More challenges like this would be awesome! It could be interesting to do a round with only uncommon commanders, as I find those are usually thrown to the wayside in favor of "better" options despite there being some very fun, if not necessarily incredibly powerful, options when it comes to uncommon legendaries.
I didn't think it was possible to make a strong deck with Yomiji until I realized that it puts the card into your hand immediately. I assumed it would be at end of turn
Great contest, excited for more. I think the format you did for this contest is pretty good. 5 commanders in a color identity with a powerful and/or interesting effect that have few decks to their name. Repeat that for all the different color identities. I.E a commander for each of the allied color pairs etc. Forcing everyone to make their version of a specific commander stand out while keeping it a consistent functioning deck seems to lead to really cool decks. There are SO many commanders that are underrepresented too, and it is cool to see them at all as well.
I built a Jason Bright deck a while back that has the same game plan, Modular beat down, as the winning Peacock deck. I was considering tweaking it to work a bit better with peacock and submitting it, but couldn't find the motivation to do it in time. I saw filthystaxplayer's list after submissions closed and was glad the same concept I did managed to get in there. Really cool to see that it won. I playtested it a bit. It's a great deck and I'm for sure gonna steal a few things for my deck. Congrats filthystaxplayer, well deserved!
Not trying to downplay the deckbuilding prowess of the Yomiji deck, but that yomiji deck is the go to strategy people usually deckbuildnarlund, and I think something more outside the box should win. But that peacock deck was genius, very creative use of both the card's ability. Not in a million years I would think of modular lmao
these are so fun! i’d love to see more in the future, maybe taking a look at underutilized commander + background pairings or other deckbuilding stipulations like needing to include a certain card, or have an unreasonably high or low number of lands and still work, or something like that
I'd love to see a similar challenge regarding more popular commanders with dimensions you think often go missed by the broader playerbase, would be a cool exercise to encourage players to keep an eye out for interesting interactions or synergies hiding in plain sight
This is such a cool concept! Would love to do another one. Some fun commanders I think could be fun might be iname death aspect, Arwen weaver of hope, and that one red guy from ice age
I used to have Yomiji as a Creature Combo about 5 years ago, it was a really fun deck in concept at the time but it suffered from not having decent legends at the time and the legends that were around were mostly stax pieces that would draw a lot of hate before I could set anything up or just random cards that didnt do much outside of combos, one of the better pieces in the deck for example was Sensei Golden Tail since there was only 3 legends at one mana when i built the deck so it needed to play golden tail with oketra monument to have a non stax legend that would let me play the 1 mana legend combos. Its really cool seeing some new tech for the deck, especialy as an artifact combo deck since its a lot of different lines, the kci lines with Throne of Eldraine and Irencrag are really cool. Ive always wanted to revisit the deck since Commander has exploded since I built it and theres a bunch of new legends that would make the deck better. Really cool to see
Ah damn, i missed this! Funnily enough i already have an Egon deck that does just that although it's more of a Throne of Death deck since i NEVER cast the creature side of the commander. It's a very neat low-ish power deck based on graveyard stuff
As someone who has a Bilbo Retired Burglar deck built around God Pharaohs Gift that Eomer deck is giving me some ideas. I might switch over but the blue is pretty fun for the filling graveyard stuff. I think people ignore UR Bilbo because abzan bilbo took all the spotlight and nobody really wants to know what the ring tempting you does but an unblockable treasure maker that can loot on attacks easily is really solid.
Me and some friends are building some 10€ commander decks. Mainly because we started frequenting a new lgs with lower power, but with great atmosphere. The 10€ budget has been very limiting but has also been breeding a lot of creativity and cards that would not see the light of day otherwise.
Absolutely great content -- kudos to the builders, even those who weren't featured. Restrictions breed Creativity. Definitely do this again soon -- two colour legendaries next time? Though that's going to become a very Beyond heavy category even if you remove partners and backgrounds from the selection process.
Love this vid would love to see more deck building challenges in the future. An idea for the next one could be like something with unpopular partner pairings
Quick question, if you were to have Senator Peacock and Academy Manufactor out and were to make an artifact token, say one that Urza makes, would that token which is now also a clue from senator trigger the manufactor?
I was gonna build a yomji deck where you bounce enemy legends as much as possible and try to keep them there for a bowling mine finish, like some sort of weird worse crescent moon Jami deck. Sadly I could find the time to finish it, very fun to see what other people got up to tho!
I've built Egon before! It was just a reanimator deck with the usual targets, but having a one-mana miller with card draw in the command zone was actually really good (at least at the time it was good). Throne of Death was always underrated. Edit: Zzzzz just a pretty slow Voltron deck. Egon is capable of so much more, but some people can't look past it as a 6/6.
yeah, the copies created by myriad see each other dying and trigger the abilities, and on each new combat the newly created copies are the source of the trigger, not the original original card
This video is my official introduction to the legend rule counting as dying. I really assumed since it isn't sacrificing it wouldn't be dying either. I get that its dying because its mechanically identical to dying, but why isnt it also mechanically identical to sacrificing
I'm late to this particular challenge, but as soon as I saw Eomer I couldnt stop thinking about cards like Flameshadow Conjuring and Calamity, Galloping Inferno. Sadly, most cards that create temporary copies exile at end of turn instead of sacrificing, and/or don't work on legendary creatures. Still, it's got gears in my head turning... As an aside, I love that lands deck, it's complicated but so so clever. The Yomiji deck is great too, and I'm considering playing both of them.
real fans remember the 26s version
I had to do something, then came back to an error code, and, whoopsie daisies, it doesn't exist anymore.
I was there.
Brutal 😂
this was such a cool concept! You definitely should do more of these!
Holy cow! Please do this again! Each of these decks were so inspiring and reminded me why I love Commander
More challenges like this would be awesome! It could be interesting to do a round with only uncommon commanders, as I find those are usually thrown to the wayside in favor of "better" options despite there being some very fun, if not necessarily incredibly powerful, options when it comes to uncommon legendaries.
Since most of those are draft signposts, what should be done with those doesn't leave much room. You do the thing or you don't...
PDH episode PDH episode!!! Uncommon commanders + Commons in the 99
I didn't think it was possible to make a strong deck with Yomiji until I realized that it puts the card into your hand immediately. I assumed it would be at end of turn
3:40 Teferi, the well known artifact focused planeswalker
Tefeiri is the well known user of the Chain Veil.
LMAO how did I miss this, I even play this exact card in my azorius vehicles deck
If you do more deckbuilding challenges like this, I'd 100% participate. This is awesome
Great contest, excited for more. I think the format you did for this contest is pretty good. 5 commanders in a color identity with a powerful and/or interesting effect that have few decks to their name. Repeat that for all the different color identities. I.E a commander for each of the allied color pairs etc.
Forcing everyone to make their version of a specific commander stand out while keeping it a consistent functioning deck seems to lead to really cool decks. There are SO many commanders that are underrepresented too, and it is cool to see them at all as well.
I built a Jason Bright deck a while back that has the same game plan, Modular beat down, as the winning Peacock deck. I was considering tweaking it to work a bit better with peacock and submitting it, but couldn't find the motivation to do it in time.
I saw filthystaxplayer's list after submissions closed and was glad the same concept I did managed to get in there. Really cool to see that it won. I playtested it a bit. It's a great deck and I'm for sure gonna steal a few things for my deck.
Congrats filthystaxplayer, well deserved!
This contact absolutely be called top Chef because of the amount of cooking that’s been going on
Not trying to downplay the deckbuilding prowess of the Yomiji deck, but that yomiji deck is the go to strategy people usually deckbuildnarlund, and I think something more outside the box should win.
But that peacock deck was genius, very creative use of both the card's ability. Not in a million years I would think of modular lmao
Usually deckbuild around him*
these are so fun! i’d love to see more in the future, maybe taking a look at underutilized commander + background pairings or other deckbuilding stipulations like needing to include a certain card, or have an unreasonably high or low number of lands and still work, or something like that
I'd love to see a similar challenge regarding more popular commanders with dimensions you think often go missed by the broader playerbase, would be a cool exercise to encourage players to keep an eye out for interesting interactions or synergies hiding in plain sight
This is such a cool concept! Would love to do another one. Some fun commanders I think could be fun might be iname death aspect, Arwen weaver of hope, and that one red guy from ice age
Yomiji Who Bars the Way is my favorite!
I used to have Yomiji as a Creature Combo about 5 years ago, it was a really fun deck in concept at the time but it suffered from not having decent legends at the time and the legends that were around were mostly stax pieces that would draw a lot of hate before I could set anything up or just random cards that didnt do much outside of combos, one of the better pieces in the deck for example was Sensei Golden Tail since there was only 3 legends at one mana when i built the deck so it needed to play golden tail with oketra monument to have a non stax legend that would let me play the 1 mana legend combos. Its really cool seeing some new tech for the deck, especialy as an artifact combo deck since its a lot of different lines, the kci lines with Throne of Eldraine and Irencrag are really cool. Ive always wanted to revisit the deck since Commander has exploded since I built it and theres a bunch of new legends that would make the deck better. Really cool to see
Ah damn, i missed this! Funnily enough i already have an Egon deck that does just that although it's more of a Throne of Death deck since i NEVER cast the creature side of the commander. It's a very neat low-ish power deck based on graveyard stuff
As someone who has a Bilbo Retired Burglar deck built around God Pharaohs Gift that Eomer deck is giving me some ideas. I might switch over but the blue is pretty fun for the filling graveyard stuff. I think people ignore UR Bilbo because abzan bilbo took all the spotlight and nobody really wants to know what the ring tempting you does but an unblockable treasure maker that can loot on attacks easily is really solid.
Me and some friends are building some 10€ commander decks.
Mainly because we started frequenting a new lgs with lower power, but with great atmosphere.
The 10€ budget has been very limiting but has also been breeding a lot of creativity and cards that would not see the light of day otherwise.
Absolutely great content -- kudos to the builders, even those who weren't featured. Restrictions breed Creativity.
Definitely do this again soon -- two colour legendaries next time? Though that's going to become a very Beyond heavy category even if you remove partners and backgrounds from the selection process.
I loved this event! I hope to see more of this in the future
Yomiji's flavor text might be top 10 in the game tho
Love this vid would love to see more deck building challenges in the future. An idea for the next one could be like something with unpopular partner pairings
Absolute chad and chadette brewers. What a cool community
You mentioned the archidect search bar on the podcast too, does nobody realize that moxfield also has that same feature it's just called "highlight"?
Quick question, if you were to have Senator Peacock and Academy Manufactor out and were to make an artifact token, say one that Urza makes, would that token which is now also a clue from senator trigger the manufactor?
It would only become a clue when hitting the battlefield, so it would no interact with academy manufactor
I was gonna build a yomji deck where you bounce enemy legends as much as possible and try to keep them there for a bowling mine finish, like some sort of weird worse crescent moon Jami deck. Sadly I could find the time to finish it, very fun to see what other people got up to tho!
I've built Egon before! It was just a reanimator deck with the usual targets, but having a one-mana miller with card draw in the command zone was actually really good (at least at the time it was good). Throne of Death was always underrated.
Edit: Zzzzz just a pretty slow Voltron deck. Egon is capable of so much more, but some people can't look past it as a 6/6.
RE: Eomer, I thought it says the ability only triggers once a turn, is that only on that card, so the other versions can do that?
yeah, the copies created by myriad see each other dying and trigger the abilities, and on each new combat the newly created copies are the source of the trigger, not the original original card
Yeah the ability is tied to that specific permanent. Copies may have the same name and everything but are still different permanents.
So cool to be featured :)
-Lockfin
I currently run a Yomiji deck and he's slept on for sure
Also for what it’s worth if you were to do another one of these, I would totally be interested
Snail is the best magic UA-camr on the internet
can’t believe you didn’t talk about land destruction yomiji. seemed like everyone was brewing it
This video is my official introduction to the legend rule counting as dying. I really assumed since it isn't sacrificing it wouldn't be dying either. I get that its dying because its mechanically identical to dying, but why isnt it also mechanically identical to sacrificing
The first version was 27 seconds, now it’s more than 20 minutes. What gives?
Yomiji has the best flavor text in the game
I’m commenting again on this repost to request this becomes a series. I love this. Random commander specific challenges followed by deck dissection.
Oops, should've submitted my Yomiji deck that's several years old
Maybe a colorless one too next time?
@7.23 could anyone tell me, what are the infinite combos? I can't see them
The last one was far more concise.
I wanted to build yomiji just off his flavor text.
More challenges please
Wait why is Eomer under used he goes infinite with like everything
Teferi Betrayer of flesh 😅
I'm late to this particular challenge, but as soon as I saw Eomer I couldnt stop thinking about cards like Flameshadow Conjuring and Calamity, Galloping Inferno. Sadly, most cards that create temporary copies exile at end of turn instead of sacrificing, and/or don't work on legendary creatures. Still, it's got gears in my head turning...
As an aside, I love that lands deck, it's complicated but so so clever. The Yomiji deck is great too, and I'm considering playing both of them.
Y reupload?
Wild
Wait, what was wrong with the first?
I guess we'll need to watch it again to find out!
SO WE'RE COPYING CARDMARKET NOW?
(for legal reasons this is a joke)
yomiji and peacock arent even that uninteresting you should have chosen legends commanders or something
Not first
Yay fixed
What was wrong?
First
I've wanted to do that for a long, long time.
Seriously youtube stop showing me this channel. I keep saying not interested and you keep pushing it. Stop.