What’s your favorite “bad” card to put in your decks? What deck or decks is it in? And why do you love to play with it?

@XragebootsX

Жыл бұрын

I like to run Karmic Justice in mono white just as an incentive for my opponents to point removal elsewhere

@chefboyardee851

Жыл бұрын

Sunbird's invocation

@LadyTsunade777

Жыл бұрын

Absolute Grace and Absolute Law. Giving _ALL_ creatures protection from Red and/or Black is great, especially when your own deck doesn't have those anyway. So now your creatures are all protection from some of your opponents' stuff, and they can't even target their own stuff to buff/equip them. I also really like Endless Horizons. It's a perfect way to make sure you hit your land drops in White. Just put like 6-7 Plains under it (even nonbasics) and you're set for your land drops; meanwhile, people are much less likely to remove it since destroying it would be seen as a dick move, and everyone knows the pain of being mana screwed. (but again, only put like 6-7 lands under it, so if it _does_ get removed you haven't exiled all the lands in your library)

@fishermankent2417

Жыл бұрын

Villainous wealth. You could get some lands and maybe a ramp spell. OR! Maybe you get their (insert huge threat here)! I did have infinite Mana once and used it to steal someone's entire library

@eneser8883

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love Possibility Storm, i run it in a Jhoira of the Ghitu deck, since it causes my opponents to not know what they will be playing, but i do since suspend is casting from exile. basically everytime I play it i lose but it is so funny to watch everyone (myself included) flip past great cards that we arent going to play. (it was also very funny to watch a friend mill themselves out by playing the one enchantment they had in their deck, and exiling their whole library)

Bringing Rachel to the Command Zone is one of the best descisions ever. She is smart , friendly , funny and just awesome. She's a keeper

@merlinduty7546

Жыл бұрын

I missed where they changed the hosts, can someone explain when that happened and what the teams motivation was ?

@joshuaritter9747

Жыл бұрын

@@merlinduty7546 I wish I new too I’ve been trying to find out I miss Josh and jimmy together

@firstnamelastname489

11 ай бұрын

Ppppplllllpp0😊

Rachel always seeing the cool side of “bad” cards is why she’s quickly becoming my favorite host.

@Matlock180

Жыл бұрын

I agree completely

@LilianaSimp

Жыл бұрын

I wasn't sure about her initially but I like that she plays commander like I do, to just have fun. I hear them talk about stuff being unplayable or too slow. Who cares? Just play it anyways if you like it

@petershurtleff6053

Жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie tho. Glad she finally lost on camera😅

@philcolton5933

Жыл бұрын

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@philcolton5933

Жыл бұрын

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In every commander deck I’ve built that has dimir colors, I’ve always run Wrexial, the Risen Deep. It was either in the 99 or the commander. It’s my absolute favorite creature card of all time, because my older brother gave me 2 copies of it when I first started collecting the cards. I will never forget how much of an influence he’s been to my life and as a thank you I run it as much as I can!

Repay in Kind is how Crim won the latest episode of Commander at Home, I'd never even seen the card before and I lost my shit

@vaporeon344

Жыл бұрын

I watched the MTG Goldfish commander podcast, hearing him mention it in one of their videos. Inspired me to make a Selenia lifeswap tribal deck. It has been so much fun since.

@nathanialtumlinson5276

Жыл бұрын

I run it with Lichs mastery, drop myself to 0 and wipe everyone simultaneously

@Jonzin4BeatzNYC

Жыл бұрын

I came to comments for this! It was nuts

@thatepicwizardguy

Жыл бұрын

was actually the greatest win in MTG I've maybe ever seen. I don't think the card is really that bad it's just very niche

Oh man, Jordan's philosophy on big mana. I built Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant for that exact reason. Anyone can go infinite, but I want to make 700!

@JordanPridgen

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Gimme a huge but non-infinite number any day of the week!

I love seeing Repay in Kind. It's a banger in Rakdos self-harm deck.

@petershurtleff6053

Жыл бұрын

Great combo with liche too

Repay in kind in my K’rrik deck has made my playgroup go from “dude your health total is too low to pay for that” to “oh no his health total is too low”

@ferdithetank7535

Жыл бұрын

The rollercoaster 😂

@barbarapalone7340

Жыл бұрын

Same! I love it in my krrik deck

The best part of lurking predators is it says "may put that card on the bottom of your library" so even if it's not a creature you still get to draw it next turn if you want it.

One of my pet "bad cards" is the Wanderer from war of the spark. I love the card, despite the fact that while it can be really good, it often ends up being a four mana exile. But when its passive matters, it's really cool.

@verlandes1

Жыл бұрын

+1, super cool card!

@gerardoramos3179

Жыл бұрын

I love the random combo it has with Command the Dreadhorde where you can reanimate everything in all players graveyards without taking any damage. I've only done it once, but the joy I felt was immeasurable

@nerd2death899

Жыл бұрын

@@gerardoramos3179 that is legitimately one of the reasons I run the wanderer. That combo is so good, for such a better mana cost compared to something like rise of the dark realm.

@gerardoramos3179

Жыл бұрын

@@nerd2death899 and price 😂 it's a budget build your own rise of the dark realm

@Nickpip11

Жыл бұрын

It's good in flicker when you can exile 2 or more things a turn

My pet bad card is Descend Upon the Sinful :) I love its flavor - its not the best mass removal, but when I cast it, I feel like I punish all the sinful doings :) Plus it depicts Avacyn, my favorite Angel in Magic. I also, like to use Archangel Avacyn (the flip one), in many boros decks.

@kaba9926

Жыл бұрын

I remember opening it in a booster and being so happy about it :)

I love using Tempting Wurm and always cast it after making all my opponents draw a crap tonne of cards! Its super fun and chaotic and the fact that it puts me way behind is in some way a decent protection since my opponents are mainly worried about whats going on on my other opponents board.

I love dropping havoc festival and watching everybody start sweating immediately

@caseywellington4761

Жыл бұрын

That card ends games so fast

They talked a lot about the art for Null Brooch but how did they not talk about how amazing the flavor text is?!

easily one of the greatest recent episodes of the podcast. love the positive vibes. Mines gotta be Descent into Avernus. If I'm in red, there's no reason not to play it. Ramps everybody, but you use the mana first! the damage is hilarious and makes games go at lightning speed (but in the "everybody is popping off" way)

@masterbd0505

Жыл бұрын

I LOVE descent into avernus. It gets wild quick.

@walterrodriguez4325

Жыл бұрын

Ohh yes I LOVE that card, nothing like setting a nice fire under everyone's asses!

@officeman15

Жыл бұрын

I've got it in 3 decks and have never drawn it 😂

OMG! Only two cards deep at Song of Creation and already like: "I have found my people!" And Doubling Cube? All day long!

Doubling Cube can also potentially help fix your mana. If you only have 1 blue available but need 2, and you have plenty of colorless or other colors, you can doubling cube.

I feel like I’m going to be attacked this whole episode LMAO

@Lootprechaun

Жыл бұрын

Why though?

@kylemotty5951

Жыл бұрын

As a budget player and only proxy advocate in my playgroup, I feel you.

Archfiend of depravity is so fun because no one seems to know what it does even when you've read it. It'll get to your next end phase and they'll say something like "wait, it only affects your opponents?!?" Painful quandary is another personal favourite or Serra's emissary too.

I also play lurking predator in alot of my decks but one of my pet cards is Chaos wand, i love the fact that i can use someone else's resources at a chance of course to disrupt someone else plans and I barely use any of my personal resources to do so. nothing will ever beat countering your opponent's expropriate with their own counter spell, one of my proud achievements with this card

@morganalley3093

Жыл бұрын

Facts

More of these videos please! Song of Creation: added to cart Repay in kind: already in cart Berserk: in each stompy deck already, this is a 10/10 that also let's you use it as a removal against other players when they attack someone else!

@FlowBerni

Жыл бұрын

song of creation is really really really bad hahahaha :D

I like idol of oblivion quite a bit as a card draw engine for most commander decks. Also Cauldron of souls is a great way to protect from board wipes.

@BigDrew49

Жыл бұрын

I love Idol. My Chatterfang, Ognis, Magda, and Hofri decks all turn it on nearly every single turn. Even getting 2 activations on it feels busted.

@maxpelaez4955

6 ай бұрын

That isn't a bad card tbh, it's two mana and easily gets u multiple cards in the right deck.

Rachel introduced me to Pandemonium in a video on Rakdos LORs. It has been so much fun. I’ve both won and lost because of it. My “bad card” is Havoc Festival. The art is literally 🔥 And it is hilarious everyone freaking out as their life totals get halved one by one and them working out the ideal time to remove it - usually after it gets back round to me. It also speeds up the game a little. A close third and fourth is Keen Dualist and Protection Racket. Again all good but silly in Rakdos decks.

@oelness

Жыл бұрын

my pod hates havoc festival, i've been quasi banned from playing it lol

My favourite in that category is gotta be Glorious End. Red counterspells are mostly unheard of (except for Red Blasts/Deflecting Swat), this is closer to red extra turn effects, where you get the benefit for low mana cost, but have to win or die right after. Also, it features Ray Swanland art, he is my favourite Magic artist!

One of my absolute favorite "bad" cards of all time is Unexpected Results. It's just so fun to play

One card I play that I know is not a great rate but I include it in every green deck I can is Krosan Restorer. I love tapping and untapping things and you can do some cool stuff with bounce lands and haste. It also says you can untap any land so someone's maze of ith can get two creatures so you can strike a deal.

Jordan Pridgen is my spirit animal. Every card he mentioned is in my Omnath, Locus of Mana deck (but I took out Genesis Wave because it took too long to resolve, and it usually resulted in a win.). He has the right mindset. Not infinite mana just a ridiculous amount.

Golden Guardian will always be one of my favorite cards. I love when people who have never seen realize that my 4 drop just punched one of my own creatures with the sole purpose of dying and becoming a land XD

26:38 I run lurking predators in my Mayael deck. I also run Cream of the Crop, that heavily cuts down on how random it is when it also lets you search the next 5+ cards fir another creature.

I think Search For Glory is a very underrated card because it can tutor lands, planeswalkers (especially now that they are all legendary), creatures, artifacts, enchantments, you name it. I run it in my Arahbo deck, since it just finds the best cards in my deck like The Great Henge (like the go-to tutor 99% of the time because when do you NOT need ramp or card draw?), Mirri, Jazal, Ajani, Akroma's Memorial, the list goes on.

I love Pandemonium, it was one of the first singles I ever bout back in around 2007. I made a Suspend deck with multiple upkeeps via Paradox Haze, then used Chronazoa to double every turn- then dropped the Pandemonium for damage.

Can we have a Game Knights episode with Arthur and Rachel as the hosts? I miss that guy he has chill vibes and Rachel is Rachel.

@danacoleman4007

Жыл бұрын

Who?

Magma Phoenix! A (limited) boardwipe on a flying stick, a nuisance for most dragons because it can take a 6/6 with it in combat. Rattlesnake type card "dare to attack me". Even more in a deck with sac outlets. Recursive so you always can create a board position (bonus: can help you out when looting or rummaging). Even progresses the game because each time it dies, everyone is taking 3. And an invincible feeling when equipped with a basilisk collar!

I love this discussion topic. At my LGS, I had some people grow to fear the card Compulsion (look it up, it's not great). I love taking personal favorites and making them work

howling mine! finaly pulled it from dominaria remastered. when that cards out it makes so much crazy things go on. love it😊

Thanks for the awesome episode!! For some reason I just really like the Cartouche cycle of auras from Amonkhet, even though they all do things that can be done much better with an instant. But they're so pretty!! Cartouche of Zeal is the one I keep talking myself into, cuz it's just one red to get a blocker out of the way and give something haste ...at sorcery speed. But look at that shiny ruby!

Search for Glory is so good! And Howling Mine is def one of mine. But my big one I always play if it’s U/R is Fevered Visions. It’s just such a good card. Speeds up card draw for 3CMC and punishes your opponents.

The Great Aurora is mine, a board "sweeper" in green that barely triggers anything on the board and usually puts you way out ahead if your deck is meant to create a lot of permanents. I run it in Halsin/Urchin tokens!

I love playing conjured currency. It rarely helps my decks plan directly, but it is janky removal and leads to loads of fun as it's passed around the table making a mess of everything.

My pet card and “bad card” I love is Mimic Vat. I try to get that card in every single deck I can!

@Matlock180

Жыл бұрын

Mimic vat is awesome!

@RuudAwakening

Жыл бұрын

I love that one! same as mirage mirror, so versatile AND colorless!

@RG-wv3gt

Жыл бұрын

Great choice, the vat can lead to such fun and silliness

My favorite “bad” card that I just absolutely put in every white deck is probably lapse of certainty. I fell in love with it after I watched Josh play it and even though it’s a stall I just love when I throw it out and the table just goes 😮

Best episode in a really long time! I love the idea of underplayed cards getting the love they deserve!

Null Brooch is VERY good in a colorless EDH deck, have played in Karn, Silver Golem and Traxos, Scourge of Kroog - even better with Bottled Cloister + Unwinding Clock, counter a spell every turn to protect your board-state from Cyclonic Rift, Vandalblast, etc.

I love to play Bloodthirsty Blade. Keep the most dangerous creature off of you, while pressuring another opponent is extremely underrated. Also allowing more time for you to set up. Also: Go Team Galactic Jake! Glad to see another Jelle’s Marble Runs enthusiast.

@caseywellington4761

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I love this card too!

For me, I think it's gotta be Deadbridge Chant. It was played by one of my friends who built a Golgari deck using the Ravnica guild kit, and as soon as I saw it I fell in love with it and took me years to finally get together a Golgari deck of my own just to play it. The big mill to enable my graveyard shenanigans and the pay off of random card regrowth/reanimation adds a fun mini game to my upkeep. It is the first card I tutour for whenever I get the chance

Mine is Predator, Flagship. Clunky as hell, but kind of flexible for blocking and/or removal. Plus I love all things Rathi Overlay.

The first modern deck I ever made, like 10 years ago, was upwelling doubling cube burn. Turn 3 wins pretty consistently at the time

My two are Guided Passage (and similar 'opponent chooses' effects) and Pulsemage Advocate (in Sen Triplets). Guided Passage makes another player interact with you and think about what they are giving you. Pulsemage Advocate on the target of Sen Triplets is recursion and 'drawing' three from the opponent's graveyard.

Mirror pool and other lands that come into play tapped are great to pair with Amulet of vigor, then add a Crucible of Worlds and you've got some power going.

Infinite Reflection comes to mind for me. 6 mana is a lot and you're up against the legendary rule but you can do some wacky stuff with this card. For example, Relentless Rats + Infinite Reflection + Jon Irenicus makes for a grand time. I'm also a huge fan of Cloudshift for protection and Thalia's Lancers to go find all those juicy legendary cards we put in our edh decks. Now that I think about it, I also used to run Soramaro, First to Dream in a landfall deck to help with landfall triggers.

Jester's Cap - for pure nostalgia. My brother would "Cap" me all the time back in the day and I would hate it. Now, I associate that card with him and it reminds me of my youth and the fun times we had as kids. I also just love looking through decks and seeing players deck designs, and this lets me do it and have fun talking about their deck with them.

I love Oath of Lieges in a big mana White deck for very similar reasons to Murph on Howling Mine. It helps mono W decks accelerate, which isn't something the colour has historically done, but it also normalises the game for anyone not playing Green where we all get to leach off of the big mana Green player.

Some of my thoughts, for whatever they are worth: Doubling Cube: In the new Omnath, it lets you cast an _even bigger Torment of Hailfire_ and I am totally here for it Song of Creation: Hey guys! Look! I found a way to break Omniscience! But really, this card has the biggest Timmy energy ever and I love it! Repay in Kind: This card screams "if I'm going down, I'm taking you all with me!" Mirrorpool: I think- "I'll copy my Genesis Wave/Exsanguinate/Jaya's Immolating Inferno!", JLK thinks- "I'll copy my Mulldrifter!" Craig- "I'll copy my Craterhoof..." Berserk: One of my favorites, and of course I love Berserk into a "Fling" effect

I added Vedalken Orrery to my +1/+1 counter Kenrith deck, and it dramatically improved my ability to win games. Just being able to play cards between Fathom Mage draw triggers is huge. Allows me to set up winning game states without letting the stack fully resolve. I've cut cards that I estimated to be integral to my overall strategy, but the flexibility that thing provides is just something I'm not willing to give up.

Love me some Surveyor Scope. Play it in most boros and some mono-red as a way of catch-up and ramp. Useless in green but I still love having it in other decks

my favorite cards used to be like avarice amulet because it rewarded me for reading the rules understanding them and then looking for answers to solve it. and in a mono white kemba equipment deck it was everything you wanted. so i was really sad when they rule changed command death triggers appealing to like the "lowest effort is the most reward" sort of thing. however these days i follow Jamie Block and put bloodthirsty blade in EVERYTHING. the is almost never a turn where bloodthirsty blade isnt great and fun and slightly awkward for your enemies.

I run Search for Glory in my budget Dihada Legendaries deck. It puts in some work, tons of options to pluck out an answer. Table doesn't feel bad as its an "expensive" tutor.

I play Mirriorpool in my Glissa, the traitor deck. Since it is mostly artifact creatures I can play a lot of colourless utility lands and combine artifact recursion with greens land recursion.

Doubling cube is a commander stable, especially if you have a way to make infinite mana because you then use doubling cube to make even more mana

I love mirrorpool! I play it in My Trostani, Selesnya’s voice deck to make a token of my big creatures to populate. Usually grab it from the deck with Ulvenwald Hydra.

Explorer's Scope. I know it is not the best card but I love to run it on my Yuriko deck. I am going to attack every turn, it cleans my top and ramps whenever I find a land on top of my deck for a very cheap cost. It is a bit more casual friendly than a full optimized Yuriko and it has come in clutch many times

I have a huge soft spot for lurking predators. That mainly comes from when I was in a game and my buddy basically tapped out to cast their ur dragon and it was their last chance to try and win since they basically had nothing but maybe the draw off the dragons attack trigger would give them a chance. My lurking predators triggers and what do I flip but a draining whelk. After the initial salt subsided he did admit that it was a pretty funny thing to flip

my group calls them "pet" cards, I feel like these cards define a player and show what makes that player unique

I love Fallen Angel, specifically the original Legends printing with the Anson Maddocks art. I currently play it in my Szat/Kodama deck. It isn’t the most cost-effective flying beater or free sac outlet in the world, but being both makes it playable in this particular deck, where it feeds the aristocrats and recursive aspects of the deck while being a reasonable flying threat or blocker. It is there mostly as a pet card with art from one of my favorite (along with Quinton Hoover) old-school Magic artists, though.

Mine is spell Swindle. It's a lot of mana for a counterspell but I once used it to stop craterhoof Behemoth and when the player full swung at me that combat I used that mana to Cyclonic Rift my opponents boards. That story and those exceeding low odds of ever happening are why I play it because hey it's not likely "but your saying there is a chance"

I use Bottled Cloister in my self-discard deck. It's like a bad Phyrexian Altar but it's upkeep trigger plays well with things like Ghirapur Orrery!

This has been a fun episode. I probably enable the Spike part of my personality too much when it comes to deckbuilding, but the latest card I had a really tough time wanting to pull out of a blue token deck was Day of the Dragons. I know it's nostalgia for when I first got into Magic (hello Scourge rare!) and I know, especially in a TOKEN deck, this card will be bad - literally any enchantment removal and poof goes your board. But the one time it sticks and you turn all your 2/2s into flying 5/5s, oh man it's going to be awesome... I'm gonna go put it back in.

I loved playing Dimir before it was known as Dimir, and group affecting spells have always been a fave of mine. I haven't done it yet, but I would love to play Pox or Urza's Guilt in a edh game. Or even just a large multiplayer game. Those two cards are quite fun for me, and very painful for my opponents.

My favorite interaction is when someone asks me what they can do to make their deck better. I tell them cards ABCDEFandG. Then they say they're their pet cards. Well, all the other cards are good so.......

one of my favorite cards is scrambleverse. I love the chaos that follows in its wake. This card ALWAYS makes an impact on the board state

Champion of Stray Souls in my Sidisi, Brood Tyrant deck. Pulling off it's ability, sacrificing a bunch of tokens to pull out all my creature cards always makes people go, Dayum! That's sweet. I've won several times with it and it's always fun.

Thieves auction. Most people scoop when it hits but when it resolves it's souch fun in my blim deck

Definitely agree with Murph on Howling Mine, but I also like to run cards like Inspiring Statuary, Ghirapur Aether Grid, or Relic Barrier alongside it to have a way to shut off the card draw for my opponents and bask in the singular glory of being the only player drawing two cards per turn.

Debt to the Deathless is a card EVERYONE tells me to take out, but I can't. I love it too much

@faerie7dragon

Жыл бұрын

Most metal art ever and if your deck can make a decent enough of mana, you might win in the spot.

@Hemlocker

Жыл бұрын

That card is straight-up underrated. It's basically a better Exsanguinate. The total drain is higher than Exsanguinate's when you spend more than 6 total mana, which is the bare minimum that people spend on Exsanguinate in the first place. Pretty much any deck that has Exsanguinate and access to white should just swap it for Debt to the Deathless imo.

@caseywellington4761

Жыл бұрын

It's a better Exsanguinate

Lurking Predators is awesome in werewolves. Allows you to “skip” your turn to transform your werewolves while still being able to build your board state on opponents’ turns.

I love orbs of warding, I love how it can completely shut off 1/1s from hurting me, and how I am fully protected from that bojuka bog, as my favorite strategy is graveyard ones, or that pesky burn deck cause someone decided it would be funny to run pandemonium

Selvala's Stampede, was a card the first few times people asked why? then they found out. So good in creature heavy decks

A card I fell in love with the moment I saw it was Prosperous Partnership. It's borderline inefficient (3 mana to cast, makes 2 tokens so need a third creature, etc), it's pointless to protect, but if left unchecked can literally win games. 3 mana, use the random utility creatures I don't want to attack with to make treasures! Easily my favorite new card from 2022. Not the most optimal card, but if I am in Boros+ and playing creatures, it's going in there!

I completely agree with Jordan, I love slapping together nyxbloom and mana reflection to make ALL the mana

repay in kind is a big strat in my black deck. with leechridden swamp and greed type effects for my card draw... its great (and wound reflection can be the finisher here)

The Howling Mine explanation is a good point. Perhaps it would be fun to have a Commander game with a stack of cards full of global effects in the middle - much like Planechase - and then you just flip a few of those. Could be a Howling Mine (Dictate of Kruphix), or something that doubles mana for everyone (Dictate of Karametra), or doubles damage (Dictate of the Twin Gods), etc.

I love this “series” and seeing the command zone cast’s opinions on random cards.

@petershurtleff6053

Жыл бұрын

They should totally just do a part 2 for both. There’s just so much to talk about

There are a few variations of the orrery effect, the new heliod coming up in mom looks playable if you care about it's other test

Mine are storage lands and the ally eggs. Theres just something so comfy about cards that "bank" mana that even though I have better cards I could play I can't resist playing these where I can.

Doubling cube is great when you have a way to untap it a bunch.

One of my first magic packs I have ever opened I got a foil Firey Emancipation and fell in love ever since. The problem is it cost 6 mana and does nothing on its own and draws a lot of hate towards it immediately. I have plans to make a Dragon's Approach deck and I am putting it in hoping for my chance to get 27 damage across the board with one Dragon's Approach.

10:27 "They could be twice as dead" lol this is why you put a comedian in the chair! I love you Rachel! I'm twice as dead.

Aurelia’s Fury is a control card in a Feather, the Redeemed deck

Week's explanation of Song of Creation really hit home for Me!! 🤣

42:05 MY BOY But yeah, our group likes to play these really weird pet cards. I really enjoy Tragic Slip. One of our friends REALLY like Stab Wound.

I card I really like to play that I also consider "Bad" is Magmatic Force. I love it when it's cheated into play and it's a huge threat when it's on the board, just blasting something each upkeep is so sweet. But it's a little expensive for the effect at eight mana. I was ramping into it in my gruul ramp deck and I remember thinking "This seems a little steep."

I love Fiery Gambit. I have it in my Burn deck. Succeed 3 coin flips (or dice rolls) and it lightning bolts something, deals a bunch of damage, and you untap your lands. Miss a flip, and it does nothing. It's so stupid, and amazing when it actually works.

Keen Duelist, it is slow and low impact card advantage that really blows up in your face when someone flips a high cmc card. But it is SO fun in those moments before you flip! Especially if one or both of you are low hp. Plus added political bonus potential.

demonic consultation, in the tutor slot. 10/10 competes with decks using demonic tutor, and forces you to use it when the end is in sight for better or worse, so not a huge risk of accidental decking

Mine is Feed the Clan. I run it in Kalamax, where the floor is gaining 20 life for 2 mana, and the ceiling is way higher. It does nothing for the overall strategy of the deck, it's just an instant that's fun.

i run rites of flourishing in my omnath deck for about same reason as the howling mine. has the same effect but also has the play additional land for all as well. people like it, but at same time, it's obviously good for omnath, so people are hesitant to blow it up.

I'd love to see an episode on the different gameplay options within commander. Like 2v2, archenemy, secret roles, planar chase. 4 player free for all is the default but I'd love to see the other options get some love too. And the more people who know they exist, the better

The card I consider bad that I enjoy is Colossification. Sure it costs a lot of mana, taps my creature when it enters the battlefield, and becomes a huge target for everyone since it is now a scary +20/+20, but if I have enough protection spells it can really change the game. Especially if I have it attached to my commander who can now possibly one hit anyone.

Y'know... Repay in Kind used to be so ubiquitous. I forgot how great that that card is. Absolutely going to be jamming that

My big pet card is Trench Gorger. I like playing it in UG decks where I can ramp it out have a fat 20/20 trampler, and completely thin the lands I no longer need to draw. And in UG bringing down Prime Speaker Zegana afterwards is a cool time