If Sharkstill has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Sharkstill has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Sharkstill has only one fan then that is me. If Sharkstill has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Sharkstill, then I am against the world. I love Sharkstill until my last breath.
At work this morning and I thought to myself “I wonder when Brian will post another standstill video, I definitely want to use his build as a reference “ and look what God did lol. Thanks for the great content brotha
This video highlighted not just the deck but also Bosh's explanatory abilities really well. Better than most other streamers, I feel like Bosh really explains his thought process in a clear and concise fashion. I feel like I learned a lot from this league.
They didn’t cast Cathar Commando at 1:35:40 because you had Tef in play. They just said “oh boy” because they forgot and were likely supposed to get something else because of that. Like I think they should have just grabbed another recruiter or a flickerwisp
Been watching your vids for months now, just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the content you put out. Been watching mtg content for years and your channel is by far my favorite in terms of level of gameplay and commentary. Cheers
This deck was the first I ever saw on your channel, and got me into legacy mtg content. Gotta say, I’m glad to see it back. I remember you explaining the eternal dragon and why it was good and being so amazed at how much value legacy as a format could squeeze out of every card.
Looking at Expedition Map, Currency Converter, and Standstill, was there some consideration for the Neon Dynasty channel lands? Otawara seems like it would be pretty good in the shell, especially if Opponent has some action under the standstill you can interact with.
In my experience, Eganjeo is just as worth it, and neither perform too well. However, if you’re comfortable trading off the softness to wasteland then there’s almost no downside. I’m just a sucker for basics
Probably the softness to wasteland just isn't worth it. As we saw in this league, and something Brian likes to talk about a lot, these UW control decks just fall apart if they get wasted and so they really can't afford to run too many non-basics. The deck is also really good at spending it's mana, Brian only really died to mana screw not flood, so you're quite happy to just playing land drops and making bigger sharks. In decks that don't care as much about getting wasted or have some actual risk of getting flooded the channel lands are fantastic, but here they're more likely to kill you than be super impactful.
@@emctwoo My question is whether the channel lands would be worth "spell" slots in the deck. Then who cares if they're soft to wasteland, they're "extra" lands you can draw in a pinch but that's not their main purpose.
@@Fyrefrye If they're being used primarily as spells then they're probably just too expensive. 3-4 mana conditional/bounce removal doesn't really cut it compared to plow and prismatic ending. For decks that can run them primarily as lands, getting to turn a land into an over-costed spell is great in the late game, but out side of Boseiju the rest are too high cost to really run as spells (and even then you still need to be ok playing Boseiju as a land a good chunk of the time).
How to play a solid control game, while also playing not-quite-Magic, in the same deck. I love this archetype - no shortage of threats in an otherwise hardcore control deck. Deciding between building Sharkstill, Yorion Food Chain, and Doomsday in paper is going to be really hard. I guess with the first two there is at least a decent overlap of cards, so one can turn into the other at half cost?
56:18 I wonder about the Prismatic Ending here. Since the plan was to find a red source, wouldn't it have been better to draw and discard with the Converter? Was the potential of delirium DRC too scary?
I remember playing against a Standstill deck in paper, I'm on the play, he goes turn 2 Standstill and I flash a Coatl in play and almost go the distance before he has to Plow my Snek. Good times.
50:09 - play the vista for the basic island first, flooded strand second and then you've lots of great options for the next land, instead of limiting yourself to two basic lands like you did
I could see cutting at least 1 of the deafening silence for sure. Having 4 Force of Wills and 4 Force of Negations with 4 dedicated combo hate cards seems a bit much. Especially since most storm nowadays uses the graveyard so bringing in 1 or 2 anti-graveyard artifacts is kinda expected. Wonder if cutting 1 for a second supreme verdict to help in the matchups people go wide is needed. Seems the go wide creature strategies and red decks that just go face would be the main weaknesses of this deck so having 5-6 cards for those doesn't seem crazy in the board. Hard to jam a stand still and out card advantage them if you can't ever get the board under control in the first place.
@1:46:43 A clear mistake was at least sequencing so that you didn't Waste their Karakas when you knew Yorion was coming down. Also aiming the double StP at Yorion instead of Mom, who you really needed to get rid of. Also I think you should've gone for the Shark Typhoon kill earlier.
Really dumb question because I haven't played MTG in a while. at 1:39:40, couldn't you have used swords on the recruiter forcing him to make it protection from white which would have prevented Yorion from targetting it to blink it?
I was listening to this deck whilst I was dreaming. I dreamt about a delver/sneak and show transformative deck for a GP in Brazil. Jonah Hill was happy to let me borrow his deck until I didn't sideboard. I did some practice games in home depot.
Any thoughts on currency converter 2 over the retrofitter? Retrofitter always seems so medium to me in lists like this (haven't played much with it, so also willing to believe I'm wrong).
I couldn't tell if there was any strange buzzing, but if there were, then my usual high-pitched background suffering noises were loud enough to drown them out lol
My brain isn't big enough to build for legacy, but it's there any consideration for Plateau over Volcanic Island? It gets found by all your fetches, lets Scalding Tarn find white, and lets Timeless Dragon find Red
Seems like converter is so much better than retrofitter in this list that we might not need retrofitter main and could rather move soul guide lantern in.
Wondering if upping the red sources a bit to include EI would be a good idea for this deck. Although honestly idek what you'd cut to make the space for it.
I'm not a cEDH player, but an obvious problem in cEDH is that you only have 1 Standstill in 99 cards. So it's not really worth to chuck your deck full of cards that work great with Standstill and that can force the enemy to break Standstill, because you only have 1 Standstill in 99 cards, as opposed to here where you have 1 Standstill in 15 cards. My guess is that if you have a good cEDH deck that coincidentally happens to be good with Standstill, chuck it in. But building around Standstill seems iffy.
4 ponder 4 brainstorm 4 standstill 21 land, some of which are urzas saga. 6 cantrips, 23 land is a lot less greedy. You lost games because of missed land drops - I wouldn't call that getting away with it.
Loved the video, and this is my favorite blue deck in the format, but the dredge matchup makes me sad. Dredge is my favorite deck in any format, but it can't even win game ones reliably anymore.
TBF I knew the opp's deck before the game started, knew how to dismantle it, and got lucky to take that G1. But yeah, the deck is not in a good spot overall.
Unfortunately, no. Modern players would spend their whole day crying if a card like standstill was in that format, and then it would end up being banned.
“...who alternates between reanimator and delver most of the time and frequently complains when you win.” Well, I’ll give you points for so efficiently making me dislike someone
The way this deck is built right now, it seems to really want to be able to play (nearly) all basics, in order to dodge nonbasic hate and Wasteland. Otawara would undermine that. But that's just for this specific deck. In other Legacy decks, Otawara may be good.
I think against 1/1 DRC I'd jam Standstill. it will be a 1/1 or you draw 3. and with 20 life id trust myself to find an answer. If they wanna daze turn1 otd they are welcome.
If you're keen for more videos editing ideas then I think a W/L counter would be helpful for viewers. I get quite into the technical magic play and sometimes forget your record. I think it would also help viewers get invested in the league. Obviously this is some edit effort and you have a pretty rapid content schedule, but if you could automate it then it might work well. Thanks for the content anyway.
That's a somewhat intentional choice. It would be slightly more work, but I specifically try to avoid making the channel about winning and losing compared to having fun and learning.
@@BoshNRoll thats fair. I was just thinking maybe hit narcomeba early on then deal with ichorid with Swords or subsequent surges makes Bridge almost a non factor that can be cleared with shark cycle for 0 anyways. Also makes it harder for them to cabal therapy you.
One thing im afraid of in this list is someone ruining my beautiful combo by wastelanding Halls :( Id almost run a Needle for it in the main so i can pick it up with Saga lol
If this doesn't go 5-0 minotaurs officially become the best standstill deck.
Honestly, I think the sideboard just wasn't tuned correctly with this version. Only way to know is a bout between the two decks!
@@chaselewis5372 sounds like a bunch of excuses for the inferior deck 😎
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If Sharkstill has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Sharkstill has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Sharkstill has only one fan then that is me. If Sharkstill has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Sharkstill, then I am against the world. I love Sharkstill until my last breath.
At work this morning and I thought to myself “I wonder when Brian will post another standstill video, I definitely want to use his build as a reference “ and look what God did lol. Thanks for the great content brotha
Livin in your head :)
This video highlighted not just the deck but also Bosh's explanatory abilities really well. Better than most other streamers, I feel like Bosh really explains his thought process in a clear and concise fashion. I feel like I learned a lot from this league.
God I love this archetype so much, great stuff as always
“Clap clap, Hardstyle - nice top deck.”
;)
They didn’t cast Cathar Commando at 1:35:40 because you had Tef in play. They just said “oh boy” because they forgot and were likely supposed to get something else because of that. Like I think they should have just grabbed another recruiter or a flickerwisp
Been watching your vids for months now, just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the content you put out. Been watching mtg content for years and your channel is by far my favorite in terms of level of gameplay and commentary. Cheers
Thank you! Glad you’re here :)
Haven't had as much time to catch up on the channel as before, but damn I am happy to see a stand still deck on the channel again!
This deck was the first I ever saw on your channel, and got me into legacy mtg content. Gotta say, I’m glad to see it back.
I remember you explaining the eternal dragon and why it was good and being so amazed at how much value legacy as a format could squeeze out of every card.
Sharkstill is the deck that got me back into legacy. Love the archetype. Holds a special place in my heart.
YESSSSS!!! Return of the Shark!!
Took me about 0.3 seconds after seeing the thumbnail and reading “legacy sharkstill” to windmill slam my finger on the video. SHARKSTILL TIME
I think the only reasonable conclusion from this must be that Minostand Didgeristill is the Platonic form of standstill decks. Moar Pls :)
I was literally refreshing the app for my breakfast video.
Thanks for the consistent work!
I'm a simple man... I see standstill, I watch.
How strange that one of the more spicy, exciting buildarounds in all of Legacy seemed to have the design intent of being boring as hell.
Man, Hall in a Standstill deck... Your opponent breaks the Standstill and you just get it back.
It's messed up, I know :)
What an absolutely beautiful deck concept man standstill has gotten some friggin sweet powerups in recent years.
Be still my beating shark, Bosh has posted yet again on this fine monday. SHARK GANG SHARK GANG
THE best archetype to watch. Excellent video!
9:00cst on the dot, like clockwork
Looking at Expedition Map, Currency Converter, and Standstill, was there some consideration for the Neon Dynasty channel lands? Otawara seems like it would be pretty good in the shell, especially if Opponent has some action under the standstill you can interact with.
In my experience, Eganjeo is just as worth it, and neither perform too well. However, if you’re comfortable trading off the softness to wasteland then there’s almost no downside. I’m just a sucker for basics
Probably the softness to wasteland just isn't worth it. As we saw in this league, and something Brian likes to talk about a lot, these UW control decks just fall apart if they get wasted and so they really can't afford to run too many non-basics. The deck is also really good at spending it's mana, Brian only really died to mana screw not flood, so you're quite happy to just playing land drops and making bigger sharks. In decks that don't care as much about getting wasted or have some actual risk of getting flooded the channel lands are fantastic, but here they're more likely to kill you than be super impactful.
@@emctwoo My question is whether the channel lands would be worth "spell" slots in the deck. Then who cares if they're soft to wasteland, they're "extra" lands you can draw in a pinch but that's not their main purpose.
@@Fyrefrye If they're being used primarily as spells then they're probably just too expensive. 3-4 mana conditional/bounce removal doesn't really cut it compared to plow and prismatic ending. For decks that can run them primarily as lands, getting to turn a land into an over-costed spell is great in the late game, but out side of Boseiju the rest are too high cost to really run as spells (and even then you still need to be ok playing Boseiju as a land a good chunk of the time).
Yesss I love this archetype
Happy to see the cast of recurring side characters/ batman viliians expanding
How to play a solid control game, while also playing not-quite-Magic, in the same deck. I love this archetype - no shortage of threats in an otherwise hardcore control deck. Deciding between building Sharkstill, Yorion Food Chain, and Doomsday in paper is going to be really hard. I guess with the first two there is at least a decent overlap of cards, so one can turn into the other at half cost?
I just finished watching an old Standstill video from a year ago. Perfect. :D
A 2hr sharkstill video? I'm literally drooling.
Currency Converter is slowly becoming my favorite legacy card lol
It’s so good!
Very classic, always love to see Standstill taking time
56:18 I wonder about the Prismatic Ending here. Since the plan was to find a red source, wouldn't it have been better to draw and discard with the Converter? Was the potential of delirium DRC too scary?
1:13:52 "no bridges?" Just like the meme lmao
When do we get the t-shirt featuring a shark devouring a monk and "This is my kink now" printed on it?
I remember playing against a Standstill deck in paper, I'm on the play, he goes turn 2 Standstill and I flash a Coatl in play and almost go the distance before he has to Plow my Snek. Good times.
Yeah Snapcaster used to be the fear. Now there’s so many good things to do under standstill that I’ll sometimes just cast it when I’m behind anyway.
50:09 - play the vista for the basic island first, flooded strand second and then you've lots of great options for the next land, instead of limiting yourself to two basic lands like you did
Calling out R2 opponents 🤣
haven't even seen the games yet, and this deck looks hilariously fun to play.
Comment of the day! Displacer kitten is in the corner going "but I thought you loved me? Bosh like nah babe, you just my fling. This my wife"
Noob question: Why is he tapping two lands to cast Prismatic ending on Chalice of the Void? Isn't that card's mana value = zero?
If I only pay 1, Chalice will counter it because its mana value will be 1. You have to pay an extra to get above the Chalice.
@@BoshNRoll oh of course! Thanks so much :)
You can also use Hall to continuously rebuy Urzas Saga
cant explain how happy i am to see sharkstill
I could see cutting at least 1 of the deafening silence for sure. Having 4 Force of Wills and 4 Force of Negations with 4 dedicated combo hate cards seems a bit much. Especially since most storm nowadays uses the graveyard so bringing in 1 or 2 anti-graveyard artifacts is kinda expected.
Wonder if cutting 1 for a second supreme verdict to help in the matchups people go wide is needed. Seems the go wide creature strategies and red decks that just go face would be the main weaknesses of this deck so having 5-6 cards for those doesn't seem crazy in the board. Hard to jam a stand still and out card advantage them if you can't ever get the board under control in the first place.
@1:46:43 A clear mistake was at least sequencing so that you didn't Waste their Karakas when you knew Yorion was coming down. Also aiming the double StP at Yorion instead of Mom, who you really needed to get rid of. Also I think you should've gone for the Shark Typhoon kill earlier.
Taking our time to watch some standstill games? Sounds good to me!
You’re the reason I built this deck.
1:35:40 they couldn't cast Cathar in the end step because of teferi right?
Really dumb question because I haven't played MTG in a while. at 1:39:40, couldn't you have used swords on the recruiter forcing him to make it protection from white which would have prevented Yorion from targetting it to blink it?
Yorion doesn’t target. When Yorions trigger resolves you just choose a number of permanents all at once.
@@BoshNRoll Ah, thanks. That makes sense.
How does basic mountain help against blood moon?
Ruination has been more popular recently, blood moon is only just making a comeback
It helps against wasteland. It’s not for moon
This build seems pretty strong, but it could use a few minotaurs and digeridoos to really up that win rate
That game vs Delver was great
I was listening to this deck whilst I was dreaming. I dreamt about a delver/sneak and show transformative deck for a GP in Brazil. Jonah Hill was happy to let me borrow his deck until I didn't sideboard.
I did some practice games in home depot.
Normal Magic weekend
Any thoughts on currency converter 2 over the retrofitter? Retrofitter always seems so medium to me in lists like this (haven't played much with it, so also willing to believe I'm wrong).
this is such a fun deck to watch
I couldn't tell if there was any strange buzzing, but if there were, then my usual high-pitched background suffering noises were loud enough to drown them out lol
You need to make a team, and call it The Cantrip Cartel.
1:12:30 i love the pause like:
Wait a second, i die if i don't counter this
My brain isn't big enough to build for legacy, but it's there any consideration for Plateau over Volcanic Island? It gets found by all your fetches, lets Scalding Tarn find white, and lets Timeless Dragon find Red
sharknroll is back!
Seems like converter is so much better than retrofitter in this list that we might not need retrofitter main and could rather move soul guide lantern in.
I will laugh so hard if you see Round 1 turn 1 Didgeridoo from your opponent
Wondering if upping the red sources a bit to include EI would be a good idea for this deck. Although honestly idek what you'd cut to make the space for it.
Standstill is your EI in this deck
@@BoshNRoll I mean... that's absolutely true I guess
I wonder if Oppression would ever be a good card in this deck
1:27:53 Cat?
Hey Bosh I have been inspired to try standstill in cEDH. Do you think standstill has a place in cEDH?
I'm not a cEDH player, but an obvious problem in cEDH is that you only have 1 Standstill in 99 cards. So it's not really worth to chuck your deck full of cards that work great with Standstill and that can force the enemy to break Standstill, because you only have 1 Standstill in 99 cards, as opposed to here where you have 1 Standstill in 15 cards.
My guess is that if you have a good cEDH deck that coincidentally happens to be good with Standstill, chuck it in. But building around Standstill seems iffy.
I mean it wouldn't be a build around obviously. But I just wonder about giving other players draw as well as yourself when someone breaks it.
The other issue with standstill is that 2 of your 3 opponents would also draw 3 cards
I mean you only get 1 copy and EACH opponent draws 3. You’re gassing up the whole table. There’s better ways to play UWx Stax in the format.
MY BODY IS READY
What do you think of running the doublecolored cycling land. Searchable with Dragon cycling if you want a card instead of just a land
It’s probably too detrimental to your development when you draw it early vs the payoff late.
deck is a little land light. dropping 2 brainstorm for 2 lands would likely help a lot.
Playing Brainstorm is how you get away with the low land count.
4 ponder 4 brainstorm 4 standstill 21 land, some of which are urzas saga.
6 cantrips, 23 land is a lot less greedy. You lost games because of missed land drops - I wouldn't call that getting away with it.
This was awesome. Maybe we can get a patron to request vintage standstill!
Great video
Loved the video, and this is my favorite blue deck in the format, but the dredge matchup makes me sad. Dredge is my favorite deck in any format, but it can't even win game ones reliably anymore.
TBF I knew the opp's deck before the game started, knew how to dismantle it, and got lucky to take that G1. But yeah, the deck is not in a good spot overall.
And if your opponent breaks standstill without graveyard hate, standstill is also an enchantment.
great content, thanks
Could this work in 2024?
I should watch you play Legacy UWx Control all day, tbh
Not gonna lie, I’m wanting you to didgeridoo it again.
Nothing better than bosh n roll standstill…
Man I got it on 1080p, still kinda fuzzy. Anybody else seeing this? If not help me? lol
Question for everyone: is there a card similar to standstill legal in modern??
Unfortunately, no. Modern players would spend their whole day crying if a card like standstill was in that format, and then it would end up being banned.
“...who alternates between reanimator and delver most of the time and frequently complains when you win.” Well, I’ll give you points for so efficiently making me dislike someone
No otawara too greedy or clunky for legacy?
The way this deck is built right now, it seems to really want to be able to play (nearly) all basics, in order to dodge nonbasic hate and Wasteland. Otawara would undermine that.
But that's just for this specific deck. In other Legacy decks, Otawara may be good.
It’s good and sees legacy play, just not an effect this particular deck has room for.
loved it
Obligatory algorithmic contribution
Now this is 🧐🤌
Let's make bant landstill pox a thing
I think against 1/1 DRC I'd jam Standstill. it will be a 1/1 or you draw 3. and with 20 life id trust myself to find an answer. If they wanna daze turn1 otd they are welcome.
You should play this deck once a week. You and us enjoy it quite a bite
Can’t oversaturate the market ;)
But really I just play what patreon folks send me
If you're keen for more videos editing ideas then I think a W/L counter would be helpful for viewers. I get quite into the technical magic play and sometimes forget your record. I think it would also help viewers get invested in the league. Obviously this is some edit effort and you have a pretty rapid content schedule, but if you could automate it then it might work well. Thanks for the content anyway.
That's a somewhat intentional choice. It would be slightly more work, but I specifically try to avoid making the channel about winning and losing compared to having fun and learning.
I feel like game 3 against dredge you can just surgical the narcomeba and just breath easy forever and a day
My flow chart of important cards to surgical from dredge is Bridge > Ichorid > anything else
@@BoshNRoll thats fair. I was just thinking maybe hit narcomeba early on then deal with ichorid with Swords or subsequent surges makes Bridge almost a non factor that can be cleared with shark cycle for 0 anyways. Also makes it harder for them to cabal therapy you.
So what you're saying with this vid is that this deck is only 80% as good as Stand-Still-a-taur
Math confirms it
PoxStill when?
Ol faithful 🙂
This is gross and makes me so happy to watch
One thing im afraid of in this list is someone ruining my beautiful combo by wastelanding Halls :(
Id almost run a Needle for it in the main so i can pick it up with Saga lol
Many of my lists have a Crucible of Worlds for that :)
@@BoshNRoll it does rebuy your wasteland too
Thanks for the good shit good shit maker
Sharkstill is best still
Bosh N Roll face cam coming soon?
Probably not for these types of videos. I have other things I’m trying where the cam is involved.
Love you.
1:27:08 "see ya later daddy"
What is it MathiasHardStyle always complains about when they lose? Feels like he should be saying that about themselves.
they always complain about topdecks. so glad this is a known reputation.
@@er45003 that's right, topdecks. It's particularly amusing when they get straight-up out-played and blame it on topdecks.
Your Introl feels like its TH-cam in 2010
Needs pox