Middle-Earth Madness | Extra Turns 47 | Magic: The Gathering Lord of the Rings Commander Gameplay

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Show Notes:
The Command Zone crew is venturing back into Middle-earth for a truly immersive Extra Turns showdown. Rachel Weeks has prepared a perfectly balanced pod of upgraded precons, using ONLY in-universe Lord of the Rings cards. Do these bolstered hobbits, humans, and elves stand a chance against the new and improved forces of Sauron? Find out as JLK, Jake, and Murph face off with Rachel to find out which deck will rule them all.
It’s Sauron vs. Galadriel vs. Eowyn vs. Frodo & Sam
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Deck Lists:
Rachel’s Sauron:
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Jake’s Galadriel:
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Murph’s Eowyn:
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JLK’s Frodo & Sam:
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Credits:
Directed by: Jake Boss
Executive Producer: Josh Lee Kwai
Co-Producer: Jimmy Wong
Edited by: Eric Lindvall
VFX, GFX: Eric Lindvall
Additional Editing: Megan Yip
Sound Mix: Eric Lindvall
Post Production Supervisor/Director of Photography: Jake Boss
Deck Coordinator: Rachel Weeks
Intro Theme Arrangement: Jake Boss
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@NerdoftheRings 29 дней назад

I heard I've been summoned! :) Gollum is 100% a hobbit. His kind are the Stoors, which is one of three varieties of hobbit. The film line where Frodo says "you were not so different from a hobbit once" has led many to a false assumption over the years, unfortunately. Saying Gollum (a Stoor) isn't a hobbit (or the way the Rings of Power folks say Harfoots aren't hobbits for that matter) is a bit like saying "This creature isn't a dog, it's a labrador!"

@JordanPridgen 28 дней назад

Hell yeah #hobbitfacts

@therachelweeks 28 дней назад

This is great to know and exactly where the confusion came from! Thanks for the clarification.

@commandcast 28 дней назад

The authority hath spoken!! Thanks Matt. We gotta get you out to LA to come play some Magic with us again!! -JLK

@abrahamwilliams2280 28 дней назад

@@commandcast Smegal, or gollum, is a kin to hobbits. He was exiled from a community of halfing like folk, that lived on the river and he killed his cousin, to get the ring and slowly became gollum. His life and death was heavly entwined with th ring and the pitty of the other halflings was crutial for success.

@nickmason2310 27 дней назад

Sorry to be THAT GUY, but... source? I haven't dug much into the HoME or the like, but from what's in LOTR, Gandalf says of Gollum's people, "I guess that they were of hobbit-kind; akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors, for they loved the river, and often swam in it, or made little boats of reeds." It's more like saying "that creature isn't a dog, it's a wolf!" in my understanding. Edit: Just to add a source, since I'm being *that guy*, this is from the Shadow of the Past chapter.

@TheAuthor597 28 дней назад

As a huge Lord of the Rings fan and command zone fan. 'This episode was never late, nor was it early, it arrived precisely when it meant to.' Great content as always 🙂

@zephyrus2569 29 дней назад

Ackshually, Gollum is absolutely a hobbit. He's from a group of hobbits very distantly related to the Brandybucks that never migrated over the mountains to the Shire. All the other differences are due to keeping the Ring for 500 years and being twisted and mutated by it.

@putdownthreads 29 дней назад

I wonder if the powers that mutated Gollum could be considered the same forces that mutated Elves into Orcs in the Silmarillion

@doomclaw9787 29 дней назад

He was a hobbit but was also an early ancestor called the Stoorish hobbits from a different place. Just an interesting fact.

@victormanjarinsala2253 29 дней назад

@@putdownthreadsGollum didn't really mutate or was affected by external forces (besides the ring). He was just corrupted and consumed by the ring. Also he's like 600 years old, which doesn't help keeping a good appearance I wager!

@shadowstrike4262 29 дней назад

Also it shows in the first movie a bit of golems past, he was a Hobbit and killed his friend to claim the precious ring

@bryceosborne4357 29 дней назад

@@shadowstrike4262 nah mate that was his birthday present!

@docauch5938 29 дней назад

Rachel: I will cast Sauron, and bring out my second Sauron. Jake: In response, I will make a 1/1 and hope to Scry.

@quesog32 29 дней назад

I absolutely love how much everybody (except Jake) was nerding out with the Lord of the Rings quotes and references in this.

@jakebossmtg4899 29 дней назад

What the heck is a lembas??

@TuneL0wDieSl0w 28 дней назад

he did say, " PO-TA-TOES" when everyone was referencing that sam and gollum scene lol

@bartoszkuzminski3709 27 дней назад

@@jakebossmtg4899 elven bread

@SonnigesDeutschland 26 дней назад

Speak, friend, and ENTER A WORLD OF PAIN XD

@Lycandros 29 дней назад

That felt like the most Hobbits of wins. Hiding as a non-threat as bigger powers go after each other, then coming in like a blade in the dark to finish the the biggest threats then winning the game with an eating contest.

@markuskramer8666 28 дней назад

That’s how Josh likes to play lol he aims his opponents at each other meanwhile preserving his resources unless he absolutely has to. Sweeping in at the end when his opponents are out of resources and out valuing them.

@semicolon_cancer1243 28 дней назад

Accompanied by Josh complaining he is behind the whole game, with a full grip and high life total. It's predictable at this point, but it is what it is.

@weirdo82 26 дней назад

@@semicolon_cancer1243 Except he was behind, for pretty much the whole game? The two biggest threats were mostly dealing with each other, and he allied with the elf player who was consistently stronger than him for most of the game but never in a position to challenge the two biggest threats. You can call it being "sneaky", but he didnt overpopulate his board, didn't make himself the threat, and was playing a deck by FAR more subtle than most of the table. Commander 101: You overextend, and you lose the most in a board wipe. You become the threat, everyone gangs up on you. You try to end the game quickly, you often lose to the players trying to play slowly. Etc etc etc etc.

@wtfire 29 дней назад

At 23:00 Josh got SOOO salty at having to use premium removal to save his Commander 🤣Good play by Jake 👏

@hamzasaber4245 28 дней назад

Josh since the beginning was a little bit disappointed with his commanders not doing much on the table, but that is how Frodo deck works, behind the scenes until it hits 🎯

@MasterMaximo5 29 дней назад

Jake: "That's a Wraith. It's from Stargate Atlantis." That made me smile and laugh so hard.

@Argusthecat 29 дней назад

I loved the straight faced "What are you guys TALKING about." right before it.

@andrewlindenschmidt5533 29 дней назад

Words i never thought I'd hear Josh say "I path your birds of paradise" 😂

@FistKoozie 29 дней назад

I see rachel weeks? I click

@UN.SUNG-ZERO 29 дней назад

s i m p i n '

@trevormceuen6216 29 дней назад

Me tooooo I love Rachel!

@tatecarter60 29 дней назад

@@UN.SUNG-ZEROyou’re the guy with the sus anime pfp. Some times people are fans of people for non sexual reasons, even if they’re women 😱

@ldsjim 29 дней назад

Damn right, she’s a legend!

@lanceholtz444 29 дней назад

I also enjoy her as a host. She is not obnoxious.

@TeaGarrison 29 дней назад

This is the same concept I used to get my brother and friends into Magic about a year ago! I love that Rachel had the same idea.

@j-dubz2349 28 дней назад

This is how I got my dad to play. Now he's more addicted than I am.

@Hurricane1990 13 дней назад

I bought all 4 precons and upgraded them with only cards from the set as well. I think I have a well balanced pod of 4 decks. Its very fun to play.

@elWhiteNinja1 29 дней назад

the wraith king: "you go that way...I'll go home."

@Jaksonbaus 28 дней назад

Wee-oh Wee-Oh Wee-Oh Wee

@covertgoblue 24 дня назад

Just a comment to say Rachel’s baddie voice is a true hidden gem

@travis_approved 24 дня назад

My playgroup got all of the lotr decks together and I am currently in the process of turning them into a battle box! They were a little underwhelming out of the box, and a lot of the upgrades I made match what you did, but these decks are going to be EXTREMELY helpful in getting me the rest of the way there. Thank you Rachel!

@crawdaddy2004 29 дней назад

Path to Exiling a BoP is one of the strangest plays I’ve ever seen. 😂 INSTEAD OF A MANA DORK, YOU WILL HAVE A LAND!

@tigerwarrior1787 29 дней назад

Office meme: They're the same thing...

@crawdaddy2004 29 дней назад

@@tigerwarrior1787 Ummmm… that was my point.

@rhenestofel 28 дней назад

This was awesome and I loved the ending, but I never expected Josh to play the Hobbits, and Rachel as Sauron definitely became a threat quickly. Great decks Rachel!

@nimalith6143 28 дней назад

I don't really know if thats just me, but I really loved how cozy those more thematic decks feels

@foreal7712 29 дней назад

Played against my friend’s Eowyn deck this past weekend and it snowballs so fast!

@iancunningham9297 29 дней назад

Rachel Weeks is always peak content. Also love the LOTR set!

@hyoroemongaming569 23 дня назад

peak = good God these millenial buzzword

@JT-ft7jo 29 дней назад

didn't need to salt my food watching this game, it was provided abundantly.

@wulfender327 28 дней назад

OMG! Yes! "Thats a Wraith, thats Stargate Atlantis." Loved!!!!! That reference!!!!!

@WayneyMTG 29 дней назад

"You...go get her...he's read the books" 🤣

@mikes7423 29 дней назад

would love to see these decks play again in a future extra turns. Was a very enjoyable watch.

@TheSPARTANusm 28 дней назад

I enjoyed most of the video, but the part that made me actually lol the hardest was in Josh’s pitch for the Vessi shoes when he’s replying to Jimmy about hiking and says “oh I don’t, I just like to look like I might” while nodding.

@sethriehl4905 24 дня назад

Naming the elf Doug must make Brandon Sanderson proud.

@dougiedoug7543 29 дней назад

I am Doug from Michigan! 😂 spooky

@kryptoxeen5261 28 дней назад

Hello, fellow Michigander.

@GalaxyHap 25 дней назад

Hello from Pennsylvania!

@lunatickgeo 28 дней назад

Kudos to Rachel on building brilliant decks! I'm a fan of token building decks so having four at a time was a treat!

@kyidro День назад

Honestly this has been my favorite Extra Turns yet!

@christopherlayne-te8kj 28 дней назад

I started playing magic in 1995 in elementary school, i stopped playing around early 2000 and got back into it during the pandemic and started watchingnyiu guys first. You all are the ones that lit the fire again so thank you and magic is just as fun as ever but damn if it ain't expensive playing commander lol.

@jacobtrahan1993 28 дней назад

I remember hearing about these decks a while back and I’m happy they are getting seen on xtra turns!

@Lumi_xoxo2 29 дней назад

I am literally working on my Eowyn deck with my friend right now 🤣.

@Agaures 29 дней назад

What an incredible game! I love the idea of in-set upgrades to the LoTR decks.

@kstephenson5857 26 дней назад

Great game! Watching Murph and Josh get into an intermittent salt-off while Jake and Rachel just enjoy themselves was constantly entertaining

@crawdaddy2004 29 дней назад

14:11 If Lord of the Rings and Lord of the Flies had a baby: Lord of the Flings. 😂 That sounds like a very different type of film.

@rudysal1429 29 дней назад

Lord of the elflings

@crawdaddy2004 29 дней назад

@@rudysal1429 😂

@purpleBookworm765 22 дня назад

Isn't that Brion Stoutarm?

@crawdaddy2004 22 дня назад

@@purpleBookworm765 Only if you’re thinking PG. 😂

@GarnettLeary 29 дней назад

Sweet theme! Really fun to watch. The story unfolded as it should. Thanks for sharing.

@griff_mtg6311 28 дней назад

So much flavor here in this episode. Rachel piloting Sauron with the Eye of Sauron in her right eye 😅

@natehiggins6441 29 дней назад

My Sam/Frodo food deck is called, "What's Taters?!" Love it!

@tigerwarrior1787 29 дней назад

PO-TA-TOES!!! Boil em, mash em, stick in a stew. *Gollum grumbles abundantly*

@danielkrona4091 29 дней назад

An episode that arrived just when it was needed! Perfect.

@chummer2060 28 дней назад

I love this concept. Cool to have a pod in a box so everything is fairly well balanced.

@andreasmueller337 29 дней назад

This is exactly what I did. I split up the Sauron precon in Sauron the dark lord focussing on ringwraiths and reanimator plus a second spellslinger deck led by Saruman the white hand. The elf deck is led by Arwen Undomiel (scry plus elfball) and the other two are close to the precon. ❤❤❤❤❤

@704Sypher 27 дней назад

Ive been keeping all of the universe's beyond commander decks bone standard in the BCW 4 XL deck boxes for precisely this reason; it's fun to have an in-universe pod of decks to be able to bust out board game style. Love it.

@Someoneelse415 28 дней назад

Love these decks! Thanks for playing them!

@godeck1121 29 дней назад

Always appreciate extra turns i actually fall asleep to the playlist every night 😅

@jacobnestle3805 29 дней назад

I have an Eowyn Shieldmaiden deck (upgraded precon) and it's a ton of fun. I've just leaned hard on the Human tribal!

@mong0038 28 дней назад

This was my favorite extra turns episode to date. I liked hearing more of the banter and some mistakes like the deck falling.

@mmmbetter55 20 дней назад

Rachel went full midwestern with "He's workin on potatoes..." 😅

@TheDortmunderJungs 27 дней назад

love it!! me and my friends also have lotr commander rounds with pure in world decks, very cool to see this also on screen from you guys! i got into magic because of lotr, so hopeing to see more of this in the future

@JonnySniper243 29 дней назад

I play all of the Commanders myself. Love this so much.

@rayaarianakobe3348 29 дней назад

Galadriel is my first commander. I love her and so excited to see this video

@andyik9009 28 дней назад

The line: ''Sam will trigger Sauron.'' Did make me chuckle. YOU LITTLE SHIT DID WHAT WITH MY RING?!

@lildecker72 29 дней назад

The “what’s taters” joke just completely missed but I’m here for it😂😂😂

@Pishcott85 29 дней назад

I don't know why, but everytime I see Rachel playing I immediately love the game more....

@roydenhunt 28 дней назад

I made a Lord of the rings only deck when the set first came out. It's full of so much power. It was a great build exercise!!

@2andahalfletsplayer503 29 дней назад

One of the best episodes yet, great work!

@andrewyarker7678 29 дней назад

Loved this concept. A re-match would be awesome 😎

@TAJSAllDay 29 дней назад

Josh giving Murph hell the entire episode kept me laughing lol.

@hamzasaber4245 29 дней назад

Josh is playing my fav commander, a dream came true ❤

@DrumsTheWord 21 день назад

I love Rachel's laugh! So infectious!

@StretchyPlays 28 дней назад

Oh this is sweet, I actually did the exact same thing, bought all four precons and upgraded them with LotR cards to play in a pod. Excited to see a different take on this and how it plays together.

@jonathanwilliams7161 28 дней назад

Love this video! Tons of "flavor" in this episode! ❤️

@MadHashashin 28 дней назад

The diss on straight up Path to Exiling the Birds was insane xD Gigantic Eowyn and Undying Nazgul on board and poor bird just took it to the face, one of the reasons I love EDH

@MakerAcreNinjaNetwork 21 день назад

Doug from Michigan, the Elven Hero they dreamed of!! 😂😂❤

@Alphademongel 28 дней назад

So my wife and I have had LOTR only Eowyn and Sauron, the Dark Lord decks since the LOTR sets dropped. This episode is awesome!

@yuen4817 26 дней назад

A perfect episode. Love the amount of things going on

@franklingauthier-parker7253 25 дней назад

What fun! I played the Food and Fellowship deck (no mods) with my group recently and pulled off a win with exact lethal against a much stronger grw dino deck. The hobbits do a great job of making life-gain feel meaningful

@stephenbrynildsen1874 23 дня назад

Count Chonkula made me laugh SO HARD

@Aldrnari956 29 дней назад

I did something like this with the LotR decks I got. I upgraded them using only cards from the LotR set. I ended up with a similar kind of battle box. I did end up switching the 4 strategies up to varying degrees. The human deck now has the Aragorn at its helm and ended up leaning more into the monarch theme. For the elves, I used Galadriel, Light of Valenor to make it 3 color like the other decks and unify some of those disparate strategies. The Hobbit and Mordor decks are the least changed since they tend to be the most powerful out the box.

@rodolfog.8087 29 дней назад

I just want to say that I did the exact same thing, Rachel 🥰 Glad to see I am not the only one who cares about the vorthos experience of these 😁

@cstock56 26 дней назад

josh and rachel’s ‘yes and’ attitude with each other is so endearing and shows up as great chemistry on camera. singing the orc’s theme together is adorable.

@craigjewell4720 28 дней назад

The more I watch Command Zone, the more convinced I am that Rachel is my EDH Spirit Animal. I've done the same thing with my LOTR. My Elf deck uses the Bant Galadriel and "Human" use Aragorn the Uniter, which leans a little into Legendaries as well.

@nicolascasime9248 29 дней назад

Wow. Have all of the lotr precons, and upgraded them. I immediately removed prize pig because I thought it was absolutely trash... but I had misread it! It's a powerhouse in the deck. Thought it was only 1 ribbon for each instance of life gained, not for each life Gained. Adding it to the deck right away! Amazing video btw

@jslrnzrbntn 29 дней назад

I think Jimmy's hair gets messier and messier every video.

@xanderjones6239 29 дней назад

That's what happens when you become a dad

@weedragonauts4729 29 дней назад

he's a red player

@thefinoll1535 29 дней назад

Rachel Weeks? YES PLEASE!

@ryanmann5497 29 дней назад

I’m thrilled the best deck won 😊 I loved the Frodo/sam deck the most in that set

@Crushanator1 29 дней назад

awesome. I got all the precons for exactly doing this but the power out of the box is a bit all over the place, so these upgrades and tweaks look very cool

@maxinesenior596 27 дней назад

I still miss when the health totals were on the extra turns overlay

@DarkMewtwo1994 29 дней назад

I love episodes with Jake and murph! Great job everyone keep up the great work ❤😊 episodes like this is what commander should be for sure. I had a similar idea that I left the Warhammer 40k precons all in tact and just sleeved em up, but definitely Wana just upgrade them to be on around the same power level so they don't feel so preconny like Rachel did :) ty for the idea!

@Underhill77 17 дней назад

“Rachel Weeks made all the decks” that’s all I need to hear to know it’s a good game. That woman can craft!

@fushioon 28 дней назад

Great episode! I kinda wish we hadn't gotten spoiled in the intro but otherwise loved the interactions of the cube.

@Cleansweep38 25 дней назад

Good job Rachel! think that thou the elves had some great play, it seemed to have a slow engine, compared to the other decks. I’m not familiar with the cards and am not as experienced as any of you folks, but maybe there’s a land, artifact, or enchantment, that might be helpful. I was rooting for the elves, but the way Rachel’s engine was working, I thought she would win for sure. Very impressive!

@Micro_Tyrant_Games 29 дней назад

It's funny you said "hobits aren't know for attacking, they're known for sneaking" back when the LotR TCG was a thing, people often played a hobit sneak deck, but not me. I had the hobit beat-down deck. It relied on some good equipment for them, like Sting and the Mithril Armor, but also I had all the followers that removed wound counters, so basically they'd take a lot of damage, but then heal it by passing around the wounds. It was so fun and people never saw it coming.

@Ujabzaktok 27 дней назад

Not but most of the threat assessment hurt my head, still an amazing episode, and loved the flavor of the decks so much.

@devindabney198 25 дней назад

I love that the hobbits won by having elevensies 😂

@ItzSwarley 29 дней назад

Really fun episode. Love to see it

@chrisramsey5017 21 день назад

"yay the boss wins again" -- the underlings, probably.

@danielgoldberg2129 26 дней назад

I’ve been a huge LoTR fan for decades and was super excited when this set came out. I ended up building two LoTR themed decks and they’re both led by the bad guys, Lord of the Nazgul and Sméagol. It’s fun having 9 Nazgul in each deck. I don’t know why I’m not interested in building any of the Fellowship characters.😊

@Sithlordmikep 16 дней назад

This episode is so awesome!!! I am currently using the commander Rachel used and I learned a lot from this episode. It would be so cool if card kingdom and command zone did a collaboration to where they have these as special pre cons. I would so buy all of them!!!! Or maybe in the future to where they have command zone edition precons

@xanderasherclegain5710 29 дней назад

My guy missed the opportunity to use that entire line so I finished it aloud for him lol

@Doombot8336684 16 дней назад

This is a makeup for the original Upgrade guide for this deck. Instead of upgrading the deck I for Frodo and Sam, they picked to base it around Merry and Pippin. People were in an uproar over that.

@MerpDerp-hz9tt 29 дней назад

“That’s a wraith from Stargate Atlantis” 😂

@bigmustaoficial8996 29 дней назад

“He’s not done yet” jake is hilarious!

@LddStyx 23 дня назад

One could interpret the ending as a cultural victory.

@ElmoTheRed 29 дней назад

when murph drops the deck across the table was great

@ehsanrahee7411 29 дней назад

I've been working on the exact same concept for my LOTR precons. So far I've only fully upgraded the Hobbits deck. The only differences I'm planning are to use 100% LOTR cards only, and I'm swapping the Sauron commander to The Dark Lord, and the Elves one to the newer 3-colour Galadriel (Light of Valinor). The latter is the weakest imo, so maybe having more colour options and keeping it tribal will work.

@HenkRobbemondt 29 дней назад

I have those decks, and switched the commanders exactly as you said. The elves deck definitely needs the most love with the commander

@ehsanrahee7411 29 дней назад

@@HenkRobbemondt any specific recommendations? I haven't had a chance to even think about it in months now. Too many new, shiny precons and deck ideas for my ADHD ass lol.

@alexanderthurber4257 29 дней назад

Just finished my lotr limited hobit and rohan decks yall reading my minds

@chiragasnani3437 28 дней назад

Awesome video! I don't know MTG very well, but I'm surprised the ring tempting doesn't work like monarch, where only one person can have a ringbearer at a time (for lore reasons), but I guess that would mess up the cards. Still very cool seeing a themed commander match, hope to see more, maybe for Assassins Creed!