I will never forgive Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider(MTG Commander Roast)

The only impressive part of this card is that green players understand rounding. Welcome to another commander roast!
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[@slayinderp7501]

Don't forget Vorin also doubles all poison counters because there's absolutely no way green could do 5 damage.

[@maldhound]

Idk man this is like the only card in green I’ve ever seen be capable of hitting for more than 1-2 damage

[@AsuraBoss]

@@maldhound*On turn 0

[@elfboy676]

With Fynn the Fangbearer, even mana dorks are win cons.

[@joeldykman7591]

​@maldhound my dude forgot about the infect ball lightning called putrefax. Used to run it when I played xenegod edh.

[@Archaonn]

There's definitely NO WAY a 5 power green creature with HASTE and INFECT could exist

[@fearjunkie]

I hadn't realized that Vorinclex affected how much loyalty planeswalkers enter with. Jesus Christ.

[@DoctorKarul]

And half for your opponents, and round down their toxic 1 to zero... it's killer

[@Lord_Leech]

yep its counters. Same with poison counters and neg counters as well.

[@brennanruiz1803]

@@DoctorKarul Fun fact, according to Arena, you handle all the poison counters from every instance of Toxic simultaneously, so you just need to do toxic 1 twice to do one poison counter For some reason

[@katiequeen7225]

​@@brennanruiz1803this might be correct but never take arena as proof. Here is an example: If you have multiple abilities that increase or multipy damage by sources you control then the controller of the permanent who is dealt the damage gets to choose the order in which those effects are applied. In arena it just does max damage

[@drakekalluna8150]

There's a reason it's still almost 70 dollars foil

[@BenMarcWilliams]

The most horrifying thing about Vorinclex is that he's Colossal Dreadmaw _with upside._

Oh god, it totally powercreeps Craw Wurm!

[@PhoenicopterusR]

Wym? Colossal Dreadmaw is all upside, it itself IS the upside.

[@ianshevlin299]

Cant cheat it out with gishath though-

[@bobwilson679]

@@ianshevlin299 A man of culture, you know what's up

[@oldbleezy9211]

You know what, I'm actually a fan of tax evasion. In fact, WotC should make a green card called "Tax Evasion."

[@SoloWing88]

White has a carf called land tax so green being the best it should evade the worst commander color and fortnite dance in front of it

[@antialpaka1186]

something something tax evasion is an obligation!

[@flameofmage1099]

That would actually be flavorful too if they put it in the right kind of set.

[@Fausto_4841]

@@flameofmage1099 more evidence they didn't know what the fuck they were doing with New Capenna.

[@bradsimpson8724]

​@@Fausto_4841Thank you. I was just thinking "this could have been a pretty flavourful New Capenna card."

[@scottclark3761]

As a person who runs this commander.....I can't say he's wrong. The deck is fast, can be aggro, but the superfriends aspect is wild. Play Ugin, The Spirit Dragon and Ultimate. I tapped an Everflowing Chalice for 96 mana once. This guy left war crimes behind in his cradle, folks....he's moved right the hell on. With a Doubling Season at 5 mana, this gets more than insane.

[@charadreemerr4195]

Bloody 'ell... Quadrupling your own counters and halfing the opponents' counters. All you need is some form of cheese with extra combat steps and Helm of the Host, then you have multiplicity through the roof. (I've seen it done with the Progress Dominus creature thing that doubles tokens made, and it eventually got to the point where one copy became 612 copies (I think))

[@Fausto_4841]

@@charadreemerr4195 just be thankful they didn't make this fucker gruul.

[@matthewalvarojr.2634]

​​@@charadreemerr4195ou think doubling season + anointed procession (+Glory dominus?) is crazy. Check the math on creating copies of Academy Manufactor.

[@hellbound9418]

Yeah i wouldnt play with you

[@Exile559]

I'll counter that.

[@ayaanmohammad6645]

Vorinclex is without a doubt the most evil praetor, and before anyone objects, this card halves counters you put, ROUNDED DOWN. And since most non-green, aka law-abiding colors put just one counter on a creature, have fun putting 1/2 of 1, rounded down to ZERO. Also, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger.

[@dragonfire72]

Also also, he fucks over Infect. As well as making Infect even worse. I get to hit you with 5 poison counters and you lose but you have to hit me for 20.

[@DarkeLourd]

@@dragonfire72 Or more since he rounds down.

[@shishsquared]

@@dragonfire72 if you're putting them on one at a time, you can never get a single poison counter on anyone when an opponent controls Vorinclex.

[@thetime-wornspire9095]

Jin gitaxias reducing you’re maximum hand size by 7 would like to have a word

[@xXMGVXx]

@@thetime-wornspire9095 I play madness and my hand size is irrelevant. My vampires getting zero +1/+1 counters a bunch of times excites me greatly on the other hand. Making atraxa and edgar markov look like reasonable cards should make anybody worried about the power level of this mono green beat stick.

[@carlosolivares363]

This man is the greatest thing in Magic I love these videos so much

[@maldhound]

You are too kind but I appreciate it! 🙏

[@Fausto_4841]

this is just about the only magic content i can even watch anymore. I can't express enough gratitude for the brevity. it's not too quick like tiktok or shorts, but it's not 15 or 30 fkn minutes saying the same thing over and over either.

[@pencilwatchesstuff791]

Buff cubone is the funniest thing I've heard all week

[@TheMEGAJCB]

Ah yes, I recently got my girlfriend a Vorinclex commander deck she built as her birthday present because I kinda wanted her to have her own physical deck to play instead of having to rely solely on my own. And man, as much as I love her being happy and enjoying EDH the war crimes committed upon me and the rest of the table with that deck keep me awake at night. I especially felt the Nissa who Shakes the Earth part, since she has actually pulled that shit on me twice already. I am the Kozilek the Great Distortion (among many others such as Krenko, Nekusar or Meren to name a few) player, so it's not like I can complain about the atrocities she pulls off in our games hahaha.

[@thefierypaladin126]

Run Devoted Druid

[@sammysammyson]

@@thefierypaladin126 Meta tech.

[@sammysammyson]

Look, we can complain all we want. Commander players complaining about war crimes except the many committed by their own decks is just a thing we do. Cheers lol

[@klevinratnayaka3528]

I’m interested in building the same deck any chance it’s cheap or expensive?

[@TheMEGAJCB]

@@klevinratnayaka3528 Depends on what you consider to be a cheap or and expensive deck and how do you want to build it, but just seeing the price tag of the Vorinclex should let you know that it will most likely not be cheap regardless of your standards. Commander is pretty proxy friendly afaik, so you can just ask your playgroup if they are fine with you having some proxies with the expensive (within reasonable margins) cards.

[@bradsimpson8724]

Ah, Vorinclex. As far as I can recall, this was the only time I built and played a mono-green Commander deck. I had a good handful of planeswalkers in that deck, along with a smattering of infect creatures. I could only play that deck with my daughter and her friends, because my regular playgroup would have kicked my ass.

[@kylelilley4814]

I'm surprised your daughter and her friends didn't kick your ass

[@roercula8425]

Was it torment or a gigachad daughter that didnt care?

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

Playing a Monstrous Raider deck against your own daughter feels like child abuse 🤣

[@bradsimpson8724]

​@@roercula8425She was okay with it, but her friends beat me up when I drove them home. Fuckin' nine-year-olds.

[@SingingInferno]

Double infect is what really makes Vorin so much of a threat in the current commander climate. Infect just got a HUUUUGE amount of support from the entire phyrexian story block, so only needing to do 5 infect damage is so laughably easy that it's damn near free.

[@unevenelephant469]

Solemnity says lmao.

[@jonathanpetersen1623]

Shoot. Put vorniclex in a fynn the fangbearer deck and it only takes 3 hits from a 1/1 deathtouch to kill someone

[@tallanbowhay1645]

@@unevenelephant469because green has no ways to deal with enchantments haha. I play vorinclex and sure sometimes its back breaking but its such a fun moment blowing up the Solemnity a turn or two later and getting back to your war crimes

[@stevolam182]

@@tallanbowhay1645how does Vori necessarily work with Solemnity?

[@paulcurran302]

Vorinclex is doubling season in the command zone. It’s a multiplier on a stick, and pretty much all multipliers in magic are busted. It just so happens that Vorinclex doubles like half the win cons in the game.

[@tacothursdays6546]

"People play commanders for 3 reasons: 1) Drip 2) It Bonks Hard™ 3) It Annihilates the Geneva Convention" Buff Cubone here does all 3

[@pichutube]

Geneva Convention? Where I'm from we call those the Geneva Suggestions

[@somejerk5662]

​@@pichutubeGeneva Checklist

[@TheSOGchronicles]

​@@pichutubesuggestions? Man talk to me when its Geneva bingo night

[@Distortia1994]

@@TheSOGchronicles Geneva Bingo? More like the Geneva Checklist. Gotta go through the _entire_ thing.

[@TheSOGchronicles]

@@Distortia1994 ah but bingo is more horrifying as your quite litterly turning peoples lives into a game as compared to a job *which people get payed for doing some of these things already*

[@joshuanoon5658]

He's not spikes an dirt. He's raw muscles, sinew, an other tissue reused from things he killed when he decided to planeswalk without a spark. Also I just use him in my kyler deck, make my humans super swole

[@kikihardxcoremedia2937]

So funny story.. he’s one of my bf’s favs. I was thinking of buying a version of him to add to my Phyrexian line up. Was thinking of this card so hard two days ago. Yesterday I get to work to find a Phyrexia All Will Be One collector’s booster from a colleague. I worked for a bit and said screw it and opened it. The second or third slot had Vorinclex, and not just any version. It was the foil concept preator. So I some how manifested this boy in to my life. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@manaraider628]

Vorinclex is fun with the new Vraska, her -9 puts 9 poison counters on the opponent if they have none, but with vorinclex that becomes 18, so you play vorinclex then next turn play vraska and one hit kill with 18 poison

[@jobot0114]

"Next turn" lmao, nah that shit is happening in a single combo

[@laytonjr6601]

You're playing mono green you can cast your 6 mana commander on turn 3. Edit: this Vraska is mono black (I checked because I didn't know any mono green Vraska, she's usually Black/Green)

[@daviddupler3761]

The interaction between Luminous Broodmoth and an opponent's Vorinclex is hilarious

The aristocrats player has gained a new ally

[@georgefeldman5647]

One of the few times that an opponent having this card is upside.

[@michaelgadbaw4780]

I love this 'series' if you will... like your description of how to use/abuse these cards are hilarious and on point. Keep up the good stuff!! Also 1st ask for a next video one of my beloved commanders, Queza, Augur of Agonies.

[@DCdabest]

Vorinclex, my beloved. So many counters. So much salt from opponents. So beautiful. ....until he gets mind controlled or some shit and suddenly he is on the other team and he is too strong for me to remove now......

[@eatachodeutube]

In 1v1 formats this is a game winning card to search up with Emergent Ultimatum and either Phrexian Vraska or Liliana from War of The Spark. The third card can be something like omniscience or just extra turn spells.

[@Angelec99]

You never fail to give me new deck ideas

[@lordice5]

Thanks man. You give me so many ideas to cause as much distress to friends and loved ones as possible.

[@andrewmcnally5013]

Damn, bro. Roasting my whole Vorinclex deck right there! Didn't even get to the Poison Counter doubling tho.

[@gaetanlebarbenchon1423]

Thank you for making this video! I'm into MTG since 7 month and my deck is the tyranid swarm. I really needed to know how apply and how to use my vorinclex. Thank you man good video! What a great accent!

[@georgeblair3894]

"Show us on the doll where the bad Green deck violated you"

[@Zambedos]

I played a game on arena where Nissa ulted and I realized hey, I'm not dead on board. Spit out a ton of tokens for blockers & explore triggers, which let lurking chupacabra start picking off lands and slowly but surely took that game.

[@TheSpectralFX]

My dude, Tyrranax Rex is where its at with this Commander. That or a walking ballista that somehow ends up with infect.

[@SunD45h]

Thank you for reminding me I need that card in my super friends deck

[@xXMGVXx]

Anybody ever questioning my decision to kill this thing the moment it gets played gets my answer: "Rounded down! Anything that does not create multiple counters does literally nothing." MoM Elesh has the decency to nope directly in your face while I have met people arguing monstrous rider would let other people play the game while being on the board.

[@markreitanpedersen8227]

Buffed Cubone is the best sentence ever 😂

[@NWStoic]

My next deck is gonna be called "Spikes and Dirt" Keep on ragin' bro. I can't get enough.

[@maxinesenior596]

I love how all your criteria end with "can they get it"

[@sonofdysonsphere969]

Thank you for making me realize I need to take Vorinclex out of the 99 and make a super friends deck with him.

[@charlescourtwright2229]

Best part of the Nissa, who shakes the world + Vorin combo is those forest are now tapping for double, so your looking at 40+ mana for green once that goes off

[@collinbeal]

I'm sorry. That Vorinclex into Nissa was probably me if it happened on Arena 😂. I had a Nissa deck whose entire game plan was to tutor up Vorinclex so she could immediately ultimate, and then animate all my lands

[@lukeschonkeren4602]

You should do a roast on Isamaru, hound of Konda. It’s a legendary 1 mana 2/2 and no abilities. Fairest commander ever.

[@Eramiserasmus]

Green Tax Evasion has hit the upper limit.

[@chaseva9685]

Mald, could you please do Juri Master of Revue or Kelsien the Plaugr next? Love your content man

[@rocktheworldlove]

I cracked at “that happened to me” I was like there it is. I knew this one was personal

[@MysteryMedia2001]

God I adore your roasts

[@maldhound]

Thank you so much!

[@dely9999]

Me: So how many lands are you going to play again? Vorinclex Players: Y E S

[@ayejay2688]

one of my original decks was this dude! so as a monstrous raider player, it warms my heart that someone got off nissa's ult on you

[@Rosta720]

Playing this with Ugin or almost any liliana is one of my favorite interactions in mtg

[@marklafrancis253]

“The whole thing is spikes and dirt” *mumbles approvingly in mud and sticks speak*

[@chazmanious]

My roommate has this card as a commander and I’m really glad he doesn’t have any planeswalkers in that deck.

[@notahooman3598]

I pulled him in one of the 6 dollar booster packs my friends and I bought for stocking stuffers last christmas and immediately made the cheekiest stompy green commander deck ive ever owned. love my vorinclex

[@warsongchief1]

This with a Voracious Hydra with a Panharmonicon would be a nightmare.

[@TheCorruptGamer4]

don't forget nyxbloom with those 40 lands XD

[@master-zaynelotus5048]

Man said Roided out Cubone, so subscribed. Please do Light-paws? Or Yisan?

[@nhogan84]

Blue may be committing crimes, but Green is committing them against humanity.

[@mikewhit2197]

I pulled a vorinclex monstrous raider, built a super friends deck, and now I dont have any real friends...

[@knoble4797]

Atraxa Grand Unifier roast when? You KNOW she deserves it

[@redraijin8696]

I 100% want to play that combo. But only once.

[@danieljohnson9917]

A fun interaction: if an opponent has Vorinclex out, their Vorinclex acts as an enabled for your own Devoted Druid combo (or anything else in the Devoted Druid cycle, but infinite mana is generally the best option). You know, because green ain't stupid enough, so it makes OTHER green stupid.

[@patrickcoleman6429]

My guy, I still need you to do a vid like this for Tergrid, the God of Fright! Please may guy I need to see it!

[@sarcastic_ocupie1669]

To add to the suffering you add Varaska, Betrayer’s fang into the mix, use ultimate and give someone 18 poison counters.

[@YourBoyNobody530]

Me you plays 40 forests then proceeds to start digging everyone’s graves as a spam out 80 mana worth of 40/40 death machines with trample on my next turn.

[@FanOfMostEverything]

Vorinclex as Mega Marowak is a mental image I truly do not know how to feel about. But yes, Doubling Season jacked up on steroids, glistening oil, and moose meat is a Problem™.

[@jmaj922]

These videos are the embodiment of people's PTSD to certain cards

[@jacobd1984]

Forget planes walker cards, my favorite thing to do with this guy is get out The Great Synthesis and power through chapters 1-2 at the same time. Your opponent(s) see it coming a mile away, but it's amazing if you can pull it off.

[@Gitaxixn]

"Maybe... Vorinclex isn't all that useless." - Jin-Gitaxias, probably

[@jayredharpstudios9672]

I would love to see him roast either Elesh Norn, MoM, or Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

[@Dile0303]

Talk about Jodah, Archmage eternal

[@fastballncs]

Me laughing in persist/undying loops when they drop him

[@NWStoic]

Watched video, IMMEDIATELY WENT AND BOUGHT TWO COPIES. Thank you, SIR!

[@AbstractStew]

Holy Hell, that effect applies to poison counters.

[@maldhound]

Yup

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

Pitbull named princess:

[@40mmProShop]

Didn't know he existed but I'm definitely making a mono green with him now

[@yamaterasu77]

Thoughts on Archelos, Lagoon Mystic? flavor text made me want to use him as a commander to slow down my hyper competitive friend at our table but i worry ill slow down the game too much for everyone but myself. also keep up the great work love your vids they make my day that much more better

[@danielnebiker806]

I want to see you roast kalimax, the stormsire

[@TopsideCrisis346]

Never actually pulled Vorinclex during Kaldhiem's run in Standard, and I'm STILL salty about it! 🤬 Also - you need to do a video on Oviya Pashiri.

[@SatinFoxx]

Welp...found my new favorite commander.

[@lordgzstg6181]

Thats when you top deck settle the wreckage and exile all thier lands when they attack you.

[@mr.goldfish1530]

Tamiyo, Field Researcher time baybee

[@jayemdaewarehouse9027]

I actually enjoyed Vorinclex in my Freyalise Elfball back in the day, though I think that was probably the fair way to play Vorinclex. Also, have you heard the good news of Karona, Flase God?

[@user-qu7px5oq8r]

Goes great with gurrak, then I summon any creature to the battlefield every end step.

[@matthewalvarojr.2634]

I have doubling season and vorinclex in my Atraxa superfriends. Opponents think their safe when they kill them. Out comes Eerie Ultimatum to bring them back as well as all the revived planeswalkers getting the effects of both.

[@jodylester9118]

"...the whole thing is spikes and dirt." Didn't realize Vorinclex was a crust punk, but that checks out

[@randallfinkbonner5476]

I run this in a GU historic with Double Major and Search for Greatness. Thanks to the new plethora of cards with phyrexian mana costs, it's easy to fufill requirements for Search for Greatness and i'm constantly turn5/6 Vorinclex with a double major cast on top of it.

[@asuperiorjamularproduct8861]

Please do Obeka, Brute Chronologist next! Thanks

[@derrickheineke9444]

The hair is immaculate my boy

[@hakeador4000]

Vorinclex can absolutely get it, you big baby!

[@sirpantsalot123]

I made a simic planeswalkers deck one time and got the nissa who shakes the world ult and the garruk wildspeaker ult in the same turn

[@b4l-noise308]

Hahahaha love this vids. Did you already do blightsteel big boy

[@maldhound]

Not yet!

[@Flash-ml9gz]

I play Atraxa Superfriends with this card. This response is warranted

[@HaikBoyadjian2]

This man's reaction to these cards are the best. Have you seen the other 2 vorinclex. You might have a heart attack if you read those.

[@CasHanover]

Soooooo. Tatyova, Steward of the tides. I did something like that in simic with that vorinclex. "Ok, so a total of 38 lands are on the board for me, all are indestructible, and are flying 3/3s"

[@connorgibson5224]

I’d absolutely love a roast of Mizzix of the Izmagus. You wanna talk about izzet at its peak bs? 😂

[@Lukaz2009]

Hilariously enough, Vorinclex does not want to run any Battles in his deck list. They'd have double the Defense counters, making them even harder to flip. And your opponent's Battles would become easier to flip.

[@Dreadnote-pf7of]

Well, maybe he want them. But its became an ever harder challenge, he set big goals to reach grand evolution, green dude doesn't forget about green grind 👊😎💀 just bring bigger creatures and pump with more tokens, if you swinging with 100/100 manadork - it doesn't matter if battle is 6 or 12 defence 😎😎😎

[@Lukaz2009]

@@Dreadnote-pf7of I mean, you aren't wrong about the green mana grindset.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

So what you're saying is that we can use Vorinclex to make a battle hug deck?

[@Lukaz2009]

@@PhoenicopterusR No, because your opponent's would have to be playing Battles for them to benefit from Vorinclex halving the number of defense counters they start with.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

@@Lukaz2009 Panoptic Mirror or Elite Arcanist + Fractured Identity, then just target any battle you control with Fractured Identity. That should give everyone but you a copy of the battle, right?

[@steakatron]

Damn, i wanna build that now

[@NotDarthThanaton]

0:28 Kathril, the Aspect Warper smiles in the most evil manner similar ti Patrick from SpongeBob 😈

[@veginito9927]

"Spikes and dirt people "

[@shmeat_thief2495]

I use that in my double trigger Yarok landfall deck

[@Arcanewerewolf]

Had this in deck while I played around in historic brawl in mtga using kasmina enigma sage and ichor moon gauntlet, and let's just say if I used her ult by the time it was done resolving I would have enough counters for the extra turn :P

[@tylerhelton5980]

Asking for najeela the blade blossom

[@Pluto137]

When I realized votinclex spelled yo ALL tokens it dropped my jaw

[@Bwxrevo]

I would love to see your take on Liesa, Shroud of Dusk

[@Nomo-sapiens]

I love that tax evation but Ruric Thar, the Unbowed kills faster

[@Azuth65]

Since we're onto Phyrexians, I am once again asking for you to do Atraxa, Grand Unifier.

[@superslash7254]

Blue Green just called and said to say "Arcbound". It was hard to make out over all the swearing in the room though.

[@manofsteel626]

I feel attacked....lol yes I've made this exact deck 😂😂😂

[@nobodyhere22500]

The last time I was this early I got Revised packs at retail.