With The One Ring still running rampant in Legacy, I'm now on team Questing Beast in the sideboard or even main, especially when you can get it with Green Sun's Zenith and Natural Order.
So this type of Elves deck was actually pretty good circa 2000 Extended because it had a pretty good matchup against Trix (Necro Donate combo) since you could keep paying the upkeep on Illusions of Grandeur or just destroy the Illusions with Elvish Lyrist while lifegain was on the stack.
I love the elves. I started my legacy cureer with an elf deck of my own design, which became combo elves after Shadowmoor gave Umbral mantle to untap priest of titania infinitely. At the fastest it could kill on turn 2 using concordant crossroad to give everybody haste and viridian longbow to shoot opponent dead. I remember playing my elves against some real tournament player playing a blue control deck, letting my stuff resolve since it was just some junk, and then as he was dying to the combo he picked up cards to check what exactly they did. At the game 2 of the match he had wised up and countered the umbral mantle, but was then immediately demolished by tsunami that I had sideboarded in. I remember how he said in a shock "oh no, my raitings" as he realized he was going to lose to a noob in his first sanctioned tournament, so the loss would severely drop his rating since our rating difference was so large. 😆
Was surprised there wasn't a Wirewood Symbiote for the Visionary card draw loops, even as a one of in the sideboard. As a green sun/natural order target for the board stalls where you can't turn things sideways.
Problem is, the Symbiote isn't an Elf, so it doesn't make the BEEG NUMBER go up with Coat of Arms. 😜 (But I agree, Symbiote is a must in "serious" Elf decks.)
Really should have been a Collector Ouphe instead of Rec Sage coming in on game one SB. You knew they were going to be playing The One Ring. As an Elf Ball lover I am happy to see you playing it.
Rough to watch, first half felt like playing elces just to tap themself for tabernacle and the few threads getting nullified with chasm, ring and maze. Also zero chance against combo - which all are faster then the elves :D
A long time ago, Deranged Hermit was a huge menace. 9 power from a single card on turn 4 or 5 would just end games. And that's without any recurring nightmare funny business. Creatures were a lot weaker back then.
This is pretty neat, ngl! Also, the anime llanowar elves is so cringe it goes around to being great again! Just to see the faces of your opponents trying to get if you play them ironically or you are 100% hardcore into anime. I would totally make a cute japanese voice when tapping it. I think i'm getting a playset XD
i feel like you have enough mana production that you can justify Finale of Devastation. if X=10 or more, your board gets +X/+X and haste, which would include the Craterhoof Behemoth that will then give them trample and another massive boost
i personally think sylvan anthem would be better then coat of arms. it gives way less power but card selection and only buffs you own stuff. also 2 mana is way easier to play then 5
Coat of Arms is so painful to play over the board. You always have to track each creature types of all of your opponents and if two players happen to play the same types, the game just stops with a "recalculation..." loading screen.
I think if you really wanna play Coat of Arms in Legacy, you put it as a 1-of in your Karn wish board. Drawing it is awful. Elves can sometimes make 10+ mana and just windmill slam Karn + Mycosynth Lattice in the same turn cycle.
Avoiding to say tribal as a content creator is understandable because you dont want to get demonetized. But is is also tragic. We let the fascism and the censoring of perfectly normal words beat us. Tribe is a perfect word to describe a sum of characteristics of a population. Do not let fascism of stupidity win.
With The One Ring still running rampant in Legacy, I'm now on team Questing Beast in the sideboard or even main, especially when you can get it with Green Sun's Zenith and Natural Order.
Hmmmmmm
"This is a serious, tryhard channel, all of the time."
*sweats*
23:04 the FUCK ME! followed by the lil spin gave me the boost of serotonin that I needed. Thank you, Phill 😂
So this type of Elves deck was actually pretty good circa 2000 Extended because it had a pretty good matchup against Trix (Necro Donate combo) since you could keep paying the upkeep on Illusions of Grandeur or just destroy the Illusions with Elvish Lyrist while lifegain was on the stack.
This deck is beautiful and made me miss old tabletop days.
I love the elves. I started my legacy cureer with an elf deck of my own design, which became combo elves after Shadowmoor gave Umbral mantle to untap priest of titania infinitely. At the fastest it could kill on turn 2 using concordant crossroad to give everybody haste and viridian longbow to shoot opponent dead.
I remember playing my elves against some real tournament player playing a blue control deck, letting my stuff resolve since it was just some junk, and then as he was dying to the combo he picked up cards to check what exactly they did. At the game 2 of the match he had wised up and countered the umbral mantle, but was then immediately demolished by tsunami that I had sideboarded in. I remember how he said in a shock "oh no, my raitings" as he realized he was going to lose to a noob in his first sanctioned tournament, so the loss would severely drop his rating since our rating difference was so large. 😆
Was surprised there wasn't a Wirewood Symbiote for the Visionary card draw loops, even as a one of in the sideboard. As a green sun/natural order target for the board stalls where you can't turn things sideways.
Problem is, the Symbiote isn't an Elf, so it doesn't make the BEEG NUMBER go up with Coat of Arms. 😜 (But I agree, Symbiote is a must in "serious" Elf decks.)
I was surprised not to see it in the list.
I don't know if this is going to be good but I think it's going to be great.
Questing beast would be cute to get through one rings
This brings back memories of my first deck ever when Masques came put and I had just started playing Magic.
Really should have been a Collector Ouphe instead of Rec Sage coming in on game one SB. You knew they were going to be playing The One Ring. As an Elf Ball lover I am happy to see you playing it.
That white bordered Coat of Arms is gorgeous.
From my old days playing Extended, I'll say Joraga Treespeaker is a sufficiently good "kitchen table" mana sink for Elf tribal.
Elf Ball! So many fun tools there. Lots of Overrun Effects and obligatory X burn spell is my perfered take on it
Thank god a deck we could all play
Question: If we are going to play a five-mana artifact that buffs our Elves, should we perhaps consider the new Foundations card [Banner of Kinship]?
Rough to watch, first half felt like playing elces just to tap themself for tabernacle and the few threads getting nullified with chasm, ring and maze.
Also zero chance against combo - which all are faster then the elves :D
a singleton questing beast in the sideboard can help against decks that play the one ring :D can be turored with GSZ !
A long time ago, Deranged Hermit was a huge menace. 9 power from a single card on turn 4 or 5 would just end games. And that's without any recurring nightmare funny business. Creatures were a lot weaker back then.
What a mysterious tip from phil from the future 👻👽
I'd forgotten how pretty 7ED Coat of Arms is ❤️
Reviving kitchen top table magic.
This is pretty neat, ngl! Also, the anime llanowar elves is so cringe it goes around to being great again! Just to see the faces of your opponents trying to get if you play them ironically or you are 100% hardcore into anime. I would totally make a cute japanese voice when tapping it. I think i'm getting a playset XD
Is it worth having a 1-of questing beast in the sideboard for The One Ring?
i feel like you have enough mana production that you can justify Finale of Devastation. if X=10 or more, your board gets +X/+X and haste, which would include the Craterhoof Behemoth that will then give them trample and another massive boost
Converting Kitchen table to legacy is so easy!
Just add 4 cradles. xD
i personally think sylvan anthem would be better then coat of arms. it gives way less power but card selection and only buffs you own stuff. also 2 mana is way easier to play then 5
Why Birchlore Rangers over Elves of Deep shadow if you're mainly concerned with Black mana?
COAT?
OF ARMS?
You there--boy on the street--what set is this?
Given game 1, maybe you should run 1x Questing Beast?
This needed a seedtime in the sideboard
Tribal decks are dope 😎😎😎
9:16 it’s tribal. Always has been and always will be
Coat of Arms is so painful to play over the board. You always have to track each creature types of all of your opponents and if two players happen to play the same types, the game just stops with a "recalculation..." loading screen.
I love your videos, I can't stand to watch nadu or its gameplay. Especially when it's stealing screen time from school yard coat of arm elves
this is basically a better version of my first deck
YEEEEY ELVESSS
Around elves watch for Deluge.
I think if you really wanna play Coat of Arms in Legacy, you put it as a 1-of in your Karn wish board. Drawing it is awful.
Elves can sometimes make 10+ mana and just windmill slam Karn + Mycosynth Lattice in the same turn cycle.
Predictions: reanimate, vexing bauble, psychic frog, nadu and maybe orchish bowmasters, banned in legacy.
Unfortunately, wizards used reanimate in modern instead of banning it
I wish brother
Man, reanimator lives on I suppose....I do not want the deck banned I just think turn one entombed to turn to reanimate is so strong.
Reanimate feels like it’s never gonna go tbh… it’s grandfathered in like the blue cantrips, force of will, and swords to plowshares.
Mazi of Ithi
Looks like the round 3 opponent has 12 trophies.
i sure am glad that match one game two got banned from modern, 60% of the format ring looping got old
Phil😅😅😅 why didn't you tell me we are a try hard community 😂😂
no Nettle Sentinels? you elf noob!
Hoof is the new CoA - there is no point to play both of them. +Visionary without symbiote is just sad
Why skip the first round? Not entertaining enough?
Avoiding to say tribal as a content creator is understandable because you dont want to get demonetized.
But is is also tragic. We let the fascism and the censoring of perfectly normal words beat us.
Tribe is a perfect word to describe a sum of characteristics of a population.
Do not let fascism of stupidity win.
Weirdo