How did I get here? Miirym vs Scarab God vs Oloro vs Go-Shintai EDH / CMDR game play

[@DarkEinherjar]

Yay, another fellow Miirym player. Welcome to the club, Andrew. 😁 I went full clones with my deck: even if you're not using Sakashima or Spark Double, the first clone you drop, even if it dies to the legend rule (or if Miirym dies to it), will still net you a nonlegendary copy of Miirym, which is all you need to start the train: your other clones can copy that token, so you'll get more and more copies of Miirym the more clones you drop. It spirals out of control VERY FAST: in my latest game, I ended up with NINE Miirym on the field.

[@MTGMuddstah]

I think I've got Phan Image in there, plus Spark and Saka

[@DarkEinherjar]

@@MTGMuddstah Phantasmal Image is one of the few clones I didn't include, because my goal is to copy Miirym as much as possible, and Image's drawback negates the ward.

[@MTGMuddstah]

@@DarkEinherjar Fair, but sometimes I've found I just want a 2 mana extra copy of X on the board.

[@thewrongperson676]

As a predominantly control player. Seeing huge threat cards stay on the field for a whole game hurts my soul.

[@j2c695]

Good :)

[@RecycledCabbage]

I have to say the intro is a huge improvement! Now, onto the games!

[@michaelpepsin9581]

Really cool to see old legends and new legends at the same table

[@newtpondskipper]

Zur in the shrine deck...why didn't I think of that!

[@SteakOSaurier]

7:11 as he let resolve beacon of immortality, should it not get shuffled into his library before casting more stuff with Bolas'? Or did he and we just didn't see it due to video cuts? Great game! Much love, Andrew!

[@DarkEinherjar]

I don't see it in his graveyard, so he must've shuffled it back and Andrew forgot to mention it.

[@MTGMuddstah]

I just skipped narrating that part, sorry!

[@VoiceOfSilence99]

It wasn't shuffled in, you can see it still on the board just above the Swiftfoot Boots when he cast the Pontiff.

[@AidanWR]

It looks like he shuffled it in after he cast the Pontiff of Blight, the deck was in a different position, so it was a misplay

[@kevinkennedy3643]

How in hell did vito stick around for so long!? There were plenty of opportunities but he never was targeted.

[@DarkEinherjar]

Creatures like Zur can induce tunnel vision at times.

[@kevinkennedy3643]

@@DarkEinherjar vito literally needs one card to just win the game especially with bolas citadel, but I get what your saying

[@amarauk9687]

Yep, I was expecting the first terror of the peak's trigger to go there.

[@Iggyboyblue]

@@amarauk9687 He had boots at that point sadly

[@amarauk9687]

@@Iggyboyblue ah I completely overlooked that!

[@Devilish420]

that was a awesome Oloro deck. Bolas's Citadel is OP af! I made a oloro stax and drain deck and one time I pissed off my playgroup real bad with a turn 4 citadel then I was hitting all the bangers i needed to close the game like Kambal, sanguine bond and exquisite blood, and finally a mind's dilation, and when one of the other player's tried to nature's claim the exquisite blood I had the mind's dilation trigger go off 1st since that and kambal both trigger on cast and I hit a counterspell off the top of his library and used his own counterspell to counter the nature's claim then kambal triggered and it was game over for everyone else. Probably the coolest way I ever won a game.

[@amarauk9687]

Is there another way to build oloro other than stax and drain?

[@Devilish420]

@@amarauk9687 Yup, there sure is. In fact the Oloro player in this game built his deck with the classic gain and drain strat in mind and put in Bolas's Citadel just because it really can end games if you hit all the right stuff.

[@nothingbutroaring8868]

Letting the turns go by, let the Bolas hold me down

[@2099arashiko]

Oloro is one of my best and favorite decks. So friggin spicey and dirty that no one expects to murder everyone.

[@Allaryc]

Playing a single piece of interaction challenge : failed

[@PyramidHeadLovesYou]

7:36 He couldn't have cast Pontiff off the top because the Beacon would have shuffled it away before he could cast it (Sorcery speed.)

[@skylarthoma5353]

Ganax is absolutely nutty, especially if you manage to clone it. I run it at the helm with the Feywild Visitor background, and the deck runs several temporary clone effects to get extra etbs. Lemme tell you now: you have not lived until you’ve cast a kicked Rite of Replication on a Scourge of Valkas

[@CurlyHeadGod]

Or Terror of the Peak for instant win madness. Unless playing against that damned oloro player!

[@j2c695]

Guess I’m dead

[@ArcturusMinsk]

Damn, wanted to see that Oloro deck list.

[@turnipton9871]

Oloro is a solved commander, just check EDHRec and slam in any cards that care about gaining life.

[@DanG626]

Can confirm- Bolas’s Citadel is nuts

[@HansHurin]

Minor, non game impacting information: Esika gives other legendary creatures vigilance as well as turning them into dorks

[@JeanSimonLanglois]

Thanks for the 5% F2F! :) Luv your vids!

[@loganfarfanick8890]

Cant wait to build miirym honestly, looks like a ton of fun

[@chrish7830]

It’s reasonably fun, but it plays pretty dumb. I have one and it’s doing very well, it’s 14-4, which in 4-man pods is outstanding. However, every game plays the same: ramp, play dragons/make copies, turn creatures sideways. I have a feeling despite its winning record I’ll be taking it apart sooner than I normally disassemble my decks. It’s just so linear and always plays the same. Also, be prepared to be hated on by opponents as you fart out multiple dragons on T3 or T4. It paints a big target on you.

[@hectormorales4090]

Loved this game ❤. Nice to see more balanced games. 😀

[@matthewmihajlovich4390]

8:54 in addition to you mistakenly sacrificing Realmwalker due to it being a zombie can you explain how you sacrificed it when it was already in the graveyard due to it being killed on Micah's turn right before yours. (not that it mattered since Maximus won the very next turn)

[@nyancat9456]

He still had the token copy his commander made

[@ncuco]

Hello. I'm in jersey for few weeks, from Portugal. You guys ever play here?

[@matthewbottcher8788]

Anybody know what playmat Maximus is using or have a link?

[@gypsieking3280]

Bolas' Citadel can be so gross sometimes. Great game.

[@CurlyHeadGod]

We had a saying in our playgroup: "Bolas's Citadel best commander." Guess it applies here.

[@CurlyHeadGod]

OOH! I see you have good taste in treasure tokens! :)

[@CurlyHeadGod]

OOH! I also see you have good taste in copy tokens! hehe

[@kenny19910]

Great game!

[@adrianwakar41]

Can i get the oloro decklist? :(

[@jupiteru]

Does doubling life total fall under the "life gain" mechanic?

[@HalcyonVentures]

Yes, as it effectively becomes "gain X life, where X is your current life total", double is just easier syntactically

[@jackstrawFW]

Andrew why did you not target vito???

[@j2c695]

Shout to the peanut gallery for having so many points of criticism LOL

[@IamJoshEast]

Maximus didnt sacrifice a creature on his last upkeep before winning. Not that it would change anything

[@christianpaone1565]

Need more Scarap god

[@amiros7370]

The players did so many weird things (like bro kill the vito)

[@tatashie]

I'm probably may be wrong, but Beacon of Immortality should trigger Vito? If decide on flat card text it's not "heal X life where X is your current life", it's just " double your life". I'm curious..

[@DarkEinherjar]

Every effect that causes a life total to increase or decrease is seen by the game as life gain or life loss, respectively, even if it's not worded as such. For example, when Magister Sphinx sets a player's life from 40 to 10, the game registers it as a 30 life loss. So yes, Beacon of Immortality will cause the targeted player to gain life equal to their current life total at the moment of resolution, which in turn will trigger Vito and Sanguine Bond. In fact, there's a combo with Beacon of Immortality and Tainted Remedy, where you target an opponent and their life drops to zero.

[@Devilish420]

@@DarkEinherjar Yup, that's why Magister Sphinx and wound reflection is a death sentence to some poor soul that gets targeted with the Sphinx's trigger. It can even kill all your opponents with wound reflection out if you can abuse its ETB effect. It's one of my wincons in my aminatou flicker deck. It is Mana intensive but luckily for me I got plenty of things in my deck that make treasures along with annoited procession.

[@tatashie]

@@DarkEinherjar thanks for the answer!

[@nigelng325]

Go-shintai has vigilance cause of esika btw

[@fallsenseless9699]

2022 and people still running terramorphic in 5 color smh