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Post Malone Plays Magic: The Gathering | Game Knights 45 | Commander Gameplay EDH

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Deck Strategies

  • Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

    Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

    This deck aims to generate value by discarding cards, sacrificing creatures, and recurring them to the battlefield or hand. It plans to overwhelm opponents with accumulated value.

  • Merieke Ri Berit

    Merieke Ri Berit

    This deck focuses on utilizing the commander's ability to control opponents' creatures. It's built around enchantments and artifacts that untap the commander or generate value from using opponent's creatures.

  • Garth One-Eye

    Garth One-Eye

    The deck revisits Magic's history by allowing the casting of original cards. It includes ways to untap Garth to repeatedly use his ability, with additional creatures that benefit from being untapped.

  • Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

    Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

    This deck focuses on manipulating opponents using enchantments that incentivize them to attack each other. It seeks to whittle down opponents' life totals using Xantcha's ability before delivering the final blow with heavy hitters.

Gameplay Insights

  • 1

    The early game was heavily influenced by Post Malone's Soul Ring, providing him with significant mana advantage.

  • 2

    Josh's Esper Sentinel played a crucial role in drawing him additional cards, maintaining his hand size and giving him more options.

  • 3

    Jimmy's Witches' Oven and Foreboding Fruit aligned with his food token strategy, setting up potential value plays later in the game.

  • 4

    Ashlen's Curse of Opulence created a political dynamic, encouraging attacks against Josh.

  • 5

    Post Malone's Rhystic Study allowed him to consistently draw cards, providing a steady stream of resources throughout the game.

Notable Cards

  • Esper Sentinel

    Esper Sentinel

  • Foreboding Fruit

    Foreboding Fruit

  • Rhystic Study

    Rhystic Study

  • Curse of Opulence

    Curse of Opulence

Summary

The game kicked off with all players developing their board states, with Post Malone taking an early lead by playing a Soul Ring on his first turn. Josh followed this up by casting Esper Sentinel, drawing cards whenever opponents cast non-creature spells. Jimmy's strategy focused on creating food tokens with cards like Witches' Oven and Foreboding Fruit. Ashlen introduced a political element to the game by playing Curse of Opulence on Josh, incentivizing the other players to attack him. Post Malone continued to generate value from his Rhystic Study, drawing cards whenever opponents didn't pay the additional cost for their spells.

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Show Notes:

Posty’s getting knighted! Singer-songwriter Post Malone joins Josh, Jimmy, and Ashlen for a crazy, unpredictable, and epic Magic: The Gathering Commander game featuring the new cards from Modern Horizons 2.

It’s Merieke Ri Barit vs Xantcha vs Garth One-Eye vs Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

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Where to find our guests online:

Post Malone: www.postmalone.com www.youtube.com/postmalone www.facebook.com/postmalone Twitter: @PostMalone Instagram: @postmalone

Ashlen Rose: Twitter: @AshlenRose Instagram: @RawrItsAshlen Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ashlen_rose


Deck lists:

Posty’s Merieke: www.archidekt.com/decks/4663984/post_malones_merieke_game_knights_45

JLK’s Garth: www.archidekt.com/decks/4663983/jlks_garth_game_knights_45

Ashlen’s Xantcha: www.archidekt.com/decks/4663981/ashlens_xantcha_game_knights_45

Jimmy’s Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar: www.archidekt.com/decks/4663982/jimmys_asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar_gk_45


Credits:

Director: Josh Lee Kwai Post Production Supervisor: Jake Boss Editors: Josh Murphy, Manson Leung and Jake Boss VFX, Animations and GFX: Sam Waldow Assistant VFX: Patrick Nan Director of Photography: Jake Boss Sound Mix: Jake Boss Writers: Jordan Pridgen and Dan Sheehan Behind-the-Scenes Footage: Jon Salmon Theme Music: Post Malone Main Title Sequence: Doublewide (doublewidela.com) Additional GFX: Grant Aldrich and Geoffrey Palmer Set Design: Bonnie Vacevich

Yawgmoth (voice): Craig Blanchette Garth (voice): Manson Leung Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar / Xantcha / Garna (voice): Ladee Danger Merieke Ri Berit / Rise of the Dark Realms (voice): Ashlen Rose


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