Animated Kaldra in the middle of the game (33:41) is a cool line. I was playing some vintage, & in order to protect myself throughout the game, I used my Karn great creator to animate my own One Ring, then used karakas to bounce the ring to my hand (to recast for protection)
with Lembas a KCI can eventually draw Lembas over and over for storm (Lembas, sack goes to bottom, draws a card add 2, eventually 3-4 lembas are on the bottom of your deck so you're always only drawing lembas for infinite spells)
One of my all time favorite memories was playing VS kci in modern. I goldfished them with a boros reckoner combo and they were not happy about it. Good memories.
KCI Kombos always feel like you're setting up some elaborate Rube-Goldberg device what with all the triggers and the moving parts and the "in response, sac X"s, and that is the *exact* kind of Magic I love most!
Scrap trawler was only printed 6 years ago, but with how many of the cards are from the og mirrodin, the combo is almost all older that a decent amount of mtg players.
KCI I always paired with salvaging station and chimeric coils. Anything makes two, activate the coils for two (x=1), sac it to KCI, untap the salvaging station since coils was a creature, then you can salvage the coils and use the two mana to turn it into a creature to untap the station, repeating until win with disciple of the vault, or drawing your whole deck and making all the mana with 2 stations, etc
I was the god of this deck in modern at my lgs, I knew all the loops and I went undefeated in the majority of tournaments, then ironworks got banned so I went back to affinity
I have a Breya EDH deck that's been sorta-built for some years that's basically trying to do this exact thing. I haven't pulled it together yet because it feels too powerful for most tables but it gets blown out by actual competitive lists since it takes a while to get going. Seeing it basically play out here has gotten me excited to play it again.
@@flaviocbrangel my deck basically tries to do an infinite combo with KCI, Myr Battlesphere, Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever and Time Sieve... the win condition just includes an additional piece like Marionette Master or Breya's bolt ability the rest of the deck is just artifact graveyard looping nonsense that makes the deck ultra resilient to removal with a smattering of suboptimal pet cards
@@flaviocbrangel nah that's not really what I'm trying to do... I'm trying to stay on artifacts as much as possible in this deck and the only things that aren't artifacts either mention artifacts or are just utility stuff to raise the level of the deck to an acceptable level of jank
I looked up KCI a few days ago after thinking about it in the context of Commander (honestly a pretty fair deck for it I promise), and that's when I learned it has been printed in black border one time, EVER, in 2004 and as such is a $23 uncommon. A Modern-banned uncommon. And that's not even its all-time peak.
there was like a two week period back in the spring where scrap trawler was blue on modo due to some bug that misidentified the cards color identity and that made for some very funny vintage leagues
@@RIP_Texpert pyroblasts getting thrown around and having a 50/50 chance of countering it, players misidentifying the card in their hand/on the stack, weird incidental effects that care about blue permanents not working etc
oh, i love seeing the eggs style of kci back in action a little bit with gerrard's hour glass. play kci, sac everything, second sunrise rinse repeat, spell bomb you.
That seems really strong, but in a win more way, KCI already pops off so hard, casting a five mana double white creature is such and up front cost you can probably already win if you’re getting there with death triggers left
Kci is great, just make sure you sequence properly: I attempt to cast *ichor wellspring To pay for it, I sacrifice mox opal, chromatic star, myr retriever and scrap trawler, creating 8 mana Using 2 mana to pay for the ichor wellspring All scrap trawler triggers go on the stack at the same time, same with myr retriever, returning all sacrificed cards to your hand Draw a card off chromatic star Ichor enters Cast everything again, repeat the process
40:09 I'm gonna bust my Wizard Rocket! Phil I'm so sorry but I desperately want to make a 2009-era EDM mix of this video centering the drop around sampling that Edit: holy shit I want to see more legacy KCI on this channel I love this deck
@@BoshNRoll OH shit wrong name for the Monday morning upload! Sorry Brian!! I put both of you up in the background and forget which channel I'm on sometimes!
I would make that same deal for a card game I was on the pro tour for called VS System. I’d clean house on a PTQ, and just say hey, you can take the qualification if I get all the prizes. Very lucrative.
Pretty sure you had a deterministic kill in game 1 match 2, KCI into Karn into lattice, lattice makes everything an artifact, second karn gets bridge, rough estimate was you had about 21 known mana that turn
At 1:12:10, I wonder if it would have been better to flash in the gerrard's pendant to keep the construct alive and continue on the beatdown rather than working towards the combo.
Quite honestly sitting across from 2 tangle wires andna defense grid sounss absolutely soul crushing Just several timewalks while they pick up card after card after card Desgusten
Is Tanglewire the place to be in this deck? Obviously it's an expensive ask at the moment but I feel like the one ring would be pretty busted in this deck
Always wondered about KCI in legacy, you didnt hit the real hate decks it seems but looking like it might be most things maybe lol. Because of this I went out and built the deck but im looking at altar of the brood, tried searching comments but didnt stand out. Whats your thoughts on that vs a 2nd wizards rocket + 1 in the sideboard for Karn?
@1:30:40 is there weirdness going on with your video editing cutting stuff out or something? It looks like your opponent taps 3 lands and nothing else to a tanglewire with 4 counters
@@BoshNRoll I know it literally comes from KCI but without Trawler you can't get three triggers from KCI + Retriever + X, which is the actual "combo". Without Trawler you're just Cycling Wellsprings and Stars until you find an Emrakul which is considerably less fucked up than what was happening before. Also solves the problem of rounds going to time because you'd need to resolve an order of magnitude fewer triggers in order to execute the combo. Banning Trawler solves literally every problem the deck caused while still allowing brewers to mess around with a bad combo.
Haywire mite has been out for 6 months? And you still made the mistake of thinking it hits creatures XD. Haywire mite doesn't work on Spirit of the Lab.
I used to think that because they banned a combo piece (opal) and printed karn that kci could be unbanned, and then I saw him using karn in kci and now I retract my opinion
