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[@commandcast]

What did you think about the Commanders precons? Are you excited about any of the cards in particular? Are there any Commanders you’re excited to build?

[@Embxr]

Great set but it’s horribly priced, personally am excited to stay away from commander masters lol

[@haldir1991]

@@Embxr they sould feel fucking ashamed of themselves, selling cards this price ! they really see us as wallets !

[@brettjohnson4321]

The new 3 slivers, and the planeswalker tech. The decks are too expensive for what I get since I have all the slivers already and I want a 5 color walker deck.

[@mikebutler9356]

Can't wait for the rest of your reviews and upgrades 🎉

[@connorburke512]

Yes the colorless deck I am excited about it is going to be super fun I can't wait to get it honestly and I think darksteel monolith is slept on honestly

[@SirPuncake]

Quick correction on the Ondu Spirit Dancer + Anointed Procession/Doubling Season/Parallel Lives interaction. You wouldn't get 4 of your next enchantment. *YOU'D GET 9* The enchantment hits the battlefield. That's one. Then Ondu triggers and wants to create a token copy. But you have 3 layers of token doublers, so you don't get one token, not two, not four but EIGHT. Plus the non token one you cast makes nine. Stacking token doublers is ridiculously stupid and I'm all for it. PS: Those nine Nyxbloom Ancients would make every mana source tap for 19.683x mana

[@doomofthedestiny8065]

Rachel: "it's gonna be a quick one" Me: [looks at video length]

[@sulakkalus]

I’d like to see if Boon of the Spirit realm synergizes with planeswalker Niko, who creates enchantment tokens. Your creatures basically get +x/+x when you play Niko with it out.

[@tattooman3603]

Should work perfectly since the tokens ARE enchantments "entering" the battlefield. Doesn't mention casting, just entering, so there should be synergy. Good call on this one. I've been looking for more homes for Niko Aris, but it's tough with the white/blue vs. white/green mana of Niko.

[@maguszanin5296]

The Archaic works with the ozilith when adding counters to it because it will generate two triggers to add X counters. But it actually doesn't work when moving the counters off of it to a creature, because it actually moves them in that case, meaning there are no counters to move the second time. The two abilities actually work in completely different ways. They are both copyable, however copying the second one doesn't actually do anything because it works differently.

[@JasonOshinko]

122.5. If an effect says to “move” a counter, it means to remove that counter from the object it’s currently on and put it onto a second object. If either of these actions isn’t possible, it’s not possible to move a counter, and no counter is removed from or put onto anything. This may occur if the first and second objects are the same object; if the first object doesn’t have the appropriate kind of counter on it; if the second object can’t have counters put onto it; or if either object is no longer in the correct zone.

[@KuyaChris633]

Jordan is very close about the old Planeswalker rule where “only one can exist on the battlefield” but actually, the way they used to work was if someone played one with the same type (ex. Chandra) already on the battlefield, both would actually die. It was a common practice to include Jace Beleren in decks as an “easy” answer (known as “legend ruling”) to resolved Jace, the Mind Sculptors because of how powerful the latter was in standard before it got banned in the format.

[@therealax6]

I thought it was like the world rule, where the last one survives and the rest die. (The world rule applies to World permanents, which are almost unheard of...)

[@ronniewells5231]

With 3 Anointed Procession out doesn't Ondu Spiritdancer make 8 copies of the next enchantment, not 4?

[@Space_Invader618]

I love these two on a podcast episode. They have great humor.

[@maidenless_tarnished]

1:20:16 notably Nesting Ground can't be used in the manner that is mentioned because as she mentions right before it that it can only be used at sorcery speed

[@Phe0nix1986]

You two chuckling away to enchanted evening was a joy. Everybody should be like that.

[@kats7930]

I love you guys! First vid I seen of yours and I'm insta-subscribed. Informative AND amusing, thank you!

[@trumpets101]

1:29:59 Just want to chime in and mention that Forge of Heroes is not a good include for Omarthis. I mean, sure it'll add a counter on Omarthis the turn it enters to benefit its last ability. However, Forge of Heroes will not be able to put a counter on any other creature in your deck because it specifically says "target commander".

[@yoda9240]

I built a Leori deck around cloning a planeswalker, either Chandra, Guff, Will, or Rowan. I've played a few games with it and my current record is 55,295 Chandras on board.

[@serafimb2319]

Does narci really work with the flip-praetors? You already the first line doesn't trigger since you don't sacrifice those sagas. But the second line is about the Saga's mana value, and doesn't that equal zero? Or does it check the front side?

[@semicolon_cancer1243]

You got there, it does count the front side for the mana value.

[@serafimb2319]

@@semicolon_cancer1243 thank you

[@Whiskyandrock]

Altar is even better in the omarithis deck since the manifest cards are 2/2 and it mills equal to the creature's power. If you made 15 2/2's by sacrificing your commander then sacrificed the 2/2's you'd mill someone for 75 total. 15 + 60

[@TheEndlesswaltz07]

Would Abstruse Archaic actually be able to double the number of counters from the Ozolith's second ability since that one specifically says to move the counters as opposed to the first one putting the counters on it?

[@alleycatlordoflunes9689]

the second sequence moves no counters. But it does copy the ability. So first you move the available counters then you get the trigger again. If in the meantime you put more counters on the Ozolith before resolving the second trigger it would move those too. But you are correct it wouldn't necessarily double any counters. It would provide a different sequence though.

[@zacherickson4551]

Rise of the Eldrazi goes nuts in my Magar of the Magic Strings deck. It might be the best card to get into the graveyard and reanimate

[@samspires]

I like the idea of rukarumel to make sliver gods tribal

[@nobodyworthy897]

Little surprised y'all didn't talk about Enchanted Evening when you were talking about Boon of the Spirit Realm. For those of you who don't know, Enchanted Evening turns all your permanents into enchantments in addition to their other types... which means any permanent you put on the battlefield would trigger Boon of the Spirit Realm.

[@cyriltournier]

They talked about the interaction later on when they came back to enchantment combos.

[@nobodyworthy897]

@@cyriltournier yes, I'm aware, I just would have liked it gone over with BotSR as it came first.

[@levihamer8851]

Blue titan seems pretty strong in locust god

[@persephone9360]

What do you guys think, any chance this eldrazi deck will ever be available again close to MSRP? $140 bucks is I'd rather kms

[@bnbnews7907]

Love u so much rachelllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!. Keep it up!!!!. Hugs from Manila 🇵🇭 ❤❤❤❤❤

[@bobby45825]

"Rise of the Eldrazi" just instantly slots into pure colorless eldrazi tribal decks. Even apart of the flavor, the deck just has a LOT of filler and chaff in the deck and this is honestly just better than so many other options they have. Colorless doesn't exactly get that many options.

[@nickchaput219]

I like guff rewrites hiatory in my Atla Palani deck

[@frozentyphoon2049]

Man, myriad and constellation is nuts with enchantment creatures

[@nickchaput219]

Titan of Litttjara going in my Talrand deck name drake

[@WingsofSilver_Tsuba69]

Soooo... actually what is the deal with the intro? The heck is elder dragon highlander 😅

[@Trance2400]

Nice, sane MTG content creators that recognise that Titan of Littjara is powerful. The Professor was all over For the Ancestors, a card that is often worse than a Harmonize.

[@JordanPridgen]

Yeah I was pretty surprised at how low the odds were of that card being good when I messed around with the hypergeometric calculator for a bit. The best-case-scenario for a card can sometimes make the actual ev seem better than it is.

[@enriquemeza5291]

Ultra pro sleeves are terrible.

[@firekracker92]

Another great synergy with abstruse archaic is lithoform engine. Lithoform engine allows you to target colored stuff but you copy the lithoform trigger which is in itself colorless

[@sideburnz711]

Along the same ish lines why not turn everything colorless with Mycosynth Lattice

[@radhaz01]

Machine Gods Effigy will do that as well with whatever you copy if it has triggered effects.

[@hanschristopherson8056]

Archaic is a card I think would see a lot more play like 5 years ago, today I think people want to play less generic cards

[@ryanwillson2751]

There's some niche combos to make it qwerky. I went to Illusionist's Bracers for triple triggers

[@alleycatlordoflunes9689]

That would save mana I guess. But since Archaic is a creature, just use staff of domination with another object that makes mana in the sequence, and it goes on for endless copies. Why limit yourself to just 1.

[@movingtriangle8527]

Ugin's Mastery is going to be such a great boon to my Kadena deck. Even if it wasn't covered in this video, I can't wait for it

[@thebrentster2563]

Morph decks unite! There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

[@movingtriangle8527]

@@thebrentster2563 I dread the day we get new morphs and we have to do REAL work in making changes

[@thebrentster2563]

@@movingtriangle8527 I feel ya man. Even with my madness deck, I wonder when I'll have enough good options to actually critically think what's going into my deck instead of just taking what I can get. I'm still crossing my fingers that we'll get more love for less-popular mechanics!

[@davidcrain453]

Racheal and crew are great but yes I miss the fellas....

[@acsmars]

A quick 2 hours...

[@savannahlion3081]

and 16 min..... 😅😂🤣😁

[@benjaminwileman4771]

​@@savannahlion3081and 18 seconds 😅

[@edgardoacosta2646]

20% of the video is worth watching. Aything else is just wasting time.

[@Tyler-bw3fd]

Yep. This video, sleep and work is only 72% of your day unless you're homeless and don't work and spend all your money on magic the. It's only 45% of your day. Me personally I got things to do so I fall asleep to this video and only get about 20+30 minutes in before I have to sleep for work tomorrow

[@TelesphoreArt]

How nice would it be to have this edited down to a 10 minute video. I’m not watching this. 😂

[@EmperorNorton668]

My goal is to cast Rise of the Eldrazi on turn 3 in my Belbe deck.

[@theodorheidhues2566]

I know this is a commander podcast but bonus is such a new oathbreaker staples

[@dawsonstubblefield9676]

46:30 "Casual Winota" LOL...

[@nathanw4692]

Jumbo Shrimp.

[@nickchaput219]

Composer of spring is straight busted

[@zehmyan]

I've got so many overflow Slivers I'm definitely making Slivers/Tyranid hybrid deck. SO thematic! A lot of these Enchantress bits are going to help elevate my Tom Bombadil build... and I've been setting aside Eldrazi and Planeswalkers cards for years. These Precons are the last parts I'll need for all those decks, but none of them will look close to the precons by the end of this week.

[@lukegreen4401]

Omarthis is broken in a Denry Klin deck. First, Denry puts tons of counters on Omarthis. Then Denry puts that many counters on each of the manifested creatures when Omarthis dies.

[@tommygilfert]

Some of these commanders are crazy

[@Loki-]

23:39 I watch from a projector sometimes and this specific background in the top left corner always creeps me out and I forgot about it everytime lol. I always wonder if it's dust or a spiderweb and I get progressively spooked out until I realize it's the background! 🤣

[@alexanderforbes1452]

There are 18 different Chandras? Alright, they need to kill her off already, I'm officially sick of this character.

[@ravenjoybower]

One thing it feels like they didn’t really talk about with Ondu Spiritdancer is the “once per turn” part, so trying to play an enchantment every turn. There’s some that naturally have flash (like the Omens), or there’s a couple of ways to give your spells flash.

[@STS-qi1qy]

Vronos ult lore: In his travels he became an etherium shaper and used etherium constructs in his fateful battle with Garruk.

[@Mythinspace]

Rise of Eldrazi is good because of the cascade cascade with the Commander.

[@StretchyPlays]

I think Rise of the Eldrazi, while obviously not as good as Expropriate, is pretty damn good. The triple colorless is the biggest problem, as a lot of decks can't reliably make that, but resolving one is going to put you so far ahead. It's an extra turn spell that I wouldn't mind too much being played against me since it is so expensive and not repeatable.

[@Aqua19858]

It's also, ya know... colorless? I don't understand the point of comparing a colorless extra turn spell to blue extra turn spells. The reason why it's so expensive is because you can put it in *any* deck, regardless of color.

[@zeronaught8990]

Rachel: "it's gonna be a quick one" *2 hours later*

[@QuizzzTimezzz]

I miss Josh and Jimmy together! But great episode anyway.

[@yanjia1777]

Typal?

[@Oopsall]

Yes, used to be tribal, Wizards made a small adjustment after discussing with cultural consultants

[@yanjia1777]

@@Oopsall clearly u don’t understand that was meant to mock this stupid change

[@Oopsall]

@@yanjia1777 clearly you don’t understand how pathetic it is to get mad over such a small change.

[@yanjia1777]

@@Oopsall no no u are absolute correct! Look at those stupid people getting mad over the word “tribal” am I right?

[@wolfyace5150]

I feel the ball was dropped hard with coverage of Omarthis, the problem with most of the things mentioned is that if you ignore his manifest then you building a big boi that when he dies just makes 2/2 and mills you cause most creatures mentioned were 0/0 and when flipped don’t enter . Like its an okay strat but didnt mention like top deck manipulation no sneaky plays like attacking with 3 face down cards to then flip b4 dmg into the likes of Blightsteel no silly flips like Leveler or the 1 mana 12/12 to get around there bad etbs

[@ninjaatnight4]

I love superfriends so excited

[@ingolf82]

for me, this Chandra is a "win more" card. it is only good if you are already winning (have 3-4 walkers out already). composer of Spring is pretty sweet. it's a very good thing Leori isn't green. imagine blinking Oko over and over and you turn everything into elks. Titan of Littjara is powerful for tribal decks

[@hanschristopherson8056]

Titan of littjara is wild in miirym because it gets copied

[@JNB6037]

I’m so excited for Titan of Littjara in Minn, Wily Illusionist and making an Omarthis deck

[@Gorrgrim]

Isn't it just great magic released the most busted cards of all time so that we may purchase them and make our friends or lgs players feel like they can't play magic anymore :D

[@AtlRopeGuy]

Think y’all might be misunderstanding sagas and how they sacrifice, in some of this advice.

[@juanpedrofranco2322]

Anointed procession + Ondu Spiritdancer --> 8 copies of any other enchantment you cast afterwards

[@Herbasaurusrexx]

Archaic in my Ur dragon is gonna go nuts

[@khidirkarawitah2539]

Typal

[@Oopsall]

Wizards R&D have been using typal after discussing with several cultural consultants.

[@khidirkarawitah2539]

@@Oopsall that's amazing who did they consult

[@Ominous39061]

It seems like Abstruse Archaic would go pretty well with Sword of Hearth and Home.

[@tommieboi707]

Can't wait to get home from work, grab some dinner and watch this entire episode! Guess I have to watch some while working haha!

[@abrahamdrinkin2534]

Only people that live on Twitter say Typal

[@Oopsall]

Wizards R&D have been using typal after discussing with several cultural consultants.

[@abrahamdrinkin2534]

@@Oopsall And I’m sure these consultants have very respectable degrees that contribute greatly to their field of MakeBadWordsGoAway. Tribal and tribalism are a deep part of humanity’s evolution. Dividing creatures this way is natural nomenclature.

[@jimharris5320]

lol 'typal'

[@Oopsall]

Wizards R&D have been using typal after discussing with several cultural consultants.

[@teresawatson1038]

all i want is new cards personally but i hope that these were the cards people wanted reprinted

[@savannahlion3081]

They will be.... 🤘🦁🤘

[@JasonOshinko]

.....These are new cards.

[@wyattsmith6659]

In the scenario of ondu spiritdancer into anointed procession into parallel lives into nyxbloom, youre looking at your lands tapping for 1.1529 x 10^18th? So like 1,152,900,000,000,000,000 mana per land?

[@8nykspree]

Fun fact, Guff rewriting history is actually why everything didn't get Phyrexianized the first time during Apocalypse. Bo Levar (him and Guff were my fav Titans and they better make Bo into a card) finds out that Guff knows the outcome of the battle because it is written that Yawgmoth wins. Bo convinces Guff to rewrite history which allows the heroes to defeat the invasion and kill Yawgmoth.

[@nicolasmartin224]

Does the Ozolith copy really works? the card says "put those counters", and not put an equal number of counters... if the counters have been moved, can they be moved a second time? same thing for the second ability (Edit: ok that was explained right after :) )

[@Link71386]

1:53:06 Sliver Overlord: as commander Rukarumel, Biologist: dig in library (name "Wizard") Patron Wizard: get with Overlord (insert evil laugh)

[@ilyaginsburg1888]

Who told you Abstruse Archaic will double counters on Ozolith? The triggered ability reads: "you may move all counters from ~this~ onto target creature. Even if you copy the ability, this will not add extra counters. The second copy of the ability will just see no counters to move.

[@adrianpadalhin854]

Step 1: Play Drannith Magistrate. Step 2: Play Guff Rewrites History. Step 3: Look for a new playgroup who have not yet banned you for being unfun.

[@BradBear95]

Rukarumel makes any creature in the game searchable for Scion of UR Dragon. Now i have 2 OHKOs between skithrix+moltensteel and blightsteel

[@pokedadsam9041]

57:36 yep! And people Used to play “Baby Jace” as a removal spell for JTMS in standard and other formats. The legend rule has seen a few erratas. Going from you couldn’t play it, to if you did play it, they both died instantly, to legend rule only applied for your side, to where we are now lol.

[@MRnobodyoftheeveryb]

One question to omarthis: I play Marchesa, the black rose. Whenever a creature with a counter on it dies it comes back at end of turn. I play a lot of creatures with graft. If omarthis and a graft creature dies they will both come back. Omarthis as a 0/0. The graft creature and omarthis see each other. The graft creature immediately gets counters put on her. Omarthis sees this and gets counters on it. Plus I can chose to get Accounterstellungen grafted on it. Question: Will omarthis die before it gets any counter, either through its own effect of through grafting put onto it?

[@ayties5113]

Ondu Spiritdancer is my new staple card in my Myrkul, Lord of Bones Deck. So if I choose my Commander to make a copy token of a creature dying as an enchantment it will trigger the Spiritdancer when the token will enter the battlefield creating another token. So if he dies, I can get a token of him and then when f.e. a Devoted Druid dies, I can use Myrkul to create a token which then enter as an enchantment what then will trigger the Dancer to create another one. This way I got 2 engines creating me an infinite green Mana (as -1/-1 counters can be put on enchantments as they don't die due to no toughness).

[@BDi321]

City of Death from Dr. Who seems pretty busted with Narci, Fable Singer. Assuming it triggers 5 times? I'm not sure how the rules work when the one ability triggers multiple times and is the last one.

[@alanevans5353]

Boon of the spirit realm would be incredibly good in a Shrine deck. I own a Celestial Ancient, and It's really strong but I don't have it in the deck because I don't want 40 separate tokens to each have all different numbers of counters on them.

[@thebushido]

I would like to add Descendants Fury to my Thraximundar deck. Sacrifice a zombie token, make Thrax bigger and get a good zombie to replace it.

[@fajenthygia5760]

....I really, really want to put Rise of the Eldrazi into God-Eternal Kefnet. The discount is negligible, but casting it two turns in a row?

[@Mattthecricketbat1]

Can someone explain how Abstruse Archaic doubles The Ozolith's counters? Because the Ozolith's doesn't say create new counters, it says move the existing counters. So when you go to resolve the second trigger, there won't be any more counters on the creature to move?

[@imthehuman]

I’m never this early on command zone episodes! I’m psyched to see what y’all have to say about the new set!

[@hellstocker7707]

I don't see why Rise of the Eldrazi seems weak to yall. It can't be countered. To me it says destroy a permanent and draw 4 cards for free, since the turn you play it I look as a "blank turn" before my actual turn.

[@aclevername7613]

Swear with all this support enchantment decks are getting so utterly ridiculous>< I will admit I am not looking for the increase in super freinds decks with the plansewalker support. Have yet to come across a fun super friends deck that does not just drain the fun out of the game.

[@kamikazehansu]

"Slivers too narrow to talk about here." Meanwhile, there's twice as much Slivers in comparison too Narci/Abzan Sagas.

[@shumagorath1751]

rukarumel is great because it lets you make any creatures into a sliver deck or the ability to slip slivers into other tribals for bonuses. Don't forget this bitch goes wild with intruder alarm, but mom I want sliver queen... We got sliver queen at home.

[@UnreasonableOpinions]

Darksteel Monolith is a standout in Heliod, Warped Eclipse - he has the setup for it with many spells letting you drop it for free as well as the payoff of letting you do so four times a cycle. Plus that deck is already stuffed with expensive colourless spells to exploit his wheels

[@PuTeee89]

i don't think that chandra is great. you don't need her to win and her abilities are only good if you are probably winning anyway (when you got lots of pw). even then, it's not crazy to impulse draw a lot or to make 4 or 5 red

[@michaelwardle7633]

Mistform Mutant with Descendants Fury can essentially turn any unblocked creature into targeted tutor plays in a non-tribal deck. Goofy to start but gross if it works.

[@MegaBsterling]

Very wrong about ozolith, ozolith says "move" the counters on it, not "put X counters on it where X equals the number of counters on the creature that died". So you copy the trigger, the first trigger resolves, and then there are no more counters on the ozolith to move.

[@narvuntien]

Descendants Fury with Zirilian of the Claw, sac my dragon that would otherwise be exile and put a different dragon onto the battlefield

[@aclevername7613]

Abstruse archaic I see honestly becoming a core part of a infinite combo deck and is overall just a busted card design for the sheer amount of things it can abuse.

[@billhayes3219]

Rukarumel the Dragon's Approach deck! Drop the biggest bombs you own onto the board!

[@SuperVancleave]

Are they saying "Tibal" instead of "Tribal" ? Is there a joke I'm missing....

[@jacquesdespadas]

1:20:16 You can’t use Nesting Ground to response to the final chapter as described because of the “only as a sorcery” clause.

[@devon0711]

Might stone and weak stone must have blue and white in the identity due to the back side. So it can't go in colorless decks.

[@alexanderoneill3018]

Enchanted Evening + Composer of Spring? Bonus points for other constellation effects

[@danlong3050]

Darksteel Monolith doesn't "cheat" a card into play. It CASTS the card for zero. This enables the cast triggers to work. Cards cheated into play don't get the cast trigger, which is why Eldrazi decks don't run the "cheat" cards.

[@danlong3050]

Ah, they did figure it out

[@taylorsamuelson934]

you 100% can play chandra legacy of fire in a ghyrson starn kelemorph deck

[@luckylarue7885]

You could get all your chandra doubled in main phase 1 then double another type in main phase 2

[@thetogtube2]

Abstruse Archaic is fun and can be good… bust busted? Nah. Just fair and slow.

[@rstudio6799]

Dont let memes be dreams lets call entire library with the power of praetor keyword