It is so fun to see these underrated decks among the always boring builds seen in the ladder. I wish we would see these more often. Thank you Luca for always making interesting contents.
Illicit Masquerade is definitely and interesting and unique card! I want to try it out in commander! Awesome deck as usual Luca! Thanks for all you do! 😄
I feel the pain in that first game, the opponent chipping you till you are at 2 and gonna die next turn. Then you put your magician outfit and begin to do trick after trick till he automatically lose.
Damn, the beseech searching beseech is really interesting. imagine casting with chandra on the table. first iteration searches for manaform hellkite, second one triggers the dragon, seaches for another beseech, which searches for another. suddenly you have a bunch of flying hasties.
@@TheChzoronzon There could be a few ways of doing this. im working on a grixis version with manaform. There could also be a dimir with seedshark and tezz.
At 29:43 you could discard Trumpeting Carnosaur to deal three damage to your own Charming Scoundrel and reanimate the Carnosaur immediately and get to discover, potentially hitting beseech for the combo kill, or just getting good value
Good to see someone else trying Illicit Masquerade. I have been using it in a dimir shell with cards like Malcom, Alluring Scoundrel, Steamcore Scholar, Faerie Dreamthief or Fallaji Archaeologist to fill the graveyard and loot. With Some copies of Threefold Thunderhulk and All-Seeing Arbiter as the top-end to either further loot, draw and stall out the opponents board or make a bunch of token that you can use again to get counters on and in turn reanimate more stuff later on. It is more relying on some block-into-Flash Illicit Masquerade shenanigans, even so most opponents are having ample removal that can trigger it.
@29:45 In match 6 could you have discarded Carnosaur to kill charming scoundrel and bring back the carnosaur? Might not have made a difference in the end
Not great with trigger ordering and resolution timing, so correct me if I'm wrong: In match six at 29:16, could you have targeted your own charming scoundrel with carnosaur? Cauldron is still tapped down, and since carnosaur is discarded as part of the cost, wouldn't it be in the graveyard in time for masquerade to see scoundrel die and then revive the carnosaur? Also, love the deck regardless.
16:20 Apparently, Ovika is actually a "he." 🤷♂️ > Unlike the Domini who emerged from the construction of the Phyrexian spheres, Ovika was born from the remains of Mirrodin after it had been ravaged for building material by the Phyrexian troops. He built his immense body from the salvage, giving himself all the eyes and limbs he would need to oversee and investigate his fascinating plane.
First opponent's rage-roping was hilarious! Opponent: "Okay, got him down to 2 life. He's dead next turn." [A few seconds later] "WTF?! What is this janky-a$$ BS?!!"
Oh, yikes! This is pretty decent. @16:40 Isn't there a line where you can sacrifice the Carnosaur and THEN Sacrifice the Mutt with the Counter to revive it (and Discover again)?
I actually found a deck similar to this not too long ago that uses Monastery Mentor, Beseech the Mirror and Reenact the Crime to do a similar silly combo, finishing with an Imodane's Recruiter. The exact list isn't terribly important, and you'll most likely be able to come up with a better list of support cards than I have in my list, but I'd suggest giving it a go. Just remember if you do try putting together a list for it that the sequencing between Beseech and Reenact is uh... We'll say "interesting." Maybe do a test run or two against Sparky to get it down-pat.
@@trackerholmes6720It promotes viewers to explore more formats that they might otherwise never check out. More dedicated players can usually piece it together. Every video is also sorted by format on my channel page as well as on Aetherhub and Patreon (where titles are more detailed). The video description explains the deck and format without needing to expand it. I mention the format within 5 seconds of the video starting. The job of a title and thumbnail is to get people interested. It would take less effort to come up with "Ovika Masquerade - Standard - MTG Arena", but in a business as competitive as TH-cam it doesn't perform as well as alternative titles. You may not like it, but numbers don't lie.
@@LegenVD So, instead of transparency, integrity and providing proper information to your viewers so they may perform an informed decision.. people always choose to follow numbers, is that it? "The video description" is a click away.. which proves my point.
I’m impressed by your ability to draw the card you planned on tutoring right when you would’ve gotten the most value tutoring it.
The voice recognition can backfire at times.
These are the sorts of shenanigans that keep Standard interesting. Thanks for making this vid, LVD. ♥
1st oppo didn’t disconnect. He had to go get his friend to witness what just happened.
It is so fun to see these underrated decks among the always boring builds seen in the ladder. I wish we would see these more often. Thank you Luca for always making interesting contents.
Yeah, tried it myself. Went 0-17. Love it.
@@CapriPantsVideos Its cool if you suck bro. We cant all be winners
@@affrowbeat that must be it. And not it being unoptimal deck against tryhards in ranked.
Illicit Masquerade is definitely and interesting and unique card! I want to try it out in commander!
Awesome deck as usual Luca! Thanks for all you do! 😄
Oh “bargain” bin, like the mechanic 😂that just clicked for me 🤪
Illicit Masquerade was the first rare I opened from this set, but I could never quite figure out how to make it work. Love this build!
I feel the pain in that first game, the opponent chipping you till you are at 2 and gonna die next turn. Then you put your magician outfit and begin to do trick after trick till he automatically lose.
Pulling the rug under a winning opponent is both cool and depressing
@@Big_Dai It's Magick.
Epic deck too! Love to see Ovika as I have 2 brawl decks and a commander on paper with her!
Damn, the beseech searching beseech is really interesting. imagine casting with chandra on the table. first iteration searches for manaform hellkite, second one triggers the dragon, seaches for another beseech, which searches for another. suddenly you have a bunch of flying hasties.
gonna try, tnx
@@TheChzoronzon There could be a few ways of doing this. im working on a grixis version with manaform. There could also be a dimir with seedshark and tezz.
I’m no math whiz, but that Turn 4 kill is insanely unlikely. So it’s amazing we got to see it in the video!
At 29:43 you could discard Trumpeting Carnosaur to deal three damage to your own Charming Scoundrel and reanimate the Carnosaur immediately and get to discover, potentially hitting beseech for the combo kill, or just getting good value
Good to see someone else trying Illicit Masquerade. I have been using it in a dimir shell with cards like Malcom, Alluring Scoundrel, Steamcore Scholar, Faerie Dreamthief or Fallaji Archaeologist to fill the graveyard and loot. With Some copies of Threefold Thunderhulk and All-Seeing Arbiter as the top-end to either further loot, draw and stall out the opponents board or make a bunch of token that you can use again to get counters on and in turn reanimate more stuff later on. It is more relying on some block-into-Flash Illicit Masquerade shenanigans, even so most opponents are having ample removal that can trigger it.
@29:45 In match 6 could you have discarded Carnosaur to kill charming scoundrel and bring back the carnosaur? Might not have made a difference in the end
Indeed!
The bargain bin of doom
hell yeah. I always like your brews, but sometimes its fun to have a jank combo or something for funsies thrown in there. this deck is so cool
I've been looking to see Illicit Masquerade used in a build and it worked in here nicely, good games Legend :)
I’m a simple man: I hear LVD say a deck is janky, I watch the video raptly.
Not great with trigger ordering and resolution timing, so correct me if I'm wrong:
In match six at 29:16, could you have targeted your own charming scoundrel with carnosaur? Cauldron is still tapped down, and since carnosaur is discarded as part of the cost, wouldn't it be in the graveyard in time for masquerade to see scoundrel die and then revive the carnosaur?
Also, love the deck regardless.
Yeah that would have definitely worked.
That might’ve been worth it to dig for Beseech!
16:20 Apparently, Ovika is actually a "he." 🤷♂️
> Unlike the Domini who emerged from the construction of the Phyrexian spheres, Ovika was born from the remains of Mirrodin after it had been ravaged for building material by the Phyrexian troops. He built his immense body from the salvage, giving himself all the eyes and limbs he would need to oversee and investigate his fascinating plane.
Good to know! In real life it seems to be used for females more often than not.
First opponent's rage-roping was hilarious!
Opponent: "Okay, got him down to 2 life. He's dead next turn." [A few seconds later] "WTF?! What is this janky-a$$ BS?!!"
Beseech the Mirror for Beseech the Mirror is such a clever and hilarious combo.
Oh, yikes! This is pretty decent.
@16:40 Isn't there a line where you can sacrifice the Carnosaur and THEN Sacrifice the Mutt with the Counter to revive it (and Discover again)?
This looks like so much fun!
LVD always manages to break an opponent's brain before breaking Arena with his combos. Entertaining as always 😂
It's beautiful
Nice! I honestly wasn't even sure how Illicit Masquerade works when I first read it. Haha.
at 32:24 would it be best to sac harvester and kill kitesail to get scoundrel back to block the gingerbrute?
That would require us to have at least two Blood tokens first, but it's good to spot that Scoundrel was still hanging out!
Gotta love your commitment and knowledge to be able to pull off oddball deck combos
Looks fun. It's too bad that there are too many turn 3-4 decks out there. I wonder if some removal would be a good fix for the deck.
Game 2!!!!!! Was crazy
I legitimately felt bad for his opponent, what on earth lol
I actually found a deck similar to this not too long ago that uses Monastery Mentor, Beseech the Mirror and Reenact the Crime to do a similar silly combo, finishing with an Imodane's Recruiter. The exact list isn't terribly important, and you'll most likely be able to come up with a better list of support cards than I have in my list, but I'd suggest giving it a go. Just remember if you do try putting together a list for it that the sequencing between Beseech and Reenact is uh... We'll say "interesting." Maybe do a test run or two against Sparky to get it down-pat.
Damn. I have an Explorer golgari self mill and use a much worse version of illicit masquerade. Looks great
Basically storm, but with goblins. Nice.
Oh fun idea.( Looks at wild cards and only sliver is at the top) lol
'Oh yeah, It's beseeching time' - LVD right before beseeching all over his opponents, onto the next one
@LegenVD Do you see the normal MTG Arena App frontpage or do you directly see through the Matrix ?
Is it just me or has Legend been recently becoming slowly more and more unhinged
Can you proliferate to get extra impostor counters and then get even more creatures back?
Path to peril is needed in this meta
29:45 you could have killed your scoundrel with the carnosaur to cheat it in play and explore
This is foul. I love it.
Looks like a deck where Devilish Valet would be really funny
Looks like Valet would be only good when the combo is going... making it a win-more card.
@@LaurentCassaro but it would be really, really funny.
@@Y00bi 🤷♂️ sure
holy crap, that's insane. lol
Day 2 of a request : Persuasive Interrogators. Using Bartolome and or cutthroat centurion. Create clues and sac 5 with interrogators out for the win!
Ah yes, the sussiest deck in Standard
gombo
ya love to see a janky deck like this
Ovika_tres chic left hexwing
You have cared fox all the time. I told looser/leaving the fox ...legends
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Games done on turn 3. it's just not magic anymore...
Just fucking say black/red. Giving unique house names to every color combination just makes this nerd game even nerdier.
I will usually say both as a way to teach new players Magic terminology. The description says black/red.
@@LegenVD And what about this trend of saying "nothing" in video Titles? How is that good for "new Players" and general content consumers?
@@trackerholmes6720It promotes viewers to explore more formats that they might otherwise never check out. More dedicated players can usually piece it together. Every video is also sorted by format on my channel page as well as on Aetherhub and Patreon (where titles are more detailed). The video description explains the deck and format without needing to expand it. I mention the format within 5 seconds of the video starting. The job of a title and thumbnail is to get people interested. It would take less effort to come up with "Ovika Masquerade - Standard - MTG Arena", but in a business as competitive as TH-cam it doesn't perform as well as alternative titles. You may not like it, but numbers don't lie.
@@LegenVD So, instead of transparency, integrity and providing proper information to your viewers so they may perform an informed decision.. people always choose to follow numbers, is that it?
"The video description" is a click away.. which proves my point.