Mono-Black Devotion, but it's Rush of Dread Combo, Actually | Much Abrew 

"Is high noon even good?" Proceeds to get demolished by high noon.

Opponent #1's red eldrazi list was really cool, I've been playing Abzan Eldrazi for a while now so seeing a completely different spin on it is awesome and I love the cards that the red uses.

I absolutely would watch an Oregon trail play through

The Oregon Trail: Congrats, you have dysentery.

Cool to see Seth playing Mono-Black Deviation, hiding a Rush of Dryad combo :)

Please PLEASE do an Oregon Trail playthrough! Oregon Trail 2 is so fun to watch people play!

Cleansing Wildfire on your own Indestructible land is something I haven’t seen before, pretty cool!

Oregon Trail playthrough would be fantastic!

MBD without Obliterator. I don't care if it's suboptimal how could you?

Mono black devotion is maybe my favourite deck so pretty hype to watch Seth (probably better known as SaffronOlive) !

I love how this is one of those decks Seth keeps coming back to and updating every year or two

50:27 I've never seen Seth give up quite like that 😆

I'd watch an Oregon trail playthrough. Also, I've already gone like 4-2 or something in BO1 while watching the video. Love this archetype, and it gave me a good reason to craft the bloodletters (I already had the Rushes from just craving packs and the mana base from a previous devotion deck),

i'd watch oregon trail

Seth repping the days n' daze shirt gives me lots of joy. Great choice!

That mono red eldrazi deck looked really sweet

I would 100% watch an oregon trail playthrough

I would watch an Oregon Trail stream. Seth will butcher the names of everything there too.

Combo decks are good when they have a shell that’s good regardless 99% of the time I feel, really smart to find that home in this deck, nice brew!

I would DEFINITELY watch you playing Oregon Trail…on a magic channel.

Oof, match 1 game 1 opponent getting three Cleansing Wildfires + indestructible land is pretty nuts (especially when their deck can't have too many of them due to needing colorless mana producers), as well as double Forsake Monument. They ramped harder than a lot of green decks do.

I would love an Oregon trail playthrough solely to hear you say "Or-gon Trail" for multiple hours.

Great vid! I loved how you worked the combo into an already viable deck so it has backups. Would def watch an oregan trail playthrough also.

47:49 Should’ve cracked the map token, Seth

is that a Days 'n Daze shirt that Seth is wearing?? hell yeahh

To Quote Troye Sivan, "I feel the Rush, Addicted to your touch!"

I find it amazing how much diversity you have in your Explorer games... *MY* queue is nothing but Greasefang or Amalia combo

Love the update to the deck! This is the only deck I play in pioneer. My version has a few underworld dreams / Shelly + a peer into the abyss, so you have a few other combo kills. It's nice to be able to board into a decent mid-range deck with some good creatures and card draw

I would absolutely watch an Oregon trail video

Mono red eldrazi sounds amazing

Definitely building this deck ❤ I love mono black

I absolutely loved the Oregon trail. It's probably not very exciting now, kinda like how the ninja turles were not as hard-core as I remember.

I’ve been running a version of this deck that includes the Sorin Vein Ripper combo and it’s felt pretty great. Highly recommend

Brings me back to the days of trying to jam scourge of the sky claves with warlock class

This is totally been the deck I wanted to brew for a while and was thinking explorer for nykthos as well so I appreciate having a better deck builder to copy from! 😅

That opponent was basically just playing High Noon to turn Spell Queller into straight counter (instead of temporary, O-Ring style counter), right? Definitely a fun idea, but seems more cute than anything. Probably the only thing that might make it less cute and more viable is that if they don't draw their Quellers they can at least use the High Noon as expensive removal.

Seth's play in the next to last match was kinda baffling. I think he must of have been tired and frustrated.

Oregon Trail playthrough we need it!

Would definitely watch an Oregon Trail playthrough!

37:17 tap all the swamps plus a castle to play bloodletter and nykthos (plus activation), then activate a castle and you can cast the card because you will have 7 mana left over to cast what you draw

Any chance we can get playlist that just groups stuff together by format. Like modern only playlist

Is it worth it to put some white dual lands in to put in Revival/Revenge for a redundant win-con? The Revival side also has some value.

I've been toying around with a similar list, which I kinda shelved in lieu of Waste Not, but I might go back and make both.

Hell yeah I'd watch an Oregon Trail playthrough

I'd love an Oregon trail playthrough

I played against Seth running a Smugglers Surprise deck in standard the other day, waiting to see if it is included in a video since he wasn’t streaming.

When is the Oregon Trail video going up?

I'm already playing a version of this for pioneer 😁

I would watch an Oregon Trail play through!

I'll playing the bad version with Peer into the Abyss bc it combos with more cards, but maybe I should adjust

I'm a huge fan of Rush of dread, even when played fairly. It's super useful removal that gets around protections/indestructible. at worst it's a Sheoldred's Edict for 4 which kinda sucks, but more often than not you can at least get 2 or more sacs if the opponent has 3 or more creatures, making it even out with the cost of '2CMC destroy a creature' but on a single card. Late game it can be a super good discard spell, getting 2 or more cards discarded for 5 mana. Because of rounding up, you can even hit people with a full hand size with a 'discard 4' which is BRUTAL. The loose half life effect is probably the best play even without the combo in place because it can make almost any deck race-able. if they've had no lifegain for the entire game so far, you're at least guaranteed to drop them to 10, usually less because of shock lands or other small life cost effects. very easy to clean up at that point. It can even swing a game that's stalled out as a topdeck if you can spree for all 3 effects

Orgon is my favorite state

Sign me up for the Oregon Trail stream!

thanks seth

10/10 would watch an Oregon Trail video.

İ will never fully understand Seth's hatred towards black enchantment removal 😂

I love the redundancy of this deck. Warlock class looked really janky on the deck tech but those games against stone brain show its real power. Plus the level 2 impulse turned out very good.

I’d try and fit sorin vein ripper into this

I absolutely love Phyrexian Arena. As a mono black player, I run 4 of em a lot. Probably not a good idea, but it does work so I will keep doing it

Interesting. What about Coffers in Modern?

38:53 Wouldn’t meathook x=4 give three drain triggers tho?

Yes please play Oregon Trail. I would love to watch a gameplay video of that.

Do you think that lively dirge has potential in standard? - it basically is 5 mana to tutor up any 4 drop creature from your library to the battlefield - you could get Sheoldred, bloodletter or any other 4 drop creature on turn 5, but it also has flexibility as a tutor

I love anything with Phyrexian Arena. Such a great card.

That failed meathook against High Noon was sad. If they didn't have a counter you win there.

Invoke despair would be a fantastic sideboard option against Waste Not, maybe it could be a consideration?

Just wondering why not run invoke despair?

100% will watch Oregon trail. The better you do in the game, the more rares you get in you next league.

I'd watch an oregon trail video, and an organ trail video, as long as the characters are named after mtg character lol

Hate how fast he scooped to draws game one has plenty of time to come back with the combo

30:45 Seth still unwilling to accept Black gets limited Enchantment removal smh

The deck is too expensive. Rush of dread worked out in my seal but card is too narrow in usage.

I feel like Tithing Blade would be good in a deck like this

>"It looks like mon-black devotion, but it's not!" >It's actually just mono-black devotion

rush of you area dead is fun af but i personally wouldn't call it a combo card since it has good power by itself and not only due to it's versatility. dread and avarice are themselves both great awesome black cards that solidify the identity of black of "while you play magic i'm here playing poker"

I built a very similar deck, and really does some work in best-of-one explorer. It actually seems to do pretty well against aggro decks as they tend to keep greedy hands and thoughtseize really punishes them for it. There's enough incidental life gain that it can stall them out. Control decks it does decent with too because so many cards are must-answer threats. The decks it doesn't seem to do well against are non-traditional aggro decks like poison or mill. I would actually like to try it in paper but it's so expensive :sob:

Warlock class, any other wound reflection effect.

I fully support an Oregon Trail playthrough!

Yeah I'd watch Oregon Trail. might want to stream it though because you can just take it easy and talk to chat

Please do make an Oregon trail video and name the other pioneers MTG RU-vidrs

i could see this brew getting competitive, maybe i could benefit getting more ways to tutor nykthos or combo pieces, or getting more agressive card draw

"Teaching Arena Boomers About High Noon"

24:05 Your opponent isn’t casting anything for the same reason you’re not casting anything: you both have hands full of removal and you both know it. He Duressed you and you Thoughtseized him.

Deck should definitely be playing sorin ripper

I see MonoB Devotion, I click. Personally I prefer to play Hopeless Nightmare in the main over thoughtseize/duress. Sure, you don't get to pick what they discard, but it gets another black pip OTB.

Oh shit Seth, is that a Days and Daze shirt?

Tymaret, chosen from death. All I'm saying....

"Gary Merchant" Look seth, its either Gary or Gray Merchant. Not both

watched

I really fill like we are on different ladders i fight against so manybof these decks

Please play Oregon trail OR organ trail

Double it and take it from the next person.

I still disagree with black "breaking the colour pie" with respect to having enchantment hate. Being stuck playing white or green - two colours that share a LOT in terms of what they can do - to get an enchantment off the board I think is a crime, and not the Thunder Junction type. Black being the colour of decay seems to make the most sense to get enchantment removal compared to red or blue, as enchantments can decay over time for various reasons - time, for example. Also Duress and Thoughtseize can already get rid of them from the opponent's hand. Incidentally, I would not be adverse to one or two copies of Karn the Great Creator or something similar so you can turn your opponent's artifacts into something you can remove via Murderous Rider et al. About 49 minutes in, maybe you could have Shot the Murderous Rider to stop the opponent from gaining life with the Helix?

Oregonian here… It’s not pronounced Oregon… it’s pronounced Oreg’n… Oregonians are very particular about that in spite of the fact that it’s a totally fabricated word with an indeterminate origin… But yes, I would definitely watch an Oregon Trail video!!

Gary lol

Dammit just what I didn't need, more mono black decks on Arena completely killing my mono red magda land hate deck. Literally this was the first deck I queued into today.

Love seeing this channel going from "Would this great card go well in this great archetype" Much Abrew to "Can JUJU BUBBLE win in Timeless?" Against the Odds over the course of a set

Instead of playing Phyrexian arena you should try Treacherous Blessing, along with a four of Beseech the Mirror. Than you can play an even stronger sort of toolbox build with toolbox removal and essentially 8 Bloodletter. You might need some more enchantments or artifacts to make beseech more consistent, though you already have plenty of Mai deck enchantments. You could even play a one off Phyrexian Obliterator to tutor up with mirror when you need a super strong blocker/attacker.

Idk if you're reading these comments anyway Seth, but if you do I apologize if my other comment was offensive. I have met a lot of people in person that I have asked a similar question to and haven't elicited anything other than understanding conversation. Didn't think it would hurt anyone's feelings, I'm just curious.

Literally faced this deck yesterday lol it was not fun 😅