I'm Altheriax, an MTG Arena grinder who's been rank #1 on the ladder multiple times and I'm always looking to try and bring new ideas and archetypes to the format and push them to the top spots on the ladder and events. I mainly do in-depth deck guide videos with gameplay for my successful brews/ decks and also write articles about them for MTGAzone which you can find here: mtgazone.com/author/altheriax/
This deck looks really fun, great video. Have you tried Imodane's Recruiter as a way to finish the game on the same turn you combo ? Maybe just as a 1 of that you can search up with Recruiter of the Guard?
Hey Alth, I've been a longtime subscriber and just wanted to thank you for all the excellent content. It's criminal you don't have more subscribers, every deck you make is a banger. I still remember your cabaretti revels/grinning ignus deck as being the most fun I've had in magic. Please keep it up you'll get the success you deserve soon enough!
I consider myself to have a decent memory and knowledge of Magic cards, but it wouldn't half help to follow your points if you could bring up other named cards on screen as you mention them.
Considering new combos, Queza, Augur of Agonies seems to also combo in a sense with necrodomance over the course of 2-3 turns. Not sure if it’s viable, but seems like a great way for a midrange deck to combat mono green which seems quite strong.
Yoo nice! Been playing the Traveler version a lot; can't wait to try out this list as well. Any chance for an additional gameplay video of this deck? Would be especially nice to see some more instances of the closer non-combo wins.
Yoooo Alth, awesome deck as always. Love me some combos. Gonna try it out asap! Wanted to ask about if you had plans for doing an individual video for the Phelia blink deck you teased last video? (I am a huge fan of corgis and blink as you can tell). Looking forward to blink decks being viable again! Hopefully in Historic as well as Timeless, dunno if you think some variation of it will work in historic too. Anyway, keep up the awesome work mate, cant wait for the next deck and appreciate any reply!
Awesome deck and gameplay! Its great to hear you talk out your thoughts and the plays you want to make, very insightful. Any timeless videos coming soon?
I still think the Displacer Kitten is definitely your best Combo ever. That one so creative and was so rewarding to pilot. But this combo is definitely in your top 5. It's a genius deck that goes infinite so quickly. Can't wait to see more.
Cool deck! Did you try the moon cleric (forgot its name) that vampiric tutors an enchantment? Could be an extra option to find your third combo piece especially as it has 2 toughness
Yoo thanks for the suggestion! I did consider it but didn't end up testing it because I felt like it'd be too slow, and is really awkward if you don't already have your fourth land. I have had a few spots where I had Guide + Evangel alongside Recruiter but not Primal Prayers, but I managed to win with just the fair gameplan in most of those situations, and you already have a lot of ways of digging for Prayers. I might test it out though because there's always a chance that it's better than I thought, but the situation where you'd grab it doesn't come up too often and having to tutor for a tutor that doesn't put the card into your hand feels too slow if you get me?
Wonder if there’s a lore explanation for all these random energy uses, since the cards don’t seem to have anything to do with the machine energy theme we saw in Kaladesh. Not complaining though, these cards are siiick
Sigardian Evangel can tap down all of the opponent's lands during their upkeep so you'd need an instant speed removal spell or counterspell, and then still have enough mana to cast the sweeper for wrath effects afterwards to stop this combo.
Can't wait to see some videos for any or all of these decks. I just crafted Omnath Beanstalk for Timeless and Primal Prayers combo for Historic and they've both been sick, especially Primal Prayers. I just replaced Solitude with Moon-Blessed Cleric for more combo consistency and Utopia Sprawl with Adventurous Impulse(since you only have a maximum of 9 forests in the deck in Historic with 1 basic and 8 shock lands) and it's been absolutely dominating.
Some other playable vampires for Historic & Timeless Sorin decks: Dusk's Landing, Citystalker Connoisseur, Black Market Connections, Legion Reconsecrator -- those are all on Arena and not Modern. Nighthawk Scavenger is also legal back to Pioneer.
Hey Alth, awesome list! Was wondering for the phelia blink list what lands you would bring in for the 4 lorien revealed if you are switching out for recruiter? Super excited to play the list and have a lack of wildcards so would be awesome to know the best way to spend them. Keep up the awesome work <3
Got my popcorn ready. But I must comment before finishing. You never mentioned including persist in Scam. Any reason to leave that out? I feel like it would be solid. Looking forward to tomorrow!
still missing some critical enablers mainly high synergy, impactful, cheap artifacts ie mox opal, signal pest, memnite, inkmoth nexus, and some of the better payoffs like ravager and cranial plating (with their instant speed combat tricks). Current affinity is a clunky card draw value engine minus thoughtcast with not enough efficient payoff IMO. I want it bad but we haven't hit a critical mass of enablers and payoff yet.
Really excited to see what comes of primal prayers, personally really liek the ascererak wincon as you not only have the prayer route, but can also use urzas incubator + relic of legends as an alternative way to combo with dark ritual that can eb set up insanely fast (t1 land ritual into relic into deathrite then t2 land incubator win....) Also we pretty much get the rescaminator list from legacy with grief trol reanimate in a dimir package + harbinger in sideboard should make it quite powerfull. it's a top tier deck in legacy for a reason... pretty much only missing force of will
Surprised to not see a historic eldrazi list. I play more timeless than historic, but I don't think ugin's labyrinth has enough support in that format right now, so I brewed up a historic eldrazi list. /decks/PzlHTG-9ZU6-BZrgigKoKA
