Option 3 (my favorite): force your opponent to cast phage from your graveyard

@kaemonbonet4931

8 ай бұрын

Is this like a mindslaver emrakul angle or something else?

@danielwisehart5460

8 ай бұрын

@@kaemonbonet4931 Endless Whispers 😈

@WittyCorvian

8 ай бұрын

Or you could play her as one of the 99 in beamtown bullies and hold the table hostage by casting entomb to put her in the grave from deck

@WittyCorvian

8 ай бұрын

Actually disregard my last comment, BB says clearly non legendary

@kaemonbonet4931

8 ай бұрын

@@danielwisehart5460 thanks! Now have another thing to fit in my phage Deck lol!

If your buddy busts out a Phage deck, they are now your Sasuke and you need to run.

@turtlekappa7141

8 ай бұрын

Or you use Magda and become Naruto. Basically counter most of these strats

@TopsideCrisis346

8 ай бұрын

If I lose here... There's no way I could become Hokage!!! 💥😤💥

@S.Grundy

8 ай бұрын

Zurgo deck has many board wipes, ed-boy

@casono

8 ай бұрын

More like you're Kaiba and Yugi is about to BS out Exodia.

@Air0Sparks

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

I love the art bc of the way her hand is reaching out, so you can slowly slide her forward with her hand aimed forward and go "i'm gonna get ya! Iiiiim gonnagetcha! Look out!!!" Its like playing Armageddon and saying "Armageddon outta here." Youre going to get your ass beat in the parking lot but at least you'll die having truly lived.

@erebos42

8 ай бұрын

I had a funny moment like this one time while I was playing my Teysa, Orzhov Scion aristocrats deck in a situation where everyone else was one turn from winning. All I had was a bunch of zombie and spirit tokens that I had to keep using as blockers and my Zulaport Cutthroat. I was hoping to draw a sac outlet so I could sneak in a surprise victory by saccing my entire board for a lethal number of Zulaport triggers. I topdecked Damn. I tapped 4 mana and told the table, "Damn... you guys were so close."

@josephwodarczyk977

3 ай бұрын

I'm gonna getcha. Watch out. Imma getcha. Oooooh it's comin for ya.

This isn't even a "I died, but at least I got some!" situation. If you tried to bang Phage, you would die before you even got it inside, so you wouldn't even live long enough to enjoy it. She wouldn't enjoy it either; your flesh would immediately putrefy, so she couldn't even get off with your corpse. Only the Cabal Patriarch was able to get it from Phage, because he was immune to her powers. But he had similar powers to her, and she got her deathtouch powers from him in the first place, so there's probably some reverse polarity bullshit going on there that lets them not kill each other. The two also had a kid, weirdly. Various precautions had to be taken so that Phage's body wouldn't kill the baby during childbirth, and even then, it's implied that it mostly survived because it was the physical avatar of an ancient god-king. And, yes, that does mean that Jeska/Phage is officially a milf.

@JT-ne8pn

8 ай бұрын

The deep dive we didn't ask for but always needed

@xMareZx

6 ай бұрын

@@JT-ne8pnperfectly sums it up lmao

@MrAkaidu

5 ай бұрын

But wouldn't it being the offspring of two ultra poop knifes make it naturally immune, though?

I learned not to run her in the 99 after I got Chaos Warped into her

@peterbillings3276

8 ай бұрын

Yeah. Opponent insta-killed me by flickering her :/

@stigmurder99

8 ай бұрын

​@@peterbillings3276oooof.

@tanchwa3740

8 ай бұрын

I mean there's a reason why it's called chaos warp

@krisq1589

3 ай бұрын

I run her in my henzie deck and i shit many bricks when i got chaos warped

@johndudley454

2 ай бұрын

That is the funniest Chaos Warp I could imagine.

I had the pleasure of casting Fractured Identity on this once. I killed myself in the process but took out 4 other players. The laughs didnt stop for an hour.

@phillipfry8141

8 ай бұрын

im glad someone else thought of it, well done!

@xialnackharaa

8 ай бұрын

I have used fractured identity on phage quite a bit and am now curious how you died as well if you got it off.

@Jchmcom

8 ай бұрын

@@xialnackharaa the Phage wasn't mine. I was losing the game and thought "hm. This could be funny."

@soleo2783

8 ай бұрын

​​@@Jchmcom By 4 other players do you mean the whole table died? How does this combo kill the phage controller tho?

@Jchmcom

8 ай бұрын

We were playing a 6 person game and the Phage player was using Sundial of the Infinite so Phage could be their commander. When I used F.I. on their commander it gave the other 5 of us a Phage, killing us all.

If deathtouch is poop knife territory, i couldn't even imagine the filth level Phage is on.

@HarmonicResonanceScale

8 ай бұрын

A septic tank full of dynamite

@Oxygen1004

8 ай бұрын

Shit sword

@collinbeal

8 ай бұрын

She put Etrata into a septic tank, shit a ton, strapped some C4 to that mother, and dropped it from orbit.

Funniest part is that Kayas Ghostform kills the user immediately because if Phage is resurrected by it, that means she entered the battlefield without being cast from hand ;)

@juliandacosta6841

8 ай бұрын

Was about to say that

@AnnihilatorDigimon

8 ай бұрын

If they got Phage out they got one of the several ways ot not die to that effect out already so Ghostform wouldn't kill them unless you deal with that first

@yellowishnesses656

8 ай бұрын

They are using the platinum angel/lich's mastery strategy.

@erebos42

8 ай бұрын

@@yellowishnesses656 or Sundial of the Infinite in a pinch if it happens on their turn

@ThorsShadow

8 ай бұрын

My brother in Christ, if they manage to get Phage down from the Command zone without dying, they can ressurect her without dying. Think, SirZerous! Think! Lines of thinking like yours are the reason Phage players are able to win in the first place. Destroy their Platinum Angel/Lich's Mastery, when Phage's ETB trigger gets on the stack or destroy Sundial of the Infinite, if the Phage player plays it.

Only played against this once. A guy rocked up to my pod one night at the lgs, we were missing a player so we were cool letting him join. He was kinda annoying but it was whatever. My deck started to pop off and my two friends realized I was the threat so they worked together to deal with me. Meanwhile the Phage player is just kinda hanging out, doing his own weird thing. I get killed by the other two players, I start shuffling up my next deck and zone out. All of a sudden Phage is on the board and both my friends died to it. I don't even know what happened but we've never played with this person again. We see him all the time but my friends refuse to play him.

@tristanmoschetto8571

8 ай бұрын

hes a fuckin cryptid bro

@RisinTyson

8 ай бұрын

Myriad is one hell of a drug

@Lady_Luxury

8 ай бұрын

@@RisinTyson doesn't that still make you lose, since there is a phage entering the battlefield outside of your hand?

@telepathicdragon

8 ай бұрын

cool story bro

@LapanNaxela

8 ай бұрын

@@RisinTyson Myriad is very likely to kill yourself before it kills the person you are attacking

I actually lost to a Phage deck once. He got shut down early, and me and the other guy were trading punches like Goku and Vegeta. Finally swung at the other guy with my 40/40 suited up commander and dented his head in before the Phage player tapped two mana, played False Cure, and pointed at my Loxodon Warhammer. Man let everyone else unalive one another before he rolled over the finish line with starbucks in hand 30 minutes late to the party. What a guy.

Imagine a world where you play mono-black phage to punnish people that play mom in casual edh.

@floridaman6982

8 ай бұрын

You are onto something. I hate fighting that crap and everyone has a mom deck

@B1ngusD1ngus

8 ай бұрын

@@floridaman6982 thats what im fucking saying and they just stuff them bitches with board wipes and stax pieces. Dog i swear to big g, the sweetest words i can possibly imagine are, "pay 4 mana and activate rouge's passage targeting phage".

@thedanox2741

8 ай бұрын

May i be illuminated, what is a mom deck? March of machines? The 2nd elesh? Plz tell me

@Eagle0600

8 ай бұрын

@@thedanox2741 From context, they mean Mother of Machines. Her static ability to shut down ETBs will prevent Phase from being unplayable.

@JohnTalbane87

8 ай бұрын

@@Eagle0600thank you for clarifying, I was thinking they were mad because their opponents were playing the og MOM (Mother of Runes) who could in fact stop a Phage. Most of the players at my lgs call norn by her other nickname “panharmonmycon”

Phage is awesome. I won against a Zombie Deck, because they resurrected my entire grave. And my Phage had just been milled the turn prior. No win has topped that since. I've always wanted to pair Phage with Fractured Identity, but I haven't played enough to get that combo off.

@truerealrationalist

8 ай бұрын

That's funny. I like pulling off janky combos in multi-player for funsies. So, I'd imprint something like Phage or a Leveler in my Summoner's Egg and give it to somebody to make them squirm. And, then, I'd throw in something like Blightsteel Colossus the next game with the expectation that they'd try to destroy my egg before I could pass the hot potato. Then, I'm like, "thank you very much." Couldn't do it reliably, of course, but the look on their face after doing it just once was worth it.

@Deeplight32

8 ай бұрын

I don’t want to burst your bubble, but wouldn’t having your Phage being resurrected from the graveyard instantly kill you? Oh wait they resurrected your graveyard onto their battlefield?

@Drahjan_BeginDownload

8 ай бұрын

@@Deeplight32 Yeah, they put the creatures from my graveyard onto their battlefield. It was glorious.

@Kevin.berger

8 ай бұрын

​@@Drahjan_BeginDownload That's what my initial thought was, too. Then, I realized they must’ve used an ability like Grimoire of the Dead's to reanimate Phage under their control. Given that it was milled, I'm guessing there may have been an Undead Alchemiat involved..?

@Drahjan_BeginDownload

8 ай бұрын

@Kevin.berger I believe it was Rise of the Dark Realms. I was the one who ran a Mill deck. I think I was trying to increase my graveyard to empower my Psychic Spiral.

In all seriousness, if a Phage deck is at the table, they're there to make you laugh when they subverting your expectations.

@gatherer818

8 ай бұрын

My "lose-the-game-tribal" deck annoys the whole table when I get one of my "I don't die to my abilities that say I die" tricks and then rip Phage out of my graveyard like a boss. And they can't let me untap with her because they don't know if I'm holding the Fractured Identity...

So commander wise, Phage is to darn expensive early game and is just a lightning rod for removal even if you some how ramp up in black. But in a Lazav, the Multifarious deck... it is fire because your opponents can't see it coming or they forgot that you buried alived it with invisible stalker on turn 3 and no one is playing bajoka bog. If they have nine mana up, you are about to die because they are shapeshifting past your blocker AND removal... with a smallpox stained knife with your name on it.

@solbradguy7628

8 ай бұрын

Oh black can ramp, let me assure you. Nirkana Revenant, Crypt Ghast (which can be played in mono black btw, the white mana symbol in extort is on the reminder text not the card proper), dark ritual, bog witch, alongside the many mana rocks, caged sun...Last time I played with my friends I managed to ult Liliana of the Dark Realms, now all my swamps tap for 4 each. I think black has the second best ramp after green.

@markellison2152

8 ай бұрын

@solbradguy7628 Also black market and black market connections. Those are my favs.

@kisukebomb3750

7 ай бұрын

And not to mention Urborg-Cabal Coffers

Phage is wild dude, I’ve played against her a few times and it’s always crazy seeing how it plays out and interacts, they spend half the game playing the most niche cards you’ve ever seen and then boom they win

@brock6174

8 ай бұрын

this, i play thrull mage to counter her when i cast from the command zone, then i cast raise dead just to cast her AGAIN from hand

My favorite part about this is that I was the person who straight up rolled into a commander game with Phage at the head of the 99. I never won in our 4 way games but I made damn sure other people lost first, suicide black just has a power other colors can't compete with. You bring me down to eleven life? That's fine, I can still draw five cards with Greed, say hi to Gary for me. Black isn't even my favorite color in MTG but disrespect is colorblind and my favorite deck archetype is Mono BM

@maxastro

8 ай бұрын

"Disrespect is colorblind" Holy shit. XD

@sethb3090

4 ай бұрын

See, I'm a pretty chill player. I play lots of izzet and temur and gruul with random interactions, dumb copying, and timmy fun. On occasion, I build orzhov or esper and I haven't figured out why yet, but when I do that my chill gets lefts behind somewhere around figuring out the mana curve because that deck is here to destroy everything you care about before it sends you to join them. I built Kambal, Consul of Allocation. Game 1 win. Game 2 I'm playing Archenemy. I won anyway because their life total is *our* life total now. There was no game 3 because my pod unanimously banned the deck.

Phage can't get it, but her non-goth-phase self Jeska can, strongest character in the entire franchise.

@somejerk5662

8 ай бұрын

Well yeah, the only reason Phage can't get it is that she has Super Turbo Dire AIDS.

@Natboof

8 ай бұрын

I mean… in lore, she did get it…

@SporeTres

8 ай бұрын

Wait Phage is Jeska? Phage was our playground Bully along with Avatar of Woe

@matthewgagnon9426

8 ай бұрын

@@Natboof From the one person immune to her powers, yeah.

@justenleonas

8 ай бұрын

@@SporeTres She's not just Jeska. She is also 1/3 of Karona. There's a reason her newest version is Thrice reborn.

13 days of halloween but it's the doctor commanders

My favourite deck for the past year or so has been a mostly Commander agnostic mono-B ramp deck. The 3rd out of 4 commanders I tried for it (so far) was Phage. I ended up moving on to Tergrid’s Lantern because Phage felt too fragile, but man, untapping, looking someone in the eye, and saying “crack Command Beacon cast Phage give shadow equip Greaves kill you” feels incredible.

Each time you tell a story then hard name drop someone, I'm more and more convinced thats it's something personal, very very personal.

welcome back mald hope the break doesn't toss you out of the algorithm.

I respect it. Super deathtouch is a little too much. That said, I also gave a fluttering faerie a vorpal sword and said "go forth, my child! Commit all the warcrimes!"

@1033515

8 ай бұрын

I have a (non-commander) Yuriko-themed deck that hands those to Invisible Stalkers

As a resident of Finland I can confirm that Phage as a Commander is an accurate representation of the entire population of Finland

Phage was the Rare from my very first ever Magic the Gathering pack! She is a card I've never once actually played, but dang if it isn't a threat

Forever asking for Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Another way to just end your opponent is to just give them Phage. Do you have an impenetrable board state, well bad news you get phage now.

@MidgarMerc

8 ай бұрын

No way to do this in monoblack though but yeah if you're playing Esper then Fractured Identity your Phage to take out the entire table

@slayinderp7501

8 ай бұрын

Woe, Phage upon thee.

@mhmm4553

8 ай бұрын

@@MidgarMerc endless whispers maybe

@MidgarMerc

8 ай бұрын

@mhmm4553 oh good call though the player would die and Phage gets exiled so you'd have to cast it again. Definitely an uphill battle

@nykthosacolyte5710

8 ай бұрын

​@@MidgarMercher and whispers is an iconic combo, Sheldon (RIP) even mentioned it when talking about loving Endless Whispers. She is secretly cracked when it comes to ways of killing people. You can snipe her with the ETB on the stack for them after they get her to avoid having to recast her to take out another player.

She can get it after she dies. Now I know how that sounds but she gets reincarnated into Jeska, Thrice Reborn.

Lazav, the Multifarious: Don't worry, she can't hurt you, she's in the graveyard! [Kitchen Nightmares sfx]

Phage and Akroma were my first legendary creatures back in the day and I really love them. It‘s heartwarming to still see content and conversations happening about those cards ☺️

Good moment was me stealing a hand casted phage then blinking it

"I'm not going to pretend like there's not somethin' out there I wouldn't die to get a sniff of" Bro, you can't just leave us hanging like that.

@aboyes9835

8 ай бұрын

Avacyn is Mald’s #1 pick, pretty sure.

That was excellent..thank you, sir.

The best combo is always giving your opponent phage and forcing them to play her from their graveyards 🤣

The return of the king.

Glad to see maldhound is doing good, i was just thinking about it earlier that he hasn't posted in a while

The Finland violation was super necessary

I did not realize what kind of message Phage sends when she comes down. And now I really need to build it.

Phage is the commander I bust out when I play casually

:) my favorite commander I prefer to use effects that add her to hand instead of some way to turn off her ETB. mostly because then you literally die to instant speed removal. also yes, she cannot get it, in the lore itself her literal touch spreads a flesh eating disease.

"Oh I'll just deal with it!" "ARROGANCE."

“Oh. I see you’re playing Elesh Mommy of Machines. Hmm, which commander should I choose today?”

I had Phage when I was a teenager. Someone from my class stole it from my backpack! Thats how ridiculous this card was. Someone literally comitted a crime just to get rid of this on our games. Losing this card was the main reason I stopped playing Magic. Not just for the card... I felt sicken that one of my so called "friends" would do that and stopped talking to them.

"You can't see it that well" 😂😂😂

"There's not enough protection in the world to tap that"

Glad to see you're doing good man

I beseech thee, in this our most dire hour, grant my request and roast Mr. More Pain, All Gains: Greven, Predator Captain!

This plus walking ballista and Agatha’s soul cauldron. GG.

My face when pairing this with either the ring temps, trample, and/or manifold key.

I continue to request Yeva, because Questing Beast also being a combat trick to counter a fog might as well happen.

Return of The King 👑

My Urtet deck lives rent free in my play groups minds. Teach others to fear the Myr.

"tag your it " "AHAH I DONT WANNA PLAY THIS ANYMORE" - phage.

one you never thought about: please do Zabaz!

I just hopped from your beamtown bullies vid, and wonder how that interacts.

Describing shadow as its a little bit to dark, hurts my soul. The pour creatures with shadow cant interact with other creatures because when once to planes collided they were sucked into the blind eternaties and and can therefore only fight with other creatures that also live outside of any plane. Its a really sad story 🥲

My Kamiz needs this.

Endless Whispers says hello. ☺️

Phage has literally come only stronger and stronger with every set

Let's go Kruphix, God of the Horizons! The ultimate mana banker!

My lord, Magus Lucea Cane. If there's anything more fun than a 40/40 hydra, it's that there's 2 of them for the price of 1

@barneyhogue6203

8 ай бұрын

Why stop at 2, when you can just untap Lucea 5 times with Pemmins Aura?

Phage player: *reveals commander* Mindslaver player: *heavy breathing*

This is everything I could have hoped for lol

This card with Hive Mind is beautiful

I feel like endless whispers should have been mentioned here, it’s a card that basically says “if you fuck with me I will haunt your dreams for the rest of your life”

I had one of these decks. Could get phage out 2nd or 3rd turn from the graveyard with haste and trample. Platinum angel was my protection which I get out right before it

not me over here with a Phage deck lol

just need a card that negates come into plays or switch the control of target activation.

@seanheath4492

8 ай бұрын

He kinda showed one card that prevents ETBs and two more that would nullify Phage's ETB specifically.

I can already feel the Ninjutsu nonsense radiating off of this one

Always thought giving opponents a copy of Phage was the way to go But preventing ETBs and Platinum Angel is a solid route too

This is why Netherborn Altar and Command Beacon become staples

The REALIST shit I've EVER heard. Phage came out at my heyday of playing MTG in high school, long before Commander was even a wet dream in somebody's boxers, and this is still the most accurate shit I've ever heard Why yes I ran a Phage -> Donate deck, why do you ask?

Attempt 22 at requesting Sapling of Colfenor, also get well soon, love your content

the funny thing is blink decks love seeing a phage with the pure playline of i just need 1 instant speed spell

This card and mana fold key will always be present in my black decks just because its to good.

Inb4 they flicker your Phage and you just lose lol

@bobmonkey420

8 ай бұрын

Torpor Orb and any "You can't lose the game." just says "nah".

@eyescarter3025

8 ай бұрын

If Phage is your commander when they flicker it you can just send it back to the command zone

Yes! I love Phage

And now we have a 1 white cost commander by the name of frodo that can do what she does with much more ease 😂

@madmartin26

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, but the style points though

Platinum Angel and Command Beacon make her so hilarious. Although I typically run her in the 99 of my Assassins deck.

Please, Gargos roast my good sir

I must ask again. Goreclaw, terror my beloved.

My friend was always the archenemy whenever he played Phage, so he took the deck apart and sold me the pieces. Half of it is unusable outside that exact deck, though I do have a Cabal Coffers now, which is nice!

i have returned to ask for Runadi, Behemoth Caller

Phage may genuinely be the first legendary creature card I ever saw back in like. Middle school or whatever.

Now I want to see an anime Phage reprint.

Makes me want to make a phage edh deck

Being that my name is Chance, you scared the hell out me there

Worth

Funny thing is, Phage getting it is lore-accurate. Granted, it was with the ugly bastard Cabal Patriarch Virot Maglan and she gave birth to Scion of Darkness Kuberr, but it happened.

@juliandacosta6841

8 ай бұрын

You seem like you know the lore, does she kill everybody she touches, or only what she wants to kill?

I love how easy that commander is to counter though.

I'll have you know startling physical agility is EXACTLY why I picked up Magic

this works perfectly for my mono black deck I never cast my fucking commander anyways

Thing is, I could see some psycho using Phage in a Black and Green deck and add trample to her series of effects when the other guy is just pulling 1/1s to basically keep on living on borrowed time. I’ve never seen this, but I have always played this scenario in my head

Tergrid would like a word with phage

I have this card. Sounds like I need to build a deck around it.

When Ol Stinkfingers gonna get here

I use this card in a "Jon irenicus, shattered one" deck. Pure evil.

I have an esper deck that has Phage and Fractured Identity. I dream of winning the game with it, have not yet.

Welcome back! Fuck covid! Bonus suggestion: Please for the love of God do a video about Koll, the forgemaster. This Cedh level commander is silly levels of broken. For the low low price of 25 cents

My sides😂😂😂

I am once again asking for Varina, Lich Queen