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This commander provides Ramp, Card draw, Good keywords, Stax, A potential combo enabler, A drawback that can be managed, The mana cost of 4, 3 colors, Enters as a 4/4, Death triggers, Sacrifice triggers, Can get it, And to top it all off provides a bed (the frog) Checks all of the boxes, definitely making a deck with this
This card is also excellent when facing against green silly stuff, because no one cares how many +1/+1 counters little Timmy's hydra has when you have MtG's forbidden keyword combo slapped on top of your allegedly value engine commander.
Adding trample to these keywords makes it truly forbidden, assigning a single damage to the 12/12 and letting the rest trample over is the salt in the wound of the 4/4 surviving the attack
@@TheLuckySpadesWell, obviously, it also has the colors that love giving the other two keywords for the forbidden combo, trample as you said, and vigilance
@@TheLuckySpades You can do that with Trample Deathtouch? I thought trample still had to eat through the full toughness first, but that's cool if DT functionally sets toughness to 1 for that purpose.
@@snowboundwhale6860 yes it does, deathtouch is defined as "any single point of damage is considered lethal", which yes, works the same as if the target had 1 toughness. Then trample comes in and says "any damage that exceeds the lethal damage dealt to blockers is dealt to the opponent", so one damage is the lethal one and the rest goes through. This is different from "whenever this creature deals damage to a creature, destroy it", because yes in these cases you'd have to eat through the toughness first.
Friend... I'm not sure she would even NOTICE a husky. Dating Thalia and the Gitrog Monster would be more like dating a girl that keeps an ELEPHANT as a pet.
"yes i would, on the back of the frog, with the frog watching" no no no my friend, it's not Thalia ft. the Gitgud Frog... it's Thalia AND the Gitgud Frog this is a tag-team setup
That last line.... I admire the bravery. I'm pretty sure the frog admires the bravery too - Thalia is a strong woman, earned the frog's respect after all. I ask for the dumbest commander I've seen: Ormos, Archive Keeper. Drawing on an empty library not to win but to get the sphinx to work out? Just the right kind of dumb that sends a 5/5 with a billion counters at someone's face while I hold an entire library of cards
It’s only dumb because it doesn’t have shroud or hexproof. 3 mana to draw 5 cards? Yes please. Plus it’s mono blue so the only options either oppress your opponents or draw more carss.
@@zbronstein3901 I say dumb in the kindest way possible. I adore the weirdness of drawing from an empty library specifically to beat someone's face in with a flier. I think it works pretty well with stuff like Mythril Coat or other protective equipment, probably lends well to running counterspells too so you always draw the out
My man! This is officially your best roast, at least in my eyes. The city council bullshit bit just sent me. Thalrog is my current favorite commander and I do not sleep on how good that third line is. Very fun deck to pilot. Thalia and Gitrog have been roasted. I am pleased.
I can only imagine the sheer quantity of **content** that would ensue with Mald, Olivia, and Kibler all shenaniganing in their own ways at the same table.
@@chrayez THIS that's exactly what I mean His personality is amazing, the discord treasure cruise format is unique, even without it he can use a commander he roasted and prove point, the synergy is there
I'm surprised you didn't even mention the absolute brutal combination that is a first strike/deathtouch creature. They don't even need to care about the "cost" to attack with them that's a terrifying threat on a blocker right there. Anyways with the announcement of the new secret lair commander deck I think this is an excellent time to do Giada font of hope, because angels: they're like us except cooler and with wings!
My favorite kinds of animals? Frogs My favorite tribe in magic? Humans My favorite thing to do to a opponent...tell them their resources suck and that land is tapped.
"Oh but she has to sacrifice creatures or lands, surely that's fair." "You say that like you don't already know she's going to play Crucible of Worlds the turn before."
Loved watching your "villains we root for" arc during every commander game that gets uploaded. Can't wait till the next one. #it ain't cheating if it is legal
Love this video and perfect timing since I’m putting together a deck with them right now. I got some silly token generators, landfall, and realmbreaker the invasion tree to annoy my opponents and in general just be obnoxious
I've given yo on asking for the angrier jellybean now I'm going to ask for shallai and hallar. The naia +1/+1 counter deck that goes infinite with a kitchen sink and is now my favorite naia deck! Love you bro thanks for the video! 1:56
i started building my Thalrog deck when this card was first previewed. it’s been through a few edits but the deck is such a valuetown freight train that it outpaces + flattens any other deck lmao. i can get her out by Turn 3, infinitely combo by Turn 3, get to 10+ mana by Turn 6, play 4 lands a turn, play almost anything off the top of my library, recur lands with Crucible of Worlds so i don’t have to lose my main creatures, draw a metric fknton of cards, pick apart peoples boards AND slow everybody down - and that’s all BEFORE the beatdown plan of using Thalrog herself to deal damage. combat is literally just gravy on top of the endless value she provides 😂 this has been my absolute number 1 favorite commander deck of all time (that i’ve ever built). i play her as my main deck and the salt levels are over 9000. when you cause the MILL player to complain and cry, you KNOW you’ve done a great job of building an absurd deck lmaooo.
I played magic a bit when I was younger. Recently, I've become mildly obsessed. Your videos are funny as hell but also educational. Now, at least I have an idea of how my friends are gonna fuck me.
I conveniently have an aristocrats deck with those colors. When I pulled Thalia and the Gitrog Monster out of a pack I knew I had to have her as my commander.
Yes, with the frog watching. I'm fuckin dead 💀 Luckily as a wizard tribal player a lot of my games consist of tapping a wizard to Patron Wizard and asking "do you pay the 1 for your shit not to be countered?" And then immediately tapping another wizard when it's paid. Oh, I ran out of wizards? Cool, here's my isochron scepter with dramatic reversal imprinted. Let's go through this again. "Do you pay the 1?"
Alright that was a great video that bike joke really had be going funny man but to get what I want I'm gonna call you a coward for roasting Kelsien the Plague yet. PS your novel character MTG card videos were great please do that more too. I'm a needy fan
So I have a pod buddy that both has Thalrog and a "Juicy World Wall" Arcades deck, which both are very powerful and aggressive. I appreciate you doing these commander and find them very hilarious. But I need you to roasts his prized commander... the commander that ends ALL commanders with swift speedy tap... Kelsien, the plague ... of MY existence!!!
One of the players in my group runs an incubate deck with this as the commander. Keeping the blockers away for a turn makes those Incubator tokens LETHAL
