On Video This Week (9/2023)

Every week Cardmarket's YouTube channel publishes a lot of exciting Magic content that you don't want to miss—from combat in gameplay to combative debates to the latest news regarding previews and prices. Collecting everything in one place, here's your TV program for the week of February 27.

New videos typically go live between 17:00 and 18:00 CET. You can then find them embedded below, alongside lists of featured cards/decks and additional information.



Tuesday

We used a randomizer to decide our creature types for this Commander game with MTG Remy. Can Jamin really brew a deck based on only four Aurochs cards? See for yourself!

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Thoralf's Phoenix Deck (led by )
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Jamin's Aurochs Deck (led by )
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Carl's Turtle Deck (led by )
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Wednesday

Thoralf shares a nugget of tournament advice that he learned the hard way. That sometimes, if you cannot beat them, you just have to join them.


Affinity by Tobi Henke, 1st at Standard Grand Prix Brussels 2004
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Thursday

Heuristics are ways to simplify a problem to help solve it. Toffel explains how this works in Magic, using the "a little bit slower" rule and applying its principles to the matchups between aggro, midrange, and control in the current Pioneer meta. As a bonus, he also explains why this won't work with combo decks.

Here's a deck that goes a little bigger/slower than the fastest aggro decks but faster than control:

Gruul Midrange by Moon11, 5-0 in Pioneer League
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If you want to build this yourself, consider getting the Gruul Stompy preconstructed deck. It includes all of these cards:

Gruul Stompy, Pioner Challenger Deck
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Sunday

Good Commander cards are traps! Thoralf presents his theory as to why strong cards make you lose more often rather than win more often in Commander and how to fix the problem.

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