Who would have guessed the solution to the meta was the world's most brutal parrot. What an ungodly monstrosity, Dr Frankenvd, you've truly outdone yourself
That's a great deck, I was just thinking about Feather as one of the possible solutions, since Feather seems like the premium shell for mutate creatures, as you can easily protect it with Fight as One and God's Willing. I was thinking about Mardu version with Snapdax as well, but in the end I think Jeskai version might be a bit better, since you can afford to play Mystical dispute, and Vadrok/Lore Drakkis to get back the protection spells you've cast earlier in the game. The ultimate tech is to use 4x Stormwind Capridor on the deck alongside with burn cards to be able to recycle them with Feather as repeatable permanent buffs. Light of Hope can be used to deal with Fires, and if they don't have fires, it can be reused with Feather to get a bunch of counters. Reckless Airstrike can be used to deal with Ovens or to pump Capridor by +3/+3 with Feather. Finally, Mythos of Vadrok can be used as repeatable one sided board wipe with Feather (just direct 1 damage to any of your creatures and 4 damage to any other targets). You can play mainboard Hushbringer, as it can be easily protected in this shell, and it can be mutated upon, and Healer's Hawk is another pretty good mutate target. Cards like Octopus, Lore Drakkis and Vadrok can provide card advantage for Curious obsession-like playstyle (Vadrok also allows to bring back spells to your hand with Feather). Alternatively, if you can get a good mix of humans in, Of One Mind also looks pretty good in there. Faerie Godmother is another 1-drop worth considering and can also serve as repeatable combat trick for Tenth District Legionnaire to make it fly, though not as good as hawk for mutations. Not sure how to make a deck our of this, but there are plenty of room for interesting synergies that can deal with multiple threats in the meta, the only weak point is Teferi, since bouncing mutate creatures can hurt. I guess Dimir Flash is also a bit problematic, but at least we can play Mythical Dispute for that match up.
Great deck. At this point im just glad when I see someone playing outside simic. It seems to me that the meta has become a book called "one thousand and one ways to sneak an agent of treachery and cook a cat"
LVD, Apex of the Hate I've been playing Snapdax in Jeskai onto a Sprite Dragon. Surprising the opponent on turn 5 with a 6/7 flying double strike that shoots a creature as it enters is so satisfying. Especially if it draws a card for each strike with 🐙 😄
Thank you Mr. Legend. Thank you for your response to my comment on your last video... And thank you for this video in response to my comment on your last video. You are the best Arena streamer out there. This video proves it. Sorry I was sore with you, bro. It's cool you listen to your fans. I've watched every single one of your YT vids my man. Keep up the excellent and informative entertainment. THUMBS UP!!!
Porcuparrot is so sweet in deathtouch decks. I run it in a game with Vraska, Swarm's Eminence, and if you mutate on top of her token the porcuparrot can tap to destroy target planeswalker too!
Bit of channel feedback. I love that you put up cards you reference on screen in case relatively ignorant viewers such as myself don't recognize what you're talking about. A very nice touch that few other MTG channels do!
That second game was brutal, total 'lockdown'. I love this deck! I forgot about Kunoros, wasn't impressed by it but now it makes sense. I also forgot about Mowu he's great in a counters deck. Outstanding brew!
That's a cute Deathparrot deck. Building something around Hushbringer certainly came to my mind with all these Girudas running (swimming? floating?) around. Now I feel even better about Heliod's Punishment in my Lurrus deck which is a great answer for mutant strategies.
I used the deathtouch porkuparrot in draft got 7 wins. Thanks man for the awesome interactions. I wanted to come back and let you know, wouldn't have tried it without seeing this the other day.
Thank you LVD for this great deck. I hated the current meta and this counters it nicely. I don't really like combo decks so this one is one of my favourites from you so far :)
I like mardu colour combination and i love this deck. It's just powerful. Gyruda was a problem, but this deck shuts a lot of others combos in historic. Perfect balance of hate (with hushbringer and kunoros), destroying creatures, damage, lifegain and card drawing.
Thanks, this deck works surprisingly well. And any excuse to play Hushbringer main deck is welcome. Those immediate concedes from the hordes of Gyrudas and Agents are priceless. The Cathartic Reunion is somewhat weak, I think. It either comes too soon when you don't want to discard anything yet, or too late, when you have nothing to discard, most of the time it was a dead card for me. Trying replacements, maybe a 2 drop deathtouch creature instead.
Luca thank you for this deck!!!!! I was already annoyed by the Gyruda and Winota format that are invading the meta. I'm already testing it and n this context, this deck is even competitive.....and sooooooooooo much fun watching Gyruda player going in panic, or doing the "shame give-up" because they played Gyruda and nothing happened!
I’ve playtested this deck for a while and I have to say it is surprisingly very good against popular meta deck like Winota, Gyruda and monored. Here’s my advice to improve the deck.: 1) I run 2 Gideon Blackblade instead of a Kunoros and a Hushbringer. They are really good against control (probably the deck’s worst matchup) and also provide Vigilance to your porcuparrot, which could allow some neat combo, like attacking and tap it to blow up a blocker before damage. Side note: you lose Jegantha, but you get more consistency with the deck. 2)I usually run 3 mortify and 1 heartless act. The reason is that the deck can handle pretty well the early game, but loses strength against control as the games goes on. Mortify helps you deal with Fires decks and other Enchantment based decks, without losing coverage against creatures.
This is the most fun and coolest looking deck I've seen in Ikoria! I want more! I want to see you take this deck up against CGB. That would be fun! I love CGB too, but sometimes his blue Tefari butt needs a kickin'! 😜
Can you try out a Sultai Titan's Nest deck? I figured, that Sphinx of the Guildpact is a free spell most of the time which is neat :) Worthy Includes: Sphinx, The Binding of the Titans, Relentless Pursuit (Putting stuff into graveyard while getting important stuff back), Extiction Event (meta call) and then some killer top ends: Lochmere Serpent, Kiora Bests the Sea God, Shark Typhoon, Lilliana, Dreadhorde General, Planewide Celebration, Agent of Treachery, even Underrealm Lich. The possibilities seem endless - the only thing being that you will have to avoid top ends with too many mana symbols in the casting cost as it gets clunky easily.
I like that you are doing something different, something other than a cat oven deck (which is what a lot of streamers are doing - BORING). Also, I like that you have a link to the decklist. Thanks!
Omg This deck tool me from gold 4 to gold 1 in an hour. So many concedes. Not sure about cathartic bond ( I seem to empty my hand often)but porcuparrot on vampire is amazing and hushbinger is gold vs half the meta
i loved this deck, but i made a couple changes. i felt like creature removal wasn't a problem so i took out heartless act for cubwardens. it works so well! also, i wanted to share my favorite experience i had with this deck. i was against blue/white fliers. i didn't draw a foulmire knight or a vampire of the dire moon or a porcuparrot. so when he landed sephara it looked really bad. but jegantha came in so huge with the tap for mana so that i could pump a knight of ebon legion and mutate a snapdax to shoot her down. that was so much mana that there was no way i could have done it early enough without jegantha!
@@atmargraff1 - Nah, your original post is fine; I think people know what you were saying. I just wanted to point out that it was a double missed opportunity, lol. Mutate + Hushbringer.
As far as I know form the rulings the hound does not stop Gyruda since its put into play ability is a replacement ability so the card never actually gets to the graveyard. Last I heard cards like leyline of the void and Kunoros stopping Gyruda was a bug in the arena program.
Playing t2 Hushbringer against Simic almost gave me a heart attack. I ran maindeck Hushes the first week of TBD standard to hate out Monoblack Devotion (which was expected to be a frontrunner) and got STOMPED by opposing T3 Uros that didn't die thanks to my Hushbringer.
Some thoughts (I have been playing Mardu mutate on ladder for quite a bit now) I feel like the creature shooting is somewhat awkward and slow to beat the meta. I swapped in dreadhorde butcher, which grows and carries counters when mutated, and I also ran Vulpakeet, which is really cheap to mutate. The best piece for me was marauding raptor which can come down after knight of the ebon legion and make your mutates extremely cheal
When building this deck I started out with Marauding Raptor given the great synergy with Snapdax. Problem is the lack of another good two mana Mutate enabler. Dreadhorde Arcanist was the closest to being playable but I didn't have enough cheap spells to return. At that point I had to give up on Raptor as it killed too many of my own creatures and the deck morphed into this build.
I was gonna avoid standard since Gyruda seemed kinda busted. But this deck gives me hope. Did want to brew around Kunoros and Hushbringer already. The other hatebears were made way too weak to see play in standard like 2 mana 1/3 w/ no keywords or 2 mana 2/2 w/ no keywords.
The first Lurrus deck I made have Pridemates and Hushies too, lol... she's busted right now, shuts down half the meta. Tho I use way more mutators in my mutate decks, like twice
I also made a mardu mutate but I kinda focusing on the mutate part of it (Mutate on the bat and what not), and that makes a deck a little too slow. I really like ur build, it seems way more efficient, I think I might try it
Great deck as always. Do you or anyone else see a way to make this deck rotation proof? I am a fairly new player and don't have that many wildcards to spend :/
I've already tryed that and it's really hard to make it work. You'll need a ton of mutations ontop of the Glimmerbell plus the Porcuparrot in order to make some decent damage. Problem with that is you're sinking alot of mana into one body, making almost no extra plays, and the opponent can disarm your strat by just bouncing or killing the monstrosity with only a couple manas. If you got the cards go and test it, but I would'nt spend wildcards on it. Cheers!
You'd need to be putting a deathtouch counter on it then to really have a viable machine gun, since you're now mutating a glimmerbell and not a creature with deathtouch. And now you're adding more moving parts and making it much harder on yourself, killing one creature per turn is very effective as demonstrated in the vid
@@PandemyaSound Yeah there are much better ways to make your parrot kill everything, glimmer does good work with it in limited but for constructed I'd much rather mutate onto a deathtoucher and then optionally untap with an external source than mutate onto an untapper and try to find deathtouch from a third card. Deathtouch + ping is just so much stronger than untap + ping that you want the untap to be the optional extra part, not the deathtouch
The two-color combinations are named after the guilds in ravnica. The allied three-color combinations are named after "shards" in shards of alara. Their names are bant, Esper, Grixis, Jund and Naya. The enemy three color combinations are called "wedges" and were being introduced in khans of takir. Their names are Abzan, Jeskai, Sultai, Mardu and Temur. So Mardu just refers to the enemy color wedge of white/red/black. Jeskai is blue/red/white which is the color combination and fires is because fires of invention is the most important card in the deck. You can check this stuff out on MTG wiki. It's really super confusing for anyone that isn't already super deep into MTG.
Wedges (2 allied colors and 1 enemy, forming and arrow in the pentagram on the back of the cards) are named after the clans of Tarkir. Shards (one color and his adjacent) are named after the Alara shards. Two color pairs get their names from the Ravnica guilds. Ikoria have triomes similar to the Tarkir clans but the focused color is the enemy instead one of the allied colors. It's unlikely that they get replace the old names.
