Green mages! What’s your favorite thing about playing green? Did we miss any of the color’s pitfalls? What’s your favorite tech to shore up those weaknesses and pilot your green decks to victory?

@ArthurVeenema

25 күн бұрын

I've got enough to think about throughout the day. When I play magic I just wanna turn off my brain and stomp.

@lanephillips4131

25 күн бұрын

I’m a green mage through and through and my favorite deck by far is my OG Ghalta Good stuff deck and it’s always a blast!

@montyvelezjr1016

25 күн бұрын

I just love playing big creatures and swinging at opponents. I play lands, draw more cards, and usually put the table on notice.

@Vorniforous

25 күн бұрын

as a mono blue spell caster this video was hard to even open.

@Smokin_Choochang

25 күн бұрын

Why I’m a green mage is A: the number of ways you can build your deck and still have complete bombshell staples available to you (counters, landfall, stompy, etc.). I’ve already built mono green in each of these styles (bristly bill for counters, Titania, nature’s force for landfall, and Ojer Kaslem for stompy), and each style just gets out of pocket wayyy too fast. Secondly, nothing makes me happier than playing a card that everyone either oohs and ahha at, or makes them go “oh crap”.

Very nice of the Command Zone to bring Kyle Hill back as a host for another episode!

@danieldepass180

25 күн бұрын

Budget, budget Chris Hemsworth.

@hunterjoverstreet

25 күн бұрын

Chris Hemsworthless

@Dragoncat224

24 күн бұрын

I honestly thought they did the kyle hill joke with the thumbnail, then I realised.

Right from the new Commander at Home episode ft. Josh to this. It's a good day

@RedNinjaV

25 күн бұрын

Same

Does this guy have credentials to be teaching us?

@icedphat

25 күн бұрын

He got that street cred fo sho

@blackdenarius307

25 күн бұрын

Well yeah! This is bargain bin, award-winning science communicator Kyle Hill!

@BadPainYatta

25 күн бұрын

Just casual player, He is in MTG Hall of Fame. No big deal

@commanderathome

25 күн бұрын

Yeah what does that guy know about ANYTHING?!

@nathansrithong5006

25 күн бұрын

I think he plays hearthstone

Good to see Kyle back on, not only a science educator but an MTG one too.

Brian Kibler is the greatest creature deck builder of all time, and the last time he didn't play green in a pro tour or GP he was patient 0 for getting Jace, the Mind Sculptor banned 🐐🐐🐐

@Dark-Pikachu1

25 күн бұрын

You mean Kyle hill

@aR0ttenBANANA

25 күн бұрын

@@Dark-Pikachu1 You mean Chris Hemsworth after the disfigurement.

Jeez first I watched the commander at home with JLK and voxy and now kibler is back? This is a good day for my magic brain

Finally! Creator and host of Tolarian Community College Brian, “The Professor”!!!! Is on the command zone podcast!

@DabbleDo

25 күн бұрын

That’s obviously Kyle Hill

@fiercedeavora

25 күн бұрын

No, it's discount Kyle Hill.

@green_dragon_knight

24 күн бұрын

I look forward to his mono-green merfolk deck tech 😀

Brian Kibler is an absolute treasure

Well imma grab a notepad and a pen real quick for this one

Thank you Kibler you just helped me improve so many decks. I’m a green player through and through and there is so much I just learned from this. The bit about just making sure what I’m doing works instead of worrying about how to remove everybody else’s stuff makes so much sense. Great video!

I take a year or two off from Kibler at a time, and every time I see him pop up he has grown more and more glorious, luscious, and majestic. He has not even reached his final form.

@LucaTube

24 күн бұрын

He's like a Green Delver of Secrets, but with hair.

6:58 At GP Minneapolis in, like, 2011, I asked BK to sign my play set of Knights of the Reliquary that I played in my Abzan Loam Legacy deck (as KoR is my favorite card of all time, too). He agreed, but just as I was pulling them out, he got pulled away. Oh well, he was at least able to sign my play mat as a consolation. 😂

YES!!! You HAD to get Brian for the green one! The professor better be there to explain blue. 😉

@frankthomas2410

25 күн бұрын

Feel like unless it is merfolk, jlk is better for blue and explaining card advantage

@guico33

25 күн бұрын

JLK *and* Prof together would certainly be nice.

@totakekeslider3835

25 күн бұрын

It’s almost certainly going to be JLK

@bobbye4369

24 күн бұрын

JLK should be the one explaining blue 100%

@johnnyMercy583

23 күн бұрын

How often do they do these? Feels like there has been a massive gap

That meme of the two ends of a bell curve being the same, one end is a new player saying "this card gains me so much life, how can I lose?" and the other end is Kibler saying "this card gains you so much life, how can I lose?"

Are we sure it's green? It might be Red. Love ya Kibler.

I can't wait to learn about green. Been loving this series and have found it a very entertaining and educational form to learn this game. Love the content guys. We can tell yall love this community and game 😁

Oh wow, this was the episode of this series I was most looking forward to, but never would’ve guessed you would get the Brian “Brian Kibler” Kibler from Brian Kibler Gaming to do it!

I'm a simple man. I see Kibler, I click Kibler.

Is that Kyle Hill?!?!? Crazy

I'm surprised the guys are so down on Beast Within. Beast Within is one of the best removal spells in the format in my opinion... if the cost is prohibitive, you should be playing more land ramp to afford it! The flexibility is absolutely worth it. In Green you basically cannot win if someone has a Glacial Chasm, this is basically your best answer to that.

Why is award winning science educator Kyle Hill teaching us how to play green and not Artifacts or Jeskei. Or something real like effects of radiation this is quite far out his wheel house

im sure shes been here for years at this point and im bafflingly behind the times but i gotta say rachel has been a FANTASTIC addition to this channel. sometimes you just find the absolute perfect individual to fill a big role and this is what that looks like. wish i could consume more of this content on a regular basis than i currently can but i wish everyone behind the CZ the best. thanks for doing all you do

"So Nylea..... is a GOD... Where in her art is TOWERING over the TREES.... with a BOW, pointed at the SKY........... she doesn't have REACH." That killed me...

Is that Kyle hill?

Its THE Kibler ! good to see you on the show big guy, love your content

"Its big enough." Amen 😂

Just wanted to say, I won a game last night thanks to this video. Took out 3 lands and some non-creature ramp from my mono green deck for some mana dorks, 1-cost ramp auras, and duskwatch recruiter. I was about to lose, but pumped a bunch of mana into duskwatch as a last-ditch effort and managed to find a Bane of Progress that cleared out the enchantments that were stopping my army of big creatures. Thank you Rachel and Brian!

Ramp in green is so nuanced. You take into account so many thing because of all the options you have, while other colors have 2 mana rocks and rocks that are usually way too big.

Just watching now and hearing you guys say "What are you going to do with 30 mana?" And I am just here with my new Omnath Locus of Mana commander deck! Great video as always

Love the Psyduck hat. How is Rachel so effortlessly freaking cool!?! 🥹

Brian is my hero!

@jamesweber8509

17 күн бұрын

Mono green can turn all your opponent's lands into creatures to punish the board wipers... let there be salt!

Yeeeeesssssss. Been waiting for the green episode and can't believe it's Kibler

Haven’t even watched it yet, but this is probably my favorite episode ever

Just a clarification at about 42:00 cultivate and kodama’s reach are 100% ramp but also fixing. It puts a land into play that you otherwise would not have been able to do so it is ramp.

Wow, I was getting ready to make my first mono-green deck helmed by Hatsune Miku (Azusa, Lost But Seeking) in preparation for the Secret lair drop. As an Azorius purist, thanks a bunch for this convenient upload!

Timmy sized insight here. Thank you! I just swapped out 8 cards out of my Goreclaw deck and the deck flows so much better. This episode really made me think about my ramp. Cultivate, Kodama's Reach etc. have always been an auto include, but they may not always be what the deck wants. Great to hear from 2 creature heavy pro's. Really big help!!

I love this series of how to play Color. I cannot wait until blue comes out.

I love these kinds of videos. It helps me with my deck building so much and turns my low power decks into high power decks just by understanding the color better

As a person who had built a mono green, two Simic, one Golgari, two Jund, and a Naya deck in two years; this was so so helpful in answering the ways to use the best types of green especially for ramp and removal which I’ve struggled to nail down. Thank you so much! 💖

This was really inspiring, thanks CZ

@commandcast

23 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thr Great Henge nuff said.

The video i didn't know I wanteeeed . Thank you guys !!!

The episode I've been waiting for!!! 🌳🌳🌳

"Any cards that answer their own questions are generally good" - I've never heard it phrased like this but its so succinct.

I love when Kyle Hill shows up on TCZ!

@Vorniforous

25 күн бұрын

daas not hill

I love these How To Play each color videos. I've learned so much from them. Looking forward to Blue

The only mono green deck I have been supper excited to build is Runadi , behemoth caller cast big creatures in Magic’s history and give them haste to attack immediately!

A truly great deck builder who is teaching and preaching so much that I totally agree with. Commander is better Kibler brewing and enjoying himself.

I am a green player. Out of my 20 decks 14 include green (4 are mono green). One of my best moments was when I won a war on the stack against a Talarand player (me on Gargos). I also have a mono green mill deck :3

Great video! One of the best things of playing green... Golgari art is AMAZING.

Fantastic video! I hope you do this for all the colors!

This explains why I like so many of Brian's decks. I, too, am a green player at heart.

Yes! So happy to see this. I absolutely loved the Black video with Ladee Danger and this one did not disappoint. Can't wait for the rest of the cycle!

Kibblers reasoning for the exploration in Samut is mine with those effects in my Annie flash and Faldorn decks because you keep Impulsing lands and I hate wasting all that free real estate

Man, I love Brian.

I've always been inclined to play green, 60-card or commander. Despite that, I have stuff to take away from this episode. Thank you so much for the master class!

After the color tutorials, I wonder if they’ll do archetype tutorials like artifacts or aristocrats for example. These are a great listen

@ertai222

25 күн бұрын

Good idea

Bruh.. I DONT EVEN PLAY COMMANDER... But mah goodness its Brian Kibler.. Imma watch the vid till the end... Lez go!

about green ramp: You can get a surprising amount of mana by choosing some of the enchantment ramp and untapping lands. Arixmethes is my deck built around this but you can really slide the package into any deck. Instead of just dumping more lands onto the field, you can enchant stuff and then untap it, getting more mileage out of your ramp spells.

I came here for Brian Kibler, but all I got was Kyle Hill....lol

I love that psyduck hat

I could listen to Brian talk concepts and strategy all day long

They have the two most giggly Magic players hosting an episode, and it's working for me.

great episode as always. and that Jeans ad showing the studio... dayumn

rachel is a great host. she brightens the guest and keeps them on topic. spectacular.

Trample is my favourite keyword. It’s so good. So happy Kibler was here to talk Green

I was wondering it they were going to continue this series glad to see it back

I watched this episode on Thursday. It got me rev'd up to play my mono-Green Azusa deck that night at Commander Night at the LGS. I got a solid opening hand and took off by turn 2 was arch-enemy. By turn 4 I was dominating but also top-decking. I kept hearing Brian say, "There's no tricks, all my cards are on the table and it's obvious what I'm doing. Now, stop me if you can." I won on turn 7.

I'm happy to hear some of my thoughts behind my Toski weenies are correct. I use death touch sub theme in order to connect, then play more lands which plays more creatures, snowballing out of control until I wrap it up with a finisher

I would love to see one of these videos for each color with a prominent player of that color. As a beginner I get to see nuances and cards I haven’t seen since I jumped straight into playing multi-color decks. Thanks for the video!

@commandcast

23 күн бұрын

We have episodes on red (Jimmy), white (Rachel), and black (Ladee Danger). Only blue is left!

Putting together a dual color Green/Magenta right now....love the music at the end

I was getting curious when this series would continue

Looking forward to the blue episode!! Love this series and this was a good episode

I agree whole heartedly with the concept of "you kill my threat, I play another threat." I have been playing green since beta. My favorite part of green is of course the creatures, but the enchantments green can sport are some of the most unique. From staples like doubling season, wild growth, parallel lives, rancor, tribute to the world tree, concordant crossroads, garruk's uprising, hardened scales, to lesser known ones like lurking predators, wild pair, tornado, zendikar resurgent and elemental bond to color hate cards against blue and black like carpet of flowers, asceticism, or my favorite nature's wrath. Then there is my favorite anti removal/Voltron card out there, dense foliage. Throw in feed the pack with the plethora of creatures whose power and toughness are equal to the number of creatures you control. There are just so many powerful and unique green enchantments.

40:10 Exploration is SUPER important in my Thirteenth Doctor deck. I run The Thirteenth Doctor with Yasmin as the commanders and I have a ton of impulse draw effects so I can cast things from exile rather than my hand to get paradox triggers, but I always end up impulse drawing a lot of lands or I'll need to dig through lands when I have The Reality Chip out and attached to a creature, so being able to play those extra lands is really helpful to get them out of the way or make sure they don't go to waste when they are impulse drawn, and all that extra mana is nice too XD

My favorite commander deck to play, and is what got me into EDH, is Omnath, Locus of Mana. It is the epitome of all that is great about Green.

I WAS WATCHING THE WHITE AND RED ONES EARLIER THIS WEEK AND I WANTED A GREEN EPISODE SO BAD

Loved this one.

ngl that ad was an unexpected way to show off the office!

Where I've found fogs to be most effective isn't defensively, but offensively. They'll let you go all in on an attack, and not worry about the crackback. They've won me a lot of games with Ruxa, Patient Professor

So glad we're giving lesser known, small time competitive players some attention

Green:”I’d say my biggest weaknesses are that I ramp TOO fast, my creatures are TOO big, and that my overruns are TOO effective.”

"It's not easy being green.", Kermit the frog.

I love green!

I can’t wait for a how to play blue with Josh

Like Kogla, Silverback Elder is undervalued. He's saved my bacon many times. Nissa, Ascended Animist was the first planeswalker card I unlocked in arena and I've put it in all my green decks since. Fantastic card.

OMG is that THE Brian Kibler of Purina Dog food fame?!

I love BK. His take on the game is one of my personal favorites Salute my fellow long haired king

This was a Masterclass!

One of my favorites is I run Ashaya as my commander and having scute swarm. Then casting last march of the ents when ashaya is 15+ power/toughness.

I used to run Roaring Earth in my budget Ashaya deck. I never cast it, i ONLY used it for the channel ability (to give a creature haste, all my creatures being lands because of Ashaya)

OMG this is special! If you ever do a How to Play Jund, please get Reid in.

Of my favorite decks to play--with one being Selesnya (Rhys the Redeemed) and the other Gruul (Radha, Heart of Keld)--the problem I usually encounter is what I'm trying to do with both can be seen a mile away.

I'm a big fan of mono decks, and at the moment im loving my Mono Green Radagat the Brown deck!

Stoked Wurms finally got some respect put on them. By far my favorite creature type. Also, super happy to see Brian builds Gruul decks like I build Rakdos decks

18:12 "Having trample on your big thing ..." Make this thought go away AAAAAAAARRRRRGGHHHHH!!!

This got me rebrewin my boros deck brian speaks wisdom

49:20 i respect the arrested development reference

I am rebuilding my first commander deck from 10 years ago. Hell yeah, it was mano green elves. Mana dorks and tokens into giant trample creatures! Here are 20 trample elves coming right for you.💚