We Play Weird Decks! | Game Knights 75 | Magic: The Gathering EDH Commander Gameplay

[@colini6643]

Table's reaction: whenever Jimmy ramps in a commander game: "He has more mana than he's supposed to have; he's a huge threat!!" whenever someone else ramps: "just another normal commander game" whenever Jimmy misses land drops: "just another normal commander game; I'm going to swing at you" whenever someone else misses land drops: "I feel bad for you, so I won't attack you"

[@FroggyBunwich]

This was something I only started noticing recently, but yeah they really go after Jimmy for playing Magic

[@GermanGoodGuy]

Nobody likes the red player. I learned that recently when I played a Dragon's Approach Deck. The hate extended into the next two games. Even after changing Decks.

[@smoothpoon86]

@@GermanGoodGuyI just recently built one of those with Niv-Mizzet, I call it “the middle finger”.

[@inthestateofdelirium]

Yeah this has always bothered me about Game knights, everyone just shits on Jimmy. Like even after they eliminate his threat, they still kick him when he's down. Aaaand just ignore Josh as he builds up his engine.

[@discosludge]

Okay huge shout out to the editors for animating that Fall From Favor onto Orthion, that actually dropped my jaw. Y'all are the best in the biz.

[@rossjamestobitt]

That was the highlight for me as well. Imagine if we had a videogame that could combine cards and their effects like that.

[@darthmilo1833]

lmao i was just scrolling down to the comments to congrat them then i saw ur comment, yeah that was insane lol

[@HudsonWislerYT]

Truly

[@meant09]

The Smaug animation was epic! Even though jimmy lost I know he will never forget making so many smaugs on one turn.

[@hyperam4594]

Video starts 4:17

[@JazzOfTheStinson]

Thank you very much for the skip button

[@kalebkaboom4901]

Luv u

[@hyperam4594]

@@kalebkaboom4901 Welcome to Costco

[@troonlegend8317]

Yall yap too much start the episode instead of selling us stuff

[@Mytosa]

7:07*

[@Lazydino59]

These decks are about as weird as seeing snow in December

[@whatever2045]

Don't flex on us hot climate dwellers

[@edenchen523]

I don't even live somewhere especially hot but there's still no snow yet

[@Akoops1339]

Weird doesn't mean unviable/boring. It needs to be good content still. Besides it was made by patreons

[@fletchindary2191]

Florida doesn't get snow

[@Lazydino59]

@ okay sure but these were completely normal decks you could see at any lgs and are not particularly unique. You can have a viable and weird deck I have many

[@eliamagri7413]

Mono red copy etb, a goodstuff monarch theme deck, a... tymna jeska beatdown deck and a golgari graveyard deck... they are all spicy and fun but far from being strange

[@zodiac3981]

Agreed. I was imagining they were going to use commanders that have underwhelming abilities but can be used in very specific ways, such as blind seer or norin, or seeing commonly used decks than win in ways that you would not expect, such as a go shintai deck that wants to tutor omniscience to the graveyard and use it to play draw spell after draw spell.

[@thomaspetrucka9173]

Yeah. Either needed to use a different word, or to choose different decks.

[@shadewalkerlarp]

Editors, thanks you so much for all your hard work this year and especially for the amount of animations you did on this episode!

[@drrockd9460]

10:48 Rachel really said “Jimmy’s mono red, but I’m doing the burning” 😅

[@suddenbigfoot]

I love how Josh suddenly has a crown on at 18:55

[@JC_Hope]

I noticed that too. Must be an editing error. It happens when filming a complex game like MtG. 😊

[@cxlys2249]

> "weird decks" > looks inside > tymna/jeska and kenrith

[@kishibelunatik]

Yeah was thinking about it. Like ok at least its like an only odds and only monarch deck. but like, there are some way more unique commander than cedh gigachads

[@chrisgebben2043]

true but that was until the tynma deck was actually a obosh companion deck, and kennrith is monarch matters

[@GrayVMhan]

Commander and deck are two different things, odd decks do not require odd commanders

[@andersrolig]

The Tymna/Jeska deck is odd 🥴

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

Very cool to see decks built by the patreons. I liked seeing them introduce and explain the decks they built. Jimmy getting mono red is always nice to see. Looking forward to some crazy gameplay.

[@havendavis4318]

ngl these feel like a solid 5 on the weird scale give me like Zar Ojanen Scion of Efrava selesnya domain to abuse thopter squadron and the like

[@thomaspetrucka9173]

5 is right in the middle, so...not weird at all? 😅

[@taurincochran3398]

"Build a statue in my honor, I am deceased." My favorite line. Thank you, Olivia.😂

[@thebushido]

So proud to see my boy Varolz get his time in the spot light. He was my first commander deck and I have been dreaming of new art for him, hopefully he gets a Full art/cool treatment soon!

[@shaggyspykedup]

Dude same! It was my first commander deck I ever built and I love how they got caught off guard completely haha

[@jaywinner328]

Jimmy: Look at that, I made my land drops this game. Although it was with a deck somebody else built... must be the curse.

[@ReaperoftheRisingSun]

I had a similar idea where you had to do the opposite of the color. Red can't have haste or anything under 2 cmc Blue can't draw cards or counterspell Green can't ramp or have anything over 6/6 White can't gain life or protect anything And Black can't lose their own life or sacrifice their own stuff.

[@DouglasKenonIII-qn4dc]

43:53 is the funniest part of the video😂

[@thebobbybabbitt7703]

“No” 😂😂😂

[@kevinlin92]

It's good to see Olivia return! Almost everyone got a chance to pop off at some point this game.

[@kevinthecarpathian]

I don't understand why Jimmy sac'd the OG Smaug instead of Cursed Mirror but still an insane turn

[@snowmanO07]

Agreed, big miss play imo. Who needs a mana rock instead of a blocker when he has 77 treasures? Then that dragon could die later and get him an additional 14 treasures…..

[@Chimeraiam]

They picked what they picked, but these can’t possibly have been the most unique decks submitted. These were all mid-level cooks at best

[@mattlawton11]

Olivia: "Jimmy has 2 cards in hand. They could be anything." Me: "It could be a boat!"

[@grantmurdock7385]

Olivia more likely to actually play a boat in a given game though.

[@diegoferrer915]

Dammmm!!! This episode has crazy animations, my congratulations to the animators and editors you better be proud of it

[@chrisgebben2043]

I'm definitely all in favor of doing this as a new staple in game knights of playing fan decks it allows fun decks to be seen and show amazing decks made by fans, and i know its good because mtggoldfish and starcitygames commander does fan made decks and those episodes have always been a blast. and this was a amazing gameplay episode as well 35:44. That's surprising?! ITS TYNMA! i've seen her decks get that high in cards

[@miguelfreitas5343]

Cool concept, but apart from Rachel's I don't think any of these decks were all that weird/unique... 😅

[@chrisgebben2043]

blieve me i understand orthion is a theme built and the previous commander was kiki jiki one was obosh companion so thats the safest commander to do obosh with and some people have done monrach matters but typically with either kennrith or marchesa

[@potatodavid1987]

Dat Second Terror of the Peaks Animation 😂

[@TheyCallMeDio]

The animation budget was crazy there

[@NerdOnThePodcast]

Anyone notice the monarch hat on Josh before he played Marchesa at 18:56?

[@FroggyBunwich]

I hope you guys can get Ladee back soon! This crowd was great though. However these decks don't feel that weird

[@cleetusi9559]

I was screaming at what Jimmy pulled off with Smaug!! Worthy of Smaug himself! What a combo in that deck!

[@billbixby1404]

Shoutout to Titusville, Florida. Way to go Travis!

[@yurigodoy93]

Nice game, great decks... But these decks are nor WEIRD. The weirdest one is Kenrith monarch, the others are just... Normal decks. I have a friend that has a Varolz deck and run the same cards in his build.

[@Progerard-uk8ix]

I love being early on a commmand zone gameknights. Always nice

[@mattaconda77]

This is a fantastic edition to Game Knights and should be added more regularly. Seeing the reactions to plays the knights wouldn’t normally think of or see was a lot of fun to watch. Great game!

[@samuelmcconkie6500]

Editors popped off this episode

[@JeeheeDelta]

I need moistcritkal as a guest one of these episodes

[@wesleymilligan7131]

And oddonesout and shady penguin

[@hans.m.j]

And Matt mercer

[@paradoxdungeon]

we need critikal on game knights lol

[@Tuturial464]

No moist critikal

[@matteobagni1235]

He's not at their play level, or fun level. 😅

[@timothyboland1048]

Great idea, but would have loved to see more strangeness here.

[@DranzerG3]

Ooo fanmade decks are always gonna be interesting. Haven't seen the game yet but my money is on Orthion winning. It's not like Jimmy's ever lost with mono-red on Game Knights

[@Th3Rad10D3m0m]

He’s actually won with mono-red before, remember Magda

[@Dragon_Fyre]

@@Th3Rad10D3m0m He just loses when he keeps missing land drops. So yeah, there was at least one win 😇

[@jaimesalazar469]

Dryard of the illusion grove lives rent free in a lot of heads that is why he drops extra lands 😆

[@vitchb.2463]

Such a nice idea this episode was, patreon decks are a nice way to make patreon more worth it and it's really unique and interesting to watch

[@tigergod1328]

I’m so happy Olivia is back on the screens Yay 😁

[@martaneon5310]

This felt like an old school episode in the best ways possible

[@xxkaizenxx4594]

Okay, that Varolz deck sounds pretty sweet.

[@sorret]

I gotta say, if I had my stuff destroyed, my hand targeted AND got attacked all by the same person in the same turn I’d declare a Blood Feud.

[@snowmanO07]

She honestly miss played pretty bad…TARGET player reveals their had, why pick the guy with two cards and a locked down commander? Reveal Josh or Rachel’s hand

[@schwindelier1449]

Time to be the "Ummm you didn't see this play guy": Josh had an out at the last turns of the game. If he changed his blue court to one of the mana rocks, he could have enough mana to replay Kenrith and reanimate Jimmy's Meteor Golem to target Varolz, which would make Rachel sacrifice a creature to save him but tapping it in the process, removing two attackers. And making a deal to attack Josh with the golem to keep reanimating it until necessary. Sorry guys, I enjoy playing Kenrith because of situations like these

[@Pishcott85]

Holly Smaug.... 77 treasures? It's for all the lands he misses in the games for sure....

[@orangetuxedoman]

Anyone remember "Olivia's deck is probably the strongest."

[@DROSTAR123]

I thought yall were doing weird tribal? Not a single weird creature!

[@PangoriaFallstar]

Josh.... re cast Kenrith, and use his last ability to reanimate Meteor Golem for Jimmy, and you might even have enough mana to heal yourself up too....

[@HinduGangsta]

Channukah usually has some blue

[@BsRascaL]

amazing episode!! that was super fun to watch. Olivia is a fun guest.

[@Dragon_Fyre]

@@BsRascaL Commander at Home is great, except when they get too distracted. They had a game recently where I think Olivia spent like 20 minutes searching her deck for a card while Brian and CGB gave a Ted talk about the entire history of banned cards in MTG.

[@BsRascaL]

@ especially when they get distracted. FIFY

[@thomaspetrucka9173]

Everyone: "Wow! So great!" The Jank Players: THIS is WEIRD!?!?

[@finks1]

So looking at the Golgari deck list I’ve figured out what makes it weird. It looks like it hasn’t been “upgraded” since Ikoria. In this day and age that is weird. Heck it has a Spiritmonger in it! I may build it just because of that!!

[@matthewdedman8131]

Just finished the latest commander at home video and now game knights with olivia. Its a good day.

[@JohnyNoToes]

What a fun game, love having creative decks involved!!

[@mai9280]

This is probably one the best new vids I've seen from this channel. I love.

[@stephenbradford8524]

Varolz has long been on my list of decks to try and build. Glad to see it in action. Looks pretty sweet.

[@neroflame13]

dear editor(s) ya'll are awesome. ty for your amazing work.

[@ovelhadogelo]

I enjoyed the premise of "playing people's decklists". I hope we have more of that, eventually. 👀

[@Russian_engineer_bmstu]

Red etb has existed for as long as Kiki jiki existed lol

[@Kvalln]

None of these seem particularly weird at all

[@Matisyahuwu]

"Where are your walls Josh? Because now I'm in them" - Rachel, probably

[@SamanthaIsTyping]

12:09 Rachel didn't need to add "here." Mirri is just awesome, full stop.

[@DrakeF.]

What a fantastic episode. Congrats to the deck makers, they really seemed fun. 🎉 - and always loving to see Rachel

[@Matisyahuwu]

Shout out to Olivia's glasses for holding up the crown because it was little to big for her head lol

[@Lootprechaun]

I haven't been playing Varolz since Dragon's Maze came out! This is really cool to see! I have had my deck for so long and it's my baby. Thank you but also how dare you for showing it off lol.

[@hrokur2334]

So happy to see a varolz deck becurse he is so underrate but also becurse he if one of the first commanders I ever build and he is so much fun

[@austinbrown2833]

As someone with a Orthion hero of lavabrink deck this was pretty cool too see!

[@xTobsecretx]

In what world is Dryad of the Ilysian Grove a dad bod?!

[@orangetuxedoman]

The card kingdom affiliate link is my actual Card Kingdom bookmark. I'm always using it too!

[@thriftypsgr]

26:50 holy crap this is amazing

[@bkyang624]

The biggest mistake everyone always makes is letting Rachel lay low. I love that strategy though!

[@Derailian]

I don't know if you saw this; But Josh could have reanimated Jimmy's meteor golem at instant speed to stop Varloz from attacking. Would have bought a lot of time.

[@WayneyMTG]

Guys these animations are insane!!! You got a great team behind ya, awesome game, love the decks 🫶🏼

[@TAJSAllDay]

I forgot that they just made smaug a drawing in a book instead of an actual dragon image... pain.

[@brettstenson]

Hyped to see Adam's mono-red deck get chosen, we play magic together weekly

[@XTempestBuster]

This was an awesome episode Maybe i can submit my ramos energy list for them next time!

[@hanschristopherson8056]

Great video idea, glad it finally happened!

[@Areopagus]

This seem pretty standard casual decks. Goes to show you how detached from reality TCZ is.

[@Crimm323]

I like where its homebrew decks more then precons.

[@IVSAGTN]

The jimmy smug turn cycle its like the Darws and the Mountain they fall in the gold and riches but it become his doom

[@tonycharrin7524]

JLK doing a Borat impression is not something I expected to see in 2024.

[@mattlawton11]

I mean this with the most respect and adoration, but is it just me or did Rachel sound like Bane from Harley Quinn/Kiteman for a second at 42:19?

[@Gliscorsbounty]

Varolz was one of my first commanders i love him

[@PapaBlach]

Saw valroz in the command zone. I love him. Has to watch

[@joshuacarr333]

Gameknights days are good days ✨

[@EvolutionSTUD10S]

Skip to Intro: 4:16

[@WolfsGoRawr]

07:32 so satisfying.

[@angelopaulovelasco2981]

Seems like an extra turns episode with more animations

[@Zip_yermouth]

Doninik Mayer playmate all around? Nice

[@vilk8889]

Haven't watched yet saw title and thumbnail and saw olvia and thought omg this her wheel house her vehicle piloting vehicles deck came to mind

[@paine2631]

damn these game knights playmats with art from Dominik Mayer are incredibles, where can I get one!!??

[@jeremyv3470]

I have done the Orthion Smuag trick before and it unfortunately ended just like Jimmy's... With nothing to do with all the treasure in the world. But then again, Smuag sat on his treasure as well.

[@snowmanO07]

Also weird that he kept the mana rock instead of a token 6/6. What good is a rock when you have 77 treasures? Also, it can then die later and give him an additional 14 treasures.

[@PowerPunkGirl17]

prowler's helm was nice tech! its like pseudo unblockable cause barely anyone plays walls lol

[@PhyrexianPraetor]

That kenrith animation might be my favorite ever?

[@blackermarket123]

When the crown appears.

[@benso309]

What a very nice concept, great players and great deck. Hope to see you all same players again.. josh jimmy olivia and rachel

[@bashlindsay7618]

I didn't know we were supposed to send in decklists for a Game Knights episode. When were we supposed to do that?

[@TAYDEN_BACCAM]

It might’ve been something they asked for on their discord.

[@bashlindsay7618]

@@TAYDEN_BACCAM like which would that be under because I can't find that

[@Natedogg2]

Fairly certain that's only available at a certain tier of their Patreon (the "Hero" tier lets you submit decklists).

[@JeffreyWhisman]

Those playmats are fire!

[@SchemingGuide]

Nobody played Gollum Scheming Guide😔😞

[@TXtriple6]

So cool. Please do it again!

[@DouglasKenonIII-qn4dc]

When they destroyed the 77 treasure tokens 🤣🤣 Poor Jimmy