I Slice Up Standard with 15 Rares and a Sword | Budget Magic: the Gathering | MTG Arena 

I really wish you would play one match of the non budget version at the end of these videos or even a full video of the non budget. So we could see how it performs if you want to make it and slowly upgrade it.

39:55 Yes we did. You just clicked the 1/1 too fast to see that Anex Sentey could have exiled the Forge as well. "...target ARTIFACT or creature..."

Hmmm, need a way to deal with Urabrasks forge. *Glares at Annex Sentry until it bursts into flames*

Hey, Seth I've been away from Magic for the last few years, college and pandemic was rough, but it's your videos that I still come back to watch every now and then. Much love to you and the Goldfish Crew

I think 23 lands is a bit much for such a low curve

35:59 while you're monologuing about your bad beats you have the win in hand. Annex sentry can exile raffine (you have the mana). The lookout has flying and the required 1 power. They have no cards in hand, and 6 creatures to attack with into your 4 blockers (so you take 6 damage). If you keep the raffine sentry alive and they don't top deck a removal spell you have lethal with the bird.

Annex Sentry is an answer for Urabrask's Forge

Ossification seems much better than circle of confinement for this deck. Otherwise, I like the list. I made a similar list but more all out aggro with the affinity for artifacts inspired charge.

On a related note to urabrasks forge, the mono R oil list is pretty funny and paper cheap.

38:02 "how do we beat an urabrask's forge?" Annex sentry says creature or artifact. You even see it highlighted as a possible target there...

Seems like Sword of Once and Future would be a good sideboard card for this deck. I assume that we aren't playing it just from it being budget.

I think that the budget version of this deck that doesn't run the rare utility lands like mishra's or eganjo probably only wants 21 lands. Replacing the two cut plains with either Combat courier's or Iron apprentices would probably be worth while. Or you could even cut more lands and play dune movers, not that dune movers is especially powerful on it's own. Edit: Actually, I just noticed you're not playing the full playset of Frontliners; running the full playset if probably better than my other recomendations.

I usually don't like the budget deck videos but this one was great!! Keep it up seth! Great content as always!

Love the Arena budget. Great point that matters as well.

I love Skrelv. It's such an excellent support creature.

Unmentioned bonus to all artifact creatures - go for the throat is the preferred removal in black right now Edit: he mentions this halfway through the video 😂

8:56. The bugs bunny was fantastic

Seth for against the odds you should play a 5C mana base but mono black with the help of omnath locus of all

oo i've been playing something similar to this, excited to see some gameplay

I actually have a version of an invasion of alara deck that I think may be tier and it looked a lot like the opponent in game 2 was playing it. Makes me kinda sad that they're not.

Cool idea, maybe too many lands. I would try this deck putting the other sword on side against blue/black and decking a bit more of Instant/sorcery interaction. In non-budget brew Surge surely can be sided too I guess

SaffronOlive has really nailed his intro, and I love it. It’s such a goofy intro lol

I think some of the Pauper Fetches would help the flood problem. Also, aggro artifacts w/o *High-speed Hoverbike* ?

seth missplayed in 38 37, annax sentry can hit artifact too so its acutally perfect hand for forge. i mean even if opp have removal its taken down a turn.

Could you do a non budget version of this deck please. I would really love to see how it does when you amp up the power

I've swapped out Lion Sash for the Hotshot Mechanics in your non-budget version since there's no vehicles. Seems like a fun list otherwise.

8:57 caught me off ward lol

0:15 i just heard it as saffron owwive hahahahah

Been playing this deck without the sword for a while now. Reliquary roadside or whatever is nice too. The ability to draw 1-2 is really clutch

Seth had that 1 point of damage but he played sentry after he played truth to nab that blocker :O

38:15 Annex the FORGE! RTFC!

instant dopamine thank u seth

To improve your control matchups, use combat thresher over circuit mender. Draws on etb instead of death and double strike with Michikos and skrev are game winning. In addition, plated onslaught is a control blowout potentially but it’s inconsistent

Love the content, your quick scoops kill me though

Lol the bugs bunny edit is priceless

So, why circle instead of Ossification? We have better and cheap (on arena at least) white removal in standard right now.

Please do a updated version of the commander deck with Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded.

Roadside Reliquary is budget. I think 2 or 3 copies could fit.

Just tried this a bit in Bo1 standard and am currently 6-1. It does the job very well

Oh no! You are spoiling the secret about the Gobakhan-turn-two-Seraph-turn-three curve! I've been crushing Arena Mythic with Jeskai midrange. Seraph is the most underrated card in our current Standard, it actually doesn't die to most removals.

Seth when miscount :(. Seth when he realizes he didn’t math right OMG

Would Spectrum Sentinel be worth running in the 75? A 1/2 for 1 that has protection from gold and gives you 1 life whenever you opponent plays a non-basic seems pretty reasonable to me...

Almost Artisan pog.

Yotani. I love it

When I tried the mono green list it felt too slow against aggro and couldn't deal with threats well. Suggestions on stuff to try in it? I don't want the playset of tribute I bought to go to waste

Would have gone to 22 lands, mainboarding a Mishra's Foundry or 2, ditch the Yotian Frontliner's and add a couple Kayla's Reconstruction.

Ossification would be perfect in this deck.

The curve in this deck is low enough to run 20 lands rather than 23. I feel 23 is a little too high for this curve. You have a ton of one drops, and if you are truly worry about not seeing lands, then 22 would be the highest I would choose here.

Apparently for Ichor, both ick-or and eye-core pronunciations are correct.

Oh Seth...you slay me

Run into this twice on ladder already today. ;)

Yo I am gonna have to hold this deck

I still would love to see mono mount gruul 8 trilands 1 RG etb tapped rg land, the rest mountains

What’s the non budget version? Just Mishra’s Foundry?

What was that 5 land keep

Damn the annex sentry not getting the urebrasks forge made me sad

Couldn't annex sentry exile the urabrask forge?

Honestly without the manlands, this seems like a 21 land deck

Isn't ossification better than circle of confinament?

It absolutely is true on Arena that if you keep low land hands, you don't draw lands, and if you keep high land hands, you draw nothing but lands. I have played MTG for 20 years and the rate that it happens at on Arena has never happened to me in those 20 years on paper.

How would you feel about a pair of Roadside Reliquary in this deck?

7:47 opponent punted, could have killed the mender as you tried to equip

Why not play crawling chorus? An artifact creature that makes an artifact creature when it dies

~35:00 Seth, you still had that game, no? Sentry to exile Raffine, Lookout represents lethal next turn, they had no fliers. They’re empty handed. Seems like a good line?

Honestly I don't know if I would suggest building this deck since a majority of decks are just white or black based midrange running as much removal as humanly possible. I haven't had any aggro deck work in standard for the past two weeks.

Something about that plains art makes it extra obnoxious when you're flooding out

35:55 couldnt you have exiled raffine with annex, chump the three big creatures and a human and block one human with the annex with raffine, go to 2, untap, swing with the surviving annex? if they dont attack all your lookout survives and swings. i think that was an early scoop unless im missing something *yell*

I use elspeth's command and doublestriking human soldiers...

holy fuck. that mono red player def got to mythic with that deck; putting counters on spirit tokens... aaaaaand they left themselves dob.

is that standard hammer time

16:53 Why didn't you confine the Ojutai instead of equipping the sword? 38:18 Annex Sentry can take out that forge since it can target Artifacts as well

NOOOOOOO I just started playing a reign of truth artifact aggro deck and now everyone will play this 😫

Isn't 23 lands too much with that curve?

Lmao the bugs bunny

your curve mostly caps out at 3, steel seraph doesn't really count you can definitely cut a land or two

SPLASH URZA PRINCE OF KROOG

keeping a 5lander is the same for me. i will draw all lands and 0 spells until im dead

CAn't wait for Sword of Forge and Frontier to get reprinted, so maybe it well have art that it's terrible.

“Protection from red just beats their deck!” Proceeds to cut almost all of them from the deck

22 lands is fine for a deck which tops out at 3

Keep a 5-lander...I've never drawn more than 3 lands in my starting hand without mulliganing

You're not flooding. You put 23 lands in that deck (which curves out at 3) - what did you expect?

Seems useless to attack with the 1/1 at 36.37, they trade and get the 1 life back you got to pump the lookout and now you're down 1 artifact for the saga next turn

I came here to spend rare wildcards and kick ass... And I'm all out of rare wildcards

"I miss counted".....what else is new?

That deck has such a low curve I think it needs less lands

It just doesn't really do anything against control, which is 95% of BO1

Why not boros? Seems like the deck has a lot of cards that don't accomplish what it's trying to do.

For real, a lot of folks laugh whenever somebody mentions that arena isn't completely random and think you're being paranoid. I've played so much of arena, and even more than that tabletop. Arena is at best psuedo-random or at worst not random in the slightest and just uses a algorithm for your next cards.

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22 lands

Seth: jams 23 basics in an aggro deck Also Seth: the arena shuffler is rigged and gives you only lands 🤡🤡🤡

So while I believe magic's explanation for why. It's known fact the shuffler is rigged. Relevant here there was a study that showed that a quirk of the shuffler was that if you kept less then three lands you would be less likely to draw a land and if you kept more than three lands you would be more likely to draw lands. So yes keeping 5 lands is a very bad idea in an aggro deck.

Too many basic lands... With that many lands, I truly feel at least 1 of them should be a cycler so you flood less. Even one copy of The Fair Basilica as budget common would go a long way. Also, for all intents and purposes, you are playing a Pauper manabase and curve inside standard, which as we all know Pauper land counts rarely exceed 22 lands even on control. The reason standard plays more than 22 lands on aggro is because of eganjo and other utility lands. I think 22 lands is the absolute ceiling for a deck like this. 😅

I don't think the land theory is out of place, don't we already know that they have things in place to "smooth out" draws? Any time you start meddling with that it can open up a bunch of unintended, or intended, consequences.

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@21.40 Seth, you have got to stop saying what you're scared of out loud, or else they definitely will have it

If you lose to blue/black control it doesn't matter what other games you won - you lost the only game that mattered. You need to take the confidence that all their removal gave them when they put it in their deck and invalidate it, so the dead cards in their hand do nothing and fill them with fear and anxiety. All that matters is the control player suffers, loses and gives up on the idea of shutting others out of playing and enjoying the game just to win the slowest and most boring game they can. Go, forget this deck exists. Build a deck that specifically shuts down the Sheoldred player so bad they start crying and ripping the keys out of their keyboard. MAKE THEM SUFFER SETH.

MAKE STANDARD GREAT AGAIN

It's not crazy or delusional. the arena shuffle system is totally rigged.