This week Gaby is on the pod to talk about a deck swap we’re doing with our local friends. Like a Secret Santa, we were each given a mission, and needed to build a deck to that spec. After finishing our decks, we couldn’t help but think of what we’d do with some custom magic energy. Join us as we each design a commander, first for “Mischievous Chaos” and then for “If you’ve got the money honey i’ve got your disease”.
Cards mentioned in the first half gallery
Cards mentioned in the second half gallery
Topics and Tidbits
- white elephant vs secret santa
- Everyone submits a deck name/theme (e.g., Streets of Rage, Through the Fire and Flames, Grave Expectations …)
- Each deck name will then be randomly assigned to someone else to build the deck for you as a gift.
- Build a ~$50 budget Commander deck using authentic MtG cards based on your assigned deck name / theme.
- Decks should be “Bracket 1” using the Commander Bracket system, highlighting the theme provided by the deck name.
- Normal Commander deck construction rules apply except upto 10, silver border, acorn, or playtest cards may be included if you want for some holiday goofery.
- Unfinity rares… undiscovered country
- $50 doesn’t go that far for 100 cards when most cards can’t be ordered for under $.35
- Tim’s assigned theme: Mischevious Chaos
- Need a mixture of “getting ahead with surprise tricks” and “wild things happen that nobody controls”
- Locke’s mechanics are high on both mischief and chaos but the character art doesn’t totally sell that
- Locke mills along with his treasure and stealing, which provided an extra hook
- Reanimate package was too $$ expensive for this
- Locke is an Outlaw (Thunder Junction style) too
- the good goad cards are also not quite right for budget decks
- re-entering the Garfield zone by asking players to decide what a sideboard card is in commander
- un-game fun
- mischief kinda requires picking on people
- switching from dimir to izzet to get a bit more mischief and less mean
- once upon a galaxy shoutout
- do tricks have to be instant speed?
- saving the content for the pod
- “commit a crime” as a measure of mischief
- classic commander template of “when you do X, draw a card”
- copying is mischief-y
- cascade and polymorph as other cute effects
- replacing a baby with a faerie substitute
- goad branding
- still destroying things to polymorph things in 2023?
- making an enemy AND giving them incentive to punish you
- faer-ify
- it’s always the “where do the other cards go” with cascade-likes that balloons rules text
- how good is regular access to goad? high upside but also blank on some boards
- out of turn goading can be goofy to track
- obsessed vs obsession
- quasit pronunciation
- casting on opponent’s turn is a trendy faerie clause
- back to crimes
- lining up on all 2s
- tim timsplains timmy
- fantasynamegenerators.com
- Spice Jumpyming
- feeling the juliet-shaped hole in the pod
- If you’ve got the money, honey, I’ve got your disease
- poison is expensive
- turning to un for fun
- blood token fulfills the prophecy
- zooming in to inspect for blood
- hard to do 3 color mana base on $50
- what is a golgari rock star?
- tempting others into BG deals
- pivot to red green for more party??
- mixing a triggered stax-y ability with a anyone-can-use activated ability
- ramp is a fun thing to share but falls off after mid game
- impulse draw a nice riff on giving everyone the chance to draw?
- accidentally reinventing Prosper, Tome-Bound
- picking a trigger that can be built around but isn’t constant
- are cascade cards $$ expensive?
- faldorn’s weird wording “lands enter from exile” is so it works with lands that weren’t played??
- when “once per turn” doesn’t slow you down
- one axe one rose
- the engine is too engine-y, gotta get weird instead
- there’s money in the bananas
- discarding as an effect instead of as a cost
- forgetting the sac on treasure
- putting extra rules text on cards just for clarity
- anti-roxanne tech
- gaby’s submitted theme is: the wonder twins
- tim’s submitted theme is: all eyes on me
The final cards:
