@@michaelmorningstar1443 There are different variations of the deck, each creator has different cards/approaches/playstyle. This is one of them. Some run bats, some run hares, lvd runs card draws. If you consider the two card combo BCon + ETen a "made" deck you're dense.
@@michaelmorningstar1443 Brewing really good decks that haven´t been brewed before is really hard and the only mtg content creator i can think of who is capable of doing so is Spike.
Match 3 - opponent DEFINITELY already had Go For the Throat in hand at the end there and just did the old finesse where you pretend you didn't have it and like you drew into it at the end lol. I'm calling it now
Life gain heck yeah! I'll probably be experimenting with this combo quite a bit once I have 4 of each combo piece. I've recently been hooked on combo pieces that I can get out at instant speed with Live or Die. But the life gain theme really doesn't have a way to put stuff in graveyard. We'll see how it goes :) 19:45 Definitely feels like a misplay to wait for the Gambit to be gifted rather than destroying it the moment the opponent tapped out. Not saying I'd play the game any better, but that moment had me flailing at my monitor haha~
nice to see your take on this! I imagine we'll be seeing a lot of this deck in the coming years. Made my own take on it and went for a more combo-way with lively dirge and push/pull - kinda afraid to take it out to the ladder, but it's been pretty fun in the play queue. Your deck def seems more viable, I'll save up some wildcards fir the stuff I'm missing
i like your decks as they are very viable...a lot of content creators just cook or copy and paste other creator decks and click bait. i had something similar to this deck but after watching this video added the tomes which really glues this together and ran out of rares for irengrag (which i dont think is strictly necessary)..only thing mildly different is i have a forlorn flats as lands....proper funny when a land activates the combo and wins the game
My best experience with this deck is when I had the combo on board and my opponent blocked with Faerie Dreamthief and immediately exiled it to draw a card a lose a life, thus triggering my game winning combo.
I feel like if you're running Authority of the Consuls, it might make sense to run Stroke of Midnight as not only removal, but as another means to start the life gain combo.
Next legend I’ve had this crime novelist deck in the works for a while now using all the spell bombs and his like modern day eggs i wanna see if you can break it so at some point it would be a treat to see if you could
9:09 cool interaction, didn't realize you would gain 10 life from both copies but I guess since combat damage happens at the same time they see it as a single occurrence of life loss
Do you think gum drop posioner has a slot in this deck the food token seems like it'd be a good piece to trigger your life gain at any point if you have the combo set
Ideally want to combo without needing additional mana. The deck doesn't have enough creatures to justify Case of the Uneaten Feats, so Tome is the best way to do it besides attacking.
Just crafted this deck. First match against mono red ez win, the next 6 matches against heavy control that just had to counter a few cards. 1-6 currently 😢
Curious to your thoughts, would you think a Duress would be helpful in this deck? It feels like opponents would hold removal just waiting for the combo to go off. If you were to add Duress to the deck, what would you remove? Thank you in advance, HUGE fan!
Quick question pls, are there cards in the Foundations set that you can't get by opening packs from the store? (Cards with the Foundations star symbol from the main set - not the special ones without the star symbol)
@@kennyd3982 For now you can use wildcards, no idea if there will be other ways to acquire them. Possible some cards appear in Foundations Jump-In events, but haven't verified.
I’ve seen some running it. Arena is probably better against red or other aggro match ups since you lose 1 life and you hopefully are playing your combo instead of the demon.
It's an option, although in a control deck it's iffy to include creatures that don't block. We wouldn't be able to leverage the cheaper cost as much as lower curve lifegain aggro decks.
In match 3, after your opponent casts the first Greed's Gambit, they tap out at the end of your turn to draw with the tome. Isn't that the perfect time to cast Get Lost given you know they are very likely to be able to gift it to you next turn and have counterspell up? Letting them untap with all that mana gives them a lot more options, I don't understand what the benefit would be to wait until they try to gift it.
Waiting makes them commit one of their gift effects so they won't have them to gift a potentially game-winning Demonic Pact. Running into a counterspell is not ideal, but we need to flush those out if we eventually want to set up our own combo.
It's an option, although in a control deck it's iffy to include creatures that don't block. We wouldn't be able to leverage the cheaper cost as much as lower curve lifegain aggro decks. Blanking cards like Cut Down also has its advantages.
@@LegenVD Sure, but it also lets you "combo off" easier on turns where you're strapped for mana or worried about counterspells. Being able to drop the bat and fire off a Mazemind lifegain trigger to win is easier with 4 total mana instead of 6, especially if you're expecting a Phantom Interference or something similar. I think both have their merits and I'm a sucker for redundancy. I would have probably at least tried 1 or 2 copies of the bat but not more than that.
@@ForeverLaxx For sure, in my first drafts I had the bat and cards like Case of the Uneaten Feast to immediately set up the combo, but gradually moved in a more controlling direction with fewer creatures, which seemed to work out better in the current meta. The main hurdle is typically getting Conqueror to stay in play, so I'm less worried about having redundancy for the other combo piece. Don't forget you can always just tap Mazemind tome without paying any mana to kick-start the combo.
@@LegenVD I mean, Scrying with the tome to win just makes using the bat even more attractive as that's only a 2 mana investment. Again, though, it's just the "back up" option that has high value against counterspells while the snake has better value against spot removal due to it coming back as a non-creature enchantment. Obviously the actual bottleneck is the Conqueror. You almost have to run Blue if you want to protect it adequately. I can actually see a version of this deck using Coiling Rebirth as a way to recover and win on that turn, too. Gifting a card won't matter and the stats of either creature won't matter either. Something to consider maybe.
Should have been in full control mode, you could have simply responded to their tomb draw activation which left them tapped out and blown up their gambit while the tomb trigger was still on the stack. th-cam.com/video/JU0yE4hZcYs/w-d-xo.html That misplay was ultimately what lost you the match as it let them snowball card advantage and put you on a timer.
It was very much an intentional decision to make them commit one of their gift effects first. Running into a counterspell is not ideal, but we need to flush those out if we eventually want to set up our own combo.
I may be missing something but couldn't you have get lost targeting the greed after your opponent passed it? Seemed you said you were one turn late when you drew it the next turn when you could've played it anyways
All these damn healing decks made me spend mythic cards on screaming nemesis. Summon it and use lightning on it and then these heal decks crumble QUICK.
If Leyline of Sanctity was the best card in Exolorer/Historic to play with for me, it definitely is in Standard now as well. Too bad it wasn't reprinted in Foundations, maybe in later sets next year...
Sheltered by ghost once again the MVP even of the decks that 😅lose, At least with layline binding you had to set up your manna in a certain way 😢just smfh
@BeanyBoi06 yah, coz if u Calculate a lil bit, it's near impossible to catch up do quick. Like every 10 packs get 1 rare wild cards, sometimes would grt one in packs but could be neglected coz too little amount could be got. So like have go at least 90packs × 3 =270/10 = 27 rare wild cards, yet a deck usually need 30+ rare and 10-20 mythic. To be clear, im asking this question coz i really love MTGA so much, more than mtgo and play in cards as it give me so much convenience ( i could play in my office haha, or play anytime like it's 3:43a.m. in my country right now and i could still get match) yet it's too hard for me to get access to this amount of resources in order to unlock my playing exp.
Im f2p and so far ive built 3 of your decks and all 3 have been amazing to play and super fun. Thanks for the decks!
Great to hear!
you make so many decks, yet the quality doesnt fall. I like the content
He made good decks back in the magic duels days as well. Been at it for a while
This deck has been "made" for a while now, its just getting recycle on creator channels
@@michaelmorningstar1443 There are different variations of the deck, each creator has different cards/approaches/playstyle. This is one of them. Some run bats, some run hares, lvd runs card draws.
If you consider the two card combo BCon + ETen a "made" deck you're dense.
Indeed, interesting and good content
@@michaelmorningstar1443 Brewing really good decks that haven´t been brewed before is really hard and the only mtg content creator i can think of who is capable of doing so is Spike.
I never thought about Mazemind Tome in these decks. I have to add it to my Vito brawl deck too!
Match 3 - opponent DEFINITELY already had Go For the Throat in hand at the end there and just did the old finesse where you pretend you didn't have it and like you drew into it at the end lol. I'm calling it now
They did, you can see which card is played, cards to the right in opponents hand are the oldest ones.
@@denyzn6517 This aint hearthstone
100% 😂
Scoured barrens is so good in these decks, the number of times I have a tenacity as enchant and just summon conqueror place a barrens and insta win...
Lifegain you say? Summon the viewers.
Infinite you say? Summon the rest of the viewers.
Life gain heck yeah! I'll probably be experimenting with this combo quite a bit once I have 4 of each combo piece. I've recently been hooked on combo pieces that I can get out at instant speed with Live or Die. But the life gain theme really doesn't have a way to put stuff in graveyard. We'll see how it goes :)
19:45 Definitely feels like a misplay to wait for the Gambit to be gifted rather than destroying it the moment the opponent tapped out. Not saying I'd play the game any better, but that moment had me flailing at my monitor haha~
No one is running this with Commune With Evil yet. Nice way to find the combo piece and gain life.
I knew this combo was bound to be covered! Awesome job man!!!!
Thank you for making and posting a lifegain deck (especially control-ish version)! You're sparking my desire to come back to Arena and try it out!
One of my favorite deckbuilders highlighting one of my favorite combos? In today's Standard? Yes, please!
The thumbnail is fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Beatiful deck!
I find that Requisition Raid is a must have if you're playing white, specially since Duskmourn.
please do the harmless pact deck! I think its a really cool deck and I'd love to see how you use it
Already in the works!
nice to see your take on this! I imagine we'll be seeing a lot of this deck in the coming years. Made my own take on it and went for a more combo-way with lively dirge and push/pull - kinda afraid to take it out to the ladder, but it's been pretty fun in the play queue. Your deck def seems more viable, I'll save up some wildcards fir the stuff I'm missing
Once you treat the ladder like the play queue it won't seem that scary anymore! I stopped caring about my rank a long time ago.
i like your decks as they are very viable...a lot of content creators just cook or copy and paste other creator decks and click bait.
i had something similar to this deck but after watching this video added the tomes which really glues this together and ran out of rares for irengrag (which i dont think is strictly necessary)..only thing mildly different is i have a forlorn flats as lands....proper funny when a land activates the combo and wins the game
Glad you like them!
Mazemind Tome ❤the hero that Control and Combo players deserve.
Thank you for another upload my liege
My best experience with this deck is when I had the combo on board and my opponent blocked with Faerie Dreamthief and immediately exiled it to draw a card a lose a life, thus triggering my game winning combo.
I feel like if you're running Authority of the Consuls, it might make sense to run Stroke of Midnight as not only removal, but as another means to start the life gain combo.
Im super burned out on the game and ahave uninstalled the app, but i still enjoy your videos and seeing the new strategies you come up with
It's a perfectly fine way to enjoy the game!
Next legend I’ve had this crime novelist deck in the works for a while now using all the spell bombs and his like modern day eggs i wanna see if you can break it so at some point it would be a treat to see if you could
9:09 cool interaction, didn't realize you would gain 10 life from both copies but I guess since combat damage happens at the same time they see it as a single occurrence of life loss
mazemind is back in standard? Nice!
I made a rakdos you can't gain life deck because of this combo that's been breaking magic for 15+ years
Which card would you switch with the Conquerer in your Kaya Brawl deck from last week?
Sunset Revelry can probably go.
Thanks!
When, you lost, that wasn't actually too bad. They were actually three bats :D
hey could you do a historic zurzoth deck? it's such an underrated card I'd love to see it in action
Yeah it would be so cool!!!
The Consuls is funny against the forge decks ^^
Infinity. Sign me up!!!
Arguably the starscape cleric is a cheaper alternative than the enduring tenacity
It certainly is, but in a control deck I much prefer the sticky threat that can help play defense.
I appreciate that at 5/pop the combo finishes faster than most of this style kill?
Do you think gum drop posioner has a slot in this deck the food token seems like it'd be a good piece to trigger your life gain at any point if you have the combo set
Ideally want to combo without needing additional mana. The deck doesn't have enough creatures to justify Case of the Uneaten Feats, so Tome is the best way to do it besides attacking.
Just realized how bustet authority is… it completely wrecks Forge :-/
Just crafted this deck. First match against mono red ez win, the next 6 matches against heavy control that just had to counter a few cards. 1-6 currently 😢
Any plans on making a new angel deck?
For sure!
Damn Authority came in Foundation? Standard is wild 😂
Curious to your thoughts, would you think a Duress would be helpful in this deck? It feels like opponents would hold removal just waiting for the combo to go off. If you were to add Duress to the deck, what would you remove? Thank you in advance, HUGE fan!
Definitely something to have in the 75, tough to say what to cut for it.
Ever since the combo was found i looked forward to what you would do with it,
This is gonna be fun.
Quick question pls, are there cards in the Foundations set that you can't get by opening packs from the store? (Cards with the Foundations star symbol from the main set - not the special ones without the star symbol)
I believe the cards in the Starter Collection and Beginner Box do not appear in Foundations packs as far as I can tell.
Will they be available on arena or do you have to use wildcards? Thx for the info!! @@LegenVD
@@kennyd3982 For now you can use wildcards, no idea if there will be other ways to acquire them. Possible some cards appear in Foundations Jump-In events, but haven't verified.
@@LegenVDthx for responding!
Annex instead of Arena? Draws faster and comes with a must answer threat?
I’ve seen some running it. Arena is probably better against red or other aggro match ups since you lose 1 life and you hopefully are playing your combo instead of the demon.
Any point to add the bat that drains when you gain life? Or do you find it better to have more card draw instead?
It's an option, although in a control deck it's iffy to include creatures that don't block. We wouldn't be able to leverage the cheaper cost as much as lower curve lifegain aggro decks.
In match 3, after your opponent casts the first Greed's Gambit, they tap out at the end of your turn to draw with the tome. Isn't that the perfect time to cast Get Lost given you know they are very likely to be able to gift it to you next turn and have counterspell up? Letting them untap with all that mana gives them a lot more options, I don't understand what the benefit would be to wait until they try to gift it.
Waiting makes them commit one of their gift effects so they won't have them to gift a potentially game-winning Demonic Pact. Running into a counterspell is not ideal, but we need to flush those out if we eventually want to set up our own combo.
Instead of day of judgement you could use Expel the Interlopers as it is slightly better.
It’s more expensive which makes a huge difference.
@@LegenVD It isn't a 4 cost? Oh damn I should of checked that before commenting.
@@solstice_gamer6271 Yeah it's 5 mana, all good!
Fuego!
Something something value. For the algorithm
I love a brand new archetype emerging here. It's called life total control.
25:05 It was actually 3 bat 😜
No bat for redundancy? Interesting.
It's an option, although in a control deck it's iffy to include creatures that don't block. We wouldn't be able to leverage the cheaper cost as much as lower curve lifegain aggro decks. Blanking cards like Cut Down also has its advantages.
@@LegenVD Sure, but it also lets you "combo off" easier on turns where you're strapped for mana or worried about counterspells. Being able to drop the bat and fire off a Mazemind lifegain trigger to win is easier with 4 total mana instead of 6, especially if you're expecting a Phantom Interference or something similar.
I think both have their merits and I'm a sucker for redundancy. I would have probably at least tried 1 or 2 copies of the bat but not more than that.
@@ForeverLaxx For sure, in my first drafts I had the bat and cards like Case of the Uneaten Feast to immediately set up the combo, but gradually moved in a more controlling direction with fewer creatures, which seemed to work out better in the current meta. The main hurdle is typically getting Conqueror to stay in play, so I'm less worried about having redundancy for the other combo piece. Don't forget you can always just tap Mazemind tome without paying any mana to kick-start the combo.
@@LegenVD I mean, Scrying with the tome to win just makes using the bat even more attractive as that's only a 2 mana investment. Again, though, it's just the "back up" option that has high value against counterspells while the snake has better value against spot removal due to it coming back as a non-creature enchantment.
Obviously the actual bottleneck is the Conqueror. You almost have to run Blue if you want to protect it adequately. I can actually see a version of this deck using Coiling Rebirth as a way to recover and win on that turn, too. Gifting a card won't matter and the stats of either creature won't matter either. Something to consider maybe.
Whats better, this game or MTG Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013?
its too bad we cant get more intricate combos than this
I went up against this deck 20 minutes ago, annoying as hell😅
Should have been in full control mode, you could have simply responded to their tomb draw activation which left them tapped out and blown up their gambit while the tomb trigger was still on the stack. th-cam.com/video/JU0yE4hZcYs/w-d-xo.html That misplay was ultimately what lost you the match as it let them snowball card advantage and put you on a timer.
It was very much an intentional decision to make them commit one of their gift effects first. Running into a counterspell is not ideal, but we need to flush those out if we eventually want to set up our own combo.
Could u have crime lands to make it easier
Lifegain lands would probably make more sense.
@ ok I just know one game u had the combo but had to wait a turn to attack
I may be missing something but couldn't you have get lost targeting the greed after your opponent passed it? Seemed you said you were one turn late when you drew it the next turn when you could've played it anyways
If greed goes to the grave he'd have to discard
All these damn healing decks made me spend mythic cards on screaming nemesis. Summon it and use lightning on it and then these heal decks crumble QUICK.
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If Leyline of Sanctity was the best card in Exolorer/Historic to play with for me, it definitely is in Standard now as well. Too bad it wasn't reprinted in Foundations, maybe in later sets next year...
Heya do you find the new Tinybones interesting/worth building around at all? Love the vids as usual 🎉
How many 2-card-combos do we have in standard now in black?
Sheltered by ghost once again the MVP even of the decks that 😅lose, At least with layline binding you had to set up your manna in a certain way 😢just smfh
Can't remove a Leyline Binding with Go for the Throat though.
i always wonder how this guy could get so much wildcards, or how could i possible make that practical
Pretty sure he’s connected with wizards of the coast and they just give him a million wildcards so he can showcase decks
@BeanyBoi06 yah, coz if u Calculate a lil bit, it's near impossible to catch up do quick. Like every 10 packs get 1 rare wild cards, sometimes would grt one in packs but could be neglected coz too little amount could be got. So like have go at least 90packs × 3 =270/10 = 27 rare wild cards, yet a deck usually need 30+ rare and 10-20 mythic.
To be clear, im asking this question coz i really love MTGA so much, more than mtgo and play in cards as it give me so much convenience ( i could play in my office haha, or play anytime like it's 3:43a.m. in my country right now and i could still get match) yet it's too hard for me to get access to this amount of resources in order to unlock my playing exp.
no bat as a second win condition?
You're only showing round who you have won. These decks not that good.
This deck performed quite well for me when I played it.
Nah I'm first, not that other dude
We can clearly see you commented one minute after him
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🤮 🤮 🤮 👎 😬
@@braedenwinstead1984 You had to look at the times? Did the fact that my comment was a response to someone else's not tip you off first? lmao
@@StelthePaNda I may be stupid lmfao
Ban incoming... ^^
FOUNDATIONS RUINED STANDARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Greed's Gambit combo BLEARGH!
It was a thing already from past sets, so idk if your comment is sarcasm or not, but foundations so far has helped standard to not be so thrash
First!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 👎