"The Nitpicking Amber"

@@coldtruth9431 I was gonna say nitpaming catber. Am I good at jokes?

No bullying in the comments

You all are amazing

@@coldtruth9431 truth

She is really just not nice lol 😂

Sounds like social interaction was not for him 😂

That was the wrong play.

man im gonna keep it a stack, that sounds worse than what he did to you. someone being a dick doesn't give you a license to be a dick to them, and it kind of sounds like he was just awkward and didn't understand why he shouldn't do that. he never came back to the store? that should make you feel bad

@@doublebrass never thought of it from that prespective, but I appreciate it. Always looking to learn and grow.

So you bullied someone out of the community and we are proud of that?

It’s true, you are!

Well, I started playing commander bc I wanted to play tribal. Cats for example aren’t very good in competitive

It is kinda crazy when you think about just how much they do

I've also been noticing how great they are with hideaway lands/cards. I'd much rather put Emeria's call under my hideaway land than a basic plains.

I can also imprint them onto a Chrome Mox. You're right, I keep finding more synergies with them!

But they can not pitch to mox diamond, so it doesnt really Matter in that way

@@Jupue True, and you can't get them back with Life From the Loam and Crucible of Worlds. There are a few downsides with them, but I've really enjoyed the upsides!

On the flipside, they are really time constrained. You don't have the counterspell up? That's your window gone. A counterspell does nothing against an existing threat

Counter magic is protection and removal at the same time, usually at a lower mana value than the protection or removal it pretends to not be. It's also significantly better than regular removal given that literally every creature printed since 2020 does everything it wants to on ETB

I agreed with you, used to make blue decks without counterspells until I played against expropriate lol. Then I said fuck ut

Thank you so much we try our best!

​@@NitpickingNerds We can tell and we appreciate it. Thank YOU for being such great content creators!

Yeah you guys are pretty much my favorite. Definitely in terms of the wide range of topics you cover.

Wow this brings me back I remember those decks. Never played the arch enemy cards but would buy it for the nicol bolas lol

I have a tiny bones deck and I have tons of archenemy cards. It doesn't have a great win ratio, but it has a great fun ratio.

This is so nice 🥺 your LGS is dope

Yeah id love to see green as well

Top 100 Black is in the works!

@@NitpickingNerds thanks for replying, that is lovely to hear! Looking forward to it 😁

Talking about power level is very needed. I couldn’t imagine playing without doing it.

@@NitpickingNerds My LGS has a system where you rate your deck when you sign up to FNM to help with matchmaking. It's not perfect, but it helps a lot. (And I actually get to regularly play my cEDH deck in a cEDH pod) It might be worth talking to the store staff about implementing a similar system if precon vs cEDH games are happening regularly.

Yeah I totally agree with this. I especially think counterspells are needed as just a catch all. They dont have to be deployed, but having the option to just stop somebody from completely dominating the game with a single play, or stop a board wipe is needed. Although everyone doing their thing and going crazy is the fun part and should balance out each other. But still, counterspells for protection and archenemy control is really helpful.

Closing in!

Group hug annoys me for a couple reasons. 1 we're here to kill each other, not help. 2 the hugging fixes the deckbuilding mistakes of all the other players, if you kept a bad hand or didn't put in enough lands/ramp you should suffer the consequences.

I've personally never had a problem with Sol Ring but out of 19 decks I own three I've opted out of using it. Mainly because I feel they don't benefit from fast/ early artifact ramp, two of those decks have green ramp/ extra land plays and the third is a Marchesa deck mostly focused on her so that extra two mana doesn't really give me a greater advantage anyway.

That’s fair. You’re allowed to use it, I’ve just found that the majority of the time it is played in the early game makes the game super lopsided. And I don’t find that fun on either side of it

Turn 1 sol ring isn't that bad my guy... Everybody catches up sooner or later

It doesn't help that every pre-con includes a Sol Ring now :(

@@benekatop they always have, the exception being the five color one recently.

I've seen the sanitarium played with a pay-to-draw deck... basically they had underworld dreams and Sheoldred the apocalypse out, and made everyone draw to death... they also played a ton of discard cards (go blank, inscription of ruin, etc, liliana), and a ton of graveyard hate... needless to say, no one had fun that day.

I heared about a houserule where verybody got a basic land of their choice in the commandzone that you could play at any point to reduce manascrew.

I had to pull my punches for years after introducing my friends to mtg. But now I have a playgroup that is competent and we play regularly. Now if only I could get them to stop being salty over single target removal lol

Yep! We love Posty!

On one hand, you built your deck around the card, so you're taking advantage more, but you're also down a card.

This is one of my favorite cards! It basically just lets you play cards from each other decks without necessarily giving anyone an 'advantage' (unless you're playing Prosper, which I am).

@@Kraftigebub I mean it's more card selection and it def can make sure you don't miss land drops especially in red where that can be hard

It's a hug card.

Amber Gristle O’ Maul with the background Raised by Giants 👌🏻

@@NitpickingNerds I'm waiting to see the deck tech now !

Honestly, for most power levels, a deck should never need rhystic study to draw cards, or cyclonic rift to end games. There are plenty of synergistic options and non-busted staples you can use instead. At high levels, you kinda have to include staples by definition, though. The one exception is fast mana, which is generally irreplaceable. But I think cutting fast mana in favor of normal ramp makes games more interesting, so... I'd say the "sense of awe" from a mana crypt or something is cool, but it's also kinda inherently problematic... If a card's strength makes it so scary you can build a sense of awe just by casting it, then it's probably strong enough that you might not want to include it. Personally, I'd rather see a sense of awe from synergy or big, splashy spells than undercosted draw engines or fast mana. Plus, super-staples take up spots in the deck that prevent you from playing cards that are actually cool. If you cut rhystic study, you can play a weird new uncommon or a unique synergy piece in its place.

@@natekite7532 I see what you mean. Maybe I didn't express myself all that well, but what I tried to say with sense of awe is: The surprise of seeing a card you never saw or an interaction you didn't realize could happen. These things really can't realisticaly happen all the time. That's why I don't really like that argument, what could replace a sol ring/mana crypt/chrome mox and still impress my opponents? The constant strive for making the deck super unique can only go so far if you are playing in a somewhat higher power level. I'm not even talking about CEDH, but have you played in Mid-power on PLAYEDH server recently? Woof! Power creep is def a thing lol

Anytime :P

If you are having fun who are we to argue. ☺️

You can, but decks with more mana rocks do it more often.

It’ll never work!

Yea, i got the sense that it is more like going into your think tank so you can think ahead and make your best play. Idk for sure

That’s a classic Amber move

YES but she only ever plays 12 lands

@@NitpickingNerds Makes sense. Armageddon isn't symmetrical if you have no lands!

@@NitpickingNerds when she wins i bet she pushes each deck off the table.

I don't really think most would consider a card like blacksmith's skill to be a counterspell. One-off protection spells are kinda their own, very specific category. And there's really no reason to have an issue with them; if someone gets salty at a blacksmith's skill then they're probably misdiagnosing what they actually hated about that game. As for slotting out heroic intervention for a counterspell - it doesn't matter why you put it in. Once it's in your hand, for better or worse, you'll use it like a counterspell. I don't have a problem with counterspells, but if your playgroup does, and you tell them your force of will is fine because "it's just a heroic intervention," they probably won't be particularly impressed. I do think that people tend to be more ok with "defensive" counterspells than offensive ones, but I don't know if there's any realistic way to incorporate that into your deck building or play.

@@natekite7532 thank you so much for.yoir reply