Bear with Me | The King of Vanilla | Ruxa, Patient Professor | C21 Spoiler | Commander | EDH | MTG
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- The Commander's Quarters is your Magic the Gathering source that helps you Command Your Budget! Today Mitch talks about a new and exciting Commander with the recently spoiled Ruxa, Patient Professor from Strixhaven's C21 Commander Decks! I'm asking you to please...Bear With Me.
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I find it more funny that they actually MADE this card and its abilities because of a meme deck.
Bear force one is no mere meme deck! It’s even been on Game Knights!
@@Isheian yeah, and it won on that show lol! 👍
@@Isheian Could you link me the episode? I couldn't fine the episode sadly. :(
@@ThaMobstarr
czcams.com/video/elOZ2EnWlCM/video.html
Your welcome
In the full art of Ruxa he is actually drawing Muraganda Petroglyphs on the chalkboard. They were meant to be together
Do face down morphs count as creatures without abilities?
What a great detail!
@@dougswanson4553 YES. Face-down creatures are nameless, typeless, no mana cost, no ability 2/2s
@@dougswanson4553 YES!!!!!
Those who face Ruxa are in for a grizzly defeat
The one creature Oko is afraid to mess with
Until Oko makes Ruxa a 3/3 elk that doesn't let damage get through.
@@johnbuscher might be good to run conjurer's closet in case they do that and for his etb trigger.
BEAR FORCE ONE ALL DAY
You sound like an ayula player just like me
But does your deck have flying? The word play isn't funny if it has nothing to do with Air Force 1. Graham from LRR on command zone ruined the meme with his deck so I made sure to include lots of flying enablers in my Ayula deck. Cheers
@@breakingtide I don't have that many flying eneblers but I have got BEARS
@@breakingtide it’s a play on words, not a play on mechanics
@@Case2_0 flavor fails all day
This is the kind of Commander I want more of in Magic. The fun ones that have you make a silly deck. We have too many serious "stupid good" Commanders. Also Wizards if for some reason you are reading this, GIVE US MORE BEARS PLEASE.
Yesss
For the record, some cards read "Creatures may [do blah] as though they had [ability]" - this does not actually give them the ability, and just lets them act as though they did, but they stay vanilla. So these sorts of anthems are free to go in this deck!
@@furretthefuzzynoodle3896 Aluren {2}{G}{G}
Enchantment
Any player may cast creature spells with mana value 3 or less without paying their mana costs and as though they had flash.
I’m so early that mitch hasn’t had an opportunity to talk about wayfarers bauble 😳
The flavour of this card is amazing:
He's a professor who cares about students without many magical talents.
If they fail, he will help them get back up and get another chance.
He will always help them improve.
He will help them overcome obstacles on their way to reach their goal.
I kind of like that if they gain abilities through anthems or something he smiles and says, "Good job, you no longer need my help" while the player is just like "No! Please! Keep helping!"
It's like he'll never give them up, nor will he ever let them down. He'll probably never run around and desert them.
@@duwan8260 ...goddammit >_>.
I’ve had a Muraganda Pteroglyphs in my Kadena deck for ages and it’s good to see that another deck is finally making use of it at long last.
Mantle of the Wolf could be great in here. Gives a blank +4/+4, and then if it dies you get 2 wolf tokens.
Bear force one ready for launch 🚀
u mean Bear force zero?
The fact that mitch didn't mention ayula as a deck that would benefit from this hurts my soul.
...that was a miss...and I am not sure how I forgot that!
Ay...this crime is too much to bear...
Most bears actually have rules text. Aside from maybe 2-3 of the functional reprints of Grizzly Bear (which are the worst cards in the deck, and put in pretty much for flavor), most Ayula decks don't actually run many vanilla creatures at all.
@@andrewsparkes8829 exactly. I wanted to run muraganda petroglyph so bad but when I looked at my deck I was like wait, there's hardly any vanilla bears!
I blame Eddie, as usual.
Ruxa will definitely be in the 99 of my Ayula deck, which will have to be adjusted to make it a lot more vanilla than it is now.
A good combo - Sylvan Library + Words of Wilding - On your upkeep, either draw up to three cards or make up to three bears!
"Something I never thought I needed." Really? I always knew this is what I needed and it's beautiful! We have to go to Muraganda to see the vanilla tribal emerge for real.
In any deck relying on keeping your commander alive I would include some hexproof/shroud equipment. Wouldn't want to swing out then get your damage nerfed by a single removal spell. Obviously also substantial ramp to get ahead of the board wipes.
Paging Graham Stark . . .
Ayula's influence, Bearscape, and sandwurm convergence are good cards, biogenic ooze could be good too, though he probably just dies to removal.
How many kids does Mitch have? Must be a lot, since he has a dad-joke every episode... :P
We’re about to see a spike on muraganda petroglyphs xD
Doubt it. It was just reprinted in Timespiral remastered
I'm rather surprised Mitch didnt mention putting Ruxa in say an Ayula, Queen Among Bears deck
As I said in another comment: "Most bears actually have rules text. Aside from maybe 2-3 of the functional reprints of Grizzly Bear (which are the worst cards in the deck, and put in pretty much for flavor), most Ayula decks don't actually run many vanilla creatures at all."
Ayula buffs Ruxa, or another bear off of Ruxa(those 2 +1/+1 counters can be assigned any bear target), but Ruxa only buffs vanilla creatures. That's the 7 functional reprints of grizzly bears and little else.
My Ayula plays 6 or 7 token generators, plus the 7 Grizzly reprints, we have sinergy with 14 cards in the deck. I think it's worth it.
@@felipeguidolin1055 14 out of the 99? That's less than a 5th of the deck really, and no synergy with the commander. Sure Ruxa "can" go in an Ayula deck, but really Ruxa deserves their own deck.
Yes another green card for bearforce one. Let’s go!!!!
I want to gift a bear deck to my brother (he loves bears), do you think there are enough bear synergies to make that useable?
Absolutely! Ayula is fantastic for that!
I actually just built one for my sister! She's still getting into the game, but she beat my Ranar deck with it
its a little jank, but it'd be fun. one of the problems is a lot of bears have rules text that doesnt play well with this card. Ayula queen among bears, ayulas influence, and bearscape play very well together tho and ayula might be a better commander for your purposes.
I was gonna say bearly... But that's not true. There should be enough for a starting deck. And if he wants to upgrade it later on it's pretty easy to do if he's willing to sacrifice some bears.
This is the most excited i've been for a commander since I first saw Chulane.
Chulane with the pain train
Ruxa and Ironroot Warlord, Warlord creates 1/1 green/white tokens and gains power for each creature
Ruxa+Warlord+token = 4/4, 3/5, 2/2
There's no opportunity for trample in this deck, Ruxa lets creatures assign damage all or none
This has to go straight into my Ayula deck...
...I'd ship it.
Agreed on Overrun type effects. That said, when your commander is down, they can still help you finish the game. I'd probably put one or two inside the deck.
I'd love to see an honest deck tech on Ruxa at some point. Knowing that my vanilla creatures can finally see some use is actually amazing news to both me and my wallet.
I thought about building around this commander, but I gave up. And then, Mitch came. Now i am excited to build around Ruxa once again. Thanks Mitch!
I think that Triumph of the Hordes is still a great finisher ^^
(2 generic 2 green sorcery and grants all your creatures +1/+1, trample and infect until end of turn)
Potentially, but the problem is that if you've been using Ruxa's redirection ability a lot, the opponent's likely to have lots of blockers piled up, and Trample and Infect would turn off Ruxa, meaning they'd be able to block again.
Kenrith's transformation and Lignify are on-theme for this deck, but don't have any special synergy. Nullhide Ferox can turn into vanilla at will, so that's interesting. However, there are some 'sprinkles' anthems that don't technically give any abilities to the creatures, like Dense Foliage effectively giving Shroud but not actually giving abilities, Bower Passage giving evasion without giving abilities, convoke spells making your creatures sort of tap for mana without abilities, Dolmen Gate combined with Ruxa makes them truly unblockable, Quest for Renewal gives virtual vigilance, Great Henge gives virtual ETBs, and I'm sure I missed a couple more
That Good Charlotte reference though 👌🏻 I see you are a man of culture as well
Morph creatures do work under Ruxa's command. Vanilla to bash in anthem pumped damage and then morph for effects like destroy artifact or enchantment from nantuko vigilante or get tokens when you flip your blocking nantuko broodhatch.
Oh, that's actually really cool! You made me curious and I had to look it up because I assumed the morphs had an ability on them that referenced their ability to morph, but the rules don't see that, since the ability is considered part of the "morphable" card and not the version of it that exists as a 2/2! Now I wanna try doing some things with this!
Wow, I just.... So unique and awesome!! I Never imagined seeing such a legendary creature!!! GG WP, Wizards
Another great card would be Sandwurn Convergence as it will help protect the deck from fliers which they’d otherwise be open to. Additionally, the production of a vanilla 5/5 token every turn is really good for deck synergy.
I feel like Ruxa is a perfect commander for new players or players who want to dabble in Commander rom standard or just finding a use for cards that don’t get much play. It has so much versatility and I love it
Man, this'll be awesome in a token deck...sooo many tokens....
I recently made a vanilla tribal deck before this was announced, and I use Johan as the commander. Due to the wording of Johan, only he gets his ability, not your other creatures.
he's exactly the size of two grizzly bears
"teddy ruxa-spin". I like this.
I'm so sad you didn't mention Ayula when mentioning Ruxa in the 99.
Eh Ruxa would better suit Rys the redeemed, any G/B tokens deck, any selesnya deck running vanilla tokens, Tolsimir Wolfblood(voja is a 6/6 unblockable with both Tolsimir and Ruxa out), anything G/W that runs enough high white-devotion with vanilla creatures to slap down a springjack shepherd(those vanilla 0/1 goats arent as much of a joke when you slap down 10 of the sods and they're all unblockable 2/3's), or functioning as a commander himself.
Ruxa "works" in an Ayula deck, but he's there for flavour above function tbh.
Bear force one!
I'm glad Mitch didn't go into a full deck tech and just gave us the bear necessities.
in white you could play reconnaissance to give them better vigilance. that would be noice!
First ability I think I’ma just ignore in most cases. I see him solely as a way for omnath to channel his rage.
Why did we not mention Nacatl War Pride? That card is BEAST MODE.
(see what I did there? :D)
Hydra’s Growth doesn’t specify “enchanted creature has…” but rather just instructs you to double the counters on the enchanted creature every upkeep - the creature remains vanilla while the enchantment goes off for some truly ugly amounts of damage if not dealt with!
Hearing that word of warning about adding keywords to creatures made me go and check my Slimefoot deck to see if I can safely buff my saprolings with Muraganda Pentoglyphs
For the record, some cards read "Creatures may [do blah] as though they had [ability]" - this does not actually give them the ability, and just lets them act as though they did, but they stay vanilla.
Shroedinger's Bear. Ruxa is both a bear and not a bear at the same time. Lol
Yeah, I’m definitely building around Ruxa when I make a mono-Green deck.
It's not quite the most thematically proper include, but I think Ruxa works in a Rin and Seri go wide build. Maybe add some more pumping synergies and mass protection like heroic intervention
Intervention does temporarily turn Ruxa off, but I think that's a great include, since all he gives on the defense is the +1/+1 and I'd gladly trade one point of power toughness for hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
I would also toss in Memnite and Phyrexian Walker just for the lols of a zero mana attacker
I'm putting this in my Ayula. I play 6 or 7 bear token generators, plus the 7 Grizzly bear reprints, so Ruxas is working with 14 cards. That, plus being another Bear to trigger Ayula, makes it worth it for me.
I'm so excited you did this video! When it got revealed, I knew you'd have to make a video! I'm really excited to have fun with this!
My first thought of cards to include for political reasons were Nullhide Ferox. It has abilities, but if someone pays the 2, Ruxa loves the 6/6 body!
Lignify is another funny card to include as it's so on-theme as a way to hit your opponents!
Finally, Mycoloth would love this deck for a vanilla token theme!
Colossification is also a great include!
This would work well in my Ayula deck. Since most bears are vanilla, and the deck is bear tribal, Ruxa would give me another outlet to buff my bears with. I also have a lot of ways to manufacture vanilla bear tokens, which Ruxa would also buff.
Keywords make things non-vanilla, so most bears arent vanilla. You've got the 7 grizzly bear re-prints, token generators and some other outliers.
I'd more put this into a golgari zombie tokens deck, or perhaps slimefoot could use it. Turn all those saproling tokens into 2/2 attackers, that ping if they're killed
don't forget Feed the Pack. sac leatherback baloth, make five 2/2s, get the baloth back with Ruxa
better yet. Drop desolation twin, he comes in with his 10/10 vanilla-frosted hair-tips token-brother. Sac the non-token for 10 vanilla 2/2 wolves. You've just dropped 30 unblockable power onto the board.
I haven't played mtg since original ravnica block and never even knew about commander until 2019, I would love to build a deck around this
I loved collecting vanilla cards as a kid, im excited to play some of them now!
Bear tribal?
NO sprinkles guys! 😁 just leave them home
Finally, my kind of deck... Time to add it to my “collection of decks that I build to be fun, but it they all turn out to be too powerful” shelf
That is awesome, I've been wanting to build a mono Green EDH, wasn't sure if wanted to use the Squirrel one, but I like this one for sure.
You forgot toski!!! Toski with this commander would be great because all of the damage would be going through
Mouth // Feed would also be good.
Crush of Wurms is another token maker.
are we gonna talk about that casual Good Charlotte reference or no?
How was desolation twin not mentioned in with the token makers? Sure it's non-vanilla itself, but it comes in with a 10/10 vanilla token. That's 10/10 unblockable to swing with.
Was that anthem pun a reference to a Good Charlotte song?!
Scanned 20 comments or so, no one mentioned Koma, Koma's endless barrage of coils + the new quandrix card that makes 9/9s when serpents deal combat damage is absolutely absurd. In 4 player match that and ruxa allow you to guarantee 3 9/9s the following turn
you could even say +1/+1 counters are sprinkles and that chocolate syrup is trample lol
what about night soil? pay 1 generic mana to remove 1 card in any graveyard from the game and the owner of the enchantment creates a 1/1. is solid graveyard hate, great for picking out combo pieces in enemys graveyards. and the enchantment itself costs like 2 green
Yes! At last, time for Muraganda Petroglyphs to shine in Commander!
Ok bear with me on this one if I saw this commander across the table Id bearly be able to play on one hand if I lose that would be just embearassing and on the polar side of things if I win I don’t think I’d even be happy because Id probably just have to do the bear minimum this commander is an interesting concept fur sure anyways I’ve kept the video paws’d for too long see ya.
I literally just built a ruxa deck tonight and play tested it in my playgroup and let me say this: ruxa is a HIGHLY underestimated commander just because he likes vinilla and they kinda laugh at him till they are getting hit in the face directly by 30/30 minions for game 🤣
Smarter than the average bear.
Not amazing as a bear tribal commander since so many bears have abilities. But as part of the 99, works great with grizzly fate ayulas influence, caller of the claw etc
Shocked to not see Phyrexian Processor as a suggested card. Makes the chonkiest vanilla tokens and green has plenty of options for healing off the life loss.
I'm bear-y excited here
Rulingquestion:
Does Tuinvale Treefolk // Oaken Boon count as a Vanilla?
Great place for my Phyrrxian Processor
I approve of the Good Charlotte reference, sir.
The Great Henge feels like such a powerful mana rock for this deck. Double green, life gain, buffs that don’t inhibit Ruxa, and card draw!
Almost like it's a 30+ dollar card
@@breakingtide Oh damn! I've been playing online I had no idea. That makes sense though
nice EDH deck but how do you put Maja and Trostani in a mono green deck?
He said in that section that those decks are what might want to use the bear
Ruxa, Ice Cream Purist
I think knowing when to play your commander in this deck is very key. Without it you just have some beefy boys easily chump blocked, but once you get out your commander out your board now looks much scarier.
How does the damage assign if the creature is blocked? Does the attacking creature still take damage but the blocker doesn't since it is redirected to the player?
I've been scrolling through comments trying to find this exact answer
From what I've read thats exactly how it works. The blocking creatures take no damage but the attacking creatures do
Ruxa plays Shotos and loves The Simpsons
Finally, an underdog...uh bear...Argh! Whatever, great vanilla boosting card 😁
Id put Toski in this deck... As your vanilla creatures get through
"Don't put sprinkles on your creatures, ok?" Mitch, 2021
5:22, this is wrong you have to choose, either you hit (or kill) your opponent, or kill their creatures
The Right to Bear a Coat of Arms
3:13 - Great, now I am thinking of worse:
Bear Force,
Bear Force,
ONE (sing it in Ninja Rap)
One of the MOST exciting cards in the whole set is this bear. Vanilla tribal! My body is ready. Dear WoTC: More of these please!
I can't tell if I'm happy or sad that bears will see more play. I have to assume the budget version of this deck will still be a lot of fun, and you'll be the last alive because everyone underestimates Bear Force One.
I am building this.... I FINALLY have a place to put all those foil vanilla creatures I've been hording!!!
Does changeling count as an ability? I know MaRo said color indicators and text like the old Legends "This counts as an X" are not abilities.
Changeling is a static ability, yes.
this seems pretty budget friendly yay!
One of my favorite anthems is klothys's design
So how would this work with luminous broodmoth? Does having a flying counter turn this off or does the fact that its a counter and not just giving a creature an ability mean that it still works?
The Ability Counters give the creature they're on the ability, and so would make them no longer vanilla.