Back in the day you only ever got to play one Stasis game against any given player and every time you played an island after that the person would ask you "That isn't the stasis deck, is it?"
You only need one Jace. More bounce, Seth! It's seriously the power in Stasis; you can bounce back your Stasis at opponent's EOT, or bounce away their threats when the tap out and you're ready to slam the lockdown.
woobmonkey Chain of Vapor will do both if you Chuck a land. Opponents EOT Chain your Stasis, then copy it with your own land to bounce any threat that happens to stick.
woobmonkey Also Jace doesn't belong. Hard casting shit under stasis is tricky enough. Hence the 10 no mana counterspells. There are much better choices. I loose the occasional game, almost never a Match. He is very close here. Except for the red. Hmm.. Is there a tutor that will find Stasis for one? It will also find every single piece in the (sorta) combo. Enlightened Tutor. It will also find your SB cards like R.I.P., Rhystic Study (if you're into that), Propaganda, Eathersworn Cannonist or plain old Pithing Needle. Also, 3 or 4x Misdirection in the SB or you just loose to Abrupt Decay.
An opening hand of counterspell, fire ice, basic island, ancestral vision, forsaken city, and force of will normally makes one think this is a legacy league; little did one know that 5 years later that same legacy hand would almost be indistinguishable from a modern opening hand
I brought my old stasis deck to a local legacy tournament with almost the exact same results... mine was more of a 93-94 deck tho. Imma keep working on it :)
It seems like a safer play at 11:00 would have been to just Ral Zerek, wait a turn, then stasis. keeping his one land tapped down doesn't seem worth keeping 3 of yours tapped. I may be wrong.
What about Turnabout in this deck? It not only lets you untap your lands with a stasis out, but it's a one-card-combo with stasis to shut them down forever.
+SaffronOlive deck idea - Naya/Jeskai or R/W Impossible Moon - Rule Of Law/Curse of Exhaustion (or equivalent) +Possibility Storm as a lock, with Blood Moons, Spellskite, perhaps Pithing Needle(?) Chalice Of The Void, and Elspeth, Sun's Champion/Ajani Vengeant/Assemble The Legion as wincon - you don't have to worry about casting once the lock is in place, they just win it for you.
Why not just using Frozen Aether? The old Stasis Combo was +Kismet, however FA eliminates the need of white mana, howling mines to keep the Forsaken city engine and that's GG.
In that game our opponent was playing a combo deck called Storm where they can basically play their entire deck (and kill us with one card) after they play Past in Flames. Legacy is weird and complicated.
@@FinBotInsights He conceded because he was not going to be able to combo off with no way to get enough mana to do the combo. He was locked out, which is the point of the deck. :) Stasis basically says "you get no mana to do anything after you use up what you have" and the rest of the deck locks down what they do have. Then, win conditions like Jace just wrap the game up.
Ral Zarek. If your opponent skips every turn and you have a card that pings for 3 every other turn, they die eventually He can also try to stall until he hits a win con, let Stasis die, play Stasis and his other win con
Keeping more than 2 FoW when you're discarding seems like a bad idea, you don't really want to cast 3 of those in a turn, get more mileage with your 1-for-1 counters
Is it just me or do do you play faster here than in budget magic? While watching budget magic I don't miss a single play, but here I had to rewatch some parts mo catch what happened.
+Bryan T Stuff like storm, or miracles would be a staple deck, yet each runs some of the same cards like force of will, which doesn't make it the same deck. From the best of my knowledge, this deck isn't a legacy staple, so to me its still against the odds, and is pretty entertaining to watch
+Bryan T Legacy is an odd format for something like Against the Odds. It would be really hard to not play Brainstorm and Force of Will in a blue deck, even if they are staples. The against the odds part is pretty much the Stasis package.
+Liam Childs It's a really small difference, but Pyroblast says "counter target spell *if* it's blue" while Red Elemental Blast says "counter target blue spell." So technically you can cast Pyroblast any time, at any target, even though it will end up fizzling if its not a blue spell (or blue permanent). This means you can use Pyroblast to generate storm count, or just to get a card out of your hand (for Ensnaring Bridge) at times when you'd be stuck with Red Elemental Blast in your hand. I con't really thing of a common situation where it would matter in the Stasis deck though.
Game 3 against storm I probably would have let them combo off then use the flusterstorm to counter their stuff. You would have 1 more copy of flusterstorm on than they did copies of their payoff card.
Ok how about you do a against the odds with defiant bloodlord and feel the clan and other life gain Defiant bloodlord 5bb Flying Whenever you gain life ,target opponent loses that much life 4/5
+TheMrEM4N There are many good decks that run no blue. Why not take a look at the meta at a site like mtgtop8 or mtggoldfish instead of making assumptions about the format as a whole based on 4 matches?
Moo Move along little child. Stay in your naive little world where you believe people would summarize an eternal format based on the performance of a single deck.
Don't judge it just by a few decks. It's way more diverse than this, and lots of different strategies are viable - aggro, midrange, control, combo, prison, etc.
This is among the best against the odds videos ever.
Back in the day you only ever got to play one Stasis game against any given player and every time you played an island after that the person would ask you "That isn't the stasis deck, is it?"
I come back to watch this video like every two months. Sooooo goood. Make another stasis video. I need more stasis in my life
You only need one Jace. More bounce, Seth! It's seriously the power in Stasis; you can bounce back your Stasis at opponent's EOT, or bounce away their threats when the tap out and you're ready to slam the lockdown.
Yeah, disperse would be so much better here
+Jonathan Montgomery or Boomerang, or even better more Chain of Vapor
+woobmonkey Snapback would be my bounce spell of choice
woobmonkey Chain of Vapor will do both if you Chuck a land. Opponents EOT Chain your Stasis, then copy it with your own land to bounce any threat that happens to stick.
woobmonkey Also Jace doesn't belong. Hard casting shit under stasis is tricky enough. Hence the 10 no mana counterspells. There are much better choices. I loose the occasional game, almost never a Match. He is very close here. Except for the red.
Hmm.. Is there a tutor that will find Stasis for one? It will also find every single piece in the (sorta) combo. Enlightened Tutor. It will also find your SB cards like R.I.P., Rhystic Study (if you're into that), Propaganda, Eathersworn Cannonist or plain old Pithing Needle. Also, 3 or 4x Misdirection in the SB or you just loose to Abrupt Decay.
An opening hand of counterspell, fire ice, basic island, ancestral vision, forsaken city, and force of will normally makes one think this is a legacy league; little did one know that 5 years later that same legacy hand would almost be indistinguishable from a modern opening hand
44:13 "put that Top to the bottom"
YES!!! My favorite deck of all time! And I can understand your voice!!! I'm soooo happy to find this!!!
I brought my old stasis deck to a local legacy tournament with almost the exact same results... mine was more of a 93-94 deck tho. Imma keep working on it :)
I was surprised this deck did so well. It was fun to watch.
It seems like a safer play at 11:00 would have been to just Ral Zerek, wait a turn, then stasis. keeping his one land tapped down doesn't seem worth keeping 3 of yours tapped. I may be wrong.
this ir one of my favorites against the odds ever
I appreciate you not conceding the first shallow grave game. I don't get to see much legacy and seeing how that deck wins was nice
if u wanted to lock out combo a lot with stasis u can also do the isochron and silence combo
If anyone is watching this is 2018. Seth’s voice sound so different!
Better audio quality.
What about Turnabout in this deck? It not only lets you untap your lands with a stasis out, but it's a one-card-combo with stasis to shut them down forever.
Adding 2 Muddle the Mixture to the deck is a great idea since you can Transmute it for Stasis.
+SaffronOlive deck idea - Naya/Jeskai or R/W Impossible Moon - Rule Of Law/Curse of Exhaustion (or equivalent) +Possibility Storm as a lock, with Blood Moons, Spellskite, perhaps Pithing Needle(?) Chalice Of The Void, and Elspeth, Sun's Champion/Ajani Vengeant/Assemble The Legion as wincon - you don't have to worry about casting once the lock is in place, they just win it for you.
use to have to learn to play while being beat with Stasis, chronotog, and kismet. all i had to play with was a Rebel Counter deck. The good ol days.
Rebel decks? Good days? HAHAHAHAHA. Good one.
When is the Shadowborn Apostle modern deck coming?
Why not just using Frozen Aether? The old Stasis Combo was +Kismet, however FA eliminates the need of white mana, howling mines to keep the Forsaken city engine and that's GG.
Can u do a modern deck using ob nixilis, unshackled, and maralen of the morning song?
+Quinn Kovacs Maralen and Mindlock Orb.
I don't know, but does it also combo with aven mindcensor?
I only play standard on mtga. I have no idea what's going on here. Like the concede in the first game, why?
In that game our opponent was playing a combo deck called Storm where they can basically play their entire deck (and kill us with one card) after they play Past in Flames. Legacy is weird and complicated.
@@MTGGoldfish quite! I do like your modern videos though. Cheers
@@FinBotInsights He conceded because he was not going to be able to combo off with no way to get enough mana to do the combo. He was locked out, which is the point of the deck. :) Stasis basically says "you get no mana to do anything after you use up what you have" and the rest of the deck locks down what they do have. Then, win conditions like Jace just wrap the game up.
I have never, ever heard Seth say a bad word before. It was only "Hell" but still, it was strange 😂
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch...
my question is how does this deck win other than the opponent scooping and jace?
Ral Zarek. If your opponent skips every turn and you have a card that pings for 3 every other turn, they die eventually
He can also try to stall until he hits a win con, let Stasis die, play Stasis and his other win con
why strand and Delta instead of the red blue fetch?
Yeah probably. Nice name BTW lol
Helium Loyce There are no basic mountains, so you could use any blue fetches.
Keeping more than 2 FoW when you're discarding seems like a bad idea, you don't really want to cast 3 of those in a turn, get more mileage with your 1-for-1 counters
Is it just me or do do you play faster here than in budget magic? While watching budget magic I don't miss a single play, but here I had to rewatch some parts mo catch what happened.
*to not mo
+Colgate Lampinen The editing is a lot faster on Against the Odds since we are trying to squeeze a lot of matches into a short amount of time.
+MTGGoldfish I see. Is there coming any legacy episode for budget magic, btw?
does anyone know what the third deck seth played against is called?
+MrBooya145 I think its proper name is Tin Fins.
+MTGGoldfish thanks
any replacement for Tabernacle?
nothing. it's a board wipe v aggro and helps a lot v infect
magus of the tabernacle id the closest but its not a land
Exhaustion seems cool in this deck..
that sweet sweet rage quit
why meditate instead of chronatog
How is playing a deck full of legacy staples considered against the odds?
+Bryan T Stuff like storm, or miracles would be a staple deck, yet each runs some of the same cards like force of will, which doesn't make it the same deck. From the best of my knowledge, this deck isn't a legacy staple, so to me its still against the odds, and is pretty entertaining to watch
+Jordan Albert Its a pretty crazy deck for legacy :)
+Bryan T Legacy is an odd format for something like Against the Odds. It would be really hard to not play Brainstorm and Force of Will in a blue deck, even if they are staples. The against the odds part is pretty much the Stasis package.
Why is pyroblast better than red elemental blast?
+Liam Childs It's a really small difference, but Pyroblast says "counter target spell *if* it's blue" while Red Elemental Blast says "counter target blue spell." So technically you can cast Pyroblast any time, at any target, even though it will end up fizzling if its not a blue spell (or blue permanent). This means you can use Pyroblast to generate storm count, or just to get a card out of your hand (for Ensnaring Bridge) at times when you'd be stuck with Red Elemental Blast in your hand. I con't really thing of a common situation where it would matter in the Stasis deck though.
+MTGGoldfish thanks
I really enjoy these videos but I do wish the editing were a bit less aggressive...
you should have played Mana Short in this deck lol, or Karma
You should have brought in tabernacle game 2
Game 3 against storm I probably would have let them combo off then use the flusterstorm to counter their stuff. You would have 1 more copy of flusterstorm on than they did copies of their payoff card.
He could have won against that Tin fin deck if tendrils was on bottom...
Anther gitaxian probe
Thoughtseize/therapy themselves and discard emrakul
Last game was so funny
I still don't know how to win with this deck
Lucas Alejandro Lalk ulting jace.
This deck is disgusting.
I love it.
watching legacy matches is just a money fight lol
not even using a rack. u kill them with boredom XD
cool,legacy actually won
Ok how about you do a against the odds with defiant bloodlord and feel the clan and other life gain
Defiant bloodlord 5bb
Flying
Whenever you gain life ,target opponent loses that much life
4/5
+MERLIN THE WIZARD not in modern too expensive even in standard
of course the storm player alt f4ed
Like a true burning bitch I mean burn mage. ;)
To be fair though, this deck is basically designed to piss people off.
Try this list: tappedout.net/mtg-decks/ral-stasis/ :)
brainstorm reZALvs
Is the whole point to this to just hope they surrender? lol I'm half way through the video and not a single point of damage dealt. lol
jace mill
Not all strategies look to deal damage to win.
2nd
Yikes, is this what Legacy is all about? A hand full of 7 counterspells? I think I'll stick to modern and EDH.
It's not.
+TheMrEM4N There are many good decks that run no blue. Why not take a look at the meta at a site like mtgtop8 or mtggoldfish instead of making assumptions about the format as a whole based on 4 matches?
Oh goodness... Here's a hot tip for you: Not everything should be taken literally.
I was being facetious. Don't believe everything you read.
Moo Move along little child. Stay in your naive little world where you believe people would summarize an eternal format based on the performance of a single deck.
Yes, I was a fool to have believed someone might judge something hastily without fully researching it. You really showed me!
Legacy seems fun 😒
The way he pronounces pithing needle cringe D:
man legacy is just combo counters.
im glad im never playing that format
Don't judge it just by a few decks. It's way more diverse than this, and lots of different strategies are viable - aggro, midrange, control, combo, prison, etc.
His deck is literally built to be a giant "fuck your combo" deck. Obviously a deck like that would try to counter combos. XD