Spirit Squadron Precon: $50 Budget Upgrade | Precon Power-Up (UW Spirit Tribal)

[@blakem000]

Secret Tech: March of Souls - Board wipe but adds spirits to the board, 1$.

[@ThorMan91587]

Yeah, but it's a symmetrical effect 🤔

[@NitpickingNerds]

Yeah it is just ok…

[@nathanstruble2177]

Meh, it's symmetrical in that everyone gets spirit's. It's asymetrical in that you make better use of spirit's than anyone else at the table

[@LoneWolfsLament]

I think it's pretty good. Unless your opponents are also putting out tokens they're losing their creatures that are helping their strategy. Also it sees your spirit tokens so you get them back to recast Millicent. Good deal

[@Cantthinkofname-rp3iw]

I'm excited to see how well this and the ranar deck go together apparently there are a lot of exile effects so some synergy may be there

[@NitpickingNerds]

We put a couple cards from that deck in.

[@FoldyHold]

Yup, Im buying this to mash with my ranar deck and I anticipate it to be quite fun

[@moreplease394]

You can really take that $50 and upgrade the mana base and mana rocks and still have a good time with it. I think it's focused enough that a new player can buy this, buy some duals and talismans and just keep adding to the deck as time goes on. Probably won't even cost $50 to do that

[@Kbaby521]

Wow, you guys are fast. They reveal it yesterday, and you got an upgrade today. I love your content and your everyday content!

[@mod.3x]

I like the blue face next to the tall guy's head. It fills me with joy and contentment

[@colinhofer7830]

One of my favorite finishers in a U/W creature based deck is Mirrorweave. Cast it on a Spirit Lord after blocks or cast it on Drogskol Reinforcements before attack for melee x20 lol

[@oom-3262]

I disagree every time you say unclaimed territory is a bad card. Its a fenomenal tribal payoff, that enters untapped and can even net mana for spells outside of the tribe.

[@olivermeloche2042]

if you have limited other colorless lands it actually seems pretty good, for some colors/tribes it gets pushed out though

[@olivermeloche2042]

@James Black that's fair, its probably better in one of the few five colour tribals and not neccessary for only two colour

[@Luke_Powers]

It depends on the deck. In 3 or more colors with a high creature volume and with very limited colorless lands, it’s really good, e.g. slivers

[@MichaelMcDonald714]

In a two color deck it’s just not that good, maybe in a five color dragons deck or something, but in a two color tribal deck there’s plenty of dual lands to get you what you need.

[@ethanclark4116]

I don't see how they can say glacial plains is good but unclaimed territory isn't

[@obadijahparks]

I still want more black spirits.... Kamigawa better bring us some good ones. Even an esper legendary spirit would be great!

[@jzplayinggame]

with inflation and card prices what it is, in 6 months it'll be 100 dollar budget upgrade

[@thatguy550]

Your decklist is missing 9 cards. Im having a hard time figuring out what they were. Could you update the decklist?

[@perraldplays625]

In the 2 CMC mana rock convo I feel like Liquimetal Torque is getting slept on, Currently only 20 cents right now on TCGPlayer.

[@mella4376]

not as strong in azorius (still fine), but making things into artifacts in red decks is awesome

[@EJsGameplay]

Great card, and it's effect is definitely slightly less flavor text than the planar die rock, but not too much less.

[@jdogbemple1]

I’m curious how the disturb sub theme could go with this deck. I went with pure spirit tribal and combat with Millicent. But maybe y’all should keep the bounce land so you can discard a disturb card early. Really hyped to finally play this deck.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Discarding them is not good usually

[@Ivansports95]

I’m using the spirit tribal and the disturb abilities for a vega the watcher deck

[@noprobro5825]

Perplexing test from the token strixhaven precon can bounce all nontoken creatures or bounce all token creatures

[@Xopher1222]

NPN: There aren't other cheap 2 cost mana rocks Everflowing Chalice: Am I a joke to you?

[@matthiasjaschke1471]

i think windborn muse is still a decent card, if everyone is playing with preconstructed or slightly upgraded list :)

[@jonlibby7231]

Even Ghostly Prison, I'm considering adding enchanted evening, and Sphere of Safety.

[@randyb4191]

Nov 19th, 5:30 AM PST, katilda dawnheart martyr 0.64$ on TCG player, glad I waited (:

[@UgoneTheBest]

As always, thanks for the video and the ideas, I find the graveyard subtheme quite interesting, I will consider building my deck this way! GG nerds!

[@BM-rd4ms]

Disorder in the court goes in my blink deck!

[@ozmond]

Tribal decks are my favorite in commander. I’ve been having a lot of fun with zombies, and I’ve got a sliver deck in the works right now

[@workyoutube7798]

So hey, I'm working on a sliver deck that isn't 5 colors, and doesn't have a sliver (queen, king, overlord, the first, etc.) as a commander. I'm thinking g/u/w, with Amereth. More focused colors, different commander abilities, the surprise of sudden sliver deck on the table, etc. - can i crowdsource youfor thoughts on this? Stupid, clever, insane? Chaotic Good? better colors, better commanders, and why? thank you for any feedback -

[@avatarofpapermagic]

Disorder in the court can also target opponents creatures, it's basically a one turn board wipe. How do you rate it so low? It doest say Exile your creatures, its target creatures

[@castsmeteor3]

Exactly. I like this card a lot

[@fernandonarrias]

Im getting this deck and was thinking of it more like a value tribal, like tons of etb, control and resiliance with cosmic intervention type effect

[@NitpickingNerds]

This deck has lots of value

[@benjaminking3677]

I just wanna do something very jank with “Godhead Of All” in this deck.

[@danielrappe7128]

Disorder in the coard will Go in my dennick deck with all the diturbed Spirits. There it will be good

[@Polyoctopus1]

I really wanna see you guys play the dudes at the command zone it will be so epic

[@elipetrou9308]

Honestly joe and beezy would probably crush them. I mean they play more for show anyway. I lost faith when someone turn one vamp tutor for arena

[@Polyoctopus1]

@@elipetrou9308 I still wanna see it lol I don’t really watch arena so I wouldn’t know anything about that sadly

[@elipetrou9308]

@@Polyoctopus1 sorry I meant they tutored for phyrexian arena

[@Polyoctopus1]

@@elipetrou9308 oh okay that makes sense lol

[@ne0komodo]

This deck is suprisingly working well with Ranar deck, but not the other way around.

[@zackcompton7719]

Another Great Video!

[@moreplease394]

In defense of Verity Circle, it is pretty bad that you don't get to draw off attackers being tapped but there's plenty of good cards you could use to support it and draw you cards. Even lower cmc cards in white and also the pre-con has 6 cards that care about tapping your opponents creatures to support it already Edit: forgot to mention I played this pre-con against several different types of decks and there are alot of activated abilities of creatures that do draw a few cards very fast once VC is out. Maybe its situational?

[@NitpickingNerds]

Cycle is fine card especially if you have a high concentration of mana dorks in your group.

[@captainjack2062]

Katilda all the way down to exactly 80 cents on Cardkingdom you guys were exactly right

[@HomeCookinMTG]

Love fractured power stone. My favorite thing to do with it is tap to roll the planar die at the end of my opponent’s turn for no reason. Edit: also, mirror entity should have been in the human deck, it’s pretty bonkers with Kyler

[@danielnakazono5657]

Is there a link or a list to the cards you added and cut like you usually post? I find that very helpful! :)

[@ingolf82]

that katilda card is a major story spoiler, since katilda was in the last set as a human :) Fractured powerstone is bad, mind stone at least draws you a card. wayfarer's bauble is better, it gets you a land on turn 2 and I don't think wayfarer's bauble is all that expensive now. the new one that can fetch a sol ring or a land is also better and if people have been buying the latest commander pre-cons they already have one of those. and you left in the locket and the commander's sphere? 3 mana manarocks are bad. Here is a question for you: What is the difference between glacial floodplain and azorious chancery if you don't run fetch lands? the answer you are looking for is: "nothing", they both enter tapped. the nice thing with glacial flood plain is that it can be fetched, thats why commander players run it. if you don't have fetch lands, get a basic land instead. I run usualy run bounce lands in my 2 colour decks, because I don't play cEDH so I can afford the time, but sometimes a basic land is just better. I got some other spirits in my binder I might add, I got a Spell queller that needs a home, so gonna put that in here I guess.

[@jadewheatley2559]

"Fractured Powerstone has extra flavor text" Have you guys played Commander Planechase? If so, thoughts? I enjoyed it the one time I played it, but I haven't been able to get my hands on a Planechase set of my own yet.

[@nobodyfromnowwhere7510]

I feel like it might have been wise to lean into the tap theme already existing instead of trying to install an entirely new theme with new cards. Still a good budget deck for new players.

[@NitpickingNerds]

That is a completely different deck and it only had a few pieces

[@laurenslinkwolf]

is it just me? the main deck on moxfield is 91 cards

[@TheFranchise83]

Celestial Kirin is great here. You'll keep your tokens too!

[@Hello_there_obi]

what do they mean by spirit lords? And which ones were they?

[@Tbor12]

I lost all hope when they said Windborn Muse and Ghostly Prison were bad effects. Those two cards are overpowered in a casual EDH game because of the major tax

[@johnstewart662]

Is it possible to share the cuts and adds lists like usual?

[@mikep5330]

Disorder in the Court starring Judge Ranar the Ever-Watchful.

[@LivingPeople12]

I am kinda missing Kami of False Hope and Drogskol Reaver. Too expensive? Also very sad that those two didn't get any reprint whatsoever. Otherwise really love the deck! I am probably building some "inistrad lore" spirit deck pretty similar to yours with disturb and such.

[@maxloggins2930]

Let's go (out with the bang like ajr) Another precon power ups yaay.

[@NitpickingNerds]

We love these!

[@maxloggins2930]

Me too

[@thesquirrel4257]

word of advice if your opponent is playing toxrill as a commander, you might as well just play a different deck, you will never be able to keep your tokens on the board long enough to synergize, and will be left with a open field all game. already tested, this is not fun. however it is funny when you use mirror mimic to copy toxrill.

[@mella4376]

It did look like you were struggling a bit with this one, maybe it's because the starting point is a little uninspired (she's a fine commander but the deck itself feels dull), maybe it's price inflation narrowing options? Or am I just projecting? Either way, still an enjoyable video, I quite like the format.

[@robertviscomi8199]

What would you do to power this deck up as strong as possible? The spirits route is cool but jamming them out makes no sense and having no plan.

[@altromonte15]

Katilda is currently between 80 cents and a dollar, if you're interested

[@cheapskate9487]

What does that do

[@edmaheu9611]

Where is the removed cards list

[@workyoutube7798]

warjournal entry, 11/9/21: meeting today. those suck. that is all.

[@NitpickingNerds]

They do indeed

[@castsmeteor3]

Pre ordering this now

[@kentsilvain7329]

Kinda disagree with the tap hate here. Spirits do have solid tap outlets in cards like shacklegeist and nebelghast herald, both of which are very abusable in this deck. Throw in a Willbender, and all the sudden the plays can get silly, with each of your tokens stealing a creature, and then being usable with shacklegeist to steal even more. Add in a pyre of heroes, which is just solid in any tribal deck, and you can even take advantage of the weird overlap that spirits have with humans to reliably find these pieces. Not to mention, once these pieces are out, you have solid protection from spirits like Kira, spell queller, unsettled mariner, and guardian of faith. Even without willbender though the tap theme improves our gameplan, as it gets the few things that can block our spirits out of the way so that our nontokens can almost always connect, to trigger Millicent. Verity circle can also be a surprising counter to things like mana dorks, or other strong tap abilities.

[@eastsidemuu]

Facts! They sleep its..Crazy to take out timin,youthfull that card is Sooo good the ability to stop All your players tuff guys EACH combat is crazy & helped me sooo many times.

[@poofypeanut0221]

This deck has me emotionally confused. I was just building a Kykar super friends deck, which I’ve been super excited about because it’s not the most common thing and has a bunch of sweet stuff. But all this spirit tribe stuff they’ve released kinda makes me want to also build a Kykar spirit tribal deck 😩😩😩

[@TheSilverFox442]

The correct answer is to just build more Kykar decks :P -signed, someone who built Kykar vehicles (aka, KyCar)

[@mfitkin]

Damn, you’re good.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Why thank you

[@JoeKelly66]

Can't believe you didn't mention Aether Shockwave!

[@yesmaybe7466]

I can’t stand the dragon shield sleeves. They totally make my decks very hard to shuffle. Ultra pro ftw

[@deaconray8914]

Katilda is $1.75 on CK as of today (1/27/22)

[@timbombadil4046]

As someone who is more annoyed by extra turn spells than anything else in this format, there is nothing annoying about their use here. It's when a non-combat deck is durdling-- they're annoying. You're leveraging more than an extra draw step and a bit more mana, and its not chained together but to hopefully close the game.

[@Luke_Powers]

You guys are huge

[@krisdaschwab912]

I took apart my clues deck in 2020 because Wizards didn't support it and now I feel dumb 😅

[@Kaybee3104]

So the real question is.... DO I buy this prebuilt and upgrade or just build the inniaz deck?

[@NitpickingNerds]

I like building this over inniaz

[@blaze556922]

Mana rocks coming in tapped isn't a big deal at 2 mana. You wouldn't be able to use that one mana on turn 2 a huge percent of the time. Then you have 4 mana on turn 3... there is zero downside.

[@castsmeteor3]

Exactly

[@vaporeonlvl1009]

Do you think we can upgrade this deck with ranar as commander?

[@NitpickingNerds]

You probably could, yeah

[@MultiBlackman13]

I immediately collapsed this deck, and shoved half of it into phantom premonition from earlier this year.

[@NitpickingNerds]

Not a bad choice

[@MultiBlackman13]

@@NitpickingNerds some one at Wizards must have watched your "Phantom Premonition" video. Alot of the cards included in Spirit Squad were things you included in your 50 dollar ranar upgrade.

[@sillyb1975]

Katilda, Dawnhart is under a dollar now as predicted

[@NitpickingNerds]

NAILED IT!

[@richmondlau5945]

dont even know why im watching this when i have no intention on buying the precons. maybe its just more content lol

[@plain6677]

No Slate of Ancestry? Let’s you discard your hand for disturb and draw a ton. It’s a bit expensive though

[@jollygreenjackson5787]

Not a big fan of this commander or spirit tribal in general, but I DO LIKE all of these cards going into an Inniaz deck. Getting the disturb aura and then passing that around the table from some of these spirits is super cool

[@gEEkyxgAmEr67]

Katilda is 0.84, so close

[@christopherlawrence4191]

First!

[@NitpickingNerds]

Second :(

[@christopherlawrence4191]

@@NitpickingNerds dont worry, yall are first in my MTG heart

[@ericnowicki1305]

:(

[@workyoutube7798]

First?

[@NitpickingNerds]

First!