Close Quarters #7 | Commander Gameplay | Breya - Jhoira - Ayara - Unesh | Magic the Gathering
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- Опубліковано 1 січ 2022
- The Commander's Quarters is your Magic the Gathering source that helps you Command Your Budget! Alek, Eddie, Jake and Mitch square off in an intense Commander game! It's Breya vs Unesh vs Ayara vs Jhoira!
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Eddie's Unesh deck:
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Jake's Ayara deck:
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I'd like to thank Mitch, Jake and Eddie for agreeing to watch Alek play solitaire.
To be fair, alec eddie and jake agreed to watch mitch play solitare too, mitch just didnt get there fast enough.
Episode should have ended with the endless bouncing cards from solitaire
@@n3twork727 the game also could’ve ended much faster if Alec had just cast breya infinitely then sacking her and one thopter to drain out the opponents. It was pretty clear he was able to make any amount of mana he wanted after the second iteration of his loop.
Then he could prevent himself from decking by just not sacrificing the things that draw cards.
Why was this "game" even posted?
Soooooo boooo rrriiinnnggg.. If I weren't at work not paying attention (to either my job or this video) I would be so frustrated about this video.
I’ve been dying to see Mitch play his Jhoira deck… and looks like I will be continuing to do so.
Actually you nearly seen it right now. Alek's Breya is not that far from Mitch's Jhoira xd
Same here
@@eloidasarmi6815 that’s what I said to my roommate from the way Mitch has talked about it before. I just wanted to see his specific deck for off since I’m a tremendous Jhoira fan.
Yeah I was disappointed about that same thing :/
This felt more like a Breya's deck tech than a commander gameplay 😂
I'm curious how Eddie is gonna play his non-simic deck in a very simic way today.
The answer is he doesn't
The world will never know...
For reals tho. I had just watched a video where Mitch was talking about the sphinx and how Eddie made it pop off. I’m like cool let’s see what’s so special about that sphinx
The funny thing is that "je suis mortel" means "i'm deadly" in french, and that Jake was indeed deadly to himself
Normally it means "I am mortal" but technically the word can also mean "deadly".
yeah i kinda forgot about that
@@sherlokjaaj1382 also, i think it says "je suis morte!" with an exclamation mark as the last letter.
it is written with an exclamation mark and therefore just is 'je suis morte!' which means 'I am dead!'
do you know what app they are using?
Somewhere in Kaladesh, an artificer cries from the pure beauty of this masterpiece
Alek didn't need marionette master. Loop: pyrite spellbomb, great furnace, commanders sphere, biblioplex assistant, faith's reward, KCI. He could loop the cards from battlefield to graveyard as he was getting white and colorless from commanders sphere and KCI, without drawing cards, using the red from the great furnace to burn out the table with infinite damage.
Not to mention casting his commander (through coveted jewel, chromatic star, etc) and since his kci/faiths reward loop was mana positive, just using Breya's ability to drain out his opponents. He had that on board way earlier
@@infernalspectre Do you think it was due to speed of the combo? Not really sure what would be faster but I could see him considering speed assuming it might be filmed,
Krark-Clan Iromworks, the backbone of a lot of really powerful and sometimes frustrating strategies.
Yeah I tend to take that card from libraries when I search them to reduce threat level if I see it
@@phelandiller4066 Or cast it yourself.
If it’s on the board, it can be stolen back. Keep it secret. Keep it safe.
That was a game... Truth be told I am glad you uploaded it.
And remember Kids dont play this type of decks in every table
It’s a shame. I love decks like this, I know it sucks to just watch someone be Solitaire but let me tell you being the person finding the way to the combo and win feels SO good.
@@vaporeon344 Then stay home and play alone
@@b1p_mac275 or just find a group that likes to play like that. There are plenty of people who do. How you gonna gatekeep mtg, which has over 20,000 unique cards and a near infinite number of decks to build...
I'm not I come here for casual content. If wanted competitive stuff I'd go else where.
@@curtissearle6462 insane concept but you can like just choose to not watch it !!!
This episode should have been called "Who can start playing solitaire first?"
Man despite it being played Solitaire Alek played so smoothly and efficiently I'm not even mad. Thing of beauty to behold.
Unfortunately he didn't do it efficiently though. He could have cast his commander at 13:20 by sacrificing the Skycloud Egg and start blasting people while looping. The game ended there, but was unnecessarily dragged on for another 10+ minutes.
For real though I could watch a video where Alek breaks down the deck, it sincerely would feel like a Masterclass and be really enjoyable content in my opinion.
Oh boy Mitch isn’t playing five colors this time…….. ahhhh Joihra that explains it.
26 minute video, i am both amazed and upset at this.😂
I've known Alek for years, he's a great person
I love how people feel obligated to say this whenever a Second Breakfast deck appears.
“I PROMISE this guy is a good person. Time to look at pictures of puppies until I feel better!”
@@emilysmith2965 lol what? All I was saying is that Alek is a nice person. Who hurt you to make that your first thought to my comment?
First glance: “Hey I love these commanders! This is gonna be a fun match to entertain me throughout today.”
Second glance: The video’s not even half an hour.
Will we be getting a rematch here? Didn’t really see the other decks at all haha
I know it's impossible to not make missplays or not notice some things when playing, but I wanted to share what I've noticed anyway:
* At 4:50 when Mitch played Manakin, Jake should've lost 1HP because of his mandatory Carnival of Souls's trigger (doesn't matter for the result of the game)
* At 11:00 when Alek is choosing target for his Soul-Guide Lantern, he can't cycle the Triome in response. Targets have to be chosen as the triggers appear on the stack and nothing can be done in response. Players may respond only after the trigger is on the stack, at which point the target is already set (doesn't matter, because he could have kept priority on his own Faith's Reward and cycle the Triome in response. So it was a missplay, but he could have sequenced his plays to achieve the same result, so it doesn't matter)
Otherwise a really good showing, especially on the Alek's side - it's gotta be super easy to miss something when piloting this deck
I'm assuming he's cycling the triome in response to the casting of Faith's Reward, before the Soul-guide lantern hits the battlefield. It's a bit of a takebacksie, but it's okay I guess - sure it is for them.
I noticed that he wasn't technically allowed to cycle in response to the Soul-Guide Lantern graveyard target too.
This group fills my happy-spots that haven't been filled since I can't play MTG at a LGS lately.
Loving it!
Eric is still shapeshifted into Chris Pratt
As a long-time player of these types of decks, I can give some good advice so that your friends don't end up hating you: Learn as many of the infinites as you can. It greatly speeds up the game when you memorize some contained loops and what they net you, so that you can avoid this messy, boring kind of gameplay. If he noticed a loop that gets him +1 card and no extra mana, even, he could just avoid playing everything and just keep drawing for the loop without physically acting it out. Then he could find a pyrite spellbomb or other loop (walking ballista etc too) and then do that loop till everyone is dead. The #1 downfall of the decks and reason that no one likes playing against them is the pilot wasting people's time with unnecessary steps. This could have been a 5 min video lol.
And you do realize they go through the trouble of the long gameplay and all the steps to show us viewers, right? Not all of us are Vets at the game and know every combo for every card. It’s quite enjoyable seeing something new and learning how to do it. That’s the beauty of magic.
@@collin2791 Yeah man, I never said any different. Spinning your wheels doesn't teach anything though. It was obvious that he was looking for a win and not doing it on purpose, but my suggestion was to learn some simple interaction like sac x y and z to draw x and make x mana, then bring it back, and just say "then I do it again, make infinite mana, draw infinite cards till i hit wincon." It just makes the game smoother, cause the reason that eggs decks are unpopular is all the solitaire you end up playing when you don't know it well.
26 minute game and 20 minutes played by one person, good on you fellas for sticking through that.
Personally I don't have such patience and I kinda envy people who can sit through that knowing they're dead anyway
@@seasnek7024 I know it could be seen as rude rude, but in these conditions when no one had the possibility to respond being tapped out, I would have just started checking my phone and chatting and asked the guy playing solitaire to tell me when we would be ready to play again.
"Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life and add" Textbox of Carnival of Souls. It triggers when a opponents creatures enters as well. Everyone's creatures entering triggers it
My lowest TCGPlayer market price is currently $2.19 for my Fifth Dawn printing. I'm in Eddie and Mitch's decks. Hopefully I'll get played. We'll see!
Future Bauble here. I did not! Congrats to the winner on the insane line.
@@WayfarersBauble I'm sure you were in there somewhere. Probably in at least two decks. Just didn't get you out
Wow can't believe I watched a 26 minute video of someone mock testing their commander deck. At least the guest commentary helped keep me interested.
As a fellow non-infinite combo lover, I 100% LOVED this. This is PRECISELY why i love deckcrafting and the beauty of the things it can do - despite lackluster interaction I Loved watching this sooo much. Seeing all tthe synergy with each other in a feedback loop is just electrifying to me as a MTG player
All I could think of, watching Alek's solitaire, was how happy I would be to drop a Ravenous Trap in response to Faith's Reward.
Incredibly satisfying to watch! Also, the mana tokens are a great idea.
a legal target has to be chosen as soon as the ability hits the stack (regarding the soul-guide lantern exile etb -> you can't create a target in response)
Does that render the entire spell in usable because of the lantern??
@@mnkylegnd6389 in a tournament setting he would have had to exile the faith's reward, BUT as it is commander and therefore kitchentable mtg and he already had the triome in his hand before casting the spell + the mana necessary he could've just made a ähm how do you say "takesiebacksie"
I had the same idea just a friendly takeback
@@OverlyCriticalAnime well yes when there aren't any legal targets the effect fizzles, but when he casted faith's reward for the first time he had a legal target for the etb -> faith's reward
@@OverlyCriticalAnime it did effect the game though, it directly effected it. I have no problem with them agreeing to allow him to fix it, but not everyone has to, and it is a big deal.
The french death - the best kind of Death… Even in death Mitch is full of joy. Absolutely amazing game, solo, however you call Alek´s play ;)
Respect to this!
What an exciting commander gameplay video...
Guess we all have our preferences...
Far more interested by cool unusual decktech on budget or not rather than competitive multi..
Now that’s a Breya deck, fun watch!
I reeeeally wanted to see Jhoira solitaire. I just built the deck based on Mitch’s upgraded list. I swapped out a 6-10 cards: a couple silly things like Sphinx’s Tutelage, Golems Heart, 3 artifact lands, then value low- drops, mox opal, lotus petal, tormod’s crypt; can’t wait to play test it!
The title should be "One guy plays Solitaire while 3 other guys struggle to vamp"
Breya likes her games like she likes her eggs 🥚... over easy.
Finally, my search is over, I found it, the deck I didnt think existed, years ive spent searching finally coming to climax, a deck I DON'T want to build 😂
Casual reminder this is why eggs got banned out of modern
I think being able to enjoy and showing off different levels of commander is really cool.
Commander*. Apologies, but your statement implied that anything but eggs actually happened.
Disagree. This channel was one of the few channels that didn't buy into the high power/cedh hype train and not that's done for. I hate the old school casual edh content is dying its very disheartening. There are plenty of other channels that put out competitive content.
It was actually quite beautiful. That said I really wanted to see the other decks in action.
Does anyone really enjoy watching solitarie like this?
Great performance from Alek. I really enjoyed watching how he pilot this deck.
It's great to let a game like this Egg the players once in awhile.
thanks mitch for showcasing alec's deck.
I like when Mitch said give me some dice and let me help you lol.
I love the responces of the ayara deck. Nice
just wanted to say I am a huge fan of Breya and come back to watch Alek wreck face on this episode quite often. Inspiring play, truly.
At some point they could've just scooped cause Alek already had several ways to win on board but just slowly kept going through his combos
Yeah he had a few infinite combos on board he could have demonstrated the loops, generated infinite mana, drawn his deck, then played out his win con. Instead he durdled and stormed out in a slower but still deterministic line. As much as I love watching a combo pop off that was one of the more obnoxious ways of doing it.
So the whole episode is “Turn 3”.
Cool.
Kinda surprised Mitch uploaded this. Not upset or anything, just surprised.
After the resolution of the very first Faiths Reward.. the permanents return to field. All triggers And Targets go on stack. The only legal target for the Soul-Guide Lanterns trigger was the Faiths Reward in his graveyard. You cannot respond to the trigger- cycle a land- and when the trigger resolves Choose a new target. The faiths reward was the only legal target and it would have been exiled thus he would have shut himself off from the loop. Also- very early on in the game- once established the biblioplex assistant - he had a loop present with the reward and excess mana and draw inside the loop. Even forgoing the fact that he punted and everyone missed it- the game took 20 minutes longer than required. But thats how magic goes sometimes. 🙏🥳🙏
Yeah, the moment he "responded" with that cycling land I lost interest in the whole game, as it was all straight cheating after that. The only way I can think of id by responding to the first Faith R... in the stack, before the lantern comes back to the field, but he didn't do it that way, so it was blatant cheating.
Not sure, but couldn’t he have just not saced the lantern to have avoided this issue?
Now I need another game for Mitch to play solitaire with jhoira
Awesome to see a new episode, I literally binged all the episodes I missed yesterday! Great show reminds me of my play group just a group of friends having a blast, making jokes and enjoying mtg, keep up the great work!
All of you guys are awesome. I enjoy the game play, the banter, and the shenanigans. Thank you for the extremely entertaining content.
I won tonight with Alek’s deck and it was brutal. My buddy was up to 70 life and all of a sudden I hit the cards that I needed. I was down to 23 health and it was game over for him and my other buddy. This deck is more than capable to wipe out way more than 3 opponents.
Awesome game but definitely hoping to see more videos where you all play
eeeey I'm gonna buy a Breya Egg deck that I made at some point, nice to see one here!
My man Jake really came in to my personal first video seeing him and just got used as a punching bag lol
Good game! It's refreshing to see everyone not only take that nasty combo in stride, but otherwise to just be impressed by it. I personally was not expecting a twenty minute turn three for the win
chefs kiss for the perfectly cooked eggs. I'm not a fan of this play style in general but I respect it much more when you don't even cast your general.
Just once I would love to see you with your hat off Mitch
what’s the app called that you used to track life totals with? I like the feature you showcased at the end
So like it's clear they don't have counter spells he could have just looped his commander kci Faith's reward and the draw triggers to win like ages ago all the unnecessary sac draw just takes up time .I don't mind the higher power game in fact I like it as mitch's jhoira list was what started my commander journey I still have the budget version along side my cedh version. I'm just sad that because it took so long they couldn't just run another game
Yeah right there were so many loops he could have presented that would just win. Once he played wishclaw the game was over, get marionette master present the loop hose the table.
@@14etan exactly wtf did he tutor for the first 2 times? so much digging lmao
@@OverlyCriticalAnime i think because its such a multi piece combo that the thought "i now have infinite mana and draw" comes to mind
@@MaxSpider2000 I’d have grabbed Nim Death Mantle slapped it down with breat and KCI
Wow Breya doing Jhoira things
Holy crap Alek, that deck is wild
“Thanks for coming guys watch me go off.”
And here I thought Mitch was using the artifact storm deck
This video is going to be my new sleep aide.
Artefact Combo classic ^^ nice 1
He did have them dead on board with the pyrite spell bomb like halfway through the video
Dammit, I was hoping to see that Jhoira deck in action!!
"Thank you for playing this game" lmao
Nice, I was just planning on build a Unesh Deck, (though it does not goes well in this video)
This was high powered.
Historic cards was the keyword that foretold the keyword modified creature. this means that we will have another keyword coming that lumps a bunch of mechanics together.
Well played Alek! I didn't check the video timer until it got to turn 4, and he just, kept, going. Amazing stuff.
Eddie: SEAL team Sphinx
And people think Narset and Sen Triplets are bad?
Edit: I just looked up Alek's deck and nearly crapped my pants at its price.
I loved this video, absolutely amazing. That’s not sarcasm
I know y'all are in Minnesota, but Go Pack Go! Keep making these videos
I'd honestly love and episode where Alek comes on just to explain eggs and his deck
After part way through that second loop they should have called it.
pyrite spellbomb was just the last piece he needed for a win loop.
This isn't Alek's fault.
It's Eddie's.
#blameEddie
Finally Alek did not die first hahahha and won
So hypothetically he couldn't have just gone infinite with the atherflux spell bomb and just dealt 2 to everyone he also had infinite red fr the artifact land being recycled along with the combo?? Or maybe he didn't wanna win that way or maybe I'm incorrect I'm still not that experienced
That's correct, he already had a way to loop
Yeah I just lost interest right after that happened he clearly was gonna win anyway
I think he just missed it. It can happen when you’re going through a ton of triggers that you miss the quickest way to win. Still, I think showing a game like this can help demonstrate some complicated interactions for newer players and good etiquette for players who are on the other side of long turns.
That’s the first one I saw
I think the issue here would have been to find a more efficient kill that would have dealt more damage / lifeloss before he decks himself to the look. He had to draw a significant part of his deck to get to a point where he could have looped wishclaw and non-draw artifacts to keep the loop going. Also, many of the rocks needed to be sacked in order to come back in untapped. It would have been much Risker to loop those draws to only deal 2 to target player per Faith's Reward Loop.
11:18 So Alek has to respond to the faith's reward cast by cycling savai triome. If faith's reward resolves before the cycling ST, the items are put onto the battle field requiring soul-guide lantern to declare a legal target in graveyard to exile before being put on the stack. Cycling ST can't be performed in-between faith's reward resolving and the items put on the battlefield ETB triggers being added to the stack. Casual format, but it looks like we are trying to respond by cycling ST after the resolution of FR.
You are right. It seemed like that got that at some point and did a sort of take-backsy to do the cycle prior to casting faith's reward.
Turns like that are fun to watch, but it makes me appreciate my 3-4 card ashaya “make infinite mana then dump it into a source that kills everyone instantly” turn 3 combos even more.
That was an egg'celent game!
5:37 for those wondering what "zombies fear dolls" means and how hilarious this joke is XD
Wow, this was a beautiful beast of a game,
if you could call it a game, it’s closer to solitaire
Correct me if I'm wrong but when soul-guide lantern etb trigger goes on the stack. You have to choose the target then and there. You can't respond to the trigger to cycle a card for it to Target. !JUDGE! Haha
Those mana cards are such a good idea.
Psychosis Crawler would've made this go so much faster and cut out the need for a sub-game of solitaire. Still great nonetheless, always love watching you guys play!
This is why we should Put artifact/enchantment removal in your decks
Could you please replay this without Alek so we can actually see the 3 other decks
See, at my lgs we have a house rule on decks like that. The moment you start a combo like that you’re obligated to buy the rest of the table dinner. Best use of that rule was when Bob told the table “We’re having steak and eggs tonight!”
Nice!!
I'm just bummed because I was really looking forward to seeing the other decks play out. LOL
Welcome to high power/cedh....super fun to watch...yup...totally...ya 3 turns...everyone died...neat
I think this translates well to this game but one thing I learned in Muay Thai is: Sometimes you're the nail and sometimes you're the hammer.
Alek is a Vikings fan?! Yes, represent.
Love that pig mat
Dude brought a fucking tank to a poker game. Jesus.
That was beautiful, well done guys 👏🏼👏🏼