I've been working on an alternative Show of Confidence deck using Goldspan dragon and Exponential Growth. The combo would be cast Goldspan and attack, target goldspan with your buffs (thinking defiant strike, ranger guile and similar). Each buff adds to storm counter and gives back 2 mana in treasure token. Then if you cast Show of Confidence with just 3 storm it wil generate 6 mana meaning you can 3X Exponetial growth (including treasure from attacking with goldspan) for 3x doubling of power. So in this example: Dragon + defiant strike on turn 6, 2 more buffs (defiant strike or snakeskin veil, dragon is 6/4 and you have 2 treasures (one from attacking), cast Show of Confidence with 2 copies, you now have 4 treasures and dragon is 9/7, X=3 exponential growth for the 4 treasures to make it 72/7 dragon (and a new treasure for a defensive spell) Should be fun (sorry if my math is off)
A quick mockup of a potential decklist: 4 Defiant Strike 4 Snakeskin Veil 4 Barge In 4 Show of Confidence 3 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 4 Rimrock Knight 4 Exponential Growth 2 Sejiri Shelter 2 Kazuul's Fury 4 Showdown of the Skalds 4 Goldspan Dragon 4 Cragcrown Pathway 4 Needleverge Pathway 4 Branchloft Pathway 3 Mountain 3 Plains 3 Forest Magda and Rimrock are for ramping with treasures and for finding Goldspan if you don't draw it or find it with Showdown. Rimrock is also a 1 mana instant for storm/treasure when Goldspan is down.
Love it, you did great - I just started following you a while ago and have to say I really like the content you create. Thank you! The decks seem fun to play, especially the demon fling deck - just the idea alone is so cool & creative, how fun it must be to win like that - or lose, if my opponent kills me like that I'd gonna laugh my ass of for how I just lost 😅 Love to have fun while playing, more important then to win ~
I'm up to my 90k for Strixhaven and am looking forward to getting my Black on - that Daemogoth Titan is delicious! I'm thinking Tend the Pests with Bastion of Rembrance and a Marauding Blight Priest with Kaervek as a bomb, though that's probably a bit too janky 🤔
The Lurrus Witherbloom Storm deck looks cool, but I don't think Lurrus adds enough to pull its weight as-is. Ups the Wildcard cost a bit, but Mavinda seems great in a deck that already wants to play Charge Through, Snakeskin Veil, Ranger's Guile and Show of Confidence and Sedgemoor Witch seems amazing with the plan of the deck. Theoretically, a non-budget Mavinda version would cut both Poison the Cup, both Mythos of Nethroi, 1 Cling to Dust, 1 Ranger's Guile, 1 Infuse with Vitality, and 2 Revitalize for 2 Bloodchief's Thirst, 3 Mavinda, 3 Sedgemoor Witch, and the fourth Charge Through to make Mavinda better and change the mana base to 4 of each GW/WB/BG Pathways, 3 Indatha Triome, 2 Fabled Passage, 2 Forest, 2 Plains, 1 Swamp [since cutting Poison the Cup ditches double black as a regular requirement]. That version might also want to cut the remaining 2 Revitalize for 2x Plumb the Forbidden due to how powerful it is with Sedgemoor Witch, but that's pretty greedy. Tangent: On the Mono-U Expressionist list, I like what the deck is doing even if I recognize Archmage Emeritus and Elemental Expressionist are suspect in this Standard environment as 4 mana plays that don't accrue immediate value unless played off curve. That said, there's some elements of the rest of the deck that I think have something to them, particularly Multiple Choice and Divide by Zero. The pet deck of mine in the last format [UG Esika's Chariot] gained a lot from this set including those, so my "jank" [it's more like an unproven deck that's been very good for me but hasn't picked up steam anywhere] contribution is the following UG Learn/Chariot list, "Quandrix Driver's License": Main Deck: 60 4x Esika's Chariot 4x Wolfwillow Haven 4x Mazemind Tome 3x Brazen Borrower 3x Divide by Zero 4x Gnarled Professor 4x Shark Typhoon 3x Multiple Choice 3x Decisive Denial 2x Mythos of Illuna 2x Koma, Cosmos Serpent 4x Ketria Triome 4x Barkchannel Pathway 3x Cragcrown Pathway 4x Riverglide Pathway 3x Fabled Passage 3x Forest 2x Island 1x Mountain Sideboard 2x Mascot Exhibition 2x Elemental Summoning 2x Containment Breach 1x Teachings of the Archaics [add for BO3] 3x Chainweb Aracnir 3x Negate 2x Mystical Dispute
Great Decks, particularly like the fractal and fling decks... sadly with all the various removal, counter and hate spells being played I don't see them working very well unless you get a very specific matchup... those games however should be super fun so that might be worth it in the end.
another fun one you could mess around with is plumb the forbidden, tend the pests and deamogoth titan plus some payoff like dina or whitherbloom apprentice
I had enough wild cards to make 'Demon Fling'. While it is quite an interesting concept, it lacks the necessary support to get your key pieces in play to set off the jank. I tested it against Sparky and it lost every game. The deck did inspire me to look into other avenues for shenanigans involving daemogoth titan, tend the pests, bastion of rememberance, and pestilent haze.
Despite being a white mage - but yeah, if he visits Strixhaven we'll see his WGU side haha. The reason I loved his artwork is the same reason I love the Quandrix concepts.
@@J-Martijn i would lean towards saying that the state of standard at the moment is depressing, the power level so high that any remotely fun cards will never see any play since they simply aren't strong enough. i think that with the next rotation and no more high-powered cards coming in new sets, standard could be really enjoyable.
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I've been working on an alternative Show of Confidence deck using Goldspan dragon and Exponential Growth.
The combo would be cast Goldspan and attack, target goldspan with your buffs (thinking defiant strike, ranger guile and similar). Each buff adds to storm counter and gives back 2 mana in treasure token. Then if you cast Show of Confidence with just 3 storm it wil generate 6 mana meaning you can 3X Exponetial growth (including treasure from attacking with goldspan) for 3x doubling of power.
So in this example: Dragon + defiant strike on turn 6, 2 more buffs (defiant strike or snakeskin veil, dragon is 6/4 and you have 2 treasures (one from attacking), cast Show of Confidence with 2 copies, you now have 4 treasures and dragon is 9/7, X=3 exponential growth for the 4 treasures to make it 72/7 dragon (and a new treasure for a defensive spell)
Should be fun (sorry if my math is off)
A quick mockup of a potential decklist:
4 Defiant Strike
4 Snakeskin Veil
4 Barge In
4 Show of Confidence
3 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
4 Rimrock Knight
4 Exponential Growth
2 Sejiri Shelter
2 Kazuul's Fury
4 Showdown of the Skalds
4 Goldspan Dragon
4 Cragcrown Pathway
4 Needleverge Pathway
4 Branchloft Pathway
3 Mountain
3 Plains
3 Forest
Magda and Rimrock are for ramping with treasures and for finding Goldspan if you don't draw it or find it with Showdown. Rimrock is also a 1 mana instant for storm/treasure when Goldspan is down.
New jank! I’m excited to watch you play these.
I love the idea of flinging demons for the win! Gotta give that a try.
FLING!!!!! YESSS!! looks like fun🤣🤣 Stadium deck looks good too. Reminds me of the fynn poison decks.
Love it, you did great - I just started following you a while ago and have to say I really like the content you create. Thank you!
The decks seem fun to play, especially the demon fling deck - just the idea alone is so cool & creative, how fun it must be to win like that - or lose, if my opponent kills me like that I'd gonna laugh my ass of for how I just lost 😅
Love to have fun while playing, more important then to win ~
Hey, Love your videos! These look like super cool decks!! Excited to see you play them.
I'm up to my 90k for Strixhaven and am looking forward to getting my Black on - that Daemogoth Titan is delicious! I'm thinking Tend the Pests with Bastion of Rembrance and a Marauding Blight Priest with Kaervek as a bomb, though that's probably a bit too janky 🤔
No such thing
That's the first deck that came to my mind during spoiler season, and the one I'm looking forward the most to play
I was excited for Izzet / Prismari things, but that Witherbloom Lurrus deck looks super cool.
You lost all respect from everyone when you said Lurrus
Great! Thanks for doing a separate video from the stream 👍😊
The Lurrus Witherbloom Storm deck looks cool, but I don't think Lurrus adds enough to pull its weight as-is. Ups the Wildcard cost a bit, but Mavinda seems great in a deck that already wants to play Charge Through, Snakeskin Veil, Ranger's Guile and Show of Confidence and Sedgemoor Witch seems amazing with the plan of the deck. Theoretically, a non-budget Mavinda version would cut both Poison the Cup, both Mythos of Nethroi, 1 Cling to Dust, 1 Ranger's Guile, 1 Infuse with Vitality, and 2 Revitalize for 2 Bloodchief's Thirst, 3 Mavinda, 3 Sedgemoor Witch, and the fourth Charge Through to make Mavinda better and change the mana base to 4 of each GW/WB/BG Pathways, 3 Indatha Triome, 2 Fabled Passage, 2 Forest, 2 Plains, 1 Swamp [since cutting Poison the Cup ditches double black as a regular requirement]. That version might also want to cut the remaining 2 Revitalize for 2x Plumb the Forbidden due to how powerful it is with Sedgemoor Witch, but that's pretty greedy.
Tangent:
On the Mono-U Expressionist list, I like what the deck is doing even if I recognize Archmage Emeritus and Elemental Expressionist are suspect in this Standard environment as 4 mana plays that don't accrue immediate value unless played off curve. That said, there's some elements of the rest of the deck that I think have something to them, particularly Multiple Choice and Divide by Zero. The pet deck of mine in the last format [UG Esika's Chariot] gained a lot from this set including those, so my "jank" [it's more like an unproven deck that's been very good for me but hasn't picked up steam anywhere] contribution is the following UG Learn/Chariot list, "Quandrix Driver's License":
Main Deck: 60
4x Esika's Chariot
4x Wolfwillow Haven
4x Mazemind Tome
3x Brazen Borrower
3x Divide by Zero
4x Gnarled Professor
4x Shark Typhoon
3x Multiple Choice
3x Decisive Denial
2x Mythos of Illuna
2x Koma, Cosmos Serpent
4x Ketria Triome
4x Barkchannel Pathway
3x Cragcrown Pathway
4x Riverglide Pathway
3x Fabled Passage
3x Forest
2x Island
1x Mountain
Sideboard
2x Mascot Exhibition
2x Elemental Summoning
2x Containment Breach
1x Teachings of the Archaics
[add for BO3]
3x Chainweb Aracnir
3x Negate
2x Mystical Dispute
Love the monoblue
Awesome! I can't wait to see you destroying your opponents and doing your evil laughter!
Great Decks, particularly like the fractal and fling decks... sadly with all the various removal, counter and hate spells being played I don't see them working very well unless you get a very specific matchup... those games however should be super fun so that might be worth it in the end.
Thanks for doing this video, good luck with the release.
another fun one you could mess around with is plumb the forbidden, tend the pests and deamogoth titan plus some payoff like dina or whitherbloom apprentice
Don't sell yourself short - I'm actually pretty excited to see that Fractal deck in action !
I see that Karl Marx painting on the wall. 👍
I had enough wild cards to make 'Demon Fling'. While it is quite an interesting concept, it lacks the necessary support to get your key pieces in play to set off the jank. I tested it against Sparky and it lost every game. The deck did inspire me to look into other avenues for shenanigans involving daemogoth titan, tend the pests, bastion of rememberance, and pestilent haze.
nice decks! Junky, but fun :)
rosethorn acolyte should be in storm deck!
Storm can drive and drink in some places already. Scourge is from the early 2000's
Teyo Verada would be in Quandrix......I hope they advance his Planeswalker card one day!
Despite being a white mage - but yeah, if he visits Strixhaven we'll see his WGU side haha. The reason I loved his artwork is the same reason I love the Quandrix concepts.
Haven't seen you in a while. Hope all is well.
So you're only on Twitch now? 🙁 Why did you quit TH-cam? I so miss watching you play.
Fling deck for the win
Oh ops simic is strong again - every new set
Expensive too
it's been 900 years
Hope seen more video soon
after watching CGBs depressing set review, it's refreshing to hear some enthusiasm for some of the jankier cards.
Strixhaven is just depressing for standard. Its great for historic though.
@@J-Martijn i would lean towards saying that the state of standard at the moment is depressing, the power level so high that any remotely fun cards will never see any play since they simply aren't strong enough. i think that with the next rotation and no more high-powered cards coming in new sets, standard could be really enjoyable.
A 4 mana 2/2 is gas? In a meta where bonecrusher giant, frostbite, lovestruck beast and skyclave apparition exist?
Hope you're doing ok
She's still active on Twitch
Where you at girl? Everything cool?
Yea put that twitch stuff on youtube
Another one lost to Twitch