Tomb Bombadil | Sagas Tribal | Historic Brawl | MTG Arena | Lord of the Rings

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[@brycejohnson6234]

@CovertGoBlue Thank you so much for putting our game in the video! I got a little starstruck when we got paired and misplayed. It’s so cool that I got to play against one of my favorite MtG creators!

[@LoganHallard]

Pact of negation with only one blue has got to be the biggest brain play we'll see in a while.

[@RadTrooper]

Hey CGB, I appreciate you moving the premier time of your videos in the morning of your time because I am in Asia, I am watching this just after midnight,rather than the normal 2am premier previously. ❤

[@Lordidude]

Why not just watch it later??

[@tns4]

I pulled ol Tommy B in a free pack and have been excitedly waiting for you to build this to see your take on it! So far it’s absolute chaos and I pull off wins when I have no business winning. Other times I get wrecked if the mana doesn’t line up right but it’s a blast

[@alphamew1773]

at 22:06, since the ringbearer can't be blocked by higher power, and your saga gave your creatures double strike, you could have just made Tom the ringbearer and swung in for lethal. Jodah made his board too big to block anything power 5 or less

[@Kestral287]

There was a Koma's Coil in the way of that plan. The opponent would, presumably, not just give CGB lethal and so they don't sac it to lock down the 9/9.

[@alphamew1773]

@@Kestral287 the opponent already sacrificed the coil to tap down the 9/9 enchantment creature

[@AzafTazarden]

@@alphamew1773 they did that only after CGB chose the ring bearer. Besides, they could just block with the coil and sac it during combat to make Koma indestructible instead

[@AzafTazarden]

Nevermind, he could have done that at 22:16. He had lethal in more than one way, though, so ultimately it doesn't matter

[@Tiax776]

I think the 2 mana Enchantment Creature which gives other enchantments +1/+1 and would let you copy effects would be good here.

[@chiefobadger4193]

Weaver of Harmony

[@markrobertbb]

CGB doesn't like that card. Lol

[@AzafTazarden]

Nah, Goldberry is a lot better

[@andfriends11]

As CGB said in the livestream while making this deck. "Weaver is a noobtrap. Your outing yourself as a noob here."

[@chrism7067]

@@andfriends11 no way, counter manipulation to use final saga ability, keep saga in play and copy with weaver is pretty nuts.

[@stormcountmtg4183]

Quick tip, when you don’t know what to name with long list, go for coward.

[@jeremymorris6000]

My favorite pick, too. And it can mess with the opponent if they didn't know that was actually a creature type 🤣🤣🤣

[@daftwulli6145]

MAN that mana tithe in game 2 was beautiful. People always tell me mana tithe sucks unless you play it really early. This proves yet again that is nonsense, and people do not expect a counterspell when you have no blue open. Bet poor opponent could not believe this is happening

[@WingsOfDomain]

Best version of the deck I've seen so far.

[@popopopoqwerty]

When I brewed my Calix deck I put that shroud card at first. And in the very first game I played and couldn't put counters on my creatures since I played only enchantment creatures. Mistake was quickly to realise.

[@AzafTazarden]

Hard nonbo lol

[@drreaper1342]

The first LotR HB deck I decided to make was the Balrog and it's pretty good and SUPER fun! Been smashing the opponents to bits lol

[@zeusalternative1270]

21:01 Covers Go Blue

[@docauch5938]

That was one of the funniest “pacts” ever lol

[@retixis]

Im really suprised you didn't include the only other saga commander they ever printed, satsuki living lore

[@AzafTazarden]

She can only be activated at sorcery speed, though. Goldberry is better because she can remove counters too, so you keep the saga on the battlefield for extra value and buy time to resolve Tom before the last chapter resolves. Also Satsuki needs to die for her other ability to trigger, so she's not as versatile

[@matiasdegoycoechea7302]

@Covertgoblue After watching you play almost everyday at last i was convinced to make my first commander deck, i hope the day comes where I can play a few games against you outside the magic arena, wish you the best and as always you are welcome to argentina whenever you want!!

[@TheyCallMeDio]

The LOTR collab is really nice for commander. I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing Historic Brawl

[@markmeleka]

Been experimenting with bombadill as soon as he came out and he is by faar my favorite comander of all time!! also, this deck is miles better than what i had going on but it was still fun af

[@1984kylea]

Dance of the Manse, count me in! Just played a few games with this deck (well a slightly modified version) and it's some of the most fun I've had playing Magic, thank you CGB.

[@davison2003]

Hey, can I have your decklist?

[@1984kylea]

@@davison2003 :D you don't want it. I had a few good games initially but now I seem to get steam rolled by agro almost every time. Honestly until they do something about Ragavan historical brawl isn't too much fun.

[@davison2003]

@@1984kylea Agreed. Agro is super annoying and they need to deal with ragavan asap. Thanks anyway because I would've built it if I didn't know about the rakdos agro problem

[@yuggothrecordsarchives]

Greatest character in LOTR! Great to see a deck around Tommy B

[@markrobertbb]

As fun as Saga tribal is, wouldn't it be just as fun to have Tom Bombadil be a Prison/Pillowfort commander, which is also on theme with the LoTR lore?

[@xxXDrManhattanXxx]

i guess you can run some goodstuff prison enchantments that syngergize with some other goodstuff enchantment effects but if you dont play enough sagas then why would you still play tom, wouldnt make sense anymore, then you can also play aragorn as a goodstuff commander

[@markrobertbb]

@@xxXDrManhattanXxx I meant WotC could've designed a different Tom Bombadil card. Maybe a version that gives shroud seeing as in the book, Tom wasn't affected by the Ring at all.

[@Lordidude]

Who cares about the lore lmao

[@JohnAutopsy]

I mean, yeah, cards that don't exist could be played differently lmao. Let's build around the Tom Bombadil card we actually have in the mean time, shall we

[@markrobertbb]

@@Lordidude actual Tolkien fans

[@massacritica5135]

Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, then bath song, thats really nice

[@mRboylls]

You saying monkey in the intro is the new thing I look forward to in these historic brawl videos

[@madprops4615]

I'm glad I'm not the only one

[@PatrickKassowRossing]

Watched it all. More Tom Bombadil Brawl please

[@nickl4235]

13:58 did you consider letting Tom go to the graveyard and then bringing him back with Cruelty of Gix (jump straight to the 3rd chapter)? Free Tom out of the graveyard and triggers a free saga in one play.

[@nooby900]

46:31 funniest part of the entire video

[@Guevon_Pajaro]

Haha the title dude, I love it. Reminds me of WWE. 😂 Tom is a sweet card. Idk if it's busted busted, but it's great. You can go infini-stories with this dude 😂

[@hunszaszist]

The Rat Colony only deck makes me unreasonably happy

[@maggiesieleman-ross8100]

I have a good video idea. You could do Ragavan but attach the ring in some way. Then he would be almost unblockable and you could easily steal and poke at them. I even have a name Ringavan!😋

[@cbradiovodsandlps]

I was hoping you would make a Tom video. Love this!

[@jacobdupont7406]

Love the Linkin Park reference just sliding in there

[@pinitxopo]

I think Go Shintai of Life Origin would be a good addition to the deck, it lets you cast sagas from the graveyard and it gets insane value

[@matheusesteves3585]

Tom ring-bearer was lethal lol

[@AzafTazarden]

It gets blocked by the coil

[@AzafTazarden]

Wait, you're right, at 22:16 he could have moved the ring to Tom

[@tyogrady866]

Glad to see this, bc I almost started experimenting w/ Tom

[@kuzuma4523]

22:20 even though opponent didn't block, you missed lethal. You could have simply stolen the Koma's Serpent and make Tom your Ring-Bearer. Remember it says "Your Ring-bearer can't be blocked by creatures with greater power." So yea, 5/5 doble strike unblockable hexproof indestructible to the face.

[@madbuddha4587]

I got stressed there but he clutched it up anyway

[@beluga2342]

he had 2 chances to do this too. when the opponent tapped his boseju he got another chance to pick a ring bearer and just put it on the saga again instead of tom i cant XD

[@jameslevine4284]

When goldberry was targeted by the fight trigger I totally thought you would take another counter off the saga and destroy the warbrier blessing creature.

[@AkodoNoEyes]

What about the 2 mana Saga centric legendary from the Kamigawa set? Or Weaver of Harmony?

[@r.mar.673]

Would Akroan war end the game at 19:00?

[@Basoosh]

Yep!

[@bassburglar4053]

Love to see u play that rat deck 🐀

[@jeremymorris6000]

My favorite thing to name when I don't have anything to cast with long list of ents is "coward" 🤣

[@andrewl225]

I always name Coward for long list of the ents if i have no creature to play

[@EM10gamer]

Just curious! Why didn’t we run some of the Praetor Sagas?

[@Ch3f81]

G'day @CovertGoBlue, I know you may not answer but maybe a more knowledgeable player than I can. With your Historic Brawl decklist, is there anything you'd include/exclude if you were to run this deck in a 4-player plod?

[@FGCDean]

Historic Brawl. Nice

[@babahase2624]

Yorion would be so sweet in that one🥵 have to build bombadil in paper

[@anandkoulomzin3263]

Hi CGB! really like your urabrask deck and your content!

[@dustyross5743]

@CovertGoBlue would it be possible to summit a deck for you to play on KZbin? I wouldn't mind if you edit it the way you like and make it your own.

[@DDD-wt7ly]

Does Tom work with the praetor sagas?

[@xXYourShadowDaniXx]

I built a Tom Bombadil deck in Historic Brawl as well, but I stacked it with counterspells+ramp, this allows the sagas to pop off due to how slow they are, the ramp allows you to play Tom when you have counterspells available when the opponent hits turn 5. You basically prevent the opponent from destroying your best sagas or Tom and have a good chance of winning.

[@dayel11]

I am a simple man, i'll build this deck and put vorinclex in because i want even _faster_ shenanigans.

[@markolson6521]

Ho Tom Bom-badil, Tom Bom-badil-oooooo

[@Dorris89]

Love the sneaky Linkin Park

[@westonwillard2698]

Lools like CGB is burying his opponents with "Tomb" Bombadil.

[@jameyfarmer5294]

Why none of the mom praetors in the deck that flip into sagas?

[@bobby_tablez]

Mom praetors all have their own different gameplan and you may never get a chance to flip some of them. Also Tom will never go find any of them off of his ability.

[@mistdragon1226]

Yay! I thought this commander looked really cool

[@robsykes1491]

No Glissa to reset sagas?

[@Ellie-bs5zq]

Weird to me to not have Nesting Grounds in the list - while a colorless land can make things awkward in a 5 color deck, this is a deck that really benefits from it overall, since it does very similar things to Goldberry, just less awkwardly at the cost of not drawing cards.

[@bobby_tablez]

Not on Arena

[@Ellie-bs5zq]

@@bobby_tablez ... oh wow I always thought that it was an IKO card, not C20. Thanks for clearing that up for me

[@SalazarDaraster]

@@Ellie-bs5zq It's an Ikoria card, but from the commander version of Ikoria, not the standard one

[@Ellie-bs5zq]

@@SalazarDaraster Yes, that's what C20 is

[@cloudynomeatball5061]

Can we get a good Sauron historic brawl deck

[@jantheflyingdutchman]

Wait... But CGB, don't you always bash equipment decks? LOL, just kidding. Love the deck. Tom Bombadil is such a cool design!

[@kylemiller3779]

CGB when are you going to build Aragorn‽

[@ssjjaeds759]

A potential ENDLESS loop with BINDING OF THE OLD GODS at around 36:10 ??? Why don't you leave goldberry untapped and pass turn. Then at end step, move the one lore counter from goldberry onto a land you control. Then before you draw for turn, remove a lore counter from binding of the old gods with goldberry...then you can get another activation of chapter one, destroying a non land permanent. Or am I missing something here?? If that wasn't busted enough, you get to draw off goldberry's second ability.

[@butdoesitscrub3457]

The only card I wanted from this set

[@nightraven1458]

how do I unlock commander at mtg arena?

[@JohnSmith-tt3go]

"Goat is a good meme" False. The only good creature meme is 🦀

[@arnoldstrong3548]

last opponent showed why you should go blue

[@HandlarzMirek]

Covert Goat Blue

[@adreannasears994]

Pact of negation with 1 blue!? 😂

[@patrickkoenig6137]

But in "the End" it doesnt even matter... ❤

[@AwwhHex]

Hit em with a rat attack

[@KaiDawnbringer]

wow doing my girl satsuki dirty like this ---

[@smoolz7818]

Pact of negation moment

[@garrettrast2953]

Decided to try historic brawl for the first time with this deck. 6/6 games were counter spell tribal. Immediately quit and likely won't be back. Terrible experience.

[@brucealmighty5881]

i mean if you gave up after 6 games you didn't give it much of a shot. especially since you couldve just conceded if you didn't want to play against counter spells. you do you tho i guess, cant really blame the format though

[@garrettrast2953]

@brucealmighty5881 tbh I don't watch much historic content. Was my experience normal for this format? I really like the idea of historic brawl, but man, my first exposure to it was really frustrating.

[@theimmortalflame1867]

Watching you blow up a single rat with Binding instead of the Horn might be the biggest misplay I've ever seen you make You probably still wouldn't have won but it would have taken longer to lose

[@LordZurkov]

Yeah, the horn drew them a free rat and reduced costs enough to play 4 rats in one turn. He'd've been facing 3 rats and no horn at 21 vs 3 rats and a horn at 25. Not enough life saved to justify letting them keep something makes dumping and refilling their hand trivial.

[@justinth963]

Is it just me or was goldberry in every game?

[@47Mortuus]

5 colors 9 basics? LMAO my 47 land gitrog deck can't really play more than 2

[@RichardTerry]

I really tried to give it a go with this deck but after 5 games in a row of just awful draws I just can't.

[@2fingermalone]

I have an atraxa saga deck. It's not good lol

[@gerudo4sale861]

Nice mow I can just use this deck instead of the two really bad ones I made

[@DefaultMii]

Relatable

[@zacdredge3859]

Who buried Tom though?

[@tutorialdapandemia3173]

Lord of the Rings will be only for Alchemy?? :(

[@tutorialdapandemia3173]

shit... it will... is not standard legal... sad... pretty sad

[@Remyfication]

I absolutely dont understand your build for this tom.. You have the best occasion to run sweepers and your favorite control staples. tom is indestructible !

[@dj3nt175]

It isn't that easy to give Tom indestructible reliably.

[@khanhsink7965]

He misplay the long list of ents like, sooo much😢

[@ColemanYoutube]

Have you ever done a standard brawl video just to see what the response is? Standard is your thing right

[@guidoromero5702]

Goldberry is the best wifey ever.

[@davidpurcell9497]

Battle of Frost and Fire seems risky!

[@henrydormon7554]

I love you cgb

[@tuomasronnberg5244]

Rat deck new meta

[@Pandapold]

Bombadil seems to suck in Brawl xD

[@sh4dow666]

Am I the only one who thinks haste shouldn't be a thing in MTG? Or at least something rare, like annihilator or indestructible?

[@daforce128]

Crab > Goat

[@FlawlessRythym]

I'm sorry for anyone who crafted cards for this deck. May the magic gods have mercy on you.

[@archangeljmj6008]

Don't do this to me bro. I love saga themed decks and i do not, DO NOT want to get any LOTR cards

[@dovinsveto]

Here is the reason I HATE Brawl and Commander - Every turn is 7 boring hours .. Im not alone Just so D Darn boring waiting .. I can make dinner, go poo, walk 15 dogs and Bake a 23 layer cake before its my turn

[@giannikath-lm4vb]

magic arena is unplayable.. because the system either doesn't work well or there is manipulation to make you buy gems and spend money.. unfortunately i can't do anything now i think this way... better to play paper magic. ..

[@Finnigan28]

Really bad commander. If the deck works a bit, it is because of how great some sagas are.

[@lucaantiteista2378]

lel

[@x1PMac1x]

Day 287 asking for timestamps on deck tech and outro.

[@ZeratulMTG]

Why they all the time? Is only one dude … annoying 😒

[@Kaarataka]

so soft lol

[@matthewjessey12]

I think battle of frost and fire is a bad card for this deck. Best case you hit it when you need it but Tom dies. Worst case it’s a one sided board wipe that makes you lose the game

[@brucealmighty5881]

best case is when you need it and tom is indestructible (had this happen several times) worst case is it loses you the game however that seems extremely rare to me. out of about 30 games so far its won be 5-6 games and lost me 1. i say that risk factor is worth it. is there a better card? maybe but i wont cut it just on the off chance it screws me once in a blue moon

[@docauch5938]

That was one of the funniest “pacts” ever lol