Another gorgeous creation. Everyone's out there sporting the same tired rogue decks and ramp-to-ugin decks and tibalt's trickery cheese while LVD taps into the true potential of Kaldheim and rolls face doing it. Once again I must applaud you.
@@LegenVD Hi Legend, It´s been around a year and today I finally got accepted in an Uni, which rejected me the year prior on the day I wrote the first comment. Thank you again for your kind words, I have always kept them in mind and allthough we don´t know each other I want you to know about the positive influence you´ve had in my life. I wish you all the best and sending you much love from southern Germany ! :D
Thanks for all the awesome content! You're easily the best content creator for MTGA (imho). I like seeing (and often trying) some less played cards, while still being able to win some games. A small anecdote: A few weeks ago, I had pancakes for dinner while watching LVD. As I finished one pancake, I thought to myself: "Sweet, on to the next one". :)
It's always appreciated when your opponent allows you to go off or finish the combo you're throwing together. The last match was pretty ridiculous and awesome to see.
I know that lands are pretty stocked as it is (what with juggling three colors), but the Runes work fairly well with lands that can turn into creatures (Crawling Barrens, Faceless Haven). They can be enchanted even in land form, and remain protected from anything short of land destruction (so the runes don't risk falling off).
Good call! I want to see more "enchant permanent" style auras that are more flexible than they need to be just in case you're fiddling around with type-changing effects :)
I've watched/subscribed to quite a few TH-cam MTGA content creators. Some I eventually dropped bcuz they started being toxic/disrespectful to their opponents, which they have every right to, it's their channel, but I don't need that in my life. Having said all that I can say that you have become my favorite. Please keep up the quality content. Also thank you to everyone that responded or gave a thumbs up in my post a few videos ago.
Honestly I don't agree that it's "their right" to be toxic when using someone else's product to generate content and attract viewers. I believe in streamers' & consumers rights to not be nickel & dimed for licensing fees just to record videos, but that comes with an obligation to be a positive part of the community not a negative one. Which is one of many reasons I'm a fan of LVD, Absurd Heroine, and others like them :)
At first glance this is one of those seemingly innocuous ones until you notice all the synergies and it gets disgusting. Didn't even thought about targeting Goldspan with runes! That's so fun!
The LengenVD card power level scale: if the card appears in more than one deck from LegenVD's videos, it is a good card. If those decks are completely different archetypes, the card is not just good, it is a GREAT card.
I would love to see a "behind the scenes" type of video of the build of this deck (and your others)....insight into what you look for, how you find synergies, decide on final build, etc would be great. Releasing them one after the other would be cool (here is final deck, here is how we got here). Keep up the good work!
Having a very stressful week at work. Always enjoyable listening & watching your content LVD. Thank you for continued dedication to the game.. for it not only calms me down, it makes me want to continue playing mtg arena. Keep up the amazing work.
So I've played this a bit. It is so amazingly resilient. It's been alot of fun to play, so thank you for posting it. Now just waiting for one of your Patreons to vote on a Grey Merchant - > Mystic Reflection - > Rise of the Dread Marn combo. I appreciate your pleasant attitude as a content creator, so please keep up the great work!
I had been apprehensive about the runes but after being carried by 2 runes and a runed crown to 6-3 on a draft planned to make a Prismatic Rune King deck. And this deck here gives me some great ideas about how to brew it!
This might be one of the coolest decks I’ve ever seen, every card seems to work so well. The engine of setessan, the cost reducer, and the dragon are amazing. Does this deck work well into the face of heavier removal and interaction?
I can’t imagine it does great, but the natural density of card draw through Setessan and twelve whole runes means the deck can dig rather well when its combo pieces are spotted.
I've had the black rune with a new 2 mana pickaxe, and the synergy was pretty incredible. 1 mana to give any creature deathtouch and when it deals damage to the face, you get a treasure token. Played it in elf deck, and it really turned on all the cheap creatures like gladewalkers and the 1/1s that discard a card. Thought that it might actually be good enough to play in Standard if that deck is built carefully. Not necessarily this exact combo, but 1 equip cost equipments are really strong with runes. Just need to find a proper balance between runes, equipments and creatures. Perhaps Mardu dwarves with a focus on treasures can work out? Can also play the new 2 mana +1/+1 enchantment and seven dwarves too. The white god is also very synergetic, as it can refill your creatures even if they die, and unless they kill/bounce the equipment, runes won't go anywhere. The deck obviously isn't as explosive as this one, but I feel it might be pretty fun to play and grindy. Would have suggested the list, but I'm not good at deck building, so just throwing some ideas around, in case it inspires you to create something interesting.
What a cool deck LVD! Thanks for the great video as always! I noticed you said "storm off" twice this video, have you been reading Stormlight Archive? :) if you haven't I recommend reading Brandon Sanderson!
@19:50, why not use the floating red mana and two white from your treasure token to cast a Runeforge Mystic? You'd have been tapped out but all of your Runes would cost zero, so you'd be generating double mana off of your Goldspan Dragon.
That is an amazing deck. What even is standard anymore when even unassuming creature enchantment go face decks can end the game by drawing the entire library.
Huh. I thought 1 generic mana discounts only subtracted the generic mana cost of cards, not the colored ones. In my head, the runes would still cost 1 (colored) mana, even with the two discounters in play?
"Costs {1} less" does only affect generic mana. However Rune-Forged Champion replaces the mana cost entirely with just {1}, and then the other discounter can reduce that all the way to 0. (Alternate costs are applied first, then reductions and increases after.) With that said, I wasn't paying close attention to a few of the "storming off" turns and it felt like things were free-er than they should've been, so maybe I missed something else going on :)
I actually built it with everything but red, playset of all runes and champion, and a set of all that glitters. I'm placing the runes on mantle of tides and rosethorn halberd and equipping swarm shambler, brine giant and foulmire knight. Everything is so cheap and I draw like crazy so I run significantly less lands. It's too good.
I just realized that the Horn of Bounty's sound effect is the same as the horn from the Night's Watch from Game of Thrones and I don't know what to do with that information.
@@lifetime05 Steamkin sure, but the Frenzy seems like it has to come from somewhere else right? Here it's Champion or the Rune's cantrip effect; there was another one where it was Song of Creation, etc.
Runeforge Champion seems like a great example of power creep. It would have been a bomb in M12, but nowadays it's just a fun mess-around card in between competitive games. Agree? Disagree?
Storm Herald against mill and control, some removal for aggro decks, some escape cards (Sentinel's Eyes/Ox/Chainweb) for mill, maybe some protection instants if you expect a lot of removal.
Another gorgeous creation. Everyone's out there sporting the same tired rogue decks and ramp-to-ugin decks and tibalt's trickery cheese while LVD taps into the true potential of Kaldheim and rolls face doing it. Once again I must applaud you.
That value is just delicious. This set in particular just seems to have some great synergies
Nothing like ending the day with a LVD video, on to the next one.
Nothing like starting it with an LVD video, onto the next day.
@@samandonly2483 zweet
Not gonna lie, I've had a rough day. Seeing you post a new video, helps me putting my mind to rest. Thank you so much !
Things will get better!
@WH_White I'll sometimes hang out and play games with people on my Discord, I would consider them friends.
@@LegenVD Hi Legend,
It´s been around a year and today I finally got accepted in an Uni, which rejected me the year prior on the day I wrote the first comment.
Thank you again for your kind words, I have always kept them in mind and allthough we don´t know each other I want you to know about the positive influence you´ve had in my life. I wish you all the best and sending you much love from southern Germany ! :D
@@MeisterYoda900 Awesome to hear that, good luck with your endeavors!
Been waiting for a Rune deck - excellent brew and games, as always.
Oprah's rune deck. Everyone gets free runes.
I'm a simple man. I see LegenVD video, I watch, I like, I comment.
@@sixT4T be nice
Thanks for all the awesome content! You're easily the best content creator for MTGA (imho). I like seeing (and often trying) some less played cards, while still being able to win some games.
A small anecdote: A few weeks ago, I had pancakes for dinner while watching LVD. As I finished one pancake, I thought to myself: "Sweet, on to the next one". :)
Love being right on time for a new Legend video! Best MTGer on TH-cam
If i don't watch a Legend vid when I go to bed, I can't sleep.
This
And it's not even a joke!
Currently in bed.
Bruh you ain’t wrong
Same!
That's sad; you guys should seek help
It's always appreciated when your opponent allows you to go off or finish the combo you're throwing together. The last match was pretty ridiculous and awesome to see.
It wouldn't have been as impressive had they tapped out, so I'm glad they didn't.
I know that lands are pretty stocked as it is (what with juggling three colors), but the Runes work fairly well with lands that can turn into creatures (Crawling Barrens, Faceless Haven). They can be enchanted even in land form, and remain protected from anything short of land destruction (so the runes don't risk falling off).
Great point!
Good call! I want to see more "enchant permanent" style auras that are more flexible than they need to be just in case you're fiddling around with type-changing effects :)
I've watched/subscribed to quite a few TH-cam MTGA content creators. Some I eventually dropped bcuz they started being toxic/disrespectful to their opponents, which they have every right to, it's their channel, but I don't need that in my life. Having said all that I can say that you have become my favorite. Please keep up the quality content. Also thank you to everyone that responded or gave a thumbs up in my post a few videos ago.
Honestly I don't agree that it's "their right" to be toxic when using someone else's product to generate content and attract viewers. I believe in streamers' & consumers rights to not be nickel & dimed for licensing fees just to record videos, but that comes with an obligation to be a positive part of the community not a negative one. Which is one of many reasons I'm a fan of LVD, Absurd Heroine, and others like them :)
Bro you made runeforged champ good, this deck is awesome!
29:14 when you're looting your fridge in the middle of the night after smoking a few too many
i think i got it
lol
Awesome deck! Really well crafted, a lot of people couldn’t have made something this consistent and also unique.
Runestorm is an epic name for a deck. And it delivered!
RUUUUNESTOOOOOOORM
At first glance this is one of those seemingly innocuous ones until you notice all the synergies and it gets disgusting. Didn't even thought about targeting Goldspan with runes! That's so fun!
I got playset of the Runeforged Champion during the first week of Kaldheim. Now I know what to do with all those cards! What a beautiful deck!!
just beautiful, glad you were able to assemble such a cohesive deck using the runes
The LengenVD card power level scale: if the card appears in more than one deck from LegenVD's videos, it is a good card. If those decks are completely different archetypes, the card is not just good, it is a GREAT card.
I would love to see a "behind the scenes" type of video of the build of this deck (and your others)....insight into what you look for, how you find synergies, decide on final build, etc would be great. Releasing them one after the other would be cool (here is final deck, here is how we got here). Keep up the good work!
Having a very stressful week at work. Always enjoyable listening & watching your content LVD. Thank you for continued dedication to the game.. for it not only calms me down, it makes me want to continue playing mtg arena. Keep up the amazing work.
So I've played this a bit. It is so amazingly resilient. It's been alot of fun to play, so thank you for posting it. Now just waiting for one of your Patreons to vote on a Grey Merchant - > Mystic Reflection - > Rise of the Dread Marn combo. I appreciate your pleasant attitude as a content creator, so please keep up the great work!
I had been apprehensive about the runes but after being carried by 2 runes and a runed crown to 6-3 on a draft planned to make a Prismatic Rune King deck. And this deck here gives me some great ideas about how to brew it!
Nice one, brother! Always a pleasure and glad we found a new home for auras!
the only youtuber I have notifications turned on for!!
Amazing deck! Didn't see Horn playing a such role when flooding out/ storming off! Love the content man!
Hey, thanks!
@@LegenVD Hey, no problem! Thank you!
Praise to the algorithm for dropping your videos in my feed, man. Subscribed!
Welcome aboard!
Sure, I can go to sleep in 46 minutes
Love the Birgi art so much. Can't wait to hear the next story :P
"Let me tell you about the time we built storm in Standard..."
Thank you for getting me to take a closer look at the art! Very cool look to the character.
This might be one of the coolest decks I’ve ever seen, every card seems to work so well. The engine of setessan, the cost reducer, and the dragon are amazing. Does this deck work well into the face of heavier removal and interaction?
I can’t imagine it does great, but the natural density of card draw through Setessan and twelve whole runes means the deck can dig rather well when its combo pieces are spotted.
2 for 2 on 'i picky up deck' combos in standard. Glorious. Perfect *chefs kiss*
This deck looks like a lot of fun! Let's take a moment too to appreciate how good of a sport Yawgmeth was.
Man do all these decks you've been posting look fun. I really can't wait to see what you come up with as a shell for Koma.
I absolutely love how he says "on to the next one" everytime
Might be my favorite deck I've seen this set.
well i really really love this deck. never disapointed but today im satisfied
Would love to see you playing this decks in ranked ladder
Oh wow, i just got out of a match against this deck, i was playing poison and squeezed a victory right at the end. Pretty good deck this one
I've had the black rune with a new 2 mana pickaxe, and the synergy was pretty incredible. 1 mana to give any creature deathtouch and when it deals damage to the face, you get a treasure token. Played it in elf deck, and it really turned on all the cheap creatures like gladewalkers and the 1/1s that discard a card.
Thought that it might actually be good enough to play in Standard if that deck is built carefully. Not necessarily this exact combo, but 1 equip cost equipments are really strong with runes. Just need to find a proper balance between runes, equipments and creatures.
Perhaps Mardu dwarves with a focus on treasures can work out?
Can also play the new 2 mana +1/+1 enchantment and seven dwarves too. The white god is also very synergetic, as it can refill your creatures even if they die, and unless they kill/bounce the equipment, runes won't go anywhere.
The deck obviously isn't as explosive as this one, but I feel it might be pretty fun to play and grindy. Would have suggested the list, but I'm not good at deck building, so just throwing some ideas around, in case it inspires you to create something interesting.
Really gorgeous deck.......seems so fun!!!!! Great Legend!!!!
What a cool deck LVD! Thanks for the great video as always! I noticed you said "storm off" twice this video, have you been reading Stormlight Archive? :) if you haven't I recommend reading Brandon Sanderson!
@19:50, why not use the floating red mana and two white from your treasure token to cast a Runeforge Mystic? You'd have been tapped out but all of your Runes would cost zero, so you'd be generating double mana off of your Goldspan Dragon.
Yup, defintely could've cast it a little sooner.
nice game showing the strenght of the set
this deck is a work of art, keep at it.
Nice deck. Great player. Congrats man!
this seems even better than the Storm Herald build i had in mind when i saw all these runes
I love this deck. I am going to craft it immediatly. It is not a tier 1 deck, but it is such a sweet deck.
always happy to see setessan champion getting some action
There is a red rare in Theros that brings all the aura’s from you graveyard to battle field. It might be useful in this deck
Storm Herald could be good as a sideboard plan vs Mill and Control decks.
This deck has my name on it.
It does! Can I find you with my Champion?
Fun fact: If you have enough wildcards you can make 24 different Rune-Forged Champions!
Nothing more satisfying than drawing a lot of cards.
patreon loves dem some combo decks
How about adding crawling barrens to the runestorm deck? Enchant land. Pay mana to turn land into creature as/when needed.
It sounds fun, although the manabase probably can't afford any colorless lands.
Damn. Wish I had the wildcards for this, it looks like great fun
Keep up the great content my man!
Appreciate it!
Birgie has those lovely mana bumps.
What a ridiculously funny deck!
This is brilliant, but I'd replace your shepard's with better 1 drop protection. perhaps karametra's blessing or selfless saviors.
I definitely considered Savior and that exact swap. Seems totally reasonable.
That is an amazing deck. What even is standard anymore when even unassuming creature enchantment go face decks can end the game by drawing the entire library.
this deck is a blast... i want to try it!
This deck is fabulous
Watching the Wanda Vision advertisement before this video made me cry.
ohhhh Naya, my 2nd favourite colour combo
(I miss zacama from standard!)
LVD Looks out window and sees a mushroom cloud, "Hmm that's acceptable", you're like inverse Lemongrab.
24:48 Shadow's Verdict would have wiped the entire board, and it is more popular right now since Rakdos has been doing so well
6:19 Not quite how I imagined Birgi to sound.
Huh. I thought 1 generic mana discounts only subtracted the generic mana cost of cards, not the colored ones.
In my head, the runes would still cost 1 (colored) mana, even with the two discounters in play?
I also had to see the interaction to make sure it worked that way.
"Costs {1} less" does only affect generic mana. However Rune-Forged Champion replaces the mana cost entirely with just {1}, and then the other discounter can reduce that all the way to 0. (Alternate costs are applied first, then reductions and increases after.)
With that said, I wasn't paying close attention to a few of the "storming off" turns and it felt like things were free-er than they should've been, so maybe I missed something else going on :)
we need to get this man to 100k subs
44:45 Yes, Thwart the Enemy from Ikoria.
Yup, that's the one card I could think of.
Holy shit, this looks really fun to play with!
This is so cool!!
Oh now THIS I like. This is a nice value engine.
Impressive, cheap, powerful and fun combo. Would love to have enough wildcards to craft it ! 😭
Playing half your deck in one turn gives me yu-gi-oh PTSD
I know how to really scare you: Firewall Dragon goes to 3
@@carlostaffanelly418 That's up there but nothing tops them playing nothing and the first thing they say is ''move to battle phase''
@@legs0fsteel oh God Equally Matched... The pain you caused me
Awesome deck!!!
Tried playing a storm Herald or two for plan B (c?) purposes?
Seems like a good sideboard plan.
Storm Herald seems like a recipe for accidentally decking myself haha.
Got a feeling we’ll be seeing a lot more Birgi in other formats, seems like a great enabler
the artifact is so crazy honestly, it makes the card both an enabler and a pay-off, its super reliable
Id throw in a copy of the black deathtouch rune since you can play it with runeforge champion. Deathtouch trample WILL win games
Flying also works, although if size is important you can always wait for the Showdown to reach chapter two or three before comboing off.
There needs to be a way to include hateful eidolon in this - but its so tightly built its hard to take something out...
All that glitters would be nuts combos with gold span and ruins
Mmmmmmmmmm goood
What about all that gliters ? the trasure token are counting has artefact for it . an hisoric version with spirit dancer, sram and cartouches .
It would be good once we're going off, but it feels unnecessary. Especially if we're already getting counters from the Showdown Saga.
Barney's favourite runes!
I actually built it with everything but red, playset of all runes and champion, and a set of all that glitters. I'm placing the runes on mantle of tides and rosethorn halberd and equipping swarm shambler, brine giant and foulmire knight. Everything is so cheap and I draw like crazy so I run significantly less lands. It's too good.
I just realized that the Horn of Bounty's sound effect is the same as the horn from the Night's Watch from Game of Thrones and I don't know what to do with that information.
Nice deck, I’d maybe try to add Archon or two in somehow
insane deck once u get 2-3 creatures on the field there is no limit
Hey LVD, can you add an abzan or golgari counter deck to the polls?
This deck is super strong.
Great deck ! What about 1 or 2 all that glitters ? To finish people out of nowhere once you storm off ? Cheers !
It would be good once we're going off, but it feels unnecessary. Especially if we're already getting counters from the Showdown Saga.
Birgi is by far the jankiest, coolest card we had in a few years.
Like runaway steamkin meets experimental frenzy on one card.
@@lifetime05 Steamkin sure, but the Frenzy seems like it has to come from somewhere else right? Here it's Champion or the Rune's cantrip effect; there was another one where it was Song of Creation, etc.
Legit question LegenVD I know u play a deck by your patrons but if you were to try make this deck ranked worthy what changes would YOU make !!???
I built the deck, Patrons just pick between several options.
Runeforge Champion seems like a great example of power creep. It would have been a bomb in M12, but nowadays it's just a fun mess-around card in between competitive games. Agree? Disagree?
Powercreep is definitely a real phenomenon.
Thus deck is just delicious
During whole video I had Sram Strom flashbacks
Hey Luca! What would you put in the sideboard for the current meta? This deck intrigued me so much I'm considering buying it in paper.
Storm Herald against mill and control, some removal for aggro decks, some escape cards (Sentinel's Eyes/Ox/Chainweb) for mill, maybe some protection instants if you expect a lot of removal.
Thanks for the answer, love your videos, keep it up!
Do you feel like this would be alright against the "top tier" decks, or is it too slow for ranked?
The only way to know is to try it out
What is up with all the party decks though?
Wow, it's almost like freecasting is... dangerous?
considered adding all that glitters to this deck? seems like it'd fit pretty nicely
It would be good once we're going off, but it feels unnecessary. Especially if we're already getting counters from the Showdown Saga.
@@LegenVD Popular questions deserve popular answers :)
@@LegenVD ah right on, that makes sense