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Is Commander Pay to Win?! – Zada vs Durnan vs Baylen vs Xander

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Today, we’re finally answering the ultimate question: Do expensive decks actually win more games, or does all that cash money put a target on your back? It’s the 1% vs the rest of us, let the chaos begin!

Thanks to Joaquin for helping with this edit!
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Decks by the incredible ‪@ANGRYGREENMTG‬

👺 Jake playing Zada, Hedron Grinder
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🧿 Dane playing Durnan of the Yawning
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🐇 Hamish playing Baylen, the Haymaker
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👑 Sam playing Lord Xander, the Collector
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:14 Expensive deck pregame action
1:34 Gameplay
43:20 Outro

20 Comments

@manasplainingmtg Creator 8 months ago Pinned

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@LuisDiego 7 months ago

The jump from 50 to 5000 is just insane

@c.o.r.e.y.w 7 months ago

I wanted to thank you guys for single-handedly fighting the good fight to make the whole 6-7 thing as uncool as possible. Continue the good work!

@strubbarz 2 months ago

I mean, much of the value of the expensive decks was generated by choosing ridiculously expensive printings.

@about99ninjas56 8 months ago

As much as I hate mono red, this was a glorious victory.

@FellShepherdMTG 8 months ago (edited)

Great Game! I've felt for a while that prices are heavily based on trends set by recent successful deck runs - often outside of commander. But there are so many cards (29K or so?) and the potential for the 'low value' cards to synergize in this format is still pretty great. It's that potential that makes brewing so much fun for those of us that are into that aspect of MTG.

@steevofett 8 months ago

That was a fun game! I can totally see the pod always trying to get rid of the player with the most expensive/explosive potential and letting the precon budget player assemble what they need to deal lethal. One board wipe and that dream was gone for sure though lol

@ubernerrd 8 months ago (edited)

@23:00 Prowess is only triggered on *cast*. Copying a spell is not casting it. Cascade is also a cast trigger and should be resolved before any ETB effects. Garruk's Uprising would have entered first and then Brineline could bounce Purphoros thus allowing you to have the dinosaur enter untapped without any danger.

@ANGRYGREENMTG 8 months ago

Thanks for letting me spend your life savings guys! 💚

@FatalFlyingGuillotineMaster 8 months ago

"Just get more money" seems like it should be the quote of the day

@conker1847 8 months ago

40:00 stubborn denial still cannot counter creature spells even if you have a power 4 or greater creature it just removes the "unless its controller pays 1" bit.

@kur0h22 7 months ago

@36:30 Cascade is an on cast trigger so the Annoyed Altisaur would not yet have entered and you would cascade before it resolves

@conker1847 8 months ago

36:36 no they don't all happen at once at all. Cast will tigger the brinelin before any other nonsense, you can bounce purphorous or the charismatic conqueror, cascade also happens before the altisaur touches the battlefield, so garruk and fortune teller's talent resolve with altisaur on the stack and finally it comes in and THEN charismatic conqueror can trigger if it wasn't bounced.