Tom Bombadil | Upping the Average 

I like the idea of some crazy strong commander trying to kill Tom only to be stopped by him reciting every creature type in entish

BRAGO BRAGO BRAGO, I built a tombadil deck almost right when he was released and Brago king eternal is one of the best card in the whole deck. Blink all your sagas, get all the triggers, control the board, accrue value, constellation triggers. We love Brago

This deck was quite the story...a saga if you will.

I think it's worth mentioning that Hidetsugu Consumes All can be a nasty double-edged sword. You can make a lot of tokens in a deck like this and casting or flipping into it at the wrong time can hurt you way more than someone else.

The Restoration of Eiganjo is really good and I wouldnt cut it, because it can ramp you at worst or reanimate something better. The second chapter always allows you to discard and then resurect the plains that you searched for. The backside is also a good blocker that makes more blockers

I gotta give you a huge compliment man. A someone who is fairly new to MTG, videos like yours are so so helpful. I also love how you take budget into consideration, since not all of us wanna spend every penny on cards. Your explanations are on point and never take too long. Keep rocking it.

Nice upgrade guide I might try this as my next five colour deck

Yesssss! I was waiting for this ❤

So excited for this!

Thank you for calling out cuts in the honorable mentions, It's always the hardest part for me.

This my favorite commander in paper rn. So much fun.

Took the Tom Bombadil deck I made on my channel to a LOTR themed commander day last weekend - took both matches! It's a control deck filled with enchantress draw and it out valued Aragorn the Uniter, Shelob and Lord of the Nazgul!

8:07 I think Firja‘s Retribution is a leftover of people running Atraxa Sagas and swapping their commander for Tom as well as adding red. I cut this card when I went through that process because without Atraxa it‘s really meh.

Loved the Tom Bomba'deal

Love some of the swap suggestions and what is going on in this! In my own build, I included Battle of Theros for Ephara, Ever-Sheltering since she is an Enchantress that I'm not afraid to through into a battle lol Also, since Power Conduit is in this deck, I did put a couple of charge counter pay offs in it in the form of Magister's Scepter and Lux Cannon which could provide some nice options.

YES JOEY!!!! I am working on a Saga deck!!

I think to make this deck truly viable you also need to add more instant speed interaction. Flickering sagas is nice but counter spells, kill spells and some tutor to find the right cards to win are very important.

I usually like proxying the silly expensive manabase and keeping other cards to a reasonable price

The Tom Bombadeal at the end had me rolling lol

6:25 this is why i enjoy your Point of view Joey. I never looked at it from this angle. 👀

Goldberry is excellent tech, and entirely in-theme. The obvious move is to keep triggering the best step of one Saga each turn, but she is also very good at keeping a Saga with a long-term benefit on the board, and being able to turbo-blitz one Saga to its final form at instant speed is excellent for actually finishing off the enemy.

worth mentioning jin-gitaxias / the great synthesis. If you get to that last ability you probably win the game.

I'm a big fan of Guildgate mana bases for 5c decks. Slow, but gives you an extra axis of attack through Maze's End!

Putting Hallowed and Archon in my Tombadil right away

Any chance you have a list more towards letting the enchantments die? Mostly the 2 new commanders from enduring enchantments and possibly enigmatic incarnation? Idk what to fetch with incarnation yet; but tossing the idea around.

So a bit of a tangent, but Joey's vest looks really stylish and I love it

Hey Joey, I think it would be really interesting to review The Balrog, Durin's Bane.

What about Showdown Of The Scalds? Exiling 4 cards until the end of your next turn seems pretty amazing, especially if you can reset chapter 1

i hope one day you will do grist i love that commander and id love to see your take on it :D

I think Resourceful Defense is perfect in this deck. Being able to save the lore counters as a saga goes away and later just spam them onto other sagas seems really good

I was going to use Aminatou, thoughts?

Okay I'm in. I built a deck this week, mostly with a ton of sagas. I'm curious what you will say.

My Saga deck used to be Esper with Aminatou as commander and much more focused on resetting Sagas and manipulate lore counters. I changed it to 4.5 colors now (with Tom i could play all five but i have no red pips other than his), but i tried to keep the theme of keeping my sagas around as long as possible and repeating chapters over and over again. Its less consistent now but i get to play a lot more fun Sagas, which is a win in all honesty. It also changes what sagas are good to run, Frijas Retribution for example is really cool in that version of the deck where it just puts one or two angels on the board every turn. The deck does trigger Tom much less than other Saga decks probably do, since you want to grind the Sagas for a bit before you let them go IF you want to let them go at all. It hasn't been tested much yet, and its definitely not in its final form, but if anyone is looking for a more tricksy approach to this deck ill link it here: www.archidekt.com/decks/4027467/the_endless_saga_but_it_has_significantly_2_more_colors_so_we_could_theoretically_have_birgi_for_valuable_flavor

With Flicker of Fate and Scrollshift being added, what about Teferi's Time Twist?

Can I make a case for Aminatou, the fate shifter. Her +1 ability allows you to draw a card and put your best saga on top for when Tom's ability triggers and her -1 is a flicker. Alternatively you can use it to take back something your opponent has that's yours.

Did you find that the “whenever you cast an enchantment” cards were a miss when using Tom’s “put onto battlefield” effect? Curious if free sagas from Tom and casting other spells for cost is better/worse than casting sagas.

Oh Plzzz do shelob next!! I need this in my life

Id love to see a video for kenessos priest of thassa

Think you should do an upping the average for Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest. With treasures in the game he can build up the field stupid high.

dont forget about Sigil of the Empty Throne! Angels galore

Great deck only problem is it doesn’t have enough Lotr flavor for me. Hopefully they do another Lotr set eventually.

Is there a brawl version of these decks to play on MTG Arena ?

Anyway we could see a Sauron the Dark Lord one a deez? That deck has so ways it can be built it’s a bit difficult to know what works best.

I am impressed that one can manage a 5 Colour manabase on a budget, I've shied away from committing to one because of the price of the manabase, but how much tempo does this one give up?

Eerie Ultimatum

Tekathul is cool in this deck

No room for Chisei, Heart of Oceans? He's my fav saga commander

I want to build this deck SO BADLY, but I'd have to tear apart my Shrines deck to do it... Do I want to tell stories or build altars that do the talking for me?!

Have you cast Joey’s Protection yet?

But there are only 3 wincons, as the cards that make some tokens... Kiora's is the 4th but all those are easy to spot removal ... Tom should have given hexproof to sagas :) Keen to play against this, seems fun.

How good do you think Sterling Grove actually is in this deck? You frequently want to interact with your sagas through blink effects or by removing/adding lore counters, but can't due to them having shroud. Sure you can always sac it for 1 mana, but then it won't stay around very long to protect your enchantments.

Why not add Sigil of the Empty Throne?

My Tom Bombadil build gives me infinite turns. I run a lot more planeswalkers than any other deck build I've seen.

Does Estrids happen just once?

Can we up the average on The Locust God?

Why not more proliferate effects? What are peoples experiences with them so far?

I built mine with a mana base of all 10 Triomes, all 10 Bond lands, and all 10 Slow lands alongside standard "tap for any color" lands like Command Tower, Pillar of Paruns, Forbidden/Exotic Orchard, City of Brass, and Reflecting Pool, rounding out with The World Tree for it's mana fixing ability. I'm also playing the usual rocks (Sol Ring, Arcane, Chromatic Lantern) alongside Mox Amber and Timeless Lotus, also a couple dorks like Birds and Faeburrow.

why murmuring bosk?

I've played the deck few times and Azuzas many journeys and the restoration of eiganjo are very much needed saga, cause they are the only 2 that can ramp you early game. When every one else is ramping out at the table and when you have cut cultivate and kodamas reach and you dont play mana rocks, you need something or this is too fair to be good. And if you have only average turn with one land per turn you'll never be able to have a crazy start and snowball. This is even more true if you cut most of the enchant reduction creature.

I know a guy who made a Bombadil/Preator Saga deck

Honestly i'm just here for the dad jokes 🤣

I'm really not a fan of adding Urza's Saga in any Saga/Enchantress deck. That thing wants to be in an artifact deck.

Would you say Opalescence is a legal win con in this deck?

No cascading cataracts seems so odd in a 5 color list.

You know the deal hahahaha

wizards class to draw cards and have no max hand size

No idea how azusa's many journeys got cut

the mana base is so bad especially because the saga's ramp but there is nothing to ramp into

I wouldn't have gotten rid of the enchantment cost 1 less cards. Eventually your only paying 1 if not free saga to enter the field.

Ppl are so eager to play 5 color decks but cry when i play back to basics or blood moon. I have literally had ppl flip out right in front of me. 5 color gives u freedom to play whatever u want but, you have to accept your weaknesses and stop being babies about it.

Why are you wearing a backpack?

“Let not get…. too ahead of ourselves?!?” … let’s not get too hasty! For shame