Clearly Seth forgot to read the part on Urabrask that says "when this ETBs, your opponent gets to tutor a removal spell from their deck without you noticing"
@@sontaranmc2109 eh? It's annoying that she demands an answer but I'm not sure if it needs to be banned. The only deck the card really feels unbeatable against is mono red, and the same can be said about anything that has five toughness and LifeLink tbh lol.
@@HomeCookinMTG But she is the best wincon and the biggest reason to play black, both to play her, or kill her. So yeah feels like temur energy all over again, fair cards just pushed far enough that they are the best threat and demand the best answers
I think the challenge with Urabrask in a burn deck is that you don't really have that many other creatures that MUST be removed, so Opponent almost always has a removal spell ready to go. If all your creatures were must-kills, then maybe Urabrask could live.
@@MTGGoldfish maybe just rampaging raptor in its place? haste and hitting the battle seem pretty big. from the way the games played, incidental flipping of the battle while hitting the face seems super sick.
I agree. I think another thing to consider is the comparison between Urabrask and Hazoret. Both were 4 CMC red creatures that were tried in burn, both had great upside. But two important differences were that a) hazoret had haste, so could potentially put the damage down ASAP, where Urabrask had to either untap, or be deployed in a position where you had flooded out like nobody's business. and b), Hazoret had indestructible, protecting it from a lot of removal, which (as you say) is being saved for the boss monster. the 4 CMC spot in burn is hard because you have to give it to cards that end the game immediately. Urabrask is good, but it doesn't do that.
This is what I've come to think after playing the deck quite a lot. I really want urabrask to work, since its a fun card but this deck just isnt the one. Genuinely feels like the deck would just be flat out better swapping mechanized warfare in for urabrask, given how little he ever gets to do
@@ianshevlin8675 The source we're talking about is Urabrask, not the Invasion's backside. The question was whether the Invasion's backside's effect would boost damage coming from Urabrask, which it doesn't because damage coming from Urabrask comes from a creature and is thus not a noncreature source. Unintuitive, because usually effects that are meant to work for burn say noncombat instead of noncreature. And transformed permanents can absolutely change card type on the battlefield. Effects that interact with battles to my knowledge would no longer interact with a battle that has flipped to a creature, while effects targeting creatures do.
Urabrask doesn’t seem good enough without invoke calamity. There were also a couple of times where it might just have made more sense to flip the spellspear before casting your other spells. Still, I do love seeing this archetype in standard
Awesome video, Seth! However, I gotta say that I just can't see Urabrask working in a monored burn shell. It's just too big of a threat to be left alone, and this type of deck just can't protect it effectively: as we've seen, most of the time it will be "play it, wait for opponent to kill it ASAP, lose a turn and possibly momentum". However, a part of me thinks that it could actually work in an Izzet Spells deck, with a bunch of cheap cantrips and burn spells to flip it, and some counters to keep it alive.
Saw the clip on Twitter and was excited when the video was posted. Watched the whole thing and was rewarded that it was at the end. "Oh my Goodness!!" What a great moment! Love when it comes together in Magic!
Game 3 against that Jeskai control deck, I think if instead of Wrenn's Resolve to hit your third land, you just go swiftspear into play with fire on their goblin token, you win that game.
The problem is you're treating Urabrask as a 4 mana curve topper in Burn, where it would need to have haste or have an immediate impact and you would need to have free spells to go off (like Gut Shot or something). You're going to need ramp, control or some kind of combo to make it work
Playing Urabrask at 5 mana could get there if you have a decent number of 1 mana instants/sorceries. Repeatedly gives you a refund, and you can spend the last mana flipping
Cool thing about invasion of regatha is that you basically don't lose that much dmg to flip it. You deal 5 to it instead of face but it makes up for it by dealing 4 upfront. Yeah you don't get any other advantage from it but when you flip it it rewards you with a big body and and more damage for future burn spells which make up the 1 dmg you lost by attacking the battle.
I think my plan is to run Urabrask in an Izzet or Jeskai control deck. He's too juicy of a target to just drop on a board and expect to live, imo. This video reminds me of your Solphim burn deck from a while back haha. You had a similarly powerful deck that would have been better without the namesake card haha.
Yes, I was also thinking this. Sheoldred faces a lot of removal, but in black there's a lot of protection and return effects too. In mono red, with a single juicy target, you can't drop and hope, you either have to go off with it to flip when its down, or have some way to protect it until you untap.
Storm off, that's the part seth got wrong it's not a butn card but a storm card, you play him on 5/6, and go off in response to removal only feasable way I see to flip him
I think any haste creature would be better than Urabrask. Or Mechanized Warfare. I love Urabrask (even pulled one in my prerelease pack), but it seems impossible to flip consistently
For sure warfare works better than Urabrask in this deck. The extra +1 on all damage is insane and if you can flip the Regatha with cards or draw in hand, it should be an OTK at that point.
Fable would make a nice replacement for Urabrask. Puts you up on tempo with regards to removal and is a safe craft, assuming you don't already have it.
I love urabrask, but the decks you build it in are more filled with spells than creatures, so the opponent's removal naturally stays in hand until urabrask hits the table.
Clearly the next Much Abrew needs to be "which Battle should we build a deck around?", just so we can maybe find another card as sweet as Invasion of Regatha. :p I feel like Urabrask doesn't want to be in Burn - I think you would've gotten better results if you went with a slower/more control-y build that could protect it. I could also see it doing more in formats that have actual rituals (i.e. not Standard).
Hey Seth one deck I'm suprised I haven't seen anyone discuss is ratadrabik and Djeru and Hazoret. First of all, I think all rata decks should run relic of legends and I think it's something people don't realize is really strong especially in 3 or more colors for rata decks. Second of all, I think hazoret being able to either legend rule or put new legends onto the battlefield will be the key engine piece that was missing. What do you think?
My favourite standard combo is Jaxis the Troublemaker + Ratadrabik, if you play a 2 drop into relic of legends, you can get 2 ratadrabiks and jaxis tokens, which only spirals from there
A big part of why Invasion of Regatha was that good here is that this is one of the best decks for flipping battles at instant speed. So while you never untapped with a Urabrask, you were able to get the flipped Regatha in just the right moment - opponent's end step or even mid-combat. And when you flipped it normally by attacking you usually have the mana to use it for something, and don't need to wait for next turn and hope.
I guess the problem with Urabrask is that we're already got used to remove Sheoldred on turn 4, maybe the lower toughness just make him too easy to remove
@@itsthekid9815 The difference is that most of the best cards in the format can be played surrounding sheoldred. When every card in your deck is a must answer threat, by the time you slam sheoldred your opponent is often lacking from trading one for one w/ all your other threats. Ubrask is not like that. It wants to be in a burn deck, so it can't be in a deck surrounded by Graveyard Trespasswer, Bloodtithe Harvester, Phyrexian Obliterator, Shakedown Heavey, Evolved Sleeper etc.
Around the 13:00 mark why did you choose to play with fire your battle in combat instead of endstep? You were holding onto nearly lethal damage and could've wiped his board using the cards in hand I believe
I think Urabrask would make a fine one-of in the deck just as a closer against some life gain deck. You need the body and extra damage, plus he'll recur all of your spells. We can flip him the turn he comes out with a conservative 9 mana on the board. Maybe that's an indication that Chandra should be in a deck with Urabrask? Being able to make that extra mana or see the extra card could make the difference between Urabrask doing fun stuff or Urabrask being a 4/4 with first strike. I know the idea with this deck was probably to be budget, but with some extra cash or wilds (or cards you have lying around) a big burn deck might be possible in standard... mostly because of the Invasion of Regatha, but maybe Urabrask too!
I think Urabrask will play more of an effective role in this deck once you play it in bo3 .. as soon as opponent sideboards they can answer a Lot of burn with lifegain and more removal for like your early threats like the khenra and swifty.. slowing the deck down a bit. BO1 has always been hyper aggro
it gets worse in best of three. decks often have more ways to deal with early game. they rely less on go for the throat one turn 2 or 3 and rely more on sweepers.
This might also work in a Gruul deck with mana dorks, proliferate and bloated contaminator on 3. Adding extra +1/+1 counters and accelerating the flipped urabrask, if you can get it. As a bonus, you can proliferate any battles your opponent plays and defend against their flip.
Realistically, in Burn specifically, a 4 mana creature that doesn't do anything the turn it comes down is never going to be playable. You don't play enough creatures to bait removal before it drops because you're playing battles and burn spells with a large chunk of your mana, so they are pretty likely to have some leftover for it, and it means doing nothing on turn 4, which is when you otherwise want to be closing the game out with a double spell turn, or at least getting close to it to put them in range of a single top deck.
The Urabrask _might_ have made a significant contribution to you winning the last game. It forced them to tick down the Jaya, which allowed you kill it with Nahiri's Warcrafting and find a card. A smaller threat would not have applied the necessary pressure there.
At 13:48 wouldn't the right line be battle +bolt to take down the 4/4? That way you don't have to chump with your random 1 drop you played inefficiently?
The problem to play Urabrask, is that you need lots of draw and only spells that are 2 or less mana, so instead of convokes and battles it would be better to put more cantrips
If you wanted to cut Urabrask for budget reasons, the 2 mana prowess dwarf with ward seems like a great addition. I also just think the dwarf is gonna be better in this shell since cards that are really good value spells are usually a trap in burn style red decks. It may have legs in the red deck that's currently seeing play where it has burn spells but it's mostly a creature deck where whatever has the best body for stats is what is wanted. Could also be a solid sideboard card if there are any decks that pop up that are more durdly or in colors with weaker removal spells. Overall I think he's a trap card in standard but might see play in pioneer or other formats where the spells are more efficient or if he does see play in standard maybe in a combo deck or a Big Red midrange build with him as a finisher.
i couldn't get the whatever magic website to yield results for "red battle cards" but I probably just didn't use the right search terms or, something, IDK. But I came back from my first "March of the Machines" with the idea that Red Battles (w/ burn spells to more quickly flip them) was a smart idea. Good to know it can work.
My favorite thing about seth is that he transforms into a boomer trying to pronounce the name of a pokemon when he says the name of basically ANY Kamigawa card.
I think Urabrask is one of those cards you need to treat more like it was a higher cost card so probably play him more like he costed5 mana rather than 4, otherwise he's just gonna get rinsed immediately unfortunately😔 I'm also planning on making a copy and using him in Brawl with a bunch of cantrips which is where I think he'll shine best....or maybe gruul Burn just for the ramp
This isn't really a urabrask deck tbh, its just that the critical mass of burn in standard right now is high enough that you can have a dead card in hand (urabrask) and still win via burn
Maybe it'd fit better in a izzet deck with counterspells and slip out the back to keep it safe? It seems too slow for a mono red deck, since it doesnt have any effect when it's put on the battlefield and needs you to cast additional spells to get any value from it. It feels more like a finisher that lets you storm off in a turn once it's safe on the field.
@@itsthekid9815 yeah but hasty one drops or most of the two drops aggro decks play aren’t. Adding in a four drop who is weak to removal turns all your opponents removal from bad cards into good ones.
I feel like urabrask is too clunky to run in mono red. Getting it out on rate means it is immediately gonna eat removal. It may be better maybe in an izzet or jeskai shell to protect it?
I'd been playing around with Urabrask and I thought this might happen. Urabrask has legs, but it's kill on sight. I THINK the way to play it is in a blue red spellslinger deck.
The reason lava axe is bad is the rate, not the damage going to face. 3 mana for 4 burn with a bit of extra upside is a card that can see play in Standard when the right cards are around it. 5 mana for 5 burn of literal Lava Axe is a lot worse.
I'd say wrong deck for Urabrask. It's a blank card in burn, 4 do nothing the turn you play it is monumentally too slow for burn. Maybe try it in a U/R spellslinger-y deck? Maybe alongside third path iconoclast?
Looking at the list and some of the other comments, I agree that urabrask should probably be cut. I've seen people mention bloodfeather pheonix, which I think I'd play in place of Urabrask just for the occasional recursion on a burn spell. Obviously other cards like Kessig Flamebreather are also good choices.
Urabrask might be better in an Izzet spells deck with free/duplicate spell abilities. Would love to see it with mercurial spelldancer and arcane proxy. Maybe with Chandra dressed to kill for the extra red or extra card access to help the trigger. Double red and double blue spells don’t seem too bad with the current mama base.
The most impressive plan I've seen so far is someone using the red battle that exiles your hand and gives you a new one and lets you play the exiled cards the next turn. Seemed like a sweet way to have enough fuel to actually flip Urabrask.
Blazing Crescendo would add pressure and card options here, too. I do love playing blazing Crescendo before you drop a land and pulling both a land and a cheap spell into exile just when your card count looks low.
This needs to get modded and returned for a post-release _Budget Magic_ episode! Maybe....second color? But yeah, deff drop the *Urabrask* , at _least_ until after rotation; the Standard meta is WAY too creature hostile *&* EVERYONE knows to kill him on sight!
Might just swap out the 'brasky boi for my copies of Solphim I think lol. Heck, by the way this went, even Kessig Flamebreather would be a better asset over them it seems.
For sure. I spent all my wildcards on a Jodah deck, so budget decks like this are great for me. I can just throw in solphim and flamebreathers for the urabrasks, and this'll be great.
For a budget version switching urabrask for the rare battle that flips into a discard outlet for mountains to deal damage would work i won my prerelease with that combo
I genuinely think this deck would be stronger if you cut urabrask and went up to 24 mountains. The entire video was just Seth begging to hit his 3rd land drop game after game and still hoping to cast a 4 mana creature
Cut, one khenra, one urabrask und one reckless impulse (or both) to add 3-4 fables and you will see urabrask flip. The reason sheoldred doesn't die is the interaction drain from fable and the accidental agression of her surrounding deck (two drops having three attack) pressuring her opponts to interact early. your deck either wins because the hand of your opponent is full removal which doen't help them to stop the burn from your hand. or you stumble due to developing a four drop against an untested hand. Fabbles make your deck more expensive, but if you want urabrask to flip, its the way to go. still, probably better to cut him for faster and cheaper cards. Your mentioned 20 bucks variant will probably turn out better because urabrask doesn't really help the burn gameplan. i always imagined him in an izzet spellslingerdeck. he must be nuts when combined with pyromancer or iconoclast and with some of the new convoke spells.
Feel like this video might prove that the red dominus might be a better curve topper in this pile over urabrask…..maybe one copy of urabrask but it certainly was not the reason Seth was winning games despite how cool and powerful it is
Uh oh, looking like Seth’s prediction about Urabrask being the best Praetor “because he’s so easy to flip” during preview season, is looking awfully ‘Circle of Loyalty-ish’ lmao
I would love to know how to get access to new sets earlier. Does anybody know why some youtube channels already have access to the new set but I can't find it on arena??
Wizard’s do a special promo where content creators have access to the full set on special accounts to promote the coming release (it’s why their usernames all have VIP) so unless youre a popular content creator in wizard’s eyes, you gotta wait like most people
Wizards usually does an early access day where they let content people play with the new set for one day, so this was recorded during that event on Thursday. The set officially drops tomorrow though.
Clearly Seth forgot to read the part on Urabrask that says "when this ETBs, your opponent gets to tutor a removal spell from their deck without you noticing"
He's playing standard my man. It's a removal check format. Everyone has 10+ in their decks rn because if you don't you just lose to sheoldred.
@@HomeCookinMTG god I need Wizards to ban her ASAP, she’s just so damn centralizing
@@sontaranmc2109 eh? It's annoying that she demands an answer but I'm not sure if it needs to be banned. The only deck the card really feels unbeatable against is mono red, and the same can be said about anything that has five toughness and LifeLink tbh lol.
@@HomeCookinMTG But she is the best wincon and the biggest reason to play black, both to play her, or kill her. So yeah feels like temur energy all over again, fair cards just pushed far enough that they are the best threat and demand the best answers
@@HomeCookinMTG That's why I love to run Rebel salvo. It's 5 damage for only 3 mana, and if you have equipment, it goes crazy.
I think the challenge with Urabrask in a burn deck is that you don't really have that many other creatures that MUST be removed, so Opponent almost always has a removal spell ready to go. If all your creatures were must-kills, then maybe Urabrask could live.
Yeah, I think you are right. Since we don't give the opponent many good burn targets they always have removal left over for Urabrask.
@@MTGGoldfish maybe just rampaging raptor in its place? haste and hitting the battle seem pretty big. from the way the games played, incidental flipping of the battle while hitting the face seems super sick.
I agree.
I think another thing to consider is the comparison between Urabrask and Hazoret. Both were 4 CMC red creatures that were tried in burn, both had great upside. But two important differences were that a) hazoret had haste, so could potentially put the damage down ASAP, where Urabrask had to either untap, or be deployed in a position where you had flooded out like nobody's business. and b), Hazoret had indestructible, protecting it from a lot of removal, which (as you say) is being saved for the boss monster.
the 4 CMC spot in burn is hard because you have to give it to cards that end the game immediately. Urabrask is good, but it doesn't do that.
Maybe it can be played in gruul so you have Tyvar's Stand and Safekeeping
This is what I've come to think after playing the deck quite a lot. I really want urabrask to work, since its a fun card but this deck just isnt the one. Genuinely feels like the deck would just be flat out better swapping mechanized warfare in for urabrask, given how little he ever gets to do
Invasion of Regathas backside doesn’t increase the damage from Urabrask, even if it’s noncombat damage it’s still a creature source
Itd be a battle source, right? The card types dont swap sides in pretty sure
@@ianshevlin8675 The source we're talking about is Urabrask, not the Invasion's backside. The question was whether the Invasion's backside's effect would boost damage coming from Urabrask, which it doesn't because damage coming from Urabrask comes from a creature and is thus not a noncreature source. Unintuitive, because usually effects that are meant to work for burn say noncombat instead of noncreature.
And transformed permanents can absolutely change card type on the battlefield. Effects that interact with battles to my knowledge would no longer interact with a battle that has flipped to a creature, while effects targeting creatures do.
Flipped urabrasknis just an enchantment, so it would deal 3+2 damage
39:35 - the sequence from here to the end of that game. wow. this is peak magic right here. that's awesome.
Press 9 for infectious laughter.
Anyone have any ideas what to replace Urabrask with?
Urabrask doesn’t seem good enough without invoke calamity. There were also a couple of times where it might just have made more sense to flip the spellspear before casting your other spells. Still, I do love seeing this archetype in standard
Maybe it would really work better on izzet. With cantrips and protection/counters.
Awesome video, Seth! However, I gotta say that I just can't see Urabrask working in a monored burn shell. It's just too big of a threat to be left alone, and this type of deck just can't protect it effectively: as we've seen, most of the time it will be "play it, wait for opponent to kill it ASAP, lose a turn and possibly momentum".
However, a part of me thinks that it could actually work in an Izzet Spells deck, with a bunch of cheap cantrips and burn spells to flip it, and some counters to keep it alive.
Spellspear is such a sweet card. That double Prowess adds up so fast.
Saw the clip on Twitter and was excited when the video was posted. Watched the whole thing and was rewarded that it was at the end. "Oh my Goodness!!" What a great moment! Love when it comes together in Magic!
Game 3 against that Jeskai control deck, I think if instead of Wrenn's Resolve to hit your third land, you just go swiftspear into play with fire on their goblin token, you win that game.
I love when Saffron draws urabrask and whispers with joy 🤣
Seth, Whispering One
Hm, sounds like another praeteor
The problem is you're treating Urabrask as a 4 mana curve topper in Burn, where it would need to have haste or have an immediate impact and you would need to have free spells to go off (like Gut Shot or something).
You're going to need ramp, control or some kind of combo to make it work
Yeah, it’s exactly the same problem that Solphim had, and same result.
Raiju and rampaging raptor would be sick in this deck tbh
Playing Urabrask at 5 mana could get there if you have a decent number of 1 mana instants/sorceries. Repeatedly gives you a refund, and you can spend the last mana flipping
As soon as Urabrask was teased I was waiting for one of the goldfish to make a burn deck with him!
As a modern burn player, gotta love seeing burn win some games in standard. That game against Ali eldrazi felt great to watch.
This deck brought back some good old memories. Really happy to see swiftspear, lightning strike and stoke the flames back together
Cool thing about invasion of regatha is that you basically don't lose that much dmg to flip it. You deal 5 to it instead of face but it makes up for it by dealing 4 upfront. Yeah you don't get any other advantage from it but when you flip it it rewards you with a big body and and more damage for future burn spells which make up the 1 dmg you lost by attacking the battle.
I think my plan is to run Urabrask in an Izzet or Jeskai control deck. He's too juicy of a target to just drop on a board and expect to live, imo.
This video reminds me of your Solphim burn deck from a while back haha. You had a similarly powerful deck that would have been better without the namesake card haha.
Yes, I was also thinking this. Sheoldred faces a lot of removal, but in black there's a lot of protection and return effects too. In mono red, with a single juicy target, you can't drop and hope, you either have to go off with it to flip when its down, or have some way to protect it until you untap.
Storm off, that's the part seth got wrong it's not a butn card but a storm card, you play him on 5/6, and go off in response to removal only feasable way I see to flip him
@@W4llh4kthis... or maybe invoke calamity
I think Urabrask flips with Invoke Calamity. Might be worth looking into!
I think any haste creature would be better than Urabrask. Or Mechanized Warfare. I love Urabrask (even pulled one in my prerelease pack), but it seems impossible to flip consistently
For sure warfare works better than Urabrask in this deck. The extra +1 on all damage is insane and if you can flip the Regatha with cards or draw in hand, it should be an OTK at that point.
Urabrask is a combo piece to me, not a "burn" card, drop him on 5/6 and respond to the removal with burn and transform him
Fable would make a nice replacement for Urabrask. Puts you up on tempo with regards to removal and is a safe craft, assuming you don't already have it.
Ah yes, faces of Kazan, the mono red staple
I love that he just calls it “Faces” most of the time. 😂
40:37 i feel that moment too. god damn
So good!
New video title, Against the odds! Can we flip urabrask in standard March of the Machines Standard
XD
I love urabrask, but the decks you build it in are more filled with spells than creatures, so the opponent's removal naturally stays in hand until urabrask hits the table.
Clearly the next Much Abrew needs to be "which Battle should we build a deck around?", just so we can maybe find another card as sweet as Invasion of Regatha. :p
I feel like Urabrask doesn't want to be in Burn - I think you would've gotten better results if you went with a slower/more control-y build that could protect it. I could also see it doing more in formats that have actual rituals (i.e. not Standard).
Hey Seth one deck I'm suprised I haven't seen anyone discuss is ratadrabik and Djeru and Hazoret.
First of all, I think all rata decks should run relic of legends and I think it's something people don't realize is really strong especially in 3 or more colors for rata decks.
Second of all, I think hazoret being able to either legend rule or put new legends onto the battlefield will be the key engine piece that was missing.
What do you think?
My favourite standard combo is Jaxis the Troublemaker + Ratadrabik, if you play a 2 drop into relic of legends, you can get 2 ratadrabiks and jaxis tokens, which only spirals from there
A big part of why Invasion of Regatha was that good here is that this is one of the best decks for flipping battles at instant speed. So while you never untapped with a Urabrask, you were able to get the flipped Regatha in just the right moment - opponent's end step or even mid-combat. And when you flipped it normally by attacking you usually have the mana to use it for something, and don't need to wait for next turn and hope.
I love the look of this deck. definitely going to build at some point
I guess the problem with Urabrask is that we're already got used to remove Sheoldred on turn 4, maybe the lower toughness just make him too easy to remove
the problem is that it's a weak creature that also does nothing on ETB
@@MineRoyale. Cant you say the same thing about Sheoldred?
Sheoldred pushed standard towards running heavy amounts of removal and Urabrask is suffering for it 😢
@@itsthekid9815 The difference is that most of the best cards in the format can be played surrounding sheoldred. When every card in your deck is a must answer threat, by the time you slam sheoldred your opponent is often lacking from trading one for one w/ all your other threats. Ubrask is not like that. It wants to be in a burn deck, so it can't be in a deck surrounded by Graveyard Trespasswer, Bloodtithe Harvester, Phyrexian Obliterator, Shakedown Heavey, Evolved Sleeper etc.
No. You can't. The two cards are played in different decks
Around the 13:00 mark why did you choose to play with fire your battle in combat instead of endstep? You were holding onto nearly lethal damage and could've wiped his board using the cards in hand I believe
I think Urabrask would make a fine one-of in the deck just as a closer against some life gain deck. You need the body and extra damage, plus he'll recur all of your spells. We can flip him the turn he comes out with a conservative 9 mana on the board. Maybe that's an indication that Chandra should be in a deck with Urabrask? Being able to make that extra mana or see the extra card could make the difference between Urabrask doing fun stuff or Urabrask being a 4/4 with first strike. I know the idea with this deck was probably to be budget, but with some extra cash or wilds (or cards you have lying around) a big burn deck might be possible in standard... mostly because of the Invasion of Regatha, but maybe Urabrask too!
It’s a shame we didn’t get a chance to see Urabrask go off, or even survive, but it was sweet episode none the less.
I think Urabrask will play more of an effective role in this deck once you play it in bo3 .. as soon as opponent sideboards they can answer a Lot of burn with lifegain and more removal for like your early threats like the khenra and swifty.. slowing the deck down a bit. BO1 has always been hyper aggro
it gets worse in best of three. decks often have more ways to deal with early game. they rely less on go for the throat one turn 2 or 3 and rely more on sweepers.
hearing seth pick up crim’s slang is my new favorite thing
never thought i’d hear him call a card “the TRUTH”
This might also work in a Gruul deck with mana dorks, proliferate and bloated contaminator on 3. Adding extra +1/+1 counters and accelerating the flipped urabrask, if you can get it. As a bonus, you can proliferate any battles your opponent plays and defend against their flip.
Another great video brother Set. Keep it up.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Realistically, in Burn specifically, a 4 mana creature that doesn't do anything the turn it comes down is never going to be playable. You don't play enough creatures to bait removal before it drops because you're playing battles and burn spells with a large chunk of your mana, so they are pretty likely to have some leftover for it, and it means doing nothing on turn 4, which is when you otherwise want to be closing the game out with a double spell turn, or at least getting close to it to put them in range of a single top deck.
The Urabrask _might_ have made a significant contribution to you winning the last game. It forced them to tick down the Jaya, which allowed you kill it with Nahiri's Warcrafting and find a card. A smaller threat would not have applied the necessary pressure there.
At 13:48 wouldn't the right line be battle +bolt to take down the 4/4? That way you don't have to chump with your random 1 drop you played inefficiently?
It's always sunny in Thraben, with Dennick Reynolds
The problem to play Urabrask, is that you need lots of draw and only spells that are 2 or less mana, so instead of convokes and battles it would be better to put more cantrips
If you wanted to cut Urabrask for budget reasons, the 2 mana prowess dwarf with ward seems like a great addition. I also just think the dwarf is gonna be better in this shell since cards that are really good value spells are usually a trap in burn style red decks. It may have legs in the red deck that's currently seeing play where it has burn spells but it's mostly a creature deck where whatever has the best body for stats is what is wanted. Could also be a solid sideboard card if there are any decks that pop up that are more durdly or in colors with weaker removal spells. Overall I think he's a trap card in standard but might see play in pioneer or other formats where the spells are more efficient or if he does see play in standard maybe in a combo deck or a Big Red midrange build with him as a finisher.
With Mechanized Warfare. Replace Urabrask with Mechanized Warfare for the ultra budget version.
i couldn't get the whatever magic website to yield results for "red battle cards" but I probably just didn't use the right search terms or, something, IDK. But I came back from my first
"March of the Machines" with the idea that Red Battles (w/ burn spells to more quickly flip them) was a smart idea. Good to know it can work.
Scryfall: “t:battle c:r f:standard” (the f:standard isn’t technically necessary cause they’re all standard legal at the moment)
@@ciaran.downey you absolute legend, thank you!!
My favorite thing about seth is that he transforms into a boomer trying to pronounce the name of a pokemon when he says the name of basically ANY Kamigawa card.
Kamigawa rotating will be great for my pronunciation game.
@@MTGGoldfish to be clear I didn't mean any hate love the content but I can't help being reminded of my grandmother asking me about my pokey-manz lol
Gotta love "faces of khazan" never change Seth 😂😂😂
I think Urabrask is one of those cards you need to treat more like it was a higher cost card so probably play him more like he costed5 mana rather than 4, otherwise he's just gonna get rinsed immediately unfortunately😔 I'm also planning on making a copy and using him in Brawl with a bunch of cantrips which is where I think he'll shine best....or maybe gruul Burn just for the ramp
Urabrask seem to fit much more spell slinger(Izzet) than straight up mono red burn
This isn't really a urabrask deck tbh, its just that the critical mass of burn in standard right now is high enough that you can have a dead card in hand (urabrask) and still win via burn
Maybe it'd fit better in a izzet deck with counterspells and slip out the back to keep it safe? It seems too slow for a mono red deck, since it doesnt have any effect when it's put on the battlefield and needs you to cast additional spells to get any value from it. It feels more like a finisher that lets you storm off in a turn once it's safe on the field.
I've been struggling to make Urabrask work in Standard, but I've been able to flip him fairly consistently in pioneer
I feel like Urabrask belongs in an Izzet control deck
Edit: That last game was incredible. Definitely throwing some ragathas in my burn deck
Urabrask feels really vulnerable to removal. This deck is a cool idea but it probably needs a lot of fine tuning to be really good.
to be fair a lot of creatures feel vulnerable to removal
@@itsthekid9815 yeah but hasty one drops or most of the two drops aggro decks play aren’t. Adding in a four drop who is weak to removal turns all your opponents removal from bad cards into good ones.
Urabrask is a key card in this deck. It eats removal, so opponent cant remove Diciples of Inferno
Swapping out Urabrask for Fables or Chaandra-3 seems strong.
I feel like urabrask is too clunky to run in mono red. Getting it out on rate means it is immediately gonna eat removal. It may be better maybe in an izzet or jeskai shell to protect it?
wouldn this be good with vindictive flamestoker replacing Ura?
Would you please do a follow up on this deck with a sideboard
I'd been playing around with Urabrask and I thought this might happen. Urabrask has legs, but it's kill on sight. I THINK the way to play it is in a blue red spellslinger deck.
I think you could replace Urabrask for the new Fire Prophecy since it can add velocity + target the battle. Either that or the Phoenix.
Press 9 for infectious laughter.
Anyone have any ideas what to replace Urabrask with?
Thundering Raiju still the best 4 drop for RDW because it does something right away and combos well with Kumono Faces
What card would you add instead of urabrask
Solphem tho?
I would have thought double damage would be good
Even the new convoke fiery emancipation
(Maybe building this not as a budget deck)
Maybe shifting to 2 Urabrask and having 4 Reckless Impulse? He's a nice top curve option, I'd say.
The reason lava axe is bad is the rate, not the damage going to face. 3 mana for 4 burn with a bit of extra upside is a card that can see play in Standard when the right cards are around it. 5 mana for 5 burn of literal Lava Axe is a lot worse.
You're awesome Seth!
I'd say wrong deck for Urabrask. It's a blank card in burn, 4 do nothing the turn you play it is monumentally too slow for burn. Maybe try it in a U/R spellslinger-y deck? Maybe alongside third path iconoclast?
It's really funny when the video recaps the story behind its title. Poor Urabrask.
Looking at the list and some of the other comments, I agree that urabrask should probably be cut. I've seen people mention bloodfeather pheonix, which I think I'd play in place of Urabrask just for the occasional recursion on a burn spell. Obviously other cards like Kessig Flamebreather are also good choices.
How?? This set isn't even released yet in my client? How are you using the cards?
The set comes out tomorrow! This was from the early access day Wizards did Thursday that let content people use the cards for one day.
Urabrask might be better in an Izzet spells deck with free/duplicate spell abilities. Would love to see it with mercurial spelldancer and arcane proxy. Maybe with Chandra dressed to kill for the extra red or extra card access to help the trigger. Double red and double blue spells don’t seem too bad with the current mama base.
The most impressive plan I've seen so far is someone using the red battle that exiles your hand and gives you a new one and lets you play the exiled cards the next turn. Seemed like a sweet way to have enough fuel to actually flip Urabrask.
Blazing Crescendo would add pressure and card options here, too. I do love playing blazing Crescendo before you drop a land and pulling both a land and a cheap spell into exile just when your card count looks low.
invoke calamity is a free flip if you can untap with him (tho we never crossed that threshold anyway, so maybe that’s not good enough)
My god this deck is insane
Not bad for just seven rares!
Maybe Urabrask would be better in a format where having 4 toughness matters more?
This needs to get modded and returned for a post-release _Budget Magic_ episode! Maybe....second color?
But yeah, deff drop the *Urabrask* , at _least_ until after rotation; the Standard meta is WAY too creature hostile *&* EVERYONE knows to kill him on sight!
On Urabrask's defence, he ate the removal spells instead of the flipped invasion of regathas
I would replace urabrasks with Defiler of instinct, that way you ping for an extra 1 damage to any target.
Might just swap out the 'brasky boi for my copies of Solphim I think lol. Heck, by the way this went, even Kessig Flamebreather would be a better asset over them it seems.
For sure. I spent all my wildcards on a Jodah deck, so budget decks like this are great for me. I can just throw in solphim and flamebreathers for the urabrasks, and this'll be great.
4 is definitely the top of the curve for burn and if you've got early aggro type hands playing urabrask late just doesn't have much impact.
What should I replace Urobrask with?
For a budget version switching urabrask for the rare battle that flips into a discard outlet for mountains to deal damage would work i won my prerelease with that combo
Burn took me to platinum tier in 2 days. It’s rly rly rly good
Nice!
that invasion is the true true
Is it me or March of the Machines full of slow casts? I run mono red and izzit aggro and this just feels slow. Cool but slow
I genuinely think this deck would be stronger if you cut urabrask and went up to 24 mountains. The entire video was just Seth begging to hit his 3rd land drop game after game and still hoping to cast a 4 mana creature
How are you using urabrask its still not in mine?
So, Regatha vs Segovia, which one is better Seth? 😉
Don't make me choose! Really though, I think the both are very strong, they just go in very different decks.
I was laughing out loud at that last streak of topdecks. The truth is the truth lol
Skydiver? Ultra marathon runner? Polar bear challenge? :P
Gonna try this with rampaging raptors over urabrask
What be ye, Grey mane or Battle Burn
Cut, one khenra, one urabrask und one reckless impulse (or both) to add 3-4 fables and you will see urabrask flip. The reason sheoldred doesn't die is the interaction drain from fable and the accidental agression of her surrounding deck (two drops having three attack) pressuring her opponts to interact early.
your deck either wins because the hand of your opponent is full removal which doen't help them to stop the burn from your hand. or you stumble due to developing a four drop against an untested hand.
Fabbles make your deck more expensive, but if you want urabrask to flip, its the way to go.
still, probably better to cut him for faster and cheaper cards. Your mentioned 20 bucks variant will probably turn out better because urabrask doesn't really help the burn gameplan.
i always imagined him in an izzet spellslingerdeck. he must be nuts when combined with pyromancer or iconoclast and with some of the new convoke spells.
I would love to see a 5color battle deck
Feel like this video might prove that the red dominus might be a better curve topper in this pile over urabrask…..maybe one copy of urabrask but it certainly was not the reason Seth was winning games despite how cool and powerful it is
I need to make a play queue deck with all the dragons that have some weird ability
Uh oh, looking like Seth’s prediction about Urabrask being the best Praetor “because he’s so easy to flip” during preview season, is looking awfully ‘Circle of Loyalty-ish’ lmao
Also you want protection spells for urabrask.
I’ve gotten to untap with Urabrask in my Izzy Phoenix deck a few times and the result is 15-23 damage the following turn 😂
I would love to know how to get access to new sets earlier. Does anybody know why some youtube channels already have access to the new set but I can't find it on arena??
Wizard’s do a special promo where content creators have access to the full set on special accounts to promote the coming release (it’s why their usernames all have VIP) so unless youre a popular content creator in wizard’s eyes, you gotta wait like most people
@@matthiasvecanski7044 Ah sad I hoped this was just a prerelease thing I was missing. Thanks for the info!
Wizards usually does an early access day where they let content people play with the new set for one day, so this was recorded during that event on Thursday. The set officially drops tomorrow though.
"Really? oh well thank you opponent that is very good for us"