It helps dig (a lot) and can be used as a sacrifice outlet for Rector. It's surprisingly good vs control because you can filter a lot of junk into action spells. I will attest to its funness. I *love* this deck.

Ole!

8:16 very nice first game - a quick “nitpicking” comment here for viewers not completely familiar with the combo One of the beauty of this deck is the wonderful synergy between MoM & City of Brass: the player in auto-mode got the damage from city and went down to 17 but actually the damage is still on the stack and everything he is going to do from this point onwards is in response to that damage at instant speed. Therefore that damage will never be taken 😊 This also means that even if city was the only land in play he could have generated any and as many mana he wanted and still play in response 🤩

Hi! I'm the Rock player. Thanks for the kind words. My teammate and I both play essentially the same build. Both just took it to Lobstercon. So I can say I would highly recommend not going below 4 Call of the Herd. It has proved time and time again to be one of the best cards in Premodern. T1 Duress/Therapy, T2 Wall, T3 Call feels like cheating in alot of games. It plays well with Deed too. If you're set on running 1 Tusker, 3 Call then I'd suggest a Yavimaya Elder. Outside of Tusker & Wall there's no other card draw and 1 less Call means you're down a body. Elder can get lands and be a body. As well as be recurred. One of the drawbacks to Rock is having to rely on top decks. As there is little in the way of selection or draw. Deed, Therapy, and Duress all get enchantments. You just need to see them. So you might try a main deck Skeletal Scying or 2 and cut a Vendetta. Which is what should be cut for Naturalize if you're set on having it. It can kill a Nought or a Terravore but most of the time it shouldn't. I do like it in the right match up. It kills Ball Lightning beautifully. I hope this helps.

@@chrismorelli3327 thanks! appreciated

Love em. Keeps people honest.

It's the deck that gives Blue players a bad rap. But casting thwart for even more value is objectively dope.

@dondariohabibi5118 yes! You can hang with the strongest decks and even come out ahead if you build properly. It has a lot of iterations and they're all full imo. The pieces of the deck can often be used in other ones as well!

@@ImpulseCrewGaming is deranged hermits a key card in the deck, i have seen some people use spiritmonger :)

Hi! I'm the Rock player. Spiritmonger is a fine creature, but it can be Swords'd, chump blocked, edicted. Deranged Hermit puts more power on the board across multiple creatures and it's alot harder to answer. That 5 mana is going alot farther. The squirrels are great sacrifices to Recurring Nightmare the Hermit because it quickly allows you to build an army. Hence, it's a much better finisher.

@@dondariohabibi5118 I think if you're looking for a beater you can't go wrong with Blastoderm.

@@chrismorelli3327 Cool! about ur volrath stronghold, would you say its a ''need to have'' or nice to have, i would argue you use it on upkeep with echo trigger on the stack to get hermit on top of ur lib and play it again for more squirrels?

@@derekturner5993 we want to get it on the channel more. Its so wacky!

@@AlbinoTurtles may be the last rock video for a few weeks. Enjoy!

Will keep that in mind! I think Resolve has an audio balancing feature.

On it!

@@andrewcvety Nope! Good catch! They had enough cards that it didn't matter, but def should've discarded there.

@@mojekolekcje5828 please enjoy!

@@KCGregor that's a reasonable comparison to make.

Thanks!

Accessibility I think. Also to allow it to be played on MTGO which is a part of the player base.

Paid the flashback cost of Cabal Therapy!

Thank you kindly!

Totally forgot the name of that archetype. Was thinking Machine Head combo, but that didn't flow as well.

@@ImpulseCrewGaming 🙌🏻

@@Faustized The best Psychatog deck is Dreadnought RIP

One-way Evacuation!

@@Raph-K-Run to the moon!

It certainly looks it on a phone. We'll check on desktop. Will be mindful of that going forward!

Thanks! I am a big fan.

That's an interesting idea! If the list ever gets revisited, that may be a good option for it!

I've updated it a bit since this video. It plays Upheaval now!

@@MrCrazycarlwinter Is there a recorded match where we can see that new build in action?, this build was very good too

@@alidp86 Funnily enough we're going to be recording some games tomorrow. I'll toss it in my bag and try to get one on camera with it!

More to come!

Ah yes! We had a 1K locally. This is Round 2. We're going to be posting them a bit out of order due to when people can commentate. I think Round 3 will be up next week!

Checks out!

ikr?

137% agree.

Only spell synergy is with Intuition, which is a very powerful spell, so maybe it's correct. I want to give Odyssey lands a try sometime.

They're pretty sick.

Sideboarding was 100% a choice Carl messed up on. It's unclear that keeping Vortex over Ball was better? If you're getting hit by Angel you're losing anyway? We're glad you enjoy the content! The idea in the future is to do a better job explaining individual cards to make the videos a little more accessible.

If the replenish player floats the mana, after the port ability resolves you have a window to cast frantic Search before the mana pool empties! Something we'll try to do better at explaining in the future!

That's a good idea. So something like "Ben plays Stifle which stops the Dreadnought's sacrifice ability allowing it to stay in play" and then go from there?

Carl pitched... something RIGHT after the attack with the Factory to make himself discard a Nether Spirit. I missed it myself :P

Thanks! We're having a blast recording and making them, so we'll keep at it!

Good catch! The takeaways for me is that Ben should've had another like, 4-6 damage on him and that he's a giant cheaterface.

Better lucky than good I always say.

Second Annul felt real bad :(

Thanks!

Carl's a filthy netdecker and doesn't question things. Simple explanation!