EARLY ACCESS Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander | Pantlaza VS Hakbal VS Clavileño VS Admiral Brass 

Thank you for having me, it was great to be there

The crazy part of the merfolk commander is that he wasn't utilizing his commander abilities. When commander swings you may pay a land if you dont draw he hasnt been drawing.

As a fellow Canadian this game is just so Canadian from the start and I love it

I'm really impressed at Jim's flawless pronunciation of all the Spanish names.

What a treat to have Wheeler and Serge on! Thanks for the great content guys!

The Wheeler deck really is everything I like rolled into one package. Skeletons. Pirates. Grixis. That's a good list.

Just so you know, you dont HAVE to discover on the first dino you play. You just can only discover on one dino a turn. Just a little fyi for the people who end up wanting that deck

I think I'll need the Merfolk and Vampire deck. For engagement: Elendra should have had 2 more counters from the 2 removals before.

Havent watched the game and I already know I am going to love it, great pod guys. Love to see LRRMTG and spike feeders together!

Really great game! Enjoyed the post game discussion as well. Can’t wait to pick up some of these decks!

I always love seeing serge and wheelers banter.

I believe Serge's tishane voice of thunder should have entered tapped due to the sunwing still being in play

The Merfolks precon 🧜‍♂️ is super under-rated starts out really strong. Still love kumena tyrant of orazca though 🧜🏽‍♂️

Lmao love this pod. Dude every time I've seen early access Precons from LCI, merfolk has been the most cracked. It's just so streamlined and synergistic (as they are known to be)

Serge lives! My feed misses him

These mirror tricks to let surge play 2 decks was really cool

Love the new tribal decks!

Your videos are all great!

Does this mean we may see the Spikes on North 100?

The most Canadian of crossovers

Why would you move to combat with a loaded board of vampires without recasting clavileño?! His whole abiloty is vampires attacking, all your vamps inclidong tokens could have transformed into 4/3 flying vamp demons + card draw but not if you dont have clavileño

Excited about the vampire deck although I do believe Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher is the better commander.

That merfolk deck has been a real threat every time I've seen it played.

Great crew of players

Tishana enters the battlefiel tapped. 30:52

LRRfolk! ❤

13:30 Oh, Serge remembered, nvm no one on table read the full 2nd ability of the merfolk commander*. Keeping the game more fair 😅

Were both forests already tapped before simic ascendancy was cast?

finally catching up. Another great video. What mics do you use?

A Jim and Wheeler episode? The commander gods were kind.

13:26 If you don't have a land to put into play from Hakbal's second clause, you can draw that card you saved on top to explore for each merfolk. Everyone seems to miss that very last sentence (27:06 Got there!).

Great energy and cool decks!

Jesus Christ the Merfolk deck went HAM

Someone please tell me where to buy those orange and green dice they are playing with please. Great episode as always, so good to see Serge and Ben on here. /huge hugs everyone.

Looks like they finally nailed Merfolk in commander… that sh1t is BUSTED 🧜‍♀️ 🤘🏻

Surge called it on showdown a bit back, merfolk is goblins now

Now that I have watched 4 of these precon games, the pirate is pretty far behind the other 3 and the Merfolk appears to be the strongest. Good game, enjoyed the watch

Just letting you know; the merfolk commander is pronounced ahk-ball. The h is kind of silent.

I raised my hand to signify it was funny

Second LCC game I've watched, at 10 minute mark and again Hakbal's attack trigger is forgotten

I have a question that maybe someone can answer because I am being lazy and not googling it. If Jim has exquisite blood on the field and the other two players take combat damage, does he not gain that amount as life? Or is it only triggered by direct damage like spells, drains, pings etc? Thanks.

Why does it seem like jim is always playing the commander decks that interest me? Lol last time it was him playing anikthea right?

Spoilers: Yeah he started with a Sol Ring, but this game made me pretty happy with my decision to grab the merfolk, that commander is absurd. Probably would have won if he remembered the draw triggers.

Great game guys, thanks for showing off the decks. I know a Mermaid that is gonna drip over this new fishy deck, GG Serge. But my question is for Jim, where did you get that woodsie shirt at?

When do these come out again? Did doctor who even come out yet?

I thought EACH merfolk had to explore each time

woo

To be honest it's insane how far ahead the Merfolk deck is compared to the other 3 precons. This happened in every video I saw of people playing with the new decks (probably like 10). If the Merfolk deck doesn't win it's a collective effort of all 3 other players and yet in many videos the Merfolk deck still wins. I think it's fair to say that the Merfolk deck is by far the strongest out of these 4 at this point. I also don't understand why people like the Dino commander so much. From the matches that I saw, the majority of times you shuffle good creatues under your library and bring at best mediocre ones into play, if even. Sure you can be lucky but most of the time I feel like you lose more than you actually win. It's an improvement that you may choose to take the card into your hand instead of being forced to play it but still. I might be wrong on this one but I really think with Cascade~ish mechanics you either go all-in on it like that one deck where you have multiple cascades on your cards then or you just don't cascade at all and focus on other mechanics. I might be wrong on that but I REALLY think statistics prove me right on this one. Anyone made completely different experiences? It's kinda the same with the enrage mechanic. From what I saw it works only as an 'Okay well, now it's there, fine.' thing but you can't really be like 'Okay, I chose my 2nd Commander and play enrage primarily.' Again, you can be lucky and get exactly the Dinosaurs you need for it and then it will probably work out fine. In all other cases it's very likely you'll have a rather sad match there.

Its serge

I have never wanted someone to lose more than serge

Merfolk Honks

i believe the sunfrill imitator could have become a copy of pantlaza and doubling the discover trigger for each dino that ETB

sub worthy game. =)

So with the merfolk commander if you don't play a land off the ability you can draw. Edit: Serge realized later

Shouldn’t my man be drawing whenever he attacks with Hakbal?

The Pirate deck seems interesting but for sure the weakest of the 4. Reanimating for free, making it 4/4 with haste is nice..but it has to be a private. Still feels underwhelming when compared to the other 3 Face Commanders.

Great game all the way up till end. Why do people king make? makes no sense to me.

HOW I HATE MERFOLKS OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

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I HATE MERFOLK ok

Serge missed hakbals attack trigger

The mana bases in these decks are disgusting.

Youve gotta ask Gamegenic to make an ad thats a little more chill. Unless im the only one that gets triggered by the "SOLID AS A ROCK" at the start of every video... like, youre selling deckboxes to cardboard nerds, turn it down to about a 6

Meow

I couldn't keep watching when surge fill sended at one player instead of spreading the attackers This 50 minute vid should of been 30

What a game. Definitely would have hoped to see more of the pirates but still a good turn out.

I wasn't planning on getting any of the pre-cons but that merfolk looks tempting

Those merfolk are aggressive! What did they put in Ixalans water?

Every preview game I've seen today, merfolk has been a problem pretty much immediately, lol.

I feel like Prof will be happy with the merfolk deck ❤

Serge makes me feel better about all the misplays I make playing commander.. .It is a difficult game to get right all the time! So many rules to follow and remember and keep track of!

Surge: I wish I had a second green source! Also Surge: refuses to use his commander's ability to dig through his deck for lands 😅

The Merfolk deck seems over powered. I like it. In a meta with more board wipes it will be more even. That Dino deck is pretty sweet too. Pirates and and Vampires looked ok but not as strong at the others.

The little tidbits and jokes with the deck introductions are awesome!

Ben took his intro advice from Jerry this time around.

I really like how you guys do your videos, it’s very easy to follow and simple. There was another channel I watched and they made it like a reality tv show but I just want to see how the new decks work…

Tishana should have entered tapped. I think elliot could have killed serge if that was seen.

Unless im remembering wrong, serge had a merfolk that gave all merfolks island walk. He couldve used smiling floods etb to give one of his opponents an island

man i keep seeing ads for the bastion xl but i cant find them ANYWHERE to buy in Brazil 😿

46:18 Eliot, what you've' done to wheeler? Poor wheeler, poor pirates... Ps: merfolk deserved all hate they received. And dinos deserved vampires invasion, post coward attacking the pirates

How did they get 2 Jim lapages? It's crazy

First of the multiple games, mere minutes into gameplay... The promised tapped lands into tapped lands. Really made my week.

What's better than one Jim/Serge? Two Jims/Serges!

Its nice that they invited Wheeler to watch everyone play Commander.

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wheelers here now!!!! well thanks for having me its great to be here

Merfolk could’ve won that if he was a bit more ruthless lol

Love a good underdog story with an overconfident antagonist 😂

I got a question for all commander players. Why do people wait till everyones turn to fetch a land at the players end step and make everyone wait till you get a land and shuffle your deck? Why not do it on your turn?

yea merfolk shoulda won that. Definitely the best of the decks

Those merfolk popped off way too hard

i hereby name this episode, wheelers choice

Chandra's Ignition in istant speed?

That picture line from wheeler sent my sides into space Honestly I was pleasantly surprised with the comedy and banter in general. A lot of the time I cringe with a lot of groups I find playing on youtube, but you guys were just great the whole time.

If I had a nickel for each commander show that was displaying the LCC Commander decks and the merfolk deck had a turn 1 sol ring, I would have two nickels, wich isn't a lot but it sure is weird it happened twice

Serge, if you didnt put land from commander then draw a card.

I have a merfolk deck. I had a dino deck wasn't a fan but definitely picking up both the fish and the lizards

My guy said he was on top of his Merfolk triggers... My guy needs to reread his commander last line of text.

im so read

why does Mr. Wheeler look like a bootleg Version of himself in the thumbnail