That's what happened when I tried to put together a semi functional budget edh deck using only the cards I had without bothering to buy new ones. Everybody else at the table spent hundreds or even thousands of bucks on their stuff and I'm like "Well, let's bring Memnarch then because that can steal all their fancy cards and the rest of the deck doesn't have to be good, we'll just add rocks to ramp so he can use his ability more, and when we're out of rocks... Add junk that will confuse them." The whole table was cracking up over my playing Glasses of Urza. "I'm just going to tap this now and look to see how screwed I am"
In the Commander justice system, the planeswalkers are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the cards that represent the characters, and the players who build their decks around them. These are their stories. *_[DANDAN]_*
This game was epitome of entertainment watching others play a game the laughter and trolling behavior was amazing. I can watch decks combo off anywhere this was special
It really inspires me to build a deck where the individual cards are rubbish, but they have enough synergy to occasionally win. A play like making an opponent's land into an island until end of turn and then hitting them for lethal with Dandan would just be SO epic! 🤣
My favorite game was against an opponent who kept trying to steal the top instant or sorcery from my library. I was playing with Enrage and my only instant/sorceries were "one damage to each creature". So much frustration there...
I have an entire deck around this strategy which is also my chaos deck. It’s so fun giving people rogue sky captain or play custody battle on their prosper. Shutting down the artifact decks with Kill Switch or nullifying swing decks with a bubble matrix. Nice fog bank, it’s the same as my Kambal now.
This is the goal, the pinnacle of gameplay. Nobody can stop your strategy when its jank and fun. Favorite decks are pure jank like making Reaperking free to cast and sacrificing him for Commander Storm effects. Not a single card combos with anything BUT my commander. Or life hurts Licia. I want to die or almost die and thats my winning strat so stuff like soulgorger orgg which makes my lifetotal one on etb for 6 mana is perfect (genuinely one of the worst cards printed)
Can you guys link the videos in your shorts? I was intrigued and wanted to see the video but I have no clue which it is on the main channel and I'm not about to watch all of them :\
I think the Gilded Drake/Sakashima's Will play later in this episode will go down as my favorite Commander At Home moment ever. Just so much sheer stupid joy happening in the span of like 3 minutes
And this is where a style of deck I lovingly call "Bad Santa" decks live in my mind. Etali players will always look at the flop from those and mutter "the fuck is this?"
Blood pet is actually pretty good if you get it early it basically lets you spend a mana on a card you will play on a future turn and gives you a weak meat shield you can read in to help pay for something later
One time in Arena, I was playing a Gandalf the White deck and my opponent was playing the old Etali. When they attacked, they accidentally hit a Farewell from my deck and casted it before conceding
I am legit thinking about building a jank Commander deck around Thrulls, as I am old and used to have play sets of a few of them, so seeing Blood Pet come down made me kinda happy. (For full nostalgia, I was also thinking about running Thrulls and Thallids.)
I love playing decks in any card game that makes your opponent say "what the fuck is that". Sometimes in deckbuilding, doing the funny thing is better than doing the right thing.
@@majinvegeta6364 What is weird about her takes, specifically where it applies to a format that was designed from it's inception to be as non competitive as possible?
@@majinvegeta6364 I don't know the specifics. I know that you said that this clip scares you about her being on the committee, and this clip is her being silly about deck building. It implies that the worrisome part is that she's not competitive enough to make rules about the format. I don't *know* anything about your concerns, just what I can assume based off of what you wrote. As the saying goes, "When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me." and I'd much rather not assume about anyone. Lay it out clear, so that there's no mistakes based off of assumptions.
Back before Commander was a format, I made a casual Blue Beatdown deck with Dandân, Unstable Mutation, and a few 'Your land is now an island" cards. It could reliably win on turn 4 by swinging with big creatures like it was a green deck. Now that I think about it, I could probably built a Pauper version of it and have it be a legit, legal deck. lol
I remember running Circle of Protection: Black in my enchantment deck and everyone at the table was confused why I did that. After protecting myself from dozens of triggers and combat damage I was the only one at the table at one point with over 30 life. Including the black player who was doing the damage to everyone.
I'm looking through some of my loose piles of cards right now, and just as she plays dandan, i pick up a handful of cards, and the very first card is dandan
I always make sure to put cards I like into my decks. Do you know how many good enchantments I have in Bant that got put aside for Befriending the Moths? Or the ironic savior of my artifact deck, Ornithopter. And I have an aggro Azorius deck that includes no enchantments because a joke it can pull is casting Tempest of Light EVERY TURN.
People wonder why I play Glasses of Urza and Storm Crow in my Memnarch EDH deck, or why I randomly seem to have Kaervek's Hex, a situational and terrible wipe, in my mono black Erebos EDH deck...
I made a Sivitri Scarzam Commander deck where there is ZERO text in the text boxes that is not italicized. It is a Commander legal and Pauper EDH legal deck with NO abilities.
Dandân is not a weird name, it's just a very very very big fish, and the enemy of all mermen. It's a creature from 1001 Nights. You know the Arabic story that introduced Aladdin, Ghouls, Sinbad, Ali Baba, etc. Although Aladdin and Ali Baba weren't actually in the original, but was added later by a French man.
Normally, 60 in a constructed ("build a deck from all the cards you own") format or 40 in limited ("here are some cards, build a deck") format. These nice people are playing Commander, however, which is a format with 100-card decks (one of which is the commander with some special rules going on), and no duplicates other than basic lands.
Okay honestly, I feel like the only time I see more than one woman at a time playing stuff like Magic and D&D is when there's a camera on. I've honestly never seen more than one female in a game shop at a time besides the owner's wife. Maybe times have changed, I don't know, but it kind of irks me there weren't more female nerds out there in the 90s that weren't playing games like there are now.
I was building a blue/white deck as I watched this. I added dandân to the deck because of this. It does not fit into the deck in any way and actively makes the deck worse, and I can't not put it in my deck now (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
*Adjusts glasses* Umm, actually you're constructing decks. Deck Building is a game mechanic where all players start with essentially the same decks and purchase more cards over the course of the game via a market or something similar.
My "what the hell is this?" deck is Horobi, Death's Wail. There's so many obscure cards in that deck I spend half the time in games with new people explaining what the hell I just cast
