You really are the hardest working on MTGtube in my opinion. You didn't get involved into the rest of the mtgtube drama. You can really tell the time and effort you put into your videos, and if I wasn't so broke Id be supporting you on patron as well. Thanks for all that you do Dev. Ive been playing for a year now and you've been my number one Mtg source.
I totally agree. Dev is my favorite MyGtuber. He thinks close enough to me about cards that I can relate but differently enough to teach me new things. Please keep up the great work.
Zach Cash His appearance on the Kitchen Table Magic podcast was pretty awesome in terms of seeing how he thinks about cards; it really does go deep in both history and mechanic-combos. I can't think of another person who can reel off 10 potential (good) replacements for a card in a deck as easily. Also the 'being personable' thing helps, and there's a sad story about his dad that may go to explaining that somewhat, in terms of seeing Magic as a community that kinda replaced someone he can't play with (i.e. he teaches because he wants to spread to us what he never got himself, in a way). Maybe I'm going too psychoanalytical, but eh, it's a great listen nonetheless!
Absolutely. Dev doesnt get anywhere near the recognition he deserves and he is tied with lrr for my favourite mtg people on the internet. Speaking of which i'd love to see him as a guest at a pre-prerelease sometime in the future
The strength of Direfleet Daredevil that Dev did not mention is that it hates on Snapcaster Mage. On the play you can exile the best instant or sorcery in your opponents graveyard before they can recast it. Even if you don't cast the card once it is exiled your opponent can't bolt-snap-bolt and you are left with a body that blocks Snapcaster all day. I definitely agree that it is best as a sideboard card, excited to surprise people with this!
Blood Sun seems unassuming but the fact that it affects Fetchlands like it does makes it better than Bloodmoon in some cases. It obviously has no effect on non-basics in Modern like Bloodmoon does, so it isn't super OP. Interesting #1, but I think its got a strong case for that spot.
let's not forget it draws you a card to when it ETB's, making it even better because it still does something when you cast copies 2-4(assuming you run 4 of in deck) unlike bloodmoon
Merfolk in standard.. we have all the 2 drops... the wierd part is it's mostly green... and blood sun I'd like to brew around the bounce land cycle and power out 5mana things on turn 4 in modern... It makes 7 drops on turn 5 possible without ramp from green, and shuts down opposing utility lands... Blue/ red/ x control... So greedy but it looks fun
Glad to see Azor's Gateway on the list. When I saw it spoiled I fell in love with it. Makes casting a ot of the big dumb dinos so easy when it gets to flip.
@Dev Hey! I love the Phoenix. I'm testing running it in a R/W Control list. It's been SO GOOD. sweep the board? Sweet. it'll come back or they still have to waste a removal spell AFTER i just swept the board to remove it. It's a great blocker too. It just keeps coming back. Definitely one of my favorite cards from the new set.
As a commander main, I'm still ungodly stoked that wizards reprinted the banned Tolarian Academy onto a Storm the Vault. I also really like the new vraska scheming gorgon, especially since the ult isn't combat damage
I think one of the most relevant points about Blood Sun is specifically that it doesn't hose your own mana base. In some decks, that will be more important than the broader hosing ability of Blood Moon.
For Ghalta a thing I realized and want to brew now is that with Wayward Swordtooth (the 5/5 for 2G) you can get ghalta out on turn for with a bit of ease. Even if the Azusa dino cant attack he still takes half the colorless requirement for Ghalta for cheeeeeeaaaaap!
Doc Pox turn 3 is possible but nneds some build around. Turn 1 green onedrop with three power that gives a land to the opponent or white onedrop that gets +2/+1 if you control an artifact. Turn 2 heart of kiran. Turn 3 one of the onedrops again, crew heart of kiran->10 Power and 2 green left to cast ghalta
That would require a bit of build around and some really precise draws. With Wayward SwordTooth you basically only need it and one of the Dino shamans, drover of the mighty being a more consistent one and on green so you wont need to splash too hard. t2 drover t3 WS t4 Drover is now a 3/3 so you have 8 power and at least 2 lands, as long as one of those produces green drover can produce the other
Also fling. If I make this deck I have to have 4 copies of fling. Even if you never hit ascend for the Wayward you could just fling em for a dino build your own lava axe
World Shaper is seriously underrated. We don't have great discard in green at the moment but you could make one nasty BUG deck using this card with a load of blue loot/self mill, the Scarab God and that 6/6 hydra that reanimates itself for 4 from the yard. Play early game blue critters that let you loot and mill along with spells like winds of rebuke which help stabilize the board while milling. That along with the various cycling lands and evolving wilds should ensure there are a load of lands and reanimation targets in the yard when you need them on turn 5 or 6. The World Shaper naturally synergizes with the a Scarab God deck in that it wants to have the yard full, it helps fill the yard, it needs to be removed with exile effects which your opponent will not want to use on it for fear of the God popping up a round later, and it can generate a crap ton of mana which is exactly what you want in that deck. The World Shaper is scary in that your opponent is provided with a terrible choice. They can either kill it via blocking or removal and set off its effect immediately or they can try to avoid setting it off at the cost of it milling three cards into the yard and doing 3 damage to them every round. It is a very dangerous creature regardless of if they kill it or not.
I kind of like the idea of building a Control/energy deck in Bant. Champion of Rhonas alongside Azor feels like it has potential. Especially if you can flicker Azor.
#20: Someone played this in our limited sealed match today. I kept spamming Mutiny on it, doing five dmg to target creature other than Wayward, lol. Anyways, I'm of the impression its too hard to Ascend with a non-token deck when you factor in removal, and especially board wipes, unless your playing 2-headed giant which tends to stall out more. To me, Ascend is a newb trap. It's a nice cherry on top if it procs, but you're playing with fire if you're counting on it. With #20, you're counting on it! I understand Ascend isn't required to play the additional lands, but more often than not you might proc the lands once a game before it's useless. #7: Same thing here. The owner has to count on Ascend working, otherwise you're overpaying with 4-mana to play a 2/4 flyer. Not exactly my first choice for a turn-4 card, since the competition at the 4-spot is tight with Sanctum Seeker, Anointed Procession, Settle the Wreckage, I could go on forever. However, unlike #20, at least it can do something without Ascend, so that's a plus.
To be frank with Azor's Gateway ites the best ramp we've seen in standard for a long time. In a blue black control deck you can honestly see the power. You will get your torrentials out very fast, on even turn 5 if you want to. Essentially this says " have as much mana you can ever want"
Just a little story for you, 1 of my prerelease kits made me u/b control. I drew 3/4 cards a turn with kumenas awakening, arch of orazca and twilight prophet. I 100% agree that twilight prophet is no joke and will be played. Whether it be midrange or control decks, reverse bob with evasion is dumb
Out of interest what's your opinions on vonas hunger and silverclad ferocodon (I'm aware it's a high cost but with all the dino ramp it's semi playable) also can we get an updated explore deck with the new cards please? :)
Question: is Aether Hub's second mode an activated ability? Or is it a mana ability since it still produces mana? Would be interested in knowing if Blood Sun takes care of Aether Hubs or not.
Question for you all: Blood Sun in modern/EDH - bounce lands. Is this as crazy as I'm thinking? It removes all abilities, not just activated. So wouldn't the bounce lands 1) not enter tapped and 2) not bounce a land? Just a straight up double mana land with no drawbacks?!
I'm only a couple of cards in, but I can't believe you ranked Angrath, Arch, and The Immortal Sun (which isn't even that great in EDH) above Chupacabra - best card in the set. I'm usually with you on these rankings, but there's a lot of jank in this top-20. I would have moved a lot of those Commons and Uncomons up.
Ugh!!! I didn’t even think about reanimating/eternalizing Zetalpa! I almost feel sick just thinking about facing down something like that as early as turn 4!
Great video again Dev! But am I wrong in saying this set is just bad? I've been playing competitive magic now for a decently long time and this feels like a lackluster set.
Hey,, silent gravestone does stop God pharaohs gift and Scarab God because they both have to target the card in a graveyard first. They are stopped because of the same reason that refurbish is stopped.
Why not Azor in the U/W GPG deck? Seems like it could be a good option along with Zetalpa. Bin Azor, bring him out with GPG, attack with haste and Sphinx's Rev on attack.
I want to steal Glorybringers with Angrath! And also want to delve Zetalpa with Soulflayer :D Etali in sneak and show btw! The gravestone makes you not able to target stuff with your scarab gods. Without the reanimation scarab god doesnt do that much.
I would love to get with you to see if you could help me build a better competitive standard deck..I’m willing and able to pay and my budget is open. You are a true hero to mtg and I’m thankful for your channel!! Thank you dev. 😎
Kumena is amazing in Merfolk, but Merfolk has tough matches against both Ramunap Red (not even winnable after sideboard) and UW Approach (better after sideboarding thanks to Negatve and Spell Pierce). I haven't tested much with UB control, but from what I've seen so far, Fatal Push, Gifted Aetherborn, Ravenous Chupcabra and the Scarab God are very, very bad for merfolk and a few Blossoming Defenses isn't going to change that. Kumena is very good, but I'm not sure she'll see a ton of play until Hazoret, Approach and Scarab God go away.
Angarth plus aggressive pyro deck mixed with the ability to remove cards from graveyard in a two headed giant fight teamed up with a blue green mill deck with the green running cards like fog counter spells sphinx tutelage. I can't remember what it's called but there is a blue spell where if u get an artifact, creature or not, u get a atifasct creature token. Have the blue deck run things like improvise, fabricate and investigate. This will cause u to get creatures when getting clues (sacrifice this artifact and pay 2 to draw a card.) And be able to use artifact as mana for creatures with improvise. And fabricate will make artifact creatures or give creature counters (+1/1 ), obviously for the black wand red you would want just damage, basic mana ramp, haste, death touch and some bulky hard hitting creatures. Oh obviously u and your ally would want some madness cards, cards that if u discard (for angarths first ability) u could pay mana to have just appear on the field (this works even if they get discarded to exile from hand.
Is it just me or does Champion of Dusk make Axis of Mortality make sense? Follow Axis with Champion, drain, draw, trade life totals? Its risky. But does it work?
Im super mad that there is like a Tilonallis Knight/crown/skinshifter/summoner , but no Tilonalli itself. Same goes for Kinjallis Sunwing/Caller - but no Kinjalli. I hoped for some rly badass Dino or Human Lord :( Atleast Kumenas Speaker brought me a Kumena card :D
Heggerino If you read the flavour text on some of the Sun Empire cards, Tillonali and whatnot are names for the three aspects of the sun itself, representing W, R and G respectively. Kinjalli is W, Tillonali is R, I believe, and the other one is G. So, it doesn't make sense to have cards for the sun itself.
Imagine casting Otepec Huntmaster on turn 2 followed by a wayward swordtooth on turn 3 with two mana open to cast a drover or thunderherd migration you can cast ghalta on turn four, give it haste 😂 incredible strong
I guess it is a good sign about this set that like, half of your top list cards were on the video about the top 20 worst rares I watched earlier today :)
Love these lists! Disagree with the dinosaur ratings. I don't see why the GPG decks would play the white one. The red one is really bad, and the black one is definitely the best one. And I really don't like Slaughter the Strong. I don't think the two mana it saves from Fumigate justifies leaving one or two guys in the battlefield. If you play it as an asymmetrical boardwipe, I think Dusk//Dawn does a better job (love that card).
there is a card called "amulet"? either wizards got very un-creative, or you're just assuming i'll know a card which i obviously don't from a word like "amulet" lol
All the talk about midrange which is powerful don't get me wrong but I'm running a very powerful UBR deck hasn't lost and I'll definitely be running the Phoenix and the prophet in it
Dev, you missed warkite marauder! And angrath and the 4-drop vampire are both awful and worse than huatli (sorry!). Great video though, excited for cards to have a real impact on formats again!
If you'd have told me a single year ago that I'd have such a severe lack of interest in Standard as I do right now, I would have told you you're crazy. Give us a Modern list plz. Thx Dev!
I agree with the first statement, I am so hyped. But I have to disagree with the second one, because I think their should be a split between the two. Gravestone can protect your graveyard, including from The Scarab God, as well as nuke graveyards and mess with some strategies. Also Gravestone draws a card, and is good once they have a bunch of cards in their graveyard while Crook, or even Sentinel Totem, can hate on graveyards early game.
My problem with the card is that it is pretty bad in the main match up you would want graveyard hate for in standard: Gifts. GPG doesn't actually target with it's triggered ability which means you will have to sacrifice your Gravestone for a desperate one-time delay which is basically the same as sideboarding in a fog. While Crook has a similar problem, being that you can't exile the target in response, you do have the advantage of exiling the creatures as the deck puts them in the graveyard, or at the very least hitting the one they are most likely to "eternalize". The card draw on this effect doesn't excite me much because the ability is 4 mana to activate which makes it a far cry from modern's Relic, not that I'm ever happy to "cycle" my sideboard cards anyway. As for stopping Scarab God the Gravestone does prevent SG from targeting creatures with his activated ability but will be hard to have the 4 mana available to exile SG when he is put into the graveyard because you most likely spent some mana to put him there in the first place. I also don't even bring in graveyard hate against decks that only play SG as their graveyard dependent cards so this is lost on me. Gravestone is really only good at stopping Torrential Gearhulk, and to some extent The Scarab God. That's not enough for my sideboard slots.
Those are all really good points, but for me I like to have a one of in my sideboard as well as some Sentinel Totems because my deck already has a lot of 2 drops and not a lot of 1 drops, and I don't mind nuking my own graveyard. I guess my point is that it usually depends on the deck and the meta in which you play, because they both do different things. No one really plays GPG at my LGS so I don't have to worry about playing against it. I definitely agree that Crook is better for straight up graveyard hate.
Chupacabra looks scary even without the card text...just saying. I also have a question about silent gravestone. Can i use it in response to Scarab God's ability when he dies to exile gy and him as well? I mean does he even go to the gy since the text on the card says ''when he dies...'' not when he goes to gy from play? If he does i think i can exile him at instant speed while the return ability is on the stack.
Yes, you can exile gy to get rid of Scarab God. But you don't need to fuss over timing. He doesn't go back to hand instantly, but at the beginning of the next end step.
I hateSilent Gravestone. I don't need to see this in EDH. I have like 4 graveyard decks that are going to hate this. At least my Kess deck only hates the generic second part of the card, she doesn't target the card you cast from your graveyard, you can just cast a card from your graveyard each of your turns. This set is fantastic though. I love it.
You really are the hardest working on MTGtube in my opinion. You didn't get involved into the rest of the mtgtube drama. You can really tell the time and effort you put into your videos, and if I wasn't so broke Id be supporting you on patron as well. Thanks for all that you do Dev. Ive been playing for a year now and you've been my number one Mtg source.
I totally agree. Dev is my favorite MyGtuber. He thinks close enough to me about cards that I can relate but differently enough to teach me new things. Please keep up the great work.
i totally, totally agree
and he's also naturally cool in my opinion, whereas some MTGtubers are just playing a role
Zach Cash His appearance on the Kitchen Table Magic podcast was pretty awesome in terms of seeing how he thinks about cards; it really does go deep in both history and mechanic-combos. I can't think of another person who can reel off 10 potential (good) replacements for a card in a deck as easily. Also the 'being personable' thing helps, and there's a sad story about his dad that may go to explaining that somewhat, in terms of seeing Magic as a community that kinda replaced someone he can't play with (i.e. he teaches because he wants to spread to us what he never got himself, in a way). Maybe I'm going too psychoanalytical, but eh, it's a great listen nonetheless!
Absolutely. Dev doesnt get anywhere near the recognition he deserves and he is tied with lrr for my favourite mtg people on the internet. Speaking of which i'd love to see him as a guest at a pre-prerelease sometime in the future
Honestly, I can't wait to see a well-tuned merfolk deck play out in Standard.
I feel like many of the uncommons and some of the commons are actually better than most of the rares/mythics
I'm with ya there
Mythicsnare meant to be interesting cards that is wizards idea for them
Really love the idea of pumping the mana from Azor's Gateway into Azor's ability. All the Mana, all the cards!
Oliver Harrison and the ability also gives you live-> more live, more mana, more cards & live
Kumena is a he, right?
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Did you assumed Kumena's gender?
All day, every day
The strength of Direfleet Daredevil that Dev did not mention is that it hates on Snapcaster Mage.
On the play you can exile the best instant or sorcery in your opponents graveyard before they can recast it. Even if you don't cast the card once it is exiled your opponent can't bolt-snap-bolt and you are left with a body that blocks Snapcaster all day. I definitely agree that it is best as a sideboard card, excited to surprise people with this!
Blood Sun seems unassuming but the fact that it affects Fetchlands like it does makes it better than Bloodmoon in some cases. It obviously has no effect on non-basics in Modern like Bloodmoon does, so it isn't super OP. Interesting #1, but I think its got a strong case for that spot.
let's not forget it draws you a card to when it ETB's, making it even better because it still does something when you cast copies 2-4(assuming you run 4 of in deck) unlike bloodmoon
For anyone who still bothers with frontier it will be a hose there.
Also, in Commander will be good as a hoser for non-basics without angering people by locking them out of their colors
It also works in interesting ways with bounce lands. ETB triggers are abilities so Blood Sun turns them off and make bounce lands enter untapped.
I'm relatively new to magic but man this is a great channel really picked up a lot and you have a sick collection of shirts
Merfolk in standard.. we have all the 2 drops... the wierd part is it's mostly green... and blood sun I'd like to brew around the bounce land cycle and power out 5mana things on turn 4 in modern... It makes 7 drops on turn 5 possible without ramp from green, and shuts down opposing utility lands... Blue/ red/ x control... So greedy but it looks fun
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I run your G/W Aggro deck Dez. .And I love playing it. What card would you put in it from the new set. And could you do a locust god build please.
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You're by far my favorite mtg TH-camr. I'm not sure why but like I dig this. Keep doin you man
Glad to see Azor's Gateway on the list. When I saw it spoiled I fell in love with it. Makes casting a ot of the big dumb dinos so easy when it gets to flip.
@Dev Hey! I love the Phoenix. I'm testing running it in a R/W Control list. It's been SO GOOD. sweep the board? Sweet. it'll come back or they still have to waste a removal spell AFTER i just swept the board to remove it. It's a great blocker too. It just keeps coming back. Definitely one of my favorite cards from the new set.
As a commander main, I'm still ungodly stoked that wizards reprinted the banned Tolarian Academy onto a Storm the Vault. I also really like the new vraska scheming gorgon, especially since the ult isn't combat damage
I dont think storm the vault gets nearly enough credit.
I think one of the most relevant points about Blood Sun is specifically that it doesn't hose your own mana base. In some decks, that will be more important than the broader hosing ability of Blood Moon.
Hey, Dev, have you tinkered with any cycling decks? I've made one myself, and would be very interested to see how you would put it together.
For Ghalta a thing I realized and want to brew now is that with Wayward Swordtooth (the 5/5 for 2G) you can get ghalta out on turn for with a bit of ease. Even if the Azusa dino cant attack he still takes half the colorless requirement for Ghalta for cheeeeeeaaaaap!
Doc Pox turn 3 is possible but nneds some build around. Turn 1 green onedrop with three power that gives a land to the opponent or white onedrop that gets +2/+1 if you control an artifact. Turn 2 heart of kiran. Turn 3 one of the onedrops again, crew heart of kiran->10 Power and 2 green left to cast ghalta
Drover into Wayward=8 power+6 (Drover taps for mana also making 7 possible mana) mana on turn 4= 4 cmc Ghalta with 3 mana left for protection:P
That would require a bit of build around and some really precise draws. With Wayward SwordTooth you basically only need it and one of the Dino shamans, drover of the mighty being a more consistent one and on green so you wont need to splash too hard.
t2 drover
t3 WS
t4 Drover is now a 3/3 so you have 8 power and at least 2 lands, as long as one of those produces green drover can produce the other
LOL just basically what I typed
Also fling. If I make this deck I have to have 4 copies of fling. Even if you never hit ascend for the Wayward you could just fling em for a dino build your own lava axe
World Shaper is seriously underrated. We don't have great discard in green at the moment but you could make one nasty BUG deck using this card with a load of blue loot/self mill, the Scarab God and that 6/6 hydra that reanimates itself for 4 from the yard. Play early game blue critters that let you loot and mill along with spells like winds of rebuke which help stabilize the board while milling. That along with the various cycling lands and evolving wilds should ensure there are a load of lands and reanimation targets in the yard when you need them on turn 5 or 6.
The World Shaper naturally synergizes with the a Scarab God deck in that it wants to have the yard full, it helps fill the yard, it needs to be removed with exile effects which your opponent will not want to use on it for fear of the God popping up a round later, and it can generate a crap ton of mana which is exactly what you want in that deck. The World Shaper is scary in that your opponent is provided with a terrible choice. They can either kill it via blocking or removal and set off its effect immediately or they can try to avoid setting it off at the cost of it milling three cards into the yard and doing 3 damage to them every round. It is a very dangerous creature regardless of if they kill it or not.
Dev, I really respect you reppin the Powerline shirt. One of my best parts of that movie! Vintage Goofy Movie anyone?
azor's gateway should be in the Primal Hellfire deck you showcased! i could see it working well.
I kind of like the idea of building a Control/energy deck in Bant. Champion of Rhonas alongside Azor feels like it has potential. Especially if you can flicker Azor.
#20: Someone played this in our limited sealed match today. I kept spamming Mutiny on it, doing five dmg to target creature other than Wayward, lol. Anyways, I'm of the impression its too hard to Ascend with a non-token deck when you factor in removal, and especially board wipes, unless your playing 2-headed giant which tends to stall out more. To me, Ascend is a newb trap. It's a nice cherry on top if it procs, but you're playing with fire if you're counting on it. With #20, you're counting on it! I understand Ascend isn't required to play the additional lands, but more often than not you might proc the lands once a game before it's useless.
#7: Same thing here. The owner has to count on Ascend working, otherwise you're overpaying with 4-mana to play a 2/4 flyer. Not exactly my first choice for a turn-4 card, since the competition at the 4-spot is tight with Sanctum Seeker, Anointed Procession, Settle the Wreckage, I could go on forever. However, unlike #20, at least it can do something without Ascend, so that's a plus.
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To be frank with Azor's Gateway ites the best ramp we've seen in standard for a long time. In a blue black control deck you can honestly see the power. You will get your torrentials out very fast, on even turn 5 if you want to. Essentially this says " have as much mana you can ever want"
Just a little story for you, 1 of my prerelease kits made me u/b control. I drew 3/4 cards a turn with kumenas awakening, arch of orazca and twilight prophet. I 100% agree that twilight prophet is no joke and will be played. Whether it be midrange or control decks, reverse bob with evasion is dumb
Merfolk Mistbinder and Legion Lieutenant will be everywhere.
Please dev show off your merfolk deck. Trying to build one myself and having your build as a reference would be a great help.
I like your videos. You got me into magic even more.
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Can't wait to Daredevil someone's Cyclonic Rift. One of the few ways you can cast it from a graveyard for its overload cost.
Out of interest what's your opinions on vonas hunger and silverclad ferocodon (I'm aware it's a high cost but with all the dino ramp it's semi playable) also can we get an updated explore deck with the new cards please? :)
Dire Fleet Daredevil + Siren's Ruse: Now you can use the Daredevil at instant speed and you draw a card. I'd like to see a deck tech with that.
I feel that siren stormtamer is just a better answer (over admiral's orders) to settle the wreckage in decks that would need it (probably merfolk?)
Question: is Aether Hub's second mode an activated ability? Or is it a mana ability since it still produces mana? Would be interested in knowing if Blood Sun takes care of Aether Hubs or not.
Radiant Destiny not saying it would be maxing but intrigued on using it with goblin deck
Question for you all: Blood Sun in modern/EDH - bounce lands. Is this as crazy as I'm thinking? It removes all abilities, not just activated. So wouldn't the bounce lands 1) not enter tapped and 2) not bounce a land? Just a straight up double mana land with no drawbacks?!
I'm only a couple of cards in, but I can't believe you ranked Angrath, Arch, and The Immortal Sun (which isn't even that great in EDH) above Chupacabra - best card in the set.
I'm usually with you on these rankings, but there's a lot of jank in this top-20. I would have moved a lot of those Commons and Uncomons up.
Ugh!!! I didn’t even think about reanimating/eternalizing Zetalpa! I almost feel sick just thinking about facing down something like that as early as turn 4!
Great video again Dev! But am I wrong in saying this set is just bad? I've been playing competitive magic now for a decently long time and this feels like a lackluster set.
Hadaana's climb has been a major finisher in my merfolk edh deck tests.
I can agree with this list. I bet it was quite some homework, making this. So, thanks for the insight.
Hey,, silent gravestone does stop God pharaohs gift and Scarab God because they both have to target the card in a graveyard first. They are stopped because of the same reason that refurbish is stopped.
Austin Wike GPG itself does not target
I'm still sleeping on azors gateway. Bare minimum turn 7 flip, and is it worth almost building around for in order to get it to flip?
Why not Azor in the U/W GPG deck? Seems like it could be a good option along with Zetalpa. Bin Azor, bring him out with GPG, attack with haste and Sphinx's Rev on attack.
Hadenas climb+Verdurous might be good enough. Like he said with attune and cub you could theoretically flip it on curve
I want to steal Glorybringers with Angrath! And also want to delve Zetalpa with Soulflayer :D
Etali in sneak and show btw!
The gravestone makes you not able to target stuff with your scarab gods. Without the reanimation scarab god doesnt do that much.
I would love to get with you to see if you could help me build a better competitive standard deck..I’m willing and able to pay and my budget is open. You are a true hero to mtg and I’m thankful for your channel!! Thank you dev. 😎
Glad to see Kumena made top 3. Pre-ordered 2.
Kumena is amazing in Merfolk, but Merfolk has tough matches against both Ramunap Red (not even winnable after sideboard) and UW Approach (better after sideboarding thanks to Negatve and Spell Pierce). I haven't tested much with UB control, but from what I've seen so far, Fatal Push, Gifted Aetherborn, Ravenous Chupcabra and the Scarab God are very, very bad for merfolk and a few Blossoming Defenses isn't going to change that.
Kumena is very good, but I'm not sure she'll see a ton of play until Hazoret, Approach and Scarab God go away.
I actually really like this top list, great job dev.
I actually pulled a blood sun promo at prerelease and then another one out of my win packs
I really hope they'll keep dinosaurs as a recurring type, I love them so much.
How about a top 20 for drafting this block?
If slaughter the strong has the impact on standard you're expecting, mardu vehicles might see more play moving forward
You should do a r/u mill deck tech including the card barbed shocker
Angarth plus aggressive pyro deck mixed with the ability to remove cards from graveyard in a two headed giant fight teamed up with a blue green mill deck with the green running cards like fog counter spells sphinx tutelage. I can't remember what it's called but there is a blue spell where if u get an artifact, creature or not, u get a atifasct creature token. Have the blue deck run things like improvise, fabricate and investigate. This will cause u to get creatures when getting clues (sacrifice this artifact and pay 2 to draw a card.) And be able to use artifact as mana for creatures with improvise. And fabricate will make artifact creatures or give creature counters (+1/1 ), obviously for the black wand red you would want just damage, basic mana ramp, haste, death touch and some bulky hard hitting creatures. Oh obviously u and your ally would want some madness cards, cards that if u discard (for angarths first ability) u could pay mana to have just appear on the field (this works even if they get discarded to exile from hand.
Damn top 25 we got 5 for free
Is it just me or does Champion of Dusk make Axis of Mortality make sense? Follow Axis with Champion, drain, draw, trade life totals? Its risky. But does it work?
I think twlight prophet is strong but feel like it would mess with vampire nocturnus in a modern deck sometimes by accident.
Where can i find your shirt??? Ive been looking for one
Cant wait for Dev to brew on black/Red aggropirates. Its gonna be a tight race vs ramunap red
Im super mad that there is like a Tilonallis Knight/crown/skinshifter/summoner , but no Tilonalli itself. Same goes for Kinjallis Sunwing/Caller - but no Kinjalli. I hoped for some rly badass Dino or Human Lord :(
Atleast Kumenas Speaker brought me a Kumena card :D
Heggerino If you read the flavour text on some of the Sun Empire cards, Tillonali and whatnot are names for the three aspects of the sun itself, representing W, R and G respectively. Kinjalli is W, Tillonali is R, I believe, and the other one is G. So, it doesn't make sense to have cards for the sun itself.
nice advice tho ! but still , why wont it make sense , we see blood sun , or approach or something :D so why not
veggiedragon1000 I wonder if those are the names of Zacama's individual heads.
Heggerino I suppose so. It would have been nice to have like, blood sun, wakening sun, green sun, or whatever the green one would be nicknamed.
Ryne Billings Now that would be pretty cool.
Anyone got some good blue or red cards for a control deck with the locust from any sets besides Kaladesh or Aether Revolt?
Imagine casting Otepec Huntmaster on turn 2 followed by a wayward swordtooth on turn 3 with two mana open to cast a drover or thunderherd migration you can cast ghalta on turn four, give it haste 😂 incredible strong
Lmfao at # 12 " I'm just as surprised as you guys."
Ref Kumena.
If you're tapping 5 merfolk for +1/+1 counters... you're also damn close to Ascend.
Blood Sun is a obvious number one... ever thought about wat ‘bounce’ lands do with this on the field?
I think Merfolk Mistbinder and Legion Lieutenant are both hugely important cards.
Wait, I was like, 100% sure the top 3 would include storm the vault//vault of cataclan but other than that I liked the list a lot
Gruesome Fate is a ridiculous common. Dealt 10 damage in one turn during Pre-release.
I just didn't understand why the heck "Slaughter the Strong" is good against Temur, because it only kill pumped hydras or hyper pumped longtusks...
Good thing Wayward Swordtooth is on the list I like this dinosaur.
Seems like it would work AMAZINGLY with Ghalta
Elijah Kleinman You might be right.
And Rhonas
I really want to build a BR favorable winds deck with phoenix and glorybringers
@Dev keep up the awesome videos man! make an updated merfolk video!!
I guess it is a good sign about this set that like, half of your top list cards were on the video about the top 20 worst rares I watched earlier today :)
Love these lists!
Disagree with the dinosaur ratings. I don't see why the GPG decks would play the white one. The red one is really bad, and the black one is definitely the best one.
And I really don't like Slaughter the Strong. I don't think the two mana it saves from Fumigate justifies leaving one or two guys in the battlefield. If you play it as an asymmetrical boardwipe, I think Dusk//Dawn does a better job (love that card).
You didn't mention the synergy with blood sun and Karoo/Bounce lands. Basically means they come in untapped and you don't bounce the land lol.
There already is Amulet, though
there is a card called "amulet"? either wizards got very un-creative, or you're just assuming i'll know a card which i obviously don't from a word like "amulet" lol
well I just got an Azor's Gateway that when you flips it, it becomes Tomb of the Dusk Rose, misprint. Lucky me I guess ¬¬
Blood Sun is really great in Tron.
I can't believe that enter the unkown did not make the list. Dropping extra lands early is just broken.
Good review for this set.
See you !
All the talk about midrange which is powerful don't get me wrong but I'm running a very powerful UBR deck hasn't lost and I'll definitely be running the Phoenix and the prophet in it
Dev, you missed warkite marauder! And angrath and the 4-drop vampire are both awful and worse than huatli (sorry!). Great video though, excited for cards to have a real impact on formats again!
#KumenaIssaDude
Love your content keep up the good work
If you'd have told me a single year ago that I'd have such a severe lack of interest in Standard as I do right now, I would have told you you're crazy. Give us a Modern list plz. Thx Dev!
If anything is done to the deck then your just gonna Be here on 3 months later complaining about the next top decks
I loved the flip cards from this block so much...
On another note; no way Silent Gravestone competes with Crook of Condemnation...
I agree with the first statement, I am so hyped. But I have to disagree with the second one, because I think their should be a split between the two. Gravestone can protect your graveyard, including from The Scarab God, as well as nuke graveyards and mess with some strategies. Also Gravestone draws a card, and is good once they have a bunch of cards in their graveyard while Crook, or even Sentinel Totem, can hate on graveyards early game.
My problem with the card is that it is pretty bad in the main match up you would want graveyard hate for in standard: Gifts. GPG doesn't actually target with it's triggered ability which means you will have to sacrifice your Gravestone for a desperate one-time delay which is basically the same as sideboarding in a fog. While Crook has a similar problem, being that you can't exile the target in response, you do have the advantage of exiling the creatures as the deck puts them in the graveyard, or at the very least hitting the one they are most likely to "eternalize". The card draw on this effect doesn't excite me much because the ability is 4 mana to activate which makes it a far cry from modern's Relic, not that I'm ever happy to "cycle" my sideboard cards anyway. As for stopping Scarab God the Gravestone does prevent SG from targeting creatures with his activated ability but will be hard to have the 4 mana available to exile SG when he is put into the graveyard because you most likely spent some mana to put him there in the first place. I also don't even bring in graveyard hate against decks that only play SG as their graveyard dependent cards so this is lost on me. Gravestone is really only good at stopping Torrential Gearhulk, and to some extent The Scarab God. That's not enough for my sideboard slots.
Those are all really good points, but for me I like to have a one of in my sideboard as well as some Sentinel Totems because my deck already has a lot of 2 drops and not a lot of 1 drops, and I don't mind nuking my own graveyard. I guess my point is that it usually depends on the deck and the meta in which you play, because they both do different things. No one really plays GPG at my LGS so I don't have to worry about playing against it. I definitely agree that Crook is better for straight up graveyard hate.
Fair enough. Local meta can play a large role, so to each their own.
Sick shirt and great video
Chupacabra looks scary even without the card text...just saying. I also have a question about silent gravestone. Can i use it in response to Scarab God's ability when he dies to exile gy and him as well? I mean does he even go to the gy since the text on the card says ''when he dies...'' not when he goes to gy from play? If he does i think i can exile him at instant speed while the return ability is on the stack.
I believe you are correct.
Yes, you can exile gy to get rid of Scarab God. But you don't need to fuss over timing. He doesn't go back to hand instantly, but at the beginning of the next end step.
Oh u are right forgot about it
please refrain from making videos without your cats meow!
Agreed! The more Cat the better. Always
Drop in some wayward swordtooth in a explore deck to amp up the explore mechanic.
Zacama is in the new Huatli art!
Flavor Win
I'm excited that shatter and natrlise is back
Please make a vampires deck once the set comes out
I like the intro is the same as the last video
Where are you from I got into mtg in Macon georgia and you look really familiar
Anyone else catch the phoenix pun? It goes in a 'roc'-like deck.
I like the Kumena 'tap her' comment more 😂
I kinda wish they just printed blood moon in the set. It would be great against energy and any deck with to much going on.
I hateSilent Gravestone. I don't need to see this in EDH. I have like 4 graveyard decks that are going to hate this. At least my Kess deck only hates the generic second part of the card, she doesn't target the card you cast from your graveyard, you can just cast a card from your graveyard each of your turns.
This set is fantastic though. I love it.