That's a great idea! Jimmy would be jealous when if he saw all those lands!

iirc they try to avoid combos cause it isn't great for the viewing as a long game.

It is cool deck to build but horrible one to play. At most you will get like 20 minutes of gameplay out of it and nothing anyone else does matters. You could play the deck at home without an opponent with the same result.

@@ondrejbronec837 it's great for mto to just go smash some randos when you need a tilt break.

@@ondrejbronec837 ... Unless you know counterspells

A count of Basic Lands is hardly a "tactic"...

Same here.

It would be an upgrade but it wont fit the base list because its $6.90

Your KZfaq name sounds familiar...

@@TheCommandersQuarters I'd like to see you do a different gitrog monster deck but base it around its draw effect

Your name is just amazing... I love it

@@callumstonehouse8407 who's?

@@gamerofknowledgeandmore426 Most likely the OP's name...

Sammmmeeeeeee I heard the introduction and couldn’t believe my ears.

I built this deck but with teferi instead. Once everyone knows time to pull it apart... but it is hilarious.

Dutchbag lucky! I kept getting mana screwed

@@habsamdwich A serious concern. If you draw your combo pieces, you're screwed.

Was it the_legend27 ?

@@adamrobinson6951 Not really. Together they are cheaper than your Commander. If you draw one of them it might be a problem but you can just hold out a little longer. It is janky but it's possible and if you draw Mana severance you can play it and confirm your jace as the next card drawn.

@@themakerstoolbox9688 True enough, I miss-thought the cascade and thought you'd need to hit 2 permanents. As long as the draw-to-win effect resolves before the cascade, you're fine

Dunno if worth. You only need to cast a single spell once. Then again, it's not gonna hurt much either.

Kinekamaru yes but if ur behind, and u have the counter lands and man lands, you still need to still have mana for the manlands. so karn can increase the use of the other lands

@@dtv2426 In theory, yes. But if you're behind enough to not have the mana to cast your commander, you're not gonna make a lot of use out of the bastion, it requires you to pretty much tap 5 mana worth of lands (including itself)

The cascade ability is one effect, not two. The order of the rules and reminder text has you cast the spell first. However, the cascade ability is still in the middle of resolving, so you put everything on the bottom before resolving the free spell. The combo works, your reasoning is just wrong.

@@MinecraftManiacs1to3 Spells cannot begin resolving while another ability is resolving. You 'cast' a spell by placing it on the stack, but cascade is still resolving, so you finish that first by putting lands back. Then, the spell you placed previously on the stack begins resolving. 'Cast' does not mean resolve immediately, it means place on the stack so that it will resolve the first time it is able. It's like if you draw a card with Miracle off Sylvan Library or Brainstorm. You cast the miracle, finish resolving the abilities and put whatever cards back that you are required too, then you begin resolving the Miracle spell. Another good example is Panglacial Wurm. If you're resolving a demonic tutor and you choose to cast Panglacial Wurm while searching your library, you pay all the necessary costs for casting it, and place it on the stack. Then you finish resolving demonic tutor, put a card into your hand, Demonic tutor goes into your graveyard, and then panglacial Wurm begins to resolve just as if you had cast it normally.

@juter4397 lab man is not involved here, but Jace's ability is a replacement effect technically. You cant respond to state based actions, including losing the game due to drawing from an empty library, and Jace replaces that effect with one that says you win rather than lose, meaning you can't respond to it either, since the thing its replacing doesn't even enter the stack or use priority in any way.

@@Npocommander yes that will also work. The combo is fragile in that way but still pretty cool

Nick Eckhoff My Modern Deck is Grixis Hunt. Standard Zombie Hunt set up except set up for 3 colours with duals and such, running 2 of either Fateful Showdown (because no one expects it), Seismic Assault, or Zombie Infestation. Sideboard consists of the other sets not in use and 11 basics.

The stack: cascade trigger cascade trigger Wanderer might make treasure hunt resolve first leaving seismic assault in your deck waiting for its cascade trigger to hit it. youd then only get the land thats above seismic assualt. then the other cascade trigger will resolve and hit it. you could end up with not enough lands to kill everyone 50% of the time.

@@mynamesaretakenwtf in nine I used to side out my reliquary towers and switch to a worm harvest build that just farms control decks

@@colinhofer7830 I didn't even think about it being a 50% failure rate at first. I made a version with countryside crusher and nexus of fate. Which I had found to have a 25% failure rate but it's glorious when it works 75% of the time. Plus the variance helps reduce staleness of games.

At first, the stack is empty: [ ] Suppose Mitch casts Maestrom Wanderer (MW). It goes on the stack. Cascade is a triggered ability when MW is cast, so that then immediately goes onto the stack before anyone can respond. Despite the misleading card text, it creates 2 separate instances. So then the stack looks like this, ready to resolve from left to right: [cascade, cascade, MW] Then priority will pass around. Supposing nobody does anything, the first cascade trigger will resolve. Mitch will exile cards from his library until he exiles a combo piece. The order doesn't much matter, but let's suppose he finds Mana Severance (MS) first. That is put onto the stack, the lands are shuffled back into his library, and then cascade finishes. Now the stack is: [MS, cascade, MW] without lands in exile. If MS resolves, then Mitch can exile all the lands from his library, leaving only Jace. So now the stack is: [cascade, MW] and Mitch's library is 1 card - Jace - with all the lands exiled. Assuming the second cascade trigger resolves without incident, it will find Jace, put him on the stack, and there will be no lands to shuffle back in, leaving an empty library. So the stack is [Jace, MW] and Mitch has no library. At this point, an opponent could counter Jace, and then Mitch would be REALLY screwed. However if Jace resolves, then MW can finally resolve, and then Mitch can immediately win using Jace to draw and win due to the passive effect. Some tips for if you happen to play against a deck like this and you have a counter spell or some form of interaction: 1) You cannot counter MW before the cascade triggers go onto the stack. At that point, MW isn't even relevant so you should just ignore it and see what comes from the cascades. The cascade triggers themselves are abilities, not spells, so most things can't counter them. If you happen to have an effect such as Stifle that specifically stops abilities, you could use that, but it's probably not as good as countering a combo piece. 2) If you can counter one of the combo pieces, this deck totally falls apart. Ideally, if MS resolves and then you counter Jace, Mitch would have absolutely nothing in his library, no win con, and would surely lose on his next turn (sorry Mitch). 3) If you have a card that can destroy planeswalkers (there aren't many, but a few exist), the best time to use it is after all the spells have resolved and Mitch activates Jace's ability to draw. Planeswalker activated abilities also use the stack, and if you kill Jace in response, then when the ability resolves Mitch will draw without having any library, and without Jace providing the passive win-con, and will immediately lose (again, sorry Mitch). You can't use Stifle on the "you win the game" part of Jace since it's a static replacement effect that doesn't use the stack, but you can Stifle the ability activation to draw, giving you a turn to kill Jace.

Creatures are spells ; )

Once you find the first non land card off of the first cascade, that spell actually resolves first before the second cascade trigger goes off. THEN the second cascade goes off after either Jace is on the battlefield or you've already severed your deck of mana.

GK isn't what it used to be. The last episode I properly enjoyed was the custom cube, although that's a pretty tough act to follow. Craig always spices things up, so the last episode was kinda cool - even though it wasn't that great, JLK not winning was a welcome and unexpected turn of events. I do love the explosive turns they have sometimes, but their deck budgets are crazy and they play cards I will likely never own (cost is not a thing for them really). Mitch has been on "Quest For The Janklord" - if you haven't caught that already, I thoroughly recommend it (love me some jank!)

Sasayo and budoka gardener, if your playgroup will let you

Dont forget gruul omnath

Maralen or Sidisi + Ad Nuseam also work. On top of that they can at least play some cards, so you can actually get a bit creative. Still wouldn't play any of them though. I cannot imagine anyone wanting to play more then one game against this kind of deck.

@@ondrejbronec837 yeah, we are moving into the realm of CEDH here, but it's still fun to hypothesise. Dont forget that thassas Oracle is still a busted card that exists

@@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche4303 I would actually find that more fun then Jace :D It would give you only 50/50 chance to win.

Haha that's great!

I think this might be my combo of choice. I also like the idea of using Niv-Mizzet Parun instead of the Firemind. Someone in the pod is bound to lack defense against flyers. Or, make Rogue's Passage one of your lands. Either way, boop an opponent with Niv and kick off the combo. Completely agreed that drawing to death while taking out as many opponents as possible is one of the most Izzet things ever, and I am here for it.

@@BlueInkAlchemy you use firemind because you need to draw to trigger the combo, since you have no instants or sorceries you HAVE to rely on someone else to proc parun.

But if you hit tandem first you whiff

@@jasonly1925 no soul bond triggers when any creature hits the battlefield

jace mills 2 cards before u draw so u can run two 9+ CMC spells and not effect the cascade, mana severance, or jace as said in a pervious comment by slothery.

Actually if you cast mana severance you empty your deck and draw Jace the next turn. As long as you have mana for him you win. Drawing the Jace alone still sucks tho.

But a single cavern costs more than the entire deck haha. Ridiculously overpriced card.

Cascade triggers go on the stack when the spell with cascade is CAST, so countering it doesnt get rid of the cascade triggers.

But you don’t want to cast tho se with yout commamder tho

@@heuclmeucl-heucl5351 You can't. Act's cost is 9, And mights cost is 8.

Dare Gamo yep! my bad sorry

Doesn't work if Jace is still in your deck

You can't guarantee to reolve it after Jace, so no

50% failure rate

Of if someone played a Nevermore naming the commander. [Laughs in white]

Or play any thing listed below... Gaddock Teeg Aven Mindsencor Leonin Arbiter Back to Basics Blood Moon (to some degree) Magus of the Moon (to some degree) Platinum Angel Mindlock Orb Ashiok, Dream Render Strangle Hold ALL COUNTER SPELLS Beast Within Generous Gift Hero's Downfall Swift End Chain of Vapor Anguished Unmaking Utter End Assassin's Trophy Despark Cryptic Command (time 2, lmao) Cyclonic Rift (not overloaded) Venser, Shaper Savant ETC ETC ETC

@@Jonathan-qk5ed You hardly search with this deck. Not sure why you mentioned multiple search hate cards. (My assumption is misunderstanding Cascade?) Also with 63 basics I'm not sure what nonbasic hate does except slow you down a turn or two. Removal/Bounce spells don't actually do anything vs Thassa's Oracle which is a much cleaner wincon than Jace. It's extremely weak to counterspells but it's not weak to a lot of what you're saying it's weak to.

@@shawndiaz7528 Good catch on the Anti Tutor hate there, don't no why I put that there tbh, but even the Thassa's Oracle still makes you extremely fragile (if anything even more)... Torpor Orb Hushwing Gryf Tocatli Honor Guard Hushbringer Every artifact to play tutor (there's a lot) Next all the non basic land land hate does hurt you a lot, if you can only combo off on turn 8 at best you're already dead against any somewhat decent deck.

@@Jonathan-qk5ed I've never sat at a table where my ETB hate wasn't removed asap. Most decks leverage ETBs a fair bit. In any reasonable 1v1 this deck loses instantly, but at a regular table that doesn't know your gimmick, you're likely to be left alone for at least 4 turns

That's why you counter one of the spells AFTER the cascade triggers, preferably the Jace so they have no win con.

May I introduce you to Ashling and the 99 mountains?

@@moritzk4795 Do not cite the Deep Magic to me; I was there when it was written. :V

@@xan7292 I bow in respect in front of you, Are there more meme decks you can recommend? :)

@@moritzk4795 persistent petitioners with thrumming stone?

You're thinking of Anje Falkenrath

Mana severance has several uses. It's great with any kind of Storm deck that wants to keep drawing and casting and doesn't want to hit dead cards (lands) like my Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain deck. It's also amazing with Goblin Charbelcher. With no lands in your deck, the Charbelcher does damage equal to the number of cards in your library, then you get to put your ENTIRE LIBRARY BACK IN ANY ORDER YOU WANT.

And responding to the eldrazi shuffle trigger with a destroy enchantment or artifact spell.