Teaching Arena Zoomers About Mindslaver Locks | Against the Odds 

Yeah wtf, most obvious play not sure how we're getting our cards countered because we leave them with mana and see they have a counter from controlling their last turn.

Teaching arena boomer how to CORRECTLY mindslaver lock LOL

like a real tournament time when mindlaver was in tooth&nail deck - combo with bringer of white dawn, good times xD, no mtg arena, attending to real tournaments :D

Yep too bad that mana burn isn't a thing anymore because they'd DEFINITELY be taking damage from that every turn in addition to combat damage since we'd never cast any of their creatures

@@davidcrawford5324 Mindslaver explicitly exempted controlled players from mana burn, even when that was a thing.

Some people like to watch and observe how it all works so that they can dupe the deck to wreak havoc on others with it later 😉

They were spamming heart emotes at Seth. Probably a fan.

I agree that he sit through because he thought it would make for a better video.

I do this for 2 reasons. One of the reasons I play this game is to observe the unique interactions between different cards. I find it fascinating to see how these synergies can be leveraged, even in the face of an inevitable loss. It's a way for me to appreciate the game in its entirety, beyond just winning or losing. A part of me also appreciates the game beyond just winning. If I enjoy watching my deck go off, I'm sure others also enjoy it. It's a small gesture of good sportsmanship, a way to share the game with my opponent, even in the face of a potential loss. Another reason I keep playing is the thrill of unexpected turns. For instance, there could be a disconnection from the server for the opponent, giving me an easy win. Or, I might draw a 'game-changer' card at the last minute, which could potentially shift the balance in my favor. The stupid auto-dialer (the algorithm that orders the deck when you shuffle) does this more often than you think. Wizards says this ensures more exciting matches. It's a bit unfair, but that's how they programmed the dialer algorithm. It biases spells to the top for quicker matches, saving Wizards a lot of coin. Anyway, I'm hanging in there in case I earn a late win. I bet I earn 10% of wins this way. It's ridiculous.

Plot Twist: Opponent has a punishment kink.

Imagine if mana burn was still a thing and you could kill an opponent by just making them lose unspent mana lol

Also Seth: complains about what Karn can fetch up after Farewell exiles all of his stuff to a place Karn can fetch from.

And seth is correct! Ugin and Karn both are questionable design at best. Way to oppressive and versatile.

I feel like the deck needs Ugin as a sweeper, but if I can I'd rather win without it because I find Ugin super boring.

So often Ugin made the deck feel like "This is a good deck, but it feels like it shouldn't be a Mind Slaver deck"

Could also want to waste his time out of spite as I would have.

Could also be they sat because Seth played terribly lol. He never tapped down lands and dumped a karn into a counterspell that he saw and had control of. So he was probably hoping Seth would mess something else up and lose

@@coffeedudeable Since seth needed to get rid of the counterspell to proceed winning, i don't see how wasting 1/4 Karns to it.

A fine reason tbh

@malte54 1. He could have tapped all the opponents lands every turn so that he could never resolve the counterspell. 2. He could have cast the opponents other card in hand and then cast the counterspell targeting his own card to get rid of them both.

Delightful letting that play out, kudos!

and the Vanishing versed Duplicator in the 1st game

He also could have sacced duplicator to itself in response to

Everyone forgets about that because Exile is just second graveyard these days and you don’t remember that it also counts as “outside the game”.

@@ConManAUit doesnt count as outside the game, karn specificly says it can pull from face up exile

@@Elliementals Ah, you’re right, proves that even I don’t know his wording properly. I was thinking of the days when exiling cards was called removing them from the game.

Right....Seth being Blood Moon'ed is also peak awesome :)

Agreed, Seth just needs arena to print more golden oldies for him @mtggoldfish maybe you have enough pull to request them to add individual cards? 🤣

I'd love to see tinker blightsteel, yawgs will ad nauseum, or even a mind sculptor addition 🤞🤞🤞🥲

Except Force of Will and such.

You should never leave them with a force able to be used because you can use it to counter their own spells or cast their other blue spells to leave them with a land

this pissed me off so much OMG like read your cards!

Could have also grabbed it with karn from exile

This could have been card advantage

How?

@@josed.9874 sacrifice the duplicator to its own ability, then pay 2 to get a copy of it at the endstep

Every viewer is a perfect player who never makes mistakes ever. Seth having an above 50% winrate with weird ass decks in high ranks means nothing if he doesn't get 100%, obviously.

​@@xchronox0I completely agree that there are some jackanape nitpickers who just wanna tear Seth down, but one of the values of pointing out certain plays is it lets people know their options if they didn't see it either.

Even more helpful is the scry ETB filter land and the surveil ETB desert, should never use zalfirin void over those if you ever have the chance of wanting coloured mana, or using your graveyard with case of surveil desert

Aka 20 years ago, making it ancient

@@minervaalexia6074 But the comment was the early years of Magic, making today irrelevant. Mirrodin was not the early days of Magic. It's also not super serious either.

Just saw the end of the clip where you recognized it lol. Way to pull out the W anyway!

Playing Magic since 1987 is impressive