Greven vs Yarok vs Tymna | Vial Smasher vs Golos EDH / CMDR game play for Magic: The Gathering 

I never thought about it , using hostage taker as a blinker. My mind is blown

My thought exactly! What an amazing play!

I’m gonna start doing that in my yarok deck 😂

il be honnest i completly forgot abou that big brain play haha

I was going to say this exact thing and am completely unsurprised someone beat me to it. Even if this wasn't the first time its been done, utterly brilliant line of play

Yea, in hindsight I probably shouldn't have been as worried about Max one-shotting people as I was.

@@MTGMuddstah Was that the final spell to get spell mastery for your tutor? I was thinking that was the rationale for casting it at that point in the game which helped you get to bolas's citadel.

Even putting aside saving the Wear/Tear for later, I think Reclamation would definitely have been the right choice over Charcoal Diamond. One mana is nothing compared to drawing 7 off of Traxos repeatedly for 6 mana and 9 life.

Greven can be super scary but that yarok board state early on was just as nasty

@@BangThatGong Yea, its an easy trap to fall into. Value decks usually go unpunished early and then get to a point you cant handle them mid/late.

the great early ramp from the yarok player should have signaled them the incoming threat, too bad they didn't respond properly.

Aggro tends to play Archenemy by presenting inmediate threats, sad but true.

Haha man talk about threat evaluation

I’ve got a high level Yarok deck and it’s for sure the combination of the two. Tutors to get your line of play but he uses the double etbs as a control/tempo play, blowing up commanders/artifacts/enchantments left and right while being able to recur 2 cards that you need is huge.

Tutoring is pretty strong

yeah.. it can even fetch black lands now

😂😂😂😂😂

@@leonamfernandesdasilva9012 it was mountain and swamp

@@dave7592 you didn't get, it was a simples joke, because he said one name and the img was another, so i said that the card he played not only changed art but even was more powerful so that he could get 3 types of land

Footed woodhills op

Yeah value Commanders are boring, Yarok, Korbold, Golos and Chulane are so easy to build around

Yeah I skipped to the end of the video before even watching because I predicted Yarok would win and, lo and behold, he was so far ahead of everyone it was a joke. I just don't understand how people enjoy playing blatantly overpowered shit.

@@Rafesco indeed, I had a Chulane-deck and it just was not fun to play. Broke it up a few days ago to strengthen my Arixmethes- and Ghave-decks with the cards from it.

@@Rafesco oh, and I'd want to add Kenrith to that list as well. A friend of mine has one with five color good stuff and nobody likes playing against it.

This game was filmed in late 2019. The list has changed several times since then I'm afraid.

idk i got it off amazon iirc

I'm picking up my box this Friday. I will be livestreaming the opening on Monday, November 23rd, and building an EDH boxing league deck from it. Martin, Nick, Max and I will be playing our boxing league decks on November 24th if things go as planned.

@@MTGMuddstah me (Joel) and Dom are also picking up our boxes on Friday.

I got it off amazon

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Yarok isn't about speed. As you can see from this game, Yarok gets stronger the longer the game goes on. Also, run some counter spells!

I guess it depends the level of play you see but green is hardly the best colour in Commander. That honour goes to black, followed by blue. Everything else is a support colour.

@@philllllllll if you said that from the command zone analisis, I'm afraid you're a little bit outdated, every year green and simic combination followed by a golgari had always have poweful cards in each set. Green is easily the best colour for ramp and nowadays green could refill his hand alone without black or blue, ten years ago the best card draw in green was harmonize, now is pretty outdated and most list don't even run it. In the video it was pretty clear that Woodland bellower, chord of calling and Yarok were the most powerful cards in play, yeah it was Palinchron who generated infinite mana, but it was chord of calling (a green card) and Yarok who enable the combo.

@@Rafesco the best colour for ramp is colourless. Artifacts are by far more efficient. I'm not basing my opinion off of any stupid article but off my 22 years of experience playing the game. Green is powerful at lower levels of play but it's not the strongest colour in Commander. Not even close. Black has the best card draw. Black has the best tutors. Black has the best wincon enablers. Black has some of the best control, second only to blue. Green's efficient ramp is the 1cmc dorks you can play. Otherwise it's actually worse than your standard mana rocks you can play like signets. But you look at things like Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox, Mana Vault, etc. And they're all BETTER than the best ramp green has to offer. As for card draw, green relies too much on specific board states to draw. Necropotence, Wheel of Fortune, Windfall are all stupidly strong.

@@philllllllll yeah my opinion is based on casual powerlevel and yeah from a competitive standpoint the mana vault, moxes, the crypt are undoubtly the most powerful ramp in the game, unfortunatly those cards see play in less than 10 percent of commander tables (unless proxies are allowed). From cedh and near cedh and even not really cedh but budgetless versions of some Commanders, I guess blue is the superior colour followed closely by black because of the OP tutors and enablers, but away from that green is the most versatile colour on any table

@@Rafesco for sure, casual is a different game. But I wouldn't say that green is far and away the best colour at casual tables. The problem is that nobody plays enough answers. I play a Titania deck and I can freely sacrifice ALL of my lands to create an army of chunky tokens because I am confident my opponents won't play a board wipe to get rid of them. That's the problem. People want to play with their toys and they figure for every answer they slot in, that's a toy they slot out.

Actually, more recent trend is to rename it Grixis Masters. But sultai is fine too

Tymna is the best commander in the format.

It's the kind of deck where the commander needs to be kept off the table at all times, no exceptions. Without Yarok the deck will still generate plenty of value, but not nearly as explosively.

I'm not against blink or ETB abuse, but there's something with Yarok that I simply don't like. I think that if he only duplicates one ETB per turn It would be a better card design.

Yarok doesn't really do much for the deck. It's just a "win more" card. You just play good powerful cards in Sultai colors and if you have the time and space to cast Yarok you do but... Deck doesn't really rely on him to win. Dom was playing good cards because they're good. Lots of people play cards that are gimmicky or fit a theme but don't necessarily help them win.

@@philllllllll I don't think Yarok is a competitive commander, but leaving him alone for a moment produces a lot of value in the same way Chulane and Korbold does. If you see the video it was clearly that was Yarok the MVP of the game not Chord of Calling nor Palinchron, those cards acted as finishers not enablers. Yarok easily double like a dozen of permanents ETB's in that game. They leave him long enough to cripple all other players with their artifact and enchantment removal, and from there he win with card advantage and pure value.

Remember you can tap green creatures to pay for the green part with Convoke.

do it!