Warping Wail is one way for non-blue players to counter extreme effects like Expropriate.

@NitpickingNerds

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I have done exactly that before and it is SPICE. But I love that it isn't dead like some other counterspells in white

@oinkytheink1228

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@@NitpickingNerds countering abilities can also change a game like you can counter etb on avenger of zendikar or that dragon that can increase it’s power and if it reaches 20 power it can kill you unless you have a way to counter that ability

@jamesmackes4531

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@@oinkytheink1228 are you thinking of the one that nets you artifacts when it hits and if you have 20 artifacts you win? Mycosynth Lattice go crazy with him.

@DiminutiveJerry

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@@jamesmackes4531 I think it's the one that can do damage equal to its power and 20 instakills in normal formats

Mystic reflection is my favorite card. I like chaos, but I totally understand why people don't. But Mystic reflection is controlled chaos. And it's fun, each game I find nice small board dependant interactions.

@NitpickingNerds

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It's pretty consistently at least a counterspell of sorts

@RobertTheSmall

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It's an absolute house, in my Ranar deck I was able to blank out a myriad alphastrike by targeting saltskitter and having all the myriad tokens become saltskitter and exile themselves

@willstebbins5338

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It gets really gross in Adrix and Nev

@John-pl4fl

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Mystic Reflection + Avenger of Zendikar most based combo for me

@recofficial8260

Жыл бұрын

Great card with "secure the wastes"

I am glad you brought up Uba Mask. Played it in my Prosper deck and it was a beating. There's a player at my table known for hyper ramp into expropriate, etc type shenanigans. I Uba Masked and he lost Expropriate, Time Stretch, and Force of Will all because he didn't have the mana to cast them when they hit. It became a "kill on sight" card at my table if I ever played it.

@karlwalker5020

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Uba mask+drannith magistrate=nasty

@joshholmes1372

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The new urabrask is great too.

Warping Wail is honestly one of my favorite cards in my Kozilek EDH deck. It always catches people off guard. Countering board wipes is not something you expect in colorless

Malakir Rebirth: the only version of this card that’s never dead… wouldn’t every version of this card not be dead…? Get it, because it brings the creature back?

@NitpickingNerds

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Got em!

@mibbzx1493

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I use them all, i like demonic gift because theres a combo with cormela that i still haven’t gotten off in a game yet

@crawdaddy2004

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@@mibbzx1493 Just to make sure, you get that I was making a joke about the cards not being “dead” due to them being reanimation spells… therefore making the spell the opposite of “dead”?

Klauth is a BEAST! I have him in my Wulfgar deck and between him and Savage Ventmaw I regulary produce 20, 30 mana each turn.

@Fausto_4841

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Imagine Klauth in a Miirym deck. Now throw Full Flowering into the mix. Better pray you have something to sink 500 mana into

@drewnguyen68

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He's my commander and I freaking love him

@ajohnymous282

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I gave my friend a Klauth for his isshin deck and now I regret it

@drewnguyen68

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@@ajohnymous282 those are the wrong colors though XD

@ajohnymous282

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@@drewnguyen68 oh yes I was thinking of velomachus lorehold lol. Oops

Crescendo of war is one of my favorite cards of all time. That being said, it is extremely dangerous and has lost me games too. At least it speeds the games up lol.

@NitpickingNerds

Жыл бұрын

If it doesn't die, it will 100% END the game. Whether or not that works in your favor depends 😂

This is definitely my favorite of your series! Great recommendations here and lots of cards I haven't heard of/haven't seriously considered!

I learned early on that Krenko Mob Boss and other token strategies get put in awkward situations by Suture Priest, soul sisters in general.

@ferdithetank7535

Жыл бұрын

It also stops Splinter Twin-like combos, so it's even better

@NitpickingNerds

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah for sure!

@Fausto_4841

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reminds me of Essence Warden in a Dina deck. you better hope nobody is playing Krenko or Lathril. Dina is a fun deck, but you have to be really on top of using the stack and managing all the triggers.

Warping Wail in my mono white edh deck is fantastic. It came in clutch and helped me win the game when I exiled a commander with it.

Love having Klauth in my UR Dragon - Dragon deck. He provides the mana, the Ur Dragon provides the spells (Whenever one or more Dragons you control attack, draw that many cards, then you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.) Great combo! 🙂

Hey both. Just starting playing magic at the age of (old) and I have been loving your content so far - I really appreciate it! Cheers from Denmark

@NitpickingNerds

Жыл бұрын

So glad you are liking it, glad to have you here!

@starmanda88

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the mtg community friend! Good luck on your endeavors!

@birkkrabbedewaal8583

Жыл бұрын

Ayo, another dane watching nitpicking nerds!

Combat Calligrapher does SO much work in my Isshin deck, has won me multiple games almost singlehandedly No one thinks it's a threat until I suddenly have 10 inklings and a hellrider😌

Already playing delayed blast fireball in my prosper deck. Definitely a great addition. Also play Athreos and putting a counter on itself makes an already hard card to remove even harder.

@Hgbrtl

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The text say “another target creature” so you can’t put a coin counter on Athreos.

One of my favorite cards while also being an underrated card is unexpected results. It literally never whiffs

Favorite extra combat card is a one-time effect. Savage beating is an absolute monster because it’s a combat trick and an extra combat. 7 mana is hefty, but quadruple damage for one turn is pretty insane

Made a Karlach deck with Raised By Giant as a Background. Hardly ever needed to cast the Backgrounds. Heavy ramp let you cast him on turn 5 with a bunch of big creature already ready to swing for 20+ damage. Really fun deck when you want to just gruul your opponent while not using much of your brain.

I've been playing Mystic Reflection since it was released (I severely overpayed for it but I don't care) in a blink style deck, and once I used it in response to Eerie Interlude's Delayed trigger so that all my creatures came back as Regal Caracal (a cat lord with an ETB to make 2 cat tokens). It was one of the funniest and probably cutest lethal attack phases I've ever had I've also believed since they released that Malakir Rebirth is the best MDFC that enters tapped so that's great to see also

@arcroy7

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I think Bala Ged Recovery is the best. Malakir Mire might not progress you in the way you need to win, Bala Ged Recovery almost always will.

@anonymoususer5351

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@@arcroy7 fair assessment, I think Bala Ged Recovery is an easy second, perhaps because I play green decks that run a bunch of dorks and really don't like tap lands

My favorite NN quote in a long time..."the gods that are good, are great." Love you guys keep up the awesome work

@NitpickingNerds

Жыл бұрын

Joe has a lot of doozy quotes like that 😂

glad to see kessig cagebreakers and selvala's stampede getting some love. cagebreakers is in my muldrotha deck and stampede is in my thantis deck.

I’m glad Athreos got a shoutout. I love my build with him and my play group enjoys it as well. It’s fun to target my own stuff, but then I can steal any big threats from people.

Uba Mask is bonkers with Vega the Watcher, it basically lets you cast everything as long as you have enough mana and don't get multiple lands in a row, similar to Experimental Frenzy, but without hand restrictions. Also it's brutal with Dranith Magistrate, loving it.

Guessing 15:47 for Moxfield add idk just figured I'd try really enjoy yalls content. Thank you guys for everything you do.

@NitpickingNerds

Жыл бұрын

Can't guess where the Moxfield ad is when we forget to put it in 😂

@CaitlinHuxley

Жыл бұрын

Turns out there was no moxfield ad at all!

@willstebbins5338

Жыл бұрын

Turns out the real Moxfield ad was the friends we made along the way lol

An overperformer of mine is Reckless Endeavor rolling 2d12 and getting a board wipe equal to 1 result and treasures equal to the other is bananas. I just had it sitting in my binder and stuck it in my Parnesse deck for fun. Same with Skull Storm. I can often Reckless Endeavor into Skull Storm and the table just goes from 40 to 5 life instantly.

I've been trying to build a Karlach rakdos deck since Baulder's Gate came out and I've never been able to find him anywhere. Opened so many packs and checked so many shops, he's never available so yeah I fully agree he's super powerful

I love Suture Priest. Does good work, and that ART!! Chef's kiss 💋

Lae'zel Vlaakith's Champion is effectively a branching evolution in white. And if you use master chef as a background, you get a turn 3 5/5 commander and have a minimal creature size of 3/3 with tokens.

Another thing about Selvala's Stampede that I didn't see mentioned -- it puts any permanent from your hand on to the battlefield. yes, that's going to be creatures very often, but it's great to put enchantments, artifacts, or planeswalkers down when people aren't expecting them and even f it's just putting down some lands, that's still some decent ramp. And I find that, just like Expropriate, people make the wrong choice quite often (the wrong choice being "dig for a creature" -- the permanents in my hand might or might not be scary, but the creatures this will dig up in the deck I play this in are *guaranteed* to be scary).

Uba mask with Drannith Magistrate is nasty. Used to run it in my Selvala deck.

I run every mono white and black card in this video in a shadrix silverquill deck and it's really fun. I could probably make a case to 99 Athreos as well.

@NitpickingNerds

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Yeah he kind of falls almost in the “good stuff” category, although he’s a LITTLE expensive to cast without proactively sacrificing stuff

Got combat calligrapher in my Prava and Nadier Orzhov tokens deck. Getting a free 3/5 flyer on my turn is so good

I bought the D&D dragons precon where Klauth was the alternative commander. Whooo boy the deck got so much stronger when i swapped it in as my commander. Klauth is now one of my favourite decks where it's just a tribal deck that slams down huge dragons really fast. Also the "Use only to cast spells" part really matters. We forgot it for a few games and what happened is that i always sinked that mana into fire breathing effects to kill people right away.

@t.g.7973

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It definitely matters!

@Samus1234567890

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Klauth is best dragon Commander I swear to God he is so frigging OP

I’m shocked more people don’t run Karlach. She’s fantastic in my Akiri equipment deck.

I think the whole meta of commander has changed in general. And what i mean by that is that there is way more diversity now than there ever has been and the ability to play at multiple power levels with the same card(s) depending on what other cards surround them. Most cards can "be" good or even geat depending on the power level of the pod. Ive observed that the most fun interactive games imo are played with 5-8 level power.

So glad I picked up two klauth this week, for under 11... Total (so 5.50 ea) Kinda want you to showcase white plume adventurer. 3 mana, 3/3, that is essentially basic land tutor in white (already sweet) But then add on the mini seedborne! Its pretty amazing!

If I may make a suggestion, it would be easier if you link the prior videos in a multipart series in the description so people who missed them can go back and watch them. Great content as always!!

Love this series for real

@NitpickingNerds

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Thank you :D

Suture Priest is absolutely a combo piece in my Phelddagrif deck - make arbitrarily large numbers of hippos for opponents and drain them out.

Great content my nerds! I would like to add a card to your list: Klothys, God of Destiny. Another of this enchantment "God cards." One friend, use it as the commander. The deck is really low power level (below 7). However, if you do not remove Klothys the game tends to be a struggle, dealing damage every turn and disrupting the graveyard for free is as feels bad for graveyard strategies.

Combat calligrapher and angel's trumpet would be pretty fun

I was thinking to myself this morning “I could really use an episode of budget bombs or over performers.” You two never fail to come through! Thanks for all the great content! 🫡

@NitpickingNerds

Жыл бұрын

We are in your head!

Yeah I built Klauth recently and he's bonkers. I thought making him the commander he'd be fine since he's so expensive but nope. It went from being a fun I get to attack deck to Math.Deck and it's nuts.

Been waiting for nearly a year to finally tune in and hear a happy birthday on my birthday 😇

I have the 1 cost versions of Malakir Rebirth and Feign Death in Elenda, the Dusk Rose. You want your creature's death trigger, but you also want it back on the battlefield asap.

Karlach is amazing. I play it with Noble Heritage and it is beautiful

These are the Neat Picking Nerds

If I like my Myriim deck I'm building, Klauth is on my list of special occasion cards to add to it. Double Klauth in that deck equals mucho mana.

Crescendo of war is such a sick card. I try to jam it wherever I can

Delayed blast fireball is also just good in gisela. If you fortell it it just hits a quarter of everyones life total.

Joe Cherries looking pretty had me 😂

Delayed blast fireball is awesome in cascade decks

Mystic reflection plus stolen by the fae is a fantastic combo.

@NitpickingNerds

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That's a nice one!

Thanks for the happy birthday wish!

I pimped my Vrondiss precon and changed commander for Klauth. Best decision ever! What a beast!

Cool Combat Calligrapher, a Bird Cleric I did not know existed and it is decently priced. IDKW but so many Bird Clerics are just over costed ;P

Klauth has won me many games, massively underrated even though its known as a good card. Honestly one of my fav drags right now. The haste is really what sends him over the top. You have one or two other dragons in play, attack...you're getting double your mana back. insane. The fact that klauth's will is also a good card makes me like him even more.

@Samus1234567890

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I bought 4 foil Klauth's a year ago for 50 bucks total and I have not regretted my purchase. As soon as I saw that card my brain short-circuited and I bought 4: 1 to use and 3 for investment. I haven't regretted it!

Titania's Song so good

My biggest gripe with combat calligrapher specifically in a silverquill deck is that silverquill has a ton of focus on making extremely powerful flying creatures and giving your enemies fliers that can be used to block later can really hurt you. Do not run combat calligrapher if you're playing Breena or Felisa - their inklings will be used to chump your big beefy fliers!

i loved the special guest: mr fly

@NitpickingNerds

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I hated him, actually I'm pretty sure I killed him with a broom yesterday

I seriously hope that people keep underestimating Uba Mask. It's one of the combos in one of my most obnoxious EDH decks--it's a mono-white Oswalt prison deck that runs three different prison finishers: 1) Uba Mask + Drannath Magistrate = opponents impulse rather than draw, but they can't play impulsed cards 2) Mycosynth Lattice + Karn, the Great Creator = opponents can't add mana with lands or activated abilities of creatures 3) Book of Exalted Deeds + Faceless Haven = I can't lose and opponents can't win. Also, the non-prison wincon Approach of the Second Sun. Oswalt lets me tutor for one part of each combo, so it's pretty easy to set up the one you need. The deck is just such pure, unmitigated, cancer (it's basically a pile of hatebears, removal, tutors, and cards that warp the flow of the game, like Authority of the Consuls) that you only really get to play it once or twice in a play group before you become the de-facto archenemy and need to stop playing it because you just get blasted down by everyone.

@joshholmes1372

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How often do you get to play that deck...yeah it's fun to brew these style of decks, but nobody likes playing against them.

@theprogressivecynic2407

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@@joshholmes1372 Very rarely, because it is so toxic. Mostly I prefer things like midrange Bolas4, Atraxa, or Niv-Mizzet, Parun because they have interesting playstyles that can interact with wide ranges of threats (although I'm still trying to perfect a Miirym list). Still, it's sometimes good to have a deck that just shuts down certain matchups (eg. if I see somebody pulling out some sort of infinite combo deck, Tergrid, or elfball, I might choose to match it with something just as obnoxious).

@joshholmes1372

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@@theprogressivecynic2407 100 percent. These are the decks you bring out when someone is bullying the table or being a degen.

Delayed blast fireball is a game ender in my veyran deck. High thousand year storm count. Especially if I also have increasing vengeance in hand. Ough

Imagine Klauth in a Miirym deck. Now throw Full Flowering into the mix. I pulled Miirym as my promo from my only prerelease kit and I was finally able to put the dragons I've pulled to use. I had Klauth, goldspan, and terror of the peaks. It's my first 3 color deck, all my other ones are two.

@brosam_

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Klauth in a Miirym deck? I've done that! I realized his full potential a couple days ago when first attacking with him and the token copy because his ability triggers twice, meaning instead of just 8 mana for both 4/4s, it was 16! Absolutely insane stuff for if you wanna pump out a lot of mana for casting more stuff on the end step. Also Miirym is really easy to build with because a lot of dragons already focus on ramping (technically) through treasure production and as you said, Goldspan can make stuff way easier! If you want a treasures sub theme then I would definitely recommend Ganax, Astral Hunter and Ancient Copper Dragon, also Hellkite Tyrant for the possibility of just winning the game when you role for the ancient copper. As for token production, I would definitely recommend Panharmonicon and Adrix and Nev. Although A n' N isn't a dragon, the twins still do help make a lot more tokens. Both of those cards are basically cheap Parallel Lives in my opinion.

Joe Cherries. Beezy. The hosts for NitpickingNerds, a show about good and bad Magic: the Gathering trading card game. This is it

I play uba mask in prosper as a synergy piece and yes it does act as a stax piece as well. Had a game recently where i ate an inverter from a beamtown player and someones uba mask kept me alive with no library. I've also had a player destroy my uba mask and leave me with bolas citadel, that was a mistake as citadel won on my next turn.

Backgrounds are op, frfr

25:00 Xenagos won me an EDH game with a Sigarda, Host of Herons because I didn't play another creature to turn Xenagos into a creature which would allow my opponent to use their swords they had in hand. :)

Joe, heard you mention you had a Faldorn deck cooking. Heads up... best card you can possibly add is Earthcraft!!! it is off. the. chain. in that deck.

dude, the hair is looking great

@joe cherries, loving the hair my dude!

Suture Priest drained me for 25 damage while playing against my tokens deck; not drawing targeted removal made me suffer there!

Those damn inklings got me a couple weekends ago. When there's plenty of mana to pay for my propaganda, all the fliers just overrun. I couldn't mill you out quick enough. That was a great game though, showing the deadly potential of mill lol

Currently playing Karlach + Cultist of the Absolute Voltron, and usually kill the first player in 3-4 turns

22:30 Blowing my mind here lol

22:32 I think the word you guys were going for was UBAbrask

My guess is the Moxfield ad is after Grave Titan on this list.

So cute with this hair color Joe, i'm in love

I didn’t see the moxfield ad coming this time because it never came lmao

@NitpickingNerds

Жыл бұрын

Shhhhh 🤣

Selvala's stampede is in ma dragonnnnn deeeeeck :))) It's SO GOOD

Speaking of Uba Mask, you should put Omen Machine in your Faldorn deck, Joe. It's wayyyy nastier than Uba Mask and has almost no downside for Faldorn.

@joshholmes1372

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Lol....except it gives opponents free shit and it costs 6 mana. Plus you still want to draw cards. Uba mask is waaay better. This was a wild ass take.

No Moxfield ad? That's some next level trolling for people trying to guess

I need to put the crusade card into my rune tails deck. My creatures can't take damage anyways xD

Do you have your non-/budget Henzie deck lists anywhere? I'm pretty curious about what you put into them, especially at 30-50 creatures.

klauth is an allstar in my mincs & boo deck

Klauth in the ur dragon is ridiculous, specially when you have rythym of the wild out and you just fished up klauth & helkite courser off a defense of the heart.

Can you post your Henzie deck list Joe? Can never seem to get it to work

Calling Marty the fly re-entry at 1:21 ;)

@NitpickingNerds

Жыл бұрын

We will EITHER have a Moxfield ad OR a fly

Suture Priest is my dark horse favorite card in the format. Great in and against go wide decks. I find any excuse to get it in.

throwing shade on the new purphoros shows me you haven't played against it enough times often it just results in the purphoros player killing at least one player after untaping with it

Had no idea Mystic Reflection existed, so I can finally win with Biovisionary.

@NitpickingNerds

Жыл бұрын

It was meant to be 🙌🏻

The Joe Cherry on top!

Guessing for the moxfield ad 14:32

Alright. It’ll work this time I swear. Calling the Moxfield ad at 12:47. Edit: Sorry viewer, but your Moxfield ad is in another video!

@14:15 is my MOXFIELD guess

with legion loyalty and anointed procession which tokens do u exile all the tokens or just the ones from legion loyalty

I run a purphoros goblin deck with impact tremors. Yeah sevala's stampede in my mayael deck and it's gross.

Absolutely love Karlach in my tovolar werewolves deck. Such a power house and an addition card in the 99 giving wolves extra combat.

I like this video

Suture priest if there are kiki jiki combos thooo

my favorite deck is my riku of two reflections deck. and indeed, mystic reflection is very, very strong. you think mystic reflection on avenger of zendikar is scary? try mystic reflection with chancellor of the forge. another card in that deck that is absolutely disgusting is wandering archaic. it's so broken i'm considering adding it to every other deck i have.

I use Mystic Reflection to make my zombie tokens come in as Gray Merchants