We Play Your Decks | Tempered Steel vs Oops All Ball Lightnings 

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Janky "off-meta" decks like this perfectly encapsulate the spirit of the game and are a blast to watch

I thought I was gonna get bored of Karl saying LIGHTNING SKELEMENTAAAAL after a while but it just got funnier every time

Those Erayos were brutal. What a deck.

I'm always rooting for karl. don't know why, but he always gets me on his side.

I was thinking about how great of a design Ball Lightning was as I was falling asleep last night... and now, this!

The fact that Karl cycled into a removal spell to deal with Erayo makes Game 3 even more brutal

Very impressed with Jamin for figuring out the erayo flip on t2. I never would've put that together.

That turn 2 Erayo flip was pretty sweet!

I know there are some financial reasons for keeping the budget low but damn does it also make people submit fun decks! That Ball Lightning deck was on a roll!

The erayo flip is just brutal... And see,kids, that's why you run "feed the swarm" !!!

I cannot be the only one thinking that between all of Karl's puns and Jamin's face after top decking the incorrect card, these guys have one of the best interactions when it comes to playing and being enjoyable. + I cried so badly in the middle of the night from all of karl's puns, playing vs the asian avenger with biovisionary and clones.

Obviously Thoralf is an exceptional MtG player and we get to see that on this channel often enough. But, I often get the sense Jamin could be that level too if he wanted to commit to it. Seeing that line of play to flip Erayo in game 2 was beautiful.

Oof. That turn two Erayo is back-breaking! Very neat catch of the deck creator to recognize how often a low-curve artifact deck is able to just vomit out their hand. Definitely a bit of an all-in play but still really cool. That being said, both decks are super neat and I love the creativity on display with 'em!

Grabbing a Ball Lightning instead of Skelemental with {R/B}{R/B}{B} available and the Terminate at sorcery speed were certainly choices that were made in game 1

Jesus, those turn 2 Erayo‘s were FILTHY. Loved every minute of desperation that followed them 😂 And the dispatch was the cherry on top. RIP Lightning Skelemental

as a regular edh newbie this is a great method of introducing to non-arena "standard"-like formats, with brief explanations of the decks and cards in it

Such a pleasant way to learn of the existence of Lightning Skelemental

Carls immediate 2nd take on the "That's where the budget kicks in" broke me! lol

I just wanted to comment to say, I don't know what magic you guys work but your calls to action work on me better than any other youtube video. I've been liking every damn video, way more than any other creators. Maybe it's just that they're that good!

Played an oops all ball lightnings years ago with Greater Good and Aether Vial in it. It was super powerful and also incredibly janky. Ball Lightning, Groundbreaker, Spark Trooper, and Spark Elemental all made appearances. Took top 8 and top 4 at different FNMs. It was a good time.

I haven't played Magic for 25+ years and enjoyed this video. Thanks for narrating each of your steps and showing the cards when they are played, helped me follow along with what was happening.

That turn 2 Erayo flip was nasty

“It’s ok, you did cool things” is the spirit and true heart of Magic!

Lol! The amount of joy you guys get from playing magic really oozes through in these videos, these whacky user submitted deck battles are wonderful content!

2 Insolent Neonate could be an interesting addition to the ball lightning deck. Being able to get them into the graveyard to unearth seems pretty strong

23:40 thats an insane combo, completely wins the game in just turn 2

Love these type of video’s, I love it when the viewers participate

Omg! I won!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Hehehehe it feels so awesome to be chosen and even better to see that erayo flipping in turn 2 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉 I love your content guys keep it up!

Thank you for your years of beautiful content!!!

This reminds me of when I first started playing magic in the early '00s. A friend who'd been playing for years showed me his aggro deck with ball lightning and it blew my mind. It was so much cooler than the Lightning Elementals I had from my dinky 7th edition starter deck. Also, spot on that it's impossible to say Lightning Skelemental without a smile.

8ball is such a fun deck, I hope it wins

You'd have to have some balls of steel to play a matchup like this one :P

TEMPERED STEEL, THAT'S THE DEAL!-) Big fan from the very first print. Thank you, guys, for bringing back the memories:)

The lifelong battle of: "This deck has some well thought out synergies and a general strategy for controlling the board and building a proper army of buffed minions" versus "I shoot you in the face with lightning". Classic.

I love this series you guys are doing! It’s nice to see friends playing Magic together

I think stuff like that game 2 shows how important a strong mana base is. The kind of mana base in a meta modern deck very likely wouldn’t have had the lack of an extra black holding it back from the interaction it needed to pitch an inquisition into a terminate

Man. I have to look up the decklist, but I had made a similar deck to the ball of lightning one, except it was trying to abuse sundial of the Infinite and ran basically all multicolor lands so you could play essentially all the ball of lightning elementals possible. Fun as hell

These two are always really fun to watch together

It's awesome when you guys playfully poke at the decks that get submitted, only to then have those decks actually pull off their game plans during the match!

Aha! I'm not the only one who loves the OG moonfolk! I remember thinking they looked so bad-to-average when Champions came out but i have had so much fun using them with newer cards. Great games!

11:15 a very cool play would've been to play the Thunderkin, attack reanimating the BALL, and after blocks Terminate what blocked the BALL to trample through for a clean 6

These decks are awesome! I haven't even gotten into the games, but I'm so excited to see this match!

I loved this matchup, just nice budget magic to entertain us. Keep up the awesome work please

man this erayo deck was super sweet and lightning skelemental is metal so this was just guaranteed to be a superb video. good on Jamin for seeing the erayo flip line!

once again just some really fun decks. The ball lightning deck was really great to watch

Wow, amazing timing (for me)! I was trying to brew a ball lightning deck just the other day! This gave me some new inspiration. The tempered steel deck looks great as well. What a matchup! Hope winner enjoys their new deck :D

It does feel really good sideboarding when you have a few cards to side out that do nothing. No hard choices! 🤪

I was rooting for Oops All Balls, but that Artifax Stax deck was totally my style!

That ball lightning deck is very similar to my modern ball lightning deck. Mine is quite a bit stronger, but awesome to see someone who had the same idea. Loved watching it in action.

I run a fairly different ball lightning/ skelemental deck but it's cool to see other people thinking in the same direction

i have loved ball lightening for years now i am so happy to see it on a big stage.

Hard to say which of these decks I like more. One's very ballsy, but the other is metal af

Seriously impressed by the idea of having erayo on T2 Good video as always 😁

Now I need the lightning skelemental deck 😂😂😂 Great video!

Great video! loved the OALB deck! and also the artifact soft stax XD cant wait to see what you make next!

HAHAHA when Jamin realized the 'ballin' was a pun I laughed so hard.

I've been building a cycle of scam decks, im starting with all the 2 color combos, I might move to 3 color scam, but so far, they look fun.

Babe it's okay, the Blightning Skelemental sound effect can't hurt you, nobody plays Lightning Skelemental Karl as soon as he possibly can:

you guys are cooler than ice cubes in a refrigerator when it snows in the winter!!

11:16 I approve of welding jar honorable mention.

That erayo was brutal…and it’s so cheap to…cuz the only other spell I can think of off the top of my head that does that is jin-gitaxias for 5UU…so getting the counter ability on turn two for three mana is crazy

That Erayo is so brutal! Holy moly, just shuts down so many decks. Unrelated, I kind of want to run Erayo in some of my decks…

One of these days one of my goblin decks is going to be played on this channel 😄 Or not. But not for the lack of trying 😄 Great video as always!

Best MTG channel not slowing down!

I can't believe Erayo put in so much work.

Two really fun decks, this was great to watch! Erayo has been one of my favorite cards for a long time and I’ve always wanted to see if I could make it shine, I’m definitely using this build for inspiration :)

Great work from Jamin spotting the opperunity to flip erayo in game two. That was a great play

Really like the music choice!! Keep up the good content

I build both this decks along time ago they now are two of my set down and play casual games of magic decks there both really fun

Oh man I'm sad for the skelemental deck, that looked like such a fun one

The funny thing about game three is that if Karl didn't mulligan (which was a reasonable call to do so) he would have just been able to Lightening Bolt the Erayo when it hit the field and he might not have lost. Which is truly a tragedy, because Oops all Balls is, of course, a baller deck.

I have a Saskia deck that is all about reanimating these massive ball lightning creatures! Feels bad to have your entire game hobbled by that crazy enchantment. Jamin drew white hot fire.

You've massively improved an awful day. Thank you.

CHURRO AND YAMIN, after having fallen in love with it seeing this video, I have built a version of your Tempered Steel deck for myself!!! To your spicy Erayo I have added my own spice, theeeee Starlight Spectacular!!! Thank you so much for the inspiration, the deck works beautifully and I have so much fun playing it!!!!

Carl's mulligan with 2 bolts on his side was detrimental 🤣😆

I'm totally building that All ball lightnings deck

These are so clever, this is the best MTG content on YT

I remember building the all ball lightning deck so much fun.

Oh sweet, I have only one modern legal deck that is a budget one that mine looks almost identical. I always wanted a place for lightning skelemental to live since I've always thought it was awesome

I liked this video, these dudes are always so entertaining. Especially Toffel hahahaha they make up the three musketeers of good content lmfao

right off the bat... tutored for Ball Lightning instead of Skelemental for some reason. I predict it was to show how "*ballin'*" the deck is, but Skelemental is more easily cast with the mana in hand, and has the benefit of hand attack.

Jamin was actually playing Azorius control the whole time! Ya got tricked.

15:10 I think Undying Malice is to keep and buff your Thunderkin Awakener. Buffing it seems kind of unnecessary though, unless you intend to revive a second one to trigger as well.

Small note... On the first game Jamin discards ethersworn canonist to lightning skelemtal however it isn't removed from the (Hand interface)

I'm sorry, Carl is the single most beneficial addition to Cardmarket as a whole.

That Ball Lightning deck was sweet!

I wanted to make a ball lightning deck for so long so it’s really cool to see it finally happen

The deck containing LIGHTNIIIIING SKELEMENTALL!! needs some way to deal with enchantments apparently. Feed the Swarm comes to mind.

Love these community deck submission videos!

I once had a deck with a similar gameplan to the Ball Lightning deck.. only it went T1 land+Deathrite Shaman, T2 Lotus Cobra, fetch land, Sneak Attack, Sneak in Worldspine Wurm, attack for 15, Wurm sacrifices eot, leaves three 5/5's behind. Turn 4 usually saw a removal spell/Bloodbraid Elf cascading into something like Signal The Clans for another Worldspine Wurm/other big creature, swing for 30+ damage with all attackers into their 5 life total.

I love your guys' videos!!! Commenting for the algorithm and to let you know I love this series

These videos are always great! Keep up the good work

Loveeeee the sound effects on this one!

As tempered steel was the very first good deck I made, it has a special spot in my heart, but this day, I must pay my respects to the LIGHTNING SKELEMENTAL!!

I've made this pioneer deck that I'd love to see played (it is not budget but it is a super sweet combo deck) 3x Breeding Pool (rvr) 4x Bring to Light (2x2) 1x Brushfire Elemental (znr) 3x Brushfire Elemental (znr) [Sideboard,Creature] 4x Cavern of Souls (lci) 1x Creeping Trailblazer (m20) 3x Creeping Trailblazer (m20) [Sideboard,Creature] 2x Dragonlord Dromoka (2x2) [Sideboard] 1x Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines (one) 4x Fabled Passage (m21) 1x Forest (woe) 275 1x Indatha Triome (iko) 4x Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria (mom) 1x Island (woe) 270 2x Ketria Triome (plist) 3x Leyline Binding (dmu) [Sideboard] 4x Lotus Cobra (znr) 2x Make Disappear (snc) [Sideboard] 1x Mountain (woe) 273 4x Nissa, Resurgent Animist (mat) 1x Omnath, Locus of Creation (znr) 2x Omnath, Locus of Creation (znr) [Sideboard,Creature] 2x Omnath, Locus of the Roil (m20) 2x Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 1x Plains (woe) 268 1x Raugrin Triome (iko) 4x Risen Reef (m20) 1x Savai Triome (iko) 1x Steam Vents (rvr) 2x Stomping Ground (rvr) 3x Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 2x Temple Garden (rvr) 4x Yarok, the Desecrated (m20)

Love the Erayo-twist, great deck

Tempered Steel is a low-key stupid card that in a slightly different Magic world would maybe have been good enough for Modern, at least for a time. That one World Championship where all of team CFB was rocking the deck and Conley Woods went super Saiyan against Craig Wescoe is one of my original Magic coverage memories.

Wow, this was a very entertaining matchup to watch. The Lightning Skelemental deck would have had a more serious shot if it included a pair of feed the swarms in the sideboard. It's interesting because both the decks are doing a sort of catch all strategy where their gameplan's aren't necessarily based on countering any meta, but instead delving deeply into a niche archetype. That first game could also have been won by Jamin's Tempered Steel deck, there was a way. Had Jamin just played Canonist with 2 of his four mana and then countered one of Carl's spells with the remand he could have blocked 3 of the 6 damage and survived with literally 1 hp. It seems to me that the Tempered Steel deck has a more fleshed out removal package than the skelemental deck, but it definitely has huge promise.

Something I only just now realized after a bunch of rewatches: even if Carl had a Terminate on time in the third game, it wouldn’t have worked. It doesn’t say when your fourth spell is cast, it says when *anyone’s*. The Terminate would have been the fourth step, the Erayo would flip, and the Terminate would fizzle. So Jamin had a guaranteed flip on turn 2 the moment he drew that Memnite, no matter what Carl had. In fact, the only way he could’ve stopped it was by Terminating the Memnite with Erayo on the stack, as then Erayo wouldn’t be on the battlefield when the fourth spell is cast. That’s impossible to see even if you had the Terminate in the first place.