In the video Carl takes out 3 Undying Malice from the main deck to sideboard in 3 Kolaghan's Command. What happened here? In the list the Malice is in the sideboard as well
@@marmics96 Thoralf assembled the decks so we wouldn't see what each other was playing. He seems to have put the Undying malice in the maindeck by mistake 😅 I seem to have been playing a 63-card deck
@@CardmarketMagicwhy on earth did you search for a Ball Lightning instead of a Lightning Skelemental when you had a swamp and no mountains in your hand??? You knew you weren't drawing a red source, you were drawing the elemental you just put at the top of your deck! Lightning Skelemental is even the better card! Also, why are you searching up an elemental to the top of your library before you have enough mana to cast that one or the one already in your hand? Wouldn't it be better to get a land to cast the first one and then search up another one after when you can cast it? And bring back the first one using the recursion in your hand in between? Doing that would also have let you already drawn the Terminate when you needed it during the third game
@joedoe7572 misplays are misplays but it's obviously a lot easier for us to Monday morning QB the game, as far as the ball lightning goes, I believe he said he went and got it for the fun of it as it was the decks namesake.
I first stopped playing before modern was a thing, and then came back around MH2, and until this video I never really understood the appeal of modern. But this is great.
@@japplek fury and the ring have to be banned out of modern and they have to print a more useful/versatile sideboard card than orvar/hallowed moonlight/containment priest (like a permanent answer to shut it down not a single use answer as onboard containment priest would get killed and this dumb ass card design like creativity and crashing footfalls avoids grafdiggers cage) against creativity decks then modern could be a great format again 1. ban fury bring back fun creature decks and tribals 2. ban the ring its so stupid i dont even have to explain everyone knows it 3. print a better version of grafdiggers cage that hates on the opressive combo decks without having to ban those decks
they used to be meta, then powercreep happened. i miss the old days where not every deckplan was about generating cardadvantage and often was just about building up your boardstate over several turns :(
Literally had no idea that card existed, now I wanna try it out in my Jhoira cedh deck, doesn't seem to hard to flip in that deck and a free counter each turn is great combined with my usual counter magic.
I know there are some financial reasons for keeping the budget low but damn does it also make people submit fun decks! That Ball Lightning deck was on a roll!
We had once planned to do these yearly. But when we got a bigger budget, we realized what people managed to fit under the budget is always so much more fun than whatever tier deck with a worse manabase that we could get out of 500-600€ decks, so we opted with doing this far more often per year, but keep the 100€ budget that way we get to give more decks and the submissions are much more creative :)
Oof. That turn two Erayo is back-breaking! Very neat catch of the deck creator to recognize how often a low-curve artifact deck is able to just vomit out their hand. Definitely a bit of an all-in play but still really cool. That being said, both decks are super neat and I love the creativity on display with 'em!
I cannot be the only one thinking that between all of Karl's puns and Jamin's face after top decking the incorrect card, these guys have one of the best interactions when it comes to playing and being enjoyable. + I cried so badly in the middle of the night from all of karl's puns, playing vs the asian avenger with biovisionary and clones.
I used to play it in a weird Modern version of the more famous Vintage Paradoxical Outcome deck; no moxes, but a ton of Ornithopters, Memnites and Tormod's Crypts. Given this was during the infamous Hogaak era, between the Crypts and Erayo, it won a lot more games than it should have!
as a regular edh newbie this is a great method of introducing to non-arena "standard"-like formats, with brief explanations of the decks and cards in it
I just wanted to comment to say, I don't know what magic you guys work but your calls to action work on me better than any other youtube video. I've been liking every damn video, way more than any other creators. Maybe it's just that they're that good!
Obviously Thoralf is an exceptional MtG player and we get to see that on this channel often enough. But, I often get the sense Jamin could be that level too if he wanted to commit to it. Seeing that line of play to flip Erayo in game 2 was beautiful.
I haven't played Magic for 25+ years and enjoyed this video. Thanks for narrating each of your steps and showing the cards when they are played, helped me follow along with what was happening.
Grabbing a Ball Lightning instead of Skelemental with {R/B}{R/B}{B} available and the Terminate at sorcery speed were certainly choices that were made in game 1
I quit watching when he did that. This isn't the first time I've seen these guys basically give the game away because -- fun? It's not a hard choice either. A playable or non-playable card? I'll choose non-playable
I love the personalities. I love the production. I HATE that in every single video they make blatant mistakes. Genuinely if feels purposeful to get comments.
@iangorton8390 ahhh yes, you must've never made a mistake playing Magic all day long. Even Thoralf, a top tier player makes mistakes even when they get guests that have been top 8 in world's they still make mistakes...but it's JUST for content.... 😆
Jesus, those turn 2 Erayo‘s were FILTHY. Loved every minute of desperation that followed them 😂 And the dispatch was the cherry on top. RIP Lightning Skelemental
Lol! The amount of joy you guys get from playing magic really oozes through in these videos, these whacky user submitted deck battles are wonderful content!
Played an oops all ball lightnings years ago with Greater Good and Aether Vial in it. It was super powerful and also incredibly janky. Ball Lightning, Groundbreaker, Spark Trooper, and Spark Elemental all made appearances. Took top 8 and top 4 at different FNMs. It was a good time.
2 Insolent Neonate could be an interesting addition to the ball lightning deck. Being able to get them into the graveyard to unearth seems pretty strong
This reminds me of when I first started playing magic in the early '00s. A friend who'd been playing for years showed me his aggro deck with ball lightning and it blew my mind. It was so much cooler than the Lightning Elementals I had from my dinky 7th edition starter deck. Also, spot on that it's impossible to say Lightning Skelemental without a smile.
It's awesome when you guys playfully poke at the decks that get submitted, only to then have those decks actually pull off their game plans during the match!
The lifelong battle of: "This deck has some well thought out synergies and a general strategy for controlling the board and building a proper army of buffed minions" versus "I shoot you in the face with lightning". Classic.
11:15 a very cool play would've been to play the Thunderkin, attack reanimating the BALL, and after blocks Terminate what blocked the BALL to trample through for a clean 6
I think stuff like that game 2 shows how important a strong mana base is. The kind of mana base in a meta modern deck very likely wouldn’t have had the lack of an extra black holding it back from the interaction it needed to pitch an inquisition into a terminate
I love content like this. Unique brews that give me that "kitchen table" feel. Also... my fav content you guys have ever done is giving people $100 to build weird decks at cons. Would love to see more of that (and these)!!!
I have to say I can't help myself to look at the time with things like this; when game 1 took up half the vid I was certain Karl had this and then Jamin pulled the turn 2 Erayo; that was not the turnaround I was explecting. Nicely done
Man. I have to look up the decklist, but I had made a similar deck to the ball of lightning one, except it was trying to abuse sundial of the Infinite and ran basically all multicolor lands so you could play essentially all the ball of lightning elementals possible. Fun as hell
15:10 I think Undying Malice is to keep and buff your Thunderkin Awakener. Buffing it seems kind of unnecessary though, unless you intend to revive a second one to trigger as well.
Yeah, it's not really necessary to waste an extra card on the Awakener, who doesn't need the toughness pump to do its thing and who really only needs to do its trick the turn it comes down (if it stays alive for a second turn, the game was probably a curbstomp in your favor to begin with). IMO it's more likely that the deck creator misunderstood the wording on Ball Lightning's ability, thinking that "at the beginning of the end step" only meant its controller's end step instead of every end step, which is how the card actually works (and how it's always worked since debuting in The Dark). There were a few since-deleted comments here where others made the same mistake, so to me it's a more plausible explanation than the card being maindecked to be a rather suboptimal support piece for another support piece (the Thunderkin Awakener).
Omg! I won!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Hehehehe it feels so awesome to be chosen and even better to see that erayo flipping in turn 2 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉 I love your content guys keep it up!
Hey your deck was awesome! 🥳 thank you so much for submitting it :D we'll be mailing it to the address on your cardmarket account this week. Well done :)
Aha! I'm not the only one who loves the OG moonfolk! I remember thinking they looked so bad-to-average when Champions came out but i have had so much fun using them with newer cards. Great games!
Wow, amazing timing (for me)! I was trying to brew a ball lightning deck just the other day! This gave me some new inspiration. The tempered steel deck looks great as well. What a matchup! Hope winner enjoys their new deck :D
At 24:56 why didn't Karl cast the flamekin harbinger, get it countered and then cast his terminate on the flipped erayo? Seems like killing the erayo is a must and better than dumping a creature for unearth.
@@scythe0925 It's mostly thrown together out of what I had available but it's run surprisingly well the few times I've played it 4 lightning skelemental 4 ball lightning 4 thunderkin awakener 3 smokebraider 3 incandescent soulstoke 3 thunderblust 2 hell's thunder 2 hound of griselbrand 1 flamekin harbinger 1 hellspark Elemental 1 fury 1 runaway steam-kin 3 lightning axe 3 lightning bolt 2 temur battle rage 2 call of the death dweller 2 unearth 1 thrill of possibility 1 seize the spoils 2 dragonskull summit 4 searstep/blightstep pathway 12 Mountain Sideboard Kaheera the orphanguard (companion) 4 smash to smithereens 2 claim the firstborn 2 unearth 1 Macabre mockery 1 burning inquiry 1 flame rift 1 thunderblust 1 hell's thunder 1 Inferno project
man this erayo deck was super sweet and lightning skelemental is metal so this was just guaranteed to be a superb video. good on Jamin for seeing the erayo flip line!
Two really fun decks, this was great to watch! Erayo has been one of my favorite cards for a long time and I’ve always wanted to see if I could make it shine, I’m definitely using this build for inspiration :)
That ball lightning deck is very similar to my modern ball lightning deck. Mine is quite a bit stronger, but awesome to see someone who had the same idea. Loved watching it in action.
That erayo was brutal…and it’s so cheap to…cuz the only other spell I can think of off the top of my head that does that is jin-gitaxias for 5UU…so getting the counter ability on turn two for three mana is crazy
It needs more cards though to work compared to gitaxias, erayo + chimeric + repeal is already 3 cards. But I can totally see a deck with a lot of ornithopter, memnite, gitaxian probe, etc and ways to tutor erayo. Could be really powerful and reliable, locking someone out of the game on T2 or even T1 (with fast mana like moxes or sac double lands)
@@siradzki5905 Also needs the rules of MTG to be changed to work. Can't target a 0/0 with anything because state based effects kick in before any priority.
CHURRO AND YAMIN, after having fallen in love with it seeing this video, I have built a version of your Tempered Steel deck for myself!!! To your spicy Erayo I have added my own spice, theeeee Starlight Spectacular!!! Thank you so much for the inspiration, the deck works beautifully and I have so much fun playing it!!!!
I have a Saskia deck that is all about reanimating these massive ball lightning creatures! Feels bad to have your entire game hobbled by that crazy enchantment. Jamin drew white hot fire.
Wow, this was a very entertaining matchup to watch. The Lightning Skelemental deck would have had a more serious shot if it included a pair of feed the swarms in the sideboard. It's interesting because both the decks are doing a sort of catch all strategy where their gameplan's aren't necessarily based on countering any meta, but instead delving deeply into a niche archetype. That first game could also have been won by Jamin's Tempered Steel deck, there was a way. Had Jamin just played Canonist with 2 of his four mana and then countered one of Carl's spells with the remand he could have blocked 3 of the 6 damage and survived with literally 1 hp. It seems to me that the Tempered Steel deck has a more fleshed out removal package than the skelemental deck, but it definitely has huge promise.
As tempered steel was the very first good deck I made, it has a special spot in my heart, but this day, I must pay my respects to the LIGHTNING SKELEMENTAL!!
Tempered Steel is a low-key stupid card that in a slightly different Magic world would maybe have been good enough for Modern, at least for a time. That one World Championship where all of team CFB was rocking the deck and Conley Woods went super Saiyan against Craig Wescoe is one of my original Magic coverage memories.
The funny thing about game three is that if Karl didn't mulligan (which was a reasonable call to do so) he would have just been able to Lightening Bolt the Erayo when it hit the field and he might not have lost. Which is truly a tragedy, because Oops all Balls is, of course, a baller deck.
I once had a deck with a similar gameplan to the Ball Lightning deck.. only it went T1 land+Deathrite Shaman, T2 Lotus Cobra, fetch land, Sneak Attack, Sneak in Worldspine Wurm, attack for 15, Wurm sacrifices eot, leaves three 5/5's behind. Turn 4 usually saw a removal spell/Bloodbraid Elf cascading into something like Signal The Clans for another Worldspine Wurm/other big creature, swing for 30+ damage with all attackers into their 5 life total.
🤖⚡Decklists: bit.ly/3KEQSOv
shouldn t stand at the left side at 4.51min cant cast more than 1 nonartifactspell ?
In the video Carl takes out 3 Undying Malice from the main deck to sideboard in 3 Kolaghan's Command. What happened here? In the list the Malice is in the sideboard as well
@@marmics96 Thoralf assembled the decks so we wouldn't see what each other was playing. He seems to have put the Undying malice in the maindeck by mistake 😅 I seem to have been playing a 63-card deck
@@CardmarketMagicwhy on earth did you search for a Ball Lightning instead of a Lightning Skelemental when you had a swamp and no mountains in your hand??? You knew you weren't drawing a red source, you were drawing the elemental you just put at the top of your deck! Lightning Skelemental is even the better card!
Also, why are you searching up an elemental to the top of your library before you have enough mana to cast that one or the one already in your hand? Wouldn't it be better to get a land to cast the first one and then search up another one after when you can cast it? And bring back the first one using the recursion in your hand in between? Doing that would also have let you already drawn the Terminate when you needed it during the third game
@joedoe7572 misplays are misplays but it's obviously a lot easier for us to Monday morning QB the game, as far as the ball lightning goes, I believe he said he went and got it for the fun of it as it was the decks namesake.
Janky "off-meta" decks like this perfectly encapsulate the spirit of the game and are a blast to watch
I love these kinds of brews, too. Just plain silly good fun with lots of ways to interact.
I loved 8-12Ball. Now Bowmaster just laughs at that Deck. 😢
I first stopped playing before modern was a thing, and then came back around MH2, and until this video I never really understood the appeal of modern. But this is great.
@@japplek fury and the ring have to be banned out of modern and they have to print a more useful/versatile sideboard card than orvar/hallowed moonlight/containment priest (like a permanent answer to shut it down not a single use answer as onboard containment priest would get killed and this dumb ass card design like creativity and crashing footfalls avoids grafdiggers cage) against creativity decks then modern could be a great format again
1. ban fury bring back fun creature decks and tribals
2. ban the ring its so stupid i dont even have to explain everyone knows it
3. print a better version of grafdiggers cage that hates on the opressive combo decks without having to ban those decks
they used to be meta, then powercreep happened. i miss the old days where not every deckplan was about generating cardadvantage and often was just about building up your boardstate over several turns :(
I thought I was gonna get bored of Karl saying LIGHTNING SKELEMENTAAAAL after a while but it just got funnier every time
LOOOOL
Those Erayos were brutal. What a deck.
The OG-versions in Legacy used to run Glint Hawk as well to make it easier to get the Erayo flip
I am actually amazed how easy it is to flip her
Literally had no idea that card existed, now I wanna try it out in my Jhoira cedh deck, doesn't seem to hard to flip in that deck and a free counter each turn is great combined with my usual counter magic.
@@stevesmith5883 yeahhh banned in that.
@@germanmango6239 Oh yeah, looked on gatherer and yh it is. Thanks cause otherwise I would've picked one up.
I'm always rooting for karl. don't know why, but he always gets me on his side.
Thank you for your vote of confidence 🥳 I'll do my best to live up to it :)
I know this feeling very well.
cause he's way awesome!
Always rooting for Carl when he's playing against pros cause I love an underdog, but Jamin is too charming so I can't choose.
Karl’s just so earnestly excited to do everything he does here that it gets me excited for him
I was thinking about how great of a design Ball Lightning was as I was falling asleep last night... and now, this!
You dreamed it into existence!
Very impressed with Jamin for figuring out the erayo flip on t2. I never would've put that together.
Yeah, that was so good!
Jamin big brain
I know there are some financial reasons for keeping the budget low but damn does it also make people submit fun decks! That Ball Lightning deck was on a roll!
We had once planned to do these yearly. But when we got a bigger budget, we realized what people managed to fit under the budget is always so much more fun than whatever tier deck with a worse manabase that we could get out of 500-600€ decks, so we opted with doing this far more often per year, but keep the 100€ budget that way we get to give more decks and the submissions are much more creative :)
@@CardmarketMagicThat was 100% the right call! You could do this every week and I'd watch every single one
Oof. That turn two Erayo is back-breaking!
Very neat catch of the deck creator to recognize how often a low-curve artifact deck is able to just vomit out their hand. Definitely a bit of an all-in play but still really cool.
That being said, both decks are super neat and I love the creativity on display with 'em!
I cannot be the only one thinking that between all of Karl's puns and Jamin's face after top decking the incorrect card, these guys have one of the best interactions when it comes to playing and being enjoyable.
+ I cried so badly in the middle of the night from all of karl's puns, playing vs the asian avenger with biovisionary and clones.
They are pretty decent guys!
We really have tons of fun playing these games so I'm happy it also entertains you :D thank you for the truly kind comment!
The fact that Karl cycled into a removal spell to deal with Erayo makes Game 3 even more brutal
The fact that he didn’t cast the removal the next turn to kill it was stupid
@@bobwilson679 the next turn it's not a creature anymore, it's an enchantment, terminate can't kill it
@@hedidthething5084I didn't realize this at all and had to look at the card a second time to understand it. Thank you 👍
That turn 2 Erayo flip was pretty sweet!
in g2 or g3
Very anticlimactic tbh
anticlimactic like a pitcher pitching a no-hitter? it was incredibly impactful, tbh
@@kizzaht yeah, it was impactful. But I prefer games that have a closer back and forth and it was pretty clear Carl had few outs after the flip(s).
I used to play it in a weird Modern version of the more famous Vintage Paradoxical Outcome deck; no moxes, but a ton of Ornithopters, Memnites and Tormod's Crypts. Given this was during the infamous Hogaak era, between the Crypts and Erayo, it won a lot more games than it should have!
as a regular edh newbie this is a great method of introducing to non-arena "standard"-like formats, with brief explanations of the decks and cards in it
I just wanted to comment to say, I don't know what magic you guys work but your calls to action work on me better than any other youtube video. I've been liking every damn video, way more than any other creators. Maybe it's just that they're that good!
We can't tell you why since we don't know why they work on you :) but we won't complain, we very much appreciate the engagement!
Obviously Thoralf is an exceptional MtG player and we get to see that on this channel often enough. But, I often get the sense Jamin could be that level too if he wanted to commit to it. Seeing that line of play to flip Erayo in game 2 was beautiful.
Carl might not be a pro player, but you should not underestimate him. He is a pretty good player as well
I haven't played Magic for 25+ years and enjoyed this video. Thanks for narrating each of your steps and showing the cards when they are played, helped me follow along with what was happening.
I'm happy you enjoyed it :) hopefully you give magic a second try! It can be really fun and inexpensive if you simply goof around with your friends
Grabbing a Ball Lightning instead of Skelemental with {R/B}{R/B}{B} available and the Terminate at sorcery speed were certainly choices that were made in game 1
He literally lost the game by tutoring uncastable cards on the top of his deck and preventing himself from being able to draw lands.
Even if he could have cast ball lightning, why would you ever take it over the skelemental
I quit watching when he did that. This isn't the first time I've seen these guys basically give the game away because -- fun? It's not a hard choice either. A playable or non-playable card? I'll choose non-playable
I love the personalities.
I love the production.
I HATE that in every single video they make blatant mistakes. Genuinely if feels purposeful to get comments.
@iangorton8390 ahhh yes, you must've never made a mistake playing Magic all day long. Even Thoralf, a top tier player makes mistakes even when they get guests that have been top 8 in world's they still make mistakes...but it's JUST for content.... 😆
Jesus, those turn 2 Erayo‘s were FILTHY. Loved every minute of desperation that followed them 😂
And the dispatch was the cherry on top.
RIP Lightning Skelemental
Turn 2 Erayo ended the game righ there.
Such a pleasant way to learn of the existence of Lightning Skelemental
Carls immediate 2nd take on the "That's where the budget kicks in" broke me! lol
Lol! The amount of joy you guys get from playing magic really oozes through in these videos, these whacky user submitted deck battles are wonderful content!
“It’s ok, you did cool things” is the spirit and true heart of Magic!
Played an oops all ball lightnings years ago with Greater Good and Aether Vial in it. It was super powerful and also incredibly janky. Ball Lightning, Groundbreaker, Spark Trooper, and Spark Elemental all made appearances. Took top 8 and top 4 at different FNMs. It was a good time.
The erayo flip is just brutal... And see,kids, that's why you run "feed the swarm" !!!
At least have 4 of them in your sideboard ;-)
Helps against the tempered steel as well.
Love these type of video’s, I love it when the viewers participate
That turn 2 Erayo flip was nasty
23:40 thats an insane combo, completely wins the game in just turn 2
2 Insolent Neonate could be an interesting addition to the ball lightning deck. Being able to get them into the graveyard to unearth seems pretty strong
Thank you for your years of beautiful content!!!
Thank YOU! For your kind comment :)
This reminds me of when I first started playing magic in the early '00s. A friend who'd been playing for years showed me his aggro deck with ball lightning and it blew my mind. It was so much cooler than the Lightning Elementals I had from my dinky 7th edition starter deck. Also, spot on that it's impossible to say Lightning Skelemental without a smile.
It's awesome when you guys playfully poke at the decks that get submitted, only to then have those decks actually pull off their game plans during the match!
It is :) we were very pleasantly surprised!
The lifelong battle of: "This deck has some well thought out synergies and a general strategy for controlling the board and building a proper army of buffed minions" versus "I shoot you in the face with lightning".
Classic.
11:15 a very cool play would've been to play the Thunderkin, attack reanimating the BALL, and after blocks Terminate what blocked the BALL to trample through for a clean 6
I love this series you guys are doing! It’s nice to see friends playing Magic together
TEMPERED STEEL, THAT'S THE DEAL!-) Big fan from the very first print. Thank you, guys, for bringing back the memories:)
Best MTG channel not slowing down!
8:26 Jamin get possessed by an excited Mickey Mouse
8ball is such a fun deck, I hope it wins
Can't help but feel "Magic 8ball" world be more fun as a deck name for it.
"Elemental balls" is obviously the best choice of name
I think stuff like that game 2 shows how important a strong mana base is. The kind of mana base in a meta modern deck very likely wouldn’t have had the lack of an extra black holding it back from the interaction it needed to pitch an inquisition into a terminate
These two are always really fun to watch together
You'd have to have some balls of steel to play a matchup like this one :P
I live for comments like this
Wow, what a genius comment 😮
I love content like this. Unique brews that give me that "kitchen table" feel.
Also... my fav content you guys have ever done is giving people $100 to build weird decks at cons. Would love to see more of that (and these)!!!
I have to say I can't help myself to look at the time with things like this; when game 1 took up half the vid I was certain Karl had this and then Jamin pulled the turn 2 Erayo; that was not the turnaround I was explecting. Nicely done
1:37 damn that lore Text rules!
Man. I have to look up the decklist, but I had made a similar deck to the ball of lightning one, except it was trying to abuse sundial of the Infinite and ran basically all multicolor lands so you could play essentially all the ball of lightning elementals possible. Fun as hell
15:10 I think Undying Malice is to keep and buff your Thunderkin Awakener.
Buffing it seems kind of unnecessary though, unless you intend to revive a second one to trigger as well.
Yeah, it's not really necessary to waste an extra card on the Awakener, who doesn't need the toughness pump to do its thing and who really only needs to do its trick the turn it comes down (if it stays alive for a second turn, the game was probably a curbstomp in your favor to begin with). IMO it's more likely that the deck creator misunderstood the wording on Ball Lightning's ability, thinking that "at the beginning of the end step" only meant its controller's end step instead of every end step, which is how the card actually works (and how it's always worked since debuting in The Dark). There were a few since-deleted comments here where others made the same mistake, so to me it's a more plausible explanation than the card being maindecked to be a rather suboptimal support piece for another support piece (the Thunderkin Awakener).
Omg! I won!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Hehehehe it feels so awesome to be chosen and even better to see that erayo flipping in turn 2 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉 I love your content guys keep it up!
An also, Thank you Jamin! you are my champion! hehehehe
Hey your deck was awesome! 🥳 thank you so much for submitting it :D we'll be mailing it to the address on your cardmarket account this week. Well done :)
Hard to say which of these decks I like more. One's very ballsy, but the other is metal af
Aha! I'm not the only one who loves the OG moonfolk! I remember thinking they looked so bad-to-average when Champions came out but i have had so much fun using them with newer cards. Great games!
I was rooting for Oops All Balls, but that Artifax Stax deck was totally my style!
Babe it's okay, the Blightning Skelemental sound effect can't hurt you, nobody plays Lightning Skelemental
Karl as soon as he possibly can:
HAHAHA when Jamin realized the 'ballin' was a pun I laughed so hard.
@4:54 why did Karl get a ball lightning when he didn’t have 3 red? Wouldn’t skelemental just be better if it hits jamin and it’s actually castable?
Wow, amazing timing (for me)! I was trying to brew a ball lightning deck just the other day! This gave me some new inspiration.
The tempered steel deck looks great as well. What a matchup!
Hope winner enjoys their new deck :D
11:16 I approve of welding jar honorable mention.
12:57 why is the card still here ?
Seriously impressed by the idea of having erayo on T2
Good video as always 😁
I'm sorry, Carl is the single most beneficial addition to Cardmarket as a whole.
At 24:56 why didn't Karl cast the flamekin harbinger, get it countered and then cast his terminate on the flipped erayo? Seems like killing the erayo is a must and better than dumping a creature for unearth.
The flipped erayo is not longer a creature, it becomes an enchantment 😅 very tough to kill for a rakdos deck
4:55 isnt the text of the ethersworn cannonist wrong? "More than two", so I can play 2 non artifact spells?
I run a fairly different ball lightning/ skelemental deck but it's cool to see other people thinking in the same direction
Willing to share a decklist?
@@scythe0925 It's mostly thrown together out of what I had available but it's run surprisingly well the few times I've played it
4 lightning skelemental
4 ball lightning
4 thunderkin awakener
3 smokebraider
3 incandescent soulstoke
3 thunderblust
2 hell's thunder
2 hound of griselbrand
1 flamekin harbinger
1 hellspark Elemental
1 fury
1 runaway steam-kin
3 lightning axe
3 lightning bolt
2 temur battle rage
2 call of the death dweller
2 unearth
1 thrill of possibility
1 seize the spoils
2 dragonskull summit
4 searstep/blightstep pathway
12 Mountain
Sideboard
Kaheera the orphanguard (companion)
4 smash to smithereens
2 claim the firstborn
2 unearth
1 Macabre mockery
1 burning inquiry
1 flame rift
1 thunderblust
1 hell's thunder
1 Inferno project
I loved this matchup, just nice budget magic to entertain us. Keep up the awesome work please
man this erayo deck was super sweet and lightning skelemental is metal so this was just guaranteed to be a superb video. good on Jamin for seeing the erayo flip line!
That Erayo is so brutal! Holy moly, just shuts down so many decks. Unrelated, I kind of want to run Erayo in some of my decks…
It does feel really good sideboarding when you have a few cards to side out that do nothing. No hard choices! 🤪
Two really fun decks, this was great to watch! Erayo has been one of my favorite cards for a long time and I’ve always wanted to see if I could make it shine, I’m definitely using this build for inspiration :)
These are so clever, this is the best MTG content on YT
I've been building a cycle of scam decks, im starting with all the 2 color combos, I might move to 3 color scam, but so far, they look fun.
once again just some really fun decks. The ball lightning deck was really great to watch
I can't believe Erayo put in so much work.
That ball lightning deck is very similar to my modern ball lightning deck. Mine is quite a bit stronger, but awesome to see someone who had the same idea. Loved watching it in action.
I would love to see your decklist as I am working on making one literally right now
@@scythe0925 I just saw your message. I'll see if I can upload my decklist tonight.
These decks are awesome! I haven't even gotten into the games, but I'm so excited to see this match!
That erayo was brutal…and it’s so cheap to…cuz the only other spell I can think of off the top of my head that does that is jin-gitaxias for 5UU…so getting the counter ability on turn two for three mana is crazy
It needs more cards though to work compared to gitaxias, erayo + chimeric + repeal is already 3 cards. But I can totally see a deck with a lot of ornithopter, memnite, gitaxian probe, etc and ways to tutor erayo. Could be really powerful and reliable, locking someone out of the game on T2 or even T1 (with fast mana like moxes or sac double lands)
it would really just slot easily into any deck with a lot of cantrips/cheap spells....and in fast formats thats not to hard@@siradzki5905
@@siradzki5905 Also needs the rules of MTG to be changed to work. Can't target a 0/0 with anything because state based effects kick in before any priority.
CHURRO AND YAMIN, after having fallen in love with it seeing this video, I have built a version of your Tempered Steel deck for myself!!! To your spicy Erayo I have added my own spice, theeeee Starlight Spectacular!!! Thank you so much for the inspiration, the deck works beautifully and I have so much fun playing it!!!!
At 24:45 couldn't Carl just cast the Flamekin Harbinger to get it countered, then follow up with Terminate to kill the Erayo?
Oh, never mind, totally forgot that Erayo flips into an Enchantment.
Jamin was actually playing Azorius control the whole time! Ya got tricked.
i have loved ball lightening for years now i am so happy to see it on a big stage.
Oh man I'm sad for the skelemental deck, that looked like such a fun one
You've massively improved an awful day. Thank you.
I'm happy we did :) hopefully today is better
I have a Saskia deck that is all about reanimating these massive ball lightning creatures! Feels bad to have your entire game hobbled by that crazy enchantment. Jamin drew white hot fire.
Really like the music choice!! Keep up the good content
Thank you :) I think I've gotten much better at adding background music through the last year
Wow, this was a very entertaining matchup to watch. The Lightning Skelemental deck would have had a more serious shot if it included a pair of feed the swarms in the sideboard.
It's interesting because both the decks are doing a sort of catch all strategy where their gameplan's aren't necessarily based on countering any meta, but instead delving deeply into a niche archetype.
That first game could also have been won by Jamin's Tempered Steel deck, there was a way. Had Jamin just played Canonist with 2 of his four mana and then countered one of Carl's spells with the remand he could have blocked 3 of the 6 damage and survived with literally 1 hp.
It seems to me that the Tempered Steel deck has a more fleshed out removal package than the skelemental deck, but it definitely has huge promise.
As tempered steel was the very first good deck I made, it has a special spot in my heart, but this day, I must pay my respects to the LIGHTNING SKELEMENTAL!!
Small note... On the first game Jamin discards ethersworn canonist to lightning skelemtal however it isn't removed from the (Hand interface)
13:33 Any reason why he didn't unearth the Thunderkin Awakener?
Nope, I just missed the play
@@CardmarketMagic Cool! Loved the video, thanks a lot!
One of these days one of my goblin decks is going to be played on this channel 😄 Or not. But not for the lack of trying 😄 Great video as always!
Great work from Jamin spotting the opperunity to flip erayo in game two. That was a great play
you guys are cooler than ice cubes in a refrigerator when it snows in the winter!!
Thank you ☃️
Tempered Steel is a low-key stupid card that in a slightly different Magic world would maybe have been good enough for Modern, at least for a time. That one World Championship where all of team CFB was rocking the deck and Conley Woods went super Saiyan against Craig Wescoe is one of my original Magic coverage memories.
Now I need the lightning skelemental deck 😂😂😂 Great video!
Carl's mulligan with 2 bolts on his side was detrimental 🤣😆
I'm totally building that All ball lightnings deck
The deck containing LIGHTNIIIIING SKELEMENTALL!! needs some way to deal with enchantments apparently. Feed the Swarm comes to mind.
It's always amusing to see some interactions that are normally not seen with the game.
That Ball Lightning deck was sweet!
The funny thing about game three is that if Karl didn't mulligan (which was a reasonable call to do so) he would have just been able to Lightening Bolt the Erayo when it hit the field and he might not have lost. Which is truly a tragedy, because Oops all Balls is, of course, a baller deck.
Great video! loved the OALB deck! and also the artifact soft stax XD cant wait to see what you make next!
I once had a deck with a similar gameplan to the Ball Lightning deck.. only it went T1 land+Deathrite Shaman, T2 Lotus Cobra, fetch land, Sneak Attack, Sneak in Worldspine Wurm, attack for 15, Wurm sacrifices eot, leaves three 5/5's behind. Turn 4 usually saw a removal spell/Bloodbraid Elf cascading into something like Signal The Clans for another Worldspine Wurm/other big creature, swing for 30+ damage with all attackers into their 5 life total.
"4 spells, I dont think I can ever flip this."
Flips it in the 2 following games.
Sadly, had to cheat to get it. Can't target a 0/0 because state based effects happen before priority or anything that can be placed on the stack.
15:31 pretty sure undying malice is blocking tech