What are the odds of winning (on turn three) with the help of Gaea’s Might and Might of Alara in Modern? Let’s find out!
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0:00 Start
3:35 Match 1
11:42 Match 2
19:12 Match 3
26:05 Match 4
39:30 Match 5
48:18 Wrap Up
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Might try a split of Twinferno and Battlerage. Even though you are losing the trample, it can be great to duplicate a Gaea’s Might, bolt, or something else
Other acceptable names include: 8-Might
Ouch, that match 4. If the game plan was setting Chalice on 1 it may have been better to switch tactics and use less 1-mana spells.
That was 4, 5 dead draws which could have been used to increase pressure on the opponent.
Not really sure I'd call that last game "impressive" – you were ripping straight gas off the top turn after turn, you better win with that kind of running! Cool deck! There's a critical mass of excellent domain cards now, and the triomes make it easy
Against the odds is doing great lately
Where's the blood moon?
If this becomes the next Hammer Time where Seth plays it as a psuedo-joke/off-meta deck and with a tweak or two becomes a top tier deck I'm gonna laugh.
So it wasn't going to work anyway due to the entire game being chalice locked, but I am incredibly confused by the logic of taking out stubborn denial against the deck trying to blood moon you when your only possible answer in the deck otherwise is two Force of vigor
41:45 Missed lethal. Pump to 8/8 and give ds/trample tp get them to 2, bolt for lethal in mp2
So, chalice on 1 is pretty iffy when you're running 12 1 drops (though you took 1 out) but defendable. However, you drew 8 of them. Somehow. There were only 3 one drops left in your deck. Bad runnings.
Seth breaks it!! NICE!!
great deck
41:45 could’ve still gotten another turn 4 had you played, might, battle rage, played the land and bolted for 3 right? I feel like that math checks out
I think this deck wants Ziatora’s Proving Grounds or Ketria Triome over Indatha. You’ve had several hands with 2x Windswept Heath and been unable to get full domain off 2x the same fetch is probably a design mistake?
Hey Seth so about the hive mind modern deck you made last year can you splash black or green for tutors in the deck like diabolic tutor or sterling grove or other modern legal tutors so you won't have to struggle getting hive mind? I would like to see you to do a revisit on the modern hive mind modern deck
With this triome/shock spread, I think you need 4x Misty Rainforest in there somewhere, probably over the Windswept Heaths. That way no matter what, you can get the other half of domain that you're missing, whether doing Indatha + Steam Vents, or Xander's + Temple Garden.
The fetchland distribution should be tightened up — Windswept Heath is definitely the wrong fetch for this mana base. The 4th Wooded Foothills (which gets anything) is strictly better, and Misty Rainforest and Flooded Strand both enable 5-types-in-2-lands. Notably, with these fetchable targets, Misty Rainforest/Flooded Strand/Arid Mesa can be combined in any combination with themselves or each other, in any play order, to get 5-types-in-2-lands (in addition to pairing with Wooded Foothills, which gets every single fetchable in the deck).
Meanwhile, having 2 copies of Windswept Heath as your opening-hand sources prevents full domain, as did indeed come up in the video.
Can this also be considered as a 'budget' modern deck? 🤣🤣🤣
So, I'd drop the Brushfire Elemental. Yeah, I get that it can be a 5/5 on turn three, but it also requires that you have a fetch to do that. Not to mention that it just gets Bolted or Heated or Pushed in response to the fetch activation. Just run Goyf. It's likely to be a 3/4 or 4/5 anyway, and then it's got the actual ability to block.
As for the sideboard, based on how much Chalice hurt our deck, I'd say that the pros aren't worth it. It just dragged out the inevitable against Murktide. I'd rather focus on the horrible matchup against Blood Moon. I'd run 4 Destructive Revelry to go alongside the Force of Vigor. It's easy enough to cast under Moon so long as the basic Forest is on the board. It's probably better to slow the gameplan down, get the Forest, and prepare for the Blood Moon in games 2-3. It also pitches to Vigor if need be. The additional damage that it does is just icing.
Match 4 instead of playing 1 threat a turn into their counters why not hold a turn and play two threats
I don’t think chalice makes much sense as a sideboard option in this deck. Maybe build it a bit more like infect with hexproof spells and cheap counters?
If you are running +8 Modern Horizons cards the deck really isn't against the odds.
I dont know what you cut for it, maybe a couple brushfires? but a couple Fling or Flesh // Blood would give you another burn-y route to turn 3 kills
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Would Nature's Claim be better than Chalice in the sideboard?
Hey that red bounce spell is a staple in red prison decks in legacy, watch your tone!
This deck is simple and pure genius. Loved it right away without evening seeing a game. Well done as always