Verazol, the Split Current | EDH Three Ways [Commander Strategies for Every Player]

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Cards Featured in this Video: Verazol, the Split Current Strong - Counters & Kickers Branching Evolution Simic Ascendancy Herald of Secret Streams Plaxcaster Frogling The Ozolith Pir, Imaginative Rascal Toothy, Imaginary Friend Vorel of the Hull Blade Zegana, Utopian Speaker Everflowing Chalice Thicket Elemental Sphinx of Lost Truths Thieving Skydiver Myriad Construct Fun - Rivers & Serpents River's Rebuke River Hoopoe River Boa River Bear Marang River Prowler Serpent of the Yawning Depths Scourge of Fleets Deep-Sea Kraken Mean - Copy Theme Rite of Replication Altered Ego Vizier of Many Faces Cackling Counterpart Spitting Image Progentior Mimic Biovisionary Stolen Identity Lithoform engine

[@eduardogaona8510]

Not sure about Thicket Elemental because even though it gets 2 free creatures into the game most of the creatures in the deck are better off kicked than casted for free. Also I think that Skyclave Relic is just as good if not better than Everflowing Chalice because of its indestructible and the fact that it can be used for colored mana (but you could just use both to maximize your potential mana)

[@benjaminkaye5119]

RIVER DECK!!! BABY. Love it.

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

lol XD

[@PawzBrownMTG]

That's a great deck Joel

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Appreciate it, PB

[@corrosivecabal]

Late to the River Dance, but Ivy Lane Denizen, Karok Wrangler and Archmage Emeritus help out old man river.

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Oh those are excellent inclusions, ty for commenting!

[@overfailed3639]

Good video. Definitely gave me some ideas! I build a deck around him primarily around 1/1 counters. Put a bunch of kicker spells in too I had laying around, but THEN I thought "Wait X and a bunch of +1/+1 counters? Sounds pretty hydra to me." I actually wanted to make a hydra deck before, but thwy wouldn't be enough for an own deck, so I put them in here and made the deck a +1/+1-Counter, Kicker-X-Cost-Deck! It's a real patchwork, I still have to properly test it, but the one game it played, was incredibly fun! Even won through 53 Squirrels!

[@maxbenjamin7212]

RIVER DECK BABY

[@FoodtimeFoodtime]

RIVER DECK BABY!

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

BABEEE LOOK AT MY RIVER DECK BABEEE

[@mtgmeansmagic4758]

I love Commander, I generally hate commander vids, I love you’s guys commander vids lol

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Thank you for the good vibes! 🙏

[@lorcanawithluke]

gotta rock that twinning staff Verazol! I made this deck and played it this weekend! Fun times! Can be quite strong also.

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Luke, thanks for watching :D

[@LordGravewalker]

River deck baby! 😂

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

🌊🌊🌊🌊 river deck

[@bobbyz5443]

Can we make anything more meme-y than a River deck baby?

[@Luca-mv9vd]

Frogling plus Training Ground it’s instant speed Shroud for 0!

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Gosh I ALWAYS forget how good Training Ground is. Good note.

[@rubyyrare]

training grounds can't reduce it to 0

[@briankessinger862]

You missed maddening cacophony

[@benjaminkaye5119]

I truly hope you finish the 3 ways w all the lair walking dead characters. So thematic and cool to see you do those , especially w such thematic commanders. I know the controversy , but this is a game first and foremost and having a tech for the commanders shouldn’t be a sign of condoning or opposing the lair itself , but just showing the playability of the cards as commanders. My two cents. Keep up the great content , and I’ll catch ya on the flippity.

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

It won't be any time soon. JAJAM Community spoke through the poll I ran. We're open to addressing them in the future

[@benjaminkaye5119]

Jake and Joel are Magic sad to hear ....

[@chrisfloto3599]

Captain strategy’s

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

edgy

[@CastleGoCrash]

riverdeck.exe

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

RIVERDECKBABEEE

[@Luca-mv9vd]

Honestly i don’t like the “unconventional jank” way that you call “fun”. Any unconventional build IS appreciated in my book but not to the point where the deck becomes completely garbage.

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

That's fair. For Strong and Mean, I focus primarily on strategies that can be used individually or combined to build a competitive version. Fun is intended solely for that: fun. Sometimes it's a Tribal build, sometimes its RIVER DECK BABEEE

[@tcgluckypanda7980]

First

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

nailed it