I'm currently in the process of making a Esper clone deck and I was struggling to find some win cons. You guys were perfectly on time ! Thanks for the great content.
Pontiff of Blight works insanly good in K'rrik not only because you usually cast this madlad for 4 mana and 4 life, but being able to extort for 2 life every single time just makes this ridicoulus. Not that K'rrik needs this since the guy is broken already but i like this as a finisher there.
Pretty sure ghostly flicker can flicker land because when it was designed, a long lost set called Zendikar was in standard and it might have had a land or two that liked flickering, nevermind a little known mechanic called landfall. I think there's a chance that they might even be pretty good together. ;)
I feel like Martyr’s Cause should be mentioned more when considering free sac outlets. It makes combat a nightmare for the creature decks and gets around blasphemous act effects occasionally. I think it’s right up there with Fanatical Devotion
Just commenting to say, Nykthos Paragon is FOR SURE, an amazing ad in 4Color Omnath because you play a land? Give everything +4/+4 and just hold up your fetch to avoid the mana flood and you’ve given 8 power and toughness over two turns and now you’re presenting lethal so quickly! I love this card
When I started playing commander my friend had sanguine bond and grey merchant of asphodel, combo. It was a great budget combo and we usually got hit for at least 16 damage. But usually killed is all for 30 life. Since then our decks have gotten much more competitive, but I will always remember that merchant.
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The ivy lane denizen and scurry oak/herd baloth combo are in my Meren as the win con. I either creature a billion tokens to swing with, or I sacrifice them to greater good/altar of dementia triggering enough drain effects to kill every opponent all at once. The rest of the deck is built around searching for them like protean hulk and buried alive, or draining life points per sac/death trigger.
I got an ad right as your were saying "Gray Merchant" and it sounded like you were going to say "Grave Titan," but then I remembered it's not budget and also not good lol.
If you want some genuine country I'd recommend Marty Robbins, specifically the album "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs," 1956 I believe. The album has songs about a Ranger bringing an Outlaw to justice, taming a wild horse, a hanging, being a vagabond, billy the kid, dying of thirst, being a gun for hire, and being jealously in love to name just a few. If you are Fallout 4 fan you will recognize "Big Iron." It is the album that got me into country music. As far as mainstream "Pop Country" goes, no freakin' thank you, can't do it.
Big big fan of cut // ribbons over debt to the deathless or exsanguinate (in rakdos). Stapled to decent removal & doesn't rot in your hand in the early game
@@JaimeAGB-pt4xl yeah totally. There are so many good cards it's hard to choose. But two of my favorites, a common and uncommon, are: Scale the Heights and Refreshing Rain. I just recently added 2 cards from Crimson Vow too: Hopeful Initiate and Voice of the Blessed. I didn't put Cleric Class in because, as stated above, I wouldn't know where to squeeze it in.
I can see the Scale the Highs as it has value as long as U can get 2 or more effects (meaning U need to have a creature at the time)... Refreshing rain however I see very circumstantial since not every table will have black, I would put in Cleric class instead since If U check the 2nd effect, works as a Back up Lathiel... The initate is a very good removam and repeatable effect ... Voice of the Blessed can be very strong and an auto replace/upgrade from Pridemate... Personally I'm more into small and repeatable effects that get 1 or more counters on more than 1 creature at the time since exile removal is easy to get
Nykthos paragon with any lifelink creature means that creature doubles its power every turn (along with your whole board). Slow and kind of battle cruiser but I love it
Marionette Master is in my Prosper Treasures deck along with Academy Manufactor (which isn’t budget) but with a huge stack of Treasures/Food and Clue tokens I close out games pretty quickly.
I used to have a non budget deck with debt to the deathless with karlov as the commander who's main goal was to gain as much life from it as possible. Having both cabal coffers and stronghold plus Alhammarret's archive the decks sole purpose was to send off the biggest bomb of debt possible. I only ever ended up winning the deck twice once by paying X = 35 with debt and the other time by nickle and diming so many +1/+1 counters i was able to exile every other players creatures and just beat them to death. It was a fun deck took it apart awhile ago tho too gimmiky plus when ever i tried to run it my play group knew how scary it was so i was target number one lol. Lmao nice to hear im your fav name to say today joe!
i'm glad they worded nykthos paragon in a good way with the once per turn included. if they didn't say you MAY put the counters on, if you had like a sanctum of stone fangs type effect that triggers on upkeep you'd just keep getting +1/+1 then and not at a time later in the turn where you gain a lot more. this way you can keep that kind of effect in there, but just skip it when it comes up if you know you'll gain more life later that turn.
Herd Baloth is a may ablility, so it goes as far as you want with Cathar's Crusade. Thanks for the recommendation, Herd Baloth is going straight into Ghave now.
debt to the debtleas is one of my favorite cards ever. i use it as one of my win cons in my orzhov life gain deck that i’ve played forever. it’s gotten to the point where if my playgroup sees me counting my mana they know i’m about to win 😂
13:04 Decimator of the Provinces is another budget Craterhoof replacement, with a little higher mana value but has emerge to bring the cost down in the right situation. It’s around $1.50 at the time of this video so just outside the $1 threshold for the video, but worth mentioning if you want to double up the effect End-Raze Forerunners provides on a creature without spending Craterhoof money.
Came here for magic cards and stayed for the Joe Cherries roast of Luke Bryan!! I'm with you, I'm no fan of bro country either. It's like a subgenre of country you could call City.
Good budget bomb. Have a free sac outlet and specimine collector on the field. Right before your turn, cast fated infatuation making a token of specimen collector. Sac the original specimen collector, make a copy of the token version, then do that 1 trillion times. You then have 1 trillion 1/1 squirrels ready to attack. The 2 card combo is less than $0.50. Can obviously be more effective with life draining sac outlets, but those are expensive 🤣. I have it in my Araumi deck, have yet to get it to work because Gary is needed before I can get the engine going.
Pontiff of blight is excellent in my K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth deck. K'rrk's ability pays for the extort for 2 life and you net 1 life when you drain 3 players. And then you can do it times the number of creatures you have in play.
I've lost to Debt to the Deathless so many times. My buddy plays it in most of his decks with Black and White. Now that I think about it, all of his decks have Black and White
It's still a few dollars to get all three, but recent reprintings of the thopter foundry + sword of the meek + time siev combo is now more affordable than ever and is in my budget Breya deck. Same kind of idea with Thopter assembly + Time siev for infinite turns.
I run Gary in my Aminatou deck, panharmonicon and conjurer's closet. So it activate 2 times on cast, 2 times using Ami and 2 more at the end of turn with closet....lots of fun.
Beezy is cat person... the cats loves him so much... im a bit the same for that... i can tell and see he as the way with the cat... beezy is a natural just do the right thing without even thinking about it... cat just lays there and enjoys...
I'm really surprised Terror of Mt. Velus is so cheap. One of the best cards in my Kaalia deck...i imagine it's one of the best in any dragons deck. Only has one printing and it wasn't even in the TBD main set...surprised this is under a buck. In a lot of cases, this dude is basically a red craterhoof (not quite, but close. Someone's dying anyway, haha)
@@brandonbrooks779 that should make it more expensive I would think, not less. Didn't appear in the main TBD set, only.in theme boosters, and who buys those? Haha. Great card in any case, glad it's affordable
I don't know if it qualifies as a budget bomb but I'm a fan of Reweave from Champions of Kamigawa. It forces a sacrifice to remove the worst thing on the board but it also is useful for aiming at my commander when it's been imprisoned in the moon leaving me up a land with the commander back in the command zone among many other uses
@@NitpickingNerds I agree it's costly but my main uses are Yuriko where the higher cost is a usually good thing, Kalamax where it gets doubled, and Orvar where it fits the artifact recursion theme of my build.
- LOL I love Ivy Lane Denizen, such a underrated card been using it forever in my Kamahl deck and Scurry Oak is in my pile. Hmm time to find it and it to my Kamahl deck so I can do this combo on end step, start my turn and Overrun! - Poor End Raze Forerunners, they need more recognition. I love using Forerunners with Dead-Eye Navigator for 2 mana Overcome's :P
Legit won like 4 games this weekend with Marionette master, i use it in my prosper deck and i used either Night Dealings or Netherborn phalanx to search it for 6cmc to search it out and start shooting ppl in the face for 4 or more damage.
What do you get when you play a country song backwards? You get your house back, you get your dog back, you get your wife back. Fr tho dont hate you guys couldn't start a tractor if your lives depended on it
Dudes! You have no idea how incredibly correct you about country music! Lmao. All though as someone who lives in next to farms, the people who listen to Country music do fit the description of most the songs. It is all nothing but pandering. METAL MUSIC IS THE BEST
I'm in Aus and your stuff always comes out just when I'm looking for pre sleep viewing, thank you and good job
What perfect timing! Thanks for watching
I'm currently in the process of making a Esper clone deck and I was struggling to find some win cons. You guys were perfectly on time ! Thanks for the great content.
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Pontiff of Blight works insanly good in K'rrik not only because you usually cast this madlad for 4 mana and 4 life, but being able to extort for 2 life every single time just makes this ridicoulus. Not that K'rrik needs this since the guy is broken already but i like this as a finisher there.
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Pretty sure ghostly flicker can flicker land because when it was designed, a long lost set called Zendikar was in standard and it might have had a land or two that liked flickering, nevermind a little known mechanic called landfall. I think there's a chance that they might even be pretty good together. ;)
I feel like Martyr’s Cause should be mentioned more when considering free sac outlets. It makes combat a nightmare for the creature decks and gets around blasphemous act effects occasionally. I think it’s right up there with Fanatical Devotion
For sure! It’s almost a budget bomb too!
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Your cleverness is enraging and impressive
Is that what we were doing in past lives??
Just commenting to say, Nykthos Paragon is FOR SURE, an amazing ad in 4Color Omnath because you play a land? Give everything +4/+4 and just hold up your fetch to avoid the mana flood and you’ve given 8 power and toughness over two turns and now you’re presenting lethal so quickly! I love this card
When I started playing commander my friend had sanguine bond and grey merchant of asphodel, combo. It was a great budget combo and we usually got hit for at least 16 damage. But usually killed is all for 30 life. Since then our decks have gotten much more competitive, but I will always remember that merchant.
Just stopping in the comments to say hi and I appreciate you both so much (and amber too). I look forward to your content every day and I watch every video you make. So good!
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The ivy lane denizen and scurry oak/herd baloth combo are in my Meren as the win con. I either creature a billion tokens to swing with, or I sacrifice them to greater good/altar of dementia triggering enough drain effects to kill every opponent all at once. The rest of the deck is built around searching for them like protean hulk and buried alive, or draining life points per sac/death trigger.
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I got an ad right as your were saying "Gray Merchant" and it sounded like you were going to say "Grave Titan," but then I remembered it's not budget and also not good lol.
If you want some genuine country I'd recommend Marty Robbins, specifically the album "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs," 1956 I believe. The album has songs about a Ranger bringing an Outlaw to justice, taming a wild horse, a hanging, being a vagabond, billy the kid, dying of thirst, being a gun for hire, and being jealously in love to name just a few. If you are Fallout 4 fan you will recognize "Big Iron." It is the album that got me into country music. As far as mainstream "Pop Country" goes, no freakin' thank you, can't do it.
Marionette Master is my preferred kill in Kalain. She ramps it in, powers it up, and keeps feeding it
Big big fan of cut // ribbons over debt to the deathless or exsanguinate (in rakdos). Stapled to decent removal & doesn't rot in your hand in the early game
the middle card between craterhoof and endraze forerunners is that new Kamahl that has partner, he gives all your creatures +3/+3 every combat
LOVE this series...
Nythos is a Bomb in my Lathiel deck...
Thank you for the mono green combo, it'll definately go into my Goreclaw deck
We got you homie 😊
Good to see another Lathiel deck out in the wild. 👍
@@Mecal00 Finding the balance between the lifegain and counters mechanics is hard... Cleric Class was a blessing for the deck too
@@JaimeAGB-pt4xl yeah totally. There are so many good cards it's hard to choose. But two of my favorites, a common and uncommon, are: Scale the Heights and Refreshing Rain.
I just recently added 2 cards from Crimson Vow too: Hopeful Initiate and Voice of the Blessed.
I didn't put Cleric Class in because, as stated above, I wouldn't know where to squeeze it in.
I can see the Scale the Highs as it has value as long as U can get 2 or more effects (meaning U need to have a creature at the time)... Refreshing rain however I see very circumstantial since not every table will have black, I would put in Cleric class instead since If U check the 2nd effect, works as a Back up Lathiel... The initate is a very good removam and repeatable effect ... Voice of the Blessed can be very strong and an auto replace/upgrade from Pridemate...
Personally I'm more into small and repeatable effects that get 1 or more counters on more than 1 creature at the time since exile removal is easy to get
The nerds: let's make a video!
Amber: I want attention though!
They forgot her name tag
Every time she does this now!
@@NitpickingNerds she's just trying to get you guys more views lol
Nykthos paragon with any lifelink creature means that creature doubles its power every turn (along with your whole board). Slow and kind of battle cruiser but I love it
Oh yeah the card is not a high power card but super cool
Marionette Master is in my Prosper Treasures deck along with Academy Manufactor (which isn’t budget) but with a huge stack of Treasures/Food and Clue tokens I close out games pretty quickly.
I know why didn't the NERDs talk about this. I did this plus Warlock class levelled to class 3 and destroyed everyone.
I used to have a non budget deck with debt to the deathless with karlov as the commander who's main goal was to gain as much life from it as possible. Having both cabal coffers and stronghold plus Alhammarret's archive the decks sole purpose was to send off the biggest bomb of debt possible. I only ever ended up winning the deck twice once by paying X = 35 with debt and the other time by nickle and diming so many +1/+1 counters i was able to exile every other players creatures and just beat them to death. It was a fun deck took it apart awhile ago tho too gimmiky plus when ever i tried to run it my play group knew how scary it was so i was target number one lol. Lmao nice to hear im your fav name to say today joe!
Joe Cherries I'm so glad you're wearing an AEW shirt!! You have no idea how shocked and happy that made me!
"Artifact aristocrats. Get on it."
Me: **whips out Ich-Tekik & Silas Renn**
i'm glad they worded nykthos paragon in a good way with the once per turn included. if they didn't say you MAY put the counters on, if you had like a sanctum of stone fangs type effect that triggers on upkeep you'd just keep getting +1/+1 then and not at a time later in the turn where you gain a lot more. this way you can keep that kind of effect in there, but just skip it when it comes up if you know you'll gain more life later that turn.
Blossoming Bog Beast for that life gain over run effect ✨
Now your talking about cards I have/use. Finally a light in the darkness. You guys are awesome! Glad you came down to my level!
Budget commander is super fun too, but all levels are valid
Yes. I think you should rehash all of your grading videos with your reduced power level in mind. Lol
Keep it up!
Herd Baloth is a may ablility, so it goes as far as you want with Cathar's Crusade. Thanks for the recommendation, Herd Baloth is going straight into Ghave now.
Oh perfect! Nice catch
"Big dumb gruul army"
That hit me to my core...
combining nykthos paragon with trostani, selesnya's voice is amazing
Thanks for the Nykthos Paragon suggestion. I have a Mardu Lifegain deck headed by Licia, Sanguine Tribute and that is going to love this card!
Loving the budget friendly content!
I like the same cards, same price, same place slogan. Keep at it Joe
Breaker of Armies is clutch and in budget... Phenomenal.
This makes me wanna rebuild my hideous Esper flicker deck just so I can add a zulaport cutthroat and give it an extra wincon.
OOoooh yeah! Lets go!
Nykthos Paragon+True Conviction in my Liesa deck turns even Soul Sisters into killers
That is going to win a lot of games.
I have Gary in my budget Araumi deck, and at a bare minimum that will deal 21 and gain 63. But if I happen to have other things then way more. So fun.
debt to the debtleas is one of my favorite cards ever. i use it as one of my win cons in my orzhov life gain deck that i’ve played forever. it’s gotten to the point where if my playgroup sees me counting my mana they know i’m about to win 😂
Wheeler walker jr is a super true country singer
13:04 Decimator of the Provinces is another budget Craterhoof replacement, with a little higher mana value but has emerge to bring the cost down in the right situation. It’s around $1.50 at the time of this video so just outside the $1 threshold for the video, but worth mentioning if you want to double up the effect End-Raze Forerunners provides on a creature without spending Craterhoof money.
The neat part about that one is the pump being a cast trigger, so the board still gets it even if he's countered.
It is solid for sure
Came here for magic cards and stayed for the Joe Cherries roast of Luke Bryan!! I'm with you, I'm no fan of bro country either. It's like a subgenre of country you could call City.
Good budget bomb. Have a free sac outlet and specimine collector on the field. Right before your turn, cast fated infatuation making a token of specimen collector. Sac the original specimen collector, make a copy of the token version, then do that 1 trillion times. You then have 1 trillion 1/1 squirrels ready to attack. The 2 card combo is less than $0.50. Can obviously be more effective with life draining sac outlets, but those are expensive 🤣. I have it in my Araumi deck, have yet to get it to work because Gary is needed before I can get the engine going.
Pontiff of blight is excellent in my K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth deck. K'rrk's ability pays for the extort for 2 life and you net 1 life when you drain 3 players. And then you can do it times the number of creatures you have in play.
I've lost to Debt to the Deathless so many times. My buddy plays it in most of his decks with Black and White. Now that I think about it, all of his decks have Black and White
It's still a few dollars to get all three, but recent reprintings of the thopter foundry + sword of the meek + time siev combo is now more affordable than ever and is in my budget Breya deck. Same kind of idea with Thopter assembly + Time siev for infinite turns.
I have never played that combo before but seems good
I run Gary in my Aminatou deck, panharmonicon and conjurer's closet. So it activate 2 times on cast, 2 times using Ami and 2 more at the end of turn with closet....lots of fun.
It is just the best cheap wincon
I'm new to Magic, so these videos are awesome. Also, see you rocking that [AEW] shirt you just became a whole lot cooler.
Brilliant Restoration is gonna go so crazy in my Alela lmao
Mix Gary into the Karmic Guide/Reveillark combo as the second target for Reveillark and make it even more value
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Are people calling me the MTG Bo Burnam? 😂 I’d be honored
@@NitpickingNerds I will if anything
"Budget--wait for it--BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHMS"--Everyone in upstate NY
Literally everyone all at once
Terror of Mount Velus is an all star in my Ilharg deck.
Beezy is cat person... the cats loves him so much... im a bit the same for that... i can tell and see he as the way with the cat... beezy is a natural just do the right thing without even thinking about it... cat just lays there and enjoys...
Would have liked to see a shout out to Mob Rule. That card had finished multiple games for me and is 35c
Love this video and the tid bit was amazing too
I'm really surprised Terror of Mt. Velus is so cheap. One of the best cards in my Kaalia deck...i imagine it's one of the best in any dragons deck. Only has one printing and it wasn't even in the TBD main set...surprised this is under a buck. In a lot of cases, this dude is basically a red craterhoof (not quite, but close. Someone's dying anyway, haha)
It's because of where it appeared (theme boosters)
@@brandonbrooks779 that should make it more expensive I would think, not less. Didn't appear in the main TBD set, only.in theme boosters, and who buys those? Haha. Great card in any case, glad it's affordable
Great series! Love these cards and am going to pick some up for some decks!
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I don't know if it qualifies as a budget bomb but I'm a fan of Reweave from Champions of Kamigawa. It forces a sacrifice to remove the worst thing on the board but it also is useful for aiming at my commander when it's been imprisoned in the moon leaving me up a land with the commander back in the command zone among many other uses
It seems over costed for the effect
@@NitpickingNerds I agree it's costly but my main uses are Yuriko where the higher cost is a usually good thing, Kalamax where it gets doubled, and Orvar where it fits the artifact recursion theme of my build.
Zada, Hedron Grinder + Arcbond + any creature with lifelink
I call it Zada Bomb
I have an artifact aristocrats deck helmed by Glissa, the Traitor.
Nykthos Paragon, with Ajanis Welcome, and some sort of multiple token generation
Debt to the deathless is a powerhouse. Super cheap too.
Keep up the great work you guys! BTW Awesome shirt Joe!!! A E dub A E dub A E dub!
I love Nykthos paragon. Absolute bomb in my Sythis deck, especially with Archon of sun's grace making a ton of stupid lifelink flyers.
That is super spicy
Scurry oak + ivy lane is my favorite slow combo in modern
"aristocrafts"? Great idea.
0 mana hasty Breaker of Armies is one of my favorite cards in my Rakdos, Lord of Riots deck.
Spicy?!!!
Right when u said there was gonna be combos knew karmic guide + reveilark had to be in here
So happy that each one is super cheap!
@@NitpickingNerds same have them both in my elenda sacrifice deck and they perform amazing by themselves
Blinking revilark is also relevant...
Great video as alwayz 🤘🏻you guyz rock!
I love debt to the deathless and use in non budget decks as well eheheh
I use Vizkopa guildmage to when i gain life, the opponents loose that quantity
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Loop serated scorpion it meets the conditions and has a strong dies trigger
Joe i freaking love that aew shirt x
- LOL I love Ivy Lane Denizen, such a underrated card been using it forever in my Kamahl deck and Scurry Oak is in my pile. Hmm time to find it and it to my Kamahl deck so I can do this combo on end step, start my turn and Overrun!
- Poor End Raze Forerunners, they need more recognition. I love using Forerunners with Dead-Eye Navigator for 2 mana Overcome's :P
The poor man’s hoof is still awesome!
love this series! :)
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Legit won like 4 games this weekend with Marionette master, i use it in my prosper deck and i used either Night Dealings or Netherborn phalanx to search it for 6cmc to search it out and start shooting ppl in the face for 4 or more damage.
Card is a great finisher for sure
Loving the content
I love Amber! I love you both as well but I wanted to shout out Amber.
Amber is extra special!
Budget bombs! Budget bombs!
In an Orzhov deck, use Gray Merchant while you have Nykthos Paragon in play? 😂
Scurry Oak and Herd Baloth are "may" clauses, so Cathar's Crusade doesn't actually end the game in a draw!
Even BETTER
Patriarchs Bidding is i think still under a dollar, not a bad mass resurrection spell, for its cost.
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What do you get when you play a country song backwards?
You get your house back, you get your dog back, you get your wife back. Fr tho dont hate you guys couldn't start a tractor if your lives depended on it
Doesnt renegade and saffi go infinite? Also how big is the line for doing deck techs lol?
Who are your favorite AEW wrestlers, Joe?
Me
Nice AEW shirt!!
For the cat!
You guys gotta try Loretta Lynn. Classic Country so much more legit.
Nykthos paragon, is trostani BF/GF
Omg love the aew pride shirt!
Been loving all the AEW love lately
Dudes! You have no idea how incredibly correct you about country music! Lmao. All though as someone who lives in next to farms, the people who listen to Country music do fit the description of most the songs. It is all nothing but pandering. METAL MUSIC IS THE BEST
I love this format because I'm poor
Now I want to build lifegain…
Let's gooo! This should be good af
Reminder that all of these are considerably cheaper than Grave Titan
And better!