Soulflayer is a classic Against the Odds cards and now thanks to Aftermath’s Urborg Scavengers we have eight of them to build around in Pioneer! Let’s try to build the biggest, most unkillable monster possible on turn 2 or turn 3 on this week’s Against the Odds!
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0:00 Start
2:35 Match 1
15:00 Match 2
26:50 Match 3
33:48 Match 4
44:58 Match 5
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Love this deck! And every time someone beats the toxic trash that is mono green it brings a smile to my face.
Dude you totally need some haste for scavengers a fleet foot dancer is awesome haste and lifelink gets you back in the game quick. Or a questing beast to stay in color to pull two cards in one turn and get you a four four and gain life quicker
Would you consider putting atraxa in there? As a really good card too hard cast if you need
Oh man, I built Pioneer Soulflayer in paper back when Pioneer was new and it was a popular deck. Then Covid happened and Pioneer got forgotten about 😢 good to see its still being played
I feel like Scavengers wants you to run some creatures with Haste so that you can play it and swing in one turn. There's even a single creature with both Hexproof and Haste in the form of Cragplate Baloth!
I also wonder if this deck wants more discard outlets.
Seriously, Lotus Field and Mono Green need to get the hell out of this format. So torturous to watch, ruins fun content like this.
I actually did once run the Lost In The Woods/Forests fog deck at an FNM event back when Dark Ascension was standard block, for the funnies. My opponents hated me and I got to sit back and sip sodas while they struggled 😂 I didn't win any games but definitely worth.
Unkillable? But will he be my friend?
Scary Scavengers IS the deck name come on !
Soulflayer cant gain menace so its not as strong as urborg scavengers
Seth: sweating that creativity got their combo
Soul flare, who has double-strike deathtouch and vigilance: am I a joke to you?
In match 1 I don’t think there was much your opponent could do. While I don’t know much about mono G devo. I do know 2 Double Strike, vigilance, lifelink, Deathtouch creatures are pretty hard to beat. Because it’s a two turn clock and it’s 16 life per combat.
26:14 lol wonder what was said there 😂😂
I played this in Tarkir Game Day and stomped out all the Jeskai Ascendancy lists. Won the tournament off it. But as soon as the Ojutai meta started everyone was main decking Disdainful Stroke, so it was unplayable. I'm glad to see Soulflayer getting another chance in Pioneer. Might make Pioneer for me.
Sylvan Caryatid will help your mana pain woes while also supplying an alt for Hexproof. Flayers can't get Defender, so it's not a problem.
I literally only clicked on this video for the thumbnail- a riff on the meme shot from Predator.
I don’t know if you realize this or not……. But I bought a $80 gandelf costume for next Friday and it’s going to be a great time.. that is all
8 flayer bean dip would be a great name.
So much graveyard. If you don't like this video that would be a GRAVE mistake 😀
This deck, white spurit tokens, rhinos, these are the things Ibwatch for!
Fella in my lgs played this deck before Aftermath. Was always strong, just a little inconsistent and overshadowed by greesefang combo
In game 2 of match 5, wouldn't you survive a worldspine attack with your double-strike deathtouch creature? The Worldspine wouldn't get to trample over because it would die to first strike damage.
25:45 good to see the arena suffler has made it into mtgo 😂
why do you wear headphones while playing? you like the mtgo sound effects that much?
Stick in Gurmag Swiftwing for the haste, methinks could be good.
I have found a pretty brew in Pioneer. An youtuber has made a Selesnya double strike aggro deck in Modern. Most things that deck uses are legal in Pioneer. A list would be something like this, but a 30$ budget version could be made:
3 Fateful Absence
4 Fabled Hero
1 Scavenger Grounds
3 Dromoka's Command
1 Become Immense
4 Illuminator Virtuoso
4 Combat Thresher
3 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
4 Solemn Recruit
4 Brave the Elements
4 Blossoming Defense
2 Shefet Dunes
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Gods Willing
4 Temple Garden
4 Branchloft Pathway
1 Lair of the Hydra
1 Forest
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
3 Plains
// Sideboard
3 Declaration in Stone
3 Portable Hole
3 Rest in Peace
2 Damping Sphere
1 Bow of Nylea
3 Prowling Serpopard
at 51:02 you say you die to creativity, but actually the double strike deathtouch soulflayer reminds you alive, or i am missing something
This deck is missing the uncommon dog from War of the Spark, B for 1/1 with haste and lifelink. SOOOO good with Urborg scavengers
48:07 true against the odds moment
The plan for today was copy pasted others people's deck, gave zero credit, makes million and never gave out any fan any thing free not even 1 chest lol
I know they have different creature types, but I feel like the addition of Cavern of Souls (or something similar) to make your flayers or scavs uncounterable would go a LONG way during the matches against blue
I feel a 1 drop haste goblin would do well here. Not to play, but to discard.
lotus field should have shroud
I feel like this deck will comeback and become the next big thing
4:15 they may have had the answer but you also fired the grapple early so if everyone was playing optimally, you still would have ended up with this scenario
did I hear correctly the first game that soul flayer had first strike, deathtouch, and trample? that thing could attack whatever it wanted
This deck is so fun!
Seth forgot in that last game that he doesnt need lifelink so muchwhen he has deathtouch/doublestrike.
I was waiting for this 🙂
What about Rankle? Flying and haste, and can always be played on 4 with a discard outlet, card advantage and making opp sacrifice?
Sick as fuck deck man
33:19 Not sure I would've scooped yet. You're not dead on board. If they don't draw a land then you survive no matter how they attack, or if they do but don't attack with the man-land. Then you can grisly salvage, possibly hit Zetalpa or Chromaticore and exile it with Scavengers on crack-back. If they draw a land and attack with the man-land, or bounce the Scavengers, then it's possibly impossible, but I'd have waited to see.
52:05 Oh Lost in the Woods. I played that deck at a draft event once. I don't think I won a match, but it was still fun.
3:51 i would have played gaze before because i think there's no world where they crack crypt in response so we could have gotten a better soulflayer 🙂
Been building this deck slowly ever since your first video on the deck. Can’t wait to play this against my friends!
Why do you always Gaze on your Upkeep instead of your Opponents End Step?
Seth throwing shade at Pascal's deck. I love it. Seth plays for us jank brewers (which emphasizes creativity, but is not necessarily a top percentile deck), while Pascal Maynard represents the "efficient and correct" meta answer. Pascal is the jock. Seth is the nerd. Go nerds!
you can run some vehicles or lands to add some threats while also adding keywords. haste vehicles/indestructible lands for example.
I got super into pioneer but ive been waiting to play at my lgs until the dumbass mono green deck is nerfed its so boring and easy i hate it. Love the soulflayer deck also love the podcast!