@@abon1364 they might have been referring to the community of mono-black flimsy Dark Ritual deck players! All jokes aside this is a fun archetype to watch because all the cards are so satisfying to resolve, if we wanted to watch them win every game, then we’d donate for Delver and… Delver.
In round 3 I was yelling at the screen to turn 1 Hymn - The highroll of taking all of their mana is too good. Your line was certainly defensible, but I think I go for it.
hey bosh, im pretty new to mtg (1 year now) and i only play commander but ive been loving your videos for the past few weeks. been binging them like crazy keep it up!!
There is much to learn from such a masterful player, even though his content isn't commander most of the card can be played in commander and a lot of the same lines of play and thought still apply. I find it very rewarding to watch his content for more than just entertainment.
At 25:50 when they said they goofed in the chat… they still had a chance to redeem themselves by activating karakas on their own venser. They had 1 creature in play and 1 card in hand. But if they bounce they can just discard the kaldra and keep the venser in hand (even if it has no etb triggers. But instead… immediately after admitting they messed up… they decided to lose both. Sometimes the pox life just melts your opponent’s brains
The goal is to truly take them off lands... Maybe it's time to return to sinkhole. I don't know I haven't really played legacy in years but I enjoy watching your content. ( I still have legacy built from 2010, it still has sinkhole)
Hohohoho!!! the best deck archetype in all of magic. I dont think there's any variation of pox this channel hasn't done in the past. Also a singleton ghost quarter might have value so that you can run your opponent out of basics with crucible.
I have a friend who was known for a long time in the tournament scene as "Pox Guy." He played this deck (I mean, not *THIS* deck) exclusively for years. He would say cut all 4 Bloodghast. Add 1 Nether Spirit, 2 Cursed Scroll, and I'll leave the 4th open because he would say Chains of Mephistopheles.
At 55:30, you may have been trying to play around literally force blue card (Though they only had 1 force left in deck). If not, you could have kept an extra land around by casting pox to sac one land and discard innocent blood, then playing mishra's factory, then +1 Liliana
R3G1, you were correct to not Ritual>Hymn so urgently when it wasn't obviously needed. Them being at 6 cards makes it an "almost" but I wouldn't be mad at myself for trying to be efficient.
MoMo321 always plays degenerate combo that they brew. Ironically, last time you had the read and played perfectly against them, but you never actually remember 😂
1:03:42 Obviously the answer is Invoke Despair. It's great in Standard, so the 1BBBB sorcery should be good against the blue Force piles in Legacy, right? 😄 (I'm mostly joking, but there was at least briefly a Modern deck that was trying to jam Invoke Despair off Urborg+Cabal Coffers, so maybe Dark Ritual could put it over the top in Legacy.)
Wizards I beseech thee, grant my people the pox support we desperately crave. We harbor no ill will towards our opponents, we only ask to be allowed to have them join us in the sacrifice of lands in all of your accursed formats.
It is eeriely similar to the pox deck I played way back before 2010 but I ram more manlands and a bunch of fetch. Cabal therapy was much better than hymn imo and oh bitterblossom
This league is exactly what should be pointed to for what you are signing up for by sleeving up mono black pox, in my experience. You'll win a match where your opponent makes some mistakes. You'll lose in 3 games to some pile of good cards that can actually grind through your game plan. And then the rest is "hoping your cards line up the right way"-and they frequently won't, and you will effectively not play meaningful magic while your opponent executes their gameplan. I feel that mono black pox does a better job of salting out your opponents when firing on all cylinders than loam pox does, but it's very much a 1-X record deck compared to the fairly stable loam pox builds.
And PoxNRoll is back. I'd just like to point out that I admire Bryant's channel name: Because he uses sufficiently generic magic terms, he's free to really make use of the branding as he chooses. That's much harder if you directly reference Wizards IP.
I always wonder if it's better to cast smallpox right away or be patient and see if villain plays a creature first. It's much better card advantage if you get a creature with it, and it feels terrible if they play a creature later and now your removal is gone.
Does fueling up with Engineered Plagues to name Illusion a valid line? @30:56 for Oops? I really hate that playstyle and I'd like to see that concession.
37:32 No, I agree with you. Land go is what I would have done. I'm no Pox expert though. If we knew the deck, sure cast Hymn inefficiently, but not in the blind I think.
My experience with being a faithful pox player is that you do kinda lean on your opponent not really understanding how your cards work or mis-sequencing out of unfamiliarity. Still seems to happen at my weekly events quite a bit, though, despite the frequency with which I play pox decks.
The big strength of pox is that it can destroy your lands, even if they're basic lands, on turn 2 (or turn 1 with dark ritual), with the creature edict helping protect you from turn 1 plays. cascade shenanigans don't get to start until turn 3, at which point you're jumping through hoops just to add an edict effect onto your stone rain.
I think the question is - how likely will you be able to use all 3 mana from the ritual later in the game based on the texture of your hand and less about 2 for 2ing (in a vacuum). I think in round 3 based on the text urr of your hand you should have just fired it off
I’m gonna be honest, I love green black pox. And I love playing tireless tracker in it. Just something that requires and answer and ya crack a couple clues, he’s beating the breaks off people.
Wouldn't nether spirit be a better creature for the deck than bloodghast? You don't want creatures in play, and that would free up three slots in the deck.
Brutal honesty time. This list isn't good. Why? Aggro/tempo pox builds are fundamentally different than prison builds. Wasteland is utterly terrible in this variant (or any pox build without Nether Void). Almost every deck in the format is built to run off 1-3 lands, and therefore without a full mana denial plan including sinkhole + nether void you'll rarely succeed at preventing them from casting spells. Dark Ritual is also quite bad for the same reason you don't see blue control/tempo decks running high tide, chrome mox, etc. The acceleration cards cost you card advantage and are terrible draws in the middle and late game. What should fill these slots? This variant wants The Rack and more discard spells. The Rack helps close games much faster (and hits planeswalkers). And yes, Thoughtseize should be in the main. If these suggestions sound crazy, just watch the video again with these substitutions in mind. This variant also needs to be piloted differently; you generally never want more than 3 lands in play. For example at 55:29 you should have kept the land in hand, cast Pox discarding the innocent blood, and THEN played the land. This line leaves you with 3 lands in play instead of 2. Cheers
More like jank ritual--if someone isn't using them to combo, they're playing them in a deck that's in the business of handing opponents 2-for-1s on a silver platter. The classic dark ritual-->hymn+1cc discard isn't even what it used to be, since it's so easy to recover from losing three cards that cost the other player three cards too. Disliked this video because I'm sick of seeing scrubby ritual decks being played.
