What are the odds of winning with Monument to Perfection in Standard? Let’s find out!
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Omg it's a locus tutor!
"Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoy it." is so much nicer to hear than any annoying call to action. You guys are rad.
Why none of the card filtering proliferate or poison cards? Seems like they'd smooth the issue of Monument only doing 9.
8:15 were you not able to exile it with Leyline?
Snow basics would so help this deck
This week on Against the Odds: Is a vanilla 9/9 for 9 strong enough to take games in standard? Let’s find out! (It isn’t but I commend your attempt Seth).
It's just u need to be in at least 4 colors to turn it on. It may get some lands but it's a lot of work
For all the work it takes, it should have been a one shot. In formats with only 20 life, and at 9 power and needing two hits, the toxic is more flavor text than anything.
There ain't Growth Spiral, perpetual card draw ramp these days, but I'm not sure the big mana ramp payoffs scaled up as the efficiency of ramp scaled down.
Deck is just bad :/
This. This right here, this level of glorious jank is why I’m subscribed.
I'd swap Depopulate for White Sun's Twilight. It wipes and one mite getting in ends it for the opponent.
Standard is too fast for idol. Idol is just too slow maybe if the cost was 1 or even 2 to search for a land and the land requirements be 9 lands of different name instead of basic/sphere.
Like a lot of the other comments, a way to get the 10th or 1st poison counter seems helpful, but fitting it into the deck is the challenge. Still very fun!
Toxic Nine is because the rest of the card is based on the number 9, it is a 9/9 that requires 9 lands, it is a reference to the fact that the original Phyrexia had 9 Spheres.
I really wish you talked in a normal voice. I don’t like to watch videos with the volume off
32:32 nice.
Love the content, can still never understand the introductions..
May use one of those “opponents get a poison counter” cantrips so Monument is a one-shot?
Seth. Remember that MODA fixes who is going to be your opponent depending on the cards in your deck and your winning/losing streak. I guess that Atraxa was the reason you had to encounter so many aggro/heavy-on-removal decks.But ain't gonna lie, it felt so good to see Atraxa falling down to removal over and over again.
Another fun video brother Set. This deck feels too expensive for me.
1:50 atleast on this screen, you're missing the seedcore.
Once again contagious vorrac might be good here
Also thirsting roots and probably cut a color (blue or red i'd say)
Wait, why couldn't you cast Atraxa at 10:15? You had all the colors right?
what a hot mess of colorless lands, basics and 3-4 color cards 😀
Having a tutor seems invaluable to me, my list plays dig up, but if you are on atraxa plan you should probably play cruelty of gix
I get so much joy from his reactions to unlikely wins against busted decks.
This deck is kinda too slow. it could be much faster and more comboy with Cultivator Colossus instead of Atraxa. Discard and reaiminate Cultivator Colossus and put down a bunch of lands and when you hit 9 different lands, you can turn on Monument.
I’m shocked that Infectious Inquiry isn’t in this. The deck is probably so much worse when you need to hit with Monument twice.
Why can't MTG content creators talk like normal people do?
The equipment that gives 1 toxic could be a good option. Activating the monument is cheap enough to allow the equipping the same turn
Too many colors! It’s green/blue with counterspells, dual lands, spheres, Dune Movers to look for your forest or green sources. MtP attacks turn 5.
It’s not that hard! So many cards that let you drop two lands!
Topiary Stomper is too slow. Armored Scrapgorger is at least a chump.