Thanks for such a great pilot of my deck yet again! It was beyond magnificent! I hate that Trinisphere didn't show out for you like it has for me. There is nothing more satisfying than making someone concede to a turn 1 Trinisphere or after wrecking the majority of their mana. Definitely gotten a number of concessions out of it. STOKED to see that Noxious Revival showed out, though!! That card is a beast! Edit: So looking back with fresh eyes, that Round 2 Game 1 Trinisphere is definitely why it felt bad lol. I almost never ever keep 1 land hands with this deck no matter how tempting they feel. Learned that the HARD way. Hate it came up for you too.
@@marceline8009 Nohohoho! Thats what I get for not playtesting on a proper server like MTGO, not checking which cards are banned... I thought he was only banned in modern and pioneer but yeah, he is banned in legacy.
This is why I love donation decklists. I don’t know what the likelihood would be of you picking up this deck on your own, and your blue control pedigree has prepared you well to play this kind of deck. Seeing you play something relatively novel can be a lot more enjoyable than going to work with the same deck time after time.
16:45 It was better to cast spirit. IF your opponent rips a Reanimaton spell for Archon you can sack the spirt instead of lily and attack for 2 a turn earlier
Noxious revival is such an underrated phyrexian mana card. Glad it's getting some love. Wizards, we need some more phyrexian mana versions of popular cards!
Does witherbloom command have a role here? Seems like it could fit at least in the sideboard. Edit* If you explained this extensively in deck tech, I was not paying super close attention.
noxious revival looked sort of mediocre in this deck at first, but its incredibly versatile when considering its effect on an opponent's graveyard. free lodestone bauble/ surgical 4 and 5 is pretty good
Leaving aside the obvious GY hate applications, just being able to hose the opponents topdeck or set up yours in the very low resource environment that pox seeks to create is quite powerful. Top card manipulation is one of those things that on paper seems pretty meh (memory lapse, hinder, etc.), but when its used well you can really feel the tempo loss and it hurts!
Dont say that phrase, imma be unable to sleep all night cuz ill be to busy rocking out wacka wacka wackooo or whatever monkey sound they did is typed. Legends.
Obviously having the benefit of hindsight and also the benefit of being a reanimated player in paper I feel that you should have done the sudden edict in response to the first straw seven because while they could have lotus pedal reanimate to bring it right back that would also have zapped their life total down very low and giving you outs an additional options however that is also a very specific sequence of cards whereas drawing 14 cards gives them additional options for reanimating other creatures other than gristle brand with things such as in tomb and faithless looting as well as just the cleanup step discarding the monsters always love the content as always and just my two cents helping with the algorithm!
Can you elaborate on the benefit of being a reanimator player in paper? Has me curious! Is there an inherent advantage? Does it have to do with the less structured way that priority goes back and forth in real life vs. in a rules-enforced environment like MTGO?
I freaking love pox. Idk about the trinosphere. I do see what they are going for, cause sometimes the opponent can top deck a 1 or 2 drop and they get ahead. But still sus
I play it pretty surgically. If a game lines up to let me burn down mana and resources it quickly puts a nail in the coffin. It also just shuts it down outright if I keep building resources of my own, but you have to watch those opening hands pretty hard. Sometimes it just doesn't work in a matchup and gets taken out, but overall I've loved having it in my meta. It's my favorite flavor haha.
Love these kind of decks, great to see this content. Question: @ 52:50 would not using lili have been an option? I feel like we are so used to always use planeswalkers that we audible to that but I feel like with "Veil" specifically sometimes not activating her might be better. Curious to hear your thoughts.
I wish that Smallpox was playable for Modern. It's okay in the BW version with Flagstones, but it's just medium at best, and with Control being as rampant as it is, I don't see it being worth a try. I'd love to give Loampox a try, but the fact that it doesn't have the acceleration makes me sad.
in the final round, game 2, discarding both deluges in favor of dark ritual rubbed me the wrong way when it happened, because of the high land count the deck plays. i understand the line you were mapping out, and i may be thinking results-oriented, but i would have held the deluge for the exact type of situation that happened, where they clawed out from under lilli with retrofitter. @1:25:00 for reference
I don't really like how the whole turn was played. Casting pox was a 4-2 in favor of the opponent. While it is generally good to be aggressive in resource denial, I think just ending the turn with two duluge in hand (rather than zero), which answers all their threats except retrofitter, and a creature on board, is a lot better than denying the opponent one card.
@@daniellawson9894 I had the same reaction. I think I would have Lili+1 instead of poxing my own token. And sometimes I would be tempted to not use Lili to hang onto a banger card. Deluge against Ninjas and servos seems pretty strong; I would hesitate to give up both. That said, Brian is trying to put into action his resource denial gameplan, so I see his intentions. It's sort of an art form when to lean in to resource denial, and when to keep some goodies for yourself for later.
Man, if I got to draw as hot as your Faeries opponent did in that game 3, I'd be embarrassed to ever lose a match again. On top of turn after turn of pure gasoline, the turn he produced Spellbomb to clear Nether Spirit + cycle into the walker had me groaning. Couldn't have stacked his deck any better if he'd been cheating.
Delve, Convoke, and Improvise aren’t cost-reducing mechanics, they’re payment mechanics that are used after the total cost of the spell is locked in. They are the 3 ways to sneak past a trinisphere.
I'm really wondering about the cursed scroll, is there no better one mana artifact that can serve as a damage wincon? This deck give me a similar feeling to the root maze stasis deck you played a while ago, and that has a black vise as its wincon I feel like would be good for this deck if the game goes long enough, but then again this is also a discard deck which conflicts with black vise, so Im really wondering what other artifacts are there that can serve in the place of cursed scroll
Unless you run 4 loams and an entomb to find them, Cusred Scroll tends to be fantastic. It deals with walkers, stoneforged mystics, tokens, delvers, elves, and it wins games.
Cursed Scroll never got off the ground in this league, but the card is a heater. Black Vise/The Rack effects do exactly one thing well. Scroll can stabilize a board then start winning. It’s the original punishing fire.
Well, maybe for Modern, because W6 isn't legal in Legacy. But even then, you're starting to stretch your mana quite a bit. However, that said, if any kind of combo is going to get W6 banned in Modern, it'll definitely be the Channel land shenanigans.
You can try Chrome Mox (though it’s a LOT worse). Or add the 4th dark ritual and commit to playing a little slower. Most pox decks don’t play Diamond, we just get to here because of Loam.
@@BoshNRoll thank you very much! Also i wanted to ask, you have any way to write you so to send you some lists to try? I have a list for budget reanimator which is different than the usual one around and i think it works very well. Also with "budget" content you could make much more views given the fact that price is a great entry barrier for legacy:)
This is an extreme disservice to the Legacy community. Pox LOOKS fun when you see someone else play it once. It is not. You will burn 2 grand and will be MISERABLE. It looks fun I get it. But once you actually invest and play the deck and 2/3 every league after slowly “almost winning.” Always remember the Pox modo. “You will beat me, but it won’t be fun”
MTG content creators be like: NEW DECK Super legacy turbo bauble jace cloud storm. Just take any 3 cards that are staples and throw em in a deck. The title will write itself.
@@Seldomheardabout Trinisphere is also hardly a staple in ANY format beside EDH now, and even then, it's only a staple in the Prison Stax decks (like GAAIV). Also, the reason he formats the title that way is because of search engines. If someone types in "Smallpox Stax" it'll bring them to this video because of keywords.
