@@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 people shit on hearthstone standard all the time as well at least with magic you can play the game in different ways instead of complaining
@@n8ordi3 this is why you always run two Gaia's Blessings or something similar in controll (pun intended) decks. Imagine being stubborn enough to play against a deck that has hardlocked you out of the game, still holding onto some kind of hope. Hope slowly grows as you come to the realization that the opponent has no win condition and that they will mill out before you. Hope turns into a feeling of triumph. You can beat them at their own game, you will mill that bastard out if it takes your whole evening... And then they bust out the double Gaia's Blessing and your heart immediately stops in sheer dread. Much more cruel than any kind of win condition, honestly.
seth: "let's see if arena players can handle Night of Soul's Betrayal with Overwhelming Splendor!" arena player: reads Night, concedes before ever seeing Splendor
Actually Seth, I didn't grow up with all these cards but my first intro to magic was my dad's stasis deck. Like my first match ever was vs it. So it's not all roses for us lol
Yeah, me too. I wasn't playing Magic in the early days of, but when I started learning (around OG Ravnica) it was against some friends with really brutal decks like Stasis and Scepter Chant.
There’s something so magical about playing Chalice, passing the turn, waiting several seconds knowing their trying to cast a spell, then watching the opponent hover over Chalice. 😍
I like how there's an enchantment called Ethereal Absoltion that is 2 mana more than Night of sounds betrayal and has been in historic since inception but only now do we have a combo with overwhelming splendor lol
I haven’t even watched this video and no matter what pops up on the screen, I’m building this deck. Edit: just saw the deck. Never mind. No mainboard chalice. Edit: just watched the first game. I retract my previous statement.
Thank you for keeping locks alive :) Back in the OG Ravnica days, I built several soft-lock decks, now that I think about it. Had a B/W Dovescape+Teysa+Twilight Drover version, a Muse Vessel+all the land bounce and stealing possible, and the best one, a Dredge list with Zur's Weirding+Firemane Angels to stop any draws. Good times, for me :)
I would be very frustrated to play against this but can't get enough of seeing Seth play this against others, we need a stream of this top-shelf content
I love that in this game about making interesting choices, one of the implicit ways to win is to take away your opponents ability to make any choices. Also this title tho
These are the decks I live for. I say it all the time that I like the idea of MTGA but a lot of new magic players dont know the pain of not being able to play the game
Yknow, as a yugioh player who quit that game a year ago and made the switch to magic, this is very funny to me, because seth says that modern magic design is less and less about locking the opponent out, while yuhiohs modern design is the exact opposite of that. Yugioh released a card named „mystic mine“ in 2019 or sth, that completely shuts down the game on its own, and has a reputation for being the worst deck to fight of all time.. yugioh players just take all kinds of shit from konami, meanwhile this is the first time ive really seen something even remotely comparable in magic lol Its cool that this stuff exists, im glad that wizards learned their design lessons for prison pieces though AT LEAST COMPARED TO KONAMI who print stasis effects on cards every second set it feels like..
Haha. I'm doing the reverse. Not giving up completely on magic, just taking a break and trying Master Duel out. It's crazy how much of that game is you just saying no to an opponent.
@@BuckysKnifeFlip its very funny to me to see new people jump into master duel only to realize that almost all the decks involve some form of locking the opponent out from doing anything haha, magic was such a nice shift for me, it felt so much more friendly 😭 Like, even this lock deck in the video requires so much setup.. at least you have to spend multiple turns interacting with your opponent as the trap slowly closes around them, in yugioh you would most probably either sit there for 10 minutes waiting for the opponent and them having every lock piece turn 1, or them setting 5 cards face down and also having you locked out on turn 1. I think thats one of the biggest differences for me to this game haha
@@dauls those are two of my favorites decks in magic. Highly recommend watching how those play to get a real sense of how similar the two games can be in terms of a lockdown. Plus, you get to see Seth's joy in utterly breaking his opponents when he plays lantern control.
If you are worried about self-mill, why not run a single copy of Approach of the Second Sun? That's a 1 card timer for if an opponent refuses to concede. My favorite lockout on Arena is actually in Historic Brawl. It's such a simple loop with Thassa as the commander. All you need to do is get a Time Warp in the graveyard, and then play a Saiba Syphoner. This sets up a loop, where you can return Time Warp to your hand each end step, to be cast during your next extra turn. You can hit the combo at just 5 mana, as Syphoner has flash. The combo can be slotted into any flicker deck (eg. bant Lagrella or Azorius Yorion, running Teleportation Circle as a redundant recurring flicker).
Destiny Spinner and Lair are both win-cons that only take a few turns to win once the deck gets going though. With that said, that's just 3 cards in this deck that need to be dealt with to effectively guarantee a win via mill.
Seems fun, but a bit light on actual win conditions. You only have 2 destiny spinner and 1 lair of the hydra to win. And you draw more than you opponent. So if your opponent does not scoop to the lock and just passes with removal to your threats you could loose much too easy
I don't like relying only on destiny spinner. 1-2 Hallowed Hauntings (or Sigil of the Empty Throne) are nice to have in the sideboard, maybe mainboard. Also you have to have enough Borrowed Time / O Ring / etc affects to deal with opposing prison pieces.
That duress into solemnity was totally a kneejerk reaction after losing to it in the first game XD He didn't took time to look at your other cards, he just saw that card and discarded it ^^
I always forget that Seth 'probably better known as SaffronOlive' is the Stax player of the Goldfish crew. I don't know why, he does some sort of stax or prison video every month or so...
I wish we could get Dovescape and/or Enduring Ideal. Thanks for the awesome lock deck! I LOVE them! Maybe a Leyline for the Sideboard and maybe the new 7 mana replenish (3WWWW Brilliant Restoration I think). On a slide note, when I taught my Brother to play Magic, he played White weenie (this is a little after revised) and I played Stasis...he very nearly quit.
I like the punked play chalice on one into his own solemnity both players don't read but Seth Omega minded them into thinking the chalice would have counters so he village rites regardless. This video was cathartic.
The only thing "against the odds" about this deck is how some people are still able to win through this MTG equivalent of an iron maiden torture device.
I for one I am pro dishing these kinds of magic lessons to the other generation. This deck is very similar to the enchantress I did saw some times back ruling in my local meta, so I saw that epic pwnage in historic coming.
Farewell, Hour of devastation, Planar Cleansing. I know few people play these cards in sideboard , but that could be a bane for this deck. Great work, Seth! It's a delight to watch this kinds of decks in action :)
All while continuing to be an asshole in the video. One of the highlights of the magic community. A 40 year old white man insulting people while playing terribly throwing in large bunches of casual racism wherever possible.
Y'know, there's a special place in my heart for decks that have no wincon other than the opponents scooping. Greetings and much love from Meren stax over in the commander format.
2:20 imagine using a faithless looting effect to get those cards into the graveyard with Brilliant Restoration, then casting Mizzix’s Mastery to cast said Brilliant restoration by turn 4
Comical how there wasnt a single game vs elves, goblins, monoW lifelink deck :) Or there have been, he just rolled over and edited them out. Peak content
I just played a game against this same deck and I stuck through it. Game one they got a nearly complete lock on me with everything with the exception of the immortal sun. I fea of wished an Ugin to my hand and wiped their board winning the first match. Second game I dot destroyed. But in the final match I was able to bounce their solemnity before it’s effect wiped the counters off nine lives allowing me to get the W buy ticking it up to 9. It was a challenge but a very rewarding victory.
Discard all of the lock pieces into the graveyard along with eerie ultimatum/triumphant reckoning with your draw/discard package of choice, play mizzix's mastery on turn four, watch people concede instantly. Literally one of my favorite historic decks.
Been doing this with Kaervek and overwhelming spelndor when I still played arena before the whole alchemy bs. Looks like it's gotten some significant buffs since then which kinda makes me want to play it again but I don't want to come back to the hellhole of Arena D=
That's exactly why I play Back to Nature in all my green sideboards. You need to have an answer for enchantment decks even if they are below 1% of meta or you'll have to scoop.
Man Urza block and that time in magic was pretty brutal. It’s pretty impressive the game persevered pretty effectively. I don’t think people appreciate how much more careful WOTC is now. Sure Oko came out but when you look at the cards from urza block oko seems pretty tame. Garfield really had a good idea to make standard “standard” I know people like eternal formats but forcing rotation to prevent power creep and move out of cheesy cards probably saved the game early on.
Prison has always been one of the steongest forms of control, and it IS frustraring to play against. Which in an instant gratifocation format like arena is a very potent one two punch.
I’ve been playing a creativity lock deck with Acacyn, platinum angle , and shalai to give my platinum angle hexproof and indestructible. There’s a couple answers to it but it’s still pretty fun.
"Today, we are headed to historic-" Boo! "-to destroy historic players' wills to play" Continue... (I am only joking, I would never boo you Seth, historic is fine it's just an acceptable target for ridicule)
It kinda reminds me of my first year in mtg, especially reading all that stuff about orim's chant - sceptre. Im not alone, haha! I started in OG zendikar block, and we had a guy in our lgs who played exclusively burn at every fnm and tournament. But he had a hobby of assembling non format stuff like dragonstorm, no modern was around and legacy wasn't a thing at my lgs. And one day i sat to play with him and he played silence - sceptre. I misunderstood the synergy, not countered sceptre and was locked out of the game quickly, sitting with my walls of denial on the field and doing nothing. I play exclusively UWx controls in all formats all the time, and after Arena introduction we had a lot of new players, and they sometimes felt bad about playing against control, ranting that they dont get to play (and i rant about people ranting about interactive deck) - at this moment i wish this new players tried to play against any stax and start complaining about them, not my control xD
"I think we've taken away opponent's will to play Magic. They're downloading Heartstone as we speak." -- Seth, 2022
27:23
T shirt. Please!!!!!!!!! @mtggoldfish
Damn near choked laughing at that one.
Hearthstone is a better game than standard and alchemy and historic.
@@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 people shit on hearthstone standard all the time as well at least with magic you can play the game in different ways instead of complaining
"you don't need a win condition if your opponent already thinks you won"
-Art of War
"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
LSV not having the win con in his storm deck and bluffing it
Grandpa yelling at kids "Get off my client!". absolutely love it
Lol, yep
This isn't Against the Odds, this is Against their Will
LOL
well... some of his opponents could have won if they just passed the turn many times
@@n8ordi3 this is why you always run two Gaia's Blessings or something similar in controll (pun intended) decks. Imagine being stubborn enough to play against a deck that has hardlocked you out of the game, still holding onto some kind of hope. Hope slowly grows as you come to the realization that the opponent has no win condition and that they will mill out before you. Hope turns into a feeling of triumph. You can beat them at their own game, you will mill that bastard out if it takes your whole evening...
And then they bust out the double Gaia's Blessing and your heart immediately stops in sheer dread.
Much more cruel than any kind of win condition, honestly.
(People having fun playing Magic the Gathering)
Seth: Got to put a stop to that immediately.
Seth: "Back in my day, we didn't actually play Magic!"
@@ctomsky "Back in my day, Magic hadn't even been released yet!"
Helping your opponent to not play Magic is also part of the fun.
This sounds like a joke, but it's actually pretty true lol
Feels good knowing I was seven when MtG released.
seth: "let's see if arena players can handle Night of Soul's Betrayal with Overwhelming Splendor!"
arena player: reads Night, concedes before ever seeing Splendor
You fool, you're trying to lock me with a combo, but I can't even beat one half of it
@@Spaced92Overwhelming Splendor is a "8 mana, I win the game" against most decks unless the opponent has removal for it
I love how Seth keeps referring to lock pieces all as relics of ages past when some pieces are from 2017, 2018, and 2020.
5 years ago?
In my defense, compared to OG lock pieces like Stasis, Blood Moon, Winter Orb and friends the ones we have in this deck are pretty tame.
@@MTGGoldfish I think the deck could be improved by a 1-of Banefire main
@@zirilan3398 I think approach of the second sun might be better?
Seth is a zoomer himself
Actually Seth, I didn't grow up with all these cards but my first intro to magic was my dad's stasis deck. Like my first match ever was vs it.
So it's not all roses for us lol
Yeah, me too. I wasn't playing Magic in the early days of, but when I started learning (around OG Ravnica) it was against some friends with really brutal decks like Stasis and Scepter Chant.
@@MTGGoldfish I think there needs ro be a support group for people permantely scarred by stasis decks lol
I remember the days of Orim's Chant Iso Scepter locks with other fun things too.
There’s something so magical about playing Chalice, passing the turn, waiting several seconds knowing their trying to cast a spell, then watching the opponent hover over Chalice. 😍
that second player got so scared of getting locked that he took the lock piece over the wrath i think
The accidental BM in the last game killed me. I like Enchantress decks and this was a great callback for a paper player like myself.
"Opponent: our Splendor is Overwhelming. How do you feel about having nothing?" --Saffron "Savage" Olive
This has such "get off my lawn" energy, I love it.
I like how there's an enchantment called Ethereal Absoltion that is 2 mana more than Night of sounds betrayal and has been in historic since inception but only now do we have a combo with overwhelming splendor lol
Shhhhhh, that’s supposed to be a secret.
We also had kaervek, the spiteful
I was playing with Ethereal Absolution in standard in a creature deck it was always a bomb
Wizards teaching plenty of people what it is like not to play magic with the price structure and business model.
I haven’t even watched this video and no matter what pops up on the screen, I’m building this deck.
Edit: just saw the deck. Never mind. No mainboard chalice.
Edit: just watched the first game. I retract my previous statement.
In best of 3 it’s best as sideboard for sure. In best of 1 need em main
Yeah, if we were playing best of one it would be in the main deck.
Thank you for keeping locks alive :) Back in the OG Ravnica days, I built several soft-lock decks, now that I think about it. Had a B/W Dovescape+Teysa+Twilight Drover version, a Muse Vessel+all the land bounce and stealing possible, and the best one, a Dredge list with Zur's Weirding+Firemane Angels to stop any draws. Good times, for me :)
Arena Zoomers vs Magic Boomers, the ultimate showdown!
Boomers are generally shitty people so checks out
I would be very frustrated to play against this but can't get enough of seeing Seth play this against others, we need a stream of this top-shelf content
I love that in this game about making interesting choices, one of the implicit ways to win is to take away your opponents ability to make any choices. Also this title tho
I haven't enjoyed an episode so much in I don't know how long. Thank you so much, Seth, for your tireless teaching of new players about MtG's history.
These are the decks I live for. I say it all the time that I like the idea of MTGA but a lot of new magic players dont know the pain of not being able to play the game
"it's been generations since wizards as printed lock pieces" *plays deck with one card that's over 5 years old*
Not to mention said card can be replaced with a card that's less than 5 years old
You merely adopted Stax. I was born in it, molded by it. By the time I saw Tron I was already a man.
Yknow, as a yugioh player who quit that game a year ago and made the switch to magic, this is very funny to me, because seth says that modern magic design is less and less about locking the opponent out, while yuhiohs modern design is the exact opposite of that. Yugioh released a card named „mystic mine“ in 2019 or sth, that completely shuts down the game on its own, and has a reputation for being the worst deck to fight of all time.. yugioh players just take all kinds of shit from konami, meanwhile this is the first time ive really seen something even remotely comparable in magic lol
Its cool that this stuff exists, im glad that wizards learned their design lessons for prison pieces though AT LEAST COMPARED TO KONAMI who print stasis effects on cards every second set it feels like..
Haha. I'm doing the reverse. Not giving up completely on magic, just taking a break and trying Master Duel out. It's crazy how much of that game is you just saying no to an opponent.
@@BuckysKnifeFlip its very funny to me to see new people jump into master duel only to realize that almost all the decks involve some form of locking the opponent out from doing anything haha, magic was such a nice shift for me, it felt so much more friendly 😭
Like, even this lock deck in the video requires so much setup.. at least you have to spend multiple turns interacting with your opponent as the trap slowly closes around them, in yugioh you would most probably either sit there for 10 minutes waiting for the opponent and them having every lock piece turn 1, or them setting 5 cards face down and also having you locked out on turn 1. I think thats one of the biggest differences for me to this game haha
Check out lantern control from Modern and Stasis and Pox from Legacy for other Prison Decks.
@@dauls those are two of my favorites decks in magic. Highly recommend watching how those play to get a real sense of how similar the two games can be in terms of a lockdown. Plus, you get to see Seth's joy in utterly breaking his opponents when he plays lantern control.
Stax is my go to in Legacy.
If you are worried about self-mill, why not run a single copy of Approach of the Second Sun? That's a 1 card timer for if an opponent refuses to concede.
My favorite lockout on Arena is actually in Historic Brawl. It's such a simple loop with Thassa as the commander. All you need to do is get a Time Warp in the graveyard, and then play a Saiba Syphoner. This sets up a loop, where you can return Time Warp to your hand each end step, to be cast during your next extra turn. You can hit the combo at just 5 mana, as Syphoner has flash. The combo can be slotted into any flicker deck (eg. bant Lagrella or Azorius Yorion, running Teleportation Circle as a redundant recurring flicker).
It's amazing how many opponents don't realize that they probably win even if you lock them when your deck's smaller than their life total.
Destiny Spinner and Lair are both win-cons that only take a few turns to win once the deck gets going though. With that said, that's just 3 cards in this deck that need to be dealt with to effectively guarantee a win via mill.
That's true, although Destiny Spinner is pretty hard to deal with if we have Sterling Grove going for shroud.
Teaching Arena Zoomers are my fave videos keep em coming.
Seems fun, but a bit light on actual win conditions. You only have 2 destiny spinner and 1 lair of the hydra to win. And you draw more than you opponent. So if your opponent does not scoop to the lock and just passes with removal to your threats you could loose much too easy
Oh my sweet summer child, lock decks have the ultimate win con, it's called conceding
I mean, this is a prison deck - winning is STRICTLY secondary to making your opponent miserable.
I'm not sure if there isn't anything better in the Historic card pool but Underrealm Lich could be a 1-of to prevent milling out.
I don't like relying only on destiny spinner. 1-2 Hallowed Hauntings (or Sigil of the Empty Throne) are nice to have in the sideboard, maybe mainboard. Also you have to have enough Borrowed Time / O Ring / etc affects to deal with opposing prison pieces.
Our win condition is our opponent quitting Magic ;)
That duress into solemnity was totally a kneejerk reaction after losing to it in the first game XD
He didn't took time to look at your other cards, he just saw that card and discarded it ^^
Seth has lived long enough to see himself become the villain.
I'm super nice in Commander, but when it comes to 60 card formats I love making opponent's do nothing.
I always forget that Seth 'probably better known as SaffronOlive' is the Stax player of the Goldfish crew.
I don't know why, he does some sort of stax or prison video every month or so...
I wish we could get Dovescape and/or Enduring Ideal. Thanks for the awesome lock deck! I LOVE them! Maybe a Leyline for the Sideboard and maybe the new 7 mana replenish (3WWWW Brilliant Restoration I think). On a slide note, when I taught my Brother to play Magic, he played White weenie (this is a little after revised) and I played Stasis...he very nearly quit.
I didn't quite understand Dovescape until Seth showed Destiny Spinner + Dovescape... Brutal :D
Dovescape, leyline of singularity, mirror box, mirari's wake, night of soul's betrayal, urborg, kormus bell, glacial chasm, privileged position, unwinding clock, planar portal, seedborn muse, mana reflection, nyxbloom ancient.
I like the punked play chalice on one into his own solemnity both players don't read but Seth Omega minded them into thinking the chalice would have counters so he village rites regardless. This video was cathartic.
FINALLY THE ALGORITHM HAS BLESSED ME WITH MTGA HISTORIC CONTENT
The only thing "against the odds" about this deck is how some people are still able to win through this MTG equivalent of an iron maiden torture device.
I love how in match 3 the opponent conceded after getting locked even though they had a good chance of winning by just waiting without doing anything.
I for one I am pro dishing these kinds of magic lessons to the other generation. This deck is very similar to the enchantress I did saw some times back ruling in my local meta, so I saw that epic pwnage in historic coming.
I'm glad Chalice is punt-city from both players even on Arena. It's such a universal truth.
Seth woke up and chose violence.
And they all laughed at me for playing Gates Tribal...Lol
*Thanks for the Content* !
"Back in my days soul sisters was a modern playable deck"
Magic isn't about playing magic. It's about making your opponents hate playing magic
Farewell, Hour of devastation, Planar Cleansing. I know few people play these cards in sideboard , but that could be a bane for this deck.
Great work, Seth! It's a delight to watch this kinds of decks in action :)
just wait for Blood Moon to be released into Arena
Yes please
I love how Seth is just adamantly TRYING to lose that game against the GB Sac deck and still never got punished for it
The lock is strong enough to overcome my sub-optimal plays I guess
All while continuing to be an asshole in the video.
One of the highlights of the magic community. A 40 year old white man insulting people while playing terribly throwing in large bunches of casual racism wherever possible.
Holy spaghetti Saph you are a freaking Sith Lord. I for one Stan this till I die.
Y'know, there's a special place in my heart for decks that have no wincon other than the opponents scooping.
Greetings and much love from Meren stax over in the commander format.
2:20 imagine using a faithless looting effect to get those cards into the graveyard with Brilliant Restoration, then casting Mizzix’s Mastery to cast said Brilliant restoration by turn 4
Love the title. Teach those youngsters what Mtg is really like! ;-)
Comical how there wasnt a single game vs elves, goblins, monoW lifelink deck :)
Or there have been, he just rolled over and edited them out. Peak content
One of my favorite episodes XD
Seth pulled a Kibler at the end there. -> "Set you to 1, go ahead... XD"
I love this deck. I really wish wotc would start printing good staxpieces again.
I pray they never do
😘Stax🫠
I just played a game against this same deck and I stuck through it. Game one they got a nearly complete lock on me with everything with the exception of the immortal sun. I fea of wished an Ugin to my hand and wiped their board winning the first match. Second game I dot destroyed. But in the final match I was able to bounce their solemnity before it’s effect wiped the counters off nine lives allowing me to get the W buy ticking it up to 9. It was a challenge but a very rewarding victory.
OMFG I am totally making this deck, It looks like SO MUCH FUN
You are doing the lord's work with this one
I can't stop laughing at - realize what happened, wait a second, scoop
Discard all of the lock pieces into the graveyard along with eerie ultimatum/triumphant reckoning with your draw/discard package of choice, play mizzix's mastery on turn four, watch people concede instantly. Literally one of my favorite historic decks.
Your cruel laugh makes this all the funnier.
The number of lock decks I have blown out with blast zone killing their 9 lives is pretty funny.
this is why your my favorite mtg youtuber 😆
Been doing this with Kaervek and overwhelming spelndor when I still played arena before the whole alchemy bs. Looks like it's gotten some significant buffs since then which kinda makes me want to play it again but I don't want to come back to the hellhole of Arena D=
I’m loving the long ep lengths
That's exactly why I play Back to Nature in all my green sideboards. You need to have an answer for enchantment decks even if they are below 1% of meta or you'll have to scoop.
That last match had me triggered.
Seth: we have them locked up we will win eventually
Also seth: how do we lose from this position
Man Urza block and that time in magic was pretty brutal. It’s pretty impressive the game persevered pretty effectively.
I don’t think people appreciate how much more careful WOTC is now. Sure Oko came out but when you look at the cards from urza block oko seems pretty tame.
Garfield really had a good idea to make standard “standard” I know people like eternal formats but forcing rotation to prevent power creep and move out of cheesy cards probably saved the game early on.
Respect the last opponent for playing out the last game
I’ve been playing a green white version of that deck for literally a year now lol it got me to top 10 in historic
Teaching Magic players to read cards. That one guy really should have read Day of Judgement.
Apparently I still haven't learned to read the cards so I can't say much ;)
man, I miss my lock deck - Stasis, Kismet, and Storm Cauldron, and a deck filled with wraths, swords, and counters
I don't think anyone has ever deserved to lose a game more than you in that last one. Very impressive.
12:00 The amount of games I’ve lost were “as long as we draw mana it will be fine” was my opening statement.
Man, looks almost as fun as my rule of law and 28 counterspells deck
33:01 Opponent is living in magical Christmas land, Seth becomes Santa
Prison has always been one of the steongest forms of control, and it IS frustraring to play against. Which in an instant gratifocation format like arena is a very potent one two punch.
I’ve been playing a creativity lock deck with Acacyn, platinum angle , and shalai to give my platinum angle hexproof and indestructible. There’s a couple answers to it but it’s still pretty fun.
Here's to Seth for knowingly throwing away a guaranteed win in the last game for the sake of content. XD
I have a super janky orzhov deck that splashes red just so I can play Mythos of Snapdax against decks like these. I love it.
The existence of Teaching Arena Zoomers video format implies the existence of Teaching Arena Boomers video format
You know what, showing them kids is fun, i embrace it.
The amount of joy I get watching this deck clearly shows how much of a sadist I am when it comes to magic… haha
Seth needs to just change his name to "The Warden" cuz he runs prisons with an iron fist
Old Man Seth telling these kids to get off his lawn.
Missed Opportunity to call this "The School of Hard Locks".😄
Honestly, this is the only kind of Sythis deck I will accept
you should have added fall of thran and ley line of the void for the flawless lock
I have to be honest, while I think it's cool that this style is part of the game's history, I'm kinda glad we don't see it very often these days.
"Today, we are headed to historic-"
Boo!
"-to destroy historic players' wills to play"
Continue...
(I am only joking, I would never boo you Seth, historic is fine it's just an acceptable target for ridicule)
Oh Seth, never lose that sense of glee when an opponent scoops to a lock piece.
The first player conceded both games before he even got locked...
My favorite way to play magic. Watching other people not play magic.
Maybe I install this newfangled Arena thing now that I can play good old-fashioned Magic here.
This episode Seth turns into Harsh Mentor
Me with Farewell in hand. Okay, so we wait.
Such a noble endeavor
Now this is what I like to see! Brutal!
I can imagine you laughing maniacally doing the evil villan beard stroke while building this deck
It kinda reminds me of my first year in mtg, especially reading all that stuff about orim's chant - sceptre. Im not alone, haha!
I started in OG zendikar block, and we had a guy in our lgs who played exclusively burn at every fnm and tournament.
But he had a hobby of assembling non format stuff like dragonstorm, no modern was around and legacy wasn't a thing at my lgs. And one day i sat to play with him and he played silence - sceptre. I misunderstood the synergy, not countered sceptre and was locked out of the game quickly, sitting with my walls of denial on the field and doing nothing.
I play exclusively UWx controls in all formats all the time, and after Arena introduction we had a lot of new players, and they sometimes felt bad about playing against control, ranting that they dont get to play (and i rant about people ranting about interactive deck) - at this moment i wish this new players tried to play against any stax and start complaining about them, not my control xD
This is my favorite kind of deck by a wide margin.