Podcasts about counterspells

Episode 367: Good vs. Evil: The Only Counterspells Worth Playing in Commander!

Die Kombination aus Weiß, Grün und Blau - also Bant - bietet alles, was wir als Commander-Spieler haben wollen: Ramp, Interaction, Counterspells. Warum das spielerisch zwar stark, aber auch sehr schnell und sehr einfach zu einem absoluten Fest der Langeweile werden kann, besprechen Freddy und Jochen ausführlich, während Marius irgendwo an der Küste von Bant seine Grippe auskuriert.Unsere Folge zum Jeskai-Problem gibt's hier: https://youtu.be/xDxbCpOdhDA[Werbung] Wir werden von Ultimate Guard gesponsert - an unserer Themenwahl oder Ansichten ändert das nichts, es gibt nur immer mal wieder Shoutouts und Hinweise auf Neuigkeiten und Produkte. http://tinyurl.com/commanderkompass-Discord: https://discord.gg/Mu2EBCUwjKSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3rVEuy5Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3bX7fVPTwitter: https://twitter.com/edh_kompassAnchor: https://anchor.fm/commanderkompassDeezer: https://deezer.page.link/wduneK1DsrUKKVvF9-Editor: https://twitter.com/merlotter

Join us as we dive into the mechanics and challenges of Counterspell across different editions of D&D and Pathfinder! We break down what works, what doesn't, and how it impacts gameplay. Whether you're a fan of the 2014 D&D rules or prefer Pathfinder's approach or looking forward to the 2024 D&D rules, this episode has something for every tabletop RPG enthusiast! Summary In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we dive into the mechanics and challenges of the Counterspell ability across various editions of Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder. We discuss the complexities and limitations of Counterspell in the 2024 Edition D&D and Pathfinder 1e, such as the need to ready an action and the high DC for spellcraft checks. The conversation shifts to Pathfinder 2, where Counterspell is streamlined into a reaction-based feat with a DC tied to the caster's save DC, reflecting notable improvements. We compare Counterspell mechanics in Pathfinder 2nd Edition and D&D 5th Edition, examining the strengths and weaknesses of each system. Topics include spell preparation, action economy, and the overall impact of Counterspell on gameplay and player agency. We offer differing perspectives, with one favoring D&D 5th Edition's 2014 rules and another finding Pathfinder 2nd Edition's approach more appealing. This episode provides an in-depth look at Counterspell across RPG systems, touching on its impact on the player experience and exploring possible improvements. Takeaways Counterspell in 3rd edition and Pathfinder 1 has limitations and complexities, including the need to ready an action and the high DC for the spellcraft check. Counterspell in Pathfinder 2 is a feat that can be used as a reaction, and the DC is based on the caster's save DC. The hosts express frustration with the mechanics of Counterspell and suggest potential improvements. Identifying the spell being cast is an important factor in successfully countering a spell. The limitations of Counterspell make it a niche ability that is rarely used in gameplay. Counterspells in Pathfinder 2nd Edition require spellcasters to have the exact spell prepared or use the Clever Counterspell feat at level 12. In D&D 5th Edition, counterspells can be cast as a reaction and require an ability check or a successful saving throw against the caster's spell save DC. The effectiveness of counterspells in both systems depends on factors such as spell level, spellcasting ability, and the target's saving throw proficiency. The changes in Pathfinder 2nd Edition give the target of a counterspell more agency and allow for more strategic decision-making. The 2014 rules of D&D 5th Edition provide a simpler and more accessible approach to counterspells, but some players may find them less satisfying or balanced. Counterspell can be a divisive mechanic in tabletop RPGs, with some players finding it frustrating and others enjoying its strategic elements. The hosts discuss the mechanics of counterspell in Pathfinder and D&D, including the use of spell slots, ability checks, and critical success/failure. They explore potential improvements to counterspell, such as removing the requirement to have the same spell prepared or adding additional action costs. The conversation also touches on other dice systems, including the D10 pool system and the D100 system, and the hosts share their preferences. Listeners are encouraged to share their favorite episodes and questions of the week, as well as support the podcast through Patreon and spreading the word to friends. If you enjoy the show, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. It's a quick, free way to support the podcast, and helps us reach new listeners. If you love the show, consider joining us on Patreon, where backers at the $5 and above tiers get ad free access to RPGBOT.net and the RPGBOT.Podcast, can chat directly to members of the RPGBOT team and community on the RPGBOT.Discord, and can join us for live-streamed recordings. Support us on Amazon.com when you purchase products recommended in the show at the following link: https://amzn.to/3NwElxQ How to Find Us: In-depth articles, guides, handbooks, reviews, news on Tabletop Role Playing at RPGBOT.net Tyler Kamstra Twitter: @RPGBOTDOTNET Facebook: rpgbotbotdotnet Bluesky:rpgbot.bsky.social Ash Ely Professional Game Master on StartPlaying.Games Twitter: @GravenAshes YouTube@ashravenmedia Randall James @JackAmateur Amateurjack.com Producer Dan @Lzr_illuminati

Join us as we dive into the mechanics and challenges of Counterspell across different editions of D&D and Pathfinder! We break down what works, what doesn't, and how it impacts gameplay. Whether you're a fan of the 2014 D&D rules or prefer Pathfinder's approach or looking forward to the 2024 D&D rules, this episode has something for every tabletop RPG enthusiast! Summary In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we dive into the mechanics and challenges of the Counterspell ability across various editions of Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder. We discuss the complexities and limitations of Counterspell in the 2024 Edition D&D and Pathfinder 1e, such as the need to ready an action and the high DC for spellcraft checks. The conversation shifts to Pathfinder 2, where Counterspell is streamlined into a reaction-based feat with a DC tied to the caster's save DC, reflecting notable improvements. We compare Counterspell mechanics in Pathfinder 2nd Edition and D&D 5th Edition, examining the strengths and weaknesses of each system. Topics include spell preparation, action economy, and the overall impact of Counterspell on gameplay and player agency. We offer differing perspectives, with one favoring D&D 5th Edition's 2014 rules and another finding Pathfinder 2nd Edition's approach more appealing. This episode provides an in-depth look at Counterspell across RPG systems, touching on its impact on the player experience and exploring possible improvements. Takeaways Counterspell in 3rd edition and Pathfinder 1 has limitations and complexities, including the need to ready an action and the high DC for the spellcraft check. Counterspell in Pathfinder 2 is a feat that can be used as a reaction, and the DC is based on the caster's save DC. The hosts express frustration with the mechanics of Counterspell and suggest potential improvements. Identifying the spell being cast is an important factor in successfully countering a spell. The limitations of Counterspell make it a niche ability that is rarely used in gameplay. Counterspells in Pathfinder 2nd Edition require spellcasters to have the exact spell prepared or use the Clever Counterspell feat at level 12. In D&D 5th Edition, counterspells can be cast as a reaction and require an ability check or a successful saving throw against the caster's spell save DC. The effectiveness of counterspells in both systems depends on factors such as spell level, spellcasting ability, and the target's saving throw proficiency. The changes in Pathfinder 2nd Edition give the target of a counterspell more agency and allow for more strategic decision-making. The 2014 rules of D&D 5th Edition provide a simpler and more accessible approach to counterspells, but some players may find them less satisfying or balanced. Counterspell can be a divisive mechanic in tabletop RPGs, with some players finding it frustrating and others enjoying its strategic elements. The hosts discuss the mechanics of counterspell in Pathfinder and D&D, including the use of spell slots, ability checks, and critical success/failure. They explore potential improvements to counterspell, such as removing the requirement to have the same spell prepared or adding additional action costs. The conversation also touches on other dice systems, including the D10 pool system and the D100 system, and the hosts share their preferences. Listeners are encouraged to share their favorite episodes and questions of the week, as well as support the podcast through Patreon and spreading the word to friends. If you enjoy the show, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. It's a quick, free way to support the podcast, and helps us reach new listeners. If you love the show, consider joining us on Patreon, where backers at the $5 and above tiers get ad free access to RPGBOT.net and the RPGBOT.Podcast, can chat directly to members of the RPGBOT team and community on the RPGBOT.Discord, and can join us for live-streamed recordings. Support us on Amazon.com when you purchase products recommended in the show at the following link: https://amzn.to/3NwElxQ How to Find Us: In-depth articles, guides, handbooks, reviews, news on Tabletop Role Playing at RPGBOT.net Tyler Kamstra Twitter: @RPGBOTDOTNET Facebook: rpgbotbotdotnet Bluesky:rpgbot.bsky.social Ash Ely Professional Game Master on StartPlaying.Games Twitter: @GravenAshes YouTube@ashravenmedia Randall James @JackAmateur Amateurjack.com Producer Dan @Lzr_illuminati

The crew goes over their top 10 counterspells in casual commander along with 6 honorable mentions!

Cam, Dylan, and Tyler talk about Counterspells in cEDH!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 463! This week Mark and Adam are putting on their best attire as they head out to the wedding of the century on Innistrad! It seems like after what feels like several life times, Edgar Markov has finally decided to settle down and tie the knot. I guess […]

  Patreon   Patreon Contest - Now that it's been out for a few weeks, what are your favorite commander-centric card from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Prize - Midnight Hunt Collector booster store.commandersocial.com   You can find us on Twitter   Ryan - @greenegeek Zack - @z4ck38 Together - @commandersocial   https://store.mothershipatx.com SOCIALSHIP - free shipping on orders of $50 or more SOCIAL10 - 10% off in stock MTG singles https://discord.gg/MMXQJqf Thursday nights come play at mothership! Our LGS has setup an online store!   Ep 115 Community Spotlight:   @MothershipGames - 5:37 @LennyWooley - 8:13 @MtgProphet - 20:04 @edhrec - 32:41 @TheTokenOtaku - 46:59   Main Topic - A Case for Blue   Disclaimer: There is no right or wrong here. Everyone has feelings, and all feelings are valid. This is an attempt to encourage discussion.  Lenny - It feels like blue players always have a trick up their sleeve. And this is one of the most legitimate criticisms of Blue, I've ever heard, and it's also one of the reasons I love blue! With so many cards available at instant speed, Blue gets the longest amount of time to make decisions, and gets to have the most information available when they make said decisions. I think this one is somewhat related to the point above. Specifically, that Blue players can leave up interaction mana, and then if nothing needs interacting, they can draw some cards, or with a lot of things having flash, they can commit resources to the board, and then untap with protection, and the creatures have pseudo-haste. I think this is one of the things that gets people to say “Kill the blue mage first”, and maybe that's valid. It's also a real point that blue players can often “not look too scary until it's too late” This is kind of a good reason to play Blue :) Blue decks tend to sneak by and win out of nowhere. This one upsets people a lot, and I definitely understand it sometimes, like in the case of Blatant Thievery and Expropriate, where the opposing players have invested cards and mana into the permanent. Something like Thada Adel, Acquisitor often gets the same type of reactions, and that one feels less true to me. I think I'd rather clone than steal Thievery feel bad and can cause people to feel afraid to make big plays I've heard of playgroups that rule 0 ban ALL counterspells Don't get me started on Brawl on Arena, in 1-1 counterspells do feel pretty bad :( Sometimes a combo would be able to win at “instant speed” and so even normal removal won't cut it. Prophet's example of Craterhoof and Dockside Have much stricter timing when compared to traditional removal You need to know when a creature is going to be pointed at you when it's on the stack, with traditional removal, you can wait until someone *actually* attacks you. 1-for-1 cards don't scale in Commander. A deck with 30 counterspells in it is probably NOT very good. I honestly think Propaganda is much more annoying than Counterspells. Counterspells can be teamed up on. Although this does kinda stink for the person to the left of the Counterspeller. (But it's also much more tempting for a Blue mage to let spells of player on their left resolve). I think Counterspells are actually kinda bad in Commander (Free ones are the exception here).  My Blue Braid's deck has 6 counterspells, but 2 are situational My Morph deck has 2 counterspells Nymris deck has 9, that might be too many… (Many of them cost 5 or more mana) Mono blue wizards has 5, but they are pretty situational and/or versatile, Kheru Spellsnatcher, Mystic Confluence Counterspells in my decks (I do love Draining Whelk) This is tricky, because Counterspells can certainly cause feel bads, but they can also be heroes Counterspells 32/100 cards are blue (or have blue in their color identity). This is roughly ⅓ when it, if everything was equal, it should be ⅕ or less (due to artifacts and lands), so the math definitely points to blue being Salt inducing. Yeah, these can be rage-inducing. Also, these are the kinda effects that lead people to team up on a player, and I tend not to run them too too often (I am guilty of Expropriate AND Time Stretch in the same deck though) Comparison to Sword of Feast and Famine Extra turns Blue wincons can be salt inducing. (iw. Control, combo, or extra turns) It feels like we've been hearing more and more players say they don't care to play or play against blue, so we took to our patrons to find out some reasons people aren't down with one of our favorite colors.  White - Stax / MLD Green - Ramp Black - Tutors and discard effects Red - Wheels and other chaos type effects Basically, the rule zero talk needs to be in full-effect here. It really matters when you're BUILDING the deck. Thinking about the given answers playing blue seems like it could be a feels bad, but when you look at the other colors they have mechanics that can cause the same kind of feelings Fact or Fiction Illusionist's Gambit and Aetherize - Protection from being attacked Wrong Turn Plagiarize  These are sooo blue, and soooo fun, and perfect 75% cards Clones - Phantasmal Image Can change color, land words, and creature types Supplant Form Spellweaver Volute Sudden Substitution Rite of Replication Clone Legion Faerie Artisans Bident of Thassa Does blue have things other to offer than counters, combos, or extra turns that aren't oppressive? Zack Artifact synergies! Zack wings it Blue lets me feel smart. People like to feel smart.  I like having as much info as possible when making a decision, and Blue let's me do that. I mean, come on, Flash! Blue can “Fly under the Radar”. At the same time, when someone attacks you or messes with your stuff, you as a blue player should try and understand this, and take it as the compliment it is (and yeah, be honest with yourself). Also, realize that sometimes you won't have anything going on, but THEY don't know that, and so you might have some unfun games when that happens. Ryan Why do we like blue?   Summary How do you feel about Blue? Is it worth going out of your comfort zone to give Blue a try?   Wrap it up     Keep it Social! 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Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 432! This week Mark and Adam have landed on the Banned list to question, should Primeval Titan still be banned? With the way Magic has gone in recent years, with so many new cards that push the power scale, does Primeval Titan still need to remain on the […]

This week we tackle another Patron request from Bob - Bant Ephemerate! And who better to have on than one of the masters of the deck, Aspiringspike himself, Evart Moughon. We go over the ins and outs of the deck, with Shane wondering just how to cast counterspells, Dave running out of time on Magic Online, and Stan just blinking stuff. Before that, we look at the latest Historic Anthology and give our takes on what cards might have an impact. The Break Down: A Shadow Over Historic The Dive Down: Draw 2 Whenever You Can The Dive Down, cont: Winning With Three 2/2s Download the FREE Untapped Companion to track your stats, see your decklists, get details on your performance and more! Use our link to help us out without spending anything: https://mtga.untapped.gg/companion?utmmedium=affiliate&utmsource=youtube&utm_campaign=divedown Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown" Timestamps: 2:36 - Housekeeping 6:08 - The Break Down begins - Historic Anthology 4 11:48 - The cards of Historic Anthology 4 14:50 - Death's Shadow 24:06 - Declaration in Stone 27:15 - Thraben Inspector 29:03 - Flameblade Adept 32:06 - Blinkmoth Nexus 34:01 - Sword of Body and Mind 35:31 - The other stuff 38:35 - Thoughts on Anthologies 43:26 - The Dive Down begins - a brief history of Bant Ephemerate 48:45 - What inspired Evart to keep coming back to this shell? 51:43 - Ephemerate: the key card 56:33 - What are we bouncing? Eternal Witness 1:01:30 - Ice-Fang Coatl 1:04:27 - Skyclave Apparition 1:07:43 - Wall of Omens 1:09:30 - Venser, Shaper Savant 1:11:40 - The Counterspells & How to Cast Them 1:23:04 - The Teferis 1:25:15 - The Mana 1:29:28 - Time Warp (Time Warp!) 1:31:35 - How Fun is the Deck? 1:37:37 - Some Sideboard Tips 1:41:12 - How Does This Slow Deck Win? 1:46:48 - Final Tips For Picking Up This Deck Links from this week's episode: Historic Anthology 4: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/get-ready-historic-anthology-iv-2021-03-05 Bant Ephemerate: https://www.streamdecker.com/deck/yHz1usZ4J Watch Aspiringspike on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/aspiringspike Find Aspiringspike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/moughonevart Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Monday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: thedivedown@gmail.com (mailto:thedivedown@gmail.com) twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

Dana, Max and Chris are back this week discussing counterspells outside the color blue. Tune in to hear the options you have to help make sure spells don’t resolve! TeeSpring Link for CMDR Central Apparel: https://teespring.com/stores/cmdrcentral Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CMDRCentral Support us by using promo code CMDR at Flipside Gaming: https://bit.ly/2OGDYooSubscribe on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/CMDRCentralSubscribe on iTunes: http://apple.co/2wVE3XFFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2wj8GWh

S3 Episode 24. Till was desperate to fit in combat variant rules, so we did. Then two topics: passive perception and other ways to counterspell. Also, anime. Intro and outro music - "Marty Gots a Plan" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This week we break down the post-ban Pioneer Challenges and Prelims and talk about what's over and under-performing. Then we head into the Dive Down to talk about our experiences playing Pioneer, our thoughts on the state of the format, and answer some listener questions! The Break Down: Pioneer is Back, Baybee! The Dive Down: Are We Having Fun Yet? The Wind Down: Dive Down is that You? It's Me, Listeners. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Now get 20% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown" Timestamps: 2:35 - Housekeeping 5:25 - The Break Down begins 7:58 - The overall competitive meta 25:27 - The winner's meta 28:17 - Cool decks! 36:10 - Hot takes on Pioneer 41:54 - The Dive Down begins 43:51 - What players were talking about 47:39 - What we were playing this week 50:49 - How did our decks feel? 1:03:00 - What we saw being played 1:10:25 - Was anything feeling under or overpowered? 1:16:00 - A digression - what makes Magic fun? 1:22:32 - Are the best cards and decks too good? 1:28:00 - Is the format healthier now? 1:31:20 - Listener questions! Does Uro make aggro unplayable? 1:35:28 - Does Pioneer need Bolt, Path, and better Counterspells? 1:39:10 - What would we play in a Pioneer GP? 1:41:25 - Will Pioneer be played when paper comes back? 1:45:12 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Simic Spirits: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3283075#paper Abzan Aristocrats https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3279021#paper Inverterless Inverter https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3283205#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? email us: thedivedown@gmail.com (mailto:thedivedown@gmail.com) twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

Dana and Max are back this week discussing counterspells in EDH. From reviewing the top 20 from EDHRec, discussing some of their favorites, to how they decide to run the counterspells in their decks.    TeeSpring Link for CMDR Central Apparel: https://teespring.com/stores/cmdrcentral Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CMDRCentral Support us by using promo code CMDR at Flipside Gaming: https://bit.ly/2OGDYooSubscribe on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/CMDRCentralSubscribe on iTunes: http://apple.co/2wVE3XFFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2wj8GWh

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You guys! Counterspells in Standard don't have to suck! And actually, this one hasn't sucked for a while, but the meta finally gave it big stuff to counter. Overthinking MTG is a daily podcast where our host, HamHocks42, takes a look at a random card from Magic: the Gathering and talks about it for at least 10 minutes. Often, though, he ends up yammering about whatever's on the top of his mind that the card reminds him of and a half hours passes and it turns out all he's done is share his thoughts on recent news related to Commander, Magic: the Gathering Arena, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or humorous anecdotes from his kitchen table jank days. If you want to get involved, you can absolutely join the conversation or request specific cards over on Discord: https://discord.gg/yefBNBu Also, our host live streams on Twitch every weekday morning: https://www.twitch.tv/hamhocks42

Evan and Brian discuss in detail when and what to counter, then do random commander and assign each other homework. First repeat random commander! Enjoy!

Episode 100! - The Commander Smiths have a problem with Counterspell and we discuss that. We also have our Fav. 5 Auras list and AnLQ: Fuck, Marry Kill! Enjoy! Support the show by donating to out Patreon Pagehttps://www.patreon.com/commandersmiths   A FREE way to support the show is to SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube page and LIKE/SHARE our videos and podcasts https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mttoLhPuTpOUMsqF1O-og?view_as=subscriber   Follow us on twitter where you will see INSTA Specs, Proxy of the Week, Not Sharing with Adam Beer, MTG News and any Schedule changes.   @CommanderSmiths   Lastly, you can email us at CommanderSmiths@gmail.com with any song suggestions, specs, decks, Questions or just to chat.    Recent Videos from the CommanderSmiths   Recent Battle Boxes: Modern Horizons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRENyoXaEao   How to Make Full Art Proxies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF2NCnyjMdI&t=   Adam’s Auras- Aqueous Form https://scryfall.com/card/ths/39/fr/forme-aqueuse Glistening Oil https://scryfall.com/card/nph/62/glistening-oil Corrupted Conscience https://scryfall.com/card/mbs/22/corrupted-conscience Song of the Dryads https://scryfall.com/card/cma/147/song-of-the-dryads Mechanized Production https://scryfall.com/card/aer/38/mechanized-production Lowery’s Auras-  Rancor https://scryfall.com/card/a25/186/rancor Pattern of Rebirth https://scryfall.com/card/uma/176/pattern-of-rebirth Dust Corona https://scryfall.com/card/plc/97/dust-corona Steel of the Godhead https://scryfall.com/card/ddi/30/steel-of-the-godhead Instill Energy https://scryfall.com/card/me4/157/instill-energy The Who: Behind Blue Eyes- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMrImMedYRo

This week we Dive Deeper into the Pioneer format, and bring you 5 ways to level up your play! The Break Down: The latest Pioneer bans, and WOTC's new B&R schedule The Dive Down: Level up your Pioneer thinking with 5 takeaways The Wind Down: We answer some listener questions Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Now get 15% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown" Timestamps: 3:02 - Housekeeping 4:19 - The Break Down begins - The latest Pioneer bans 19:07 - WOTC's new B&R schedule, or lack thereof 29:18 - The Dive Down begins - Observations on Pioneer 30:18 - Non-basic lands.... can be good! 43:17 - Taking the advantage back on the draw 57:25 - The 3 toughness challenge 1:11:00 - The casting cost mindshift, 1 mana cards in Pioneer 1:19:30 - Counterspells in Pioneer 1:26:30 - The Wind Down: Listener questions on Pioneer Links from this week's episode: The 12/16/19 Pioneer bannings: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/december-16-2019-pioneer-banned-announcement The 12/16/19 B&R annoucement: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/december-16-2019-banned-and-restricted-announcement Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? email us: thedivedown@gmail.com (mailto:thedivedown@gmail.com) twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

Patreon Patron of the week: Lee ALSO, Patron ONLY Brawl Tournament, winner to get a Brawl Deck Patreon Contest - Win a Brawl Deck of your choice Ryan - @greenegeek Zack - @z4ck38 Together - @commandersocial   Twitter contest - Foil Kenrith, the Returned King You can find us on Twitter https://moteam.co/commander-social We’re growing sweet staches and walking 60 miles in the month of November Movember Mike Condon for audio engineering and Peanut Butter Parfaits Thanks Lee - 1:12 @GavinVerhey - 3:48 @GingerJ0E - 15:45 @CMDRCentral_Max - 15:45, 22:26 @danaroach - 33:31 @CommandersBrew - 49:42 @MothershipGames - 1:01:47 Ep 23 Community Spotlight: 110.1, 110.5 Commander Rules! While Ryan and I tend to gravitate towards similar decks and playstyles, we often take different approaches to how we would build decks. Tonight we are comparing Ryan’s Emry deck to Zack’s! Zack’s Deck: https://archidekt.com/decks/258206#Zack's_Emry Ryan’s Budget version: https://archidekt.com/decks/269099#Ryan's_Emry_-_Budget Ryan’s Deck: https://archidekt.com/decks/266924#Ryan's_Emry Joe Hoffman, Max Crandell, Brando Calrisian Thanks to the Folks that helped us work on these decks Zack - To draw all the cards, and take all the turns Ryan - Robots in de-Loch. Constructs wage a war to destroy the evil forces, of the Zack-ticons (Construct Tribal) Deck Motivation / Plan Maybe make some graphics for this Removal - 12 Ramp - 8 Card Draw - 8 Synergy - 5 Counterspells - 4 Wincon - 6 Combo - 6 Moar Turns - 4 Flex - 9 Lands - 37 Zack’s Slots Constructs - 13 Commander Synergy - 6 Self Mill - 5 Card Draw - 8 Ramp - 8 Recursion - 6 Removal - 4 Board Wipes - 4 Flex - 9 Lands - 36 Ryan’s Slots Ryan 42 Artifacts 30 Creatures 8 Instant 4 Enchantment 3 Sorcery 37 Land 27 Artifacts 11 Creatures 15 Instant 6 Enchantment 9 Sorcery 2 Planeswalker 37 Land Zack Card types Ryan - 3.06 Zack - 4.13 Average CMC Surprisingly, we overlapped in very few cards: Academy Ruins Castle Vantress Darksteel Citadel Inventors' Fair Seat of the Synod Lands Cyclonic Rift Duplicant Flood of Tears Mind Stone Mirrodin Besieged Reality Shift Solemn Simulacrum Non-lands HOW DID I FORGET SOL RING!!!!!!??!?!?!?!!?! Overlap Stats - Before we get into it let’s compare some data points on the deck Ryan Giant Robots - Arcbound Ravager, Metalwork Colossus, Myr Battlesphere, Torrential Gearhulk, Traxos, Triskelion Artificer’s Intuition, 13 zero and one mana artifacts, Also this allows for potential Emry on Turn 1 Paradoxical Outcome - Potential to return lots of cards, and draw lots of cards Self Mill to get lots of Fuel for Emry in the yard Urza, Lord High Artificer - Finally have  a place to play this Scrapyard Recombiner - 15 Constructs (13 in the construct category and two in other categories) Artifact Sac Outlets - Dedicated ways to use out of Emry’s replay effect.  Recursion - Emry does this, but so does Scrap Trawler, Trading Post, Junk Diver, Salvaging Station Untapping Emry to bring a LOT of things back - Minamo, School at Water’s Edge, Freed from the Real Sol Ring Extra Planar Lens Caged Sun Mono Color gotta have mana doublers Mirrodin Besieged Dramatic Reversal High Tide Reset Isochron Scepter with two drop instants Cyclonic rift and clones Chasm Skulker Mystic Forge Zack Fun card synergies Zack Ryan - Not your typical Emry deck. I tried to make sure there weren’t any infinite combos in the list. Each turn is going to feel like a puzzle, on how to extract the most value out of your cards. Plus, Huge robots! Why my deck is the most fun to play / play against Let us know by voting in our week long poll.  So what did you think of our decks? Main Topic - A Tail of Two Emrys Thanks for watching! Please remember to Like and Subscribe, and you can follow us on Twitter, @commandersocial, @greenegeek, @z4ck38. Keep it Social! Commander Social Intro and Outro ThemeRaindrop by Declan DP https://soundcloud.com/declandp Licensing Agreement 2.0 http://www.declandp.info/music-licensing Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/LbIb9_5_qNE Komiku - Battle of Pogs https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Zack Gets it Together Theme Consider becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/commandersocial You can check us out at commandersocial.com YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/CommanderSocial You can email us directly at cast@commandersocial.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commandersocial On twitter @commandersocial twitch.tv/greenegeek Ryan individually @greenegeek Zack individually @z4ck38 Contact Info © Copyright 2019 Leaky Dinghy, LLC

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Episode 66: The Commander Smiths get in some Modern horizons talk and we also have a list of Off Color Counterspells list we want to share. And as we frequently do we have Smith Specs of the Week. Enjoy! Episode Jump: Modern Horizons Spoilers 7:05 Off Color: Counterspells 31:55 SPECS 46:37   Support the show by donating to out Patreon Pagehttps://www.patreon.com/commandersmiths     A FREE way to support the show is to SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube page and LIKE/SHARE our videos and podcasts https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mttoLhPuTpOUMsqF1O-og?view_as=subscriber   Follow us on twitter where you will see INSTA Specs, Proxy of the Week, Not Sharing with Adam Beer, MTG News and any Schedule changes.   @CommanderSmiths   Lastly, you can email us at CommanderSmiths@gmail.com with any song suggestions, specs, decks, Questions or just to chat.    Recent Videos from the CommanderSmiths   Recent Battle Boxes: War of the Spark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLSC4IOVNnA   How to Make Full Art Proxies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF2NCnyjMdI&t=   Modern Horizons released cards https://www.mtggoldfish.com/spoilers/Modern+Horizons   Off Color Counterspells: (non-blue) Red: Pyroblast https://scryfall.com/card/ema/142/pyroblast Red Elemental Blast https://scryfall.com/card/a25/147/red-elemental-blast Mage’s Contest https://scryfall.com/card/inv/154/mages-contest Artifact Blast https://scryfall.com/card/me4/108/artifact-blast Molten Influence https://scryfall.com/card/ody/207/molten-influence Burnout https://scryfall.com/card/me2/121/burnout   White: Rebuff the wicked https://scryfall.com/card/plc/12/rebuff-the-wicked Lapse of Certainty https://scryfall.com/card/con/9/lapse-of-certainty Mana Tithe https://scryfall.com/card/plc/25/mana-tithe Dawn Charm https://scryfall.com/card/uma/13/dawn-charm Frontline Medic https://scryfall.com/card/gtc/12/frontline-medic Equinox https://scryfall.com/card/leg/13/equinox Illumination Mirage https://scryfall.com/card/mir/21/illumination Order of the Sacred Torch https://scryfall.com/card/me2/25/order-of-the-sacred-torch Vigilant Maryr https://scryfall.com/card/mir/45/vigilant-martyr Unyaro Griffen https://scryfall.com/card/6ed/49/unyaro-griffin   Green: Avoid Fate https://scryfall.com/card/tsb/73/avoid-fate Bind https://scryfall.com/card/inv/182/bind Lifeforce https://scryfall.com/card/me4/160/lifeforce Rust https://scryfall.com/card/leg/203/rust Brown Ouphe https://scryfall.com/card/mrd/115/brown-ouphe Ouphe Vandals https://scryfall.com/card/5dn/90/ouphe-vandals   Black: Dash Hopes https://scryfall.com/card/plc/68/dash-hopes Withering Boon https://scryfall.com/card/mir/152/withering-boon Deathgrip https://scryfall.com/card/me4/75/deathgrip Stromgald Cabal https://scryfall.com/card/me2/113/stromgald-cabal Thrull Wizard https://scryfall.com/card/fem/46/thrull-wizard   Colorless: Not of this world https://scryfall.com/card/roe/8/not-of-this-world Warping Wail https://scryfall.com/card/ogw/12/warping-wail Null Brooch https://scryfall.com/card/exo/136/null-brooch Ring of Immortals https://scryfall.com/card/leg/293/ring-of-immortals   Multi: Guttural Response https://scryfall.com/card/dds/56/guttural-response   SSOTW: Warping Wail: https://scryfall.com/card/ogw/12/warping-wail Null Brooch: https://scryfall.com/card/exo/136/null-brooch Mark of Asylum foil: https://scryfall.com/card/con/10/mark-of-asylum Trostani, Selesnya’s Voice:https://scryfall.com/card/gk1/102/trostani-selesnyas-voice   Europe: The Final Countdown- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw Parish Brewing/ Other Half: Ghost Diamonds- https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24822/412824/

In this episode we discuss our opinions on interaction in cEDH, and how to build a countermagic package, as well as covering the subject of cEDH primers, and, as always, answering viewer questions. Unfortunately, Null couldn't be on this episode, but we're looking forward to finally getting the full team back together for the next episode, enjoy!   Podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/VfJb678 Podcast Email: IntoTheNorthPodcast@gmail.com   Deck Links Baral Control -https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/baral-draw-go-2/ Rashmi Control -http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/infinite-eternities-that-also-last-a-long-time/ Food Chain Gonti -http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/food-chain-gonti-1/ Food Chain Jeleva -http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/food-chain-jeleva/ Goreclaw Stompy -https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/goreclaw-stompy-storm/   Content Links Commander Advisory Group charter -http://www.starcitygames.com/articles/38440_The-Commander-Advisory-Group-Charter.html Sacred Hulk reddit post -https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveEDH/comments/awutfr/sacred_hulk_or_how_to_have_your_meat_and_eggs_and/ The Primer on Primers -https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveEDH/comments/8rs9tj/a_primer_on_primers/

This episode we’re discussing Occult/Mysticism/New Age/Esoteric/Magic(k) Non-Fiction! We discuss youthful tarot experimentation, cultural appropriation, new age spiritualism, and more! Plus: Well known 19th century erotic author/model Bam Stroker! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…) Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards by Michelle Tea Welcome To 'Witch City' With Michelle Tea Making Witches: Newfoundland Traditions of Spells and Counterspells by Barbara Rieti Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique by Harry G. West Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia by Valerie A. Kivelson The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason by John V. Fleming The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke Lore Podcast Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles by Taisia Kitaiskaia Ask Baba Yaga at The Hairpin HausMagick: Transform Your Home with Witchcraft by Erica Feldmann HausWitch shop The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane by Matthew Hutson Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman Camille Chew is the artist (she also has a “Modern Witch” series of images) Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood by Claire Hoffman Can RJ Recommend a Book by a Trans Author in this Genre? Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot by Rachel Pollack There are no print collections of Pollack’s run on Doom Patrol, but you can buy it on Comixology Other Media We Mention The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz The Secret by Rhonda Byrne A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle The Vampire Bible by The Temple of the Vampire Cultural Appropriation in Contemporary Neopaganism and Witchcraft by Kathryn Gottlieb (the thesis Meghan mentioned) The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn The Modern Guide to Witchcraft: Your Complete Guide to Witches, Covens, and Spells by Skye Alexander The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts by Judika Illes The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft by Rosemary Ellen Guiley Magic from Mexico: Folk Magic, Prayers, Spells & Recipes as Taught by the Wise Woman of Guadalupe by Mary Devine How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future by Jonathan Cahn The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers by Taisia Kitaiskaia Overthrowing the Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law by Don Webb Witches, Pagans, and Cultural Appropriation by Mandy A. Paradise (zine) Brainscan Zine #33: DIY Witchery (An Exploration of Secular Witchcraft) by Alex Wrekk Portland Button Works: Witchy category Links, Articles, and Things Old Episodes of our podcast Episode 005 - Religion (non-fiction) Episode 015 - Self Help Episode 016 - Supernatural and Paranormal Non-fiction New Age (Wikipedia) Black Witch: Life from a Black Pagan's Perspective Black Witch on the Alt-Black Podcast How to Cast Spells Using Emoji by Tarin Towers 164 Emoji Spells Some Modern Witches Are Casting Emoji Spells And Digital Tarot Readings - But Do They Work? by Jacob Shelton A Simple Guide to Emoji Spells

Thanks Mike Condon for the music and editing Vanessa Tiffany for the logo/icon Mothership Books and Games - 00:13:16, 00:51:24 Correction: Dig Through Time doesn’t trigger Parun - 00:14:48 See our Commander 2018 Preview Card Video for Chaos Warp - 00:35:48 (https://youtu.be/sjyr-fQfEuk) @noahbradley - 00:40:21 @JoshLeeKwai- 00:45:14 Ep 81 Community Spotlight: Getting ready to start up for Season 6 - The Brawl. League Update: See the Deck here: Opened Niv-Mizzet in my Pre-Release pack and have been really wanting to build around him for a while, but just got around to it. The idea of the deck is to cast a bunch of instants to draw a bunch of cards to do a bunch of damage. Aside about how we built the deck together, sitting in the same room. Cards Main Topic - Deck Tech of Niv-Mizzet Parun EDH Deck   Card Draw   Treasure Cruise Dig Through Time Windfall Dictate of Kruphix Consecrated Sphinx Brainstorm Ponder Preordain Serum Visions Cantrips (Usually bad in EDH)   Counterspells   Pact of Negation Swan Song Disallow Cryptic Command Mystic Confluence   Spell Duplication   Primal Amulet Sunbird's Invocation Thousand-Year Storm Mizzix's Mastery Epic Experiment Snapcaster Mage The Mirari Conjecture Mission Briefing Archaeomancer Venser, Shaper Savant Spell Recursion   Removal   Thing in the Ice Lightning Bolt Vandalblast Cyclonic Rift Chaos Warp Aetherize Evacuation Time Warp Karn's Temporal Sundering Turns Psychosis Crawler Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind Guttersnipe Creatures Firemind's Foresight Merchant Scroll Tutors Sensei's Divining Top Lightning Greaves Thought Vessel Vedalken Orrery Artifacts Desolate LightHouse Reliquary Tower Riptide Laboratory Lands Niv-Mizzet, Parun Keranos, God of Storms Omniscience Palinchron Grapeshot Capsize Win Conditions   Cards We Cut   Remand Izzet Locket High Tide Stormtide Leviathan Hypothesizzle River’s Rebuke Psychic Corrosion Cards that said Look at X cards from the top of your library and put Y cards into hand.   Thank everyone for listening. You can always leave us a review in the iTunes store. You can check us out at brotherswarcast.com YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/BrothersWarPodcast Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/brotherswarcast/ Official Page: https://www.facebook.com/brotherswarcast/ Facebook - You can email us directly at mail@brotherswarcast.com On twitter @brotherswarcast twitch.tv/greenegeek Ryan individually @greenegeek http://www.imdb.me/cjwostal CJ individually @Sudge1 Zack individually @z4ck38 Contact Info  

This is the first in my "Designing [Blank]" series where I talk about how to design basic Magic effects.

Episode 74 is here with a look at how to play with and against counterspells in limited in general, as well as specifically in GRN. With over 190 GRN drafts between them, your hosts break down specific scenarios from some of their GRN games. Additionally, they take a quick check-in on how to crush the Modern Cube on MTGO! What's the plays: #1: https://imgur.com/a/DwmQl6C #2: https://imgur.com/a/VEwrTdS #3: https://imgur.com/a/sJ4oKoO

4 Counterspells In Modern That Need To See More Play

Counterspells Against Bullshit and Jive by Brightmoments on Mixcloud Light My Fire: A Counterspell Against Bullshit and Jive Shadow and Light. Shadow and Act. Faulkner and Ellison. Shade Tree and Time to Face the Sun. The rugged elegance of fame and fortune the hood rich way can lure anyone through the nondescript back door of his wildest dreams come true, toward rituals so sordid and raw he wonders if it was curiosity or a brisk curse that brought him there. But everything’s groovy for a while. Wine, weed, and women are flowing and you learn to make music on the monkey’s back, on that high ‘ocean-style’ wave.  That’s where Lee Perry sat or huddled or flew or dove in from; in the proud/prowed heart of Kingston, Jamaica’s finest recording studio, just before he torched it, set unapologetic fire to his own creation, the renown Black Ark. He was seated g-like, at the mouth of the fountain in audiocolor, quenched, shunning the show-tunes and battle hymns and monkeys on his mind, (by monkeys I mean anxieties, or the fear of fulfilling the white man’s onerous stereo/and radio/ types of the black man) so he sat there as a king and god and champion of black dignity, in a most plush and throne-like chair he could see, surrounded by such lucky machines and admirers and mirrors from dusk until dawn they were shoving songs into his heart like daggers and dragging his mind into the hive. It could all be so much simpler, he realized, as he burnt the whole thing down that lucky day. Every record, every vibration, every burden disguised as relief or comfort, every perfect circle of wax and wane we call a LongPlay: all into cinders and smoke until broken was the curse and revolving door of a life course superimposed on him by ambition, until he could make healing music again. This emission of the Feed comprises pieces that Lee Perry rescued from the rubble and reassembled. He brought the Ark out of the rouge and into the rain or reign (see also reine) where it is rendered an agent of hope and deliverance. Most basically, he cleared the party of bullshit and jive, he acted like a true Black Cop, and when the unwanted presences turned the quiet corner, he started the music again. He proved that we don’t always need electricity for black music, for we are electricity. So, here we enter his self-made universe in its Era of Good Feelings, in the rejuvenating discomfort of themes such as: How to celebrate a loss, how to eliminate the semantic structure that inverts loss and gain, how to be your own forest, how destruction is a myth or just a flipside of creation, positive, a pause/reset just when things get too theatrical or ridiculous, how to catch on fire and use the rising tempo to access a higher vibration until you’re a bundle of interdependent elements rolling across an omniscient void that is your total mind, how that changes the meaning of end of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing which I like to call by its nickname Do the Riot Thing, how misconstrued archetypes such as the diva (or the divine) and the collective (check out the Emerald Tablet) are meant to interact, how collectivity defragments (in and of and as) the black imagination, how that collectivity manifests today in both the ‘real’ and ‘cyber’ worlds, how they are different worlds, acting co-dependant though in need of behavior that honors their interdependency, how what they share is a commons, how their whole body is an ear, how to reread Gwendolyn Brooks’ The Preacher Ruminates Behind the Sermon in that context, how the diva takes one for the team by showing up in the places where gathering, especially gathering to listen to things together, feels most ominous, locations such as, in the fire, in the water, in the poem, in the music, in the moment, in the white man, as Frank O’Hara, or Kennedy, or King, or half-breed between these things, or their shared fantasy, which doubles as their shared fear, or All of these at once.

This week on Limited Resources episode #45, Ryan and Marshall cover a range of topics: Counterspells in Limited, Cube Drafting, MTGO on a Mac, Draw or Play decisions, M11 sealed, Red and Black sweepers, and do a Crack-a-Pack! Thanks for listening!