Against the Odds: UW Level Up

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Welcome to episode 133 of Against the Odds. Last week, we tried something different for the Against the Odds poll in voting for mechanics instead of individual cards, and while it was a close vote, in the end it was Level Up pulling away for the victory. As such, this week we are heading to Modern for a deck that looks like a really good Rise of the Eldrazi draft deck: UW Level Up! The deck is basically UW Aggro, but with a ton of level up creatures - some aggressive for beating down, others more utility focused - along with ways to cheat level counters on our creatures faster and Time of Heroes a our big finish. Can the level up mechanic form a competitive deck in Modern? Let's get to the video and find out, then we'll talk more about the deck.
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@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

No poll this week (special episode featuring Dominaria next week), but you can read more about the deck here: www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/against-the-odds-level-up-modern Games start at 10:38

@gameghost27 6 лет назад

What happened to splicing Thrummingbird / Proliferate?

@jeremiecoffin7572 6 лет назад

Yeah I agree proliferate would be great in this deck!

@anosmianAcrimony 6 лет назад

’’Well, this is a good aggro hand.’’ *plays a 0/1*

@danielharrison2383 6 лет назад

anosmianAcrimony it got to me when he did that.

@phaustho 6 лет назад

I love how Seth opens with a super aggressive hand at 27:00, says it out loud and then proceeds to start with... a Cryptologist.

@danielgehring7437 6 лет назад

That's a good draft deck. You pulled so many bombs, I'm tempted to call haxx.

@myztik5716 6 лет назад

Your absolute devotedness to leveling up Cryptogolist at the expense of all other spells is both admirable and confusing. I wonder what you're hoping to draw if not your level up creatures.

@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761 6 лет назад

Myztik it's drawing cards. What other reason do we need?

@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

Hoping to draw more Cryptologists, so I can level them up and draw more cards. Maybe I should have included one Lab Maniac for the Cryptologist mill win :)

@CommanderVoid 6 лет назад

Thumbnail for dirty minds.

@novarwhoshere2sip865 6 лет назад

Voidmage Gamer I know right lmao 😂😂😂

@dmany13 6 лет назад

Balls

@LucasLima-su4hl 6 лет назад

The first thing I see

@MegaDrMC 6 лет назад

Slappin' the ol' sack

@knytetech7732 6 лет назад

At least I wasn't the first person to see that, lol!

@darkonekosuke2 6 лет назад

Mtg goldfish: come for the thumbnails, stay for the jank

@megapixzel 6 лет назад

my bonus for this weeks against the odds is that time of hero's might have some of my favorite flavor text on a magic card. also detention sphere of the ceaseless hunger at 50:18

@Anynewprovince 6 лет назад

I wasn't around for Rise of the Eldrazi block constructed this is gonna be sweet

@Janshevik 6 лет назад

hey, great pauper content ;)

@thehatebringer8005 6 лет назад

This Deck is on another Level.....

@johnwilliams-is9yj 6 лет назад

I was having a really bad night, And I just wanted to thank you for your content. I'll always find something to laugh at during these.

@TheoFrastB 6 лет назад

Well that was a titan heavy infect deck 🤔

@RoflZack 6 лет назад

Lol

@adammoldover8769 6 лет назад

Yup the opponents deck randomly switched to mono green infect in match 2?

@lsmith12341985 6 лет назад

Games start @10:37

@BBBr0ny 6 лет назад

Thanks.

@francescogulisano2917 6 лет назад

"Even if you flood out it's not as bad" perfect for Seth, then

@JustAnotherPest 6 лет назад

"Level up is..." One of the worst abilities ever seen in Constructed? "an interesting mechanic." Sure, I guess it's that too.

@daltonmekis 6 лет назад

At 50:18 there is like one frame that shows the triggered ability of detention sphere and it's called detention sphere but it shows the art for Ulamog, the ceaseless hunger

@miketate3445 6 лет назад

Venerated teacher = Master Roshi

@GabrielDeLiberatti 6 лет назад

at 50:19 you detection sphere is getting in the battlefield...and its flickers, for a second there it shows Ulamog. Its like a magic terror movie.

@faceoctopus4571 6 лет назад

Was anyone else expecting proliferate? Admittedly I honestly didn't look up specific cards that boost counter accumulation.

@WGG-01 6 лет назад

Face Octopus tezzeret's gambit is a strong proliferate and draw card idk if it is modern legal though

@stickmanphil12345 6 лет назад

W G definitely legal

@SomeFreakingCactus 6 лет назад

I'm surprised too. My best guess is that the power floor is lower for proliferate cards.

@faceoctopus4571 6 лет назад

Every proliferate card is modern legal except for Atraxa and Everythingamajig (a)

@eltratzodelosintenetzos2045 6 лет назад

problem with proliferate and level up is that proliferate only helps after the first level up. so the deck already needs to be somewhat in gear for them to help. and time of heroes already has that clause. add more cards that only do anything after we've started putting counters and the deck gets even clunkier.

@soarel325 6 лет назад

One of my favorite mechanics...hell yes...

@ErroneousClique 6 лет назад

This deck is next level. wink wink :-D

@benlittle5543 6 лет назад

"I don't think it is ever wrong to draw cards" love it

@heavensfall3n 6 лет назад

when lvl up first came out i had a grixis lvl up deck. with the minatour of shatterskull pass, removal, nirkana cuthroat, null champion, grull draz assassin, and venerated teacher. loved it so much

@kurufal 6 лет назад

That doesn't look like a punching bag...

@littlesaintwilliamofnorwic8500 6 лет назад

This deck makes me pine for ROE draft

@OMC-WILDCAT 6 лет назад

Pepen Froggyneux just the description made me feel the same. Best draft format ever.

@robhyt1701 6 лет назад

22:50 "play the plains, level up student, play a student, get in with a student"

@dboeify 6 лет назад

"Level up" is the new, "discard a land, hit the swans"

@SilverAlex92 6 лет назад

That was an interesting, titan heavy with a splash of emrakul, build of mono green infect.

@fehrwill 6 лет назад

Seth, you've played some crazy decks, but this one seems to be on the level.

@TheTommyboy876 6 лет назад

Wizards should ban infect. Not because it’s broken, because it’s the right thing to do.

@zwc76 6 лет назад

Haha, this was awesome! I'm tempted to build a level up EDH atraxa now. :-)

@stormcrow1685 6 лет назад

Proliferate? Idyllic Tutor? Also, all of these levelers are humans, so maybe that means we could play something like Thalia Lieutenant. Edit: Except for the cryptologist.

@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

It's close to having enough Humans, but there's a few non-humans too.

@Rogue_Biologist 6 лет назад

Another good video but the 'Level Up' was giving me flashbacks to 'Hit our Swans, draw some cards'

@ComradeArthur 6 лет назад

Ahhhh!! Hedron Field purists is a modern legal replacement for lashknife barrier in my Spirit_Link/Crypt_Rat deck.

@obesechicken13 6 лет назад

Spoilers Surprised the deck went 3-3. I thought it'd go 1-5

@grzegorzswiader6451 6 лет назад

From 1:45 to 2:10 everything makes sense perfectly, right? Everybody knows that Winding Constrictor fits in White-blUe decks

@mave6602 6 лет назад

I would love to see an against the odds Deck with "Leyline of Singularity". To bad it doesn't have that many interaction with "historic"-Keyword. But Minamo could be a clue to get some nice synergies or Yomiji, Who Bars the Way to get random permanents back.

@anthonytran9596 6 лет назад

50:17 surprise Ulamog trigger off Detention Sphere

@poipoi9816 6 лет назад

"Turn 1, land... Turn 2, also land." Classic Seth draw.

@jonathaneklund6003 6 лет назад

Ulamog , the ceaseless hunger you are lost. @50.18

@ethandehoff3517 6 лет назад

This deck should run Coralhelm Commander. It's a more efficient beater than most of the draft chaff commons in this deck, even without a merfolk synergy.

@darkencroix6412 6 лет назад

Asceticism and/or Heroic Intervention would have been nice additions for a splash color. Even a few Gods Willing would have been nice. Haven't watched it yet, but I'm predicting a lot of blow outs due to removal.

@rimotivri 6 лет назад

diving topics are my favs. Cool.

@GoblinmasterYT 6 лет назад

That's really funny when we were against tooth and nail after they casted it the deck was switched to "mono green infect"

@hollowhughes198 6 лет назад

Just rockin on them nutts.

@AbraxasTheSecond 6 лет назад

I didn't know the Tooth and Nail deck changed to Mono-Green Infect in Game 3. :P

@KamilDrakari 6 лет назад

I had been wondering why there weren't more Training Grounds, but I forgot it couldn't reduce below {1}. I thought it was a powerful combo with Caravan Escort and Transcendent Master.

@elijahmthompson2313 6 лет назад

That wrath to exile though.

@imasiontist653 6 лет назад

Ive never played the level up mechanic it seems really fun. Id like to make a budget version.

@FranciscoMota_CS 6 лет назад

This seems really fun. I would try to replace some of the weaker cards maybe. Caravan Escort, Venerated Teacher & Training Grounds seem a bit underwhelming here - only Time of Heroes is really a worthwhile payoff card. I would maybe add some cheap counters and some Dive Down style effects (... like Dive Down ... or “make indestructible”). Maybe cut one Mystic Gate for a second Chasm. idk

@benblatz8558 6 лет назад

How would relentless rats monoblack devotion work? Could do lots of huge black x spells

@GlennTheSadMarinersFan 6 лет назад

dude should be at the grand prix selling his artwork.

@nomatyx5789 6 лет назад

34:48 He didn’t scoop. He mutagenic growth’d himself to death.

@rimotivri 6 лет назад

underwater stuff are welcome. Cool.

@lucianosilveira9859 6 лет назад

"Level up, level up, level up, level up, level up, level up"

@williamherring1201 6 лет назад

I love chronologist in commander

@lifeiaskedfor 6 лет назад

during the infect game, why didn't you go turn 1 training grounds, turn 2 hada spy, turn three unblock 3/3 with shroud. You got greedy for cards and it backfired on you

@raymondhorn1052 6 лет назад

SloaTheDemon I don't think he was greedy at all. He was looking for removal. it's not like you can race the infect deck.

@rapier1986 6 лет назад

but drawing more cards makes seth happy, if a deck can draw cards that's what seth has it do

@youngcorgi 6 лет назад

aether vial seems really good in this deck so you can save your mana for leveling up

@DiogoVKersting 6 лет назад

Showerthought: Wizards can print an even nobler Noble Hierarch, and then I would have been lying all these years... Haha that's funny.

@jacobdachauer4377 6 лет назад

lol seth, I love in the 2nd infect game, you say, wow this is a great agro hand!! start with cryptologist...haha, I love it, card draw all day!

@Lost77 6 лет назад

I wonder, if Winding Constrictor was no good, was Proliferate also right out? I'm not sure how those abilities stack up

@cosmotect 6 лет назад

I have just two cascade bluffs in my Kiln fiend deck, but they always show up with no basics xD

@AWESMATHEGREAT 6 лет назад

14:15 Nice True-Name, Seth

@ToxicallyMasculinelol 4 года назад

"well, we get two turns... okay, land... also land. okay." typical

@neurocirujanokoala9391 6 лет назад

50:18 Ulamog on the stack

@austinwilburn1772 6 лет назад

at 46:01 did his opp just play a Goblin Rabble master for two mana or am i missing something?

@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

I think they exiled a Simian Spirit Guide.

@austinwilburn1772 6 лет назад

my bad, you're right, didnt notice the little popup in the left upper corner.

@marcellominardi3687 6 лет назад

Why Tooth and nail suddenly became Mono-green Infect in minute 22:14?

@ericyoumans2670 3 года назад

I like it when Seth gets exaksees

@primedialga 6 лет назад

now i want to see a UW Leveler deck (Leveler from mirrodin)

@Constant_Threat 6 лет назад

Should have played kazandu tuskcaller with intruder alarm.

@Nuthouse01 6 лет назад

I really disagree with only running one training grounds. Its such a strong card when you have it, you should probably have included 2.

@volver987 6 лет назад

Have you ever considered having a tournament were fans or mtg personalitys play a against the odds deck to see what one comes out on top?

@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

That sounds fun: against the odds super league!

@jerrymcdaniel6643 6 лет назад

I'm surprised you didn't use the blink eldrazi to blink the dude who adds levels

@jakethorsen5946 6 лет назад

Anyone else notice the Ulamog art at 50:18 lol

@shotgunninja543 4 года назад

I think would have been much better as a tempo deck with just the best creatures as threats. Or even control, just not aggro

@meatrace 6 лет назад

No proliferate? I'd think Inexorable Tide or Tezzeret's Gambit at least would be auto-includes.

@rapier1986 6 лет назад

one thing while you were against infect, forget the man lands because you can't do this but whenever!!! i'll repeat that whenever!!! you kill they're creatures do it during your turn, if they're wasting vines and blossoming defense during your turn it's not pumping it during their turn to kill you! just because the spells are instant doesn't mean you have to cast them at instant speed you can still cast them at sorcery speed.

@4rt240 6 лет назад

What's up with that Ulamog hate from detention sphere? 50:18

@petefry82 6 лет назад

2x vs infect... eh. Seems pretty good deck

@chuckstevens4985 6 лет назад

Against infect you should try to path to exile on your turn so that way if they use a pump spell to protect the creature it doesn’t get in for more damage

@BeatyBe 6 лет назад

Anybody else catch that detention sphere trigger turn into ulamog at 50:17 ?

@lordchaos7770 6 лет назад

Seems like you should have double blocked the glistner elf in the second infect game, could have still looted, i dont know if it would have changed the outcome but isnt that the safest play?

@yoricktop8649 6 лет назад

interesting how the name of the tooth deck becomes mono green infect in round 3

@caoscharles 6 лет назад

studant of warfare so absurd, early game ok, late game a bomb, i hope that now with the knights of dominaria, a tribal knights mono W or BW will show up in modern^^

@MrJerichoPumpkin 6 лет назад

would have added at least 2 Eldrazi displacers to blink the venerated teacher again and again and again

@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

They aren't too good with our level creatures though.

@HartmannChannel 6 лет назад

you could play the fish wich doubles all counters on permanents for 5 mana

@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

The fish would be sweet, it's not legal in Modern though :(

@juannenna2293 6 лет назад

i feel like this should have been a sultai deck, with winding constrictor. With the exception of the infect matches lol

@baamxxv63 6 лет назад

Skyship plunderer could have worked too

@deathspadewilliams2374 6 лет назад

Bro that's almost exactly how I was going to build that deck

@Alvikus 6 лет назад

Made it through the deck tech. Seth, why didn’t you look into Proliferation abilities to go with the deck? Edits to come after game(s).

@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761 6 лет назад

Alvikus that was one of the other options

@Alvikus 6 лет назад

Louise Drake ah. My internet crashed before the 2nd game so I didn’t know.

@Algernop_Krieger 6 лет назад

Wouldn‘t training grounds plus trancendent master basically be a 9/9 indestructible lifelink for three mana? Edit: Nevermind, I reread treining grounds and sadly had to realize, that it doesn‘t reduce below 1 mana...

@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

Yeah :(

@Alladuin 6 лет назад

I tried building something similar, only with a bit of proliferate shenanigans. Still, way too clunky.

@icantpronounce 6 лет назад

what I learned from this is that it might be worth it to put some level up creatures to be early/late game creatures

@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

I think that there are some benefits to playing a couple level up creatures, but playing them all together is rough, so much mana...

@dalvarez40 6 лет назад

No proliferate? I think that can be a bomb with lvl up

@luliby2309 6 лет назад

Should have played Leveler because on theme.

@dingding12321 6 лет назад

Howzabout some Jeskai action in this deck?

@marximana 6 лет назад

Hey i am new to the channel and love your videos. I don't know if you take deck ideas but if you do. A sift through sands deck. Completely off topic. First time commenting on a video. Feels weird. Sorry rambling. BYE??

@demonsbanenathan 6 лет назад

I really want there to be like a "Bulk"/"Jank"/"Trash" format - the only legal cards are ones that have not seen competitive play in official tournaments. Would be fucking awesome.

@MTGGoldfish 6 лет назад

I'd have fun with it.