It's Fallout spoiler week! Scrappy Survivors is a immense flavour win . . . . but how does it play? I explore the challenges the deck faces and suggest ways to improve the deck while keeping all that irradiated goodness intact.
I am kind of glad that the Fallout Decks aren't format breaking, this way nobody feels "forced" to play universes beyond cards. Like with 40k they are solid decks which can be upgraded to be pretty powerful.
They've done well to make it it's own little world, I really appreciated that. They play well together, though we found them a little slow and filled with board wipes! Couldn't keep anything on the field!
To be honest, I haven’t played MTG in nearly 10 years. I’m just a super massive Fallout fan and I love the breakdown of the deck. I’m honestly looking into getting it more as a collector than a player. Very informative if I ever decide to start playing proactively again. Awesome upload!
Thank you! Awesome comment. I totally get it; buying all four of these precons was definitely skewed towards me being a Fallout fan rather than a player of MTG, otherwise I would have only picked up a couple of them. They did a great job! Glad you enjoyed the breakdown.
This is a great video and breakdown of the deck! Part of the reason I preordered the deck is 1. A dog for its commander & 2. Splashing green into an 'equipment' is an accelerator For the deck... - I feel like they missed an opportunity to really push more of the equipment, aura and (less important) modified themes. I think they could've included a few more powerful equipment cards in the deck which would've opened up more in terms of a threat for the deck (shadow spear would've been a great one). A game like Fallout is all about building your character to be powerful and versatile, it would've been nice to see more weapons/armour you see in the game as equipment. - There's probably too many cards that aren't focussed to a one play style for the deck. Junk is a cool ability but could've aided to using junk to build cards/equipment. I think WOTC may need to think about how equipment and auras can be more playable in the 7/8 power level as I think there are too many steps to make it play if it isn't casual.
Agreed. Too much going on, too many good ideas, I'd have liked to see just equipment or just auras. And you are right, this isn't the first time I've thought, 'this is a boros equipment strategy with added green!'. Glad you enjoyed, I'm hoping to review all four, but my urge to build Three Dog is STRONG!
I’ve always had the least interest in Naya as a combination - but I think this has a nice random mix of all those elements. Excited to play them with you!
i want a minuteman deck, so i think i get the precon, change a few things, make it probably weaker, but have a nice deck... i think the fallout precons are good as a base for powerfull decks and decks that are not that strong, but fun to play... but not so much for the medium strength decks...
@@mtgspecs yeah, it looks like there is a lot of synergy between the cards... also a lot o cards look like they are fun to play -> so creating a low and a higher power deck is probably the best thing to do...
I've been meaning to answer this comment but wanted to do the deep dive on Caesar first and yes, Hail, Caesar is really good! Loads of Legends in it that'll make good decks of their own. I'm off to look at the mutants now!
It sounds excellent. Chishiro is cheaper and way more impactful than Preston in this list. Preston is a top down, flavour led design that deserved its own deck. Great choice.
Living weapons and For Mirrodin equipment are 1 card value engines for this commander. All the low CMC ones should be in this deck. The commander should generate tons of card advantage with the right 99. The 99 should be full of ways to trigger Dogmeat's on attack ability and ETB. The deck wins by overwhelming with combat damage, chipping away at life totals every turn and through commander damage with single card bombs like all that glitters.
Agreed. I have a Kellan, Fae-Blooded video on my channel with living weapon/For Mirrodin tech - it's the only way you can fit equipment, things to equip and all the other stuff that makes a deck work! Great shout and that's a deck I'd make!
Some people like to upgrade and the channel is for everyone. I personally won't be; Fallout is one of my favourite franchises. However, amazing stuff happens when you mix the 27,000 other cards with newely released mechanics - I totally get it! Also, there's communities of people including myself who make alters so card fit with the theme. There's a full Halloween horror movie deck I made based on Umbris in our second gameplay video.
@@mtgspecshow do you find these communities? I’d love to alter this deck to make it better then slowly replace the cards that aren’t in the fallout theme with customs that would fit the theme
@@MR-pr5td www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/s/rL6OndXXhc Just a few I found. These are older, before the precons came out, but I'm sure someone will be beavering away on more.
I'm working on my next review and I'm warming up to 'Hail, Ceaser'. It does appear to be a very aggressive set of precons - very turn sideways - which is very Fallout. Looking forward to diving into the next three.
Coming straight after the MKM ones also . . . Nailed the flavour thought. They definitely tried to get round the problems auras and equipment pose as a game plan, but it's a really difficult thing to pull off.
@@mtgspecsMy problem with the deck is I feel like it would be a lot stronger if it was just focusing on enchantment auras or artifact equipments not both , focusing on both makes it feel messy. I love the idea as a flavor but as a deck it is unfocused.
@@spaceaxolotl6196 bang on. If they'd gone for the perk system, and focused on auras, this would have been much more focused. I actually started making my own set of cards to fix it!
