Either Blake wins or he quits! - The Worst Possible Commander Show 136

[@damiantey4593]

The stack interaction this game.... Pure insanity

[@xXYourShadowDaniXx]

I think this is the most stack interaction/confusion I've seen in a long time tbh 😆

[@ThatHoodlum19]

The stack this game was next level. Thank god CGB is all over it. Thanks for the year of content, its been a great watch. Much love from Down Under.

[@duanebaptiste3881]

The people in the comments seem to forget the special interaction of Mesmeric Orb and Mothman. Mesmeric Orb triggers off each permanent being untapped separately. So Mothman does trigger that many times as well. She’s just electing to put all those triggers on the moth.

[@corny12345678]

Shoutout to the editor for making everything that was said in the intro - the confetti, the balloons, I laughed out loud 😂

[@makeout_hill]

At around 43:00, after CGB cast Everybody Lives, Shea drew a card from Poliwog. This was her second card drawn and thus CGB would have had to draw from Faerie Mastermind and he would had died to Sheoldred before Everybody Lives resolved.

[@cokolwiekwpisane]

also he cant target her with miss bumbleflower from talisman, because all players have hexproof

[@AlthalusKanemtg]

Doesn't Miss Bumbleflower also have draw cards as part of her second cast trigger?

[@LukasPlasil]

"Iam not mad, Iam just angry". Best quote

[@lonelongboarder27]

Shea, 6 straight turns of playing an unanswered threat that can end the game. Turn 7: I'm gonna do it again!

[@Nemhain26]

I think the Mothman will win because I have a Mothman deck myself :) It's almost like I'd win Edit: Funny thing with Syr Konrad seeing your commander die is that it deals 1 damage for your commander dying and then deals 1 again when it goes to the command zone, because it left the graveyard to go to the command zone ('704.6d In a Commander game, if a commander is in a graveyard or in exile and that object was put into that zone since the last time state-based actions were checked, its owner may put it into the command zone' - not a replacement effect, you get the choice after it hits the graveyard)

[@coledaly7905]

CGB: i hate group hug Also CGB: my commander of the year is Ms bumbleflower

[@xaxscratchxax926]

Before watching, mothman feeds valgavoth.

[@skykur]

They’re both moths, makes sense 😂

[@captainmurphy4949]

eh, true but valgavoth decks also feed valgavoth so its just nice redundancy

[@Geoff_W]

It turned out to be the opposite 😂

[@LuizVotto]

True, but…

[@hjrosas071]

Have you guys considered playing removal?

[@ericbennett8765]

its so crazy watching how far this show has come from the first episode to now, honestly awesome and such a joy to watch

[@yevgeniyapechenaya2956]

Don't quit Blake! Resolutions are made to be broken

[@silentbob6158]

Thank you guys. Happy New Year!

[@sethmeaseles3301]

The moth calls. The great predictor of disaster and I'm feeling a disaster of a game in this one. Mothman on top.

[@helloeleeoh]

Prematch, Blake gets his Millennium Calendar dub because I dont want him to quit

[@harru1568]

Nice game. Thanks for the effort to keep the stack clear for people to follow the game. Minor nitpick at 47:43, technically the creatures do deal damage during the Everybody Lives! effect, only the life loss is prevented, not the damage. So CGB should have drawn from the Kutzil trigger.

[@rossmiller1443]

Don't quit Blake, just quit Calendar 😂

[@josephus_paulus]

"I'm not mad, I'm just angry." Is a mood, and I can emphasize Blake.

[@patriciopereyra4117]

This game was son incredible fun to watch! Thank you guys for the great vibes. I have found your show this year I am almost out of old chapter to see, you have been great, the dynamics between you are incredible (we need more of Gina, she is so charming on camera) and its obvious that you are a bunch of friends playing the game without any unnecesasary exageration or anything, you can get salty with each other and still be the coolest of all. Thank you for helping me pass this really crappy year, see you in 2025 :)

[@Cerebrate0Fenix]

I’m gonna miss Blake.

[@corijobman3379]

I was so happy when I saw the thumb because it was just a bunch of my favorite decks from the show this year, not to mention three of four being in circulation in my main pod

[@corijobman3379]

And for who I think is gonna win I gotta go with Shea, I think Mothman’s finally coming through today

[@corijobman3379]

MOTHMAAAAAAAAAN!!

[@robertschnurschuh6682]

This was pure insanity, love it!

[@ericasimon8274]

Very fun game!! Yall need to run more removal though 😂

[@bradleyayres613]

i think Ben deserves to win purely based on the fact that he has learnt how to say 'Valgavoth' if that ain't character development, I dunno what is. proud of you man!

[@loganbushor2481]

idk if it wins idc, LET THE CALENDER WIN!!!! BLAKE WE BELIEVE!

[@mattipaarni8594]

Good job on keeping track on most stack triggers. I think a few Valgavoths might have been missed. Amazing game to end the year and congratz Shae

[@HootNBerries]

Happy New Year to my favorite Commander show!

[@hollowknight4630]

The Ms. Bumbleflower hugs are gonna pull through I know it Edit: sheoldred has hit the board it’s so over

[@Nekophiliac]

Mothman’s ability SPREADS counters across X targets. You can’t roid up one creature with X counters. If they mill 4 Nonland cards, up to 4 separate-target creatures can gain a single +1/+1 counter.

[@rabidpickleosrs2995]

Best episode of the year. Glad to see my favorite Commander win!

[@darraghtyrrell9240]

Looking forward to 2025 watching you guys jam some more games!

[@Gingeneer]

Bloodchief Ascension's second ability should still gain life even if the opponents don't lose life due to Everybody Lives right? Since the second ability is only checking if you elect to cause opponents to lose life, and not checking to see if life was actually lost.

[@OdinMagnus]

Yeah, pretty much. Since it doesn't target you still get to make the choice to offer the loss of life.

[@eventuelleon748]

thought the same, luckilyit didnt matter

[@dustinwrightson7447]

Blake stay on this show please try keep going for that win please

[@mrxpibb]

39:20 How did Shea not attack with lethal Mothman into Valgavoth?

[@Threeve703]

I'm not even halfway into this game and it is already SPICY as hell!

[@tzeentchian]

Yeah, some of those triggers were not resolved correctly, plus I think the life gain of the bloodchief ascension would have gone off even without the opponent surviving as it’s a trigger from the ascension, and not something that targets the opponent

[@lilmaeifert]

Best episode yet (and not just because Shea won)! Happy new year!!!

[@ishitoyohrokaku7901]

this game is hilarious! what a way to end 2024! i’m laughing at all the triggers that goes on the stack and evryone squirming at all the painful mills, damages, and losses of life 🤣 Happy New Year Team CovertGoBlue!

[@amellie2]

that foil treatment of Ms Bumbleflower is not gonna help my wallet

[@josephwhaley8209]

Well, it was a good game! Happy New Year!

[@Guevon_Pajaro]

This game is once again a prime example for dummy commended players to PLAY MORE REMOVAL. It's hilarious that players that play an adequate and not overboard # of removal spells get labeled control players, like crim, but ffs, PSA build a balanced deck with removal as well as ramp and everything else!

[@ForeverGazette]

Thank you all for an amazing year. Has been a blast spending time with you. Much love, and looking forward to hanging with you in the year to come 🌸🌺💕

[@icreateimage7908]

The wise moth man! It's just going to feed off Miss Bumbleflower.

[@iatebambismom]

Just from the title alone I'm expecting Shea to win with some landfall calendar shenanigans. Somehow also using craterhoof.

[@syncwolf3375]

I'm happy shea won, also cgb mentioning the mighty ducks is funny too. Great movies

[@sebastianl4135]

At 5:44 and my bet is on… Ms. Bumbleflower piloted by CGB. The only way that doesn’t happen is if they all gang up to murder CGB quickly or he draws into enough bricks somehow to build a house because this combination is a menace.

[@sebastianl4135]

Shea is even more of a menace! I guess they did kind of team up against CGB with the dual-burn and punish strategies out of Shea and Ben just slicing through CGB's and Blake's life totals. Blake also helped by not being very helpful against either of these strategies and being overly-content to just watch CGB burn, even if he burned to death with him… GOOD GAME~ ALL~!

[@NicoTown]

47:50 Everyone has hexproof so shea cant draw a card from Ms. Bumbleflower triggering, right?

[@thatepicwizardguy]

Shea already won best of the year. Don't even need to watch the game... but I will anyway. (Although CGB keeps bringing us banger content so... maybe CGB is actually just the winner overall?)

[@thatepicwizardguy]

yup I was right. Shea has just been a beast this year so like... yeah lol

[@TheBigPenguu]

Please don't quit, Blake! Maybe just quit trying to make the Calendar work...

[@teejayaaron]

wait so does mothman trigger only once for the rads or does he trigger x individual times equal to nonland cards milled durng rads?

[@mikec5563]

One trigger for each instance of milling, with x being the number of nonlands that were milled in that particular instance.

[@teejayaaron]

@mikec5563 are there any official rulings with this? Only asking because my pod is extremely anal with this stuff

[@Adelbrine]

I think Blake's time for a Calendar win has finally come.

[@nikoboivin]

6:03 I’ll say… as much as it pains me… Bumbleflower. But I am forever rooting for the calendar win, if only to cut to a shot of Aggretsuko

[@Geoff_W]

CGB misunderstood the blood chief trigger. The life gain is not dependent on the loss of life occuring, they are resolved separately. Even after CGB died, the triggers still resolve.

[@fadedblade]

Before even watching, I'm betting blake brought a millennium calendar deck

[@veritatas678]

That was a super fun game. Thanks and happy new year

[@henrygandelman]

As a man of culture myself, I have list many a game trying to make the millenium calendar work, so I'm rooting for Benjamin today

[@Alakokain]

I want to believe the calendar. Let there be a thousand damage to end it all this year.

[@TravisCloud-t6h]

When CGB dies Sheas bloodchief triggers get exiled on the stack for the cards he previously milled. Im a bit confused as the owner of bloodchief wouldn’t Shea still get the life gain triggers as she is the controller of bloodchief and those triggers are hers?

[@therealax6]

When an ability is worded using "if you do", as Bloodchief Ascension's is, the part that comes before is a cost (rule 118.12). In this case, since CGB has left the game, the cost cannot be paid. Therefore, the part of the ability that depends on that cost (gaining 2 life) doesn't happen.

[@dracul115]

The deck I ordered was my Bria infect deck. I bet that Shea would like it because it can give Inkmoth prowess and unblockable.

[@silentbob6158]

I'm gonna say Ben with Valgavoth.

[@A3sth3tik]

ss that actually how it works? you can draw cards from the one ring leaving the sheoldred trigger on the stack and you can just keep playing? I would think the effect of the one ring would go on the stack (instead of immediately resolving they they were doing every time, and as it resolves you immediately get pinged my Sheoldred. I am a long time returning player though so I'm probably wrong. The stacking in this game just didn't seem correct throughout the vid. how they would all draw a bunch of cards but leave all the damage stacks from sheoldred being to resolve later.

[@midwesternviking_ttv2986]

Shouldn't Valgavoth be much larger?

[@jaredlink962]

Correct me if I'm wrong, and it wouldnt have really mattered in this instance.. but CGB wouldn't have drawn a card off of Kutzil because with everyone having protection, no damage was dealt, therefore, Kutzil's ability wouldn't have triggered. Correct?

[@harru1568]

At that point he drew from the Twenty-Toed Toad attack trigger. Technically he should have drawn from Kutzil. Since the damage is not prevented, just the life loss.

[@steelstallion75]

I look forward to seeing Blake’s resignation letter posted on the channel feed. Valgavoth will be victorious 6:32

[@brandyourfan9244]

Great game guys. More proof that removal wins games

[@68freighttrain]

Being a Millennium Calendar fan myself, I'm gonna have to root for Derevi!

[@ultimateform8714]

The triggered effects this game were crazy!

[@lifestyle936]

As someone who grew up with xbox and cryptids the mothman deck is my favorite.

[@leozmaxwelljilliumz3360]

It's hard to believe not 1 of you had any artifact removal that entire game with all the cards drawn 😅. Not sure if you don't run it, or just dont run enough artifact/enchantment removal but that killed me to watch 😂. Shea does it again!

[@lachkrampf6627]

I wanted to get myself a ms Bumbleflower deck partly because of this show. sadly couldn’t find one in any of the lgs around me… hope the bunny proves itself again

[@runcmd1419]

Bloomburrow decks are getting a 2nd print run, you can preorder them for january i think.

[@TheBoognish7]

Why don't you ever alternate shea and ben, or ben and Blake to mix up the reaction order?

[@pokeyclawz8727]

Bumbleflower and valgavoth are like complete polar opposites lol

[@D88Jaxon]

Can’t believe Shea Takes out Blake (guess)

[@jamesmatherne6575]

Blake missed so many instances of adding counters to add counters to calander. Every time his permanents untapped it got counters.

[@wlsack]

Only during the upkeep.

[@king_eternal]

40:30 Blake COULD NOT cast a spell or activate any abilities during CBG's mill nor can CBG activate Faerie Mastermind with mills remaining because all cards are milled in 1 game action. "In Magic: The Gathering, when instructed to mill cards (putting cards from the top of your library into your graveyard), you can't interrupt or interact with the game in between each individual card being milled. The milling process happens all at once. However, some abilities or effects might trigger or go on the stack during the milling process. If that happens, you'll wait until the milling is complete, then resolve those triggered abilities or effects. Keep in mind that if a card's ability or effect cares about a specific card being milled, it's only going to check after all the milling is done." As Sheoldred, The Apocalpyse's loss of life for drawing cards does not use the stack. "According to the official Magic: The Gathering rules, state-based actions (like losing life) don't use the stack. Instead, they happen automatically when certain conditions are met."

[@elosy_the_thoughtless]

It's X triggers of "mill 1", where X is the number of permanents untapped.

[@king_eternal]

@@elosy_the_thoughtless Ahhh it's not mill X, it's mill 1 repeat the process X times. Good to know Thank you

[@aznpholyfe6693]

shea with her hands up like im scared ben lol lmao

[@MattTorres]

yet another reminder i need to make sure i have sufficient interaction in my decks if for no other reason than to keep stacks manageable from permanents going crazy every upkeep and end step lmao

[@Narstrand6]

19:26 this is not how the Mothman works. If you read the text again, it says that X amount of creatures gets ONE counter each. You cannot give one creature X counters :) Great video as always, happy holidays and happy new year!

[@stefanopalmieri334]

You are correct in understanding how mothman works, but mesmeric orbs puts separate triggers on the stack, so that mothman can get several counters.

[@steelstallion75]

Damn, crazy start from Shae. Where’s the interaction boys??!?!

[@saemsodjesft8901]

Mesmeric Orb plus Bloodchief's Ascension is truly disgusting.

[@rwaaful]

This shae mill is so much value it’s insane

[@Guevon_Pajaro]

Ngl Blake's gameplay choices this year have made it very hard to beleive, but I BELEIVE! He will finally win, calendar or not. #1 Blake supporter. 😊 My pre match prediction. Let's get it

[@LordKaiju_2]

At 5:46 in the video and I think Millennium Calendar will win.

[@shervinnaimi3028]

Well this comment didn't age well

[@manwithabasicprofilepic]

An interesting fact, that Ms. Bumbleflower card costs over $200 dollars. I should know, I want it soooo bad!

[@arrivtuber]

43:19 If Blake really wanted to he could have untapped his one ring hoping to mill a creature to mesmeric orb and take out Cgb with sheas Sir conrad and then die himself to the sir conrad and the Bloodchief ascension triggers while everybody lives was still on the stack (It would have been the card he drew from bumble flower which from his reaction was at least not a land)

[@gideonberry4520]

Just want to point out that she old red triggers after each individual draw, not after all cards are drawn

[@steveallen590]

Before watching I hope Blake wins because I want him to stay on the show

[@jakebrodowski9]

Before watching. I think Bumbleflower will be a real group hug deck with tons of effects like howling mine and tired of flourishing etc. So he'll end up speeding up the game a lot but another deck will win. I am thinking Wise Mothman wins.

[@void91g]

[@singingchameleon2610]

So who's going to replace Blake?

[@phoenixblaze5491]

"idk how this game goes 2 more turns" 30 mins still left lmao

[@RatoInsano]

Are you guys taking applications to replace Blake?

[@Zimmyt11]

Shea missed an opportunity not taping rad counters under seats😊 Sheaters be Sheating

[@StriderUSA]

Thanks everybody! Enjoyed the game and the show ! 🎉🎉😂

[@matthewherr9246]

Shay dominated from the start! Congrats on the win!

[@crss29]

The Christmas episode Christmas episode card!!!

[@Cm91489]

Awesome game, congrats to the winner!! 🎉 thanks for a fun year of games

[@JManRox13]

I know that this game Blake will definitely get the win with the millenium calendar. There's no way he could lose. It's too powerful.

[@IonBeamXXIV]

commenting before the game, I sadly have to bet against blake's calendar coming through for him. The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over repeatedly expecting a different result. I don't see anyone beating mrs. bumbleflower, so I'm betting on CGB! But I would also love to see a mothman victory because Shea deserves it

[@IonBeamXXIV]

Woo lets go Shea! Mothman FTW!