My Run At The "Pro Tour of cEDH" | My Topdeck.gg Invitational Tournament Report

[@jamallynch1218]

all i know is comedian is my mtg goat i watched the whole thing bruh was slumped day one came all the way back to top 16/4

[@KiwinaiOfficial]

I didn't expect you to play Kinnan after how many people jumped off of him, but I'm glad you did! I was biting my nails on Sunday, hoping you'd make it in top 16, then 4, after seeing so many great players not do as well as expected. Great job!

[@enoesiw]

Yeah, "destroy target red permanent..." vs "destroy target permanent if it's red..." is such a beautifully nuanced change. Makes REB and Pyro so fun to play around.

[@benespinoza9569]

just now got to watch this video but i've been so excited to see it and im hoping to get coaching for my grist deck when i can hope you cherish and are proud of this you had an amazing run this season - a random fan

[@DurhamCurse]

As a long-time follower, I couldn't be happier to see you keeping up the good work!

[@Rodneydask-fj6sf]

Wow! It's been a while since I've been able to watch cEDH content and I'm glad to see the huge growth in your channel

[@andreasfasshauer677]

Great job! You are one of the major reason why I’m still following this whole tEDH scene because you are proofing over and over again that you are not always needing the „best“ deck to reach top 4! Love your content!

[@reuvan16]

Great job! Didn't surprise me at all to see you in the top 4. I, Johnny Snow, knew you could keep a cool head and power through. That is why you are my greatest NEMESIS!

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@reuvan16 it took me like 3 hours to remember where I knew this reference from 😅

[@PokenShaho]

“if i put enough wins on the stack, one is bound to resolve” did in fact not apply in the game with you in Rd4 😂 good games and glad i could be the turning point for your success haha!

[@GlacialCityMTG]

The Season 1 Magic Goat. Incredible run through the entire topdeck series. 🎉 Brilliant effort

[@Austin_Palmer_MTG]

Austin here and our games were pretty crazy and were a lot of fun. You were the only player I lost to at the tournament😅 great miracle run you had

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@Austin_Palmer_MTG you had a great run dude, hoping we get to play sometime in the future :)

[@mandielyn0416]

Watching your come back was amazing. Still the GOAT!

[@mrpeabody8300]

I can't wrap my head around the fact that flare of duplication can't redirect the original swat to the swat copy to make it fizzle

[@rd1012]

Great Recap GOAT-IAN!! WAY TO REP KINNAN!!

[@__E__]

One editing suggestion: when you're narrating the games (which you do very well btw), you're using people's names a lot which can be a bit hard to follow. I think it would be great to put players names below their commanders on the image on your left!

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@__E__ note taken :)

[@ethanletrong1888]

Still love seeing you explain each round. Please keep at it

[@alexliang1040]

Thinking about the Apple steal on Korvold, it was an insane catch but probably wouldn't have happened if Simian spirit Guide survived the gamble

[@kauwgomboom]

Love the content Ian! Little thing that would help is putting the player names next to the commanders. Because I get quite lost who is playing what commander :)

[@brendanmangan6225]

Crazy comeback man for sure

[@OhOnGod]

Sisay with a smothering tithe is an absolute force of nature. No wonder they let you keep a seedborn muse. Almost every time I’ve successfully landed tithe, I proceed to slow roll into a win.

[@BudgetPubStomper-lr7nh]

Congrats mr Comedian. Good job! Tangent*** Please talk Mikey out of this. I knew this would happen but my cedh group that I JUST got going a couple months ago is divided. Two want to use the banned list they’ll have at tourneys and 2 say they won’t do it. One guy said “I’m going back to my roots” meaning casual commander. Idk how they can’t see this obvious thing but I pray that once they see the cedh player base split and they watch the almost zero casual commander players come to “tedh” (imagine they go to a tourney for the first time and they’re just got their Rystic study and..) I just hope if they actually have to literally witness the awful things to come they will be super fast to let this idea die. I don’t want to keep a side board or build a deck for.. What are they calling this new format? TEdh? Will moxfield recognize it I wonder??? This is so bad.

[@pearcehubbart3767]

Fr, I used to want a banlist but duel commander is what you want if you are going to play banlisg edh. And no one plays that shit.

[@BudgetPubStomper-lr7nh]

@@pearcehubbart3767 If you play tourneys or aspire to you may not have a choice in the matter. Top deck is the big one. Honestly, their actions seem to be begging for a grown up to come along and out compete them. Maybe that will happen. I’d do it but I’ve got shit to do lol. But prob that is what could save us. But the other tourney orgs prob will follow their lead. Someone needs to build a big comp for them. It’s a cash cow. Unless this change dramatically slows the growth of the format down (and it def might) I don’t see how a savvy group could fail. I really should get this going. Or someone should.

[@msolace580]

great report. i know its hard to remember all the plays, and i just try to keep track of mine most the time :)

[@dasfabelwesen]

Cursed totem is one of the best stacks pieces one can play at the moment.

[@TheBooswig]

Well done Ian!

[@hungryguitarstudent]

Congrats on the epic comeback!! Loving your list btw. What are your potential cuts for that extra land?

[@Droopymccool2323]

Congrats on the top 4 Ian!

[@dasfabelwesen]

Why cant you redirect the deflecting swat to the flare copy of deflecting swat?

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@dasfabelwesen I think you can, this was a table-wide oversight

[@ishai-gf6dd]

Hey comedian. I was wondering if you are participating in the cedh european championship in November in lisbon?

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@ishai-gf6dd I'm going to try and get out but it's extremely tough to afford the travel. Still have high hopes

[@ishai-gf6dd]

Ok thx for the reply. Really hoping you'll make it. Good luck!

[@LGTeGeTeGe]

Bro u got drip with that ghost pokemon shirt u where wearin that day, congrats on ur top4

[@Josephhof]

This final was hilarious

[@SDTCG]

Alex S. from the last round is one of the guys at my locals!

[@the_breakfastclub]

Congratz! It is crazy to see how you CONSISTENTLY shred through these events. What a goat. Maybe the new cEDH RC should think about banning ComedIan alongside Rhystic Study…

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@the_breakfastclub please don't 🙏

[@kevinsimmons5343]

🐐 🐐 🐐

[@hellproof2379]

I didn’t understand watching the game live why Jeremy didn’t jam early. I’m pretty sure he had enough for 2 activations on sisay and it’s always harder to read on a game on stream but still don’t know what was stopping him

[@zachgeraets910]

Hi Ian! would you be able to put the names of the players next to the deck they played when you're describing the matches? I had a tough time following along as someone just getting into the format who isnt familiar with the grinders/tournament regulars. Congrats on your comeback and finish!

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@zachgeraets910 I'll make this note to my editor. I was recording with the names visible, but they were trying to make it look better 😅

[@andrewkelley6039]

THE MULLIGAN MAN

[@nebDDa]

who the hell is choosing these card treatments… white border karn the great creator dealt me 3d8 psychic damage

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@nebDDa mystery booster 2 is the newest set in Scryfall and therefore it is defaulting to that art

[@WeirdPhilosophy]

I was hoping you'd elaborate a little bit why you were not on perplexing Chimera because when I first saw your list I was positivley surprised by that. I always had to explain myself why I'm not running it because Wounded and Tyler are such big advocate of that card :D I simply don't like the boardstates it can create especialy in the clone meta. Two persons on perplexing chimera usualy result in game I don't want to be a part of anymore, I'm not a tournament grinder though.

[@MRAIClassroom]

Not to speak for him, I do believe it as u stated he doesn’t like the board states and it can come back to bite u if people clone it and or can just use it after u use it to counter something of yours!

[@thefreemanexperience]

Ayyy!

[@PrimeShifter]

Wow, really weird going into round six I was eating an apple and then he started saying that…. that was kind of weird and it was a gala apple

[@PrimeShifter]

Sounds like it was a pretty hairy time stressful but fun

[@wyattfox6299]

You should cover the SeaEDH tournament that happened on 8/31! The Top 16 had some SPICE

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@wyattfox6299 I loved the winning deck!

[@wyattfox6299]

@@ComedIanMTG Me too, I’m local to these but super bummed I missed this one!

[@xkkhghs]

In round 4 you said that the flare wouldn’t stop the deflecting swat. Couldn’t he copy the deflecting set to change the target of your swat to his?

[@xkkhghs]

Might have been round 6, bad with Roman numerals XD

[@Yezvthefirst]

Flare works against a deflecting swat, does it not? Ertai goes to counter defense grid, Ian casts deflecting swat targeting the ertai, flare of duplication copying the deflecting swat to then target the deflecting swat and change the target of the original dswat to the copy

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@Yezvthefirst oh shoot you may be right!!! We all were thinking about the copy redirecting the Ertai trigger

[@Team_F6]

My thing about your Top16 game is that Jeremy could have won, I think. He could have responded to cultist trigger and activated Sisay and probably could have converted right?

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@Team_F6 I don't believe we ever gave him that window with the revealed information

[@nathanmccaffrey6239]

Lebron James if cedh well done Ian

[@benjamingerry1752]

Been watching you for a bit, inspired me to go to my first tournament this week.

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@benjamingerry1752 love to hear it!

[@RJP1910]

That godo player had that coming a mile away lol. You do not try and win with mystic remora on board.

[@TripsAhoy]

Nice ❤❤❤

[@alexstockwell5722]

Rd7 was a lot of fun Ian! I was more shocked than you were I think, what a way to stop the win. Since when do 5 color decks have 4 blue cards in hand LOL GG's and amazing run!

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@alexstockwell5722 oh wow I didn't even think about that part! Great meeting you and keep the badass shirt game up 😅

[@Kishimyu]

Please brew some more with Baylen. Or any sans-U commander. It's always way more entertaining and mind-blowing to see those types of decks do well.

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@Kishimyu it's definitely still in the works for me! I adore the rabbit

[@alexanderwootten5160]

It puzzles me that Kinnan decks don’t seem to run Walking Ballista. It seems like the most obvious win with the infinite colourless mana. What am I missing?

[@TheLimedew]

Because once you have the mana its easier to search out Thrasios and just draw your whole deck and from there you can just finale of devastation or assemble a win with tidespout or horror. It also sucks flipping into a Walking Ballista off of kinnan.

[@johnweinhandl8890]

Dead card. Lists are so tight they can’t even afford one dead draw. Specially at the top tournament of the year

[@urgoingtojail3892]

Some kinnan lists also do indurance loops as well

[@itzmimz8238]

because it sucks

[@alexanderwootten5160]

@@TheLimedew of course, flipping into it would be a disaster. That’s the obvious piece I was overlooking.

[@christianroberts1121]

Hey Ian, big fan!! Wanna make a video of Zane cheating in Fishbowl 4?

[@pearcehubbart3767]

Did Zane actually cheat?

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@christianroberts1121 that's a big accusation to throw out. I wasn't at that tournament so tbh I'm not really sure what the hope is in placing this in my comments.

[@LateTeens709]

Gonna need some elaboration with an accusation like that.

[@pearcehubbart3767]

@christianroberts1121 I'm just now learning that Zain sucks. No clue about cheating allegations but I'm disheartened to see he's just a free magic "person"(my stand in for feigning respect). Just sucks to learn about Zain originally from this channel and follow his stuff a bit just to see he sucks.

[@pearcehubbart3767]

@christianroberts1121 like damn. Does everyone already know he's just a pos and let's it slide? Cuz like he's so big in the format I'm kinda shaken in my want to play this format if there's just literally an asswipe congregating power at the top.

[@Gleebusaz]

I find it funny that a table of the best players of cedh allowed you to keep a seedborn in play for 2+ full turns in a semifinals pod even if Sisay was representing a win it must be nice to yap to win into top 4

[@TheSocialKing13]

Sounds like you should learn to politic, can’t be mad every time you lose to someone more charismatic then you.

[@Gleebusaz]

@@TheSocialKing13 why are you defending him? He was handed a free win into a game of pure karma it all balances out in the end

[@TheSocialKing13]

@@Gleebusaz I’m not defending Ian lmao I’m defending the politic play style. It’s how I play, my entire local tournament scene joke about my “silver tongue” the point is that people WILL politic, if you don’t want to lose to politics then learn how to do it better, no point in blaming a player for “yapping” to a free win, it’s a social format and sometimes the best talker will beat the best player.

[@Gleebusaz]

@@TheSocialKing13 🤯 what yapping in a social format makes it more likely you’ll win who knew, you genuinely can not believe a kinnan with 20+ mana a full grip and a experienced pilot is ok to allow seedborn to be in play for more than 1 turn

[@ComedIanMTG]

@@Gleebusaz you act like that is not also a skill... I'm not talking aimlessly it's to a point. I present a logical argument and my opponents can feel free to agree or disagree. No need to come into the comments and throw shade for literally no reason 🤷 Discussion and threat assessment is part of cEDH, stop hiding behind the term yap as if it's a glitch in the game.

[@jacksonhenry1489]

First lol

[@TripsAhoy]

Lmao

[@TheG1bbles]

the fnm of cedh