Ha, I used to play SWCCG, that is a wildly different game when you're more or less getting access to tons of tutoring/counting cards. I always liked DS decks, it was either no-flip TDIGWATT or ISB for my favorite decks. I think no-flip TDIGWATT was way more consistent in theory, since you only need to run a few lands and just abuse your objective (and SWCCG player memory, meaning you know exactly what is in your Force Pile and if you want to pick it up or not, it's like Raltiir Ops only worse because you still have to pick up your force pile, at least this way you always know if you want to!) that you never need to flip/worry about space since you're not flipping, you just set up Dark Deal and abuse the shockingly good DS locations on Cloud City. If you use Any Methods Necessary you can start with a Bounty Hunter, a ship for them to pilot and a prison in your opening hand, meaning you only need 1 more land 'the hard way' to set up Deal, at which point you land your ship and ignore space/clouds. ISB was a much easier deck to play, but it wasn't anywhere near as consistent. My best luck with the LS was my Tatooine Moisture Farmer deck, which wasn't remotely consistent but it did have Ben Kenobi, if you have a high forfeit character it worked okay. The deck I always wanted to make work for the LS was definitely Asteroid Sanctuary, my attempts usually got distracted by also running Cloud sectors and losing horribly. I loved Slicer at first, but when I realized in the 1v1 you're stuck on the back I got less jazzed on him. It's a really, really good deck if you want something that's straight forward, Slicer is super-good at killing the first 2 opponents, especially if people neglect their board. I think it's definitely a deck, but it'll be neat to see if it can hold it's weight in cEDH over time, it's the type of card that is much worse in a meta with more creatures, so I don't know if I'd be eager to play it anywhere but cEDH, maybe High Power if your meta is greedy/runs no blockers, it's a terrible Casual Commander I expect, where people are willing to cast stuff like a Serra Angel that'll trade with Slicer. I didn't take up Chess because I'm pretty sure I (in theory, in practice not so much haha, the better the deck I play is the worse I tend to draw) benefit a lot more from having a RNG in the game than it being pure skill. Chess is very different, but it's way harder/less forgiving, and Go is even harder to be good at. Magic is for people who want to screw around a bit and have fun, it's a dumb game to take too seriously because of it's heavy RNG element, it's very much within the possible outcomes that your best cEDH deck will lose the odd game to the Kynaios + Tiro Precon 1v1 (you can draw all lands or all spells, even if you mull you can still get crap over and over), guess how likely you are to lose to an actual deck that has actual ways to win? So yeah, if you want to prove that you're smarter than other people, play Chess or Go, even cEDH is not that type of game, a great player doesn't have much better odds than an average player after you account for the fact that the RNG can literally decide games before they start. Also, if you want to prove you're smarter than other people, the odds are very much against you, most people who want to look clever are like that because they are objectively quite dumb but wish they weren't. Smart people like to be underestimated, dumb people want people to overestimate them, dumber people literally set themselves up for failure.
I know playing Malcolm//tana it was hard for me to get used to passing priority in hopes other players can counter a game winning play so I can keep my own counters to protect my combo
Lifeforce will someday be seen as a format defining cedh card. The only limiting factor for it today is that there are no tutors for it in green. It works wonders in kodama of the west tree cedh. Painters servant unban makes lifeforce a stax god card.
Funny you mention Sylvan Library! The flavor of the card is actually you taking damage from mesothelioma from asbestos inside the library. Anyway card sux
Sperling is probably the best addition from 1v1 to have in cEDH. Love his ideas and take on the format.
Awesome episode!! Officially a Matt Sperling fan as of today lol
This video makes a lot of sense
“That totally makes a lot of sense” has been proliferated 😂
Ha, I used to play SWCCG, that is a wildly different game when you're more or less getting access to tons of tutoring/counting cards. I always liked DS decks, it was either no-flip TDIGWATT or ISB for my favorite decks. I think no-flip TDIGWATT was way more consistent in theory, since you only need to run a few lands and just abuse your objective (and SWCCG player memory, meaning you know exactly what is in your Force Pile and if you want to pick it up or not, it's like Raltiir Ops only worse because you still have to pick up your force pile, at least this way you always know if you want to!) that you never need to flip/worry about space since you're not flipping, you just set up Dark Deal and abuse the shockingly good DS locations on Cloud City. If you use Any Methods Necessary you can start with a Bounty Hunter, a ship for them to pilot and a prison in your opening hand, meaning you only need 1 more land 'the hard way' to set up Deal, at which point you land your ship and ignore space/clouds. ISB was a much easier deck to play, but it wasn't anywhere near as consistent. My best luck with the LS was my Tatooine Moisture Farmer deck, which wasn't remotely consistent but it did have Ben Kenobi, if you have a high forfeit character it worked okay. The deck I always wanted to make work for the LS was definitely Asteroid Sanctuary, my attempts usually got distracted by also running Cloud sectors and losing horribly.
I loved Slicer at first, but when I realized in the 1v1 you're stuck on the back I got less jazzed on him. It's a really, really good deck if you want something that's straight forward, Slicer is super-good at killing the first 2 opponents, especially if people neglect their board. I think it's definitely a deck, but it'll be neat to see if it can hold it's weight in cEDH over time, it's the type of card that is much worse in a meta with more creatures, so I don't know if I'd be eager to play it anywhere but cEDH, maybe High Power if your meta is greedy/runs no blockers, it's a terrible Casual Commander I expect, where people are willing to cast stuff like a Serra Angel that'll trade with Slicer.
I didn't take up Chess because I'm pretty sure I (in theory, in practice not so much haha, the better the deck I play is the worse I tend to draw) benefit a lot more from having a RNG in the game than it being pure skill. Chess is very different, but it's way harder/less forgiving, and Go is even harder to be good at. Magic is for people who want to screw around a bit and have fun, it's a dumb game to take too seriously because of it's heavy RNG element, it's very much within the possible outcomes that your best cEDH deck will lose the odd game to the Kynaios + Tiro Precon 1v1 (you can draw all lands or all spells, even if you mull you can still get crap over and over), guess how likely you are to lose to an actual deck that has actual ways to win? So yeah, if you want to prove that you're smarter than other people, play Chess or Go, even cEDH is not that type of game, a great player doesn't have much better odds than an average player after you account for the fact that the RNG can literally decide games before they start. Also, if you want to prove you're smarter than other people, the odds are very much against you, most people who want to look clever are like that because they are objectively quite dumb but wish they weren't. Smart people like to be underestimated, dumb people want people to overestimate them, dumber people literally set themselves up for failure.
Would have been nice too see his slicer deck list
Slicer is a meme deck, it did well in that event almost out of pure luck and because people saw that it was crap.
Nah….slicers dope.
I know playing Malcolm//tana it was hard for me to get used to passing priority in hopes other players can counter a game winning play so I can keep my own counters to protect my combo
Oathbreaker Episode When? Ryan 😁
Working on it!
Lifeforce will someday be seen as a format defining cedh card. The only limiting factor for it today is that there are no tutors for it in green. It works wonders in kodama of the west tree cedh. Painters servant unban makes lifeforce a stax god card.
Do Conley Woods or Kai Budde next lol 😢
Funny you mention Sylvan Library! The flavor of the card is actually you taking damage from mesothelioma from asbestos inside the library. Anyway card sux