Rowan vs Marwyn vs Calix vs Zur | EDH Gameplay | Smooth Brain EDH 

She’s too strong honestly lol

Amazing that not a single person has caught onto her yet. Not a single deck on EDHREC or anywhere

Gaining life doesn't offset the amount of life lost. It isn't about the overall change, Rowan just tracks life lost. He took 3 from Crypt + 2 from The One Ring + 6 from Black Market Connections + 2 from Ancient Tomb + 1 from Sulphurous Springs, = 14 total life lost

The One Ring is a heck of a card lol

add in Walking Ballista as a kill condition of infinite mana and you`re set

Thanks! Rowan is extremely potent. She can be a little hard to tune for a specific power level but she does some cool stuff

@@SmoothBrainEDH I've found taking any x spells out makes it way more casual. Just big bomber spells that don't insta win

We generally avoid playing too much fast mana and tutors for a similar reasons but we gotta get that fix every once in a while

@@SmoothBrainEDH ya I get that it's never appealed to me but definitely get why people do like the powerful cards!

Glad you enjoyed the video!

Potentially. Depends if anyone wants to play it or if our patrons submit it for our raffle. Currently it doesn't seem that Boros equipment is a high priority for us

Rowan only reduces red and/or black spells to avoid that free artifact shenanigans

@@getsaucysubjectsk7444, the written word can be difficult to interpret, I simply meant, that it wasn't clear that Rowan was being played correctly, as a few artifacts were being cast and I didn't track all the mana involved. When something like Painter's Servant gets involved then you get cost reductions on your artifacts.

Apex of Power was played with 2 floating colorless and 1 floating black left over from tapping Ancient Tomb, Firemind's Vessel, and 2 red producing lands. He gets 10 mana of one color when playing it from hand and chose black, bringing him to 2 floating colorless and 11 floating black. He played Dismember and Lotus Petal for free then The Golden Throne for 4, using 2 colorless and 2 black. He then used Lotus Petal for 1 red and played Blood for the Blood God!, leaving him with 7 floating black. He used 3 to play Profane Transfusion and sacrificed the token it makes to The Golden Throne to get 3 black back, leaving him at 7 floating black again. He plays The One Ring for 4, bringing him to 3 floating black, plays Black Market Connections for 1 black, then plays Swiftfoot Boots for 2, bringing him to 0 leftover mana. He then ends the turn.

@@Crusnik777 Thank you, perfect summary.

Sounds like your friends are kinda reasonable haha

who would have thought he wins, after elfball goes infinite tho :D

@@Slaxxie he was under One Ring, so he did not give a fk about elfball. Also, with magus on the table he did not give a fk about how much life elves gain as well. I mean, elves were doing things elves usually do when nobody is interacting with their board. On the other hand, 7 mana on t2 for a big mana deck is absurd and it is a win in like 90% of the time.

@@Zaalbarjedi i've watched it too, thanks. He had to win that turn no matter what

No, trample only looks at how much you need to put on a creature for it to die normally. If you had deathtouch and trample but the blocker had indestructible/protection you only need 1 point of damage and the rest goes over. It's an interesting interaction but I built a whole Fynn deck based around pumping up the creatures and giving trample so they'd always connect

Unless baleful strix has first strike combat damage had already been done. Removing something from combat doesn’t make its damage non existent

@@chall3ng33v3rything Yeah that's what I'm saying, either it dies because damage doesn't use the stack and neither does death touch, so if they deal their damage at the same time, there is nothing to respond to for regenerate activation meaning the elf would die as state based actions are checked, basically there is no window of time frame that it could of both dealt damage, and survived the deathtouch :P

@@TheBu213 okay so doing some research it seems like they were just short cutting an interaction which is super common in commander games and also probably is so minor it didn’t need to be stated. Blockers are declared, then before before moving to damage regeneration is applied to the elf. Regeneration activates on the effect that would cause it to do so. Therefore after they both deal damage to one another. Thus the elf is removed from combat damage after they have both dealt damage saving the elf and removing the player from the game.

@@chall3ng33v3rything Aye did some reading up on it, and yeah I see your point, as it's replacing the next time it dies, but by then the damage is dealt. I always had it in my head that the removal from combat was part of the activation not the resolve 👍

Fellow Marwyn enjoyer!!!

But Matt gained life in the exchange, so that didn't do anything for the Rowan count.