High Power - Satoru Umezawa - cEDH Viable? - Sneaky Ninja Tribal | CCO Podcast 287 | CMDR | MtG

collecting all the sizes and colors to print oh we are very close yeah as soon as the little owl with the girl the truck outfit super cool yeah man we have the best kickstarter updates and and I'm going to talk about us for a minute and everyone who stood behind us and supported us we appreciate you and we wouldn't be here without you. I backed a couple of Kickstarter projects before launching ours, yes, and today I literally got an update 16 months ago. I endorsed it. It had two paragraphs and the first sentence said: this is not an update, nothing happens, whereas when we increase it's like we have all your stuff, please fill out the forms, things are printing and the next one will be that things are shipping. right, that's really cool, I'm glad we can do that because it can be frustrating when you ask for something and then it takes too long to fulfill it because of things that are happening on earth or because people can't spell. and that's just a veiled shot at one of the ones I endorsed because they, oh we have a ton of spelling and grammar mistakes, well then run talk, hey, that sounded like a lot of what you should tell people that make. if they're watching on youtube yeah yeah yeah because you're watching anyway yeah there you go I almost did it but you're already watching it just do it okay so that's it I guess should we jump? cards or should we talk about things like ninjitsu a bit like what do you want to do?

Well, here's something else. I'm going to give you my initial thought when I saw this letter, I looked at it and said. ugh, because I knew this was going to be the deck and personal brando, this is a good deck set, go for it if this is your thing, but I don't like cards like this because it sets them up, this is the ninjutsu commander, Great, there are many. of ninjutsu stuff, they're going to print some good ninjutsu cards and then we can make a neat ninjutsu deck, all the

ninja

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decks will get some love and then immediately the next line of text says now I don't do that, I only play the best stuff, yeah, like if you want to fulfill three gingka taxes, of course you do, here you go, I'll take the solo for the sake of conversation, I'll take the other side for sure, this is the type of card in the last line where every creature in your hand has a

ninja

to block the blue too.

This is the type of card that perhaps makes modern or traditional players excited to play Commander because it's a card that you can cast for three and it survives. lightning and attacks for two with card draw stapled not only in card draw selection and selective card draw and allows you to play big things that you're already doing, like I've heard this card compared to like show and tell, but in modern, yes, except it's better because it doesn't get captured at the end of the turn, where it's like I pay three and attack with my unblockable type that I already have on the battlefield. that I already played in my deck because I wanted to get attack triggers and then I'm going to play a gin cataxis or not in our grizzle brand format not in our emrakul format right, I already heard that and if that excites people to come play Commander, I want I mean, that's maybe the point of a letter like this, but I guess not, but maybe that's the point of a letter like this, and I think that's a good thing, one good thing a letter can do is get people out. of the format excited to come in and say hello, I want to do all these things in Commander too.

I feel like this is one of those cards that aims to just be a hire for your deck, maybe that's because it's going to be so difficult. in some decks you sit there and say this is my cersei mon no one is going to make sea monster

satoru

and if you do you're like you're a meme now and that's fine but if you have this in play and you attack with any creature, everyone's going to think it's a plague steel colossus because it could be yeah and that's the kind of head space everyone's going to be in and that's not my thing uh, I got you, I got you one more thing before we move on to the cards just to argue, it's okay, because it's not really my thing either, but I'll take the other door, I'll definitely go out into the open air.

Why don't you search on Google? Okay, whatever you like. there is no shaman king in the nation I guess so yeah man do what you want the ninja deck your eco tiger shadow is already the deck you just said yeah right of course I'm gonna put extended time at the top of my library because all my opponents lose so much life when I do ninjutsu. Yeah, of course, Draco will be here, of course, Blight Steel and Dark Steel will be here because they're going to do 11 and 12. Yeah, right, of course, so this is me. I'm defending that and it's that the deck I want to play no, but the ninjas are already doing it, yes, although you still have to pay 11 for that plague draw in urico's deck, yes you do and now you don't, so yes , I do.

I don't know let's take a look at the deck there's some like I said boom booms yeah we'll jump into some cards yeah okay Ryan we should start with the ramp ramp we have 11 cards and we have We have custom categories here, but they're interspersed with some of the big fat guys we were talking about instead of having a fat category. Bones has placed the fat people in the sections where they belong based on what they do. and you'll see in just a second yeah we'll go through the rocks first though here we go okay throne dynamo taps for three thought vessels two mana mana important because we want to get to four and two mana mana rock with a land on turn three will give us four mana on turn two, yeah okay, talisman of dominance, sorry, four mana on turn three is what I meant.

Yeah, same thing two mana rock men solrang sol ring does it on turn two mind stone two mana manorak manicrypt does it on turn two wizards from chests uh this is a drop five, but it's the chest from the cabal, so I'm willing to say oh, my commander died three times. I'm just going to touch on the magician of the chests or the kabbalah arks, which we are also playing for ten and launching my fat one anyway, speaking of the kabbalah chests, you could find him with your expedition map, yes, there come on damir signet, two drops of mana rock, kryptgast, that's a swamp bender c chest mage, arcane signet, two mana, matarok, there we are.

Come on, we've made the mana rocks, there we go, we've got some pretty standard protection pieces for our big fat guys and our umizawa and our creature that we're going to swing around to get those fast-footed fat boots and lightning greaves, yeah, those They are boots. that makes us fast and hard to hit and a neuroc stealth suit equipped creature has cover gear for one but also blue blue equip it and you can do it at instant speed yeah you can protect all your guys when people try to kill them , Yes I believe. that one might be a little underrated, right, and I think that one is good in this deck because you can say, well, I'll block this guy because everyone has ninjitsu in your hand, right? and ninjutsu needs to be you can only activate it when you have an unlocked creature, so after declaring blockers, if there is no blocking creech, well, I'll block this one, I'll block this one and I'll kill that one.

Oh, just kidding, I'll stop being a Noroc. adapts to instant speed, it's very useful that the connection ability is blue blue because it works as a counterspell, yes, and it also fakes a counterspell, am I going to counter yours or am I going to leave mine, yes? Of course, we also have recursion, animate the dead, reanimate and bring back Ferexian. Does recovery take you to the bee graveyard to your hand? It's an enchantment for black, you turn black, you pay life, it goes back to your hand, which is fine because then you just cast it for four mana from umizawa ninja to get the ability, yeah, right now, what are the creatures What are we going to use to enter if you have played who is who is the flying man, the edric edward master of trest if you have?

Have you ever played a deck like that? You'll see some familiar faces in this section of the deck. Additionally, many of these creatures have subtle little interaction abilities and we'll touch on them as we go. Well I've recognized a few of these from similar

cedh

animate lists because creatures cost one and then do something that's a slight advantage over other things, it starts with Triton Shore Stalker which is simply one that an unblockable tormented soul can't. block and is unblockable one by one tetsuko umizawa runaway creatures with

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or toughness one cannot be blocked ooh one or less oh so I could face you like an ornithopter zero two right yeah, surprised, that's not here, eh, spoiler, no ornithopters sliding blade can't be blocked storm tamer mermaid here's one of them here's one I was talking about this is a flying one for one that's like the rate, but we could also pay one and sacrifice it spell against target or ability that targets a creature you control pretty well, so it's like protection, you know it's just a counterattack, unless the controller plays one, yeah, no, that's a good sign, pass the battle cry, which means each time this creature attacks other attacking creatures, you get plus one. plus one that tells it to turn, but also can't be blocked except by creatures with flight or reach that could probably just be an ornithopter.

Hey, you think, well, because it's basically the same thing and the battle cry is meaningless because all the creatures you're attacking with that, they're small, they're not going to get the benefit anyway, you know what I mean, yeah, that could be an ornithopter because the ornithopter costs zero zero and this one costs one and essentially its ability to be locked is the same except this can't lock steering wheels, yes, maybe yes, I could see that switch being good for making the trader lower has shadow, meaning it can only be blocked by shadow creatures. He can also only block creatures with shadows and has haste, no.

I care about that blocking clause because we will never block, yeah, badly disguised Harold can't be blocked, good lurker, there's a word I've never said out loud, dual, well, whatever, it's a cool picture, I like it though Oh Batman, now I don't know what. thinking is good or is it going to duel g prowler g prowler here we go you can draw it like a chain like it looks like it can't be blocked and it has a mega mother ass grosser redhead this is an interesting one because it's one on one with haste and raw ginger for a manna.

Brute Ginger can't be blocked this turn except by other creatures with haste because you can't catch it, yeah that's a clever thing, hey what's his other ability you get? a three lives yes, he is a food, he is a food, the seer fairy enters the battlefield, guess, guess, it's interesting, it's just a flyer for one, so it fits and then you guess two, which would improve your commander i assume it's in here because it has an ancient edge one could be that's why i assume there's one here so if there's anything else infiltrated dimir this is cool it can't be blocked but it also has transmutation for a blue black one and you can activate the transmute it by discarding it from your hand it has disk it has transmute and it has uh ninjitsu yeah and you look for two drops so you find I don't know just keep an eye on two drops I guess because it's a two drop tutor maybe you can find to do the void walker which is another guy with shadow a three two by two a shadow yeah I don't even want to do ninjutsu with that guy back to my hand but keep reading you don't want to ninja through him back to your hand if a card was to an opponent's graveyard from wherever you exile instead of the void counter oh yeah, put a line of void on it and then you can tap it and loot it and you can play and exile a card that was exiled with it for free oh it's a card really good yeah it's a good card and the last one is a shapeshifting outcast that can't block all types of creatures so it's a ninja for one black so now we have our flying men. pack there are 14 essentially unblockable creatures that you're going to bounce around in your hand to get big fats all day long.

I love a good fatty fat man. Now, do you want to talk about the interactive part of the deck where you got the big jackpots? either you want to talk to the card advantage section of the deck or we also have fatties, let's do the card advantage section because I think the interaction section is okay and maybe this one is also spicy to taste depending on what fatties. you currently own it because people are going to find out that some of these fat fat guys are fat fat guys you need a fat fat wallet yeah let's start with ninja commander og we mentioned her before yuriko shadow of the tiger just admitted just from admitting to being a mistake on the internet oh yeah yeah his name was Gavin the good morning magic boy yeah yeah I just admitted yuriko was a mistake as a ninjutsu commander was a mistake or the skill was a mistake ninjutsu commander the way it's worded sorry yeah what I meant is the skill on her card isn't Commander Ninjutsu where you reveal the top no the Commander Ninjitsu itself is the bug okay so she has Commander Ninjatsu, blue,you can you can pretend and wonder if you need them Okay so it's not a fortress of 200 vollrath, it's a land that puts creatures on top of your library for us to draw with our commander, let me remind you that yes, 110 boom cavern of souls makes him our commander, maybe we will choose ninja, I don't know. maybe we choose the drazi I don't know, you choose ninja can't be countered yes 90 dollars yes ancient tomb understand this you know ancient tombs 70 dollars again yes ancient tomb and we'll talk about it later today there's another one we need it I don't know if we need it we're just trying to go fast in this particular deck yeah if we're not trying to do it right I don't know demonic plays the foil the foil 85 bucks I don't know how much normal steel 55 and the aforementioned ulamog 85 is worth old , I think this is correct, yes, 85 lots, so you put all that in those 700 that I just named, yes, and remember I was a frustrated demonic guardian, so I like whatever, yes, 650 and then 670 Sure, whatever, yeah, yeah, it's just that it's a lot of money, yeah, I mean, that doesn't even enter into some of the things that are still a little, I'm not saying overrated, but like yuriko's $35, they handle rank 65 there is a foil guy with void walker which is another 20. yes there are a lot of single expensive cards in this deck and again it says that if you want your deck to do this exact thing it will cost you some money you can do it without all the money, but it won't go with you, you know what?

I think if you do it without the money, what that means is that you lose some of the ability to go fast, which would be welcome in lower power circles, yes, and you lose some of your ability to instantly finish the game of a player. because you're losing, you wipe out four and you wipe out two of two of the eldrazis, you're losing 11, infect, trample, you're losing gingka taxes, if you cut some of the

high

er prices, you're losing those five or six. cards and then you're losing some of the low end ramp, which I think is perfectly fine for a little bit lower metal like you and I would like to play, yeah, and I think all of those things are fine in agreement. well and good real quick I have one more thing okay I have a quick instant card of the week you mean a card of the week yes and I mean cards there are two double sided modal cards on the ground section, there is an egg to consider.

Awakening and there is a revival of Malacar, those are getterbackers that could also be lands that could fit in the recursion section, but here they are organized into lands and I think it's notable to just remind people that you could probably treat them as lands at the beginning of the game. but if it's late in the game you can launch them and if you want to pick any of them you access through online fusion games doc ham cco fusion five promo code to get five percent off yeah it's good it's a good idea and I wanted to mention those in particular because they are double sided manners and we have some top five on the way, we are recording them and then over the course of the months that they are going to be released we have dropped a bunch of tracks that I did not.

I don't want to continue, but the double-faced modal cards will appear in the top five and we are doing well. You mentioned that the ancient tomb will appear later today in the top five that we're recording, yeah, so just. Stay glued to the Commander Cookout youtube page, we have some nice top fives on the way. Tyler is doing a great job with them, they look good and seven out of ten, yes, seven out of ten at best I guess, because he's on the cco channel. That's right, that's my last thought for the day, what do you have?

I think well, I mean, I have other thoughts, but honestly I'm not a big fan of this commander, but I am a fan of people who play what they like and have fun. with that and I think that's what Bones did and I think that's what anyone who sees Umizawa will try to do. I bet this will show up in a ton of weird construction article series if you follow those i's. I'm thinking people like Lenny will probably try to find a way to make this not the deck we talked about today, so let him know.

I'm looking forward to any other lists people have created. with umizawa because it's not something that really tickles my fancy, but I know it does for a lot of other people and I'm interested to see where they go with a super powerful card like this, so on that note, thank you very much for being there. Thank you very much to fusiongaming online.com, they are our official business parents and although they don't follow me on Twitter, they seem like good people that one day we will meet in real life and it will be super fun like everyone. out there listening to the show, we appreciate you, thank you for being here and we'll be back with you on another episode of the Commander Cookout

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