The One Ring, But INFINITE (I Draw My Deck on Turn 4!) | MTG Arena | Magic: the Gathering Historic 

Can't wait for the next banned/restricted announcement: "We have noticed The One Ring is a powerful roll filler in many decks, and has created some new decks, such as the popular Colorless Paradox Engine deck. In response to that decks power and popularity we feel we need to curve the decks power, so we are banning Coldsteel Heart in Historic."

Wow a broken artifact combos with paradox engine! Who would have guessed?

Never thought I'd see the day where Paradox Engine AND The One Ring were both broken.

The One Rign Paradox is thus: "If there is only one ring, how have I drawn 4 of them?"

We finally found a way to break paradox engine

I can’t believe you would beat up on the scry deck like that 😢

The main reason to not craft the deck, is not that it's gonna have a low win rate per wildcard, but that it might get one of its crucial pieces emergency banned.

If you want to play this deck yourself try putting a darksteel citadel in the sideboard to fetch with Karn. It’s super helpful to have an extra land drop that you can get from the sideboard and lets you get a bit greedier in some hands/turns.

another tip with this deck: if you have ring, engine, and forge, you can cast a spell form your library with forge and hold full control, then respond to the engine trigger by tapping the ring, that way you decrease your chances of whiffing by drawing too many lands.

The one ring but broken? So... The one ring?

Really excited for this. So glad someone is finally brave enough to build a deck around The One Ring. I never thought we'd see it played!

The One Ring is huge for this archetype. I've used it before on MTGA, and I recall using some really overcosted artifact which was basically "draw one card". Being able to draw 6 after only playing two spells (and then more after that) is nuts. Especially with getting protection for a turn, in order to go off on the next turn.

I’ve been playing this deck for a while, and if you want to build it, you should absolutely include semblance anvil. Gives the deck so many crazy win lines.

I have another combo just like this: Hazoret's Monument + Birgi, God of Storytelling + Grinning Ignus + Aetherflux Reservoir. 1. Your deck has to have a lot of 1 CMC cantrips (Crash Through, Warlord's Fury, etc) to filter your deck out and get some consistency. Make sure you can play a land every turn. 2. Turn 3: play land, cast Monument. 3. Turn 4: play land. Then: a. Cast Birgi, monument triggers, draw and discard. b. Cast Grinning Ignus, monument triggers, draw and discard. Birgi will trigger, generating R. c. Use the R generated by Birgi to activate Ignus ability, return it to hand generate 2R. d. Repeat b, you'll add 1 colorless to your mana pool each time since the monument reduces the ignus cost by 1. e. Once you get an Aeterflux Reservoir, keep it on your hand and cast it when you can. Each time you cast Ignus, you'll gain a bunch of life. Once you're at 60, lazer to the face of your opponent.

Seth, you should consider to go check your problem with keeping one landers... The worst thing is that sometimes it goes OK 😂

This is the first time i've ever felt this watching Seth play. I actually felt bad for his opportunities. Seth's deck is amazing but it seems to take the fun out of game. The One Ring is bonkers

That first match was so sweet...your opponent saw it all coming and was clearly impressed with the combo since he emoted the laughing dragon and the GG as it was going down and also didn't scoop...mad respect to him for sticking around to take that 50 dmg at the end 👏👏👏

Great video Seth! This is like punching a baby in the face had me rolling

23:31 pro tip! If you wanna prevent this from happening , you can hold full control and exile the tol card with the Pizza Oven before the untal trigger resolves. That way, you can look at one extra card and make sure you don't run out of steam

I'm actually surprised that there isn't more twiddle storm decks with the one ring

I built this deck, it's so good that even in a ultra grindy UW matchup where all your paradox engines and aehterflux reservoirs get countered, Forsaken monument gains enough life that a buried ruin drawn off of the one ring to get reservoir back just wins at 56 life

Yeah, I agree on the "more fun for the opponent" part. Old paradox engine decks had a habit of taking the game clock hostage without the game being clearly decided.

We did it! We broke paradox engine!

This is why I've been seeing this deck so much in lower tiers historic ranked this morning. Its surprisingly well matched against charbelcher.

I really do think ( and hope) that the one ring will get the ban hammer. People are coming with more ways to just break the modern format, it's warping the entire thing. That alone is a solid basis to get a ban of the chin.

Why not put a ring in the sideboard to be able to fetch with Karn?

Since a lot of people are suggesting adding colored cards, it’s worth mentioning that they miss with pizza oven and colored mana weakens Monument. Otherwise, jamming the Acererak combo that uses 75% of the deck would be a no-brainer.

36:30 Seth bullying the roleplayers! You put on such a friendly façade for so long, but now we're on to you!

I would actually recommend against making this deck for one reason; arena balancing. I strongly believe they will adjust The One Ring and that would mean no wild card refunds for the ring and your stuck with 4 paradox engines you used mythic wild cards for and won't get refunds for

I've been playing this deck for years with mystic forge. I found that splashing red white and blue for urza and enthusiastic mechanaught is worth it. I also run spare supplies, ornithopter of paradise, and one copy of mind's desire in my list. I mostly play out of the karn sideboard and just replaced mystic forge with the one ring.

I like the idea of combining Ring and Paradox into Rox and calling it Storm Rox since the game plan is throwing a bunch of mana “rox” on the board and storming off with Aetherflux

Lmao that elves opponent in the first game, I would’ve reacted the same way 😂

I've had a Paradox Engine deck for a while. It was made more for fun than competitive since I don't have Karns, Urza's Saga and 'select other expensive cards'. The win conditions were Blue Sun's Zenith, Aetherflux Reservoir and combat damage with Wormcoil, Batterskull, Nettlecyst and Kaldra Compleat. One time I got a turn 4 15/15 Wormcoil with Batterskull and Kaldra Compleat attached. The deck usually fails, but when it goes off, nothing stops it.

Used to play this with Mazemind Tome for the card draw and constantly replaying Ancestral Statue to keep the combo going. It was somewhat slow though. One Ring has made it way quicker and pretty oppressive tbh. Unless you have a counter for the Ring or Engine you're screwed

This deck seems really good actually :o. Should we have one copy of The One Ring in the board to give us more virtual copies? Do we have room with the 7 card SB in bo1? Seems key to the deck going off.

"You can never have too many (The One Ring)'s." 12:55

I played this deck and didn't have as much success. And tips on piloting. One of the hardest bits is knowing what to tutor with Karn

Thank you! Anything that helps get the one ring banned in all formats faster is much appreciated. Screw that card and screw WotC for knowing what they were doing when they printed it.

i think the opponent thought the gates ablaze would kill the guardian idols... since they kind of look and sound like creatures, and u can see them mousing over the idols after they casted it

"Just kidding, there is going to be no next turn" I LOL'ed

The opponent's name @ 15:08 is very funny for french speakers

I feel like that meme of squidward: New against the odds! (sets up chair) It's the One Ring! (leaves)

I have this deck without the one ring basically in historic with the same win cons! Time to add the one ring to it and make it even better and more consistent

We did it guys, we broke The One Ring

From now on it shall be known as Mystic Pizza Oven LOL 10:40

Absolute NUTS. Can't wait to punk my friend with this for lulz. Also with experimenting Pristine Talisman (x2-4 swap for some lands) helped (not that it needs help) with both life gain for faster combo and fizzle.

I want to see this in Red with Ghirapur Aethergrid. Just for a different wincon. Reservoir is getting old.

This deck didn't need another new piece lol. Once it goes off you have to just concede. Farewell tho kills this so bad the opponent concedes right away lol

You mad man, you did it. You broke one of the most fair cards in Magic.

Bear feeling the loss against mono-green 26:40. Haa, nice cut

Yup never playing historic again. I also love the way flying tokens dance during fast forward, total mario 2 vibes

litteraly played against this exact deck like 2 days ago, had no idea it was going infinite until the untapper came in

Why isn't there 1 copy of the one ring in the sideboard to tutor with karn?

Ah, glorious. Thanks for showing us this - I wish I could craft this deck, but... I'm getting *serious* imminent ban energy. ;)

Seth: "Are we going to beat mono green devotion?!?" while playing the one ring. LOL

I wish i had the funds to play this deck! I have a Paradox Engine deck in Pioneer and i love it. I would be in heaven if i could combine it with the One Ring!

The side board... Seth Meme-or-Dream'ing himself here. If there had been a 0 mana artifact in the side that last game wouldn't have fizzled (possibly). Maybe even an Astral Cornucopia as both a 3 mana manarock or a 0 mana Paradox Engine trigger. Maybe even go for a 2 mana "draw a card" artifact of some kind for the little bit of help it may offer. (Be it a skullbomb or an etb-draw.) Other than that it's a Paradox Engine deck so ... fun and broken. :)

Take this deck to the PRO tour for legacy with even more degenrate colorless ramp

I made an Izzet deck very similar to this recently but it uses transplant theorist and mystic forge and rather than paradox engine I just reduce the cost of all of my artefacts to zero with enthusiastic mechanaut, foundry inspector etc

The One Ring is poorly named. It is in literally every deck in every format it's legal in. "Everyone's Ring" is more appropriate until it's banned in every format where we can errata it to "The Banned Ring"

I actually did this with a blue shell, using Emry lurker of the loch as an additional engine piece, and the Jace to let me go full Labman. Can toolbox into Aetherflux Reservoir or Door to Nothingness wins too depending on how much you want to troll your opponent.

"Whoa, settle down, scry deck, settle down! That could turn into a *4/3* next turn! ...just kidding, there's not gonna be a next turn." Sometimes Seth wakes up and chooses violence

Surgical Extraction type of effects, naming the ring to stop degeneracy is making "The One Ring" prime for the ban wagon. Broken cards are super fun for a bit until Magic stops feeling like Magic.

I wonder if you could just add Paradox engine and The one ring to Mono green devotion and add a whole combo wincon to your deck with just 2 cards 😂

I think the first opponent was lol'ing with those dragon emotes at how alt your gameplay was

I think this deck is very strong on ladder, but this won't go to competitive tournaments. bo3 is a killer with so many sideboard options against it that it struggles to answer without severely diluting its combo. I could be wrong though, that was a consistent T4-5 kill and got several wins through hate. Would've loved to see the lost games just to see what it was that this deck lost to the most. Was it aggro? Hate? Not getting the combo? Control decks?

Seth feeling guilty about punching babies is very wholesome. I do the same thing.

How "The One Ring" should have been worded. "When The One Ring enters the battlefield, you gain protection from everything until your next turn, then put a burden counter on The One Ring. At the beginning of your upkeep, lose life equal to the number of burden counters on The One Ring, then put a burden counter on it. T: Draw cards equal to the number of burden counters on The One Ring." In every fair situation, this would make The One Ring function almost exactly the same way it already does, and it would prevent the unfair abuse we see in this video. Adding the clause "You cannot cast spells named "The One Ring"", or "A deck may only contain one copy of The One Ring"", would have fixed it completely.

Loved watching this deck, so I decided to build it. I know you had success but I'm getting absoutely destroyed with it.... Every deck I play against has so much pressure on the board at turn 3 that unless you have the one ring you don't make it to turn 4, and even after that there's only a single turn left to try survive and again without another one ring you die.

Seth out here trying his best to get the one ring banned ASAP 👏👏👏 doing the lord's work

Mystic pizza oven - 🤣 Opponent might be doing something more degenerate than us - 😅🤣😂 Oh, are opponent is trying to do janky stuff, and our deck is good - OMFG It's like punching a baby in the face - LMFAO

This is the first combo I’ve seen in a while I can’t pull off in commander cuz Paradox is banned 😭😭

Playing the scry deck is "like punching a baby". Lol! I was dying.

this deck makes me want to go play MTGA again. I love this style of deck

Oh nooo….. Seth has fallen to the “Karn-side”! lol

I managed to assemble this combo a few times in my Meria in Historic Brawl, that's GG every time.

Love how they Nerf that one red 3/3 but leave the one ring untouched. And really they can't touch it. Otherwise that bundle price plummets

Something I think a lot of people forget is that this deck was absolutely POSSIBLE before the one ring. It just wasn't nearly as effective since you needed to run 1 or more colors with chromatic orrery. It worked best if you had a jodah the unifier on the field before you cast chromatic orrery to get another thing for free. Just completely go off. Alternatively run it with completed omnath in case you can't finish it off that turn to have doubled mama for your next turn.

This deck also has free Jegantha, just okay karplusan forests and brush lands, tap for colorless for free, and can cast her, as well has cold steel

Sauron's Amazing Perpetual Motion Machine!

You could play red lands and instead of the monument and some other stuff, play 4 indomitable creativity xenagos and worlds pine wurm

Truly unlocked the dominating power of The One Ring.

ive been playing this deck for about 2 years minus ring its great

more decks like this and people won't jam TOR in every deck. Love it

ive been playing this deck since the one ring came out. but i have a wit hes oven/colossus combo where i sac collossus for 2 food then bring it back by saccing the food. infinite casting for aetherflux resiviour. also this deck is super feast or famine. either you stomp or die super fast

The One Ring might be the most flavorful card in Magic's recent IP-melding history. It has literally corrupted nearly every format and will almost surely get banned at some point. But of course i love playing with it lol.

I think you Scry'd just as much as they did. 😂

I would love to see some land destruction board wipes in this deck to increase the salt factor.

Most broken use of Paradox Engine is Time Vault...infinite untaps of that without having to skip turns...infinite turns to kill your opponent, make them draw out their entire deck, or give them poison counters etc. The One Ring PALES in comparison to that IMO

One thing I wish we had been able to see was this deck against control

I literally scoop as soon as i see The One Ring. Its absolutely busted

I've played similar decks in Brawl in the past. Pick any Karn, throw in all the mana rocks and silly combo tools on Earth, and pray you don't face aggro lol. With the ring around now maybe I'll have to check back on that

I’ve been running into this non stop on Arena and it’s been so tough to play against! Probably would be better if I wasn’t doing mil 😭

I'm curious about the uw matchup tho...how you guys think it would perform against it?

I have plans to make a jank meme deck centered around making tons of copies/conjured duplicates of the One Ring. Not sure what the wincon will be, probably self-mill I suppose?

I built this deck and it's completely messed up. Congrats Seth, you might have gotten Karn banned!

I'd add Narset and Sheoldred to "we're getting wrecked by" list

obscure pro gamer move: concede when the enemy paradox engine is on the stack

You're a monster. That poor scry deck 😆

I keep saying it: The one ring should not have had a triggered ability. Instead, it should trigger at the end of your turn and still be "wanna put a burden and draw cards equal to the burden counters?" It should also put burden counters ON YOU and not on itself. The whole "legend rule to save myself" thing is just too busted. Finally, I think there's a world were a better way to make it is by having it cost 5 and making the burden counters exile the top of your library rather than losing life.