Standard's Best Pressure Valve Card

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A pressure valve card is a tool given to us by the designers of Magic: The Gathering, so that we might combat oppressive strategies that emerge from each new set release, like Murders at Karlov Manor.
Sentinel of Lost Lore, from Wilds of Eldraine, is such a card - the ability to exile graveyards stops reanimation strategies, and prevents our opponent from gathering evidence on us. Pretty great!
It also has natural synergy with other cards from its own set, so we can build a deck around adventure creatures like Mosswood Dreadknight and Gumdrop Poisoner, and support them with Virtue of Persistence and a very sharp Sword of Forge and Frontier.
Is it enough to release the pressure of Standard? Let me know what you think in the comments!

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@MagicArcanum Месяц назад

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@user-ry3nv1we9n Месяц назад

Ya know I was going to comment about one of my first decks, and then I heard the tag of "interacts with what your opponent is doing" and realized I have never built a full deck to work like that....

@MagicArcanum Месяц назад

Everyone has to start somewhere. What are you working with?

@user-ry3nv1we9n Месяц назад

@@MagicArcanum it has been several years, but one of my first was a kitchen table minotaur deck that used Heartless Summoning and Ragemonger. Free minotaurs! Zero card draw cause I was a total newbie. I don't think Khans was even released yet.

@123silverslash Месяц назад

I really love bloodline culling. It’s a decent removal spell on its own, it deals with sheoldred and other X/5s, but on top of that, you can use it to effectively wipe the board of all 1/1 and 2/2 tokens, something that has been growing more and more popular with white sun twilight decks and mirrex and wedding announcement and Adeline and anim pakal and awaken the woods and lord skitter and…

@DocNyrlathotep Месяц назад

I think my pick would be Tishana's Tidebinder. I'm not all that sure about it being a pressure valve card as the way you described it because it is certainly a side board card for a lot of decks that run blue, but in the decks I use where board presence and flashing in creatures to pressure the opponent's life total is important, it has been incredible. Nothing more satisfying than denying an Atraxa's etb and have it be stuck on the ground with no abilities, or denying a battle from flipping after a hard commit by the enemy, all while getting a body out of it.

@MagicArcanum Месяц назад

I would count that one. Good pick!

@Waterseeker_ Месяц назад

I've been getting use out of a Dennick, Pious Apprentice commander deck I built that's mill focused. Everyone knows that mill's main downside in commander is that at least one person is usually very happy that they have a bunch of targets in the GY for reanimation. Dennick turns that off, and also he adds longevity to the deck if you can Disturb him, since every mill is likely to make you a Clue.

@NoeticEidetics Месяц назад

I bought four borderless art Sentinel singles in the fall with some other singles and haven’t made a proper deck with them yet. It is a great card.

@ryan_the_rizza2571 Месяц назад

getting back into magic after a year and a half break, this does really help ease into the critical mass that is current standard

@lomirwintersturm2311 23 дня назад

One of my favourite cards in standard right now is Beseech the Mirror. This card is absolutely awesome. It was the missing part for Mishra Lost to Phyrexia to become a really playable deck. Why? Because it can get both meld parts: Mishra or the dragon engine. And on the other side it can find solutions for problematic board states (such as Brotherhood’s end, which fits in the flavour perfectly by the way) etc. In order to always being able to bargain Beseech the mirror, I play Voldaren epicure, Bloodtithe harvester and Charming scoundrel. All in all, definitely my favourite deck I‘ve built so far in standard.

@paulbuckley2301 Месяц назад

Just need to say, I'm loving your channel so far. I just found Magic Arcanum last week and dove through all of your "What happens in..." videos. Those of us with very little free time on our hands very much appreciate the summaries of these stories. See, I've been downloading entire playlists of Magic content to my phone, pop in my ear bud, and go to work up and down my line. As such, I'm not always able to actually 'look' at my phone very often. Gameplay and podcast discussions being audible only to people like me have raised a point I would like to present to you. Bringing up cards on your display and talking about strategies, lore, and just fun trivia is really hard to follow if I don't know what the card says or does. Do you think, just as a suggestion, you could maybe try to put some effort into explaining the highlighted cards out loud for us? I'm sure I speak for countless other fans as I say we'd really appreciate it.

@MagicArcanum Месяц назад

Hello! Thanks for watching all my "What Happens in..." videos. Glad to hear you enjoyed them! As for your idea about spending more time reading cards: I did that, in the past, and people complained that the videos were too long and dragged, because I was spending too much time reading something that was already on screen for them to see. I understand you're listening to my videos more than watching them, but RU-vid is primarily a visual format. If you want to treat it as a makeshift podcast, that's totally cool, but it's really hard for me to make my content work as a visual medium and also satisfy the needs of people who are only listening to the audio. That said, one of my pet peeves is when streamers or people doing gameplay videos say stuff like "we'll play this, then attack with this, and then if they don't block, use this to destroy their elf." And it's really hard to follow what they're talking about! So when I do gameplay or live streams, I at least do try to mention the name of each card I am playing (or thinking about playing) so that it's clear to anyone watching, even if they can't see the entire screen or are familiar with all the cards in play.

@paulbuckley2301 Месяц назад

Point, counterpoint. You know what, that's all very fair. I didn't realized you had already tried that. The unfortunate truth about trying to appeal to a wide audience and make everybody happy all at once is that you actually can't. Nobody can. 'Tis impossible. I do appreciate your quick response and explanation, though. I'll just... go ahead and hit a few buttons on your page here... Don't mind me. I will just have to do my best to follow along with your current format though. Definitely not a deal breaker for me. Really enjoying the content. Even being inspired to craft some new "My story" Commanders to go with my Rule Zero Throne of the Grim Captain deck.

@Itachi45481 Месяц назад

Love sentinel he’s a key for my adventure deck and yes with mosswood

@obadijahparks Месяц назад

Golgari is doing well right now.

@coreyriegle1328 Месяц назад

I'm diggin this plethora of choices in which to remove 1 or 2 cards from a graveyard. But it's been especially hard on opponents when these creatures that auto-leave it are out there. Like the Fel Horseman that goes to the bottom of library when it dies or the couple that can be exiled from the yard to return a creature to somewhere from there. These are super cagey with Insidious Roots out. I've had numerous people just capitulate after wiping the board while 3 or 4 of those guys were out there, WHILE a couple(or even 3) Roots' were out. It truly made it worse for them, as in doing so I now had more creatures than before the wipe......bigger ones, too........and they had nothing..........and were tapped out(ish). Almost ANYthing else would've been a better play, it seemed.

@MrPugsrock Месяц назад

Illicit Masquerade

@Zarkonem Месяц назад

I really like Archon of Absolution. Oh, you're spamming tokens? And you used up a bunch of your mana? Cool, cool. So which one of your 1/1's are you attacking me with then? lolololol When people try to attack me with everything and don't realize what is going on, i like to do that emote of the guy slapping the table and doing the "objection!" motion. Another good one is Dungeon Geists.

@MagicArcanum Месяц назад

Great choice!