I believe I prefaced, during the decktech, that this deck was a nice compromise, of sorts, for competitive players who want to get in a game that is not entirely uninteractive and that doesn’t outrage fellow players. I have decks, brutal, brutal decks, but what’s the point in having three other people sit through the motions while I bowflex in front of the magic mirror? It doesn’t make for a good video; it doesn’t encourage people to play me or watch my content.

In terms of card selections, I explained why I was playing the cards I had elected and the concessions one makes when playing a strategy like this. I have encountered and defeated many decks with Leyline of the Void and Relic of Progenitus. As I also mentioned in the decktech, if someone comes with GY hate hardcasting your guys isn’t an unrealistic Plan B. Remember, every deck strategy has a hole in it somewhere; and the more moving parts you have, the more compact your strategy is, means that often those inherit weaknesses can be your certain doom. In many cases, other players will get rid of problematic cards – esp. since bounce is my only real option in these colors.

Furthermore, setting out to capture only “competitive content” is a two-fold dilemma.

1.) many player’s definition of what is and isn’t competitive is as varied as what falls under the umbrella of “fun.” Sure, as a competitive player I can scoff at someone else’s cards, deck, play style, but maybe to them, in their own little global bubble, they’re the dominator, and the cards and decks they play have good track records.

As it stands I have to tape hours of games in order to provide you a single game, marginal or not. People rage quit, they freak out and lecture, and, yes, sometimes I cannot resist biting back. This format is rife with so many issues in terms of trying to share content, the odds are already stacked against me. Trust me, I have put the header ‘ serious decks only – no quitting’ many a time – all this does is attract even worse players.

And 2.) read the above comments: you’re too sarcastic vs. love your sarcasm. Your deck is noninteractive and too competitive vs please make competitive vids. It’s all subjective, and, in the end, I cannot please everyone. I can tell you that I will never create a video on a well-known, hyper competitive combo deck for Commander; what would be the point? “Turn two – hermit druid, tap, mill, spend 5 mins assembling win, end of video.” If I need sexy alone time, I won’t have Camtasia on and I won’t be playing MtGO, rest assured.

So really the whole issue boils down to toeing the line – trying to give something streamlined but not so that it makes for one-sided games and videos. I would, however, ask that before taking a pointy stick to me and my ideas pay closer attention to the decktech as I am usually quite thorough and cover a lot why and how before jumping into a game. Sure, I don’t always get out in front of every question, but I do for a lot of them.

Thanks though for watching – more vids to come! Next vid has two games!

Regarding treating this format competitively, do you think your deck has a chance against well tuned decks? Virtually any well constructed combo deck (hermit druid, sharuum, etc.) seems to go off faster, and your disruption suite is rather marginal. Why not avoid the pick up game scene and show us some competitive opponents!