Oops, All Ball Lightnings | Against the Odds 

According to Magic Deck Naming Conventions, this deck can also be called "12 Balls"

Every time he says "vortext," I die a little inside

Imagine getting blasted by Seth, probably better known as SaffronOlive’s monstrous balls

I just love how happy Seth gets when his junk works.

Monstrous Balls is just an objectively funny thing to write on a thumbnail. Good job! 😁

Modern Horizon 4 will finally bring us Blue Balls. They'll draw a card when hitting your opponents.

shoutout to the match 2 opponent who let the combo and the hit play out for the content

Takes balls to play a deck like this

As far as I can recall Seth knows how to pronounce Roiling Vortex. Where he's getting the 't' in Monstrous Vortext is a secret known only to him and the magic gods

Spark Trooper looks on sadly from the window as his friends all get to play outside but he has to stay home because he cost 4.

He’s got big balls. She’s got big balls. But Seth has the biggest balls of them all. How was this not sponsored by Manscaped?

Lovestruck Beast could be a useful card in this deck. It works with the combo, gives you a one drop, and can dodge discard to start the cascading

Golly gee that One Ring card sure does seem like a *LOT* of fun to play against.

Seth’s monstrous balls bolted into his opponents faces

This video proves that the real busted three drop that MH3 enabled was ball lightning, like who is Nadu anyway?

Second opponent was a good person for letting you resolve all your triggers instead of just scooping

Seth, you did it. You broke the balls.

the fact that seth was able to say the intro with a straight face is impressive!

This is the deck I was most excited for after spoiler season and I'm so happy it was done so soon!

Seth's got big balls. Seth's got big balls. They're such big balls. They're hastey big balls.

This video is everything mtg should be. Fun, janky, big creatures, new cards, old concepts. It's perfection

Surprised no boros titan essentialy fits ball lightning mana cost and power to trigger monstrous vortex

Seth is balling out with this one

Love that Vortext

THAT'S RISQUE, MR SAFFRON OLIVER!!!

You could attempt to speed it up by playing magma opus to ramp.

When Seth's Against the Odds deck works, we get to witness pure joy.

I was actively working on this, as a commander deck, this morning. Seeing a Modern variant makes my warm Ball Lightning heart happy! Thanks, Seth!

I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THAT INTRO OMG

Seth posting balls wasnt on my 2024 bingo card, yet here we are

I have been waiting ever since I saw your short about this combo

There has never been a modern deck i want more than this one. Perfect meme

This deck should be called Leeroy Jankins

Seth has to have dyslexia

Shoutout to the one guy that plays electrickery in modern

I was a little disappointed there wasn't a small clip of AC/DC Big Balls

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO!

that final game is the most satisfying win ive seen in a min

So happy you attacked before combat (52:22) so the Vortext could resolve.

I love these types of videos, i was rooting for ya

The first 10 secs of this vid was enough to set me for life. The look on Seth's face saying that deck name was priceless

4:20 Why was Seth in a hurry to grab a Sacred Foundry untapped here? I think that extra 2 life would have helped him survive.

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire

Abreal grazer always cracks me up. Classic Seth! Arboreal is tough

That last win against control was great

I wonder if keruga the macrosage is worth it for cutting one sideboard card

Building decks around Ball Lightnings really opens us up for some fantastic deck names 🙌

Reminds me of a Mono Red deck I had a long time ago, that Ball Lightning was the core, but also all the other "Honorable Balls" in red at the time. Spark Elemental, Hellspark, and there was one other, stacking with all the cheap burn I could find. Stole quite a few games with that old deck, as people just didn't know how to react. Good times!

I'd love to see Lovestruck Beast, Phlage, and Kroxa in here. They satisfy the "5 power/3mv" while giving you options.

The wizard cast testicular torsion on the opponent. It was lethal.

Haven’t even seen anything yet, and I CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS TO WORK!!!!

Always good to see some chenenigans

I was expecting a fog to get played.

There was a “deck and balls” joke here, there had to be

Seth it's great to see you so happy. And I'm happy we didn't get blue balled either.

Deck is great flavor too, a storm of elementals breaking forth from a vortex, pretty dope

About 52:25 in, I heard a hilarious Seth-ism: "I think we attack *before* combat..." Hilarious deck is hilarious. Imagine if this deck actually got tuned to become good!

Seth's "vortext" reminds me of that episode of Critical Role: Narrative Telephone where Liam says "wald hexe", but over time it gets misheard as "the Vortex".

This pleases me greatly

51:30 missed the opportunity to say “grabbed my ball”

We’ve got the biggest balls of them all.

I love how happy Seth is to have his combo go off while his opponent is at only 6 life with no blockers 😅

Running this kind of deck in a tournament would require some serious... courage.

Phlage seems pretty good in this deck to both be easier to cast *and* as removal if you don't have the vortex.

Hell yeah! I’m doing this on arena too, 4 Phlages and tons of treasures from Gadrak to close out the game with a Magma Opus. Not very competitive but so much fun when it works!

YESSSS FINALLY WE'VE BEEN WAITING

From a bit of scrolling I found a lot of comments pointing out that Keruga would by a viable companion with some minor modifications. From what I can tell, Scion of Draco (and the sideboard crab) is also the only card preventing Kaheera from being an option.

YES! Ball Breaker is BACK!!

This kind of deck in arena is so much fun!! Feels like a slot machine!

And here's where not knowing a card exits hurts: Spitebellows If you're gonna do this type of deck this card is a must. It's originally from Morningtide so is modern legal and you can evoke it for 1RR. Basically a 6/1 that deals 6 damage to something on ETB. It's normal cost may be 5 and a R but who cares you'll use it as a kill spell while triggers the enchantment. Edit: it's on leaves play not ETB but the evoke cost is what I mean.

It takes monstrous balls to play a deck like this.

Saying "monstrous balls" that straight faced is legendary

The last game against control was the HYPE.

Seth's chipmunk laugh always reminds me of stinkmeaner from the boondocks

I actually thought for sure you were getting Settle the Wreckaged when the opponent said GG with all their mana up, heh.

I never thought id be saying this but, nice balls Seth 🤣🤣🤣

I know we want to be in on Ball Lightnings, but this deck has room for improvement while keeping the idea intact. The biggest note is that this version isn't playing with the restriction properly - it's not that you can't play any spells with mana value 3 or less outside Ball Lightning variants, you just can't play anything at three mana that won't trigger Monstrous Vortex or anything cheaper. That might seem like not a big deal, but that means this version of the deck isn't playing the following interesting card: Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury Phlage to replace Groundbreaker is massive, since Phlage + Leyline Binding + Leyline of the Guildpact at 4 each is enough white cards to support playing Solitude instead of Trumpeting Carnosaur while also making the deck's mana wayyyy less intense since you only at most need triple red, one white on turn 2 [for Leyline Binding], one black on turn 3 for Lightning Skelemental, and one green on turn 4 for Monstrous Vortex. Dead // Gone and Fire // Ice are also interesting choices for the deck, but not nearly as big a deal as Phlage + Solitude.

If you're looking for more counterspells to run, you could go with Odds//Ends. Odds is essentially 2 mana Invert Polarity for instants and sorceries

All of those one rings make me wanna play everlasting torment. Literally and figuratively

You had a lot of balls to try something like this.

Lightning skelemental from mh1 is so fun. It just hasn’t been playable. Thank you Seth for making it work.

I'm so used to Seth's little chuckle at the start of AtO because he's playing storm crow or whatever that what he said completely blindsided me.

Way to stick it to control at the end! :)

Seth's mind: Ke-tri-a ❌️ Ke-ti-ra ✅️ 😂

I waited the whole time for Seth to set off his mass summoning, getting all excited and declare his attack with all "12 Ball Lighnings" only for an opponent with 1 untapped land to cast a fog like Darkness. With all 12 "Ball Lightnings" being sacrificed at the end of the turn that would have been a one mana instant reversal of the game. Unfortunately it did not happen... I would have loved to see the instant change in his facial expressions.

This looks like the funnest deck ever.

I still think that a line like "You can only have one copy of the ONE ring in your deck" would be perfectly fine for the one ring. Still be busted, but you would run into the "play another one ring" problem. Or at least that the new ring gains the counters of the old ring.

The blue green Kellan that costs 4 can let you explore as an adventure for 2 mana to ramp. Might be good as a way to jump ahead a turn?

those are indeed some monstrous balls 😂😂😂im dying lmao

Ring in to Ring. The amazing current modern gameplay on a nutshell...

A Colossal Dreadmaw tribal deck would be hilarious

Second opponent’s deck is sick I’ve been playing a similar thing in historic

I play a 10 pin balling deck in modern. You need to be able recur your threats constantly. Unfortunately relying on vortex is a massive glass cannon. I do like the addition of scion though.

I'd play Beanstalk Wurm in this deck as an attempt to speed the gameplan up a turn - its adventure is explore so you can theoretically hit 4 lands on turn 3 Maybe also more split/aftermath cards? You can actually get some counters or interaction in on the early turns beyond bedeck

I feel like this deck would be both better and more dedicated to the ball lightning theme if you took out the Draco/Leyline package in exchange for a ramp package to play Monstrous Vortex and ball lightnings sooner, possibly with arbor elf/utopia sprawl and/or Noble/ Ignoble Hierarch. Cavern of Souls might be a consideration as well

You know what? You can also add Keruga as your companion for this deck! 😂

I really like Rise/Fall in the sideboard, and honestly maybe in the main deck at this point of the meta. Spitebellows is also a good include against Nadu and other creature centric combos.

I think upgrades can be done with switching groundbreaker for arc runner and go down go like two them and play phlage. Makes the mana essier and perhaps leds painful, and phlage does add to the removal suite

This deck is a flavor vortext but Balls Vortex might be an objectively funnier name for it.

Glad you've had balls to keep the suggested deck name in the spoiler video comments. The lack of 2 mana adventure ramp spells hurts, in a lot of matches it felt like a single turn difference