Tibalts trickery can hit emrakull relalibly play cascade card (your deck is made so you only cascade into tibalts trickery) cascade triggers on the stack before resolution of og card target played card with tibalts trickery then you CAST the new spell hit with tibalts trickery, trigerring cascade if it has it or idk emrakul cast trigger? (you ether hit another cascade and go off again, hit second tibalts trickery{which ends in end of "combo"} or you hit emrakul)
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@@traviswilson2785 That’s how influencer marketing works. The influencer will write an ad that feels organic to their channel which, in this case, needs to gently appeal to balding Modern players.
The opinion “you can present yourself however you want“ really misses the mark, though, especially when it's in an advertisement that preys on insecurity and something people can't help. Many balding people would certainly choose to not be bald if they could present themselves that way, it's not like they say, "I like to present myself with thinning hair."
Can I just say how much I love Prof’s face photoshopped into all these mtg cards. It’s hilarious and awesome at the same time. Also RIP white’s color crumb
@@fanaticalproductions9661 meh, the fact that an opponent has to have more lands than you really gimps it. It will probably end coming out in later turns.
I think Tibalt's Trickery already has a consistent batting average to bring out Emrakul on turn 2-3 because of its interaction with Cascade. There are already brews and decklists that achieve that, only needs to be streamlined.
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True that, I'm not that much in magic - until now - and from unfunny Germany and I do can laugh here. I love and respect your additude man, keep that power!
I don’t know why everyone’s up in arms about red “not having counter magic” in its color pie. It’s had narrow countermagic since alpha with red elemental blast, and has had small additions to that ever since. The spell also feels incredibly red, and I think it fits perfectly with how red would counter a spell.
Sure, I don't quite have a problem with the chaotic counter, super-rare sub-theme. I mean, really... how often do we even see that sub-theme anyway? It's fine. (I hope)
10:50, when you say "I do not care at all" about how to say Coatl. That is the only word in a native Mexican language I've seen in MTG, and made me so happy to see a bit of my culture included there. Coatl means Snake in nahuatl. And you pronounce it , like in Condition and Atlas. If you see this comment please let me know. I know you don't despise inclusion of other cultures, and might have thought it was just a fantasy word jajaaj :D
There's also a couple of cat creatures called Nacatl, which apparently translates to "meat". Never bothered to look up if it's actually nahuatl or not, so that's cool.
@@jayceh while counterspells are an issue, glass cannon decks like that always run 4x Leyline of Sanctity sideboard. If nothing else, once it goes off there are less opportunities to interrupt compared to Neobrand and maybe even "All spells" decks as there's nothing to fatal push.
@@geniphill wasn't a real deck, 40% win rate, banned because it was unfun. Belcher and Oops were real decks. Please look at the data before commenting ignorance.
The setup for Tibalt uses three mana Cascade spells (and only three mana Cascade spells) to fetch Tibalt's Trickery, then fetching Emrakul. It's actually very consistent since you can tibalt into cascades to keep digging, the combo's pretty busted. Magic Aids did a few rounds with it, and it performed pretty exceptionally, since there's not much of an answer for turn 1-2 Emrakul of any type. Or Umalog, or Kozilek, or Omniscience...
Moh... Duurrn? Mohdurn... Modern... ...Yes, I think I remember a format called Modern... From the before time, the long, long ago of 2012. Before the eldrazi attacked.
There was a brief period where the format was playable between Eldrazi Winter and 2018. There were serious issues here and there, but prior to FIRE design, things were good-ish.
lol @ the poor soul who made that comment in the video. "I stropped watching because he knows how the rules work! I prefer watching content that gets the rules wrong but seems right to me." lolwut?
I think that has a lot to do with the pandemic, man. EDH is all a lot of people really feel comfortable playing right now. That said, YAS!! MOAR MODERN PLZ!!
Elvish warmaster is grossly underrated. I’ve been play testing with it in black green elves and it makes your deck so much more consistent for a turn 3-4 kill.
Great Video! But i have to say, i actually really enjoyed all of the Pioneer Content on the Channel so far. And i quite like Pioneer as a Format aswell. So i hope to see some more Pioneer Contnet again in the Future... Sorry for my englisch by the way, not a native Speaker.
Prof, if you do play a Tibalt's Trickery combo deck you can get around the inconsistencies of potentially revealing into another copy of Tibalt's Trickery by casting a Tibalt's Trickery and then casting another Tibalt's Trickery targeting your own Tibalt's Trickery. This will cause you to reveal cards until you find your combo piece (assuming you have your deck properly set up to abuse the effect) and it will ignore any other copies of Tibalt's Trickery you reveal since they will have the same name as the Tibalt's Trickery you just countered.
I could see the Horn of Abundance on the backside of the Red god that essentially rituals for EVERY spell cast as seeing play in maybe a brew of ad nauseam
Hey Prof, don’t know if you knew this, but Nikachu had a stream where he looked at a Tibalts Trickery brew that could put an Emrakul into play by turn 3 83% of the time. It runs 53 lands in the main deck. Just letting you know it might be more consistent than you think. However, it still does lose to a counterspell, but so long as you’re not playing against control( which uro control is the biggest deck in modern right now) you should be able to crush other matchups fairly easily.
I don't think The Trickster-God's Heist has anything to do with Tibalt. Sure, Valki is the Trickster-God and Tibalt is the back face of that card, but the flavor text for Icebind Pillar has Tibalt speaking to Valki. I believe what happened is Tibalt tricked Valki into getting frozen in a pillar of ice and disguised himself as Valki for whatever shenanigans he has planned. So the Valki on represented on the god card is probably Tibalt disguised as Valki, but Valki was/is still a separate character that is more likely what the saga is referring to. Sagas are often referencing long past noteworthy events and Tibalt's actions are probably recent. In addition, The Trickster-God's Heist is U/B. Tibalt is primarily R and secondary B, but has never been associated with U.
I think white needs their own version of counter. Something that came to me while watching this video is a mechanic based around the fact that white is about diplomacy and order and call it Veto. Here is a mock up card that I thought of: Pay Your Dues Choose one: -If a land would enter the battlefield and that player already had a land enter the battlefield this turn, you may veto that land -If a spell would enter the battlefield and no mana, or less mana, was spent to play it, you may veto that spell Veto- shuffle a spell on the stack into that player's library
Well yes, obviously that's the case but what would be the cost of it then? A mana ability? Then it just goes infinite with itself. I prefer more balanced cards, makes the game more fun in my opinion.
Hello professor! I agree with most of the top 5, except for the lack of "in search of greatness". ISOG is a really broken enchantement and can be particulary strong in bant value deck
I don't think people realize how powerful masked vandal is. He is basically a reclamation sage that exiles that you can use for tribal synergies (Ayula, Kumena, Rin and Seri, etc.) I think that card is going to become very popular in any green tribal deck. I wish it wasn't so overlooked
The trickster-god's heist 3rd chapter is irrelevant on purpose: it makes you feel very good about exchanging control of itself with opponent's enchantment
Kaldring has to be a cool commander at least. Also, how they did actually introduce the commander rule but for noncreatures now (kaldring)? An interesting way to adapt the commander rule.
staying on mono red.. trickery is pretty good with the new sulphuric vortex, since it'll deal 5 to the oponent if they choose to cast it, too.. and that's even in standard!
Trickster God’s Heist is a cool card. If you have something like Nine Lives, you can just get it up to 8 counters and hand it to them in exchange for their actually useful thing. Their problem now.
Staff and Arcums Astrolabium is a combo to draw cards, but not sooo solid I'd say. ;) Also my guesses are that Reidane might see play in Modern as a hatebear since both sides are playable and annoying, Birgi screams for some combo storm shenanigans and the same goes for Dream Devourer (slows everything down but reduces the time until they hit the battlefield by a lot!). Narfi is a card that seems to fly a bit under the radar since there must be something to do with him as does Weathered Runestone for a sideboard hatecard replacing Grafdigger's Cage. I'm still figuring out how to abuse Open the Omenpath, since it's ramp in red but in two colors, which is something unusal.
pretty good picks. i think weathered runestone deserves an honorable mention since it will likely be making it into many magic the gathering players’ sideboards in non white decks
Thank you for your video Professor :) Mystic Reflection have a lot of potential not only to "remove" an incoming threath but to also increase our power on battlefield. It could be a game changing at instant speed and only for one mana. It's insane... What do you think about it?
I think some of the foretell cards will make it into modern control. They have a lot of turns with a little extra mana and having cards they can save up can increase their hand size and protect certain cards from thoughtseize
Here's and idea I have been kicking around. Do you think that wizard's might start making Challengers for Modern or Pioneer? The idea behind the challengers is awesome but it would be even cooler if the decks never rotated which in my opinion is the Challenger series greatest flaw. Any thoughts on if they could (with a higher price over course because wizards) and if they did what decks do you think they would make?
Day 9 made a standard trickery deck and after a lil over 40 games in a stream it had almost exactly a 60 percent win rate. Sure it isn't top tier but it succeeds enough to be a huge pain to play against.
I actually think that the snow dual lands will make more of an impact in Legacy due to the popularity of snowko, which keeps the snow archtype alive in competitive magic currently. I think as long as astrolabe is banned, which it really shouldn't have been, you wont see snow in modern because its just too slow. Even still, the best case scenario for the snow duals is dropping a fetchland on the play and pass while holding an instant. If you dont need to use your instant, fetch the snow land. Its the same idea with the triomes
Hey, keep in mind Professor; some of us (i.e., myself included) may find Commander entertaining, but don't necessarily prefer to play it. My personal favourite formats have always been Modern, Vintage and Legacy (not that I'll ever get my hands on what I used to play with in Legacy, but that's beside the point. Lol) Speaking of which, I actually have something in mind and I'd like your personal input, if you would. But it does entail at the very least a personal request of a video chat when we're both free. That would also make it a lot easier to share my idea.
Can we cool it with the "white is bad" memes? It hasn't been true for a long time, and is especially egregious in a set that gave us a 3 mana wrath and a Resto Angel impression
Im surprised Doomskar isnt on here. However, I overall agree here. It matches my list mostly! Though I think the Heist is a little too “cute” for my liking.
Some thick brews: Orvar, the all-form > some kind of mono blue storm using Paradoxical outcome. Righteous Valkyrie > Soul sisters + Martyr decks. Birgi, God of Storytelling > Red rocks me.
Do you think you could do a walkthrough of your bookshelf sometime? I know it's not all Magic related, but I think we'd all love to get to know your literary tastes a bit better
I think trickster god's heist was designed pretty heavily around exchanging control of it using the second stage with an opponent's saga that's about to reach the final, hence why the third stage is such a let down.
Highland forest could see play in pauper zoo deck, since wild nacatl and curd ape care about land types, a tapped land is a small price in my opinion for 1 mana 2/2’s and 2/3’s.
For me i think Cosmos Elixir will be play in Tron base deck as it will give the deck life gain ability at 4 mana slot. As Tron deck have problems to handle fast deck Cosmos Elixir will help to stay in the game longer.
I don't really play Modern, but I'm glad I watched this video, because having the Prof tell me that "[I'm] Goddamn sexy the way [I am]" was exactly what I was looking for!
