$20 UG Kicker | MTG Standard | Zendikar Rising | MTG Arena | Budget Magic 

Me: "What will Seth mispronounce this time? Gotta be Verazol." Seth: "Vine Grecko." Me: "Well played."

seth, budget magic is the best. when i first started playing magic again i was so broke and you helped me out (and so many other people I'm sure) by giving us fun, cheap decks every week. thank you!

Good game! That was fun to play against you this event.

‎”I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Bruce Lee

When you need to turn the game around You must kick it Kick it good

I've drafted the UG kicker archetype twice now and it's a blast. Great to see it in constructed!

Gotta love that Vine Greco.

Yay I made the intro when I got crushed haha!! Ggs Seth !

mangakuma, what an absolute king for the gg AND letting Saffron play it out.

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One of the most fun and satisfying decks I ever tried,now i am hooked on kicking everything,thank you.

Just by name alone, "Mardu Party" sounds like a legitimate deck in constructed.

Summary of video: Seth kicks opponents until they die.

The dream ZNR draft deck, now in Standard! Speaking of draft decks, the rw cycling deck is definitely worth a revisit now

Thank you Seth! Very nice deck , I cant wait to play it! : )

Vine Grecko 😂 that's not even a hard one Seth Anyway, sweet video. Deck looks fun

I wonder how this deck would look like in Historic with Dominaria kicker cards.

This was really fun to watch!

So far it appears no one is even playing this deck in draft, at least based on how late I've seen Roost of Drakes going around. I saw one 11th pick the other day and was cursing the fact that I was hopelessly locked into another archetype. Card is absolutely bananas.

This deck uses a very similar strategy to a Dungeons and Dragons monk. "If you kick your opponent three or four times every turn, they'll go down eventually."

I guess you can say your opponents were, kicking themselves for not seeing this deck coming.

Early upload time is sweet! Thanks for bringing this ahead of schedule. :)

So it needs Uro...but that'll add $120 to the total

Such a fun deck

Oh, my God. I LOVE this deck

Voor de Nederlanders: die frogify in het sideboard past goed bij het kikker thema van het deck! 🐸

Just purchased this deck

The biggest surprise is how you managed to dodge 4C omnath piles. 11/15 of my last games was omnath.

I was just starting to brew a kicker themes simic deck in historic. Happy to see you've brewed one for standard!

Vine Greco, lol. Seth, never change!

I honestly want to see him play this deck again

Vastwood Surge is insane. When it was spoiled I thought it gave a single creature two counters, but the whole team?! It's a finisher and ramp in one.

Take this out of a context: "We kicked 'em, we kicked 'em, we kicked 'em." lol

Pretty sweet, but it seems like you are missing the green inscription, it works quite well with Verazol

I am so excited for Verazol commander. As a long time Hallar player, I am stoked for new kicks and Verazol seems to have a very strong alternative kicker commander. While Hallar give a win condition based on your commander, Verazol is more straight value

Looks like I have my next deck, how would you upgrade this with Kaldheim and Strixhaven?

Had an idea earlier today for a Trample Tribal Standard deck with stuff like Garruk’s Uprising, Quartzwood Crasher, Warden of the Chained and Proud Wildbonder. Include stuff like Lithoform Engine to double up Crasher triggers or even your creatures as well Embercleave because why not. Throw in some mana dorks to get your big beaters out faster and some Turntimber Symbiosis for lategame haymakers.

I guess the non-budget version would swap Uros in for the chronicler? He also provides card draw, a bit of ramp, and buffers your life total in the early game to help get you to the late game where your value engine picks up. And you'll occasionally cast him late game.

Just found my post-rotation budget deck now that fliers isn’t a thing anymore.

Finally! An arena deck I can build haha.

I was waiting patiently for 9 pm mst for an alert saying you uploading a video and was upset when I never saw an upload by 11pm. I was scrolling through my feed and found out that you had uploaded earlier today and am now annoyed at youtube for not alerting me when you uploaded a video

Looks sweet. Curious un a non budget version. Most likely with Jace in it.

On match 3 did you punt?

What would the additions be for a modern version of this deck? (I use themed kitchen table decks so it doesn't need to actually be modern competitive, just using that as a framing) Cards I've identified as possibilities (would love to hear folks opinions on which of these would actually be useful in the deck): Main Includes: Vines of Vastwood Territorial Allosaurus Rite of Replication (I feel like copying the kicked Verazol version of this would be beyond insane, fun enough to add as a 1 of) Possible Includes: Gift of Growth (Vines of Vastwood seems to already do enough for a combat trick that this wouldn't cut it) Gruun, the Lonely King Untamed Kavu Elfhame Druid (is ramp not great since the stats don't match well with the tempo) Grow from the Ashes (Can't tell if it would be better/worse than current ramp, doesn't have the +1/+1 kick benefit, so seems worse) Any feedback or replacements would be appreciated!

damn this came out early

What do you think about building a mono black aristocrats? I think that's pretty "budget". We've got bastion of remembrance, the relic that has the same effect if you own a cleric, and woe strider/village rites as sacrifice outlets. Mana is a little awkward without blood crypt but I think there's something there.

Azorius fliers with archon of emeria, lofty denial, and linvala seems like it’s in a pretty good spot in the current early meta for standard. I’d recommend people give it a try. Archon absolutely hoses ramp decks and aggressive red decks.

Petition to make all kicker thumbnails football themed

been a while since i checked MTGoldfish, I know safron olive only by voice.. and by Odins beard i didn't expect safron olive is a viking guy :o

Seth, I would so totally watch you play Civ 6. Maybe a stream at some point?

Can you do an upgrade deck tech please?

The madmen at WotC did it. Kicker is FINALLY an interesting mechanic :D I didn't think it was possible.

The new Jace seems like a perfect fit, I'm gonna try that in a non budget version. Only 7 cards in the full 75 that are over 4cmc, also just imagine kicking a Jace with Verasol out!!! Hmm do you get 3 Jaces or 4?.

Is kicker the new underdog deck I miss gates but kicker seems gas

What about Incription of Abundance? Synergizes really well with Verazol

Was waiting for this after seeing you play against mtg_jeffs cleric deck

didnt you punt game 7 by into the roil on thassa? not only was she not a creature at the time, if you pick up the thassa's oracle, she definitely wouldnt be, aka - you have 2 attackers, they have no blockers and no mana and -3 life after combat? or am i missing something? (50:48)

Lost to this deck like 3 weeks ago, couldnt elspeth conquers death the roost of drakes

this dudes voice is why i like mtg arena lol .

Budget in paper magic, but rare expensive for budget arena.

Generating value is the most fun one can have playing magic without messing with your opponent.

Any updates to this?

I. Not sure if its a glitch or ruling. But it copies jace. And you get three. Scry, land, draw, Scry. Each turn. It pretty sweet. Then if you see the money then draw it. Super sweet. And broken.

seth plays civ pogchamp

You the best

Wait at 23:39 why cant the land in the first main get them another combat phase????

Kicker is my favorite limited deck this set, I dunno how this deck beats any of the top constructed decks though.

I went 7-0 with this deck on arena im so glad it cane in my life

What would you do to make it non budget? If anything at all

Have you thoight about doing budget izzet wizards?

Probably should've waited till after the event so you can record some decent BO3 magic

this archetype will be refined for sure. Inscription tempo destroys some decks by itself and with all this cheap token generation is a legit wincon enough.

The best part of this deck is that you can DOUBLE the cost with the DFC lands and it's STILL a budget build by a *W I D E* margin!

Wonder if kaldheim or strixhaven gave this any new toys

Just makes me even sadder there wasnt a 3 color kicker legendary to mash my hallar commander deck into

Not only did seth miss the chance to call the deck "Here's the Kicker" but he had a chance to say it so many times like when the opponent kept using heartless act he could have said well here is the kicker opponent i got more haha

I got absolutely wrecked by this archetype in limited: the roost on turn 1 was the start of a very one-sided game :-(

Seth, its not honorable to kick someone while they're down! But it is very entertaining to watch 👍

Imagine having cereal without milk

I'm gonna be honest, ever so slightly annoyed that he not even once used autopay for the kicker land, even when he was using all his mana XD #slightinconvenience

Where is JACE?!?!? :cry:

I feel like the party mechanic could be a decent mechanic to build arroud, but they executed it pretty poorly with this 2 cards that can be everything. They should have print double clases "bears" for every wedge: BU rogue wizard, WR priest warrior... I don't know how they didn't came with this, what they did seems just lacy development of the idea.

Drinking game; take a shot when Seth mentions how budget the deck is

When the best cards in your colors are budget, the natural progression is for them to be not so budget. Welcome to the new Tour de France.

what happen if we copy a kicked jace

As a budget deck, this looks super sweet...unfortunately, the deck looks like it folds real hard to Ugin...probably can't beat the Four Color Omnath deck because of it. Maybe after something from the deck is banned, I'm hopeful because I'd love to play this.

I don't know about "best $20 deck ever", to be honest. I still think that that honor goes to Mono U Brains from SOI Standard.

vine grecko

Cheap in physical form, but on Magic Arena this is one expensive B rate deck. Needs almost 20 something rares. For a free to player, that's opening around 100 packs worth of wild cards.

second!

It copies spells. Which mean it also copies creatures. Creature spells.

This is a very fun deck to play. This is the list I've been messing with and having a good amount of success with. www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3415155#paper

My big problem with calling this deck 'budget' on Arena is that almost all of the rares are only usable in this deck, so each wild card used kinda hurts. The Temples are fine, but almost all of the others are exclusive.

I don’t mind it and it’s nice, but why’d u post this in the middle of the day?

Wair verasol copies permanents? Wow

I just relized the battlefield is a giant creature of some sorts

Please please do blue red kicker!!! Make verix shine

roman greko

Standard feels like a real format now

Why does he call the deck Blue Green and not Simic?