Seth plays several games before posting a video and decides which game will draw in viewers (prophetic luck) and makes that the first game in the video. It's by design. Not by chance. Also if make thousands of guesses and he gets some right then it appears to be skewed by luck when in reality he just designed it to be that way. Seth is a good player but has the same odds as anyone who plays this game as often as he does.
If you hold full control with bowmaster triggers on the stack, you can sac each 1/1 army to the bombardment to get 6 damage from opponents brainstorming
By the way Seth, I added crime novelist to the standard Izzet artifacts deck that you played a few weeks ago and it made a huge difference. It’s a bomb there!
Idk if it counts but whenever anyone needs to now name a card not in their deck to win, like for a Demonic Consultation/ Oracle combo, we all can name "You are already dead" to win.
I really enjoy how arenas animation effects makes it so the card goes to your hand and then immediately goes to the graveyard when your gamble. It’s like the game knows and immediately takes it from you
I absolutely will grade that pun! 1st of all thank you for all the great content, I listen to you while I deliver for Amazon and I laughed so hard I had to stop on the side of the road for a second to compose myself
You know, Seth, Orcish Bowmasters can start the combo, too. If you have a +1/+1 counter on an orc army, you can activate the module to get the first servo and start the loop. Any time you amass starts the loop as well. That game where you sacked the Bowmasters to gamble for a Shambling Gast just needed to wait until your opponent triggered the Bowmasters and you would have won.
I run crime novelist in my Prosper brawl deck. Its brutal when I have the full engine of Prosper, Birgi, Xorn and Crime Novelist going. Free spells for days.
I believe Spice8Rack has a 16 minute video for you explaining how "Goblin Grenade" is the answer to your question about most aptly named magic cards. Gamble is definitely on the short list though. Red has a wealth of cards with fantastic names and flavor
I love the point you may later on in the video about the lighting up. I actually just had a game today where that hovering actually told me exactly what card they had in their hand. I was playing that 'exile everything' you had a few days back... And BECAUSE they lit up the graveyard, I knew that they had the card that recursed from the graveyard. I exiled the one in their graveyard, and was absolutely right. Plucked it right from their hand, before they could pull anything from the yard. The light-up hovering was actually one of the final pieces that locked that game down as a victory!
The bombardent call was sick haha, you had the fragment identity Leyline deck in timeless but I can’t keep up with magic lately as there are new product and stuff every two weeks
One of my favourites is Eaten by Spiders. Just because it sounds funny to actually build a sentence with it "Griselbrand is Eaten by Spiders" for example
I actively think about the hovering too. If I ever do need to hover over something to read it, I make sure to hover other things too, so it's less obvious what I'm thinking.
"Opponent is reading Crime Novelist...which is exactly what he wants," had me dead. I've tried a lot of decks with Crime Novelist, and I think it has the problem that a lot of other 3 drops have: it usually doesn't impact the board or your hand the turn it comes down unless you already have the board set up for it, and it's really easy for your opponent to answer with only 1 or 2 mana. Kind of why haughty djinn and Monastery Mentor didn't do much until people started to cheat then out for 1 or 2 mana....
This was cool to see. I literally was just making a plus one plus one counter/persist deck in paper that does the exact same thing. You showed some cards I didn’t know about/was looking for.
Yeah i've noticed recently that the monologue occurring and the game being played aren't concurrent. I'm assuming this is an editing thing and not a 'somebody else is doing gameplay and here's Seth's head' thing. But definitely odd.
16:23 there was no need to hold the orc army as a blocker to play around the ragavan. If you planned to block it and trade, you could just as easily sac the army to bombard the 2/1 monkey to death before it hits.
In Match 2, you can be aggressive and not wait for Ragavan because Goblin Bombardment can deal 1 damage to any target, so you could've pulled the trigger at any time if you wanted to blank the damage
I love Crime Novelist - my current standard deck is a Naya Treasures deck that then wins via Song of Totentanz. Dies to removal pretty quick, but everyone leaves the CN alone and aims for the more important threats (or what seem like it). Everything falls apart with Farewell though. I do have fun with this deck.
I think Seth just likes obscure 3 piece combos with some tutors and interaction no matter what the actual combo is as long as it has those 3 he is happy.
When your opponent cast the brainstorm, you could have let the first bowmaster trigger resolve, sac the army, let the second resolve, sac the army, let the third resolve. It leaves you with bowmaster and 1/1 army. Next turn, even without the bolts, you can swing, hit for two, sac army, cast second bowmaster, and kill them.
You could try a one-of permanent based removal spell, like Leyline Binding, in the sideboard. It seems weird, but if you're running that many tutors, it could work as something to keep in your hand against Shown and Tell. You don't ever need to be able to cast it.
I've been putting this video off, but I wish I hadn't. I don't usually nitpick Seth's play, but today, I've been shaking my head too hard. First, if your Treasure Cruise protection is Orcish Bowmasters, you PLAY the Bowmasters. Sure, it can be countered, which I assume is why you hesitated, but the odds a counter is on the way increases if Cruise resolves unmolested. Second, if you're playing Gamble in a combo deck, you cast Gamble with AS MANY cards in your hand. If you lose a combo piece, you will have time to tutor for it or whatever. If you wait until you only have two other cards in your hand, you effectively back yourself into a corner where you HAVE to win your gamble. But, then of course, I don't play professionally/expositionally.
Heart of the Cards: (Seth, today, I will shine upon thee many blessings of perfect draws.) Seth: ... the odds aren't high, so maybe I'll just prevent 4 damage instead of having 2 more mana... Heart of the Cards: (....)
At 33:30 if you have a gamble and another tutor in hand with 2 of 3 combo pieces you should have gambled with a full hand and if you discard a combo piece just use the other tutor to grab it again.
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@51:00 It would have cost some of your dear mana, but Roiling Vortex does have a secret activated ability that sometimes lets my burn deck win through an Atraxa.
There's lots of very aptly named cards, but my fav I think is Massacre Girl. I don't think I've ever not killed at least 4 creatures in a game of commander with her.
1:08:05 I've been thinking about this as well! Sometimes it's like extra knowledge that can give you a slight advantage. I've been trying to tell some creators I watch on RU-vid this because they hover over the cards to explain their interactions/ what the best thing the opponent should do and Idk if they realize the opponent can see that or not
Would Oni-cult Anvil be worth it? It lets you sacrifice any artifact, including itself, and gives you a body in exchange. It could solve the "I don't have an artifact" issue, and can convert a non-sacable artifact into a creature for the Goblin Bombardment.
can you do a crime novelist with new krenko (the one that sacs artifacts) deck? The goblins krenko makes aren't artifacts (though, what if you changed that), but having both of them out would turn a treasure into a goblin+1 mana, and any artifact that likes being sacked into at minimum a goblin for free. sidenote: I made a krenko commander deck, and the deck didn't work right until I figured out you have to take out most of the goblins and go krenko artifacts. krenko supplies the goblins and the pump, and the deck supplies the artifacts and the card draw.
i also think a lot about where i'm hovering my mouse on arena, to the extent where if i see a card i don't know, i'll look it up on a browser rather than hovering to read it. i don't want to telegraph anything
As far as cards with perfect names, I humbly submit: Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental
In Match 4 vs Show & Tell, when they brainstormed with a Bowmasters on board. Couldn't you have held priority and sacced a 1/1 Orc three times with Goblin Bombardment?
