2+ Hours of Ancient Cornucopia Gaining Life to Fall Asleep To | Against the Odds 

30:00 it's a "may" so you can refuse to gain when you cast your 1 colour spell, and then cast a multicolour spell to gain more life that turn

I thought the video title was cute until I realized he was serious about the gameplay being 2 hours plus XD

40:03 It hurt me so much to see Seth crack that clue empty-handed when during that match he even pointed out he could copy clues with Worldwalker's Helm to draw more cards.

4 minutes in, salivating at the length of the video but obscenely disappointed in a severe lack of Doppelgang. You were the chosen one!

Cornucopia is optional because you might be planning on playing a card with extra colors not as your first card, so you can maximize corning.

As somebody who *always* turns on Against the Odds or Much Abrew to fall asleep, this is a dream come true

"I'll be back a bit for the wrap up" is the longest "bit" ever

At 1:05:18 you could have saved Jin with No More Lies. Your opponent had 4 mana left after using Flashback, and Jin would copy your No More Lies. 3+3 > 4

Ngl I was rooting for your opponents each match

Huffing all of that cornucopium

Crud Seth is onto me. How does he know I use his videos to help fall asleep (Thanks to him reading out each card that gets played Radio-style, letting me visualize the boardstate without needing to my eyes. Seriously it's why you're my favorite MTG youtuber, Seth)

It's probably a May ability so that you can skip your 1-color life gain if you know you're going to be casting a multiple-color spell later in the turn Edit: You can also copy your Sunfall* tokens (Edit 2: I forgot how incubate works ignore this part)

It's 4:15am in Germany rn. I'm trying to sleep. So I will watch this to fall asleep now. I'll update if it worked when I hopefully wake up

38:19 Agonizing seeing you miss lethal, restless vinestalk would've been able to go over the board while field's down and you know they had no removal since they never got priority

Even I gained life.

Cards I'm excited to rotate, as a Standard bo1 player: - Kumano facet kakkazan - Thalia - Wedding announcement - Yes, Wandering Emperor - The 1 life sac lands (oh man, the effects triggers!!) - Rafflne - Virtuoso (don't see much, but, omg is it annoying. Everyone who plays it takes for ever on each single conive decision, and everyone has a protection spell up holding priority all the time)

I legit thought this was a stream replay thanks to the length but then it started with the deck tech

No lie, I always use Seth streams to fall asleep. They’re the perfect blend of engaging enough to hold your attention and low-agency enough to not excite you. If you sleep alone and you’ve never tried it, give it a shot!

Hey seth: The reason cornucopia is a may is because it triggers only once each turn, and you might want to cast a mono color spell, then cast a multicolor spell and have the additional life gain from the multicolor spell

The perfect deck for the player who wants to just play magic and spend their GP Saturday going 0-0-9

Now this type of pure jank content is exactly why I'm subscribed

"Restless Vinestalker" Holy crap seth you just made my most played manland a whole lot scarier

Cornucopia is an amazing card in lifegain turbofog decks. When I first saw it, I put it into my Angus Mackenzie deck and it fit PERFECTLY.

I'm a little surprised that this deck doesn't run 2 or 3 Simulacrum Synthesizers, especially since Seth has liked it so much in other decks. I feel like Synthesizer would be a perfect finisher. Unless I'm mistaken, the token copies of Cornucopia and Worldwalker's Helm keep their mana cost, so every token copy made of them would also make a Karnstruct. If you make your tokens on the end of your opponent's turn, you can dodge any board wipes before you get a chance to attack. I might try to make this and swap the Jins for Synthesizers.

Hey saffron olive just wanted to say I loved the video and also I have a cool deck which I think you will like. If you remember your lae'zels acrobatics deck the deck I have here is very similar but uses a card called another round instead of lae;zels acrobatics and is also for pioneer. Tweak the deck to your liking but I would love to see how it would do against the decks currently meta have fun! 4 Charming Prince 4 Gilded Goose 3 Archaeomancer 4 Elvish Visionary 4 Breeding Pool 1 Godless Shrine 4 Essence Flux 1 Deputy of Detention 1 Hallowed Fountain 3 Overgrown Tomb 4 Temple Garden 2 Panharmonicon 4 Siege Rhino 2 Indatha Triome 1 Zagoth Triome 1 Branchloft Pathway 4 Skyclave Apparition 4 Tangled Florahedron 4 Glasspool Mimic 1 Barkchannel Pathway 1 Darkbore Pathway 1 Hengegate Pathway 2 Elite Spellbinder 4 Prosperous Innkeeper 4 Spara's Headquarters 1 Raffine's Tower 2 Titan of Industry 2 Abuelo, Ancestral Echo 3 Steamcore Scholar 4 Another Round Sideboard 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad 2 Pick Your Poison 3 Unlicensed Hearse 3 Mystical Dispute 2 Damping Sphere 3 Roiling Vortex 1 Grafdigger's Cage

The fact you may choose which spell will be the one you use during your turn to gain life makes it much better.

Endless detour is really cool, because two copies of it makes it a win condition. The first can always target the other in the graveyard. And with enough life gain from the cornucopias, you can outlast most decks.

Normal video: Seth screaming enthusiastically ✅ 2+ hours of *video* to fall asleep to: Seth screaming enthusiastically ✅

Forensic gadgeteer +this combo. Mana reduction means each turn you will effectively add as many helms as u have blue mana which in turn generates an equal number of cornucopia on the next turn allowing you to double your totals every other turn of yours (or every turn if you have the untap emblem)

Seth, your boldness to play the grindy decks is much appreciated.

Hahhaha that title tho. Love you seth your a real one ❤️

Classic Seth talking about cloning Clues, getting a Clue to clone, then immediately saccing it to draw.

“Cornucopia! Stuff it in the cornucopia!”

I rewatched some of the old against the odds videos and realized that most of my favourites were +90 minutes. I'm not complaining because I know that it makes sense from a content perspective to make shorter videos, but I'm very grateful for this longer video. Thanks Seth.

I love the thumbnail has Teferi with the expression that said "You didn't expect this to be really two hours long didn't you?"

My favorite control deck in standard is just 4x cornucopia, 4x three steps ahead, 4x intimidation campaign. Everything else removal/counters/hearse/etc. It doesn't go as 'infinite', but even just somewhere 1-8 total cornucopias is plenty when you gain a reliable 3+ life per cornucopia per turn. There's a point at which lifegain outpaces most every deck's ability to deal damage (especially through 20+ pieces of interaction), and you don't really gain anything beyond that but meme potential. When I end a game with 100 life I feel pretty good

First deck I wasn't like; "Hey that looks fun to play."😊

i love decks like this. always use as many of your cards as possible.

love stimming to these videos, ill put them on in the background while im doing whatever, love this

Seems like a good list for Dopplegang.

This is a deck that gains you a cornu-copious amount of life.

Hi Seth! It's weird being the first one here. It feels like walking through an empty shopping mall with all the stores open and the lights on.

At first I was questioning the choice of Cornucopia to use with this synergy, of all things - but being a mana rock that gains life is huge, as the mana rock side of things makes the Helm activation cost pseudo-1, and the lifegain does give the mana rock a wincon within itself. Honestly, pretty solid choice all around.

I did indeed fall asleep at one point watching this. This is such a silly deck, love it.

I love this title. Keep playing cool decks, Seth.

About to fall asleep to this video, I'll give a review when I wake up. You better not disappoint, Seth.

You said this is a back ground sound video... literally showered, made dinner, ate, then meal prepped a completely different meal for the weekend shifts.

I know this is a three colour deck, but I really think it would benefit from a copy or two of Fomori Vault. Once you start making copies and maps it basically tutors for cards.

This deck DESPEREATELY needs a proper win condition. There's options but I like the idea of splashing red for Meria, Scholar of antiquity: You can turn all the map tokens into mana / impulse draw and dig for a copy of like, WorldSoul's Rage or some big X spell and just win the game already

Seth: if only we had a clue, then we could copy it with helm. Also seth, 3 turns later: crack this clue, i want to draw cards now

Literally did fall asleep to this. Woke up this morning to the video finished. Lol.

The salty rage quit was too funny lol

This deck is actually amazing in Ranked, I made a few changes by adding Wondering Emperor, a couple more of removals, counter spells, I removed Jin and Teferi, and obviously... added Doppelgang! Good control deck

Seth, in pioneer Cornucopias may ability is very relevant in niv to light, since bring to light casts what you grab it triggers Cornucopia, you decline to gain 2 off of bring to light and gain 4, or 5 off of omnath or niv mizzet

Definitely gonna listen to this while I fall asleep tonight lol

I woke up with this video on my phone, freaky stuff Seth

Seth just chuckling and looking at the absurd number of maps.

This is a great video to watch right after rhystic studies’ video on lantern control

@29:30 I love that it's a may ability because life gain is all fun and games until someone drops a Tainted Remedy on you. Lol.

The Card I want to see Rotate most? The Triomes, I love em and I like Mana being good in standard but it's a bit too good these days.

This what people who don’t play control think playing control is like

30:00 If I remember correctly, there's an old card called "Lich", that basically transforms taking damage into discarding cards and life gain into drawing cards. Maybe there's more effects like that?

I got many hearty chuckles watching this at 2x speed.

The funniest part is that your videos usually does play while I sleep

I think Doppelgang would be perfect in this deck

Just out of curiosity how much actual playtesting do you do before recording? I know this is casual play but it seems that you always seem to do the thing but don't want to win. Even a control deck seems to have more win conditions than this deck.

My guess is that Cornucopia is a "may" because there are situations where you want to sequence a monocolor spell before a multicolor spell on the same turn, and it would feel kinda bad to miss out on the full lifegain. Maybe not worth the hassle though!

I love and support this type of content 😊

S tier video name. Great work as always.

A couple of weeks ago, Seth was all in on the Dopplegang plan. With the mana this deck can generate, casting a Dopplegang for 3 or 4--even as much as 6--is easily possible. For a decent finishing move, how about White Sun's Twilight for x = a heck of a lot? Once all other creatures are gone, enough 1/1s with toxic 1 should remain to end the game the next turn. Incidentally, this is probably the deck that would get you banned from playing it at your LGS. edit a day later: no Void Rend? It's a 3-color, instant-speed, uncounterable, destroy target nonland permanent--seems like a great addition since this deck has so much mana in any color.

The title is wild! I love it

It would have been funny at 4:22 to say “I’ll be back in a while for the wrap up”. Love the long video today.

You mentioned milling first a few times, but don't forget that looping 2 endless detours can make your library infinite

I see Seth was inspired by Sam's video about Lantern Control, lol. *Thanks for the Content!*

You truly are the jank master. I adore you.

Seth had so much life to spare that he invested all his money into creating a real Helix Pinnacle so he can win the universe.

1:12:27 If you put a Three Steps Ahead on top of your deck to draw in response to something the opponent does so you can counter it, that's more like Five Steps Ahead.

Standard turbo fog essentially.

"To Fall Asleep To" I see you sneaking in those search terms for extra views (and I love it 😅❤)

I’m calling this deck Cornicopium, and you can’t stop me

I’ve got a commander deck that is all about copying all the fallout bobble heads. In a Simic twin casters deck. It’s trying to do the exact same thing as this deck and it is hilarious and fun.

I wonder if there's a way to fit cards like Amalia or Voice of the Blessed in here just as some potential win conditions. Not particularly great draws early though (esp since you're probably relying on Cornucopia for black).

I’ve never seen a game go to time on Arena, that first game was impressive haha

Seth I ❤ you. Also, I just saw of video of RS about Lantern Control in modern yesterday. Suits it!!!!!!! ☺️☺️☺️

see i play azorious tempo, so I'll be glad to see cards like raffine and the wandering emperor rotating, but i wanna keep my ledger shredder lolol also at 32:00 they're worried abt tapping out bc u have enough maps to make jin lethal

When i saw the 2 hour video i thought it was MTGGoldfish replay but it keeps flashing on my recommended and was surprised its Against the Odds haha

As someone who regularly falls asleep to these videos, I hope my phone doesn't die overnight!

this deck is actually pure Cornucopium

I feel like it might be worth throwing in a Worldsoul's Rage, Light up the Night, Shivan Devastator, and/or Goldvein Hydra.

hahahaa. i actually fell asleep watching this video last night, never looked at the title until now :D well, time to actually watch what happens

unbelievable that he does a “cornucopia…ing” bit in the first game without hitting on “cornucopying”

Wedding announcement is my top pick for cards that I am hyped to see gone but raffine and wandering emperor are def up there. Make disappear too

Hey Seth!, the way worldwaker helm reads I am pretty sure you can copy the incubator tokens!!! haven't watched all the way through yet so not sure if you find that out but that is a good way to win game one!!!!!

Genuinely gonna fall asleep to this thanks

Honestly, I think the wildest part of this deck is that you're not running any copies of Fomori Vault, seeing as how after a point it's literally just a 4 mana tutor. You could also splash a touch of red for a fun-of Sunshot Militia, Food Fight would give you something to do with all of those map tokens on an empty board, or Dousing Device flipping into Geode Grotto could let you give +x/+0 and haste to a creature, where X is the number of artifacts you control. (So, like, a million.) Honestly I'm kinda wondering if this deck would run better as a Temur or 4-color deck. Maybe even use the usual Domain shell but replace Archangel and Atraxa with your goofy artifact stuff.

I'm curious but would an Ezrim, agency chief be good as maybe a one of? It is a clock that has flying, can get vigilance so can be a blocker and get hexproof while also using excess maps.

I fell asleep after the intro, and i woke up the vid is still going. I fell asleep again and missed work lmao.

Cornucopia is a may ability because you can only do it once each turn - so if you cast a 1c spell, and then follow up with a 3c spell, you can decline the first life gain to instead gain from the second spell!

I think it's not a problem that they made it a may ability. The problem is Arena not having a way to say "always yes" to a may ability. Changing the cards from may to must is the lazy solution.

I can't help but wonder if some number of oni-cult anvils could be a faster wincon. You could tap the cornucopia for the BR mana cost, and you have all those maps lying around asking to be turned into damage.