At work this morning and I thought to myself “I wonder when Brian will post another standstill video, I definitely want to use his build as a reference “ and look what God did lol. Thanks for the great content brotha
If Sharkstill has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Sharkstill has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Sharkstill has only one fan then that is me. If Sharkstill has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Sharkstill, then I am against the world. I love Sharkstill until my last breath.
This video highlighted not just the deck but also Bosh's explanatory abilities really well. Better than most other streamers, I feel like Bosh really explains his thought process in a clear and concise fashion. I feel like I learned a lot from this league.
Been watching your vids for months now, just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the content you put out. Been watching mtg content for years and your channel is by far my favorite in terms of level of gameplay and commentary. Cheers
This deck was the first I ever saw on your channel, and got me into legacy mtg content. Gotta say, I’m glad to see it back. I remember you explaining the eternal dragon and why it was good and being so amazed at how much value legacy as a format could squeeze out of every card.
They didn’t cast Cathar Commando at 1:35:40 because you had Tef in play. They just said “oh boy” because they forgot and were likely supposed to get something else because of that. Like I think they should have just grabbed another recruiter or a flickerwisp
How to play a solid control game, while also playing not-quite-Magic, in the same deck. I love this archetype - no shortage of threats in an otherwise hardcore control deck. Deciding between building Sharkstill, Yorion Food Chain, and Doomsday in paper is going to be really hard. I guess with the first two there is at least a decent overlap of cards, so one can turn into the other at half cost?
Looking at Expedition Map, Currency Converter, and Standstill, was there some consideration for the Neon Dynasty channel lands? Otawara seems like it would be pretty good in the shell, especially if Opponent has some action under the standstill you can interact with.
In my experience, Eganjeo is just as worth it, and neither perform too well. However, if you’re comfortable trading off the softness to wasteland then there’s almost no downside. I’m just a sucker for basics
Probably the softness to wasteland just isn't worth it. As we saw in this league, and something Brian likes to talk about a lot, these UW control decks just fall apart if they get wasted and so they really can't afford to run too many non-basics. The deck is also really good at spending it's mana, Brian only really died to mana screw not flood, so you're quite happy to just playing land drops and making bigger sharks. In decks that don't care as much about getting wasted or have some actual risk of getting flooded the channel lands are fantastic, but here they're more likely to kill you than be super impactful.
@@emctwoo My question is whether the channel lands would be worth "spell" slots in the deck. Then who cares if they're soft to wasteland, they're "extra" lands you can draw in a pinch but that's not their main purpose.
@@Fyrefrye If they're being used primarily as spells then they're probably just too expensive. 3-4 mana conditional/bounce removal doesn't really cut it compared to plow and prismatic ending. For decks that can run them primarily as lands, getting to turn a land into an over-costed spell is great in the late game, but out side of Boseiju the rest are too high cost to really run as spells (and even then you still need to be ok playing Boseiju as a land a good chunk of the time).
I remember playing against a Standstill deck in paper, I'm on the play, he goes turn 2 Standstill and I flash a Coatl in play and almost go the distance before he has to Plow my Snek. Good times.
I could see cutting at least 1 of the deafening silence for sure. Having 4 Force of Wills and 4 Force of Negations with 4 dedicated combo hate cards seems a bit much. Especially since most storm nowadays uses the graveyard so bringing in 1 or 2 anti-graveyard artifacts is kinda expected. Wonder if cutting 1 for a second supreme verdict to help in the matchups people go wide is needed. Seems the go wide creature strategies and red decks that just go face would be the main weaknesses of this deck so having 5-6 cards for those doesn't seem crazy in the board. Hard to jam a stand still and out card advantage them if you can't ever get the board under control in the first place.
50:09 - play the vista for the basic island first, flooded strand second and then you've lots of great options for the next land, instead of limiting yourself to two basic lands like you did
I was listening to this deck whilst I was dreaming. I dreamt about a delver/sneak and show transformative deck for a GP in Brazil. Jonah Hill was happy to let me borrow his deck until I didn't sideboard. I did some practice games in home depot.
@1:46:43 A clear mistake was at least sequencing so that you didn't Waste their Karakas when you knew Yorion was coming down. Also aiming the double StP at Yorion instead of Mom, who you really needed to get rid of. Also I think you should've gone for the Shark Typhoon kill earlier.
I couldn't tell if there was any strange buzzing, but if there were, then my usual high-pitched background suffering noises were loud enough to drown them out lol
56:18 I wonder about the Prismatic Ending here. Since the plan was to find a red source, wouldn't it have been better to draw and discard with the Converter? Was the potential of delirium DRC too scary?
Loved the video, and this is my favorite blue deck in the format, but the dredge matchup makes me sad. Dredge is my favorite deck in any format, but it can't even win game ones reliably anymore.
TBF I knew the opp's deck before the game started, knew how to dismantle it, and got lucky to take that G1. But yeah, the deck is not in a good spot overall.
Any thoughts on currency converter 2 over the retrofitter? Retrofitter always seems so medium to me in lists like this (haven't played much with it, so also willing to believe I'm wrong).
Seems like converter is so much better than retrofitter in this list that we might not need retrofitter main and could rather move soul guide lantern in.
“...who alternates between reanimator and delver most of the time and frequently complains when you win.” Well, I’ll give you points for so efficiently making me dislike someone
My brain isn't big enough to build for legacy, but it's there any consideration for Plateau over Volcanic Island? It gets found by all your fetches, lets Scalding Tarn find white, and lets Timeless Dragon find Red
4 ponder 4 brainstorm 4 standstill 21 land, some of which are urzas saga. 6 cantrips, 23 land is a lot less greedy. You lost games because of missed land drops - I wouldn't call that getting away with it.
Really dumb question because I haven't played MTG in a while. at 1:39:40, couldn't you have used swords on the recruiter forcing him to make it protection from white which would have prevented Yorion from targetting it to blink it?
Wondering if upping the red sources a bit to include EI would be a good idea for this deck. Although honestly idek what you'd cut to make the space for it.
I think against 1/1 DRC I'd jam Standstill. it will be a 1/1 or you draw 3. and with 20 life id trust myself to find an answer. If they wanna daze turn1 otd they are welcome.
I'm not a cEDH player, but an obvious problem in cEDH is that you only have 1 Standstill in 99 cards. So it's not really worth to chuck your deck full of cards that work great with Standstill and that can force the enemy to break Standstill, because you only have 1 Standstill in 99 cards, as opposed to here where you have 1 Standstill in 15 cards. My guess is that if you have a good cEDH deck that coincidentally happens to be good with Standstill, chuck it in. But building around Standstill seems iffy.
If you're keen for more videos editing ideas then I think a W/L counter would be helpful for viewers. I get quite into the technical magic play and sometimes forget your record. I think it would also help viewers get invested in the league. Obviously this is some edit effort and you have a pretty rapid content schedule, but if you could automate it then it might work well. Thanks for the content anyway.
That's a somewhat intentional choice. It would be slightly more work, but I specifically try to avoid making the channel about winning and losing compared to having fun and learning.
@@BoshNRoll thats fair. I was just thinking maybe hit narcomeba early on then deal with ichorid with Swords or subsequent surges makes Bridge almost a non factor that can be cleared with shark cycle for 0 anyways. Also makes it harder for them to cabal therapy you.
Unfortunately, no. Modern players would spend their whole day crying if a card like standstill was in that format, and then it would end up being banned.
One thing im afraid of in this list is someone ruining my beautiful combo by wastelanding Halls :( Id almost run a Needle for it in the main so i can pick it up with Saga lol
The way this deck is built right now, it seems to really want to be able to play (nearly) all basics, in order to dodge nonbasic hate and Wasteland. Otawara would undermine that. But that's just for this specific deck. In other Legacy decks, Otawara may be good.
