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[Assistant] It can even be a 4-4 that you didn't kick and so you'll still get 4 1-1 artifact constructs when it gets targeted by a spell. However, you know, you can target it with your own spell and also when it comes in as like a 14-14, it has to be dealt with and that's one of the great things about it. It can be the artifact that's attacking in.


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[Assistant] Triggering alibu and then at some point like a lot of times people are like I just have to kill that thing.


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[Assistant] So, what else makes a lot of artifacts? Can I sell you on a little card called Dockside Extortionist?


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[Assistant] Tago, I like quite a bit. Every time a land enters the battlefield on your, uh, under your control, you make a rock equipment. Those are artifacts that you can tap. And I've talked about this before, but I think this is true of Lorehold, just like it is for Boros. I think the Fetchland, Savin's Reclamation, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so let's talk about seize the day, cause more combat steps will mean alibu triggers more often. Uh, seize the day is three in a red, untapped target creature. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. So this is a way to just attack again with another creature.


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[Assistant] And get the alaboo trigger. Again, alaboo only triggers when one or more artifact creatures you control attack. You don't need to attack with everything.


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[Assistant] Uh, also Seize the Day has flashback for Tuna Red. So this is a way to maybe get three yellow boot triggers in a turn. That's likely to kill somebody.


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[Assistant] The same sort of idea behind Tago could work with Morag, uh, because it has a landfall trigger when a lander enters the battlefield under your control. If it's your main phase, there's an additional combat phase after this phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures you control. So this is a way that you can get multiple combats, multiple alibut triggers, a rally of the warleader, another way.


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[Assistant] Yep, that's a really good way to go. And then let's talk about augmenting Alibu. So, it is easy to miss, but Alibu is the one dealing the damage off its trigger. So if you were to give Alibu, let's say,


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[Assistant] Infect. Let's just say it. Infect, then you'd only have to do, you'd only have to have 10 tapped artifacts for Alibaba to be lethal. Immediately, right? Easy.


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[Assistant] I don't think that's hard at all, like, you've got four mana rocks, a couple of mirror, some artifact lands, like, you're almost there right now. Crafted exoskeleton itself is an artifact, it's an equipment, doesn't care if it's tapped, if you gear up your aether grid it, like, I don't think it's very hard to get Alibu up to 10 damage.


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[Assistant] I think, uh, it, uh, Grafted might be one of the best cards in the deck, so maybe you want like Steel Shaper's Gift in the deck, so you can find it, and then you're gonna want like, you know, some Sword Ofs and things like that, just to give Steel Shaper's Gift another target, and those can be, equipment are good, because they are artifacts that tap for mana. And also, sorry, that tap for damage.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and your stuff has haste too, so even like four equipment sitting on the battlefield, halibut remember gives your artifact creatures haste, so you can even just play something suited up, swing right away. Giving halibut lifelink could be good, so shadow spear can do that. Also, halibut says any target.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Alright, let's talk about the mono white commander from the lower hold deck.


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[Assistant] A mono white card that says draw card on it. I mean, SRAM kinda does in a similar fashion, but this is cool. Artifact creature tribal. Draw cards for value. Also has an additional, like, you can attack with impunity clause on it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so the important thing to note about Low Shield, I think, is it says whenever one or more artifact creatures enter the battlefield under your control, draw a card, but this ability triggers only once each turn. But it does say each turn, not on each of your turns.


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[Assistant] So I think the number one most important thing to do when designing the deck is make sure that you're able to put artifact creatures into play at instant speed, so you're able to take advantage and get extra card draw. You can do it on your turn, do it on DJ's turn, do it on Mel's turn, do it on Megan's turn, then it comes back to you, you've drawn four cards. I mean, obviously that's actually not a lot. Even getting two would be great though.


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's talk about maximizing the card draw, uh, putting artifact creatures into play at instant speed. There are instant and sorcery ways to do it. Master's Call is two in a white for an instant. You put two, one, one, mere artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield.


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[Assistant] So that will be an Artifact Creature entering the battlefield. You get to draw. Uh, Master Trinketeer. I always want to say Tinkerer, but it's Trinketeer. Two and a white for a three, two.


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[Assistant] Dwarf Artificer. It says servos and thopters you control get plus one plus one. But it has an activate ability three and a white. You create a one one servo artifact creature token.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's becomes pretty good and in a pinch too, like you don't necessarily need this to be the main way you're doing it. If you've got cheaper, more efficient ways, you can do it.


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[Assistant] Once you get down to the point where like, I need cards, I have this card with an ability, like, it'll get you out of a pinch. Uh, Mirror Turban's pretty interesting, 5 mana for an artifact, you can tap it and put a 1-1 colorless mirror artifact creature token out of the battlefield. So this is just, once it's out,


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, there's pentavis, 7 mana for a 0-0, but it enters with 5 1-1 counters on it. And then you can pay 1 mana to remove a counter from pentavis and create a 1-1 pentavite artifact creature token with flying. And you can also pay 1 and sacrifice a pentavite to put a 1-1 counter back on pentavis.


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[Assistant] So this becomes two mana draw card, but technically one mana draw card also, uh, cause you don't have to put the counters back on pentavis. You could just be like, you know, for the first three, just one mana draw card and then, okay, I'll put one back on to...


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[Assistant] Uh, also retrofitter foundry, one mana for an artifact.


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[Assistant] It creates a servo that turns into a thopter that can turn into a 4-4. Just take my-


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[Assistant] Take my word for it, I don't want to read the whole card. But it can create artifact creatures at instant speed, which is pretty cool. Uh, Shimmer Mirror is a good card in this deck, cause it's a 3 mana 2-2 with flash, so I can flash it in on other players' turns, draw that extra card, and also it says you may cast artifact spells as though they had flash. So this becomes a way to flash in creatures on other players' turns.


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[Assistant] I really like this next one, it's Eldrazi Displacer, two and a white for a 3-3 with Devoid, but it has an activated ability, you pay two and a colorless and you exile another target creature and then return that creature to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control. So this is a way for a


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[Assistant] Also, you know, you're a deck with creatures in it, they're gonna be enter the battlefield effects and such, and that's a way, like imagine that card you're blinking a solemn simulacrum and now you're drawing extra cards and ramping when you do it, right? It's crazy. Yeah. Alright, let's talk about ways


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[Assistant] To take advantage of the fact of that top line of text with low shield, because I think it's easy to sort of...


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[Assistant] Talk about the card draw and maximize that, and I think that is what you want to do, but it says prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking artifact creatures you control. So how do you take advantage of the fact that you can attack with impunity? It's actually kind of hard to figure out ways to like, leverage that to your advantage. I mean, you can come up with scenarios where like, wow, I got ten 1-1s and they got three 2-2s and normally I wouldn't want to swing because they'll just block and kill, but,


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[Assistant] But it's not like a huge advantage. So I think you can put some cards in that really take advantage of this more. Inquisitor's fails- Inquisitor's flail, not fail. Inquisitor's flail is two mana for an artifact's equipment. If equip creature would deal combat damage, it deals double that damage instead. So it effectively gives it double strike.


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[Assistant] It's two mana play, two to equip, which is very cheap for that effect. So what's the downside? It says if another creature would deal common damage to an equipped creature, it deals double that damage to the equipped creature instead.


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[Assistant] And because Little Shield doesn't ca- says, well, you're not taking any damage, it doesn't care about that second part, so it's not a downside. I think like Explore's Scope, which is a card I do not generally like because it doesn't help you punch through more damage in combat, becomes decent in this deck because there's one mana for an-


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[Assistant] Again, normally wouldn't love it, but because you can just sort of attack with a thopter and you don't care if they block or not because it can't take damage.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's two mana for an 04, but you can tap it, creatures you control, gain haste until end of turn. And then I thought Throne of the Godfarrow is kind of interesting.


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[Assistant] Right. It's two mana for a legendary artifact. At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control. Again, this is a way that you're just like, well, I don't care. I'll swing with everything. They can't take damage. And now they deal extra damage with throwing the godfair at the end of turn.


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[Assistant] Uh, you put down a bunch of colorless artifact tribal cards that I haven't seen a lot, so this is kinda cool. Tempered Steel, Forsaken Monument, these are anthem effects that affect either artifact or colorless creatures.


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[Assistant] Yeah. You know. What's it gonna do to me? Like whatever. Exactly. But if they're 3-3's, it's a lot different.


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[Assistant] Uh, you said you would love to get this onto the battlefield at the same time somehow as fairy artisans. I didn't even realize that fairy artisans makes an artifact token. But it does.


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[Assistant] When Leilea attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Impulsive draw, on attack has haste, that's cool.


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[Assistant] Whenever you exile one or more cards from your library and or graveyard, put a 1-1 counter on Laylia.


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[Assistant] So play by iron here, three mana, comes into play, has haste, I attack with it, that exiles the top card of my library, which I can play until end of turn, but that's exiling a card from my library, so Lele is kind of a 3-3.


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[Assistant] Cause on the first turn you play her, she's probably almost always gonna swing and then get that 1-1 counter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, seems good and a good, uh, aggressive commander that hopefully will stay relevant as the game progresses as far as a relevant attacker.


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[Assistant] Now remember, Layla says whenever you exile one or more cards from your library and or graveyard. So it doesn't care the amount of cards you're exiling, it cares about the number of instances of exiling. So you're not looking for something that exiles 20 cards all at once, you really want something, stuff that exiles a small amount of cards over and over.


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[Assistant] Underworld Breach is just a gimme in this deck because it's an enchantment and it says each non-land card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to this card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard.


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[Assistant] In the beginning of your instep you sac underworld breach. So this just means you can replay cards out of your graveyard at the cost of their mana plus exiling cards out of your graveyard, which you want to do because Layla will get very, very big.


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[Assistant] Uh, this also works with impulsive draw, which is what Layla is. Anything that says exile cards from your library and then you may play that card until your next turn or until end of turn or whatever. So Valakut Exploration is a really good version of this that does it when you landfall.


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[Assistant] Jessica's Will is a card that we've talked about and shown on the show incessantly because it's so, so good. That, uh, excels three cards from the top of your library, gives you a bunch of mana, uh, if your commander's out, which, why would you play it if Lele is not out?


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[Assistant] Uhm, Outpost Siege is a good one. It has two modes, it's three and a red for enchantment, but one of the modes is at the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library, until end of turn you may play that card.


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[Assistant] That just means every single turn out postage is out. Leila is getting a plus one plus one counter. Plus it's a card advantage. Basically draw a card when you do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause one of the worries with drawing a lot of cards is like, spinning your wheels. You're not accomplishing much, but with Laylee out, you are because she's getting bigger. Furious Rise is kind of like Outpost Siege. It's two in a red for enchantment. At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power four or greater, exile the top card of your library, you may play that card.


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[Assistant] Magmatic Sinkhole is a red delve card. It deals damage to a creature. A Planeswalker 5 damage.


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[Assistant] Uh, graveyard hate will do it. So exiling cards from your graveyard. And there are many ways to sort of...


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[Assistant] Let's just do one card at a time, which is very efficient with Leila. Cause you really, like I said, exiling your whole graveyard doesn't give her many more counters than exiling one card. So Relic of Progenitus, Scrabbling Claws, there are a bunch of other ones that might allow you to sort of eat away at your graveyard in order to make her bigger.


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[Assistant] Cascade actually exiles cards from the top of your library. So a lot of people were talking about Throws of Chaos, which is just a three and a red card with cascade, and it has retrace. So it doesn't do anything else. It just cascades. So I don't know how much better this card gets if it's just giving a 1-1 counter to Laylia.


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[Assistant] Uh, uba mask is an interesting one. Four mana for an artifact. If a player would draw a card, that player... Sorry, I gotta read the oracle checks. If a player would draw a card, that player exiles that card face-up instead. And then each player may play lands, cast, and cast spells from among the, the cards they exiled with uba mask this turn. So...


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[Assistant] This means every time on your draw step you're excelling a card from your library and Leila's gonna get bigger.


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[Assistant] So the next card is a card I feel like we've talked about more in the last like four weeks than we ever talked about. We might have mentioned this on the show once in four years and then four times in the last month. Phyrexian Devourer. Six mana for a 1-1.


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[Assistant] When it's power is seven or greater, you sacrifice it. But it says remove the top card of your library from the game. Sorry. Exile the top card of your library. And then put X11 counters on for Exiting Devourer, or X is the exiled cards.


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[Assistant] Man of value or CMC. The way the seven or power thing works is that's a trigger. So as soon as his power is seven or greater, that trigger to sacrifice it goes on the stack. In response to that trigger, you can keep exiling cards to its ability. And every time you do this, Leila gets a plus one plus one counter.


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[Assistant] So you can play for Extinction Devourer, attack with Laylia, and just be like, if you don't block, I just exile, you know, what, 17 cards and kill you.


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[Assistant] And so they're like, crap. Anything I block with, I'll just exile the number of cards I need in order to kill that thing. Uh, you know, and if they don't have any blockers, they're just dead, right?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Uh, it's only gonna work once, though, cause Vexen Devourer will definitely be above 7 power and you'll have to sac her after that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then there's also ways to sort of knock out people from nowhere. And this is something that Red excels at. And this is gonna be really scary, I think, about this deck.


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[Assistant] I think there's a lot of scenarios where you actually can kill people on like turn four or five with Laylia.


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[Assistant] With like, a little bit of more impulsor drawn, things like that. So, team or battle rage is one and a red for an instant. But it has ferocious, uh, sorry, target creature gains double strike until end of turn, but it has ferocious that gives trample if their powers for it are greater. So this is a way just Layla is like, you know, what do you need?


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[Assistant] You know, if you hit him on that first turn for 3, then you just need 9 power to get to 18 and that's 21.


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[Assistant] Unleash fury, double target, uh, the power of target creature until item turn. Again, these are instants too, so you can just wait and they're like, ah, I'll just take the nine. Okay, you're dead.


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[Assistant] Fling is another way to take advantage, you know, sac it, deal damage equal to its power. Uh, Fork and Fury Storm seem like they'll be really good with Layla and some of these effects, cause you can either draw more cards or unleash Fury, fork it, Fury Storm it, double her power like five times, whatever. Uh, stuff like that I think is gonna be...


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[Assistant] Listen, it's one thing if she's got 19 counters on it, and everybody can see it, and that's gonna be pretty easy to deal with. Yeah. But if she's at 5 power, you're not worried about dying, and then they go, but if she attacks you, and they have 6 mana available to them, and she's a-


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[Assistant] You know, turns into a 5-5. You have to seriously be like, okay, if they team or battle rage or let's say they unleash fury or whatever, am I dead? Is it possible I die here? And the calculation is going to come up a lot like, yeah, I guess so. So I have to block this thing. So just be aware of that, I think.


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[Assistant] And this thing has haste, so any time they let their guard down, they're in danger of dying.


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[Assistant] Also, you could give Layla, uh, Grafted Exoskeleton, do the infect thing, that's another way to do it. Just gotta make, or we gotta keep making Craig proud by mentioning Grafted Exoskeleton as many times as possible. You had an interesting note here that you like the trend of sort of playing with the exile space.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, very cool design space, so kudos, good on ya, wizards of the coast. Alright, we've still got...


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[Assistant] Alright, we are back. We are talking about the new C21 stuff. We've got four commanders to go. The Witherbloom pre-con. Let's start with...


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[Assistant] So either you've gained a lot of life or you've lost a lot of life, in which case Willowdusk will put a bunch of plus one plus one counters onto a creature at sorcery speed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, uh, life loss is gonna be a little bit easier than life gain in this deck.


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[Assistant] But I think you're gonna be able to sort of do both and then have your pick. So the first category is called Life Loss is Your Gain.


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[Assistant] Well, and with Willowdusk, remember, Hatred's an instant, but you don't have to cast it at an instant speed, so you can do that on your main phase, pay 10, like if there's, if somebody's just open. Let's say you played a 2-drop, played Willowdusk, maybe you ramped on turn 1 somehow, or whatever.


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[Assistant] And the next turn, you look around and somebody just doesn't have a creature. If you have hatred in hand, you can probably kill them. Cause you're just like, pay 20 life. Yeaah. That's 20 life into hatred, so something's gonna get plus 20 power. And then you go, I pay 20 life, tap Willow Dusk, and I'm gonna put 21 one counters on that thing, and I'm gonna hit you for 40.


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[Assistant] So that's a doable thing, and like you said, hatred just does feel like what a lot of these cards kind of do. So black is full of cards that let you pay life, and a lot of cards that just are like,


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[Assistant] Uh, Wall of Blood is another one that just kinda gets bigger as you pay life into it.


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[Assistant] Usually ad nauseum decks have very low CMC and they use it almost as a, they use it as a combo gatherer. So they are like, I know I'm going to go 30 cards deep and hopefully find like two pieces to my combo or my entire combo. But this is a thing where in Will-O-Dust you could sort of do that.


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[Assistant] And just go until you're like, ah, I've lost 20 life or whatever I need to, to be able to knock somebody out or, you know, put a bunch of counters on something.


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[Assistant] I mean, what I like about everything we've mentioned so far is that the paying of the life part of it is all free. There's no mana involved with that. So once you play those cards, you're just like, I get to choose the amount of life I want to lose. And so I can calculate exactly how much I want Willow Dust to put onto something.


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[Assistant] And it has everything you need on it if those other things aren't going on, right? It has the ability to pay the life and do something, remove creatures, draw the cards, you know, you don't need anything else with Will-O-Dusk. And it's also a huge creature that Will-O-Dusk could then give the counters to, which can swing out and kill your opponents.


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[Assistant] Well, it synergizes so well because Phyrexian mana is paying life.


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[Assistant] So that is counting towards your Willow Dust total, right? And then you're putting all the counters onto Kirik and swinging with that lifelink and it also is allowing you to cast so much more stuff than you'd be able to, yea.


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[Assistant] You have almost full control over it, yeaah. Basically you can pick creatures in graveyards and then return them to the battlefield under your control and then you lose life equal to the converted mana cost or the mana value of all the creatures you chose. It's kinda like a cheap rise of the dark realms, uh, but it ends up being very very powerful because 18 mana worth of stuff for 6 mana is just crazy and then if you're in addition to that you're like,


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[Assistant] Also Willadusk is now going to tap and put 18 plus one plus encounters on something, uh, can become super nuts. So yeah, I really liked that.


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[Assistant] Just Willadusk, Grey Merchant, that's drain everybody for 3, you gain 9, then tap Willadusk and put 9 counters on it, like that's pretty good and that's the most modest Grey Merchant that will ever be casted, ever. Usually it just wins the game actually.


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[Assistant] Weatherstorm is a storm card that gains three life.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it sounds a little bit nuts, but I think if you could just cast two spells and whether the storm's gonna gain you nine life. If you had one in a green, gain nine, put nine one one counters on something, you would play that card.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and so that's why it becomes, I think, good enough, because it is so cheap to gain you some life.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's cool. If you gain nine life, made something into like an 11, 11, then momentous, follow it, draw those cards, gain all that life. Now make the next things super huge. Yeah.


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[Assistant] If the dust grows, yeaah. So it not only gives your creatures lifelinks, but also has that clause whenever you gain life, your opponents lose.


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[Assistant] Oh, target opponent loses that much life. Yeah, they template these slightly differently every time. So it's really, really good because for 5 mana you have all your creatures lifelink, swing, do that thing, they lose a ton of life, and then either before combat or after combat, just depending on how things are going, you can use Will of Dust to either bump up the amount of life gain and damage you're dealing or to take advantage of all the life gain you just had.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then there's also counters, so you wanna keep your counters, you might want some counter synergy, so there's stuff like Rehan, Last of the Abzan, which allows you to keep counters.


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[Assistant] Uh, when creatures die, there's also the Ozolith, another way to sort of keep your counters and move them around when creatures die. And this is just a way that when, you know, you activate Will of Dusk and put nine counters on something, if you sac it to Moments of Fall or something else, you can still use those counters for your other stuff.


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[Assistant] I was surprised, uh, when looking at Will of Dusk about how much combo potential there was, and there is quite a lot, I think. And I think this deck is actually, if built correctly, could be quite powerful. It's always going to be a little slow because you do have to tap Will of Dusk.


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[Assistant] Here's the combo and sort of how it can work with Willadusk. There's a sort of a three step plan. And the first step is you need a creature that will create mana based on its 1-1 counters. And there are a ton. Uh, there's Marwin the Nurturer, there's Crystalline Crawler, there's Viridian Joiner, Gyre Sage,


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[Assistant] Crystalline Crawler, just straight up take counters off to make mana. Any of those, there's a bunch of, there's a few other ones as well. Uhm, Devoted Druid is interesting, right, because it, it, you can put a negative one counter on it to untap it. So if you put 20 plus one counters on it, you basically say, well I can untap this 20 times. Because, right, every time you remove, you're putting a negative one counter on it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so this is a way to turn Willowdust's power, or sorry, Willowdust's ability into mana.


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[Assistant] So the next step of the combo is you want to repeatedly untap.


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[Assistant] The creature that creates the mana, or possibly Willowdusk.


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[Assistant] So you've got things like Staff of Domination, Umbral Mantle, which is an equipment that has the un-tap ability on it. Instill Energy, Thousand-Year Elixir, Mage Wright Stone, Seeker of Skybreak is a creature that can un-tap another creature. And I don't think you have to go infinite, although infinite obviously would-


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[Assistant] Would be able to do a lot, but I think even just untapping something two or three times, cause imagine you put 20 counters on a Devoted Druid, well, that won't work as well actually. Let's say you put 20 counters on a Gyar Sage.


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[Assistant] It's now tapping for 20 mana. If you can untap that twice, that's 60 mana.


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[Assistant] You can almost always win if you just create an amount of mana like that. Also with Staff of Domination or Umbral Mantle it just goes infinite.


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[Assistant] And all this untapped stuff is still good with Will of Dusk, right? Because you can just tap or put 4 1 1 counters on something, untap or do it again, now you've put 8 and it's still like a good thing to be doing. And then the last part of the process once you've made a lot of mana is the easy part, right? It's easy to profit.


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[Assistant] From having a lot of mana. So you can exsanguine it. You can torment of hailfire. You can essence harvest. Aetherflux reservoir. Just gain a ton of life. Cast a million things. Kill them with the reservoir.


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[Assistant] Walking Ballissa, Triskelion. It's easy to have, you know, seven, eight, nine cards in the deck that just say, okay, if I ever create infinite or, you know, it doesn't have to be infinite, just a lot, 150 mana, I can immediately win the game with one of these cards.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Will-O-Dusk I think actually quite impressive as far as like I think it can be built quite powerfully. But I like that it has the tap ability as like an additional hurdle you have to jump through so it's not gonna be like CEDH combo level.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's talk about the next Witherbloom commander. It is Guillaume. Guillaume? Guillaume?


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[Assistant] At the beginning of your end step, create a number of food tokens equal to the number of non-token creatures you had enter the battlefield under your control this turn. So for every non-token creature you have entered the battlefield during your turn, on your end step you get that many food. And you can pay one sack of food and create, and target creature gains indestructible until end of turn and tap it.


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[Assistant] I do like, and you wrote down, you can tap down your opponent's blockers with this thing, cause it says target creature, so you can distract your opponent's creatures with food.


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[Assistant] This is the question I think. Is there a food tribal deck? And is this a food tribal deck? The first thing we're gonna write down has nothing to do with food here. The category is creatures that want to be tapped.


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[Assistant] Okay, then let's talk about food though. I named the next chapter. Feed your inner foodie. Alright. Feed your foodie!


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[Assistant] So it draws you a card, uh, probably gonna do that most of the time. You're gonna have a lot of permanence in this deck. And it's whenever you sacrifice a food, you don't have to sacrifice the food to the food's ability.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, this, if you sacrifice the food to Guillaume's ability, it still counts as sacrificing a food, so. Exactly.


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[Assistant] That's really cool. I want to turn my foods into card draw. Uh, and then there's some token strategies with food. I think Second Harvest, Parallel Lives will allow you to make double the amount of food tokens, which is really good with Savvy Hunter, draw more cards. Uhm, so I think


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[Assistant] Food itself, like a lot of the cards are underpowered and I don't think you're gonna have a ton of cards that deal with food tokens directly.


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[Assistant] You kind of look at Guillaume as an artifact creator and say like, okay, what kind of cards take advantage of having a lot of artifacts on the battlefield? So let's talk about artifact synergies here. Marionette Master is a classic one. Uhm, we've seen Jimmy play it on Game Nights a few times. You want to read it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Sorry, sorry. I got this mixed up. You're right. You do not want the servos a lot of times with Marinette Master. Cause now whenever foods are entering, uh, you're, or sorry, whenever foods are leaving, you're sacrificing them. Marinette Master is going four. Four. Four. Four. Yeah. Pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you make it like an eight power thing, it's a lethal threat really quickly. Uh, cranial plating is an, uh, equipment that makes a creature bigger based on the number of artifacts you control, so that's an artifact synergy right there. Inspiring statuary, we already talked about with the lorehold stuff, allows you to tap your food now to help cast your spells.


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[Assistant] Uh, Herald of Anguish is a demon that has improvise on it, so you can use the food to help cast it.


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[Assistant] So if you have a lot of food, you can just cast reprocess, sack a bunch of the foods and draw cards equal to that number, which is really, really good.


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[Assistant] And then we've got things like the KCI stuff that we already talked about, again, Scrap Trawler, Mirror Retriever, Junk Diver, Glist of the Trader maybe goes in there, Trading Post, uhm, these are all ways to kind of recycle your artifacts over and over. Again, some of these will be creatures entering the battlefield, and a lot of times with Junk Diver, Mirror Retriever, Scrap Trawler, Loops, maybe they're not infinite, but you can figure out a way to like,


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[Assistant] How do you turn this into a win? A lot of people were talking about Disciple of the Vault, which says whenever an artifact-


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[Assistant] Uh, is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, then is it each opponent loses one life? No, target opponent. Target opponent loses one life. So it's kind of like blood artists, but for artifacts, this will work on your food and things like that. Uh, and that's a way to get into a loop where you kill some people, uh, or, or make sacrificing your foods and stuff. You have to have a lot of art.


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[Assistant] We'll use Scrap Trawler, Mirror Retriever, KCI stuff. For sure. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then there's some combo potential with Gilm. There's not a ton. And a lot of it uses already known combos. So there's the Gravecrawler-Fyrexian-Altar combo. You need another Zombie out, but it allows you to infinitely cast Gravecrawlers.


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[Assistant] Which is infinite amount of creatures in the battlefield, and then you pass the turn, and on end step Gil will make an infinite amount of food tokens. And then you'll need KCI or something else going on to take advantage of that, but with some of these other cards, maybe you've got, you know, a savvy hunter and you just draw a ton of cards with that or whatever. You can turn that into a lot of advantage.


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[Assistant] So we got all these extra foods. Uh, there's nether trader, which can be kind of similar. There's cat combo, cauldrons familiar, which is oven. A lot of people who played standard over the last couple of years know that. Again, these are the same type of things as the grave crawler thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and most of these combos already exist and need another piece anyway, like a Blood Artist or something else, which you could have in the deck. Uh, so yeah, cool. I think we're gonna need another set or two that have food in it before, it's gonna be really cool.


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[Assistant] Alright, so it's a life gain, mono black life gain, but you use that life gain to make a big demon at the end of each turn. So you don't actually end up gaining that life depending on how you do this. It's not a super complicated deck, I don't think, but there's


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[Assistant] And it's always going to be pretty good, because most of the time Tivosh is going to be able to attack and add 4 to that number. Oh, for sure. So that, yeaah, so Crypt Gas, Pontive of Blight, those have extort or give extort, that's a way for you to automatically, when you cast spells for 1 extra mana, you know, gain 3 life, also deal some damage to your opponents. So that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, Ayara, first of Lhok'thwain. She's black, black, black for a two, three, but whenever her or another black creature enters the battlefield, each one loses one life and you gain one life. So that's another way to just sort of all your creatures coming in. And demons are black creatures. It won't matter too much because, you know, they won't contribute to it because it's on the end step, but still that's right.


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[Assistant] Okay, but also like, it doesn't have to be small bits of life. It can be big bits of life are good too. So Grey Merchant, we already talked about, has the ability to gain, you know, we've all seen it gain 80 life in a turn. Obviously the game's probably already over-feeded that, but sometimes it'll do like, in the 20s and making a 20-20 demon seems pretty good. Oh, easily.


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[Assistant] A lot of times, you know, even if you just pump like 7 mana into it, you're gonna get like 15, make a 15-15 demon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I think, you know, one interesting thing is the Demon always comes in on the end step, which keeps this whole deck in check, because you can't do anything with it at that point, and I don't care if you have a Adulcan Aura or whatever, it doesn't matter because it's your end step and what, you know, you can't attack with it until your next turn.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not, I'm not even going to make one because that wasn't during my turn. You need to gain the life during your turn. Uh, there are some life loss synergies that probably go in this deck. Villas Broker of Blood we already talked about. Uh, Font of Agonies is a good one. Every time you lose life, you put that many counters on it and then you can pay one in a black and remove four counters.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then you want Life Gain Synergies, so Alhambra's Archive will double the amount of Life Gain that you get. And also there's all these cards that say when you gain life,


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[Assistant] You turn that into damage. Either deal that much damage to all your opponents or deal damage to your target opponent or whatever. There's Sanguine Bond, Marauding Blight, Priest, Veto, which we already talked about, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. These all turn lifegain into damage on your opponents.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I like the fact that actually they chose to put the token coming in on the end step on this because I think this makes this a good casual.


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[Assistant] Power level deck. Like if you're in, you know, we hear from people all the time and they're in, they're like, uh, I build more powerful decks than the rest of my playgroup and my playgroup has a hard time with it. What should I do? I think picking something like Tivas as your commander, which just naturally can only get so powerful because you cannot, there's no way around the fact that I can't attack with my demons right away.


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[Assistant] That will actually make it so there's just a hard limit on how powerful this deck can be.


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[Assistant] Right. Alright, we got one more commander to go. One more card to go in all of Strixhaven. Are you ready, TD?


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[Assistant] Alright, let's talk about Y'dora, Grave Gardener, Foreigner Green for a 5-5 Legendary Tree Folk Druid. Whenever another non-token creature you control dies, you may return it to the battlefield face down under its owner's control. It's a forest land. Whenever one of your non-token creatures dies, it becomes a land.


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[Assistant] This seems extraordinarily powerful. You know, I think one thing we've seen over the past few years is that putting lands into play is one of the most powerful things you can do in commander. Putting extra lands into play, right? Look at Orvar, look at all the lands matter decks, and this is just another way


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[Assistant] Well, it's awesome, right? Cause either you play before your door's out and it helps you get to your door faster. Yeah, that's fine. Because you're already playing Sakura Tribular and tons of decks anyway, just for that. But then if you-


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[Assistant] The downside of Secure Trial Builder can be like later in the game, it's a little bit more crappy, but in this case, no, you just sack it, get the land and play tapped, and then it also comes back.


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[Assistant] And then they both, the sacked creatures, the megas of the order and the creature you sacked turn into forest lands.


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[Assistant] So you just want to sac your creatures, turn them into lands, and then you get three twos also. Yeah. Uh, there's thrashing Brontodon, which will destroy an artifact or enchantment when you sac it. You have a Maya Elder you can sac to draw cards and find, or find lands, uh, into your hand. Whisperwood Elemental's a pretty interesting one.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I was, I'm thinking like, if, Rampant Growth is two mana, and very powerful played in most screen decks, two mana put a land into play.


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[Assistant] So all these creatures, and there's a ton of them in green that are just like, they cost a green, and then you can sacrifice them for some kind of minimal effect. Uh, yeaah, go ahead.


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[Assistant] I think you do play these cards because once your door is out, you just play those and they're one mana rampant growths. And a one mana rampant growth is broken. Like it's too good. That's why a rampant growth is at two mana.


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[Assistant] And so I do think the 1 mana, I think you don't want 50 of those cards, but I think you could stand to have like 5 or 6 of those cards. Because you're gonna ramp into your Dora, so I'm guessing you're getting your Dora out on turn 3 or 4 every single game.


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[Assistant] Which means that on the following turn, you just go, you know, play two or three of these things, sac them, and again, they're mana neutral, because those forests that they turn into come into play untapped. So they cost you nothing, they just put extra lands into play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and the next category is Sacrifice Outlets, and one of the things Green's really good at is sacrificing his creatures so you can play things like Greater Good.


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[Assistant] Birthing pod, evolutionary leap. These are all things that allow you to sac your creatures for some effect. Now, great or good, you want them to be larger. Birthing pod, though, is really great for these one-drop things. Sac them, go find a two-drop, and also get the effect if they come into play as a land. Uhm, that's probably gonna be better than most of the effects like Child of Thorns and Elvish Eulogist already have on them, right?


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[Assistant] And evolutionary leap, obviously great because it just turns it into card draw.


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[Assistant] And also there's alters, so you might turn them into mana, astronauts, phyrexian, alter. Alter of dementia if you just want to kill Josh in any given game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then you'll need these cheap or free sacrifice, uh, effects in order to, to do some combos, which we're going to talk about in a minute here.


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[Assistant] Uh, so there's a lot of things you can do with the small creatures and that's why I think another reason why I would just put a bunch of these one and two drop creatures that can sacrifice themselves into the deck because I think they're just gonna be good at all spots.


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[Assistant] So here's what you get to do. Tap the forest for a green. Sack it to some effect.


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[Assistant] Now you sacked a creature, so it comes back into play, right? Because it was a creature, but it comes back into play as it lands. Yeah. If you have a persistent effect, then all of a sudden, you can just sack infinitely, right?


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[Assistant] It's a saying on the show, DJ. You don't have to go infinite. You just have to go a lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so there's, uh, I call this section bounce lands. Not like bounce lands, but bounce your lands.


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[Assistant] So like, there's a bunch of cards that will allow you to return lands back to your hand. And this is great because if something dies, and it comes back as a land, and then you bounce that land back to your hand, you can now play it as whatever it was. So if it was your Avenger of Zandikar, you can be like, nah, I wanna recast that as an Avenger of Zandikar. And this lets you re-buy a lot of your stuff.


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[Assistant] You almost want Multani in your graveyard just so you can rebuy the stuff that's been turned into lands through the door. Just the important stuff, like your little one drop sacrifice, have a little effect. You want those to remain as lands, but you're, you're good stuff. You want to get back.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's talk about something we alluded to earlier, which is how Morph interacts with what Yador is doing. So,


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[Assistant] Here's the, here's the wording. When a creature you control dies, you may return it to the battlefield face down under its owner's control. So, morph, mega-morph.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. So you actually sac it, it becomes a force, you tap the force for green, then flip it up by revealing a green card. That's why it's so good, because it unmorphs for no mana. And then, so if you've got Altar of Dementia, well that's game over for everybody. If you've got Astronaut's Altar or Phyrexian Altar, that's infinite mana for you.


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[Assistant] And this works with like Den Protector and, you know, the other things. Now they don't go infinite immediately because you do have to pay some mana to flip, to un-morph them, but it's still very powerful to be able to be like, boom.


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[Assistant] Do the thing, sack it, comes back as a land, tap the land, flip it over, sack it again, comes back as a land, tap the land, flip it over. That's gonna get you like a ton, a ton of value even if it's not infinite.


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[Assistant] So, create six mana for, for, on, yeaah, so, immediately. And with astronauts you can do it a bunch of times.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Yadori is a little bit crazy. I just think we've learned, like, messing around with lands and cheating lands into play is very, very powerful, so. Newsflash, spoiler alert.


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[Assistant] Getting a lot of lands at play will win you a lot of magic games, or at least commander games. So free sack outlets are gonna be the order of the day out of a big part of this, just getting your creatures to die when you want to, and then you're gonna even, I think this will be the type of deck where you just accidentally find these loops, even if you didn't build your deck to be combo.


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[Assistant] High CMC stuff is fun too. So those are gonna be all of the commanders now, all 20 of them, we've gone through them from the Commander 2021 product.


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[Assistant] You had a little note here that lifegain is a known archetype, but that you liked a lot of the withermoom stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I think Lorehold I was pretty happy with. Oscar, even Loshiel who has card draw on it. Uhm, I was pretty excited with a lot of the direction that they took a lot of the Lorehold stuff with Archaomancer's map and some other cards in there. It feels like, you know, we've had smothering tithe and we've had some other stuff come along and it feels like


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[Assistant] They've concentrated their efforts and white and boros, what used to be boros, is coming along and moving in the direction we want it to, which is good. I think it still has a little ways to go, but I like that they obviously haven't identified the problem and are targeting it. And I have a good hope that we'll be in a format where boros slash lower hold and mono white are like contenders again.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's do what we always do at the end here. And remember, for these next two, uhm, for our awards ceremony.


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[Assistant] For the C21 stuff, which is we're going to be talking about our most, who we think the most powerful new commander from C21 is and who our favorites are. Uh, we are going to be considering all of the C20 pre-con stuff. So this will include Quandrick, Silverquill, and Prismari, along with Witherbloom and Lowerhold. So most powerful new commander from C21. DJ, let's read the nominees real quick here.


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[Assistant] And the nominees are Varen, Voice of Duality. That's the Spellharmonicon one. Rionya, Fire Dancer. That's the mono-red one that creates, uh, sort of kikijiki tokens of stuff based on how many instances and sorceries you've cast. Willowdusk.


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[Assistant] Essence Seer, uhm, the one that taps and adds counters equal to the amount of life you've either gained or lost. Oscar, the Reconstructor, which is the one that exiles artifacts from your graveyards and makes two token copies of them. And then Yadora, the Grave Gardener, which is the last one we talked about, that when your creatures die, they become forests. Those, I think, are the top five.


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[Assistant] I know which one I think is the most powerful. Do you know which one you think is the most powerful?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's just sort of stormy and there's so many things you can do that are just very, very powerful.


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[Assistant] I think Y'dora's pretty close. I think Y'dora's also very powerful.


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[Assistant] But it is in mono green, and five is not a big ask in mono green. Like I said, I think a lot of games you're gonna cast that on turn three.


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[Assistant] So I think Yador is gonna be very, very strong and could potentially be more powerful than Varen. We could be wrong. It's at least in the conversation. I think all the rest of these, Oski or Willadus, they both have to tap.


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[Assistant] So that just slows them down enough that I think it's hard for them to be the most powerful. They have kind of a big downside too, where get removed once, it's harder to get your thing going again, cause you gotta wait that turn or have a haste enabler. And then Rionya is very powerful, but I think it's a little bit cute and...


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[Assistant] You know, very vulnerable to like, the turn you play it, they just remove it immediately.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's talk about our favorite new C-21 commander. So this is not necessarily the most powerful, but the ones that we're sort of the most drawn to. And I've got mine picked out. Do you know who your favorite is? I've got mine picked out. Okay, I don't think we have to say this one at the same time. You go ahead.


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[Assistant] That's funny cause I think I would pick Rionya as my favorite, the one that I'm most likely to like build a deck around. I think Oscar is second for me, but Rionya does look very, very cool. Just that, yeah, the ability to just be like, go off, sneak something out, make five copies of it, do something nuts. Sounds fun. It might be harder to do than I think, but I want to try.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that balance is hard for deck building, so that's very cool. Alright, to the listeners, who cares what our favorite new commander is? What is your favorite new commander from C21 from the Strixhaven precons? Are there any that you've already built or ones that you are planning on building? We want to know. Let us know in the comments, uh, on Twitter, email,


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[Assistant] In the best shape possible, making sure that it looks good, it retains its value, it really is the stuff I have every single one of my decks in Eclipse sleeves.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you get like a Japanese alt art foil demonic tutor. Wow. You best be putting that in an eclipse sleeve like right away. True sleeves, Josh. Put it in a penny sleeve and then put it in an eclipse sleeve.


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[Assistant] What is it? Perfect fit? Yes. Yes, I know. But I do not like double sleeving. Just put, it's fine.


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[Assistant] This is great. DJ, end step, he's the end step captain for a while. Cause I don't have that many cool things. Uhm, alright. Big thanks to our editing graphics and logistics team, which is.


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[Assistant] This is Fabled Passage and was done by Jeffrey. You can find him on Twitter at Living Cards MTG.


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[Assistant] Strixhaven's a wrap! That's a wrap on Strixhaven, everybody. How's it feel, DJ? DJ, you were the- Jimmy and I weren't there for the totality of it. We were there for- we split it kind of in half, but you were here for every Strixhaven podcast episode. That was a lot.


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[Assistant] It's been good to have you around. I hope you stick around. Thank you so much. Like I said, we're gonna need the help again really, really soon. So I know everybody's been happy to have DJ here. Give him some love in the comments. Alright, I'm gonna stop talking now so we can end this episode. It's already super, super long. Thanks for watching. Thanks everyone. Peace.


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[Assistant] How he did during paintball over the weekend. I saw the team went and played paintball. I want to know about his paintball skills more than the football team right now. Alright, it's on the list.


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[Assistant] I'm sure they were doing something, man. I mean, it's, it's the coach. I mean, sometimes you have to do things for playing time. You've got to try to go after the coach to get more playing time. I'm curious how he did. I'm curious how the teams did. Um, but that's, I mean, it's, it's May. I mean, we could talk NIEL and all the other stuff. I want to do the fun stuff right now, this time of year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think Ryan Day has been building this team up for this year, for this moment. I believe the offense has improved in numerous ways. I believe the defense will be a whole lot stronger, even to some of their weakest areas that people think that they probably will. So I do agree with you. I've been a pusher of that for quite a long time. You can talk about Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, whatever you want.


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[Assistant] I do believe that Ohio State, their path this year, their


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[Assistant] Their schedule sets them up to have tougher tests during the season. Then you have the victim championship. Then another playoff berth. I do believe the Buckeyes will win the Natty in January.


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[Assistant] Go ahead. And Jay, and Jay's correct, he just got, he just got an extension, extended it two more years, get nine and a half million dollars, I mean he got the bag. But no, I don't think he's on the hot seat, I mean let's go back to...


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[Assistant] Let's go back 20, not like 20 years ago, 10 years ago. 15 years ago, Jim Trestle, he had years where he did not win the national championship. And I don't think he was on the hot seat. I don't think if you had the tattoo gate, Jim Trestle would have been gone. I mean, he had the thing rolling in Columbus when he was there. Urban Meyer, when he was not there in the national championship.


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[Assistant] I don't think he was on the hot seat. Now hell things happen with Urban Meyer. I don't think Ryan Day is on the hot seat at all. Uhm, I think people...


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[Assistant] But I do think Ryan Day is moving up and up and up the ladder. I saw rankings recently where Ryan Day was the sixth best coach in college football via one publication. Okay, great. If you're the number six best coach, if you're the sixth best coach in college football,


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[Assistant] Why in the world would he be on the hot seat if he doesn't win the Natty? Now granted, if he does go, let's say he has a Nebraska year, which I don't see that happening, but they go three and nine in the regular season and they just have a really, really bad season, that might be hot seat worthy. I don't see that happening. I don't see that happening at all.


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[Assistant] One of the areas of concern for me last year was the defensive line. Now people talk about how still Chambers did good on defense and Denzel Burke was a bright spot on the defensive back.


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[Assistant] But your running back duo of Trevion Henderson and Mayan Williams, and then you have a traditional and a real offensive line. None of this forward tackle stuff we saw last year, a real offensive line this year with two guards and two tackles. I believe the running game will be back up to where it needs to be.


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[Assistant] But then we think about the defense. This defensive line this year is going to be better. A whole lot better.


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[Assistant] And that's where things start with the defense. As good as the linebacker play was from Stowe Chambers, it can get even better with a good


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[Assistant] Be the defense that's going to put the entire country on notice and say, we saw what we did last year. We saw what happened last year in the Rose Bowl.


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[Assistant] But that was last year. This is a new year, new coaching staff. And I do believe this defense will be one of the better defenses in the country.


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[Assistant] Gee Bush, it's like you and I have been talking for days and for years about things going on with the Ohio State Buckeye defense, because I'm right there with you, but you mentioned Chase Young, the Bolsa's, Sam Hubbard wasn't bad either. I mean, he's doing this thing in the national football league. So you, we get,


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[Assistant] Caught up with the names. Chase Young, The Bosses.


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[Assistant] But the linebacker mentality in the play, talk about aggressiveness, talk about a lack of aggressiveness there, that's where there has been a big lacking there. And so I do think we're going to get a better defensive line, but I do ultimately think


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[Assistant] The mentality and the aggressiveness and the physicality at linebacker will be a whole lot better. Gypno is not a guy coming in that is just going to come in and say, well, you guys are going to be, um, just the same old linebackers you have been. It's going to be the same old defense. No.


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[Assistant] There were drastic changes that need to be made, and Jim Knowles realized, I'm going to do this to make sure that not only do I secure my job, because he wants a payday as well, he's going to make sure that this team and this defense is the best that it can be. Aggressiveness on the defensive line is huge, but it's also, it also, they also need better play at linebacker as well.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, oh yeaah, well think about it. Think about going into last season.


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[Assistant] Go over the linebacker out of necessity and be one of the better defensive players in that game. You're correct. And I do think though, this linebacker group, it's all about a mentality. It's all a lot of it's up here.


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[Assistant] But I do believe though, Jim Knowles, Ryan Day that realized, you have to bolster up things at linebacker. Two guys, two youngsters that Buckeye fans have been loving and talking about on Twitter and if I talk about them on Lockdown Buckeyes, they love it there as well. CJ Hicks.


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[Assistant] And then also study styles. Those two young men, I don't think they're going to get much playing time this year, but those two young men over the next two to three years, I do believe they'll be fan favorite and they'll be people that Buckeye fans can see a trendy being started of elite and really good linebacker play in Columbus once again.


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[Assistant] After a half hour of chatter, some of the boys wanted to hike to the nearby tidal pools. It was a dilemma. On the one hand, I loved the tide pools. They had fascinated me since I was a child.


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[Assistant] They were one of the only things I ever looked forward to when I had come to Forks. On the other hand, I'd also fallen into them a lot. Not a big deal when you're seven and with your dad. It reminded me of Edward's request that I not fall into the ocean. Lauren was the one who made my decision for me. She didn't want to hike and she was definitely wearing the wrong shoes for it.


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[Assistant] I waited until Tyler and Eric had committed to remaining with them before I got up quietly to join the pro hiking group. Mike gave me a huge smile when he saw that I was coming. The hike wasn't too long, though I hated to lose the sky in the woods.


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[Assistant] The green light of the forest was strangely at odds with the adolescent laughter.


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[Assistant] Eventually I broke through the emerald confines of the forest and found the rocky shore again. It was low tide, and a tidal river flowed past us on its way to the sea.


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[Assistant] Long its pebbled banks, shallowed pools that never completely drained were teeming with life.


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[Assistant] I was very cautious not to lean too far over the little ocean ponds. The others were fearless, leaping over the rocks, perching precariously on the edges.


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[Assistant] I found a very stable looking rock on the fringe of one of the largest pools and sat there cautiously, spellbound by the natural aquarium below me.


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[Assistant] Starfish stuck motionless to the rocks and each other.


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[Assistant] While one small black eel with white racing stripes wove through the bright green weeds waiting for the sea to return, I was completely absorbed.


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[Assistant] And the knees of my jeans were stained green, but it could have been worse.


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[Assistant] When we got back to First Beach, the group we left behind had multiplied.


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[Assistant] As we got closer, we could see the shining straight black hair and copper skin of the newcomers. Teenagers from the reservation come to socialize. The food was already being passed around.


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[Assistant] And the boys hurried to claim a share while Eric introduced us as we each entered the driftwood circle. Angela and I were the last to arrive.


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[Assistant] And as Eric said our names, I noticed a younger boy sitting on the stones near the fire glance up at me in interest.


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[Assistant] While a boy who looked to be the oldest of the visitors rattled off the names of the seven others with him.


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[Assistant] All I caught was that one of the girls was also named Jessica, and the boy who noticed me was named Jacob. It was relaxing to sit with Angela.


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[Assistant] She was a restful kind of person to be around. She didn't feel the need to fill every silence with chatter. She left me free to think undisturbed while we ate.


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[Assistant] And I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow in forks, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others.


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[Assistant] My Gear God 99 has the incredible power of chaosification.


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[Assistant] Please note that we are happy to cooperate with the Buddy Police to get this city back to normal and return tranquility to its citizens. This tragedy just reaffirms what I've always said.


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[Assistant] I promise you that with your understanding and support, I will lead humanity to the utopia that we have always dreamed of!


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[Assistant] And see this world receive the upgrade that it deserves.


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[Assistant] And I'm kept well informed of the tremendous loyalty you show for me.


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[Assistant] It will be a friendly buddy fight sponsored by the Chaos Control Company to showcase the game. It'll be broadcast all over the world.


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[Assistant] And Kanata felt terrible about that. During that Buddyfight, you were changed by Kanata.


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[Assistant] It seems that everybody will have visitors this Christmas. You will have my brother and Isabella, Ms. Bates will have her niece, and Mr. Weston will have his son, Frank, if he condescends to come. Whereas I shall have nobody.


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[Assistant] Well, nothing would give me greater pressure, sir, but uhm, as it happens, if you'll excuse me, I have something of particular interest I wish to tell you.


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[Assistant] That she will very soon receive an offer of marriage.


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[Assistant] Well, let us say he intends to make her enough of them. He came to see me two evenings ago to ask me what I thought of the notion.


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[Assistant] I told him I thought her an admirable young woman within her own limitations and advised him to press the match, which I have every reason to expect he will do.


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[Assistant] She's pretty, I grant you, and she has an amiable nature, but she's not a sensible girl, and she has little or no information.


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[Assistant] And when Robert Martin came to tell me of his intention, I thought to myself, well even Emma, with all her partiality for Harry, must see that this is a good match.


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[Assistant] If Elton is the man that you have in mind for her, I very much fear that it will be a labor in vain.


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[Assistant] If your judgement of men and women were as sound as it is where children are concerned, then we should never disagree.


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[Assistant] This one? Yes. That's solid silver. I know all about it. What do you want, boy? I'll take its weight and dollar more. Weigh it up.


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[Assistant] Well, you're gonna get it whether you want it or not. You must rest, both for yourself and for your family.


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[Assistant] Morton, you are the living proof that plowboys belong behind the horse. Well, what is it? What's what? Ethylchloride. C2H5Cl? Yes. Known to the corn doctors as Chlorigeather. Where can I get some? Well, you might try a feed store, and if you can't get it there, then you might try Burnett's Farms.


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[Assistant] And I tell you that you're endangering the lives of the fools who trust you. Certainly you can render a man unconscious.


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[Assistant] And now, young gentlemen, we are to assist in a very interesting experiment. Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford, Connecticut, and his assistant,


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[Assistant] Didn't you take part in that fiasco at the Harvard Medical School?


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[Assistant] That's better old man. When that somebody comes along, I want to be there to open the door for him.


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[Assistant] We were gathered here today, you to witness, I to perform an experiment, in which I had, if not confidence, at least a grain of hope.


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[Assistant] We will try a method advocated by a young dentist of this city, Dr. Morton.


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[Assistant] Silence! This is not a minstrelsy, gentlemen. I doubt that the patient is enjoying your laughter.


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[Assistant] Unless you move or jerk or scream, the better it will be for us both. I'm going to hurt you considerably. If I can offer you any consolation, it is that pain carries no memory. You will forget it.


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[Assistant] Hold his head, John. Thank you. Alright, John. Yes, sir.


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[Assistant] Well sir, your patient is ready. Thank you sir, so am I.


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[Assistant] You know very well that I can't. I only wish I could. What do you want me to do? Ask him what this stuff is? That's all. Nothing more.


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[Assistant] Wanted to see me, Professor Warren? A very disagreeable situation has arisen, Dr. Morton.


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[Assistant] In other words, they think you're trying to make money out of your stuff. I don't care whether you do or not. My only interest lies in the...


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[Assistant] The ethics of our profession have done much more good than harm. They don't happen to fit this case. That is regrettable. There's nothing more to be said. I thank you for your good intention.


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[Assistant] We will share the blame, Dr. Morton. You and I. Make the patient ready.


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[Assistant] Good evening, little Emma. She is one thing that we have in common, you and I.


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[Assistant] The reason is not far to see. I was 16 years old when you were born.


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[Assistant] You understand the risks involved in this experiment, Mr. Abbott? And you give your full consent?


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[Assistant] I echo your sentiments with enthusiasm, Doctor. There are 117 instruments, Professor Warren, the same amount we brought in.


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[Assistant] I looked forward to see Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper all sliding into the Volvo. In his rear-view mirror, Edward's eyes were on me. He was unquestionably shaking with laughter, as if he'd heard every word Tyler had said. My foot itched toward the gas pedal. One little bump wouldn't hurt any of them, just that glossy silver paint job. I revved the engine. But they were all in, and Edward was speeding away. I drove home slowly.


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[Assistant] When I got home, I decided to make chicken enchiladas for dinner. It was a long process and it would keep me busy.


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[Assistant] While I was simmering the onions and chilies, the phone rang. I was almost afraid to answer it, but it might be Charlie or my mom. It was Jessica, and she was jubilant. Mike had caught her after school to accept her invitation. I celebrated with her briefly while I stirred.


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[Assistant] She had to go she wanted to call Angela and Lauren to tell them.


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[Assistant] I suggested with casual innocence that maybe Angela, the shy girl who had biology with me, could ask Eric.


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[Assistant] And Lauren, a standoffish girl who had always ignored me at the lunch table, could ask Tyler. I'd heard he was still available. Just thought that was a great idea.


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[Assistant] Trying to analyze every word Edward had spoken today. What did he mean it was better if we weren't friends? My stomach twisted as I realized what he must have meant. He must see how absorbed I was by him. He must not want to lead me on. So we couldn't even be friends, because he wasn't interested in me at all. Of course he wasn't interested in me, I thought angrily.


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[Assistant] Interesting and brilliant and mysterious and perfect.


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[Assistant] I would get through my self-imposed sentence here in purgatory.


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[Assistant] And then hopefully some school in the southwest or possibly Hawaii would offer me a scholarship. I focused my thoughts on sunny beaches and palm trees as I finished the enchiladas and put them in the oven.


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[Assistant] Charlie seemed suspicious when he came home and smelled the green peppers. I couldn't blame him.


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[Assistant] The closest edible Mexican food was probably in Southern California. But he was a cop, even if just a small town cop, so he was brave enough to take the first bite.


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[Assistant] He seemed to like it. It was fun to watch as he slowly began trusting me in the kitchen.


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[Assistant] Hey. Hi, hey. Glad you could bring all my flaws together, it's been a while.


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[Assistant] What if you like- A tail trapped within a pail. Oooooooooh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this guy's cool. Yeah. Yeah. This is the first Colossus that's gonna make you go like, oooooh. They're not all like this.


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[Assistant] Yep. Many pigeons? Many pigeons? Yeah, okay. Pigeons about? Yeah. At first there were no pigeons, but now there's a ton. I think the pigeons are the Colossus. Wow. Super deep. Yeah, thanks.


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[Assistant] That was my viewpoint all along, I just wanted to share it to you. Right now, cause I figured now you would, your mind would be open enough.


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[Assistant] To understand it, you know, you can't just come out the gate going, Obama's an alien, like you gotta work into it, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] There's no fucking, there's no fucking, it's a goddamn, uh,


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[Assistant] The Phantom Menace? Absolutely. I don't care what kind of backlash I get. Bring it on, I say.


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[Assistant] Somebody's gotta speak the truth sometime. This is awesome. Yeah, you don't want to go in there.


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, I guess so. You can go that way. Sure. Why not?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, just, and then go left. Yeah. Lefty poo.


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[Assistant] Hang a lefty. I love this music.


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[Assistant] I think you can get up there


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[Assistant] And where, uh, uuuh. Ahhhh. It's, it's that, it's that, it's that, it's that thing. Yeah, stop, stop looking around. Yeah, don't, you don't need it. Just get in the water and swim across. Swim across. It's that temple.


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[Assistant] Okay, time to put this to underground, uuuh. Spooky, scary. Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it goes all the way down. That shit goes to like the center of the fuckin' earth. When you- when you jump in there, you're just gonna fall in lava and die. That's it.


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[Assistant] That's not how it works. Yeah, when you dig under the ground, you get to China. I'm hittin' that hot magma. And then it shows it upside down. And then some guy's like,


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[Assistant] And then you want to climb up those. My god, you're right. That you can clearly jump up on top of. Okay.


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[Assistant] In this one, we introduce moving platforms.


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[Assistant] This is like Heat Man's stage. Remember Heat Man's stage? Where all the platforms were like BOOM. Oh, that was awful. And they would just fuckin' disappear.


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[Assistant] It was a, it was, what was it? Six months? Seven months? No. Seven or eight months?


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[Assistant] That's a gross giant lizard. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's fine. So no biggie. Whoa. No biggie.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just jump out the window and fucking leap on its back. How do I crouch? That's probably the best way to go.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. That's not gonna happen. Am I poisoned? Uh, well...


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[Assistant] Not right now, I don't think. Okay. Yeah, you're gaining health back. Oh, okay, cool. So you're good.


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[Assistant] An Asian head of government recently explained to me that at every regional conference, Washington sends a couple of diplomats, whereas Beijing sends dozens. The Chinese are there at every committee meeting, and you are not, he said. The result he explained is that Beijing is increasingly setting the Asian agenda.


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[Assistant] You will receive the best of medical treatment. You will be free to go home, free to live on that finest state of yours, free to do anything you like except to leave England.


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[Assistant] Jerry. The German embassy telephoned here a few days ago. Their inquiry was pointedly casual. Anyone else ask for me? A friend of yours came in to see me the other day.


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[Assistant] English? Too perfectly. Major Keeve Smith, he called himself.


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[Assistant] She flouted obvious power. She refused to tell us anything.


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[Assistant] Surely then the death of a girl like that will be no loss at all. She was found dead in the street, Thorndyke. The police reported that she, uh, jumped to her death from a window.


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[Assistant] I preached a whole sermon once, straddled in the ridge pole of a barn. Like this.


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[Assistant] If Murray, if Murray can scrabble it all night, I guess I can.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, uh, we couldn't do on any less than what our share is now. Well, the children ain't getting enough to eat as it is.


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[Assistant] We just picked him up on the way in. He left this morning when the rate dropped. What did you say he looked like again? Short fellow. Pale face. Was he bruised about the face this morning? I didn't see nothing.


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[Assistant] That's Connie Rivers with her. They're married now. She's due now about three, four months.


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[Assistant] Ma'am, only it's for an old lady. No teeth. Got to soften her in water so she can chew it. She's hungry.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I sure would like to do that, ma'am. But the fact is, we ain't got but a dime for it. It's all figured out. I mean, for the trip.


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[Assistant] I'd be glad to get my hands on some cotton. That's the kind of pickin' I understand.


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[Assistant] Holy Moses, what a hard looking house. All them okies are hard looking. Boy, but I'd hate to hit that desert in a jalopy like that. You and me got sense. Them okies got no sense and no feeling.


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[Assistant] Ain't human. No, human being wouldn't live the way they do. Human being couldn't stand to be so miserable.


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[Assistant] Yes, ma'am. Camp committed a call on you in the morning. Get you fixed. Cops?


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[Assistant] No, no cops. No, people here elect their own cops. The latest committee call on you, ma'am, tell you about the children, the schools and sanitary unit and who takes care of them. Will you come inside and sign up?


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[Assistant] I'm just in from San Francisco. I didn't ask you that. He asked you what you were doing in town. I came here to look up some people.


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[Assistant] Take my advice, you leave town. I've got things to do. Adios, boy. You're on your own.


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[Assistant] This society is progressive. This society can keep things, as I say, right side up.


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[Assistant] I come with that cut-a-report, man. Uh, just finishing it up for you.


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[Assistant] Well, here you are, Joe. I can go home now. Thanks a lot, Ben. See you tomorrow. Okay, see you tomorrow.


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[Assistant] What'd you find? It was them, all right. Cardi left the doctor's office about 30 minutes ago. How'd the fight communications? They're blanketing the whole area. The girl? County Jail Hospital. Still out. Whether she's playing it safe or just not talking. Keep Mullen there. The minute she comes out, I want to know. Any idea? Lots. We need Rick


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[Assistant] I was born in 1820 a harsh time of change in England. Money and position seemed all that mattered. Charity was a cold and disagreeable word.


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[Assistant] Religion too often wore a mask of bigotry and cruelty. There was no proper place for the poor or the unfortunate. I had no father or mother, brother or sister. As a child I lived with my aunt Mrs. Reed of Gateshead Hall.


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[Assistant] I was to waken in the morning to find my dreams of Lowood shattered. In their place was to stand a school that was more like a prison.


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[Assistant] What have I to be grateful for? Ten years of harshness and strength. Silence!


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[Assistant] Isn't she your daughter? Oh, gracious, no. Adele is French. I have no family. No family at all. That's Mr. Edward's room. He's abroad, of course, but I always keep it ready for him. His visits are always so unexpected and sudden. A wanderer on the face of the earth. That's what Mr. Edward is, I'm afraid. Mr. Edward, who is Mr. Edward?


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[Assistant] Your name's Adele, isn't it? Do you know what I was thinking, Adele?


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[Assistant] What sort of man was this master of Thornfield, so proud, sardonic and harsh?


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[Assistant] Instinctively I felt that his malignant mood had its source in some cruel cross of fate. I was to learn that this was indeed true, and that beneath the harsh mask he assumed, lay a tortured soul, fine, gentle and kindly.


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[Assistant] Do as you please, sir. You pay me thirty pounds a year for receiving your orders. Thirty pounds?


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[Assistant] I should never mistake informality for insolence. One I rather like. The other no freeborn person would submit to even for a salary.


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[Assistant] I was thinking, whatever your past misfortune, you have no right to revenge yourself on the child.


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[Assistant] Only a candlestick on the floor, but I... I heard a door shut.


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[Assistant] Yes, my dear? Did Mr. Rochester tell you how the fire started? Why, of course. He was reading in bed and fell asleep with the candle lit. The curtains took fire. Why do you ask? I wondered if the fire had anything to do with Mr. Rochester's leaving.


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[Assistant] What possible connection could there be? He said this morning that he was restless. The house with only us here was unbearably oppressive for him.


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[Assistant] Had the mystery in the tower driven him madly away, just as we seem so close together? Winter turned to spring and no news came. But I found a measure of escape in the happiness of Adele.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't surprise me if it came to an engagement one of these days. Such a beautiful girl, isn't she?


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[Assistant] He only asked me out of politeness. That's what I thought. And I told him you weren't used to company. Nonsense, he said. If she objects, I'll come and fetch her myself. Of course you must wear your very best, my dear.


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[Assistant] All my doubts and all the grim shadows that hung over Thornfield seemed to vanish, shattered like the riven chestnut tree. I loved and I was loved. Every sunlit hour I looked forward to love's fulfillment.


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[Assistant] Going nowhere, I had nowhere to go. Without references, I could not find employment. I knew hunger and unsheltered nights. At last, old memories, rather than my will, drew me back to Gateshead Hall, to Bessie, who had once been kind to me.


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[Assistant] It seemed the cry of a soul in pain and appeal so wild and urgent that I knew I must go and go quickly. Only when I knew what had happened to him.


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[Assistant] It was she who did it, Miss Aya. She struck down Grace Poole as she slept. And then she set fire to Thornfield. It was her laugh in the gallery that woke me.


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[Assistant] I ran into the nursery and wrapped Adele in a shawl and carried her down. And as we came out into the courtyard,


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[Assistant] And suddenly we saw Mr. Edward behind her on the battlements. She saw him too. He came towards her to help her down. She stood very still for a moment.


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[Assistant] As the months went past, he came to see the light once more as well as to feel its warmth. To see first the glory of the sun.


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[Assistant] And then the mild splendor of the moon, and at last the evening star. And then one day when our firstborn was put into his arms,


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[Assistant] He could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes as they once were. Large, brilliant and black.


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[Assistant] When children were taken as hostages, it did not mean prisoners.


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[Assistant] This was all part of the political negotiation in which alliances had to be formed because no one trusted no one else. So there had to be a guarantee and therefore the hostage was used.


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[Assistant] When you took a hostage in a certain class, they were usually treated very cordially and they were given education.


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[Assistant] As, just as they would be, uhm, given at home.


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[Assistant] He probably had a very stoic, spartan kind of education.


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[Assistant] Taught military skills, martial arts, and Chinese classics, Japanese classics.


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[Assistant] The entire life of Yes was that of patience and forbearance, people say.


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[Assistant] In crisis, they had to be prepared to kill themselves, rather than be shamed, disgraced by the enemies.


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[Assistant] Whether to go along with the hosted family, but at all times he never forgot


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[Assistant] His ambition to go back to his original castle and to regain all the territory that his father's family had and to expand that.


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[Assistant] That was part of the, very small part of what they did, which is inconceivable.


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[Assistant] They could now afford to get education, develop their taste, cultural taste, and, uh, emulate the high class samurai.


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[Assistant] It gave them fantasy, imagination and romance. It was like Hollywood, where celebrity was so important.


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[Assistant] There was a distinct difference between the geisha and the courtesans. Geisha were professional entertainers. They did not rely on sex, uh,


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[Assistant] For entertaining men. They had their music, their singing, playing musical instruments, and dancing. Uh, whereas the courtesans entertained the clients.


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[Assistant] With a conversation and sexual gratifications.


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[Assistant] If they've just wanted to fulfill their sexual need all over Edo, there are plenty of illegal cheap prostitutes.


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[Assistant] But they wanted to come to Yoshiwara because it was such a prestigious and special place.


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[Assistant] And the Yoshiwara courtesans were trained to think that they were better than their clients.


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[Assistant] And if a man wanted to visit Yoshiwara, he had to prepare for it six months in prior. He had to buy a fine set of sword. He had to think about what to wear because he wouldn't just go there. The courtesan had the right to turn down her client if she didn't like him, even if he could afford to pay for her. Therefore, he wanted to make a good impression on the courtesan.


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[Assistant] On the sly, I went to see any other person.


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[Assistant] The courtesan's entourage had every right to punish him. His hair would cut off. He would be made to wear women's red kimono. And he would be taunted by everyone.


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[Assistant] Still retained its buddhistic sense of this transitory life.


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[Assistant] It's in the, it's impermanence. This life's suffering was still there, particularly for the courtesans and prostitutes, all of whom had some kind of trouble.


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[Assistant] Music of blues in the jazz world.


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[Assistant] And, uh, brothel keepers lost their pride. They had become slaves of money making and they became much less compassionate.


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[Assistant] The sick, uh, prostitutes were not given, uh, medication or care, and when they died they were just thrown into a pit.


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[Assistant] On the 20th of October, 1824, Edward Rochester of Thornfield Hall was married to Bertha Mason at St. Mary's Church, Spanish Town, Jamaica. The record of the marriage will be found in the register of that church.


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[Assistant] The old idea was where you would have two samurai meet on the field of battle.


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[Assistant] Hideyoshi immediately springs into action, murdering.


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[Assistant] The murderer of his own lord, which then gives him the right, in essence, to claim leadership of Nobunaga's vast coalition of armies.


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[Assistant] There's a story in Japanese that explains the character of the three unifiers. And Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu are watching a cuckoo bird waiting for it to sing, but the bird doesn't sing. And Nobunaga says, little bird, if you don't sing, I will kill you.


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[Assistant] By Ieyasu's time, the court is still powerless, but it is only the court which can appoint the Shogun. So in the ultimate symbolic sense, the court is still the arbiter of final resort.


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[Assistant] That's why all the warlords are aiming for Kyoto. You have to get the emperor to recognize that you're the most powerful of all of the combatants on the field of battle.


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[Assistant] Then when he finally, uh, in his final years produced an heir of his own, he ordered this adult male who had been his heir to commit suicide.


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[Assistant] And he waits until after Hideyoshi is dead, until he has a clear preponderance of power, and then makes his move, uh, to become the dominant military leader in Japan.


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[Assistant] Hideyori can no longer be ignored by Ieyasu. He's a threat simply because he exists. He is the legitimate heir of Hideyoshi.


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[Assistant] Um, Ieyasu is supposed to be supporting him until he, until he becomes an adult and