Breaking Grounds with $97 Mono-Green Stompy in Modern | Budget Magic: the Gathering (MTG) 

2nd Opponent: "I'm tired of you beating me with jank." Seth: "Groundbreaker+Vines for lethal."

I love when you explore how older decks have evolved over the years, one of my favorite themes! Thanks for the awesome content as always.

Looking at the author of the deck... And now I'm envisioning future anthropologists trying to reconstruct our civilization from fragmentary documents, and there someday being an encyclopedia entry about the unknown scribe PoopinMyFacex3, known only from a random frame of a video from the early 3rd millennium, which scholars have used to partially reconstruct the ritual game of Magic, used it contemporary religious rites.

Holy poop my list made it into a RU-vid video!!! yes this was definitely a budget build here’s my none budget paper list for any one intrested Creature (26) 4x Dryad Militant 2x Groundbreaker 2x Hexdrinker 4x Pelt Collector 3x Scavenging Ooze 4x Steel Leaf Champion 4x Strangleroot Geist 3x Werewolf Pack Leader Land (20) 2x Boseiju, Who Endures 14x Forest 2x Nurturing Peatland 2x Treetop Village Instant (10) 4x Aspect of Hydra 2x Dismember 4x Vines of Vastwood Enchantment (4) 4x Rancor Sideboard (15) 2x Collector Ouphe 2x Endurance 2x Force of Vigor 1x Grafdigger's Cage 2x Gut Shot 2x Pithing Needle 1x Thrun, the Last Troll 2x Torpor Orb 1x Void Mirror

I am so glad to see Groundbreaker get some play. Thanks for giving some attention to mono-green stompy, Seth!

20:48 A really intricate moment! In the Boggles matchup, you scooped after this, but blocks were tricky enough the opponent might make a mistake and die. I understand why you did, since Kaldra feels like GG and I have the benefit of pausing the video to run the numbers, but I figured laying out the scenario was interesting to at least myself. Opponent is at 8 life. If they don't chump with boggle, they're dead and might not have seen it. And they go to 1 if that block isn't on Scooze, otherwise they're at 3. Kaldra having first strike means there's a window for Scooze to eat your dead creature and grow to 3 power. SL is already 5 power or Pelt Collector grows to 5 before dealing damage from first strike killing SL, so it doesn't matter which Kaldra eats. Boggle can't block SL, only stops a single point from PC, so they're taking 7-8 without chumping Scooze. But it looks like 6, when they're going to blocks, if they're not thinking about first strike. Definitely gives them a lot of room to mess up, if they're trying to conserve their namesake card to kill you with. At worst, they'd need to hold Kaldra back the rest of the game (or until they get lifelink) or they die to a Groundbreaker off the top. Or an Aspect/Vines on Pelt Collector. Or getting even a slightly wider board than them. Heck, if Kaldra blocks SL then Pelt Collector is one Groundbreaker etb away from trampling over Kaldra. I guess my point is we have a bunch of live topdecks, more so if they don't block exactly right (probably kill PC, chump Scooze, so trample isn't an ongoing threat, and they can survive a Strangleroot off the top). See, Kaldra isn't that scary, ...right? =P

This video makes me Happy and Sad all at once. Mono Green Stompy was my very first modern Deck. Steelleaf and Seth's original deck inspired me and I built it to take in store when I started. It was fun and I would get a few wins here and there. But seeing it now is interesting... But really just shows how different the game has become post Modern Horizons 1 & 2. The game has become so much faster, and has so much free value and interaction that a deck like this just doesn't stand the same chance it used to. It's still one of my favorite and most nostalgic decks to play, but it just doesn't have the wheels it used to.

The GGG troll from eldraine that attaches to mana on death and can come back is always nice against heavy removal meta, and is very budget as well as spicy.

Decks like this in full budget mode always make me wonder how good they get when the budget constraints come off. Add some boseiju, etc. Maybe vengevines for the top end.

Something that people always forget regarding Vines of Vastwood is that it isn't exactly hexproof. On your own creatures, sure, it's hexproof. On an opponent's creature however, Vines says that **opponents can't target that creature this turn**. So it essentially doubles up as a target spell fizzle. (That used to be very relevant way back with Splinter Twin as it would fizzle the Aura from landing)

This was the deck I built in modern a few years ago after seeing your original video on it, that's neat it hasn't changed too much but gotten a couple good new additions

38:06 play the packleader, rancor the geist and swing. Double aspect represents 15 trample damage. There's a decent chance they only block with 1 shadow, because they need two to be lethal. It's not guaranteed, but you had a chance to win there.

Definitely think veil of summer could be good instead of gut shots

Stressful at the end when Seth hovers over his instant pump spell, contemplating casting it on his creature with protection from instants 😬

Lair of the Hydra should replace Treetop village, it is a lot better and not expensive.

I think that the first MH2 match really shows the different design philosophy with MH2. Almost every MH2 card has some sort of card advantage stapled to it: The monkey has a built-in curiosity, the pyromancer draws 2 sometimes, and sometimes makes 2 dorks. Even all the elemental ETBs are each at least worth a card and the bodies are also not bad. Especially fury where the 3/3 double-strike body really blanks most aggro creatures along with killing 1-2 on the ETB. Mono green really does not have a source of card advantage to compete with the new threats, so even if pound-for-pound, green dorks are more efficient then MH2 threats, each ok MH2 card also draws another really efficient removal spell with the free card advantage.

hey, with the sideboard, i was wondering why deglamer over tear asunder? whats the case were exile is less effective then shuffle? feels like im missing something

Having played the deck on and off for years, I'll always put a spoke in for a couple of copies of Vivien, Champion of the Wilds in the SB. She's a great source of card advantage, comes down for cheap and really helps to grind in the control matchup.

I think it’s time to bring back deathrite shaman to keep graveyard and prowess decks in check.

I have really wanted to make a Moni-Green Modern Deck for some time and this video just increases that want of mine! xD

My main takeaway is I am unsure if Aspect of the Hydra is that great. Its really just pushing advantageous board states further, but as the games showed, thats not what you needed. You needed more tools to fight through the removal. Also I don't think you fired up and got into the red with treetop once and the tapped part of it actively hurt you more than the card helped. If there was any way to find room in the budget for CoCo I think you could have edged out more wins.

that force on the vines was a huge play. I hope your opponent was popping off on that. Top 10 career ending counters

I built the original back in the day. It's good to see the update.

First time coming back to magic the gathering in over 5 years, coming back to watch Seths content again, this man still hasn't learned not to scoop early XD why!? I guess its why we see Seth still making this content instead of trying to compete competitively

Cool deck, I think I might pick this up

Dryad Militant seems worse than Experiment One. It doesn't trigger Pelt Collector itself, but having a second Pelt Collector effect in a deck that's all about splattering out massive creatures with low costs seems good.

I wonder if canopy lands would be better than treetop villages (not taking into account budget)

Reminds me of playing against death shadow m19 era ptq and i put a few ball lightning in mono red burn deck...I saw my opponents eyes buldge at the math not at all expecting it. 2 for 1 bolt.

Fun fact, most of the deck has a promotional version of it.

Something you could’ve done against living end game 2 is pithing needles on the cyclers since it’s an activated ability 🤷🏻‍♂️

How many lands are in that deck? I've never drawn that many with a stompy deck

Does anyone know where i can find the spoiler vids for BRO ?

Oh my, the memories. In 2015 I just picked up mtg for the first time and I immediately become a fan of this channel. At the time there was one video for each different match, leatherback baloth was a legit good card and I had no clue what Seth would look like. Mono green aggro was my first and only modern deck for as long as I played the format, I got so many player angry with a 50-ish euros deck. I've grown up a lot since then, at the time I still had to enroll in my Bachelor's Degree...and mtggoldfish was always at my side. Ps.: I used groundbreaker a bit in the past. It was so fun lol

Ok so add red for blood braid elf, bolt and bogart ram gang ?

Mana Tithe, Groundbreaker: any other sweet Planar Chaos cards that opponents never play around?

Why not Snow-Covered Forest and blizzard brawl for the removal?

I'd like to run a set of Sylvan Anthem in this, and maybe a couple old growth trolls in place of steel leafs

What set are the basic forests you're using in this one? They're so pretty.

31:45 that's a thing that happened once hahaha

Why woud you not save something with aspect of the hydra and not get greedy been up a creature on the next turn not sure if would matter but might have. at 15:55.

I'm glad p00pinginmyfacex3 was able to construct this deck. Shout out to p00pinginmyfacex3

I don't know how that Bogles Stone blade deck was being ran but I had one when Yorion was legal that was just a funny deck to play. They take out removals because of my bogles and they die to kaldra/stone forge. They don't take out removal I beat em down with aura bogles. It was extremely inconsistent though lol.

Mono green Ball Lightning 🌩️ pretty cool!

Yo almost all these cards were in Penny Dreadful last Season, is a fun deck

Damn i remember that original deck pretty sure i still got it sleeved up in a deckbox

0:42 Wow, Leatherback Baloth was the best 3 drop in 2015? I half expect to see Erhnam Djinn in the deck list. The power creep is real.

Hi, unrelated to this video, sorry, but are you not doing spoiler videos for Brothers War?

Que nostalgia ver esse deck

Would love to see a scurry oak combo modern deck

if you want to make your greenscreen better light the greenscreen, it wiill make keying it alot easier

When I first read the title I thought Groundbreaker was going for $97!

at 6:39 why not slam groundbreaker, trigger the pelt collector to give it it's third counter and make it a 4/4 trample and swing with the team holding up vines of the vastwood unlicked as protection or potentially dismember something? I think Seth totally missed that Groundbreaker having 6 power would give Pelt Collector its third counter. Groundbreaker dying at the end of the turn would have also given the Pelt Collector another combat if it survived combat.

At 42:25 I think you could have just cast both pump spells and attacked for 9.

I’m waiting for the day you being back soul sisters with archangel of thune for against the odds 😅

surprised there wasn't any veils in SB

Can't wait for jund 12 ball with all the 6/1 hasty boys on against the odds

That match one opponent was getting the top decks of the century. Of course when your deck is just full of MH2 cards anything you top deck is gonna be good.

Please please seth can you build a deck that uses khalni hydra? It would be insane in mono green stompy, especially with the aspect of hydra :D ....*Whispers value*

@MTGGoldfish, what happened to preview/spoiler discussions? World's is over and all I care about is hearing Seth talk about new cards for two hours. Let's go go go

I dont think Treetop ever won a game for you, but it being tapped hurting happened every match. Seems like it'd just be better as Forests or like Hashep Oasis.

Needs Lead the Stampede to refill imo

Sylvan Anthem?

5 seconds into the video and I'm surprised there's no Primal Forcemage in the decklist

Check out the username on that decklist

Treetop coming into tapped really seemed to hurt you in several matches, and cost you the game a couple times. I'm wondering if there's room in the budget for Lair of the Hydra, or even if playing the green pump desert would've been better. The desert can pump Steel Leaf or tramplers for giant hits.

mono green is so cool

Seth should have leaned into *Vines* harder in the last match.

Seth where are your spoilers videos for brothers' war?

If I want to play one deck in Modern that I can play despite the meta changing... This might be my deck

Ah, so heartbreaking on some of these losses! These budget decks just don’t get any breaks from the opponents top decks.

I think those Treetop Villages cost you several games. I wonder how it would've been if they had just been replaced with forests.

Dryad Militant just seems so...whelming in 2022 Modern. Even a boggle or a gladecover scout as a sneaky target for vines/aspect feels better than a savanah lion that just dies to...everything.

I used to like modern. A lot. But lately I've been wondering if wizards just made MH sets to make a lot of money and kill a format at the same time. We all know that they didn't like modern because decks didn't rotate, but if that was their plan they succeeded, I'm still going to play modern, but I'm buying counterfeits.

I'm so tired of 90% of modern decks with 16+ removals that i started putting rebuff the wicked and it's almost never lost...

Ah yes, the Modern (Horizons 1/2) format.

Surprised old growth troll didn’t make the deck. It dies and turns into ramp and a late game body. And lair of the hydra would have worked better than the village overall early or late game. Still a fantastic deck

You think this is jank you should've see. My old timbermare vitalize green stompy back in the 2010s!

Would goyf be good in this? Obviously not budget but seems like a good fit

I swear people in modern haven't discovered there's this weird mechanic called flying.

Magic, the Removal.

Ahh Yes. Classic Mono Green made by Poop in My Face.😅

I skip to the end of any game where a Fury is cast. I hate that WotC made those faces of the format.

groundbreaker was hilarious

Hey Saf, I' m pretty sure it's "furry" not "fury"

Fury has ruined so many fun decks !

I can't belive that Steel leaf champion is the best option for a 3-drop.

Wheres our spoiler video…

Why no Sylvan Anthem? Its better than it looks

Awful scoop in match 2 game 1. Even with Path and Khaldra, opponent has to chump with boggle, take 3, and is at 3-5 life and can’t attack with Khakdra or else die. With 20 life you have 4 turns to rip groundbreakers.

Play a non budget mono green stompy :) it’s so close!

No way I'm here this early.

Sorry for the deck, but the video was so so good

Super happy you played this cuz the only thing funnier than watching Seth eat himself to death is watching him lose games of magic.

Green blue copy gtoundbreaker tech return to hand

First! Also, keep being awesome Seth!

Strangleroot geist better than Wrenn and 6- Richard

Bugdet? Isso ganha torneio sim

no 3 mana troll?

Fury is the bane of creature decks and all the free elementals are why I quit modern. All the modern die hards will preach about how diverse the format is because of how conceded they are with their perspective. Modern is just another form of legacy for cowards at this point. Explorer and pioneer are fun but modern design is gonna have this be the next Yu-Gi-Oh

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