It is in fact a double theme deck again, with a slight third theme being backgrounds. So it's abzan humans, +1/+1 counters and it being a partner deck is amazing with backgrounds. Credit goes to kao for giving me the inspiration

Thank you for your uploads PJ. I don’t get to play as often as I used to. And watching you play with your commentary helps keep me connected with the game.

Some important things to note with Rowan, she doesn't have haste and can only be activated at sorcery speed, both are fairly large restrictions in practice. But MOST important, her ability doesn't keep counting once activated; whatever discount you get from it is whatever life you had lost before it resolves. EDIT: Oh, and before I forget, a theme of the deck was life drain type effects though I literally only got to cast the OG Drain Life that game. AKA, I do run Exsanguinate but not Torment of Hailfire. Torment is just way too easy mode.

There is a cEDH deck for Rowan. It uses Blood Celebrant to cycle B for 1 Life to get the B back infinitely, cast an Ad Naus, or maybe Doomsday into some god awful X spell, such as Torment, Exsanguinate, Crackle with Power, Electro Dominance, and other nonsense cards. I saw someone destroy a table with a Banefire for that was copied 12 times after getting Fiery Emancipation in play off of a Priest of Urabrask for R. Great option considering it can't be countered.

Seeing a slow Saskia deck bothered me more than I thought it would.

I copy/pasted your boros 1/1 counters deck but switched to baeloth/noble heritage and swapped a couple cards, maybe 5, and that deck is a powerhouse with my current group. Very few creatures are able to get big enough fast enough to outpace baeloth and it just REALLY trips up the other players most of the time. Its been a blast playing it and it’s definitely a top 5 favorite deck that i have right now (alongside new ob nixilis, old jolrael, ramos, and edgar markov). Also, there is a cedh variant of rowan but im not sure that I’ve seen it take many games. People typically skip over spells like torment and exsanguinate in favor of crackle with power, but I’m sure that those two are still in the deck as backups.

backgrounds are pretty strong with partners, new deck idea maybe? :)

7:02 in my opinion, natures lore and farseek do not do basically the same thing (other than ramp on 2) because farseek gets lands that arent exclusively forests tapped but natures lore gets exclusively forests untapped. I have been running natures lore, three visits, and skyshroud claim in my decks instead of cultivate, rampant growth, and kodamas because of the option to get nonbasics untapped in the late game because there’s definitely a spike in me, but in multicolor decks I’m still probably running farseek too.

Saskia is such a versatile and fun commander. I’ve done legend tribal, damage doublers, and even a recursion-heavy theme that really leaned on Alesha. I proxied an all female deck for a buddy’s bachelor party as a joke, but it’s actually pretty good. I think you’re right about having too many enchantments in this build, and either too much high end or not enough ramp. Seems solid otherwise-hopefully we’ll see v. 1.2 soon! 🙌

Great commander! Looking forward to watching this.

Dang, Agent of the Iron Throne :( you're a good spectator/commentator at least!

First to like and comment 🎉.

Yes, there are niche Rowan cEDH lists. Not as great as Thassa's Oracle.

3:54 You could have put the Spire Garden back and played the tapped Temple Garden instead with no other play, would have saved you 2 life that you used shocking it in at 10:37

Hey, you have a great channel and I've been a fan for awhile. Do you have a Commander Replay Archidekt or Moxfield account that has all of these decks you play?

Saskia is my favorite lgbtq+* commander! Completely stompy goodness.