Man respect to Serge for being a great player in a great game, and gods know I couldn’t do any better, but every game where he brings his own brew he gets stomped. These are always excellent videos but it’s getting tiring to watch a weekly “here’s a new way Serge loses.” I just want to see Serge’s good play pay off.
Little in the dark about the alters, is it just a blacked out art box or is it actual art? And how did this start with alters because of terf stuff with the original artist?
@@Joeks0303 The original artist fell into a terfy, QAnony hole, and WotC officially ended its relationship with them in 2020. Wheeler's copy of Echo of Eons therefore has the art blacked out with a sharpie. Either he or other Ben also appears to have uploaded a version to the cardreader that has the words "NO TERFS ALLOWED" in white text on a black background instead of the original art.
@@colinjones5379 Thanks for the info! I had seen a a bunch of stuff online but just didn’t know if it was an actual alter or just blacked out because of the terfyness
@@Joeks0303 Some people will just black it out, some people will alter and draw something else on it. The one Wheeler had seemed to be just blacked out
Love everyone on the show but Wheeler always adds that little extra spice that keeps me coming back. We love you Wheeler, thank you for being there, it was great having you
We're starting a (proxy) Canlander group with my buddies, and we preemptively banned Academy. We know it's not technically within the spirit of the format for there to be a ban, but no one wants to deal with it.
Excellent, as always. Thank you. Love Ben on tech in general, but the laugh in the background here made me smile. 😊 1:28 Also, love the pointed cards coming up when they are mentioned.
Fun fact: wheeler already had a loop as soon as he cast sensei's divining top. Let me explain: Casting divining top untaps all your nonland permeants which untaps the one ring, you then draw with the one ring to redraw top plus more cards, casting top again untaps ring and lets you repeat drawing an extra card.
I think Wheeler was pointing out that he had a controllable loop that means there isn't even any epsilon probability that the cards he wants are hidden at the bottom and the One Ring would deck him to reach them.
As soon as I saw Academy vs. Tempo, I though to myself... this is gonna be a bad time for Serge. He never really goes hard on the control plan, and his tempo decks tends not to be on the blitz'y side either. You either have to interact heavily with the solitaire deck or run really fast, and this tempo deck just felt like more of a midrange deck. I would've liked to see the WU Tempo deck against another more midrangey deck. But of course, good video as always and happy to see more of you guys, and also sad to see Serge leave Victoria for the time being.
Again, I have to note that Echo of Eons alter is my favorite thing. Love the 'card reader' alter also (unfortunately wasn't there the 2nd time, around 40 minutes). Thanks for just consistently being great people, all of you!
Okay I have been binge watching these for the last couple days. This is the dream 1v1 format for me. But why not run a sweeper or two in the UW colour pair?
Please have the players bring similar power level decks. Week in and week out, Ben brings tier decks and Serge brings home brews. It doesn't make for good content.
Watching wheeler play solitaire with artifacts two weeks in a row gets old quick. I do wish y’all maybe talked about your lists ahead of time so it wouldn’t be an s tier deck curbstomping a lower tier deck!
Ben shuffled 4 seperate times in one turn around 42:00 That has to be close to a record for this series There have been more searches in one turn I think but not more individual shuffles
I'm so happy to see Wheeler running a Portal to Phyrexia, it's my favorite Brother's War card, and ranks in my top 3 cards in general (I'm pretty new to the game and it's kinda my little guy).
@LRRMTG would you mind telling me what type of dice you guys use in your gameplay? (specifically the oversized ones with numerals instead of pips). They are spiffy!
Of the names I wasnt expect to appear on a north 100 Jerry T was no any were on my radar, but love the reason for his inclusion and its from being a good human
I love watching Paradox Academy. It feels gross and unfair but fun to actually watch with a lot of nuance, which is a nice change of pace when a lot of the format can feel samey with things like Ragavan, Fury, Questing Beast, and other autoinclude cards that win on value. Wish combo and creature combo was more viable nowadays, but at least we get to see it on the show!
Ben, the "HOO's" with the goofy owl edit I can't xD If silly things like this is all the edit's we're getting for the show I'm more than satisfied already!
