35:24 The opponent casts Farewell with the modes exile all artifacts and exile all creatures, but because of the order those are in on the card, Luxior gets exiled before the creature-ified Wandering Emperor. The continuous effect making her a creature ends, so she dodges the exile all creatures mode of the spell. This is the perfect example of why you always have to check the order of modes on a modal card, because weird interactions like this can completely change how you play them.
@@zkzhang7332 Personally, I feel like "GG" is BM in Arena unless you're losing. You shouldn't emote "GG" if you're steamrolling, the other guy is mana screwed, or on the first turn.
@@sandwichmeats1753 Yeah, you're right. In first turn, he show GG is rude. Nowadays, I thought GG is better to be expressed by the loser(not derogatory) for appreciating winner. It seems like gl hf(good luck have fun), LIKE I have fun with you in this match.
I will say this is an interesting interaction because normally you can NOT copy the token from Croaking Counterpart WITH Croaking counterpart since the token is a frog and it says "non-frog creature" but the the fact it becomes a planeswalker undos it? Very curious, love the idea!
@@MTGGoldfish you did, in Match 1 Game 2. What I find interesting is that copying Elspeth gave you a green Elspeth, but it wasn’t a creature, and when it was turned into a creature it wasn’t a Frog.
From the rules: "205.3d An object can’t gain a subtype that doesn’t correspond to one of that object’s types." when the token becomes a planeswalker it can't have the frog subtype because it is a creature-only subtype!
Never seen Seth doing that but it's worth to mention that you can equip 2 Luxiors to single Elspeth to give her +2/+2 for every counter which make her grow to even sicker numbers.
you are a genius, you actually combined most of my favorite cards in standard somehow in one deck in a way couldn't ever think of, my closest idea was jaxis clones to clone the "draw when die" over and over but your s is way more fun and explosive, this is literally a machinegun of elspeths
@tal If you use jaxis to copy a creature, then you use another card to copy the jaxis token, you do not draw a card when that thing dies. You also don’t sac that new token.
@@theemathas but if you do so then you can use jaxis again on the permanent clone that already draws when he die which means you discard one, he dies and you draw two, if you repeat the proccess with croacking counterpart you can make a creature that draws two when it dies and then jaxis it every turn so you discard one to draw three and it can go higher as you keep cloning. Basically you stack the text and activate all at once, like mutate
@@talamran7499 The permanent clone dying does not cause you to draw cards. The property of "sac at end of turn, and draw when I die" is not copiable. There is no way to make a jaxis clone that draws you two cards.
@@theemathas are sure? Because jaxis says it gains "draw when die" and it tells you to sac it later, looks copyable for me, also I don't want it to be sacrificed just draw
40:59 Gotta love forgetting that Counterpart can target opponents creatures like What would you prefer? -1/1 with Vigilance -1/1 with Flying, Vigilance
An amazing against the odds, favorite of the year so far. The math on some of those clones would be insane to do in paper. Your mirror pool mimic copy of a frog that has a shield, +1/+1, flying, and 6 loyalty counters, plus it might or might not be a 1/1, and it only gets buffed by half the mirror boxes usually.
35:25 for those that are confused on why elspeth doesn't get exiled, it is because when exile creatures happen it is no longer a creature when exile creatures happen. You do the actions in order of the card.
Hey Seth, I don't know where the right place for this would be, but I'd really like to see some Explorer content. They finally made the eternal format I wanted!
Seems strange they don't specify the base power and toughness of the Planeswalker turned creature on Luxior. Wonder if there's a reason why when other similar cards specify the base P/T.
Changing the spelling in the video description to match the mispronunciation isn't a fking thing, boys. EDIT: I SEE YOU YOU COWARDS. COME BACK AND ANSWER FOR YOUR CRIMES
Oh with alchemy guest creature card that doubles spells or effects when you cast from graveyard like flashback this would pop even more and same for orvar and say homestead courage plus Geist orvar courage copy cast again from grave make another two copies again could even copy the sword with orvar if used like geistwave to return to hand or a spell that taps artifacts or whatever gases it out maybe? Opus is a bit expensive.
This made me realize how much a card like Elspeth Resplendent really wants to go into my Kathril, Aspect Warper deck. The counters it puts on other creatures really does make monstrosities out of small creatures. Just something of note as well, games like the last one are the reason why I really enjoy Magic, just the ridiculousness of what you can do in this game makes it for me.
I think this is an Arena bug. Obviously she cannot be a frog, while she is a planeswalker, but as soon as she turns into a creature, she should also turn into a frog. Arena just forgot this effect because it originally does nothing. Generally sounds like a good idea to get rid of effects that do nothing from a performance point of view, but here it backfired.
Frog is a creature-only type. Because of that, a Planeswalker cannot gain it when it is copied. Permanents can’t gain types that do not “belong” to their permanent type, so to speak (e.g. there isn’t a way to do this that I can think of, but you also wouldn’t be able to turn a nonartifact creature into a vehicle even if a card would tell you to do so (without also turning it into an artifact), which is why a card like Swift Reconfiguration must have the ability to turn the enchanted permanent into an artifact even though it makes the text kinda clunky). When it turns back into a creature, it’s not a Frog because it never gained the type in the first place and therefore can be targeted by croaking counterpart. Not a bug (this time).
I know I’m feeding the algorithm by saying this but “Guy-otta” for Giada is probably one of his worst pronunciations yet. Kudos for butchering 5 letters so effortlessly and completely.
Okay, I think I can help you with this one Seth. Giada de laurentiis is a celebrity chef and there are like a million videos with people saying her name. So rather than trying to follow some phonetic spelling, just look up one of the many food network videos.
'Am I a Planeswalkeeeeeerrrrrrrr, or am I a frogger(Am I a Frogger). If I'm a frogger, then I'm a very awesome frogger(Very awesome frogger).' I have no idea if its too niche a reference :)
Nice deck. Spirited Companion ... is a very good card. It also works very well with the inexorable Kaya. I'm wonderung about Orvar ... if they might help copying Elspeth. I mean: Getting an extra copy for casting Counterpart ... seems nice.
I get the turn one "good game" sometimes and i figured they probably wish you a "nice game experience". Still, i had to laugh hard when opponent did that to you
Since green is in your deck and you have so much card draw, you might as well add a trample instant or enchantment so get through. Just to minimize exposure to board wipes
Idk if a deck that hasn't lost me a game yet would be considered against the odds but Seth you have got to try this janky ass version of jund tokens man. I added kaya giest hunter in order to get double tokens and it gets kinda crazy..... Prosperous innkeeper and two mirror breaker in play after kaya negative 2 makes infinite mana and life and then having meat hook in play is infinite damage I've been able to pull this off in just about every match I've played so far which has been around 20 or so matches two people have conceded but most of my opponent have let it go off I'd imagine just because of curiosity seeing what happens when you negative 2 kaya For some reason you don't get two copies of the ob nix token but you do get double treasure tokens
There's a difference between "if one or more tokens would be created..." from Kaya and the rule of "copies of permanent spells result in tokens after resolving" in regards to Ob Nix's Casualty. As u/Judge_Todd put it: "A spell copy object made on the stack becomes a token object on the field. It wasn't created because it already existed in the game state before. To be created, a token has to have not existed in the game state prior."
M1 G1 making a frog dog might have been better than niko. That at least let’s you cast the Taimyo when you get there but even without the benefit of hindsight digging is good.
Don't worry, after Streets of New Capenna there isn't another Standard set until September. Right now we are in fresh Standard which makes it exciting, but give it another couple of weeks and then I'm sure we'll be playing a ton of non-Standard formats over the summer.
Does Seth still not know how to pronounce Giada's name? I mean, I usually assume that the streams will correct him, but apparently not. It's especially surprising considering that a) it's a name referenced on two very playable cards and b) it's a real name that real human people have. Giada De Laurentiis is a very famous celebrity chef, and I assume it's a relatively common Italian girl's name. (it's pronounced "jee-AH-dah", by the way. Rhymes with "Miata")
