Friday Nights - In Command

[@chiffon788]

It's cool coming back to this video and seeing how starkly different the Commander format is now. Starting the video with a player saying they had to make concessions to their theme in order to get all the colors really cements how much WotC has printed more and more Legendary creatures to fill all sorts of niches in all color combos makes this immediately apparent.

[@connorcampbell-bisson8721]

I like Kathleen's little "only one who was any good in the colours" justification when a quick scryfall check shows that, these days, there 5 Naya cat commanders, with Rin and Seri, Inseparable and Jetmir, Nexus of Revels in particular being very heavily focused on having large numbers of cats. Heck, Jetmir would have turned that horde of 15 1/1s into 15 4/1s with vigilance, trample and double strike. Would it have been enough to win there and then? not sure, but spreading it all out would have potentially crippled Paul's ability to ally with Alex or Matt by virtue of heavily denting their boardstates.

[@waluigiswaluweenie8194]

Rofellos was really happy before, and he's banned now.

[@jaychung1380]

banned?

[@ceohannahbannanah1238]

yes, but i have no idea why

[@KBgamer2010]

@@ceohannahbannanah1238 Its mainly due to the fact that you'll have 6 - 8 mana by turn 3, which is ridiculously fast That and he was banned as a commander for having a turn 3 Staff of Domination victory

[@swiftdragonrider]

@Cesar Adolfo the thing i hate about all this bans are why the hell are they banned insted of only being banned as comanders.

[@DatBrasss]

@@swiftdragonrider wizards of the coast insists on only one ban list per format.

[@ChrisJohnLikesStuff]

“Aw, your IKEA bookshelf broke.” Still gets me all these years later.

[@FelipeASaito]

IKEA gun, Paul. IKEA gun

[@chillermillercream]

five years later and we finally got a naya catmander!!! :3

[@jish55]

Yeah, and it's dece

[@rubypandagamer5142]

I actually won with Rin and seri also am I the only one who wants them to go back on comandzone and have one of them play Rin and seri

[@VeznansDeadbeatDad]

Who’s that again?

[@rubypandagamer5142]

@@VeznansDeadbeatDad Rin and seri

[@Fauxcatcha]

8 years later and I'll still never get over Ghram coming in and saying "oh you ruined him, ruined"

[@jamesgratz4771]

I still have no clue how Matt even blew his lead

[@willgould9377]

@@jamesgratz4771why are we here

[@artstsym]

The real question: what takes longer, this skit from script to shoot or actual 7 player EDH games?

[@talonfire1640]

Meris take it up to script to editing/posting and I think they are even... well. Almost. Granted my entire group plays serious life gain... so our games take forever. It takes milling out, even after we all use tricks to get out graveyards back into our library

[@izzitlife557]

4 player EDH games with counterspells

[@4Nulla]

From my experience, each new player multiplies the time by 1.5. A four-player game lasts about an hour so that would make a 7 player game last for at least 3 hours and 22 and a half minutes.

[@TheOnlyDragonGod]

@@4Nulla depends on what decks people are playing, I kinda want to play a seven player commander have with all life gain decks as someone else said happened

[@4Nulla]

@@TheOnlyDragonGod Well of course it depends on the deck. Also, I played an all life gain decks game and it was extremely boring, even with only 4 people. Things are just sluggish.

[@Splungified]

I think one of the more subtle things I love about this episode is that James does *nothing* the entire video, until his coup de grace.

[@VarNode]

I just realized how many archetypes they demonstrate in this video: The Theme deck The Voltron deck The Control deck The Precon deck The Tribal deck The Combo deck and the Tribal deck again

[@popsicleman8816]

Jer's deck is also a group-hug deck. And Alex's deck is a value graveyard recursion deck.

[@Awesomeslayer3]

Wait who's the Voltron player?

[@popsicleman8816]

James. He made his commander flying, indestructible, 10 power, etc. Granted it isn't as crazy as some voltrons can get but it is fairly close.

[@jtagle806]

Alex's deck name: now I ain't saying she's a gravedigger, but she ain't dealing with no dead creatures

[@christopheracea5835]

This just made my day

[@MrWaz888]

But she does, a better name would be Now I ain't saying she is a gravedigger but she mess with them dead creatures.

[@wondertwins168]

Waffle guy 75 with startling efficiency

[@SirNightmareFuel]

ah, I missed the double negative as well. It's tricky to rock a rhyme right on time.

[@itzpharaoh2325]

Waffle guy 75 she is dealing with dead creatures so it could be: I ain't saying she's a gravedigger but she ain't messing with no living creatures

[@benlyman7880]

"Awww, your IKEA bookshelf broke." "IKEA gun Paul. IKEA gun."

[@jamesg6256]

The comedy in these is so great and wholesome i litteraly watch them over again every so often for the last 9 years 😆

[@Deathven1482]

I remember when I was playing against a guy whose life total was over 1k. I casted Sorin Markov, reduced his life total to 10. And then casted Sorin's vengeance.... killing him lol

[@blackwingdragonmasta]

My kalemne deck loves infinite life decks. She just one shots people

[@ethantucker1303]

That’s disgusting even 4 years later

[@flan310]

Man, watching this 0:13 over ten years later and realizing that new players did never have this kind of struggle of having to choose a crappy commander, because there's so little to choose from, in the colors you want...

[@cj9606h]

Kathleen: "Johan really, really likes cats." Me: "... Didn't he... enslave the cat people?"

[@Argusthecat]

He sure tried!

[@saiconjr]

that's why he likes them!

[@TheL41martin]

"I don't trust her!" "That's probably wise." LOL

[@StarkMaximum]

It has been AN ENTIRE DECADE since this video came out and I JUST GOT that "Bury, Suck, Kill" is a pun on "MARRY, FUCK, KILL" GOD DAMN IT

[@Cynidecia]

The world's gotten worse since then. Also commanders gotten a lot more powerful.

[@adoo765]

Jetmir would be an amazing commander for catleen’s deck

[@jamesgratz4771]

@@Cynidecia the world is full of violence e

[@SNDurgon]

I just came here to make this comment!!! I've watched this series repeatedly for the last 10 years and I just caught that pun!

[@allbunsglazing]

Paul nailed that "That's probably wise" line timing and delivery :D

[@fiddlestyxify]

0:41 I believe that is Sheoldred's actual errata text.

[@gabrielvillegas9991]

I got back into magic and now I'm bingeing the whole series, I've never been happier

[@noahdaglio9362]

Just played 3 four player commander games yesterday. Fucking warp world was crazy.

[@blazingfuryoffire1]

***** pulled that in a 5 player game, the randomness was hilarious

[@killroy458]

i'm still trying to convince my friends to do a Box Draft Commander Planes chase one night, but their not going for it >.>

[@killroy458]

you mean the longest game ever? yes. 24 hours for draft/deck build, then the next 24 for the game.

[@tommagennis]

I played so much commander at the GP. Also, fuck Warp World

[@tommagennis]

Shit. Let me tell you the story of my people. Three player commander,one guy with Damia, one with Daretti, and me with Sliver Overlord. Everyone built up a strong board position, I had my commander out, and had a pretty decent horde building up, but then everything changed when Warp World hit the field. Everyone shuffled their stuff back into their decks, and got their new stuff. Damia gets 6 dudes and 5 lands, Daretti gets 5 dudes/artifacts, and 4 lands, I get 10 slivers and a land. after getting taken apart due to my lack of mana base for a couple of turns, I finally managed to get up to five land. Okay, I can handle this. Bearer of the Heavens. No way to stop him. Damia gets Temporal Trespass, resolves it, but declines to do anything with it, for entertainment value, and Bearer gets sacced. All permanents gone, no lands in hand, top deck Reflecting pool. FUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@kaciphillips5687]

I showed this to some friends of mine. Now all they play is commander. What have I done

[@proto303]

Kaci Phillips the right thing

[@alexhuk7353]

I can’t ever seem to get my friends to even play commander.

[@minimalist8403]

30th like

[@hog21]

Something good

[@daredewley9231]

I love this classic. Gotta come back every once and revisit.

[@jamesgratz4771]

I know right. They really were the pioneers of magic the gathering content.

[@Birchling]

Just noticed how at 3:58-4:02 there are propaganda posters behind alex and matt.

[@EionBlue]

I watched this skit like 4 times already, I only just noticed them.

[@FS-qn1xe]

It's great

[@minimalist8403]

100th like

[@MSUHitman]

The next time they do a Commander episode, Alex tries handing those exact flyers out stumping for him to win the game that night.

[@FrenchDavid50]

"Stop genociding all my elves! They are a distinct culture!" Hahahaha in Lorwynn they were Nazis remember?

[@minimalist8403]

Oof

[@BarginsGalore]

Very distinct then

[@ericorzhov8869]

I use this phrase often

[@tylerkister4628]

@@ericorzhov8869 same

[@drpibisback7680]

Not just any Nazis - _Fashion Nazis._

[@CromwellMTG]

This episode alone made me properly geek out for the first time in my life. Super nostalgic i love all of you lrr people

[@TheMonyarm]

i love when they do cuts and change something (like with those vote for matt, vote for alex posters)

[@onthewaffle1455]

I used to watch this all the time these are so cool!

[@BeccaRyy]

***** I rewatched this and decided to build a "Seriously You Guys, Look at All These Friggin' Elves" deck. Thanks again for such great stuff!

[@legochickenguy4938]

2:35 He's even sadder cus now he's banned

[@hi00118]

Always team up with the guy who goes before you in the turn order. That way you guarantee at least one turn. It’s far too easy for the guy right after you to betray you

[@vampiricsloth]

D: i want a longer version of you guys playing commander games

[@hubertcumberdale7241]

Joshua Wallace when suddenly, AFK for one blue and 2 full commander games.

[@jackdemarco1545]

Joshua Wallace i

[@RobertJW]

I adopted "I ain't saying she's a gravedigger, but she certainly pulls creatures out of the graveyard with startling efficiency" as the name of my Whisper, Blood Liturgist deck.

[@orionisaac9711]

This made my day! I think I need to craft a "tilting table" for my own MTG den. So funny!

[@tedcomet3121]

4:45 I know a guy like that he plays Eldrazi, mill, and control all in the same deck. And complains when everybody takes him out first.

[@andrewvisser8210]

Good

[@nomakym]

I was that guy once, keep doing that til he learns! not everybody totally gets the "playing for fun" aspect. maybe he only sees "win" and "lose". I did for a long time. Now I got a deck I call "Good Game". It has zero win conditions, just walls and card draw n jank, no way to attack. I just try to see if I can deck myself before my opponents defeat me (as my secret "win-con"), I built it so other people could win, and I just had fun trying to stay in the game :) I don't let my opponents know that tho :P It can be real nice not expecting to win, then nothing tilts you during the game! Oh noes! You played Armageddon! That's cool. GG

[@Arlano76]

@@nomakym That would be awesome with the new Jace that make you win when you mill yourself. You stay innocent all game, and at this end you play jace, and play draw and mill spell to win!

[@whalesequence]

All I ever say to myself is, "God, I want that table."

[@idontknowwhattoput6011]

I've grown up playing magic and watching LRR so the amount of nostalgia I get from this is 👌👌👌

[@voiddoom2119]

How in the hell am I just finding these!? They're hilarious!

[@derkcast620]

lolz "awww your IKEA bookshelf broke" muhahahahaha for the win!!

[@pntbller14]

"Angry balls of fur and hate" lol

[@meandor900]

Any means you could give me the list of that "Everybody win deck? :) "

[@pocus9996]

Andreas Petersson tappedout.net/mtg-decks/everybody-wins/ not the one jerad used but close enough

[@Phoeveryoung]

A Coughlin its jeremy

[@void735]

"I have 167 HP and you have 6" Ahh that line just makes me Hard thinking about "repay in kind" (makes all players HP equal to the one with The lowest ) People faces when you use it is The best thing ever

[@hayden32040]

Crazy to look back at Johan being the only viable Jund commander lol

[@gabrielnguyen5580]

jund forever cursed (although henzie is heinous)

[@spikysmoothness]

What I wouldn't give to see skits of 8 player commander games again, with the multitudes of new commander potentials available now I bet LRR could come up with some funny decks for skits

[@fawkes6352]

This was the video that inspired me to add Sorin Markov to my Commander deck. Just so he can cut a massive life total with a snap of his fingers.

[@justincolwell-ongenae8741]

I'm still waiting for my Tilting Table!

[@jayharyu927]

Johan has 100% been replaced with Jinnie Fay by now

[@benlance6013]

Commander fosho the best format. I think I'm the one person who take commander more seriously then anything else😂

[@gamingwildlife]

Now that I actually know something about magic, I'm trying to follow everyone's steps here. The one question I have is this: At the end, Matt taps out all his creatures putting up a wall of flying blockers. What white card does that?

[@tylerrubi9]

angelic wall, wall of swords i dont really know any else

[@TJForceIX]

Most likely, he did it with Luminarch Ascension. gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=197889

[@cyberwolfy37]

I agree, james said he cast extinction and declared angel, if there were any wall, it would've block his commander. Matt got too cocky, if he had luminarch ascension he should've wait for james to attack then send out blockers, tapping yourself out when you don't need to is a rookie mistake

[@popsicleman8816]

Hmm I think entreat the angels is much more likely, as it is a sorcery speed and requires you to spend a great deal of mana, giving a lot of angels at the same time. Luminarch could be correct but that would mean it had a lot of quest counters, seeing how he said it was a wall/bunch of angels.

[@TJForceIX]

Well, in a seven player game, having the necessary four counters on Luminarch wouldn't be hard at all. Something Sorcery speed would make sense for him not to have screwed up by not waiting, but they don't show him playing a card, so who knows?

[@Chaosmage42]

please show more of matt losing and getting mad its funny

[@treyosaurus5243]

All is fair in love, war, and elf murdering

[@adoo765]

Now we have great cat commanders, great vampire commanders, great angel commanders and more elfs that make a lot of elfs

[@THExMADxHATT3R]

"This man think a Mulligan is an Irish beer!"

[@aidanyeomans3942]

Stop genociding all my elves! There a distinct culture. Look; Rofellos was really happy before. And he's *banned* now.

[@BladerC0098]

Matt: Alex will betray you much sooner *paul picks matt and ends up attacking kathlean passing his turn to matt*. Matt: I attack Kathlean and Paul

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

*Adds to to-do list: 'build tilting table.'

[@aceofsalts0246]

0:22 why is Johan blurred out?

[@waluigiswaluweenie8194]

+Matiya024 Too sexy for KZbin

[@shaden489]

+Matiya024 i think its an alter you can see it in a previous scene though cause they didnt sensor it

[@aceofsalts0246]

shaden489 don't think so, think the sleeve might have just been expanded forward causing weirdness with the lighting

[@shaden489]

Maybe that would make sense I just figured it was an alter that had a reference to copy writen materiel

[@TJForceIX]

Your right, Kathleen's Johan was alted, but Wizards doesn't technically approve of that, so they couldn't show altered art on a video they sponsor.

[@Wargablarg]

This makes me want to see the LRR crew on Command Zone's Game Knights.

[@forceofwillgaming8475]

Dan Kearney graham and Cathleen already have been on game knights

[@FS-qn1xe]

The comment was posted a year ago Brenton

[@minimalist8403]

Oof

[@KBgamer2010]

@@forceofwillgaming8475 twice

[@Alfieboy-cf4qg]

7= Graham 6=Cathline 5=paul 4=Alex 3=Jer 2= matt 1= James

[@beancake123]

IT's because in the pre-built commander decks, they use bigger cards to show That HE is the commander, you can see James looking at a box full of them and decks in the video Friday.( in between the rounds)

[@BNOBNO14]

this is the only video I can recall on this Playlist with an ad... weird

[@leshrac369]

I am glad I went back to watch this show. :)

[@leshrac369]

7 Player commander game seems crazy.

[@NivMrTheFiremind]

I only just noticed the political posters behind Alex and Matt. 👌

[@WindyDelcarlo]

Firecat Blitz cats go away at end of turn. Pyroclasm should've done something to the others, too, assuming one of them had something.

[@MSUHitman]

Wasn't Firecat Blitz played after the Pyroclasm?

[@WindyDelcarlo]

MSUHitman I meant the other players' boards. I find it hard to believe mono-black and Zedruu have nothing that dies to Pyroclasm. There's a reason it's in Kathleen's deck, after all. At the very least, I'd have expected her to call out that a pyroclasm happened to the others.

[@fishtank3392]

Wow... still watching 6 years later 😂😂

[@FireLord2506RS]

99 card-singleton + your general who you can play at any time. (You don't necessarily have to build around you general, you could just use it for the colors.)

[@bladerz1191]

6:31. anyone else notice when matt "lays out a new wall of flying blockers" he doesn't play anything from his hand.

[@who_m7315]

enchantment token genorator

[@KBgamer2010]

Luminarch Ascension is a thing back then

[@thelordofdarkcheese]

why was johan blurred out

[@hilarious_rider1239]

Why was I playing magic and watching this

[@emidex8721]

Anyone else binge watching friday nights? Maybe for the 5th time?

[@arcanearcmage9340]

Yes

[@mitchpich1604]

Only 5th?

[@emidex8721]

@@mitchpich1604 lol def not the 5th time for me now

[@BLITZZZZZZZZZ01]

Maybe like the 15th time now

[@gubblebumz]

I would LOVE to see Paws of Fury with Rin and Seri, Inseparable as the commander! ITS PERFECT

[@rubypandagamer5142]

Only problem with run and seri is card draw

[@tonyblackwell7194]

Paul is playing an unsleeved Flusterstorm >.

[@dylang2255]

Who cares? I threw one of those in the trash.

[@tonyblackwell7194]

+Jacko Ludvich Hey, your $60 to burn

[@jeremyjw]

The Tilting Table everything is attached with strings for easy cleanup and reset

[@Trueflights]

My favorite and most played Commander deck is "Om-nom-nom-nath". Basically a devour/ big stompy thing, Omnath deck. I was one of the only few around here who didn't drop Omnath as a general in favor of Azusa after the Prime Titan got banned.

[@jeremysegal1334]

Classic Friday Night, but... Firecat blitz removes them from the game, right? And also: -Graham has ALL his elves and mana tapped out -Graham is at less than fifteen life. -All of Graham's creatures are elves -Jer didn't save Graham, with a criptic command, or by letting him gain some life. -Matt has no removal -Matt has no instant speed removal -Paul didn't give Graham something, something to either keep him from dying, or to draw more cards -No bird wizards. -No one else was asked or offered to block one of Kathleen's 1/1 cats - Jer required ALL of Matt's angels, and none were sent at James. -None of Matt's angels have indestructible -None of Matt's creatures are non angels, despite the Angelic protector he gets for the deck - Matt's not running either Angel's Mercy (Although according to Alex, they are Angels of Vengence, not mercy), or Admonition Angel, which again could take out that indestructible fella' - Matt didn't just decide to (kill?) James, and instead killed of the player playing Peldigriph. That's just wrong - I just made this list. Huh. Also might as well add (from other Friday Nights videos): Carmeron has only 3 cards left in his deck James and Paul don't have Ondu Cleric, and are at a dying life total, and ALSO don't bounce the Storm Chaser Mage Splinter Tom is banned (to be fair, this is more on wizards) Alex wasn't at the Protour? Paul was running Atarka Beastbreaker, no removal, and Yasoova mainboard. If Paul had Dragonlord Atarka instead, he could have killed Cameron's combo No reclamation sage?Team LRR suck. We didn't see the heartbreaking transition of Jer turning into a cold, bitter EDH player who makes his friends kill their own creatures from the combo loving, goofy Jer of the past. Everyone decided to team up against Jer- but apparently not attack with any creatures, or have karn or karn like exile affects, or something simuliar... I mean Karn doesn't tick up that fast! Missy decided to team up with Katheleen, despite her being a bad partner, and also seemed to forget how competive SHE is. Missy only cares about big creatures now? Kay... Katheleen touches Missy's Gnarlid, despite this not being allowed. Also Cameron is slowly taking over Alex. As: ~Cameron tells ALEX to play cards out of his color, and then confuses him by making him take out cards of his deck to do so ~Cameron's commander decks aren't fun to play against ~Cameron makes a ridiculous outfit out of magic the gathering cards ~Cameron likes to play red, and loses games playing such color in a match when all it takes is one card to win (When Alex needs Missy to be at two less life for Lava Axe (which we don't know as true, and she might be cheating) to kill her off, and Cameron needs grapeshot or empty the warrens to win his game at the GP playing Storm.) Also how would Glistener elf ever end up in Jer's deck? It's not valuable, so it doesn't make sense with the trade arguement... yeah. Graham never played bearforce One in modern. Sad. Thank you for the great series, Jeremy

[@asteriskthegamingstar1891]

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[@Garchicero]

0:06-0:07 syncs perfectly with the sound. I don't know why but I like that part.

[@thomasmiller1904]

Am I the only one who cried laughing at graham's line 'You're gonna wake up dead one morning'?

[@nathanielmiller672]

"Seriously guys, look at all these friggen elves 😂😂

[@escapeartist1258]

+nate miller Yup, loved that part - it describes my boyfriend's elf deck to a T. :)

[@gtloverboy2785]

10 years ... im too late to the exact date of my favorite episode

[@fenixmeaney6170]

"I ain't sayin she's a grave digger, but she definitely got that Reanimate trigger" You're welcome Alex Steacy

[@wizkida981015]

"Rofellos was really happy before" And now he's banned

[@Draugo]

Just after the Day of Judgement he created a bunch of Angel tokens somehow "I'll just tap out everything and lay a new wall of flying blockers."

[@tarpit1408]

Why was there a quicksliver on the board if no one was playing slivers..? 7:20

[@BobNinjaCat]

Watching these old episodes, you miss Cameron's neurotic behavior and tendency to enjoy board control more than one should. I could see him playing Talrund or Leovold in EDH... ...and the episode being 2hrs of groaning and flying tables.

[@Rockergage]

For the everyone wins deck he should have got archetype of imagination, all creatures you control have flying creatures your opponent control lose flying

[@aylipaolucci9412]

That card was in Theros. The newest set out at the time of the recording was M12. Archetype of Imagination was not out yet. Although it would have been hysterical

[@theelderbros7849]

+Gage Horton I have one of those. I love it

[@red.erased]

You seemed to miss the part where he said "Darksteel Plated" Commander, making it indestructible.

[@deitygaming7976]

i want the deck list for Jermey's and grahams deck lis

[@B1ngusD1ngus]

Man this is the episode

[@maccabeeanderson3987]

At 6:08 why was the apple on the computer blurred out?

[@KL-oj2my]

No playmats. How brave.

[@necroticzliver]

Did no one else notice that there wasn't really a reason to kill Kathleen since the tokens from Firecat Blitz get exiled at the end of turn?

[@lukasbubliauskas]

My Ghave deck name; “I ain’t saying he make a million Saprolings, but seriously you guys look at all of these frickin Saprolings.”

[@samconsumespie1012]

This creature couldn’t cast a counter spell with all the islands in micronesia

[@astro3235]

press 1, 2, 4, and 8 repeatedly for amazing sound effects

[@esper4605]

Next time my friends show up at my house, I will have the tilting table fully available for them to rage on when angry.

[@fireemblemistrash75]

Gotta wall and a sledgehammer to?

[@dylanhancock7123]

you toyally should

[@Girhin]

OMG I just now noticed the campaign posters behind Matt and Alex.

[@BrogarshTV]

I believe it was the commander sets or the commander arsenal but they came with over sized cards to use as your commanders.

[@BazookaChipmunk]

I'd really like to see more of these.

[@Haights]

...I /just/ realized that James' deck name is (probably?) supposed to be an F/Marry/Kill joke.

[@ThatOneGirlThatPlays]

I liken the table flipping to the art on Renounce the Guilds, we now call it "Renouncing the Table".

[@mO3fnMon3y]

this is my fave episode for sure!