Thank you for playing the deck. Really appreciate your thoughts :) Tip for anyone interested: 28:42 when you stack the bottom of your deck it's always best to put Oracle on the very bottom if you can so you can find it with Lash
Nice to see a positive result as this is one of my pet decks :) Personally, I like a couple of The One Ring in it, it's a draw engine that also gives us protection for a turn. And once MH3 is out, I'd jam the new bauble over Def Grid - that I have always found a bit mid, cause apart from the nonsense hand, we often go off after T4 that means 3 or more lands for the oppo :) Great video as always!
0:55 I always wanted to use something like Geiger Reach or Loren, or even Ancestral to punish a thoracle. But luckily LabMan and Jace don't have that problem
I played a deck like this years ago with Legacy Staple Skill Borrower and some Griselbrands and Kiki Jikis in the deck. Thought Lash, with any effect that reveals or shows you the top card of your library continuously becomes a top deck tutor every draw. I’m not sure I’d go all in on like, Lantern of Insight or anything, but it’s an angle that provides a little more synergy for the Lash.
what did Doomsday use to win before Thassa's Oracle? i want to say it's been a deck from before that printing, but I wasn't paying attention to legacy back then
@@adrienneladd8375 It was a lot more complicated beforehand. There were storm/combo decks that utilized Doomsday for things like Tendrils of Agony wins. There were also convoluted wins via making infinite (or near infinite mana) and a "target player draws X cards" spell to deck your opponent. Doomsday as it is now became a thing with Lab Man, and became MUCH stronger with Thassa's Oracle being printed.
Why didn’t you play thought lash at 11:52 when you had 4 mana and drew it. You’d still have force of will backup and you could thassa’s combo the very next turn. 😅
"Some kind of weirdo free spell that kills Thassa's Oracle at instant speed that I'm not thinking of" - Pyrokinesis would qualify. In theory Thunderclap would work too but that card is largely is unplayed. They could also in theory have Simian Spirit Guide into Pyroblast or REB. Though with one card in hand the only option would be Thunderclap, which again is pretty unplayable.
12:50 i feel like you couldve made more of a game of this one if you played the Thassa's Oracle as an early body with scry. You have so much redundancy on your A+B, you could afford to waste one on warding off the 1/1s and digging for those islands. in general this deck seems to choke hard against beatdown without UU, maybe those ancient tombs need to be something like Petal or Saprazzan Skerry
Tidebinder also counters the storm triggered ability by the way... and also the thassa trigger. I really think you should have sideboarded that in in round 2
Starting a league and running into 4xWasteland, 4xCounterspell Game 1 Match 1 would make me press the power button on the computer and go outside for a while.
With the new Merfolk Magus of the moon, it's only a matter of time until someone makes Phil play blue moon but the creatures are Merfolk
blue moon but the moon is actually blue now
Guess what, is already on his moxfield account 😂
We need a merfolk rabblemaster
@@michaelwhite4695I want it
Thank you for playing the deck. Really appreciate your thoughts :)
Tip for anyone interested:
28:42 when you stack the bottom of your deck it's always best to put Oracle on the very bottom if you can so you can find it with Lash
I’m never happy to see Phil lose. But that reaction to the Tendrils kill was hilarious 🤣
"After seeing basic island it's more likely that they are a fair deck of some kind" *dies that turn*
Opponent's only land is a basic swap
Phil: "I don't think I should be playing around daze"
Yo I was playing the berserk deck!
What would you think of siding in Phyrexian Censor against you? Legitimately scary or just too slow?
@@gothblin I believe it simply would be too slow tbh.
Match two game two was one of the games of all time. Something resembling magic certainly happened.
Nice to see a positive result as this is one of my pet decks :)
Personally, I like a couple of The One Ring in it, it's a draw engine that also gives us protection for a turn. And once MH3 is out, I'd jam the new bauble over Def Grid - that I have always found a bit mid, cause apart from the nonsense hand, we often go off after T4 that means 3 or more lands for the oppo :)
Great video as always!
0:55 I always wanted to use something like Geiger Reach or Loren, or even Ancestral to punish a thoracle. But luckily LabMan and Jace don't have that problem
I have seen Cephalid Coliseum in edh, just to punish thoracle
I have lost to Baleful Mastery exactly twice in the 3 years I've played this deck. It's not a lot, but it's still weird that it happened twice.
@@DragonDayDragon that one is actually playable. I wonder...
"you're a wizard harry"-Phil with multiple caverns in his opener.
Round two game two was phenomenal
I played a deck like this years ago with Legacy Staple Skill Borrower and some Griselbrands and Kiki Jikis in the deck.
Thought Lash, with any effect that reveals or shows you the top card of your library continuously becomes a top deck tutor every draw.
I’m not sure I’d go all in on like, Lantern of Insight or anything, but it’s an angle that provides a little more synergy for the Lash.
12:00 they can't cast Brazen Borrower at end step, it's too expensive with Grid.
what did Doomsday use to win before Thassa's Oracle? i want to say it's been a deck from before that printing, but I wasn't paying attention to legacy back then
Labman. Just had to work a bit harder for the W
@@olafthemoose9413 so was doomsday not a thing before inistrad?
@@adrienneladd8375 It was a lot more complicated beforehand. There were storm/combo decks that utilized Doomsday for things like Tendrils of Agony wins. There were also convoluted wins via making infinite (or near infinite mana) and a "target player draws X cards" spell to deck your opponent. Doomsday as it is now became a thing with Lab Man, and became MUCH stronger with Thassa's Oracle being printed.
Why didn’t you play thought lash at 11:52 when you had 4 mana and drew it. You’d still have force of will backup and you could thassa’s combo the very next turn. 😅
Enjoyed the cold open
19:42 that game where you won without a single blue pip of mana generation was 👋
I was going to say hilarious, but autocorrect saw “hi” and did the wave. Decided it was too funny to fix
Merfolk being the punching bag will always be funny.
"Some kind of weirdo free spell that kills Thassa's Oracle at instant speed that I'm not thinking of" - Pyrokinesis would qualify. In theory Thunderclap would work too but that card is largely is unplayed. They could also in theory have Simian Spirit Guide into Pyroblast or REB.
Though with one card in hand the only option would be Thunderclap, which again is pretty unplayable.
12:50 i feel like you couldve made more of a game of this one if you played the Thassa's Oracle as an early body with scry. You have so much redundancy on your A+B, you could afford to waste one on warding off the 1/1s and digging for those islands.
in general this deck seems to choke hard against beatdown without UU, maybe those ancient tombs need to be something like Petal or Saprazzan Skerry
Tidebinder also counters the storm triggered ability by the way...
and also the thassa trigger. I really think you should have sideboarded that in in round 2
doomsday leaves me sneezing too phil
Rest In Piece + Paradigm Shift + Energy Field + Helm of Obedience + Thassa's Oracle?
Starting a league and running into 4xWasteland, 4xCounterspell Game 1 Match 1 would make me press the power button on the computer and go outside for a while.
Is that more tiliting to you than getting FTK'd by any Combo Deck?
I understand the reasoning, but it feels wrong to not see any brainstorms or ponders in a blue combo deck 😂
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Aye Lashhh goo
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honestly i would like thassa's oracle banned i find all of its decks super boring
The decks would still exist. Bowmasters and Ring is not banned, neither is Karn, so I don't mind
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Why is there no ponder??
Same reason there's no Brainstorm, no fetch lands makes those cards notably worse
Preordain is actually better here since you can scry a card to the bottom and access it later via thought lash.