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0:00 Start
1:14 Krenko’s Buzzcrusher
4:40 Audience with Trostani
8:17 Reenact the Crime
12:43 Illicit Masquerade
16:33 Improbable Explosion
20:23 Anzrag’s Rampage
22:37 Worldsouls’ Rage
27:13 Vengeful Tracker
28:09 Break Out
29:15 Soul Enervation
30:25 Flotsam and Jetsam
31:52 Insidious Roots
33:14 Fae Flight
34:14 Commons and Uncommons
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Reenect The Crime will go in the new Etrata; you may be leaving up 4 anyway for her ability and it fits the “play your opponents deck” theme
draconic intervention didn't make it because the biggest threats of the time were dragons. It would wrath anything except the things you need to wrath the most.
I think the way worldsoul's rage is worded, and/or, you can have X lands from your graveyard and X lands from your hand which would be very powerful. not sure about that though…
Please just rotate the card image as you are doing your slide show? It is very easy, takes about 0.25 seconds…
Improbable explosion is literally a board wipe that turns into card advantage when the board is empty. How is that not strong?
Confetti counters legitimately brightened my day. Love you Sethprobablybetterknownassaffronolive
Ewww break out with Serra Avenger and guardian of great door
the best home i can imagine for improbable explosion would be collect evidence decks, where you're already running split cards with high cmc to fill the graveyard. fills the graveyard wraths and draws 2. prolly jank but i could see it working.
Insidious Roots – feels like there's some janky infinite combos with that one. Need a haste giving card, a sac outlet and a creature you can recur repeatedly from the graveyard (ie. Gravecrawler) – so a bunch of cards, but the combo potential is there.
Or it works well with tokens, so the combo could be more about haste, being able to tap tokens you make straight away for mana, then dumping that mana into other stuff. Similar to how Awaken the Woods combos work. All jank, I'm sure, but lots of fun.
Illicit mas also work with token too so if you have like zombie token and zombie in the graveyard, you can return them opponent board wipe
Krenko's is fast enough for Lotus Field if you have other interaction. If you can kill Strict Proctor and make them actually sack lands. Or if you can kill their turn 3 T5feri at instant speed before they untap lands, you can make it to your turn 4.
22:35 few things, first saccing treasures before Rampage resolves still feeds the X, it's not the number of artifacts destroyed by the spell, it's the number put into the graveyard this turn – saccing treasures in response still puts them into the graveyard this turn. Second there's a downside to this too, there are a lot of artifact tokens that go around in commander now, so it's not impossible to be blowing up a few dozen artifacts with something like this – unlike most spells that let you pick a card out of a large set, this one leaves the ones you didn't pick in exile, putting it in something like Prosper where you're already impulse drawing 3 or 4 cards a turn can leave you in pretty real danger of decking off of Rampage or soon after.
Krenko's Buzzcrusher also fits very well into the existing indestructible land -> cleansing wildfire ramp combo. Not gonna make those decks tier 1 or anything, but I'm sure some folks are gonna be playing one or two of these in Pioneer/Explorer and even Modern/Historic.
Soul Enervation seems good for Grenzo, considering the usual game plan is to put things on the bottom of the deck from the graveyard.
Buzz crusher says each player not each opponent, it hits you as well
The one powerful thing about improbable explosion that could make it better than it looks is that the two modes are good in exact opposite situations.
I swear Seth voices Chris from Family Guy 😂
For illicit masquerade they can be cheap nontoken creature. Like a 1/1 pest. And bring out all big creatures in graveyard. Like mycotyrant and mill discard
worldsoul's rage seems good with spelunking
I am very ready for gruul/jund fireballs in standard with worldsoul's rage
Am I the only one who finds Saffs voice over voice to be extremely cringe? I can't be, right? Like, I know he can put out a great, informative video but is it too much to ask to reel in the voice? Just be you dude. You show glimpses of it every video. Sorry, it's just driving me bonkers because I consider skipping this one every intro and I want this channel to succeed and grow so badly.
I'd say illict masquerade most closely resembles living death in how you can play it.
This set is an edh support set. Nothing for constructed competitive plays here. Maybe the gruel sorcery but that’s it.
I just realized between breakout and the lowpower-harmonicon(?) creature, boros could be in for a great time.
Prowess is after all a trigger
I know this is a nitpick, but please wizards, stop printing tokenmakers, that make tokens that are always diffetent sized. Wheter its +1/+1 counters or X/X stuff like with phyrexian nissa, its SO annoying to kerp track of. Can we just go back to / at least were they are all the same size?
Rant over
Worldsoul’s Rage looks sweet for my Rosheen Meanderer Hydra deck.
Wouldnt Anzrags rampage count treasurers and clues because they still go to the graveyard…
When you re-enact the Emrakul, you get the cast trigger, as you are casting the copy.
When you re-enact the Cyclonic rift, you can't overload it, as you can't do two alternative costs (no-mana vs overload)
Illicit Masquerade saves your current board, if your current board has 2+ creatures. Die trigger happens when creatures are in the graveyard already, and masquerade mentions "other creature" so a counterfeit can't target itself, but can target another one that died right now (or another that was already in graveyard), so with 2+ you save your whole board even on empty graveyard.
Anzrag's Rampage counts cards that put into graveyard. Tokens get replacement effect of exile and do not get put there, so trinket tokens destroyed here do not fuel the search.
I just want a Krenko Detective creature!
Impulsive Accuser
Doesn't have Haste
I'm with Seth on how powerful the uncommons in this set are and I'm all for it. I love the idea of making uncommons powerful but niche so they are an all star in your off-meta deck. I think it would allow some creativity on Arena as it would allow you to experiment with new decks without costing you rare+ wildcards. Might be a way to subtly shake up the standard meta.
* Also I gotta say the art for 'Insidious Roots' its absolutely top tier and I wish we got more interesting art like that.
Pockets full of confetti counters
I don't understand why Buzzcrusher doesn't target
Insidious Roots is crazy good for a plant or changeling.
MY GOOOOOOD
Field of Urine even then is NOT "a real Strip Mine". Read Strip Mine for ONCE – does it say "pay 2 and tap" anywhere?????????? Does it say "nonbasic" anywhere????????? That's the biggest difference between it an Wasteland, making it banned in Legacy.
Imagine getting something like Denry Klin with a "confetti" counter on him from Illicit Masquerade, then throwing a bunch of chump blockers onto the field.
Weird semi-combo idea for Reenact the Crime (not sure if it is legal), but if you have say Mycosynth Lattice or Biotransference plus Karn, the Great Creator, you could cast any creature you exiled from your side.