MASKED WOLF PLAYS MAGIC: THE GATHERING - cEDH GAMEPLAY 

Can you explain to me why you included a combo in ellivere ? I was part of the discord in the first days and the main idea seemed to be "GO FACE" as combo pieces were rather dead draws otherwise. It may have changed but I'm quite surprised. (Disclaimer : I haven't watched the video yet :D )

@@thedoctor1471 my fault on that i don't run a combo in my specific ellivere deck.. i just run pure beats.. i changed aboue 4 - 6 cards.. hope that helps .. ellivere needs no combo :)

@@MaskedWolf I agree. And if one were to include a combo I gues Heliod ballista would make more sense as Heliod can trigger Kodama. I'm also surprised you didn't play the new vampire or daunting dismantler or Kutzil.

Thanks for playing with us!! We'll keep that in mind

I do run kutzil.. as i said i went off the benevolant suppression decklist made some minor adjustments.. hope you like the vid!@@thedoctor1471

Those "4 card draw you are never gona get" its exactly the reason he didnt win right there.... if he had save them they needed 4 interaction pieces to stop him rather than 1.

This..

Couldn't you also clear the Dino with 4 pings? Since Francisco had 6 counters and still be able to combo? Combo would've failed if he had found something in the top 4 though

He had that option, but his better option would have been to just kill the Armasaur with Francisco Balista, attack with Malcolm to put another counter on Francisco Balista, and then combo.

He definetely could have

@@foddersfollies7494 or to keep the combo going while interaction is on the stack

@dasfabelwesen , I can't remember. Did Francisco have 5 or 6 counters to start? If it had 6, then he could have done it. If only 5, Cam would have needed another counter on Francisco; because all 5 points of damage from Francisco Balista would have been needed to target armasaur, so there wouldn't have been a way to trigger Francisco's explore ability.

@@foddersfollies7494it had 6 after the Agatha activation

Like at 5:48, you only get one Francisco trigger (it says "one or more")

Exactly what I was thinking and with a Rule of Law that is not possible (not enough channel cards even exist). It was a deterministic win I think.

@@ondrejbronec837 We did see a Boseiju, so theoretically it could of been done, but yee that too

That's what I was thinking. It's the same kind of thing in casual EDH with cards like Goblin Bombardment. A common misplay is sacking everything at once to deal damage, when you should do one at a time letting them resolve to force actions from your opponent that you can then respond to. Especially with a Rule of Law out. Cam had the game but didn't see it.

yes. also could’ve used bolas’s citadel to remove nate to stop the swords. but there was A LOT of things on board to keep track of, so it makes sense to miss these small things

Lots of miss plays from cam

Just about to say that

19:01 for reference

I won’t get more counters on Francisco unless I damage players. Creatures don’t count

@PlaytoWinMTG you had 6 counters so use 5 to kill the armasaur then use the one left to ping a player and get another counter which allows you to use the soul cauldron? I feel like I'm missing something obvious here lol

lol no I probably missed that. If I had 6 then yes I could

Also could have shot the Dino first as well

@@auxillaryinput Shooting the dino first would've still drawn him 5 cards and bled out most of his counters, only get more from doing dmg to a player

He had too many creatures coming at him and the ring damage was also coming at his upkeep.

It 100% could have as there was no way to really stop that interaction from going on the stack. It was a hectic turn, and most people tend to forget citadel even has that ability, so I see how he missed it in the moment.

Rule of Law was still on the battlefield when Chain was on the stack

You're definitely right.

Yep, also Rule of law was in play so 6 responses where litteraly imposible

Fixed! Thanks!

Hell yeah, thanks so much for your support!!!

@@PlaytoWinMTG genuinely, the least I could do- I've followed you guys since your first video, you're my favorite MTG channel on RU-vid, I wish I could support more! So appreciative of all of the stuff you guys put out!

Couldn't he have also just in response to swords on the stack just pulled another counter off Francisco to utilize the walking ballista ability to ping him again. I am pretty sure he had an infinite loop there. I may be wrong though.

I noticed this too, its so easy to forget about Citadels second line of text but it would have been extremely relevant in this match.

We own some cards and proxy others! Switching things back and fourth takes too much time

Because he was dealing damage to 2 players. If it says "whenever one or more creatures deal damage to a player", you can get one trigger per player being dealt damage by one or more creatures

Phantasmal enters as a copy of a creature on the board. It's not technically a Phantasmal Image anymore except for the sac ability and has the power and toughness of the creature it copied.

@Tairi2k ty, some other rulings say Dress Down resolves, and the Clone's replacement effect will not apply , making it a 0/0 that dies

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Cam remembered and sac'd it a few seconds later

You need agatha's soul cauldron in play to give your creatures the walking ballista ability.

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Not necessarily, but he chose to draw 10 cards, which given how CEDH decks are constructed was very likely to put either a way to win the game, or a way to stop someone else from winning the game in his hand, and like he pointed out himself, there was a LOT of power on the board at that time. So it's less about necro being super scary (but it is, don't get it twisted) and more about in CEDH unless you have a reason not to, it's almost always a good idea to remove a player from the game, and Dylan drawing 10 basically announced to the table "hey, I might have a way back into this game" so the two players who had the means to make sure that he didn't use them. I think this is one of the biggest differences in mindset between normal commander and CEDH games, in CEDH you have to assume that any player with 3+ cards can win the game with them, and that any cards in excess of that could be some form of interaction. (once again, not always, but it's kind of the mindset you need to be in, every SINGLE card in someone's hand can represent a way to win the game, a way to protect that win, or a way to stop YOUR win.) So yes. In a CEDH game, if you CAN kill the guy who just draw 10 cards. You usually do.