Best Cards from Outlaws of Thunder Junction | Commander Clash Podcast 142 

Looking forward to seeing y'all bust out the Fur suits for Bloomburrow

Seth, you absolutely rock the cowboy hat. It fits you so well.

So I used to go to the same LGS as Crim and I feel like I know his dirty little secret: he's actually the sweetest guy. He was always such a pleasant opponent. He only plays a troll on TV

Tomer was just “busy” because he doesn’t have a hat and knew we would judge him. YOU CANT HIDE TOMER!!

Rank cards by best hats in OTJ

I love Seth in the hat lol it looks so good!

Richard talking down an instant speed wrath is the height of contrarianism

Seth is absolutely right about Vraska Joins Up. I glanced at my decks and regardless of colors and plans they're all hovering around 50% legendary. It's not a snap add to every single deck kind of card but it is way closer to a two mana Coastal than a two mana Curiosity.

Richard cosplaying Luffy like a champ

Richard underestimates how often Legendary Creature triggered abilities trigger, and how easy it can be. ETB abilities come to mind. ALSO, Annie Joins Up removes something upon entering. That is just the icing on the cake.

cant believe richard hasnt found this out yet but ... the ABSOLUTE best way to pull surverors scope off easily is literally just a bounceland and any fetch. T1: Fetch(no fetch) T2: Bounce T3: Fetch + surveors scope(FetchLandcrack... hold priority .... crack Scope) Super easy profit Plus: 3 Lands enter untapped for you

convenient that "every creature is a legend" when you're poopooing a card, but "the only legend in my deck is my Commander" when it's time to poopoo a different card 🤔

Thank god the cowboy hats were there! I couldnt tell for the life of me what set they were talking about on the main channel podcast, now its clear we're talking about OTJ!

"im doing pretty well i have anew hat" -seth Hell ya seth small joyys are what life is about!

Vraska joins up is like the perfect curiosity for skullbriar. It gives skullbriar forever deathtouch and he hits, draws card and gets larger.

The blessed hats! Thank you team goldfish!

Vraska Joins up is more relevant for the deathtouch than the curiosity. Deathtouch with pingers, fight effects, trample, first strike breaks the game, cantripping or drawing repeatedly is the upside for that effect. Removing the enchantment doesn’t remove the Deathtouch either, you can even sac it for value after wards and keep the counters. Great in enchantress decks, token decks, tribal decks, helps with delirium, cheap to find and recur. It’s a toolkit card for sure, but a very powerful and unique one with a lot of cool lines of play. It’s not a Toski replacement, it makes Toski much better since suddenly he can’t get blocked for free. The same goes for your wood elves, solemn, esper sentinel, opposition agent, eternal witness, dockside, black market connections tokens. It’s not the meat, it’s the spice. We get cheap engine legends like Honest Rutstein, Sam, Tinybones, Braids, Loran, Inti, Florian, Breena, Lurrus, Valki, Boo, Chevill, Ragavan all the time, and someone will be playing a deck that can’t or won’t block, and then you’re drawing cards with your card draw engines you were playing anyways. There will be more of them every set, and even more every universe beyond. Sure the colours are limiting, and there are bigger splashier draw effects for more mana in those colours, but if you’re playing a low to the ground value deck that attacks with durdly creatures, or has durdly creatures to spare, join up.

Satoru, the Infiltrator can easily be one of those commanders that just draws a decent amount of cards for a couple turns, without seemingly accomplishing that much.. until it becomes nigh-unstoppable because actually they are drawing SO MANY cards. Blink stuff gets out of hand very fast, and Satoru loves that shit.

Crim, how are you not thinking of Brenard?? In a creature-heavy build, this can just be making a copy of your best etb golem copy every time you cast a creature spell, or just be making you more 5/5 golems. Brenard is definitely my favorite commander deck, and I think Oltec Matterweaver might be my #1 pick for him from this set.

Can’t wait to see Crim and Richard eat some crow on the Joins Up cycle. I think those will be some of the highest played cards from the set

I appreciate that Richard's entire hour of promise argument relies on it needing two deserts for the upside because there are 2 good deserts, when it needs 3 deserts.

Woah brought back the hats, mad props. Love you guys.

I agree with crim that satoru is much scarier than people realize. I might even say it’s scarier than yuriko in the right circumstances, although i think the damage that yuriko provides you pushes it a little over new satoru. even if you are just doing ninjas, the cards you play to get your ninjas out like ornithopter will draw you cards and essentially allow you to churn through your entire deck.

Satoru Umezawa isn't a ninja commander deck commander either. You CAN run it as your commander, but it seems far more common to run it as a "surprise, Blightsteel!" type wincon.

How Richard and Crim somehow poop on doubling cards because everything is legendary and poop on cards that synergize with legendaries, I'll never understand.

For Oltec Matterweaver, if you're in an Artifacts strategy, creating untapped Powerstone tokens seems pretty generically good.

I like Oltec Matterweaver in a Brenard Ginger Sculptor deck

Looking forward to every Podcast episode. Love you guys!

0:21 That was a slick way to throw some friendly shade. You earned my like.

In 2014 I bought a wide brimmed hat, loved wearing it even in a big city it felt so comfortable (people thought I was nuts of course)

I have been liking the bounce land a lot too. Ever since I bought into the MDFC lands, they have been great.

Aragorn the uniter with Annie joins up goes CRAZY .

I've gone from "Richard is a huge troll" to "Richard is bad at magic" for starting off a list of the most powerful cards in a set with a colorless bounce land.

Sometimes Richard’s takes have me wondering if he’s on something 😂

Richard has some wild takes, if your commander isn't triggering in your games ever it's time to play something new.

These spree cards help power up the undervalued Sword of Once and Future.

Richard: Unsummon on your opponent's creature is just drawing them a card

ooh back to back mtggoldfish podcasts :)

Oltec matterweaver in Brenard, Ginger sculptor?

Designers are really leaning into the catch-up ramp for white. Both claim jumper and sand scout seem great. Claim jumper even grabs non-basics, and 3/3 vigilance holds equipments pretty well.

33:50 Richard come on man you are comparing mana cost when the conversation is about timing plays....ridiculous I can't believe how gentle Crim was to you for such fundamental error

Isn't Cut a Deal slightly better than Secret Rendezvous? Never heard it mentioned on the podcast. Also you all talk about Generous Gift/Beast Within but have never heard y'all mention Stroke of Midnight either. Am I missing something? Love you guys so much! Learned so much from you sweeties.

Seth had it right about Oltec Matterweaver. It’s going in my Thalia and the Gitrog Monster human tribal deck for sure. Creates tokens for me to sack, and it is a human itself

Best mtg content on RU-vid no one even comes close ❤

Rock that hat Seth! I had the same thing happen recently with a fedora.

I think Richard would be proud, got to use Open The Way in game for the first time last night. Turn 5 ramped put 4 lands, one being field of the dead and got 4 tokens off of it 🔥

My favorite card for EDH this set is Railway Brawler. Whether you're playing it in stompy, +1/+1 counters, or cloning it with a rite of replication it seems like a card you're always going to want to draw as long as you have the mana to cast it

Fun thing about Satoru is that if you have 2 Ninjas, you can ninjutsu them in picking up the other one over and over to draw extra cards.

The hat fits Seth so well!

My favorite card (or at least I think the one that will see the most personal play from me) is Lively Dirge. It's a tutor and reanimation spell on one card. It can act as a pseudo Beseech the Mirror by fetching a

Uncommon Richard W on bouncelands. Not for the exact reasons he said, but because if you can take turn 4 off to play another 3cmc spell, it essentially generates another land drop in you hand. That’s already playable, but then as said works great with utility lands like MDFC’s, untap effects make them broken, the few catchup ramp cards works well with them, and going to hand size on turn two to discard a reanimation target means that there is also niche uses for them in a variety of decks. Though I only consider Guildless Commons in mono color and colorless decks.

Richard saying all the Panharmonicon effects are the same and you can just cut "ones you don't want" when talking about Roaming Throne is kind of bonkers. Roaming Throne is kind of the best card in the deck in decks it's good in, mostly because *it's not a Panharmonicon at all*.

Me and the bois trying on silly hats at the mall

Seth, I gotta say that hat does look real good on you. I'd be fine with it being a permanent wardrobe upgrade

Bant Lonis is probably Sophia, Dogged Detective?

Olmec Matterweaver is definitely a Phil card. Fractured Identity Seth's Panharmonicon and start casting Tireless Trackers into more Panharmonicons

As one of the handfull of people with a Meria equipment deck, new Boots make me very happy.

Oltec Matterweaver is a bomb in my Brenard deck. So excited for this set!

Finally I can now put 4 pairs of boots on my commander

Satoru also works with cascade. Definately going in my Abaddon deck.

The crew today is channeling the cast of City Slickers.

I think the boots fall almost evenly between the other two existing boots in power level. I'd never cut greaves.... But I might put the other two in for consistency.... or one or the other depending on the deck....

Claim Jumper is great and an automatic white Commander staple.

I think Richard is underestimating the boots - you can just throw it on the construct from saga if you need to, and if you draw it, it is the same as greaves: 2 mana to give any creature of yours haste. No one plays sorcery speed single target removal, if they have removal they can just cast it in response to the greaves equip anyway.

really wanted to hear your opinion on Pest Control viability in commander. I personally think it can be pretty good

Annie joins up is fantastic with cabaretti caterer. You get 2 triggers and you can get stuff like felladar. Or Kiki. Combos.

Vraska Joins Up feels like a card that was literally designed to pair with Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh from the Assassin's Creed UB set. Like the card is the definition of a perfect fit for that deck

Claim Jumper is a great play on words. 'Jumping to claim' like jumping to conclusions/accusations a flavor to a crime set. And jumping to claim lands.

I like lavaspur because you can still interact with that creature. I'm totally running this and not running the other 2

Very important to note that High Noon is not what you are saying... it lets you cast 1 spell PER TURN - not per turn CYCLE. Huge difference. This means you need to be playing at flash speed. Most decks are not, so that is how you get your advantage. You are casting up to 4 spells. I think you definitely need to have heavy removal/counterspell/board wipe package to make it work though.

Richard’s bounce land mindset makes me want to run Vedalken Plotter.

I'm seeing Codfather with trousers rolled up following a water buffalo in a rice paddy. the stand out star of the show though is Crim's bobbing hat, someone's got to make a car ornament of this - I need it.

Among other cool aspects, Final Showdown's first mode can really mess with combat math if it isn't advantageous for you to just wrath at the moment. If someone swings in depending on indestructibility, trample, first/double strike, flying and so forth, you shutting all that off before declaring blocks, for only 2 mana, can make that very bad for the person doing the attack. Such an amazing, versatile card.

Annie joins up seems like it could be a nice squeeze in to a thrillseeker insidious roots deck.... O.O

For me Vraska Joins up is over all a good card bt its a bit specific. Its good in decks where the commander wants to attack to get some value and is hard to block and the deathtouch cunter helps it more to be not blocked. I mean if its triggering 2 or more times its absolutly worth the 2 Mana.

What's the graded card Crim has hanging from the mic?

I think it’s cool you got Luffy on the show!

Truer words were never said 🙏 1:06:38 "It is 2024, nobody is playing Magic happy."

🤩 I like Oltec Matterweaver… I see possibilities… But also, it is very cool to get an Ixalan (love Ixalan) themed card again that is also a great card.

The crew's on the range now! Yeehaw! 🤠 Seth looks like he's going to go pan for Gold tokens after the show. But for real, he really pulls it off well!

I once turned wheel of misfortune into a 3 mana 60 damage spell. While piloting a Veyran deck I had ran out of cards in hand. If I was able to draw seven I likely would have won that turn, so everyone agreed to take 20 damage (my life total at the time) to prevent me from filling my hand. I took two of them out the next turn but got taken out by the last guy standing (couldn’t get around Propaganda before he killed me).

Your bant Lonis is Morska, Undersea Sleuth

Yes! Hats!!

Oltec matterweaver has to be a very strong card in the Frodo/Sam Fooddeck. First i would say you cast many low mana cost creatures so you get a bunch of 1/1 gnomes anyway but also if you have food tokens you get a massiv stack of foodtokens. Also the deck plays with a few treasure tokens so ramp is possible, too. So for me nearly a must have in this deck.

Ngl, I have a Hazezon deck and I hate that Sand Scout is a perfect fit. It's a must include, and that means another fun card is coming out. I'd be happier if it was split into two separate cards, cause at least then there would be an "oooh i dunno but maybe" factor to them

Can't believe talked that much about Oltec Matterweaver and didn't mention esper Urza, the most popular commander from Brothers' War. That deck is already loaded up with creatures to support the Commander and Matterweaver becomes "make a Karnstruct every time you cast a creature"

I agree that Sand Scout is gonna be like a super staple, or at least should be. White catch up ramp that grabs a bounceland is insane. I'm hoping that High Noon being able to sacrifice itself will be enough to convince people that it's not that bad, I'm totally gonna sac it later once this one player has been thoroughly slowed.

Seth, wear that hat man. You are rockin' it!

I would like to interject that Satoru also draws cards off of blink.

Optec marterweaver with fairie artisans seems interesting

Richard has never had his bounce land strip mined and it shows, lol Need Vince to teach him a lesson or three :P

Richard's takes makes me feel that he may have never won a competitive match ever.

This Satoru card is going to be great in my Yarok birthing pod deck. Unless I am misunderstanding the rules interactions.

So far, I'm a big fan of Trash the Town. I need to pick up a gew more boosters to get a better feel for the set though.

Easily the best episode

There are two decks that I see Oltec Matterweaver popping off in: Osgir and precon Urza

Vraska Joins Up 100% was designed for and goes into the Gonti deck. It helps you get through with damage, and the deck is already trying to combat damage players... Each of those enchantments has 2 utilities. Am I crazy???

Cowboy hats are going to be the new black nail polish. Seth definitely pulls it off though.

Correction on the lowest cost extra combat, Grim Reaper's Sprint with the morbid cost reduction makes it 1R.

Oltec Matterweaver seems made for a golem splicer deck, or the ginger bread golem maker