Elsha vs Breya vs Blood Pod vs Circu | Season 3 Finale 

I guess Im kinda randomly asking but do anyone know of a good place to watch new movies online?

@@jonahtristian5729 I'm not big in the pirate bay, sorry friend

@Jonah Tristian try flixzone. You can find it on google :)

So not cedh? Lol

curtin1107 agree to disagree. It becomes much harder to win quickly and efficiently with budget constraints. Just based off mana add alone

$200*

How can you say they are under $200 when the stack in this game had Joesph using $150 of countermagic

ShadowRB6 on Twitch the 200 dollar budget is an idea for future videos

We definitely are too! We've already been having fun building decks with the additional budget restriction for season 4 and we are really looking forward to seeing what deck suggestions we get

Mistress Bauble

Yeah...drove me crazy.

Yeah, he keeps saying it with a T, not sure why

my god you're right

There were multiple reasons I timed the Pyroblast when I did. First off, Jordan only had access to 1 blue mana when I cast Pyroblast, meaning he didn't have access to his full counterspell suite to protect the Remora. Secondly, I was 100% confident that Jordan was going to pay for fish and pass the turn, as he would have only had 2 cards in hand at the beginning of his turn before drawing. An early game Breya doesn't generate very much value, and with limited cards in hand, he would have wanted to keep the Remora around for card-advantage. I also wouldn't have wanted to counter Breya even if he had cast it and I had the resources to. Breya presents a very small threat to my game plan on her own. Thirdly, my opening hand and my first turn's draw was full of cards that lent themself well to early game plays. I believe I drew Copy Artifact on my first draw of the game, so waiting another turn cycle to see if he paid for fish would have not only hurt my cards draw (would have delayed Mishra's Bauble even more) but also would have drastically slowed my ramp as I would have had to wait until turn 3 to start developing my board state. The earlier card advantage and earlier ramp helped my gameplan much more than risking keeping the Remora around. Breya on turn 2 is much less scary than him having a super ramp heavy turn one into massive card advantage through Mystic Remora

@@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG but why not wait until he payed the Remora tax then destroy it? Atleast force him to spend mana and gain no benefit. The only reason I could see was he having more Mana for counter magic.

@@patrickbaillargeon7568 Getting around as much counter magic or interaction as possible was a huge reason for casting Pyroblast before Jordan's upkeep. My line of thinking was that, since he dumped his hand early, the quality of cards in his hand wasn't super great, so he needed the card advantage from Mystic Remora to re-fuel his hand. Because of this, I assumed he would fight to keep the Remora if at all possible meaning that the best time I could try to remove Remora is when Jordan had as little mana as possible, which was before he untapped. I wasn't too worried about him having 'extra' mana on his turn since he didn't have to pay for Remora because of these assumptions. Him drawing a card off of my Pyroblast after untapping presented a much larger threat to my plan. The thought process turned out to be correct when he cast Breya on his turn because, realistically, I am not too worried or concerned about an early game Breya. Overall, the decision was made to try to remove it when he had the least amount of resources to protect it, rather than try to slow down his upcoming turn.

@@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG that makes a ton of sense thanks for taking the time to talk about it

Then why not destroy it at sorcery speed? I agree about not letting him untap and get access to more mana to counter pyroblast, but since the cards he was going to draw off remora are the real issue why let the other players go through their turns first? If someone decided to not feed the fish netting a couple cards wouldnt it be troublesome as well?

100% Yes

Seasons are basically just a way for us to group commanders together. We plan and play 4 "regular season" games and the winning deck of each plays in the finale, with the favorite of each playing in a fan favorites match. Us separating into groups of 4 just makes it easier for us to personally organize, there isn't a ton of reasoning outside of that. While we were playing remote we strayed away from organised, seasonal games since it was really difficult to manage and build the different decks, so those ones aren't really part of any season. All in all, the seasonal structure is more for our organization than anything

These are manly 10/10 cEDH decks, while they’re nearly as optimized as they could be with their commander, they aren’t the best of the best unlike the 10/10 decks such as Thrasios advantage, Teferi Chain veil, Gitrog, and Kess, among many others.

@@wyattdowning6742 Ok but then they're implying the difference between an "8" ranking, "9" ranking, and "10" ranking is only a few cards. That's silly. It's like they're trying to humble brag but don't want to seem like they aren't playing entirely maxed out decks. They should just admit these are 9's at MINIMUM and probably still count them as 10's.

Dr. Kuhn I mean not really, a commander can only go so far into the power level, I’d agree that Elsha and Bloodpod are 9s. I have decks that are around 8-9 power level and they play similarly to these, calling these 10s wouldn’t be right because 10 is best of the best which these are not, this is semi competitive gameplay, not full cEDH

It's more the fact that they aren't on a lot of important cards in their lists. Some are lacking duals. Joseph's deck is a lot worse without Lion's eye diamond. Breya not running consultation. Things like that. They are not optimized, however in a no proxy situation they are realistic to what people expect.

@@wyattdowning6742 That's quite the blurry line. You realize there' are different levels of competitive right? Not "semi" competitive. These decks are all combo decks trying to go off instantly. They're just as much competitive as all the other decks you're listing.

We usually differentiate between "engines" and "wincons" like, you rarely actually cast isochron scepter when you don't have dramatic reversal either. Brain freeze is more of an engine than a win con. You use it to mill (draw) your library with breach and LED/petal/dramatic. You couldn't play oracle instead of freeze, you would have to play it in addition. Engine cards get you to the state where you have all the cards in your deck available. Win cons win the game after you have all the cards in your deck available. Therfore, if your only way to win with that win con is when you have infinite everything, it's unnessecary. This is opposed to in like a consult deck, where you can win with thoracle without having infinite mana/your whole deck in hand.

Yeah I'm in the same camp unfortunately

The Angels Grace would prevent him from losing the game

Because it would have given him the chance to untap while still drawing that extra card. I wanted the remora on the battlefield for my other opponent's turns to dissuade them from playing cards, but I wanted to destroy it before Jordan got too many chances to find answers he had the Mana to cast

@@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG i don't follow your explanation. At that point he hadn't drawn any cards yet, only the one from you casting the Pyroblast, so if you wait until his turn he has to decide to either pay the tax to keep it around or not, which if he does it strains his mana so he can't cast Breya that same turn if he doesn't draw a land (that could also be the one he got from the pyroblast). At that point you still can Pyroblast a threat he casts or decide to blast the fish before your turn. Also, please take this comment as me trying to understand the thought process, not being an a**hole. Your vids help a lot in understanding these plays and that's why i wanted more detail on it. Thanks!!

@@arnauabello6464 The big reason for the timing is that I needed the Remora gone since I kept an opening hand that had a decent amount of early gameplays that would have fed the fish. I wasn't afraid of an early Breya necessarily, but I was scared of a multi-turn Remora which would set me back multiple turns. To fix this issue I waited until my other two opponents played around fish and then attempted to destroy the Remora before Jordan had access to more than 1 mana. If I had waited until after his upkeep to see if he'd pay for it (which most likely he would have since he needed to re-fill his hand) he would have access to counter magic that required more than 1 mana. I am fairly confident, at that point in the game, he would have paid for fish and held up mana rather than play Breya since Breya offers no real early game value. If he had done that it's less likely I would have been able to remove it, and if Remora had stayed around my entire early game plan would have been drastically slowed down.

@@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG the timing makes much more sense now. Thanks for the answer and keep up the good work, content is great!

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Casually Competitive MTG thank you! We will look at some arms and webcams. Thanks again for the great content!

For a channel that is called "CASUALLY competitive" it certainly plays a lot of tainted pact combo decks, not sure exactly how that is casual lol, it does get boring though

@@mgarratt101 How is almost anything on this channel casual? That's just to say that they do not play tier 1 decks only.

@@orsettomorbido Change the name then

There's only about 4-5 cards that need to realistically be played from the graveyard to get the combo going. Isochron, not forgotten, a Mana rock or two and rolling earthquake

The big thing I was scared of was some breya shenanigans. Jordan kept asking to see cards in graveyards so I assumed if I milled everyone he could do something

Waiting until he untapped and had access to additional counter magic was the biggest reason Pyroblast was cast early. Jordans hand was empty so it was safe to assume he'd protect the remora if possible. Casting it when he was low on resources added to the chances that it'd be successfully removed

@@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG The player put basically his whole hand into play turn 1, I cannot imagine they would have more gas after that. I understand your thinking but doing it in the player's upkeep before they drew would of made them waste mana and possible time walk them.

@@sawgrasssewinginc8106 The thing to consider is that people generally keep opening hand with some type of control. It's not unlikely his opening hand contained some counter or way to protect his remora so keeping him low on Mana seemed worth it, especially since he dumped his hand and would fight for the remora if possible. It's also important to note that me as the Elsha player really needed the remora gone so I could start playing the game, so I couldn't risk him having a 2 CMC counterspell or some type of other protection he could have utilized with additional Mana. Also him losing 1 Mana on his turn by paying seemed irrelevant with the amount of overall Mana he had. It was likely that he had no other really big spells to play meaning the 1 Mana wasn't that useful anyway

@@CasuallyCompetitiveMTG Fair point, if removing a permanent is that important you must do it when shields are down for sure.

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I agree. Maybe it's just me, but I feel a bit of smugness (is that a word haha) from each win too, lol. Something about the narrator winning his own game and going on about it just makes me feel some kind of way.

Maybe in case of an eldrazi in libraries?

@@odisseas2570 I don't think that's something to worry about in cEDH

@@xHXCMAYOKIDx Well depends, Anje and Gitrog use them in their loops for example. Niche, but maybe for that?

@@odisseas2570 I see your point. Probably just playing it safe I suppose.

Si te avientas a jugar unos juegos, tal vez te darás cuenta

Your comment needs to be a lot longer to be called a rant, especially on the internet xD

That's how cedh is. The cheapest fastest most consistent win combos. This might not be the format for you

It's the journey that counts, not the destination.

It's almost like they're playing competitive MtG or something...

DarkEinherjar how can you honestly enjoy watching predictable matches that end with the same 3-5 cards?

@@NiaTheMilkTank the channel is called Casually Competitive, what exactly is casual about running the same combos over and over? They don't use duel lands, is that it?