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The Art of the Board Wipe | #382 (Patreon)

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2021-03-16 19:49:41
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2022-03

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Wrath effects. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, when the battlefield gets out of control, sometimes you just need to hit the reset button. This episode we discuss the different types of board wipes, how many you should run, which ones work most effectively in which decks, and how to know when to use them.

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What We Talked About on the End Step:


WandaVision (Disney+)

https://www.disneyplus.com/series/wandavision/4SrN28ZjDLwH

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The Art of the Board Wipe | The Command Zone #382 | Magic: The Gathering Commander EDH

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Comments

Anonymous

Thanks guys u guys rock too!

Bad Dwarf

Josh says build Zurgo Boardwipe Tribal, that's what i heard :)

Anonymous

black/green/white boardwipe

Anonymous

Great information and perspectives thank you.

Anonymous

Great episode! Now how about doing that episode on The Art of Milling? You've never covered mill cards either - fingers crossed.

Anonymous

Would have been nice to discuss through the lens of the four quadrants, building, parity, ahead, behind. You kind of touched on various scenarios but it could be helpful to use the concept in these more instructional focused videos. Great job overall, I hope you do more videos like this.

Anonymous

I love JLK's idea on how to think of what your deck is not doing, I think that's a great line for thinking how to put the optimal board wipes in your deck. Going off Marius' idea, I also would love to see the Art of Milling! I've had/have 2 mill EDH decks, and the construction of these in EDH/multiplayer in general requires different thinking. I'm sure JLK could turn that Jorn deck into a brutal Sultai mill deck! Art of Milling, Art of...Ramping? The list goes on! I hope you make an "art of" series, this episode was great :D.

Anonymous

This episode gave me alot to think about when it comes to deck construction. A board wipe isn't always a board wipe, and as such has made me reconsider a number of board wipes I already use. One deck I run actually hinges on board wipes as part of it's strategy: kill all the creatures, activate man lands/man rocks, then crew vehicles to roll to victory. It's surprisingly fun for all the players at the table. Why? Because for my strategy to work I need to avoid specific board wipes: often ones that target artifacts. Seeing as Vehicles are my whole game plan for victory I favor creature targeting sorcery speed wipes as they leave me in the best position. Since I'm not touching my enemies ramp (unless it's creature based) it allows them time to rebuild. This means I smash the board, have to get a single good hit in, and then am open for any hastey crack back. Inevitably the board is consistently returned to a pure state every few turns (this decks best version ran 11 board wipes) in a consistent enough pattern that player would figure ways to play around it. Players began trying to bait the board wipes out of me, only to rebuild with something worse. Players reach critical masses of creatures would trigger other players to hold back, using politics to get me to sweep again, or offering concessions if I didn't. I guess what I'm saying is at a certain critical mass of the right board wipe they can actually become easier to deal with. When you are slapping the board clean often enough, it's not a surprise and can be anticipated. Now this is not a call for more board wipes, but my experience playing a particular extreme in the format. If I were to play this in any other deck, it might be insufferable. If I could recur my board wipes every turn, nobody would want to play me. Instead even in the most kill happy strategies, subtlety is key. The inverse of my story about was a game that I played against a person running Mairsil, the Pretender. This deck was not built for table interaction, but to point a gun to every other player's head. Activated hate bearer and shut down effects for Mairsil to copy were in vast quantities here. None were worse than when he gave her the ability of Nevinyarrl's disk. Mairsil became a time bomb that he used to reckless abandon. You even so much as breathed wrong and he'd blow up the table and find a way for Mairsil to come back. This form of oppression broke the friendly mood of the game. While the table tried to point all efforts to remove the player, the effort was for naught. As for the art of videos: Please do more of these. Going over the subtly of basic mechanics of play is wonderful. Even as a veteran player there is so much more left to learn. Maybe a video on Targeted removal, Ramp, Card advantage, or even the very idea of synergy.