Close Quarters #6 | Commander Gameplay | Orvar - Codie - Volo - Torbran | Magic the Gathering

[@mazier49]

Legend says that Torbran is still waiting to be cast

[@itslexactually]

GODDAMMIT I LOVE THAT GOOD RED BOI

[@spencerp6190]

Hi, this is 5 months in the future. He is still waiting.

[@jumpmanhammerman1311]

2:50 Can definitely relate to that face Mitch. That sinking feeling you get when you’re playing a graveyard deck and someone casts a turn 1 relic of progenitura or worse: a turn 0 leyline of the void

[@benknock981]

Just hit them with the Graff diggers cage and it's 10x worse

[@elijahgulley9300]

The funny part is that Eddie literally dealt infinite damage in that last turn. He had infinite life gain, so each one of his creatures had infinite power and toughness, as well as trample. Brutal

[@dracosfire7247]

Sadly, no, if he did that he’d deck out.

[@HumptyDumpty461]

@@dracosfire7247 Not anymore, since Zendikar Resurgent was gone.

[@dracosfire7247]

@@HumptyDumpty461 He did that after the infinite Innkeepers

[@HumptyDumpty461]

@@dracosfire7247 Right, but he could have done the infinite innkeeper loop all over again on the next turn

[@jakemorse7232]

Wasn't sure about my building Volo, but now I'm convinced I'm doing the right thing. Thank you eddie

[@kingfuzzy2]

He's disgustingly beautiful even if half the creatures share a type (ramp elves and giants)

[@el_pablodocus]

Once again I wanna salute Alek's deckbuilding : very creative and well displayed by his playing skills !

[@bananabread4217]

I love this series!!! So grateful to have more episodes!!!! Can’t wait to see even more

[@fellisch9]

I like the dynamic of the players and the overall "casualness" on Commanders Quarters way more than IHYD. Keep it up guys!

[@Hellspeller]

Agreed ! I quit watching IHYD because of all the saltiness

[@amarmehta01]

I haven’t seen the episode yet and I’m blaming Eddie for everything!

[@loganator326]

I'm very much a proponent of Volo being kill on sight and I think this game is a very good example of why. Cool commander but it absolutely just runs away with games if it's given even a smidge of space to breathe

[@tauntdragoon]

As a volo player i have to disagree with him being killed on sight who the bigger threat volo or tergrid

[@superjakeyo7559]

You know as someone who plays simic I don’t like the number of times people have decided my commander is kill on sight, just because last game my deck became my hand, I had a few 20/20’s and I played every land in my deck. Really can’t understand y.

[@thew1ldcard886]

Volo is just a crappier Adrix and Nev

[@bedwarssweat6205]

@@thew1ldcard886 they have nothing to do with each other lol

[@philsimmer]

imo not quite as bad as a Tergrid or Urza or... Orvar or Codie. Let's be honest, WOTC has been smokin crack the last few years. Turn 1 Codie deck? Too ez. But Golos... that shit was the most busted of all! *

[@JayShepard27]

Alek always gets messed with right before Eddie Pops off. Jake new favorite for repping the Twins. Fun episode. Everyone needs to play simic for one game.

[@itslexactually]

Minnesota 🥰

[@nathanielsouther5122]

Keep up the awesome work! Always a joy to see friends playing commander at the same table. Hope Eric is doing well too!

[@ChaosWheel0407]

This series is such a fun watch! Keep them coming lol

[@cottoncandysamurai2791]

Yo mitch I appreciate you breaking down that interaction and would love to see (if you ever get the time) some minisodes of you breaking down some of the more complicated interactions that come up in these. Of just more of that when it happens. Anyways love the episodes keep up the good work!

[@Draylock1287]

This channel has become my go to for decktechs and gameplay keep up the phenomenal work Mitch

[@philsimmer]

Welcome to the tribe!

[@Draylock1287]

@@philsimmer glad to be here seems like a great community ^3^

[@xdfarz]

I laugh so hard at this 47:55 The reaction of mitch is just golden

[@ckeiji]

Hahaha holy smokes Eddie! That was amazing, GG! Looking forward to the next close quarters!

[@thejerrimus]

Mitch has the Steve from Blue's Clues art style. (This is a compliment I love it)

[@tylerblue8296]

Love these episodes. Thank you so much for continuing to make and put them out. I look forward to them.

[@cylonsteve2511]

Please give us more of this fabulous content.. Loving your back and forth guys, even when it goes crazy degenerative 😅

[@VRanger100]

First time I'm early for one of your gameplay videos. Decks and personalities are great as always

[@superjakeyo7559]

“Eddie digs further to find a wincon” I have never heard a statement that has encapsulated simic so well

[@kingfuzzy2]

A Simic value deck without a wincon ( :

[@cylonsteve2511]

So many shirt ideas: 1) Blame Eddie. 2) I'm UBGWR crazy. 3) Simic Signet Fight Club. 4) My Wurm has Wurms! 5) I should see a doctor, but right now Commander is more important! 6) I want to play my deck! 7) Don't unfairly gain advantage, just play Simic instead. 8) Swolo. 9) What can't Simic do?! 10) My library IS my hand!

[@Levofski]

Great game, your games are the funniest and the attitudes are a great example to all

[@WayfarersBauble]

I'm not in any of these lists? #BlameEddie My lowest TCGPlayer market price is currently $2.11 for my Modern Masters 2015 printing.

[@Oopsall]

You know if mitch could cast permanents he absolutely would run you.

[@el_frisco9298]

At 20:45 Artificial Evolution targeting Cloudpost. I believe it’s not a legal target since Cloudpost is not a creature. Locus is a land type not a creature type. Also, Glamerdye used on Cloudpost. I don’t see how it’s a legal target either. Cloudpost has no color text to change. In Gatherer rules text, Glamerdye cannot change mana symbols. Am I right or am I missing something?

[@MichaelMcLean8]

I was lost on that play as well. I checked Artificial Evolution rulings, says "Can target a card with no appropriate words on it, or even one with no words at all." On Glamerdye they ask "which colour are you choosing" and he responds with "blue" when targeting the Cloudpost. But in the immediate next turn says "Tapping Cloudpost for three colourless". Never actual says "Replace red with blue" or "replace colourless with blue". I don't think any creature (or land) types were changed, or any colour text was changed. He just wanted the three target triggers to copy the Cloudpost twice and Island once.

[@guiltysonder]

Don't worry, Mitch, I am also a wubrg maniac. I have seven different five color decks. Sisay, Weatherlight Captain: Legends Tribal SIsay, Weatherlight Captain: Enchantments (and shrines) Esika: God Tribal Ur-Dragon: Dragon Tribal Jodah (Formerly Golos): Big Mana Najeela: Warrior swarms Kenrith: Zirda Cycling (guess who inspired that one)

[@under100edh4]

Poor Jake never even got his commander out!

[@armyofmeh]

53:05 I have to know if the music stopping in time for his "no" was intentional or just how the song played.

[@taylorlarson593]

I love the fun gameplay and really fun banter/analogies/politics. Please please keep making gameplay videos.

[@chewdustfreeze]

What a coincidence, I was playing Volo last night. Almost same board state but I lost because of fog effect hehe

[@Closer2Zero]

I think we need a non-Eddy episode, cause at this point its the Eddy and Simic show

[@Bard506]

49:00 You can't make infinite treasures because you have 7 halfling citizens on the battlefield You can only clone with Volo if it's unique EDIT: Never mind, the disclaimer was there lol

[@KingRorix]

....he explains this literally seconds later.

[@phpamdin]

He also can not do Beast to destroy all think because he left mutual on top with Beast. Do he would only get main of mutual when he try kill all stuff.

[@tauntdragoon]

@@phpamdin he could cause he could just mutate spark double and bounce it bat to hand and both card come back to hand so he could do it one at a time just spark doubling the inn keeper for the mana and life

[@joedoe7572]

@@phpamdin what?

[@thork_tv]

46:00 3+3+4= 10 creatures 51:51 acidic slime can kill lands too

[@Oopsall]

43:40 - Btw, it's not 4 factorial (4!), it's the summation sigma{k = 1, 4}(k) (surprisingly, denoted as 4?).

[@curtissearle6462]

That Kermit impersonation was on point Mitch lol

[@chrisfatality1367]

These episodes are dope definitely hope more episodes can continue to come frequently. Maybe even a Two game or two headed giant 😍

[@SSolemn]

That was so much fun to watch! Now I know how my Volo deck looks from afar, yikes xD! Love these gameplay videos, by far the ones we enjoy the most from the segment.

[@damientalrose553]

This was a fun game to watch, and gave me ideas on decks to build :D Sidenote: Keep in mind that the token copies of Progenitor Mimic do NOT make copies because they are tokens. They card is powerful enough without having exponential power...

[@carterdelrosario8492]

Literally not even 5 minutes before watching this I died in a game to Lightning Bolt.

[@neph9886]

22:30 is even funnier when u realise that "gross" also means "Big" in german. What a wholesome interaction, reminds me of my college days!

[@Wabiman70]

47:22 the progenitor mimic copying spark double in the battlefield don't enter with counters because the spark double is already in the battlefield as a copy of volo and volo dosen't have the ability of enters with a counter, spark double has that ability only in the stack

[@MattTorres]

does volo also copy progenitor? Isnt shapeshifter every creature type so volos ability doesnt trigger for it? Or is that not right?

[@prob094]

@@MattTorres Only changelings have every creature type. All Changelings are shapeshifters, but not all Shapeshifters are Changelings. Orvar for instance is a Changeling (every creature type), and the Shapeshifter text on the card is mainly for flavour. Hopefully that makes sense : )

[@MattTorres]

@@prob094 ah ok yeah that makes sense. Figured I was missing something.

[@tauntdragoon]

So if he has 4 copies of of mimic in play cause of the volo effect would so wouldn't they each make a anothwr copy of volo on the next turn so the turn after eddie played the mimic giving hime effectively 12 copies of volo on the field

[@Wabiman70]

@@tauntdragoon no, because the ability of progenitor mimic said "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature isn’t a token, create a token that’s a copy of this creature" so no matter how many progenitor mimic you have, only the nontokens creates tokens

[@mateodejesus5426]

25:40 Where was spell swindle? Eddie kinda just played it and put it back in his hand instead of the yard. He also didn't tap the mana for it. I don't know if I'm crazy or if this was a genuine mistake but I'm confused either way.

[@pokeliciousnchill2932]

Eddie might have to start showing up with less powerful decks. Seems like he's the threat every game

[@philsimmer]

He played a Misty Rainforest. Frankly should have been disqualified!

[@outofcream9694]

what commander damage tracker are they using?

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Moxtopper!

[@smartymarty2351]

I tried to buy honey wheat bread yesterday and the store was out of it. Darn you, Eddie!

[@Piper0185]

at 15:30 you talk about Activating Codie on Upkeep?? How is this possible? thought you couldn't unless it had a specific "On upkeep" trigger???

[@C12ASHD]

what app are they using as a tracker?

[@I_Believe_In_Christ]

You don't get 4 factorial, you just get 4+3+2+1 #BlameEddie

[@jfb-]

37:00 eddie can go infinite here with temur sabertooth + overgrown battlement + lightning greaves

[@shilohartisan]

I said the same thing! Nice call.

[@joedoe7572]

How?

[@shilohartisan]

@@joedoe7572 bounce Battlement and token Battlement with Sabertooth. Cast Battlement, trigger both Volos and Spark Double Volos, making 2 copies of Battlement Equip Greaves to each Battlement and tap them for 9 total mana Pay 4 to bounce the tokens to oblivion Pay 2 to bounce OG Battlement to hand. Repeat This draws the deck with Zendikar Resurgent triggers.

[@billykillz5872]

As soon as he said lightning greaves the “that’s infinite” light went off in my head

[@jcdb2582]

What app are they using for life totals? Thats by far the best one for commander damage so im intrigued

[@eltrowel]

well, that escalated quickly. good game, and a fun watch.

[@ScorpioneOrzion]

The betrail actually cannot be cast until the main phase when you have priority, codie only allows you to cast it this turn without paying its mana cost

[@timothyswartz8802]

Codie exiles cards, and cards exiles cannot be suspended from hand, they are in exile already. I don’t think suspend works with Codie at all (Same for Prosper)

[@salvatorestabile5547]

@@timothyswartz8802 what he means is when Mitch did it at his upkeep, he couldn't cast the betrayal because it's a sorcery

[@philsimmer]

@@timothyswartz8802 It works like Cascade, which can hit suspend only cards and cast them for zero. It's pretty busted. There are Turn 1 win codie decks in CEDH and some interesting modern decks built around this. The card's CMC is effectively zero. Suspend is an (activated?) ability. The card is not cast until the last time counter is removed.

[@renaldotulung1676]

@@timothyswartz8802 Codie's effect gives an alternate mana cost which is without paying, so no cmc card can be cast for free. Prosper just exiles and don't give alternate mana cost, so the exiled suspend cards can't be played.

[@cylonsteve2511]

I half joke about rule zeroing all simic...Volo doubles that line of thought 😂 Crazy game, thanks for that 😎

[@brad_soup]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't Stream of Thought still cause Mitch to shuffle even if he has no cards in his graveyard when it resolves? That way he doesn't have to worry about picking up the Inevitable Betrayal on his draw step?

[@joedoe7572]

Good point! That's true. @Commander's Quarters

[@shilohartisan]

36:00 So Eddie had Greaves in his hand?? I think this goes infinite: Activate Sabertooth to bounce both Overgrown Battlements (the token will just die). Cast it again, trigger Volo and both Spark Double Volos to make 3 copies. All of that costs 6 mana. Greaves lets you tap each one for a total of 16 mana. 8 Mana will bounce the three tokens to to oblivion and the OG to hand. Recast for 2, tap for 16, bounce for 8, recast for 2, tap for 16, bounce for 8, etc. Then you can bounce whatever you want to recast and draw the deck with Zendikar Resurgent. I especially like Spark Double here because you can make infinite Volos with it if I'm not mistaken. Any mass haste enabler now lets you win in combat, but there's likely a noncombat win somewhere in the deck

[@markvelvis1176]

Sweet game! It looked like all of you had a fun time!

[@conradthecreator5471]

Very nice, keep up the good work.

[@mbarker_lng]

"Banding is too complicated of a mechanic"

[@duderman8439]

What is that life counter that's being used to track the life, it looks amazing?

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Moxtopper!

[@Phantomxcosplay]

Great game guys. Eddie could’ve won the turn before also. With your defender dork, itlimoc & 3 untapped lands, here’s the path -> Tap itlimoc for 14 green 7 green for zendikar resurgent 4 to bounce both battlements back to hand 2 for lightning greaves With 1 green floating add two green with an untapped land -> cast battlement dork dude Create 3 more battlements -> slap lightning greaves on for 4 green 2 to bounce 2 to cast -> infinite draw with zendikar resurgent End loop with deck in hand And 4 battlements Slap Greaves on all 4 for 16 green mana Use 8 to bounce all copies Tap 2 lands to cast spark double as copy of olo Cast battlement defender dork dude make 5 copies Repeat loop of bouncing, slapping greaves, tapping for now 5 netting 1 each Infinite mana Now do what ya did the last turn champ GG I need a nap.

[@cylonsteve2511]

Nap? Yeah so do I. Simic is so boring 😜 Good break down of the 1 turn earlier win though 😉

[@SimonProctor]

Ephemerate targeting the progenitor mimic. Have it come in as a copy of the token wurm. Now it make two wurms each turn :)

[@joedoe7572]

Interesting! Nice catch!

[@Passtheremoteplease]

Put together my Volo deck a few weeks ago. By far my favorite off of pure value!

[@jackalcoyote8777]

Yeah, a card that gives you insane value for basically just playing magic like normal. I don't like GU "getting paid for getting paid" cards. At least Volo is more fun than the usual ones though.

[@seansmith4783]

Mitch!! Built the Codie deck. Loving it, but I kept having one problem; not getting 1 cmc’s or graveyard recycle in hand, then my Codie stalls out. I wanna know if you’ve ever thought of doing this: I added Profane Tutor as a Golden Pig #2 for that deck to keep the play going. Then (and this is great) I use Voltaic Key/Manifold Key to get 2 activations of Codie to bring out both Golden Pigs in one turn. (I used Turn to Mist to cast a Key around Codie). What do you think?

[@ButterInEveryOrifice]

That mono blue ramp looked really cool, I might have to build that

[@kingfuzzy2]

Delicious

[@skullkidtiger4851]

Really love the disclaimer section of the episode, moving ahead if we get more of those perhaps giving it a different name? Perhaps like just the screen flashing judge and we get like a judge character who explain rulings that may have not got caught during editing

[@SirGrimLockSmithVIII]

Im blaming Eddie for watching this episode instead of doing my final paper

[@adedamolayusuff5995]

I'm confused, Codie says when you cast an instant or sorcery card, you exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card with lesser mana value. Since you have no 0 cmc instants or sorceries in the deck then won't Codie's triggered ability fail to find? Thus having you exile your entire deck?

[@mightyone3737]

Simic has some good Discard outlets, Mind Over Matter is one of the best discard outlets ever printed, limited only by the difficulty in getting it out. You can also run stuff like Wild Mongrel or Soratami Cloudskater. For opponent's hands, Green and Blue both have some hand-hate, Green can put cards back on top of the library with stuff like Stunted Growth, Blue has Amnesia and the like. You might need to replay the same card a few times to do what you want, but Simic can also recycle it's graveyard nicely (or anyone's for that matter), win via non-combat damage or life loss, mill, and various 'on-the-spot' methods, Simic has crazy versatility that way.

[@TheHippieDrood]

what are those things that mitch is using for his tokens? are those like tiny whiteboards?

[@yareyaredaze9450]

Didn't the red enchament that deals damage when tapping miss a lot of damage it should've done?

[@itslexactually]

Ya

[@thomassawyer3685]

Mitch asking the table for a creature that ETBs to wipe Eddie's board is priceless :D

[@heberofcastamere341]

Eddie´s move put everyone in the forever box huahuahuha

[@adamkorner4046]

Eddie is a Chris Jericho level heel

[@vergescalvin428]

Does the lengendary Enchantement need legendary creature on board to be cast? Unless Legendary Artifact who dont need? Or am i wrong?

[@yodabuddy2112]

One thing to note, if a card says you may cast it until end of turn like codie does you have to follow the casting times, inevitable betrayal is a sorcery.

[@Rabbit3]

What a game! Good stuff 👍

[@hybridyd1305]

"Are you gonna target me with that?" "No." "Then it resolves." 🤣🤣

[@cylonsteve2511]

Pre-watching episode: everything problematic about this match and all that negatively lies within, is Eddie's fault 😂 Maybe you should make it into a merch item "Eddie's Fault"?

[@damiantey4593]

What's the damage calculator they use? I love the commander damage keeper.

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Moxtopper!

[@Chrematophobia]

Where can I get that life counter? It’s great with the death quips 😂

[@jonmagic1123]

So, I used to buy deck lists from Mitch.....now I’m buying eddie’s lol

[@mikep7844]

@48:00 Can someone please explain how he gained 56 life from the Prosperous Innkeeper?

[@aeichhor777]

Whenever another one enters it triggers each one. So the second one would be 1 health, third one would be 2 and keep going. I think the math may have been off unless I missed something.

[@SlovakAvenger311]

Eddie is the Richard of Close Quarters. Simic do be winning.

[@squidmilk4383]

I'm trying to make a casual deck around the idea of your opponent taking their turn being the worst thing they can do. Any idea of where I can ask for help or something like this? Got a basic idea of the deck down. But need help with final details

[@johnnytyler4968]

Mitch’s Kermit the frog impression is top notch!

[@pennywise-ug7sv]

I dont know what I blame Eddie for but I blame Eddie regardless

[@stefantincescu7169]

Just found out that my car's front wheels are flat. Thank you eddie..

[@PavlovGrenadier]

Anyone know the app they use? I've tried a couple but can't seem to find it

[@Dadiplomatt23]

Do you guys live in MN?

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Yep!

[@Dadiplomatt23]

@@TheCommandersQuarters Cool same here, love the content!

[@IanGCase]

Mitch! Epiphany at the Drownyard is an X cost. X is always zero, that cards mana value is 1

[@joedoe7572]

Not while the spell is on the stack. During that time, the X fixes itself as whatever amount of mana was spent on X

[@roxiereign]

what app were you using? I use what most probably do, which is the companion app, but I like the little random generated death sentence at the end haha

[@englishish]

43:40 Factorial would be their product, not sum. What you want is the 4th triangular number n*(n+1)/2 (source: I'm a math prof)

[@andrewp979]

Can we please see more Orvar next episode!?

[@sifthegreat4570]

Fun stuff. GG fellas

[@kaerr_blockbuster]

can anyone tell me what´s the name of the app the guys are using to count their life ?

[@davidforret527]

what app for the life counters do you guys use?

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Moxtopper!

[@davidforret527]

@@TheCommandersQuarters thank you.. btw just used my codie deck tonight to beat a tiamat deck on turn 7 😄😄

[@LittleMillo94]

HELP: I can't understand the interaction between cloudpost and artificial evolution. Since you would change "Locus", wouldn't that mean, that the activated effect of cloudpost not give you an additional mana for every locus in play? Or are you changing "Locus" to "Wizard" for example (in the card type and in the text) Thank you community!

[@marcelozapata93]

These are so well made!

[@ElijahS0109]

What is the app they use to count life and such

[@SavitTheGoalie]

I love the game play video good stuff