The Best Cards (In the 99) from Outlaws of Thunder Junction | The Command Zone 604 | MTG EDH Magic

[@commandcast]

What do you think about this set? Are you excited about it? What new cards slot in perfectly to your existing commander decks?

[@Swaggscribe]

1-10 How salty would playing Final Showdown and then Thrilling Encore be... Asking for a friend?

[@araphen57]

Railway Brawler provides some good redundancy for Glen Elendra combos

[@Lady_Luxury]

ordered a bundle of singles a few days back, with Annie Joins Up among them. It's only about 3 dollars right now, I'm grabbing one before it really spikes. Super good, gonna use it in a rainbow Legendary Assassins tribal deck I'm working on.

[@walrider8073]

This is the best set since wilds of eldraine

[@travislannoye8244]

Two cards that ended up immediately going into multiple decks were Hollow Marauder and Oasis Gardener. Both very low-key, super budget, but they just work in a lot of places.

[@hpdre7437]

Sword of Here and There. Protection from Battles and Lands.

[@maxbodifee3263]

Yeah a 50cent sword, let's go

[@kingartuur1]

@@maxbodifee3263 unless the attack ability is busted

[@weirdo82]

Sword of Myths and History. Protection from Enchantments and Artifacts.

[@hpdre7437]

@@weirdo82 Oh, that's good. I brainstormed names for that and "creatures/planeswalkers" after I made my post and came up with Sowrd of Bah and Humbug" for enchantments/artifacts, but yours is actually good.

[@weirdo82]

@@hpdre7437 Some fun combinations.

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

My favorite video for a new set. Covering all sorts of cards to go into all my decks.

[@TheSmartCinema]

This is exactly the kind of podcast I love, keep this stuff coming on each set release

[@joejoe0911]

With great train heist, the benefits of it being instant speed are a lot harder to see/kinda niche, but they are massive! Some of the best extra combats decks are ones with powerful attack triggers, like narset, enlightened master, narset, enlightened exile, and velomachus lorehold; who all let you cast spells when they attack, which is an ability that leans into running extra combat and extra turns spells that will let you attack multiple times in a row to get more triggers and chain them together. While those abilities let you break timing restrictions present on the sorcery speed extra combat spells and cast them during combat, a significant portion of them say "after this main phase there is an additional combat" which makes them do nothing at all when cast at a time that isn't a main phase. Even beyond those examples, there are a number of extra combat commanders and/or enablers that will give extra combats without extra main phases, like moraug and najeela, so if you are drawing cards from attack or damage triggers and draw one of the sorcery speed extra combat spells during your moraug extra combat, you wont be able to cast that spell until the next turn, potentially losing a window for a win that this spell could give you.

[@DivineSoupCan]

2:04:34 I think an overlooked aspect of Tower Winder is that 50% of the time, Command Tower is going to come before Tower Winder in your deck’s order. So 50% of the time + the X% of the time you draw both in the same burst (such as the opening hand) mean you won’t be able to get any card advantage off of your Tower Winder. Which means most of the time it’s French vanilla. You can account for this by running effects that sacrifice land like Harrow or Gitrog. But outside of decks that can place Command Tower in the grave consistently, Tower Winder will fail to find more often than not.

[@arturol.m.7245]

Annie joins up is amazing in Aragorn, the Uniter.

[@RBGolbat]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if I mutate on top of the token Vaultborn Tyrant, the new token is now a “card”, so it would come back again with all the abilities from both the original Vaultborn Tyrant and whatever you mutated onto it.

[@commandcast]

Hahahaha. I think this works!

[@ertai222]

Magic is a complicated game for sure.

[@therealax6]

Correct! A merged permanent is considered a nontoken if the topmost component is not a token. (Rule 727.2d for the ones keeping score.)

[@CHEFPKR]

Sounds weird, but I think Crackling Spellslinger could be insane in Roxanne. 3-4 spells before it, cast crackling, follow with second harvest on someone's end step, make 30 meteors on someones end step. You'll have the mana with Roxanne.

[@yubeluchiha]

Yeah lol and gets Counterspell by the blue player in the corner of the table 😂

[@ostbiti]

@@yubeluchiha unless they have flusterstorm then that doesn't work vs storm. You would only counter 1 of the 30 copies of it.

[@Mcrypt117]

That Chandra sweater Rachel is wearing is sweeet!!!!!!!

[@TB317]

Right?!

[@gottalottabones]

New Capenna was my favorite set, largely for its off-beat humor and flavor; this set is close behind for much the same reasons. Love how Wizards reproduced Western tropes into Magic form. Whoever came up with "Everyone else is fair game" deserves a raise.

[@bkyang624]

I think fblthp is cool in the sense where you can plot away things you don’t want to play yet and dig through your deck. Revealing the cards too also could work as a deterrent or distraction for counters and removal so you can play other things without worrying about the interaction because they are holding it for the plotted card.

[@thetux459]

Think he could also be funny in a Cheerios deck.

[@craftmasterasaga]

This is a really good type of video. To finish off the set with such deep analysis of cards, which are flexible and aren't straight-up commanders, really helps me to understand why I should get and play specific cards from this set. My standard way of playing is upgrading a precon from a set, where the upgrades usually come from past sets rather than the current set. This makes me feel I could have really interesting interactions if I just started playing these cards.

[@squallsomnislash]

Hearing josh conplain about ward while being a flash speed control player is kind of funny. Like its cool when you ignore the normal play speed but ward is the tipping point. In jest and not provoking just a funny observation to me.

[@commandergamer3337]

Rachael: (laughs) you had to remove my gummy worm... I'm dead 😂😂😂

[@caseywellington4761]

I think people are underrating Lavaspur boots. It's not a bad swiftfoot boots, it's a really pushed Boots of Speed that can go in any color of deck. Play it for haste, and the rest is bonus that makes the card better.

[@BugManiacRoy]

People are sleeping on my boy Bristly Bill...

[@ryanwood4263]

When I first saw it, I just thought “oh obuun does this in 3 colors.” But I missed the doubling counters bit

[@BugManiacRoy]

@ryanwood4263 I have 3 other Naya decks lol. Idk why Bill just called me and I had to build him. Can't wait to play him again. In the last game, I became archenemy 😅

[@Iseecko]

I am SO EXCITED about Bristly Bill, lol

[@tubittrigun7823]

I just played against someone on arena running that guy and was winning hard. Then he got his upkeep and I got smoked. Bill is a sleeper commander.

[@BugManiacRoy]

@Iseecko built him already, only got one game in, became archenemy and died to an unblockable 12/12 commander ☠️ can't wait to hone it and make it better

[@onur6020]

Thank you ! "Annie Joins Up" went straight into my vojo deck :D Edit: OMG i didn't even consider it doubling the ward trigger !!!

[@Jeffko78]

I built a Voja, Jaws of the Conclave deck during MKM, then when I saw this Naya goodness pop up in the latest set and it went directly in that deck. It's absolutely disgusting if/when you get it to resolve, especially on curve right before casting Voja. :)

[@kalamander8563]

1:25:36 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist may like Lavaspur Boots.

[@Darkscotty76]

Not sure if I am overthinking this but I think Fblthp, Lost on the Range would be good for equipment. Pseudo protection for the equipment. You get to wait to have it enter the battlefield when you have the equip cost and creature ready.

[@taylorjohnson5148]

Oh great now I have to make this deck since I have tons of equipment already. I’ve never done a mono blue commander but I guess it’ll be Voltron lol

[@nicolicarpathia318]

Insatiable Avarice is a sneak imo. It's 2 colorless and 1 black, even running a 2-color deck it's less cost than beseech, grim, or diabolical tutor (for those who don't want to spend $$$ on seal, vampiric tutor, etc). My point is, 5 mana gets you a tutored card & 2 draw. Ramped into this early game and you'll pull ahead, pulled off end of game is a little more iffy.

[@Strife72]

Wouldn’t sleep on the sword of Wealth and Power. I use it in my goblin tribal deck on Arena and the generation of treasure that the goblins provide helps to offset the cast & equip. Put enough instants and sorceries in your deck and now you’re popping off.

[@colinbamsey5262]

the cool thing with fblthp and bramble familiar's adventure abuse is that fblthp also lets you see the top of your deck, so you can at least know if that one card would be good value

[@olofbrandt]

Exactly 700.000 subscribers when I'm writing this. Congrats! You two are the best combo in the team rigth now! Sharp brains and much humor!

[@Comradevin]

Fleeting Reflection in Brudiclad is a house

[@weirdo82]

My immediate thought on Fleeting Reflection is to view it as a "tricks" spell, put it right in Orvar, the All Form. With Orvar, it can protect a creature, make it something else until end of turn, and make a copy of it before the spell resolves.

[@ehsanrahee7411]

I haven't played it yet, but I put a Double Down in my Admiral Brass Unsinkable deck. Seems great in those handful of tribal aggro decks.

[@christophervennix9861]

Final showdown is an absolutely awesome piece for white. Something that is starting to become more and more obvious is that versatility trumps lower cost in Commander, and this card is the epitome of versatility. It can be a counter to a targeted removal spell, it can be a board wipe or it can buy a full turn by shutting down an opponent. Honestly, its hard to imagine a board state where you are unhappy to have Final Showdown in your hand.

[@LandinngGear]

Oof that crackling spellslinger. Being able to Mana Geyser into it into a Seething Song. You could have 5 lands go to 27 red mana.

[@ana-alyciajuarez5958]

Great commander for duelist of the mind is Queza, Augur of Agonies. Turning your first turn draw into draw 2 each turn because she drains a target player off every draw. She’s great for all the commit a crime cards, I’m slamming a lot of OTJ cards in that deck. Intimidation campaign for example for repeatable draw and pings.

[@kevinkelley2963]

I'd like to hear Jimmy's take on Lost Jitte in Marchesa.

[@andrewpeli9019]

One notable thing about sword of wealth and power is that it might fit in some red burn decks. Protection from instants and sorceries will prevent a blasphemous act from dealing damage to the equipped creature. But unlike the other swords which give protection from red, you don't have to worry about not being able to target the equipped creature with other effects from red sources.

[@OGTahoe3]

Isn't "pillage the bog" a small version of "dig through time" if you have six land you see 12 cards.

[@sofer2230]

Weirdly enough, the best home for Duelist of the Mind I found is The Rani. Turns out a 3/5 flying vigilance that investigates when it hits is pretty decent early-game!

[@shayneweyker]

Smuggler's Surprise in The Wise Mothman for sure.

[@Rannulfus]

You can use aven interrupter in tandem with displacer kitten to plot your own stuff and set up a big storm turn. It's great because the "+2 mana cost for things cast from exile or graveyard" only applies to opponents. o3o

[@caseywellington4761]

Great tech!

[@andrewpeli9019]

I love that they are giving white the ability to manipulate the stack. I've hated that blue had a near corner on that market since the 90s. White getting powerful effects and becoming a well rounded and powerful color is exciting to see.

[@Dragon_Fyre]

I like Great Train Heist for the fear factor as well. If they have 3 mana and they’re Red, all their blockers can have +1 power and first strike at instant speed, you really have to reconsider an all out attack on them the same as any Orzhov player that has 3WB open…

[@therealax6]

It can also simply untap all their tapped creatures, allowing them to block. It's easy to miss that you can use the first mode at any time - it will only grant an extra combat on your turn, but you can use it on someone else's turn to untap and block.

[@jlaw131985]

I think there’s a fun usage on Aven Interruptor that you can’t get from other options…you can target your own spell. If someone blows up the target of your aura or buff spell, just save it for later instead. It can save you from getting two-for-one’d in a bunch of situations. Or it could save you from getting board wiped(even your own) when everyone else has a Teferi’s protection. The flexibility on it is amazing.

[@therealax6]

You can also use it that way if your spell is being countered!

[@jlaw131985]

@@therealax6 though in that case, I don’t know why you wouldn’t want to target the counterspell

[@therealax6]

@@jlaw131985 It might not work. Flusterstorm comes to mind.

[@geedeck]

I want to thank y'all for the Kambal discussion. Literally just used it to solve a judge check :)

[@ninjachico6771]

The things Kambal did for me the first time I ever put him into play: - 4 Tivit triggers worth of tokens - 2 Boo tokens - the drains from my own Dockside, plus 2 other tokens I made, and all the drains from the previous tokens my opponents made. Kambal is absolutely absurd...

[@therealax6]

Remember that Dockside will only cause a single drain trigger!

[@snoozer0101]

I'm thinking of putting fleeting reflection in my riku deck cause I built that deck around his copy so every creature is already copy creatures so this could turn my early game copies into late game powerhouse copies

[@brandoncreek5709]

I think I love the Lavaspur Boots in my Karlach/Outlander deck. It buffs Karlach's power which is nice since it's a power matters deck, and giving her haste is like the most important thing to make sure you can attack and get extra combats ASAP

[@camoyuki]

I think Lively Dirge is a really underrated card from this set. Like a lot of the other spree cards, it is versatile. It can be an entomb or a reanimate spell, or it can basically tutor a 4-cost or less creature to the battlefield for 5 mana. Being able to grab any 4 cost creature and put it on the battlefield for 5 mana is pretty good, and if you run a lot of creatures with different ETB effects, it can essentially turn into anything from removal to card draw to more niche ETB effects Edit: Forgot to mention, I got this card in my prerelease packs and played it, and it seriously put in some work even though my best target was just an Outcaster Greenblade

[@cryovolt]

Anyone else thought that was Undyne in the thumbnail and we were about to get a new secret lair 😂

[@bamzolino]

For Return the Favor you didn’t mention you can copy other abilities even if they do not target, including opponent’s abilities! Huge new tech.

[@DanteWanderer]

31:54 "you really want to be committing a lot of crimes" is a wild sentence out of context

[@imaginarymatter]

My favorite card is Lively Dirge. Entomb effects aren't super common and an Entomb effect that can double as reanimation or a budget Beseech the Mirror is excellent.

[@camoyuki]

Lively Dirge is my favorite from this set too! I usually don't even play black, but I got this in my prerelease packs and played it, and it was awesome. I put it right in my Mirko commander deck afterwards. It's great in there as another reanimate option and to put whatever creature I want in the grave

[@DAsrada]

My favorite response to an opponent trying to plan around my Railway Brawler was Aven Interrupter - exiling their Force of Will as they tried to counter the Brawler and basically forever removing their best counter.

[@jlaw131985]

I think Lavaspur Boots are probably better in an Agatha deck. The smaller protection is less of a drawback when +1/+0 gets the engine going faster.

[@ezrilebeau8234]

With Tanazir you can actually stack it to where the railway brawler puts 4 +1/+1 counters on it then the tanazir etb can go off doubling the counters on itself making it a 12/12 that makes your board 12/12s, so brutal

[@therealax6]

That's what I was thinking - and it's also a 12/12 commander with flying and trample, which itself is brutal even if you have nothing else going on.

[@DiscoFrank69]

I think what wasn’t mentioned about memory jar is that everyone gets to see what the other players turns will look like because the cards are exiled face up, that can be a pretty big advantage if you are the first player to work with that information.

[@DeusNova7749]

making your spells uncounterable is a checky way to get around ward lol. Chimil, the Inner Sun is actualy hilarious for this.

[@shayneweyker]

Kabal, Profiteering Mayor plus Awaken the Erstwhile.

[@thatguycam1989]

Fleeting reflection is best in a clone deck imo

[@slade-runner6773]

With Memory Vessel, you could work it with an extra turn effect so you're essentially just exile 7 cards from each player while locking them out of their interaction for a turn. It can help if you know someone has been setting up the top of their deck (Sensei's Top, scry effects, other blue shenanigans), or even if you set your top deck for the combo in hand in the following turn, and then just skip the player's chance to do another turn to build or interact. It can even give you a chance to force them to tap out for interaction with their impulse draw by bluffing, then extra turn it.

[@ParmaJawnTV]

They put some respect on Aven Interrupter. I’ll be testing it in Grand Arbiter, hopefully it’s solid

[@wolframflorian]

2:18:53 I bought three tower winders! 😂

[@elijahwalker323]

@13:45 I kind of wanted to make a voja, deck when they were revealed, but it just seems too broken strong.

[@DVL_Main]

Fblthp seems fun. You can store up tons of cheap spells to then storm off on later turn when it's safe.

[@jdgarrison9913]

And you can have plenty of mana open for countering people trying to stop your storm, because your plotted spells are all free.

[@noahmccarter1875]

“Two extra turns, two extra swings, two extra copies of two other things” I really wanted Josh to just launch into full sound of music song after that.

[@DynamicSheep]

Arin "hey I'm Grump" Hansen doing voices for finance since commercials... Noice!

[@shadowfrost__]

This message is for Craig aka Mr. Infect, please kill Josh a few times with Fleeting Reflection by swinging Blightsteel Colossus at some one else then turning a 1/1 creature you swung at Josh into a Blightsteel Colossus after he declares no blockers. Maybe then he will see how insane this cards can become.

[@treetrimmerbear9899]

Cant believe they didnt mention honest rustien its literally just a power creepied eternal witness that makes all your creatures cost one less.. it will be played in every golgari deck for the rest of forever.....

[@artgosling2696]

I put it straight in Henzie soon as I heard about it

[@beers3748]

Slickshot Show-Off is amazing !!!!!

[@BrunoCasagrandaNeves]

Josh mentioned plot being good with instants and sorceries, I do think it might be a way to enable a somewhat fair storm deck. Delicious with Thousand year Storm!

[@smokeythewizard8199]

"Shorty had them apple bottom jeans...(jeans), boots with the spurs!"

[@jdgarrison9913]

The interaction with Fblthp and Bramble Familiar, not likely to happen in standard. ...Because you're going to do that with that Jace, Reawakened! Also, it works for split cards, like Push Pull, so plot Push, then discard a pair of Vein Rippers (say, with Duelist of the Mind, or Ledger Shredder), and then cast Pull.

[@PatataMaxtex]

I am a bit sad that they didnt remember the name of my homie, the Crime Novelist. I think he is neat!

[@ShredRedDUBC]

I’m suprised Josh wasn’t too into Fblthp! Obviously doesn’t happen all the time but imagine untapping with a frantic search plotted!

[@dustinpyle2300]

Went to my LGS for a thunder junction prerelease event and the first person I played against used the plot token card to hide his plotted cards under. I knew it wasn't technically correct but it made the match so much more interesting to me.

[@SmashCentralOfficial]

Putting Annie Joins Up in my Rith deck!

[@elijahwalker323]

@1:45:40 couldn't you also stack the tringers so railway brawler gives tanazir the 4 +1/+1 counters than tanazir doubles its own counters being a 12/12, then give it some boots and swing out giving your other creatures base power and toughness 12/12.

[@therealax6]

Yep, you can!

[@diSTUD013]

Great Train Heist is BONKERS in Valduk!!!

[@Chase731bigfish]

What your thoughts on goldvein hydra? Pulled the extended art in the 2-card booster pack with a precon so that felt like a W.

[@michaelroy1175]

Vaultborn seems nice in Henzie too!

[@granite_4576]

Scenario: one of the 69 million people currently playing mothman swings at you with a 20/20 moth. You fleeting reflection a 1/1 soldier.

[@Nervar]

58:22 put this in my miiryum deck just to use a mana dork to bring out some big stompy dragon like any of the ancient and then copying that same dork so I can roll that d20

[@Sdesser]

As soon as I saw Return the Favor, I knew I'd be putting the card in every deck of mine with red in it, just for the fun factor. I did later win a sealed match with it by redirecting and copying my opponents Electrodominance. There's not many ways to win a game that's more fun than that.

[@joedominguez8064]

Also love Return the Favor, having protection from exile removal in Rakdos colors is great 👍 😂

[@BriggsMullen]

1:21:25 I struggled not to respond "WITH THE SPURS". My officemates wouldn't have appreciated it

[@mvale7619]

What's the interaction between [Fblthp, Lost on the Range] and [Final Showdown]? You're not able to Plot for the lower cost and then cast at the higher values, right?

[@therealax6]

- Spree is a mandatory additional cost. You must pay at least one of the additional costs when you cast a spell with spree. - When you cast a plotted spell, you cast it from exile without paying its mana cost. Note that "its mana cost" is just the cost written on the top right corner of the card - you must still pay any additional costs (including spree costs, or any additional costs like Diabolic Intent's creature sacrifice). - Fblthp allows you to plot a card from the top of your library for its mana cost. Again, this is just the cost written on the top right corner. So, the interaction here is that you'd plot Final Showdown for {W}, and on a later turn cast it for just the additional costs for the modes you want. You don't pay for the modes in advance, and you can't use modes without paying for them.

[@shadowmyst9661]

I put Smuggler’s Surprise in my Desert Bloom deck because all 3 modes are relevant. Self-milling gets stuff in the grave, it has plenty of high cost creatures to get value for what you cheat onto the board, and who doesn’t love protecting their creatures from most removal.

[@mofomiko]

My Graveyard and Rogue Decks are eating sooo good this set, it's unreal.

[@demurakgaming]

I love every person in this channel, but I love Rachel ❤ whenever I see her I got to see the video!

[@trixmtll1393]

i personally think Tai Wakeen, Perfect shot is the best commander. not in the unbeatable sense, but i think its the most consistent commander for its cost, infinite draw and a finish button in 1 card. i wonder if its a commander that is socially unacceptable or turns it into a 3v1 where the player just plays their commander taii wakeen,, and the other three take turns removing it and then take that player out first. its a "youre not allowed to have nice things" type of commander

[@therealax6]

It's only a finish button in a deck that makes infinite mana (or very large amounts of it), and at those power levels, I doubt it's playable. If you're running a Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth combo in your deck, you're probably quite close to CEDH (although not _at_ CEDH levels).

[@trixmtll1393]

@@therealax6 it doesnt really need to go for an infinite mana or OTK to be useful. chip damage and board clearing while drawing, all of a sudden your opponent is at 14 health, you got 7 mana and a shock and play with fire in hand. you tap Tai for 5 mana. shock and play with fire end up doing 7 damage each. the math with Tai is very dangerous. opponent has to use resources to remove her, or you gain card advantage removing anything they can play you keep replaying her, and that in itself is a card advantage mechanism. the build up can be quite big with her as commander.

[@Negative_NBG]

I think Josh is very wrong about the reflection card. You wouldn't cut a counter spell for it, you'd replace a bounce spell or another protection spell. You don't even have to use it to stop someone else's spell you can use it to clone your own big flyer or something spicy on another person's board

[@jorgegarciaroman9904]

Is mana cost and mana value the same thing? For plotting purposes, and how Fblthp puts it, you plot apecifically off of the cost. So if cost ≠ value than a split card might be plotted by one of the costs and not the sum of both costs. Does this sound right?

[@therealax6]

Mana cost is the exact cost, including all the pips. Mana value is just the number. But flip cards have the combined mana _cost_ of both halves - the combined mana _value_ is just a result of the mana cost being combined. For instance, Expansion//Explosion's mana cost (while not on the stack) is {X}{U}{U}{R}{R}{U/R}{U/R} - and as a result it has a mana value of 6. (On the stack, a split card only has the characteristics of the chosen half, including mana cost.) Split cards are particularly bad with Fblthp because they have the combined mana cost while on top of your library (because they're not on the stack), so you have to pay for _both_ halves when plotting them, but you can only cast one of the halves (unless the split card has fuse, in which case you _are_ allowed to cast both halves without paying their mana cost).

[@oncetimeuse3083]

Fomori Vault is absolutely insane card selection for treasure decks/Urza decks. Its a repeatable tutor on a land

[@neilgallagher7923]

Plot could be good in “second spell each turn” decks. If it’s your third spell you can plot so you have two to cast the next turn.

[@evanmiller7993]

The floor of the new kambal is honestly still respectable. A 2/4 for 3 is a decent rate and a decent chump blocker if you need it with the chance to ping if you incidentally make a token. If we say on average your deck makes two tokens a turn, very reasonable with stuff like Storm Kiln or Black Market Connections, that life drain helps out. And in the right deck you could be just firing off pings left, right, and center. That's all before you might snag some free mana or a spare spare creature or even getting something decently useful.

[@AYooo_Its_D]

More cedh please!

[@inkliizii]

I really like Fleeting Reflection for my Obyra faeries deck. The idea of the deck is to be tricksy and play some pranks/do some weird stuff, and that's a great way to do that, I think. Yeah, it's less powerful, but it's also weird, which makes it a better fit for the deck.

[@TheBassPlayer1296]

The coyote card is actually really nice as a plot card. The having haste and giving something else haste on entry its really nice

[@LadyTsunade777]

Angel of Indemnity is in the Desert precon because Deserts are permanents with mana value 4 or less that like to be put from the battlefield into the graveyard, so it can bring back Deserts. Aven Interrupter also notably doesn't have to target only spells an opponent casts, but can also let you plot your own spells, and your own plotted spell won't cost more since its 2 mana tax is only on opponents' spells. I do wish Final Showdown said "Choose target creature you control" for the second mode, just for Feather decks. Fleeting Reflection - correct me if I'm wrong, but because resolving things are done in the order they are on the card, it will give a creature hexproof, untap it, but then immediately make that creature lose hexproof if you have it become a copy of another creature? Shouldn't the giving hexproof part have been the last sentence, not the first?

[@therealax6]

Becoming a copy of a creature and gaining hexproof are two continuous effects that apply to the same permanent - they don't cancel one another. (The layers system will tell you that they're respectively layer 1 and layer 6, so the copy applies first.) This is the same as a clone entering the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter - the counter still applies a stat bonus; it's not cancelled by the copy overwriting the stats.

[@Taranasaurus1]

We did it yall. We broke isochron scepter and sunforger

[@demented4hire]

One of the cards that I think you missed that just makes Kambal a greater engine is Fractured Identity. Just the fact that it makes 3 tokens of any non-land permanent can make Kambal go off heavily. Heck, target your own permanent, give your opponents one while you get 3 copies. Sure it's giving your opponents 1 but you are still profiting!

[@therealax6]

Do it on a Dockside Extortionist and remember that all the triggers resolve in reverse turn order :)

[@jlaw131985]

Isochron Scepter with the spree cards is gonna be something I think is gonna be very popular. Return the Favor is a threat that makes it so people are really not gonna target you much.

[@matthewbesherse7001]

Fleeting reflection goes in Orvar. Because it’s flexible and is another way to give me access to other people creatures. Mirage mirror is good (and will stay in the deck) but this has the up side of protecting orvar some times. But also let’s me target my creatures to copy them. Also in response to someone trying to kill orvar I can hexproof him and then target another creature to turn orvar into, copying it and protecting orvar at the same time.

[@matthewbesherse7001]

Course orvar is super unique.

[@ProphetofEndTimes]

Angel of indemnity in Preston, the Vanisher is chef's kiss

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For Fblthp, I'm basically using it as a reverse impulse draw (a patient draw if you will) in my Saruman of the Many Colors deck. The plan is to use Fblthp as set up to be able to cast two cards in the same turn without needing all the mana at once. I'm also testing that one guy that gives spells in hand foretell along with One with the Multiverse for similar reasons. Decided against As Foretold; it looks promising but without intentionally tutoring for it early it's a feels bad draw in the mid and late game.