Agree. I'd actually like The Command Zone to become a group show, where each episode 2 of 5 or 6 hosts host it (almost always having a Jimmy or Josh, though). It just gives more viewpoints and will free up the main hosts too. Between Craig, DJ Ashlen-Rose and Jimmy and Josh, there's 5 already! Add in Ladee and maybe Kyle, and boom, there's plenty to choose from! (Note: I do love Jimmy and Josh but their playstyles and values are well-documented, so would just be interesting to see, say, Kyle's cEDH perspective or DJ's 'janky', fun comboish brew mindset widen the whole show a little more!)
Seeing Toothy reminded me of a game I played once with a friend. He was playing Pir and Toothy as his commanders and he was absolutely dominating the game, and took the other 3 players out with his 45/45 Toothy. I managed to draw a removal spell and he had to draw 45 cards and decked out. Probably one of the best ways I've won a game
Drawing cards feels so awesome you sometimes get drunk on the power. Once I cast Cyclonic Rift overloaded with a Multani, Maro-Sorcerer on board. I resolved my commander Prime Speaker Zegana, and promptly drew around 40+ cards leaving me with about 4 cards in library and I ended up decking myself. Not my proudest moment.
I almost decked out with Toothy after slapping a hydra's growth on it. Thankfully I added Gaea's blessing(tech against some mill opponents) to my deck so when I ditched it I survived.
When you guys started singing Bycicle Race, i immediately had to show it my mum, who is a huge Queen fan XD And I once had an opponent in a Multiplayer, who managed to get out Decree of Silence AS WELL AS Solemnity. That was the moment where everyone conceeded
One great card from the M21 set is Teferi's Ageless Insight. It's the second effect of Alhammarret's Archive for 2UU, and since it's an enchantment it can be searched with Idyllic Tutor.
Awesome episode! I do hope that, in the future, there's a simple graphic for whenever someone mentions quadrant theory on the show. It's something that sounds super complicated, and especially when not elaborated on, can feel very excluding for those unfamiliar.
I think the deck is great! I'm just now getting back into magic and I ordered this deck today. Looking forward to playing with my friends. Great video and breakdown!
I would consider Improbable Alliance for this deck, you get a 1/1 flying Faerie on the same trigger as Gavi, and it's only 2 mana to cast. Actually "draw your second card in a turn) was the draft theme for UR in Eldraine, so there's more examples out there, but the Alliance pays out in flying tokens.
I so want this deck! Like seriously this is magical timing this deck coming out. Starting like a month and a half ago I started playing a deck focused on drawing 2 cards a turn, with things like Faerie Vandal, Improbable Alliance, Jace, Arcane Strategist, and Mad Ratter, as well as Nadir Kraken for extra fun, just... tokens and +1/+1 counters all over the place and its just so much fun! When I saw this decks commander, I got so excited!
I built Brallin and Shabraz, I had most of the cards in my locust god deck and Alela deck so it was pretty easy to build. I think I only need like 14 cards, looking forward to playing that!
The Alhammarret's archive was so the luckiest pull I got out of the Mystery Boosters and I am without a doubt grabbing this deck because of it. Loved the Video!
The very first card I thought of that wasn't mentioned was Amulet of Vigor. With a substantial percentage of the landbase coming in tapped if you get stuck having to drop one, being able to untap them, including the bounce lands, cycle the cards you bounced and still have mana up for more cycles outside of Gavi's first turn ability is vital. Needs to go in.
Will Morand they should add Reds “exile cards from top of library you may play them till end of your next turn” cards to white. Honestly just color shifting cards to white would be a great idea(IE color shifted act on impulse, experimental frenzy, utopia sprawl etc..)
i really like experimental frenzy w/ gavi because you can still cycle from your hand, tectonic reformation is also great. i want more crucible of worlds effects
Love cycling videos just what I need to get it going the blood I love it. I always watch these before I go out and get my body moving. I always watch one of these, and then put up my heavy playlist like Delta Parole, Three Days Grace, System and then I just go haaaaard!!!! Tactic hasnt let me down yet.
I would build the partners, through in every card that cycles for 2 or less, and put in Tandem Lookout and just combo out with Fluctuator to kill everyone.
There are a few new cards from Ikoria I’d add to this precon - this video was filmed in mid March though they mentioned so no Ikoria add-in suggestions
Next time you do a underrated card list, you should put languish in it. 4 mana for -4/-4 to everything is really good for it's mana cost. I've never seen anyone else use it, but it can help a lot, especially against token decks.
A sneaky combo is Escape Protocol with Cloud of Fairies and a Gavi on the field. With Gavi, make your cycling abilities zero, then cycle a card for 0, triggering Escape Protocol and paying 1 to flicker Cloud of Fairies, tap your 2nd land to add mana to the pool before Fairies returns, Fairies returns and untaps 2 lands, cycle for 0 again, pay 1 and flicker Fairies and dump the extra land untapped into the pool, and rinse and repeat to keep drawing cards and adding mana until you have no cycling cards left to draw. It's awesome!
Would you guys ever consider having a link or sponsor with Magic Card Market? I'd love to support the show by buying cards through your sites but the shipping is expensive given I live in the UK :( Love all the content though!
Protip on some super secret bad card tech for a deck with a strong looting mechanic throughout from someone that used to play a Jeskai colors deck with lots of looting in a 300 card format: Planar Birth is a pretty great way to dump a bunch of basic lands you preferentially discarded to loot effects. It let's all players get the effect but historically opponents got a few lands sometimes and I would flip like 15 lands into play. It's also one of my pet cars so I'm hyped to just use it again.
Also don't foget Nadir Kraken for the Cycling Synergies! Since you aren't paying mana to cycle with Gavi, you can probably still pay the 1 mana, meaning you are getting a field full of tokens and a big threat that eventually needs to be dealt with
the partner pairing here is SO good; genuinely looking to build it as wheel tribal, pulling all of that old Izzet Wheel stuff out of storage...I'm pretty excited. And the Cycling general is sick, the friggin' Kykar-friendly dragon...maybe I'm just biased towards Jeskai, but DAMN am I excited for this one.
I thought for sure between the partner video and this one that someone would bring up *curiosity & *drogskul revear. Especially with brallin & Shabraz.
Fblthp the Lost seems like a good Elvish Visionary substitute. It still works with the Astral Enchantments because it is the triggered ability targeting him and not a spell.
10:38 the difference between flashback and cycling is, that cycling can be on lands, artifacts, creatures, instants and sourceries. Flashback only on instants and sourceries. Of course the cycling deck's numbers are great but the possibilities to have synergy of the deck theme were much higher than in the flashback deck
Command Zone: don't commit too hard to strategies your deck is hardly in on Also command zone: here's a bunch of cards you should add in to specifically work with Astral Drift and Astral Slide!
Lol good point. But to be fair: drift, slide, escape protocol, and all the tutors combine nicely with the inherent card filtration of the deck, and you'll probably be able to find one of those three somewhat reliably. And the effect is so powerful anyway, it's worth finding. Not to mention how broken the deck can get, just fiend hunter or mulldrfiter and a few cycle cards can wreck a table, with slide/drift/protocol.
Theres a new legendary enchantment in M21 that has the same draw an extra card effect as Alhammaret's archive and costs one less mana. It's also not $20, I think it's called Teferi's Timeless Wisdom or something
Great call Dr. Alkk! It's called Teferi's Ageless Insight, cost 2UU (2 colorless, 2 blue), Legendary Enchantment, and "If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead." You miss out on life gain, but it is currently around $1, making it an amazing addition in a budget deck.
I love this deck, cycling was an almost there deck that needed a few more good payoffs and to get a bit more cycling utility along with reprints. Also fires of invention in a cycling deck seems nuts, it essentially triples your mana. Kinda sad no green, Ayulas influence, tuskar, life from the loam etc are all so insanely good. And mending of dominaria, splendid rec, and the merfolk, along with ramunamp, wrenn and six are all great payoffs since you can get so many cycling lands in 4 colors. Discarding 3 lands to influence casting loam then cycling a card and getting loam back and discarding three lands again, casting loam and discarding 3 lands, if one of those has cycling for a mana its just 3 2/2s and draw a card loam and dredge for 3 mana. Could definitely see some 5 color flash rector pod cycling deck with a focus on land cycling seems worth building.
I'm simple, I like to pay my taxes and blow up my opponents lands. Since new perspectives was released I've always wanted to cycle a decree of annihilation for free .. I think that now I feel closer than ever
@@saxxioxo7274 If you wanna make that combo with Decree of Annihilation even worse then try out Tamiyo, the Moon Sage. Her ultimate, which is a -8, gives you an emblem that gives you no maximum hand size and when any card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you can put it back into your hand. What this means is if you can get that ultimate off you can cycle Decree of Annihilation off every turn making sure no one gets to play land ever again for the entire game. Tricky to do? Yes. Mean and satisfying when it goes off? Absolutely.
There is no way you have intact ultra pro sleeves from 8 years ago. In the last year, they had better sleeve quality. Before that the sleeves would peel very quickly.
I still have the ones I bought for the Mirrodin pre-release, 17 years ago, in great shape. Though somewhere in the last 10 years, something went horribly wrong with their products. Edit: search for Ultra Pro Gallery Series Easley Final Stand
Ultra pro sleeves have very differing degrees of durability even within the same product line. I have bought orange Eclipse sleeves that fell apart at the corners after the very first game. Others have been pristine for months. My impression is that pre-Eclipse the quality was almost always terrible, now it’s mostly solid with rare exceptions.
I still have a ton of ultra pros from 1999 exodus release. I still use them on less used decks, but they are NOT as good as they were the day I bought them...
A loot/cycling deck... Another place to shine with Rielle! I was thinking about making this kind of deck but with Rielle as the commander.. Now I must admit I have a hard time making my mind. I think she'll only join the deck, but not as a commander anymore.. With Brallin and Shabraz, Ominous Seas and such.. The counters can rise so fast.
53:31 Thunder cat! may I also add to the list at the end: Akroma's memorial is pretty powerful, giving all those tokens the following: flying, first strike, vigilence, trample, haste and pro red and pro black, so they are pretty protected against many boardwipes.
You can also use Akroma's Memorial or Eldrazi Monument to pump up all your tokens, in addition to Aven Wind Guide, giving you a total of 4 attempts at finishing the game.^^
@@alexanderforbes1452 Are you pertaining to Abandoned Sarcophagus? The card will just be exiled by the Sarcophagus if the card with cycling goes to the yard if it's not because of cycling it... Bag of Holding just exiles a card whenever you discard it... So it perfectly works... The only nonbo I can see is that you can't cast the cycling cards if the Bag will exile them, which is not really a nonbo for me... Both of them provide reuse of your cycled cards, so both are must-runs in my opinion...
When can we expect the Game Knights episode with these decks? I'm pretty new to Commander as a whole, but I've been watching you guys for ages. Love the episodes with Cassius. Just hyped to see you guys playing these decks!
I think you're really underrating Bralin and Shabraz. Bralin goes infinite with Curiosity (Have 8+ cards in hand during cleanup), and Cycling makes Bralin with a curiosity draw 4 cards. The card is very good.
I love this commander and box. I will keep some card but I will mostly use my Nekusar deck as a based. Get my blue draw cards, red discard and then draw card plus given all creatures haste. So many tokens creatures and cards... cant wait to build this deck
Instead of Wall of Omens for a 2 mana card advantage engine, I'd suggest the Modern Horizons card Watcher of Tomorrow. You don't get the card right away the first time you cast it, but once you can slide it you get to Impulse every time you cycle.
Hall of Heliod's Generosity is an auto include with so many vital enchantments. Crucible of worlds would be great to get it and other cycling lands back if necessary too.
FYI cloud of fairies allows you to get infinite mana when paired with any kind of flicker effect and a land that taps for 2 or more for example deadeye navigator plus azoriuos chancery, you pay 2 to flicker cloud of faires it comes in untaps chancery and a another land allowing u to always get up on mana.
2 years on and I still hate the Signet lands, a land that can't make mana independently will always suck (barring those few lands with just utility abilities).
I'd replace Niv-Mizzet the Firemind with Niv-Mizzet Parun or possibly even the OG Niv-Mizzet Dracogenius. Firemind has an easy tap to draw but if you've got mana open and instants to play, Parun can give you more draws across the full turn cycle if your opponents don't play any instants or sorceries. Dracogenius lets you pay BR to draw a card so you can freecycle Gavi then get another draw on each opponent's turn. I also think Izzet Charm has a possible spot in Gavi or the Skyshark Partners for the draw two cards then discard two cards mode.
I give Craig’s hosting 10/10 poison counters, a total knockout
*large hi-five*
Agree. I'd actually like The Command Zone to become a group show, where each episode 2 of 5 or 6 hosts host it (almost always having a Jimmy or Josh, though). It just gives more viewpoints and will free up the main hosts too. Between Craig, DJ Ashlen-Rose and Jimmy and Josh, there's 5 already! Add in Ladee and maybe Kyle, and boom, there's plenty to choose from! (Note: I do love Jimmy and Josh but their playstyles and values are well-documented, so would just be interesting to see, say, Kyle's cEDH perspective or DJ's 'janky', fun comboish brew mindset widen the whole show a little more!)
In and of itself
They talk about what cards to 'swap in' at 34:36
Thank you :)
Want to see a game night that the editors play against each others.
With their own decks too
They've all played on Game Knights at some point. Check out some of the earlier episodes and you'll see tons of Craig.
@@roncrawford5013 Craig isn't all the editors
RON CRAWFORD YOU DARE IMPLY THAT ONE CAN EVER HAVE ENOUGH CRAIG BLANCHETTE?!?!?!
HERESY!
@@_somerandomguyontheinternet_ lol right?
Seeing Toothy reminded me of a game I played once with a friend. He was playing Pir and Toothy as his commanders and he was absolutely dominating the game, and took the other 3 players out with his 45/45 Toothy. I managed to draw a removal spell and he had to draw 45 cards and decked out. Probably one of the best ways I've won a game
That's great.
Nice
Drawing cards feels so awesome you sometimes get drunk on the power. Once I cast Cyclonic Rift overloaded with a Multani, Maro-Sorcerer on board. I resolved my commander Prime Speaker Zegana, and promptly drew around 40+ cards leaving me with about 4 cards in library and I ended up decking myself. Not my proudest moment.
I almost decked out with Toothy after slapping a hydra's growth on it. Thankfully I added Gaea's blessing(tech against some mill opponents) to my deck so when I ditched it I survived.
NICE!
Nimble Obstructionist has the initials N.O.
1:13 we're adding 10 cards in and taking 10 cards out
They cost around 10 bucks
And we're cycling them around
Huh, didn't know cycling infect was viable
I think I've been underestimating how strong cycling can be. This has given me some things to think about. Great episode!
I'm a simple man, I see Mr. Infect, I hit like and watch the episode.
In that order?
Opens to a not bad rendition of Bicycle.
Realizes Josh isn’t there.
That explains a lot...
...
Don’t worry I’m just joshing ya man 😂🤣😂
If you want to add another land for taking out Temple of the False God, add in Blasted Landscape. Taps for colorless. Cycles for 2.
How about raugrin triome? Taps for all your colors and cycles for 3
I personally took it out for Mystic Sanctuary.
Great job, Craig... as Always, Jimmy you killed it... we listeners/viewers can't thank you enough for all your hard work and dedication. Stay well!
Astral Slide also triggers whenever ANYONE cycles a card, not just you.
So if all four players play a cycling deck... ^^
@@antares8826 Yes, you can flicker their Gavi when they cycle to stop them from getting dinocat tokens. >:)
One card i would add would be bag of holding, it allows you another way to reuse your cycling cards
pheonixlord 255 you are a genius
Have it in my madness deck too. So much value for these niche decks
D yuuup definetely dude
pheonixlord 255 bag of holding is an underrated draw piece for boros
HOLY SHIT I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT....
When you guys started singing Bycicle Race, i immediately had to show it my mum, who is a huge Queen fan XD
And I once had an opponent in a Multiplayer, who managed to get out Decree of Silence AS WELL AS Solemnity. That was the moment where everyone conceeded
"They may be the cutest token wizards has ever printed"
Sad cat dragon noises
I've always had a soft spot for the Gremlinesque Tarkir Goblins myself.
100% agreed
Cat Dragon tokens win, for sure
i see you're interested in cycling
One great card from the M21 set is Teferi's Ageless Insight. It's the second effect of Alhammarret's Archive for 2UU, and since it's an enchantment it can be searched with Idyllic Tutor.
Hey guys today is my 18th birthday and getting to see your videos has made my day brighter and I really appreciate it thank you
Awesome episode! I do hope that, in the future, there's a simple graphic for whenever someone mentions quadrant theory on the show. It's something that sounds super complicated, and especially when not elaborated on, can feel very excluding for those unfamiliar.
That’s my favorite commander right there! I’m so happy for you Kykar! 5:42
A budget card that's amazing on this deck is Bag of Holding.
I think the deck is great! I'm just now getting back into magic and I ordered this deck today. Looking forward to playing with my friends. Great video and breakdown!
I’m hoping you guys got Mitch to guest for Game Knights!
This would be awsome
that would be sick!
A budget episode where everyone plays decks that are 25 dollars or less.
Would be cool to see him play a match AND not hear him say “so basically” 50 times in ten minutes. 🤣
I would consider Improbable Alliance for this deck, you get a 1/1 flying Faerie on the same trigger as Gavi, and it's only 2 mana to cast. Actually "draw your second card in a turn) was the draft theme for UR in Eldraine, so there's more examples out there, but the Alliance pays out in flying tokens.
I so want this deck! Like seriously this is magical timing this deck coming out. Starting like a month and a half ago I started playing a deck focused on drawing 2 cards a turn, with things like Faerie Vandal, Improbable Alliance, Jace, Arcane Strategist, and Mad Ratter, as well as Nadir Kraken for extra fun, just... tokens and +1/+1 counters all over the place and its just so much fun! When I saw this decks commander, I got so excited!
I built Brallin and Shabraz, I had most of the cards in my locust god deck and Alela deck so it was pretty easy to build. I think I only need like 14 cards, looking forward to playing that!
THAT'S NOT 6 FEET APART!
hehe glad you guys are still podcasting :)
The Alhammarret's archive was so the luckiest pull I got out of the Mystery Boosters and I am without a doubt grabbing this deck because of it. Loved the Video!
The very first card I thought of that wasn't mentioned was Amulet of Vigor. With a substantial percentage of the landbase coming in tapped if you get stuck having to drop one, being able to untap them, including the bounce lands, cycle the cards you bounced and still have mana up for more cycles outside of Gavi's first turn ability is vital. Needs to go in.
Concept: move cycling predominantly into white(with obvious support in other colors) as whites form of card draw.
Will Morand
they should add Reds “exile cards from top of library you may play them till end of your next turn” cards to white. Honestly just color shifting cards to white would be a great idea(IE color shifted act on impulse, experimental frenzy, utopia sprawl etc..)
patiently waiting for the abzan precon upgrade vid...
If you're looking for an Elvish Visionary in Jeskai, Fblthp the Lost does a pretty good impression.
true, but it goes to your library when you try to Astral it.
Fblthp gets shuffled only if he's targeted by a spell
@@victoraugustodeodoro5318 ah, I thought he included abilities. My b.
No problem :)
Please bring more guest its really fresh and we love to see DJ, craig, etc.
i really like experimental frenzy w/ gavi because you can still cycle from your hand, tectonic reformation is also great. i want more crucible of worlds effects
I’m so glad to watch this and see that most of my plans to change up the deck were here.
Been waiting for this one! Keep up the good work guys!
Love cycling videos just what I need to get it going the blood I love it. I always watch these before I go out and get my body moving. I always watch one of these, and then put up my heavy playlist like Delta Parole, Three Days Grace, System and then I just go haaaaard!!!! Tactic hasnt let me down yet.
Maybe I missed it, but did you talk about Starstorm? An instant speed board wipe with cycling could be a nice addition.
I believe it comes in the deck, but I'm not entirely sure
@@eamonbell6378 It's in the Temur "instants matter" deck, but not the Jeskai one.
I would build the partners, through in every card that cycles for 2 or less, and put in Tandem Lookout and just combo out with Fluctuator to kill everyone.
never noticed how similar looking Memory Erosion and Fraying Sanity where.
almost looks like FS is an homage to ME
1:04:12 Jimmy: Wash your hands! One thing we always touch with our hands is our cards
I was half expecting Jimmy to say "Be sure you wash your cards!"
These were recorded sooooo long ago, they wouldn't have known.
There are a few new cards from Ikoria I’d add to this precon - this video was filmed in mid March though they mentioned so no Ikoria add-in suggestions
Yes, sadly a downside of Ikoria and the commander set having the same release date.
I want a few of the red cards for my Ajne madness deck.
tectonic reformation in Anja Madness would be so good.
I took Anje apart to work on Grusilda Monster Masher, but I also want the red cards from this deck.
Next time you do a underrated card list, you should put languish in it. 4 mana for -4/-4 to everything is really good for it's mana cost. I've never seen anyone else use it, but it can help a lot, especially against token decks.
Brallin-Shabraz-Wheel effects decks seem to be a real fun deck to make... They even support each other incredibly well...
I love Josh but Craig is a great host too! Totally down to have him on more often
Again nothing against Josh.
Rhett Davis it seemed like this episode was more focused. Sometimes when Josh and jimmy are hosting together they can ramble off topic!
Take a shot whenever Craig says “in and of itself”
Oh man, Craig with deck upgrades is just what I want to see. Need more Craig on Game Knights for sure.
The upgrades to this deck are so great because for once I actually own most of the cards!!!! Would just need an Aven Wind Guide and an Astral Slide.
A sneaky combo is Escape Protocol with Cloud of Fairies and a Gavi on the field. With Gavi, make your cycling abilities zero, then cycle a card for 0, triggering Escape Protocol and paying 1 to flicker Cloud of Fairies, tap your 2nd land to add mana to the pool before Fairies returns, Fairies returns and untaps 2 lands, cycle for 0 again, pay 1 and flicker Fairies and dump the extra land untapped into the pool, and rinse and repeat to keep drawing cards and adding mana until you have no cycling cards left to draw. It's awesome!
I have an Ephara Commander deck and I was thinking of slotting her right into this deck, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who agrees.
I really want to see them do this with the partners for this precon. I think Brallin is amazingly good to make a wheel deck.
Love the snow summit hat. Snow summit and bear mountain are my go to resorts
The cat dragons wasitora can create are the cutest tokens ever made. The cat dinos are close but the cat dragons are just soooo cute.
Starts at 3:40
Ty!
I would put deadeye nav + pengrine drake. Now cycle your entire deck! Maybe add a card to shuffle your GY back into your deck for infinite cycling!
anyone curious about jimmy's nails? Nothing against but so many different colors.
Would you guys ever consider having a link or sponsor with Magic Card Market? I'd love to support the show by buying cards through your sites but the shipping is expensive given I live in the UK :(
Love all the content though!
are you guys still shipping during the quarantine?
@@thetogtube2 yep
same for me in Germany, can't find half the stuff ultra pro puts out in the US and the shipping cost is brutal
Totally agree with this statement
Maybe check out Magic Madhouse too
Protip on some super secret bad card tech for a deck with a strong looting mechanic throughout from someone that used to play a Jeskai colors deck with lots of looting in a 300 card format:
Planar Birth is a pretty great way to dump a bunch of basic lands you preferentially discarded to loot effects. It let's all players get the effect but historically opponents got a few lands sometimes and I would flip like 15 lands into play.
It's also one of my pet cars so I'm hyped to just use it again.
Astral slide is also a player, and a fair few random other cards in other decks that cycle, like decree of pain.
Also don't foget Nadir Kraken for the Cycling Synergies!
Since you aren't paying mana to cycle with Gavi, you can probably still pay the 1 mana, meaning you are getting a field full of tokens and a big threat that eventually needs to be dealt with
About Decree of Silence
Just slap Solemnity in it ;)
if you play decree of annihilation, be sure to plan your escape route ahead of time .
Just stick a boros charm in the deck
@@nathanmoore3866 Only if youre actually casting it
Thought Reflection can keep the cycling going like Alhammarret's Archive drawing two instead of 1.
"Triple strike" : first strike damage, normal damage and last strike damage. :)
the partner pairing here is SO good; genuinely looking to build it as wheel tribal, pulling all of that old Izzet Wheel stuff out of storage...I'm pretty excited. And the Cycling general is sick, the friggin' Kykar-friendly dragon...maybe I'm just biased towards Jeskai, but DAMN am I excited for this one.
I thought for sure between the partner video and this one that someone would bring up *curiosity & *drogskul revear. Especially with brallin & Shabraz.
Fblthp the Lost seems like a good Elvish Visionary substitute. It still works with the Astral Enchantments because it is the triggered ability targeting him and not a spell.
So you cycle N.O to stop the sphinx drawing cards but what does cycling do again
10:38 the difference between flashback and cycling is, that cycling can be on lands, artifacts, creatures, instants and sourceries.
Flashback only on instants and sourceries.
Of course the cycling deck's numbers are great but the possibilities to have synergy of the deck theme were much higher than in the flashback deck
Command Zone: don't commit too hard to strategies your deck is hardly in on
Also command zone: here's a bunch of cards you should add in to specifically work with Astral Drift and Astral Slide!
Lol good point.
But to be fair: drift, slide, escape protocol, and all the tutors combine nicely with the inherent card filtration of the deck, and you'll probably be able to find one of those three somewhat reliably.
And the effect is so powerful anyway, it's worth finding.
Not to mention how broken the deck can get, just fiend hunter or mulldrfiter and a few cycle cards can wreck a table, with slide/drift/protocol.
I cannot wait for the rest of these episodes come out
Theres a new legendary enchantment in M21 that has the same draw an extra card effect as Alhammaret's archive and costs one less mana. It's also not $20, I think it's called Teferi's Timeless Wisdom or something
Great call Dr. Alkk! It's called Teferi's Ageless Insight, cost 2UU (2 colorless, 2 blue), Legendary Enchantment, and "If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead."
You miss out on life gain, but it is currently around $1, making it an amazing addition in a budget deck.
Wow this deck looks amazing especially with the upgrades! So much card draw
I love this deck, cycling was an almost there deck that needed a few more good payoffs and to get a bit more cycling utility along with reprints. Also fires of invention in a cycling deck seems nuts, it essentially triples your mana. Kinda sad no green, Ayulas influence, tuskar, life from the loam etc are all so insanely good. And mending of dominaria, splendid rec, and the merfolk, along with ramunamp, wrenn and six are all great payoffs since you can get so many cycling lands in 4 colors.
Discarding 3 lands to influence casting loam then cycling a card and getting loam back and discarding three lands again, casting loam and discarding 3 lands, if one of those has cycling for a mana its just 3 2/2s and draw a card loam and dredge for 3 mana. Could definitely see some 5 color flash rector pod cycling deck with a focus on land cycling seems worth building.
I'm simple, I like to pay my taxes and blow up my opponents lands. Since new perspectives was released I've always wanted to cycle a decree of annihilation for free .. I think that now I feel closer than ever
@@saxxioxo7274 If you wanna make that combo with Decree of Annihilation even worse then try out Tamiyo, the Moon Sage. Her ultimate, which is a -8, gives you an emblem that gives you no maximum hand size and when any card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you can put it back into your hand. What this means is if you can get that ultimate off you can cycle Decree of Annihilation off every turn making sure no one gets to play land ever again for the entire game. Tricky to do? Yes. Mean and satisfying when it goes off? Absolutely.
There is no way you have intact ultra pro sleeves from 8 years ago. In the last year, they had better sleeve quality. Before that the sleeves would peel very quickly.
I still have the ones I bought for the Mirrodin pre-release, 17 years ago, in great shape. Though somewhere in the last 10 years, something went horribly wrong with their products.
Edit: search for Ultra Pro Gallery Series Easley Final Stand
He just never plays the deck
Ultra pro sleeves have very differing degrees of durability even within the same product line. I have bought orange Eclipse sleeves that fell apart at the corners after the very first game. Others have been pristine for months. My impression is that pre-Eclipse the quality was almost always terrible, now it’s mostly solid with rare exceptions.
I still have a ton of ultra pros from 1999 exodus release. I still use them on less used decks, but they are NOT as good as they were the day I bought them...
I thought the same thing. Ultra pro sleeves from a couple years ago are garbage. They’re sponsored by them though so go figure
I also happen to have a copy of enlightened tutor, which I will definitely be putting in this deck.
A loot/cycling deck... Another place to shine with Rielle! I was thinking about making this kind of deck but with Rielle as the commander.. Now I must admit I have a hard time making my mind. I think she'll only join the deck, but not as a commander anymore.. With Brallin and Shabraz, Ominous Seas and such.. The counters can rise so fast.
Aren't Fblthp, the Lost, as good as Wall of omens as etb draw a card creature? 43:00
I'm so looking forward to these pre cons
My favorite adds to deck are Decree of Silence, Hall of Heliod's Generosity, Crucible of Worlds
Jimmy being the fun police against fun cards like Decree of Annihilation and Decree of Silence
53:31 Thunder cat!
may I also add to the list at the end: Akroma's memorial is pretty powerful, giving all those tokens the following: flying, first strike, vigilence, trample, haste and pro red and pro black, so they are pretty protected against many boardwipes.
Pro black doesn't work. Look up how the ability works it is weird.
I have that in my jodah eldrazi tribal deck
You can also use Akroma's Memorial or Eldrazi Monument to pump up all your tokens, in addition to Aven Wind Guide, giving you a total of 4 attempts at finishing the game.^^
Reveillark is a house in this type of deck, Agent of Treachery also seems bonkers if you ever get it going with the Astral enchantments.
A "Bag of Holding" could have been great to add?
It's a nonbo with a couple cards but still so good that I would definitely say it's an include.
@@alexanderforbes1452 Nonbo with what cards???
@@Mr_Myst13 They mentioned one in here that let you okay cards with cycling from your graveyard.
It's not actually a nonbo even with that card. Check out how replacement effects work.
@@alexanderforbes1452 Are you pertaining to Abandoned Sarcophagus? The card will just be exiled by the Sarcophagus if the card with cycling goes to the yard if it's not because of cycling it... Bag of Holding just exiles a card whenever you discard it... So it perfectly works... The only nonbo I can see is that you can't cast the cycling cards if the Bag will exile them, which is not really a nonbo for me... Both of them provide reuse of your cycled cards, so both are must-runs in my opinion...
When can we expect the Game Knights episode with these decks? I'm pretty new to Commander as a whole, but I've been watching you guys for ages. Love the episodes with Cassius. Just hyped to see you guys playing these decks!
I think you're really underrating Bralin and Shabraz. Bralin goes infinite with Curiosity (Have 8+ cards in hand during cleanup), and Cycling makes Bralin with a curiosity draw 4 cards. The card is very good.
I love this commander and box. I will keep some card but I will mostly use my Nekusar deck as a based. Get my blue draw cards, red discard and then draw card plus given all creatures haste. So many tokens creatures and cards... cant wait to build this deck
Instead of Wall of Omens for a 2 mana card advantage engine, I'd suggest the Modern Horizons card Watcher of Tomorrow. You don't get the card right away the first time you cast it, but once you can slide it you get to Impulse every time you cycle.
Hall of Heliod's Generosity is an auto include with so many vital enchantments. Crucible of worlds would be great to get it and other cycling lands back if necessary too.
What happens with cards like landcycling, Forestcycling, wizardcycling, etc? Does it work as well?
Yup, they all work the same as regular cycling cards only they for getting only those certain cards.
FYI cloud of fairies allows you to get infinite mana when paired with any kind of flicker effect and a land that taps for 2 or more for example deadeye navigator plus azoriuos chancery, you pay 2 to flicker cloud of faires it comes in untaps chancery and a another land allowing u to always get up on mana.
2 years on and I still hate the Signet lands, a land that can't make mana independently will always suck (barring those few lands with just utility abilities).
Have you noticed Jimmy's nice nails and at the end he just randomly starts shuffling cards? It is cool.
I like this and preordered this deck. Im still a bit new and have some shocks and fetch. What would you remove to add a couple of each? Basics?
Craig you crushed it! Feel free to infect this channel more often!
great video guys! i love this deck and will be picking this one up
This deck is looking fantastic. Can't wait to play it
I'd replace Niv-Mizzet the Firemind with Niv-Mizzet Parun or possibly even the OG Niv-Mizzet Dracogenius.
Firemind has an easy tap to draw but if you've got mana open and instants to play, Parun can give you more draws across the full turn cycle if your opponents don't play any instants or sorceries. Dracogenius lets you pay BR to draw a card so you can freecycle Gavi then get another draw on each opponent's turn.
I also think Izzet Charm has a possible spot in Gavi or the Skyshark Partners for the draw two cards then discard two cards mode.
Thats a nice upgrade! I'll go with dracogenius for the extra wheels.