Hakbal of the Surging Power Creep

Please Mark stop hitting on your water aerobics instructor by making overpowered aquatic cards.
#magicthegathering #mtg #mtgcommander #mtgcommunity #cardgame

[@Mtgreenftw]

The professor demanded merfolk be good again, and wotc listened

[@kildooma.659]

yeah but no this good!

[@photonman63]

They probably watched how Prof plays his merfolk and decided he deserved a big ol' handicap🤣 Much love to the Prof, of course

[@WittyCorvian]

I feel that the 1st ability would have been enough to make Hakbal overpowered, but having ramp on top of the ability? Not even legos stack that easily

[@kildooma.659]

@@WittyCorvian yeah! There is also another merfolk creature from the main set that ramps when you explore for land!

[@MidgarMerc]

It's a pretty clear indicator that this card is OP when ALL 3 of the other precon commanders got added to Arena EXCEPT this one which got replaced with the good boy himself Xolatoyac. Keep in mind the dinosaur precon commander adds Butt Cascade to ALL your dinos and THAT was considered more fair than this

[@collinbeal]

Yeah, the Butt Cascade is egregious, as is the shitting pirates out of your graveyard

[@Matt_Robert]

i had a game last night where i Copied my commander as a non-legendary. i was exploring 4 times per creature per turn. i dropped simic ascendency on the board and hit 20 counters instantly. then proceeded to Phase my creatures And simic ascendency out before it got disenchanted. and the guy who had the disenchant was the one player that went before Me. so on my upkeep i won the game for simple breathing.

[@Red-Tower]

"technically" they did add this one because of some excuse about it being "too hard to program" in the Arena engine or something, but yeah kinda weird.

[@charcharmunr]

Apparently it comes down to Hakbal's exploring thing being wonky as hell to program into Arena, because you have to stack the triggers manually for each Merfolk and that just gets awkward with Arena's playstyle.

[@tunamako5733]

Might I interest yall in Echoing equation?

[@Gimpocalypse]

"This is the best thing to happen to fish people since Old Bay." Damn it you got me with that one.

[@DigitalRageDragon]

Chef kiss material right there

[@Gimpocalypse]

Also while I'm here, I'm gonna once again ask for my baby boi Tayam, but let's also see what you can say about my girl (yes she's a female) Horobi, Death's Wail.

[@apocalypticsword5524]

@@Gimpocalypse Horobi is just endless instant gratification for anyone who's ever had a bone to pick with green players. Also it's a lot of fun to run athreos against Horobi. I enjoy watching the irritation on the Horobi players face as they realise that my coin counter will always go on Horobi.

[@bobwilson679]

That comment about someone at WOTC hating Kumena HAS to be spot on, it's the only reasonable explanation. Hakbal is just so insanely good, he is now the ONLY competitor for best merfolk commander.

[@pencilwatchesstuff791]

Pretty sure they just love money more than they hate kumena.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

Reasonable exploration* 😏

[@fenixmeaney6170]

Or I could just put him IN my kumena deck....

[@borneof3954]

Vohar is also top tier merfolk commander.

[@wedgearyxsaber]

​@@borneof3954 it really isn't, it has nothing to do with merfolk so it wouldn't tie the theme together, it provides substantially less card draw and ramp than hakbal, and black is a color with few to no other merfolk so you end up just playing blue merfolk with black splashed in.

[@xxlharvesterlxx2121]

“More fucked up than half the things on wattpad” yep. Classic Maldhound

[@KomradeKrisis1701]

The line about Johnny Sins fucking sent me to orbit

[@ryanclark3559]

Can we get a roast of Feather? Not even Boros needs to be cheating that much

[@TheCrazyPlayer]

After this, I think Boros *might* need that much cheating. But also, Feather is, indeed, grade A bullshit. Bring on the roast!

[@kanga2468]

I absolutely LOVE Feather. Gods Willing? Don't mind if I do!

[@bazzam429]

Hey boros has literally done nothing wrong

[@andrewspears8891]

I've asked a few times already. On every other player's turn during their post combat main phase before they move to end step.

[@andrewspears8891]

​@kanga2468 Loran's Escape is almost strictly better than God Willing. I run both of them of course.

[@Did_No_Wrong]

Yeah I saw this card and thought "what the hell this is insane" Because from enchantment, etb triggers and tokens your gonna have 15 merfolks with over 10/10 power in 1 turn.

[@TheNecrossix]

He really be out there in them 'whilds'

[@TheMusicjunkie5]

Man Maldhound was in top form with this one, my sides hurt.

[@Dizzy0422]

Literally just finished a game of commander with my buddy playing Hakbal. We blinked and his board was fucking huge on like turn 5 or 6

[@richardlam171]

You know, you could build the deck to win with Thassa's Oracle ina somewhat fair way. Explore till you're holding all your lands, everything else in the graveyard, and a bunch of devotion on the field from all the merfolk. Although I guess if you can vomit fish people out you probably win at that point anyway.

[@Zero_The_Crow]

Nanogene conversion turns all your other merfolk into non-legendary Hakbals, each makes everyone of them explore. If you have 10 total creatures that's 100 triggers right there.

[@TheCrazyPlayer]

I knew this day was only a matter of time, given Mald’s loathing of Simic, and how overwhelmingly busted this card is. But, at the Professor is happy; there’s a great Merfolk commander now. P.S. I would like to second a commentary on The Master, Multiplied. Because that shit is fuck busted. (Why, yes, I plan to build such a deck. I’m very well aware I’m a villain; I play Slivers.)

[@piercearora7681]

You play slivers... you monster... you deserve to play against three other Slivers players.

[@TheCrazyPlayer]

@@piercearora7681 I have only met one other person as terrible as I am, and their deck was trash. I stand alone most of the time.

[@MetalHev]

I like how the first part is already insanely busted, but it also has "oh btw when it attacks, draw a card lol" just because

[@gankgoat8334]

Shape of water meets Fifty shades of grey.

[@neildaniels1423]

Ahahahahahaha Mald almost broke character when he said the Johnny Sins line ahahahahaha! God damn he's funny but so accurate.

[@mishrasworkshop]

TBF Kumena +2 merfolk and Dramatic Scepter draws your whole deck. Bros ceiling is still the moon.

[@persenseofficial1579]

My brother played Hakbal at our table last week. Fuckin hell it was insane

[@ConsistentImprovement]

So many good jokes in this one. That Jonny Sins line 💀

[@davidflaherty2152]

Hakbal was my first commander. Such a fun deck, and you can get scary.

[@superslash7254]

It's like someone looked at this and thought "Wait, we need to make elves as broken as blue decks."

[@takanuva6167]

Would love to see you Roast Jon Irenicus, Shattered One. Giving all your creatures an assault suit and having them fight is hilarious to me.

[@BR4IN1N4J4R]

If you don't think Merfolk can make enough, my deck will be capable of making...infinite Merfolk.

[@jroden06]

This and the Tishana's Tidebinders have me reeling. Video was on point and hilarious as always ❤ Please roast Meren of Clan Nel Toth next!

[@legendarysteel1757]

Could you do Davros, Dalek Creator or The Master, Multiplied? I would love to see how you would roast the dried raisin in a walmart motorchair or myriad token abuse with an identity crisis.

[@eieneidnf]

Wait which master is on the art? Or is it all of them (even the swamp thing one)

[@patrickboland2231]

Simms Master after he's pulled off his"Oops, All Masters" plan.

[@eieneidnf]

@patrickboland2231 controversial take, but i don't think simms' master could really get it- while his performance was great, i just don't see the appeal in him aesthetically

[@thebitterfig9903]

@@eieneidnf I figure the only one The Master, Multiplied can get it from is Missy. The real hard question: can the Crispy Master get it?

[@quintonhollis4666]

So when this commander was spoiled, I thought it would be pretty strong. However, after playing it, it's actually so much stronger than I even thought. With one of the token generators that the deck has, you can easily explore 4-7 times the turn you drop this guy. At one point, I explored like 9+ times on turn 6. You can just easily sift through your deck to find whatever merfolk or disruption you currently need, and forget about being mana-starved, you're gonna be discarding lands to hand size. It's one of those cards that seems strong in theory, but in action is just the nuts. Easily the strongest of the 4 pre-cons.

[@sithdragon3333]

Can confirm my Hakbal deck is ridiculously stupid and I love it

[@isaacmartin2481]

Of course, he can get it. All he does is all the exploring; you're about to be in for the ride of your life.

[@The1AndOnlyGoldenboy]

It's Chris Mooney. Chris is the one that utterly despises Kumena.

[@erickschusterdeoliveira2662]

as once you said "merfolk are just wet elves, they come pre-lubricated and they reproduce even faster" or something like that

[@laytonjr6601]

And I thought Path of Discovery was the only way to mass explore

[@Foetoid2k6]

Let's roast the under-loved and under-appreciated Shattergang Brothers. It's Jund sacrifice for everyone!

[@highshelf]

Better version: whenever a merfolk you control attacks, explore. At the begining of your end step put a land on the battlefield

[@henrysanders3901]

I heard that as Jonny Sims and was so, so deeply confused

[@caseywellington4761]

You need to roast Feldon of the Third Path! Somebody decided that red gets repeatable reanimation and it is my favorite mistake they ever made. And it's not even a color pie break because the entire card is about passion and emotions!

[@TheAshaVala]

Goddamn wet elves. Making us dry elves look bad

[@RobRuckus65]

My buddy got this precon and out of the box it is horrifyingly simic. It snowballs fast.

[@ente48161able]

I need to point out that he didn't even mention the second paragraph!

[@horuspines9924]

Say, lets make a deal TriggeredDog. You talk about Yawgmoth, I get you a cheese pizza

[@colinbamsey5262]

Me who JUST started goldfishing my hakbal deck last night waking up to this

[@ryanmann5497]

Just wait till you get the guy that says ‘whenever you explore, do so twice more’ 😂😂😂😂

[@kinryuten]

Bought the merfolk deck, originally was gonna use Nicanzil as I like waifu commanders but decided one game with Hakbal, immediately sold! And uh I'd like to see Chatterfang before Bloomburrow.

[@twlvfngrs]

I think it's still like the first or second time asking about tiny bones

[@jakeair62]

Ty for telling me I'm building a wet elf deck now

[@klockmusiclover]

I want to hear the roast of my favorite commander Arcades, The Strategist. That would be some of the best shit I have ever heard

[@oceanallama]

I've got the precon for this and wow does it get out of hand, especially late game with 15 merfolk out and Nicanzil shows her face and get 60 +1/+1 counters in one turn.

[@photonman63]

The resignation on the gettin'-it judgement was a superb punchline Once again asking to roast old Scion of the Ur-Dragon for us senior citizens(read: over 30s)

[@sithdragon3333]

When will we get a roast of Rocco, Street Chef or The Mycotyrant

[@gabriellefton6389]

The first ability is so strong he doesnt need to talk about the second ability

[@madmulk9]

I wanna see him tier list every single Omnath.

[@gatheringstormgaming9061]

I yearn, I cry, I PLEA, for Diaochan, Artful Beauty

[@Pluto137]

Prof has to be watching this

[@Venzynt]

bro got bars fr 💀

[@jjcc8379]

Nicanzil , Current Conductor ... it's the BFF of Hakdal. If you explore a land, you play it instantly. If not, Nicanzil gets a counter too. AND BOTH ARE ON THE SAME PRECON

[@colemcnutt4136]

I know itle probably never get seen, but 36th request for Sapling of Colfenor for a roast

[@inigomontoya4109]

Still need to do Tasigur, the golden fang. The amount of bullshit the banana king is capable of is nuts. Infinite graveyard recursion, the ability to put your entire library in your hand with infinite mana and infinitely cast any spell out of your hand. It's a totally fair sultai commander

[@loganseibel2725]

Day 5 asking for Atla Palani, Come at me bro! The deck.

[@purgeutopia8696]

I need that Kresh the Blood Braids roast.

[@Cal-fr9mw]

Phabine, Boss’s Confidant 😢

[@nachopi6216]

Can we get a Chatterfang video to show the power of squirrels.

[@LucasSchulz-vg4ng]

shorikai roast? i need some anger towards my beloved value engine

[@ZackofSpades]

Now I'm wondering if I should build some merfolks and support cards into my scry-heavy Intet commander deck...

[@sonic21blast88]

Merfolks: The Wet Elves

[@rayjones8602]

Saw your stream earlier, made me redownload arena. First game I made a green pay his taxes with mono black.

[@HarmonicResonanceScale]

Requesting a roast of Osgir, the reconstructor.

[@bluenewwave13]

man's spittin Fire today!

[@noghaltz16]

Boros players would like some love, starting with a roast of my favorite "heroic" legendary Feather.

[@jedediahcoulbourne1791]

You explore, but you find extra bullets every time you go out

[@Blooming.Grove1]

Lets go! Once again. Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer that morph is just creatures as if they were blue.

[@ElChad]

Me and two buddies have been playing the precons on Spelltable, and my god does Hakbal go far. That deck is like ten levels higher than the pirates and vampires it's absolutely unreal

[@seaniburg3778]

Can we get a roast for the new Vito?

[@takeyouforgranite7850]

I will keep asking until it happens: Smeagol, Helpful Guide, PLEASE!

[@vechzdavion]

I put Hakbal in my omo deck so now all creatures can be explorers

[@Penprah]

Smashable

[@UncensoredRhett]

Aragorn the Uniter. Someone put the VALUE sticker gun on automatic firing and hit this fucking card 4 times!

[@vinceangelomanese7001]

Please do an Ur-Dragon roast. Really wanna see what you can come up with for an ancient, blind cosmic dragon XD.

[@Kobold1650]

Would love a video on Rith, Liberated Primeval.

[@peterbraunschweig2779]

Day ??? of asking for Karametra whenever I remember to

[@schrodingersbeer4751]

Is it time for Life to find it's Origin yet with my boi Go Shintai of Life's Origin, whose name is now in my phones predictive text?

[@arulykan8803]

These rants are godsend for the community, we don't deserve you MaldHound

[@theRon602]

I don't have enough dice for my merfolk deck, double explore from topography tracker goes wild...

[@dantebeleren]

Only a coward would ignore roasting Ham the Tickery Man.

[@rogerrabbit132]

This video has earned you a sub good sir. Seen you on MtG Nerd Girls videos before, but I'm definitely subbing to you now.

[@cmattss4]

I need a Wayta breakdown so bad

[@shanedixon6627]

Played this for the first time yesterday. It was pretty fun. Got the dub too!

[@CoolWhip125698]

Toralf awaits your judgement, he may lightning bolt you for 400 damage though, so be careful

[@baguetteboi5633]

2:12 woah woah woah calm down there Maldhound (Funny though)

[@jmkool01]

Your content is as gold as a 4-color commander! Speaking of, I'm working on a Saskia the Unyielding deck, give us a review?

[@spupergames7771]

Oh and the win con hakbal can use by just being hakbal

[@cedricgagnon8456]

Abbadon the dispoiler when

[@a_guy_in_orange7230]

If I had a nickel for every time a MTG youtuber referenced the Octomom I would have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice

[@macurvello]

Remy?

[@a_guy_in_orange7230]

@@macurvello uh no my names Orange actually

[@breakingblackmagic7617]

love your content bro.

[@lisdexik5484]

I just won a game with this commander using the precon and the amount of unblockable Merfolk I was able to smack with was insane.

[@robertspeedwagon4081]

I wanna know the roast that will come up for Extus, the Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar

[@azelight7931]

I lost to that, out of the box. I was playing golgari zombie swarm and i couldnt do a darn thing about the 17 buff merfolks. Also can we get a roast of Ghyrson Starn, Kelemorph. He is izzet

[@slicemup9]

Would you do Tovolar Direoverlord for a scooby snack?

[@stripeybag6977]

Either Nashi would be nice to see Moon's Scion or Moon's Legacy.

[@krabbekage2124]

Maldhound *please*, we need you roasting THE girlboss Kitt Kanto, Mayhem Diva (day 7)

[@shadedcorner]

Hakbal: exists Mald: and I took that personally

[@yumnits2946]

I'm once again begging for Volo, Guide to Monsters