Is Smeagol the Best Nazgul Commander in Historic Brawl? | Magic: the Gathering | MTG Arena

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Nazgul's are all the rage, is Smeagol, Helpful Guide the best way to build around the nine in Historic Brawl? What other shenanigans does the Golgari legend enable if you always have access to it on turn three? Let's find out!
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@Eldritch_Panda31 11 месяцев назад

The Torment on the second game may have not killed but still set you up for not dying.

@sampletext6297 11 месяцев назад

And he could've attacked with the nazgul for another 3 damage which wouldn't have been blocked because of deathtouch.

@paperbeater8938 11 месяцев назад

@@sampletext6297 or would have killed the creature that killed him

@darksideofthesand 11 месяцев назад

Even without attacking with the nazgul, if he had saced a creature to the tower then it would net him an extra mana which means they would only have 1 card either in hand or on board, presumably the 12/12. With the way the life totals were and what he had in hand I think it would have been better to force them to hedge everything on the 1 creature than to let them play out all their stuff.

@gaminggeckos4388 11 месяцев назад

…Why would you shorten it to “Torment?” There’s _13_ cards with the word “torment” in their name (and 3 “torment of” cards from Hour, as well as _30_ cards that include “torment” in general). But there’s only a single Hailfire in the whole game. Ain’t that a better way to shorten it?

@Graatand 11 месяцев назад

⁠@@gaminggeckos4388 But with the context of watching the game, there’s no room for confusion

@RiKSh4w 11 месяцев назад

18:20: PSA for any 'draft' cards. If you right click the card it'll bring up the card to examine more closely and you can cycle through all the cards in that card's spellbook.

@SeanteBrown 11 месяцев назад

Good shit ma boi 💪🏾

@nicholasleyden2120 11 месяцев назад

“I’m an expert on Lord of the Rings now” into “Gollum is the before picture” is the expertise I live for

@BobBoican Месяц назад

(well actually voice) Gollum Patient Plotter depicts Gollum in the cave Bilbo meets him in in The Hobbit, whereas Smeagol Helpful Guide depicts the reformed 'Smeagol' who guides Sam and Frodo, so technically the Gollum card does come before the Smeagol card, unless you use the alternate art version of Gollum that depicts him (presumably) in Mount Doom!

@CenJohan 11 месяцев назад

In that second game, attack with Nazgûl makes them either chump with ghalta and you just play it out how you did with a likelihood of not dying, or they face an x=11 torment leaving them with no non lands and no cards in hand at 3 life

@anbuagent12 11 месяцев назад

My only complaint is not using the 9 different arts for Nazgul. Truly a flavor fail

@Crusina 11 месяцев назад

Is it even possible to do that on arena? Dark technology and all

@aidanm.655 11 месяцев назад

@@CrusinaYep! I spent 9 of my 100+ uncommon wildcards on one of each art. Just open the little browser option on the card when you select it for your deck and make sure craft is on.

@JesseS. 11 месяцев назад

youre lying, they arent wildcards. theyre cosmetics and theyre like 5k gold a piece.

@coronatheinebriator9891 9 месяцев назад

@@JesseS. they are 100% wildcards

@tolerateit13 11 месяцев назад

SO GLAD HB IS BACK!!

@deadded5793 11 месяцев назад

Yes!

@deadded5793 11 месяцев назад

14:30 should have definitely casted the torment

@lordspaz88 11 месяцев назад

19:26 Faceless Haven remains the Ringbearer even when it's not a creature. Interesting.

@andrewcasbourne6354 11 месяцев назад

There is an infinite combo with him. The landfall creature that tempts if u have no rin bearer, plus a sac outlet, plus scute Swarm or and landfall creature maker. You temp, trigger smeagol, sac ring bearer(not smeagol, scute or any other important piece), get land and trigger for the tempt, rinse and repeat

@lazercat6077 11 месяцев назад

53:27 I love how ironically seth punted here as the first striker had death touch so bombadil would not save his smeagol yet the opponent i guess was so impressed with his song he had to concede

@bulbasaurappreciator 11 месяцев назад

Definitely one of the coolest commanders from the set! More Brawl content in the future also please

@kaszael 11 месяцев назад

15:17, to answer your question Seth, yes, you should've tormented X=11. Opponent had 6 cards in hand, 4 permanents and 9 life. to stay alive, they would've needed to discard their whole hand, sac 3 things and lose 6 life to go to 3 and end up with only one permanent (probably Ghalta but it wasn't lethal then).

@Zerothas 11 месяцев назад

And before that, swing with the Nazgul which they would have needed to either trade Ghalta (unlikely) or take the 3. Taking he 3 means they have to sac everything to not die to the Torment outright. And blocking means they keep thrun lose their hand and go to 3.

@imaginarymatter 11 месяцев назад

I like adding Ich-Tekik and the other Splicers into the deck because Smeagol is the best Gollem commander.

@rupert7565 11 месяцев назад

I really hope you'll play a Ratadrabik + the ring temps you historic brawl. It's so great with boromir and a bunch of lotr cards.

@BrewersKitchen 11 месяцев назад

It's not exactly this, but I think you'll like my next video 😅

@rupert7565 11 месяцев назад

@@BrewersKitchen Based on the past that is a guarantee, even if it's not similar at all. Your videos are the best parts of goldfish for me. But seriously rata not caring if the legends are tokens makes it really great with the ring temps you.

@BrewersKitchen 11 месяцев назад

@@rupert7565 Thank you! ☺

@silverwolf340 11 месяцев назад

@@BrewersKitchenoooo I’m excited

@julianalvarez4231 11 месяцев назад

Made a deck like this and damn. 10 redundant combo pieces is nuts

@flashoxmtg 11 месяцев назад

Love all the Smeagol decks from mtggoldfish

@drvirjinity9705 11 месяцев назад

I don’t understand why he blocked with gollum in the end of the last match thinking Bombadil’s song would save, it had first strike and deathtouch, not sure why the opponent scooped either

@stevenyukabacera160 11 месяцев назад

I think both players thought it grants Indestructible?

@smegmalasagna 11 месяцев назад

8:38 You had protection ;-;

@deadded5793 11 месяцев назад

He wanted to get rid of his commander, since Seth can recast his and the opponent can not.

@smegmalasagna 11 месяцев назад

@@deadded5793 Seth literally said "This feels bad."

@deadded5793 11 месяцев назад

@@smegmalasagna and then said we have to trade because he was ahead on mana

@codysromek6154 11 месяцев назад

The Smeagol voice alone deserves a like! Well done, Seth! 😂

@zackestin1368 11 месяцев назад

So for historic brawl, it’s only big atraxa that’s in the op pool, not regular one. It’s kept in check by everybody playing super friends and just dying to aggro with it.

@Aronia55 11 месяцев назад

I play against big Atraxa all the time with a variety of decks. It's sadly not in the busted pile (might be to weak for the OP meta not sure but god does it wreck all my midrangy decks lacking counterspells)

@zackestin1368 11 месяцев назад

@@Aronia55 when queues slow down it can sneak into other queues just bc of the massive amount of meta share it has, the pools arent strict if youre waiting for a minute or so itll just pop you into a random opp, but if you try playing atraxa youll notice that 70+% of games are mirror matches or ragavan, and youll know.

@blueeyedenvy9715 11 месяцев назад

Great deck! Good to see you playing this format Seth! Can’t wait to see more

@chemicals8582 11 месяцев назад

Eldritch Pact: Are you sure you want to win the game?

@cedricappleby2006 11 месяцев назад

This is the worst Gollum impression I've ever heard. I'm in awe. (Also, fun video! Nice to see some Historic Brawl on here.)

@isaactodd1256 11 месяцев назад

Happy to see its brawl! I’m excited for this video.

@homebrewed 11 месяцев назад

So happy the content creators started to post the Smeagol decks :)

@UltimaChronos 11 месяцев назад

I don't know why, but every time you say "Tom Bombadil," it gets funnier. I burst out laughing when you said "Tom Bomba-dahle" 🤣

@derpyderperson2912 11 месяцев назад

Get on that brawl train! Make the format more popular!

@pyr666 2 месяца назад

"are we killing the mana dork" BOLT THE BIRD!

@Whitewingdevil 11 месяцев назад

I got a shadow of the enemy in a draft pool recently, pack one pick one, so I went hard mono-black and did okay, but MVP was absolutely shadow of the enemy, it either allowed me to replay all the creatures my opponent spent turns killing, or let me play all my opponent's best dead creatures. Honestly I mostly cast it on myself, but I did use it on a couple of opponents, still worked to give me a ton of late-game gas.

@franksmith8298 11 месяцев назад

I love that Seth also appreciates the Mark Riddick lands ❤

@MaxMckayful 11 месяцев назад

Love it when Seth plays Brawl. He's having so much fun with it!

@blillow5076 11 месяцев назад

You need to try a Dimir Mouth of Sauron historic brawl deck! I've been having using lots of interaction to set up a repeatable massive army threat to finish out the deck

@jbuzzcuzz9728 11 месяцев назад

Sad that Seth missed an opportunity to comment on how he was being murdered by a murder of crows

@BoshiYoshi 11 месяцев назад

Very happy to see more Historic Brawl content. Since Wizards ruined regular Historic for me, HB is my favorite format on Arena.

@BobardeZanzibar 11 месяцев назад

You can hear the trauma in Seth's voice when he talks about losing to birds.

@starmanda88 11 месяцев назад

Seth trying to do the voice repeatedly had me dying.

@FilippoCampana 11 месяцев назад

Why no binding the old gods? That card looks awesome in every aspect in this deck

@simionion9998 11 месяцев назад

What is the draft token in the back? I have never seen one with lightning

@tanja2651 11 месяцев назад

Love the Deck, Seth!

@mateocossani8231 11 месяцев назад

"We get protection so we are no dying to the windgracer" Blocks anyway jajajajjaaja

@AwwhHex 11 месяцев назад

If this deck has a mill theme, wouldn’t you say the Sword of Body and Mind synergizes well with the deck? Checkmate Seth! >:D

@honorableintent 11 месяцев назад

You early scooped again at 49:00. You could have played Witch-king of Angmar. Unless he could proliferate an additional two times on his turn, you survived with 8 or maybe 9 poison counters. And if you block the Voidwing, you force a sac of his last token off Skrelv's Hive so he has only the one generated that turn remaining. It buys you at least one extra turn, which could have been enough depending on top deck. This is moot if he had one proliferate spell and a removal for Witch-King, but he didn't have determined lethal, only possible.

@NMS127 11 месяцев назад

When I face old Atraxa in historic brawl, I'm just relieved it's not new Atraxa.

@JoaquinRicci 7 месяцев назад

is there a list for that mono W draw go deck? please please please?

@abzil2848 11 месяцев назад

Altar of demencia+dunedain ranger+scuttleswarm+Smeagol with 6 Land is a take all Lands from your opponent library and probably mill them with one Land trigger. You make a token the ring bearer, sac it before Smeagol trigger resolve, Land come into play, new token, ring it, sac it in response and repeat

@smigdiggel 11 месяцев назад

Dundain with a Sac outlet and ScuteSwarm goes infinite with smeagol (mills out the opps. deck) :O

@person3176 11 месяцев назад

seth, should i spend my wildcards on this? please and thank you.

@MoNk3y8oN3 11 месяцев назад

The torment second game would have totally saved you an you could have presented lethal next turn if they didn't draw a creature that was playable

@gaminggeckos4388 11 месяцев назад

37:19 He says, seconds before it DOES, in fact, end.

@suNn.K.O 11 месяцев назад

Not sure where you keep getting this 's' for the Nazgûl from. :^)

@TMidander 11 месяцев назад

We can have little a brawl, as a treat! =)

@Snst-404 11 месяцев назад

Maybe it's a bit late but can you play standard brawl with Ovika Convoke?, seems like a cool against the odds deck

@kemperfranklin1935 11 месяцев назад

I queued an opponent playing bombadil at the same time as you and i fr thought i died and came back as saffron olive

@taylormilleman7337 11 месяцев назад

I love the brawl content!

@danielspahn2593 2 месяца назад

Herald of Leshrak would be a powerhouse in this deck.

@dboeify 11 месяцев назад

I think you needed to also attack with the nazgul on the ghalta game

@cyn5910 11 месяцев назад

dunedain rangers also lets you tempt on landfall.

@bp7942 11 месяцев назад

Sauron the necromancer would really help by bringing back Nazgûl and getting another trigger every attack.

@plasmaticpanic4896 11 месяцев назад

Please build a deck around palantir of orthanc

@HyphenMint 11 месяцев назад

Wash away is actually insane. Without playing cleave it's 1 mana stop commander, with paying its a generic 3 mana counter.

@viziroth 11 месяцев назад

why not use 1 of each nazgul instead of 9 of the same? just need to click the arrow on the card when putting it in the deck

@theprogressivecynic2407 11 месяцев назад

FYI, you can click a card, then right click through its spellbook without having to search it. Also this seems like a shoe-in deck for Rise of the Dark Realms.

@holdenblessing2836 11 месяцев назад

8:38 why did he block doesn't he have protection from everything

@nathanreiber6819 10 месяцев назад

infinite mill combo with dunedain raiders, scute swarm and a sac outlet makes mill an actual wincon.

@Austin555661 10 месяцев назад

By far the strongest ring tempts you commander/nazgul commander is ratadrabik of urborg

@piralos1329 11 месяцев назад

I think there's a strong argument for Ratadrabik to be a strong Nazgul commander as well? Since, w/ Ratadrabik, Nazgul, and a free sac outlet, you can make an infinitely large Nazgul - potentially at instant speed! Due to being the Ringbearer making you legendary, you can then sac the legendary Nazgul to make a token copy - and repeat ad infinitum!! It gets even more absurd if you have any kind of token doubler, like Mondrak, which also works with Ratadrabik for other nonsense!!

@snafu2375 11 месяцев назад

Shadow of the enemy really sucks when you think about it. Rise of the dark realm is one more mana... shadow of the enemy you still have to pay for each creature

@kamikazebanzai1005 11 месяцев назад

We wants it

@homebrewed 11 месяцев назад

Would Rise of the Witch-king be a good thing for this

@arthurhenningsson2166 11 месяцев назад

I feel like syr konrad would have been a perfect fit for this deck

@davideleidi9361 11 месяцев назад

I dont think that brawl Is the MOST popular choice for a video

@evankraabel5415 11 месяцев назад

If youd sacced both creatures, the torment would have put them to 3 with no hand and no board. Not precisely lethal, but close enough

@garradon7602 11 месяцев назад

Please make a ratadrabik deck with the ring tempts you!

@30LayersOfKevlar 11 месяцев назад

you can QQ to tap all the manas

@benjiboy1337 11 месяцев назад

TIL, if a Man-Land becomes the Ring-Bearer, it remains so even when it stops being a creature.

@romanmisak441 11 месяцев назад

I hope someday you will play Smeagol in commanderclash

@Flashpoint-xe2gb 11 месяцев назад

Why wouldn't you torment there? They'd be at 3 and have no nonland permanents or cards in hand.

@jamesrule1338 11 месяцев назад

The One Ring is the new Sol Ring, in that every commander deck is going to run one.

@davidhansen5067 11 месяцев назад

I love the flavor of the Ring as well as its power level and absolutely would pay it a lot if it wasn't $50+...

@Darkflamecrusader 11 месяцев назад

@ :28 What Smeagol does What Smeagol wants Whatever make Smeagol happy sets you free.

@TonyScimeca 11 месяцев назад

Seth's irrational hatred for poison continues 😂

@CromwellMTG 11 месяцев назад

Imagine if Andy Circus became a pro player outta nowhere

@LMSDARKX 11 месяцев назад

I want more Phil.

@CrOeDdE 11 месяцев назад

more brawl content please!

@thijmenrevenboer8960 11 месяцев назад

Where is skyclave shade?

@JacoDeltaco 11 месяцев назад

I realy want to see Smeagol deck a mana less dregg deck

@Ronan-ht6jc 11 месяцев назад

This Atraxa isn't hellqueue, it's the other Atraxa that is

@user-ds7zh6fv2l 4 месяца назад

Ratadrabik has entered the chat

@mostlyholy6301 11 месяцев назад

I do not think Atraxa is actually in the "Hell queue" of Historic Brawl, I stopped playing the format because she seemed to be at least 50% of the meta regardless of which deck I played.

@sticksville 11 месяцев назад

I would put rise of the dark realms in over the similar LOTR card

@user-fc7fq6cs5b 11 месяцев назад

If he would’ve used the phytexian tower sacrificing the Nazgûl, and used the ashnods altar sacraficing the smegol, he could’ve cast torment and made the opponent sacrifice both their creatures and made them discard all h Their cards making it so lethal wouldn’t take place

@peterp799 11 месяцев назад

since when is there commander in MTGA? :O

@dcrow9650 11 месяцев назад

Played against this Smeagol in Historic Brawl. Probably one of my worst matches ever. This card is boosted.

@MidgarMerc 11 месяцев назад

4 mana Atraxa isn't a very good commander in 1v1 compared to the 7 mana one

@ryandowns6233 11 месяцев назад

the biggest punt i've ever seen Seth make was thinking that Historic Brawl is a casual format where you can do janky things.

@leemay7780 11 месяцев назад

in response to "I don't know about the Cleave mechanic" well I do know about the Cleave mechanic, it sux!

@kellynorton 11 месяцев назад

This deck made me hate brawl even more than I already do.

@zieger1 11 месяцев назад

I'm really disappointed you used the same art for all 9 nazgul

@mandyogilvie686 11 месяцев назад

381 like

@jancukasu 11 месяцев назад

Will this deck works in regular commander? I don't mean for a super competitive one, but enough to make us play a fun game in a pod without dying pretty prematurely

@cpt.arctourus7950 10 месяцев назад

Why will mtg arena not let me play brawl

@ODIRGO 11 месяцев назад

Now you see the reason I stopped playing Brawl?? We live in a time with an insane amount of legendary creatures, yet almost the only thing you see is Atraxa, Sauron, smeagol and sometimes an aragorn. it's so boring.