Sorry bud, that's a pre-existing condition. What do you mean a pre-existing condition? You saying I have a very kickable chest? No, we can't cover anything that existed before this company existed. We relaunch every morning, you said this happened last night at 2350.
This has become a meme for my dinosaur deck. Everyone just quotes Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park. “Now eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs in your dinosaur deck, right?”
@silkywilky7913 Definitely not a phi. iirc, that's the symbol of the Sun Empire. And it's not painted on. That's a natural feather pattern. Since Gishath is seen as the physical avatar of the sun god to the Empire, it's quite possible that they based their symbology on gishath's (and probably the other Sun's Avatars') color patterns
Good honest magic, this one. No tricks, no deception; it sits down at the table, politely introduces itself and sets clear expectations about what it is here to do.
Is Storm/Grapeshot Good honest magic then? I very clearly say, I am here to wait about 4 to 8 turns, then draw/Scry/Mill my entire deck, Past In Flames. Reuse every single burn spell I just cast, for a second time, then Grapeshot the last surviving non-me player for game. With any old Izzet commander, who I usually don't bother making, I make my statement clear. I am here to wait patiently, maybe cast 1 or 2 burn spells, and mostly pass turns. Then nuke you once I have less than half my lands left to draw into.
Hey now i play my Artificer Commander like eveyone else, one Artifact at a time til you make a conveyor belt lol, Could be worse, you could deal with that one Green/Red Human card that makes Trample hit through even if you block. That in a Red/Green Gruul&RazeBoar deck is nasty. Chunky Tample, and making sure that trample hits through. 'Good Clean Magic' is 2+ ppl getting a Prebuilt Standard. Once you start editing a deck up then you are subject to the sweaty side of the game. Took me over a year and some Trauma to get used to the meta side of shenanigans. Blue/Black Zombies are not fun
Gishath decks can have an average CMC of like 7 and still fucking wreck face I love it. I got into magic like six years ago borrowing a buddies Gishath deck that attack trigger is like cocaine for timmy players
Playing this commander is a guaranteed way to have every single removal or counter spell that is drawn for the entire game be saved specifically for you
The solution is to put dinosaurs in the deck that will come out before Gishath to eat up that removal. Etahli, Primal Storm, Quartzwood Crasher, Marauding Raptor (makes enrage bullshit), and even more massive dinos (Ghalta, Rampaging Brontodon, etc.) are cards that your opponent will HAVE to deal with.
@@CsquidyCI've had that happen against a Gishath deck. I burned through 7 counterspells/spot removal cards, and only one of them was pointed at Gishath. He still hit the table when I ran outta juice, and promptly made me a snack in the dinosaur gangbang. 10/10 would play again.
Last night at FNM I Gishath'd into BOTH flavors of Etali. Needless to say, the Black player to my left did everything they could to get rid of those before they attacked
If you encounter a Gishath player in the wilds of your local gamestore at a Friday Night Magic commander table, ask them their opinions about how they feel of that pack The Lost Caverns of Ixalan that is coming out. You are almost guaranteed to hear their wallets crying as Gishath players very likely own at least 1 copy of every dinosaur that exists in the Naya colors and they will buy any new dinosaur to fit into their jurrassic park they call a commander deck.
this is very accurate even if I say it as a arena only player I am always begging for more dinos in arena and do not hesitate to craft any motherfuker that enters the client faster then split second can target my gishaths boots
Y’know, I never thought of it from opponents view. I am that guy that gets upset when my Gishath dies. I will now schedule a self-care week within which I will reflect on my poor life choices, so that I may play my Gishath deck without invoking the baby rage, which inevitably ends all fun for the playgroup. Thank you MaldHound. At this point, I think you’re my Magic therapist.
Two relatively common commanders that I think would be funny to see you review would be the prosperous Prosper, tome bound, as well as the terrifyingly expansionist Titania, Nature’s Force. I feel at least the latter would bring a tear to your blue player’s eyes Day 2
If people get mad their commander gets countered, that's just kinda the name of the game when it has an effect like that. It is a "Stop this or suffer" effect when it goes on the stack. Nobody is going to willingly let the Dinosaur deck actually get online if they can stop it, and if it does hit the field somebody is gonna exile the bastard, I know there's someone playing a deck with white mana and every damn time they can exile shit. Does it suck to get your Commander countered? Yes absolutely. Is it inevitable? Also yes if you have a "I win if I clock you in the jaw with this giant lizard" as your win condition.
As an American I can say my health insurance MIGHT cover dinosaur kicks to the chest but I will spin it in such a way to also punish said dinosaur with the leftover premiums. In other words I am an Esper player.
Even more fun if you give him double strike and then he triggers his effect twice. Very juicy myriad target too. Edit: scratch myriad unless you get a way to bypass the legend rule. Still have seen this thing in action and he can wreck a whole pod in 2 turns with no extra juice.
Gishath is my main deck and the one I'm known most for at my LGS. I can confirm that I'm either doing nothing because I didn't draw my ramp, or I'm spitting out dinos faster than Netflix cranks out shitty originals. Running Kaheera as the companion is just an extra slap in the face because she's a lord with side benefits.
Gishath was the first commander deck I ever built and let me tell you NOTHING will teach a newbie the meaning of "dies to removal" quite like paying 14 mana for a fifth turn of swinging him out.
I lean more towards Zacama myself. She won't kick you in the chest... but you will find yourself spontaneously combusting at some point.^^ With Zcama you don't even get a combat step.... she enters and your stuff just gets exploded because she happened to look in its general direction. Best part is she reimburses you for casting her. Bestest part is if she brings Zirda with her.^^
I WAS using Zacama, with Sanctum of Eternity/Sanctum of the Sun(Transformed Azor's Gateway) to go infinite mana/health. But, I got the Monster Anatomy 101 Secret Lair, and that Gishath was just too pretty to not make my commander
This is going to be my next deck for Commander. After two failures of decks, this seems straight forward enough and I look forward to it. I also look forward to it being exiled, countered, and bounced back to my hand before it can do combat damage
Really funny how you could slap what Gishath does onto any Tribal Commander and it would be the instant top tier for that tribe. Yet i never seem to see him in pods. Would love to see a review on Henzie "Toolbox" Torre; one of my favourite precons.
I mean, I'll happily take Gishath over Zacama, but that's like saying I'd rather get run over by a convoy of 18-wheelers than have to deal with Professor Naya's Infinite Mana Laser.
Gishath players’ whole game plan is play somewhat nice and seem inocente, ramp like a madman, and then summon the entire fucking Jurassic Park. Once Gishath hits the battlefield, the game turns into dinosaurs on cocaine shitting all over anyone and it’s incredibly ridiculous but stupidly fun
Neat, I didn't know Magic had one of these too. In Yugioh, our big bad Dinosaur is "Ultimate Conductor Tyranno" , its one of the biggest monsters in the game statwise, its easy to summon, it can force the opponent to flip all their cards facedown during 'either players turn' at instant speed, (A card being face down means it cannot attack, and is treated as if it has no effect.) It can attack over and over so long as the opponent has cards alive for him to attack, if he attacks something that is facedown, it dies automatically, then deals burn damage, 'and' it can even act as a combo "starter" for 'mono-dinosaur' decks.
I love having opponents that play big stompy creatures like this. I love watching the light in their eyes fade as I counterspell it three turns in a row and drive the commander tax through the roof. I love watching all those dinosaurs hit the graveyard as I mill their library. I love watching them reformulate as I systematically nuke their nonbasic lands and mana rocks. My favourite opponents, really. I've been screwing around with mono-red EDH decks lately, and I'm calling it Dragons Approach a Bag of Midgets. I'd sure love your thoughts on the Dragon's Approach combi, and your favourite dwarf commanders.
So, one of my favorite things to do is play Vorniclex with Nissa to put 40 lands on the field which are quickly followed by Blachwood armor, rampaging brotodon, cultivator colossus, and much more alongside some freelance muscle in case all of which are packing trample. I can go from not a threat to taking out three players in no time flat. The best part is I added blue and white to my deck so I can turtle up till my combo is ready good luck countering my combo when I have counter spells flowing like water along side hex proof, indestructible, and Myrel telling you to screw off because its my turn to play cards not yours. You don't even need that much mana to pull it off so long as you have cost reduction and a mana rock or two.
Dinosaurs were the last deck I made before I stopped playing magic and I never got it to run just right. Nice seeing one of the cards I had in it getting a spotlight though.
I love these decks because it becomes an arms race of how quickly they can get a nuclear bomb and how long I can survive - and I become a damn cockroach in those matches
Play Black, you don’t need health insurance, if you have Phyrexians, necromancers, and other re-animators as corporate backers. In any case, great vid! Xyris, for an Indiana Jones-friendly roast?
See, as a Gishath player, my playgroup has evolved a Pavlovian response to hold answers for him when I hit 8 mana. Now I have learned to just play my hand of big dinos until the control player foolishly taps all his mana for a board wipe
... and now I can never see that card without thinking of the Rex and Weevil from Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged that were basically Beavis and Butthead. Be proud of yourself...
As a gishath player I have never felt more seen, I do love punching an opponent in the chest so hard that I get to bring out more dinosaurs than your average Jurassic park movie
My favorite thing to do with gishath was to wait until after blockers were declared then cast congregation at dawn if i were to trample over for at least 3.
Before I stopped playing MTG:A I built a dino-deck around Gishath and Etali: Primal Storm. I wasn't a great player, and the deck overall was mid, but if I managed to get either of them out, I had fun, at least. I also built a red/green deck around polyraptor, and the only time I played it, my opponent quit the second poly hit the field, so I didn't even get to enjoy it...
