Please do this with more decks. Picking up tips for goldfishing is helpful but honestly I was just really entertained. I especially liked how you explained which times you thought interaction would come your way and acted it out.
I think this is an outstanding idea for a video. No idea why nobody has done it before. The commentary is really helpful. Seeing how cards interact is awesome. More please!!! Thanks Joey!
This is more often than not what I do when I'm unable to play with actual people. It definitely helps me get acquainted with newer or more complex decks I make as well.
Not gonna lie, was kinda hopin for Matt to pop in with a "sorry for the interupttion but to continue with tradition, im forcing a segway to challenge some stats"
It's also so fun and revealing to do after just brewing a new deck. I'm currently using Moxfield for this and - while far from perfect - it lets me figure out quite quickly if a deck that I brewed would actually be fun and cohesive to play before buying any of the cards. I'm not a shill for Moxfield, btw., many sites seem to offer such functionality. I highly recommend brewing a list online before buying anything for that reason.
Dude, I love your energy in this video. It’s clear to see that this is your favourite deck and why. Please make more of these videos because I think you explaining the synergies helps seasoned and new players to think in different paths to synergy. Thank you so much for your work 😊
I really loved that video, thank you very much ! You successfully gave it a relaxing quality and it was super nice to hear you talk about your deck and how you lovingly built it. It was both unscripted but in-depth and the editing was great at smoothing it out. I'd love to see and hear more videos about your other decks or by other members of the team ! Thanks again and cheers for this experimentation that went well !
My favorite MTG content is people gushing about their own decks and explaining the intricacies. Not only do you get to see the love for the deck, but you get insight that only comes from actually playing a deck week after week.
So sillyness first, seeing Joey's excitement for his "baby lasagna" and literally anything he does with it is hilarious ro me 😆 On a more serious note, I love this style of content! It's something I haven't seen pop up before and it really does open my eyes to a TON of the things I didn't even consider were options for Baba Lysaga and caed evaluation in general! I've heard Joey talk about/mention this deck so much I was almost tired of it but this video alone makes me want to put together some version of a lysaga list and rry it out! TL:DR, great content, more please 😆
Goldfishing is fun! But I like to use a d6 while doing it (because I play on a very competitive environment, casual tables might use a d10 or d12). Every time I do something I would roll the d6, and if I get a 5 or 6 I pretend someone interacted with something I was doing. If I'm casting a spell, it gets countered. If I'm activating a creature, it gets removed. During big attacks, I get boardwiped. It helps a lot to see the resilience of the deck, how well I can interact with other interactions or protect myself. And for my own interactions/removal, I use them as soon as I can. Counterspells I keep until I roll a 6.
Not very often that you get board wiped ‘when you attack’. I would probably just be rolling a dice for that every turn after I have 4+ creatures in play.
@@Dragon_Fyre you clearly don't play against enough Cyclonic Rifts/Perplexing Tests/Settle the Wreckages the thing is, on competitive tables, board wipes are a way to use a single card to remove multiple threats;:even if you only have one creature it might be removed as collateral for the removal of another player's creature. On cEdh your cards have to be worth three times as much! Why run Doomblades when Wraths cost 4?
not only is this a cool deck to watch all the things you could do with it but it's also great second monitor content, I could sit here listening to you goldfish for hours
When Goldfishing, I use an 8 sided die to determine if my opponents interact with my permanents. On a 7 or 8, they do, and I use odds or evens to determine the type of interaction (for example 7 might mean single target removal and 8 a board wipe). I do this every turn (on my turn) from turn 4 onwards (my playgroup typically spends the first 3 turns setting up and its extremely rare for someone to interact before then.)
I find unless you are going to goldfish 4 decks to see how they play against each other, actual game experience is required versus goldfishing to gain any real insight into further modifying the deck. I mostly goldfish my decks to try and determine whether my mana base requires more or less lands/ramp to be functional. Typically I have 36-38 lands.
I’m 25 but feel honored to be counted in some context among the “responsible adult” grouping. Change the age and you could’ve stolen the words from my mouth!
Awesome! I can’t believe that no one does this kind of thing with their deck techs. The commentary is wonderful and actual goldfishing tells us the deckbuilder isn’t just hyping their deck up when it may not actually work well in practice! i’m going to harass every content creator to do something like this. Please do more!
This was real chill to watch and goldfish along with using my Grimgrin deck. I would really like more of these and also this is low-key deck tech as well.
Please make more videos like this!!! I would watch you goldfish every single deck you own. Love the running commentary. I muted the vid in areas and made my own determinations based on the cards you drew. I then rewatched those portions to see what you said and how your analysis differed with my own. Wonderful learning tool.
Love this. I do this alot when it gets slow at work. A bit of solo magic to pass the time, keeps my mind engaged, and it's helped me refine decks for more consistency.
While I don't know if watching an hour of this is the most compelling content; Joey is one of few creators that genuinely makes it obvious he loves the game. I really appreciate how he shares his process.
I had a Baba Lazagna deck and this video give me reasons to re-build it! All the things about this commander that i've learn is unbelievable! I hope more video like this will come out in the futur.
I would love to see more of this type of content. As someone who has only played magic for a bit more than a year now, I really could have used something like this when I was starting out. So many videos I watched told folks to always goldfish, but never demonstrated what that looked like in practice. Would love to see more types of decks with some different ways to goldfish.
Really love this kind of content. It is great to learn more about the thought and decision making process when piloting the deck. Would love to see more goldfishing content in the future.
It was kinda of exciting to see the actual, physical Baby Lasagna deck, which has been mentioned so many times in the podcast it's become a celebrity to me!
I spend my lunches at work goldfishing and i feel like it has helped me alot with my deckbuilding and it makes me able to pilot my decks more efficiently. Love the video, Ive wanted to build Baba Lysaga for a while and im even more excited to build ger now.
Love goldfishing and I love these kinds of videos. I’ve personally felt that deck techs should often have a part of the video that does a little demonstrating of the deck, including a couple rounds of goldfishing and maybe a few opening hands with comments on whether you’d keep them or not. Thank you much!
I love Baba Lysaga. I've given here bit more of a life gain/life loss focus than your version of the deck, but every now and then I check in on your list to see some cards I may not have thought of. The Starscream addition is brilliant (though I'm with you that it kinda messes with the flavor feel). I've played a couple games with her at this point and I'm tweaking the list to give myself a little bit more interaction and a few ways to accelerate life loss, but otherwise it's an incredibly fun deck.
Was really debating which deck to make next, and I think this video settled it for me. Baba Lysaga looks so fun to play just constantly saccing your own stuff.
I made a modified version of the budget deck and it was so fun to play :) This video was extremely helpful to get me quickly acquainted with the mechanics, to know what to look for in opening hands, and ideas for what I can sub for cards that I couldn't readily get. Thanks!
this was a cool and chill video that I hope to see more of. it would also be interesting to see Dana and Matt do it, and perhaps you could goldfish each other's decks to see if any unique insights come from that.
Didn't know there was a term for this. I really like testing decks this way not for the reason to see it works or not but rather to see my own plays from an opponent perspective and try outbeat myself with my own plays. Kinda opens the mind and helps with game strategy and psychology
This was really cool to see, and I'm happy to see someone else talk about how cool Starscream is, I have a mono black politics deck with him at the helm and its very fun.
Again, really love this type of video! Perhaps you can revisit the deck to assess it for what can come in and out as a new set arrives? I always have trouble assessing what is a good replacement and what comes out. It’d be a great exercise to walk through and talk out loud!
Liking and commenting again so that this becomes a recurring popular series so that maybe one day we can pressure Matt Morgan to goldfish a deck at least one single time.
Man you can tell joey put some hours in on this deck lol. Each card is carefully thought out and there are redundant and hidden synergies all over the place.
I think the best benefit of goldfishing is seeing how consistent you make your land drops/ ramp or even meet your curve. More interactive actions are just harder to asses this way but it definitely helps in deciding what hands to keep and wich to mulligan.
Well I found it really interesting. Perhaps less from the angle of goldfishing, but just as a deep dive into a specific deck and the synergies and choices that went into crafting it.
I goldfish with my Baba Lysaga a lot while thinking of plans for the weekend or other stuff lol. I can turn off my brain and listen to vids like this too
I’ve been nursing this silly injury that makes it painfully challenging to shuffle for a while and I’m starting to enjoy "goldfishing" more and more. As you mentioned in previous videos, piloting decks that require a lot of shuffling becomes less appealing with time. Using platforms like archidekt or moxfiled allows me to make multiple changes to my brews without going through the whole process of acquiring said card(or proxy), sleeving/unsleeving, shuffling up and play testing.
It feels like the EDHrec channel is constantly targeting me. Reeled me in with my love of statistics, kept a roof over my head with the amazing words of incredible writers and their fantastic insights, and keeping me fed with content that caters to something I do at least 30 minutes a day.
While watching this, I used the Compare Decks feature to compare my Baba Lysaga deck against yours, and I was surprised by how very different they are - we only share 17 non-lands. But just like in your experience, this is such a fun commander, and I've loved playing my build every time. I'm only partway into the video, so maybe you address this, but I'm surprised you aren't running Thornbite Staff or Inkmoth Nexus.
I goldfish constantly with my Oswald Fiddlebender deck. Knowing which artifact to play, which to sac, which to get and in which order has been invaluable in making my turns much faster by building "muscle memory". Especially since I don't play it very often because of its power level.
When I goldfish, I use a dice to track what turn it is so I can see what turn I can start to get things rolling. I also use dice to track how much damage I’ve dished out, life drained, etc.
14:37 Greed is good. I find it's better to push yourself to play more liberally than conservatively, as this truly tests to see if you made the deck to flow smoothly. If you find you end up bricking a lot by doing so, then it's likely a hint that your ratios are off with your engine. Ideally, if you can replenish your hand as fast as you can dump it, then that's a sign your mana curve aligns with your card velocity. There are cases where a deck might draw cards in bursts, but then having to discard to handsize, being an indicator the mana curve isn't quite sound; conversely, there are many times where you dump your hand...but can't refill it - this being an indicator you need more card velocity.
It's super interesting to see how other people goldfish their decks. I personally used to own the "Challenge decks" from the original Theros block. I ended up making a web-app version of the Minotaurs one (With plans to make the other two as well, eventually). I goldfish all of my decks against it and try to limit myself to ~10 turns as I aim for 6/7 power level.
Something quite interesting is that in the first hand you tested, as soon as t4 you could animate Mishra's Factory with Urborg, block with it and use it's own mana ability to use Boseiju's channel if needed. That's a looooot of value
This is really interesting to see but when I goldfish, I'm quite sure I don't do it right at all. I pull out 3 of my other decks, do quick shuffles & play a half-life game instead. It helps me see not only how my new deck plays but also how my old decks interacts with the new playstyle of the trial deck. I'm also terrible at imagining how games night go (I'm too new to MTG and too optimistic so I need the actual cards played). 😅 Loved the vid, Joey! Keep up the great work Challenging the Statistics. 😁
On Urza's saga Because the mode switch as a triggered ability when entering the main phase, you can 1. get the 3rd ability of the saga (tutor for stuff) 2. TAP for (1) mana in response 3. SAC it to Baba for her trigger ...and if you can reanimate it at instant speed on your upkeep, it will 1. ETB trigger the 1st ability 2. Main phase trigger the 2nd ability Sagas are weird like that. :3
The sheer joy with which Joey plays this deck is so contagious 🥰
Joey drawing any one of the 99 cards in his baby lasagna deck: "Hello there, good card"
Please do this with more decks. Picking up tips for goldfishing is helpful but honestly I was just really entertained. I especially liked how you explained which times you thought interaction would come your way and acted it out.
I think this is an outstanding idea for a video. No idea why nobody has done it before. The commentary is really helpful. Seeing how cards interact is awesome. More please!!! Thanks Joey!
Plenty of people have done goldfishing videos before lol
Goldfishing and finding lines is my favorite part of MTG. Glad to see some content on it
This is more often than not what I do when I'm unable to play with actual people. It definitely helps me get acquainted with newer or more complex decks I make as well.
This is an awesome idea! This is a great way to see play patterns in-between games (something I struggle with). Hope you make more!
Appreciate the feedback, thank you! This is definitely an unusual/experimental type of video for us, so we're very eager to see how it's received.
Not gonna lie, was kinda hopin for Matt to pop in with a "sorry for the interupttion but to continue with tradition, im forcing a segway to challenge some stats"
It was heavily considered
I legit spend 20-30 minutes a day (if I have time) goldfishing. I love this.
It’s usually how I wind down after work every day.
It's also so fun and revealing to do after just brewing a new deck. I'm currently using Moxfield for this and - while far from perfect - it lets me figure out quite quickly if a deck that I brewed would actually be fun and cohesive to play before buying any of the cards. I'm not a shill for Moxfield, btw., many sites seem to offer such functionality. I highly recommend brewing a list online before buying anything for that reason.
I really like this: this kind of video is perfect to have as relaxing background noise while working remote!
Dude, I love your energy in this video. It’s clear to see that this is your favourite deck and why. Please make more of these videos because I think you explaining the synergies helps seasoned and new players to think in different paths to synergy. Thank you so much for your work 😊
Lovely ride on Joey’s train of thought. 😁
I really loved that video, thank you very much ! You successfully gave it a relaxing quality and it was super nice to hear you talk about your deck and how you lovingly built it. It was both unscripted but in-depth and the editing was great at smoothing it out. I'd love to see and hear more videos about your other decks or by other members of the team !
Thanks again and cheers for this experimentation that went well !
My favorite MTG content is people gushing about their own decks and explaining the intricacies. Not only do you get to see the love for the deck, but you get insight that only comes from actually playing a deck week after week.
Love this video format! The walkthru in executing combo pieces and having your insight in doing so ❤
So sillyness first, seeing Joey's excitement for his "baby lasagna" and literally anything he does with it is hilarious ro me 😆
On a more serious note, I love this style of content! It's something I haven't seen pop up before and it really does open my eyes to a TON of the things I didn't even consider were options for Baba Lysaga and caed evaluation in general! I've heard Joey talk about/mention this deck so much I was almost tired of it but this video alone makes me want to put together some version of a lysaga list and rry it out!
TL:DR, great content, more please 😆
Goldfishing is fun!
But I like to use a d6 while doing it (because I play on a very competitive environment, casual tables might use a d10 or d12). Every time I do something I would roll the d6, and if I get a 5 or 6 I pretend someone interacted with something I was doing.
If I'm casting a spell, it gets countered. If I'm activating a creature, it gets removed. During big attacks, I get boardwiped.
It helps a lot to see the resilience of the deck, how well I can interact with other interactions or protect myself.
And for my own interactions/removal, I use them as soon as I can. Counterspells I keep until I roll a 6.
May I ask, once you play in person have results been even better because you goldfished this way. I'm willing to try this method for sure.
That is brilliant!! I’ve just sort of done it as a “sometimes it fails”, but putting it on a die is a wonderful idea.
Not very often that you get board wiped ‘when you attack’. I would probably just be rolling a dice for that every turn after I have 4+ creatures in play.
Ooooh, good idea!
@@Dragon_Fyre you clearly don't play against enough Cyclonic Rifts/Perplexing Tests/Settle the Wreckages
the thing is, on competitive tables, board wipes are a way to use a single card to remove multiple threats;:even if you only have one creature it might be removed as collateral for the removal of another player's creature. On cEdh your cards have to be worth three times as much!
Why run Doomblades when Wraths cost 4?
not only is this a cool deck to watch all the things you could do with it but it's also great second monitor content, I could sit here listening to you goldfish for hours
When Goldfishing, I use an 8 sided die to determine if my opponents interact with my permanents. On a 7 or 8, they do, and I use odds or evens to determine the type of interaction (for example 7 might mean single target removal and 8 a board wipe). I do this every turn (on my turn) from turn 4 onwards (my playgroup typically spends the first 3 turns setting up and its extremely rare for someone to interact before then.)
I find unless you are going to goldfish 4 decks to see how they play against each other, actual game experience is required versus goldfishing to gain any real insight into further modifying the deck.
I mostly goldfish my decks to try and determine whether my mana base requires more or less lands/ramp to be functional. Typically I have 36-38 lands.
I’ll have to do that myself
When you're in your thirties and your blessed enough to play one game or two a month., Gold fishing keeps us warm. Happy to see something like this
I’m 25 but feel honored to be counted in some context among the “responsible adult” grouping. Change the age and you could’ve stolen the words from my mouth!
@@Durtaz24 here. Full time work takes it outta me lol. I have played maybe 4 times in the last 6 months.
Love this content Joey -- would love to see more of it in the future!!!
I'm surprised at how helpful and fun this was. It would be nice to see you goldfishing your other decks too.
Awesome! I can’t believe that no one does this kind of thing with their deck techs. The commentary is wonderful and actual goldfishing tells us the deckbuilder isn’t just hyping their deck up when it may not actually work well in practice!
i’m going to harass every content creator to do something like this. Please do more!
This was real chill to watch and goldfish along with using my Grimgrin deck. I would really like more of these and also this is low-key deck tech as well.
Great video Joey, hearing the thought process and your ideas was outstanding and would love more content like this.
Please make more videos like this!!! I would watch you goldfish every single deck you own. Love the running commentary. I muted the vid in areas and made my own determinations based on the cards you drew. I then rewatched those portions to see what you said and how your analysis differed with my own. Wonderful learning tool.
Love this. I do this alot when it gets slow at work. A bit of solo magic to pass the time, keeps my mind engaged, and it's helped me refine decks for more consistency.
Somewhere Matt is shaking his head 😂
This was super fun! So cool seeing the thought process of a deck being played out, especially one you love so much ^.^
While I don't know if watching an hour of this is the most compelling content; Joey is one of few creators that genuinely makes it obvious he loves the game. I really appreciate how he shares his process.
I would definitely watch more of this kind of video!
I had a Baba Lazagna deck and this video give me reasons to re-build it! All the things about this commander that i've learn is unbelievable! I hope more video like this will come out in the futur.
I would love to see more of this type of content. As someone who has only played magic for a bit more than a year now, I really could have used something like this when I was starting out. So many videos I watched told folks to always goldfish, but never demonstrated what that looked like in practice. Would love to see more types of decks with some different ways to goldfish.
We need more goldfish with me vids! So many deck techs but this is fun to kind of see how they play
Really love this kind of content. It is great to learn more about the thought and decision making process when piloting the deck. Would love to see more goldfishing content in the future.
It was kinda of exciting to see the actual, physical Baby Lasagna deck, which has been mentioned so many times in the podcast it's become a celebrity to me!
I spend my lunches at work goldfishing and i feel like it has helped me alot with my deckbuilding and it makes me able to pilot my decks more efficiently.
Love the video, Ive wanted to build Baba Lysaga for a while and im even more excited to build ger now.
I really loved this concept, I hope you do more videos like this breaking down your thoughtprocess on things!
This video idea is awesome! Being new to MTG and EDH I do this all the time with my Zhuldok deck. Thank y'all for all the helpful videos!
I LOVE the goldfishing videos, something to watch in the background while i goldfish myself :)
Great idea joey I really enjoyed your thought process when goldfishing very insightful
Great video idea! I was half expecting Dana to interrupt with some graveyard removal, in order to goldfish Joey's frustration lol
Love this idea. Want to see more goldfishing videos. An area of magic that doesn't get as much focus as it should
I actually love this idea. Im imagining a series of videos of people showing off their decks while explaining what they are trying to do to win
I wish there was more content like this such an intimate look at someone's commander deck thank you for sharing your lasagna with us joey.
Love goldfishing and I love these kinds of videos. I’ve personally felt that deck techs should often have a part of the video that does a little demonstrating of the deck, including a couple rounds of goldfishing and maybe a few opening hands with comments on whether you’d keep them or not. Thank you much!
I love Baba Lysaga. I've given here bit more of a life gain/life loss focus than your version of the deck, but every now and then I check in on your list to see some cards I may not have thought of. The Starscream addition is brilliant (though I'm with you that it kinda messes with the flavor feel). I've played a couple games with her at this point and I'm tweaking the list to give myself a little bit more interaction and a few ways to accelerate life loss, but otherwise it's an incredibly fun deck.
Was really debating which deck to make next, and I think this video settled it for me. Baba Lysaga looks so fun to play just constantly saccing your own stuff.
I made a modified version of the budget deck and it was so fun to play :) This video was extremely helpful to get me quickly acquainted with the mechanics, to know what to look for in opening hands, and ideas for what I can sub for cards that I couldn't readily get. Thanks!
I love this and I do this when after I make edits! This is great!
Very much enjoyed this, thanks Joey! ❤
Two goldfish are in a tank... one goldfish turns to the other and says, "Hey... do you know how to drive this thing?"
This was awesome! Tell Matt and Dana to do this for their decks aswell!
I love this, Joey! You are right this is very relaxing but also super instructive.. Please do another one for Thalisse! 🙏
this is the content i want to see i am only five minuets in and already know this is something i can watch and goldfish myself
I hope this video is popular. I really enjoy your thought goldfishing deck
this was a cool and chill video that I hope to see more of. it would also be interesting to see Dana and Matt do it, and perhaps you could goldfish each other's decks to see if any unique insights come from that.
Yes, more plz this was great!
It was a great video! I look forward to others like this!
Didn't know there was a term for this. I really like testing decks this way not for the reason to see it works or not but rather to see my own plays from an opponent perspective and try outbeat myself with my own plays. Kinda opens the mind and helps with game strategy and psychology
I have been waiting eagerly for you to do a "deck tech" on Baby Lasagna and I'm so glad you finally did it.
This was really cool to see, and I'm happy to see someone else talk about how cool Starscream is, I have a mono black politics deck with him at the helm and its very fun.
Again, really love this type of video! Perhaps you can revisit the deck to assess it for what can come in and out as a new set arrives? I always have trouble assessing what is a good replacement and what comes out. It’d be a great exercise to walk through and talk out loud!
You can call the series “Watching Baby grow”
Outstanding format
This really is such a cool deck man
Like this video. Thanks! Would be interested in more different decks
More of this please!!!!!!!
I knew you would put conduit of worlds on youre baby deck! That card is a gem
Really cool idea for a video. This was fun! I need to goldfish more but I just don’t have time!
Using artifact man lands for the trigger is really cool and i didnt even think of it
What a cool concept for a video! Would love to see more stuff like this. Wonder if viewer/patron submitted decks could be introduced at one point…?
i was waiting for a video like this😍
Oh! I was expecting you to use a digital method. Very nice. I definitely think using your physical deck is better when possible.
I find goldfishing to be very relaxing. Watching someone else do it isn't something I find entertaining. Cool looking deck tho! Looks very well made
Appreciate the feedback, thank you! And the kind words :]
DO THIS MORE!! Love it! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Liking and commenting again so that this becomes a recurring popular series so that maybe one day we can pressure Matt Morgan to goldfish a deck at least one single time.
Really liked this episode, makes me wanna goldfish more
Man you can tell joey put some hours in on this deck lol. Each card is carefully thought out and there are redundant and hidden synergies all over the place.
Awesome episode! Felt like we got to hang out with Joey for an hour, but yea I goldfish all the time especially when brewing.
I think the best benefit of goldfishing is seeing how consistent you make your land drops/ ramp or even meet your curve. More interactive actions are just harder to asses this way but it definitely helps in deciding what hands to keep and wich to mulligan.
Totally love this video! More of Goldfishing, please! (Although I might be biased - I love Baby Lasagna! :D )
Well I found it really interesting. Perhaps less from the angle of goldfishing, but just as a deep dive into a specific deck and the synergies and choices that went into crafting it.
More of these please
I goldfish with my Baba Lysaga a lot while thinking of plans for the weekend or other stuff lol. I can turn off my brain and listen to vids like this too
I’ve been nursing this silly injury that makes it painfully challenging to shuffle for a while and I’m starting to enjoy "goldfishing" more and more. As you mentioned in previous videos, piloting decks that require a lot of shuffling becomes less appealing with time. Using platforms like archidekt or moxfiled allows me to make multiple changes to my brews without going through the whole process of acquiring said card(or proxy), sleeving/unsleeving, shuffling up and play testing.
It feels like the EDHrec channel is constantly targeting me. Reeled me in with my love of statistics, kept a roof over my head with the amazing words of incredible writers and their fantastic insights, and keeping me fed with content that caters to something I do at least 30 minutes a day.
This is a great deck to goldfish, I’m in love
While watching this, I used the Compare Decks feature to compare my Baba Lysaga deck against yours, and I was surprised by how very different they are - we only share 17 non-lands. But just like in your experience, this is such a fun commander, and I've loved playing my build every time. I'm only partway into the video, so maybe you address this, but I'm surprised you aren't running Thornbite Staff or Inkmoth Nexus.
I goldfish constantly with my Oswald Fiddlebender deck. Knowing which artifact to play, which to sac, which to get and in which order has been invaluable in making my turns much faster by building "muscle memory". Especially since I don't play it very often because of its power level.
When I goldfish, I use a dice to track what turn it is so I can see what turn I can start to get things rolling. I also use dice to track how much damage I’ve dished out, life drained, etc.
14:37 Greed is good. I find it's better to push yourself to play more liberally than conservatively, as this truly tests to see if you made the deck to flow smoothly. If you find you end up bricking a lot by doing so, then it's likely a hint that your ratios are off with your engine.
Ideally, if you can replenish your hand as fast as you can dump it, then that's a sign your mana curve aligns with your card velocity. There are cases where a deck might draw cards in bursts, but then having to discard to handsize, being an indicator the mana curve isn't quite sound; conversely, there are many times where you dump your hand...but can't refill it - this being an indicator you need more card velocity.
I enjoyed this video, thank you!
It's super interesting to see how other people goldfish their decks.
I personally used to own the "Challenge decks" from the original Theros block. I ended up making a web-app version of the Minotaurs one (With plans to make the other two as well, eventually).
I goldfish all of my decks against it and try to limit myself to ~10 turns as I aim for 6/7 power level.
No wonder you like her, seems fun
Something quite interesting is that in the first hand you tested, as soon as t4 you could animate Mishra's Factory with Urborg, block with it and use it's own mana ability to use Boseiju's channel if needed. That's a looooot of value
This is really interesting to see but when I goldfish, I'm quite sure I don't do it right at all.
I pull out 3 of my other decks, do quick shuffles & play a half-life game instead. It helps me see not only how my new deck plays but also how my old decks interacts with the new playstyle of the trial deck. I'm also terrible at imagining how games night go (I'm too new to MTG and too optimistic so I need the actual cards played). 😅
Loved the vid, Joey! Keep up the great work Challenging the Statistics. 😁
I love my Baby Lasagna deck as well. Inspired from yours. I splashed Sheoldred, apocalypse in mine lol
On Urza's saga
Because the mode switch as a triggered ability when entering the main phase, you can
1. get the 3rd ability of the saga (tutor for stuff)
2. TAP for (1) mana in response
3. SAC it to Baba for her trigger
...and if you can reanimate it at instant speed on your upkeep, it will
1. ETB trigger the 1st ability
2. Main phase trigger the 2nd ability
Sagas are weird like that. :3
I love this idea for a series. Idk how practical it is but I wonder if you could goldfish decklists that aren't yours
Hey Joey! I really enjoyed this video 🎉