I've watched this channel for about half a year now and I'm embarrassed to admit this is the first time I've seen their name written out in full. This makes so much more sense 😭
To be fair, most standard games are much longer than 3 turns, and most good decks/players run more interaction than the opponents featured in this video. However, I agree that a realistic t3 kill existing at all in standard feels wrong.
It's not scared, it's just playing with a brain and thinking things through. I can understand the confusion though since the average red aggro player has a room temperature IQ
@@slaphappy-qb3jb its not playing with a brain and thinking things through if youre forced to make them have it 3 turns later anyways, as he did this entire video, thats just giving them 3 extra turns to draw into it and letting more expensive answers also answer it.
@@zackestin1368 cool cool cool, so where's your wildly successful TH-cam channel and/or podcast where you demonstrate years of experience and skill in MTG? Oh what's that? You don't have one? Well color me surprised. Maybe if you don't have the credentials to back up why I should give you half a thought, the better option is to not talk. This is thinking from someone who doesn't even play aggro and is primarily a control player. Again I get that as it is likely you're an aggro player yourself, the idea of not simply vomiting your hand onto the board and collecting a win is an alien thought to you, but some of us out here actually play Magic. So sit down lil buddy and you might learn something.
@@slaphappy-qb3jb Seth, the guy in comments here talking about his mistakes in the games? the guy who has zero professional magic accolades? the guy who has never done anything competitive? who doesnt even pretend like hes more than an average player? where is your wildly successful youtube channel to criticize others opinions, since thats the be all end all for whether youre good at magic or not, my PTQ top 8s be damned?
so ive actually been brewing this myself for a few weeks now and ive actually found that closer to 17 or 18 lands and some of the auras like war squeak and demonic ruckus feel SUPER good in this list but ive been running a mono red variant. ill be def making it a rakdos variant with no dead after all ^v^ edit: additionally, wrenns resolve and sazacap's brew are also super nice for refilling the hand, especially sazacap's brew
36:22 if you put the monstrous rage on the cacophony scamp, then they would still lose even if they have a shock. If they shock the scamp then it does 1 damage when it dies, then swiftspear and heartfire each hit for 2 then after combat you can burn together the heartfire hero for 6 since it gets a counter from being targeted, putting them at -1.
I love this video, but between this deck and Nadu in Modern, I don't know why anyone would play constructed Magic right now. You could be flipping coins instead.
@@RobandRosieRRdude this deck is pulling 70%-80% winrate streaks in high diamond by a dude who doesnt even play aggro well and is playing with a budget version of the deck...it's absurdly oppressive and super toxic for the game
@@RobandRosieRRthe entire point of super fast aggro decks is that they sit around a 52%-55% winrate but you play so many games that you climb by volume. If a super low to the ground aggro deck is pulling 70%+ winrates, that's well beyond problematic
~2 months ago I was able to go from Plat 4 to #150 Mythic in like 4 hours w/ this deck (sans the new Bloomburrow, cards which I believe make the list strictly better). Games last like 2 minutes max so the amount of games you can spam is actually unreal. As an aside, Blazing Crescendo is the only card in the list I've been toying around w/ replacing, as 1 CMC cantrips feel waaaaaay better in games where Slickshot is your main wincon. Shock so far has worked out best for me (it's actually great in the mono-red mirror when you are on the draw and can kill one of their creatures), but Might of the Meek might actually be strong enough to work, as even with only 8 mice in the list you are likely spending 1 mana to draw another 1 mana spell which will trigger your prowess creatures an additional time. Demonic Ruckus also has worked quite nicely for me; It's a great turn 1 when you don't have a 1 drop creature, plus the card advantage and menace have definitely won me games which I should have lost lol.
Top 10 mythic this season here, shock is the key card that makes you lose the mirror imo, 4 pumps is better (splashing green for snakeskin veil and other pump spells is quite strong too) I havnt toyed around with demonic ruckus so lmk how that goes
@@laytonjr6601 Yup, Blackcleave Cliffs are a mistake. Fast mana is much more important than the rare occasion when Callous Sell-Sword for 1B would be the play.
@@laytonjr6601 Hmm, you could be right. I'd have to test how it works out. But there is still a downside. Sometimes you can flash Mirran for example to Ember and play a card. If it's a 4th land and it comes untapped it could mean you have the mana to play a card that leads to lethal damage or just another 1 drop creature. That has occured many times when I've played this deck.
@@jellywillreturn blue hasn't been good in standard for eons. The ones turning your games into borefests where you get to do nothing are the aggro players.
@@jellywillreturn both player's strategies are to stop the other from playing the game, except one has to do so through multiple 3 mana underpowered cards, the other can do so with a 1 mana mouse on turn 3.
I built it immediately :) my second standard deck - new at arena. Playing it in bo3 though and it holds up surprisingly well. Beat decks with multiple cut downs and go for the throats in games 2 and 3
I've never played standard in my life. I'd done the Arena tutorials and I've been playing commander for 2/3 years. Done some pre-releases and a couple drafts and that is it. I was on the grind for 2 weeks to get all the wildcards for this deck. Finally got them all and went from Bronze 4 to Plat 4 in a day. This deck rules and is so fun! And the games are quick as well.
A lot of people playing bo1 ladder are just running 12-16 pieces of 1 mana removal at this point. The meta is completely borked, doesn't matter if its fling, mice, rabbits, frogingbird, otters or lizards, they all kill you on turn 3-4 and need absurd amounts of removal to not die instantly. I see black decks with 4x cut down, 4x disfigure, 4x dead weight. Can't even rely on GFTT / long goodbye, its just too slow especially if you have any taplands I think its the only time in magic's history that standard / type 2 rotated and became much faster / more pushed. Tons of good control cards rotated out and BLB was just tons of extremely pushed 1 drop aggro cards
Oh come on, turn 1 Elenda for a turn 2 kill? Or three phoenixes flying your way on turn 1? Channel into Belcher turn 2? I know what you mean actually, rest easy.
I'd make fun of you for playing fling again, but your melek fling deck actually inspired me to make an izzet control deck with him as the curve topper, so maybe this will be inspiration later LOL
I've used green pump spells like giant growth for this deck: Say I attack with my 1/1 Heartfire, and the opponent let's it through Then I can put an instant growth spell on it to pump it to 6 power, which then deals 6 combat damage, then I sac the Heartfire with the Callous, and BAM! 18 Damage just like that...
Before rotation, i went 19 - 3 with this deck. It's so fun, and hearthfire has been a fantastic addition. I play it mono red with sellsword as my finisher. I do miss my sticky fingers though.
I run mostly mice in a similar deck for valiant triggers. There's a uncommon land in the set "R(T) give a mouse +1/0 and haste" Not a tap land, gives R for creatures or colorless. Pretty solid
Immediately jammed the deck with some small adjustments into traditional standard ranked. Went from platinum to mythic 275 in about 20 matches. I lost 2 to 4 of those. Deck felt unstoppable.
I ran a deck similar to this last month, but the main combo piece was Pyrotechnic Performer. Its a little slower, but having ward on your most important card before it goes off is really nice. Ill give this list a whirl!
Scamp’s proliferate can help add an additional few points damage when you have Heartfire hero out if you need it, I’ve won with only two lands utilizing it
I had a Fling combo deck way back in Scars of Mirrodin/Zendikar standard, featuring Kiln Fiend, Phyrexian Souleater and a boatload of Phyrexian mana instants and sorceries. I've never had so much fun killing either my opponent or myself on turn 3, and this deck looks like it has so many similar vibes. I may really need to try it out...
The one land keep was correct. I run a 17 land deck, I would have kept that and then found 6 land in a row. It was correct, the shuffler just went "No".
Last time i played a fling deck was Spikeshot elder / Claws of Valukut Goblins. Tuk Tuk and Goblin Guides etc been a long time this looks fun. I built the boros mouse deck now im thinking just cut white and do this now.
36:30, I think if you just don't rage there, you attack them to 6, go main 2, and sell sword targeting hero to pump it to 3, dealing the last 6 damage, and monstrous rage in response to a shock would save it. Great games though, always nice to see a budget deck winning(even if it's "mono" red)
whats also great about this deeck is its' reusing cards from decks people are already playing. like I laready had a callous Fling deck previously so really i only needed the WC for the Bloomburrow cards. so super budget if youve been playing for a bit
This deck is insanely fun to play lol,all I did was take my no-longer standard prowess deck and jammed in HFH and Burn Together (who cares about the sell sword part of it) and it works like a charm lol
Thank you Seth! Please forward this video to the DCI division of WotC so that I can *recover* my favorite format. It is to the point where I ask my opponent “What do you play?”, they respond with Cacophony ... I concede on the spot! (we do not play)
Have you concidered Flowstone Infusion instead of Shock? It works perfect with scamp and heartfire hero, since it sometimes act like a buff, but also can kill them for direct dmg. And it is shocklike ;)
you can turn 2 if you switch the deck to black red green its just a hefty combo and if ya dont start with it in your hand Arena will do the cool thing where it wont give you the cards you need Leyline of the Guildpact Gaeas blessing Hearfire hero and callous sell sword
I miss modern budget magic. Yoy made some of the most impressive and fun modern decks for under 100 bucks and with MH3 out there have got to be plenty of options
34:55 ok so, mon rage does like +3, right? So you got 3 from swiftie, 4 from the hero, then, if you cast it on scamp, they may kill it, but you get 1 anyways. Then you fling the hero for 10. By my count that is still lethal at 18 hp. If they kill after casting the fling, then you only get 15 damage. But you still got lethal on board. I'd say, pump the scamp.
Keeping a 1 lander on the draw in a deck with 20 lands means you have a 44% chance of not hitting your second land drop. So the question is: would you prefer to go to 6 cards or have a 44% chance of losing on the spot?
vs midrange if you have a lot of creatures just run out the slickshots you are missing 1 dmg in the air every time they sit in exile. Plot is ONLY good vs boardwipes and green fight removal. And rarely if opponent leaves mana open instead of curving out
Not that I think it's on the same level and is quite ban-worthy, but Monstrous Rage has the same feel to me as like, Faithless Looting. It's just a bit too much for the cost and being an instant, given the +1/+1 and trample sticks around (and hell there's even that potential extra 1 damage if ever required) and really is what enables mono-red and things like this to be so fast in Standard. I suspect it's gonna be the top of the new list of cards people will be happy to see gone and/or are the reason they're unhappy that rotation is so much slower.
@@elambruce7491 I really disliked codebreaker too!!! I've swapped the slot a lot for better or worse but I do like a copy or two of lighting strike. I'm not really sure if it's any better but I played a few matches yesterday from bronze to gold without much issue so we'll see if I go any higher from here lol
game 2 in match 1 you kinda took like the worst lines possible. You missed so much damage by plotting the showofs and then in your attacking turn you pumped the same guy twice with a deathtrigger effect making one invalid :D
Yeah, I mentioned that in the article. Technically the black mana is optimal because you might want to cast Callous Sell-Sword, but I don't think I've cast it a single time in all my games playing the deck.
@@MTGGoldfish I wonder how it stacks up to a general mono red aggro deck. My Bloomburrow version right now is very similar barring Sellsword and goblin. Can't deny this deck's explosive damage though.
And imagine, you can build this deck as Gruul. (Sell-Sword is never casted as a creature, so he is just a 1 red mana fling). Gruul is slightly better unless you want to side more black control than what SaffronOlive did in this variation of the deck.
Why Felonious Rage and no Monstrous Rage? I don't got it. And the 2 mano rare (not the mouse) is it really necessary? Isn't a draw or pump spell better?
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Seth's love of Callous Sell-Sword is more than just a fling
Saffron Olive just can't quit Fling its a love 💕 deep in his heart
It's more than just a fling
@@finnpeterson4335 how underrated this comment is, is criminal.
I've watched this channel for about half a year now and I'm embarrassed to admit this is the first time I've seen their name written out in full. This makes so much more sense 😭
He just can't throw it away
funny how burn together's templating lets this work so well. allowing for triggers before resolution.
Yeah, you even get the prowess triggers!
Also doesn't get 2 for 1'd by a counter spell like every other fling that's existed
But it does lose to instant speed removal
Hammerhand (DMU) over war squeak to trigger valiant in a pinch, easy to miss but quite an upgrade
Ohh, that's a good call!
Wait, why dont they both work identically?
@@scarman1675 You can target your own creature with the “can’t block” ability to trigger something else’s valiant.
anybody remember when cards were banned in modern because that was a "turn 4 format" and now standard is faster than that? yeah.
To be fair, most standard games are much longer than 3 turns, and most good decks/players run more interaction than the opponents featured in this video. However, I agree that a realistic t3 kill existing at all in standard feels wrong.
@@tyronium6950yeah, they usually go up to turn 5...
You can tell that Seth is a control/combo player watching how scared and passive he plays aggro.
I was screaming make'm have it.
It's not scared, it's just playing with a brain and thinking things through. I can understand the confusion though since the average red aggro player has a room temperature IQ
@@slaphappy-qb3jb its not playing with a brain and thinking things through if youre forced to make them have it 3 turns later anyways, as he did this entire video, thats just giving them 3 extra turns to draw into it and letting more expensive answers also answer it.
@@zackestin1368 cool cool cool, so where's your wildly successful TH-cam channel and/or podcast where you demonstrate years of experience and skill in MTG? Oh what's that? You don't have one? Well color me surprised. Maybe if you don't have the credentials to back up why I should give you half a thought, the better option is to not talk.
This is thinking from someone who doesn't even play aggro and is primarily a control player. Again I get that as it is likely you're an aggro player yourself, the idea of not simply vomiting your hand onto the board and collecting a win is an alien thought to you, but some of us out here actually play Magic. So sit down lil buddy and you might learn something.
@@slaphappy-qb3jb Seth, the guy in comments here talking about his mistakes in the games? the guy who has zero professional magic accolades? the guy who has never done anything competitive? who doesnt even pretend like hes more than an average player?
where is your wildly successful youtube channel to criticize others opinions, since thats the be all end all for whether youre good at magic or not, my PTQ top 8s be damned?
>Turn 3 kill
>In Standard
This is fine.
Pretty sure Bant toxic has been able to do that with certain Rotpriest draws since ONE. It's a good deck, but it's not necessarily a problem.
@@zsjostrom35it's absolutely a problem. No deck that is this braindead to play should be this powerful. It's super unhealthy for the game
@@slaphappy-qb3jb😂😂😂 this is the man out here calling everyone else triggered
@@slaphappy-qb3jbsometimes u just wanna have fun instead of slog around for a 10+ turn standard game :)
@@Calico365 Some of us think slogging is the fun part...
It's crazy all these cards are 1 mana now. It's like watching pioneer or modern years ago.
A goldfish video without an Adriano thumbnail just seems...off 😲
Hope he has a good vacation/gets better soon/whatever the case.
so ive actually been brewing this myself for a few weeks now and ive actually found that closer to 17 or 18 lands and some of the auras like war squeak and demonic ruckus feel SUPER good in this list but ive been running a mono red variant. ill be def making it a rakdos variant with no dead after all ^v^
edit: additionally, wrenns resolve and sazacap's brew are also super nice for refilling the hand, especially sazacap's brew
do you have a list? i am working on a version of this, be interesting to see yours.
36:22 if you put the monstrous rage on the cacophony scamp, then they would still lose even if they have a shock. If they shock the scamp then it does 1 damage when it dies, then swiftspear and heartfire each hit for 2 then after combat you can burn together the heartfire hero for 6 since it gets a counter from being targeted, putting them at -1.
And here I was waiting for rotation because I was sick of mono red. Guess the joke is on me.
I love this video, but between this deck and Nadu in Modern, I don't know why anyone would play constructed Magic right now. You could be flipping coins instead.
It isn't that oppressive in Bo3 if you have a good sideboard for it and know how the deck works.
@@RobandRosieRRdude this deck is pulling 70%-80% winrate streaks in high diamond by a dude who doesnt even play aggro well and is playing with a budget version of the deck...it's absurdly oppressive and super toxic for the game
@@RobandRosieRRthe entire point of super fast aggro decks is that they sit around a 52%-55% winrate but you play so many games that you climb by volume. If a super low to the ground aggro deck is pulling 70%+ winrates, that's well beyond problematic
Thank you for the written wrap-up in the article. That's a big help.
~2 months ago I was able to go from Plat 4 to #150 Mythic in like 4 hours w/ this deck (sans the new Bloomburrow, cards which I believe make the list strictly better). Games last like 2 minutes max so the amount of games you can spam is actually unreal. As an aside, Blazing Crescendo is the only card in the list I've been toying around w/ replacing, as 1 CMC cantrips feel waaaaaay better in games where Slickshot is your main wincon. Shock so far has worked out best for me (it's actually great in the mono-red mirror when you are on the draw and can kill one of their creatures), but Might of the Meek might actually be strong enough to work, as even with only 8 mice in the list you are likely spending 1 mana to draw another 1 mana spell which will trigger your prowess creatures an additional time. Demonic Ruckus also has worked quite nicely for me; It's a great turn 1 when you don't have a 1 drop creature, plus the card advantage and menace have definitely won me games which I should have lost lol.
Top 10 mythic this season here, shock is the key card that makes you lose the mirror imo, 4 pumps is better (splashing green for snakeskin veil and other pump spells is quite strong too) I havnt toyed around with demonic ruckus so lmk how that goes
Doesn't even need the rakdos lands so decks honestly 4 rare deck
Yeah, the deck works even with all mountains
@@laytonjr6601 Yup, Blackcleave Cliffs are a mistake. Fast mana is much more important than the rare occasion when Callous Sell-Sword for 1B would be the play.
@@timosirkka5597 Blackcleave Cliffs isn't a mistake, if it's one of your first 3 lands it enters untapped. Anything after that and you're mana flooded
@@laytonjr6601 Hmm, you could be right. I'd have to test how it works out. But there is still a downside. Sometimes you can flash Mirran for example to Ember and play a card. If it's a 4th land and it comes untapped it could mean you have the mana to play a card that leads to lethal damage or just another 1 drop creature. That has occured many times when I've played this deck.
standard kinda looking like modern over here "minus the interaction"
Insta-kill creatures: 1 mana
Removal for them: 2+ mana
Counterspells (lmao) 3 mana, 2 for the crap ones
Wotc, the math isn't mathing out.
@@metalhev3989As blue players deserve.
@@jellywillreturn blue hasn't been good in standard for eons. The ones turning your games into borefests where you get to do nothing are the aggro players.
@@metalhev3989 “Noooo stop killing me before I get to play the game.” -Person whose entire strategy is stopping people from playing the game.
@@jellywillreturn both player's strategies are to stop the other from playing the game, except one has to do so through multiple 3 mana underpowered cards, the other can do so with a 1 mana mouse on turn 3.
I’m already tired of this deck on the BO1 ladder
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Yep
Come on over to modern. The water is warm :D
@@aceviruyeah Nadu is so much more fun to play against
I built it immediately :) my second standard deck - new at arena. Playing it in bo3 though and it holds up surprisingly well. Beat decks with multiple cut downs and go for the throats in games 2 and 3
Yep, control is officially dead in standard. Now even the 1 drops are must-kill insta-win one-shot-you-from-20 creatures.
Well, it's only if you also don't answer the 30 additional cards the fling player stacks on said 1 drop.
@@galacticgamer6635 they don't need that, they just need that stupid double strike mouse to make it grow to infinity
Reminder that Lightning Bolt is banned in Historic for being too powerful
@@laytonjr6601 its turn 2. You have a bolt, the opponent has the dumb mouse and a Ragavan on the field.
Who would you bolt? Think about that.
I've never played standard in my life. I'd done the Arena tutorials and I've been playing commander for 2/3 years. Done some pre-releases and a couple drafts and that is it. I was on the grind for 2 weeks to get all the wildcards for this deck. Finally got them all and went from Bronze 4 to Plat 4 in a day. This deck rules and is so fun! And the games are quick as well.
Standard is a turn 3 format now.
I love this true Glass Canon. Defense is for weaklings, we're pure gas here!
A lot of people playing bo1 ladder are just running 12-16 pieces of 1 mana removal at this point. The meta is completely borked, doesn't matter if its fling, mice, rabbits, frogingbird, otters or lizards, they all kill you on turn 3-4 and need absurd amounts of removal to not die instantly. I see black decks with 4x cut down, 4x disfigure, 4x dead weight. Can't even rely on GFTT / long goodbye, its just too slow especially if you have any taplands
I think its the only time in magic's history that standard / type 2 rotated and became much faster / more pushed. Tons of good control cards rotated out and BLB was just tons of extremely pushed 1 drop aggro cards
Its kind of sad that ive been dying faster in standard than timeless
Come to brawl
@@spegynmerbles3993brawl is so comboie it frightens me
Oh come on, turn 1 Elenda for a turn 2 kill? Or three phoenixes flying your way on turn 1? Channel into Belcher turn 2?
I know what you mean actually, rest easy.
@@spegynmerbles3993brawl has alchemy cards so no thanks
I'd make fun of you for playing fling again, but your melek fling deck actually inspired me to make an izzet control deck with him as the curve topper, so maybe this will be inspiration later LOL
Looks like I'm taking a few days off the ladder...
Built this deck last week and it’s been quite fun. Have it all on paper so it was natural to play on arena!
I've used green pump spells like giant growth for this deck:
Say I attack with my 1/1 Heartfire, and the opponent let's it through
Then I can put an instant growth spell on it to pump it to 6 power, which then deals 6 combat damage, then I sac the Heartfire with the Callous, and BAM!
18 Damage just like that...
Before rotation, i went 19 - 3 with this deck. It's so fun, and hearthfire has been a fantastic addition. I play it mono red with sellsword as my finisher.
I do miss my sticky fingers though.
I love it so much and I appreciate you sharing this wonderful chaotic deck thank you
I run mostly mice in a similar deck for valiant triggers. There's a uncommon land in the set "R(T) give a mouse +1/0 and haste"
Not a tap land, gives R for creatures or colorless. Pretty solid
I love Callous Sell-Sword kills. I was doing that in Gruul before Bloomburrow released, sometimes on turn 4 (and once on 3!).
Immediately jammed the deck with some small adjustments into traditional standard ranked. Went from platinum to mythic 275 in about 20 matches. I lost 2 to 4 of those. Deck felt unstoppable.
I ran a deck similar to this last month, but the main combo piece was Pyrotechnic Performer. Its a little slower, but having ward on your most important card before it goes off is really nice. Ill give this list a whirl!
Scamp’s proliferate can help add an additional few points damage when you have Heartfire hero out if you need it, I’ve won with only two lands utilizing it
This is wild I just did a deck tech on my channel on heartfire + callous sellsword with a different build without knowing this video existed lol
I just got back into arena and I'm rebuilding a standard deck.
I'm starting to regret this decision based on how often I see this deck
I had a Fling combo deck way back in Scars of Mirrodin/Zendikar standard, featuring Kiln Fiend, Phyrexian Souleater and a boatload of Phyrexian mana instants and sorceries. I've never had so much fun killing either my opponent or myself on turn 3, and this deck looks like it has so many similar vibes. I may really need to try it out...
You and everyone else
We took this to mythic last season using a modified Green/Red list with lots of pump spells, slickshots, and scamps. We made it to rank 255.
Oh sweet he used my deck!
The one land keep was correct. I run a 17 land deck, I would have kept that and then found 6 land in a row. It was correct, the shuffler just went "No".
Last time i played a fling deck was Spikeshot elder / Claws of Valukut Goblins. Tuk Tuk and Goblin Guides etc been a long time this looks fun. I built the boros mouse deck now im thinking just cut white and do this now.
36:30, I think if you just don't rage there, you attack them to 6, go main 2, and sell sword targeting hero to pump it to 3, dealing the last 6 damage, and monstrous rage in response to a shock would save it. Great games though, always nice to see a budget deck winning(even if it's "mono" red)
whats also great about this deeck is its' reusing cards from decks people are already playing. like I laready had a callous Fling deck previously so really i only needed the WC for the Bloomburrow cards. so super budget if youve been playing for a bit
Im very fond of red summons that strait up explode very fun very funny and very on theme
This deck is insanely fun to play lol,all I did was take my no-longer standard prowess deck and jammed in HFH and Burn Together (who cares about the sell sword part of it) and it works like a charm lol
"Goal-Garry" 😂
Love the opp Match 1 game 1 bored meme when theyre playing the 1 netdeck golgari walker combo deck EVERYBODY will be playing
Seth, have you tried flinging all the goyf style creatures? Then you could call it Milfling
Thank you Seth! Please forward this video to the DCI division of WotC so that I can *recover* my favorite format. It is to the point where I ask my opponent “What do you play?”, they respond with Cacophony ... I concede on the spot! (we do not play)
i had the same idea with voldaren thrillseeker, am new to magic so good to know there are cheaper mana cost alternative
I can vouch its a good deck :) piloted it into the top 10 mythic a few days ago
Awesome games! Great idea, Seth! 🎉
This deck is even more consistent in Explorer, it’s wild
Funny deck. Feels a bit like "bad infect" imo. Thanks for the great content regardless. Looks like a blast to play
Have you concidered Flowstone Infusion instead of Shock? It works perfect with scamp and heartfire hero, since it sometimes act like a buff, but also can kill them for direct dmg. And it is shocklike ;)
Turn 2 win is possible with the following:
Leyline of the Guildpact
Gaea's Might
Heartfire Hero
Callous Sellsword
you can turn 2 if you switch the deck to black red green
its just a hefty combo and if ya dont start with it in your hand Arena will do the cool thing where it wont give you the cards you need
Leyline of the Guildpact
Gaeas blessing
Hearfire hero
and callous sell sword
I didn't even realize Fling was back in standard until Bloomburrow came out
so this is why this exact fling effect was worded this way
Oh hey this is pretty much what I brewed when slickshot first released, focused mostly on slickshot, its absurd
@mtggoldfish
Thanks Seth, I just had to Sunfall a singular 1/1 Heartfire Hero to break into top 200 mythic because of you!
I miss modern budget magic. Yoy made some of the most impressive and fun modern decks for under 100 bucks and with MH3 out there have got to be plenty of options
34:55 ok so, mon rage does like +3, right? So you got 3 from swiftie, 4 from the hero, then, if you cast it on scamp, they may kill it, but you get 1 anyways. Then you fling the hero for 10. By my count that is still lethal at 18 hp.
If they kill after casting the fling, then you only get 15 damage. But you still got lethal on board.
I'd say, pump the scamp.
In explorer we have 12 creatures, 8+ flings, and infuriate for this deck. Talk about consistency
Keeping a 1 lander on the draw in a deck with 20 lands means you have a 44% chance of not hitting your second land drop. So the question is: would you prefer to go to 6 cards or have a 44% chance of losing on the spot?
vs midrange if you have a lot of creatures just run out the slickshots you are missing 1 dmg in the air every time they sit in exile. Plot is ONLY good vs boardwipes and green fight removal. And rarely if opponent leaves mana open instead of curving out
Not that I think it's on the same level and is quite ban-worthy, but Monstrous Rage has the same feel to me as like, Faithless Looting. It's just a bit too much for the cost and being an instant, given the +1/+1 and trample sticks around (and hell there's even that potential extra 1 damage if ever required) and really is what enables mono-red and things like this to be so fast in Standard. I suspect it's gonna be the top of the new list of cards people will be happy to see gone and/or are the reason they're unhappy that rotation is so much slower.
That is freaking nuts on first game you could do 20 damage on turn 3.
Been playing a version of this deck and its great!!!
What changes have you been using? I brought in some copies of demonic ruckus and ditched codebreaker
@@elambruce7491 I really disliked codebreaker too!!! I've swapped the slot a lot for better or worse but I do like a copy or two of lighting strike. I'm not really sure if it's any better but I played a few matches yesterday from bronze to gold without much issue so we'll see if I go any higher from here lol
We have something like this in Pioneer too
This is why i quit magic. Standard is never supposed to be over on t3
Can't wait for Seth to build the boros synth pauper deck in standard... even if the standard version is best in azorius and synth is gone
I love this deck great to climb up the ladder with , went from bronze to gold in a matter of hours
I made a variant of this deck myself. I called it "Exploding Mice"
game 2 in match 1 you kinda took like the worst lines possible. You missed so much damage by plotting the showofs and then in your attacking turn you pumped the same guy twice with a deathtrigger effect making one invalid :D
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I played that game wrong.
Seems like you could cut the black lands entirely and make it even cheaper is you wanted. Cool deck! BO1 is going to be nuts for a while I think!
Yeah, I mentioned that in the article. Technically the black mana is optimal because you might want to cast Callous Sell-Sword, but I don't think I've cast it a single time in all my games playing the deck.
@@MTGGoldfish I wonder how it stacks up to a general mono red aggro deck. My Bloomburrow version right now is very similar barring Sellsword and goblin. Can't deny this deck's explosive damage though.
The version of bats I play hasnt lost to this deck yet.
It's odd seeing this played in bo3
This deck is so much fun and so fast
I was wondering what the sideboard plan is. like what you take out and bring in for certain matchups in the format. Any way you could tell us?
back in my day MODERN was a turn 4 format now we have turn 3 in standard wtf
Never heard of the word Cacaphany before.
I wonder if a Non-Budget Modern or Pioneer version of this would be competitive enough to be like tier 2?
this deck has helped me get my foot in the door as a new player in standard (arena) thank you for making your videos
This works even better in gruul
And imagine, you can build this deck as Gruul. (Sell-Sword is never casted as a creature, so he is just a 1 red mana fling). Gruul is slightly better unless you want to side more black control than what SaffronOlive did in this variation of the deck.
What is the green for?
@@zofficialone6214 hexproof pump spells, pick your poison, etc
@@zofficialone6214 Green also offers a ton of buff instant spells, such as Giant Growth.
@saffronolive bro, can you make this into a budget modern deck?
This deck is also great in Jund colors
This deck has been all over BO1 ladder.. always annoying to play against.
I got to mythic with this in 6 hours 😂
Dang it! was rocking this all yesterday and you had to go and make a video about it!
Sleepy hedron seethe activated
Bro that's just a meta deck that topped the list with a league win 3 days ago
I really hope the next podcast is just "Is magic just red aggro in 2024" or the like, because it's time people addressed the cancer...
I wounder how this deck would look in Explorer and historic what would changed form them extra sets other then the mana base
ya. ima sit this standard out.
Why Felonious Rage and no Monstrous Rage? I don't got it. And the 2 mano rare (not the mouse) is it really necessary? Isn't a draw or pump spell better?
Seth, I really hope your AC's almost functional again! I'm getting sweaty just watching lol
P.S. Deck looks sweet too, I suppose
It's being fixed today!!!!!
Did you see that the Slingshot still got a +2/+0 when you sacrificed it?