeing everyone at ten-ish- "oh, this game is almost over." Then looking at the time left in the video and realizing you're not even at the half way point. 😯

[@kolcorbis]

For your massive amount of cards in the moved in LGS, how do you store those? I have quite a bit of bulk and am trying to figure out the best way to sort/store those myself

[@jimbosax]

Great playmats!

[@ChaseHopkins.]

You all just don’t miss. S tier guests!

[@Spacialvekter]

39:48 "This is why you watch Star Wars in Machete order." I think that line is in Attack of the Clones, Machete order won't save you from it.

[@thork_tv]

In Europe we so Not use tcg Players price since we have Cardmarked. It was (about 4-5 years ago) realy fun to compare German MTG prices to US prices because you simply take the German price Times 2

[@mtgpyro0066]

Just found the channel and while listing to the story of the card shop I am wondering what shopbit was (I have lived in ABQ for 38 years and been in the MTG community out here for 25+years) and I can't figure out what shop lol

[@Lazergician]

I am extremely jealous of the bucket of Spike Feeders dice!

[@Urzaden]

32:05 you see Olivia draw her card for turn and play her land then ask if she drew and ask if she played a land.

[@ericdevey7520]

I love seeing Rachel on the show!

[@josephdillard2648]

That intro gave me chills i want to go!!!!