Conan's MTG New Year resolutions: - Crush every game - See their cards on the battlefield all tapped before you - Hear the lamentations of your opponents :P LOL
I got so many decks 75 total. 3/4 are precons upgrade. My resolution is to upgrade my old commanders at it's most power that I build from scratch. This was the time built not knowing about EDHREC and SCRYFALL. "NOT INCLUDING MY 3 TYPES OF GOLOS." Thanks committee.
I've only started watching The Command zone this year and I am really enjoying it! Seeing all these comments about what a great hire Rachel is is tripping me out as I can't imagine a Command Zone without her! She's often my favourite part of whatever I watch.
My resolution is to simply let my opponents play their decks. I find myself giving suggestions in the middle of the game whether my opponents want them or not, so I am planning on refraining input until after the game is done. Not only will it be more polite, but perhaps they will miss some crucial misplays...
My New Years resolution is to actually play commander!!! Followed this channel for years, have 9 decks and have never played a game of commander. Can’t get any friends to play, and unable to go to LGS due to work and family responsibilities, with also my apprehension of playing with random people due to being a little older and semi anti-social. Still don’t know how I am going to accomplish my goal.
Thank you for shouting out artisan Commander. It’s my favorite thing to mess around with. Artisan commander decks can hang in any pod and it shakes things up in such a great way. I’m excited for spoilers again specifically just watching for uncommons.
I recently participated in a Pauper-mander event at my LGS and I found it neat that the deck had to be 99 commons but the commander could be any Uncommon creature, Legendary or not as long as it was uncommon. Looking at Artisan format seems very similar that's cool. I like that there are some offshoots from Commander. When Pioneer was started by WOTC I convinced my friends to make Pioneer-mander decks (100 card commander deck with only cards in Pioneer format); it was quite fun and refreshing not having the ''staples'' to add to the deck and the power levels of the cards now still lead to interesting games :P
This episode is fantastic. It really got me thinking about my own game play and the way I organize my collection. I've been meaning to make some changes in things and this is definitely a good way to motivate myself towards those changes. Thank you!
The best thing I did for my Magic collection/sanity was sort my cards and enter my collection into Deckbox. Now I can just dump a deck idea into Deckbox, and it will tell me what I have and what set it's from, and I can pull the box and grab it so quickly.
completely agree with rachel about shuffling putting wear on your deck, cards, time, etc. i read a description once that shuffling your deck is the equivalent of a loading screen, and once i saw that connection, i think about it every time. i think that's why it's so important to do stuff like fetching/etc. at the end of your turn instead of waiting until the previous player's end step so you aren't shuffling and making everyone wait
For Murph: I'd highly recommend spending the time documenting your collection online (I presume Archidekt lets you do this). After you're done "distilling" it down further, put what's left into an online collection tracker and keep that updated with any changes. Means you can brew decks completely on the go and know exactly what you have in your collection / in decks already. Saves a good amount of time and money in the long run. And, honestly, it's quite a fun project to document all your stuff!
19:10 speaking on this point...having multiple decks myself at different power levels and play styles really allows me to get games in at any table at the lgs
Same I have one deck that is strictly reserved for if I'm part of a specific pod at my FLGS (Ur-Dragon, a full proxy, OG Dual Lands, all the fetches, shocklands, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Ancient Tomb etc.) it's an 8 or a 9 on the power ranking which is about the power level that group plays at. For newer players I have a kind of silly Eldrazi deck that is much slower to get rolling and tends to be more 'slightly upgraded precon' level of play.
I love organizing my cards because it makes brewing new decks go quickly. I organize by color, then by type (instant, sorcery, creature, enchantment), then split each section into commons and then uncommons/rares/mythics
Guys i love your show a lot, thanks to you I discovered a commander format and I started playing MTG again after about 20 years. Your channel is also quite famous in Europe, I send greetings from the Czech Republic. Thank you!
Re 'I have too many decks' - I have 7 decks right now - merfolk, vampires, pirates (don't @ me, Ixalan is fun), slivers, necrons, infect, generic tokens - and I solve this by rolling a d8 to see what I'm gonna play. I imagine as I make/get more decks I'll just increase the size of the die 😂😅
Ixalan is great, I have upgraded the merfolk an my bro has dinos and pirates. I try to keep it at 12 decks. Ranging in power levels. I usually ask my playgroup what they feel like playing against. Even if it's to my detriment but it makes the games have some variety so you don't just play your fav Everytime. Rolling dice is a good idea I may use that
Imagine being an awesome magic player at an old folks home and you can play your friend's decks (well, because you have 80 years experience) and they're like I stopped updating that deck in 2021, and you're like "Blightsteel! I haven't seen that in years!"
I have a condo and my magic collection is making me want a house. I'm in Toronto and this market is insane. One more hobby like model trains or warhammer and I will have to buy a house.
I'm going to actually finish building the 4 decks that I have sitting half built. Even if they arent fully optimized get them to where they are actually sleeved and playable.
I spend wayyyyy to much time on the 1.0 version of a brew…like a month brewing on and off…so by the time I get it to the final 100…I’m kinda over it. So I’ve been just grabbing the “average deck list” from edhrec and throwing that together as a baseline for the 1.0 version and make changes based on how that plays and my vision for it. Saves soooo much time.
I have around 50K cards - I bought some organizers putting Commons in their own separate boxes by color and alphabetizing the entire lot by color. I am FINALLY down to the last 1000 or so - buying just $ingle$ and drafting at the LGS has reduced my intake. Not "cracking packs" - but between The Command Zone (and other online sites of markedly less quality) - I have been having a grand time. Got my The Command Zone Whatnot purchases - which set me back alittle as they had a lot of cards - as my most recent purchases! Glad I got one (OK, i was lucky - I got two). Need another Obscure and Underrated Cards Episode!
Something I am trying this Year is to build a couple very versatile decks. I have a sideboard I carry with the Commander deck that I can shift in and out to react to the night is going. Having a solid deck list and theme will be a must to stop the plan of the deck getting to fluid. I hope...
I just came back to the game this year, and wasn't sure what I wanted to do in the game, so it's been a lot of throwing darts and seeing what sticks with colors, strategies, etc. This year my resolution is to hone in on what color(s) I like most and bolstering my collection of staples in those colors. Maybe I'll sell the other stuff to CardKingdom!
Just started watching your content, its fun to see how interactions work and im learning the game more as I watch. A suggestion you guys should build an Extus Commander deck based around the sorcery side. Its a deck that I built but can be incredibly scary.
I had a similar issue to Arthur, but the way I approached fixing it was different. I put my decks into an order, and had to pull from the front to force playing some decks. And, if I skip it more than once, I have to play it and decide after that if I want to keep it. It’s led to more rebuilds than anything, often resulting in changing the commander, but it’s helped me like playing all of my decks!
My resolution last year was to get around the collection confusion a lot of y'all seem to be having; now I have a spreadsheet with every single card I own listed and which deck/binder/box it's in. It took months of sorting to get it done but it gives me so much peace of mind now knowing exactly where everything it 😅
For my resolution is to just build the decks I want to build and not worry if someone from my pod already made it or how it fits into my horde of decks
I've been trying to use Proxies instead of buying expensive cards unless I really want to upgrade the deck, this is really in the Mana Base. Proxies may be a small cost but I don't want to pay lots of money for each mana base I build.
This. I own 1 copy of each expensive card I play (Shocks/Fetches, Great Henge, Doubling Season, etc) and a handful of proxies of each. This way, I don't need to rebuy the staples, and if I'm at an event or someone is being really anal, I can take the real version out of my little proxy binder and swap em out
Definitely can relate to Rachel's resolution, my new year's resolution is definitely similar but I would rather just make proxy of the cards that I already own instead of buying them again and end up having multiple copies.
I’ve started doing the same, I have one copy of all my best/ strongest lands in my equipment deck, and then in all my other decks I have a proxy in order to cut down on price. I play a lot of mono colored so having to buy 6 nykthos shrine to nyx would really break the bank
To Jamie, Nikara and Yannik was that deck for me. I build mostly powerful decks and I wanted something lower powered. I built this abzan counters list as strong as I could and it's very casual, but still does what I want!
Josh it helps if you're building several decks at once and you have your good cards seperated, you get so many ideas. Purpose is great but so is serendipity. It's tough but organizing your collection to sell and find specific cards for decks is different than sorting to build. If you differentiate your collection into some stuff for one and some stuff for the other it helps. My cards are a mess, but my binder of "Interesting" cards is a joy to go through and usually provides an idea or two when I'm building. And my Good card box is a joy. Next step, organize cards for different power levels and recover from my current archetype focus. Like if I wanted to find ETB cards or Big Creatures I would be totally lost. But if I need a sword of the animist, smothering tithe, and a sol ring I'm set I really enjoy finding them and it won't take too long.
I'm focused on building intro decks this year and using only what I got in my way too big collection. I can probably bust out 20+ more decks of commander and a buuuunch of 60 card decks. But then I actually have to build them. So that's what I'm doing, built, tuned and pulled out and prepared cards for a bunch of decks. Currently working on a simple dimir zombie deck.
Jake talking about building decks online is why i play brawl on arena, ive had “dumb” ideas that turned into fun paper decks and “slam dunks” that turned into nightmares - sidenote: saruman of many colors is sick on brawl!
Varying the Power Level of a deck can be building with a Companion restriction. There’s Keruga that’s “hard mode” or Zirda that pushes you to use scryfall to figure out what activated abilities you can use best for your strategy, and the others vary more than that. What do you think?
One way I managed to make things simple is instead of buying multiple copies of cards is investing in a custom 2.8-3.0mm corner cutter, guillotine, a decent printer, and decent 300gsm paper - there are also options for foiled finishes, or if have the time you can remove the fronts of actual foil magic cards to print on. A little research about image and print setup, and my cards come out identical to the eye and no one can tell the difference especially when sleeved. Across three decks, it ends up even cheaper than buying proxies or counterfeit cards, and done on demand - I mean the entire initial setup is cheaper than compared to a single custom edh deck. Save heaps of money and time (buying/chasing/lloking for cards) for more important things like family and friends. It even offers an opportunity for you to do some arts and craft with your kids and gives more meaning to the deck that 'we' put together. The money I save in this process allows me to buy reserve list cards, like dual lands - if you're playing non-budget decks you save enough to buy a dual land per deck. No need for folders and BCW boxes... after a while you'll realise they're all pieces of cardboard and the actual thing isn't really any different (as long as you get the printing process right).
I like Josh's suggestion so my new year's resolution is to give myself a break. Stop worrying about if my decks were too strong or if my turns took too long.
Can't wait for another year of videos, I have three resolutions to make. Some easier than others 1st: To Play More Commander than I have been the past year. I keep making decklists and have/built/buying precons but never do anything and stop when I realize I don't play enough 2nd: After watching Rachel with some of her signed cards in her decks I thought it looked really cool and after managing to get a set of the Sol Ring/Command Tower from Jimmy and Josh's Signed Whatnot listing. This is my start 3rd: I plan to start grouping my decks together. I would prefer to not take decks apart, but being 100 cards commander decks can be difficult and expensive. So I will buy the longer deck boxes and group them by groups such as Boros, Golgari, and Jeskai. This way the lands and more expensive cards can be reused easier between decks. This idea is to also help justify spending the money on the more expensive cards I have been putting off
Tip for Jamie: financial restrictions are definitely the way to go, as you have to find creative ways to make your decks good. also they are slower, but you can still do the thing your deck wants to do
I am new to the channel so I aplogize if you guys do this already, but I would really love like a 6 months into a year review where you gather everyone again and ask how their resoluion is going, has that resolution changed or stayed the same at all? How has it changed their enjoyment for MTG?
People who struggle going through their collection.. it may be a bit of a pain starting out, but for Rachel who sounds like she keeps all her cards in binders, use a card scanner like manabox, get your collection on a list and save it to your collection on archidekt or wherever, then when you want to brew, it will tell you which ones you already have in your collection. Im only at 2600ish cards but i can brew and search for anything in my collection in a few seconds
My resolution is to build and play more decks I love rather than building decks to meet a "quota." I've fallen into a habit the past few years of forcing decks from newer sets or forcing certain color combinations because I feel like I should have it in my case, only to have them sit there and never see any play time because its a deck I don't enjoy playing. Jake's resolution actually worked great for me last year using Archidekt and kept me from fleshing out at least 20 decks that would never have lasted more than one game, glad to see others have that same problem!
My commander resolution this year to build more pointed decks. I am the chaos gremlin in the pod, and as a result I don’t win as many games. This ain’t a problem but it does feed all of the games into a Samey feeling. Where the same two people usually, go head to head. (If one player is just spinning his wheels it’s easy to dispatch of him and a player not keeping pace.) So as a gift to me and to our play group I’m going to hyper focus on becoming a little less chaotic and much more focused.
Same here cutting down collection and retain cards that i always use Keep one deck which includes my fave cards For other staple cards are spread to my othe decks..
Commander has changed so much that people can create so much mana, draw so many cards, and then play so many cards per turn with the extra mana and cards… that I’ve stopped trying to plan or set up turns. It’s made it so much more fun because after 3 players take bigger turns odds are the boardstate has totally changed
a few years ago I sold a big part of my collection to a size where they all fit in square collecters box and 2 binders. Mono-colored are stored in the box itself, and the binders are reserved for multi-colored and collerless respectively. This is working pretty good for me, but i'm debating wether or not I should make sub-categories in my mono-colored box for the main things a deck needs (Ramp, Draw & Interaction). This would make it even easier to go trough my collection when looking for cards.
I have a very small collection probably 2000 cards including the precons, I bought. I decided to put all $1 and up mythics and rares in a binder. Then I am currently taking my commons and uncommons and sorting them by color, type, mana value, and alphabetical. I am trying to do this because I build budget decks and I am trying to make it easier to search.
I went through an addiction phase for about a year, I have ready to play all in boxes and sleeves, over 100 decks 😬it’s great tho I play with my my friends and family and let people use my decks so it’s super fun it does take a lot of time to go through upgrades when new cards come out
as I am watching this episode while sorting out a huge pile of few months of shopping and adding them to my collection on moxfield, i think a good resolution would be to not just use the cards I have instead going to spend money i don't have on new cards :)
I will note that sorting cards and categorizing them goes a lot faster than you might think if you are dreading it. I had about 12,000 cards when I went through them, and it took maybe 8-10 hours to get them in easily findable categories. It really takes the pressure off of getting rid of cards if they are easier to search through and manage. And once they are sorted, it is very easy to get into a habit of putting cards away instead of piling them up (at least for me it was) because putting them away is simpler when they already have a spot to go in.
Mine is to actually play more, but with Magic being outrageously priced currently I've decided to play more pauper. Now I just have to find other pauper players. Would be pretty great if you guys played some pauper extra turns or something.
This past year I put together a deck of every color combo, (minus the 4 color just did one) but as a newer player that turned into a LOT of decks that are just full of fluff and don’t feel fun to play. So this year I think I’d like to refine some of the weaker decks. Right now feels like I have a handful of pretty high power and all the rest are just laughably bad. Hoping for quality to go with the quantity! And then I’ll have a good range for any play group.
I pulled a Double Masters 2022 Cavern of Souls, sold it and another card to get the Zendikar Expedition Cavern, and just recently sold that and another card to get a Foil Paths of the Dead - Cavern of Souls from LotR for my Hobbit/ Food deck. All Caverns from the same shop. I prefer to support locally when I'm looking for cards. I'd say my resolution is to not be as excited when things are going well. I always get excited when my decks pull off amazing combos, and I always end up missing triggers, like gaining life when a creature enters the battlefield. I need to slow down and pay attention to my board states more. So many cards have so much text now, and when my battlefield fills up, I end up missing things.
I need to play more removal, it's hard for me to put enough when they don't feel like they synergize with the rest of the deck. But it's needed if I want to improve power level at least.
I have always ran only on colored fetches, just because, to me, it felt like cheating, even though it's allowed. Then I built a more competitive EDH deck, and added some extra, and it was ok, but didn't make me want to add them to other decks
As a new player (started Commander in October of last year) I am resolving to learn how to use and search archidekt, moxfield, and EDHRec. and what is the differences between them. I am a little confused. . Maybe I can look back and see any episodes you produce as a how to use!
EDHRec just looks at the decks already made online and compiles a list of cards that people put in them. It's honestly not good for much outside of being a starting point and finding niche cards, as just taking the best stuff from it tends to make powerful piles. It also runs the risk of you finding "nonbos" because people run the card for some reason. For newer players, EDHRec is good, just don't take the suggested cards to heart. Moxfield and Archidekt are the same thing, and all about preference. I prefer Moxfield because it's online playtester feels better and it automatically filters your searches by your Commander's color identity.
Archidekt and mox field are very similar for building decks, mostly becomes personal preference on which you want to use. I find archidekt has (or had don't know if its still true) better visual builder which i prefer to build with. they have a lot of the same features just set up slightly differently. EDHrec isn't a building website but shows you how often certain cards show up for particular commanders and can give recommendations.
Honestly, another way to spend less is to just use untap and proxy more. I'm sure it's not in the interest of Commad Zone and Card Kingdom to do this, that's fine. But it is an option. None of my decks actually have proxies rn, but I don't like that if I want to make changes to my commander deck I need to spend >$30 for a couple pieces of fancy paper. I do not have a high enough paying job for like a normal savings account, the cards do not get to be that high priority (and I'll make sure I can still bring legal things to my local store and other events so that I can be in the community, I'm just not paying for fetches or tutors)
Happy New Year! What’s your Commander New Year’s resolution? What steps are you going to take to accomplish it?
Get all the commanders on my "Commanders to brew" list done.
Conan's MTG New Year resolutions:
- Crush every game
- See their cards on the battlefield all tapped before you
- Hear the lamentations of your opponents :P LOL
Visiting my LGS at least once would be great.
I got so many decks 75 total. 3/4 are precons upgrade. My resolution is to upgrade my old commanders at it's most power that I build from scratch. This was the time built not knowing about EDHREC and SCRYFALL. "NOT INCLUDING MY 3 TYPES OF GOLOS." Thanks committee.
If I could just get literally anyone to buy my $700 MTG collection for $200 I'd be pretty stoked.
Follow up episode at the end of the year titled “Does it Resolve” where everyone looks back to see if they followed through
THIS!
Brilliant
Genius!😂
Jimmy's resolution: play 45 lands in all decks. 😅
I've only started watching The Command zone this year and I am really enjoying it! Seeing all these comments about what a great hire Rachel is is tripping me out as I can't imagine a Command Zone without her! She's often my favourite part of whatever I watch.
Me slowly realizing there is going to be no blingmas 😢
Yeah their little skits and holiday commander games are very good.
Fingers crossed for Blinguary
That was what...2 years ago now?
I’m sure the move had something to do with that!
My resolution is to simply let my opponents play their decks. I find myself giving suggestions in the middle of the game whether my opponents want them or not, so I am planning on refraining input until after the game is done. Not only will it be more polite, but perhaps they will miss some crucial misplays...
You could also just ask if they want input
Rachel is such a great add to the Command Zone.
@@FarewellOrwell oh no, not laughs...!
My New Years resolution is to actually play commander!!! Followed this channel for years, have 9 decks and have never played a game of commander. Can’t get any friends to play, and unable to go to LGS due to work and family responsibilities, with also my apprehension of playing with random people due to being a little older and semi anti-social. Still don’t know how I am going to accomplish my goal.
Thank you for shouting out artisan Commander. It’s my favorite thing to mess around with. Artisan commander decks can hang in any pod and it shakes things up in such a great way. I’m excited for spoilers again specifically just watching for uncommons.
I recently participated in a Pauper-mander event at my LGS and I found it neat that the deck had to be 99 commons but the commander could be any Uncommon creature, Legendary or not as long as it was uncommon. Looking at Artisan format seems very similar that's cool.
I like that there are some offshoots from Commander. When Pioneer was started by WOTC I convinced my friends to make Pioneer-mander decks (100 card commander deck with only cards in Pioneer format); it was quite fun and refreshing not having the ''staples'' to add to the deck and the power levels of the cards now still lead to interesting games :P
This episode is fantastic. It really got me thinking about my own game play and the way I organize my collection. I've been meaning to make some changes in things and this is definitely a good way to motivate myself towards those changes.
Thank you!
The best thing I did for my Magic collection/sanity was sort my cards and enter my collection into Deckbox. Now I can just dump a deck idea into Deckbox, and it will tell me what I have and what set it's from, and I can pull the box and grab it so quickly.
completely agree with rachel about shuffling putting wear on your deck, cards, time, etc. i read a description once that shuffling your deck is the equivalent of a loading screen, and once i saw that connection, i think about it every time. i think that's why it's so important to do stuff like fetching/etc. at the end of your turn instead of waiting until the previous player's end step so you aren't shuffling and making everyone wait
Loving these more personal episodes, hoping to see more like it!!!
First?
For Murph: I'd highly recommend spending the time documenting your collection online (I presume Archidekt lets you do this). After you're done "distilling" it down further, put what's left into an online collection tracker and keep that updated with any changes. Means you can brew decks completely on the go and know exactly what you have in your collection / in decks already. Saves a good amount of time and money in the long run. And, honestly, it's quite a fun project to document all your stuff!
19:10 speaking on this point...having multiple decks myself at different power levels and play styles really allows me to get games in at any table at the lgs
Same I have one deck that is strictly reserved for if I'm part of a specific pod at my FLGS (Ur-Dragon, a full proxy, OG Dual Lands, all the fetches, shocklands, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Ancient Tomb etc.) it's an 8 or a 9 on the power ranking which is about the power level that group plays at. For newer players I have a kind of silly Eldrazi deck that is much slower to get rolling and tends to be more 'slightly upgraded precon' level of play.
I love organizing my cards because it makes brewing new decks go quickly. I organize by color, then by type (instant, sorcery, creature, enchantment), then split each section into commons and then uncommons/rares/mythics
Guys i love your show a lot, thanks to you I discovered a commander format and I started playing MTG again after about 20 years. Your channel is also quite famous in Europe, I send greetings from the Czech Republic. Thank you!
My New Year’s resolution in Commander is to finally pay the 1 for Rhystic Study. Will it happen? No.
I will stop playing blue
Just ban it in your playgroup
Sorting your collection into a small number of BCW boxes, sorted by color, is quite helpful.
That's why on moxfield you can add your collection and it telss you what you own when buying the cards
Re 'I have too many decks' - I have 7 decks right now - merfolk, vampires, pirates (don't @ me, Ixalan is fun), slivers, necrons, infect, generic tokens - and I solve this by rolling a d8 to see what I'm gonna play. I imagine as I make/get more decks I'll just increase the size of the die 😂😅
Ixalan is great, I have upgraded the merfolk an my bro has dinos and pirates. I try to keep it at 12 decks. Ranging in power levels. I usually ask my playgroup what they feel like playing against. Even if it's to my detriment but it makes the games have some variety so you don't just play your fav Everytime. Rolling dice is a good idea I may use that
Ixalan IS fun. Way more fun than I expected…I just Dino stomped this past Friday night 😊
Imagine being an awesome magic player at an old folks home and you can play your friend's decks (well, because you have 80 years experience) and they're like I stopped updating that deck in 2021, and you're like "Blightsteel! I haven't seen that in years!"
I have a condo and my magic collection is making me want a house. I'm in Toronto and this market is insane. One more hobby like model trains or warhammer and I will have to buy a house.
I'm going to actually finish building the 4 decks that I have sitting half built. Even if they arent fully optimized get them to where they are actually sleeved and playable.
I need more Rachel and Merf. They are really good talking each other. He seems so comfortable. Favorite of this episode
I spend wayyyyy to much time on the 1.0 version of a brew…like a month brewing on and off…so by the time I get it to the final 100…I’m kinda over it. So I’ve been just grabbing the “average deck list” from edhrec and throwing that together as a baseline for the 1.0 version and make changes based on how that plays and my vision for it. Saves soooo much time.
I like Damon's because it is very spring cleaning like, and clears the way for new decks too
I have around 50K cards - I bought some organizers putting Commons in their own separate boxes by color and alphabetizing the entire lot by color. I am FINALLY down to the last 1000 or so - buying just $ingle$ and drafting at the LGS has reduced my intake. Not "cracking packs" - but between The Command Zone (and other online sites of markedly less quality) - I have been having a grand time. Got my The Command Zone Whatnot purchases - which set me back alittle as they had a lot of cards - as my most recent purchases! Glad I got one (OK, i was lucky - I got two). Need another Obscure and Underrated Cards Episode!
Something I am trying this Year is to build a couple very versatile decks. I have a sideboard I carry with the Commander deck that I can shift in and out to react to the night is going. Having a solid deck list and theme will be a must to stop the plan of the deck getting to fluid. I hope...
I just came back to the game this year, and wasn't sure what I wanted to do in the game, so it's been a lot of throwing darts and seeing what sticks with colors, strategies, etc. This year my resolution is to hone in on what color(s) I like most and bolstering my collection of staples in those colors. Maybe I'll sell the other stuff to CardKingdom!
My new year's resolution is to find more peeps that plays some fair commander 😁
Just started watching your content, its fun to see how interactions work and im learning the game more as I watch. A suggestion you guys should build an Extus Commander deck based around the sorcery side. Its a deck that I built but can be incredibly scary.
I had a similar issue to Arthur, but the way I approached fixing it was different. I put my decks into an order, and had to pull from the front to force playing some decks. And, if I skip it more than once, I have to play it and decide after that if I want to keep it. It’s led to more rebuilds than anything, often resulting in changing the commander, but it’s helped me like playing all of my decks!
Glad I’m not the only one who stands by no off color fetches!
Congrats, Jimmy!!
My resolution last year was to get around the collection confusion a lot of y'all seem to be having; now I have a spreadsheet with every single card I own listed and which deck/binder/box it's in. It took months of sorting to get it done but it gives me so much peace of mind now knowing exactly where everything it 😅
For my resolution is to just build the decks I want to build and not worry if someone from my pod already made it or how it fits into my horde of decks
I just want to say the Ultrrapro 30th Anniversary Playmat looks gorgeous with the set symbols from different sets thoughout the years.
14:20 Similar.
I have a little over a dozen decks. I make a monthly schedule where I pick 4 decks at a time to take to my LGS.
I've been trying to use Proxies instead of buying expensive cards unless I really want to upgrade the deck, this is really in the Mana Base. Proxies may be a small cost but I don't want to pay lots of money for each mana base I build.
This. I own 1 copy of each expensive card I play (Shocks/Fetches, Great Henge, Doubling Season, etc) and a handful of proxies of each. This way, I don't need to rebuy the staples, and if I'm at an event or someone is being really anal, I can take the real version out of my little proxy binder and swap em out
Definitely can relate to Rachel's resolution, my new year's resolution is definitely similar but I would rather just make proxy of the cards that I already own instead of buying them again and end up having multiple copies.
I’ve started doing the same, I have one copy of all my best/ strongest lands in my equipment deck, and then in all my other decks I have a proxy in order to cut down on price. I play a lot of mono colored so having to buy 6 nykthos shrine to nyx would really break the bank
To Jamie, Nikara and Yannik was that deck for me. I build mostly powerful decks and I wanted something lower powered. I built this abzan counters list as strong as I could and it's very casual, but still does what I want!
Josh it helps if you're building several decks at once and you have your good cards seperated, you get so many ideas. Purpose is great but so is serendipity. It's tough but organizing your collection to sell and find specific cards for decks is different than sorting to build. If you differentiate your collection into some stuff for one and some stuff for the other it helps. My cards are a mess, but my binder of "Interesting" cards is a joy to go through and usually provides an idea or two when I'm building. And my Good card box is a joy. Next step, organize cards for different power levels and recover from my current archetype focus. Like if I wanted to find ETB cards or Big Creatures I would be totally lost. But if I need a sword of the animist, smothering tithe, and a sol ring I'm set I really enjoy finding them and it won't take too long.
I'm focused on building intro decks this year and using only what I got in my way too big collection. I can probably bust out 20+ more decks of commander and a buuuunch of 60 card decks. But then I actually have to build them. So that's what I'm doing, built, tuned and pulled out and prepared cards for a bunch of decks. Currently working on a simple dimir zombie deck.
Jake talking about building decks online is why i play brawl on arena, ive had “dumb” ideas that turned into fun paper decks and “slam dunks” that turned into nightmares - sidenote: saruman of many colors is sick on brawl!
Date your Decks! Love it.
Like how Rachel just completely takes over everyone else's resolutions lol
When will Day9 return to Game Knights? He is such a fun and positive package.
i was just thinking about this a couple days ago, i’m sure day 9 plays commander
Varying the Power Level of a deck can be building with a Companion restriction. There’s Keruga that’s “hard mode” or Zirda that pushes you to use scryfall to figure out what activated abilities you can use best for your strategy, and the others vary more than that. What do you think?
🎉 hope all the revolutions come to fruition
One way I managed to make things simple is instead of buying multiple copies of cards is investing in a custom 2.8-3.0mm corner cutter, guillotine, a decent printer, and decent 300gsm paper - there are also options for foiled finishes, or if have the time you can remove the fronts of actual foil magic cards to print on. A little research about image and print setup, and my cards come out identical to the eye and no one can tell the difference especially when sleeved.
Across three decks, it ends up even cheaper than buying proxies or counterfeit cards, and done on demand - I mean the entire initial setup is cheaper than compared to a single custom edh deck. Save heaps of money and time (buying/chasing/lloking for cards) for more important things like family and friends. It even offers an opportunity for you to do some arts and craft with your kids and gives more meaning to the deck that 'we' put together.
The money I save in this process allows me to buy reserve list cards, like dual lands - if you're playing non-budget decks you save enough to buy a dual land per deck.
No need for folders and BCW boxes... after a while you'll realise they're all pieces of cardboard and the actual thing isn't really any different (as long as you get the printing process right).
Thanks again
Definitely in the camp of streamline collection and brew not build.
I like the resolutions. Particularly Jordan's. I need to try that one.
Jordan’s resolution is exactly what I was thinking as I was watching the earlier ones
I like Murphs resolution a lot. I recently went through trying to find one card, and it took hours to find. 😅
I like Josh's suggestion so my new year's resolution is to give myself a break. Stop worrying about if my decks were too strong or if my turns took too long.
Can't wait for another year of videos, I have three resolutions to make. Some easier than others
1st: To Play More Commander than I have been the past year. I keep making decklists and have/built/buying precons but never do anything and stop when I realize I don't play enough
2nd: After watching Rachel with some of her signed cards in her decks I thought it looked really cool and after managing to get a set of the Sol Ring/Command Tower from Jimmy and Josh's Signed Whatnot listing. This is my start
3rd: I plan to start grouping my decks together. I would prefer to not take decks apart, but being 100 cards commander decks can be difficult and expensive. So I will buy the longer deck boxes and group them by groups such as Boros, Golgari, and Jeskai. This way the lands and more expensive cards can be reused easier between decks. This idea is to also help justify spending the money on the more expensive cards I have been putting off
Tip for Jamie: financial restrictions are definitely the way to go, as you have to find creative ways to make your decks good. also they are slower, but you can still do the thing your deck wants to do
I am new to the channel so I aplogize if you guys do this already, but I would really love like a 6 months into a year review where you gather everyone again and ask how their resoluion is going, has that resolution changed or stayed the same at all? How has it changed their enjoyment for MTG?
People who struggle going through their collection.. it may be a bit of a pain starting out, but for Rachel who sounds like she keeps all her cards in binders, use a card scanner like manabox, get your collection on a list and save it to your collection on archidekt or wherever, then when you want to brew, it will tell you which ones you already have in your collection. Im only at 2600ish cards but i can brew and search for anything in my collection in a few seconds
My resolution is to build and play more decks I love rather than building decks to meet a "quota." I've fallen into a habit the past few years of forcing decks from newer sets or forcing certain color combinations because I feel like I should have it in my case, only to have them sit there and never see any play time because its a deck I don't enjoy playing.
Jake's resolution actually worked great for me last year using Archidekt and kept me from fleshing out at least 20 decks that would never have lasted more than one game, glad to see others have that same problem!
Our LGS does rotating monthly build point very fun.
My commander resolution this year to build more pointed decks. I am the chaos gremlin in the pod, and as a result I don’t win as many games. This ain’t a problem but it does feed all of the games into a Samey feeling. Where the same two people usually, go head to head. (If one player is just spinning his wheels it’s easy to dispatch of him and a player not keeping pace.)
So as a gift to me and to our play group I’m going to hyper focus on becoming a little less chaotic and much more focused.
Same here cutting down collection and retain cards that i always use
Keep one deck which includes my fave cards
For other staple cards are spread to my othe decks..
Commander has changed so much that people can create so much mana, draw so many cards, and then play so many cards per turn with the extra mana and cards… that I’ve stopped trying to plan or set up turns. It’s made it so much more fun because after 3 players take bigger turns odds are the boardstate has totally changed
a few years ago I sold a big part of my collection to a size where they all fit in square collecters box and 2 binders. Mono-colored are stored in the box itself, and the binders are reserved for multi-colored and collerless respectively. This is working pretty good for me, but i'm debating wether or not I should make sub-categories in my mono-colored box for the main things a deck needs (Ramp, Draw & Interaction). This would make it even easier to go trough my collection when looking for cards.
Moxfield is free and an awesome resource (per Jake’s build decks online resolution).
I have a very small collection probably 2000 cards including the precons, I bought. I decided to put all $1 and up mythics and rares in a binder. Then I am currently taking my commons and uncommons and sorting them by color, type, mana value, and alphabetical. I am trying to do this because I build budget decks and I am trying to make it easier to search.
I'm going to combine my Ashnod, the Uncaring and Mishra, Eminent One decks.
My Commander 2024 resolution is to actually do the decklist before buying a bunch of cards that I'm gonna have to cut out of the finished deck.
This is me. Lolz
@@floydyutiamco cheers man. Hope we get it right next time lol.
I went through an addiction phase for about a year, I have ready to play all in boxes and sleeves, over 100 decks 😬it’s great tho I play with my my friends and family and let people use my decks so it’s super fun it does take a lot of time to go through upgrades when new cards come out
my new year's resolution: Play Bant Group hug
I actually really like the old set much better, but still nice to see another year strong!
My 2023 goal was to update every one of my decks I hadn't played since 2019.
My resolution is to build with more of a budget in mind and to build from my collection first!
My new year resolution in commander is to not lose with my sliver deck 😏
I heard that Rachel weeks suplexed Kyle Hill into the Commander Studio land screen. Thats exactly why its no longer there.
Jake knowing the key of thoughts is the highlight of this video for me
as I am watching this episode while sorting out a huge pile of few months of shopping and adding them to my collection on moxfield, i think a good resolution would be to not just use the cards I have instead going to spend money i don't have on new cards :)
I heard that Rachel Weeks suplexed Kyle Hill into the Commander Studios land screen. Thats exactly why its no longer there.
My new years resolution is to buy more singles and less booster packs.
I will note that sorting cards and categorizing them goes a lot faster than you might think if you are dreading it. I had about 12,000 cards when I went through them, and it took maybe 8-10 hours to get them in easily findable categories. It really takes the pressure off of getting rid of cards if they are easier to search through and manage. And once they are sorted, it is very easy to get into a habit of putting cards away instead of piling them up (at least for me it was) because putting them away is simpler when they already have a spot to go in.
Hey Mr. Pridgen! Where did you get that dope shirt?? I would love to get one like it but I cannot find a shop online that sells it.
Mine is to actually play more, but with Magic being outrageously priced currently I've decided to play more pauper. Now I just have to find other pauper players. Would be pretty great if you guys played some pauper extra turns or something.
Will the Whatknot stream will have the givaways or shipping in canada?
Hi Rachel! You look amazing as always. 🌼
This past year I put together a deck of every color combo, (minus the 4 color just did one) but as a newer player that turned into a LOT of decks that are just full of fluff and don’t feel fun to play. So this year I think I’d like to refine some of the weaker decks. Right now feels like I have a handful of pretty high power and all the rest are just laughably bad. Hoping for quality to go with the quantity! And then I’ll have a good range for any play group.
Man I want the chapters back for the pod
Can i please know what Microphones you guys use for your podcast? Thanks.
My mrg new years resolution.. to let less spells resolve. Last year was play more blue. This year, actually used the counter spells I paid for lol
I learned from my voice teacher, that the key of our spoken voice is Dflat/D
Good ear Jake
I really like the new set
Arthur Meadowcroft is such a hype name 😎 bro is a Chad amongst Chads
I pulled a Double Masters 2022 Cavern of Souls, sold it and another card to get the Zendikar Expedition Cavern, and just recently sold that and another card to get a Foil Paths of the Dead - Cavern of Souls from LotR for my Hobbit/ Food deck. All Caverns from the same shop. I prefer to support locally when I'm looking for cards.
I'd say my resolution is to not be as excited when things are going well. I always get excited when my decks pull off amazing combos, and I always end up missing triggers, like gaining life when a creature enters the battlefield. I need to slow down and pay attention to my board states more. So many cards have so much text now, and when my battlefield fills up, I end up missing things.
I have the same problem as Josh Murphy. I am thinking about selling all cards not in decks and buying everything new when I buy a new deck.
I need to play more removal, it's hard for me to put enough when they don't feel like they synergize with the rest of the deck. But it's needed if I want to improve power level at least.
Has there been an update on the game knight tokens??? I want them so bad
I have always ran only on colored fetches, just because, to me, it felt like cheating, even though it's allowed. Then I built a more competitive EDH deck, and added some extra, and it was ok, but didn't make me want to add them to other decks
As a new player (started Commander in October of last year) I am resolving to learn how to use and search archidekt, moxfield, and EDHRec. and what is the differences between them. I am a little confused. . Maybe I can look back and see any episodes you produce as a how to use!
EDHRec just looks at the decks already made online and compiles a list of cards that people put in them. It's honestly not good for much outside of being a starting point and finding niche cards, as just taking the best stuff from it tends to make powerful piles. It also runs the risk of you finding "nonbos" because people run the card for some reason. For newer players, EDHRec is good, just don't take the suggested cards to heart.
Moxfield and Archidekt are the same thing, and all about preference. I prefer Moxfield because it's online playtester feels better and it automatically filters your searches by your Commander's color identity.
Archidekt and mox field are very similar for building decks, mostly becomes personal preference on which you want to use. I find archidekt has (or had don't know if its still true) better visual builder which i prefer to build with. they have a lot of the same features just set up slightly differently. EDHrec isn't a building website but shows you how often certain cards show up for particular commanders and can give recommendations.
Honestly, another way to spend less is to just use untap and proxy more. I'm sure it's not in the interest of Commad Zone and Card Kingdom to do this, that's fine. But it is an option.
None of my decks actually have proxies rn, but I don't like that if I want to make changes to my commander deck I need to spend >$30 for a couple pieces of fancy paper. I do not have a high enough paying job for like a normal savings account, the cards do not get to be that high priority (and I'll make sure I can still bring legal things to my local store and other events so that I can be in the community, I'm just not paying for fetches or tutors)