Teaching Arena Zoomers About Paying the 1 | Against the Odds 

Seth teaching others about paying the one is like Crim teaching others about mono green ramp 😂

Props to the Gate Player for letting you combo of instead of scooping

Teaching Arena Zoomers is a great new segment

This deck is missing some Mana Tithes and Censors. Great Video!

The important difference between seek and search is that it doesn't shuffle your deck. Otherwise it could be a paper mechanic

Seek does not shuffle. It's very cute with stacking your deck :) The reason why the Primeval Titan was no longer revealed on top was because there's a chance it was the exact card found with seek, so technically the top card is random again.

The solution when you're in this weird endgame where blue sun doesn't quite cut it (yet) and activating faerie mastermind might take too long is to simply zenith yourself. Just do it for the exact amount of cards you have in library then the zenith is the only card the mastermind will be able to draw you. So Guaranteed zenith everytime. As long as you have 5 mana remaining you should be okay.

arena loves to go slowly and then be like "omg why are you playing so slow"

Remember Seth, you can commit one of the treasures and then use it to cast the spell, it will fizzle and go to grave without you having to commit your own things

"Teaching Arena Zoomers" is without a doubt my favorite thing on MTG Goldfish.

No one will believe me, but at MagicCon Vegas, I made Seth pay the one REPEATEDLY against my oops all Teferi Commander deck… it was the wildest thing I’ve ever seen!

Rhystic Study sits in a weird place. The “common knowledge” comes from a time where you weren’t dying to 2 2-drops in every match. However, Rhystic study is a 3 mana “do nothing”, requiring your opponent to interact. Also, it has been a very long time since most people have seen a study, so they don’t understand to pay the 1.

i really think Arena should add a way to let you skip heavily repeated action animations so loops like this can be resolved quicker. Like, you had a demonstrable loop on the 4 treasures into Faerie Mastermind, so it should have an option that just doesn't go through the actions of spending and remaking those treasures.

I would love to see more "teaching Arena zoomers" content, even if it means periodically going back to cards/themes you've already touched on. Trying alternate builds or updates, or even just playing the exact same deck for another hour's worth of matches.

1:22:00 As a reminder, Fragment Reality puts the creature into play tapped, so it wouldn't be able to block. As for Rhystic Study in 1v1, apparently it sees some play in Pauper sideboards.

Next on Teaching Arena Zoomers: Seth teaches about being hypocritical lol

Emergency powers into smothering tithe was one of my favorite decks you played in that standard, stoked for this

Tbh something that would have likely sped up your turns when you went infinite would simply be to put as many Mastermind activations as you can afford on the stack at once, let them all resolve, then peruse your hand for useful cards, instead of the stop-go motion that leads to a spending a bunch of extra time Also pitch Commits more and use E-Power first since Memory can't get wheeled

I'm an arena zoomer learning these teachings instead of submitting late work. This is more informational than all of my high school classes combined

I don't think I've ever giggled this much through a video... basically every time Seth asks "do you want to pay..." and the answer is a resounding "NO!"

I feel like you're doing a good service to old and new MtG players with this segment, because new players get to watch and learn classic strategies unfolding before they play at local TCGs on FNM, but also seasoned veterans can also enjoy older strategies crushing opponents again. Great stuff!

I bought the Smothering Tithe anime art (on Arena) specifically because that art is absolutely mandatory for decks like this. Though my idea for a deck was an Abzan deck that wins through locking the opponent out of the game until they draw for the turn. On turn 53.

To me Folio of Fancies is always a hidden gem of smothering combo, which works very well when there are two or more smothering tithes.

It's a shame Rhystic Study isn't legal in modern or something. I would love to play something similar to this in Paper Magic.

I think that Rhystic Study performed better than it actually is because people don't know how to play against it. The games where people were able too play around it it felt like the deck wasn't able to do much other than ask the question, which gave them the time they needed because you weren't threatening anything other than more cards. I wonder if adding black for Sheoldred would be good, it gives you a significant backup plan, and drastically reduces the amount of combo you have to do, it may be outside of the spirit of the deck, but I think it would make the deck much more competitive

That last game was well played by both parties, and was really respectful. Good sportsmanship on both sides. Well done to you both!

I feel bad for the colorless opponent. They seemed like a new player who got into the game by just learning and playing that one deck. Either that or they knew they weren't winning so they took it as a personal challenge to see how many cards they could make you draw lol

I really love this series haha Maybe bc I started playing magic on arena and never had the opportunity to see old cards

I was waiting to hear that there was 1 copy of forced fruition in the deck but I was left waiting. I guess there would be too many odds that it would be against.

I’m laughing SO HARD from these first two matches! I love this deck/video

This feels like a MonoBlackMagic deck, and I love

I love you working through all of the Eldrane enchantments.

"I wish there were voice chat" seth says as the monkey's paw curls another finger

This was so satisfying to watch , Thank you for the amazing content.

This was pure joy. I still remember playing the awesome Underworld Dreams + Emergency Powers deck

I really Hope That when Seth Pitched this Video, Tomer groaned, Crim Laughed and Richard asked "Really".

You know, I think this deck needs a couple of reliquary towers and maybe a couple of sea gate restorations.

At least Seth recognizes the irony of him being the one making this video. As soon as I saw the title, I could almost hear Tomer ranting about Seth needing to pay the 1 on the most recent episode of clash.

You even did a video of my deck a couple years ago!! Crackling Smothering Power!

The thumbnail game is getting even stronger. The art for this one was amazing xD

This is a hilarious concept! I love it. This looks so innocent lol ^.^

The second opponent: "I don't care who the IRS sends, I'm not paying my taxes!"

We, from the EDH community, would like to thank you for your diligence in tutoring young magic players on the nuanced finesse of this game.

I love that you did this video. I've been enjoying a similar deck for the past month when I became obsessed with rhystic study. Another card that's amazing in commander that I wish saw play would be as foretold. In my mind it'd pair well with proliferate (experimental augury and tezzrets gambit) so maybe using either pollen druids or ichormoon gauntlet to ramp the free spells and blue leylines so you could play creatures/planeswalkers at instant speed. But I don't have the wildcards after making my rhystic deck. I wish I had people to play commander with but I'm stuck trying to make my fav cards work in arena standard

Seek actually doesn't shuffle the library. I know this having played realmwalker and faceless agent.

Great video as always! I think you could've trimmed some cards to make room for Mirrormade (or Copy Enchantment, but Mirrormade is much better since it can also copy the Esper Sentinel) to be able to combo faster/more consistently by virtually having more than four copies of Smothering Tithe in the deck.

This was incredibly satisfying to watch

This made me cackle, I love this xD

That deck was crazy, super entertaining

Loving Seth being so giddy about azorious control :)

We need a counter on screen for how many times Seth says "Do you pay the one" this episode. Lol

Helpful tip for later: archmage's charm can gain control of those flipped sagas. Their cmc is technically 0, so the third mode there can gain control of their fable or whatever random saga they're playing.

Game 2 in a nutshell: Seth Bullies someone's Semblance Anvil

is there any value to adding some cards to reduce the activation costs or is that redundant?

You're such a despicably evil troll, I love every second of it.

Enjoyed the race the rope part

That's a very interesting perspective on wizards in historic

1:10:50 It really is that good. Less so in Modern and Historic, because you don't care about it being a blue card for Force of Will, but if you just think of it as an MDFC, it's super good. It fixes your mana like a fetch land, it pitches to Force, and if the game drags on, I've seen games of Legacy where it's used to draw 3 (or more in Beanstalk decks) cards. Being a shuffle for Brainstorm that doesn't require you to keep up an unfetched land is also a big plus in that format.

I see Rhystic study as quite good generally, glad to see others learning. Though if it's not in a deck with control it can often feel like too little too late

47:05 It's so nice to let the opponent draw some cards after he let you draw so many!

I love that Seth is playing THIS deck 😂

Cool deck. Reminds me of an draw and exile Esper Deck with 4x Time Spiral instead of Memory and some Lobotomy just to get rid of any enemy wincons.

I think you could make the farie mastermind loop a little faster by putting on full control, and activating as many times as possible before letting the triggers resolve. Only useful if you have 20+ treasures already though.

I miss my black and blue pay to do stuff decks. Thanks for the amusement to see new players to learn the suffering.

Could you put in a one off training grounds to make the faerie mastermind combo only need 2 smothering tithes?

I appreciate that he opens with "Hypocritically" lol.

"Would you like to pay the 104?" is by far the cruelest thing you can say to an opponent who's tapped out.

Wonder if Revel in Riches or Orcish as a one-of would be nice - to have some alternates to win

I'm wondering if a 1-of of Training Grounds would improve the consistency and speed up the Faerie Mastermind combo- 2 Smothering Tithes to combo off with a Training Grounds out, and it's only a single mana in a deck without a lot of turn-1 plays to Smothering Tithe's 4 CMC. It also protects you from a single piece of exile-based enchantment removal fizzling the combo. It could even replace Fragmented Reality for people looking to shun digital-only cards.

My favorite meme deck I’ve ever played in standard was affectionately called “emergency centaurs” using tithe, emergency powers and rampage of the clans. Good times

This is the most we'll ever see Seth ask players to pay the one in our lifetime.

If you're main decking smothering tithe, run investigate removal like declaration in stone

Couldnt he have gained control of the mirror breaker flip with archmages charm? Or any other of the tokens for that matter?

6:54 seek doesn't shuffle unless the rest of the ability says to shuffle. The titan is still on top.

In match 4 game one, if I'm not mistaken, you could win by casting blue sun zenith for 27 and then drawing for free with faerie mastermind until you found it again to finish milling the op, there was no need to wheel again

You should add folio of fancies to this. It’s a great tool to maximize communal draw and it operates as a great finisher. I built pretty much this same deck two years ago around smothering tithe and folio. Worked great then.

For a while I’ve been playing a Smothering Tithe / Emergency Powers deck that I came up with. A few variations, but never tried the Rhystic Study / Esper Sentinel tech. My versions include red, going for a burn kill, or using Wish to find a variety of toolbox and alternate win cons. It’s been very successful, including wins against Tron resolving N. Bolas, Dragon God; Karn, The Great Creator; AND Ugin the Spirit Dragon multiple times in a game 😂 It can be a lot of fun to pilot, but sometimes it feels repetitive 😅

If you didn't want to worry about timing out when you got the full faerie + tithe combo you could target yourself for the first blue sun's zentih leaving up some treasures and like 3-5 cards in your deck. That way when it shuffles back in you have a much better chance to draw it again in time.

Seth teaches zoomers about Rhystic Study. Obviously they are not paying! 😂

Me: “I wish someone would make a gate” Baulder: “😏😏😏”

Damn, I already ran into this deck. And I thought the person was some kind of a commander junkie left alone with Arena. Turns out its all on you Seth

I absolutely loved the deck.

That was some wild magic

Pithing needle the Maze’s End🤔 I never tired that. I love it on the One Ring😂 everyone pays for my RS😅

I feel like a one of both second sun and tef tutelage as alt win cons would work

Love the thumbnail 😂

@22:40 pretty sure blue suns the opponents for 9 is the correct play here as it just ramps you a bunch of extra treasure for free prior to wheeling. @23:27 and again blue suns the opponent for 11 getting 33 treasure. Which would have aleviated the time constraints at the end.

I played against wheel decks back in 93... may I suggest adding underworld dreams... I can't tell you how many times I have died to that card after a wheel.

This deck is something near one deck I've been playing fro several years at this point. Some cards were swapped as new ones could improve their function but... here it goes! The main function is to pile up exiled cards before reseting the hands and getting the opponent graveyard exiled with Ashiok, so their deck becomes thinner each time. There are also several win cons like: - Pinging opponent each time they draw - A massive Torment of Hailfire - Milling their deck - +2 Tezzeret with an absurd amount of treasures - x 2 Approach of the Second Sun - And of course sharks It's been a while since I have not been upgrading the deck so I am sure that there is room for improvement Deck 3 Hallowed Fountain (RNA) 251 3 Emergency Powers (RNA) 169 2 Commit /// Memory (AKR) 54 3 Ashiok, Dream Render (WAR) 228 3 Smothering Tithe (RNA) 22 2 Bloodchief's Thirst (ZNR) 94 3 Godless Shrine (RNA) 248 2 Legions to Ashes (BRO) 215 2 Cleansing Nova (M19) 9 3 Doomskar (KHM) 9 3 Glacial Fortress (XLN) 255 2 Castle Ardenvale (ELD) 238 1 Castle Vantress (ELD) 242 2 Castle Locthwain (ELD) 241 3 Isolated Chapel (DAR) 241 2 Fae of Wishes (ELD) 44 2 Sphinx's Revelation (AKR) 262 1 Shark Typhoon (IKO) 67 2 Settle the Wreckage (XLN) 34 2 Tasha's Hideous Laughter (AFR) 78 1 Hall of Storm Giants (AFR) 257 1 Sea Gate Restoration (ZNR) 76 4 Raffine's Tower (SNC) 254 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (DMU) 107 2 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim (BRO) 66 1 Bladecoil Serpent (BRO) 229 2 Underworld Dreams (THB) 121 1 Torment of Hailfire (AKR) 128 Sideboard 1 Kaya, Orzhov Usurper (RNA) 186 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge (WAR) 275 1 Emergency Powers (RNA) 169 1 Approach of the Second Sun (STA) 1 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight (M21) 76 1 Oath of Teferi (DAR) 200 1 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim (BRO) 66 In any case, I have had really good times with this kind of deck. It also works great as people do not usually knows what you are going for. Best regards!

The game against the colourless player made me want to throw my phone out the window

I need this in my life that's awesome

i love everything about this deck lmao do you pay the one? yes, yes you do.

I hope this results in study catching on in other formats, resulting in a price increase, resulting in it being less common in edh.

Every deck that you play that "teaches arena zoomers" is ALWAYS a banger

I got the Yusri Fortune's Flame as a commander and other day I got 5 coin flips as heads, which lets you draw 5 cards and play anything from hand for free. Got insane board, was super fun

I want Seth to whisper “Wow, three Rhystic Studies” as an asmr video for 2 hours straight.

You missed the flavor by not adding Baird, Steward of Argive! And added protection. It definitely didn't need it though, it's too dedicated to its gameplan. Awesome video, hilarious too!

7:00 It was at this moment that Seth's opponent realized they weren't playing against a tempo deck.

That was cool!!

“Dice rolls are bad!” >Comet enters chat.