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Demo Obsurist Mage 2UU planeswalker Demo Whenever Demo phases in put a loyalty counter on him 0: Demo phases out -2: Draw a card -5: Draw a card then put a permanent you control on top of your library. You may a put a permanent that shares a card type with that card from your hand onto the battle field 3 loyalty
I actually run 100% of these cards in my starke of rath deck! When you're left alone too long the game state gets a little clunky and confusing with all of the checks and persistant effects, but its hilarious to see everyone at the table (myself included) try to decifer what the hell is going on. I go very heavy on enchantments/spells that bring down all players life to keep a good pace, lots of red wheel effects to add a bit more chaos (winds of change being my personal fav), and I run a number of the 'weirder' artifacts to double down on what the insanity that is red enchantments. If you build it wrong (I found this out with my first version of the deck), your play group is not going to want to play against the deck ever again - there's a fine line between controlled, well paced chaos and an absolute headache - build with care, and think about how people will react to these cards before you play em'!
this is a great video, I've was brewing a few weeks ago a mono red deck with all my fav red enchantments. Etali is the commander for much needed value to help propell me through the game.
I actually do use Raging River in a deck to effect. Mind you, I'm also the guy who still plays Banding strategies and misses ante. It goes in a Ghen, the Weaver deck, which is really a Killian pocket commander that capitalizes on the fantastic at bad cost target enchantments, sorceries and spells. White and black get him on the table and protect him from removal, and suddenly I have a brutal Voltron. White and red are very good at getting Blade of Selves, which means Raging River is very good at getting the matchups I want to ensure damage triggers. The level of suppressive, recursive enchantment game is staggering; this game is for friends that have lively and adaptive meta.
I have a Queen Marchesa deck that uses raging river. The deck has a bunch of death touch tokens, and through playing the enchantment pretty much cuts your opponents blocking force by half and they usually don't want to block death touch.
I absolutely love "custody battle". I threw it in my Olivia Voldaren (steal your stuff) deck. I toss it onto a threatening commander and then it usually takes a turn or two before they get it removed.
In my coinflip deck planar chaos made me win. I had made 100k treasures with the coin flip jinn and the coin flip treasure human. 2 of my opponents had answers, but planar chaos counteret 4 spells in a row. I was laughing my ass of. Så on my turn i buffed Okuan and chandras ignitioned him for tons of damg. The most fun i have had in ages. Why, because i sat though 1 hour of gaming and a dude destroying my lands. So i did this with 3 lands in play. 🤩🥳🤪
I love Custody Battle, one of my favorite red "removal" spells. It makes the creature unusable as it gets passed around the table, you could eventually make use of it, or an opponent goes down on some lands to use it. Tis underrated goodness but also good to see it represented here!
A funny red enchantment I found, Land's Edge. It's basically Discard a card: Shock a player or planeswalker if it's a land. Anybody can activate it. Where I think it might be good, a Madness deck. You don't have to discard a land, and it's one of the few cards with "Discard a Card:" as the activation without any other cost or restriction.
I recently added some of these into my red/black prosper commander deck and to be honest it's really fun to play around some of these cards. Highly recommend adding some of these cards into your decks just for some fun!
first of all: great video (as always) I am actually working on a Gahiji deck, that focuses on combat. I am definitely going to include some of those combat based (non toxic) red enchantments in there, because thats exactly what i was looking for!
I have a Tsabo Tavoc edh deck that is basically red black hate enchantments, it includes a number of these cards and it is super fun to play. One of my favorite red enchantments that you didn't mention is Grip of Chaos. I would encourage everyone to pick up a copy, one of the most unique cards ever printed.
Pandemonium was a great card in my norin the wary deck- ping for 8 every round of the table and 9 times outta 10 he cant get hit when opponents trigger the ability, Confusion in the ranks was also fantastic- as norin enters, you swap it for something of an opponents, then when he triggers on the opponents board he returns under your control- rinse and repeat to steal the board
Amazing video. Only see it today but Iove it. Im building a Diaochan Chaos deck and Im definetely putting most of this cards. Cant wait to have chaos and fun with those cards
I run some of these in my Kazuul, Tyrant Of The Cliffs deck. I find that a lot of my mono red decks which don't go heavy into goblins, burn spells, or artifacts end up finding their strength in red enchantments like these. For No Quarter, I think the appeal is destroying walls, and protecting big glass cannon creatures. If I send my 5/2 commander in and it gets blocked by a 2/6 defender, my 5/2 becomes a pseudo 5/5 in combat, and my opponents 2/6 creature becomes pseudo a 2/0 until combat is over. Also multi-blocking would just wipe them all out right? so it discourages multi-blocking. I think it has a lot more to it than just destroying little chumps
Total War is one half of War's Toll from Battlebond. War's Toll adds if an opponent would tap a land for mana, (you) tap all their lands. They have to think hard about whether they want to play things onto their board or hold up mana for a counterspell. I love watching Blue players squirm--so satisfying for a Naya player. 😂 I think Heat of Battle would be excellent in Saskia--I'm going to buy one now. Thanks for the heads up on that one!
I use it in my dragon deck that runs belbes Portal, quicksilver amulet and thran temporal gateway so I can cast 2 spells for free with fires and then use my mana to dump into the artifacts to cheat my big creatures
I want a River token, so that defending players must physically place their non-flying creatures on either side on the River, and then I place my attacking creatures on the side I choose... I use it in my Gishath deck, so that would be so sweet.
Was already using Grand Melee and Invasion Plans in my Kardur, Doomscourge deck BEFORE you mentioned them in your 10 Cards videos - beat you to it there, Demo! The rest of these though are definitely going into either Kardur or Maraxus, for nonstop chaotic war. Thanks Demo!
Several of these are in my Queen Marchesa Forced Attack deck. I make myself the target, both through being the monarch and because I’m forcing my opponents to play how I want, and then punish them for attacking me.
I play much the same deck. I call it my Warlord deck. I give people tons of creatures and help them overpower each other. Swing at me though. I dare ya ;) Which are your favorite includes?
@@thatguycam1989 depends on what’s coming at me. If it’s big, like a Blightsteel Colossus or Voltron commander, I like Reflect Damage, Backlash, or Delirium. My favorite though is when someone tries to alpha strike me and I cast Gideon’s Sacrifice choosing a Truefire Captain, Spitemare, Boros Reckoner, or Brash Taunter. If I’m ahead in life, Coalhauler Swine can just end the game.
Another card that likely fits the theme of this video is War's Toll. Very disruptive for your opponents and forces them to really plan out each of their moves. Stops a lot of counterspells from being used.
Oh hell yeah. Especially if you're playing a pillow fort deck like Marchesa. If I'm not mistaken, if they have to attack with all creatures, but couldn't pay for them all to attack with say Baird, those creatures would remain tapped right?
From them all, Pandemonium its the most common to see. I haven seen it more used on suicide Rakdos, particulary in Mogis, and the OG Purphoros decks but it can be used quite well on Ommnath, Locus of Rage. The sheer amount of damage that it can unleash on Omnath its insane, any ramp becomes a lava axe.
Pandemonium- Vrondis Grand Melee, Risky Move,Planar Chaos, Custody battle- Kess Chaos Chaosphere- Lovisa Coldeyes Bedlam- Saskia infect Grand Melee will be going in Varchild once its built
Nice job! No Quarter (kills a weaker-powered blocker) goes well with Proud Wildbonder (Creatures you control with trample have “You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren’t blocked.”) because those creatures now deal their full damage, not just the trample part.
You mentioned Norin early on, and my Norin deck runs Pandemonium because I can get that shock-effect pretty much every turn. Run other enchanments and effects which boost my creature's powers, and have similar effects to Pandemonium, such as Impact Tremors, In the Web of War, Vigilante Justice, Purphoros, Where Ancients Tread, Warstorm Surge, Outpost Siege, and Electropotence
In the old days I used risky move as an answer to indestructible in my Starke of Rath draw go control deck (featuring 0 creatures), before they printed the stuff that takes indestructible away.
I love Pandemonium. It's in my Ardenn//Tanna deck as an extra Impact Tremors but it's really great in a stompy decks as well as token decks. It also seems pretty great if you can give yourself Hexproof. Maybe a Jeskai pillow fort?
One of my friends that I played magic with put raging river in his gishath deck. It add a whole extra layer to attacking and allows for more decision making.
I used to use risky move and custody battle as the outs to indestructible guys in my mono red commander deck before they printed stuff that got rid of it
I run risky move in My Blim deck! People are gaining control of all sorts of stuff left and right. It's awesome. And my brother runs raging river in his thantis deck! Makes the game much more interesting!
Raging river could see home in my devil (zukort deck) or mono gobelin deck with tokens.. You more or less split your enemys blockers in half.. I could see the fun in that
I used to play a thantis forced combat deck and tried to deter my opponents from blocking as often as possible but I upgraded it into an o-kagachi deck with white and blue added as an additional layer of card draw and removal. bedlam, total war, grand melee and heat stroke are in there as well as two you never mentioned: war cadence and uphill battle. Another honorable mention I don't play but have on my radar is magistrate's veto and magnetic mountain which are only designed to give blue (& white) players a hard time 😅
I have Raging River in my Iroas God of victory deck. My play group hates it considering menace on my tokens wasn't bad enough now they have to pick a pile, Its basically double menace cancer thats comes into play and i get to say from "the mummy" your on the wrong side of the river!
I use Heat Wave in my Dune-Brood Nephilim deck. Very effective since I stack my Nephilim with all the evasive gear I can get. So Heat Wave never effects my commander. But the Nephilim continually gets me an army of Sand tokens, which my opponents never want to block OR attack into with Heat Wave out. I'd recommend it for any "Army in a Can" strategy, like Krenko.
No Quarter is a bane to Doran like decks and means autokilling most defenders. This also can squash first/double strike and deathtouch creature strategies. Lastly it maximizes trample damage potential but having 0 toughness to decrease the damage that would trample into the opponent.
Planar chaos is actually really good. Play out your turn then drop this, or play this and go to combat as an added layer of protection. If each player plays 2 spells on their turn, on average 1 will be countered, that's 3 spells countered for 3 mana - a better rate than blue. Then it has the chance to stick around again, but this comes at the downside of countering your own things.
No Quarter looks like it would absolutely body Doran/Arcades decks, and fat-bottomed creatures in general. Also prevents bigger creatures from being stung by little deathtouchers or multi-blocked by swarms.
I play Risky Move in my Okaun & Zndrsplt deck. It's a lot of fun. On each turn either it messes up the game a bit or I get to draw a card with Zndrsplt, so I win either way. :)
A lot of these cards fit into a particular archetype known as Forced Combat. Green and White have a few cards like this as well. The original Odric comes to mind as an example.
Raging River seems really good for an aggro voltron deck at only two mana. Maybe in Rakdos to get them to keep sacrificing creatures or Boros for one-sided boardwipes, to keep them to one creature for one pile without creatures in it?
I know a friend who made a coin flip Deck with planer chaos in it and half a rotation after it resolves, somebody raged and said,"I HATE coinflip it's so stupid!!!" After two of his spells were countered because he flipped bad
Man, I think I still have a 60 card Pandemonium deck. Main combo was Primal Forcemage and Whitemane Lion. Also don't forget about Warstorm Surge, the one-sided Pandemonium.
Vrondiss+indestructible, pandemonium, & goblin bombardment. Spirit enters play to burn player, sac to bombardment in response to it's triggered effect, targeting Vrondiss for 1 damage to repeat the loop.
No Quarter is a perfect answer to annoying little creatures with deathtouch. Those creatures can always trade up when they block a bigger target, but with No Quarter it dies before its deathtouch can activate. Same with Infect or that thing with dinosaurs where somethign triggers when they take damage. i forget what its called
Honestly I just ran into Pandemonium when building Zalto, Fire Giant Duke. Making it Voltron, and messing with cards that like high power. With the commander, it's really good removal. Or I can play Pandemonium after I have Zalto equipped with a high toughness or just hexproof and they won't be able to hit the one creature I care about.
It's not mono-red but I've been building a Kamber/Laurine goad deck, and Suicidal Charge seems really good. Basically it's a five mana disrupt decorum at instant speed that also wipes out 1/1 dorks and makes combat math much harder for opponents.
I have risky move in my old cards, dont have a room for it thought :O And i had custody battle in my draconic rage deck (when i was beginning), i was using it to enchant opponents commander, i was using it wrong thought because i thought that i was gaining control of the creature !
I play custody battle in my mazzy true paladin deck where I want to enchant my opponents creatures. Usually giving them a benefit but also a major downside. I also use bedlam in my raggadragga deck
Raging river is AWESOME. Basically in 95% of situations its the same as giving ur whole board menace. So 2 mana goblin war drums (slightly stronger than menace actually.) The card is actually insane and warrants a hefty price tag being reserved list so get ur copies while you can.
Would wulfgar of Icewind Dale cause Raging River to trigger twice? And how would that resolve? I'm excited to proxy the card and run it once just to see what happens
I've used Chaosphere, Raging River, and Stand or Fall in the same deck. They really make combat math impossible for defending players lol Heat of Battle I actually own a playset of, and I used them way back when. Funny enough, there's a functional reprint of the card from Onslaught Block, and the wife runs both in some of her aggressive lists. Hard to block when it shocks you per creature lol
