Commander at Home #20 - Rowan vs Thalisse vs Hazezon vs Anikthea with Rachel Weeks and Joe Johnson 

Yeeeeees! This episode was so fun! Thanks for having me!

The "Thalisse, FOR SEVEN!" edit was goated 😂

That Rowan turn of Blasphemous Act into Comet Storm into Electrodominance into Blood for the Blood God is about 400% more than I needed to get the deck. I must do this.

Brian saying "OW!" Every time he hurts himself, interspersed with his infectious laughter is everything.

Starfield of Nyx does not animate itself. "Each OTHER non-aura enchantment becomes a creature..." Parallel Lives being reanimated would not double itself because the action making it a token happens when it isnt on the battlefield. A friend of mine has been grinding the hell out of Anikthea trying to optimize his ability to pilot her, so our group has run into a lot of these questions. Rachel is always a joy to watch play, and Brian out the gate making himself the archenemy by casting 34 mana worth of spells in 1 main phase was hilarious.

😂lol Rachel "I just want to be a little card raccoon" me too tho

I wish Olivia was playing Will, Scion of Peace for the whole "She will basically never attack and I will always attack." bit with Brian.

Rachel is such a great guest and player. I always love every show she appears in.

I haven’t even started the episode but I can hear the laughter from the thumbnail alone.

i dont know why but rachel is one of these players i can watch every time again when they play commander :) same as the prof just a blast to watch them

I'm a simple man. I see Rachel I click watch. Always makes you feel like she'd be so much fun to play with

I see Rachel in the thumbnail - I click the video. I am a simple person

Really fun episode. Brian's chaos was awesome early in the game. The oversight of the boardwipe and it's effect on Joe's board is painful. I understand we miss things and mistakes are made, but besides Nyx, all enchantments were creatures and should've been blown up, I believe. Rachel could've pinged him to death with Goblin Bombardment, prior to the Nyx bringing back Leyline. After Brian's upkeep and the lifeloss, Rachel could've sacced the remainder of her tokens and finished the game. That's a big oversight. I believe Joe should've caught that.

The Rowan turn at 22:53 was amazing. Nice job Brian!

Rachel building all the commanders we want to build, but cant figure out how to make good. A true brewer

Love the show! That being said a major error that could have easily changed the outcome of the game was Rachel’s boardwipe at 59:24 would’ve taken out all the enchantments on Joe’s board because of Starfield of Nyx.

Haven't even gotten one second into the episode but just have to say YEEESSSS! I love Thalisse. Massively under appreciated token spam commander.

Rachel and Olivia together are always a delight. 2 of my favorite EDH content creators ❤

Brian: greetings weary traveler, one of us doesn't attack, one of us will always attack.

Wednesday episodes are so convienient, you watch a video to get you in the mood, Thursday you tune your decks and binders and ... boom you are hyped up for Friday Night magic !!!

Two brief comments: 1. From a viewer that's been watching Commander @ Home since day 1, the show production quality has increased a lot. The same great content, way more attention to set and lighting and audio. Congrats! 2. I think it's great to see the MTG community supporting one another. Kudos on having Rachel on, and on using Sam's shirt. That's the way to grow everyone's viewership!

I really love commander at home. It's my favorite "actual play" channel. You all seem to have so much fun. I even made a deck based off seeing how much fun Brian was having with Ghired. I really appreciate the attention to detail with the editing and camera angles so we can see the cards and know what is going on. And whoever did the music and video for the opener is a genius and I hope you paid them extremely well. It's by far the best opener of any RU-vid channel I've seen on any topic.

Longtime fan of Brian, EDHijinks, and The Command Zone. I've always avoided Joe's channel and his guest spots based on the screenshots and behavior, but decided to give this one a try. Seeing the game warped his way just leaves a really bad watch feeling. EDHijinks it's easy to focus more on the conversation than the play and have it feel like a podcast, but actual play shows like this one it is really fun to get wrapped up in the game and the story it tells. In the future, if you could add a disclaimer in the video itself (The Professor is great at catching these and throwing them in), it might be a big help! Or as the channel keeps growing, it might be worth it to have a judge linger around (every gameplay show could use a Serge Yager

$25 for a pallet of boxes of mtg cards? Olivia: I will take your ENTIRE stock

Love all the commanders you played, thanks for the episode ! Lovely guests too ^^

Win-Win. Awesome guests and awesome commander choices! Loved this ep!

Sorry I missed you guys when I came to Portland. Congratulations on 20 videos!!! You guys inspire me to enjoy and create ridiculous Commander decks that are fun for everyone. Appreciate you guys!!!

Ahhhh yusss more Commander at Home!!! Super excited to see some Rowan gameplay I'm working on building a deck for her right now! Excited to meet you guys in a couple days! See you at MTG Summit!

1:05:19 “put your stupid face away!!” Im laughing just as hard as Brian. Please never change ❤

Rachel's final play was stone cold. Who cares who won when you can so confidently lose a game like that?

Another episode of my favorite show Time to snuggle in and enjoy thank you for always making my day so much better

Another banger episode! Top tier laughter and another great game. Im sad I missed you guys in Portland.

This has been scratching the itch of missing game nights with friends. The atmosphere is beautiful, keep up the amazing work. Y’all are incredible!

I find it astonishing that no one noticed Joe's mistake when he claimed Starfield of Nyx was a creature. When Rachel wiped out all creatures on the board, Joe's entire board should have been cleared, except for Starfield of Nyx. This oversight is particularly unexpected considering that Starfield of Nyx is widely recognized as a high-risk, high-reward card to play. Edit: reformulate

Rachel Weeks!! She’s become my favorite magic analyst

I get that you should give people the chance to show they've improved and that mistakes sometimes happen, but when the three biggest "mistakes" just so happen to be around Joe's cards and benefit him immensely, it really starts getting fishy. Sure, Brian caught that he was playing Karmic Justice absolutely wrong, and no one questioned Parallel Lives shouldn't have made that copy, but those were still interpretations Joe made when HE should be the one who knows his deck. And if he had played Starfield of Nyx right, he wouldn't have any way of protecting his board. Not saying it was on purpose. Again, mistakes happen. But Joe's background of being a bully and a salty loser really leaves a sour taste in my mouth when he only won because he played his cards wrong.

Shouldn't Joe's Leyline have been animated by starfield therefore it would have died to the boardwipe ?

Whacky interactions and very cool decks all around, sounds like a good game - thanks for sharing with the world :)

Love the new intro! Just starting the ep now but super excited 😎, thanks for the content guys!

These are so much fun! Fun games, great people, and lots of laughs...

Oh man! With all the product lately I completely missed the “Court of” cycle. Those are immediately awesome includes to a bunch of my decks! Thanks for turning me onto them!

Thanks for another great episode. Looking forward to the next one. Also that electro dominance turn is the stuff dreams are made of.

You guys blasted this one out of the park. Everyone on panel is a legend.

Haven't been able to watch the last several episodes but I have them saved to my later list. Life is just too busy to watch long content rn but I always like and support when I see a video drop. Love you lot!

Awesome start to the morning!

As a new player This show is just so great and fun to watch . So Glad its on my list of shows

Ah finally got to see Rachel's Hazezon! That was super cool.

Love to see some rowan out here. Great card, stellar deck!

so excited for this! i love you guys!

Yay for more commander at home! ^_^

Parallel lives is a replacement effect, so it would need to be on the field for the effect to be relevant with reanimating it with Anikthea. Also, couldn't sac starfield to evolutionary leap. It doesn't make itself a creature. Awesome game to watch though!!!!

Johannes Voss tokens! One of my top 5 MTG artists for sure. I love his cat token, the one with the dragon hat.

Rowan! My cards are coming in now for her deck. I'm so excited to play her, and cards like Toxic Deluge & Torment of Hailfire. :D

Great game! Also, Olivia did draw an extra card when she asked “did I already draw?” At 33:00

Im so glad i got to meet these guys. Best part was when my friend had them sign his tabernacle at command fest portland on the last day. There reaction was priceless. As well as Olivia signing my tibalts trickery and putting "fuck you" on it as well😂😂

I can’t wait!!! I love the energy in these videos

Great episode. Thanks. Just built Rowan so it was nice to see it played out on stream.

❤ love the content and this episode! Also sweet little pro tour nugget about tarnished citadel!

Glad to see Rachel playing hazezon. Heard her talking about it before, but never got to see it in action. Also “thalisse FOR SEVEN” was hilarious 😂

Is something else turning Starfield of Nyx into a creature because it by itself doesn't turn itself into a creature.

Best commander channel

Love watching your videos guys and always enjoy the friendship you can see from everyone that joins. I was wondering what your favourite decks of all time would be Brian and Olivia?

I love how they all were like "Oh Karmic Justice doesn't work off damage." and needed to go look up martyr's bond.....and alllll glazed over the "noncreature" part (on both cards) when it was creatures that were dying.

This is an awesome episode and I love and enjoy it immensely 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

this is such a comfort show. i wish there's a weekly low production version

Great episode everyone!!!!

I don't see any other comments on it, but Rowan's Grim Search allows you to put *all 4 cards* into the grave if you want to. If all 4 are bad, throw em out and get 2 random ones!

Great to see Rachel Weeks on

Greetings from germany 🤘🏼 cant wait to watch the whole game after work 🤪

Ellie’s haircut! So cute so cute

With school occupying most of my schedule, this is the break I needed

Really random, but I would love to know where Olivia's glasses are from! LOVE this show so much, makes my evening every time I come home and find there's a new episode. And Rachel is one of my favourite commander players ever.

I started playing magic again only about 6 months ago and my little brother gave me an enduring enchantments deck not long after the commander masters precons came out. It's been the deck I've spent the most time and money on and I love seeing the different ways other people build it.

The Teysa + Saw in Half with Elas math was off. When Tesya dies she does double triggers from her death so that's two Elas triggers. Then two come in and one is immediately sent to grave but since two were out at the time it is three more Elas triggers for 5 life. 4 kept being said.

I have Evo Leap in my Brenard "Get Baked" deck. Sacking to find the splicers is beautiful.

WOW this game feels like it just GOES ON FOREVER!

I've always wanted to see someone play Hazezon!

Was the store in Albuquerque Active Imagination? Miss that place...

Rachel is the best guest/player on any show. 10/10, no notes.

Great playmats!

I've been wanting to build around Rowan (should I ever acquire her), and seeing how one can play such a deck is real informative.

I LOVE THE NEW PLAYMATS

Brian! With Rowan's grim search you can choose to put all 4 into your graveyard if you dont want to draw any of them!

33:50 : Lmao. ;) Thanks for the entertainment!

Rachel's new character "The card racoon!"

Hurray for commander at home just enjoying the new episode before I head off to work also going to be bumping up my Patreon status gotta get them commander at home goodies

Love the new mats!

Damn, nice grab Olivia. I dream of a find like that at a garage sale or something lol. Great game, Rowen is great fun, at least for whoever is piloting her lol

Great game! Rachel is very good at Magic :D

Now I need Brian to make the cracked out version of Rowan because this one was “too tame”

I've long suspected that Rowan is probably stronger than Prosper, nice to see that their is some basis to this belief! I would make an exception to the 'no tutors' rule in Rowan though and at least run Diabolic Revelation... I can't imagine a Rowan deck NOT using that absolute gem, right up to cEDH. I feel for Weeks, I love old cards, even if new cards are usually way better, the old stuff has so much cachet, I will totally run a bad old card just for the joy of seeing it in hand, and it's rarely a single card that actually lost you the game, even if we're all convinced if we get milled for 1 we'll lose our most relevant card. I guess Lucas was considered a pretty good director before Star Wars: A New Hope was made, the prequels make even less sense when you realize he himself could apparently direct quality cinema. My biggest problem with the prequels was probably the (very) blatant racial-stereotypes-as-aliens thing, that felt pretty bad even when I first saw it, though Watto seemed more a caricature of a relative of mine than of Jewish people (it was uncanny!). Forgive me if this is just a brain fart!

Hope you all come to Magic Con Chicago 💖💖💖 my fave cast of Magic Players

I think its bonkers that you can be bunkered that much in enchantments. I also am now aware of a very scary commander that looks coll and popular thanks wizards for rowan. Good game all and really funny. Cheers!

I'm so happy Brian played Rowan, Scion of War, I got her and Will at a WoE prerelease event and I really want to build a commander deck around her!

Olivia gets so salty when shes thwarted, its hilarious

Great show

The best part of this show is easily the introduction music.

With the two Teysa everyone would have lost three because the token of Teysa that gets sacrificed sees itself die

Nice, I'm rooting for Brian on this one because I'm a main rakdos player.. 😅😁👍💀🔥

A lot of talented play in this episode.