@@drdavidchacon I even have some foils that aren't turning into bloody pringles from the newer sets. It's kind of nice. I still hit up the dollar store for bulk cheapy packs of MTG just because sometimes you pull ancient commons and they just feel like casino quality card stock.
I really like the flavor that seems to follow decks built around the snow-land mechanic. An undead wizard summoning an army of zombies from underneath the snow through insane artifacts sounds fun to play with.
I'm so happy I found this channel during quarantine, every week I'd go play magic locally and with that out of the picture. This channel has kept my love for magic going, and to do what I love most about EDH which is deck brewing. Never have I seen a channel that looks for its commenters as support and truly engages with us. Keep up the amazing work Mitch! I love your content!
I'm surprised you've never heard of the Bell before. It's a staple in Elish Norn decks. Urborg+Bell means all lands are 1/1 creatures, Norn then kills all your opponent's lands.
glad to see my solution was helpful to you, first one shown even. But it seems others also had the same idea as there were one or two cards I forgot about (bridge from below being among them). Although I don't think my comment was actually one of the ones you saw as I mentioned using using Pitiless Plunderer for infinite colored mana after you got the combo rolling
Hell yeah! Kormus Bell has been on of my favorite pet cards for a long time and I have it in a few decks. Bell + Urborg Tomb of Yawgmoth (which is colorless as it's a land) makes all lands 1/1 and then you can add to it from there. Mono white can throw out Elesh Norn to kill all enemy lands and stop them from coming into play. In my Kazarov deck I use this to do MLD with board pings. In my Teysa deck I use this to turn lands into sack outlets. I've debated on including it in Silvos to give my enemies more blockers, as well as Kraj to give me more targets for 1/1 counters. This also interacts really well with an enemies Ashaya by making their whole board 1/1s
Another card you can use to cast from your graveyard and one of my personal favorites is Havengul Lich. I like it because it has the option to cast from any graveyard and even gains activated abilities allowing for other combos. With Ashnod's Altar and Rooftop Storm you can cast for 1 colorless mana netting a colorless for each cast.
An alternative/backup for the owl and altar is Arcum's Weathervane plus Mirage Mirror. Use the Mirror to dupe a basic nonsnow land, and use the weathervane to permanently make the mirror snow. Then use the mirror to dupe the altar (or other mana generating source) during any subsequent turns, and you're set! If you've got a broken creature that can generate the mana but isn't snow, Imprisoned in the Moon plus the Weathervane is another alternative provided you have a way of bouncing the aura after making the creature snow.
Huh and here I was thinking Narfi was at best a historic meme Zombie. Turns out may have more game closing power than I estimated. Still vulnerable to board wipes when using that token engine to make floating mana but being black and blue means more recovery than monoblack zombie commanders. Nice!
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I still like the idea of turning a mana rock that taps for 3 into a snow (using thermal flux) creature (using Karn's Touch). Then sacrificing Narfi to any sac outlet, paying the 3 snow mana to bring him back, untapping The mana rock when Narfi comes back using intruder alarm.
You missed mine and pretty sure it is the coolest. Priest of gix, thermal flux and the new card that makes creatures enter as a copy of a creature. Plus a sac outlet
Rooftop syorm and conspiracy is one of the first combos i thought of on my own years ago. Its my dream to put all the praetors sans red on the field for free. Just havent built it yet
You can also use Havenghul Lich. It costs {1} to activate it's ability, but Rooftop Storm will still make the casting cost zero. Good to have in a zombie deck in general.
Tje thing i like about these is they all seem like peices you can inconspicuously run in an ordinary zombie/snow deck, you could appear to be a vety straightforward casual narfi deck only to suddenly combo
Since he's a Wizard, I think you can also do this loop in an Inalla deck. You would need to have her on the battlefield with a Naban/Panharmonicon but it would work out really well.
I saw someone say that changing to a snow perma doesnt change the type of mana it produces, id like to say they are right but its from a snow permanent which is what matters. Much like how a snow covered forest still produces green mana but can still pay for snow mana
I'm still correct on the matter to it doesmt change the mana at all snow is no color nor is it a type of mana but any mana thats produced from a snow source can pay for it but this card won't have much value either way
Have Peregrine Drake on the battlefield, put infinite reflections on it, sacrifice your commander to Altar of Dementia, pay 3 snow and bring back Narfi, Narfi enters as a copy of Peregrine Drake, you untap your lands and repeat.
Hey Mitch idk if you will read this but if you add forsaken monument into the ashnods alter and thermal flux combo i am pretty sure you could go infinite on his ability because ashnod produces colorless so forsaken Monument would make it produce 3 snow. Then add a dictate of erebos and/or blood artist to close out the game
perhaps a combo after making infinite zombies: cycling gempalm polluter (BB: target opponent loses life = to # zombies in play). you can respond to the cycle trigger by using unholy grotto/ volrath's stronghold to do it all over again. requires black mana, so maybe phyrexian altar would be needed instead of ashod's altar?
Just another way to go off with him: Use Thermal Flux on Cabal coffers while you have Deserted Temple + Cabal coffers + Rings of Brightherth=infinite mana(If you have enough swamps in play or have yawmogth tomb out).
Thia deck is giving me big Saffi Eriksdotter vibes, despite being totally different colors. 😂 Altar of the brood is a good finisher that works with all the combos. 👍
Basically you can build a Narfi Deck that has all of these Combo Solutions and make a deck that is linear in the fact that its combos with the Commander but is less focused on singular combos to win which makes it that much more dangerous. I think I may make a Combo/Zombie Tribal Deck with this commander.
Hi all, kindly asking about the gorgeous Rack of Swords(Equipment) and artifacts in the background? Any specific card for that one or may I kindly asking who's the artist and can direct me to any site or FB page, thank you! Good combo for this one thou 😁
My trick in this deck is Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth turns all lands to swamp. Kormus Bell then turns all lands into Swapms meaning your opponents Lands are 1/1's as well. Fun fact Urborg Changes Snow Lands into Snow Land Creatures, meaning Narfi then pumps those creatures to 2/2, play Night at Souls' Betrayal and destory all of your opponents lands by giving them -1/-1 lol Bwahahahaha Yesthis does work. I ask on Askajudge lol
Loll I lowkey wayyy overthought my solution. I didn't read any of the comments on yesterdays video but I didn't even know very many of these cards at all. My solution was Ashnod's Altar, Krark-Clan Ironworks, and Pitiless Plunderer on the field. Cast Thermal Flux on Ashnod's then cast Twincast to copy it onto Krark-Clan Ironworks. Then sacrifice the commander to ashnod's altar to get +2 snow mana, Pitiless Plunderer triggers so that you get a treasure token, sacrifice the treasure token to Krark-Clan Ironworks to get another +2 snow mana. Then you can get infinite snow mana and infinite treasures so just have a classic finisher like Grinding Stone or Zulaport Cutthroat.
I'm thinking of building Valki as a general myself but I'm struggling one how to break it, I know blink is in there somewhere but I've never built a rakdos color deck before
How do you not know Kormus bell, it's really good with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and, if you really want to be cruel Phyrexian Plaguelord and a sac engine like gravecrawler+ rooftop storm.
so how do you cast him from the graveyard if he's the commander? doesn't he go back to the command zone when he dies? or does the CZ count as a graveyard
Narfi is honestly growing on me I like that he can evade commander tax
Evading Commander Tax is sooo amazing... completely underrated. One of my favorite reasons for playing Yuriko.
@Philter Jungleman If the president can do it, so can I!
Yes, evading commander tax is amazing. I use sepphara sky’s blade as the commander of my white flying deck. She is awsome
Narfi, CEO King, evading taxes and shit
@@ianross9475 Taxes are theft
It’s been literally 12 hours and we already broke it damn
@Rex Aydin I, too, would like to get a computer virus, please.
Haven't been this early since Wizards printed with good cardboard
Did youtube exist at this time? 😉
@@anubis44r true
The late 90's was a good time
The quality is slowly improving again
@@drdavidchacon I even have some foils that aren't turning into bloody pringles from the newer sets. It's kind of nice.
I still hit up the dollar store for bulk cheapy packs of MTG just because sometimes you pull ancient commons and they just feel like casino quality card stock.
Glad the community was able to help you out!
I'm so grateful to have Commander's Quarters! Winter is coming to my deck collection lol
The last time I was this early, the phyrexians were still invading dominaria
Well with the return of sages I can't say it's completely unbelievable we are getting something like kamigawa
Thank you for doing a video showing the collaboration of your community Mitch! Glad to see the various solutions that were proposed
I really like the flavor that seems to follow decks built around the snow-land mechanic. An undead wizard summoning an army of zombies from underneath the snow through insane artifacts sounds fun to play with.
I'm so happy I found this channel during quarantine, every week I'd go play magic locally and with that out of the picture. This channel has kept my love for magic going, and to do what I love most about EDH which is deck brewing. Never have I seen a channel that looks for its commenters as support and truly engages with us. Keep up the amazing work Mitch! I love your content!
*Help me break this commander*
/Break
Command successful, Commander broken
I'm surprised you've never heard of the Bell before. It's a staple in Elish Norn decks. Urborg+Bell means all lands are 1/1 creatures, Norn then kills all your opponent's lands.
There's also the green enchantment and kamahl that do the same thing
Kaldheim just keeps looking more promising
glad to see my solution was helpful to you, first one shown even. But it seems others also had the same idea as there were one or two cards I forgot about (bridge from below being among them). Although I don't think my comment was actually one of the ones you saw as I mentioned using using Pitiless Plunderer for infinite colored mana after you got the combo rolling
Now that was fast...
Never heard of the Bell? lucky man...
Nice. Glad to see Rimefeather Owl here. Plus in U/B you can build arlund some reanimation to set up around the high mana cost.
Hell yeah! Kormus Bell has been on of my favorite pet cards for a long time and I have it in a few decks.
Bell + Urborg Tomb of Yawgmoth (which is colorless as it's a land) makes all lands 1/1 and then you can add to it from there.
Mono white can throw out Elesh Norn to kill all enemy lands and stop them from coming into play.
In my Kazarov deck I use this to do MLD with board pings.
In my Teysa deck I use this to turn lands into sack outlets.
I've debated on including it in Silvos to give my enemies more blockers, as well as Kraj to give me more targets for 1/1 counters.
This also interacts really well with an enemies Ashaya by making their whole board 1/1s
I'm happy to see you make a follow-up video on this, but pls ensure you're resting
Mitch doesn't need rest! He's like a lich king himself, fuelled by coffee and daydreams of undead combos!
I play Soldevi Advocate in my Hogaak deck, she's certainly a good card!
Another card you can use to cast from your graveyard and one of my personal favorites is Havengul Lich. I like it because it has the option to cast from any graveyard and even gains activated abilities allowing for other combos. With Ashnod's Altar and Rooftop Storm you can cast for 1 colorless mana netting a colorless for each cast.
An alternative/backup for the owl and altar is Arcum's Weathervane plus Mirage Mirror. Use the Mirror to dupe a basic nonsnow land, and use the weathervane to permanently make the mirror snow. Then use the mirror to dupe the altar (or other mana generating source) during any subsequent turns, and you're set!
If you've got a broken creature that can generate the mana but isn't snow, Imprisoned in the Moon plus the Weathervane is another alternative provided you have a way of bouncing the aura after making the creature snow.
Yep, I was helping with this last night and now I'm definitely building this deck, it just appeals to me
Keep up the good work. That was fast ! Didnt know that snow mana could be generated with ashnods o.O
I’m so proud of this community ☺️
This is pretty awesome. Hi Mitch, keep up the good work.
I love it’s very similar to my tymaret deck. I’m totally building this! Thanks Mitch !
I love this episode thank you community and thank you Mitch
Huh and here I was thinking Narfi was at best a historic meme Zombie. Turns out may have more game closing power than I estimated. Still vulnerable to board wipes when using that token engine to make floating mana but being black and blue means more recovery than monoblack zombie commanders. Nice!
Love your content, take a deep breath and enjoy your awesomeness Mitch!
honestly, i wanted to see this card broken, Reassembling skeletons is a pet card of mine so a commander version of it just makes me happy
We did it guys
In the Intruder Alarm combo, you can also use Zendikons to turn your regular Snow Lands into Snow Creatures.
The kormus bell solution is neat.
Kormus Bell is mazing. I used to use it in my Darien, King of Kjeldor deck to control other peoples lands. It was fun. :)
10:41 in the credits. My terrible solution didn't make the cut!
Yes Quest for the Janklord! If you want to see Mitch wearing a unicorn head piece then I highly recommend checking out QFTJL. Lets you see Rarity in action
I still like the idea of turning a mana rock that taps for 3 into a snow (using thermal flux) creature (using Karn's Touch). Then sacrificing Narfi to any sac outlet, paying the 3 snow mana to bring him back, untapping The mana rock when Narfi comes back using intruder alarm.
The ashnods, rooftop storm and lili combo also works amazing with the new maskwood nexus
Great!
Kormus Bell has another fun combo with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Elesh Norn, so have fun!
You missed mine and pretty sure it is the coolest. Priest of gix, thermal flux and the new card that makes creatures enter as a copy of a creature. Plus a sac outlet
Pitiless plunderer too!
Rooftop syorm and conspiracy is one of the first combos i thought of on my own years ago. Its my dream to put all the praetors sans red on the field for free. Just havent built it yet
I’m surprised by how much I like this commander tbh
You can also use Havenghul Lich. It costs {1} to activate it's ability, but Rooftop Storm will still make the casting cost zero. Good to have in a zombie deck in general.
Yay! A new way for me to abuse Kormus Bell
For the third iteration you can replace Liliana with Havengul Lich as well since the ashnod's altar mana will pay for the activation.
Krark Clan Ironworker with Mycosynth Lattice can replace Ashnod's Alter. If you have two token generators the Phyrexian Alter works too.
Proud of myself for recommending Tormod here. Didn’t know you had a Tormod deck!
Tje thing i like about these is they all seem like peices you can inconspicuously run in an ordinary zombie/snow deck, you could appear to be a vety straightforward casual narfi deck only to suddenly combo
Mitch: I need this card to be brok-
Internet: Done
Since he's a Wizard, I think you can also do this loop in an Inalla deck. You would need to have her on the battlefield with a Naban/Panharmonicon but it would work out really well.
Ogre slumlord? Wouldn't this do the same thing but without needing the extra snow mana to kick it off?
You're welcome. Hopefully one day we can see you play that deck.
I saw someone say that changing to a snow perma doesnt change the type of mana it produces, id like to say they are right but its from a snow permanent which is what matters. Much like how a snow covered forest still produces green mana but can still pay for snow mana
I'm still correct on the matter to it doesmt change the mana at all snow is no color nor is it a type of mana but any mana thats produced from a snow source can pay for it but this card won't have much value either way
Have Peregrine Drake on the battlefield, put infinite reflections on it, sacrifice your commander to Altar of Dementia, pay 3 snow and bring back Narfi, Narfi enters as a copy of Peregrine Drake, you untap your lands and repeat.
I was a spicy boi with the man lands but i havnt seen ant spoilers, glad wizards is printing more manlands, they are a staple in so many formats
Hey Mitch idk if you will read this but if you add forsaken monument into the ashnods alter and thermal flux combo i am pretty sure you could go infinite on his ability because ashnod produces colorless so forsaken Monument would make it produce 3 snow. Then add a dictate of erebos and/or blood artist to close out the game
I apologize for spelling errors
there is also the owl that puts snow tokens on permanents to make them snow permanents
perhaps a combo after making infinite zombies: cycling gempalm polluter (BB: target opponent loses life = to # zombies in play). you can respond to the cycle trigger by using unholy grotto/ volrath's stronghold to do it all over again. requires black mana, so maybe phyrexian altar would be needed instead of ashod's altar?
Just another way to go off with him:
Use Thermal Flux on Cabal coffers while you have Deserted Temple + Cabal coffers + Rings of Brightherth=infinite mana(If you have enough swamps in play or have yawmogth tomb out).
Thia deck is giving me big Saffi Eriksdotter vibes, despite being totally different colors. 😂 Altar of the brood is a good finisher that works with all the combos. 👍
Do you want to build a snow mana?
With the last solution you can replace Liliana with Havengul Lich.
He's going into my Grimgrin zombie/aristocrat combo deck for sure.
Wait, you mentioned playing on another channel? What channel was that?
Quest for the Janklord
Can you call the guards and have them help with an infinite combo for jorn too? Amazing video as usual! Hopefully you do a full deck list on this!!!
I love Kormus Bell. Such a bizarre card.
Wow this needs to be narfed
Basically you can build a Narfi Deck that has all of these Combo Solutions and make a deck that is linear in the fact that its combos with the Commander but is less focused on singular combos to win which makes it that much more dangerous. I think I may make a Combo/Zombie Tribal Deck with this commander.
Prized amalgan also works
I KNEW you could do something with intruder alarm!
Hi all, kindly asking about the gorgeous Rack of Swords(Equipment) and artifacts in the background? Any specific card for that one or may I kindly asking who's the artist and can direct me to any site or FB page, thank you! Good combo for this one thou 😁
Just goes to show how crowd-sourcing a problem can get interesting solutions.
bog initiate etc could be a good sub for ashnod's, make it snow and filter 3 mana you get from cards like pitiless plunderer or pawn of ulamog
Narfi is such an adorable name :D
Also Havengul Lich + Rooftop storm also would net you endless mana
And now we have a Narfi deck
My trick in this deck is Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth turns all lands to swamp. Kormus Bell then turns all lands into Swapms meaning your opponents Lands are 1/1's as well. Fun fact Urborg Changes Snow Lands into Snow Land Creatures, meaning Narfi then pumps those creatures to 2/2, play Night at Souls' Betrayal and destory all of your opponents lands by giving them -1/-1 lol Bwahahahaha Yesthis does work. I ask on Askajudge lol
Loll I lowkey wayyy overthought my solution. I didn't read any of the comments on yesterdays video but I didn't even know very many of these cards at all. My solution was Ashnod's Altar, Krark-Clan Ironworks, and Pitiless Plunderer on the field. Cast Thermal Flux on Ashnod's then cast Twincast to copy it onto Krark-Clan Ironworks. Then sacrifice the commander to ashnod's altar to get +2 snow mana, Pitiless Plunderer triggers so that you get a treasure token, sacrifice the treasure token to Krark-Clan Ironworks to get another +2 snow mana. Then you can get infinite snow mana and infinite treasures so just have a classic finisher like Grinding Stone or Zulaport Cutthroat.
Narfi went from a Skyrim meme to a Betrayer king
Link to the "Quest of the jank lord"?
Question, doesn’t the effect from thermal flux go away after the commander leaves the battlefield?
It's till end of turn, so you can do it over and over as many times as you can, until the turn is over 🤘
I'm thinking of building Valki as a general myself but I'm struggling one how to break it, I know blink is in there somewhere but I've never built a rakdos color deck before
Oh wow, glad it was actually breakable
How do you not know Kormus bell, it's really good with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and, if you really want to be cruel Phyrexian Plaguelord and a sac engine like gravecrawler+ rooftop storm.
I use Kormus Bell + Urborg + Touch of Darkness/Cauldren of Souls in Horobi. Super spicy
Kormus Bell is such a unique card that I love. I’m trying to build a Major Teroh deck and uh, heh yeah. I’m a jerk for doing that.
Korma is straight up monstrous with Jeska
24 hours to break a card >.> Love this idea
so he's an ETB graveyard kinda matters combo Dimir deck. Neat.....
How have you never used kormus bell? It's a staple in my goros "be the only player with lands" deck
I know Kormus Bell all too well because of the combo with Urborg and Elesh Norn.
there's also Luminous Broodmoth
Kormus Bell and Massacre Girl. DING DONG HELLO!
so how do you cast him from the graveyard if he's the commander? doesn't he go back to the command zone when he dies? or does the CZ count as a graveyard
I thought about the silliness of not sleeping because you want to brew a deck. ah ah ah.
Oh wait. I do the same.
Make sure to throw a Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth in with your Kormus Bell
You should make a deck list for tokens and where u make ur tokens bigger
Great video