Cam, can you go back and read the name of the equipment that got Mental Misstep-ed? Read it carefully, and tell me how many of the letter N appears in "Shuko" 😂
13:46 Interestingly enough, Nate could have just chosen to leave El's Archivist of Oghma in play - it's a forced draw trigger, and if Nate had just chosen to do infinite searches through his library causing infinite card draws, any time El tried to interact (e.g. Solitude), Nate could have had her just draw another infinite number of cards. It's purely academic at this point since Nate had the win either way, but that could be a workaround for a protection effect like a freshly cast One Ring. Edit: of course, almost all the searches would be "fail to find", but that's still triggering the Archivist.
Shorikai pilot here. Stax is super easy to play, I dunno why you feel that way. I just treat it like coding. If (x), then (y). IE if ETB Torpor, if Activated Cursed, if land ramping Winter Orb, if none of the above Humility.
It’s about communication. If you can’t observe and communicate, you’ll never win. You have to politic every game. It’s actually an incredibly strong archetype, most people just struggle with communication and seeing lines.
IMO stax isn't difficult to play, it's getting other players to see the value of the pieces placed down without flatly spelling it out who you're aiming to stop (because then they remove you entirely instead). You can do everything perfectly in a stax deck but if an over anxious player is more focused on setting up their win at an inopportune time vs waiting until they can securely win, they just open the floodgates to everything held back or amazing top decks. Like if sisay with silence is on board, even if they don't have the card in hand, thats not something you leave while remove deafening and creature etbs instead lol. It is hard to rely on other players game sense for your deck to navigate well tho.
@justaperson5092 to hell with that, I tell people EXACTLY what my intent with a certain piece is. If it stops two people, fine. But I'll absolutely explain how it's immediately stopping one person before the other, and the latter will usually let it slide. The biggest, and most important part of playing stax is game sense, and awareness. You've got to know how every deck within a given meta functions, what parts of it are crucial to stop, and what tools you have available to you to stop those things. Going into a pod with a stax deck, and having no earthly idea how the other 3 at the table function will result in a loss. Game sense is the biggest, and best stax piece.
With the Safekeeper Nadu thing, you can let the Nadu trigger resolve then respond to the safekeeper with another activation. Wouldn't have mattered the way it played out for Cam since he knew what was on top and it wasn't a land
Actually it could have mattered - If Dylan had responded to the first Safekeeper activation (with E-wit on top), Cam could have protected Nadu with the second land. If Dylan had let the first nadu trigger resolve so he could wait for the second activation, the card on top would be unknown.
One thing I’ve noticed with CEDH players and Nadu is they run the creatures with landfall make a creature but I don’t think they run enough lands to reliably hit off the nadu triggers. Maybe it’s just the games I watch but I’ve seen a lot of nadu fizzles
@@coreyedwards159 I still feel like there's a case for upping your land count just a bit compared to your average cEDH deck because you're not relying so much on the fast mana
Love seeing Sisay do well. She has never been in a better position. She has the highest win rate in cEDH tournaments and an amazing top 16 percent. ComedIanmtg thinks it is clearly the second best deck in cEDH right now after blue farm and I agree.
I was watching with the silver safekeeper.Trigger not to trigger resolves first, so you can actually let your nadu.Trigger resolve first and then see what you get and then hold priority on the silver safe keeper trigger and then sack another land if you want to
Was there a specific reason you didn't use Gaea's Cradle to cast the Shunko? Then you could use Minamo to force one Nadu trigger (assuming there was a mental misstep).
Yep, I feel like there were some massive misplays with Gaea’s Cradle. I would’ve preferred the line of using it to cast an Overloaded Cyclonic Rift then when it comes to your turn again use cradle for mana. There was also the line of eternal witness.
At 7:25, wouldn't the Elk lack Nadu's ability? since it had it before it got transformed and robbed of its abilities? or does it retain the ability regardless of Kenrith's transformation as long as Nadu is there
i wanted to mention that if you’re not playing blue, you still may have access to dress down effects. [[sudden spoiling]] is a Great card in black that deals with so much, plus it’s split second
Cam, you can actually do the safekeeper activation, trigger nadu to see what you get and then when it goes back to the stack you can hold priority and sac another land, so you have more information if you want to really sac a land.
I'm confused as to why Cam didn't give Nadu shroud on the turn that it got hit with swords to plowshares and instead used it 4 times on other creatures.
I keep feeling like dryad arbor is an overlooked creature to tutor for when I see nadu played. But that’s only partially true here I think because of the hushwing.
Sisay is that deck that is so unaffected by most stax effects. It is so hard to navigate a board state with stax pieces that affect that deck and yours, since 1 card is enough to win them the game if sisay is on board. What a nice game. Really well fought one
@3:18 don’t you only get the protection as it enters when you cast it since you are only making a copy of it due to etb I don’t believe you get the protection
The One Ring reads: "When The One Ring enters the battlefield, if you cast it." Metamorph enters as a One Ring and then triggers the One Ring's ETB and the Metamorph was cast fulfilling the triggers condition.
11:53 so it is legal to respond before someone goes to change phases? i've always wondered about this for these types of situations where the player plays something, then goes to leave the phase in very much this exact situation. And if your not legally supposed to play on such a point is it strategic to play something then go to change phases causing the mana an opponent floated from using a mana source that would be unavailable upon the spell resolving so that opponent actually doesn't have anything to "respond to" as a way to "gain priority?" i would like to add i'm still in the "ban Nadu" camp, if you don't shut down it's ability to "free target" as soon as one such of those cards like Shuko show up Nadu just wins the game from there. And the King Seas Blessing card while it's a massive high synergy for Nadu it's really only good if you have 7+ creatures one of being Nadu on field otherwise it basically does nothing. I'd say the same for it's green counterpart. The game would had been VERY different if the Shuko had resolved and was made use of even if for four activations. When i do my Nadu deck i will not be doing Sylvan Safekeeper even if he's high synergy because ideally your gaining the lands back it feels like too "high risk high reward" for what you could be doing.
The second part makes no sense, but the first part is right on the money. Before moving each phase there is a round of priority, but 99% of the time it is a shortcut because people don't have a response. If your opponent has a Counterspell, you can Strip Mine one of their lands. If they float the mana, you state that you want to change phases (ie. go to your post combat main phase) and their floating blue mana will disappear, allowing you to cast your spell without getting it countered. If you look up "MtG with a Chess Clock" you can see how many times priority is passed.
When you move to a new phase every player gets the option to respond. You're probably most familiar with this as a response to ending the turn but it's every phase and you can do things like cast instant speed discard effects during someone's draw step.
Man it was kinda hard watching cam fall down the sylvan safe keeper trap with Nadu lol. It’s too easy to just sac all your lands hoping to replace them and keep going.
Since the Metamorph enters as a copy of The One Ring, it _is_ the Ring when it enters the battlefield. (Any effect that says that a permanent enters as something, with something, doing something or in some state is a replacement effect - it modifies the way the permanent enters; it's not a trigger.) So the ETB triggers, and it checks whether the permanent was cast, and it was.
I think cam should have use minamo to untap his phyrexian one ring more often 😅 as the game had more stax being played and he would have more time with a bigger burdened one ring out
You made a rules mistake here, and I haven’t seen anyone else point this out, likely because of how unintuitive it is. Adding and removing abilities happens on the same layer, so when there are 2 things on the board trying to add or remove abilities, we look at timestamp order. For example, if a Scute Swarm was on the board with Nadu trying to grant it a busted ability, and a Kenrith’s Transformation trying to take away all abilities, you would look at time stamps to see what you apply first. In this case, Nadu was on the board first, which means that your Newly An Elk would gain the ability but immediately lose it, so you don’t get any value off of targeting it. It doesn’t matter here, but it might be relevant for the future, especially for the Stax player in the pod.
Kenrith’s Transformation is an aura so it requires a legal target to even cast it, the targeting of nadu is what triggers the ability sot he Aura is still on the stack. But you are correct in once the aura resolves it no longer has Nadu's ability unless Nadu is recast or flickered
At this point, Cam is farming interaction by continuing to pronounce Shuko as SHUNKO 😂
Came here to comment that it makes my eye twitch a little bit every time he says it.
lol it’s better than Pleasant Kenobi. He calls it “Shook-oh” haha
I tried actually reading shuko once. I can pronounce it but now I hate that I run it.
The subtly of Cam’s shrug, when Dylan says: you sculpted a perfect 7 and may have a counter spell, so perfect.
Cam, can you go back and read the name of the equipment that got Mental Misstep-ed? Read it carefully, and tell me how many of the letter N appears in "Shuko" 😂
Went down to the comments JUST FOR THIS! Thank you 🙏🏻 😂
Confused it with soi fon's shunko move 😂
I love Shunko Pop figurines
Iiiits's a chunko!
I’ll equip SHUNKO, to my FLINTHORN Elves
Sacrificing all those lands with Nadu and hitting almost no lands was brutal.
13:46 Interestingly enough, Nate could have just chosen to leave El's Archivist of Oghma in play - it's a forced draw trigger, and if Nate had just chosen to do infinite searches through his library causing infinite card draws, any time El tried to interact (e.g. Solitude), Nate could have had her just draw another infinite number of cards. It's purely academic at this point since Nate had the win either way, but that could be a workaround for a protection effect like a freshly cast One Ring. Edit: of course, almost all the searches would be "fail to find", but that's still triggering the Archivist.
I cannot describe in words how much I love Dylan's expressive hand motions to emphasize what Cam is saying
This video is like the epitome of why stax is so difficult to play.
I’ve retired my Stax Decks after 10 Years of Stax. It’s not really viable anymore.
Shorikai pilot here. Stax is super easy to play, I dunno why you feel that way.
I just treat it like coding. If (x), then (y).
IE if ETB Torpor, if Activated Cursed, if land ramping Winter Orb, if none of the above Humility.
It’s about communication. If you can’t observe and communicate, you’ll never win. You have to politic every game. It’s actually an incredibly strong archetype, most people just struggle with communication and seeing lines.
IMO stax isn't difficult to play, it's getting other players to see the value of the pieces placed down without flatly spelling it out who you're aiming to stop (because then they remove you entirely instead).
You can do everything perfectly in a stax deck but if an over anxious player is more focused on setting up their win at an inopportune time vs waiting until they can securely win, they just open the floodgates to everything held back or amazing top decks.
Like if sisay with silence is on board, even if they don't have the card in hand, thats not something you leave while remove deafening and creature etbs instead lol.
It is hard to rely on other players game sense for your deck to navigate well tho.
@justaperson5092 to hell with that, I tell people EXACTLY what my intent with a certain piece is. If it stops two people, fine. But I'll absolutely explain how it's immediately stopping one person before the other, and the latter will usually let it slide. The biggest, and most important part of playing stax is game sense, and awareness. You've got to know how every deck within a given meta functions, what parts of it are crucial to stop, and what tools you have available to you to stop those things. Going into a pod with a stax deck, and having no earthly idea how the other 3 at the table function will result in a loss. Game sense is the biggest, and best stax piece.
Cam there is no "n" in shuko 😂
Cam tries not to add letters to words challenge, any% speedrun “Shunko” edition
With the Safekeeper Nadu thing, you can let the Nadu trigger resolve then respond to the safekeeper with another activation. Wouldn't have mattered the way it played out for Cam since he knew what was on top and it wasn't a land
Actually it could have mattered - If Dylan had responded to the first Safekeeper activation (with E-wit on top), Cam could have protected Nadu with the second land. If Dylan had let the first nadu trigger resolve so he could wait for the second activation, the card on top would be unknown.
One thing I’ve noticed with CEDH players and Nadu is they run the creatures with landfall make a creature but I don’t think they run enough lands to reliably hit off the nadu triggers. Maybe it’s just the games I watch but I’ve seen a lot of nadu fizzles
yes that’s just the games you’ve watched lol, nadu is a menace and the lands get triggers once you have enough volume of attempts
@@coreyedwards159 I still feel like there's a case for upping your land count just a bit compared to your average cEDH deck because you're not relying so much on the fast mana
@@noahcarroll4944 you play 36 lands in the list so yes
@@noahcarroll494436 is a lot of lands for a cEDH deck
Nadu is probably the only cedh deck that should run a ton of lands lol
Love seeing Sisay do well. She has never been in a better position. She has the highest win rate in cEDH tournaments and an amazing top 16 percent. ComedIanmtg thinks it is clearly the second best deck in cEDH right now after blue farm and I agree.
I see Ellivere cEDH and I gotta jump in
So glad to finally see Sisay getting some play on your guys’ channel.
Hell yeah! Kinda hard to find decent sisay games on youtube, that aren't super old or bad quality
Happy to see more Sisay on this channel. ❤
I was watching with the silver safekeeper.Trigger not to trigger resolves first, so you can actually let your nadu.Trigger resolve first and then see what you get and then hold priority on the silver safe keeper trigger and then sack another land if you want to
Was there a specific reason you didn't use Gaea's Cradle to cast the Shunko? Then you could use Minamo to force one Nadu trigger (assuming there was a mental misstep).
Yep, I feel like there were some massive misplays with Gaea’s Cradle. I would’ve preferred the line of using it to cast an Overloaded Cyclonic Rift then when it comes to your turn again use cradle for mana. There was also the line of eternal witness.
Oh no Cam's mispronunciation has infected the comments now too🤣
At 7:25, wouldn't the Elk lack Nadu's ability? since it had it before it got transformed and robbed of its abilities? or does it retain the ability regardless of Kenrith's transformation as long as Nadu is there
Cam saying "shunko" must be an homage to Yoruichi 😅
i wanted to mention that if you’re not playing blue, you still may have access to dress down effects. [[sudden spoiling]] is a Great card in black that deals with so much, plus it’s split second
Cam, you can actually do the safekeeper activation, trigger nadu to see what you get and then when it goes back to the stack you can hold priority and sac another land, so you have more information if you want to really sac a land.
I love the way Dylan was talking to us from 11:49 to 12:10 lmao
I'm confused as to why Cam didn't give Nadu shroud on the turn that it got hit with swords to plowshares and instead used it 4 times on other creatures.
He might have been looking to have the option to bounce nadu and recast it to get more triggers later on that turn.
It turns Nadu's bounce loops off.
1:52 If you think your Shuko is getting countered you could tap Cradle here instead so you can use the blue mana on Minamo
Cam, you can resolve the nadu trigger before choosing to sac another land, while the Sylvan ability is on the stack
My list is sorta off like the nadu build I wanna know if I can run ruin crab just for 😂
gotta say guys, I really love the background music that you have in these videos.
Shifting Woodland seems strong in Atraxa as basically an uncounterable Food Chain if it goes to the yard. Not sure where to make room for it yet tho.
I keep feeling like dryad arbor is an overlooked creature to tutor for when I see nadu played. But that’s only partially true here I think because of the hushwing.
Would it have been better to cast kenrith’s transformation on the nadu itself rather than the scute swarm?
that's the part I didn't get either ... should have shut down Nadu for quite some time
Sisay is that deck that is so unaffected by most stax effects. It is so hard to navigate a board state with stax pieces that affect that deck and yours, since 1 card is enough to win them the game if sisay is on board.
What a nice game. Really well fought one
@3:18 don’t you only get the protection as it enters when you cast it since you are only making a copy of it due to etb I don’t believe you get the protection
The One Ring reads: "When The One Ring enters the battlefield, if you cast it." Metamorph enters as a One Ring and then triggers the One Ring's ETB and the Metamorph was cast fulfilling the triggers condition.
@@Frequency629 oh makes sense that’s crazy actually
11:53 so it is legal to respond before someone goes to change phases? i've always wondered about this for these types of situations where the player plays something, then goes to leave the phase in very much this exact situation. And if your not legally supposed to play on such a point is it strategic to play something then go to change phases causing the mana an opponent floated from using a mana source that would be unavailable upon the spell resolving so that opponent actually doesn't have anything to "respond to" as a way to "gain priority?"
i would like to add i'm still in the "ban Nadu" camp, if you don't shut down it's ability to "free target" as soon as one such of those cards like Shuko show up Nadu just wins the game from there. And the King Seas Blessing card while it's a massive high synergy for Nadu it's really only good if you have 7+ creatures one of being Nadu on field otherwise it basically does nothing. I'd say the same for it's green counterpart. The game would had been VERY different if the Shuko had resolved and was made use of even if for four activations. When i do my Nadu deck i will not be doing Sylvan Safekeeper even if he's high synergy because ideally your gaining the lands back it feels like too "high risk high reward" for what you could be doing.
The second part makes no sense, but the first part is right on the money.
Before moving each phase there is a round of priority, but 99% of the time it is a shortcut because people don't have a response.
If your opponent has a Counterspell, you can Strip Mine one of their lands. If they float the mana, you state that you want to change phases (ie. go to your post combat main phase) and their floating blue mana will disappear, allowing you to cast your spell without getting it countered.
If you look up "MtG with a Chess Clock" you can see how many times priority is passed.
When you move to a new phase every player gets the option to respond. You're probably most familiar with this as a response to ending the turn but it's every phase and you can do things like cast instant speed discard effects during someone's draw step.
I need to know where cam got those batman sleeves
Wheres the N in the equipmemt name Shuko?
Dylan is the long lost Third Franco Brother.
Nate topdecking a Rocko seems so poetic lmao
Did cam pay to untap the one ring with minamo and then miss the untap?
You can tell by Cam's gremlin grin.. he knows exactly what he's doing...
There was an out for the turn nate won. If El saved a land to give dockside shroud on first flicker of emiel, it would have stopped the initial loop.
I take that back. I miss read safekeeper. Thought it could target any creature in play
Love seeing ellivere but its a tough deck to get a win with. Id also like to say i think Nate has gained more skill piloting in Cedh, i love it.
Wizards said you dont like growth spiral stapled on legends? Heres the ultimate growth spiral.
I love Ellivere. I truthfully believe she’s the best stax commander in the game.
Man it was kinda hard watching cam fall down the sylvan safe keeper trap with Nadu lol. It’s too easy to just sac all your lands hoping to replace them and keep going.
been hoping to see ellivere cedh!
Hell yeah. Q. What sleeves is Dylan using?
Turn 2 if Cam taps with his cradle instead, he can make a nadu trigger with Minamo
yeah im absolutely buying that playmat cam is using wow
Great game! Sisay , Atraxa and Ellivere and the bird who shall not be named 😅
You guys are awesome!
*T1 Nadu*
*cue The Only Thing They Fear is You* 😂😂😂
Dylan really handed that game to Nate lol
3:05 Do you get protection? You didn't cast a one ring, you cast Metamorph, right?
Since the Metamorph enters as a copy of The One Ring, it _is_ the Ring when it enters the battlefield. (Any effect that says that a permanent enters as something, with something, doing something or in some state is a replacement effect - it modifies the way the permanent enters; it's not a trigger.) So the ETB triggers, and it checks whether the permanent was cast, and it was.
Its a perfectly logical question to ask. Even Cam said a small comment, stating “this is how it works” or something.
@@therealax6 Makes sense to me, thanks.
IRC chat ask a Judge has a channel that's great for questions like these
@@bobthor9647 How am I suppose to get Play To Win to notice me there?
How did the planeswalker get passed the defying silence
It was put into play with Sisay's ability.
Ah man I always appreciate seeing old Twitter friends.
With how uninteractive and Nadu dependant that deck is it would be cool to see a game where it has to play under a magistrate early
Cam missed a Nadu opportunity on turn 3. He could of attacked and used monomo to untap Nadu if he tapped differently
LETS GO!
Why didnt Nadu get targeted with the Kenrith's transformation? Scute swarm is cute, but a bit of a win-more card...
I think cam should have use minamo to untap his phyrexian one ring more often 😅 as the game had more stax being played and he would have more time with a bigger burdened one ring out
Cam casting scoot swam without protection seems like an odd play to me.
“Shunko”?
Ya love to see some Nate wins!
Great vid, but we need more yeva on the channel
Cam saying SHUNKO is like when your nice uncle gets into a game you like but just CANNOT pronounce names 😅
Do some 4 nadu on a pod hahahaha
Adda boy Nate! SHUKOS UP!!!
Yeeesh not waiting really punted this game
Horobi would be good against a nadu deck
lol i was about to get on twitter i thought we didn't get a show today i woke looking for p2w
That’s a man Maury
Minamo could trigger Nadu in 2nd turn, and so untap one ring if needed
Ya. I think cam was just extremely unlucky on practically hitting zero lands. I think it's almost worth going to the calculator. Odds seem realnbad
SHUNKO, SHUNGITE, SHUG NITE
WTF Cam T-2 You missed a nadu activation, u plkayed it so baad
Goodjob nate on the win and boo on nadu go away 😅
Shunko is a weird card
LESGOOOOOOOOO
Shungite Equipment
You made a rules mistake here, and I haven’t seen anyone else point this out, likely because of how unintuitive it is. Adding and removing abilities happens on the same layer, so when there are 2 things on the board trying to add or remove abilities, we look at timestamp order.
For example, if a Scute Swarm was on the board with Nadu trying to grant it a busted ability, and a Kenrith’s Transformation trying to take away all abilities, you would look at time stamps to see what you apply first. In this case, Nadu was on the board first, which means that your Newly An Elk would gain the ability but immediately lose it, so you don’t get any value off of targeting it. It doesn’t matter here, but it might be relevant for the future, especially for the Stax player in the pod.
Kenrith’s Transformation is an aura so it requires a legal target to even cast it, the targeting of nadu is what triggers the ability sot he Aura is still on the stack. But you are correct in once the aura resolves it no longer has Nadu's ability unless Nadu is recast or flickered
W.T.F.
Playing nadu (who is super broken) so bad is so cringe
Just 4 dude playing with shiny cardboard
Three dudes and El 😊
@austinwhitbeck3362 el is a dude. Why you trying to exclude him you bigot
Not paying for rhystic is cringe
Yo, wtf is even that
THERE IS NO N. Please. It is pronounced Shoe-co.
ELIANA! I miss you lots!
#DontBanTheBird
EL!!!!!!!!!! Let’s gooooo girl!!!
Shuko. SHOE-KO.
I love the Voss kickstarter playmat 🩵
Wtf