tonight we're having..

The Commander Game We Played Tonight

me and my gf were mall ratting like most of the day in search of christmas gifts, other errands and a bad (yet somehow still pure cinema) christmas movie we got seats a little too close to the screen for, so i didn't review any snack. we had pizza hut which was meh, alright at most, but wouldn't make that much of a review

but it's friday night so you know what this means (it came up here before right?) i'm just gonna review the first match we had at magic night

tom's playing the mycotyrant, jachym's playing the valgavoth, and i'm playing my favorite deck, teysa karlov

my opening hand is pretty solid, 3 lands, an arcane signet (we banned sol ring), and some goodstuff in vindictive vamp, shriekmaw and village rites

wow lot of linking in this one

first turn is fair, true and honest magic, land pass. quite great

first blood i get dealt 4 commander damage by valgavoth. we then all find out that valgavoth gets coutners when players get damaged on their turns

couple turns in i got two drainers (like the blood artist not the gang) out and like nothing else. i don't attack as i want them to think i come in peace, no reason for me to attack them. they laugh at the concept of me coming in peace

eventually i get lolth out which sticks around very long, until the end of the game actually which is awesome, didn't expect to get so much gas out of her

they don't know i hold a damn in hand. they don't know

it's just me, lolth, and an orzhov enforcer now

oh orzhov enforcer on an empty board save me (and lolth)

some turns later i lolthed and did her ultimate. i expected it to be quite useless but it turned out to be quite usefull when pinging with a single 1/1 flying spirit (the enforcer died :(). jachym has a lot of oppresive stuff on the board tho, lot of burning and pinging for just breathing

he terminated my sun titan which is so flavorful actually (the art on terminate shows a sun titan getting, well, terminated. flavour texts matches too, it's a great moment (even though i personally use this promo of sun titan, but it's not in lackey so the flavour is kept. onwards!))

so far the game is great but i'm struggling to draw into a sacrifice outlet. i've just rebuild my teysa deck from scratch recently and i have only 9 in it, which i suppose is a bit of a low number. this came up again in the next game so i'm looking to add another right now

the ending is quite cool. i'm down to 6 life with very little stuff and a card on jachym's field that burns me for 2 for each card i cast. there's planning to be done. eventually the marionette apprentice saved the game, sweeping up both tom and jachym. the fact that this works on treasure is great even though in this deck it won't come up

overall a solid, 10 turn 90 minute match. pretty great

final rating -[░░░░▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓█████---] : 17.1/20

i know i took the last screenshot a bit too late after tom took his stuff back on death. oh well

i also didn't play teysa at all. nor did i make as many tokens as i would've liked. much to think about

you want to play magic this conveniently too? read this day 21 from the 2021 advent calendar (wow almost precisely 3 years ago) to see what we use