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So this is basically a 20 min video about how Joey built a graveyard deck for his mom. Which is obviously the biggest demonstration of love that exists.
This video is sneaky valuable. It shows the process of deckbuilding, the success, but also failures of trying to find what makes a deck tick in a condensed form. I'm currently struggling to find a good deck with Nissa, Vastwood Seer and this video gave me new strength to try again. Never give up, people! ✌
People can poke fun, but this video made me tear up. Your relationship with your mom is enviable, Joey. It was so cool to hear a full deck building process, not just a deci tech. Loved this video!
The best part of the video is where you say that you built this deck for your mom and not anybody else. I think it's great to see the process. It's also awesome that your family all plays.
I liked the story of deck buliding! It really shows how difficult it can be find what works for you for a given commander. I would enjoy more in depth videos like this for future commanders!
I’m so glad your family had such a great time. Thank you for putting this out Joey. I recently lost my mother and it’s so heartwarming to see something like this. Best to you and your family ❤️
This was a delight to listen to while I was goofing around trying to theorize some decks of my own (If anyone actally wonders they're all looking like total chaos atm xP) but more importantly! Joey! Super happy for you and your mom for "Tasha's Tasha deck" xD (That'll crack me up for the next couple weeks) and much respect and love for going through all of those iterations, tests and everything else to try and make the deck function for someone dear to you! It warms my heart everytime I see such a warm and bright soul, also on that note I love the whole EDHRECast thing you all do! I've been listening and watching through both new and old podcasts and just listening to you three joking around while beeing so informative brings tons of joy! Much love from Norway! (Do people still say this..?/does anyone care even >.>) I also now realize that I should've probably spaced this out or made a pragraph cut here or there... Sorry not sorry but this ain't my fort'e >.< If anyone actually read through this I'm sorry for the mess... :x But thanks for taking the time! :D
This is a sweet list! PW commanders are tricky, and a theme so broad like UB stealing doesn't help, but I like the direction you took. And your love for your mom is infectious, really made my day!
It's so sweet how much time and effort you put into making both the deck and the video for your mom. Absolutely loved this! (My mom plays Magic tooooo!)
Hey I just wanted to say, I love all your videos! I don't always say it, and I'm sure there are others like me who enjoy these so much without commenting, but every deck analysis you make is so interesting to me! I often get bored by commander youtube channels, but you continuously bring so much insight to it that I look forward to each upping the average you make, and videos like this prove how your unique way of looking at things goes beyond upping the average and just is who you are. This was a long comment, but I hope you get the chance to read it, and I hope there aren't too many haters on this video ❤️
I really appreciated this video. Tasha is the card that brought me back to Magic as an adult after playing 17 years ago in school. I thought I had a great deck sorted out but I only ever really won by milling, and that wasn't what I wanted to do. It wasn't what was fun. I related so much to all the lessons you mentioned in here, and after staying up past midnight staring at a 140+ card decklist it felt like such a relief to see that I'm not the only one who found Tasha to be challenging to build. 😅 I'm definitely going to check out your final 100.
Very sweet video. Loved to see the thought process and testing that went into a deck. I was excited about this one when it was revealed, so it’s great to see a breakdown of the different approaches to building it.
Joey suggesting a graveyard deck in the end. What a twist! I really liked this video. Not only because it’s teaching about deck building but that it’s OK to stop and start again.
Just saw the video with your mom yesterday And let me tell you, she has absolutely no right to be so heartwarmingly adorable! Jokes aside though, I love the relationship you two & you in general have with your family! Personaly I'm very close with my sister and luckily, she loves EDH as well With that being said, damn that's a spicy deck!
This is so sweet, your mom is super lucky! I just got finished listing decks for each of my sisters and I'm so excited to see what they think and teach them to play again
Joey! This is an amazing video. I love the journey. Very cool to watch. I think we’re all scratching our heads on how to build decks and it’s great to watch your process. Sometimes more useful than the end product.
Thank you so much for this video Joey! I loved seeing the process behind this deck construction! It was so surprising to see how much similar the issues and solutions you came up with when building it was to my own deck building process with this commander. I was about to abandon this deck, but your video was so perfect that I think I will give it another try based on your final list.
Fun video, thanks for the insight into your process. I am playing Tasha as an assigned commander in a budget league this month and went through a lot of the same difficult decisions.
I absolutly loved seeing this. Yea it's fun to see people build decks to be as powerful as possible, but it's even more fun watching people build a deck to have fun with. That's what this format is all about, having fun. So to see you cut cards that most people would dictate that you have to play because they are "the best" cards for this strategy all in the name of having fun, i love it
This was such a heartwarming video 🥹 thank you for sharing this with us Joey! I would love to see more Journey of Deckbuilding videos in the future too!
Thank you for this video Joey! Besides your mom being super dope, I really enjoyed hearing your struggled building this deck. I feel like I had a very similar issue with a dimir deck of my own recently. I tried building a Zareth San deck that had all the same obstacles. The idea I had was so commander-centric, that the deck needed too many different aspects to be balanced just right for it to work the way I wanted it to. When it did, it was a ton of fun! But more often than not…it struggled. I haven’t had the energy to go back and reevaluate the deck in a while…but I feel like after this video, I might actually go back to the drawing board for it!
This was a fascinating watch! I had just recently watched the video where you wished Tasha would be a card so your mom could play her, and when I saw the spoiler I got so excited on both your behalves. I wish I could be so lucky as to get a badass commander card named after me with a title like Witch Queen :P Wishing you both luck on your future games!
I like your style or in others words a version of Tasha the witch queen edh deck tech you had which gave me a good reference. You honor and love your mother which a lot of us respect it and God bless your family as well.
I love this list, thank y’all for the lovely build, but I have been making my own iterations and small changes. My biggest change was Altar of the Brood, which mills my opponents whenever a permanent enters the battlefield, and playing off of Tasha creating demons from playing others cards, it just pushes her further to potentially hit deeper cards or even help to mill out. Just a thought if y’all ever wondered about running it. :) much love you two, love the content!
It's Sweet that you make a video for your mom, and I'm sorry she's a little too shy for camera, cause let me tell you: She's Adorable!!! I loved seeing your original video with Tasha, and hope we one day get to see her again. She is a beacon of awesome for erveryone who plays casual magic :)
You dont have to be apologetic Joey. This was a really cool video. I love that you shared the whole thought process. I was thinking about building tasha myself and this video let me know what the deck wants and want it does not want in particular. Have a great day!
This video was excellent. I'm completely uninterested in building a deck like this and I'm bummed that I can't get my family to play Magic. But I'm very stoked that there are families out there that do and this was a view into that life.
Also, since you’re running mill strategies, I’d run bruvac to combo with maddening cacophony and/or traumatize (1x1) and at least one tutor (not thinking a budget version) to increase the power level of deck granting a win con.
Omg I just found this video and my Tasha will be built just in a couple of days. I feel so much from this build. Some things like the agent are just my thought!
I came to the same conclusion, different deck list but the exact same issue in my playgroup! I approached milling differently though. Instead of dedicated mill, I focused on grouphugging enemy HANDSIZE to have ppl discard cards past their maximum hand size adding in also the HANDSIZE limiters. Jin Gitaxias is an example of what I mean. Which combined my advantage portion and milling portion, making room for additional tech cards. Worked wonders for me!
My second name is Togo, and you can imagine how ecstatic I was when Toggo was released! Sadly, just as Tasha’s Tasha journey, I didn’t quite like playing my namesake card strategy. This video made me want to try again, though. Thanks, Joey! You’re the best 🖤
The new dragon, Brain Dragon, in the Mindflayarrs precon also synergizes incredibly well with Tasha and it happens at your end step. You may also cast any spells exiled with Brain Dragon for as long as it remains exiled.
I once had a thought about threated cards, control magic, and reanimation stuff uses your opponents cards and noticed a lot of nicol bolas cards to exactly that. I trued to brew a grixis theft deck and the beats to this deck's story resonated and were heavily similar to my deck. Crazy to see someone think and brew the way i made my most played deck
So, there's a judge in my area whose last name is Raff. He, of course, has a Raff Capashen deck. Here's hoping they make a legendary Paul sometime soon . . .
So jealous you have a paternal figure who is involved in your hobbies! I love my mom but she can barely operate a computer much less play MTG. I hope to be the fun dad one day who can be just as involved and fun as your mom is! Cheers guys, you guys are my favorite MTG Podcast channel!
I wanna make Tasha so bad, but it's just difficult to try and make her live a round then actually get something off it or have enough Mana to Tasha + any if the cards that theft.
I'm happy to get our 6th theft-matters card, but I fear it'll be quite a few years until we get enough options to make it viable. Was hoping for a lot more in this set.
I got the name of your mom mixed in my mind, and I thought it was Wanda, and I tagged you when they spoiled the Wanderer. Oopsie! But I'm glad that a card with the right name came out!
You and your mom are SO awesome! She was so sweet and funny last time, so even though i'm a little dissapointed she isn't with you again, i did enjoy this video very much!
This video is so sweet! Love the deck, much like your mom it's not my style. She may like Richard's Derivi birds deck from commander clash. Love the video have fun playing commander with your mom!
Baby raccoons are also Joey-s. I've been playing theft decks for as long as I've played commander. My current commander is voltrath, and it has a lot more clones than theft. But I agree with taking the focus off the commander. Volrath is probably the best most versatile clone, but he is completely unnecessary for the deck to function
It's a really cool deck, but I think Joey actually just wanted to build a deck that when played would help load his graveyard for all his necromancy tricks.
