Thanks! Glad you like the channel. I just try to have a good time playing MTG. Based on the some of the comments Ill be uploading more losses, as long as they are interesting to watch. Yeah this was a rough game. Bounce decks like this can be really difficult to play against, especially if you're on a creature strategy. Anyways, thanks for the kind words.

Yeah the threat assessment was terrible. Ive talked about it before, poor threat assessment can give and it can take. This would be the take. Thrasios with anything, or sultai anything is just going to be way scarier than what a mono white deck can do. I would have just about traded the kingdom for a white harmonize this game.

It was insane seeing them just send stupid things your way, I’ll have to rewatch to see how many times your stuff got blown up with actual threats available. This is one of those games where you just couldn’t get a foothold because one guy was hard targeting you, a second was hitting you with collateral mass bounce and then everyone ignored that Damia until it was terminal. Worst part is that Multani clown blows up your lands and then Thrasios bounces the tokens so you just keep getting farther and farther behind..

This is my justification why the Multani player was targeting you. Since you are an angel deck and he didn't put in anything that gives him reach to deal with a lot of flyers. He was blowing up your lands to stop you from casting them. I do agree how ever that he should have at least taken the lotus of the table and zombie infestation at least from the damia player and definitely the rhystic study.

Stephen Housman his commander is a giant reach fatty

Its annoying. But as a Boros player I have to be somewhat comfortable with it since it is a tool in the arsenal. Theres a Kruphix deck in my local playgroup thats a bit too strong, I think a few armageddons would keep them a bit more honest.

Oh don't worry Aurelia is still my main lady :) Glad you like the videos, I'm sure Lyra will be back. I plan to tinker with a few things so we can be better suited against this type of stuff.

Glad to hear about Aurelia. I'd love to see her go off with the new Helm of the Host in your voltron deck.

Yeah it was rough. It was tough cause we were so close to getting back in it but then we lost like 6 lands in one shot.

Yeah its really good when life gain is involved. Ive definitely used it on other commanders that have lifelink. And for mono white it can act as a really nice counterspell.

Wow great tech. I would have traded the kingdom for one of those early in this game. If our lands hadn't gotten blown up we would have been so far ahead at least on land count. Then we would have been able to recast most of the hand each turn....sadly it wasn't to be.

I didnt do a great job of articulating this in the video...I got caught up in my own hype. But where she will actually probably be the best is in the 99 of a multi color angel deck. Mono white is a hard sell even for me. As you point out it struggles with card draw heavily, so I definintely recommend your plan of going GW. The green will fill in a lot of gaps, things like Sylvan Library, Soul's Majesty....oo I just got myself excited...i know how im going to build SHalai now. You could do a green white reanimator with survival of the fittest and fauna shaman. The cards you mention are also great and worth inclusion. But yeah definintely recommend having a second color in your angel decks and GW will certainly be very strong, plus access to both Sigardas. I think it will be a pretty solid deck. Im planning to do a video on Shalai soon, maybe I can bump it up in the schedule.

@@CommanderReplay IMO maya the anima is the best angel tribal commander. You don't really benefit from having an angel as your commander since they don't have a lot of direct synergy woth each other. Maya gives access to green and most of the cool angels and allows you to cheat them into play at turn 4 or 5.

Na I don't have one yet. Its a little bit pricey for me so Ill probably wait. Highly recommend you sell it soon though if you are not planning to use it. Typically things will start to dwindle in price after release, especially around 30 and 60 markers. Cards like this that have standard appeal, I usually wait for quite a while before purchasing. I generally try not to spend more than $5 on newer cards, although for a legendary foil it might be a bit more. We'll see. Good luck with the card though, I'm sure it looks amazing.

Just thought I'd ask in case you were interested :-) Dude, this game was rough. Games whenever your board gets wiped every turn, and apparently infinite Terastodon triggers seem super frustrating. Maybe you can get this deck another shot once you've updated with the cards you mentioned at the end? And maybe it will help get the bad taste of board wipe tribal out of your mouth haha.

Yeah emeria is a serious card. Getting it online can be trikcy especially in a 2 color, but burnished hart and sun titan definitely help the cause. Emeria can just win a game if it gets late and people are low on cards.

Yeah it was super frustrating. Bad threat assessment is part of MTGO. Sometimes it gives and sometimes it takes. This would be an example of the taking. In the Geth video I did a while back someone left a blood chief ascension in play on our side, and it literally took over the game.

Yeah this one was brutal. The worst part was that feeling of almost being able to get back in it, just to have my dreams crushed by more bounce spells and terastadons.

Yeah I don't know. In the QA video I talked about how poor threat assessment can give and it can take. This would be the take. It doesn't seem like a mono white deck should take 12 of 21 Terastodon triggers (2 lands from acidic slime I believe) so I think we can call that poor threat assessment on our opponents part. This one was rough.

Would’ve been interesting to see who won. I’d like to see that in future videos where you lose, assuming it doesn’t add a boat load of editing for you to do of course. I appreciate this video must’ve taken a while to edit.

This is the kind of thing that don't usually happen when you play irl. There you just make agreements with the other underdog player at the table, monogreen in this case, and just go hard the ones going nuts so you balance things around. That's how lotta less powerful decks win lotta times, cause you might not be generating as much value but still pack a punch.

Yeah, I mean if they were uninterrupted for a turn or 2 they probably would have won. Seedborn with Thrasios in play can do some work. So they were trying to open a window for themselves, but they took a lot of hate also. Its someone that Ive played with a few times usually keeps it classy, but they were even a bit salty after that one. Just a rough game all the way around, except for Damia.

No worse is when some one Armageddons then leaves because they can not win. Speaking of which since you are running crucible do you have it in your deck?

Ur right thats even worse. Or a stacks player that plays the pieces without any advantage on the board. Where MLD is concerned, i had a player cast Decree of Annhihilation before without sort of wincon on the board.

#BouncedintoOblivion

That would certainly explain a lot! I mean after that one I feel like I got trolled...hard.

3 tablespoons and a pinch of pepper. Yeah it was a rough one, but I thought it was worth showing.

Aurelia is still my main lady. Mono white just cant compete with the tools you get from having a second color. Aurelia also allows you to close the game out quickly once you have a few angels, Lyra is a bit slower. But Lyra is still cool, we will see more of her. Hopefully against a more board wipe heavy matchup instead of a mass bounce matchup. This deck is well suited for traditional board wipes.

I'm actually thinking about switching Aurelia Angels over Shalai Angels. I have most of the green cards for it and I'm not really utilizing them at the moment. Just looking to change it up, getting bored of my current paper decks.

Shalai is super sweet, the pacing and play style of both those decks are really different. I can imagine it being refreshing playing more of a grindy controlling style of angels rather than having to be constantly trying to aggro people down.

Yeah, people that have seen my Aurelia deck know that Aurelia plus 2 or 3 angels is enough to start taking people out of the game. I think Shalai will be good since they wont really know what to expect, and doesn't have the looming threat of haste and double combat steps. So I think it will get less hate, plus the protection from Shalai stops most spot removal. The trade off there is that it takes longer to finish someone off. I know that I'm going to miss the Aurelia sword of the animist interaction also. Anyway, I think it will be fun to change it up. Also I think Angelic Arbiter is going to be a key in the late game for this deck to avoid someone just tooth and nailing or some similar line of play.

Especially with Helm of the Hosts releasing in DOM Aurelia is going to be even higher on people's hit lists. Shalai is pretty open ended so as you said people don't know what to expect. Even though the deck would be much slower I think you'd have the advantage in the long run if you manage to get your recursion going and are able to protect it. You managed pretty well in the gameplay with her you uploaded earlier this week, and that was without playing Shalai if remember correctly. I think she's kind of a sleeper card right now, and people underestimate her ability.

The part that was frustrating is that there were definitely other things on the battlefield deserving attention. The mono white deck is not usually the scariest deck at the table. A few terastodon hits on Damia it probably changes the landscape of the game quite a bit. Rough games happen though, just gotta move on.

hahaha That's true :P

Yeah it was pretty rough. I brought a knife to a gun fight. I would have definitely like to have something a bit more competitive for that match up as well. My kingdom for a counterspell!

Commander Replay I still think you would have one the game if not for that last bounce spell, with duelist heritage OTB, you will be swinging for a ton of damage against the damia opponent I'm excited for the rest of dominaria week :)

Id have to go back and watch, but once things got rolling I don't even know if I had a successful attack after like turn 5 due to all the bouncing.

Commander Replay i go for the spite play >:)

Oh I have no problems going for the spite play, though I try not to do it on camera TOO much. Could barely get an attack in though. Would have been so much better if I was playing Aurelia, that haste every turn...someone is getting attacked. Probably would have sent some damage back at the green player, though the issue was still that the 4 color player hadn't been getting any attention all game.

Yeah I don't know man. I can tell you it was a rough game though. Lol I would love to setup etali cataclysm. Everytime I build a white deck there is always some amount of thought devoted to, do I play cataclysm? Such a funny card. Oh you're way ahead? Not anymore.

Yes very powerful. Its often hard for other colors to compete.

Hey so I actually learned a lot from this game. One of the big take aways is that you need to plan for opponents interaction with your stuff. Also I don't think I proper ramp or card draw in place for this deck. But some of the better ways to not get wrecked by opponents interaction is referee's protection, eerie interlude, ghostway, and lapse of certainty. And also make sure you are generating card advantage, i like things like gift of estates, land tax, tithe, and still testing out boreas charger, but also ramping with a good amount of artifact ramp. It still would have been rough fight, but I would at least given myself a chance had I done those things. Check out some of the mono white challenge stuff I did over the past few months. It is possible to build a good mono white deck, you just need to jump through more hoops to figure out our card advantage and ramp. also With a deck like this I think you want to get Lyra down on turn 4. Turn 5 can be slow. So if you get her down nice and early its not too difficult to start putting people in commander damage jeopardy by turn 6 or 7.

Oh another thing I learned this year also...what did we lose something like 14 permanents over the course of the game? It doesn’t matter what deck you play, if you lose that many permanents you probably won’t win the game. So as discouraging as this video was I wouldn’t read into much too much. The deck needed some work but when you eat that much removal, most likely to lose anyway.

@@CommanderReplay I've never actually thought about anticipating what my opponents would do to my stuff. Usually I just play my stuff and if they remove it then they remove it. But what my original build idea was to essentially focus on using the life gain ability to fuel cards like Well of lost dreams, Angelic Accord, and Angelic Chorus. Along with artifact/equipment for a more combat focused strategy. Just out of curiosity, did you include Felidar Sovereign in your original deck tech or do you try to stray away from cards that have "win the game" abilities?

@@CommanderReplay oh also, not sure if you included Indomitable Archangel in the main deck tech but that's one sure way to protect your artifact ramp and necessary things like crucible of worlds.

Yeah this was a rough one. I'm usually able to keep it chill but I was starting to get frustrated after the continuous bounces and terastodon triggers.

Ill have to write down the user name and then be sure to join with one of my well tuned Aurelia decks. Can bounce all day, I'm gonna haste it down and get aggro AF.

You should make a video of Aurelia! I'd love to see a tuned deck for Boros

Im actually working on a new weapons of war video. Should be up this week or next. I have 2 videos I want to post before that one.

The Thrasios payer is Midnight Cowboy. Ive played against him a bunch and haven't really had any problems. So I have removed him from the blood feud list.

Yeah I agree the multi color opponents could have used more attention from the mono green opponent. You are correct skill level varies, and that's a short coming of MTGO there is just less communication. If we were at the shop, someone would have been like hey you should hit that rhystic study etc.

Commander Replay For what it's worth, i feel your frustration. The other day I've been playing with a VERY fair brago against some friends (just etb, no winter orb, stasis shenanigans) and they kept destroying my artifact cantrips, while my friend's kumena was producing 5-7 tokens per turn, with Merrow Commerce and Coat of Arms on board. On a side note: None of them throughout the game even considered removing that COA. On a Kumena deck...

Commander Replay I feel you. The other day i played a VERY fair brago (just etb, no winter orb, stasis shenanigans) against some friends, and they kept destroying my artifact cantrips, while my friend's Kumena made 5-7 tokens a turn with Merrow Commerce and Coat of Arms on board. On a side note: Throughout the game none of them even considered removing that COA. In a Kumena deck...

Yeah I thought you might get a kick out of this one based on our discussion. Yeah its basically, generate tons of value, then tutor for the win. I ran into a player on MTGO who thought he was a bad ass cause he could doomsday lab maniac combo with his Damia deck. Sadly I never got to face him with my Baral deck before I blocked him.

I like that response, "Sadly I never got to face him before I blocked him." That is maybe one of my favorite responses. That being said I'm glad you were willing to post a video of you losing, many youtubers, in the early stages aren't willing to show themselves losing due to typically less views. Wish I could do that with people I play with at my LGS.

Yeah some days on MTGO are rough. I find myself wondering if they have ever played commander before. I see people doing things like, sitting back and not attacking the narset player, or the locust god player. Doesn't take long to realize that those decks always win. Or some really poor choices of removal. This one was especially frustrating though, pretty much no hope when your mono white.

Yeah usually I'm in a pretty good mood when I'm playing, but this game was miserable. I still just don't get why they targeted us so hard. Still some valuable lessons in this video though...have a plan for mass bounce.