MTG Arena - Standard - Bolas's Citadel Combo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2019
- Magic the Gathering Arena deck tech & gameplay with Bolas's Citadel in Standard.
Match 1: 05:17
Match 2: 13:25
Match 3: 19:43
Match 4: 22:29
Match 5: 28:20
Match 6: 31:28
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Since people keep asking about Command the Dreadhorde:
Despite being very exciting and flashy when played, it is unneeded to win the game in most scenarios.
If it is drawn before all the combo pieces are assembled, it doesn't contribute towards assembling the combo.
It is a very bad topdeck with Citadel in the early stages of comboing off, where you can't afford many bad draws.
Once the combo is assembled, it is not difficult to have 20 permanents including two Citadels and deal 20 damage on the spot.
If you're worried about running out of cards, two copies Gaea's Blessing leads to the same outcome, while not being a liability early.
TL;DR Command the Dreadhorde would be a win-more card under most circumstances.
I made a poor man's version of the deck today and it is an absolute blast. I've won several games and can attest to not needing Command the Dreadhorde. It's working great as-is.
good point, I have white splashed for the wanderer but it kinda feels clunky. Revival/Revenge definitely pulls it's weight though. Maybe I'll try Dawn of Hope?
cant have 2 citadels, they are legendary
@@FightNoize Obviously sacrificing the first one before playing the second.
@@LegenVD touchè ;) btw, im in love with bols's citadel too, having a lot of success with it in ranked, thanks to new karn and tezzeret. Play a control ub shell, then get citadel out of side with karn, play whole deck, + tez, and win (i play 4 saheelis and interplanar beacons, so i can make artifacts while playing my normal control match and gain life every time i play a pw). Or sometimes u just make huge constructs with the other karn and win that way :)
I like that you flash the card you talk about.
same! Makes it one of my favorite MTG channels
I can just picture the opponent sitting over there watching... and thinking "wtf is going on!?".
I'd probably have time to go to the toilet and come back... LOL
Mother of god, this is insane
There's no way to play this with real cards, your turn would take 20 minutes of a confusing mess of life, counters and mana
You could, but it would take practice. And I wouldnt take it to FNM until after I was very confident with it.
Tomodachi Amico Exactly, when I played as a kiddo with my friend using a crappy lifegain deck, after a large turn we would be like: "...Ok, can we shake on a 15/15 pridemate and 50 life?"
-"Deal"
This is no harder to keep track of than the Aetherflux Reservoir combo. If your moderately smart and can do basic math you'll be fine. Those of you that get put into pre algebra for your first semester in college just don't play it...just....don't.
@@johnnyandthepnuemoni I don't think it's the math that is the problem, but remembering to run the entire, ever-changing battery of triggers that comes up.
I've seen worse at tournaments
4:58 "The backup plan is to attack with creatures..." Me at every sealed event lol
"We need to find a second Citadel" (~11:37)
Not to be THAT guy, but you've had one extra in your hand the entire game lol
Always good to have a backup for your backup 😉
@@LegenVD Fallout 4's Kellogg made that mistake.
Oh man, this set has some really cool combos. I'm so excited to see what people come up with.
This and Noxious’ Nissa+Jace+Kamahl druidic vow are my favorite combos so far
@@jake4179 that 34.91% winrate on Nissa+Jace+Kamahl deck though... I've played trash decks thrown together with random cards with higher winrates
One of the most appealing decks for me from a lot of decks ive seen from you yet, keep coming out with great content like this!
What an awesome deck. Good stuff!
This deck has so much going for it, its amazing! Massive ramp, card draw, life gain, mana gain! Love it!
The best combos I find here, I am waiting for more videos, ty
I've still been using the Emergency Powers deck as my main deck. Good to see youre still making amazing videos of creative decks
(7:26) expectation vs reality.
Wow! That is like, spectacular. What a combo.
Explore now reads: remove your opponent from the game. Combo decks are great. Tried the Infinite Tezzeret Combo yet?
Infinite Tezzeret? Colour me intrigued.
@@Zaros2400 new tezzeret + artifacts + 2x Guardians of kolios
lulzimi what does that do though? You’re just bouncing and casting two creatures with no other effect to the board
Its a combo deck. Requiring Tezzert Master of the Bridge, Sai Master Thopterist, at least 5 artifacts on the board and 2x Guardian of Kolois. The combo is easier if you run Karn the Great Creator and use an artifact side board with the Guardian of Kolois in the side board.
Any chance you will do a vid or two about upgrading competitive pre-WAR decks in the meta with new cards? For those of us that don’t have all the cards or zillion wildcards to spend on new brews? :D
Wow, the deck is insane.
Awesome video. I got another idea for you. If you have "The Wanderer" Planes walker out you can summon all creatures from both graveyards using "Command the Dreadhorde" without paying your life for it.
what would you cut off from the deck to put those cards?
@@eldestxyz4852 I dont think this is the right deck for it. B/W zombies or tokens would be the best I guess.
this makes more sense, thank you ^^
13:10
It was good of the opponent to let you finish them off with the second citadel after the combo went off. I don't know if I could say the same for myself. Still a great deck to watch and try to build towards, assuming I don't decide to go with a Feather boros deck.
Oh my god. This deck is so cool lol.
Well, that escalated quickly
Insane combo!
nice combo. didnt thought about it
Great deck idea!!!
Very cool combo deck.
First opponent was like.."😳
I love your channel ^_^ keep making vids :D
My God this deck is insane.
This happened to me on day 1 within the first 5 games
I've just played it in back to back games. Not the most fun!
only one word, great!
This is hilarious. I am laughing like a mad man while watching this.
That blue player around 17:00 missed lethal,
>chart a course before combat
>discard anything that's not a land
>play a land
>Adapt pteramander and hit for exactly 16
Mindless mono blue player, what did you expect?
This deck is dope
awesome video. thx
That combo is amazing. Need a lot of removal to counter.
Now this is a scary combo.
OMFG! Other streamers should learn from this guy! This is why I have internet for
I think Samut, Tyrant Smasher would be a great addition. Scry helps controling the top card, and haste allows you to use Mana Elves the turn they come down and win with lots of big dudes the turn you played the Citadel. I'm testing 2 of them instead of the Gift of Paradise at the moment.
If it works with explore Verdant Sun's Avatar might be an idea to be a bit less dependant on Wildgrowth Walker. No idea what to cut for it though.
That is sick:)
Holy Shit that deck is spicy.
I want to get off of Mr Bolas' Wild Ride
"Greetings fellow zombie warrior, are you going to be present at the bola's citadel shit storm?"
Oh really? when?
*"RIGHT NOW"*
I play an abzan version of this citadel explore stuff, and i think it's somewhat better since it doesn't need 2 activations thanks to revival/revenge. Sometimes it doesn't even need 1. And you can still get a lot of life even if opponent controls down the wildgrowths. Or just get back jadelights and wildgrowths from graveyard when needed.
im playing a Deck like this with Sorin and Cruel Celebrant. Sorin helps to get Jadelight/Branchwalker back on the Board and gives the Creatures Lifelink on our Turn. Cruel Celebrant is good for pinging the Opponent down and you can instakill the Opponent in just one Activation of Bolas Citadel with just one Cruel Celebrant on the Board.
God I love combo decks and a use for my walkers since I didn't like sultai
nice deck
Not quite Necropotence, but still pretty cool.
Gotta say, I love Noxious's Command the Dreadhorde tech in this deck.
See my other comments on the card.
Went up against this deck yesterday. Sick combo it was really fun to see it go. The guy got really greedy though and lost because he didn't leave any cards in his deck. TBH I just got lucky having a cleansing nova in hand.
Gaea's blessing in the sideboard can help hedge against sweepers if you are playing best of 3 with this deck.
Spark of Genius, no pun intended..
Now i get it. played against this Deck on Arena and wondered what the idea was since i beat it bevore citadel came out. I mean exploration is solid but not breathtaking. With this combo through its fine.
That city could work in any explored deck? I was waiting tokens to create an explored deck but maybe i will try this one...
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. I mean...it was happy throw up...point is, this is a filthy creative combo. Good job man
I built a Citadel deck in Blue Black. Works amazingly well with artifacts, the UB Tezzeret, Sai and Saheeli.
That sounds awesome
@@alexisrodriguez7127 It is pretty fun, thanks to Tezz stealing a good chunk of life you usually don't need to tap the Citadel once you've gone off a little.
Damn, that's a joy to watch, probably not to experience as the opponent hahaha
RPGames I think even the opponent was like “bro wtf is this shit” in a somewhat perplexed but joyful fashion
THAT WAS NASTY
Genius....
That's a lot of life. Nice win against mono blue, glad to see these decks are finally falling out. Also, do we still have to import decks to get different land arts?
Yes, sadly. I now keep a decklist with different land arts to make it easier.
God this is cool
What do you think about Samut for this deck? When you go off your creatures have haste, and scry helps putting lands out of the top.
Could be fine, not sure if it would be an improvement.
You really should enable auto-stacking of triggers if you play this deck.
So, you think citadel would still be viable after rotation? no more explore pack
So how do you play tendrils and weather the storm with citadel in historic
you can fit 2 Command the Dreadhorde instead of the gift of paradsie You can sacrifice the 10 permanents, then you'd have enough life at this point to get back a couple of wildgrowths and explorers, then sac again.
See my other comments on the card.
No way... im half way and i was crazy with that combo... i will definity do this deck...
nice
cool! do you think it will appear in meta?
Very nice life gain combo, better than white life link combos, maybe throw an Ajani's pridemate in there just for fun...?
Font of agonies is very good in this deck
Was dissapointed to see Bolas's citadel as my promo. After the first game I changed my mind...
Noob question, where or how do you get the sleeve LVD is using?
It came with the 50 pack war of the spark preorder
@@Nindydar ohhh, thanks
discovering the citadel
How can I get my hands on these WAR card sleeves?
What do you think of replacing one or two copies of Citadel with Command the Dreadhorde? It would let you get back all the stuff you sac'd and save you from running out of permanents like you almost did in that first game. Either way, sweet deck and love your content.
See my other comments on the card.
I’ve been running this deck since war of the spark came out I find without some removal it gets difficult to go against early threats and without card draw it gets hard vs teferi control decks
I’ve never seen a deck play so many creatures and attack so little lol.
It can be pretty easy to get pinched on green mana it seems like, maybe it would be good to switch some branchwalkers for seeker's squire?
Could be decent, although the extra power is relevant for pressuring control decks.
white lifegain cantrips + bolas' citadel + thousand year storm is pretty impossible to pull off, but that's quite the jank if pulled off.
How do you change the land art to the new one i got ixalan by default
Import them with a text file.
If you combine this with the new Jace that would definitely give you a second win condition...
Is it woth to craft this dack for bo1 standard?
this deck is the MTG way of going trigger-happy LUL
holy FUUUUUUUHHHHH...
I saw Noxious played similar deck, but I like this version a bit more, the only thing I think hid deck did better was Command the Dreadhorde combo (since when you pay a bunch of life to return creatures from your graveyard, Wildgrowth Walker will heal you for all of them with path of discovery on board, so as long as you don't kill yourself immediately, you will heal more than you spend.
Doesn't really seem necessary. It's cool when you cast it, but it only really does anything when you're already very far ahead.
@@LegenVD Hm, I guess it's true. Although it can be used to finish the game when you don't have enough creature on board to trigger citadel twice, as it will refill your board, healing you again, and providing fodder for the citadel.
@@Derael I would play Gaea's Blessing before Command the Dreadhorde if you're concerned about decking yourself, but it doesn't seem needed. Dreadhorde is a dead card up until you already sacrificed ten permanents, which means you could just as easily get up to 20 permanents and play a second Citadel anyway. It's a classic case of win-more.
@@LegenVD Indeed, now that I think about it, it's more of a flavor card than anything else. The only use I can think of is beating cards like Kaya's Wrath, since if you can't finish the combo during your turn, Kaya's wrath will be absolutely dreadful, and Command helps to counter it by summoning back all the creatures you lost.
But at the same time, that card will reduce the consistency of the deck, which is not a desirable effect.
So in the end I agree that the card is unnecessary, it also can't be fetched by Bond, so that's another disadvantage.
Thanks for your reply, it cleared things up for me.
how do you order your deck when you look at it like this? 3:19
Button in the top-right changes layout.
this deck can play the standard contest?
Hey LVD, I saw noxious use command the dreadhorde to very good effect in this deck. I was wondering, what are your thoughts on this idea?
mm ye i saw that yesterday, command the dreadhorde is a key piece to get the game closed, noxious list is slightly better, same core, more refined.
That's weird cause LegenVd in my opinion is a better deck builder, just a jank deck maybe
Doesn't really seem necessary. It's cool when you cast it, but it only really does anything when you're already very far ahead.
@@dontaccoll I would play Gaea's Blessing before Command the Dreadhorde if you're concerned about decking yourself, but it doesn't seem needed. Dreadhorde is a dead card up until you already sacrificed ten permanents, which means you could just as easily get up to 20 permanents and play a second Citadel anyway. It's a classic case of win-more.
I had to put gaea's blessing in this since I ended up milling myself a couple times before I could win.
Solid addition!
Mono blue OP- never tap out on turn 3 for a djinn.
The mtga gamers dilemma: Build jank or wait for tier 1 net decks???????
Always build jank. They're the most fun. XD
What about Font of Agonies to kill stuff with Bolas Citadel or Shock lands?
That's an interesting idea. It requires a little bit of setup, and usually we're already pretty far ahead if we get to cast multiple spells through Citadel. Maybe as a sideboard option vs decks without counterspells or burn spells with some creatures worth killing.
@@LegenVD yeah, i can see it's not needed but it seems to me that if there was a way to make that Font work in standard it had to have something to do with the Citadel
Your pc requisite? Because my pc dont open magic live Arena
Torgarr would be a good combo in here, 10 your OPP then if you have enough Permanents Activate citadel for another 10.
That's a very painful card to play with Citadel though.
Nicol bolas, Jace cunning castaway, bolas citadel
Would a couple of copies of Epicure of Blood fit in here? with all that life gain from the Wildgrowth Walkers this could machine gun the opponent's life total down very quick. at least to the point where you might only need to Bolas's Citadel once. I really like this deck, if only i hadn't spent all my wild cards already
That deck was well thought out. Good work. Who agrees?
I have a similar list but with more tools for consistency: aetherhub.com/Deck/Gallery/103181
Samut: Her passive is a nice win condition, giving all creatures haste. Usually you go through your deck in 1 or 2 turns so this comes in quite handy, your opponent won't have time to wipe your board the next turn - since this deck doesn't have a Banefire like the Experimental Frenzy version, your haste creatures become the "surprise banefire" . Her -1 is also good to either look for Citadels or to scry lands away once you have one, so she functions as another Treasure Map.
Sorin: Lifelink on creatures saved my rear a handful of times, when the game is close and you are low on life (can't go any further), you can simply attack with your creatures and get all the life you need back to feed the engine, this is mostly for urgencies but still a very good safety buffer. His -X also works as a "scry" for pockets of lands, by getting a creature from your graveyard it'll explore away the land(s), it's also very good in situations where your board gets wiped (usually the first turn you play Citadel and hit a wall soon after) you can start your next turn my rezzing a Wildgrowth Walker as the first creature and safely gain life once more.
Goreclaw: Recent addition, this ensures the "Haste attack" win condition if their board is wide by trampling over it. He also combos with Sorin, as it costs 4 so you can trade your Planeswalker with Goreclaw instantly in case it died previously. Again, only for edge cases but it's neat nonetheless, nothing feels better than watching your 34/34 Wildgrowth Walker actually hit the opponent isntead of getting blocked by a single token.
Other misc. alterations: Paradise Druids instead of Llanowar Elves, I'd rather pay 1 extra to not get my creature erased by cheap removal, she can also give you Black mana for Citadel just in case you didn't have 3 black on board. 1 Wand of Vertebrae instead of Treasure map, for the edge case where you run out of deck and your opponent won't die that turn (hey, can happen), you still get 5 cards back, and in the other 99% of cases it works to get rid of extra lands just like a treasure map would.
I thought Ixalan, and with it the walker, would rotate out of standard now?
In fall
that game 1... who's the mill deck here
You can sacrifice the Citadel to itself, right?
Yes
My wildcards were just sitting there anyways