Stealing Wins With Old Stickyfingers🟢⚫ Against the Odds | Standard MTG Gameplay | Magic Arena 

Opponent first round: ah yes I will play a wrath in my gw creatures deck against a deck playing 8 blood artist this is a brilliant idea that cannot go wrong

Board wiping aristocrats, thats a bold strategy cotton lets see if it pays off.

*Facepalm* that first game was a good example of: “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should play that card.”

Manabase would run a whole lot easier cutting blue. I get that suspicious stowaway is really good. But this might finally be a deck where heirloom mirror could work well.

The real against odds theme: running more than 2 colors in the current standard

I'm sad that Seth didn't see the line of killing his own inn keeper with the meat hook to deal the final 2 points of damage.

In all my years of MTG, I've never seen someone be so ahead on board, then absolutely ruin their entire game. That was both beautiful and horrifying.

That game one had the biggest punt in all of punt history. Good lord.

Hot take: The opponent boardwiping in the first game wasn't actually a punt so much as choosing to go out in style. Seth had 2 pseudo-blood artists and 4 decay zombies - he had close to a lethal attack on his next turn. Not quite lethal if opponent plays and flips the farmhand, but only thanks to the lifelink, and it's very possible opponent didn't see that (or just assumed that they were dead to blood artist triggers and didn't do the math). So still a bit of a misplay, but I think it's more likely that they were effectively conceding, albeit a bit early, than that they didn't notice the triggers. Also, even with the lifelink, Seth had lethal w/ Stickyfingers + Dreadhound.

WRT limits on cards in decks, I really liked the way the "Duels of the Planeswalkers" video game handled it, where you could 4-of any commons, 3-of any uncommons, 2-of any rares and only 1-of for mythics. I do not think such a change would make the game as whole better, but I would love to see it as a supported format.

This deck looks really cool, but something worth mentioning is that he is behind you.

Prerelease Seth: "meh Old Stickyfingers is Boneyard Wurm and that wasn't good..." Postrelease Seth: "OOOOoooold Sickyfingers!"

a boardwipe in a creature deck: only arena things

Opponent on the first game "I'll call an ambulance, but not for you"

Seth was one more “Old Stickyfingering” away from being demonetised

Suspicious Stowaway was cool, but I don't think it's jank up your mana base cool.

17:40 missed lethal or am i wrong? Play Inkeeper and then meatball massacre, double drain for 2

that board wipe in the first game xD holyyy

New Home background is looking pretty good. Hopefully we see the Blood Moon guitar be displayed too at some point.

Amazing as always Seth. I was watching the Goldfish Replay from the other day and you mentioned there not being many Against the Odds cards in Midnight Hunt. Do you think you’ll use this as an opportunity to go back and re-try some of your older Against the Odds decks?

In response to your "Less multiple cards" I would like to experiment with a format where you can only have 4 ofs for commons, 3 for uncommon, 2 for rare and 1 for mythics. It might be awful but worth a large experiment I think.

re: different card limits for deckbuilding, there was kind of a similar restriction on magic: duels, but it was rarity based so 4 for commons, 3 uncommon, 2 rare, 1 mythic. it definitely had the effect you suggest, the meta was very diverse and you didnt just see the most broken rares/mythics all the time. im not sure thats something that would work for standard but i kind of miss that format and think it would be fun as its own seperate thing

He had to be trolling, after that boardwipe into a loss, 8:35 opponent went first, passed turn.. lol

I am a fan of diversifying decks by reducing max card counts. In general, it weakens the effect of broken cards and reduces the power of combo decks and synergy decks relative to the field, plus ripple effects. Since answers tend to be more interchangeable than threats, this will also typically slow formats down. Arguments that it makes games where broken cards are drawn “swingier” only make sense if the only answer to broken threats is other broken threats, because the actual alternative is drawing them MORE often. The effect it would have on multicolor mana bases, however, might be enormous, and I’d also be concerned about it tilting all formats (further) toward blue, which has the most cheap card selection to counteract the greater variance. The DOTP model where commons are at 4x, uncommons at 3x, rares at 2x, and mythics at 1x will never be supported by Wizards, because they want Mythics to be in as high demand as possible.

I would like to see an historic event where, like vintage, every single cards are legal but the banned card are restricted instead. Maybe in the future where we'll have modern and pioneer on the client historic could be a true "you can play every single cards that exist on arena" kind of like the paper version of vintage and with a restricted list (so max 1 copy of the banned card) it might be fun and powerful. I don't know just an idea that could be tested.

Stickfingers seems dope to play

If they made a format where you were able to have 4 Commons, 3 Uncommons, 2 Rares and 1 Mythic Rare, you would have a lot m ore decks running around because the amount of different cards being played in a deck.

Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!

This seems similar to my initial experimentation with Stickfingers. Ultimately, I found that using Dina as another win condition was very good with x4 Inkeeper alongside Ghoulcaller's Harvest. Willowgiest and Deathbonnet also synergize nicely with Skyclave shade.

G2 against first opponent: did they pass without playing a land? 🤣

4:04 is when the gameplay starts and I love how it was an unintentional joke! 😂

Just found ur ch dope content been trying to get a reanimated deck to actually work ty for the info!

If they DID limit play sets to 3, I’d want about 600 wildcards for all the rares I can’t use 😂

Seth, what's the deal with that plush at 0:04 on your bookshelf? 👀 I'd definitely "scoop" one of these if they are available!

I’ve been getting back into some constructed lately - and I have to say- you’re videos are super creative / informative from a learning aspect and you are an absolutly pleasure to watch/ listen to! Keep up the aweosme content! 🤘

3:54 omg a decklist, that's a first

Trigger warning for all Timmies If anything those games proof that epiphany isn't that big of a problem. Just the subjective feeling of aggro players being in the 'lead' all game and then 'suddenly' losing The only broken thing I have seen in this video has been the Chariot.

It's Stickfingers, not Stickyfingers, Seth. ;)

I don't know if 3-card max would improve the game, but I do know that it wouldn't change most of my decklists.

7:35 They vanquished the horde, but did not live to see the village thank them.

To hop on the puntwagon: Game 1 vs Izzet turns missed lethal when opponent is at 2 with Innkeeper + Meathook

I wonder if a one or two of with Koma could be useful with the Diregraf rebirth and semi wrath plan

Dat vanquish the horde

My only feedback ... as some1 who is outside of #STND for like ... 4 sets ... aka ... ALL of the standard format :( Would greatly appreciate a more "in depth" talk of what oppo's are doing ... maybe ... please

It's kinda funny the way Seth flips between calling it Stickfingers and Stickyfingers. I'm more amused than annoyed at his pronunciations this time Edit: I'm realizing now that he may be saying Stickyfingers on purpose

That first match was great That hilarious "didn't read Dreadhound" wrath, into the absolute mana screwing and the funniest Field of Ruin draw I've witnessed, into the deck doing its thing and in its element, amazing, 10/10

At about 17:30 you had lethal: play Prosperous Inkeeper into Meathook Massacre x=1, kills the Innkeeper, drain for 2 (both Dreadhound and Massacre)

On the topic of cards limits, I wouldn't mind lowering the copies to 3 if minimum deck size was reduced as well. This way, decks can be more focused with a smaller card pool. I'm by no means advocating for it, but it'd help promote crossplay between limited and standard if they had the same deck size

If the minimum deck size were still 40 I think 3 copies is more than enough for consistent gameplay just like yugioh. Limiting cards to 1 or 2 instead of straight banning them is certainly acceptable to me as well. If I have a card I want to play with it.

so i take X creatures, that would be 40 in my deck/library, put them into the graveyard, and Stickfingers get 40/40 , thats nice.

Really don't think monogreen is the best deck in standard. Izzet Dragons with Alrund's Epiphany. Goldspan Dragon and the like seem to be worse

No wonder this was all over ladder today. Losing. If you're gonna pick up a memedeck you need to learn to play it well, they can be great but they're not pick and play like the tier 1s, that's why they're rogue.

Breach the multi vers would be fun in this deck i think. 20 cards instantly in graveyard, all those dread hound triggers then pick the two best creatures or planewaökers and put them on the battlefield

I think a playset of Shipwreck Marsh would've been the way to go. You have some greedy costs and, even though most of your spells cost 2 or 3, you want to get to a spot where you can start casting two spells on turn 4.

Card limits based on rarity could be really interesting. You could have 4 of each common, 3 of each uncommon, 2 of each rare, and only 1 of each mythic.

At 17:35 you could have played innkeeper and meathook massacred for x=1 killing the inn keeper draining on both the massacre and dreadhound proc for the last 2.

if they restricted cards and made that you can only have 3 copies in a deck then I'll just be playing yugioh with rotating sets..

The thing w the 3 of a kind rule is that it leads wizards to the conclusion of every card needs to be valuable, leading to power creep, see yugioh as an example of that

In game 1 of the second match (against the UR opponent) you had lethal when they were at 2. You could have played the Innkeeper and massacred for 1 to kill it which with horse and MHM you ping for 2.

This is from seth's new office setup?

His line at 17:43 is to play Innkeeper then massacre on 1, which will drain for one from Massacre and one from Dreadhound

was curious about someone making ghoulcallers harvest work but this guy is insufferable

Cutting playsets to 3 instead of 4 probably punishes Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy for the sins of a handful of Standard cards that aren't even seeing much play outside of Standard.

No, 3 card limits aren't going to help. You need to stop trimming your entire deck nonstop.

is it really against the odds when the deck is freakin SIIIIIIICK??????

Round 1 Opponent: I put the wraths in my deck, I'm gonna cast them no matter what!

Absolutely love this deck! Time to hoard those wildcards....

I think playing blue just for 1 card really hurt this deck due to mana. Almost all the games you lost was due to mana issues.

what in the world was that first game XD

Is that your new place in the background??

The meathook massacre is £28 a pop where I am rofl, Perhaps not XD

The p ly content creator i seen being brave enough to find the nich in standard fpe this great card

Can you make an Old Stickfingers Brawl deck??

I guess you could say you're trying to stick it to your opponents with this deck!

Nice deck but how did the artist manage to give good ol' stickfingers ordinary green people fingers when his name is literally describing his fingers? We're you considering playing the Old Manfingers deck but changed your mind last minute?

Oh hey, it's the zipperman

Please just once do a whole video in your “and it’s time” voice

For anyone talking about that horrible Vanquish the Horde game 1, it didn’t actually matter. Seth has 15 points of life loss (circumventing Valkymyria) right there. Stickfingers x=5 postcombat burns for 5 off hound, then Legend rule burns for 2 more off Hound+Massacre, 4 Decays triggers Massacre and Hound for 8 lifeloss. Opponent has to block the two farmers without killing them, because if a farmer dies or contacts their face they die (and they have to block the 4 Zombies and Stickfingers too) They have 5 blockers (with Farmhand) so they are 100% dead. Of course, they don’t actually know that so not sure what’s going on

The opponent in the first game made a MAJOR punt.

7:37 and that is why you should read the cards on your opponent's side

I was already looking at something else during the first game, bc i thought that it was 99.99% over. But suddenly Seth began laughing and i had to rewind :D :D

31:40 Inkeeper IS a black source. You keep the land, play the land cast in keeper and then you have four man's with double black. That kills most of the enemy board and buys you time

Against the Odds can be hyper janky and inconsistent, but this deck is a synergistic focused work of art. Excited to watch how this holds up against the established format powerhouses

I really hope you don't sound like that in real life

You have inspired me to brew an Old Stickfingers EDH deck. Thank you.

Stickyyy Fingeeeeeers! **Gay zipping noises**

I would like to see 3xcopies of cards; cause it would make things a little less consistent across the board, which would incentivize more interesting decks.

Thanks for the video Seth. Cool deck idea.

that would be yu gi oh with a 60 card decks

Hahahahahaha that first game! Hahahahahahahaha!

Seth, per your question on 3x max of a card: an older version of magic in an app in amonket era had a constructed format where 4x commons, 3x uncommon, 2x rare, and 1x Mythic were the limits. It made for fair gameplay that made drawing your mythic feel good while being unable to lean on a single broken card to win every game.

I read the comments first and was just waiting to see what seth did game 1... wasnt expecting that lol

Hope you are enjoying your new house Seth!

the best thing about against the odds nowadays is that you give us some use for those janky cards we get and have nothing to do with

I have learnt never ever keep a 2 land hand.

Classic Seth adding a full syllable to a name, punt or bluff?

What is he saying? "Avode it"?

Can we see some modern too? I really really enjoyed your against the odds and so on

I'll be honest. I only voted for sticky fingers because of the name

Bucciarati would be proud