PLAY TO WIN BREWS A FRANCISCO, FOWL MARAUDER cEDH DECK

Dylan and Cam brew a cEDH deck built around the new pirate partner Francisco, Fowl Marauder
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[@Creamsiclegoblin53]

I think the deck should be called “bird soup” because you’re using the cauldron as your main wincon

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Love that idea

[@blaaaarrrrgMTG]

Hippidy-hop all the way to the birdie boiler

[@noelkoster1994]

Chicken soup?

[@blaaaarrrrgMTG]

Oooo Chicken Soup for the Soul Cauldron

[@anstapa6118]

Dammit! Came here to make the same name! Ah well, too slow this time.

[@Zelphiez]

This was an 11/10 episode boys. The humor, the thought process behind the card choices, and general discussion of deck structure were all 👌

[@ragnarragx4431]

would have enjoyed a tyler though i agree ;D

[@Xath123]

A couple of things I noticed playing the deck a bit: -You want as few lands as possible because 1. Citadel 2. You don't want a land on top when you combo - Counterbalance is so free in this deck - combat research and curious obsession are nice cheap advantages engines that give Francisco 1 power -If you play entomb you might as well have a razaketh in since it's cauldronable -Consecrated sphynx is amazing in this deck, you ramp so hard with your commanders that it's super easy to cast

[@asianman1994]

"The bird is the word" since both are your commanders and basically your wincon

[@devoncook2517]

Super fun getting to see a brew happen as a newer cedh player!

[@bensteinhauser784]

I enjoyed watching your brewing process. Surprised we didn't see counterbalance in the deck to go with top. Also, is so unfortunate that Francisco has 0 power so he's just expensive Roger without the combo of another pirate.

[@thedoctor1471]

Buuuuuut cauldron can put a counter on it.

[@nitramreniar]

@@thedoctor1471 Pretty sure they're talking about how it doesn't get anywhere on its own. It would be helpful if Francisco could start getting counters and manipulating the top of your deck (with the explore triggers) on its own before trying to combo off and without relying on the other partner commander.

[@thedoctor1471]

@@nitramreniar yeah on that I agree and it's honestly the reason I think the card isn't THAT strong.

[@rockstaa13]

Also i was expecting aetherflux reservoir to go along with top and citadel. Obviously a 3 card combo but the decm seems to have a lot of tutors anyways. And reservoir gives some life gain even if not going off

[@TheNineteeners]

Loved this episode, hope this style of episode comes back in the future.

[@Trogdorbad]

Really glad you guys made a video on Francisco, I've been considering building him and now I have a base list I can work with (since I'll probably wanna make a casual build that's maybe more pirate focused, but having a cEDH list for when I want to get into the format is super nice too)

[@narfidy444]

This is exactly the kind of content I like to see as someone with only their toes in the cEDH ocean

[@Jace9IX]

this was a really cool episode seeing u guys just rattle off cards off the top the knowledge is really impressive actually you put together a list of like 25 none land cards together so so quick once u knew the colours

[@Houdini1138]

The only answer “Skwab the Deck” It’s bird themed. Pirate themed. And it is a deck.

[@AnviThirteen]

Imp Seal also lets you put Ballista on top and gives you a counter from explore then put it in the graveyard. I guess this assumes you have a counter, but it gives you an extra one to try the combo an additional time.

[@ljlk8583]

I've seen a lot of entombs being played, but it seems like no one wants to run unmarked grave. I understand that it's quite a bit worse, but in most decks that want a specific card in a graveyard (that isn't legendary) I think it can definitely be worth it Reshape is very similar if you're running it to put a walking ballista in your graveyard

[@shivandragon1651]

Vile entomber is also solid ik it's 2 and 2 black but it's a body, and you can loop it to fill your graveyard

[@kerithwooldridge]

Love the idea of this! I’ve been wanting to get into cEDH for a little while now, and this seems like a really fun start.

[@williambennett4481]

New favorite video; I love the brewing. Helps me better understand why some cards are left out of certain decks.

[@Dubhats]

The Reality Chip would go so hard in this deck. You are already playing Bolas's Citadel and Sensei's Top, and with how many artifacts youre playing you could toss in an Etherium Sculptor too

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Woah good point, that's a cool idea!

[@shivandragon1651]

The reality chip is so good I run that combo on jhoira to run up Aetherflux and sometimes grapeshot

[@Dubhats]

@@shivandragon1651 I need to put it in my Jhoira deck I just keep forgetting because I'm brainless

[@shivandragon1651]

@anthonybuck4864 do it it's so good, I've ran it in elsha as a backup just incase I can't cast elsha again

[@socalacura1338]

What an amazing resource for cEDH veterans and newcomers alike! I hope this inspires many people to try brewing from scratch; I know I'll be!

[@Corithaniel]

My first thought was Ghost of Ramirez DePietro purely because you can stack the triggers so that you basically always draw a card when you want to off of Ramirez combat damage trigger after exploring. But that also feels more casual.

[@janmelantu7490]

It’s actually a nonbo, you have to choose a target for Ramirez *before* Francisco explores

[@nealcrabtree3647]

Ive been playing this partner pair for a couple weeks. Kitesail Larconist is an all-star.

[@The_Fishman2]

Listened to this on my way home from work as a podcast, and watched again to see with the cards. You guys should do this more often! You only get used to brewing the more you do it, and it was super entertaining!

[@nexivoid7220]

You can also explore the walking balista in the graveyard if you put it on top via vamp tutor, etc.

[@jamescraig1667]

This is hands-down my favourite podcast episode you lads have ever put out. Please, for the love of god make more like this, this was amazing

[@NotTheRats]

Hoarding broodlord would've been so cool. Broodlord tutor saw in half, saw the brood in half, get cauldron and ballista Cast ballista into the grave then convoke cauldron with the two lords and bam

[@b00xx]

Great episode! Do more of these please 🎉 Also I really wanted to see an orzhov list. If you're going to use walking ballista seems like Heliod is an easy include. And with your recent stax video y'all noted orzhov might just be the best stax list now. I'm just imagining this list with all the black and white hate pieces. Archon of Emeria, dauntless dismantler, dranith, abolisher, ranger capt, dranna and linvalla, dauthi, opposition agent, aven mind censor, archivist, esper sentinel and recruiter of the guard. Did I just build the deck 😂

[@tylerkelly3827]

I love these style of shows, deckbuilding on the fly around a card/mechanic. Always a good idea to see/hear how others approach a format or just their overall deck building styles

[@michaelvanloon4568]

You do not need to have a way to discard the walking ballista, you can cast it X = 0, then it goes straight to the graveyard.

[@TheGrifcannon22]

BuT wHaT iF It GeTs CoUnTeRed?

[@koreyg8552]

They said that in the beginning of the video…

[@noahmurtha4036]

At the 5:00 mark so maybe yall touch on it later BUT hoarding broodlord also is a 1-card win con. Broodlord gets saw In half and you only need to have 1 more mana with Frank in play to cast saw on broodlord. The copies get cauldron and ballista, and you convoke the cauldron with the tokens then ballista for 0. I added a reanimation package with shallow grave and victimize recently to my sultai pile and its solid

[@SpinAroundU]

Getting increasingly stressed out for 30 minutes until they finally remembered Dark Ritual. 10/10 would listen to again.

[@jd7391]

I brewed Francisco like 2 weeks ago. My deck list is called Tightrope Frank and pairs Francisco with Akiri Line-Slinger and Lurrus as companion. You mull aggressively looking for mana, draw engines/ tutors or an early Naus. Akiri gets surprisingly big by the way. Commander damage has happened.

[@yaakovkagel1015]

You can imperial seal for ballista and immediately explore it into the graveyard!!!

[@Hypersloth369]

I know it’s a long shot but what about putting Urza, Lord High Artificer into the deck. Helps all your artifacts tap for blue and a chance to cast a card for free and also rearrange the top of the deck with every use. This might be a bad option but I have been running him as my commander and have been wanting to find a way to add black to the deck haha

[@Highwang]

Deck name: “Dylan & Cameron’s pirate cosplay”

[@PostiveChance]

Call the deck Polly wants a Cauldren

[@dr00ness]

Tana just casually walking by and hit with the absolutely deadliest drive by of all time lmao

[@koreyg8552]

I built Malcolm Francesco and it’s pretty solid and I run a decent amount of pirates. Exploring multiple times due to your pirates combat damage helps you thin your deck as you can put 2-3 cards in your GY. It’s a good loot like effect while getting Francisco pretty big

[@jades-stars]

"Chicken soup for the soul cauldron"

[@arrowodd7695]

Running Francisco and Kraum. Grixis Pirates are where its at. If your library empty. You still get the explore trigger making Francisco good at Cracking doomsday piles.

[@josephharty5048]

I really enjoyed watching this video! Helped me think of how I want to build a deck more!

[@liveforlife8109]

Another “entomb” for the Walking Ballista could be “Mausoleum Secrets” because it’s cmc is 0, so you don’t have to have any creature cards to get it, and from that point on it is just upside

[@jariraisanen8914]

Doesn’t work, ballista isn’t black card.

[@liveforlife8109]

@@jariraisanen8914ah, my bad

[@christinamouawad1153]

Artifact lands are great with the Tezzeret. Can ramp with the -x for 0, find a Seat of the Synod, then transmute it later

[@thet0ytain_753]

This was really insightful into what goes into deck brewing at a Cedh level

[@backupgirlll]

This is an awesome video! Hope you guys do more of these

[@shanehall3294]

Only a few min. In but I love that there's talk about dockside and no one's realized that he is a pirate haha😂❤

[@ItsNegator]

Loved the Ichimaru Gin info drop from Cam!

[@naretia]

Paco is short for Francisco in spanish. Maybe something like "Paco´s final parting", some last words before shooting everybody down. Love your chanel, cheers from Spain guys!

[@Jonez3460]

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" the Bush here is the metaphor for the graveyard. With the ballista in the graveyard. Im not entirely sold myself yet, but it was what i thought when you asked for a name 😂

[@RafaelPanazzo]

A redundancy for Walking Balista is Monoskelion. If you exile it with Agatha's and you have Malcomn in play the combo works as well

[@robertpfunder1757]

Just tested this on Moxfield and first hand was: Gemstone Caverns Underground River Jeweled Lotus Imperial Seal Deadly Rollick Phyrexian Metamorph Pact of Negation Draw: Transmute Artifact I’ll take it. 🎉😂🎉

[@pakspack973]

Absolutely loved this! This kind of insight is exactly what I need to build cedh decks

[@igiwarcraft]

Nooo guys, I still need this to be unexplored/bad until February so I can smash the EU qualis :P Jokes aside, I am super excited to see where you bring this to by the end of the video. I've had the deck brewed for about 2 weeks now and it has gone through a few iterations. Disregarding performance, it has a very interesting niche :)

[@Gearhook]

Damn... I was super hoping this would be a Jund brew... I am a "retired" standard sweaty player but can't, for the life of me, stop the tryhard- so I found my new home in cEDH. Can't take the Jund out of the girl, though, and damn if I can't find a Jund shell/strat that feels good. Korvold is what I am tinkering with- and I am gonna have to just keep at it for now, lol. (As an aside I LOVED this. There should be more brews-as-podcast.)

[@willmatson3103]

A card draw engine that seems good with Malcom is Braids Arisen Nightmare. Sac the treasure and it's likely you'll be drawing 3.

[@b00xx]

Also an interesting card inclusion... Tarrian's Soulcleaver and Mikaeus. Let's say you're in a place where you need to buff the creature to turn on Agatha.. Now with Soulcleaver using a treasure puts +1/+1 counter on the equipped creature. Since y'all have Malcolm you should have plenty of fodder. And Mikaeus and Ballista are a combo too. Edit: maybe investors fair too

[@shepardcd]

First time I got Francisco in play I thought, add malcolm and make a fun cedh deck. The pirates are my favorite tribe in the game already.

[@elijohnston7109]

Is curiosity good enough in a deck with 2 evasive commanders? Pretty consistent card draw when this deck otherwise doesnt have much.

[@funnyapples2717]

You can use urzas saga to put ballista in the graveyard. A little unorthodox but can be useful with enough 1 drop artifacts.

[@cameronjose6185]

Intuition for yag will, souls cauldron, citadel. Malcom helps cast with extra treasure

[@maximehavan3049]

Ghost of Ramirez Del Pietro is a good partner for Francisco. Il play him with Francisco and it is really good, it makes a true card advantage with the interaction and ramirez is a pirate. And you can run card who mill your library (like ashiok) a put back them in your hand.

[@AlzahraniSammy]

Great video! As a Malcolm / Kediss player I’m happy any time people talk about pirates lol Also Dylan that shirt goes hard. Had to go order it after the video 😂

[@chriswilliams2559]

I actually built a francisco/thrasios deck that I've been loving. I want to try a mardu and jund version of the deck

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Theres so much this commander can do!

[@chriswilliams2559]

@PlaytoWinMTG yup. Combo piece in command zone that's easy to assemble. An orzhov version would be good but obviously more colors are better.

[@tedheuchling9663]

Add jarads orders it does final parting but 1 mana less

[@David0Juan]

​@@tedheuchling9663i believe that doesn't work because jarad orders search for two creature cards so you can't search the cauldron with it

[@matticus_p626]

​@@tedheuchling9663Agathas soul Cauldron is my favourite creature card :)

[@Npcubed33]

I wonder if Francisco-Oops all spells has legs. Entirely artifact mana/mdf lands so that you never whiff on the explore

[@janmelantu7490]

cEDH players looking for more dual lands should be trying the Shadowmoor Block Filter lands (Sunken Ruins, Cascade Bluffs, etc) When you said “we don’t really have a big beater” I thought “they should play Zephyr Singer” (the 3/4 flying vigilance pirate with convoke)

[@sorbusmortis3222]

I would put in all the effects that sacrifice an artifact to search a artifact into play so you have the potential of saccing walking balista to get agatha's cauldron into play

[@starnesnj97]

I think some extra little pirates would be good for more Malcolm triggers. Like siren stormtamer that’s also a counter and I would put in resculpt over pongify.

[@nealcrabtree3647]

I run those on my build along with Kitesail Freebooter and Larconist. Larconist is so good.

[@SqueezeBurger]

Love this format. Next time you do this, could you add just a little ticking deck card count in the corner? That way I can see how many are in the deck as it's going up.

[@matticus_p626]

I tried building the kraum version with a bunch of pirates but I think it's too unfocused. There were some cool synergies like pyre of heroes turning francisco into either malcolm or glinthorn buccaneer - or sacking a ragavan to tutor a dockside to the board. It also allowed you to play goblin welder & engineer to set up the soul cauldron line easier. Other potential includes for this deck though: > Tribute Mage tutors for soul cauldron > Scrapyard recombiner tutors for ballista > Are there no cheap pirates worth running? Every pirate that deals damage is letting you basically surveil & make a treasure

[@imraanrafi6874]

Brewing “sea”-EDH decks ☺️

[@briancain5162]

Loved this type of video, would be happy to see more!

[@egoish6762]

Feels like you could go orzhov with keleth and play lurrus as a companion, recurs all the combo pieces including cauldron. Plus the tutors for the combo and some nice stax pieces. When they print a 2 cmc azorius commander to put this in esper it'll be great.

[@kerithwooldridge]

Any chance we could see this deck played? I really like the potential of it.

[@TylerYoutubeGamingChannel]

I love the deck brewing episodes I need more

[@zackkurre9866]

My idea for a good name would be. “Agatha’s fowl play”

[@Some_Context]

Was the short you released yesterday on the cauldron combo a different take? Noticed the dialogue was slightly different between the two.

[@jennaeasley2277]

The Francisco combo also makes infinite mana with Malcolm on the board. 14:43

[@randomguych-k6h]

I'm thinking about adding [[Borne Upon a Wind]], [[Necropotence]], [[Counterbalance]], [[Whir of Invention]], [[Wishclaw Talisman]] and [[Inventor's Fair]] while watching this episode. Anyway, good episode to watch. Though Kraum partner is more cool due its name K.F.C.

[@TheGamma9]

Call it " These Boots were made for Walking" because ballista is the wincon and because its pirates

[@BabelTriumphant]

What about some other cheap pirates to trigger your commanders? Siren Stormtamer and Spectral Sailor seem pretty good in the deck.

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Definitely worth considering, 3 treasures and 3 explores in one turn is huge

[@coltonreed2107]

@@PlaytoWinMTGwith the couple includes, would you want more card advantage things to outlet the extra mana? I’m a casual player so I’m not sure this take is great

[@dragonfire72]

I was not ready for the snap Bleach reference

[@nicholaschidester887]

Kinda surprised to see no other pirates in the deck. Seems free to put a siren storm tamer in

[@Haya12234]

Lim duls vault is underrated. I love it since it works against oppo agent

[@romanrobledo7205]

I believe Urza’s saga could get walking ballista on its last chapter since ballista is an artifact with a mana value of zero.

[@CeltiesSin]

I had no idea Urza’s Saga couldn’t grab X spells, that’s interesting 🤔 I love this deck idea tho; I wonder if I could make it casual since my friends don’t wanna play comp 😅 tho I own most of these cards already so it could be interesting to have a cEDH deck on standby..

[@derickquintana4236]

Moonsilver key seems worth trying since it gets one of your combo pieces. Also, "Birds of War" for the deck name

[@SonOfSodium]

I think it'd be a Korn reference more than a Cameo reference bc of the black pips but ima go with calling it "Bird Up"

[@josephkoepke1251]

Love the bleach reference Cam!

[@AWSemtner]

Call it “Party Foul”

[@blackiscolor7732]

OMFG PLEASE MORE OF THESE!!

[@dugie9]

“Bird Bird is the word”. Bird names…

[@noahmurtha4036]

Also there is a mono black list with Tevesh and it’s actually solid tbh. Really leans on cauldron though with almost no other ways to win.

[@nouthingyet]

Should be named "Francisco at the Disco!"

[@Venom23456789]

I was thinking partnering with thrassios as he can provide grind and ramp also scry to remove the top if its a land but not losing it in the process as he puts it on the battlefield, also having access to 3 colors instead of one.

[@Jinfusion]

Roaming throne would be amazing here triggering fransisco or malcom twice to add consistency.

[@definitelynotmany4972]

7:59 I also like playing Malcom/Vial Smasher Curiosity Control with Francisco in the 99.

[@noahsnyder7835]

siren stormtamer? 1 mana play, protection for Francisco (and others), plus a pirate with evasion

[@matthewvanginneken6793]

Great video with some fun brewing process. As a personal favorite i have to ask where is my boy grim hireling? Gotta sac those Malcolm tokens to kill the board. Also a fun pirate inclusion is the new Kitesail Larcenist

[@emiliomunozlevine1565]

I’d run disciple of the vault plus trickery charm for Malcom combo

[@jamallynch1218]

i hope we get some game play of this deck sunday

[@meximan374]

Thinking of buffing my deck, I’m terrible at brewing. thanks for the info Bois!!!

[@simeongrays4155]

If youre playing bolas and top im surprised theres no aetherflux resivour when bessech can cast it too. Still presents a win and if you lose the fish bowl you just dig for the next win condition

[@OODZUTSU]

38:00 What 5 card Hoarding Broodlord package would you have added to this deck? Saw in Half, Burnt Offering, ...?