The Other 99, Ep. 51: Nature of the Beast

[@JonasPoponas]

No other decktechs of the new commander decks this weekend? I bought the remaining two decks and I'm waiting impatiently for the last two videos. I really like the ideo of improving the preconstructed commander decks.

[@TopAndGoProductions]

Don't worry we have the next one coming this weekend... unfortunately life caught up with us, but we will have it ready sometime tomorrow.

[@JonasPoponas]

TopAndGoProductions I'm so excited :) Which one comes first?

[@Forrestbreathertribe]

Ha, I love the side note at 7:40 - "Oh, and this guy sucks too."

[@frankyphanthum]

You can even include bellowing tanglewurm for intimidate :) Aura shards for artifact enchantment control Beast master ascension for after amassing the token army Gleam of battle for buffs as you attack Aurelia for extra attack steps

[@frankyphanthum]

Also mana echoes is even more fun with Cathars crusade you effectively put all your mana into making infinite tokens

[@SpiceCh]

If you want to make the Marath token deck, you should look to add Assemble the Legion to the deck too, as that card will single-handedly take over the game if not answered. However Marath is actually not a bad commander for a "power 5+ matters" deck either, as he'll enter the battlefield with 5 power the second time you've cast him and only continues to get larger.

[@ChristianGoldie]

I totally agree about Assemble. It was one card I remembered after filling out my budget for the deck and was then annoyed I couldn't fit it in.

[@LieutKEPPAGE]

Do Eternal Bargain please: Oloro w/ lifegain control theme built to comboing an instant win :D

[@SpiceCh]

Want an instant win? The Exquisite Blood/Sanguine Bond combo will kill everyone else as soon as anyone's life total changes. And your friends will ask you to never play infinite combos in EDH again, because then you might as well play solitaire :)

[@dadavemasterofmusic]

do power hungry next :3

[@MrLightMatter]

There is a small combo I found with marath and doublimg season, remove all but of his counters and place them bqck on him season will trigger and tada

[@WildKutku]

Great video, but my Naya love will always stay with Uril.

[@MrLightMatter]

Another combo is using cathars crusade and making millions of 0/0 tokens with marath to trigger it putting a counter on all your creature to try amd win in one turn

[@solofthegitaroo]

Naw they added errata so that x cannot = 0

[@FixYoSelf]

I really like whoever wrote this, don't get me wrong, but Gahiji was clearly created to be a tribal beast aggro deck!

[@melotronical]

Missing cards: Manaechos Ivy Lane Denizen Ahnods Altar Purphoros, God of the Forge Greetings

[@austinsimmons9248]

Moar The other 99!!

[@some_hippies]

Marath just seems like a mediocre Ghave to me. He's a hardcore build around me commander that probably won't hit the power level of most other generals, I like the design but it's a little weak.

[@SpiceCh]

Ghave is better at making a token army. Marath is better at butchering your opponents' key creatures and is a lot more in-your-face than Ghave is. While both deal with counters and tokens, Ghave requires aid from Grave Pact + friends to kill stuff, while Marath slowly but surely develops into a game-ending monster: Already by the second time you've cast him, you'll be able to pay 5 mana and sac him to kill the majority of the other legendary creatures in this release, and he only gets bigger from there, while the others don't.

[@phatbastard0alkaline]

Come on carson, how can you say from the Ashes is fair and not mean? My karn deck looses all of its manabase, AND the huge burst of laugh that i have to endure against me because we get to search for basics... oh wait, i dont :(.

[@ChristianGoldie]

I'll come to Karson's aid in saying that I wrote that. Ashes is for sure less greasy than Armageddon. But I can see how it wouldn't feel that way if you aren't running any basics. In my playgroup mass LD is heavily discouraged but people have been showing some acceptance to Ashes as we have a few people with vast $ resources and love to destroy pods with tokens/Gaea's Cradle, and other pricey lands.

[@phatbastard0alkaline]

Andrew Reilly haha i know, ive got some other decks than the karn deck, so that's cool. It's a good card, a fair LD card, and it'll teach that players needs more basic lands in their deck, before i played a mimeoplasm deck with 1-2 basics, but ive changed so im playing atleast 8-10 basics now as a minimum. And yeah i know that karn is an exception, and that is something i have to keep in mind. i guess we get a good laugh from it anyway :P.