In this episode of the worst possible, everyone gets slightly (and for blake, more than slightly) triggered by tax effects

I just started to watch these and I have to say, I really do enjoy them.

Avacyn wearing a basilisk collar sounds like the most metal thing, even for a gothic plane with a vampire whose card literally means 'Sorin the joyless'

every single game up till this point - Blake: "Peace in our time" this game - Blake: "peace was never an option"

"You're at 72 life!" Not for long he wasn't. Aristocratic life gain/drain is one of my favorite strategies, and I am also a huge fan of Black Market. It's been referred to as a "win more" card, but today it proved it's definitely a card to be reckoned with. :)

Shae: Rhystic Study Shae: Mystic Remora CGB: Smothering Tithe Blake - “… And I took that personally.”

@GenKaan

2 жыл бұрын

And that is where I check out, yuck!

@jamesgreenwood1703

2 жыл бұрын

@@GenKaan yuck bc good card or bc bad attitude?

@GenKaan

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesgreenwood1703 Slowing the game down and being like the best cards you can play on top of that

@covertgoblue

Жыл бұрын

@Jershwuh - You are the comment winner for this episode! Email covertgogina@gmail.com to receive your code for Coolstuffinc.com.

@joshoa90210

Жыл бұрын

@@covertgoblue Nice! Thanks CGB. Email sent!

First time watching. Appreciate the creative approach to rule zero. Cuts through some of the abstraction involved in ranking the power level of commander decks. Gives both players and viewers a better understanding of how each deck functions. Enjoyed it a lot.

Crazy game! Awesome playing by all! Just started watching this series, but I’m gonna catch up on all of em! Loved all the decks

The look on Blake’s face when Ben countered his removal on Shae’s commander was the very essence of entertainment and, I reckon, provided the fuel to go all the way this game. Congrats Blake! Maybe we can get a Spelltable game one day, it would be my honor …Yo 😎

@BlakeMTG

2 жыл бұрын

Anything could happen 😎

Covert go Blue loved getting to meet and play commander. Hope Dallas treated you well! Thanks for the tickets, You're cool!

I love the deck Blake!! I have an Elenda the Dusk Rose deck and I’ll sometimes switch it up with Teysa Karlov as commander. I love making so many tokens and then straight up not win by combat damage haha Hope to see more aristocrats in the future :)

You have made the syndicate proud! My favorite commander is Teysa so I've really got to get Black Market after seeing what it can do

I learned from another comment on here that Blake makes videos about Explorer decks! Explorer is my favourite new format, so I've followed on KZread and Twitter. Looking forward to watching some great videos!

@BlakeMTG

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much I appreciate it!

It’s sooo cool to see a Runo deck, I built it myself and instantly tell in love with it!

Teysa Karlov was my first ever EDH deck, way back when she was released. She has been the only deck to have constantly survived my ever changing wheel of commander decks. I can't describe the excitement I had seeing her in the thumbnail, and I'm happy it was Blake as her companion. Excellent game guys! All debt shall be paid, in death and blood.

I run black market and harvester of souls in my toxrill deck! Congrats on the win Blake!

shae's deck is so unbelievably cool omg

Yo! Yo yo! The amount of unpaid taxes I think would make the IRS cringe.

LMAO Ben's deck in the description: Obeka again, but BETTER

Missed seeing you at Dallas Blake. You could have witnessed the story of the amazing cut cgb can explain lol

@Logical_Panda

2 жыл бұрын

The restoration angel off the Chaos warp love/hate to see it!

Once I saw the video was an hour long I thought, “Oh this is going to end in a pop off”, and that’s exactly what happened! Shouts out to the winner, your commander is one of my favs 🥹

This is quickly becoming my favorite commander show to watch on KZread. Love the dynamic between the 4 of you. Congratulations on the win Blake! Even with all the hate towards the taxation draw effects you kept your composure… respect.

WPCS, still the best videos on your channel, loved it as usual ❤

I also am really enjoying your commander series

CGB gets a treasure off the first remora draw since it triggers on successful cast of a noncreature spell I love your commander content!

Would love to see Blake make an explorer version of this for his channel.

@Travis_Newman

2 жыл бұрын

@@thehandleisuseless BlakeMTG

Congrats Blake! Though I have to admit I'm surprised you didn't give the card of the game to that harvester! He filled your hand sooooo hard so you could sell those bodies on the black market xD.

@chriscunningham6401

2 жыл бұрын

Harvester should have been his choice, and the fight goblin the choice of the other guy, imo.

I think Blake drew too much cards with the Harvester of Souls. He doesn't triggers himself when dying, and you can't also draw off tokens dying.

@aaronlutz6496

2 жыл бұрын

too many*

@youngnikos9625

2 жыл бұрын

@@aaronlutz6496 Thank you. English is not my mother tongue, as you can see lol.

Stayed till the end even through commercials for more support love you all ty for the amazing contents and can't wait to see what you all do next and please never forget everyone you're cool 😎🤟🏾

Blake great win bro. Your token looked like Wilson from Castaway. 🙃

Just starting to watch this episode, but Ben my BOI! Playing my favorite commander! Break the game, break their minds, break their souls and hearts!

AWESOME VIDEO!!! It crazy pay for 1 then yooo pay for 2 then Shea was like nooo then pay for 4 and Ben pinging damage at random like a sniper then Shea dove deep drowning everyone for a bit but CGB rises up in the air with angel wings killing just about everything in it path but no one knew Blake was doing some black market dealing in a dark alley then meeting some questionable people on a dark tower but kick them all off from the top like Sparta that lead to the demise of everyone else in a Instant like taking candy from a baby lol congrats Blake 😎🤟🏾

I have adopted the 'worst possible' pregame discussion. It's a great way to set expectations on power level.

The rise of the aristocracy against taxes, a story as old as time itself. Blake just doing his best aristocrat impersonation and dishing out treasures to CGB without a care in the world and benefiting from everyone on the battlefield dying. It was glorious!

Yoooooo, epic sac! Good combo!

Anyone: Rolls dice to deal damage to someone Shae: I'm in danger! 👁👄👁

Yo! Yo! Nicely done Blake! I loved the game and how all that life CGB had didn’t matter in face of the powerful mage Blake who did not use blue this time but brought it home with so many triggers! I’ll say Yo now every time to ask for the tax on smothering tide. Congratulations Blake once again!

Blake, I love your deck, I need the list, please? Glad the decks here doing the things

@Logical_Panda

2 жыл бұрын

The decklist are in the description. :)

@didupaytheone2678

2 жыл бұрын

Thank u @@Logical_Panda

The internal salt from Blake after that counter. 😆

Shae: today I'll be playing Runo Stromkirk Me: *cries in Craterhoof*

I think the thumbnail has the wrong commander for Ben. Should be vile smasher 😅

CGB flicking a toothpick:Hey Yo! Blake after running through Shea and Ben: I don't care how many treasures you have. YOU"RE NEXT! Nice job on that 3 player OTK Blake. Aristocrats doing Aristocrats things. Loved the gameplay and there was no Peace in our time.

Drained em out my dude. Look at him, look at him, he is the captain now. Good job Blake.

Minute 16 cgb should create treasure because of those mystic remora triggers... it happens to mee too sometimes lol

3/4 in and ben counters the removal because "i want to see more sea creatures!" love it

such a handsome guy winning today! and showed a good winners attitude!😉

Always pay your taxes! And always sub to Blake! kzread.info kzread.info kzread.info GG all, love these commander games!

Taxing card draws is the way with this group. CGB definitely swerved on this one after drawing so many cards the last couple of shows. I am also impressed you guys and gal don’t try to gang up on CGB every game.

Lots of death and taxes. But Blake wasn't p(l)aying. Nice one my friend.

LETS GOOO BLAKE!!!!!!!!!!!! COMEBACK!!!! unstoppable!!!!! honestly, didnt look good for a second but that one turn killed everyone!!!!.

Congrats Blake! I thought Shea had it early on with those beefy krakens

Well done blake killing cgb with that many treasures is truly impressive. You’ve built an awesome deck. Sidenote i’ve never seen a teysa karlov deck lose so that’s a good deck choice.

Can’t believe how long the smothering tithe was on the field. You need more interaction for problematic permanents in my usual commander pod

Can’t wait to see this!

CGB and Blake. The Merry-yo brothers

Though choice for card of the match for Blake, but I have to say that the Black Market only had that much effect because Harvester got a few cards in your hand And I believe it is always better to have more cards than mana, than the other way around

Everyone received the true “Tax Karma” to the “Draw Lord” himself, Blake. I see you, Blake. Keep drawing those cards for the rest of us draw junkies!

Jeska's wil could have made 7 because the fish draws before it resolves, and smothering tithe triggers off mystic remora draws (they caught on to that later though)

Nothing like a opponents synergy to build up your aristocrats strategy. Although black market was the essencial piece to start for the win, Ashnod's Altar proves that free sack outlets are the bread and butter of aristocrats

Well that was a hell of a win.

Black Market just got a reprint. Good timing.

Scolding tarns is the raspberry of the fetch lands

Blake finally got his card draw, good stuff

Taxes got you down? Just head on down to the Black Market! We've got mana, we've got pingers, we've got sac outlets, we've got lifegain - everything you need and more all without the watchful eye of the Smothering Tithe!

@xavierbucher5405

2 жыл бұрын

this is winning for sure

I have a question would final fortune even work with obeka you are still ending your turn or am i wrong

Lesson learned: don't pay taxes.

That turned quickly.

Alternate title: Blake has had enough.

can we get a gruul arcane bombardment deck for standard? Gruul goes to school

Well salty crew at 39:00

49:55-52:37. Blake’s Harvester of Souls draw triggers are wrong I think. Blake ends up drawing a card for each creature that died from the Avacyn flip. However, Harvester of souls reads: “Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.” Blake shouldn’t have drawn a card for CGB’s bird token as well as his Harvester of souls and 2 creature tokens. Still a crazy turn thanks to Shea’s board state, but just should have been 4 less cards drawn. Also, I think Requiem Angel should have created at least one more spirit token since both Harvester and Requiem Angel are not spirits. Wasn’t sure what’s Blake’s other doodled creature token was but, if it wasn’t a spirit, then that would have been another spirit token trigger off Requiem as well. I love playing aristocrats which is the only reason I noticed it. There are always so many death triggers to keep track of and sometimes mistakes happen.

Smothering tithe turning the match into a 90s rap video

"You're gonna love this" someone watched too much dbz there xD

The Aristocrats. Winning on the turn after CGB goes to 90. Very nice.

"Tug at Blake's heartstrings". Did you just see that game?! The man clearly has no heart to tug at!

I love Avacyn in all forms

Sequencing on the Jeska's Will should have made 7 mana i believe. Cast and target Shea with 6 in hand, Remora trriggers and Shea draws to 7 in hand, Jeska's resolves and makes 7. I see these errors loads in local games and i probably make them myself, easy to see when watching but maybe not when you're at ghe table.

why didnt blake draw for other opps creatures dying, also whhy didnt ben end turn when avacyns 2nd trigger happened

Wondering why Ben didn't end his turn with Obeka once Avacyn flipped to prevent the CGB lifegain, boardwipe, and Blake from going off???

Blakes rages atm EDH Taxes... Blake turns in to the Hulk at IRS taxes?

i came home drunk and left my pc on and this video autoplayed whilst i was conked out so i didnt even see it was out until today T_T

Blake : i don't want to play if y'all are playing busted cards.... Drains everyone in a single turn. 👌

Nice job Blake for besting CGB's $2700 deck with your $275 aristocrat sacrifice!

Good god I need to pick up a black market!

Would you guys ever consider having a commander legends two draft and game for one show? I think that would be a fun one off.

Blake beautiful awesome comeback

Blake was not a fan of taxes. Lmao. I was questioning getting Black Market for the new Tasha deck I'm building but now I'm pretty sure this sells it for me.

@BlakeMTG

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked the card! It was certainly good here, hope you’ve been well Matthew 😁

@Forvesss

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlakeMTG I have been! You guys inspired me to go to my local card shop the last three Sundays for commander night and I even attended the commander draft for the new set release! It's been great! Hope you're doing well and settling in to content creating :P

@BlakeMTG

2 жыл бұрын

@@Forvesss Dude thats awesome! I loved the BFBG prerelease! I ran our local one, it was fun running and judging it :D

@Forvesss

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlakeMTG Man - Running a card shop would be a dream job. Hoping one day to be able to do it comfortably. Maybe after I retire. 🙃At least for now I can enjoy participating in the community there. It's been great!

Well, Blake, besides being incredibly handsome (again)... well done proving why you hate letting other people draw cards. what a turn!

With Teysa out, shouldn't the cost be 6 life for the Athreos trigger?

Im actually really happy blake won this one after all the stuff he had to deal with

@mbrumbalowmb

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! No need to watch this now. Thanks

@gageontwowheels

2 жыл бұрын

@@mbrumbalowmb no problem. Happy to help

@webbofmusic

2 жыл бұрын

Spoiler guy!

I haven’t watched to the end and I don’t care who wins, my comment of the game is going to Shae for playing Dark Depths in her deck, which is badass

"Ben, would you like to pay X for Remora/Rhystic/Tithe?" Ben: I'm going to ignore that

Blake trying to play by Yu-Gi-Oh rules at one point by playing cards face down 😂

Looks like Ben is the true blue mage.

Blake’s so salty. Gotta love those taxes and card draw 😂

Ben really really really got under Blake's skin in this game. Always remember it's a game Blake, smile and laugh more mate. Karma rewarded you in the end 🤙

10:31 shea has 39 life then pops back to 40 a few seconds later

Me, at the beginning based on Shea's shirt: ok, simic. Shea: ... sea creature ... Me:. Oh, I can never guess right!

Rip, the only way to avoid the outcome was to never take your turn again. Ironic.

Blake is so handsome and I love watching his strong fingers shuffle his deck.. I mean hand..