Notably with Myrim and Roaming Throne, ward is a triggered ability so each copy of roaming throne will make opponents pay multiple times to get past ward.
Exactly - playing the Throne with Miirym on the board will already give you 2 more Thrones for a total of 3. Now ward triggers 3 additional times when Miirym or a Throne gets targeted aka making them pay 8 mana to not get their spell/ability countered.... At this point a boardwipe is needed or its basically over already.
Roaming throne just seems like a no brainer. Get lucky in opening hand. Play Myrim. Get 2 thrones. Now everything u do for the rest of the game is tripled. 3 copies of all dragons and most dragons that you would run in that deck have attack triggered abilities.
Added roaming throne to the merfolk deck and it became nuts. Once it was out I created a 36/36 by turn 3 or 4. Plus there were just two creatures with wards on them and it made the board untouchable.
Dracosaur fits into a neat little niche where it either gets instantly removed pulling hate away from your real threats, or it sticks around long enough to pull in a crazy amount of value over time.
As a small point of fact, Bronzebeak Foragers is actually the card that you and Prof played your game of chicken with at 20 minutes into the episode, Kitesail Larcenist is the card Jimmy used to protect his commander from his own Toxic Deluge at 1:18 minutes into the episode. Though both work similarly
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11:05 When I was a kid we had a similar “escape from a room with no windows or doors” word puzzle thing. Ours involved a table though. He’s trapped in a room, with no windows or doors, or exits of any sort. Just a table and you. How did he get out? He looked around and saw. He used the saw to cut the table in half. Two half’s makes a whole. He crawled out of the hole, and ran away.
I totally agree with the assessment of Ojer Taq. I pulled them, and it immediately went into my Hazezon deck. In most situations, though, it is just a "win more" type of thing.
Rachel is an outstanding contributor to the show, she brings the chillest vibes and is sneaky funny. No platitudes, just wholesome cool stuff. Thank you for having more videos with her. :)
Totally agree! She is just as knowledgeable and funny as Jimmy and Josh but brings a different vibe and perspective which is fantastic for the show. She’s the best!
So from the Ojer Taq conversation, that card is super good as a commander. Fill your deck with the planeswalkers that make creatures and the attacker cards that make creatures. Then you’re getting the benefit of Taq several times in the same turn.
"We are just not gonna give him vampires. And also, we are going to attack him. Just like with an Esper Sentinel or Rhystic Study." That's bold to say after a Game Knights where Jimmy just drew 35 cards off of a Rhytic Study.
The difference is you have the choice. Tap my artifact or not. When playing playing against Rhystic Study you have the option of not playing the card you want or play it. There is a huge difference in the impact. You can still play the spell which gives you the artifact, they just enter tapped.
Ojer Taq fits really well in Atla Palani. 3 eggs can represent almost 18+ mana in value if all your creatures 6cmc or greater. I tend to find this best because that’s the investment for Atla (4 cast + 2 tap)
I’m surprised you didn’t mention at all that ojer taq’s ability only applies to creature tokens. to me, that’s the biggest issue of the card. not the cost or lack of protection. it’s comboing with smothering tithe and academy manufacturer and those types of cards that make token doublers so powerful. being limited to creature tokens is by far its biggest issue.
Ojer Taq I think would excel in a Kykar deck, since it can produce spirits quite easily and fuel creating even more. Besides flooding the board with access to haste enablers or something like impact tremors can quickly take over.
Love Ojer Taq but agreed that it's a 'win more'. Feels amazing when you get it to go off but if you can get it to go off you we're almost certainly on the cusp of victory anyway.
For Ojer Taq, i absolutely intend to put one in my Council of Four deck, in a turn cycle i can make up to 12 2/2 Knights, only potentially needing to spend two mana on my turn to make 3
Getting an Ojer Taq soon to put in my Quintorious, Loremaster deck. Just basically a nice way to create extra Spirits to sac for free instants/sorceries along with blockers/attackers. I’ve got every iteration of him too, so plenty of tokens on the same turn Ojer Taq enters the battlefield without having to pay mana.
Ojer Taq - I plan to have it in my deck that has Vishgraz, the Doomhive in it. If I have Far Traveler or Teleportation Circle out (I also have Anointed Procession and Doubling Season in this deck) then at end step I blink Vishgraz and get 9 mites with toxic 1. Sure, there are board wipes or give everything a -1/-1 that can take them out, but I've got multiple ways to make a lot of toxic tokens. Best case and I have Ojer Taq and 2 doublers out then I blink for 15 mites. I get that it takes a turn to fully benefit, but it's going in every white token deck I have. It's not always going to be able to be dealt with, and if it gets killed, it the tokens remain, then I'm easily attacking with 3 and getting it back. OR... in my planeswalker party deck. Many planeswalkers make tokens. I can put this out with 4 planeswalkers and 3 are probably going to make 1 token. Pop them all off and I've got 9 tokens in 1 turn.
Ojer Taq would work well in a convoke deck with ETB triggers that create tokens, and/or when paired with Wand of the Worldsoul - Divine Convocation precon is ideally/already setup for this kind of synergy.
Mondrak and Ojer Taq are in my Atla deck with a lot of worldspine wurm/coil engine creatures so they works both with the commander and the die effect of the other creatures in my deck. Ojer is also great with sneak attack as it sticks around instead of going to the graveyard. Run it with myriad creatures like the beefy 8/6 trampler and go to town
Ojer taq , considering the grand scheme, staples in nicely into 2 of my favorite decks… Ratadrabik…even at 6 mana, by that stage you will almost always have a sac outlet and Rata online … Vishgraz… any blinking takes place with those two in play…it’s time to call the Orkin man..!😅
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Roaming Throne is a slam dunk in N'ghathrod, being a Tribal Commander with 2 triggered abilities Both WHO and LCI had some playable horrors, slowly but surely making it out of battlecruiser with this one
1:06:01 ---You guys hit the nail on head. The only reason why it is worth considering, is if you can cheat it onto the battlefield more easily since it is a creature, and you have a commander that can create multiple tokens per trigger. Easy to do with Black / White or Green / White. Also, as someone who has grown found of Elven Chorus, I will often have multiple tokens Mana dorks to cover the cost, and have cost reductions for the tribal swarm until Impact Tremors/Phosphorus kicks in for the kill
I'm super excited to pair Roaming Throne with The Mycotyrant. Makes tyrant bigger on ETB and doubles the amount of fungus tokens you get at the end of your turn, I'll take it!
@@MarineS0n2 correct! Roaming throne becomes a creature type when it ETBs. So theoretically if you're playing on curve: tyrant on three, throne on four (naming fungus or saproling). This gives your tyrant an extra power/toughness as another fungus or saproling has been played.
Roaming Throne is fantastic and will definitely goes in a lot of decks. But I believe that the swords are actually their own abilities not abilities given to the creature in question
Not even a segment on Thousand moons smithy? The 4 mana artifact that makes a Karnstruct++ on etb, then flips into a land the makes one ot those tokens (almost) every subsequent turn . That's my pick for best new card in the set. Followed closely by roaming throne.
My favourite place for roaming throne is Ziatora as it practically acts as a quadrupler for her. Sac 2 things, fling each of their damages twice, and make 12 treasures. Not many cards for 4 mana can ramp you by 12.
Matzalantli went straight into my Tayam deck. It plays a lot of permanents, mills, can be picked with Tayam, and the colourless mana is great for activating it. Dracosaur and Roaming Throne easily found spots in Miirym. Great set!
I think brass's Tunel Grinder is very powerfull. its a wheel on a permanent which makes it kinda busted, as it can be flickered by eg. displacer kitten, reanimated and saced by goblin whelder effects (eg. Osgir) bounced by your Interaction-Bounce spells and recast if you have to, you also don't even have to discard your whole hand and its only for you which gets around the common wheel problem of drawing opponents into interaction.
Roaming Throne is going straight into my Volo, Guide to Monsters deck (once I find a copy of it). I might lose value by not having other triggered abilities doubled, but I feel having more copies of creatures Volo makes is worth it (eg Volo on field, cast RT and doubled from no other golems, and play any other creature like Mulldrifter - 8 cards thank you very much).
Ojer Taq is really good in a Bernard ginger sculptor deck since when your creatures die they come back as food golem artifact creature, plus they get +2/+2 and trample. You turn 1 creature into 3 tokens. From experience, it got really out of hand really fast especially when you are either cheat it out or ramp into it.
Liked the video a lot, thanks for posting. I do have one comment though - I think you guys are really digging to find some sort of negative to Redemption Choir. I do not think it's going to be that hard to hit coven on curve.
I think it will be rare that you want to play it on curve since you need coven active AND have something in your graveyard. So I don't think it's bad but as Josh mentioned later it might still be a t6 ish play.
Couldn't agree more about Ojer Taq - you really need a way to be able to make creature tokens straight away (preferably for no mana) for it to be effective, otherwise you're just making yourself a target.
Rise of the witch-king is another great reanimation card that returns any permanent if you sac a creature to it plus your opponents will be potentially sacrificing a creature as well. Only cost one more than squirming emergence and doesn’t have the fathomless descent restriction
Also I just realised that The Myriad Pools is a cast trigger, so on cast you can turn your land into blightsteel even if the blightsteel you tried to cast got countered. That seems pretty good actually.
Illustrious Wanderglyph is definitely an Auto include for my Ich-Tekik/Rebbec golem tribal deck. They never expect the golems to be so stomp but they always are, and artifacts get made cheaper so easy.
I have roaming throne in my Gringrim-Zombie-EDH deck and alone the double-triggers from all the "whenever a zombie dies ping everyone for 1"-triggers to lotleth giant or gary is so good by now i had multiple games where my whole EDH-pod scooped as soon as the throne hit the battlefield
I want to use Ojer Tag in exactly one deck, and that's Darien, King of Kjeldor. The fact that it only triples creatures means I don't want to use it in MOST token decks, because most of those tend to push things like Treasures or Food and this won't do anything for that. Having a third multiplier for tokens in mono white is very helpful, though.
I like Pit of Offerings in a five color deck actually. Exiling one multi-colored from a single graveyard is pretty do-able and makes this a guildgate. Hitting any three mono-colored cards makes it on par with seaside citadel. I see it as a (worse) version of Exotic Orchard.
I’m putting pit of offering in my War Dr. deck as mana fixing and another instance of exile to get those time counters and if it hates out an opponents grave that’s upside.
Zoyowa's justice in The War Doctor... targetting your own 1 CMC spell should net a few time counters. You might even get your card back... I don't play Sol Ring, but imagine tapping a sol ring to float 2, cast Zoyowa's justice, and getting your sol ring back.
Played with pit of offerings last night, held it in my hand for a while and it done pretty well, exiled 3 cards from players and those cards would've helped them if they got them back again
Can confirm, roaming throne is a little silly in yuriko if opponents don't feel like removing it.... Through the ward.... And the counterspell in my hand.... And the faithful guardianship in my hand....
For roaming throne, They mention running isshin with kalia but don’t mention just running isshin as commander. Then all attack triggers trigger 3 times.
Something funny about Bloodletter is if it’s on the field when you trigger the vito/exquisite blood combo the damage gets doubled each time the loop starts again made me chuckle on arena when testing it out
I think you would have to cheat Ojer Taq in with something like Sneak Attack, then flicker so it stays at the end of your turn. So, you would make a Boros token deck. Of course, you can also strew in some great treasure makers like Dockside to have an alternative. Another way I see for this card is in Selesnya token decks with enough ramp or Defense of the Heart or other decks with the new discover mechanic. I mean, at six mana it is very slow and only an enhancer, but if you find a way to get it in without casting it (reanimate comes to mind as well), this card can be wild.
I have mono-green Phyrexian tribal/counters matter deck that has both Doubling Season and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider. For that deck, at least, Millennium Calendar looks like an especially spicey card
I don't see enough people talking about Ojer Taq in a myriad deck with Legion Loyalty and/or Blade of Selves. Put in some creaures with great ETB effects (or just big hitters) that then get myriad, attack, create 6 tokens attacking and triggering their individual ETBs, ???, Profit! Add an "End turn" effect to play during the end of combat phase and you get to keep the new tokens too. ;)
I believe that most popular commanders with access to Blue would benefit more out of Spark Double, Irenicus's Vile Duplication, Sakashima the Impostor, and/or Sakashima of a Thousand Faces over Roaming Throne, as the effects of your Commander would not only be duplicated, but if your commander gets removed, you would still have a copy of it on the Battlefield.
I added Roaming Throne in my artifact deck, I will name something different each time I play it, although Nercon is the most likely. I don't need to put it in a typal deck for it to be good. plus my commander, glissa, the traitor, has a triggered ability I might want to copy.
Inti is really good, added it to quite a few decks. I'm surprised it's so cheap. Roaming Throne also went to my Muxus, Gut and other goblin decks. But about Roaming Throne and the Swords, the Swords don't actually give the creatures the abilities, right? So they wouldn't double. Unless I misunderstood what you two meant. Zoyowa's Justice was also an instant add to many of my mono-red decks.
Cards that “don’t do anything when you play them” are still good most people just play them wrong like if you have end step, upkeep, or battle phase triggers, they go off immediately.
Dauntless dismantler already shuts off the treasures made with old gnawbone that turn, regardless if they have an instant or not. Food is also very popular since the LOTR precon and even clue and map tokens. Blow m up for 1 W is pretty good. Even artifacts lands. Osgir f.i. will not be happy to see this hit the board
lost to the all will be one + millenium callender combo in standard .. I was just a bit to slow with my ramp deck and once all will be one came out the clock was just too fast and I couldn't find my enchantment destruction ... cool stuff
I may have missed it, but are we still getting the Blood Rites budget upgrade video? Just wondering since they said this was their last video on this set.
Man… your take on Ojer Taq was just depressing. This isn’t an attack on you guys just an assessment of the state of casual play. I am a kitchen table player mostly, and your sentiment is pretty similar to what I see at my local shop. This kinda thing really makes me feel like casual is dying. I remember days of playing 6 mana do nothings that catapulted me to victory next turn and this card is perfect for that. Like why do I want my games to be over once someone gets 8 mana? I know the game has to end and I don’t begrudge that. For me though the proper time feels more like turns 9-12 rather than turns 5-8. The format seems to get faster and faster by the day. Where would this card have to sit to be exciting? At 4 mana? Like you guys have to give your opinion and I respect that but it doesn’t mean I’m not going to lament this downward spiral magic has been in for years. To be clear the days of paying 6 mana for a 4/4 with flying were both boring and tedious. I don’t want to go back to that. But 6 mana for a 6/6 token trippler seems fair. Where like Bonehoard Dracosaur should probably have been a 3/3. The ability on average making you either 1 treasure or a 3/1 token body both of which are worth about 1 mana, as well as impulse drawing you 2 cards which is also worth 1 mana, put that on a 3/3 body with two keywords which I value at between 3 and 4 mana and that card is perfect. Bloodletter of Aclazotz is perfect as 2/4 body with one keyword worth about 3 mana, but also has an ability that contextually doubles the effectiveness of itself and other cards which is worth at least 2 maybe 3 mana, discounted by 1 because it has three pips in it’s cost, makes it just about perfect. Could cost 2, black, black, black but there is a fair debate to be had there.
Unwinding clock does not work with the millennium calendar, as it says "during your untap step", I was thinking to use this with Clara Oswald who "REALLY' likes time counters.
You don't want to play Bonehoard when it would be the biggest threat on the board. Also added it into my mono-red deck as a replacement for Harnfel, Horn of Bounty, since playing Harnfel often left me open to attacks, but the first time I played it, it got instantly removed. Wouldn't have happened with Harnfel, since it was a creature removal. I might prefer The Flux in most situations, since the removal part has always been useful.
For Ojer Taq, I agree that six mana is a relatively high mv for a “set up” piece, however I think that if you’re in a token theme, your token production should not only be one-shot creation effects but have a split of those and “when you do X, create a token” or “beginning of upkeep/endstep create a token”. Then you have a much higher chance of taking advantage of Taq’s ability the turn you play it. Also, and this is just a general comment, but it definitely seems like your meta is very highly tuned and optimized, which is great (especially for being entertainers), but I think the larger commander base is less concerned with optimization and more concerned with synergy, fun, and expense. Which is likely why a splashy card like Taq is commanding a high price tag rn. Anyways, thanks for reading my ramble!
Ouweee, it feels like there is a new set or product released every week? I can't keep up. And what's most sad is I can't keep up the excitement for new cards. There's more cards coming soo anyway and then more cards, then more cards and.. Yeah so on. I'll watch these videos and try to remember cards. Thanks for putting in the work!
What do you think about this set? Are you excited about it? What new cards slot in perfectly to your existing commander decks?
Spelunkin?
Roaming throne in Allies!! It also is an ally entering, which triggers them as well.
Surprise you haven't talked about the soulcleaver . That card is pretty epic with juri
I attended my first prerelease with this set, and had a blast. I got some good pulls as well.
Notably with Myrim and Roaming Throne, ward is a triggered ability so each copy of roaming throne will make opponents pay multiple times to get past ward.
so Myrim, roaming throne is totally a valid play.
Exactly - playing the Throne with Miirym on the board will already give you 2 more Thrones for a total of 3.
Now ward triggers 3 additional times when Miirym or a Throne gets targeted aka making them pay 8 mana to not get their spell/ability countered....
At this point a boardwipe is needed or its basically over already.
Roaming throne just seems like a no brainer. Get lucky in opening hand. Play Myrim. Get 2 thrones. Now everything u do for the rest of the game is tripled. 3 copies of all dragons and most dragons that you would run in that deck have attack triggered abilities.
Added roaming throne to the merfolk deck and it became nuts. Once it was out I created a 36/36 by turn 3 or 4. Plus there were just two creatures with wards on them and it made the board untouchable.
Doesn't work with markhov does it?
Dracosaur fits into a neat little niche where it either gets instantly removed pulling hate away from your real threats, or it sticks around long enough to pull in a crazy amount of value over time.
How is that a niche? That's just the definition of a bomb.
I hate that it does nothing the turn it drops, most tables will remove it before you get advantage which could be good or bad I guess
I still love that card. He's a beefy flyer with first strike. That gives you 3/1 dinosaur tokens, treasures, and impulse draws. What's not to like???
As a small point of fact, Bronzebeak Foragers is actually the card that you and Prof played your game of chicken with at 20 minutes into the episode, Kitesail Larcenist is the card Jimmy used to protect his commander from his own Toxic Deluge at 1:18 minutes into the episode. Though both work similarly
Sword of X and Y cycle doesn't get any benefit from Roaming Throne. The triggered abilities are on the swords themselves, not the equipped creatures.
Literally about to type this in
animate the swords with karn or something lmao
@thestarscape2446 Also doesn't work, since they trigger off the equipped creature doing something.
Roaming Throne, goes straight into my Ayula deck. Beastmode.
Roaming throne is insane in about every deck...
One of my favourites from this set is the Roaming Throne. Going into about 5 of my decks. Such a good and versatile card.
Probably the best tribal card ever
Millennium Calendar seems like a card that was printed solely because Gavin Verhey wanted to hear Rachel read it out loud.
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Great card analysis of Ojer Taq.
11:05 When I was a kid we had a similar “escape from a room with no windows or doors” word puzzle thing. Ours involved a table though.
He’s trapped in a room, with no windows or doors, or exits of any sort. Just a table and you. How did he get out?
He looked around and saw. He used the saw to cut the table in half. Two half’s makes a whole. He crawled out of the hole, and ran away.
I totally agree with the assessment of Ojer Taq. I pulled them, and it immediately went into my Hazezon deck. In most situations, though, it is just a "win more" type of thing.
Rachel is an outstanding contributor to the show, she brings the chillest vibes and is sneaky funny. No platitudes, just wholesome cool stuff. Thank you for having more videos with her. :)
Totally agree! She is just as knowledgeable and funny as Jimmy and Josh but brings a different vibe and perspective which is fantastic for the show. She’s the best!
One deck I know for certain that loves Ojer Taq is my Ratadrabik deck. Tripling up the copied legendary tokens is crazy.
Make a game night vid bro
So from the Ojer Taq conversation, that card is super good as a commander. Fill your deck with the planeswalkers that make creatures and the attacker cards that make creatures. Then you’re getting the benefit of Taq several times in the same turn.
"We are just not gonna give him vampires. And also, we are going to attack him. Just like with an Esper Sentinel or Rhystic Study."
That's bold to say after a Game Knights where Jimmy just drew 35 cards off of a Rhytic Study.
The difference is you have the choice. Tap my artifact or not. When playing playing against Rhystic Study you have the option of not playing the card you want or play it. There is a huge difference in the impact. You can still play the spell which gives you the artifact, they just enter tapped.
Ojer Taq fits really well in Atla Palani.
3 eggs can represent almost 18+ mana in value if all your creatures 6cmc or greater.
I tend to find this best because that’s the investment for Atla (4 cast + 2 tap)
its even better when you think about the fact that Ojer Taq will most likely be cheated into play via an egg negating the downside of the CMC
I’m surprised you didn’t mention at all that ojer taq’s ability only applies to creature tokens. to me, that’s the biggest issue of the card. not the cost or lack of protection. it’s comboing with smothering tithe and academy manufacturer and those types of cards that make token doublers so powerful. being limited to creature tokens is by far its biggest issue.
Ojer Taq I think would excel in a Kykar deck, since it can produce spirits quite easily and fuel creating even more. Besides flooding the board with access to haste enablers or something like impact tremors can quickly take over.
Love Ojer Taq but agreed that it's a 'win more'. Feels amazing when you get it to go off but if you can get it to go off you we're almost certainly on the cusp of victory anyway.
“We’ve got a real game of thrones”
That deserved a laugh!! Rachel that was hilarious 🤣
For Ojer Taq, i absolutely intend to put one in my Council of Four deck, in a turn cycle i can make up to 12 2/2 Knights, only potentially needing to spend two mana on my turn to make 3
I've had a couple games with my Oloro deck where The Millennium Calendar wouldn't have killed me. Great episode guys, thanks for the deep dive!
Anything that makes you not lose life prevents the kill, anyway, even if your life total isn't that high. (For instance, Teferi's Protection works.)
Dauntless Dismantler - 25:35 Not X or less.. it's X only. So pick a value for X and only those MV get popped.
Came here to say this 😂
Getting an Ojer Taq soon to put in my Quintorious, Loremaster deck. Just basically a nice way to create extra Spirits to sac for free instants/sorceries along with blockers/attackers. I’ve got every iteration of him too, so plenty of tokens on the same turn Ojer Taq enters the battlefield without having to pay mana.
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Ojer Taq - I plan to have it in my deck that has Vishgraz, the Doomhive in it. If I have Far Traveler or Teleportation Circle out (I also have Anointed Procession and Doubling Season in this deck) then at end step I blink Vishgraz and get 9 mites with toxic 1. Sure, there are board wipes or give everything a -1/-1 that can take them out, but I've got multiple ways to make a lot of toxic tokens. Best case and I have Ojer Taq and 2 doublers out then I blink for 15 mites. I get that it takes a turn to fully benefit, but it's going in every white token deck I have. It's not always going to be able to be dealt with, and if it gets killed, it the tokens remain, then I'm easily attacking with 3 and getting it back. OR... in my planeswalker party deck. Many planeswalkers make tokens. I can put this out with 4 planeswalkers and 3 are probably going to make 1 token. Pop them all off and I've got 9 tokens in 1 turn.
Love Roaming Throne for Orvar on wizards. Not only do I get extra Orvar triggers, but all my other wizards get their triggers doubled. Super strong.
the tidebinder works well too. multiple token copies for on board repeatable stifles that just shut off multiple targets by having multiple bodies
Ojer Taq would work well in a convoke deck with ETB triggers that create tokens, and/or when paired with Wand of the Worldsoul - Divine Convocation precon is ideally/already setup for this kind of synergy.
Mondrak and Ojer Taq are in my Atla deck with a lot of worldspine wurm/coil engine creatures so they works both with the commander and the die effect of the other creatures in my deck. Ojer is also great with sneak attack as it sticks around instead of going to the graveyard. Run it with myriad creatures like the beefy 8/6 trampler and go to town
Roaming Throne goes into my Tivit, Seller of Secrets deck. That is insane value.
Ojer taq , considering the grand scheme, staples in nicely into 2 of my favorite decks…
Ratadrabik…even at 6 mana, by that stage you will almost always have a sac outlet and Rata online …
Vishgraz… any blinking takes place with those two in play…it’s time to call the Orkin man..!😅
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Roaming Throne is a slam dunk in N'ghathrod, being a Tribal Commander with 2 triggered abilities
Both WHO and LCI had some playable horrors, slowly but surely making it out of battlecruiser with this one
1:06:01 ---You guys hit the nail on head. The only reason why it is worth considering, is if you can cheat it onto the battlefield more easily since it is a creature, and you have a commander that can create multiple tokens per trigger. Easy to do with Black / White or Green / White.
Also, as someone who has grown found of Elven Chorus, I will often have multiple tokens Mana dorks to cover the cost, and have cost reductions for the tribal swarm until Impact Tremors/Phosphorus kicks in for the kill
I had a moment of exultation because of Redemption Choir. Learning the rules of magic has brought me so much joy.
I'm super excited to pair Roaming Throne with The Mycotyrant. Makes tyrant bigger on ETB and doubles the amount of fungus tokens you get at the end of your turn, I'll take it!
As a note- Tyrant’s power/toughness scaling are not an ETB, it’s continuously checked based on your board. The endstep trigger is great though!
@@MarineS0n2 correct! Roaming throne becomes a creature type when it ETBs. So theoretically if you're playing on curve: tyrant on three, throne on four (naming fungus or saproling). This gives your tyrant an extra power/toughness as another fungus or saproling has been played.
Roaming Throne is fantastic and will definitely goes in a lot of decks. But I believe that the swords are actually their own abilities not abilities given to the creature in question
I'm actually excited to play my Ojer Taq deck. Im using Graaz as a token finisher. It will be glorious, and yes.... I pulled mine.
Bloodletting is my favorite card in the set!
Powerful effect ✅️
Low MV ✅️
Demon ✅️
Devotion to Black ✅️
Roaming Throne is perfect for Captain N'ghathrod. On curve, becomes a horror and and doubles the trigger
Not even a segment on Thousand moons smithy? The 4 mana artifact that makes a Karnstruct++ on etb, then flips into a land the makes one ot those tokens (almost) every subsequent turn . That's my pick for best new card in the set. Followed closely by roaming throne.
Ya that’s one of my favorite cards from the set!
Smithy is a phenomenal card and a must have in Artifacts matter decks.
My favourite place for roaming throne is Ziatora as it practically acts as a quadrupler for her. Sac 2 things, fling each of their damages twice, and make 12 treasures. Not many cards for 4 mana can ramp you by 12.
Matzalantli went straight into my Tayam deck. It plays a lot of permanents, mills, can be picked with Tayam, and the colourless mana is great for activating it.
Dracosaur and Roaming Throne easily found spots in Miirym.
Great set!
Ojer Taq does have its flaws, but it's also half the price of anointed procession 🤔
Bloodletter is going in my Timothar deck. Very powerful and a Vampire! Another combo Vampire for Blood Tribute besides Vito is awesome.
Roaming Throne goes crazy hard in Volo, Guide to Monsters. Suddenly, you get 4x creatures from all future creatures spells.
Maybe too hard...
YES! Love Roaming Throne in Volo but the math makes my head hurt lmao... Especially with multiple Volo's and multiple thrones on board
I think brass's Tunel Grinder is very powerfull. its a wheel on a permanent which makes it kinda busted, as it can be flickered by eg. displacer kitten, reanimated and saced by goblin whelder effects (eg. Osgir) bounced by your Interaction-Bounce spells and recast if you have to, you also don't even have to discard your whole hand and its only for you which gets around the common wheel problem of drawing opponents into interaction.
Roaming Throne is going straight into my Volo, Guide to Monsters deck (once I find a copy of it). I might lose value by not having other triggered abilities doubled, but I feel having more copies of creatures Volo makes is worth it (eg Volo on field, cast RT and doubled from no other golems, and play any other creature like Mulldrifter - 8 cards thank you very much).
Ojer Taq is really good in a Bernard ginger sculptor deck since when your creatures die they come back as food golem artifact creature, plus they get +2/+2 and trample. You turn 1 creature into 3 tokens. From experience, it got really out of hand really fast especially when you are either cheat it out or ramp into it.
Ya I think it’s great with brenard. Just wait to play it until you have a free sac outlet and just triple your board state
I had it out and played Steve, it was nice to get 4 lands at instant speed @@daneburke6592 😆
Liked the video a lot, thanks for posting. I do have one comment though - I think you guys are really digging to find some sort of negative to Redemption Choir. I do not think it's going to be that hard to hit coven on curve.
I think it will be rare that you want to play it on curve since you need coven active AND have something in your graveyard.
So I don't think it's bad but as Josh mentioned later it might still be a t6 ish play.
Roaming Throne went straight into my Lord of the Nazgul deck. Running Orvar and of course all nine Nazgul
Couldn't agree more about Ojer Taq - you really need a way to be able to make creature tokens straight away (preferably for no mana) for it to be effective, otherwise you're just making yourself a target.
Rise of the witch-king is another great reanimation card that returns any permanent if you sac a creature to it plus your opponents will be potentially sacrificing a creature as well. Only cost one more than squirming emergence and doesn’t have the fathomless descent restriction
Sawing in half bloodletter is very fun!
Also I just realised that The Myriad Pools is a cast trigger, so on cast you can turn your land into blightsteel even if the blightsteel you tried to cast got countered. That seems pretty good actually.
Hey, my Trinket Mage just found The Millenium Calendar on his shelf. He used it as a bookend for his notes.
Illustrious Wanderglyph is definitely an Auto include for my Ich-Tekik/Rebbec golem tribal deck. They never expect the golems to be so stomp but they always are, and artifacts get made cheaper so easy.
I have roaming throne in my Gringrim-Zombie-EDH deck and alone the double-triggers from all the "whenever a zombie dies ping everyone for 1"-triggers to lotleth giant or gary is so good by now i had multiple games where my whole EDH-pod scooped as soon as the throne hit the battlefield
I want to use Ojer Tag in exactly one deck, and that's Darien, King of Kjeldor. The fact that it only triples creatures means I don't want to use it in MOST token decks, because most of those tend to push things like Treasures or Food and this won't do anything for that. Having a third multiplier for tokens in mono white is very helpful, though.
I grabbed Ojer Taq for Ghired deck to populate three tapped and attacking rhinos. Keen to rock it!
I put Pit of Offerings and Matzalanti the great door I'm my Syr Konrad deck. Gives me even more ways to get creatures into and out of the graveyard.
I really wanted to see what they thought about goblins and Roaming Throne. The way they figured out those stats were intriguing.
I like Pit of Offerings in a five color deck actually. Exiling one multi-colored from a single graveyard is pretty do-able and makes this a guildgate. Hitting any three mono-colored cards makes it on par with seaside citadel. I see it as a (worse) version of Exotic Orchard.
I’m putting pit of offering in my War Dr. deck as mana fixing and another instance of exile to get those time counters and if it hates out an opponents grave that’s upside.
Zoyowa's justice in The War Doctor... targetting your own 1 CMC spell should net a few time counters.
You might even get your card back... I don't play Sol Ring, but imagine tapping a sol ring to float 2, cast Zoyowa's justice, and getting your sol ring back.
Love Roaming Throne for my Kibo deck
counts as a monkey
adds a triger for the +1 Counters aaaand adds a trigger for the artifact sacrifice
Played with pit of offerings last night, held it in my hand for a while and it done pretty well, exiled 3 cards from players and those cards would've helped them if they got them back again
Watching yall talk about Bloodletter of Aclazotz made me feel like I was back at the Yugioh tables lol
When is the vampire precon upgrade??
Can confirm, roaming throne is a little silly in yuriko if opponents don't feel like removing it.... Through the ward.... And the counterspell in my hand.... And the faithful guardianship in my hand....
Command zone content feels so synthetic to me, but for some reason I keep watching lol. Must be doing something right
When will you do the vampire precon
I’m putting ojer taq in myrel soldiers, seems good for creating tokens on attack
Yep, Adeline as well.
At 1:40:40 what's funny is that ward is also a triggered ability which makes opponents pay even more for ward.
For roaming throne, They mention running isshin with kalia but don’t mention just running isshin as commander. Then all attack triggers trigger 3 times.
Something funny about Bloodletter is if it’s on the field when you trigger the vito/exquisite blood combo the damage gets doubled each time the loop starts again made me chuckle on arena when testing it out
I think Roaming throne will be a home run in prosper the tome bound
I think you would have to cheat Ojer Taq in with something like Sneak Attack, then flicker so it stays at the end of your turn. So, you would make a Boros token deck. Of course, you can also strew in some great treasure makers like Dockside to have an alternative.
Another way I see for this card is in Selesnya token decks with enough ramp or Defense of the Heart or other decks with the new discover mechanic. I mean, at six mana it is very slow and only an enhancer, but if you find a way to get it in without casting it (reanimate comes to mind as well), this card can be wild.
I have mono-green Phyrexian tribal/counters matter deck that has both Doubling Season and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider. For that deck, at least, Millennium Calendar looks like an especially spicey card
Roaming throne has been killer in my Aragorn the uniter deck
I don't see enough people talking about Ojer Taq in a myriad deck with Legion Loyalty and/or Blade of Selves. Put in some creaures with great ETB effects (or just big hitters) that then get myriad, attack, create 6 tokens attacking and triggering their individual ETBs, ???, Profit!
Add an "End turn" effect to play during the end of combat phase and you get to keep the new tokens too. ;)
I believe that most popular commanders with access to Blue would benefit more out of Spark Double, Irenicus's Vile Duplication, Sakashima the Impostor, and/or Sakashima of a Thousand Faces over Roaming Throne, as the effects of your Commander would not only be duplicated, but if your commander gets removed, you would still have a copy of it on the Battlefield.
Ojer Taq fits on decks that have the token engine already running and makes it the game winning move.
Pit of offerings will go in my mina and denn landfall deck. I bounce lands to have for repeated utility. Now i have sone landfall graveyard hate. Neat
I added Roaming Throne in my artifact deck, I will name something different each time I play it, although Nercon is the most likely. I don't need to put it in a typal deck for it to be good. plus my commander, glissa, the traitor, has a triggered ability I might want to copy.
Roaming throne was almost printed to go right into the new Hakbal deck
Inti is really good, added it to quite a few decks. I'm surprised it's so cheap. Roaming Throne also went to my Muxus, Gut and other goblin decks. But about Roaming Throne and the Swords, the Swords don't actually give the creatures the abilities, right? So they wouldn't double. Unless I misunderstood what you two meant. Zoyowa's Justice was also an instant add to many of my mono-red decks.
Cards that “don’t do anything when you play them” are still good most people just play them wrong like if you have end step, upkeep, or battle phase triggers, they go off immediately.
great episode! thanks :)
Roaming Throne and Illustrious Wanderglyph are just PERFECT for Urza, Chief Artificer
Dauntless dismantler already shuts off the treasures made with old gnawbone that turn, regardless if they have an instant or not. Food is also very popular since the LOTR precon and even clue and map tokens. Blow m up for 1 W is pretty good. Even artifacts lands. Osgir f.i. will not be happy to see this hit the board
lost to the all will be one + millenium callender combo in standard .. I was just a bit to slow with my ramp deck and once all will be one came out the clock was just too fast and I couldn't find my enchantment destruction ... cool stuff
I may have missed it, but are we still getting the Blood Rites budget upgrade video? Just wondering since they said this was their last video on this set.
Man… your take on Ojer Taq was just depressing. This isn’t an attack on you guys just an assessment of the state of casual play. I am a kitchen table player mostly, and your sentiment is pretty similar to what I see at my local shop. This kinda thing really makes me feel like casual is dying. I remember days of playing 6 mana do nothings that catapulted me to victory next turn and this card is perfect for that. Like why do I want my games to be over once someone gets 8 mana? I know the game has to end and I don’t begrudge that. For me though the proper time feels more like turns 9-12 rather than turns 5-8. The format seems to get faster and faster by the day. Where would this card have to sit to be exciting? At 4 mana?
Like you guys have to give your opinion and I respect that but it doesn’t mean I’m not going to lament this downward spiral magic has been in for years. To be clear the days of paying 6 mana for a 4/4 with flying were both boring and tedious. I don’t want to go back to that. But 6 mana for a 6/6 token trippler seems fair. Where like Bonehoard Dracosaur should probably have been a 3/3. The ability on average making you either 1 treasure or a 3/1 token body both of which are worth about 1 mana, as well as impulse drawing you 2 cards which is also worth 1 mana, put that on a 3/3 body with two keywords which I value at between 3 and 4 mana and that card is perfect. Bloodletter of Aclazotz is perfect as 2/4 body with one keyword worth about 3 mana, but also has an ability that contextually doubles the effectiveness of itself and other cards which is worth at least 2 maybe 3 mana, discounted by 1 because it has three pips in it’s cost, makes it just about perfect. Could cost 2, black, black, black but there is a fair debate to be had there.
Unwinding clock does not work with the millennium calendar, as it says "during your untap step", I was thinking to use this with Clara Oswald who "REALLY' likes time counters.
You don't want to play Bonehoard when it would be the biggest threat on the board. Also added it into my mono-red deck as a replacement for Harnfel, Horn of Bounty, since playing Harnfel often left me open to attacks, but the first time I played it, it got instantly removed. Wouldn't have happened with Harnfel, since it was a creature removal. I might prefer The Flux in most situations, since the removal part has always been useful.
For Ojer Taq, I agree that six mana is a relatively high mv for a “set up” piece, however I think that if you’re in a token theme, your token production should not only be one-shot creation effects but have a split of those and “when you do X, create a token” or “beginning of upkeep/endstep create a token”. Then you have a much higher chance of taking advantage of Taq’s ability the turn you play it.
Also, and this is just a general comment, but it definitely seems like your meta is very highly tuned and optimized, which is great (especially for being entertainers), but I think the larger commander base is less concerned with optimization and more concerned with synergy, fun, and expense. Which is likely why a splashy card like Taq is commanding a high price tag rn. Anyways, thanks for reading my ramble!
Ouweee, it feels like there is a new set or product released every week? I can't keep up. And what's most sad is I can't keep up the excitement for new cards. There's more cards coming soo anyway and then more cards, then more cards and.. Yeah so on.
I'll watch these videos and try to remember cards. Thanks for putting in the work!
Roaming throne went right into my Lord of the nazgul deck