The Big Score is...Loot? | Outlaws of Thunder Junction MTG Spoilers 

So slight correction on the Loot lore. Jace actually engineered the events of this set *specifically* to get Loot himself out of there. He had been to Thunder Junction while he was working with Tezzeret's infinite consortium and detected a mind inside the vault, but was unable to access it. Years later, he brings it up to Tamiyo while she's on Ravnica post War of the Spark, and she tells him that these vaults are scattered throughout the multiverse, relics of a multi-planar empire from ages past. She also gives him more information about what's in there, but the story doesn't divulge it to us the readers, so we don't know the deets just yet. As for *why* Jace wants Loot and the multiversal map in his brain? In the fallout of March of the Machine, Jace snaps to consciousness once the oil is silenced, and immediately realizes his body is dying. With what strength he can muster, he planeswalks away to save Vraska, uses mind magic to give them both a fever to hold back the phyresis, and then brings her to his mother's house on Vryn, where she helps put both of them into a coma. They spend a while recuperating while she uses healing magic and phoenix feathers to heal them as she burns out the oil and surgically removes their phyrexian augmentations. Vraska loses her spark in the process, but they ultimately make a recovery. They also learn about the omenpaths, and both of them become seriously concerned. Bolas was able to cause so much trouble with just one portal, and now everywhere is linked to everywhere else. Even with the Phyrexian's gone, there's nothing to stop new extraplanar threats from destroying the lives and stability of those on other worlds. They see this as something horrible they themselves did while under the spell of compleation, and resolve to undo the damage. But first, Vraska needs to be able to get around better than she can currently, and so Jace schemes to go after the map of the multiverse. Overall the epilogue is beautifully written, and Jace and Vraska see this as them adopting Loot. With his help, they want to do to the multiverse what the phoenix feathers did to their bodies: burn away the remnants of phyrexia to regenerate and heal it.

Seth out here just grinding. Videos with the cards up, scripts, almost every day for spoilers plus always on the fish stuff. Respect man, colored me impressed

Loot is in the three main colors with abilities that trigger for casting spells from anywhere other than your hand.

So, the duplicator doesn't actually sacrifice stuff itself. You would need some other way to sacrifice the Ugin's Nexus for this to work.

There's 2 ways in standard to "break" Memory Vessel, both from Outlaws of Thunder Junction. One is Aven Interrupter. You flash in Aven Interrupter on your opponent's end step, untap, pop the Memory Vessel. The 7 cards you exile can be played at cost, but the opponent will have to pay an extra 2 mana per spell which will severely limit how much of the new hand they can use. The other method is High Noon. Get to 7 mana, play High Noon, pop Memory Vessel, pass. The opponent can only play 1 spell from their 7 card hand. On their end step, pop High Noon and now you have full access to your new hand, and as a bonus deal 5 damage to something.

I will say that, in today's Commander, people often just don't interact with cards like Omenpath Journey unless it gets something scary. Like, on Turn 4, you can use it, and then get 5 decent but not game ending land cards. That's still a strong ramp card, and people are not pressured to remove it because why would you Assassin's Trophy a ramp card when you can save it for the thing they ramp out with that ramp card? Its similar to why people don't often counterspell a Cultivate or similar. They just don't often feel threatened by it.

I think it's funny that Esoteric Duplicator and Mindslaver are in the same limited environment. It'll be very rare, but there's going to be at least one person who's going to get Mindslaver locked in limited.

No hat today Seth? Edit: also the story is that Vraska and Jace also are together and adopted the little guy.

Memory Jar was also busted due to the lands in the surrounding sets. Tolarian Academy is what really set the card into overdrive. They literally printed a copy that is nerfed in every way possible, while lands are not nearly as powerful as they were.

Esoteric Duplicator + Ugin's Nexus isn't a combo. At the beginning of your end step, you get a new Ugin's Nexus which will skip extra turn effects.

I've only known Loot for one day but if anything happened to him I'd Hive Mind copies of One With Death to the whole table and then let mine resolve.

The most exciting part about Loot is that commander players are going to die to pure greed without a may trigger on this bad boy 😎

Loot is a super powered alien baby, the vault is a space ship and jace is a world traveling anti hero. If this sounds familiar to you, thats because this set was designed at a point when The Mandalorian was at its peek.

The problem with Loot, is that it's just Borderlands. This whole set is Borderlands. Open the vault find a giant monster (The dinosaurs, not the Pikachu), get a map for future treasure hunts, it's Borderlands. Every new thing I find out about OTJ makes me immediately think "Did they have a UB set for Borderlands but the deal fell through?".

Now that Surgical Extraction is on Arena, is there any chance of seeing an updated version of the Kaya "exile all your wincons" deck you played for Against the Odds (?) when she came out in RNA? It's one of my favourite decks I've seen on the channel :)

Maybe with Omenpath, you don’t get 5 best? You just get five medium lands. It thins your deck with the upside of ramping you every turn if it sticks around.

I think you also missed Stingerback Terror or, at least, I don't remember you talking about that card.

The difficulty of Ugin's Nexus would be the instant-speed artifact sac setup along with Duplicator, since you can only ever sacrifice it during your current end step as it would otherwise make you skip your next turn if it was on the field.

Loot looks like a character from a Kirby game, and much like those characters I don’t trust Loot as far as I can throw them

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REST IN PEACE IN STANDARD LETS GOOOO!!! Instantly going in all of my sideboards. GRAVEYARD IS GRAVEYARD!

I actually have a Jund Equipment Aristocrat Commander deck. Tana and Sengir are the commanders. I'm the one person Lotus Ring was made for.

20:18 it doesn't say you can't get basic lands with it, they just need to have different names, my solution to that in 2+ color decks is just picking 1 important land to get on your endstep and 4 basics, 2 snow-covered and 2 normal ones, if it gets dealt with it, you only lose a few basics.

Omenpath Journey is like Endless Horizons but you’re capped at 5 lands instead of every plains. You can pair it with Greater Auramancy for protection, but sooner or later somebody will hit farewell. Mid to bad, though at least maybe getting your best utility land for four mana and thinning your deck isn’t nothing. This mechanic either needs phasing in response to any effect that would exile it, or it needs to sit in exile and spit out one land per turn. I have no idea how to cost a card that guarantees gas for the rest of the game.

I think the malevolent force Kaervek mentioned in the story isn't necessarily Loot, but it's whatever had enough magical oomph to dumpster a multiplanar empire. That if whatever that was did all that, it might well still be around and reactivate as soon as a Fomori is outside the vault. If KAERVEK, genocidal, torturing, Phyrexian Dreadnaught Enjoyer Kaervek thinks something is too bad news to be worth it, I don't blame the bad guys for just deciding to go home and cut their losses before anything happens.

Legion Artifact is pretty close to Hammer of Purphoros from Theros - 3 mana and sac a land to get a 3/3 golem (also had haste due to the hammer). One of my favorite cards to play in that Standard.

So much of the Big Score looks like it will be a blast to play in my Brenard commander deck. One crucial thing about Synthesizer is that it’s on etb, not cast, and as the artifact creature tokens keep their cmc, it’ll proc for every creature 3 or above.

For Omenpath journey, you should grab 5 Basic. If it blown up, there's no feel bad and you just deck thinning. If it's not, you get to ramp 1 basic per end turn for 5 turn.

Potential standard combo with Esoteric Duplicator - it, Roxanne, and Dragonspark Reactor (or whatever payoff you want for a constant stream of artifacts ETBing). Then you make some treasures, sac them for 2 thanks to Roxanne, and use those 2 to pay for the Duplicator to get them back - but adding counters to your Dragonspark (or helping whatever other wincon you're using). Alternatively, if you have a sac outlet for artifacts you can sac Meteorites to get the 2 damage ETB too. And you can also sac the Dragonspark whenever you need to, for repeatable - if not expensive - removal. I mean, it's not what I'd call powerful or anything, but maybe an Against the Odds type of deck? Otherwise, there's some good potential value with it with a card like Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance - for 2 mana she gives you a hasty copy of a creature or artifact that's also an artifact, that gets sac'd at EoT - but when it gets sac'd you can pay an additional 2 to get a permanent token copy of it. Card's probably too cute for competitive but the kitchen table player in me loves it.

I remember that you played a steal sac deck in standard a while ago where one of the best cards was eriette's charming apple. I think lotus ring is great in decks that steal stuff but are not in the usual colours for sac outlets

Memory vessel works with set's mechanic of plot but further synergizes with things like foretell, flashback, or retrace, meaning while most decks will only play the new exiled 7 you likely get the exiled 7 plus the other interactions.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but if u manage to make a copy of substitute synthesiser, doesn't that trigger the original copy? Since everything is copied, including cmc. Then you can cast worldwalker helm (which triggers original SS and the copy SS), and use worldwalker to copy the copy SS, which again makes karnstructs?

I'm sorry but duplicator and ugins nexus how does tht work ? Wouldn't the token copy state that you skip the turn if you take an extra turn ? You'd get your token copy of ugins nexus before going to take that new turn it checks and then you skip that turn no ? Maybe it's a case of sacrificing ugins nexus some how during the end step to get it the following end step ?

Uh is it substitute synthesizer or simulacrum synthesizer? At 9:09 it’s listed as the latter

Abrupt Decay is also another Pioneer staple being added to Explorer.

I have an infinite extra turn deck for timeless using timestream navigator and reflection of kiki-jiki! I love it so far, ran about 100 games with it, and it's still not stale yet.

Omenpath Journey, I think the ideal scenario is you get you best two lands, and have 3 lands you don't mind losing. Because you almost always get the first one as a counterspell is more likely than an instant disenchant. In that way it does thin the deck which is always nice, for enchantress decks there's heloids + seras sanctum so it's worth

Memory Vessel ( 24:28 ) is really good if you have a Drannith Magistrate, right? You get a new hand and your opponents can't play any cards on their next turns, so it's like a Time Walk and Time Twister put together. There is also that Aven Interrupter card in the new set, so you could even do something like this in standard and brawl.

High noon 2nd mode also makes it like how fires yurion worked. Sac it opp end step. Play your turn without restrictions then play another copy as the last spell. Maybe magical christmas land but still a possibility

Worldwalker Helm works hand in hand with Simulacrum Synthesiser . It gives you the Karnstruct + a map to make it bigger and then can clone the Karnstructs.

Seth do you want to talk about Stingerback Terror or did I miss it in a prior video?

Well, the lore seems to be that Jayce and Vraska married after they survived phyrexia but couldn't get a child because vraska couldn't get pregnant from Jace because Human/Gorgon Genes don't work together so they adopted the tiny beast dragon. There is a hillarious interaction in the story where they discuss the child thing an Vraska remarks that they "Would know by now if it worked" 😂

I don't know how many there are in those colors and when I think of them I can only think of the green red one that makes wolves. That being said, loot could work with cards that care about casting from exile or cards that care about casting things not from your hand. I just looked through the doctor who said and the commander deck in the same colors has lots of paradox cards which trigger off of you casting a spell from anywhere other than your hand. Laliea the blade forged cares about whenever you exile a card from your library or graveyard. My point is the themeing of the deck. Doesn't have to just be good stuff. It could be casting from exile or not from your hand or exiling in general.

Seth a strokes fan!!!! You just got a new fan. Best part of the video

Grand Abolisher doesn't stop channeling a Boseiju or an Otawara ^_^

One thing that's notable about Memory Vessel is that, in Commander, it effectively silences your opponents if you activate it with a Drannith Magistrate on the field.

Dust Animus will be great in control SB against aggro in standard and maybe pioneer. 4/5 flying and lifelink stops most aggro decks, and you will have 5 mana to protect it.

Lotus Ring with Ser Gwyn as a commander, any 2 mana or less knight, Haakon, and a haste enabler like swiftfoot boots, rabbit battery or Lightning Greaves makes you go infinite on mana, etbs and death triggers. The card perfectly slots into Gwyn given the number of recursion cards she can run without sacrificing slots. It also makes it extremely easy if you can equip at instant speed to sacrifice off a knight to play around creature removal. We might actually see Gwyn as a CEDH commander for Mardu aristocrats with the amount of tutors she can run.

Omenpaths journey seems a lot better than expected, because If you recast it you can find more Lands and get any of them

Seth, drannith magistrate locks just got real.

Some other shenanigans with Esoteric Duplicator- Urabrask’s Forge, essentially pay 2 to not lose your token; Phyrexian Dreadnought, something something pay 2 repeatedly for some kind of ETB trigger or fling?

@11:30 I think I like the substitute synthisizer for my bernard deck.

There's a bunch of hate cards that have been released this set. I feel like there could be some sort of Boros prison deck in Standard now.

Substitute Synthesizer and Mechanized Production seems fun

This set is insane!!!!

Substitute synthesizer would go well in the one shot colossus surprise deck you did for pioneer, if you go turn 2 artifact turn 3 synthesizer turn 4 brass knuckles, synthesizer triggers twice since the trigger is on come into play not cast and the token does have a mana value over 3, play your colossus even without a sanctum of ugin and you still have a 10/10 and 3 8/8 construct

Crime novelist makes legion foundry effectively cost 1, right? Is there anything else that gets you mana on a sac?

Doesnt ugins nexus prevent your extra turn since its gonna be on the field? Unless you sack it twice, the original and the token.

If you can blink omenpath journey you can just use it as a land tutor each turn

Was hoping Pest Control had Split Second instead of Cycling to deal with all those random food, treasure, map etc. tokens all over the place now for good, but that'd definitely be too pushed.

I'm confused, they're in the list slot. So 1 out of 5 packs will contain either a list card or a big score card? Or is it always a big score guaranteed? I'm trying to understand how rare or how common these cards actually are. It sounds like they could either be relatively common or even rarer than mythics.

The thing about memory vessel I think is being overlooked is the line that states "players can't play cards from their hand until your next turn" ...

Substitute Synthesizer is actually kind of insane in high power formats. Image a T1 or T2 synthesizer through something like ancient tomb and a mox into zero drops, following it up with an Urza's Saga on a following turn. And it's blue so it pitches to FoW. This is crazy!

I think saffron olive forgot that dust animus's trigger is an ETB trigger, so it would also trigger with any kind of flicker effects. Also with "Essence Flux" it would ETB with an additional +1+1 counter since it is a spirit

You can repeatedly blink omenpath journey, get one land each turn and minimize the risk of having it blown up

Ginger sculpture for the artifact sac

Omenpath journey is very interesting. - If you really want a land and you know somebody cannot interact with it the turns it enters play: you get it. And you can take multiple copies of this land which generate a moment of tention when you had what you wanted but your oponent still needs to react or it gets worse for him, which is almost a tempo win - If your oponent cannot interact with it you ramp a lot and it gives you lots of versatility for later turns thinking about man lands and hate lands - you can also decide to exile lands you do not want to draw anymore. It represents a lot of deck filtering. However it can be stiffled upon entering the battlefield abd it is a massive tempo loss, being down 5 bad draws and having eventually up to 5 more lands in a top deck war is strong as hell

Will be this abiable in arena ??

one thing regards high noon.... have you seen how man cards can be using WITHOUT CASTING RIGHT NOW ON STANDARD? and now with the addition of plot, you can pretty much build your deck around it to be able to do more than 1 thing each turn

Esoteric Duplicator and Substitute Synthesizer are honestly really making me consider retooling my Adrix and Nev, Twincasters // Esix, Fractal Bloom commander deck into, like, weird janky Simic artifacts/artifact creature aristocrats "artifact copies go brrrrr" deck. I feel like with the tech we've gotten in this set so far, the Kamigawa Reconfigure cards, Prototype creatures in Brothers War, I feel like there's enough to make this deck work.

Wouldn't the token copy of Nexus stop the extra turns?

Seth just not even mentioning Dranith Magistrate or Ghostly Pilferer when talking about Memory Vessel smh

I think Omenpath Journey can depend on what it grabs; in my Hazezon deck that'll be running 21 Deserts once Outlaws drops, I think grabbing 5 different deserts paints a much different target than grabbing, say, 3 deserts, a wasteland, and a field of the dead which that deck could also pull with Omenpath.

Was the writing team (re)playing Borderlands when they came up with this? Because that's what this reminds me of. Also, Loot + Thirteenth Doctor could be fun.

I'm still disappointed they didn't include any horsemanship cards in the cowboy set

I assume Loot is there to set up for Bloomburrow?

I think Memory Vessel will be sweet in my Rocco, Street Chef deck!

Ugin's Nexus isn't a 2 card infinite combo. You have to have a sac outlet for it, and Esoteric Duplicator can only sac itself, not other artifacts. So at best you'd need another permanent that has the ability to sacrifice artifacts. Best one I can think of in Standard would be Bartolome.

Omenpath Journey in a blink deck. Pull one at a time on purpose.

I don’t understand The Big Score as a set; but it’s standard legal, so cowabunga it is.

Hi noon will for sure see cedh play

You need a third card for the Ugin’s Nexus combo as neither sac it. With KCI, you just get all the turns, though.

The greedy way to play Omenpath Journey is to grab your 5 most powerful lands. And if you know your opponent can't interact with enchantments, maybe you do that. The sneaky smart way to play it however is to get 5 different fetches instead. That's going to double the amount of deck thinning a single copy does. And even if it is removed, you don't actually lose any of your mana producing lands.

Will we see a fresh new D&T standard deck?

Here is my thing with the enchantment. Sure it’s easy enough to lose 5 lands, but it’s also just very reasonable to not care. Like you probably don’t put your 5 best lands. You grab 5 good fixing lands. Whatever your best random 2-3 color lands are. It gives you one on end step, so even if it only makes it around a second turn it’s already on rate for 4 mana ramp but got you dual lands. And if it’s just generic fixing lands, people won’t want to blow it up. Even if they do though, you’re not exactly feeling terrible for it. It’s just such efficient ramp. 1 extra land a turn for 5 turns is bonkers.

Substitute synthesizer is going to find a lovely home in my Emry deck

Gotta love Magic lore. "We Compleated a bunch of our iconic characters for shock value (an irreversible process) then 2 seconds after the Phyrexians are defeated, everyone magically gets un-compleated"

In case anyone forgot, magic and wotc are a business. As a business they need to build their recognition in their ip. So i would love to see loot become a plushy or a pikachu. Magic really badly needs recognition in the non-nerd part of the world.

wait isn't memory vessle dranith magistrate a psuedo lock?

I feel like Dust Animus could work in some kind of control deck. They often will run some cheap threats that can grow, or be cast at a discount, like Tolarian Terror or Murktide. This comes down on turn 5 whuoe letting you hold up most of you mana for counters, and is a pretty decent threat to close out the game.

Seth, how is Reennact the Crime going to get Atraxa on the battlefield if they can only cast 1 spell per turn? Reenact is that spell, then they can't cast the free Atraxa.

I think Ugin's Nexus doesn't work since you get the copy before you actually start the extra turn? Unless you are specifically sacrificing it on your end step, nvm. Lol

Loot seems like a fun Commander - if you have a mana rock, that's one draw per turn, anything else, and you get multiple draws per turn. At 3 mana? I could see some kind of CEDH deck around this even.

Memory Vessel + Dranith Magistrate. Impulse drawn 7 while your opponents just exile their top 7.

Memory Vessel + Drannith Magistrate = less friends. Especially if you find a way to make token copies of the card to lock people out of sorcery speed actions. Add in Grand Abolisher so they can’t respond during your turn for a hard lock. Sounds fun!

Imagine an alien with an obvious fish head and he says “It’s a trap”!

27:44 memory jar would also go burr in a the war doctor deck. He’d get 28 counters which would half someone’s life

I personally like the vessel since I run rocco street chef it makes him go nuts

Drannith Magistrate and Memory Vessel seems pretty good

Omenpath could be good in 4 or 5 colors, and you could just grab triomes that would already come in tap.