I mean, he did open up with "This deck is absolute trash. Probably." The fact that most of his math is based on a false premise is basically written on the tin =P
A friend of mine hates playing --Modern-- Legacy (life is pain), so he has a "hostage negotiation" deck where his opponent has to save him from himself. It involves a F(irst) T(urn) S(uicide) strategy with Griselbrand, and that's just gorgeous to me.
Oh, sorry folks; didn't check back until now! I don't have his entire decklist since it's been a while, but I recall the dream hand for FTS needed at least three Dark Rituals (it's incredibly gimmicky), an Elvish Spirit Guide + Crop Rotation, and a fetchland to bring out a shockland. You could tap the shock when it hit, then sacrifice it to Crop Rotation (using ESG to pay it) for another fetch + shock combo and tap it for enough floating w/three Rituals to cast big G and pay for game. If you didn't get FTS, there were other cards like Street Wraith to pay life + thin out the deck, and even dig up a Griselbrand if you didn't open with one of the four. Loss conditions were your opponent getting rid of your Griselbrands or taking you out first. I will say, he did get counter-decked at one point by someone who donated him a Platinum Emperion, and he didn't talk for the rest of the night, bahahaha!
@@megapussi don't joke about that. It really happend to me. I hat 17 life, he had 2 6/6 death shadows, I let them pass, thinking that worse case scenario, I would get bolted, and he bolted himself giving them both +3/+3 and I LOST!!!
The only flaw of this deck is that Agadeem's hits only creatures that each have different CMCs and so can only ever get 1 death's shadow back (still a 4 mana 12/12 ain't bad). PS: Shatterskull also don't hit face
While Agadeem's Awakening has the good part on the land side where you give your Death's Shadows +3/+3 to play your land, I think Call of the Death-Dweller would be better for actually getting your Shadows back out. Agadeem's Awakening can only ever get 1 Death's Shadow back from the gy at a minimum of costing 3 mana, whereas Call of the Death-Dweller will always cost 3, and will always be able to get you back one or two Death's Shadows. And THEN, you can also distribute a deathtouch counter and a menace counter between them.
One correction: For Agadeem's Awakening (6:20) you couldn't retrieve two Death's Shadow because they both have the same cost. Each creature you return with Awakening has to have a different mana cost.
Notably, you could also try to find cards that remove all of Death's Shadow's abilities if you want the 12/12* without having to lose all the life. *13/13
holy shit. Never seen such a technically "bad looking" presentation actually be THAT GOOD and then also on top be presented in just the perfect way to make the edgy janky style totally play out! Very nice! i have no clue about that game yet i still feel like i understood most of what you explained low key got the idea and had a ton of fun with this content
I'm glad I found your content. Mtg was overdue for a content creator that wasn't afraid to relentlessly shitpost. If anyone gives you any guff, they're probably just compensating for all their useless white decks. Keep up the good work.
Played it a lot back in 2015/2016 and it rocked. I was sick of the meta closing consistently by turn 4, splinter twin, amulet combo, affinity, tron, infect etc. The deck allowed me to consistently close the game by turn 3 and even turn 2 with some luck or good matchups. I grearly advise you to try it eith your friends, i dont know how the lists has changed but at the time the combo was: cicle as many cards as possible, colossal growth for 1 green mana, temur battlerage for the lethal.
Aw, I thought we're were gonna be building an Ad Nauseam OHKO deck like the good old days. Oh well. For context, in Alara/Zendikar standard, Death's Shadow, Ad Nauseam, Lightning Bolt, Devastating Summons and Goblin Bushwhacker were all in standard at the same time. You could easily make a deck that won the game on the spot if you cast Ad Nauseam and survived until untap. Sure, casting a 5 mana spell that lost you a ton of life and hoping to wait until next turn to win was not always reliable, but it was fun, and you could still play it as a normal-ish aggro deck until that point.
Nice video! As for the Thud/Fling strategy I played around with a pure red modern deck that was a token based deck that fuelled my Thunder-Thrash Elder since it had Devour 3, and then I'd eat most of my goblins save for a few other creatures. Infernal Plunge fuelled a lot of combos because of its low cost for a Dark Ritual-tier boost of mana. (BTW it would've been a total abuse of Altar of Dementia)
Thank you for spending a minute of my life to explain to me that when you're alive you are not dead and that when you're dead you're not alive while shouting "alright" in my ear every 5 seconds.
This is a lot like the already existing deck grixis death's shadow, which isn't super popular ATM but some of the principles in it are the same. With three colors you have 8 shock lands and can run 7-8 fetch lands, plus as you pointed out thoughseize. The deck also runs format staples like expressive iteration, ragavan etc. There is also a meme deck Seth (better known as saffron olive) made called "12 shadow" basically a mono black that combos your health down for this big meaty bois
As someone who wanted to get into magic. Be it in the Magic Arena game on PC or with my friend who wanted to join finances to buy some cards/decks , you convinced me that green big unga bunga monsters is the most fun and best thank you for this now we compete who will use the green deck when we meet to play for funs :)
Noah is smart because life is a resource and however much you have left does not matter if you’re still alive. It only matters if it hits zero. Good job Noah you get a cookie. 👍
I have fond memories of death battles. Both players able to deal some damage and heal some damage. Both players going below zero multiple turns in a row could feel epic as long as it didn't happen to often
I would recommend satyr fire dancer since it copies dmg dealt to face to a target creature which is nice tbf. Casting lightning bolt to face and then copying that very dmg to kill a creature that could be in your way is pretty handy. I just forget if its still legal of not.
stupid question, what happens if your live goes negative, like there are cards that prevent you from losing. would it get then more power as negative times negative is positive? or just no changes at all
Agadeem can only get creatures with different mana cost. so it can't bring back 2 death'S shadow, and shatterskull can'T do 4 damage to the face for 4 mana , not sure how you read those cards ahah
"Death is a boolean function" Funnily enough, if you code "if (life)" where life is a number, any computer would interpret life as false if it's 0 and true if it's greater than 0. So that joke is surprisingly accurate.
You might be able to create a two negatives make a positive situation with your life total by using platinum angel and the kirin and the other items that allow you to get below zero life. There is also a black card that automatically sets your life to zero the next thing is that there is only one card that that actually sets your life to negative through some shenanigans. All of these things are in black and red and Artifact except for the kirin.
Death Shadow has a ruling from 2020 stating that negative life is considered 0 life for the purposes of this ability. Otherwise, Shadow would be extremely busted
There's also Mutagenic Growth which pumps your Shadow for +2/+2 but you can pay 2 life to cast it for free which gives it +4/+4, two of which doesn't go away at end of turn!
Just a yugioh player passing through who happened to have this appear in their feed and was reminded of a certain archetype from the thumbnail This is quite reminiscent of the Dinomorphia (or Dinomorbious as it is famously known as) archetype whos titular monster, a self harming dinosaur-themed super sentai lady, comes with an insane 4000 attack stat-line (for reference, you start with 8000 lifepoints) but loses atk equal to your lifepoints. She can also chop your life points in half to copy the effect of a trap card you have already used, which will often be to protect yourself from damage or even summon another of herself. So as you can imagine, archetype is all about paying your life points to activate effects and such in order to pump your boss as high as possible while keeping your opponent from breathing on, and killing, you with your 1 lifepoint.
I feel like a deaths shadow prowess deck could actually work. Take out the creatures that aren’t deaths shadow, put in 4 monastery swiftspear, 4 soulscar mage, and this might actually be pretty good
I havent played magic in forever, but this reminds me of a deck I used to run based off of Shauku Endbringer, 7 mana, 5/5 flying legendary vampire, upkeep 3 life, cannot attack if there are any other creatures on the battlefield (yours or opponents) Tap, remove target creature from the game and put a +1/+1 counter on Shauku. I ran her with a lot of both players sacrifice things, wasnt hugely effective against speed decks but it was great at chewing up creature combos (even without shauku I had tons of ways to sacrifice other creatures) also right after I starting playing this, the indestructible keyword first appeared.... most players went "woah thats over powered" I went... Meh
I made my first deck way back with platinum angel wich makes you unable to lose until he is removed... i think they made him iligal in games now tho but i loved that card in my decks
I had a deck back in the day I called it my hate deck! The deck could win in 3 or 4 turns if you had the right cards! Deck focused using Hatred and a cheap monster that had some kind of walk ability! Pi$$ people off but was fun! Fog would stop you cold!
this video was very cool i enjoyed it slight issue with the deck though it only has 56 cards not 60 unless i miscounted but i counted 3 times so i doubt that
PLEASE DONT FORGET ABOUT Phyrexian Processor (4 colorless: As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life. 4, Tap: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.
As soon as my mind endoctrinated that HP was a resource my MTG skills evolved a lot. still prefer White and HP gaining though (I like to have a lot of hp), but still, aetherflux reservoir when I'm at 51HP T4 makes people sweat.
I'd love to try this deck. Pretty interesting, might even work sometimes. Lightning bolt isn't legal in Modern though. Edit: Lightning bolt is legal, but I still wouldn't play it here.
