Burn, but Simic | $30 Budget Magic | Standard 

Hey there, Greg here! Sorry, Saff. Didn’t think I’d come by someone Dropplegregging seven Deserts. I also don’t actually work for the client, but I’ll send out the Greg-net and nix this thing in the bud, bud.

Seth saying opponents are hungry so he offers them some Dessert.

Me: Nothing can possibly stop this deck from steamrolling Standard! Greg:

so instead of near infinite mana into fireball you near infinitely clone common draft lands for the win, peak gameplay right over here man I love watching seth's brews

now this is the content I watch SaffronOlive for. I'd love to see a non-budget version, if possible

The lore implications- “Aw yeah I got killed by 25 evil clones of an Oasis in the desert

Idea for the deck name: Operation Desert Storm

2.5 more years of Seth playing Dopplegang 🥹

a 30 dollar simic burn deck in standard? This doesn't sound like a phrase that should exist

When you cast dopplegang for the first time and need to find the next one, copy as many spelunkings as possible and 1 bounce desert. bounce desert trigger on top, all returning deserts. (1 bounce desert and 2, that give you the GU you need for the next doppelgang. The others are whatever you want, just remember to tap the tokens for mana before bouncing them.) -> surveil a bunch. Now with each spelunking trigger, bring the bounc desert into play, tap it for mana and return it to hand for more surveiling. You only need the other deserts, to get GU. This way, you dig as deep as possible, while generating as much mana as possible.

Desert Ramp decks have honestly been my favorite decks to emerge from this standard. There are so many different ways to build them, and the desert ramp package allows for a really diverse budget brewing package! I've done brews with Oko crimes, desert burn, Goose Mother, Bant Control, etc. Definitely my new favorite archetype from the set!

I think there are times when Seth could just win in the first dopplegang just ramping out and reanimating deserts but he throws it away being too focused on searching for another dopplegang

"hey seth how did you build simic burn" "The secret ingredient is crime [lands]"

Because it's a storm-style desert combo deck, I'd call it Sandstorm

TIL Gre is how you spell Greg

6:53 it does work fine if you're leyline binding, you just had to put the bounce triggers on top so the land would be in your hand before the spelunking returned from exile. Just like at 10:00 where you really should have stacked the triggers better, alternate bounce and spelunking so you can just keep replaying the same crime land and bouncing it again

"since we drew the untapped land" he said with a spelunking on the board

I believe this deck is my spirit animal. If it just has Hurkyls Final Meditation it would be perfect. Seth, you're a genius..the best kind too, the eccentric genius. Love ya Brother!

Believe that error was a "GReater than or Equal Error", since it was unexpected (not handled properly) it defaulted to drawing the match and ending it.

This is one of my absolute favorite decks you've ever made. And budget too.

the 3 mana tatyova seems like it'd be a good alternate wincon for this deck

Now THIS is the content we're subscribed for.

I'm legit considering making this deck in paper standard 😂 love simic burn

this is the reason why I miss whirlwind denial. The satisfaction of the triggers just fizzling into thin air

This seems like it should be a Brewer's Kitchen video.

Yes I have been waiting for this deck since I heard about the crime lands

A few years ago i set out to build a commader deck that kills ppl with landfall this deck makes me very happy

Find yourself someone that looks at you the way Seth looks at Doppelgang

First Simic burn deck I ever saw, it is awesome and pretty ridiculous :)

This is probably my favorite brew I've seen on the channel. Doppelgang is the best card wotc ever made

Seth these jank dopelgang decks are just so dang cool- Simic burn, what a time to be alive- kudos!!!

Call the deck Doppleburn! Just wanted to say thank you for all you do, and you made me fall in love with dopplegang in the last budget deck. Can't wait to build this!

"Simic burn"... We have come so long that we finnally circled around to blue being the other burn color xD Awesome deck. I'll be happy to watch all your spicy dopplegang brews

Are we allowed to blame Seth for triggering inflation in property prices for Crime Lands?

This is outstanding, I love it. Thanks for the video!

I think that for max damage you should alternate bounce land triggers with Splunking triggers. This would allow you to ping the opponent with each couple of triggers even if you only have one desert: bounce the desert, put it in play, tap for mana, and bounce it again with the next tigger

Your creativity never ceases to surprise me, great work!

ok, that is an amazing brew 👍

There is exactly 1 spell currently in standard that has an X mana cost that allows you burn face. It also just so happens to be a Ramp spell as well. If you run a full playset of the Red/Green Desert, you can reliably cast Worldsoul's Rage as a big Banefire to the face. It basically Functions as that second playset of Dopplegang.

Been playing a similar brew to this for a week, really taking advantage of Dance of the Tumbleweed, Glimpse the Core, and Joint Exploration's 2cmc mana value with Arcane Proxy to flashback those spells.

Greg is the only software developer at the small indie company WotC.

I was expecting an error on X=7. I thought the game doesn't even like X=5 but you did it and the game survived the first one.

Worst Engineer at my last job was named Greg. In spirit I assume this is him.

The best part about this combo is since the way the lands are worded arena targets them for you and you don't have to click a million times.

I think this might be the coolest and hardest to understand deck I have seen on this channel

Seth running some REAL pain lands, lol. *Thanks for the Content!*

Great video, I love your janky budget build decks and all you do for the community. Played your 36 Wraith deck and loved it because it helped me with the Arena daily challenge to destroy opponents creatures. I was wondering if you would consider making more budget decks geared towards completing the Arena daily challenges.

I was hoping to brew a similar deck and send it over, but time hasn't been on my side lately (moving house soon). Glad you managed to make something work in Standard where I was struggling to have ideas (and somehow forgot about Doppelgang!) My main idea as been for Explorer and trying to get a combo turn out of cards like Scapeshift, World Shaper, Aftermath Analyst, and my favourite jank pairing of Mending of Dominaria into Fall of the Thran. Diabolic Intent works great with World Shaper and Stitcher's Supplier, too. There's a bunch of small synergy that feels good, I just haven't figured out the best combo pieces or amount of each card yet. Sharing for all to see. Let me know below if you want to give it a try and come up with something that works!

I started watching for the lulz. Now I just can't stop watching it dominate. This is what I call deckbuilding

Please do the non budget version would be sick deck tech was awesome definitely gonna build it

A worthy successor to the caves doppelgang deck. Already looking forward to the next set's broken doppelgang deck :~)

doppelgang is such a sweet card and i love the synnergy with ping deserts

I was killed by this deck last week. Had me laughing the whole time trying to explain to my non-MTG-playing friends on Discord that this was not normal, haha Edit: The version I lost to was Bant. Elesh made sure those lands killed me double time.

Doppleburn cool, more reason Dopplegang is more broken than people think.

Nothing like hearing ultra budget and 16 rare in the same sentence lol

buried in the garden is a ramp enchantment that also removes if you dip into white

This was awesome!! Seth is the goat! The goat you hear me. Perseverance is the hallmark of a champion 😭💚💚💚💚

I just tried building a self-mill desert combo, inspired by this build. It's not standard legal, but it's really fun. You drop a Hedron Crab, mill a half dozen lands into your graveyard, Aftermath Analyst them back, mill some more off the new lands, get back enough mana for your Scapeshift in hand, sac your World Shaper to your Altar of Dementia, and eventually go from 4 or 5 mana on turn 4, to 20 or so on turn 5 (or even still turn 4). Then, if you need to, you can always Dopplegang to mill or burn or just make several copies of whatever they're doing. It's a blast.

i see simic 🔥 i click. i like that it doesnt depend on graveyard.

I know its not really needed but the way you stack these triggers could be far more efficient by stacking the spelunking triggers between the bounce land triggers you can pick up and putdown the same few desert lands pinging the opp each time also tapping them before returning them to generate mana for the next dopplegang or frontier. I think the deck is sweet and I love it. And again I am not sure its needed but if you wanted to be efficient that is probably the best thing to maximize damage to close a game instead of hoping for a scry into another combo enabler. That said sweet deck Seth and I plan to make one. what about Nissa in the deck could this mean that you could win earler if you have her since she would see all these lands. Somewhere between the temur worldsoul deck and this is a crazy land as your only damage win deck lol. Thanks for content!

Subarashi seth, this is a hilarious deck, and I def want to try it out, just need more rare wild cards

Nice change on a lands deck :D Regarding the musings for non-budget: Advantage of bant is you can run Kutzil in the sideboard to keep enemy counters off. Bant jsut seems more resilient to me.

The funny thing is that this list is basically 90% there when it comes to supporting three colors, at least as far as the mana base is concerned. Just tweak your crime lands a bit and swap a single basic and you've easily got 7-8 sources in your third color (since the Pylons are filter lands).

this is the best MTG related thing I've ever seen

looking forward to the sultai follow up video

In a ramp vs ramp matchup, the deck that goes bigger wins. So Domain should be a good matchup for this deck.

7:33 watching Seth cast Dance of the Tumbleweeds and THEN get 3 more lands out after hurt my soul

What's next? Mono white ramp?!

A burn deck so good, it's gotta be a crime!

When Spelunking was revealed my initial reaction was "oh. that's gonna be broken. i don't think it's broken now, but it's gonna be before too long". then they added bounce lands to standard.

I want to see the non budget version! This was a wild ride! Yeeeee haaaaaw, pardner!

I love the slap lands

Doppelganger is way up there in my list of favorite new cards.

so you can stack the triggers so you vou bounce a single crime land and put it back into play, then repeat. You don't have to have each type of trigger happen together.

This deck is a spiritual successor to the Great Aurora deck you made during Shadows Over Innistrad Standard.

Seth, you are a man after my own heart.

nice deck, i have to say, i love these cheese decks much more than any top tier bs, pla keep bringing creative ideas like that!

Add red and you can pick up Worldsoul Rage (x damage to any target; put x land cards from hand and/or gy onto battlefield tapped, which are then untapped from Spelunking); this deck can already reach 20 mana and that would close the game immediately. Alternatively, at 14 mana you can Dopplegang for 3 then rr1 for Return the Favor and copy it. By going into black, you can Dig Up and use the cleave cost to find a copy of Dopplegang. Either way, I concur--by the time you hit 11 mana you have probably already won the game. With a little tweaking, this could be adapated for Pioneer to take advantage of landfall triggers and be even more broken.

I was trying to build a deck using the crime deserts as the wincon. Trying to mill and recur them. This is definitely more fun

I haven't wanted to play Standard in a VERY LONG TIME but a BUG version of this with no budget restriction in standard sounds fun if you build it I need to know lol

I wonder if the Sandstorm Verge shouldn't be an echoing depths. It's minor but it could help a small bit with aggro, if you can bounce and replay while Spelunking is out, plus it has some minor combos with copying lands in the yard. Of course if you go non-budget then it's likely better off as a Festering Gulch/Creosote Heath, depending on which color direction you go.

So technically for full efficiency you create some level of alternation between spelunking and bounce triggers to make sure you can always return deserts to surveil and also maximize pings. This is a tough balance to make sure you hit enough surveils to draws to dig as deep as possible

This is a sick deck, nice one staff 👌

I think this is the deck that gets me back into arena :D

Oh man, such an instant classic!

Would love to see an against the odds with caustic bronco, using cards that cost 15+ mana and brainstorm and such to manipulate the top of your library to hit opponent for 15 in one atack

So, I saw your first 2 games, instantly started working on a Yarok Edh version of this

It's a fun deck, I tried it out with a variation of 2 rattlewurm and 2 bonnie pall because not enough wildcards. And added 4 outcaster greenblade and 4 spinewood armadillo wich saved me in tight spots. And I'm playing alchemy with a smaller rotation set. And I like the casual way moew

I knew you were gonna punt the first dopp by wanting to go spelunking in game 2. Love ya lolol

Great idea...greate deck...love it

Definitely looks like something I'd MUCH rather play on paper than on Arena. Absolutely love the concept though, since Simic is my favorite color combination and there's something hilarious to me about using ramping itself to kill the opponent.

I'd call this deck Arhcway Combo. Tried to build it myself and never even considered doppelgang.

This deck is absolute gold

I'm running this deck with Worldsoul's Rage and it's basically a second wincon, with Doppelgang make a bunch of mana and use Worldsoul's Rage to kill them, and if by any reason they still have life, you always can play extra Lands from hand/grave to do more damage

Someone played this style of desert deck against me but with Cultivator colossus and other fatties. It was so sick and quick

to fight against aggro you could put some caves in the build for lifegain off spelunking. Echoing deeps is a great addition to copy deserts or surv lands when you're going off.

I am playing a Historic version of this with Primeval Titans. Its just as effective there. Salty roped all three of the opponent's timers first game.

Gonna try this one out, but, for Arena friendliness, I am gonna try to squeeze it down to 8-9 rare/4-5 mythic setup. But, the most appeal comes from the non-counterability of land drops(just...watch out for 'Mom'...)

This deck is sweeeeet, I was thinking to maybe add some Slickshot Lockpickers to be able to flashback the Doppelgang and hit the combo kill more reliably.

SUPER AMAZING DECK.