This Commander is Soooo Mean! | The Beamtown Bullies | Streets of New Capenna Spoilers | MTG

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Thank you for those who helped out with the Blightsteel interaction - unlike with Emrakul, Blightsteel's is a replacement effect not a triggered ability, so it would not work. Apologies for that mistake! Also, thank you to everyone who pointed out that Leveler is a fantastic card with this commander!

[@leonamfernandesdasilva9012]

still surprised you didn't mention worldgoger dragon + removal XD

[@Tave247]

I blame Eddie

[@mr.cynical2201]

Don't forget Inverter of Truth

[@safermurderweapon]

Blame Eddie

[@monkeynation9841]

What you could do is do a Boulder heavyweight and just go grab your blightsteel but yeah.

[@l0ker507]

Blightsteel's graveyard-ability is a replacement effect, not a triggered ability, so you cannot respond to it.

[@safermurderweapon]

Dammit Eddie

[@KVGKQuake]

Bronze Bombshell is a card that is exceptional in this deck. Paired with Thornebite Staff, you just kill your opponents one by one

[@shakingcow816]

Finally can fullfill my dream with puttiong leveler onto the BF under an opponents control.

[@kylejohnson4662]

@@DarkEinherjar you would need to be some sort of four color deck though. Fractured Identity doesn’t fit into the bully’s color identity

[@DracoX-hz3tu]

@@kylejohnson4662 I think he means outside this deck because this combo is separate from the bullies, meaning you would just need 2 color

[@BeholdDog5341]

Neat little trick: Royal assassin destroys any target tapped creature. Use that to destroy the goaded creatures after they attack, and I think they’ll go to your graveyard for reuse. So, you could use this on something like the one that makes them lose turns, and they will cry as you use it again and again. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work on indestructible creatures like blightsteel colossus unless you could find some way to gain control then sacrifice it before their endstep

[@armageddon28]

Another mean option: Leveler. It says, "when leveler comes into play remove your library from the game.", Another fun one could be Tempting Wurm. "When Tempting Wurm comes into play each opponent may put any number of artifact, creature, enchantment and/or land cards from his or her hand into play."

[@theballguy2197]

U could add flayer the hatebound with it to do when u “gift” them leveler u can immediately kill it to gift it to the next person

[@Ramschat]

I came here looking for leveler. Way more brutal than most of the other options

[@canofbeams5528]

Despotic Scepter is great in this deck. You can use it to destroy a creature you gave someone else and send it back to your yard before it is exiled to use it again. It's just 1 cmc and a tap for the effect.

[@imdafish5705]

I actually really like the more chill vibe! Great video!

[@autosave1670]

same. the fast talking is a bit annoying to hear/watch when going to sleep :D

[@carsenpotter6576]

The blightsteel combo won't work I think, because it's a replacement effect. Blightsteel never actually enters the graveyard.

[@whaleofdarkness]

There are a few things you didn't mention which are very interesting. 1. Using cards like Despotic Specter and Tel-Jilad Stylus to prevent the card from being exiled. There are a few cards that care about cards on the bottom of your library (Cellar Door, Grenzo so Tel-Jilad Stylus can be abused as well). Brooding Saurian can save the creature in a sneaky way by allowing you to sacrifice it once you gain control of it. 2. Mystifying Maze can turn The Beamtown Bullies into a repeatable reanimator for your creatures. You can use all "exile and return under owner's control" cards in a similar way (for example the Flip Planeswalkers). 3. You can activate The Beamtown Bullies on your opponents' end steps for it to stick around during the turn after. This is for example interesting with cards that have a positive effect for everyone. If you put Maralen onto the battlefield on the opponent's end step before your turn you are the only one that can tutor up for something. 4. Thornbite Staff plus 0 toughness creatures and a Blood Artist effect allow you to drain your opponents for infinite damage.

[@SpenkerHatesGhostNotes]

Thrilled I found your comment! My beamtown deck already runs like butter but this is over the top. Thanks!

[@whaleofdarkness]

@@SpenkerHatesGhostNotes You're welcome! Beamtown bullies are awesome, you can do so many cool things with it.

[@SpenkerHatesGhostNotes]

@@whaleofdarknessIndeed. My combos include kroxa/worldgorger/animate Dead, thornbite/bronze bombshell, soulgourger orgg/L-bolt. Cant forget my leveler too! Beamtown bullies are something else

[@Mwitch_]

Nice tips! Unfortunately Maralen is legendary so won't work with Bullies

[@KelrictheMinion]

You want an End the Game Combo? Seedborne Muse, Homeward Path, some sort of sac engine, and Bullies with Leveler in the graveyard. You can respond at their upkeep to give them leveler then before they moved to the draw phase you can Homeward Path Leveler back to you and then sac it back to the graveyard, then rinse and repeat for each of the next opponent's turns.

[@AceofSpades280]

Want another? bronze bombshell and thornbite staff

[@chrishiggins2651]

That ability has a notable lack of “or if it would leave the battlefield”

[@garcruncher7271]

Because otherwise the card would suck.

[@andrewlagrange8800]

I respect the potential brutality of the bullies, but if I built around them, I would definitely stuff some beefy or all-around good creatures and play it like an auction/car salesman

[@sertaki]

That sounds like a lot of fun! :D

[@kingpearlshine]

Honestly, yeah. It could absolutely be a politics commander.

[@WayfarersBauble]

My lowest TCGPlayer market price is currently $2.09 for my Modern Masters 2015 printing. Wizards not putting me in more precons is also mean. But anyway, have a safe weekend, and may you always have Turn 1 plays.

[@dapperghastmeowregard]

I feel like this is gonna be another Narset. Either you Leveler somebody turn 5 and then use the rest of your evening to design a skeleton and spider themed 1st level RPG dungeon, or you build a fun and interesting deck that gets fucking obliterated because nobody can risk you actually doing the former.

[@adammackanin1109]

Eater of Days and Leveler are gonna be lit!

[@benroberts1052]

Ooooh so milling your opponents with the golgari package will make having more reanimate options. Neat!

[@OGTahoe3]

Why does milling opponents matter

[@path2plowshares274]

@@OGTahoe3 if you're playing a generic reanimate package along with you commander it would give you things, but that's all I can think of.

[@benroberts1052]

@@OGTahoe3 so you can get a bigger reanimate pool to use in his last ability

[@SalamiSnake]

@@benroberts1052 His last ability reanimates from your graveyard, not opponents graveyard.

[@benroberts1052]

@@SalamiSnake yes but you still can self mill and get giants like blightsteel out

[@mattseman5682]

Mitch's neighbors finally got tired of the endless spoiler season

[@Highwaym4n]

Holy crap. Ive just realized; We only ever hear Mitch on 'turbo' setting...... :D

[@kylejohnson4662]

Phage the Untouchable and Leveler are two more amazing hits.

[@TheCommandersQuarters]

Unfortunately Phage is legendary, but Leveler definitely works!

[@kylejohnson4662]

Oh that’s right!

[@kylejohnson4662]

@@TheCommandersQuarters also, blightsteel is a replacement effect not a trigger so you can’t respond to the shuffle

[@vossenova7933]

@@TheCommandersQuarters Inverter of truth would make a good back up Leveller, and Despotic Sccepter is just super mean, reuse that leveller!

[@aaronruiz2896]

I’m digging the adult film actor voice. Lol

[@jesper1029384756]

you can activate it on your turn too ^^ if you want the etb trigger or attack with a creature from your graveyard if you dont need to attack with your commander

[@jesper1029384756]

@@DarkEinherjar ah, I was confused, usually im just as much as an opponent to myself as my opponents in a game lol :x you're correct xD

[@James-vl2hh]

Thanks for the quick upload

[@facepalmjesus1608]

SKY SWALLOWER loves the bullies!!!!

[@nicolettedown]

Want to also mention Leveler. Basically same as Phage, just not legendary.

[@markp7262]

I'd like to introduce you to a little artifact called Despotic Scepter. Reuse your creatures again and again! And I believe that Blightsteel doesn't work that way. It never hits the graveyard, because of the replacement effect.

[@jonasdietrich8109]

That is genius!

[@neysagoodwin1881]

yes to the scepter!! riftsweeper is nice too. that gives another way to reuse your creatures. the more options the better.

[@whaleofdarkness]

If you want to be really mean to the opponent before you in turn order you can put World-Gorger Dragon onto the battlefield during their end step. If you use Sundial of the Infinite in response to the leaves play trigger you permanently exile all their permanents.

[@whaleofdarkness]

@@MunchKING You can activate the Beamtown Bullies on the end step of the opponent that's before you in turn order. World-Gorger will only be exiled on your end step because the beginning of his end step has already happened. That's why you can activate Sundial.

[@mitrimind1027]

But you can only use sundial on your own turn... Instead just use despotic scepter and kill it on the stack.

[@whaleofdarkness]

There is in fact a way to force your opponents to get Phage into play. If the only creatures in all graveyards are Puppeteer Clique and Phage you can put Puppeteer Clique onto the battlefield under their control. Because Phage is the only creature they have to choose Phage and put it into play. If you destroy Phage and the Clique in response to all triggers you even get to repeat it for the next opponent.

[@Solairethebased]

I guess if you fill your graveyard with these undesirable creatures they have to pick one of them. But I think I'd go the opposite direction because I'm too nice lol. Give them some high powered fun stuff like avenger of zendikar

[@JohnFerrerAkaEric]

This would work well with purphoros and Illharg. Both allow you to play cards from your hand to attack to get some big creatures out and attacking before they possibly attack and go to the grave yard.

[@Metroidpikmin2]

Blightsteel is a replacement effect, so I am pretty sure it never sees the graveyard.

[@davidcapano9996]

another fun card to put in that deck is entomb, for one black you literally put any of the aforementioned cards into your graveyard and open a salt mine at the table

[@andynonya1490]

with so many free sac outlets in commander and kill spells that downside has a super easy work around

[@revolutiongaming406]

I like the idea of running targeted graveyard removal to kind of guarantee that someone will have to pick a certain creature. Also royal assassin in nice because the creatures will tap and if you destroy them they won't exile

[@MrMagoo1113]

Blightsteel Colossus's ability is a replacement effect. It never reaches the graveyard so you can't grab it.

[@Kurvier]

Oh boy. This makes me want to run sundial and homeward path for free reanimations to my Board… make them swing at someone else then swing on my turn too !!

[@liamjrowan2896]

Finally getting my beamtown deck built slowly now

[@thezerowulf2046]

Jund finally getting the love they deserve

[@brandonknight]

I am having a hard time breaking down this card, who gets to "choose" the target from my graveyard, me or the the Target player?

[@ClaytonPeace]

Mitch I do not think the play with Blighsteel will work. As that is a Replacement Effect with "Instead." Where as Emrakul is not. "When Emrakul, the Aeons Torn is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library." See what I'm saying... "If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner’s library instead." I could indeed be wrong, but I am quite sure Blighsteel never sees a graveyard.

[@darkzero3]

He’s also good in Goaded Karona decks.

[@KeiruKeiru]

Worldgorger Dragon, then kill it with the ETB trigger on the stack. Exile all their permanents.

[@frigginresulrum]

Holy shit, I made a Zedruu deck back in the day to do this via Summoner's Egg. This will be WAY easier to pull off!

[@dannylut9711]

No love for Bronze Bombshell and Thor bite staff?

[@YamYamYamfish]

If you're not doing the leveler/eater of days route, voyager staff will let you steal your creatures back permanently.

[@AustinBecht]

Bronze Bombshell, with Thornbite Staff equipped on The Beamtown Bullies goes infinite. Bombshell comes in, sees that its not controlled by its owner, sacrifices itself, and deals 7 damage to that opponent. Then Beamtown Bullies untaps because Bombshell sacrificed itself. Rinse and repeat to just kill that opponent. And given the opponent will die to one of the Bombshell triggers eventually, Beamtown Bullies will be untapped for the next opponent's turn... Its probably the easiest way to kill opponent's with this deck, and you're in the right colors to tutor out both of the pieces by a variety of means...

[@James-vl2hh]

Do you or your opponent pick the creature from your graveyard?

[@orkmac6186]

I think your opponent does, cuz it says they put a creature from your graveyard onto the battlefield, which makes bullies basically useless

[@mattrowe1037]

So I understand the cards you're adding, but what cards do I remove? Or is this like a guide for a full deck? I wasn't counting. But I'm new to building decks. I've played some standard and mostly commander, but idk what I'm doing when it comes to building and would very much appreciate feedback! Thank you!

[@wademiller2376]

It seems strange for this legendary to not be a "named" creature. I get it's the ... nickname or title of the group. Throws me off a bit, I mean what do I call the big guy?

[@Mega00gundam]

Malfegor might be a better option to play for yourself instead of giving him to an opponent cause he can help you discard the other creatures you mentioned from your hand all the while making opponents sacrifice creatures for each card discarded.

[@drawnsideways2862]

I like the voice over on this video. Feels less try hard.

[@SirPream]

The Bullies are great for a wheel deck. Put them as part of the 99 in a Yidris deck with annoying creatures and some graveyard recursion and you have a deck that everyone will hate.

[@thepopularkids6065]

With Beamtown Bullies, do you choose what card from the graveyard to target player get? or do they choose what card from beamtown bullies owner graveyard?

[@zackholloway3533]

@Mitch What if I told you….. that there is a way to take infinite turns with this commander????? Because there is… it’s a tad convoluted, but it works 🤣

[@corticohealth]

Dude... Inverter of Truth is the truth here. And of course Leveler, which has probably also been mentioned.

[@archibaldtuttle9019]

Check out Mungha Worm for a cute stax piece to put out at their end step

[@mark1A100]

I want to run those old onslaught block leeches

[@astuteanansi4935]

Pointless, since the creature gets exiled at end of turn

[@ShredAimlessly92]

Building this deck around negative effects only goes so far because eventually it’s just going to be you and one other person in play, and your only tools left will be negative impact cards that you have to work around. I feel like building the deck generally beefy so that the creatures are still usable in that endgame scenario would be a better build. Maybe not as fun, but easier to witness.

[@astuteanansi4935]

"eventually it’s just going to be you and one other person in play, and your only tools left will be negative impact cards that you have to work around" Well that's where you bust out your Leveler, chump block it, and your last opponent instantly dies from not having a library.

[@zacharybecker8228]

Between this and the devil not sure which one I'd enjoy more its finally an interesting jund that isn't just sacrifice

[@OneWithManyThings]

Can you give them Worldgorger Dragon and use Sundial of the Infinite to keep it in play?! This commander is wild

[@astuteanansi4935]

Doesn't work since Bullies only activate on an opponent's turn and Sundial only ends *your* turn. Most effects that can forcefully end an opponent's turn are in blue, the only one in red causes you to lose the game. However: "It is possible for Worldgorger Dragon to leave the battlefield before its “enters the battlefield” trigger resolves. If this happens, then the “leaves the battlefield” trigger will have nothing to return. Then its “enters the battlefield” trigger resolves, and all other permanents you control are exiled forever. " So you can still achieve this with an instant speed killspell

[@Meta8A]

Who chooses the target nonlegendary creature? The way it’s worded, it sounds like the opponent gets to choose which creature and not the owner of Beamtown.

[@TheGentlemanskeleton]

Brutally spicy combo time. The Beamtown Bullies + Leveler + Xira Arien Use Beamtown Bullies to put Leveler onto another player's battlefield, which then exiles their library. Activate Xira Arien to force them to draw a card, thereby forcing them to lose the game. Leveler iirc returns to your graveyard once that player loses. If I'm right and you also happen to have a Seedborn Muse in play, rinse and repeat each subsequent turn.

[@TheGentlemanskeleton]

Etched Oracle could also replace Xira Arien in the combo, but it requires some workarounds to get however many extra +1/+1 counters on it to activate its draw effect. It's Jund so that shouldn't be too hard, but it is something to consider. There are also plenty of forced draw spells in black that can finish the combo for a one-time effect, but afaik Xira Arien and Etched Oracle are the only two repeatable forced draw effects you can pull off in Jund colors.

[@ravenkaruna4869]

Can’t you just activate the Bullies before your opponent has a draw step?

[@TheGentlemanskeleton]

@@ravenkaruna4869 You can it turns out, though I'm probably going to run Xira anyway as a contingency plan win condition in the event there's a spell or ability that can prevent me from activating Beamtown Bullies during the upkeep (or pesky 'Skip Your Draw Step' effects). The Chronicles copy is also like $.50 right now so I can afford the redundancy that I may or may not need later.

[@777vid]

Commander's Quarters: ASMR Edition *slowly shuffles cards*

[@TheDougWay]

It'd be awesome if you gave someone tons of powerful creatures then gave them a Worldgorger Dragon lol. Need a lot of setup to get it to work though.

[@asvp_merkk_4306]

I’m sure this is a long shot but wat about mirror gallery on the field, phage in the graveyard then you tap Beamtown Bullies?

[@tonysmith9905]

Why would mirror box remove the "non-legendary" clause from his effect?

[@asvp_merkk_4306]

I meant Mirror Gallery. Mirror box would be if Phage was on my field

[@zealot246]

@@asvp_merkk_4306 you don't know what the legend rule is

[@tonysmith9905]

@@asvp_merkk_4306 Mirror Gallery doesn't do any thing. The creature remains a legendary permanent even with either effect. Still can't be targeted by the commander.

[@redenreburiano4]

That Phage and Malfegor plays would be so cherry, if it weren't for Beamtown Bullies looking for 'non-legendary' creatures. Sorry, Mitch.

[@meaningfulmax9351]

“Eater of Days”, more like “Eater of Games” 😂

[@TheDylls]

As an Edgar Markov player: "Oh, so Eminence was actually FAIR?" lmao

[@takensteak4485]

Im confused on the counterplay to this card, if u have a graveyard tutor and any card that makes u lose your lubrary you just lose on turn 4

[@BlueGriffin20]

A less mean card would be bronze bombshell. They don’t get the attack, but they do take 7 damage.

[@claycampbell7831]

Unless you combine it with thornbite staff on Beamtown Bullies and kill any single opponent on the spot.

[@DxShadow7]

Soulgorger Orgg and any way to deal 1 damage to a player is a good combo

[@SpenkerHatesGhostNotes]

Soulgorger + Lightning Bolt

[@nickdemunguia1107]

So what about Leveler? Meanest thing I can think of to give to someone else.

[@MxPinky]

Falco spara seems really good as well, especially if your creature you target with a counter has no costs, than you get free cards!??

[@MxPinky]

Specifically spells

[@Hashbrown1682]

So who chooses the creature? Beamtowns owner/controller or the opponent?

[@kabirguha8517]

i mean have you considered activating it on someone else's draw phase with nothing but a leveller in your grave ? :3

[@helhal]

Blame Eddie are we? Don't feel accountable are we? Don't want to take responsibilities are we?

[@lobo9481]

Imagine using eater of days make them skip two turns then homeward path it back to your self sacrifice it somehow and later do the same thing rofl 😆

[@Trokee]

Phage the Untouchable would be great for this!!!!!

[@astuteanansi4935]

*"nonlegendary"*

[@Trokee]

@@astuteanansi4935 ah yes łøł I got the big dumb thank you.

[@joshmoorash5162]

Id add master of cruelties to this list for more fun

[@ValhallaLad]

I thought Eddie crashed the intro and was impersonating you 😂

[@tristanball8621]

So does the opponent get to choose the creature or does the player controlling the bullies get to choose what creature to give

[@fearjunkie]

Beamtown Bullies sing this song, doo dah~ doo dah~

[@mingrael4407]

Laughing in Leveler 😈

[@thatis202]

Does the opponent pick which creature they get onto their side of the field?

[@rahminh]

What about phage the untouchable? Will that make your opponent lose on the spot?

[@cryptonyzer8699]

No it is legendary you can't reanimated it

[@larryluv8879]

I agree with a lot of other people the LEVELER would be nasty

[@g.mendes0482]

Geez, I can barely hear you... THANKS A LOT EDDIE!!

[@justinb845]

Rakdos the defiler would be dirty

[@Phavahg]

Man, that is some awkward card text. That card's gonna be fun to play though!

[@a_angry_bunny]

Wouldn't it be funny to give people Norin the Wary?

[@philiporvis6745]

so what about Bronze Bombshell?

[@ih8thelaw]

Would this work with inverter of truth?

[@godspeedhero3671]

Honestly, most games of commander won't include this card. That''s the issue with cards like this. The only people who will really embrace it at their table are either A) cEDH players, B) Very High Power Players, and C) Toxic Players. There really isn't much space for the card as a commander which is sad cause this is an awesome card.

[@tonysmith9905]

Um...no? Giving your opponents creatures from your yard, then exiling it after is definitely not abuseable in high powered edh. All the best cards do POSITIVE things when they etb, why would you want to give those effects to the bad guys? This card's only home is in casual battle cruiser edh.

[@codyfletcher9573]

Is there a link to this decklist?

[@PeyTons-O-fun]

10x more excited about this then the demon dragon

[@itstoad5779]

*Eternal Scourge has entered the chat*

[@trav3rsy]

This one is also Eddie’s fault

[@ranuuki_sempai9297]

You get a Craterhoof Behemoth, (destroy it) and you get a Craterhoof Behemoth, (destroy it) and you get a Craterhoof Behemoth, (destroy it) and you get a Craterhoof Behemoth, (destroy it) and you get a Craterhoof Behemoth, (destroy it) and you get a Craterhoof Behemoth, ...ETC...

[@OGTahoe3]

Craterhoof may be goaded but other creatures aren't. So you may get yourself killed

[@ranuuki_sempai9297]

@@OGTahoe3 is a joke, it is not intended to be either, accurate or reasonable...

[@TeamCardgaming]

Giving People Leveler from your graveyard xD

[@TeamCardgaming]

Also Goading synergies...

[@thecanadian5428]

Loved the video