5 Minutes into Jubilee’s “1 Magic Pro vs 20 Commander Players” and No One Knows Whose Turn It Is

Chaos erupted on the set of the latest episode of Jubilee’s Surrounded, “1 Magic Pro vs 20 Commander Players” as an argument broke out among the EDH players over whose turn it was to debate the pro next.

The controversy began almost immediately after the clock started, when commander player Lloyd Nirnwood accused famed Magic: The Gathering Pro “Topdeck” Todd Lewis of violating Rule 0 when he refused to tell Nirnwood how many “gamechanger” arguments he planned to use.

“He’s violating the spirit of the debate by not telling me his debate bracket level,” said Nirnwood, as he stood up from the chair he had raced to sit in only moments ago. “It’s important that we both have fun during the debate, and I didn’t come here to be pubstomped!”

In a show first, the argument caused all 19 remaining commander players to raise their red flags, a prop given to onlookers to signal that the debate had come to an end, after less than 5 minutes had elapsed. Confusion then set in, as the remaining commander players could not figure out who should debate Lewis next.  One commander player suggested rolling a d20, since there were 20 debaters, while another suggested the debate should actually consist of a 4-debater pod, rather than 1v1.

Surrounded, the hugely popular debate show that pits a single person with strongly held opinions against a crowd of opposing viewpoints, invited Lewis to onto the show after he posted an 8000-word article on Medium that compared commander players to dogs eating their own poop, a piece he described as his magnum opus. This behavior, he argued, just reaffirmed everything he suspected about commander players.

“Look at these clowns, I knew this would happen. They wouldn’t last a day on the SCG Tour!” scoffed Lewis, who appeared disgusted at the behavior of his opponents. “If they think this is pressure, try scrambling around the show floor 30 minutes before the event begins looking for a Modern deck to borrow while you’re on no sleep because you’re sharing a 1 bed 1 bath Motel 6 off I-64 in Richmond with 6 other grinders.”

Both Lewis’s complaints and the show’s production were then abruptly interrupted as the Commander players exclaimed, “we scoop!” in unison and began shuffling toward the exit. A move prompted Lewis to heckle, “There they go, off to crew their own clown car and drive it home!”

We caught up with Nirnwood as he waited for his Uber, who claimed the entire show was an ambush, “We came here to debate, and clearly Lewis was here for cDebate, which is actually an abomination and not even a real debate format,” he said sternly as he erased his debate notes from his Infinitokens.

Although some may have hoped that this debate may help ease the tension between these groups of Magic: The Gathering players, it appears to have only furthered the divide.