Modern Horizons 3 Set Review Part 3 || North 100 Ep165 

Just wanted to say: when talking about 'Thief of existence' the part that the permanent has to be noncreature got missed. So sadly it does not exile initiative creatures or a marit lage token.

"So tell me more about this new Birthing Pod." I love Nelly as the N100 agitator.

Anytime I hear Paul on tech say “hello” I just picture him as the shopkeeper from Frozen, Oaken, who says “Yoo hoo!, Big Summer Blowout.”

"The Hunger Tide Rises is probably a reference to Grist, the Hunger Tide." --Serge, 2024 xP

I nominate "Garbage Pail Kids" for the multi-creature-combo deck

47:58 So I went on a whole Wrenn deep dive on one of my streams this past month and her lore is pretty cool. Long story short; she finds trees that can handle her internal fire, if they aren't already sentient, they become sentient, she names them based on when she FIRST bonds to them, before the tree can be overwhelmed by her inner fire she asks them what they want to do; some of them want to go back to their home plane and live as a normal tree, while others might want to maintain sentience or even stay somewhere they weren't native to. Yes that is an abbreviated version. Def check out her wiki cuz she is cooler than I realized.

Last time I was this early, thirst for knowledge wasn't just why I watched north 100, it was a multi format all-star.

The doot doot doot song is called "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott, for those wondering.

23:36 The song is Powerhouse by Raymond Scott.

Brainsurge was snubbed at the Oscars

As a wise commenter once said " time to watch a podcast for a format I don't play cause... Wheeler "

47:50 "the Tree that Wrenn Used to Know"

Oof, the way they misread Thief of Existence. "Noncreature, Nonland." It can get rid of a lot, but it can rid of neither half of Dark Depths, nor any of the Initiative creatures.

I love wheeler having the 'It's under the sauce' voice talking about the MDFC cards. "It's also a land"

48:00 - "The tree soon to be known as Six"

Best line ever ... "Sometimes its fine just playing a Giant Spider" brings me back to my start in revised.

Sadistic Glee has one advantage over Blade of the Bloodchief in that it is common, creating an infinite loop for Pauper. o:

Jamming a deck with phlage and every 3 cmc reanimation spell they've printed recently 😋😋😋

Kudo is meant to played in +1/+1 decks, buffing your stuff while making their stuff puny. Nadu is really stupid with Bristly Bill, Spine Sower, playing a land puts +1/+1, which trigger and maybe puts land, which repeats the process until you don't hit a land. Then do your shuko thing to get the process started again.... you can draw your entire deck.

23:42 that song is Powerhouse by Raymond Scott. It takes a second to get to the part everybody knows.

@47:14 I propose we call the creature mish-mash deck the Meat Buffet style decks.

Good friend of mine played Upheaval Tog throughout its time in Standard, and he always called it Doctor Teeth. At least that's how I've always known it.

If constant long set reviews is how this podcast stays weekly im all for this release schedule.

I want these to go even longer! North 100 Review Episodes are my new Phish shows.

my wife has already used Enlightened Tutor to grab a MDFC land in her 4 land belcher deck

I believe the major criticism of Invert Polarity is that it's not a Cancel/hard counter. It can't actually counter "all of this thing"-type effects, like board wipes, and only half of the time counters spells that only have a single target on the entire board.

I wonder if there’s some version of aristocrats that plays enough green creatures to run the flare of cultivation

1:12:16 ok so. (Nelsom vaguely touched on this) Kudo while it is technically a hate bear for your opponent's creature I think it shines the MOST in the counters deck because it makes some of your creatures even bigger and makes your side quadruple the size of your opponent's side ya know?

Clearly the "all the different combos in one deck" archetype should called combo platter

This is the longest set review you have done *so far* good luck guys

So looking forward to the next part

I'm hearing that MH3 provided a great boost to burn/aggro strats since everyone will be playing lands that bolt themselves

23:37 Powerhouse by Raymond Scott.

18:14 lol I feel Wheeler's pain in my bones! (because I'm old, and also because I've been saying Eladamri correctly since high school ... which is to say, I'm old)

Nelly really said oh that's gore of my comfort card

I am suprised Legion Leadership didn't make it. I get that 2 mana is twice as much as berserk, but it just kills people or is a land.

re-Birthing Ritual: Bare minimum, it is 1G = EoT look at top 7 cards of your library if you control a creature. That's information. And with as often as you guys tutor, search, and shuffle your decks, that's ever-changing information. It informs you about if you should play aggressive or defensive for the next few turns. That being said, it's not AMAZING even in best-case situations, IMO. I feel it is an easy cut from most decks which would play it, but that some players will find homes for it.

Surprised not to hear Elesh Norn Grand Cenobite come up in the Kudo discussion.

I'm thinking of Flare of Cultivation as "Cultivate with basic landcycling (0)" If you sac a mana dork to Flare, you've turned your permanent that taps for mana into a permanent that taps for mana, and the Flare in your hand into a basic land, at no cost. So if that's enough of an improvement on Cultivate to make it worth running again, cool, but you still need to want to run (Better) Cultivate.

"The tree soon to be known as Six"

I’m sure many peope have said it already but Thief of Existence being ‘noncreature’, nonland is very important :)

For the Garbage Platter creature version, we can call it Garbage Charcuterie

Excellent, as always. Thank you!

It's not relevant for canlander, but Sadistic Glee is a common so you can play it with Basking Broodscale in Pauper

So, Shipwreck Dowser in Red, but also better because it's a land. Sweet!

Wheeler: I hope we don't get too many more (of these lands) *10 years later* You know back in my day, the basic lands were single sided...

Surprised none of yal talked about legion leadership admitadly a land that's also sort of a breaserk on the other side seems very playable

I actually think Kudo might be sweet in counters, since it's base P/T

That Tree Before Wrenn Do It

Do they have any highlander tournaments besides hosting the championship?

47:02 gotta be garbage zoo or garbage menagerie if its all the a+b creature combos

I think I'm a fan of "Garbage Parade"

I say the theoretical multi-creature-combo deck should simply be called Garbage Men

Actual best application for Birthing Ritual is in dredge to check my top 7 cards so I can decide to draw the top card, or mill my way to the card I want to draw

Isnt Kodo pretty dece in counters? Everything will constantly be smaller ^^

What happened with the cut to Serge at the start of the gold cards?

Thief of existence says noncreature so it's much more limited

ghostly flickering my mystic peak then getting it back with the pinnacle monk

How is Sacpeshift into Field "fair"? XD

47:26 Actually, six is even.

Good work as always

Invert polarity their farewell, win the flip...Oh.

I just want to play Kudo with Norn

Dr. Teeth is the muppet.

i can't believe i heard Nelson say a cuss

i love baby grist it’s so cute

hot bant seeker walk pods in your area

Cancel? Don't let's be silly!

I think Nelson should be allowed to swear on podcasts

Ruin Ghost MDFCs? 😂

Doctor Teeth.

Serge Misspeaks drive me nuts, thank you for addressing it, I still love you Serge

These instant and sorcery MDFC lands makes me excited to see how snapcaster lines evolve. Snapcaster for a land may win the most games for some decks

Engage

Ok for birthing ritual, Wheeler has for sure been taking his crazy pills again. I can’t think of a card I would be less scared to see on the other side of the table, no matter the turn or matchup. It’s just a midrange card, and not only is it a bad midrange card but midrange is hot trash. And it doesn’t even work in creature combo because I can’t turn my tokens into anything useful, and I’m not sacking my Rosie to this ever

For those wondering, Wrenn’s treefolk partners don’t die when she leaves them. Whenever her treefolk want to stop traveling, she drops them off and finds a new partner. Six is from Kessig (as are Four and Seven, and why Wrenn and Seven was in MID) and he’s now back there, vibing. As of now, Seven is the only treefolk Wrenn partnered with that is canonically dead.

Doctor Teeth.

Thief of Existence is so funny to me because not only does countering it not stop the removal, it keeps them from drawing the card as compensation.

Edward P Beard Jr always referred to psychatog as a “basketball with teeth” and lamented the fact that one of his silliest and quickest pieces of art became so iconic in MTG.

1:00:00 Thief of Existence specifies noncreature

Petition to do more beejlander

For a while I've been brainstorming a triple mox sultai good stuff deck and mh3 has helped that so much. Pitching new grist to cultivate and untapping and playing like an unearth or something on it and blowing up an urzas saga is pretty cool. So is wrighting a creature away to get a mystic sanctuary to rebuy the reanimate I previously used on one of ur creatures onto another one of ur creatures.

Probably more in the Commander side of things, but I keep forgetting that Birthing Ritual lets you look before you elect to sac a creature. As such, I'm very into giving it a shot in Bant Blink. Even if I stop going up the ladder pretty quick, I don't hate cashing in my ETB draw creature for a ETB utility creature that mucks some part of my opponent's plan.

I am so sad to see Kudo regarded as such a mid card. I think that the card is much much less of a hate bear and is maybe one of the best cards in tokens or go wide strategies. It makes all of your 1/1 and 0/1 deal real damage and become threats, but the best part is that it make them unable to easily trade with. Adeline, rabblemaster, and Anim all make 1/1s that are attacking and can just be blocked without issue, but with Kudo those will probably end up sticking around and adding a lot of damage because you don't want to trade your caves of chaos adventure or white plume adventure to a random 1/1. And Kudo gets so much better with any anthems or counters. Wedding announcement, flowering of the white tree, warleader's call all make you denser board unblockable because your creatures just kill all of you opponents for free. I don't think this card is deck or meta changing. But I think it has the protentional to be the best card in tokens. dies to doom blade tho

Times Serge has said eldraine instead of theros in these set reviews so far: 2 Loving these reviews! I can't wait to get my hands on like, one of every card from this set I can

I am kicking myself for not trying to pick up Phlage earlier. I dont know Modern at all, didnt think the card would be used there. And now its like....40 dollars.

Alright, hear me out for Flare of Cultivation. Dryad Arbor, sac and free cultivate. That's the best I got

Birthing ritual is very good in a recurring nightmare/chthonian nightmare deck, from my experience in gladiator. Especially when you don’t care as much about upgrading because you can get what you sacrificed back easily, so you can cash in a two drop for another two drop.

Six + Underworld Breach/Mishra's Bauble

Am I misreading Birthing Ritual or does the wording follow such that if you don't sacrifice a creature, you just get to look at the next seven cards without having to tuck them away to the bottom? (Also the "wheels are turning" music you were thinking of is Powerhouse)

Hi paul!

I'm glad that they brought up the white flare being better than they were giving it credit, cause of the ones I've tested it *feels* the best imo when it's in your hand you're just allowed to aggressively disrespect your opponent. yeah I'll tap out and swing my entire board, what are you gonna do? kill me on the crack back? set up a bunch of blocks to trade evenly?

They turned my poor boy (Mwonvuli Acid Moss) into a monster (Sowing Mycospawn)!

I think Springheart Nantuko could be an Aristocrats card. It just makes a lot of bodies for not very much mana. So long as you can play it, hold priority play a land so you immediately get two bodies, I think you're at least feeling alright about it, and then if it sticks around it just gets better from there. It's pretty close to a Mogg War Marshall, with a lower floor, higher ceiling, and I don't think there's any other card that comes close to that ratio bodies to mana investment without being like double the mana cost or more. Even a lot of the cards that get there in terms of efficiency are like 3 mana and take several turns to realize that value.

I 100% heard Wheeler say "Sabine's Reclamation" and now I'm hoping that means he's been play SWU on the side

Can you use birthing ritual to just look at the top seven? like a weird mirri's guile that can cash in fodder creatures in for shuffles and deck manipulation?

I cant wait for Assassin's Creed/fallout/doctor who to get an episode (maybe 2 but i think one)

Birthing Ritual is also powerful in an aristocrats deck, play turn one a creature that makes another creature when it dies end then get another „free“ creature.

I gotta say this is the first time I’ve ever disagreed with Wheeler. Birthing Ritual seems really bad.

the creature combo garbage platter deck should definitely be garbage comrades