if i build a squirrel deck or golgari token deck i would absolutely build this deck. but i prefer gruul or naya for color combos. like i have an etali and a phylath deck and used to have a gishath deck. btw keep the good videos coming i love them and they make my day😃
I love the idea of having the full reveal and upgrade in a single video. Gives a easier watching experience and it's fantastic for listening when alt tabbing with other things!
I really enjoy having the upgrade guide with the reveal. I feel it is more cohesive, and it allows to be able to jump on potential upgrades right away rather than having to wait.
LOVE combining the reveal and upgrade!! It always felt bad when you revealed my fav precon and I had to wait the longest to see your upgrade. Super stoked about this change❤
I really love the design spacing here between Hazel and the Gang: Hazel is the more powerful, more "sweaty" commander that doesn't neccessarily be built around squirrels at all while the Gang is a more casual squirrel tribal commander. I would certainly build yet another tribal deck around the Gang if I hadn't just bought and upgraded the Sliver precon.
This was the deck I absolutely made sure to pre-order before it comes out. Squirrels can get crazy in commander and looks like it has plenty of the necessary staples.
I preordered all 4 decks mainly because I saw Golgari Squirrels. Chatterfang is one of my favorite commanders and this may get some of my staples from it and become my new fave
Same here. The moment I heard squirrel precon I wanted it. The moment they went up for pre-order, I'm on it. Seems like we made a good choice too what with all the high cost reprints in it.
You guys MAJORLY misread Springheart Nantuko. The way it actually works is that on landfall, regardless of what state it's in, you will get a 1/1 for no additional mana. However, if it's bestowed, you can choose to pay 1G to instead create the token copy. So it's much better than you think.
The reference to Siskel and Ebert brings back some memories. Wow. They were the premiere movie reviewers when I was a kid and I used to love watching their show and seeing all the cool movie previews. I would put forth that Josh & Jimmy are the "Siskel and Ebert of the M.T.G. community " ;-) I always enjoy these Deck Reveal's and card reviews when you two guys are on the Mic. Thanks so much for the great content. 🙂
I can tell you that I do remember watching "At the Movies" when I was a kid, so I got the reference Josh. Also, I currently have a Chatterfang deck and I've already preordered this one. I appreciate listening to you guys talk about the upgrades and the reasoning behind it. It actually gave me ideas for focusing the squirrel deck I have and I'll be using it to great effect for the precon!
A few cards that can be good to add that I have in my current squirrel deck: Westvale Abbey Arachnogensis Peregrin Took Citizens Plunderer Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia Bitterblossom Idol of Oblivion Mirkwood Bats Emrakul's Evangel I do more of sacrifice style deck and use chatterfang as my commander. Can't wait to get my hands on a few of these cards to add in!
I just finished building my own Chatterfang deck. Wanted the squirreled away precon, but it was sold out in my LGS and was crazy priced online. Most of the cards you've mentioned are in my deck. Had to cut Mirkwood Bats and never seen Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, will probably include that in the next upgrades I do. Other things I've also added that don't break the bank: Bloodroot Apothecary Deathrite Shaman Gala Greeters Champion of Lambholt Valley Rotcaller Thornvault Forager Cankerbloom Scute Swarm Saryth, The Viper's Fang (instead of that 5 mana snake in this video) Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest Parallel Evolution Harvest Season Ashnod's Altar Treasure Map Cloakwood Hermit Growing Rites of Itlimoc Carpet of Flowers Primal Vigor (if you don't have a doubling season) Heroic Intervention Noxious Revival
Great idea combining both of the content ideas into a single video. It'll make it easy to refer back to one video instead of two videos for those that like to rewatch it multiple times.
I'm so glad you rolled the reveal vid into the upgrade vid. It cuts an unnecessary video and allows you to discuss the cards in a strategic way which you couldn't do in the reveal video. Great idea!
Something to note about Springheart Nantuko you don't need to pay for the 1/1 insect. You only have the pay 1G option when it's bestowed to make a copy of what it is bestowed on. Otherwise you just make an 1/1 insect
I built squirrels a few years ago, I'm glad to see a few new friends to add to the deck. I hope to see the same with Bears as well! Keep up the good work.
Surprised Helm of the Host wasn't included in the "cards to add" section, since putting it on Hazel makes exponential tokens with her ability. Make a non-legendary copy of Hazel, target it with her ability on the end step, and you have 4 Hazels on the field that can each make 2 more on the next end step.
Since I have both this one and the Family matters precons, I'm planning to move Helm of the host to this one. Equipping Hazel nets you 5 copies of herself in one turn, letting you copy 6 times afterwards. Insane!
Feels like they've been missing with precons lately. They don't make enough new cards to support what players actually want from the precon and just throw slightly synergistic cards in there. See the Tarmagoyf precon as a recent example other than this one. This is golgari tokens but sold as Squirrels because players want Squirrels but WOTC fails to deliver
I love that they shoved Saw in Half into the deck. You won't see it in many chatterfang lists. It's such a flexible fun card that slots right into the aristocrats theme. As my fellow golgari aristocrats believers know. Having 2 aristocrats on the battlefield is serious business. Saw in Half say one of those new marionette apprentices and your off to the races. Do it mid game, with a doubling effect, thats 4 aristocrats for a mere 3 mana. I could go on.
Just started playing by grabbing one of those commander decks from Costco that include a 2023 commander deck and a bloomburrow pack and I was loving the art for Bloomburrow so when I saw this deck at target today I had to grab it at target and I’m so glad I did! It’s going for 80 online rn and it’s the exact one I wanted!!!!
Oooh, I love that art for saw in half. Hadn’t seen it in the spoilers yet Edit: don’t love how many humanoids are in the deck. Feels pretty off theme but oh well…
Love it. I was actually building the Necrobloom, Shelob and Meren. There's tons of stuff that could work for Golgari that I was not able to include in those, now they have a home❤
I'm glad someone else caught that. I was only listening at first and when I heard "new Maelstrom Pulse art" I had to look because I love that card. But I wasn't really impressed.
Loved the upgrade. But squirrel is the name of the deck. I would've loved to see a squirrel upgrade guide. I have a squirrel deck and was really looking forward to seeing how to make it better.
@@warpo7460 Yes both of the squirrel commanders are cool I agree with you there. But, I don't understand your reply, because any squirrel deck is inherently black and green.
You better have spot removal for the squirrel that just happened to go into the group hug deck that makes so that you get 2 poison counters anytime you sacrifice a noncreature token.
Big fan of the joint podcast! I typically get overwhelmed by all the new episodes when these precons get revealed so I end up listening to less than half of them all but this way I see myself checking out all the podcasts
Could you do a video about 'how to upgrade'? Josh started down that tangent and it was really interesting because it involves a pretty extensive decision making process but is perhaps a little easier than deck-building from scratch. This Squirrels precon clearly has a few different directions to take it in - e.g. going all in on the squirrels, or mainly pump effects or mainly aristocrat effects, it seems like there's even more such as abusing Hazel's ability and turning it into a bit of a monolith commander deck. It's a complex topic, worth an episode maybe?
Really good video. One small note to editing team: Having the price overlay over the mana cost of the card makes it harder to evaluate it during those first seconds when they are talking about it, would love if it could be moved down a tiny bit so it can be read right away.
its like 50% of my current squirrel deck that I first made back in the 90's with deranged hermit and lifeline, its been my favorite deck for nearly 30 years. Like that it exists, sad that my deck isn't so unique anymore.
I gotta say, I really love your precon reveals and upgrade videos. I think I watched every single one you released the last 2 years. One thing that sometimes bothers me though ist that you never talk about the flavor of a deck. The cards you add are of course strong and will of course help to win. But in my opinion flavor is a big factor. (Especially in a set like Bloomburrow) So while I see the benefit of a Jaheira in this Deck, a little voice inside me is shrieking "flavor fail!" I would love to see you talk about the flavour of the Decks more. Thanks anyways for this content and I always love to see you both together.
Really appreciated the more abbreviated format and combining the upgrade and review/reveal. I would like to see the upgrade guide lean into the unique elements of the deck as opposed to adding more generically powerful cards even if that means not strictly sticking to the 10 card limit or even swapping the commander.
This deck looks crazy, just the singles within it are really really convincing. Maybe WotC has started to notice that they can capitalize on the secondary market better by just putting desireable cards in precons?
rootcast apprenticeship is super good. It can take out the one ring, unless that player has 3 mana rocks they want to waste instead. In miirim, the temur dragon decks, it reads "4 mana, create 3 copies of your best dragon token" ...... Absolutely awesome
I'm looking forward to getting this deck and fleshing it out; it seems very technical and I enjoy the theme. I have neither played nor watched a game in a while so I'm unfamiliar with the term "Aristocrat"; when they say a card is an "Aristocrat" what does that mean -- a card your opponents want removed? Something else? I personally would like to flesh out the "squirrel army" concept; what cards would you add/cut to emphasize the squirrel theme?
I definitely think leaning into the squirrel/food stuff us more fun. I preordered the deck but might pick up a Camilla the seedmiser for the actual commander
When Liliana, Nissa, Jace and Tamiyo were revealed, I obviously thought they are gonna be the Planeswalkers in the decks. Despite her amazing Artwork, I wasn't really sold on Liliana of the Dark Realms in a Precon deck. Garruk the Cursed Huntsman however is such a cool card in a Aristocrat deck and now even with a Badger artwork? Sign me up!
Hazel's Brewmaster is kinda nutty (pun intended) in Henzie, where you get to exile twice that one turn and those food tokens can get those abilities immediately since the artifacts dont have summoning sickness
This might be the first set in a while that I buy more than one precon. On Jimmy's point of taking out a bunch of cards to make a new deck. I've done that. It's a lot of fun, and you end up with 2 sick decks. (Mine was a queen marchesa that was lifegain + tokens and aristocrats, I pulled out the 10-15 card life gain package and it's now my Ayli eternal pilgrim deck)
Before adding basics they should just throw in the battlebond lands into decks were they fit coulor wise. They are perfect for commander and I just don‘t understand why they don‘t put them into precons.
This was a great breakdown! And I'm super excited about getting this deck and upgrading it. I would really love the same treatment for the Raccoon Deck! An Artifact and Enchantments Gruul deck sounds like my kind of deck.
nah I like the singing, it brings a sense of human ness to the show. relatableness. you can show a professional side all the time , but showing you can have fun doing something you're not good at/ is silly and fun shows you don't take the game too seriously. going back to the point commander is a game! let's have fun!
Any time you throw a trample+deathtouch interaction in a deck you should quickly explain what makes it so powerful. I find most people don’t realize with a trample+deathtouch creature you only have to assign 1 damage to each blocking creature, even if they have indestructible and the rest tramples over.
Something missed about Insatiable Frugivore: you can make more than two Food with the first effect. The “repeat this process” includes the action that causes the process to repeat. Although this doesn’t say “any number of times”, it is worded recursivelt. Compare this to cards like Primal Surge.
First precon yall are covering is the squirrel deck? And Jimmy is one of the people covering it? Guys, my bday ain’t till September but I appreciate it
I rreally like the combined reveal + upgrade method. Sure, you miss out on being able to recommend cards from the main set, but it's very nice having only one video on the deck.
That is basically the Deck Olivia played also lacking finishers. For the missing 10 bucks you could have put in Torment of Hailfire (cheapest version goes for 7 bucks in my area)
I actually believe that Insatiable Frugivore allows you to repeat the process as many times as you wish, since it has the same templating as cultivator colossus. This means that if you have a lot of cards in your graveyard, you can use Insatiable Frugivore as an overrun you pay in installments, scaling as you deem is necessary.
I love the deck! In my opinion, the strongest thing you can do out of the box is ignore both of the intended commanders and just put Chatterfang into the command zone. It makes the whole deck come together better than either of the intended commanders
I’ve moved on to using ghave as my squirrel commander cause I like access to white for selesnya goodness but im really excited for what this deck will add to it
The name of the deck was too misleading, as it pointed to a lot of cool new squirrel stuff. The Squirrels here feel more like a subtheme and an excuse to reprint a lot of the non-squirrel cards. Going to cancel my preorder and buy the squirrels I need. Also, it's a shame that Bloodroot Apothecary wasn't included. No worries either way, just feels less exciting after waiting years for a Squirrel theme and then months waiting for the deck to get announced. I wish we knew what other cards got upgraded art, as that's always a big cause for excitement with these decks.
If it had bloodroot apothecary it would be worth it.. there are some cool upgrades but I did the same, cancelled my preorder of the deck to focus on singles.
Man, Omar Rayyan's art this set is so good. The Odd Acorn Gang looks good, but Run Away Together and Head of the Homestead are in the running for best art in the set.
ah yes Siskel and Ebert, have not thought about them in a long time. Sad thing is that I would bet people don't even know about Ebert and Roeper any more either. I remember movie trailers used that "Two Thumbs Up" moniker as a badge of honor, so much so that it was often the lead off statement.
I got my hands and played this deck in a 3 man precon pod. While I do agree with those upgrades, I don't agree with what is being taken out. Squirrel Gang + Hazel's Brewmaster was actually what won me the game as I was behind on life and cards.. but what I had was Scurry of Squirrels. So I used him + Brewmaster to make a 21/21 Scurry and swing for lethal on both opponents due to Myriad Myriad
What do you think about this deck? Are you excited about it? What new cards slot in perfectly to your existing commander decks?
I am so getting the precon deck, it looks really awesome and Golgari is my favorite color pairing and I really want this deck so badly.
I think Hazel of the Rootbloom is going to be awesome in mycotyrant.
if i build a squirrel deck or golgari token deck i would absolutely build this deck. but i prefer gruul or naya for color combos. like i have an etali and a phylath deck and used to have a gishath deck. btw keep the good videos coming i love them and they make my day😃
Brightcap badger seems as really interesting addition to fungus guy, for me propably better than Hazel
I’m excited for it. My favorite new card in this deck is the face commander and the sword of the squeak. I will be getting all 4 decks
Love that y’all combined the reveal and the upgrade into one
Definitely prefer this new format and hope it's here to stay. With each video often being roughly an hour; ain't nobody got time for that
Most hyped precon this is going to be NUTS
BOOOOO
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I'm looking forward to the non-stop puns this set will bring 😅
Boo this man
Hold on to your NUTS
This will be my very first deck. Staring with Bloomburrow into the world of MTG and Iam so happy about this video!
Good luck on your journey into this amazing TCG!
@@ctodragon4696 Thank you so much! Loved visiting my LGS and got my Flubs the fool with my Bloomburrow. Super excited!
Same
Great idea to combine the two videos!
Totally agree.
I love the idea of having the full reveal and upgrade in a single video. Gives a easier watching experience and it's fantastic for listening when alt tabbing with other things!
I really enjoy having the upgrade guide with the reveal. I feel it is more cohesive, and it allows to be able to jump on potential upgrades right away rather than having to wait.
LOVE combining the reveal and upgrade!! It always felt bad when you revealed my fav precon and I had to wait the longest to see your upgrade. Super stoked about this change❤
Absolutely agree!
I really love the design spacing here between Hazel and the Gang: Hazel is the more powerful, more "sweaty" commander that doesn't neccessarily be built around squirrels at all while the Gang is a more casual squirrel tribal commander. I would certainly build yet another tribal deck around the Gang if I hadn't just bought and upgraded the Sliver precon.
This was the deck I absolutely made sure to pre-order before it comes out. Squirrels can get crazy in commander and looks like it has plenty of the necessary staples.
I preordered all 4 decks mainly because I saw Golgari Squirrels. Chatterfang is one of my favorite commanders and this may get some of my staples from it and become my new fave
Same here. The moment I heard squirrel precon I wanted it. The moment they went up for pre-order, I'm on it.
Seems like we made a good choice too what with all the high cost reprints in it.
You guys MAJORLY misread Springheart Nantuko. The way it actually works is that on landfall, regardless of what state it's in, you will get a 1/1 for no additional mana. However, if it's bestowed, you can choose to pay 1G to instead create the token copy. So it's much better than you think.
The reference to Siskel and Ebert brings back some memories. Wow. They were the premiere movie reviewers when I was a kid and I used to love watching their show and seeing all the cool movie previews. I would put forth that Josh & Jimmy are the "Siskel and Ebert of the M.T.G. community " ;-) I always enjoy these Deck Reveal's and card reviews when you two guys are on the Mic. Thanks so much for the great content. 🙂
I've been refreshing the page for 2 hours finally it's here
Ok
I can tell you that I do remember watching "At the Movies" when I was a kid, so I got the reference Josh. Also, I currently have a Chatterfang deck and I've already preordered this one. I appreciate listening to you guys talk about the upgrades and the reasoning behind it. It actually gave me ideas for focusing the squirrel deck I have and I'll be using it to great effect for the precon!
By far the best reveal out of the channels.
This time it wasn't so hard to be best.
A few cards that can be good to add that I have in my current squirrel deck:
Westvale Abbey
Arachnogensis
Peregrin Took
Citizens Plunderer
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
Bitterblossom
Idol of Oblivion
Mirkwood Bats
Emrakul's Evangel
I do more of sacrifice style deck and use chatterfang as my commander. Can't wait to get my hands on a few of these cards to add in!
I believe this deck already comes with Idol of Oblivion.
@KingRorix oh dang I must have missed it, good pointing it out!
I just finished building my own Chatterfang deck. Wanted the squirreled away precon, but it was sold out in my LGS and was crazy priced online. Most of the cards you've mentioned are in my deck. Had to cut Mirkwood Bats and never seen Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, will probably include that in the next upgrades I do.
Other things I've also added that don't break the bank:
Bloodroot Apothecary
Deathrite Shaman
Gala Greeters
Champion of Lambholt
Valley Rotcaller
Thornvault Forager
Cankerbloom
Scute Swarm
Saryth, The Viper's Fang (instead of that 5 mana snake in this video)
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
Parallel Evolution
Harvest Season
Ashnod's Altar
Treasure Map
Cloakwood Hermit
Growing Rites of Itlimoc
Carpet of Flowers
Primal Vigor (if you don't have a doubling season)
Heroic Intervention
Noxious Revival
I love that way of upgrading the deck. I personally went in the direction of putting out more squirrels, putting Chatterfang as the commander.
Great idea combining both of the content ideas into a single video. It'll make it easy to refer back to one video instead of two videos for those that like to rewatch it multiple times.
Glad I made a Chatterfang deck a few months ago. Bought all the good squirrel cards while they were in stock.
I'm so glad you rolled the reveal vid into the upgrade vid. It cuts an unnecessary video and allows you to discuss the cards in a strategic way which you couldn't do in the reveal video. Great idea!
Im so happy with the decklist. It has a lot of cards i really needed in my collection. ❤
Something to note about Springheart Nantuko you don't need to pay for the 1/1 insect. You only have the pay 1G option when it's bestowed to make a copy of what it is bestowed on. Otherwise you just make an 1/1 insect
I built squirrels a few years ago, I'm glad to see a few new friends to add to the deck. I hope to see the same with Bears as well! Keep up the good work.
Surprised Helm of the Host wasn't included in the "cards to add" section, since putting it on Hazel makes exponential tokens with her ability. Make a non-legendary copy of Hazel, target it with her ability on the end step, and you have 4 Hazels on the field that can each make 2 more on the next end step.
Since I have both this one and the Family matters precons, I'm planning to move Helm of the host to this one. Equipping Hazel nets you 5 copies of herself in one turn, letting you copy 6 times afterwards. Insane!
Feels like they've been missing with precons lately. They don't make enough new cards to support what players actually want from the precon and just throw slightly synergistic cards in there. See the Tarmagoyf precon as a recent example other than this one. This is golgari tokens but sold as Squirrels because players want Squirrels but WOTC fails to deliver
Why was the good toxic squirrel put in the group hug deck? 😂😂
Probably to synergies with the gift mechanic. Also to get people to buy more than one precon.
@starviper1813 all they will get is me to buy more singles 😠😭🤣
Also Tendershoot Dryad (a token powerhouse) is in the Gruul deck for...reasons?
Might be in group hug?
Which squirrel? Must've missed it in the other video😅
I love that they shoved Saw in Half into the deck. You won't see it in many chatterfang lists. It's such a flexible fun card that slots right into the aristocrats theme. As my fellow golgari aristocrats believers know. Having 2 aristocrats on the battlefield is serious business. Saw in Half say one of those new marionette apprentices and your off to the races. Do it mid game, with a doubling effect, thats 4 aristocrats for a mere 3 mana. I could go on.
Just started playing by grabbing one of those commander decks from Costco that include a 2023 commander deck and a bloomburrow pack and I was loving the art for Bloomburrow so when I saw this deck at target today I had to grab it at target and I’m so glad I did! It’s going for 80 online rn and it’s the exact one I wanted!!!!
Oooh, I love that art for saw in half. Hadn’t seen it in the spoilers yet
Edit: don’t love how many humanoids are in the deck. Feels pretty off theme but oh well…
Love it. I was actually building the Necrobloom, Shelob and Meren. There's tons of stuff that could work for Golgari that I was not able to include in those, now they have a home❤
Interesting that the new art for Maelstrom Pulse has Bolas in the back. Would've thought it'd be Bloomburrow themed.
I'm glad someone else caught that. I was only listening at first and when I heard "new Maelstrom Pulse art" I had to look because I love that card. But I wasn't really impressed.
Loved the upgrade. But squirrel is the name of the deck. I would've loved to see a squirrel upgrade guide. I have a squirrel deck and was really looking forward to seeing how to make it better.
glad I'm not the only one who thought a squirrel deck should have a bit more squirrels
@@sleepingthroughthewar I like the new commander. I wanted to make my squirrel deck black and green.
@@warpo7460 Yes both of the squirrel commanders are cool I agree with you there. But, I don't understand your reply, because any squirrel deck is inherently black and green.
Episode starts at 5:00
You better have spot removal for the squirrel that just happened to go into the group hug deck that makes so that you get 2 poison counters anytime you sacrifice a noncreature token.
What’s it called?
@@brandonwhiting4579 Apothecary Bloodroot
@@brandonwhiting4579Bloodroot Apothecary
Big fan of the joint podcast! I typically get overwhelmed by all the new episodes when these precons get revealed so I end up listening to less than half of them all but this way I see myself checking out all the podcasts
Was not expecting Florence + The Machine Pahaha ✨
Timestamp?
@@DoubleOhSilverthe song is “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence + the Machine
Definitely loved a little longer video to get the deck and upgrade guide. Love having a longer video while doing the chores
My brother is super excited for this one. He's already got most of the squirrel cards in his Chatterfang Deck.
holy shit. i was just lookin for an upgrade to my bloomburrow deck but i didnt realize ted from vghs was a part of this channel. instant sub!
Really liked this 2 in 1 format!
Could you do a video about 'how to upgrade'? Josh started down that tangent and it was really interesting because it involves a pretty extensive decision making process but is perhaps a little easier than deck-building from scratch. This Squirrels precon clearly has a few different directions to take it in - e.g. going all in on the squirrels, or mainly pump effects or mainly aristocrat effects, it seems like there's even more such as abusing Hazel's ability and turning it into a bit of a monolith commander deck. It's a complex topic, worth an episode maybe?
I’ve cut 24 cards out of this deck and replaced them with others to make it an actual “squirrel token” deck.
Which cards did you add? I like the squirrel aspect of it and see less information on that build.
Yes would you mind sharing what cards you cut/added? 🙏🏼
I am just so glad theres more squirrel options for commanders. I am kinda tired of having chatterfang insta-removed every time i cast it.
Thats awesome having the upgrade included with this!
Really good video.
One small note to editing team: Having the price overlay over the mana cost of the card makes it harder to evaluate it during those first seconds when they are talking about it, would love if it could be moved down a tiny bit so it can be read right away.
This seems actually a pretty dope deck, so I’m pumped!
Also: Siskel and Ebert’s review of “North” is one of their funniest that I can remember
its like 50% of my current squirrel deck that I first made back in the 90's with deranged hermit and lifeline, its been my favorite deck for nearly 30 years. Like that it exists, sad that my deck isn't so unique anymore.
I gotta say, I really love your precon reveals and upgrade videos. I think I watched every single one you released the last 2 years.
One thing that sometimes bothers me though ist that you never talk about the flavor of a deck.
The cards you add are of course strong and will of course help to win.
But in my opinion flavor is a big factor. (Especially in a set like Bloomburrow)
So while I see the benefit of a Jaheira in this Deck, a little voice inside me is shrieking "flavor fail!"
I would love to see you talk about the flavour of the Decks more.
Thanks anyways for this content and I always love to see you both together.
I'm so hype for more squirrels, they needed some love... been long overdue for my first edh deck, Chatterfang!
Really appreciated the more abbreviated format and combining the upgrade and review/reveal. I would like to see the upgrade guide lean into the unique elements of the deck as opposed to adding more generically powerful cards even if that means not strictly sticking to the 10 card limit or even swapping the commander.
Great choice to combine the reveal with the upgrade guide ⭐️
I'm so keen for this deck, played a Chatterfang deck in the past but it didn't have enough non-token squirrels for me. MORE SQUIRRELS!
Starts @5:03
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The combo reveal and upgrade MUST stay from here on out! Love it!❤
Mirror box is a fun include if you want to use that Springheart to make copies of your legendaries.
I'm a fan of both the reveal and upgrade in a single video. Nice work folks!
This deck looks crazy, just the singles within it are really really convincing. Maybe WotC has started to notice that they can capitalize on the secondary market better by just putting desireable cards in precons?
Nice review, thanks ! Will you guys also review the other commander decks ? I would love an episode on the "animated army" one !
very nice to have the preview and upgrades in the same video
Looking forward to the Bunny Hug deck. 🐇
rootcast apprenticeship is super good. It can take out the one ring, unless that player has 3 mana rocks they want to waste instead. In miirim, the temur dragon decks, it reads "4 mana, create 3 copies of your best dragon token" ...... Absolutely awesome
I love the combined videos! Are you guys going to do an extra turns where you play precons with your upgrades?
I'm looking forward to getting this deck and fleshing it out; it seems very technical and I enjoy the theme.
I have neither played nor watched a game in a while so I'm unfamiliar with the term "Aristocrat"; when they say a card is an "Aristocrat" what does that mean -- a card your opponents want removed? Something else?
I personally would like to flesh out the "squirrel army" concept; what cards would you add/cut to emphasize the squirrel theme?
I'm going to have so much fun with this precon. Bloomburrow so far is my favorite set of this year.
I really like this format of deck reveal and upgrade in one episode.
I definitely think leaning into the squirrel/food stuff us more fun. I preordered the deck but might pick up a Camilla the seedmiser for the actual commander
When Liliana, Nissa, Jace and Tamiyo were revealed, I obviously thought they are gonna be the Planeswalkers in the decks. Despite her amazing Artwork, I wasn't really sold on Liliana of the Dark Realms in a Precon deck. Garruk the Cursed Huntsman however is such a cool card in a Aristocrat deck and now even with a Badger artwork? Sign me up!
Yeah it was misleading on purpose. mind sculptor and lili made a lot people preorder these!
Hazel's Brewmaster is kinda nutty (pun intended) in Henzie, where you get to exile twice that one turn and those food tokens can get those abilities immediately since the artifacts dont have summoning sickness
This might be the first set in a while that I buy more than one precon.
On Jimmy's point of taking out a bunch of cards to make a new deck. I've done that. It's a lot of fun, and you end up with 2 sick decks. (Mine was a queen marchesa that was lifegain + tokens and aristocrats, I pulled out the 10-15 card life gain package and it's now my Ayli eternal pilgrim deck)
This deck has so much potential, can't wait for it. GenX here - Love a great Siskel & Ebert reference!
Before adding basics they should just throw in the battlebond lands into decks were they fit coulor wise. They are perfect for commander and I just don‘t understand why they don‘t put them into precons.
What would suggest as upgrades if I want to focus more on Squirrels for the deck?
I love the combined format for reveal and upgrade!
As a film nerd and a magic nerd I love Siskel and Ebert. They are legends even here across the pond.
This was a great breakdown! And I'm super excited about getting this deck and upgrading it. I would really love the same treatment for the Raccoon Deck! An Artifact and Enchantments Gruul deck sounds like my kind of deck.
Loved playing this deck out the box and after sliding in just a few little upgrades, its busted.
Thank god they added the upgrade!! Last time they did a pre on reveal it took forever for an upgrade to the deck 😭
nah I like the singing, it brings a sense of human ness to the show. relatableness. you can show a professional side all the time , but showing you can have fun doing something you're not good at/ is silly and fun shows you don't take the game too seriously. going back to the point commander is a game! let's have fun!
noteable on frugivore, you can just pay 3 and a black without sacrificing any foods in order to give your board menace without the power pump
Hazel and the Helm of the Host is a must answer…that’s some exponential growth there.
Any time you throw a trample+deathtouch interaction in a deck you should quickly explain what makes it so powerful. I find most people don’t realize with a trample+deathtouch creature you only have to assign 1 damage to each blocking creature, even if they have indestructible and the rest tramples over.
Something missed about Insatiable Frugivore: you can make more than two Food with the first effect. The “repeat this process” includes the action that causes the process to repeat. Although this doesn’t say “any number of times”, it is worded recursivelt. Compare this to cards like Primal Surge.
First precon yall are covering is the squirrel deck? And Jimmy is one of the people covering it? Guys, my bday ain’t till September but I appreciate it
Oh my God thank you so much for the advice totally totally going to add this to my squirrel deck
I rreally like the combined reveal + upgrade method. Sure, you miss out on being able to recommend cards from the main set, but it's very nice having only one video on the deck.
That is basically the Deck Olivia played also lacking finishers. For the missing 10 bucks you could have put in Torment of Hailfire (cheapest version goes for 7 bucks in my area)
I actually believe that Insatiable Frugivore allows you to repeat the process as many times as you wish, since it has the same templating as cultivator colossus. This means that if you have a lot of cards in your graveyard, you can use Insatiable Frugivore as an overrun you pay in installments, scaling as you deem is necessary.
Love the reveal combined with upgrades.
I love the deck!
In my opinion, the strongest thing you can do out of the box is ignore both of the intended commanders and just put Chatterfang into the command zone. It makes the whole deck come together better than either of the intended commanders
Came here to say this too. It's what my son has been doing with the deck when he plays it.
Deck reveal + upgrade much better as a combo episode! Just makes sense to have them together!
I’ve moved on to using ghave as my squirrel commander cause I like access to white for selesnya goodness but im really excited for what this deck will add to it
The name of the deck was too misleading, as it pointed to a lot of cool new squirrel stuff. The Squirrels here feel more like a subtheme and an excuse to reprint a lot of the non-squirrel cards. Going to cancel my preorder and buy the squirrels I need. Also, it's a shame that Bloodroot Apothecary wasn't included. No worries either way, just feels less exciting after waiting years for a Squirrel theme and then months waiting for the deck to get announced.
I wish we knew what other cards got upgraded art, as that's always a big cause for excitement with these decks.
Disappointed in every one of these decks. I was hoping for more unique animal cards.
Same
They effed it out :(
If it had bloodroot apothecary it would be worth it.. there are some cool upgrades but I did the same, cancelled my preorder of the deck to focus on singles.
Just put Bloodroot in the deck....problem solved.
I like the combined episodes! I like the one stop shop we got here.
Squirrel deck definitely has the most value out of all the decks but im surprised species specialist isnt in there
Man, Omar Rayyan's art this set is so good. The Odd Acorn Gang looks good, but Run Away Together and Head of the Homestead are in the running for best art in the set.
Wish this was more squirrel tribal focused.
ah yes Siskel and Ebert, have not thought about them in a long time. Sad thing is that I would bet people don't even know about Ebert and Roeper any more either. I remember movie trailers used that "Two Thumbs Up" moniker as a badge of honor, so much so that it was often the lead off statement.
I would love to have all 4 decks but I'd be happy just getting the group hug on because I've never had a group hug deck before.
I got my hands and played this deck in a 3 man precon pod. While I do agree with those upgrades, I don't agree with what is being taken out.
Squirrel Gang + Hazel's Brewmaster was actually what won me the game as I was behind on life and cards.. but what I had was Scurry of Squirrels. So I used him + Brewmaster to make a 21/21 Scurry and swing for lethal on both opponents due to Myriad Myriad