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So what did we learn today?
Your deck can stand a chance when you don't run in to 50 sunfalls, depopulates, and farewells…
"That's fine, we don't really draw extra cards in this deck"
Never thought I'd hear Seth say those words in that order.
Only two basics is a little greedy isn't it? I saw this video where a guy with a very impressive beard played a land destruction deck that took advantage of people not playing enough basic lands.
At this point, we know you better as Seth.
so at @6:29 why not just channel the Touch the Spirit Realm to bounce the portal to phyrexia?
I played a version of this style of deck, but cut the gatekeepers. They felt incredibly clunky at every turn, and just worked better as a regular removal spell
What a sweet deck, When I think ETB shenanigans I think SaffronOlive, and this is why.
Also, way to battle it out vs. esper and boros. Seth kinda beating the early scooper allegations on this one.
Last year at Burning Man I played a draft mostly using Commander Masters but it was a mix. We decided all the cards such as Command tower, would add any color of your choice. First pick obscura interceptor and ended up on a 5-color-rare-picking deck. But man that Obscura alone won me 70% of the games 😁
At 18:00 is it better to cloak portal/titan so that if they do kill it then next turn disguise cast gatekeeper cloak the other surprise with vannifar and still be able to flip?
"Best deck in standard esper" can't tell if this is a meme at this point or not
Syr Ginger Surge Engine Syr Ginger Surge Engine Syr Ginger Surge Engine…
I was so close to flipping out when Seth implied he was going to concede game 1 vs boros convoke to try and keep his opponent from knowing what he was doing. Remember everyone, face down cards are revealed when a player wins the game.
"Mkm wasnt that strong of a set"
Modern:
Punt city
Seth you beautiful, beautiful man thank you for showing me my new deck had the tech I was searching so desperately for in Tarkir and this recent set. A way to maximize cloaking and disguise to their fullest!
Imagine if Teleportation Circle was still in standard
I've literally been playing this since release on Brawl. Mega fun. I've been using flicker effects. They always kill Vannifar after the damage has already been done 😂😂.
Kill the face down creatures. It's usually an eldrazi😂 That's how you beat this deck
2014: We avoided printing flicker effects specifically so they wouldn't interact with Manifest in the same Standard
2024: I can't even count how many sets are legal now
All I've got to say is he touched my gix and I feel violated 😂
Deduce?
TRANQUIL COVE?!
What is this, a budget deck?
35:00 they keep a one lander dont feel bad for them.
49:30 notably you can't play the Loxodon facedown with Etali as you can't go with alternate costs when playing for free.
5:55 why not flicker portal again in response here ?
"Vannifar, Envolved Enigma"
Seth…we know you'll never change, but never change man😂
The deck felt a bit color greedy
Better wash your hands after that Gix touching
Okay, I made the opening joke about Seth once on a commander clash and ive never felt more seen.
You could of had another blink effect. Abuelo something ancestor is a blink on a stick.
vannifar is a funny one. first she was black, then she was white, now she's like, gray-blue
Good brew Seth. Great content
Can you cloak instants and sorceries?
🙁 Was hoping for an update to vannifar pod. Such an interesting deck, but it feels like it hasn’t changed since it was first thought up.
Holy cow, for once I actually played a deck before it showed up on Against Odds! The full list is different, but the core of it is the same.
Seth is my favorite magic creator and I've been watching a ton of videos lately, I just wish he played limited because that's my preference by a large amount, coming back to magic you can play limited at a higher level way before understanding the standard meta and especially the larger formats. Also, standard puts you in a different decision game than standard does where you have to do more with less, use much lower power level cards and eek out an advantage and convert that. I wish I could find a content creator like Seth to watch who was as good as Seth is but at limited because I have so much to learn and I want to get a lot better. I'm also trying out standard on Arena with UW Baby Reanimator and U Tempo because they both use Haughty Djinn and a lot of the same cards, I've basically kept my boosters unopened and am just drafting my way to more, I do alright, but wish it wasn't just quickdraft exploring old sets because if you generally do alright in terms of record that's the worst one to play in terms of value. On the flip side, I don't get upset every time I draft badly or get blown out because it doesn't hurt that much, costs like 3 bucks and I draft once every couple of days. Problem with limited is though no wildcards, I've filled up the vault once with MKM.
Hey, I was the player you encountered that was running your UR Artifacts list from Budget Magic a bit ago! I remember our match though I am surprised I didn't realize you were my opponent. I just wanted to clarify that the list was card-for-card what you were using. I've been piloting it as my re-entry to Arena and it's served me fairly well. It seems to be struggling more and more against the things I see on the ladder recently but I have a real soft spot for synergy-based aggro decks like this. It's a lot of fun and there are a lot of powerful things to do, letting you pull damage from seemingly nowhere. Also it plays Syr Ginger, and she is a card I am super excited to play as much as I can.
Keep it up with the cool brews!
Currently looking into using cloak with endless Whispers to get phage into play under an opponents control right now… its looking a little slow atm
Trying to do something like this with the new satoru card
it would be even funnier if this deck had a transformative sideboard where you swap your bombs out for other big creatures, suprise them even more between games
Honestly don't know how the goldfish crew can manage to find any joy playing vs the same 5 decks 3,000 times..
28:21 It seems incorrect to cast Get Lost at sorcery speed here. You certainly got max punished with Gleeful Demolition into Immodane's Recruiter. But that play would not have been possible if you killed the Warleader's Call at the beginning of their combat.
i mean he never claimed to be good at magic,
I liked when Den Protector was a Standard staple
I had the best MKM draft maybe ever. Pack 1 pick 1, Worldspine Wurm. Trying to ramp into it in golgari rapidly changed in pack 2 pick 1, with an Etrata.
I lost my first two games playing sultai, BUT THE THIRD GAME I CLOAKED THE WORLDSPINE AND FLIPPED IT FOR 4 MANA IN RESPONSE TO AN ILL-TIMED EXPLOSION
I understand control decks and play style but if you’re playstyle in magic “destroy every single creature my opponents play” Fuck You
9:29 Seth… You can just flicker the portal and kill all 3 bro…
Esoteric duplicator with brain stone might get you the barain stone fix you're looking for
I thought I clicked on the wrong video somehow when it opened with Family Guy XD