We Play Your Wildest Brews | Eldrazi & Taxes vs Hardened Scales 

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Missed the 2 life loss from Thoughtnot-Seer dying! I caught one!

It's funny that Carl is playing Death and Taxes because I had a dream last night where I was playing a Death and Taxes mirror with someone but he kept on doing strange things like blocking my creatures with his jacket.

JUST to be that guy-y’all are making the best most real magic content next to Tolarian Community College’s professor….y’all rule and feel so real and I find myself genuinely laughing at stuff that happens!

Carl Vs Jamin matches are my favourites. Their interaction is the best I have seen so far in card market's history

So refreshing to see different piles of cards. Very classy casual content to play on the background.

I love all the live play stuff. I'd love another judges tower vid. That vid had me rolling so hard

Eldrazi taxes looked pretty bad here. I would 100% be making room in the list for Eldrazi Dsiplacer Containment Priest shenanigans. Displacer by itself would have been great in this matchup.

Carl and Jamin let’s go! I’m sad I missed the post about the decklist I was so hype to add my decklist for mono red devotion for pioneer. I’ll keep an eye out for the community posts next time. Also two great fringe deck picks this time best mtg content on RU-vid for sure

Love seeing all these deck brews, as a deck builder who often finds my self way to deep in the tank I love getting to see what other people are working on! Keep them coming!

15:31 Error 😅

I like everyone on this channel. They're all so friendly.

I saw the perfect 12 from Carl and I knew this one’s gonna be a banger

This video was very easy to follow as someone who doesnt play mtg, great work on the editing and thanks for reading out the cards.

Clackbrige Troll! I had so much fun with it in standard with a jank Dimir colored brew that also played Protean Thaumaturge. The plan was to play troll and transform thaumaturges into more trolls that aren't re-entering the battlefield and so the opponent doesn't get any more goats. Meanwhile, Mogis's Favor and Mire's Grasp, backed by Hateful Eidolon and Lurrus, could remove goats on the cheap and provide the thaumaturge triggers. Agadeem's Awakening was also in the deck, so in a long game the dream was to return from the graveyard to the battlefield: (1) Hateful Eidolon, (2) Protean Thaumaturge, (3) Lurrus of the Dream Den, (4) Nightmare Shephard, and (5) Clackbridge Troll. I mean it wasn't Tier 1 or anything, but I was glad to make a deck that won some games and was _nothing like_ what anybody else was doing.

I love watching the older videos and as a video editor seeing your guys continuing improvement and attention to detail!

Just wanted to clarify something about Hushbringer Vs the Hardened Scales deck. None of the abilities of his creatures are ETB abilities, they're entering *with* those counters. I understand it stops Hangarback and Iron Apprentice from using their ability when they die, but they don't do anything else against any of his creatures. In fact, it doesn't even stop The Ozolith from triggering since The Ozolith doesn't specifically say "Whenever a creature dies," it is distinct in saying "whenever a creature leaves the battlefield," which does include dying. I played Hardened Scales in Modern for a couple years and I've seen people try this sort of sideboard tech before, but ETB and Enters With are two mostly different things. For those that are confused: Hushbringer stops triggered abilities that trigger when a creature enters the battlefield. If the ability of creatures such as Hangarback Walker were triggered abilities, there would be a brief second when the creature is on the field with zero counters while the ability is on the stack, and it would die immediately as it is a 0/0. Hangarback doesn't use the stack and cannot be responded to. The Hushbringer entry on Gatherer includes this ruling as well. No criticism at all though! It's a little counterintuitive and I've definitely won some games because of that distinction. Magic's hard man. For more information, the Hushbringer entry: gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Hushbringer

@33:48 i believe you would only get either the counters on the ozolith or the counters on a creature with the apprentice's trigger, not both. They both refer to the specific counters being moved, if one of them said like "put that many counters" instead of "put those counters" then you could do what you did

To note, Hushbringer wouldn't have helped at all against the Hardened Scales deck. Not a single card in it triggers from ETB; many cards have "That creature enters with n +1/+1 counters" and some have "As [CARDNAME] enters the battlefield," but those are not triggered abilities and thus Hushbringer wouldn't stop them. The only card with an ability that triggers from plays is Patchwork Automaton, which is a cast trigger rather than an ETB trigger and wasn't played in game 1 anyway.

Those videos are just getting better and better, best mtg content on YT by FAR. Great job guys

I love these videos, the cut aways for opinions/reactions are great. Same with the sideboard discussions. The overall time of the videos are perfect. Great job guys! Please keep making these.

Sybdicate Trafficker actually helped with me with the Hour of Devastation Gameday with an Orzhov Aristocrats. Turns out triggering Hidden Stock pile by sac'ing a servo, only to give your creature indestructible and make it bigger, then proceeding to get your servo back is good.

That construct went to town in the first game. Nice to see the scales work hand in hand with the other cards there at the end. Good games gentleman .

I love the on-screen info of this channel, paper magic is sick, great decklists and ideas and guests and presenters!

Thought-knot Seer with the world of warcraft sound effect was boss! Great brews!

Cardmarket is fast approaching being the best mtg channel on RU-vid.

Everyone's talking about how they missed Sheoldred trigger but not about how carl lost 7 life when he attacked for 5. 27:49

This is the requested comment saying I like these videos. I think the balance of explanation and direct gameplay is well done and the graphics keeping track of relevant abilities are great. I also like that you are playing a lot of different formats, I play mostly edh these days so these are very digestible ways to look at other formats. Staple or Stinker videos are also great.

Just thought to suggest Carl to play mono black burn again as it is awesome, keep doing your thing as your content is great.

Hushbringer actually does very little against Jamin's deck. Hangarbackwalker doesnt have a trigger putting the counters on, and meanwhile its actively hurting your own Thought knot seer

Off-meta brews for formats are my absolute favorite! Love playing weird decks in Pioneer.

You guys never fail to make solid content!! Let's Go CARDMARKET!!!!

Not that it would have mattered, but shouldn’t the Apprentice enter with 4 +1/+1 counters at 33:30 ? It triggers itself, which is increased to 2 by Hardened Scales, and the Metallic Mimic triggers separately, which also goes to 2 from Hardened Scales. Honestly not sure if it is 4 though, since Mimic is worded weirdly so it might be a replacement effect? It’s honestly been so long since I’ve played in paper I can’t even remember how it should work lol

I think with the recent making of Oathbreaker as an official format, it would be cool to see you guys play Oathbreaker! Going along with this, I'm just gonna drop my deck here to see if it piques the interests of any of the guys It's designed around playing Eternal Dominion quickly, then just playing your opponents decks the whole game while having Nicol Bolas use they're commander In addition, there are cards designed to benefit off of discarding, which you'll be doing pretty much every turn with nothing to play after Eternal Dominon gets out Decklist: 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God 1 Eternal Dominion 1 Arcane Signet 1 Argentum Masticore 1 Armix, Filigree Thrasher 1 Blackcleave Cliffs 1 Blood Crypt 1 Brallin, Skyshark Rider 1 Cackling Witch 1 Charcoal Diamond 1 Chromatic Lantern 1 Chromatic Orrery 1 Creeping Tar Pit 1 Darkslick Shores 1 Dimir Signet 1 Dreadship Reef 1 Ebony Fly 1 Feast of Sanity 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Fire Diamond 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer 1 Glittering Stockpile 1 Grim Monolith 1 Haunted Ridge 2 Island 1 Izzet Signet 1 Junk Golem 1 Lantern-Lit Graveyard 1 Lavaclaw Reaches 1 Lazotep Chancellor 1 Lotus Blossom 1 Mage il-Vec 1 Masticore 1 Molten Slagheap 1 Mountain 1 Mox Opal 1 Overtaker 1 Pack Rat 1 Rakdos Signet 1 Runaway Trash-Bot 1 Salvage Slasher 1 Shipwreck Marsh 1 Shivan Reef 1 Sky Diamond 1 Spirebluff Canal 1 Steam Vents 1 Stormcarved Coast 1 Sulfurous Springs 2 Swamp 1 Talisman of Creativity 1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Talisman of Indulgence 1 The Raven Man 1 Underground River 1 Urborg Syphon-Mage 1 Wandering Fumarole 1 Waterveil Cavern 1 Watery Grave

You guys really look like you're having fun! 😄 Btw loving the blue background of the room you're always in. Did I understand correctly you guys actually pause the game to make those additional comments about your thought processes? 😯 The interview comment made me think that. I always reconed those were done after the match.

I play Scales in Modern and there have been quite a few times when I've lost because I played it too safe. Sometimes you just gotta put a lot of counters on a thing and ask the opp if they have an answer.

15:37, drawing a card loses you 2 life. Sheoldred babyyyy

15:32 Jamin woukd have lost 2 life from the Thought-Knot Seer

ahhh this is great , Hardened Scales was my favourite card when it was first printed in Tarkir. I transitioned into modern because of that card and I played the crap out of that deck because Hangarback Walker and Walking Ballista were such awesome cards. I miss those days.

Cool video, but still the best part of it was the song at the end 😁 now that is amazing!

27:45 - attacking with 5 damage but going from 21 to 14? A mistake or am I missing something here?

My suggestion for a Modern challenge, just because it's decks I enjoy, would be Eternal Command vs. Sneak and Show. Thanks!

15:30 you forgot to lose 2 life for that draw, doesnt change anything though

i thought this was a modern throwback vid at first

Watching the feature matches makes me wish I wasn't so bad at deck building for 60s. I just never know how much to put in of what just how to more fine tune it

Loved it! It's always fun seeing unique decks!

I would like to see you play a gates deck. Mana is just gates plus some sweepers and ramp with mazes end as win or just gatecrasher rams with casual 11/11 late game.

Loved those games and decks! Would of loved to see more. Maybe a 3 out of 5 with 2 non sideboarded games?

Hey guys, please play some more Pioneer. I'm keen to see how the Abzan Greasefang deck goes in to some of the other decks, in particular creativity, 4 colour enchantments etc.

"Based on the fact that you hit the ground running?" Immediately smashed the like button

Super fun video! I love seeing unique brews - and you two play them!

I cant wait to watch this video!!! AND WITH BOTH CARL AND JARMIN!!!!!! lets go!!!

Oh boy, that time of the week again!

I absolutely love this video style it reminds me of what I love about magic!

I love your duels, especially with the brews. Keep it up guys!!!!

3 times the -2 life from draw wasnt calculated smh. 1st thought-knot seer death trigger then draw step then 2nd thought-knot oof

Maybe I am crazy but I really feel like Hangarback Walker may have been the better target for the two mana additional tax over the snake. I know he had two in the hand but taxing not only the card itself but the activated ability seems quite good, as three mana and 1 mana is a massive difference. I don't know if that would have fundamentally shifted the game in Carl's favor but it seemed like the better target. Also the best counter to Hardened Scales seems to be lots and lots of removal. That game had so little removal it was brutal.

i dont know if it was already a feature match but i would love to see a battle of wits mirror!

I LOVE IT WHEN YOU PLAY OFF META PIONEER! It is absolutely my favorite thing you do on this channel. Keep making these videos and I'll keep watching and liking! Have a great week and thank you.

Downey it ichor is ridiculously strong removal seriously for 2mana is insane.

Bet hardened scales list is happy with the new MOM stuff (ozolith and the mana dork that has that effect)

Oof, that game one with the missed sheoldred trigger and could've played the thought knot seer and if he killed it on attacks, Jamin would've died to sheoldred trigger

Another great video! always cool to see the community engagement, and some great games!

does hardened scales / constrictor actually affect the number of counters on a creature when it enters the battlefield? because the effect reads "enters the battlefield with" and not "put counters on it"

I love this kind of content, i was just expecting MonoRed Eldrazi

Great content! Looking forward to more, regardless of what it is! Maybe a couple of spicy control/combo decks.

I love the decks, love the players and the quality of the content.

any idea what's the name of the music that starts at 24:54?

Can you seriously play "Rats vs Zombies"... Maybe we should wait till next Halloween😂!

Love me some brew decks and especially in the pioneer format

Fun stuff! I say keep doing more!

4:33 It is wrong not to play thoughtseize, no? You said you dont have 2 drops, so next turn it would be land + tapped land and you wouldt miss on anything, yet get the benefit of thoughtseize 1st turn

that D&T Deck is very spicy. might try it out someday.

it becomes day when the trespasser enters :)

I’m new here and I am assuming both of these fine gentlemen are German but I’d love to hear them play in German (with subtitles) despite not speaking more than a few curses of German.

Jamin had an insane topdeck in both games. Didn't draw lands for 5-6 turns in a row, always drew combo pieces. It's obviously a fairly tuned deck, but that was some consistency against a deck with a LOT of disruption.

It would be cool to pit the winning brews against top-tier meta decks to see if they hold up.

Love this content!

You need to play my 100 card, superfriends, land hate proliferate, "I like it so I threw it in" deck. It can't win very often but when it does it's brutal.

Cool decks. They both look fun to play!

i am surprised that this match turned out this way, the way that carl curved out in game 1 made me thing thing would be much closer

I would love to share with you guys my awesome modern lotleth troll deck =)

At 15:30 isnt he supposed to lose 2 life and go to 4 when he drew a card?

This channel needs some commander-games... than it would get an abo from me.

These are my favorite kinds of content!

Sadly, miracles are not in Pioneer, that was in Avacyn Restored which is the set just before Pioneer starts Great games!

am I crazy? Why did he lose 8 life at 14:33 when sheoldred is only a 4/5? I'm guessing he thought it may have been the swampwalk sheoldred?

Obligatory algorithmic contribution! (and also to keep pestering about a Legacy veedio!)

If I can be that guy for a second, in game 2 Carl gained 3 life from Jami. Sacrificing the goat to the Troll, then next turn took 5 dmg, and went from 21 to 14???

15:30 Sheoldred? No? Okay =(

Love seeing pioneer :)

cEDH when?

I'd like to see you two play some more legacy

15:30 shouldn't Jamin loose 2 life because of Sheoldred here?

Missing triggers loses you games friends! Always stay vigilant. 💜

Yall are awsome I love talls gameplay content

15:34 Hardened Scales drew and didn't take 2

Love this kind of content ❤

I am very much into this kind of content.

IDK I fear my deck is just WAY TO BAD to even be considred which is why I didn't submit it. :( It also doesn't have a very exspensive mana base because I saved around 300€ by keeping it like it is. :(