5:28 "So, Still being alive is step one. Then ripping Mox Diamond off the top and Smallpoxing my opponent could be the way forward." He can't keep getting away with this.
My love for pox is only eclipsed by my love for Bant Control. Bosh is a merciful man and hasn't uploaded these two decks back to back. I think the hype would kill me.
11:34 tbh null rod was disabling like 1 card in your deck and disabled their helms altogether, I would've kept the card that stopped their own win con around
Honestly I’m not even sure they had Helm for that reason, I don’t know if I’d be playing Null Rod in that deck at all. I think we would have seen Dauthi if it was. I suspect it was just a black opposition agent deck.
49:07 you just talked how Urza's saga is not good enough and that you need more mana and going to tutor up the mox diamond. You could saved second saga in hand for a mox diamond discard. That would put you up 1 mana as you coudn't afford to use saga anyway.
At 46:10 you have a premium smallpox opportunity. They can't saga in response, so they are left with either float mana, make a karnstruct after it resolves and next turn sac saga, going down to 1 karnstruct, 1 mystery artifact and 0 lands. They can't make second karnstruct because they are a mana short. Or they need to sac the saga to the smallpox.
Smallpox is my favorite magic card of all time. I don't know why. Does it make me a bad person? Anyway, I love legacy pox. The thing I dislike the most in this game is stuff like 4-color omnath and these vomit-pile, resource-building, ignore-your-opponent types of decks, and smallpox is literally the opposite of that lol EDIT: That last game against the red deck, needle on the seal might have been better. The spell pierce play (or not) was much harder to choose without using hindsight. Tough game though. You could easily have lost a different way if you played around the things that you did lose to.
This might sound counterintuitive, but G5M1 in your Upkeep, make a Construct and then hold Priority and Waste the Saga so they don't get to search. It doesn't matter with the scant amount of tutor targets in this deck, but in other games that you have a more robust Saga package, that might be a thing to keep an eye on.
14:30 very interesting situation - the library is good early but so is the hymn, if the opponent keeps a one lander for whatever reason and you hit it you basically win the game, you can also really disrupt combo this way. I'd go with hymn but I'm not saying it's the right answer
Pox is one of my all time fave cards in the game mostly because I enjoyed building wonky discard decks. Not normally consistent decks but fun when they go off.
Seems like you beat burn if you fire your counters when you could. In my experience counters versus burn are a - use whenever you can without forfeiting your tempo - due to life point all being “equal”
Sure, if you know they’re burn. This was a midrange mono red brew of some kind. Feels bad to spell piece chain lightning then get buried by fable. With perfect hindsight that game is a breeze, but they had brewer’s advantage
Comment of the day!! I think this is my favorite pox you've posted. When you have a donation deck with stifle are you just like "I can't wait to say how damn bad stifle is" or are you more like "I can't wait to do the stifle thing even if it's bad!!"
Now that you mention it I'd love to see a Currency Converter deck. I've just seen it in commander where I really liked it so I'm curious to see how it goes in legacy.
It's a rare pox deck that doesn't mana screw itself. I approve this deck. You can stifle your own uro trigger, on that note you could squeeze dreadnaught into the deck, though it would be card negative disadvantage which uro isn't - maybe swap it for the exploration.
In that last game, I am a little sus about that Null Rod because it turns off their own Helm. I guess they could have a plan to get rid of it themselves, but I don't know 8void lists that well And I have to agree that Currency Converter would be huge in this list
I'm with you on stifle. It's the worst card until it isn't. Then it's you in multiple instances saying something along the lines of "fuck, I hope they don't have stifle".
I wonder if it’s for matchups like delver where you can put it down on the play and utilize your mana turn 1 and then have the choice to pop it to kill a delver/DRC or send it to the face depending on the pace of the game
I haven't played enough legacy to know if this card is good or not, but is Amulet of Safekeeping a viable sideboard option against storm? It would pretty much make a flusterstorm on field and then it has the added bonus of stopping empty the warrens
I don’t know if it’s been said but you were worried about helm when then had a null rod in play… then you killed null rod making helm leyline alive again?
Can someone who knows more about legacy tell me why 1x rack isn’t the deck to grab with saga? We’re practically a rack deck already with hymns and pox and Lili, could speed up the clock?
We’re the opposite of a rack deck. We use discard to buy time, then squeeze their resources and leave them dying slowly with a hand full of cards they can’t cast.
@@BoshNRoll How about something BUGgy like 4 diamond 4 expedition 4 stifle 4 innocent blood 4 entomb (get key cards, have 8 loams) 4 sinkhole 4 smallpox 4 daze 4 brainstorm 2 liliana 1 uro 1 library 1 tabernacle 4 wasteland 1 ghost quarter 1 urza's saga 2 urborg 1 barren moor 1 thespian's stage 1 dark depths 1 academy ruins 1 engineered explosives 1 pithing needle. 4 polluted delta 4 verdant cata 3 underground 2 bayou 1 trop (This list isn't complete, just the cards I came up with that seem important to what I have in mind) Something like that. Basically go absolute nuts on the land destruction and punish their lack of lands with tabernacle and daze while getting lockpieces with tutors and filters like brainstorm and entomb.
6 minutes into a legacy video: "We got all these dope blue cards because we are a deck with blue mana in it" {Tell me Blue is the strongest colour without telling me that Blue is the strongest colour}
In round no. 2. why did you dredge the loam with your first card draw? If you would dredge with the sylvan library trigger you wouldn’t have to pay 4 life because it was not drawn.
You have to put back 2 cards drawn this turn, doesn’t matter if they came off library. You have to dredge 2 or more cards to start cheating the 4 life.
Only 1 Saga target other than Mox Diamond (which isn’t really worth counting as a target)? Seems like you want at least one other impactful target besides Foundry with 4 Sagas.
A big creatures that takes multiple cards to cheat into play is not a combo with Smallpox. I have lots of dreadnought decks on the channel though if you want to see that. :)
@@BoshNRoll always is. Love the legacy content. Found your channel about a month ago and I watch your videos daily now. Learned a few things along the way as well.
I think the phrase "you're better at operating on low resources than them" is a little misleading when it comes to Pox. If you average the 60 cards together and score them on "performs well with low resources" you might get a high score, but there are 5 cards that are incredible (Loam and Library) and most of the rest of the deck is just situational cards you need mana to cast. Without those engines you're probably in a *worse* situation than most opponents. Compare to delver where they can cast half their deck with just one land in play, and kill you as soon as they find the second.
Liliana is also good. So is Urza's Saga. If the opponent is so resource-light that they're not doing a lot, Saga is an easy 3-for-1. But yeah, it's true that there's a lot of duds too. You don't want to topdeck Mox Diamond if you have an empty hand .
@@lightworker2956 Both of those things require 3 mana, so at that point I wouldn't say that you're operating on low resources. I agree they're powerful, 1-card engines, but there's a lot of powerful things any deck can do with 3 mana.
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5:28 "So, Still being alive is step one. Then ripping Mox Diamond off the top and Smallpoxing my opponent could be the way forward."
He can't keep getting away with this.
🤫🤫🤫
Fetch stifled, life lost, card discarded, land sacrificed, video liked. It's poxin' time
Creature binned, opponent dumpstered, smile cracked 😄
It's poxing time indeed!
Mighty value poxin rangerrrrrrrrs
arms spaghetti
21:13 died laughing at "that's good sportsmanship"
Triple Confidant in play with Bob in their MTGO name? Truly greatness at any cost.
My love for pox is only eclipsed by my love for Bant Control. Bosh is a merciful man and hasn't uploaded these two decks back to back. I think the hype would kill me.
Dark Bant Pox Control. Let's see it, Bosh. Put Dark Ritual, Teferi, and Uro in the same deck. Do it.
At 1:10:20 they’d need a little more to Helm you under their own Null Rod ;)
It doesn’t do anything!
“No-it *does* nothing.”
Mox Diamond and Loam in decks other than traditional lands makes me so happy.
11:34 tbh null rod was disabling like 1 card in your deck and disabled their helms altogether, I would've kept the card that stopped their own win con around
Honestly I’m not even sure they had Helm for that reason, I don’t know if I’d be playing Null Rod in that deck at all. I think we would have seen Dauthi if it was. I suspect it was just a black opposition agent deck.
this reminds me of that video where PK jams Uro into literally every deck, including DnT and similar. This was in modern. Very hilarious.
Jim Davis once played a mono red Muxxus Goblin deck that splashed Uro and went 4-1 in Modern as well.
@@traycarrot How did he do that? I don't believe Muxus is legal in Modern.
@@L_O_V_E_L_A_I_N It was Historic, my B. Search "Mogg Monday Uro" to find the league.
@@traycarrot Oh, alright.
49:07 you just talked how Urza's saga is not good enough and that you need more mana and going to tutor up the mox diamond. You could saved second saga in hand for a mox diamond discard. That would put you up 1 mana as you coudn't afford to use saga anyway.
Love the pox!
At 46:10 you have a premium smallpox opportunity.
They can't saga in response, so they are left with either float mana, make a karnstruct after it resolves and next turn sac saga, going down to 1 karnstruct, 1 mystery artifact and 0 lands. They can't make second karnstruct because they are a mana short.
Or they need to sac the saga to the smallpox.
Smallpox is my favorite magic card of all time. I don't know why. Does it make me a bad person? Anyway, I love legacy pox. The thing I dislike the most in this game is stuff like 4-color omnath and these vomit-pile, resource-building, ignore-your-opponent types of decks, and smallpox is literally the opposite of that lol
EDIT: That last game against the red deck, needle on the seal might have been better. The spell pierce play (or not) was much harder to choose without using hindsight. Tough game though. You could easily have lost a different way if you played around the things that you did lose to.
I have loved watching every pox deck play that I've seen so far. Very fun. I really want to build it
Op Takes 10 on upkeep, me, “greatness at any cost”
Another fabulous video, and the thumbnail is soooo good! Thanks for the content!
This might sound counterintuitive, but G5M1 in your Upkeep, make a Construct and then hold Priority and Waste the Saga so they don't get to search. It doesn't matter with the scant amount of tutor targets in this deck, but in other games that you have a more robust Saga package, that might be a thing to keep an eye on.
14:30 very interesting situation - the library is good early but so is the hymn, if the opponent keeps a one lander for whatever reason and you hit it you basically win the game, you can also really disrupt combo this way. I'd go with hymn but I'm not saying it's the right answer
Woo, pox time baybee
Less than 2 minutes in and pox is on the stack and opponent is scooping up their cards. This is the life
31:52 "I do want to be worried about back to basics" is compatible to worrying about the branching bolt from the esper deck 😳
classic burn card back to basics
@@DingusPingus7000 I bet you he was thinking of price of progress but said back to basics
Pox is one of my all time fave cards in the game mostly because I enjoyed building wonky discard decks. Not normally consistent decks but fun when they go off.
Brian "Fun is a Zero Sum" Coval 😉
Seems like you beat burn if you fire your counters when you could. In my experience counters versus burn are a - use whenever you can without forfeiting your tempo - due to life point all being “equal”
Sure, if you know they’re burn. This was a midrange mono red brew of some kind. Feels bad to spell piece chain lightning then get buried by fable. With perfect hindsight that game is a breeze, but they had brewer’s advantage
I'm gonna get a tattoo that says "Get Rekt, I guess. Pox Life!"
Why not Wasteland their Ancient Tomb at 42:05?
Just didn’t expect mono one drops for the rest of the game.
@@BoshNRoll Sure, but Wasteland on Tomb would have probably turned off more expensive spells too.
I feel as though the loss of the old intro riff is felt especially acutely when it's a sweet Pox deck...
Oh boy! A decklist straight outta ma wet dreams
Once again Brain is going down with the sickness 😈
Comment of the day!! I think this is my favorite pox you've posted. When you have a donation deck with stifle are you just like "I can't wait to say how damn bad stifle is" or are you more like "I can't wait to do the stifle thing even if it's bad!!"
It’s like getting paid to eat at McDonald’s. You know it’s awful, but you’re excited
@@BoshNRoll now I just have the image of you on a street corner with a sign that says "will stifle for the right price"
"Listen to me. I'm the Liliana player now" lol
I’m just wondering if we can follow the theme of some of your latest videos and shoving more decks into this:
Stifle sushi loam pox here we go!
Love me some BB spells, hymn and pox make me happy
I came to the channel for pox and stayed for the sharkstill. I’m a convert to the Bosh
How did he cast the Dark Confidant at 18:20 with no black mana?
Urborg allows the lands to be tapped for black
I have Urborg
Now that you mention it I'd love to see a Currency Converter deck. I've just seen it in commander where I really liked it so I'm curious to see how it goes in legacy.
I have it in a bunch of decks coming up.
I have it in a bunch of decks coming up. :)
Stifle?! Pox?!! That's amazing
It's a rare pox deck that doesn't mana screw itself. I approve this deck. You can stifle your own uro trigger, on that note you could squeeze dreadnaught into the deck, though it would be card negative disadvantage which uro isn't - maybe swap it for the exploration.
Pox, Pox, Pox Pox Pox, Pox, Pox, Pox Pox Pox, Pox, Pox, Pox Pox Pox, Pox every game!
I really like this list drop the stifle and c converter I agree with. Such a spicy mix of two very solid things you can do.
Round 1 match 1 was brutally, delightfully swift
I see pox, I give Brian $10
The triple bob realy got me:)
That thumb nail is great
That match 5 was peak
Rd 5 you were so worried about Helm but the opponent had Null Rod out. Then you unlocked the helm by killing Null Rod. Glad it worked out though.
i think exploration actually works out well in this deck
In game one, yes. But Exploration does make the deck even weaker to Life from the Loam / graveyard hate.
already exited by the title af :D
Finally pox again!!!! Thanks!!!!
I think pox needs an art reprint. I love the art. But I’d love a new version of it.
A couple of Grist the hunger tide might be good.
In that last game, I am a little sus about that Null Rod because it turns off their own Helm. I guess they could have a plan to get rid of it themselves, but I don't know 8void lists that well
And I have to agree that Currency Converter would be huge in this list
I'm with you on stifle. It's the worst card until it isn't. Then it's you in multiple instances saying something along the lines of "fuck, I hope they don't have stifle".
Wasteland the ancient tomb to activate spell pierce.
Just wondering what you'd replace Stifle with in main, maybe something like Ancient Stirrings?
@@mattiabragantini1152 Yeah, I was also thinking more stuff saga could find could work too
In Round 5 you kept talking about being worried about Helm ... but they couldn't activate it if they had one cause of their own Null Rod.
what does the shirt with the pointing hand and hand holding saphire mean?
It’s based on an album cover from popular rap group Run The Jewels
I'm a simple man. I see BUG, I watch BUG.
Island, Stifle, Keep
Cursed
Still curious about the seal of fire. Is it only to avoid flusterstorm? The deck doesn't seem to care about delirium
I wonder if it’s for matchups like delver where you can put it down on the play and utilize your mana turn 1 and then have the choice to pop it to kill a delver/DRC or send it to the face depending on the pace of the game
what about a 1-of dreadnought to get with saga when you have stifle in hand?
1 of phyrexian dreadnought?
I haven't played enough legacy to know if this card is good or not, but is Amulet of Safekeeping a viable sideboard option against storm? It would pretty much make a flusterstorm on field and then it has the added bonus of stopping empty the warrens
That card would certainly hose Storm, but it costs a lot and doesn’t do much else.
I read stifle and pox. Hooked immedietly
Awh yeah this means more pox decks incoming!
Karn Pox is coming out on Monday and I have a not pox, but def weird Golgari land destruction deck later next week.
Shadow of doubt, notion thief, pox
Ok, kinda tired right now, so I might be missing something, but.... did the opponent at 18:16 just cast Bob off of a Tundra and an Island? WTH??
I have Urborg
@@BoshNRoll Ah, true, the old symmetric effects 😅
I guess Arena has conditioned me to expect a visible change when land types are modified ^^
Bugpile, quite on brand.
Thumbnail game strong
ive seen round 3 opponent in the tournament practice room a bunch of times. they always play their weird big red deck
PoxNRoll
How about entomb put into your deck? :)
I don’t know if it’s been said but you were worried about helm when then had a null rod in play… then you killed null rod making helm leyline alive again?
Can someone who knows more about legacy tell me why 1x rack isn’t the deck to grab with saga? We’re practically a rack deck already with hymns and pox and Lili, could speed up the clock?
We’re the opposite of a rack deck. We use discard to buy time, then squeeze their resources and leave them dying slowly with a hand full of cards they can’t cast.
@@BoshNRoll so you’re an EBONY OWL NETSUKE deck??? Now I need a video for that
I feel like tabernacle of pendrell vale would've done a lot in this deck.
Check out the Karn Pox video that plays Crop Rotation and Tabernacle. It’s basically never good, even though it looks like it would be.
@@BoshNRoll How about something BUGgy like
4 diamond
4 expedition
4 stifle
4 innocent blood
4 entomb (get key cards, have 8 loams)
4 sinkhole
4 smallpox
4 daze
4 brainstorm
2 liliana
1 uro
1 library
1 tabernacle
4 wasteland
1 ghost quarter
1 urza's saga
2 urborg
1 barren moor
1 thespian's stage
1 dark depths
1 academy ruins
1 engineered explosives
1 pithing needle.
4 polluted delta
4 verdant cata
3 underground
2 bayou
1 trop
(This list isn't complete, just the cards I came up with that seem important to what I have in mind)
Something like that. Basically go absolute nuts on the land destruction and punish their lack of lands with tabernacle and daze while getting lockpieces with tutors and filters like brainstorm and entomb.
I wonder if a PoxStill deck is possible.....
Now sir, this is some $hit I can get behind.
6 minutes into a legacy video: "We got all these dope blue cards because we are a deck with blue mana in it"
{Tell me Blue is the strongest colour without telling me that Blue is the strongest colour}
8 months earlier: "I don't think Stifle is good as a Magic card" X-D
In round no. 2. why did you dredge the loam with your first card draw? If you would dredge with the sylvan library trigger you wouldn’t have to pay 4 life because it was not drawn.
You have to put back 2 cards drawn this turn, doesn’t matter if they came off library. You have to dredge 2 or more cards to start cheating the 4 life.
Only 1 Saga target other than Mox Diamond (which isn’t really worth counting as a target)? Seems like you want at least one other impactful target besides Foundry with 4 Sagas.
I love me some poxin'
Yavimaya?
Yessss. POXX
Pox pox pox, :D and snap :D
When playing stifle, why not Dreadnought and the bu guy who copies creatures from GY?
A big creatures that takes multiple cards to cheat into play is not a combo with Smallpox. I have lots of dreadnought decks on the channel though if you want to see that. :)
@@BoshNRoll you already have saga and stifle. As winning option why not. Stifle as 4 of because of all the fetching for basics.
Hymn is and will always be straight busted
Sing the song of Tourach, long may he reign
Definitely shouldve won against burn, that L is definitely on you and not the deck/draws
Yeah hindsight is 20/20
@@BoshNRoll always is. Love the legacy content. Found your channel about a month ago and I watch your videos daily now. Learned a few things along the way as well.
pox wins the game faster than control these days
I think the phrase "you're better at operating on low resources than them" is a little misleading when it comes to Pox. If you average the 60 cards together and score them on "performs well with low resources" you might get a high score, but there are 5 cards that are incredible (Loam and Library) and most of the rest of the deck is just situational cards you need mana to cast. Without those engines you're probably in a *worse* situation than most opponents. Compare to delver where they can cast half their deck with just one land in play, and kill you as soon as they find the second.
Liliana is also good. So is Urza's Saga. If the opponent is so resource-light that they're not doing a lot, Saga is an easy 3-for-1.
But yeah, it's true that there's a lot of duds too. You don't want to topdeck Mox Diamond if you have an empty hand .
@@lightworker2956 Both of those things require 3 mana, so at that point I wouldn't say that you're operating on low resources. I agree they're powerful, 1-card engines, but there's a lot of powerful things any deck can do with 3 mana.
Is strip mine banned or why don't you play it?
It is definitely banned
@@BoshNRoll thx
Seems like you need to combine two of your favorite decks and just play poxstill
"Snap Hymn", so like a worse Tourach?
Brian, shouldn't the plural of "Smallpox" be "Smallpoxen?"
Lock it in
Pox Diamond
This deck may be too mean
god I love pox so much. Stifle ain't it tho haha
Hmmm
Wow, this deck is messed up.
Z
Smallpox is the worst card in all Pox decks
That is absolutely not true.