Jhoira vs Korvold vs Varolz vs Momir Vig | Season 3 Favorites

[@7upac]

Wow what a crazy game 2!! Great job putting this video together, Joseph! Thank you for discovering a new passion for edh

[@Arcdemon44]

Game 2 was an absolute blast, so much nutty plays and great interaction.

[@grinreaperoftrolls7528]

It was a blast. A red elemental blast

[@tubadinozzo]

Bill totally could've just iced Joseph with his Korvold instead of taking out Saheeli and eliminated a threat.

[@wyattdowning6742]

I think he wanted to keep him around to help deal with Adam because up to that point Joseph wasn't really a threat whereas Adam had been repeatedly.

[@smitchy657]

That second game was craaaaazy! Highly enjoyable vid as per usual

[@Crazymachin3gun]

I luv the varloz deck seems like it could be budget

[@onnilattu9138]

It can be, to some extent. The pieces themselves are dirt cheap and in green you can ramp with dorks instead of expensive rocks but, as always, it will simply be slower than the full version with all the tutors and rocks.

[@0oghi]

I did not know there was an opportunity to destroy gilded drake with a kill spell to stop the exchange. Learned something new today

[@leovoldoftrest9987]

It's because of the word Exchange having special meaning in the rulebook.

[@0oghi]

@@leovoldoftrest9987 ok, I'll have to remember that when I see the word exchange

[@philippereeves9241]

Collector Ouphe's flavor text was quite on point with this game!

[@orsettomorbido]

The first game was so fast. The second game had me feel nervous each turn XD Like when I don't have interaction XD Always asking myself if that draw was the combo draw. Damn. So cool!

[@3SidedCard]

Loved this pod! A great combination of decks and good games!

[@muchmoonies]

The giant wooden dice are pretty nice for counters/tokens. It’s not made of metal or plastic so. The reflecting light doesn’t make it hard to read, and the size of. The pips and dice are pretty big so they’re clear even from a distance, I like this addition!

[@BadVox666]

How do you guys always have crazy good hands? Like I have never seen so many people get turn 1 mana crypts so often as you guys

[@Alikaoz]

They pick the most interesting games, not all are this good.

[@eric0967]

also london mulligan they keep the best cards, shuffle the bad ones and draws the difference.

[@ryansparks9257]

@@eric0967 that's not how London mulligan works. 103.4. Each player draws a number of cards equal to their starting hand size, which is normally seven. (Some effects can modify a player's starting hand size.) A player who is dissatisfied with their initial hand may take a mulligan. First, the starting player declares whether they will take a mulligan. Then each other player in turn order does the same. Once each player has made a declaration, all players who decided to take mulligans do so at the same time. To take a mulligan, a player shuffles the cards in their hand back into their library, draws a new hand of cards equal to their starting hand size, then puts a number of those cards equal to the number of times that player has taken a mulligan on the bottom of their library in any order. Once a player chooses not to take a mulligan, the remaining cards become that player's opening hand, and that player may not take any further mulligans. This process is then repeated until no player takes a mulligan. A player can take mulligans until their opening hand would be zero cards. I think you were thinking of the Partial Paris mulligan.

[@elil7945]

Oh My God!!! There’s Not A Demonic Consultation Combo Deck!!!

[@jakubszyszka7811]

On 16:25 this isn't veil of summer,its veil of autumn

[@smitty215able]

Did I miss something or was he drawing his top off the trigger to draw a card from casting the top? Didn't think you could do that because the trigger goes on the stack in response to the cast, not the ETB so the top isn't actually in play yet when the draw trigger resolves

[@DerpyLaron]

Really fun game. Not hyper competitive, but that made it really unpredictable. Nice game.

[@Egovinco98]

16:00 looks like Autumn's Veil not Veil of summer.

[@Crazymachin3gun]

Why is Adam running naturalize when there is return to nature and better alt? Also what if instead of the green legend run metallic mimic since u can get more value off it

[@DarkEinherjar]

Metallic Mimic is pretty bad without a more focused tribal theme and that one less toughness can make quite a difference, especially in a game with a considerable amount of pingers like this one. Also, Melira is a hate card against potential infect and opposing -1/-1 counter strategies.

[@DarkEinherjar]

Adam could've waited until the Lesser Masticore came back before he sacrificed Melira to Varolz.

[@marcosanchez8427]

how did you guys get those custom mats they are beautiful >_>

[@HeirophantCarneus]

Jamming necropotence when you have 2 life. Goddamn legend 🤙

[@danielsecrest5018]

I know that lotus petal is strong, but it seems like a lot of these decks are running it. Do y’all think it is worth it in most edge decks, or is there a type of deck that needs that extra explosiveness?

[@danielsecrest5018]

*EDH

[@joelwood8103]

Why is Wooded Foothills in the Jhoira deck? You're in Izzet but you have a tutor for Gruul?

[@joelwood8103]

Oh, and turn 1 he cracks it for a Mountain - since he has no forest to go get. Why not just put a mountain in the deck instead and save the 1 life? Is having a fetch so cool that you will trade 1 life for the sake of having it in the deck? At least go get a Steam Vents or Volcanic Island. I'm sorry but that's the dumbest thing I think I've ever seen on this channel.

[@colinhanley3076]

​@@joelwood8103 Fetches have a lot of utility overall so there isn't a good reason not to run it. Very rarely is the 1 life relevant in cEDH.

[@jakeapplegate6642]

Joel Wood it is like having one less card in the deck for the small cost of 1 life

[@DarkEinherjar]

I love persist shenanigans. I never had much luck getting them to work, though... :/

[@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG]

Persist lines are definitely very vulnerable to many different kinds of control, but that just makes them feel so much better when they end up actually working

[@benjamincarter6095]

Yasharn, Relentless Land, disrupter of cEDH meta?!? Might this finally be a playable Selesnya commander?

[@carlaugustgjerrishartmann5542]

The momir vig list should be running nettle sentinel and a clone. This list seems pretty suboptimal

[@omegatestament]

Wait if you kill gilded drake when it enters, then ETB won’t go off? I had no idea you can do that!

[@empty5013]

exchange effects fizzle if either target becomes invalid, this also affects cards like switcharoo

[@ujai5271]

Hoof? What is this, casual? /s

[@mtgjester8273]

How the hell did joseph countered with red elemental blast jordan's kinnan? Jordan has destiny spinner on play.

[@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG]

It was used to destroy kinnan, not counter

[@mtgjester8273]

@@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG you just gain another sub. Cont. To make these awesome battles.

[@byoutifulmonster]

I'm surprised Adam didn't green sun into a sac outlet for the win, unless they were all in the grave. Edit: I forgot it got green creatures.

[@argonnas2]

what green sac outlet in creature form would he get?

[@salsathe4th]

are there green creatures that are sac outlets in the deck?

[@byoutifulmonster]

Oof, must have been thinking of finale of devastation. Sorry

[@moldytaters4190]

Couldn't Adam win the second game if he got Viscera Seer instead of the Satyr?

[@chexmix0101]

No green sun zenith searches for green creature and viscera seer is black

[@moldytaters4190]

@@chexmix0101 Ah shit, I completely forgot about the color restriction Zenith has. Hahahahaaaaa

[@AresOMegas]

Bill could definitely have done some things differently. Instead of using a really preemptive noxious revival on the hulk he should have at least kept it to use it in response to some reanimation, OR just use it on his own Dockside, putting him on top and drawing him to get 5 more treasure to keep going off.

[@gxantor]

Hype for Varolz

[@damiansilvey709]

Did anyone else notice in the second game, Bill didn't lose 1 life for the polluted delta? I'm sure it wouldn't have affected the outcome of the game but ya never know

[@VirtuesOfSin]

7:35 - Welp that was fun watching I guess... Infinite loop so early means not worth watching anymore past.

[@Steamboat2016]

I play a version of Korvold. I always love when people forget just how big Korvold can get. They're waiting for me to try and combo off but instead I just smack em for 21

[@jakeapplegate6642]

Steamboat 2016 yeah I’ve had times where someone interrupts my combo but korvold just happened to get a couple dozen counters and eats that player.

[@MultiMrDrago]

I know thier old and not really that powerful but, I'd love to see the cards that were also turned into Godzilla promos from ikoria be tuned to semi competitive decks sometime in the future. I really liked the ruric thar deck so seeing a Godzilla King of the Monsters deck would be cool. While they both share gruul colors I think they do different styles of beatdown. Then seeing something like an Ghidora pseudo cascade, and brokkos just a monster mayhem theme that has a slight competitive flavor.

[@DUES_EX]

I’m glad you guys had fun. Tell Jordan we could have won the game earlier. And it would help if he had more win cons such as Primal Surge, Green Sun Zenith and

[@garrettdamron2226]

what it feels like to play varolz hulk: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6qVYoNjeKqNY9E

[@ajtuner2783]

Keeping Night’s whisper over the top was a choice 🤦‍♂️

[@revelmonger]

Been playing Polymog Jhoira as my cEDH deck since Transmogrify got released. The deck is busted.

[@aaronharvey7417]

Hey! I'm early! Looking forward to this

[@ameliaburton5313]

Game 2: With grapeshot on the stack, the masticore was sacrificed. You had it return with a persist counter, but I believe Melira was still on board because grapeshot hadn't resolved. Unless I'm missing something Edit: (I misunderstood)

[@cursedindividual8833]

Why didn’t Adam just play Varolz after the cursed totem was destroyed and sacrifice the protein hulk to win the game.

[@wookiewasabi5194]

Im commenting to help your vid amongst the algorithm.

[@yashaskedlaya7326]

Bill drew so many cards how did he not find anything to win with???

[@rstollenwerk]

That game 2 vig hand was a terrible keep.

[@cristianprado8559]

*casts grapeshot me: great, he's gonna get rid of most of the momir vig player creatures, he's way ahead... *kills korvold and disciple of the vault even though there's a ballista in play me: @_@

[@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG]

The korvold was an immediate threat to my life since I was already at 16 commander damage, and I was honestly a bit scared of a removal spell from Adam. If Adam can remove the walking ballista or shut it off with a null rod effect, Bill wouldn't be about to hold that interaction up anymore. Adam had the clear win on board and Bill directly threatened my life total with one combat step, so I didn't really have too many options. Taking care of the most clear threats seemed to be the safest play at the time

[@couryrussell7653]

Mirridian besieged he says lol

[@ring1313]

Is Jordan running a weird momir vig list? It feels like he should have won with his hacks Excluding the fact that he did win, with a normal hackball list he could have got infinite mana pretty easily once he resolved a hack

[@SuperPacMan1143]

I was going to say he could of won earlier

[@Halinn]

Apparently this list doesn't include Nettle Sentinel and a clone effect to actually go infinite. I was wondering the same thing.

[@meagherman1013]

Why is my guy Adam not running Sylvan Safekeeper for his Protean Hulk Lines.....

[@davidiswhat]

Games without commanders in dimir colors are a lot more interesting

[@highlypretentious6673]

There are so many confusing decisions in the deckbuilding for the Momir Vig list. Why are you running Beast Whisperer? It's just a worse version of Vizier of the Menagerie. Why bloom tender? Craterhoof Behemoth is an insanely dead card and not run in almost every other Momir list. Walking Ballista? Thassa's Oracle? The list just goes on and on.

[@carlaugustgjerrishartmann5542]

Yeah, the list seems very far from being competitive

[@gillkohl]

Dockside killed jhoira. Fight me .

[@charlesmaillho367]

Seeing Jordan have slow starts on both games is so satisfying. Usually, he rolls straight out with a mana crypt and 2-3 other rocks turn 1. And he never should have won that second game. He is clearly the threat towards the end and no one ever tried to slow him down. Stop letting Jordan win. Make him work for it instead of handing him games. Too many times do the players here just give games away because threat assessment is weak.

[@suntitan4419]

Korvold could have taken out Joseph multiple times seems like the competitive way to play it commander damage him out of the game

[@Hitzel]

I think he didn't want his stax piece leaving the battlefield, it was mentioned at some point.

[@kuja1263]

First pogchamp

[@flintdilella3792]

Couldn't Adam have won game two when he cast green sun's if he searched for a sac outlet? Everyone was tapped out or had no cards in hand

[@altrekzz9870]

Given that he didn’t search up the seer later when he actually sacrificed the hulk it’s likely that it was in his graveyard, and the deck doesn’t play any other creature based sac outlets because Varolz is usually in play to begin with.

[@onnilattu9138]

GSZ gets only green creatures and there aren't many sac outlets in those colours.

[@flintdilella3792]

@@onnilattu9138 Yeah I just searched and there are zero free ones, this is definitely why. Totally forgot about the clause it has to be green

[@chexmix0101]

Varolz didn’t actually do anything...

[@Kallistosprom]

I never understand why people cast mana crypt without using it straight away or unless you have blue mana open for a counter. It’s a needless 3 damage.

[@onnilattu9138]

An opponent can have a remora, a tax effect or a wheel and then suddenly your crypt costs 3 or gets discarded away. It feels real bad and 3 damage is nothing in comparison.

[@jessejames9684]

Foodchain overrated

[@endersblade]

"Meridian Besieged" God, could you butcher that name any more?