What a journey! I was sitting on the world record throne for a long time now, but to see someone actually made the weeklong effort to try and beat the record with a faster strategy fills me with joy. Thank you for the shoutout and congratulations for the stunning achievement! And I'll see if I can take the crown back.
*Update Post* It didn't take a week to change the whole speedrun meta. The leaderboard is currently dominating by three runs with three different methods. 1. Channel / Lightning Serpent - 26 sec. (Claris) 2. Channel / Chromatic Orrery /Crackle with Power - 26 sec. (Calori78) 3. Channel / Charbelcher - 27 sec. (BuGfi5h) Only one of these can be the true optimum way of doing it 🤔 --- You can speed up the draw animation by holding another card from your hand while drawing. Thank you so much for the people pointing this out, this is super helpful even for regular play. 🙏 Other methods from comments: - Channel / Goblin Charbelcher / All MDFC - Turn 1 MDFC Belcher with 3xDark Ritual (good luck with this one) - Mana Dork / Channel / Lightning Serpent - Channel / Chromatic Orrery / Crackle with Power --- Shoutout to Dr. Wurstpeter for posting his highly optimized run and making this into a real challenge. Some of my long-time viewers may know that this video idea has been on my mind for quite some time. If you’re interested in seeing regular gameplay with these kind of decks, check out these links: Channel Ulamog / Dragonstorm Combo: th-cam.com/video/mSohYe3FCB0/w-d-xo.html Treasure Hunt Mulligan Simulator: th-cam.com/video/0B0_lppZ1c4/w-d-xo.html Minion of the Mighty turn two: th-cam.com/video/LjBXDmXt7Ow/w-d-xo.html And as always: Thanks for tapping that Like Button! 👍⤵
Soul crushing, indeed. Like ramping into a Soul Shatter in cEDH just when the strongest decks get their commanders out LOL. Gosh that card is the best designed, best removal of all of commander. only thing that brings more satisfaction is slaughter pacting a phage then reanimating her with platinum angel and not paying slaughter pact's upkeep cost the next turn. THAT UNSUMMON WAS PRICELESS. LITERALLY HAD ME GOING LIKE "HE DID IT! HE DID IT!" 😵😭 lol
There are things I expect from this channel: Seth not being able to pronounce words Krim not being able to read cards Phil not being able to keep arena from crashing to shenanigans. The breakdown of the insanity grind that is speedrun routing and using brute force to get acceptable RNG is not one of them. This was beautiful to watch.
Slight improvement: you could see the former record is holding the land card while waiting for their turn, this would speed up the draw animation actually :). Also that is super useful when playing Arena normally.
People rope/grief endlessly on Arena: WotC is clueless about what they could ever do to stop such abuses. Phil abuses the shit out of Sparky: WotC takes immediate action to address a very real problem affecting very real AI.
WE'RE NOT WORTHY!! Phil, you're a legend. The play; the creativity; the focus; the persistence... but to do all of that and make it into a great, entertaining video?! I think just 2 weeks before the end of the year we just saw THE magic moment of the year.
Hilarious approach at MTG. That Unsummon of Sparky made me laugh out so hard though, sorry. Has something wholesome about it, that even lil' Sparky can ruin the most evil wizard's perfect hand with a good ol' alpha common.
Phil you are probably my favorite MTG creator and quickly becoming one of my favorite creators in general. Love the video! Combining MTG and speedruns was amazing.
With Brothers War, Charbelcher looks like the next strat to try! Channel into belcher into belcher activation is just 3 actions, doable on turn 2 and skips the need for attack animations.
Incredible Job again Phil, I've been waiting and waiting for the next video. I can totally see why. Genuinely addicted to your content. Keep it up, the dedication show and I can't stop.
That same day someone got a 26s Damn, the speedrunning community is something XD Turn 1 Forest into Elvish Mistic (perfect sparky RNG, only plays a forest) Turn 2 Channel > Mountain into Lightning Serpent with X=19(only 18 is needed, but its faster clicking +5 x4 then -1 so you dont die) > Attack for lethal
Yknow, I was thinking about when there was going to be another arena video with Phil, but now I see what took him so long: hours and hours of conceding and re-joining 😂 you’re the best Phil
Dude, it might have been broken, but your deck here is completely legal in Historic, so I'd say you have the record for fastest *tournament legal* game.
As someone who has spent hours and hours decktesting with Sparky, as soon as I saw that single untapped island at 17:55 I knew exactly what was going to happen hahahaha. Almost nothing Sparky does makes any sense, making it obviously useless to test a deck's performance (unless it's a combo deck you're working on or practicing goldfishing, etc that doesn't care about what your opponent is doing), but it's perfect when you're working on improving the mana base, trying different spells, etc and want to see what kind of draws your deck has and such. The one single spell that I actually have had Sparky randomly blow me out with all the time is the perfectly timed Unsummon lol. She'll do things a newb in their first game would know are obviously horrible decisions but she can be surgical with that Unsummon at times lol.
This is premium content. When I heard the summoning salt music, man the feels I get. It's such a speed running culture thing, hard to explain. Good stuff man!
I kinda had the most joy of you just spelling that Name Dr. Wurstpeter. As someone from Austria it is just awesome to have a mostly english video but then something like this happens and i am just happy.
This has to be the best magic video on youtube! Such good editing and so much effort put into the actual game play itself. So it took days of game play, but how long did you edit it for? Super curious.
Thank you so much 🤩 All in all it took me three weeks of production. The idea for the video had been bubbling in my mind for almost two years now though
I remember this being part of the "scrapped videos" video you did after coming over to goldfish. Glad to see you found a way to stick it out. I've actually lost to this deck in historic a few times before, it's super hard to put pace.
The Summoning Salt music was perfect at the end with all the standard questions I have come to expect. Loved this video and I am sorry I laughed at the unsummon. I can't imagine the countless hours you put in to have it come so close to the record only for it to be pulled away at the last second like that.
Dude I love you. Your videos are the best. Your voice is addicting (you should get paid for voice acting) and your video editing is amazing. I love watching your content!
This is top content, expert storytelling and editing. The Phil-dunk animation, the "you say there's a chance " reference and the sheer pace of the video. Another masterpiece. Thanks for taking the time for perfection, rather than churning out a half-baked video 2 times a day! Und, wer ist nicht selbst ein Wurstpeter??
This is some kick ass entertainment! Thanks for all your hard work! I guess somebody had to do it. Nice toss over to Summoning Salt as well. Please do more of this style video. I'm your new fan now.
Not sure if you read all of these comments or not, but wanted to say that you are easily one of my favorite youtubers. I love your content and I love the way you look at this game. I have built and played a lot of the decks you've shown on this channel and it's so much more fun than just grinding out meta decks for winrate. Please keep making content as long as it suits you!
You can do the dragonstorm combo quicker with ancient silver dragon and two terror of the peaks hitting for exactly 21 after the first triggers resolve.
hey phil, just a suggestion: with your final deck, it appears you only put in the necessary cards and lands, which i think can be optimised more. Since the arena shuffler generates two hands then selects the one with a closer land to spell ratio to your deck, adding in more nonland cards would mean you'd have to draw less hands. As always, a banger of a video!
I know, I thought about it but then decided against it for the sake of the footage. I ran into this problem before and it was especially noticeable in the Treasure Hunt deck
The only person who would pronounce goliath this was is also the only person willing to spend this much time with Sparky. Leave it to the crazy Germans to be the cheif Arena scientists. Good work.
paper% as you called it also works if thorecal is in hand when you cast treasure hunt you just put your entire library into your hand then cast thorecal
Good job. Always love your videos. While I hope you re-upload this snipped into a short SummoningSalt riff for luls, you did it and are now in speed running history. Congratulations ~♡
If you edited this by yourself bravo and if you didn't heavy bravo to your editor. Big congrats! I'm just so impressed about how this was put together into a story and I'm impressed by your work and also your storytellimg.
I don't comment often but that was an awesome journey, thanks for sharing it with us! I also thought of the leylines/opalescence deck but it seems opalescence is not legal in any of arena's formats. Keep up the excellent work!
Really neat to see. I'd be willing to bet that while technically possible, there's a "minimum time" this could get down to due to how sparky is scripted.
I've pulled off Thassa's Oracle turn 3 in a ranked match on Arena before. The problem is that Arena doesn't have a way to shortcut combos like we would do in paper.
I am number 3 on the leaderboard and great seeing support for mtga speedrunning! Maybe try color challenge next? Would be great to see where that record can go
6:57 If you had take a second terror before picking Bladewing you would've probably won faster since you only have to go through two BW cycles (5 from Terror + 2x2x4 = 21)
What the hell? Do they think Sparky is a living being? "Take into consideration the experiences of your opponent when intentionally skipping your game" WTF?
Getting a ban warning for scooping too fast to Sparky is the most Arena thing I've ever seen
Pretty sure the guy at Wizards forced to play on that Sparky account with the same 5 decks has had a rough time enduring this.l
@@Shive1337 lololol
No, that doesn't happen. They were contacted because they were caught modding the games and manipulating opening hands and card draw
@@lapisrabbitcomics How high are you?
@@lapisrabbitcomicsThe email said egregious tanking. Did you pull that idea out of... a hat?
What a journey! I was sitting on the world record throne for a long time now, but to see someone actually made the weeklong effort to try and beat the record with a faster strategy fills me with joy. Thank you for the shoutout and congratulations for the stunning achievement!
And I'll see if I can take the crown back.
*Summoning Slat music intensifies*
Holy cow! The player themselves shows up!
When I get my WiFi setup, I'll sneak it out from under both of you lovelies :)
I'm excited for the next record.
@@nicklittle8399 so never
*Update Post*
It didn't take a week to change the whole speedrun meta. The leaderboard is currently dominating by three runs with three different methods.
1. Channel / Lightning Serpent - 26 sec. (Claris)
2. Channel / Chromatic Orrery /Crackle with Power - 26 sec. (Calori78)
3. Channel / Charbelcher - 27 sec. (BuGfi5h)
Only one of these can be the true optimum way of doing it 🤔
---
You can speed up the draw animation by holding another card from your hand while drawing. Thank you so much for the people pointing this out, this is super helpful even for regular play. 🙏
Other methods from comments:
- Channel / Goblin Charbelcher / All MDFC
- Turn 1 MDFC Belcher with 3xDark Ritual (good luck with this one)
- Mana Dork / Channel / Lightning Serpent
- Channel / Chromatic Orrery / Crackle with Power
---
Shoutout to Dr. Wurstpeter for posting his highly optimized run and making this into a real challenge. Some of my long-time viewers may know that this video idea has been on my mind for quite some time.
If you’re interested in seeing regular gameplay with these kind of decks, check out these links:
Channel Ulamog / Dragonstorm Combo:
th-cam.com/video/mSohYe3FCB0/w-d-xo.html
Treasure Hunt Mulligan Simulator:
th-cam.com/video/0B0_lppZ1c4/w-d-xo.html
Minion of the Mighty turn two:
th-cam.com/video/LjBXDmXt7Ow/w-d-xo.html
And as always: Thanks for tapping that Like Button! 👍⤵
Enjoyed the Black Lotus in the ad read.
You had... fun... making this video?
I gave a thumbs up just for the sheer dedication and time spent 🤣
Congrats on the World Record!
i love your videos dude, keep up the great work.
Congrats, Phil!
The storytelling here is truly next level, given the sheer amount of footage you must have. Congrats on the world record!
And the audio
God that unsummon was SOUL CRUSHING lmao
Soul crushing, indeed.
Like ramping into a Soul Shatter in cEDH just when the strongest decks get their commanders out LOL.
Gosh that card is the best designed, best removal of all of commander.
only thing that brings more satisfaction is slaughter pacting a phage then reanimating her with platinum angel and not paying slaughter pact's upkeep cost the next turn.
THAT UNSUMMON WAS PRICELESS. LITERALLY HAD ME GOING LIKE "HE DID IT! HE DID IT!" 😵😭
lol
The music from Home added at 18:50 like SummoningSalt's video litteraly gave me chill like this was the most important speedrun world record ever.
he just needed a matt turk reference XD
@@theonlymegumegu That would have been insane
The summoning salt chime broke me to pieces 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There are things I expect from this channel:
Seth not being able to pronounce words
Krim not being able to read cards
Phil not being able to keep arena from crashing to shenanigans.
The breakdown of the insanity grind that is speedrun routing and using brute force to get acceptable RNG is not one of them. This was beautiful to watch.
Slight improvement: you could see the former record is holding the land card while waiting for their turn, this would speed up the draw animation actually :).
Also that is super useful when playing Arena normally.
Oh my god thank you! I wish I knew that in the video. This might save off some milliseconds off the record 🤩
The funny thing is that was actually Seth who taught this to everybody
@@maximuscesar Nah some of us worked it out ourselves, I came here to see if anyone had posted that he needs to hover the lands to speed the draws :D
No lmao - you just DOUBLE CLICK
6:15 Sparky has feelings CONFIRMED
Also, when you showed the Speedrun page, i almost feared the top spot would be Matt Turk
THE SUMMONING SALT AT THE END YES
People rope/grief endlessly on Arena: WotC is clueless about what they could ever do to stop such abuses.
Phil abuses the shit out of Sparky: WotC takes immediate action to address a very real problem affecting very real AI.
I've been watching MTGGoldfish for years. This may be the most gripping and best video yet. Certainly the finest from Brewer's Kitchen! Bravo!
He always does great videos
That actually was a lot of fun to watch! 30 seconds is impressive!
you can get it down to 0 with a turn 0 win deck.
I wish my gf said the same
Unrestricted vintage is so fast, it is the world’s most expensive game of rock paper scissors ever.
The summoning salt music at the end was the cherry on top. Great video!
WE'RE NOT WORTHY!! Phil, you're a legend. The play; the creativity; the focus; the persistence... but to do all of that and make it into a great, entertaining video?! I think just 2 weeks before the end of the year we just saw THE magic moment of the year.
Hilarious approach at MTG. That Unsummon of Sparky made me laugh out so hard though, sorry. Has something wholesome about it, that even lil' Sparky can ruin the most evil wizard's perfect hand with a good ol' alpha common.
best reason to run a 1-of Pact of Negation lol
Why am I not surprised that Germans are masters in improving their Blitzkrieg-skills?!
Phil you are probably my favorite MTG creator and quickly becoming one of my favorite creators in general. Love the video! Combining MTG and speedruns was amazing.
With Brothers War, Charbelcher looks like the next strat to try! Channel into belcher into belcher activation is just 3 actions, doable on turn 2 and skips the need for attack animations.
Love it!
The nod to Summoning Salt at the end... * chef's kiss *
Incredible Job again Phil, I've been waiting and waiting for the next video. I can totally see why. Genuinely addicted to your content. Keep it up, the dedication show and I can't stop.
That same day someone got a 26s
Damn, the speedrunning community is something XD
Turn 1 Forest into Elvish Mistic
(perfect sparky RNG, only plays a forest)
Turn 2 Channel > Mountain into Lightning Serpent with X=19(only 18 is needed, but its faster clicking +5 x4 then -1 so you dont die) > Attack for lethal
Sparky is truly the best companion to play with. Never tilts and always up for another :D
Yknow, I was thinking about when there was going to be another arena video with Phil, but now I see what took him so long: hours and hours of conceding and re-joining 😂 you’re the best Phil
Great job Phil, you're a hero now
legitimately cheered out loud when you finally got it. In 20 short minutes this went froms goofy meme to a triumph of human spirit
Dude, it might have been broken, but your deck here is completely legal in Historic, so I'd say you have the record for fastest *tournament legal* game.
1:22 haha lachflash wie man das einfach eins zu eins übersetzten kann
Congrats on finally being able to make a speedrun video!
Absolutely amazing video as always. Best produced MTG content by far! Must be so time consuming - the editing part, not just the trials haha 😂
As someone who has spent hours and hours decktesting with Sparky, as soon as I saw that single untapped island at 17:55 I knew exactly what was going to happen hahahaha. Almost nothing Sparky does makes any sense, making it obviously useless to test a deck's performance (unless it's a combo deck you're working on or practicing goldfishing, etc that doesn't care about what your opponent is doing), but it's perfect when you're working on improving the mana base, trying different spells, etc and want to see what kind of draws your deck has and such. The one single spell that I actually have had Sparky randomly blow me out with all the time is the perfectly timed Unsummon lol. She'll do things a newb in their first game would know are obviously horrible decisions but she can be surgical with that Unsummon at times lol.
Love the summoning salt music! Cant have a world record video without it 😁
This is premium content. When I heard the summoning salt music, man the feels I get. It's such a speed running culture thing, hard to explain. Good stuff man!
Your content is always absolutely insane, amazed at the quality you achieve and the effort you put in. Thank you, and congrats on the record!
How would you speedr... oh. Of course.
This was a journey and I am glad you invited us along for the ride.
I kinda had the most joy of you just spelling that Name Dr. Wurstpeter. As someone from Austria it is just awesome to have a mostly english video but then something like this happens and i am just happy.
This has to be the best magic video on youtube! Such good editing and so much effort put into the actual game play itself. So it took days of game play, but how long did you edit it for? Super curious.
Phil could probably give the best answer, but I know he's been working on this video for like 3 weeks I think?
Thank you so much 🤩 All in all it took me three weeks of production. The idea for the video had been bubbling in my mind for almost two years now though
@@BrewersKitchen Well, I'm impressed
I remember this being part of the "scrapped videos" video you did after coming over to goldfish. Glad to see you found a way to stick it out. I've actually lost to this deck in historic a few times before, it's super hard to put pace.
Happy to see new content from you :)
Dedication at it's best :)
The Summoning Salt music was perfect at the end with all the standard questions I have come to expect. Loved this video and I am sorry I laughed at the unsummon. I can't imagine the countless hours you put in to have it come so close to the record only for it to be pulled away at the last second like that.
Dude I love you. Your videos are the best. Your voice is addicting (you should get paid for voice acting) and your video editing is amazing. I love watching your content!
Simply amazing content you’ve put out here. Clever and original. Keep up the very good work! ❤
The summoning salt music really had me excited for your WR. Congrats! This is an excellent video!
Legitimately my favorite mtg related video on the internet. So good
Very cool change of pace, i salute your commitment to grinding this out :)
What an incredible video! A fantastic concept executed so well!
The music at the ending... what a man of culture!
This was incredible content! Great work and please, PLEASE never stop, Phil!
Awesome job dude! That an amazing accomplishment and glad arena didn't suspend you.
This was a really good video. All the effort put into it shows.
Great video. Hadn't ever thought of anyone even considering something like speedrunning magic.
This is top content, expert storytelling and editing. The Phil-dunk animation, the "you say there's a chance " reference and the sheer pace of the video. Another masterpiece. Thanks for taking the time for perfection, rather than churning out a half-baked video 2 times a day! Und, wer ist nicht selbst ein Wurstpeter??
Danke sehr ☺
Great job! Was infuriating to not see you use the "hold up a land to speed up drawing card animation" trick though haha
This is some kick ass entertainment! Thanks for all your hard work! I guess somebody had to do it. Nice toss over to Summoning Salt as well. Please do more of this style video. I'm your new fan now.
10:28 ICH WUSSTE ES! Doctor Wurstpeter is einfach zu krass
Phil you're a genius. This was my favorite video of yours by far. Thank you for your hard work and dedication on this!
Thank you ☺
Not sure if you read all of these comments or not, but wanted to say that you are easily one of my favorite youtubers. I love your content and I love the way you look at this game. I have built and played a lot of the decks you've shown on this channel and it's so much more fun than just grinding out meta decks for winrate. Please keep making content as long as it suits you!
Yep, I read all the comments 😆 Thank you! ☺
"And then.... BrewersKitchen got this run." - Wirtual (probably)
You can do the dragonstorm combo quicker with ancient silver dragon and two terror of the peaks hitting for exactly 21 after the first triggers resolve.
hey phil, just a suggestion:
with your final deck, it appears you only put in the necessary cards and lands, which i think can be optimised more.
Since the arena shuffler generates two hands then selects the one with a closer land to spell ratio to your deck, adding in more nonland cards would mean you'd have to draw less hands.
As always, a banger of a video!
I know, I thought about it but then decided against it for the sake of the footage. I ran into this problem before and it was especially noticeable in the Treasure Hunt deck
The Summoning Salt music was the perfect way to end this amazing video
Theoretically paper% would just be two people sitting down and one saying “I concede” instantly
It’s quite funny that the answer to the speed run was similar to a deck Seth had already played. Great content!
That was great. Summoning Salt music was just....great seasoning.
GLÜCKWUNSCH!
It’s always amazing to see your content, hope it won’t stop too early 🥰
The only person who would pronounce goliath this was is also the only person willing to spend this much time with Sparky. Leave it to the crazy Germans to be the cheif Arena scientists. Good work.
March of the machine's sparking playing Blue to ruin you , how fitting.
Wow this was crazy, I never expected to get so into this but I shouldn't be surprised when it's you, cause all your videos are edited so perfectly lol
paper% as you called it also works if thorecal is in hand when you cast treasure hunt
you just put your entire library into your hand then cast thorecal
The most amazing thing anyone has ever put on the Internet.
Gratz on the WR, you earned it :D
Phil I aspire to have the amount of knowledge, creativity, and perseverance to pull off this kind of feat. Well done 👏
Good job.
Always love your videos.
While I hope you re-upload this snipped into a short SummoningSalt riff for luls, you did it and are now in speed running history.
Congratulations ~♡
I'm so happy the (abbreviated) entire journey was uploaded so we could get a feel for the various testing
If you edited this by yourself bravo and if you didn't heavy bravo to your editor. Big congrats! I'm just so impressed about how this was put together into a story and I'm impressed by your work and also your storytellimg.
Brewers kitchen is the best thing on TH-cam... Awesome
im not a editor by any means , but its really neat to see the little edits u put into this vid , it seems lik it would take some time
Love every single video. Great job. I'm going to go back and watch some older ones
I don't comment often but that was an awesome journey, thanks for sharing it with us! I also thought of the leylines/opalescence deck but it seems opalescence is not legal in any of arena's formats. Keep up the excellent work!
Your videos are just so damn clean. I love it. That was a super fun one. Good job on the record too!
Love the Summoning Salt musical cue!
Really neat to see. I'd be willing to bet that while technically possible, there's a "minimum time" this could get down to due to how sparky is scripted.
Even with the same strat it can be optimized, holding a card in hand with the mouse cuts > .5 seconds from the animation time
I've pulled off Thassa's Oracle turn 3 in a ranked match on Arena before. The problem is that Arena doesn't have a way to shortcut combos like we would do in paper.
Can't wait to see a redo of this deck with the new Mono-Red/rakdos combo in duskmourn!
this is true GERMAN EFFICIENCY
This was TRULY amazing, I love this video 😤👌💯
Seriously bro. Your content is supreme!
I am number 3 on the leaderboard and great seeing support for mtga speedrunning! Maybe try color challenge next? Would be great to see where that record can go
Oh I've been seeing some insane runs in my DMy. Once they are verified, the leaderboard will look very different. The lowest I've seen was 25.95 🤯
the Ocarina of time Kokiri Forest music edit is top notch!
If there are cards on the table, it could have gone faster. They can just concede
This is the best edited content out there, nothing even remotely close.
If you hold up a land while your drawing it speeds the animation and saves time
6:57
If you had take a second terror before picking Bladewing you would've probably won faster since you only have to go through two BW cycles
(5 from Terror + 2x2x4 = 21)
Good point, didn't think about it in the heat of the moment 😆
I love the iconic speedrun video essay music at the end. Perfect execution
13:04
"Let's call it some stupid name, play 64 cards and feel good about crushing Sparky!"
What the hell? Do they think Sparky is a living being?
"Take into consideration the experiences of your opponent when intentionally skipping your game" WTF?
The summoning salt music really got me