Last week, The Command Zone YouTube channel released a teaser trailer for their upcoming Game Knights Episode, featuring Musician and Producer, Post Malone! We know that he’s a big collector, but now he’s come to show his skills against Game Knights Hosts, Josh Lee Kawi, Jimmy Wong, and Ashlen Rose. Well now the time has come and the episode has just dropped! One cool thing to note right off the bat, is that Posty produced the introduction theme for the episode. Another awesome factor of the episode is that they are playing with Modern Horizons 2 cards!
What’s Posty Playing?
The deck that Posty brings to the table is Merieke Ri Berit, and he built the deck to really abuse her activated ability of stealing his opponent’s creatures. He’s incorporating a bunch of untap effects like
Freed from the Real
Freed from the Real
Enchant creature
{U}: Tap enchanted creature.
{U}: Untap enchanted creature.
, and Magwright’s Stone, and a bunch of stealing effects like
Corrupted Conscience
Corrupted Conscience
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
and
Thief of Sanity
Thief of Sanity
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top three cards of that player's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest into their graveyard. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
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He’s going up against Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, being played by Jimmy Wong, Xantcha, Sleeper Agent, played by Ashlen Rose, and Garth One-Eye, piloted by Josh Lee Kwai.
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Posty Came to Play!
The game gets off quick, with Josh playing an
Esper Sentinel
Esper Sentinel
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.
and Posty follows that up with a
Rhystic Study
Rhystic Study
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.
really taxing the table! Posty definitely came ready to throw down, using his commander to steal Garth, One-Eye from Josh, then sequenced an awesome play using
Staff of Domination
Staff of Domination
{1}: Untap this artifact.
{2}, {T}: You gain 1 life.
{3}, {T}: Untap target creature.
{4}, {T}: Tap target creature.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card.
to untap Garth, gave it haste with
Lightning Greaves
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}
, copied Josh’s
Black Lotus
Black Lotus
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.
with a
Phyrexian Metamorph
Phyrexian Metamorph
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
, and used Garth to make a copy of
Regrowth
Regrowth
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
, which allowed him to get back his
Rise of the Dark Realms
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
that was discarded in the last turn.
Jimmy puts him self into a game winning position looping
Dockside Extortionist
Dockside Extortionist
When this creature enters, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
and other creatures to gain a bunch of mana and board presence, but Posty comes in to save the day by slamming
Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
Creatures you control have horsemanship. (They can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
, giving his whole board Horsemanship, and killing Jimmy on the spot. One down, 2 to go. Posty closes out the game with the Rise of the Dark Realms he got back earlier, sequencing a play to make 10 8/8 tokens with Haste, Vigilance, Trample, First Strike and Horsemanship and knocks out both Ashlen and Josh in one massive attack! GGs! You can check out Posty’s full list below!
That was an incredible game! Definitely give the full episode a watch as it was incredibly entertaining! Also there’s a promotion in Magic Arena where if you enter Code “GAMEKNIGHTS” on Magic Arena before June 28th, to get a bunch of free cards! If you had to pick a celebrity to play Magic: the Gathering with, who would it be? Let us know in the comments!