Green is both the worst color in Standard and the worst control color in Magic. But could Mono-Green Control be the secret to Standard success? Let’s find out!
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This is pretty close to what Magus of the Frog was playing with for “on a budget” standard event recently! Real cool seeing another variant !
Reminds me of the good old days of fetch shock thoughseize into loxodon
No squirming emergence??
You started game 1 with 2 lands in hand 🤔 You drew 19 lands! This is why I hate arena.
Echoing @nacricissa’s comment and also saying that I love that both Seth and Crim’s response to bummer matchups is usually joking and laughing at the situation instead of being super salty. Makes me rethink my own approach to the game most days
Apparently "Midrange with a Wrath" is control now
Love the deck, love the tech. I might try splashing a lil bit of white for get lost/sweeper side board options. Go get em Seth!
That first game = Shuffler is fine!"
Honest question. How is this control? Just looks like mono green midrange
I've never seen such a hand str8 ten lander
What you really want in this deck is either Karn Sylex or Urza Sylex with Lumra.
Also, Cease//Desist is absolutely insane, no idea why people sleep on it. Its a whole-ass sideboard on a single card.
Am I crazy or could Seth have saved his real Pawpatch AND killed the Bronco at 51:45 by giving the it both the +1/+1 counters?
It would become a 4/3, too large for Cut Down, so that would fizzle, and big enough to eat Bronco without dying. It would have been an incredible 2 for 0. Let me know if I'm just wrong though.
I dont think this is properly thought of as a control deck, its just a midrange deck with like….. a called shot against the meta.
Hello everyone it’s Seth probably better known from to catch a predaaaaaaator.
Hey Seth! I recently went back to college and took two months off from magic. I am an avid standard player and used to watch all of your content from the podcast to every deck tech to the streams, but after two months I feel very far behind. What’s the new meta? How has foundations impacted standard? And is the new aether set looking cool? I just feel super behind after only two months of not playing standard
In all seriousness, you can't do control without some type of sweeper, which EVERY COLOR has access to via Blast Zone, Karn's Silex, and Filigree Silex. Your mistake was not giving yourself access to these type of effects that can literally clear a board.
This seems like it could become a GW control deck pretty easily? Like, the things you want from white aren't splashable but the only utility land you're really using is Fountainport, so if you swap out the 2 Soulstone Sancuaries, you can play 4 verges, 4 surveil lands, and 2 Plains, and your access to green mana is the same and Nissa only suffers a bit. Lockdown might be tough to hit on turn 3 that way but Sunfall should often be live.
11:52 I haven’t laughed this hard at a Magic the Gathering play in a while, this was amazing. I also loved how this made them never play part one of the saga again for the rest of the 3 matches lol
would love to see this style deck but in historic.. feel like there are better control cards in historic for mono green
11:52 I haven’t laughed this hard at a Magic the Gathering play in a while, this was amazing. I also loved how this made them never play part one of the saga again for the rest of the 3 matches lol
It didn't matter that game against Crab, but maybe play the lands before +ing Nissa lol
With how much you talk about stone brain every game, and sideboarding them in by 4 every game… why not just mainboard them? Like… you know the format. And you think it is good in almost every match up. Just saying.
I laughed when he asked if there were fogs in standard. He made a deck that had eerie interference a few months back saying fog was in standard
Splashing white for two mana and one mana instant speed removal seems odd in a world of go for the throat and cut down. Even if they really want the exile, there is annoit with affliction
Thia decks is note control, is midrange.. but Nice!
Match 1 sideboarding was kinda wild – Cease did so much work G1 and op was on a soft reanimator deck, and Seth cuts it?
Mono green… wait what?
Pretty impressive for mono green in this meta
Missing “Eddie Money Crab”
I get it, beanstalk is everywhere. But I’m not gonna lie if you want a good draw engine just use beans. Although that's not to say this strategy is bad, but consistency and hoops can get in the way with this one…or just combine both idk
Am i the only one that cant change the vid quality?
12:10…i would of punched straight through my laptop. I almost broke my phone out of frustration for you 😂
At this point, maybe just maindeck the stone brains?
Over all of these matches: I have never seen a deck draw so many forests that wasn't a land-based combo deck
Seth: Oh no! They played a real card….we might be losing now. 😂 fair try though
That first game was the worst flood streak I've ever seen. Followed by the perfect payoff when the opponent Gix'd into the one Baloth. … Followed by the worst flood streak cont.
How many takes did you need to get the inflection right in the intro?
I think scaring your opponent from playing discard is a win
No Vivian planeswalker? Seems like a good control card!
Nothing drives me up a wall more than watching match one go three games of one landers generated by arena in a deck running 24 freaking lands. I always check back to the deck build when I see that crap. You should definitely point out the BS when it happens, even just a casual mention that you're running 40% lands and literally never getting a playable first hand.
omg seth why would you play trailblazer before garruk's uprising? read the text
Unban OKO
what a deck, what a legend