Title.
Dazn doesn't list it on their site. My TV is an LG and I don't think it can pick up NHK. Wowow seems to have it but with Japanese commentators... and I'd rather listen to Johnny Mac say useless shit than hear "sugoi!" ten trillion times.
If I need to, I'll figure out
Pleaaaase help me out. I need to watch the feed and be happy when Paolini wins.
tl;dr who for commander between [[Lightning, Lone Commando]], [[Krenko, Mob Boss]], [[Braids, Arisen Nightmare]]*, [[Zenos yae Galvus]], and [[Balan, Wandering Knight]]?
BACKGROUND (you can skip this)
I live and work in Japan and visited my family in the States last month. As it turns out, my brother and his friends are all into MtG now. With a vacation mindset and a vacation budget, I ended up buying a Y'shtola precon and playing with him and his friends... who bodied me with their bracket 4 bullshit. Angel Miku that chained angels into angels, Eshki bullshit, some sort of token infinite that resulted in a +400/+400 thingamabob, and even a turn one Sol Ring into One Ring.. Damn, this game is fun. But also fuck them all lol Between sessions, my brother was giving me cards from his bulk and buying things <$10 to upgrade my deck.
After I was back in Japan and on my train home from Narita, I looked up whether or not people were selling used cards in bulk and found a guy dropping his entire collection for the equivalent of 100USD. After scanning it, the collection was valued at a couple thousand USD. "Value" is of course ultimately defined by whether or not you can find a buyer, but whatever. Big number make smol peen big peen.
With cards from said box, others like Polluted Delta and Esper Sentinel that I lucked into from a lottery pack at Hareruya, and a Rhystic Study I found in a second used box, I've upgraded Y'shtola into something of a mid-bracket 3 deck. But it also puts a giant target on my back.
I went to play at a Japanese LGS a couple weeks ago and told everyone I was new, but the moment they saw Y'shtola, they became immediately wary. When I put Ophidian Eye on her turn 5, they decided I needed to die (instead of, you know, the guy whose board was 7 creatures deep including Sheoldred the Apocalypse). The Sheoldred guy was set to win, but the other two players were mounting their comebacks and just waiting for me to die.
...so, at 2 HP left, I waited until player B resummoned his commander to use Anguished Unmaking on it and kill myself along with his chances at victory. He'd countered my spell or attacked me or something earlier, so I figured fuck us both. The decision was apparently so bad that he started laughing like an American and, when the staffer in charge of MtG came over to see what was going on, he explained and started laughing even harder.
WHICH COMMANDER?
Anyway, this all leads to me wanting to make a second deck, probably in the range of high bracket 2 or low bracket 3. I don't know if I want to be an agent of chaos stupidity or just hyper-aggressive, but here are my current considerations for new commanders:
What's more aggressive than a deck that generates value from aggressing? [[Marton Stromgald]], [[General Kreat]], [[Hero of Oxid Ridge]], [[Soltari Champion]], etc. Preferably with cheaper cards though.
Those card ideas aren't mine, by the way. They're stolen from TheMadWobbler's fucking fantastic post from almost a year ago.
It's Krenko... I'd zergling rush with gobbos from my box of 8000 cards and add an Ashnod's Altar to combo into an X-cost burn spell or two. Hopefully there are also wide red buff cards that I'll be able to use.
Krenko is Krenko. There is no flavor. No soul. All Krenko decks are just tokens of the primordial Krenko. But! It'd be the cheapest option by far.
I LOVE the alt art for [[Braids, Arisen Nightmare]]. In my head, I ask everyone if it's okay to rule zero this deck as blue/black, roll a die to decide between [[Braids, Conjurer Adept]], [[Braids, Cabal Minion]], and the above Arisen Nightmare. The rolled one becomes commander and the unrolled ones go in the deck.
The plan has four phases: 1. Give opponents as many gifts as possible in the middle of them sacrificing everything. Gifts can be actual gift cards like [[Long River's Pull]] or just gigantic boons like being the target of [[Time Stretch]]. 2. Everyone else fights each other while I go unnoticed amassing mana to do something. 3. ??? 4. Profit... somehow. I'd also need lots on how to make this work.
I could also throw in all the Sheoldred cards because the alt art versions of [[Sheoldred's Edict]] and [[Sheoldred, Whispering One]] are amazing and all of their sacrifice effects would give my gifts more value.
On paper, this is by and far the most expensive deck because of all the alt art cards, but I'm also kind of planning on buying the cards anyway to have and display because they're THAT COOL, so that's not too much of an issue.
And honestly, I love this idea so much I might try to make it on the side as my third commander if it doesn't get picked as my second.
(I'm also a little biased toward this one because I have a Braids, Cabal Minion that I pulled from a random booster in 200X and that's the one I'd be using in this deck.)
My favorite characters from FF14 are Y'shtola and Zenos, so it only seems appropriate to make a deck for him. ZERO idea how this would play, but his transformed ability sounds absolutely hilarious.
Aggression in Voltron form. The world will be a better place if all my commanders are catgirls. One gigantic unit swinging for trillions of damage at a time is also just plain fun. Plus, shenanigans built on the backs of [[Inspiring Statuary]] and [[Stony Silence]] seem fun. I'll be avoiding all the expensive equips like [[Buster Blade]] and [[Commander's Plate]] though to keep her budget friendly for now.
So, which one should I go with?
Please and thank you for reading and have a nice day.