Battle of the Tribes (Dominaria United Edition) | Merfolk vs Elves 

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As a casual player, I really appreciate the “interview” parts where you explain your thinking. It’s always fun to stumble onto some high quality content!

Regarding how likely that play was: If I counted correctly, Carl had used 14 cards so far, leaving 46 in his deck. With 10 outs that would be a chance of ~21,74%. Not super unlikely, not all that likely either.

Hi, in game one, (10:48) play Ezuri, tap Elvish Archdruid for 8 mana, play the Elvish Archdruid from hand, activate Ezuri. All Elves get +3/+3 and +3/+3 from the elflords. Overrun with 4 elves & 29 power & trample, game won. Better to win on the spot, than to fill your board, and then lose next turn by islandwalk.

Carl claiming the Merfolk lord is the coolest is just outrageous!

Your layout is awesome, I love the life bars and the hand overlays.

I think what I really like about the games on this channel is that it's good decks played well, but all done for fun. Sometimes it can be hard to watch magic content because it's, a lot of the time anyways, one person on arena who is not really enjoying playing. This brings the friendship back to it, and having fun games that boil down to smiles and bragging rights, that's what makes magic fun.

Lets go elves! Also love the table rule requiring Hawaiian shirts.

Also, Jamin, your sequencing was really bad!

I discovered you guys recently, binged, and I have never enjoyed Magic gameplay matches so much, so well done, really fun, and all of you are a delight to watch. Thanks for keeping paper Magic alive and pat yourselves on the back!

The tolarian community college professor would be soooo proud of you guys for playing merfolk

I won a box of dominaria united in a raffle at my local shop, suuuuuch a fun set and its awesome seeing you guys play with its cards

I feel so much nostalgia watching elves vs merfolk. I remember playing these decks against each other in high school with my friends, life was so simple.

I will never not like a video of yours where you play my pet deck, this time being fishes. I'm glad both decks got to do their thing in glorious fashion!

As an elves (devoted Druid combo specifically) player I absolutely do NOT run dryad arbor for the reason it is too slow. Also just realized it’s not an elf, not a card you should run period.

Jesus that game one turn was like a YGO turn lmao. You guys are like the team APS of magic, pretty easy to follow and informative as someone who really only played like ancient magic.

The way the first round went, I though Jamin had the easy double with the the time, what a twist 😂

6:53 Carl actually predicted the up the beanstalk meta that's running over modern right now.

I just played a limited game in Wilds of Eldraine and my first pick was Specter of Mortality (flying 3/3 with etb that can wipe the board other that itself.) I was completely dead to rights next turn my opponent having about 10 - 12 creatures and I had only 3. I was down to 20 cards. I thought “please limited gods, let me draw this one card out of the 20 left.” When I saw that card be drawn, I paused for like 10 seconds and said “for REAL?! I GOT IT?!?” Wiped the board and proceeded to win in the next few turns. It felt like high stakes poker and I got a heart on the river for the nut flush!

"I had no idea he'd put that many elves on the table." Have you ever SEEN elf tribal before?!??!?!?!?!

Maybe i am not sleeping with the fishes because I do not like Fishsticks. I might not like to put Fishsticks in my mouth. :) Great to see you 2 battle it out with this classical fantasy matchup of Elves vs. Merfolk. :-)

I've watched this so many times but I still get so happy when Carl flips over that Lord lol

Those guys are really fun! My favorite duo of this channel. I see them on the thumbnail and I just click it. They have a lot of chemistry. Really fun games

As always just a chill and funny video of paper magic with two chill and funny dudes. Love it! Keep up the great work.

This is a very old video so idk if you'll see it Carl (I tried to send you a twitter DM but of course twitter changed to only allow that from paid accounts) but I wanted to say I've been really really enjoying watching Cardmarket videos. I randomly got recommended one like, 5 months? or something ago, and it was funny so I watched a few more even though at the time I hadn't played magic in 10 years or so (since a little after the end of original Innistrad), and it ended up getting me back into magic a bit, now I have some friends I play commander online with and I have a great time. Anyway, I got some major surgery 5 days ago and day 2 of recovery I was having a really really tough time, and honestly watching some old card market videos legitimately helped so so much with my mental state, it was bad beforehand. So thank you so much for that, and for giving me an old hobby back in general, and just for being a cool dude, I appreciate it. :) And if you ever want the hookup on my gruul flicker (no, actually) monstrosity of a pet deck for commander let me know :p

Have said before but would love to see a Gates deck (Pioneer or Modern) cause it’s a really under-appreciated archetype

This was such a great episode! Elves is what got me into magic, and they just keep drawing me further in!

Carl missing his first aether vial trigger is hilarious

That was a very fun video to watch, love u guys, you are the best !!!!

I loved the "oh no" :D Again: great video, great explanations, great decks, great hosts = great fun. GGs

Awesome video! I really enjoyed seeing you on tribal decks😍 Would love to see more!

This was fun. Great video guys!

Maaaan I don’t really play much magic anymore, still pay attention to the scene tho and I absolutely love watchin these versus matches.

i already talked about your show with my friends when i forst saw it, bcs your content is so good :D so they follow and watch it too :D keep it going :)

Really enjoy the videos, both Modern/Pioneer. Thank you!

That was hella fun. Please play my goblin friends! Love to see the new goblin lord in modern. You guys are the best.

Merfolk Tribal sees a lot of play in OS 93/94. It's really funny to see the insane power level of these cards, just completely bunkers 😂

Great video as usual guys! Looking forward to more.

Thanks for giving Merfolk some love! I'll be sliding 4 Hexcatchers into my 75 for tonight's local Modern weekly.

For next week's paper play, I'd really like to see that infinite turn dice factory combo Toffel did a short about.

It looks like a budget build of Merfolk, no Force of Negation, no Otawara, Soaring City, No Minamo, School at Water´s Edge, No Chalice of the Void and only 1 Cavern of Souls. Quite a weird sideboard too. :)

commenting because i enjoy this content and want more.

Still thinking about putting this new Merfolk Lord in my Merfolk Deck. It's really cool 👍

This was an awesome game. I love how it was about new lords from Dominaria but ended up being Merfolk got more tools from Modern Horizons than elves. I don’t really like power creep, but would be nice if Elves get some good cards in Modern Horizons 3. 😉

Merfolk is always a scarey AF deck to play against in the creature aggro mirror.

The Merfolk Deck is ludicrous because it’s “oops, all lords”.

That last match was glorious, two kind of joke hands, it was brilliant! xD

I was already pushing your content to all 2 if my friends lol

Jamin, that was a pretty good joke off hand.

Man I just love your videos! Keep it up💯🔥

On my main mtg arena account I got an elven deck to do my daily wins, on my 2nd account I got a merfolk deck to do them, this video was very entertaining to me :D good job

I wish you had done the other tribes as well, this is so good 😅

I'm a simple man, I see Jamin and Carl and click like! :D

I fucking love playing a sealed event getting a great deck and then getting Color Screwed 3 Straght games while your opponents have 5 colors by turn 3 everytime

Really fun guys and really fun decks and really fun editing/ formatting! Please bosses fund more fun!

On g1 you should have prioritiezd the defiler so to start beat down. Nice idea to add it

Where goblins :[?

Could you explain in a video some details about how the "shopping wizard" algorithm works? It would be really interesting!

Shopping wizard works great 👍😊

I almost died when he drew the subtlety….

nahhhhh this set came out too long ago for me to learn just now that there's a new merfolk lord

OMG YES YOU GUYS ARE USING THE BLACK AND WHITE LANDS, I LOVE YOU GUYS THEY ARE THE BEST LANDS HANDS DOWN PLEASE ONLY USE THEM FROM NOW ON

That turn shows why merfolk never came out of the water

Love the decks, not sure if this is the right place but as a UK buyer the shopping wizard doesn't seem to consider EU sellers that charge VAT and is often inaccurate, just worth thinking of for UK buyers.

Please play some Abzan midrange in modern. Or manaless dredge in Vintage.

Nice games! And yeah, you can see how Modern Horizons II won the third game which would otherwise be a complete elf domination!

Oh yeah baby, love me some tribal decks.

The new merfolk lord has won me 3 games already, topdecking or countering, it's exactly what we needed! Just fyi I think you have to trigger Aethervial before drawing

Great video as always, but it should be noted that Defiler of Vigor only lets you pay 2 life one time per spell. Jamin payed 4 life for a Dwynen's Elite which was not correct. I think this is a common mistake people will be making with the Defiler line. Still an awesome video!

Wait, is nobody talking about, that the shopping wizard for the relentless rats deck want's you to pay 82,56 in shipping for a card value of 9,59? 35 Shipments?

Yessssss my body is ready!

Who would win? Some fish or ***Every elf ever***

RU-vid suggested this channel to me and im dang happy about it, great game, but dang it get some more dice like chessex or something 😂

That was so fun to eatch

The Elves lost because they had performance issues. Meanwhile the Merfolk were all revved up because they didn't need to go 'fishing' for compliments.

dryad arbor seems bad in this deck. you want to be able to curve into elvish archdruid turn 2, and playing tap lands or a land with summoning sickness stops that from happening

Man, three games and three one land hands...

I don’t play magic at all, I’m trying to get into It. I kinda know most of the rules but none of the good decks or cards… is there a good deck that i can play right off the bat if I buy it without investing too much in it?

Love the Content! Also, that last game was not very *Puts on Sunglasses* ...Subtle.... at all!

Great Video!!

Welcome to the "tacky shirts Channel"! Haha. Amazing content!

Wasn’t looking good for the fish fans in game one, but they came back in style to win games 2 and 3! Merfolk 4 Life!!

Is there like a budget thing or something? Why no shock lands instead of blooming????

Such fun games!!

Please, do more Pauper as well!

In that first game it would have been so funny if after all that setup he ended with no one to block. I know it wasn’t likely to happen but it would have been funny if it did.

That elf deck is missing Elvish Champion

Please play "Oops no spells" next time in modern!

I mean how many lands did Elf guy put in his deck? 3 including the Arbor lol

What a happy ending

Lord Of Atlantis dont give himself islandwalk...

Amazing video!

Make the professor proud wooo

Nice video guysss 🚀🚀🚀

Elves are already a much better tribe and get access to something hard to access in mono green (card draw) and it's obtainable with mana, something they have in abundance. Meanwhile Merfolk get access to one of the main things blue already has, and have to sac creatures to use it when they arent particularly good at flooding the board. This is kinda sad tbh

You guys should do a match of Horizonless modern, I wanna see the format with zero MH/MH2 cards

Isn’t Jamin a mythic champion?

can you try the elf and merfolk lord in pioneer guys? :)))))

Loving Fan Here 🫡, That last song at the end and the way you smacked that card- Feellt like a Miracle To Me 😎 Was munching on food and that just grabbed my attention 😅 Gonna need to rewatch to understand how 🤔...just how

Haha I really liked the game one elves board. Otherwise good game carl