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Mike’s Mimeoplasm CMDR Deck
Untold thousands of years ago, Chewie talked me into filming a marathon session of videos for the CMDR Decks channel, and we sent them over to be placed in the queue for future release. Presumably you’ve already seen Dakkon Blackblade, Fumiko the Lowblood, and Scion of the Ur-Dragon (check them out, if not), but this one is the long-lost final episode from that session: The Mimeoplasm. Note that I go and make tweaks to my decks fairly often, and this video has been in the can for a while, so several details just aren’t accurate anymore. You can look it up on TappedOut to see the up-to-the-minute current list. As always, let me know what you think in the comments here, or in the comments section on YouTube if you feel so inclined. To be honest, there’s no guarantee I’ll read the YouTube comments, as I do my best to avoid reading any YouTube comments as a general rule (that stuff will rot your brain). Recording all these videos was a lot of fun, and I want to thank Uriah Oxford (@CMDRDecks) and Gathering Magic for featuring them on the CMDR Decks channel.
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Tags: casual magic, Commander, EDH, Magic the Gathering, mike, MTG, MTG Commander, out of the deck box, The Mana Pool, Video
Mike’s Scion of the Ur-Dragon CMDR Decks Video
Several months ago, Chewie talked me into filming a marathon session of videos for the CMDR Decks channel, and we sent them over to be placed in the queue for future release. Presumably you’ve already seen the Dakkon Blackblade video and the Fumiko the Lowblood video (check them out, if not), but this one is the very first Commander deck I ever built: my Scion of the Ur-Dragon deck. Note that I go and make tweaks to my decks fairly often, especially if I get to thinking about them for some reason, so some of the details aren’t really accurate anymore. You can look it up on TappedOut to see the up-to-the-minute current list. As always, let me know what you think in the comments here, or in the comments section on YouTube if you feel so inclined. To be honest, there’s no guarantee I’ll read the YouTube comments, as I do my best to avoid reading any YouTube comments as a general rule (that stuff will rot your brain). Recording all these videos was a lot of fun, and I want to thank Uriah Oxford (@CMDRDecks) and Gathering Magic for featuring them on the CMDR Decks channel.
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Tags: casual magic, Commander, EDH, Magic the Gathering, mike, MTG, MTG Commander, out of the deck box, The Mana Pool, Video
Fallen Empires Winchester Draft
Hey look, another draft video with an extremely old set! If you’ve watched these before, you know the story. Mike had more money than he had sense, and ended up buying unopened boxes of some seriously old Magic sets. What do you do with unopened boxes of seriously old Magic sets? Why, you stream two-man Winchester Drafts of them! Don’t let’s be silly!
But this time, we’re drafting the dreaded Fallen Empires. The first tribal set! Of course, half of those tribes are almost extinct nowadays, but we won’t hold it against them. Homarids just needed to die, after all. Storyline-wise, this set was all about each color handling its own internal conflict, rather than pitting the colors against each other. There were two warring factions in each color, giving the set a bizarre disconnected feel (in my opinion, anyway).
Now for some tidbits of interest. Fallen Empires was MASSIVELY overprinted. Seriously, these things were everywhere. And they still are! It’s a good thing they didn’t come with gum like old baseball cards, or else there would have a serious chance of having to deal with mutated oozes. It was also the last time the tilted T was used to indicate tapping (that nifty little curved arrow thing showed up in the next set). And if you look very carefully at the mana symbols on these cards compared to sets that came after, you’ll see that this is the last set with the “original” ones. It’s easiest to tell on the white symbol.
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Tags: casual magic, Chewie, draft, Fallen Empires, Magic the Gathering, mike, MTG, The Mana Pool, two man draft, UStream, Video, Winchester Draft
Mike’s Fumiko CMDR Decks Video
A few months ago, Chewie talked me into filming a marathon session of videos for the CMDR Decks channel, and we sent them over to be placed in the queue for future release. Presumably you’ve already seen the Dakkon Blackblade video (check it out, if not), and the second one is the second Commander deck I ever built: my Fumiko the Lowblood deck. Note that I go and make tweaks to my decks fairly often, especially if I get to thinking about them for some reason, so some of the details aren’t exactly accurate anymore. You can look it up on TappedOut to see the up-to-the-minute current list. As always, let me know what you think in the comments here, or in the comments section on YouTube if you feel so inclined. To be honest, there’s no guarantee I’ll read the YouTube comments, as I do my best to avoid reading any YouTube comments as a general rule (that stuff will rot your brain). Recording all these videos was a lot of fun, and I want to thank Uriah Oxford and Gathering Magic for featuring them on the CMDR Decks channel.
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Tags: casual magic, Commander, EDH, Magic the Gathering, mike, MTG, MTG Commander, out of the deck box, The Mana Pool, Video
Mirage Winchester Draft
As you may have heard, a while back Mike made a series of spectacularly bad eBay decisions and ended up with some unopened boxes of some old sets. You saw the first of these in our Homelands Winchester, which was actually a lot of fun and I highly recommend that you go watch it. If you have no experience with the old sets, it’s cool to check out how far things have come. And if you have played with them, it’s a nice bit of nostalgia.
But we had so much fun with Homelands that we decided to give it another go. This time, Mike brought over his box of Mirage! Ah yes, Mirage. For the record, I hate hate HATE Femeref Healers. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Mirage brought us bizarre new things like phasing and flanking, but let’s not hate on it too much for those. Flanking was actually pretty cool. Mirage also gave us the very first appearance of charms! You know, cheap modal spells that have 3 useful-but-not-really-worth-a-card abilities on them. Charms have popped up 6 times now, but Mirage was the first.
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Tags: casual magic, Chewie, draft, Magic the Gathering, mike, Mirage, MTG, The Mana Pool, two man draft, UStream, Video, Winchester Draft