Okaun and Zndrsplt | Upping the Average 

I gained over 1000 life from one swing with a lifelinking Okaun the first time I played this deck. 10/10

Been playing these two for a awhile now and have some hidden gems. Sword coast sailor, March of swirling mist, esior, monastery siege, illithid harvester, winged boots and karlach. I try and jam in the d&d cards wherever I can. You can ignore the majority of the coin flip cards. Protection, evasion, and ramp are just as important as coin flipping in the deck. You don't want to recast these commander so don't play them without protection first.

i know, what people like about okaun and Zndrsplt is the coinflip theme. So a lot of you may disagree, BUT if you want to build the deck more efficient and focused on winning rather than fun i think you can cut like.. 80% of the coinflip cards. Just keep the very best ones. okaun needs only 3(!) conflips for having enough damage to take one out by commander damage. 4 Coins for fling him to kill one. give him an artifact or aura with let's say +3/+0 then its only 2 coinflips. (3 for fling). The thing is: Okaun and Zndrsplt flip so many coins already that you dont need the additional coinflip stuff. Let's be honest: Most of the coinflip cards are crap

Such an amazing video my friend. Please keep up the good work and thank you for "Upping the Average"!!!!!!

I'm a newer magic player and I picked up the Heads I win precon deck and I've been waiting for this video to come out! Happy holidays guys and cheers!

My favorite commander rn is Jon Irenicus, Shattered One, and itd be so cool to see your take it, I really love the show!

Why did I not get notified of this? I love these two!

I’ve played both O&Z and Yusri, and got to say, Yusri is so much more consistent, fun, and makes the mechanic feel balanced. With Zndrsplt, it either gets sniped immediately or draws you too many cards to deal with. With Okaun, it usually gets Swords after you flipped your coins and it attacks, so without protection it doesn’t do much, but with protection it OHKO’s someone turn 4. Casting them again for 7 is not fun, but so is winning the game so resoundedly if they aren’t removed. Your games are either boring and long, or boring and short. Yusri isn’t much of a threat, is much cheaper, you always have the suspense of getting that Omniscience effect even with Krark’s Thumb, and I feel O&Z fits more in the 99 of Yusri rather than the other way around, because you want lifelink synergies for Yusri to mitigate the damage dealt to you. If someone wants to build a red blue coin flip commander deck, I recommend Yusri over O&Z 11 times out of 10.

I've played Mutalith Beast, love to see it here, it is a super fun card despite not being great. Something I would think about is leaning into the "chaos" theme rather than just the coinflip. I've added things like Wheel of Misfortune and the chaos polymorph for 5 mana from the WH decks to my chaos deck.

I went all in with the fling strategy with my deck and use a lot of copy spells to copy the fling effects but they also work well as counters to counterspells. Three times at magic30, I copied a players torment to win. Copy spells are so amazing and versatile.

I played the Heads I Win deck and won 16 coin flips between the 2 commanders. The largest creature I have used in my life and was blocked by a 1/1. I sent a message though.

Turn 7 I won around 23 coin flips with thumb. That was around 25,165,824 commander damage coming in unblockable because of slip through space

Would going so much into coin flipping be too commander reliant?

Finally! 🙏💃🏽😍

Please don't teach coinflip players how to up the average, they already win and lose in luck, we don't need to help them out any more 😆

Finally, a deck where I can run mana crypt without feeling guilty

Awesome video. Any updates? Also... what do I take out to swap Mana Crypt in?

Wand of Wonder is probably in the average list because a lot people see Okaun and Zndrsplt, think that would make a good Chaos deck, and then use cards like wand for example.

Can you do a Koma cosmos serpent deck high in mana value and want to see how you go about it

I think people see these commanders as silly and low power but as soon as they get out krark’s thumb the deck is very very strong

Fortunately (lol), the Heads I Win, Tails You Lose SLD precon already has a lot of this dross removed!

Hey @Joey can you do the dice commander Wyl next?

With the bone stock Secret Lair deck I did 1,000,000 damage to someone and then 2,000,000 to another player in the same turn

The strongest I got Okaun was 6 291 456/6 291 456 !. Another game I got to "only" 768/768 and wiped the table with Chandra's Ignition, it was glorious. Also, after playing my deck the last 2 years, I would suggest adding cards like Leyline of Punishment or Flairing Pain, etc. so damage can't be prevented. Great video as always!

If you called heads where two headed Giant wants it to be heads then you'd win the coin flip making it not a terrible card. Winning the coin flip is based on what side you call. So if you always called heads then they would benefit anyway

Rip Ral. :c

Tilonalli's Crown has done work for me. 2 Mana for evasion and now I only need 2 coin flips for lethal.

But what about Rooooooooooon?!?!

I've upgraded the secret lair deck. So much fun. I ended up at over 22,000 in life. I've started taking more coin flip cards out for like irenaeus vile intervention. Play testing will tell if its better or better and less fun

ral zerak is also a nonbo with these guys. not sure why he makes the average decklist...

It should also be mentioned that (though not cost neutral) Mana Crypt is an all-start here.

Commander games can already drag on, I can't sit there and watch someone flip coins for the duration of the game. I'm taking them out first. Besides that, great video ❤️

Fighting chance can also be cast when you're not even involved in the combat. Play it like Berserk. ;)

Please make a Lathril Redux, you didn't make a budget deck tech.

I'd rather not play MTG at all than be held hostage for 15 minutes a turn while someone flips coins using this deck

"Brainstorm lock" isn't real. If you're in trouble and you draw Brainstorm, only for it to draw three cards that don't help you, then you were screwed anyway. If you topdecked those cards individually over the course of three turns, you wouldn't be any better off than if you'd Brainstormed into them. In that scenario, Brainstorm didn't lock you. Your rotten luck having three dead topdecks in a row locked you. All Brainstorm did was let you see it coming. Also, I'd totally have run Brainstorm in my O&Z deck, but I had a self-imposed rule that the only changes I'd make to the Secret Lair precon would be ones that improved the manabase or ones that swapped in more coin-flipping. Despite this, I'm still running like 15 shuffle effects, which would easily be enough for synergistic Brainstorm lines. :(

Crooked Scales will never lose your commander unless you're in really bad shape. You choose both creatures. If your only creature is your commander you're probably gonna lose anyway. Still a good cut.

Looks like my comment with a deck link got deleted. Here are the changes I would make plus EDHREC's suggestions: Moxfield + /decks/H-NeasHMxU-gbnesG9z3UQ